Griffith University Art Museum is proud to present a museum survey of distinguished contemporary Australian artist and Griffith University/Queensland College of Art alumna Davida Allen from 3 May – 30 June 2018.
Davida Allen: In the Moment encompasses over 40 works from the artist’s five-decade practice, and will include a suite of large-scale drawings from 1982 which have never been shown before. The exhibition includes well known works from Allen’s seminal series ‘Death of My Father’ and ‘Sam Neill Suite’, and the Archibald Prize-winning portrait of her father-in- law, Dr John Shera.
“As a woman artist, my paintings are the personal response to being the ‘Daughter of’, ‘The Wife of’, ‘The Mother of’, ‘The Grandmother of’” says Allen. “No matter how many domestic commitments, no matter how little time in a day, no matter what responsibilities, the need to paint is constant.”
Exhibition curator and Director of Griffith University Art Museum Angela Goddard
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