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TURN TURN TURN celebrates many of the key styles and movements that evolved over 60 years in the studios of the internationally renowned ceramics course at the National Art School. Curated by Glenn Barkley.

Group show celebrating 60 years of the studio ceramics tradition at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW.

An exhibition placing works by leading contemporary artists Deborah Vaughan and Toni Warburton side-by-side with activist commentary to ask who owns Sydney’s pristine water resources. Rivers in our sacrosanct water catchment areas have been cracked, drained and polluted: undermined by underground coal mining.

The exhibition reflects on these sorry days of government manipulation of unions and the introduction of divisive industrial laws, on the curbing of civil liberties and the strangling of access to information. It also identifies a strong neo-conceptual critical and aesthetic strain within contemporary Australian art practice that interacts with global concerns and local political topics.

The Kuradji/Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy (SPATE) is a rallying point in the debate about urban development in sensitive coastal environments with significant Aboriginal heritage. There has been a decade of protests and a picket and Aboriginal tent embassy on the site on the Illawarra coast between the villages of Thirroul and Bulli below Sydney.

Coordinated by south coast artist Dootch Kennedy.

touring exhibition

Opened by the Hon. Dr Carmen Lawrence. Heritage book launched at the same time. The touring exhibition, Sydney by Design, formed one section of this exhibition.