Image: Davida Allen, Faces and Heart from the series ‘Sam Neill Suite’, 1986, collage, synthetic polymer paint and ink on paper, 53.8 x 75.4cm. Griffith University Art Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by the artist, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Carl Warner
23 November 2026 – 20 February 2027
Using the Griffith University Art Collection as its starting point, Just between us explores how artists reveal the intimate details of their lives and test the increasingly blurred boundaries of public and private. Including practices of narration, self-portraiture, and diaristic recording, and a visual language that creates a sense of immediacy and nostalgia, the exhibition reflects on how the autobiographical reference has evolved, from an essential feminist strategy to a contemporary fixation on identity and self-disclosure. By laying out hypothetical realities, desires, memories and fears, each of these artists offer something of themselves, and ask the viewer to do the same. What arises are ambiguities between the autobiographical and fictitious; the intensely personal and universal; the remembered and experienced self.
Artists include: Ian Abdulla, Davida Allen, Gloria Beckett, Gordon Bennett, Kate Beynon, Ray Cook, Justine Cooper, Julie Fragar, Helen Fuller, Tyza Hart, Ruth Maddison, Penny McDowell & Tim Slade, Tracey Moffatt, Liam O’Brien, Jill Orr, Mike Parr, Gloria Petyarre, Scott Redford, Monica Rohan, David M. Thomas, Jenni Thornley, Jenny Watson
Curator: Lizzie Riek
Image: Ian Abdulla, Hearing voices in the night, 1990, acrylic on paper, 66.7 x 86.5cm. Griffith University Art Collection. Purchased 1995. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Carl Warner
Opening event | Undying: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
Join us to celebrate the opening of Undying: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah.
When: Thursday 13 August, 5.30 artist talk / 6-8pm opening event
Where: Griffith University Art Museum, 226 Grey Street, South Bank QLD