These portraits represent accessible reference-points to individual artists' practices, and collectively put a human face on a realm of contemporary art that is sometimes perceived to be difficult, pretentious, or worse, dehumanized. They ought to serve as points of departure toward wider understandings of artistic issues. Curiously, the portraits' very structure - each involving two artists - unsettles familiar notions of pictorial meaning; they combine the seen (portrayed) with the unseen (the maker of the image). In this reflexiveness, there is an intentional disruption of everyday legibility - a kind of 'Double Vision' that suspends the familiarity of straight perceptions. But the doubled image also represents the doubling of art's intensity, its information-density.
Artists
Angela Brennan
Matthys Gerber
Anne Graham
Graeme Hare
Tim Johnson
Stephen Little
John Nixon
Robert Rooney
Vivienne Shark-LeWitt
Peter Tyndall
Jenny Watson
Caroline Williams
John Young
Anne Zahalka
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Curated by Ben Curnow
Tour: Canberra School of Art Gallery
