Narelle Jubelin

Cannibal Tours

28 February - 12 July 2009

Venue: Heide III: Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery & Kerry Gardner & Andrew Myer Project Gallery

Curator: Dr Ann Stephen

Rendition of 'Our bit' milk jug cover from the collection of the Pioneer Women's Hut, Tumbarumba, Australia (1990), detail from Trade delivers people #3

Narelle Jubelin
Rendition of 'Our bit' milk jug cover from the collection of the Pioneer Women's Hut, Tumbarumba, Australia (1990), detail from Trade delivers people #3 1989-97
cotton petit point in Tramp Art frame
25.5 x 30.0 cm
Collection of Sharon Grey & Jeff Hall
© Narelle Jubelin

Narelle Jubelin’s exhibition Cannibal Tours is a contemporary companion to Modern times and proposes an encounter with modernism through the artist’s own practice and the photographic archive of Albert Tucker.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, the two versions of Jubelin’s Trade delivers people, a ‘cannibalised’ installation comprising the artist’s petit-point renditions intercut with readymade ‘primitive’ tribal masks and other museum objects and artworks, including Sidney Nolan’s celebrated painting Boy and the moon (1939-40). This installation is juxtaposed with Jubelin’s work Boxed Set (2006), eleven petit-point renditions of images representing formative childhood brushes with modernism, and photographs by Albert Tucker referencing his own encounters with aspects of modernism in Europe.

Heide has partnered with 774 ABC Melbourne to develop the Museum’s first online podtour. Follow the link and choose from three tours, available for download to any mp3 player or listen online. Led by curator Dr Ann Stephen, these tours take visitors through both Modern times and Narelle Jubelin: Cannibal Tours, the contemporary adjunct to Modern times, offering a special insight into the history of the modernist movement in Australia and its relationship to contemporary art practice today.

For more information, download the Narelle Jubelin: Cannibal Tours media release.

Narelle Jubelin: Cannibal Tours
The contemporary companion to Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia

A POWERHOUSE MUSEUM TRAVELLING EXHIBITION