ADAM HILL's work Bennelong Had a Point is now part of the permanent collection for the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA.
This work is a typically witty play on a cultural pun by Adam Hill.
Bennelong Point, the stretch of land where the Sydney Opera House now sits, is the site where Bennelong (a senior man of the Eora Aboriginal (Koori) people) was originally captured by Europeans in an attempt to create ties with the people of the land.
Rather than succumbing entirely to the colonial forces of the Europeans, Bennelong maintained a relationship with these figures, while trying to change the behaviour of Europeans on Aboriginal lands.
He spent many years as an interlocutor for the Europeans, and travelled to London. But did not relinquish his ties to his people or their land. His forethought into the potentially mutual impact that Aboriginal and European peoples could have on one another is...a fair point to be considered.
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ADAM HILL has been accepted as a finalist for the Parliament of NSW Aboriginal Art Prize. This is an acquisitive prize to recognise the achievements of NSW aboriginal artists.
It will culminate in an exhibition at Parliament House from 4-25 October, with the winner of the prize announced on October 17.
Adam has also been making new works in collaboration with 'Will Coles'. These works will be exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney, which will run from 18 October - 4 November
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ADAM HILL's work is featured in the May Issue of Art Monthly in an article, Aboriginality, Masculinity and Vanity, by Eve Sullivan.
JASON WING / ADAM HILL
JASON WING and ADAM HILL are exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art in an exhibition titled, Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, curated by Djon Mundine OAM. The exhibition brings together the work of eight of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers and explores many of the stereotypes associated with Aboriginal masculinity from a range of viewpoints including documentary photography.
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ADAM HILL'S work has been included in the 2012 Magabala Indigenous Diary, which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, land and people.
Copies are retailing for $29.95 and can be ordered through Magabala Books on (08) 9192 1991.
JASON WING / ADAM HILL
JASON WING and ADAM HILL'S latest work will be in an exhibition curated by Djon Mundine OAM titled People We Know - Places We've Been, Goulburn Art Class 2-0-1-1, at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 3 November - 3 December, 2011.
This exhibition highlights a unique collaboration between a select group of well-known Aboriginal artists and Aboriginal inmates who live and work inside Goulburn Correctional Centre.
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ADAM HILL has been selected as a finalist in the Cricket Art Prize, 2011. The winner will be announced on the opening night event, Thursday 6th October at the Members Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground.
The exhibition tour will be approximately 5 months in duration, travelling from Sydney to Melbourne then residing in Bowral.
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ADAM HILL will be exhibiting at Cross Art Projects in an exhibition titled Beauty, Vanity and Narcissus. Curator: Djon Mundine.
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ADAM HILL will also be exhibiting at the University of Sydney Art Gallery in an exhibition titled Freedom Riders: Art & Activism 1960s to Now. The exhibition opens 3 July and continues until 25 September.
'The starting point for the exhibition FREEDOM RIDERS: Art and activism 1960s to now is a major portrait, Charlie Perkins, 1986, by Aboriginal artist Robert Campbell Jnr in the University Union Art collection. Perkins was the first Aboriginal graduate at the university and a key figure in the Freedom Ride, a historic intervention initiated by Sydney University students in 1965. The Freedom Ride focused unprecedented attention on the systematic racism experienced by Aboriginal communities in regional towns across New South Wales. Campbell’s art played a pioneering role in exposing the social and political realities of NSW Aboriginal people.'
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ADAM HILL has donated a major work for an online auction to help raise money for the Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy campaign (Friends of the Earth, Melbourne).
The work is:
(A)US Forces give the nod
2009
Synthetic Polymer on Australian made cotton canvas
140 x 240cm
The auction closes on the 23 December, 2010.
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Between the Lines: The initiation of Adam Hill, a film by Esther Lozano and Monica Garriga will be screened as part of the West End Film Festival in Brisbane on 28th March. This film gives an intimate glimpse into Australia's identity through the critical eyes of an aboriginal urban artist.
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ADAM HILL's work U.R...an'Iummm...we AFAILING LAND from 2008 will feature is the opening of the City of Sydney's Art & About 2009 - Exhibition of Original Open Gallery Artworks at Sydney's Circular Quay.
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ADAM HILL has been has been selected as a finalist for this years Wynne Prize for Australian Landscape for his work Six Finger Salary. The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for the "best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists..." Exhibition dates: 7th March - 24th May 2009.
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Hill has been selected as a finalist for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award for his work K9 vs Bloodline on the Breadline.
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Hill has been shortlisted for the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award and the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award in 2007.