Artist Mandy Quadrio’s Speaking Beyond the Vitrine exhibit opened at Metro Arts Gallery on Wednesday 11 July. Mandy’s exhibit uses sculpture, installation and photography to assert the visibility, resilience and knowledge of palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) women. Her work affirms this continuing culture, in the face of a colonial history of erasure and oppression and exposes Australia’s historic and continued denial of the existence of Tasmanian Aboriginal people. In Quadrio’s sculptural installation, abrasive steel wool becomes a metaphor for the erasure and “whitening” of black women and the scrubbing out of Indigenous histories. These, alongside other works, pay homage to the knowledge and resistance of palawa women.
Julie-Anne Milinski & Carrie McCarthy
Annette Ferry
Brendan Boyce & Fin Boyce
Chris Bassi & Caity Reynolds
Desiree Brown & Joseph Garnier
Fiona Hawthorne & Jo Thomas
Freja Carmichael & Robert Andrew
Gen Trace & Jo Thomas
Kathy Frankland & Jeff Farrar
Lynelle Tyler & Simon Brown
Rose Manning & Tess White
Senator Claire Moore & Sandi Taylor
Sue Best & Louise Mayhew
Thea Hadok-Quadrio & Vincent Clout
