Maree Clarke, Mutti Mutti/Wamba Wamba/Yorta Yorta/Boonwurrung born 1961. Jack Charles 2012; printed 2018. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2018 © Maree Clarke.
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Maree Clarke - Ritual and Ceremony
10/10/2022 - 17/03/2023
Australian Embassy in France
4, rue Jean Rey
75724 Paris
www.france.embassy.gov.au
Maree Clarke has made Melbourne, Australia, her home for many years, contributing immensely to the local art community. Much of Clarke’s work is made from and about memory, whether a personal memory or cultural memory inscribed in the landscape, written on Country.
Throughout her career Maree Clarke has developed a deep and contemplative, multidisciplinary practice that continually reclaims and celebrates Aboriginal customary ritual, language and art. This seminal body of work, Ritual and Ceremony, 2012, comprises eighty-four portraits of named Aboriginal men and women from Victoria. Clarke uses this photographic series to speak frankly about the physical presence of Aboriginal people in the South East, naming individuals as an antidote to the absence of Aboriginal makers’ names within historical collections.
10/10/2022 - 17/03/2023
Australian Embassy in France
4, rue Jean Rey
75724 Paris
www.france.embassy.gov.au
Maree Clarke has made Melbourne, Australia, her home for many years, contributing immensely to the local art community. Much of Clarke’s work is made from and about memory, whether a personal memory or cultural memory inscribed in the landscape, written on Country.
Throughout her career Maree Clarke has developed a deep and contemplative, multidisciplinary practice that continually reclaims and celebrates Aboriginal customary ritual, language and art. This seminal body of work, Ritual and Ceremony, 2012, comprises eighty-four portraits of named Aboriginal men and women from Victoria. Clarke uses this photographic series to speak frankly about the physical presence of Aboriginal people in the South East, naming individuals as an antidote to the absence of Aboriginal makers’ names within historical collections.