Antipodes (22 June – 26 September 2016)

ARCHIVED EXHIBITION

Artwork 'Prime new plan: panic' featuring a victorian-era print with collage detailing, covering over faces of those in the scene (except for the figure of a skeleton) and featuring a British flag.

'Prime new plan: panic', 2016, Brook Andrew

South Lecture Room

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is proud to present the results of an extraordinary cross-continental collaboration.

This new collaboration between the University of Cambridge Museums and the Australian Print Workshop brings together three of Australia's most represented contemporary artists Brook Andrew, Tom Nicholson and Caroline Rothwell.

Black and white print showing six abstract shapes against a white background. objects reflect museum objects like a bird, sculptures, and other objects.

'Museum 1', 2015, by Caroline Rothwell

Hosted by the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the artists travelled to the United Kingdom to study rarely seen and highly significant collections relating to Australia and the Pacific. Exploring the interplay of natural history, empire, art and anthropology each of the artists spent time in the print studio at APW, working in collaboration with APW Printers to produce reflective bodies of work in the print medium.

An abstract print showing one bold and multiple faint straight, diagonal lines, mostly in the top third, against a white background.

'Lines that could be scars (no. 1)', 2015, by Tom Nicholson

Project curated by MAA Director Professor Nicholas Thomas and APW Director Anne Virgo OAM.

Exhibition curated by Nicholas Thomas and Alison Clark.

This project was made possible through the generous support of UCM, and APW's long-standing philanthropic partner The Collie Print Trust.