Event Dale Harding & Steve Kemp

Dale Harding & Steve Kemp

In Conversation

14 February 2019
6–8pm

Brisbane-based artist Dale Harding (Bidjara, Garingbal, and Ghungalu) and Steve Kemp (Ghungalu), a traditional medicine specialist from Woorabinda in Central Queensland, discuss the interconnectedness of trees and plants in Central and South-East Queensland; and how the legacy of such knowledges resists current forces of cultural and spiritual dispossession.

Current Iterations is Dale Harding’s first survey exhibition, bringing together works focused on shared languages permeating landscape, bodies, and objects.

 

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  • Dale Harding

    Dale Harding‘s exhibitions include the 2018 Liverpool Biennial, Soon Enough: Art in Action (Tensta Konsthall, 2018), the 2018 TarraWarra Biennial, Continental Drift (Cairns Art Gallery, 2018), Documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017), The National: New Australian Art (Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017), I Refuse You My Death (Milani Gallery, Brisbane, 2016), 2016 Gwangju Biennale, With Secrecy and Despatch (Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2016), GOMA Q: Contemporary Australian Art (Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2015), and String Theory (Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2013).

    Steve Kemp

    Steve Kemp (Ghungalu) is a former mayor of Woorabinda. He is currently finalising a primary-school language program for Woorabinda, for which he developed a full curriculum for each year level. He continues the legacy of his father, Tim Kemp, a noted Ghungalu specialist in plants, with expertise in their traditional uses and in medicine.

Photo: Karen Lawton

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Current Iterations

09 Feb–30 Mar 2019

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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