Michael Riley: Sights Unseen

Katheryn Favelle (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0642541620 / ISBN 13: 9780642541628

Published by National Gallery of Australia, 2007

About this Item

176pp, b/w and colour exhibition checklist, chronolgy, glossary, map, select bibliography, index. Rubbing and light marks to cover. Gift inscription in pen to imprint page. Very slight role to spine. Otherwise excellent tight clean copy. GL 02/26.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1771219540848

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Michael Riley: Sights Unseen
• Publisher: National Gallery of Australia
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0642541620
• ISBN 13: 9780642541628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian Photography
  • Aboriginal Art

About this title

Synopsis

Michael Riley (1960-2004) was one of the most important contemporary Australian Indigenous visual artists of the past two decades. His contribution to the urban-based Indigenous visual arts industry was substantial and his film and video work challenged non-Indigenous perceptions of Indigenous experience, particularly among the most disenfranchised communities in the eastern region of Australia. He worked with Indigenous people from communities throughout rural and remote regions of Australia and brought a singularly Indigenous visual language to the forefront of international contemporary art.

Riley's work is not social-documentary but draws on a multiplicity of influences―European and North American film-making, international fashion and design, and Indigenous and European spirituality and its contradictions.

About the Author

Brenda L. Croft, senior curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the National Gallery of Austraila, Canberra, is a member of the Gurindji and Mutpurra peoples from the Northern Territory. Other contributors include Anthony "Ace" Bourke, Gael Newton, Victoria Lynn, Djon Mundine, Nikos Papastergiadis, and Hetti Perkins.