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Michael Cook Invasion installation image
Benalla Art Gallery, 2022
When: Saturday 1st October 2022, 3PM
Where: Simpson Gallery
Price: This is a FREE event
Bookings: Numbers are strictly limited. To secure your place, email the gallery on gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
Join Benalla Art Gallery and Michael Cook for the official celebration of the exhibition Invasion. Enjoy refreshments, and the opportunity to meet the artist and converse in a relaxed setting.
Invasion places an imaginative eye on Australian colonial history and turns around the dominant view, taking alien creatures into iconic London-based cityscapes, with white urban residents their victims. Cook’s images express the shock that enveloped the Australian continent when European people appeared on Aboriginal shores. The exhibition comprises five works from the Invasion series acquired by Benalla Art Gallery in 2021, having been donated by the artist through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.