Ricky Maynard – News

RICKY MAYNARD in VERSUS RODIN: BODIES ACROSS SPACE AND TIME

4 March – 2 July 2017
Art Gallery of South Australia

Coinciding with the centenary of the great French sculptor’s death, Versus Rodin includes over 60 modern and contemporary artists whose works will be brought into a vivid conversation with the works of Auguste Rodin.

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RICKY MAYNARD in RESOLUTION: NEW INDIGENOUS PHOTOMEDIA

An NGA travelling exhibition
16 September – 4 December 2016
Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW

This exhibition creates an experience of photomedia and Indigeneity that is physical, embodied and thought-provoking.

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RICKY MAYNARD in OVER THE FENCE

6 August – 30 October 2016
UQ Art Museum, QLD

Over the fence features the work of 18 Indigenous artists engaged in the field of photography. Indigenous art is often political, and these artists address various contentious issues, including identity, representation, racism, religious influence and the exploitation of land. The artworks in Over the fence are drawn from the private collection of art patron and philanthropist Patrick Corrigan AM, a long-time supporter of contemporary Australian art.

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RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Stills is delighted to announce that two portraits from Ricky Maynard’s series Saddened Were the Hearts of Many Men – Kerry and Sean (both 2015) - have been acquired by the Sir Elton John Photography Collection.

RICKY MAYNARD in ‘COUNTRY & WESTERN: LANDSCAPE RE-IMAGINED’

2015 - 2017
A Perc Tucker Regional Gallery national touring exhibition

This exhibition brings into focus our evolving attitudes and perceptions of the national landscape over the past twenty-five years. As well, the vexed issues of dispossession, identity, collaboration, mining and land degradation, along with the country’s natural splendour are all viewed from differing cultural perspectives.

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RICKY MAYNARD in ‘THE PHOTOGRAPH AND AUSTRALIA’

21 March – 8 June 2015
Art Gallery of New South Wales

The photograph and Australia investigates how photography was harnessed to create the idea of a nation and reveals how our view of the world, ourselves and each other has been changed by the advent of photography.

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MARY ELLEN MARK, RICKY MAYNARD, POLIXENI PAPAPETROU, TRENT PARKE & WILLIAM YANG in REMAIN IN LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MCA COLLECTIONS

9 August – 2 November 2014
Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW

This MCA touring exhibition introduces audiences to developments in photography as an art practice from the 1960s to the present day both in Australia and internationally. Other artists include Julie Rrap, Tracey Moffatt and Rosemary Laing.

MARY ELLEN MARK, RICKY MAYNARD, POLIXENI PAPAPETROU, TRENT PARKE & WILLIAM YANG in REMAIN IN LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MCA COLLECTIONS

Until 20 May 2014
Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, QLD

This MCA touring exhibition introduces audiences to developments in photography as an art practice from the 1960s to the present day both in Australia and internationally. Other artists include Julie Rrap, Tracey Moffatt and Rosemary Laing.

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RICKY MAYNARD and WARWICK THORNTON in MAKING CHANGE: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS of AUSTRALIA-CHINA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

23 August – 5 October 2013
Galleries UNSW, COFA, NSW

Gough Whitlam was the first Australian Prime Minister to visit China in 1973, cementing the relationship between the two countries initiated during his first visit in 1971. Forty years on, Making Change: Celebrating 40 Years of Australia-China Diplomatic Relations tells the history of Whitlam’s ground-breaking visits, which established a trade agreement and new direction in Australian foreign policy that recognised the importance of Asia.

Making Change draws on the historical photographic archives of Whitlam’s visits as well as contemporary Chinese and Indigenous Australian photo-based art, including Ricky Maynard and Warwick Thornton. As such, this exhibition brings to the fore another important feature of Whitlam’s leadership – outstanding advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs.

Making Change is the inaugural exhibition for the new Galleries UNSW at COFA presented in partnership with the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney and the National Museum of China, Beijing (2012-13).

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RICKY MAYNARD INCLUDED IN 'CROSSING CULTURES: THE OWEN AND WAGNER COLLECTION OF CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN ART'

Toledo Museum of Art
April 12 – July 14, 2013

Crossing Cultures explores more than 100 works of contemporary Indigenous art from Australia spanning five decades by artists from desert communities as well as major metropolitan centers. Will Owen and Harvey Wagner collected the objects and donated them to the Hood Museum of Art. Among artists represented are Ricky Maynard, Shorty Jangala Robertson, Danny Gibson Tjapaltjarri, Destiny Deacon and Walangkura Napanangka.

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RICKY MAYNARD and WARWICK THORNTON in MAKING CHANGE

8 November - 21 December, 2012
National Art Museum of China, Beijing

Featuring Warwick Thornton’s 3D video artwork Stranded and 3 of Ricky Maynard’s striking portraits of Wik Elders, Making Change brings together works by key contemporary artists whose work broadens our perspectives of modern day Australia.

