Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Exhibition Showcases Aussie Rock

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There is a picture of it on the web site. Not really my thing but hey, I =
am no artist (hey Barbie)!!!!!
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  From: Lina Yune=20
  To: Powderworks Oil List=20
  Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 12:52 AM
  Subject: [Powderworks] Exhibition Showcases Aussie Rock


  http://au.news.yahoo.com/011216/2/1rj1.html

  Sunday December 16, 08:25 AM=20


  Exhibition showcases Aussie rock
  A new portrait of Midnight Oil has been unveiled as the centrepiece of =
the National Portrait Gallery's latest show, So You Wanna Be a Rock =
Star: Portraits and Rock Music in Australia.

  At the opposite end of the room is the gallery's first commission, =
Howard Arkley's Nick Cave.

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  They are joined by concert posters for Cold Chisel, Painters and =
Dockers, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Hoodoo Gurus and others, Carol =
Jerrums' photographs of Skyhooks' members and Ross Wilson.


  There are a host of other portraits from Johnny O'Keefe to =
Silverchair, including Chrissie Amphlett, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, =
Renee Geyer, Mental as Anything, Radio Birdman, Billy Thorpe and the =
Aztecs, Sherbet and The Go-Betweens.

  A music video loop shows songs from The Saints' (I'm) Stranded in 1977 =
to Regurgitator's Come On in 2001.

  The exhibition includes Australian artists' depictions of overseas =
performers, with Martin Sharp's Jimi Hendrix and Cream album covers from =
the time when he lived with Eric Clapton in London, and Brett Whiteley's =
New York pictures of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith and album cover for Dire =
Straits' Alchemy.

  Rock subculture is celebrated with portraits of fans at Big Day Out, =
Livid and Homebake festivals, punks, an air guitarist made up of 300 =
drawings of rock stars by teenagers, and bedrooms wallpapered with =
posters.

  Sharpies of the 1970s - who sported close-cropped mullet-style hair =
and engaged in gang skirmishes with each other and with rival surfies - =
are depicted in a Carol Jerrum photograph and a four-minute 1974 film by =
Skyhooks' Greg Macainsh.

  Canberra artist eX de Medici was commissioned to paint Midnight Oil, =
with the five members set low in the foreground of a painting dominated =
by the Ranger uranium mine.

  "There's a lot of questioning as to what's actually happening in the =
biodiversity of that region, so it encompasses not only mining, mining =
communities, a white space inside a black space," Ms de Medici said.

  Painted on vellum, "Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground" (a =
line from the Oils' song Blue Sky Mine) incorporate the band's concerns =
with environmental degradation and corporate exploitation.

  Ms de Medici is a tattooist and has spent 15 years gradually =
decorating a group of a dozen people and is also artist-in-residence at =
CSIRO's entomology division, painting unclassified insects.

  That, plus the band's concerns with threatened species and her own =
annual trips to the Northern Territory, led to her outlining rare Kakadu =
moths on the portrayed band members' throats.

  The exhibition runs until February 17.




  Lina





  Where is the ground, the beloved country? Women and men who have =
fallen silent Where are the words that can speak forgiveness? Now is the =
time Now is the time Now is the time to heal=20

  Midnight Oil





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  <P><B>Sunday December 16, 08:25 AM</B>=20
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  <H2><B>Exhibition showcases Aussie rock</B></H2>
  <P>A new portrait of Midnight Oil has been unveiled as the centrepiece =
of the=20
  National Portrait Gallery's latest show, So You Wanna Be a Rock Star:=20
  Portraits and Rock Music in Australia.</P>
  <P>At the opposite end of the room is the gallery's first commission, =
Howard=20
  Arkley's Nick Cave.</P>
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  <P>They are joined by concert posters for Cold Chisel, Painters and =
Dockers,=20
  Paul Kelly and the Dots, Hoodoo Gurus and others, Carol Jerrums' =
photographs=20
  of Skyhooks' members and Ross Wilson.</P>
  <P>
  <P>There are a host of other portraits from Johnny O'Keefe to =
Silverchair,=20
  including Chrissie Amphlett, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Renee =
Geyer, Mental=20
  as Anything, Radio Birdman, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Sherbet and =
The=20
  Go-Betweens.</P>
  <P>A music video loop shows songs from The Saints' (I'm) Stranded in =
1977 to=20
  Regurgitator's Come On in 2001.</P>
  <P>The exhibition includes Australian artists' depictions of overseas=20
  performers, with Martin Sharp's Jimi Hendrix and Cream album covers =
from the=20
  time when he lived with Eric Clapton in London, and Brett Whiteley's =
New York=20
  pictures of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith and album cover for Dire =
Straits'=20
  Alchemy.</P>
  <P>Rock subculture is celebrated with portraits of fans at Big Day =
Out, Livid=20
  and Homebake festivals, punks, an air guitarist made up of 300 =
drawings of=20
  rock stars by teenagers, and bedrooms wallpapered with posters.</P>
  <P>Sharpies of the 1970s - who sported close-cropped mullet-style hair =
and=20
  engaged in gang skirmishes with each other and with rival surfies - =
are=20
  depicted in a Carol Jerrum photograph and a four-minute 1974 film by =
Skyhooks'=20
  Greg Macainsh.</P>
  <P>Canberra artist eX de Medici was commissioned to paint Midnight =
Oil, with=20
  the five members set low in the foreground of a painting dominated by =
the=20
  Ranger uranium mine.</P>
  <P>"There's a lot of questioning as to what's actually happening in =
the=20
  biodiversity of that region, so it encompasses not only mining, mining =

  communities, a white space inside a black space," Ms de Medici =
said.</P>
  <P>Painted on vellum, "Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground" =
(a line=20
  from the Oils' song Blue Sky Mine) incorporate the band's concerns =
with=20
  environmental degradation and corporate exploitation.</P>
  <P>Ms de Medici is a tattooist and has spent 15 years gradually =
decorating a=20
  group of a dozen people and is also artist-in-residence at CSIRO's =
entomology=20
  division, painting unclassified insects.</P>
  <P>That, plus the band's concerns with threatened species and her own =
annual=20
  trips to the Northern Territory, led to her outlining rare Kakadu =
moths on the=20
  portrayed band members' throats.</P>
  <P>The exhibition runs until February 17.</P></DIV><BR><BR>
  <P>Lina</P>
  <P>&nbsp;</P>
  <P>&nbsp;</P>
  <P><EM>Where is the ground, the beloved country? Women and men who =
have fallen=20
  silent Where are the words that can speak forgiveness? Now is the time =
Now is=20
  the time Now is the time to heal </P>
  <P>Midnight Oil</EM></P>
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