Juno Gemes | FireWorks Gallery

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FW1 Up Close Install 2015	FW1 Up Close Install 2015	FW1 Up Close Install 2015
FW15871 Peaceful Protest	FW16096 Where the sacred fish come in	FW16133 Gungu Henry Peters at wedding
FW16137 Barbi Langley and dancers at wedding	FW16140 Grandmothers teaching song...	FW16509 Where the Sacred Fish Come in
FW16510 Lyndsey (Spider) Roughsey	FW16512 Young men by the flag on Bora ground

Bio & CV

Born: 1944 Budapest, Hungary

Juno Gemes has had over twenty four solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as solo exhibitions in UK, USA, France, Hungary and Germany. Her magnum opus ‘Proof Portraits from the Movement 1978 -2003 Juno Gemes’ curated by Andrew Sayers (National Portrait Gallery) and Rhonda Davis (Macquarie University Art Gallery) and exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery Canberra then Macquarie University Art Gallery which toured major venues around Australia and USA for five years. She has contributed to over forty major group exhibitions including Cuisine & Country curated by Gavin Wilson which toured Australia for four years, and her works are included in collections throughout Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom.

Courtesy of the Artist 2015

Story/Statement

UP CLOSE

Photographs by Juno Gemes

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Juno Gemes:

- When I asked Lardil Elders on Mornington Island in 1978 “What images should I make—what do you want your fellow Australians to see? This was their answer: “Show them that we are still here, we been here all along. Show them that our culture is still strong. Show them that my girl”. Over the years my work has been a continuous act of advocacy and reciprocity to these instructions.

For Up Close at FireWorks gallery Juno Gemes brings home to Brisbane works created in Queensland some 40 years ago, historic images from Mornington Island & The Movement in Queensland . These Vintage Prints, Hand Tinted Prints and Unique State Photogravures printed in Brooklyn NY in 2015 are exhibited here for family and friends and for our State , National and personal collections.

May 2014 UP CLOSE at Rebecca Hossack Gallery London exhibited the work of Juno Gemes and Michael Aird during The Conference Photography and Anthropology at The British Museum at which they both presented papers.

November 2015 UP CLOSE at Fireworks Gallery brings together the photographic works of Michael Aird , Jo- Anne Dreissens with Juno Gemes.

Our family of photographers have collaborated across twenty years since 1994 AIATSIS project In Our Time- 1978-2003 Juno Gemes. We now present the work of three generations of photographers together, cutting across deviding preconceptions at Fireworks Gallery .

Courtesy of Juno Gemes 2015

http://www.junogemes.com/

JUNO GEMES

Born: 1944 Budapest, Hungary

EDUCATION & FELLOWSHIPS

2015 Hidden Histories The Kristen Peterson Speaker Series, Fine and Performing Arts , St Louis University , USA

2014 Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

2014 Speaker Photography and Anthropology Conference , British Museum London

1998 Grant from Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait, Islander Studies (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies) with Frances Peters Little - Aboriginal Peoples around Walgett, North West NSW

1994 Senior Fellowship from Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies to document and create database for her photographic archive with Aboriginal Peoples and Communities: ‘In Our Time - Photographs & Texts from the Movement 1969-1994’

1985 Freeland Committee Australian Journalists Association

1985 Aboriginal Arts Board Grant to establish Koori Photography Workshops at The Tin Sheds, Sydney University

1979 Workshop ‘Incontra Personale’ with photographer Lisette Model, La Fotografi Venice, International Center for Photography

1978 Arts Council of Great Britain Grant to attend Oxford Photographic Workshop with photographer Aaron Siskind (U.S.A.) David Hurn (UK) Oxford UK

1979 Workshop ‘Incontra Personale’ with photographer Lisette Model, La Fotografi Venice, International Center for Photography

1964 National Institute of Dramataic Art Graduate

EXHIBITIONS—SOLO

2015 Up Close (with Michael Aird and Jo-Anne Driessens) FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane

2015 Hidden Histories Puix X11 Library, Fine and Performing Arts , St Louis University, Missouri USA

2015 Spirit Maps Manning Clark House , Canberra

2012 Evidence, exhibition for NAISDA Mt Penang Parkway

2010 Sacred Ground – Uluru Kata Tjuta Culture Centre , Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, NT

2009 The Photography Book Show 1- An Intimate Experience curated by Juno Gemes, Ballarat Art Gallery, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale\

2008 Clear Water Reckoning - Freeland Gallery, Paddington, Sydney

2006 Proof: Portrais from The Movement 1978 – 2003 on tour Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Queensland; Kulge-Ruhe Aboriginal art Collection, University of Virginia, USA; Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales; Darwin Arts Festival, Northern Territory

2005 Proof: Portraits from The Movement 1978 – 2003 on tour Moree Plains Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales; South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia

2004 Proof: Portraits from The Movement 1978 – 2003 Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney

2003 Proof: Portraits from The Movement 1978 – 2003 National Portrait Gallery Commonwealth Place, Canberra

2000 Where the sacred fish come in Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London

1999 Similarcrum Trinity College, Cambridge, UK

1998 Photographs from “The Warp”, ICA London 1978 The Albany Arts Centre, London

1995 Personal Mythologies New South Wales Writers Centre, Sydney

1994 Clearwater Reckoning: Art in Public Spaces, The Oyster Bar, Sydney

1994 Personal Mythologies Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney

1993 Spring Solstice Brooklyn Memorial Hall, Brooklyn, New South Wales

1989 Under Another Sky Australian Embassy, Paris

1988 Under Another Sky Palais des Expositions Muscarnok, the National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest

