User:Nigel Lendon

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Nigel Lendon is Deputy Director, School of Art, Australian National University. He has worked as an artist, art historian and curator in the fields of minimalist and conceptual art, with a particular interest in the relation between tradition and innovation, and collaborative interdisciplinary practices, since the late sixties. His artworks are represented in most state and national collections, and in a number of key exhibitions. In the past fifteen years he has focussed on the history and theory of Indigenous Australian art. This is manifested through his curatorial practice which has resulted in a number of significant exhibitions, notably The Painters of the Story of the Wagilag Sisters 1937-1997, at the National Gallery of Australia (with Wally Caruana). This was recognised as a landmark exhibition, tracing development and change in the representation of one narrative cycle through six generations of painters and across six clans in Arnhem Land. Other projects have included three exhibitions at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery (Synergies, (2003), Abstractions, (2003), and Outside In, research engagements in Arnhem Land (2001), curated in conjunction with Morphy, Altman, and others. Key publications concerning the nature of innovation in Indigenous arts have accompanied these shows.