Title

Batik of Java: Poetics and politics.

Collective title

Caloundra Regional Gallery touring exhibition.

Venues

Artspace Mackay. (19 August 2011 – 1 October 2010)

Date

(2011 – 2010)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (QLD).

Countries of context

Australia | Indonesia

Abstract

On the 2nd October, 2009 UNESCO recognised Javanese batik as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. To celebrate this, Caloundra Regional Gallery brings together two batik collections: one of batiks from the North Coast of Java and the other now held as memory and represented in the recent paintings by contemporary Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto (now resident in Brisbane). An element of these paintings depicts as fragments of memory and loss, batiks from the collection of his mother’s shop. The selection of batiks from the Sunshine Coast collection of Greg Roberts and Ian Reed includes exquisite examples of North Coast Javanese textiles. Batik of Java is a Caloundra Regional Gallery touring exhibition. [Artspace Mackay media].