NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY
Installation view, ATONG ATEM, 2023, Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual, featuring (left to right) The Bride Wore Pearls 1, 2022; Banksia (small), 2022; Our Neighbour was a Witch, 2022, image courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery and © the artist, photographer Matthew Carbone
Installation view, ATONG ATEM, 2023, Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual, featuring (left to right) Yellow Dress 2, 2022; Mama, 2022, image courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery and © the artist, photographer Matthew Carbone
Installation view, ATONG ATEM, 2023, Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual, featuring (left to right) Tulip (large), 2022; The Paper Twins, 2022; Banksia (small), 2022; Yellow Dress 2, 2022; Josephine Margaret Bakhita, 2022; Mama in 1985, 2022; The Cowboy, 2022, image courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery and © the artist, photographer Matthew Carbone
Installation view, ATONG ATEM, 2023, Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual, featuring (left to right) Yellow Dress 2, 2022; Josephine Margaret Bakhita, 2022, image courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery and © the artist, photographer Matthew Carbone
Installation view, ATONG ATEM, 2023, Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual, featuring (left to right) Hamam 3, 2021; Reception 9, 2021, image courtesy Newcastle Art Gallery and © the artist, photographer Matthew Carbone
ATONG ATEM, 2023
Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual
Design and Fabrication of steel frames
by Feather Edge.
Internationally renowned photographer Atong Atem presents striking video and photographic portraiture in her first exhibition in Newcastle. Titled ATONG ATEM, the exhibition brings together
two recent series of work to present migrant stories and obscured layers
of history on a cinematic scale.
ATONG ATEM is presented by Newcastle Art Gallery for New Annual 2023 and represents the first major exhibition of Atong Atem's work in the Hunter Region. Atong Atem is represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne.