Daniel Boyd receives commission for Australian War Memorial pavilion
Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Daniel Boyd has received a commission to design a new pavilion in collaboration with Edition Office at the Australian War Memorial. The work, For Our Country, will recognise and commemorate the military service and experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders. For Our Country will occupy a prominent position in the Memorial Sculpture Garden and is planned to be constructed in November/December 2018.
Daniel Boyd is currently included in the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Tina Baum, currently showing at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory until 15 July 2018.
RECENT NEWS
Art Guide: Mikala Dwyer on mysticism, daydreaming and ‘not-knowing’
Tiarney Miekus recently interviewed Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Mikala Dwyer for Art Guide Australia. On the occasion of Dwyer’s exhibition Bird at Roslyn Oxley9 in Sidney, Miekus writes: Vivid yet mysterious, Mikala Dwyer’s installations connect a...
‘Octopus 21: On Fire’, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 26th June – 15 August 2021.
The works by Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Tracey Moffatt and Gordon Bennett are included in Octopus 21: On Fire curated by Tim Riley Walsh: Octopus 21: On Fire is an iteration of Riley Walsh’s exhibition and publication project On Fire: Climate and Crisis...
