Craig Walsh: Embedded

Overview

Celebrated for his site-responsive works, renowned Australian artist Craig Walsh joins the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia this spring for Embedded, an exhibition that includes moving image works, photographic portraits and industrial containers filled with iron ore.

The works were developed after the artist spent time in the Pilbara, where iron ore is mined, in the company of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (the traditional custodians of the Pilbara’s Burrup Peninsula), Murujuga National Park rangers and Rio Tinto staff. Exhibiting from September 12 until November 24, Embedded reflects on the connection that local Aboriginal people have to their land. “The contrast between the ‘land’ as commodity and ‘Land’ as spiritual and cultural guidance are co-existing in the installation,” Walsh explains, "and the audience will be physically positioned somewhere between the two."

Walsh’s latest exhibition kicks off from September 12 at the MCA. Come along to nab some free and seriously affecting insights.