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SHE GONE TO TOWN / RESTRICTED WITH MADELEINE NAPANGARDI DIXON, MELINDA NAPURRURLA WILSON AND POLLY ANNE NAPANGARDI DIXON, 2014 - 2018
Acrylic paint on archival pigment print
67 x 100 cm / framed 89 x 122 cm
Unique piece | | | | | | Restricted Images | | | | Made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia | | | | Last days until November 7, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patrick Waterhouse
NANGALA WAITING FOR IGUANA / RESTRICTED WITH JULIE NANGALA ROBERTSON, 2014 - 2018
Acrylic paint on archival pigment print
88 x 70 cm / framed 110,6 x 92,3 cm
Unique piece | | | | | | The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present exclusively the first gallery exhibition of Patrick Waterhouse's acclaimed series "Restricted Images", made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia.
Patrick Waterhouse was born in the UK in 1981. The Restricted Images series is a collaboration between Waterhouse and the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. The works were made in the communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi which are remote desert aboriginal communities in Central Australia.
The publication in 1899 of The Native Tribes of Central Australia caused a sensation in Europe. The book’s authors, telegraph-station master Francis J. Gillen and ethnologist W. Baldwin Spencer, had written in depth about the customs and traditions of the Aboriginal groups living near Alice Springs and also illustrated their texts with 119 photographs, many of which captured rituals and ceremonies. While the subject, quality and quantity of the images set a new standard for anthropological photography, the authors were largely oblivious to the impact they would have on the lives of the Aboriginals. The pictures revealed the gap in knowledge between the authors, whose goal was showing the exotic natives "in their natural state", and the subjects, who were completely unaware of the new medium and how it could invade their privacy or reveal their secrets to a wider audience. Unwittingly or not, the authors also infringed upon Aboriginal cultural protocols by showing sacred sites and the dead. | | | | | | | | | Patrick Waterhouse
UNION JACK FLAG / REVISED WITH MARLENE NAKAMARRA MORTON, 2014 - 2018
Acrylic paint on fabric
95 x 154 cm
Unique Edition | | | | | | | Attitudes have changed since Gillen and Baldwin Spencer first ventured in the Central Desert with a camera and institutions have taken extensive measures to ensure that cultural sensitivity is respected. Today, photography within Aboriginal communities is limited and historical images are often “restricted”. Over the past four years, Patrick Waterhouse has taken photographs in the Yeundumu and Nyirrpi Aboriginal communities, and in the surrounding Warlpiri country. After making prints, he returned to Central Australia to work with artists and other members of those same communities at the Warlukurlangu Art Centre, so they could restrict and amend his photographs through the process of painting. | | | | | | | | | Patrick Waterhouse
WHAT'S THE LIGHT LIGHT DARK DARK POINT POINT POINT / RESTRICTED IN WORKSHOP AT WARLUKURLANGU ART CENTRE, 2014 - 2018
Acrylic paint on archival pigment print
67 x 100 cm / framed 89 x 122 cm
Unique piece | | | | | | | Waterhouse’s work has been exhibited internationally in institutions including FotoMuseum, Antwerpen (2019); Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque (2018); Kunsthal, Rotterdam (2017); The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2016); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C (2015); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2015); The National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (2014); Le Bal, Paris (2014); Biennale de Lubumbashi, DR Congo (2013); The International Center of Photography Triennial, New York (2013); Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2012); The Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich (2011) and South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2010). His work is held in major public and private collections including Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C and The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany. Awards include the Discovery Award at Arles in 2011 and the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize in 2015 for Ponte City (with Mikhael Subotzky). | | | | | | | | | Patrick Waterhouse
YOU STILL CAN'T SEE THE ALIENS / RESTRICTED WITH SARAH NAPALJARRI SIMS, 2014 - 2018
Acrylic paint on archival pigment print
70,5 x 88,3 cm / framed 92,8 x 110,1 cm
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