Dani Marti
One of the most striking works from the exhibition is from Hunter Valley artist Dani Marti whose soft sculpture installation Orifices was created during a residency with the Galley of Modern Art, Glasgow. His work was to be shown at GoMA (Glasgow Museum of Modern Art) as a part of the sh[OUT]: Contemporary Art and Human Rights exhibition, however, a last minute decision by Culture & Sport Glasgow to cancel 3 out of 4 of Dani’s artworks lead Dani to take a different course as he explained,
“The decision to cancel most of my exhibition negated the point of the 3-month residency with GoMA and Gay Men’s Health. The project was aimed at reducing marginalization, social exclusion, homophobia, and HIV related stigma and would have helped so many HIV positive people – men and women and also the general community to become more tolerant and to overcome so many preconceptions about being HIV.”
THE ART OF PROTEST
Where: Newcastle Art Gallery, 1 Laman St, Cooks Hill
When: 30 October 2021 – 30 January 2022
Time: 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Sunday, 7 days during school holidays
Newcastle art Gallery exhibition link