Long Ballads

Past Exhibition
23 June - 14 July 2017
A two part-sculpture, featuring a cream dome at the top with gold interior, and a shiny pink bulbous object with a yellow tip reaching into the dome.
A two part-sculpture, featuring a cream dome at the top with gold interior, and a shiny pink bulbous object with a yellow tip reaching into the dome.

An ACE Open interstate presentation

When

Ideas Platform, Artspace Sydney

23 June to 14 July 2017

Hybridising naturally occurring plant forms with practices of costuming and adornment, Julia Robinson's Artspace Sydney Ideas Platform project Long Ballads distills the artist's interest in the themes of fecundity, ritual and the cycle of the seasons.

Collectively the work takes its cues from a range of rituals that affirm life and ward off death, many of which are still performed in England and across Europe today. These performances involve elaborate costumed characters and are boisterous, bawdy and aggressive, frequently invoking the phallus as a symbol of virility.

Julia Robinson is represented by GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide.

Presented in association with Artspace Sydney

Feature Image: Julia Robinson, A Sunny Pleasure Dome (2016). Courtesy the artist and GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide

  • From a shiny pink hook hangs an almost knitted sculpture draped in two parts, with round wooden objects weighing it down at each end.
  • A two part-sculpture, featuring a cream dome at the top with gold interior, and a shiny pink bulbous object with a yellow tip reaching into the dome.
From a shiny pink hook hangs an almost knitted sculpture draped in two parts, with round wooden objects weighing it down at each end.
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Julia Robinson, The fruit that made man wise (2016). Courtesy the artist and GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide

Lead Artists

Julia Robinson
Artist

ACE tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka panpapanpalyarninthi (inparrinthi). Kaurna miyurna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlu tampnthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.

ACE tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka panpapanpalyarninthi (inparrinthi). Kaurna miyurna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlu tampnthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.