Title
1990 Venice Biennale Australia: Rover Thomas/Trevor Nickolls
Date
1990
Place
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Date
1990
Place
Australia Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Date
1991
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Organised by the Art Gallery of Western Australia on behalf of the Australia Council. Toured to Tandanya Aboriginal cultural Institute, Adelaide; Ian Potter Gallery, University of Melbourne; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Moree Plains Regional Gallery, NSW. Two Aboriginal artists, Rover Thomas and Trevor Nickolls, were selected by the Australia Council to represent Australia officially in the 1990 Venice Biennale in and exhibition prepared by the Curator of Aboriginal art, Michael O’Ferrall. Twenty-five works were selected from private and state collections to represent two distinctive and challenging faces of contemporary Australian art.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGWA annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
1990 Venice Biennale, Australia: artists, Rover Thomas, Trevor Nickolls. Perth, WA: Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1990
ISBN 073090783X

Event type/s
exhibition
Tags
Duo
Venice
Painting