Exhibition soars to new heights

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A NUMBER of artists are set to feature in this year’s Songlines exhibition, Wing, which explores the representation of birds in Aboriginal culture.

Works by artists from different communities including Janice Murray; the outsider artist Trevor Turbo Brown (1967-2017); Rover Thomas (1926-1998), Australia’s representative at the 1990 Venice Biennale; leading Ngukurr artists Sambo Barra Barra and Amy Johnson; Elcho Island carver Judy Manany; textile artists Dulcie Sharpe and Roxanne Oliver, will be among those to feature at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in west London.

RESONANCE
Working in diverse iconographic traditions and employing different techniques from painting, print-making, carving and textiles, the exhibition will explore the way birds hold a richly significant position in Aboriginal culture, respecting the broad spectrum of that power, and proclaiming its enduring resonance.

Janice Murray, Pinjoma Jilamarini (Barn Owl), 2017, three colour sugar lift and aquatint, 90x60cm, edition of 30

Songlines XXXI: Wing is at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, 28 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2NA, until August 30