View the exhibitions from 2016 at the SASA Gallery
Border Crossing
22 February – 18 March
Artists: Michelle Browne, Julie Gough, Sandra Johnston, Sue Kneebone, Yhonnie Scarce & Dominic Thorpe.
Border Crossings brought together Australian and Irish curators and artists to explore cross-cultural issues surrounding ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonialism and the challenges of reconciliation that are relevant to both countries. Drawing on family stories, social histories, field and archival research, the artists interrogated the curatorial premise from a wide range of perspectives and presented work that was at once challenging, powerful, poetic and whimsical.
Image: Dominic Thorpe & Sandra Johnston, Due Process 2, 2011. Third Space Gallery, Belfast.
The Unstable Image
29 March – 22 April
The artists in this exhibition employed strategies of repetition, subversion or transparency to challenge the traditional role and/or the inherent qualities of printmaking. Works by Aleksandra Antic, Paul Coldwell, Marian Crawford, Joel Gailer, Performprint and Olga Sankey extended and questioned the notion of the resilience of the image in a contemporary context.
Image: Paul Coldwell, Plane (detail), 2015. 2 plate etching, paper size 56cm x 65cm.
Accident & Process
18 July – 9 August
Derek Kreckler: Accident & Process was a major survey exhibition bringing together, for the first time, fifty years of the artist’s oeuvre. It encompassed photography, video, installation and performance documentation that dates from the 1970s to the present day. Kreckler is a leading Australian artist known for his experimental conceptual and post-minimalist practice. This exhibition toured nationally from the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Image: Derek Kreckler, Wet Dream, 1978.
