FUTURE PROOF

Timothy Dwyer, Nicci Haynes, Gregory Hodge, Rosalind Lemoh, Brendan Murphy, Patsy Payne, Clare Thackway, Frank Thirion, Daniel Vukovljak, Jonathan Webster, Jo Wu.

Curated by Alexander Boynes, David Broker, Anni Doyle Wawrzynczack, Janice Falsone and Annika Harding

6 December - 14 February 2014, CCAS Gorman
Exhibition opening 6pm Friday 6 December 2013

As Canberra’s first 100 years draws to a close, several ofthe centenary curators, Alexander Boynes, David Broker, Anni Doyle Wawrzynczack, Janice Falsone and Annika Harding continue to live in Canberra where they are able to consider its future from within. As a curatorium, they bring comprehensive first-hand knowledge to the final exhibition of 2013 and each has selected two artists who delineate something of the future. Coincidentally, a number of the works selected for Future Proof have a futuristic feel, in the sense of being appropriately apocalyptic, but more importantly, they represent artists whose practices have become inextricably integrated with their daily lives. As with the curators,the boundaries between art and life appear to have dissolved and in this way the future is not only set, but also assured.

Image: Frank Thirion, Personal Space, 2013, Oil on canvas