Seminal works by Brett Colquhoun, Raafat Ishak, Anne-Marie May and Rosslynd Piggott are now on show at Gertrude Contemporary as a part their landmark anniversary exhibition, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995. Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, the group exhibition takes a speculative look at the span of more than thirty artists’ works shown during Gertrude’s formative years, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of this era.
Including artworks rarely seen in almost 40 years, the ‘fictional retrospective’ explores how works from this era have retained a timeliness and contemporary relevance through their diverse explorations of cultural and artistic identities; painting both figurative and abstract; the staged and cinematic.
A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995
Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne
8 February – 23 March 2025