Watt Space
25 - 29 January 2006
The Multifarious Identity: intersections of gender, sexuality and indigeneity
SANDY O’SULLIVAN
entire gallery
The exhibition will be opened by Professor Anne Graham from theUniversity of Newcastle
at 6.30 pm on Invasion (Australia Day) Thursday 26 January 2006. Awabakal Elder, Nola Hawken will be providing a Welcome to Country.
The Multifarious Identity: intersections of gender, sexuality and indigeneity is an installation series that fill each of the galleries of Watt Space. This exhibition forms the major body of work for Sandy’s PhD in Fine Art at the University of Newcastle, and represents significant research material gathered over the last three years. The five works are: Simulacra: Everyday Alone and Prurience: Immersion and Obfuscation – two gallery-sized works that explore gender and sexualities; Recidivism: Mens Rea, Actus Reus - an examination of belonging and responsibility; and Confabulation and Good and Fair - two works that examine the multiplicity of Indigenous identities. These seemingly disparate areas of display are nested together through the lived experience of Indigenous artist, Sandy O’Sullivan. Through sound, image, video and light Sandy posits the identity concerns of being an individual who inhabits categorisations that cannot always easily be connected.
