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Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.

Also Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, VIC and the Drill Hall, ANU, ACT. This was a touring survey exhibition, a joint project by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and the University of Tasmania, curated by Merryn Gates.

Binns is a Sydney artist par excellence but she remains an iconoclast. For Twenty First Century Paintings, her first solo exhibition in Sydney in nine years, curator Merryn Gates selected the tour de force work Maelstrom, 2002, as the centerpiece. Orchestrating elements of expressionism and formalism, this grand canvas highlights Binns’s embrace of the old and the new and her unexpected sources and collaborations.

The 1968 exhibition was curated in 1995 by Michael Desmond and Christine Dixon and was drawn entirely from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection.
It celebrates the time of change, in the two years on either side of 1968 – a time of political and social unrest, when art and life combined to stretch barriers.
The exhibition integrated both popular and avant garde works from Australian artists, designers and news photographers with those from the USA and UK. The resulting exhibition showed the energy and strength of the young Australian artists of this generation.

Opened by Allison Dickson, Chancellor of the University of South Queensland, 9 March 1995.

Opened 8 March 1995

Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.

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.

touring exhibition. QAG show opened by Dale Spender, 15 February 1995. Out of the void: a day of celebration held 4 March 1995.

Vivienne Binns, lecture about her practice as an artist in community

The exhibition was held in conjunction with the 4th National Homosexual Conference, Paddington Town Hall. Featured artists included: David McDiarmid, Peter Tully, Frances Budden, Vivienne Binns, Sally Colechin, Bill Morley, Doug Erskine, Robert Lawrie etc.

The exhibition was also accompanied by a fund-raising benefit for the Conference on Sunday 23rd of July, which featured Women Action Theatre, Aloma, Bread and Roses, and others. Compered by Jude Kuring.