Missing piece of Art Gallery of NSW entrance filled after a century | LindaMorrissmh
Indigenous artist Karla Dickens has dedicated her largest-ever public art commission, installed in the sandstone portico of the Art Gallery of NSW, to the country’s invisible people and all those “told to stay out of sight, be quiet and behave”.
The Art Gallery of NSW at sunset with Karla Dicken’s glass panel installed above the entrance and hoarding down on the reflection pools.fills the framed niche above the gallery’s grand entrance that for more than a century has lain empty after gallery trustees cancelled the 1913 commission of a bas-relief bronze by the Australian-born sculptor Dora Ohlfsen.
Dickens’ figures wearing head coverings referencing the spit hoods used until last month on young people at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in the Northern Territory. The Wiradjuri artist was invited to create a new contemporary work for the gallery’s entrance in 2020, in time for the 150th anniversary of the institution’s inauguration as the ‘Academy of Art’ in 1871.
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