Image credit: Julie Gough, detail from Hide, 2016, frottage on paper (wax crayon, 2, framed).
Unhoused
Encounters with the hidden in the Allport
Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
9 June – 30 September, 2016
Opening event: 9 June, 5.30pm
All welcome
A contemporary art exhibition offering alternative and surprising ways of understanding
one of the most historically significant collections in Hobart – the Allport Library and
Museum of Fine Arts.
Featuring site-specific work by Linda Fredheim, Julie Gough, Brigita Ozolins, Sally Rees and
Elissa Ritson. Curated by Dr Emily Bullock.
These five Tasmanian artists have engaged with lesser-known items held in the Allport
collection. The work is installed in the main gallery, amongst the museum displays and in
the Library. Each artist has chosen to focus on a particular historic figure, artefact, or its
absence and has responded using sculpture, video, performance, furniture and collage.
The exhibition will feature a unique, marathon reading event on Friday 17 June from 12
– 8pm. With the help of a community of women-only readers, Brigita Ozolins will read
aloud from Australia’s extremely rare second novel, Woman’s Love by Mary Grimstone.
“Occupying a liminal place somewhere between nightmare, memory and imagination,
Unhoused tranforms the experience of visiting the normally staid Allport Library and
Museum of Fine Arts collection. The lights are low, the usually carefully ordered displays
have been unsettled, and surprising objects have been unearthed from the depths of the
archival collections. A sense of disturbance and mystery everywhere pervades the
Museum’s darkened rooms.”
Emily Bullock
