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MEDIA RELEASE 28 January 2016

Peter Waples-Crowe Loss, with a blue vision fest. JRAE and J. Baerg 4 February – 28 February This February, Chapter House Lane will present Loss, with a blue vision feat. J RAE and J. Baerg an installation by Melbourne based Ngarigo/ Wiradjuri artist, Peter Waples-Crowe. For Loss, with a blue vision feat. J.RAE and J. Baerg , Waples-Crowe reflects on his mix-race Ngarigo/ Wiradjuri / Western roots to locate and map his position and sense of belonging in contemporary Australia.

Peter Waples-Crowe, Broken, 2015, mixed media (acrylic paint, collage, stickers) on paper, 22.5cm x 12cm. Created as a site-specific tryptic for Chapter House Lane’s walk-by window space, the exhibition combines auto-ethnography and critical reflection to explore ideas of dispossession, indigeneity, popular culture and spirituality. Waples-Crowe transforms the gallery into an echo chamber of his own identity, using tropes to contemplate the loss, grief, pain and survival felt by Aboriginal people generations after colonisation. Expanding on the Australian experience, Waples-Crowe includes work from an earlier art project, Blue Vision, that he collaborated on with two Indigenous Canadian artists, Jen Rae and Jason

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Baerg. In doing so, he engages with the global Indigenous experience, bringing consciousness to the erasure and loss of Aboriginal cultural knowledge worldwide. The exhibition is populated with metaphor, intersecting ideas of identity, race and culture, he reflects on his heritage, using symbolic native animals; a Bower bird and dingo, as a point of reference for ideas explored throughout his practice. Peter Waples-Crowe will join Chapter House Lane in conversation on February 20, 7-8pm, to present a public talk discussing his work and artistic practice. About the artist: Peter Waples-Crowe is an award-winning artist whose visual and performance art practices meet at the intersection of identity, race and culture. A Melbourne based Ngarigo artist with Wiradjuri connections, Waples-Crowe has exhibited widely in Australia. Recent exhibitions include: Both sides of the street, The Counihan Gallery, 2015; Two of a kind, Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery, 2015; Moving on up, Koorie Heritage Trust, 2015; Notes to GB (Gordon Bennett), Sutton Gallery, 2014; Out Laws (as the Treaters), Linden Contemporary Art, 2014; Queerum: the 24hr experience, Carlton, 2014; From where I stand: Place, Culture, Politics, Bunjilaka, 2014; Horizons, Bundoora Homestead Art Gallery Melbourne, 2014; Healing ways: Art with Intent, The Dax Centre, The University of Melbourne, 2014; Tickin all the boxes, Beyond Blak, Substation Art Gallery, Newport, 2014. Waples-Crowe has been awarded the Victorian Indigenous Art Award, 2013 & 2009; CAL works on paper Award, 2013; People’s Choice Award – Gumbri: White Dove, 2010; City of Darebin Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, 2010; Koorie Heritage Trust Acquisition Award 2009. Adding to this, he has been a finalist in the Wyndham Art Prize, 2015; Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, 2014. For more information visit the artist website: http://www.peterwaplescrowe.com/

Chapter House Lane is a non-profit contemporary art gallery in Melbourne. Find out more at chapterhouselane.org.au. Contact us for media enquiries, interviews or more images: Jacqueline Hanlin |0433 572 655 | jacqueline@chapterhouselane.org.au

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Exhibition: Loss, with a blue vision feat. J.RAE and J. Baerg | Peter Waples Crowe Opening: February 4, 2016: 6–8pm Artist Talk: February 20, 2016: 7-8pm Location: Chapter House Lane, entry via Flinders Lane, Melbourne