Talks & Tours | Artist Talk with Rosanna Raymond and Ruth Woodbury

Name: Talks & Tours | Artist Talk with Rosanna Raymond and Ruth Woodbury
Start: 2025-03-09T11:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-03-09T12:00:00+11:00
Location: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Schedule

Sun Mar 09 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra | Canberra, CT

📍 Gallery 11, Worldwide (Level 1)
🎟️Free, bookings essential
⌛️ Duration: 60 min
This event is part of SaVĀge K'lub Closing d’Activation
Experience an intimate tour of the SaVĀge K’lub exhibition led by artists, collaborators, and core SaVĀge K’lub members Ruth Woodbury and Rosanna Raymond. These two accomplished creatives will guide you through the room, delving into their artistic processes, their sources of inspiration, oral histories, and the deeper layers of meaning within their art practices, uncovering the intangible political, cultural, and historical narratives woven into their works.
This program is part of the SaVĀge K'lub Closing d’Activation. See the full program for more workshops, talks and performances.
‼️Content Advice
Please be advised that this exhibition includes some artworks with adult themes.
Artists:
🎙️ Rosanna Raymond
Sistar S’pacific, aka Rosanna Raymond, is an innovator of the contemporary Pasifika art scene, a long-standing member of the art collective the Pacific Sisters, and the founding member of the SaVĀge K’lub. Raymond has achieved international renown for her performances, installations, body adornment and spoken word. A published writer and poet, her works are held by museums and private collectors throughout the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In 2018 Raymond was awarded the CNZ Pacific Senior Artist acknowledging her contribution to the arts. Raymond is a former Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City and this year was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of her services to Pacific Arts.
🎙️ Ruth Woodbury
Descendant of Te Hikutu, Ngatī Korokoro, Te Pouka, Ngatī Wharara / Guang Zhou / First Fleet Location: South Hokianga
Ruth’s passion is inter-generational transfer of knowledge and activation of our cultural practices through cultivation of relationships and fabrication of our environmental resources. Her artistic expression threads through curating and exhibiting, education facilitation and practice of visual arts with her foundations in Māori traditional weaving, i raro i te maru o Te Whare Pora. As a living ancestor Ruth arrives whole in her genealogical vessel no matter where she stands and actively encourages those around her to self-determine their unique identity.
Ruth has recently exhibited works with the arts collective Pacific Sisters in Melbourne at the ACMI and Bunjil Place [2024] also leading the collective as their Creative Producer for these engagements. Her solo showing of Whiria: Ngā Manu Rere at the New Zealand Maritime Museum in 2022 featured a collection of moving images, soundscapes and object works of tuturu Māori Manu Rere nō Hokianga, traditionally made kites, including Manu Aute, with legacy in the Hokianga region of Aotearoa.
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SaVĀge K'lub: Te Paepae Aora’i – Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled, Opening Weekend Acti.VĀ.tions, 2024, The National Gallery of Australia. Photograph: Kerrie Brewer.