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Details
- Date
- 2014
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 130.0 x 165.0 x 4.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.l. verso on stretcher, black fibre-tipped pen "VIVIENNE BINNS 2014 ...".
Signed u.l. corner verso on strainer, black fibre-tipped pen "V.BINNS".
Signed l.l. corner verso on strainer, black fibre-tipped pen "V.BINNS".
Signed c.r. verso on stretcher bar, black fibre-tipped pen "V.BINNS".- Credit
- Contemporary Collection Benefactors 2014
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 169.2014
- Copyright
- © Vivienne Binns/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Vivienne Binns
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About
'Topographica' 2014 is a painting based upon a photograph that Vivienne Binns took of a dry creek near Alice Springs. Amongst the dried vegetation and inside the cracks and shadows of the bed are micro images. Depicted are the UN Security Council, the Tower of Babel, refugee camps, protestors and frontier wars, as well as contemporary scenes resonant with the Australian way of life, such as beach going, swimming, sports, landscape, and office workers. The image is a map not just of land mass but also of history and current affairs. In charting the local and global, the past and the present, the environmental and the social, the sacred and profane, Binns locates our place in the world and surveys a network of issues - colonisation, immigration, war and climate change - pertinent to our region in the twenty-first century.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Vivienne Binns: new work, Milani Gallery, West End, 03 May 2014–17 May 2014
Vivienne Binns: On and Through Surface, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East, 05 Feb 2022–14 Apr 2022
Vivienne Binns: On and Through Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, 15 Jul 2022–25 Sep 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Nick Yelverton, Look, 'Reflections on the mind of Vivienne Binns', pg. 29, Sydney, Feb 2015, 29 (colour illus.).
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