To acknowledge the 40th anniversary of Australia's diplomatic relations with China the exhibition will first be shown at the National Museum of China, Beijing, before returning in late 2013 to the Australian Centre for Photography and the new UNSW galleries in Sydney.

RICKY MAYNARD, MICHAEL RILEY & ANNE FERRAN: Photography & Place

Australian landscape photography 1970s until now, Art Gallery of NSW

Photography & place features works by 18 leading Australian artists, spanning more than three decades and presents diverse and changing depictions of individual journeys through the national landscape. Bringing together over 90 works, the artists in this exhibition explore concepts of place and the role of the photographer as storyteller. The evolution of ‘landscape’ photography is demonstrated, from location specific works in the 1970s, to recent works that draw on the frictions between nature, culture and history.

The exhibition also traces innovative developments in photographic techniques, including montage, Instamatic and Polaroid works of the 1970s, series from the 1980s and contemporary work focusing on the detail and the intimacies of the local.

www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

RICKY MAYNARD: Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Residency

University of Virginia, USA

Ricky Maynard will conduct the Kluge Distinguished Lecture in Arts and Humanities as part of a residency at The University of Virginia on April 7th. He will discuss his work and talk about the photographic representation of people throughout Australia’s history.

This lecture will coincide with an exhibition of Maynard’s photographs in the rotating gallery of Kluge-Ruhe, which will open on April 15th, 2011.

www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe/

RICKY MAYNARD & MICHAEL RILEY: More Than My Skin

Lismore Regional Gallery
8 October - 27 November 2010
More Than My Skin brings together the work of six of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers. The role and character of adult Aboriginal males is the subject of intense discussion. Stills artists Ricky Maynard and Michael Riley feature amongst Michael Aird, Mervyn Bishop, Gary Lee and Peter McKenzie. Through the exploration of their viewpoint, these leading photographers depict what it is to be an Aboriginal male and how Aboriginal masculinity has been constructed in recent times.

RICKY MAYNARD: PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
20 February - 2 May 2010
This major survey of Ricky Maynard's work from the last 2 decades is being toured by the MCA, Sydney and is currently exhibited at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery to coincide with the Perth International Arts Festival. The show includes work from Maynard's celebrated Returning to Places that Name Us 2000 and his most recent series Portrait of a Distant Land 2004 - present.

CULTURE WARRIORS: RICKY MAYNARD

American University Museum
Washington DC
September 8 - December 6 2009
The National Gallery of Australia's Indigenous Art Triennial, Culture Warriors, has toured to Washington DC. Ricky Maynard is a participating artist in the exhibition that represents a diverse range of Aboriginal art, and has flown to the US to attend the opening ceremony. Maynard's ongoing series Portrait of a Distant Land, which focuses on the cultural and personal significance of historical sites around the Tasmanian landscape, features in this exhibition which is curated by Dr Brenda L Croft.

LITTORAL DRIFT: RICKY MAYNARD

University Technology Sydney Gallery
Opening 6 - 8pm June 2
2 June - 3 July 2009
This group exhibition draws together the work of 6 artists who are exploring representation of place, in particular focusing on the land and seascapes of shores and rivers. A number of Ricky Maynard's Portrait of a Distant Land series are featured in this show, they document sites in Tasmania that hold cultural and historical significance for his people.

RICKY MAYNARD: PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND

Museum of Contemporary Art
Sydney
4 June - 23 August 2009
Panel Discussion: Ricky Maynard, Judy Annear and Robert Macfarlane Wednesday 24 June 2.30pm

Going Professional: Ricky Maynard will be discussing professional practice, with a focus on documentary photography Saturday 27 June 2.30pm

The largest survey show to date of Ricky Maynard's work, curated by Keith Munro, MCA, has been touring throughout the Pacific region since first opening in the Australian Embassy, Paris during the Photoquai Biennale 2007. Featuring work from 6 photographic series including The Moonbird People (1985-88), Returning to Places that Name Us (2000) and his most recent work Portrait of a Distant Land (2005) this exhibition reflects the breadth of Maynard's practice from portraiture, to social documentary and landscape photography.

RICKY MAYNARD: PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND

Cairns Regional Art Gallery
20 March - 3 May 2009
This touring exhibition curated by Keith Munro (curator, MCA), is Ricky Maynard's largest survey exhibition to date and features over 60 photographs spanning twenty years of his artistic practice. Included in the exhibition are the portraits of Wik Elders from his acclaimed series Returning to Places that Name Us, and his most recent and largely unseen series Portrait of a Distant Land.

Ricky Maynard has a solo exhibition at Stills in July.

MESSAGE STICKS: INDIGENOUS FILM FESTIVAL

Sydney Opera House
6 - 10 May
Works by indigenous photographers Ricky Maynard and the late Michael Riley will be on display at the Sydney Opera House in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of Message Sticks, Indigenous Film Festival. Featured in this exhibition are three of Maynard's Wik Elder portraits from acclaimed series Returning to Places that Name Us, 2000 and a selection from Riley's surreal cloud, 2000 series in which animals and objects float mid-air against a cloudy blue sky.