Just between us

Using the Griffith University Art Collection as its starting point, Just between us explores how artists reveal the intimate details of their lives and test the increasingly blurred boundaries of public and private. Including practices of narration, self-portraiture, and diaristic recording, and a visual language that creates a sense of immediacy and nostalgia, the exhibition reflects on how the autobiographical reference has evolved, from an essential feminist strategy to a contemporary fixation on identity and self-disclosure. By laying out hypothetical realities, desires, memories and fears, each of these artists offer something of themselves, and ask the viewer to do the same. What arises are ambiguities between the autobiographical and fictitious; the intensely personal and universal; the remembered and experienced self.

Artists include: Ian Abdulla, Davida Allen, Gloria Beckett, Gordon Bennett, Kate Beynon, Ray Cook, Justine Cooper, Julie Fragar, Helen Fuller, Tyza Hart, Ruth Maddison, Penny McDowell & Tim Slade, Tracey Moffatt, Liam O'Brien, Jill Orr, Scott Redford, Monica Rohan, David M. Thomas, Jenni Thornley, Jenny Watson

Curator: Lizzie Riek