Presented for the Asialink program: Bright Sparks
Curator: Judy Kean
Artists: Annie Franklin, Meng Hoeschle, Robert Kleinboonschate, David Mpetyane, John Smith
Partner: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin
Tour: Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Kuching (1995)
A second response to the Bright Sparks program was an exhibition of artists from the Northern Territory. Curator Judy Kean states: ‘The five artists included in Changing Places offer diverse perspectives on living and working across or between cultures... Each of them has opened him or herself to the influences of unfamiliar physical and cultural environments, and each has done so for a period of time within one distinctive area of Australia.’
The exhibition traveled to smaller centres in Malaysia, with Penelope Aitken of Asialink reporting from Kuching where the exhibition shared a venue with other projects: ‘The Changing Places opening by the mayor was great. The whole combination of art by school kids, past Atelier residents from the Philippines and Bali, current Atelier members as well as us, guaranteed a big audience and lots of fun.’