Title

Open air: Portraits in the landscape.

Venues

National Portrait Gallery [3] (4 December 2008 – 1 March 2009)

Date

(2008 – 2009)

Summary

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

Curator

Andrew Sayers

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them. The exhibition extends the notion of portraiture beyond the simple definition of 'pictures with faces' to embrace deeply-rooted visual expressions of identity in which various artists have engaged with different kinds of ancestral history. Inclusive, lyrical and strongly Australian in character. [Gallery media, 2008].