The proposed travelling exhibition, A Trio of Trespassers ‘examines some of the complex phenomena central to the act of migration’.[1] Annemarie Murland, Andy Devine and Kiera O’Toole are new ‘Australian’s’ whose art practices explore the experience of migration and its subsequent diasporas. Navigating between here and there, present and past, inside and out, praxis explores a fusion of transient histories.
In their approaches to finding ‘material form’ the Trio’s visual observations are panoramic. Lying between identity and landscape, their tableaus converge as one, rather than from an inherited imperialist, cultural perspective. By reassessing displaced identities, Murland, Devine and O’Toole recreate representations that are transformative in their critique of cultural and social otherness in relation to terra australis.
The resolve of the Trio is a contemporary visual response, which serves to renegotiate the enduring loss that is inherent to the evolving and dissolving experiences of migration. As the work travels between space and place, new identities are forged and geographical borders are reassessed, forecasting an inspiring and interdisciplinary material outcome.
[1] Darryl, Bowes, A Trio of Trespassers, Catalogue Essay of Exhibition: The University of Newcastle, Australia, 16 October – 1 November, 2010. 1
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