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Barbara Cleveland is an Australian contemporary performance art collective who primarily work on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. [1] Barbara Cleveland's works examine the histories of visual and performing arts and are informed by queer and feminist theories. [2]

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History

The members of the group are Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, and Kelly Doley. The artists started their collaborative practice in 2005 while studying at the College of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales. [3] [4] Since 2011, the collective have produced an ongoing series of work which explores the life and legacy of Barbara Cleveland: [2] a mythical Australian performance artist who was active in the 1970s and who disappeared in 1981. [5] The group previously worked under the title ‘Brown Council’ then ‘Barbara Cleveland Institute’ [6] before taking the name ‘Barbara Cleveland’ in 2016. [2]

Selected performances and presentations

In 2020, Barbara Cleveland's first solo exhibition in a public gallery, Thinking Business was presented at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. [7] The exhibition was curated by Gina Mobayed the then Director of Gallery and it went on to tour nationally with the support of Museums & Galleries of NSW. [8]

Collections

Their works are held in the permanent collections of Artbank, [1] Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, [9] [10] [11] the Art Gallery of New South Wales, [12] Campbelltown Arts Centre, Monash University Museum of Art and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "ARTBANK : Barbara Cleveland - Bodies in Time" . Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Barbara Cleveland bio". Sullivan + Strumpf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Feminist Performance Art of Brown Council: An Interview with Diana Smith". Double Dialogues. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Barbara Cleveland | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Jaspers, Anneke. "Barbara Cleveland". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. ↑ French, Blair. "Barbara Cleveland | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. ↑ Baker Smith, Diana; Blackmore, Kate, eds. (2020). Barbara Cleveland : Thinking Business. Goulburn, New South Wales: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. p. 6. ISBN   978-0-6485792-0-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  8. ↑ NSW, Museums & Galleries (16 August 2021). "Tour – Barbara Cleveland | Thinking Business - MGNSW" . Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  9. ↑ "Performance Art (15 Actions for the Face) | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "The One Hour Laugh | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.[ permanent dead link ]
  11. ↑ "What Do I Do? (1970-2009) | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "Bodies in time, (2016) by Barbara Cleveland". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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