Jus' Drawn by proppaNOW

7 August - 12 September 2010
Opening Friday 6th August 6-8pm

Jus' Drawn is the first exhibition of drawings by the Brisbane based collective 'proppaNOW' to be shown in Melbourne. ProppaNOW consists of urban Aboriginal artists who have already won individual acclaim, Richard Bell, Vernon AhKee, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilsen, as well as formidable emerging artists such as Jennifer Herd, Andrea Fisher, Bianca Beetson and Tony Albert. ProppaNOW dispels the notion that indigenous art needs to be from a remote area to be 'authentic'.

In this exhibition the artists deal with a range of subject matter and emotions. From the raw personal reflections of Jennifer Herd who is responding to personal loss and grief to Gordon Hookey's animal drawings which are comments on the environmental destruction of the planet.

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