Alan Cruickshank b. 1953

  • Artist (Photographer)
Photographic manipulator, was born in Adelaide, SA. Cruickshank's work has referenced early European photographers such as John William Lindt. His 1997 exhibition "Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial" involved superimposing European faces onto Lindt's historical photographs of Indigenous Tasmanians. He has also been known to alter early European photographs by adding Aboriginal faces, arguably in
curator of
Landing 3: Iacobelli Aldo, George Popperwell, Sally-Ann Rowland
Date
2000
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

The third in a series, bringing together previously exhibited works by three Adelaide based artists; allowing for a further reading in a context different to that of the original.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.cacsa.org.au/archives/index_frames.html (23/11/04)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Group, Painting
exhibited at
Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial
Date
1997
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Arcanum museum project
Date
1997
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

The exhibition was a continuation of a project that Cruickshank has been engaged in from the 'Arcanum Museum’. Previously the work focused on photographs from colonial white Australia, and on which, through the use of computer technology, faces from other (excluded) peoples have been seamlessly insinuated into the frame: suggesting another potential history. This work reversed and expanded the substitutions, whereby Victorian and Edwardian photographs of black people – posed, designed and photographed by white people – were used as the base for the work.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Arcanum museum project/Alan Cruickshank. Adelaide, SA: Alan Cruickshank, c1995
ISBN 064626009X

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Digital media, Photography
exhibited at
The Arcanum Museum
Date
1995
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Exhibition exploring the hard and unrepresentable truth.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Blaze, CACSA, 1990-2002;
http://www.nla.gov.au/(20/12/04)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Cruickshank, Alan, The Arcanum museum. Adelaide, South Australia: Alan Cruickshank, 1995
ISBN 064626009

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Photography
exhibited at
Mien: Chinese scrolls, Singapore-Adelaide 1990-93
Date
1993
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Computer manipulated necco prints to illustrate and interrogate our fascinated gaze as regards 'the east’, 'Mien’ used the format of the oriental scroll, so that the faces were presented in a series of confronting banners.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
EAF annual report; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Mien: Chinese scrolls, Singapore-Adelaide 1990-93. Adelaide: Alan Cruickshank, 1993
ISBN 0958956812 (prepublication)

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Digital media
exhibited at
Mimesis (legend and myth): Alan Cruickshank
Date
1988
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
CACSA exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo