synergy: identity, portraiture and the moving body

9 March 2024 - 19 May 2024

Sue Healey
On View: Japan (detail), 2018
single channel video
Photograph: Pippa Samaya. © The artist

ATONG ATEM | GERWYN DAVIES | TIM GEORGESON | SUE HEALEY

synergy: identity, portraiture and the moving body presents a group exhibition of four renowned Australian-based artists who explore personal and cultural forms of identity. Through fantastical transformations, elaborate costuming, fierce synergies between sound and movement, and the poetic language of dance, the captivating work of all four artists interrogate ideas of self and utilise portraiture, movement and the body as a form of visual storytelling.

The works in this exhibition span and transcend multiple genders, age and cultures and remind us of the universal power of identity, body and movement in navigating our own experiences.

Exhibiting artists include Atong Atem, Gerwyn Davies, Tim Georgeson and Sue Healey.

A Tweed Regional Gallery initiative supported by the Tweed Regional Gallery Foundation Ltd. Screens proudly provided by Samsung.

Atong Atem is represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Gerwyn Davies is represented by Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane and Michael Reid Gallery Sydney / Berlin
Tim Georgeson is represented by Olsen Gallery, Sydney

Image top left: Atong Atem / Green Face with Veil 2022 / Ilford smooth pearl print / 150 x 100 cm / Image courtesy of MARS and the artist © The artist

Image top right: Gerwyn Davies / Zigzag 2021 / archival inkjet print / 130 x 90cm / edition of 5 + 1 AP / Image courtesy the artist © The artist

Image bottom: Tim Georgeson / still from URRITJARA featuring Derik Lynch, 2021 / 16mm, 3 channel colour film and sound / Music Kalkani by William Barton and Veronique Serret / 13 mins 20 secs / © The artist