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Daniel Boyd We Call Them Pirates Out Here 2006 oil on canvas 226.5 x 275 cm Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with funds provided by the Coe and Mordant families, 2006 2006.25
The Museum of Jurassic Technology A flayne Mouse...c. 1993 Dispirited After a Dreary Day...date unknown printed ceramic, gold printed ceramic plate, wood, metal stand 7 x 12.3 x 9.5 cm [irreg] Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 1996
Matthew Hopkins 10 Corporate Portraits of IT 2007 acrylic on board 10 paintings; 60 x 42 cm each Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Henry Ergas, 2009 © the artist
Mitch Cairns We are strong, so strong 2006 enamel on canvas, ceramic painting: 112 x 112 cm; ceramic pieces: 20 x 20 x 2 cm (each, approx.) Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Henry Ergas, 2009 © the artist
Maria Kozic Manster (Wolf man) 1986 synthetic polymer paint on wood 80 x 80 cm Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Loti Smorgon and Victor Smorgon, 1995
Vivienne Shark LeWitt Shall I bark for you master? Or shall I bite? ha, ha, ha, ha 1987 oil on linen canvas 81.3 x 65.9 cm Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased 1990
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Daniel Boyd

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Artist Daniel Boyd discusses his work We Call Them Pirates Out Here featured in the exhibition New Acquisitions 2007 for the MCA Artist's Voice series.

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Daniel Boyd

Running Time: 4:46

Artist Daniel Boyd discusses his work We Call Them Pirates Out Here featured in the exhibition New Acquisitions 2007 for the MCA Artist's Voice series.

We Call Them Pirates Out Here: MCA Collection selected by David Elliott



17 February - 29 August 2010

The MCA has invited David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010 – ‘THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, to select works for this exhibition from the Museum’s collection.

Without distance, art has no authority. Reflecting themes contained in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, this exhibition conveys many ideas of distance, such as critical distance and aesthetic distance, as well as the capacity for wonder — the realisation of a powerful beauty much greater than oneself.

Taking its title from a painting by Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd, which shows a landing by members of the First Fleet from the perspective of the First Peoples, the exhibition examines how histories of colonisation vary radically according to the perspective of the viewer — a settler to one party was deemed a pirate to those who were occupied.

Selected works engage with such ambiguities and multiple perspectives, and are arranged like a pre-modern museum: a Cabinet of Curiosities.

Artists include Daniel Boyd, Aleks Danko, Newell Harry, Maria Kozic, Vivienne Shark LeWitt and Jenny Watson, as well as relics to be shown from the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles.




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