1983 Hostel Life commissioned by Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, Canberra, for NAIDOC Week, Woden Plaza, Australian Capital Territory

1982 We Wait No More Hogarth Gallery, Sydney; Bitumen River Gallery, Manuka, Australian Capital Territory

EXHIBITIONS—GROUP (SELECTED)

2019 Matches 6: Three clusters FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2017 A SWEEP: Old & New Works FireWorks Gallery Brisbane

2015 Up Close with Michael Aird and Jo-Anne Driessens FireWorks Gallery, Brisbane

2014 Up Close with Michael Aird : Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London UK

2014 Art & Science Aku Kadogo + Juno Gemes MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit USA

2014 NEXT : New Photographic Visions curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Castell Photography Gallery, 2c Wilson Alley Ashville , North Carolina USA

2014 10x 8 Gallery, Central Broadway Sydney

2013 First Ladies – The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

2013 Picturing Compassion Curated by Juno Gemes & Dean Sewell, Sydney Town Hall, Melbourne Convention Centre During the visit of His Holiness Dali Lama

2013 Unbound Macquarie University Art Gallery

2013 Elvis in Goulburn - South Hill Gallery, Goulbourn

2012 The National Black Theatre –directed by Darlene Johnson ABC Messenger Stick photographs from Juno Gemes Archive

2012 I Am Eora by Wesley Enoch photographs for production

2012 Carriage Works, The National Black Theatre

2012 Evidence, NAISDA - Mt Penang Parkway, NSW- permanent exhibition Commissioned by Kim Walker Director of NAISDA

2012 State of Emergency - Kuril Dhagun, State Library of Queensland

2012 Sixties Explosion – Time Machine : Collective Memory, Macquarie University Art Gallery

2010 Candid Camera - Australian Photography 1950s - 1970s Art Gallery of South Australia curated by Julie Robertson

2009 Big Black Heart Curated by John Tran - Artspace Tsukuba University Japan - September 15 – October 15

2009 The Photography Book Show curated by Juno Gemes Ballarat Art Gallery Ballarat International Photography Festival Ballarat Victoria

2009 One Black Heart – Juno Gemes The University of Tsukuba, Artspace Gallery, Japan

2008 Clear Water Reckoning Freeland Gallery Paddington, Sydney

2008 The River Show Sara Roney Gallery

2008 Olive Cotton Photography Prize Tweed Heads Regional Art Gallery

2007 - 2008 Cuisine & Country curated by Gavin Wilson – touring exhibition, Australia

2006 Our Community National Museum of Australia touring exhibition Walgatt RSL, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

2006 Head On Australian Photographers Gallery, Balmain

2005 Australian Photographers – Director’s Choice Josef Lebovic Gallery, Sydney

2005 Berowra Visions: Margaret Preston & Beyond Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney

2005 Our Community: a great place to be National Museum of Australia, Canberra

2004 Blake Prize Sir Herman Black Gallery, Sydney

2003 Larrikins in London Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

2002 Iconographia collaboration with Culture Lab, Dakar Biennale, Africa

2002 Native Title Business Queensland Museum, Brisbane

2001 Eternity – Stories from the Emotional Heart of Australia National Museum of Australia, Canberra

2000 Mum Shirl Tribute Exhibition Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, Sydney

1995 Beyond the Picket Fence National Library of Australia, Canberra

1994 Commitments Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Artspace, Sydney; Canberra School of Art Gallery, Canberra

1991 The Intimate Experience: Selected Australian Woman Artists’ Images of Women 1946-1994 Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney

1990 The Yellow House Art Gallery of New South Wales

1989 The Image Black curated by Tracey Moffatt, Department of Foreign Affairs, Singapore

1988 A Changing Relationship SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney

1986 - 1989 Aboriginal Australia (permanent exhibition) The Australian Museum, Sydney

1985 Invasions – The Struggle of Indigenous Peoples Commonwealth Institute, London

1983 The Year of the Tree Art Gallery of New South Wales

1982 The Lady Fairfax Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales

1982 Apmira – Artists for Aboriginal Land Rights Paddington Town Hall, Sydney

1982 After the Tent Embassy The Australian Centre for Photography, National Tour

1981 The Corner Shop Picture Show curated by Juno Gemes

1981 Lovely Motherhood Show Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide

1978 The Warp ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London

PUBLISHED WORKS

Enduring Civilisations Gayle Sculthorpe British Museum ( 2015)

Three Suns I Saw A life in Letters Manfred Jurgensen

Witnessing the Apology (2008) photo essay by Juno Gemes featured in Heat, Aboriginal Studies Journal, and The Good Weekend

The Companion The National Portrait Gallery

Proof Portraits from The Movement (2003) Juno Gemes, Essays Andrew Sayers, Frances Peters-Little, Barry Hill, a NPG + Macquarie University Art Gallery publication

The Companion The National Portrait Gallery

The Language of Oysters – Photographs by Juno Gemes, Poems by Robert Adamson (1992) a Craftsman House publication

AWARDS & COMMISSIONS

2015 Portrait of His Holiness The Dalai Lama - The Monthly

2010 Photographer in residence, Ubud Writers Festival

2009 Photographer in Residence - Sydney Writers Festival - The Light Room

2006 Gulf Biennale Festival Mornington Island

1982 Hostel Life - Aboriginal Hostels Limited

COLLECTIONS

National Portrait Gallery

State Library of Queensland

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art

Queensland Museum

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