James Tylor
Turrangka…in the shadows
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
James Tylor
Image: James Tylor, (Deleted scenes) From an untouched landscape 14. 2013. Courtesy the artist, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne, GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Tarntanya/Adelaide and N.Smith.Gallery, Eora/Sydney. Copyright the artist.
Turrangka…in the shadows
Image: James Tylor, (Deleted scenes) From an untouched landscape 14. 2013. Courtesy the artist, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne, GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Tarntanya/Adelaide and N.Smith.Gallery, Eora/Sydney. Copyright the artist.
James Tylor
Turrangka…in the shadows
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
Multi-disciplinary artist James Tylor combines historical and contemporary photographic processes to explore his Nunga (Kaurna Miyurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Norwegian) ancestry.
Turrangka…in the shadows surveys a decade of Tylor’s practice and, for the first time, brings together the most comprehensive selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, and hand-made Kaurna cultural objects. The exhibition title is drawn from a Kaurna word, highlighting a significant ongoing aspect of Tylor’s practice: the learning and sharing of his Indigenous language. As well as shadow, turra also translates to reflection, image, and mirror.
At the core of Tylor’s practice is a continuously innovative programme of photographic intervention, disrupting the image to redact or highlight visual information. He systematically alters the reading of Country by excising information from the photographic print or inscribing language and place-names onto the surface of his daguerreotypes. These photographs provide a glimpse into Tylor’s broader practice of recreating Kaurna cultural artefacts, architecture, and ephemera. Antiquated analogue photographic processes including Becquerel daguerreotypes and hand-tinting are also used to generate a new archive of pseudo-historical images. Tylor’s recreations point to the absence of these images from the hegemonic depiction of colonial Australia’s visual history.
These strategies are at the service of exploring the suppression and erasure of Aboriginal cultural history from the Australian landscape through the ongoing legacy of colonialism. Tylor considers his actions of learning Kaurna language and reviving culture on Country as a means of repatriation. ‘Turrangka…in the shadows’ looks at the complex interplay of techniques and the incisive observations on Australia’s fraught history that characterise Tylor’s prolific and profound artistic practice.
Curated by Leigh Robb
UNSW Galleries touring exhibition.
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Image: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring Introductory Text. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring Introductory Text. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image credit: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Un-resettling’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image credit: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Un-resettling’ and James Tylor, ‘Turralayinthi Yarta’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image credit: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor ‘Turralayinthi Yarta’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor “Turralayinthi Yarta’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor “Turralayinthi Yarta’ (detail) and James Tylor, ‘Un-resettling’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Aotearoa My Hawaiki’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘From an Untouched Landscape’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘From an Untouched Landscape’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Territorial Encounters’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘We Call This Place’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘We Call This Place’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Terra Botanica’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, “Hopes Dreams & Tears, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, “Hopes Dreams & Tears and James Tylor, ‘De-Cookolisation’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘De-Cookolisation’ (Detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Darkness of Enlightenment’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Darkness of Enlightenment’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: James Tylor, (Deleted scenes) From an untouched landscape 14. 2013. Courtesy the artist, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne, GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Tarntanya/Adelaide and N.Smith.Gallery, Eora/Sydney. Copyright the artist.
James Tylor
Turrangka…in the shadows
15 mar. — 4 may 2024
Multi-disciplinary artist James Tylor combines historical and contemporary photographic processes to explore his Nunga (Kaurna Miyurna), Māori (Te Arawa) and European (English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch and Norwegian) ancestry.
Turrangka…in the shadows surveys a decade of Tylor’s practice and, for the first time, brings together the most comprehensive selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, and hand-made Kaurna cultural objects. The exhibition title is drawn from a Kaurna word, highlighting a significant ongoing aspect of Tylor’s practice: the learning and sharing of his Indigenous language. As well as shadow, turra also translates to reflection, image, and mirror.
At the core of Tylor’s practice is a continuously innovative programme of photographic intervention, disrupting the image to redact or highlight visual information. He systematically alters the reading of Country by excising information from the photographic print or inscribing language and place-names onto the surface of his daguerreotypes. These photographs provide a glimpse into Tylor’s broader practice of recreating Kaurna cultural artefacts, architecture, and ephemera. Antiquated analogue photographic processes including Becquerel daguerreotypes and hand-tinting are also used to generate a new archive of pseudo-historical images. Tylor’s recreations point to the absence of these images from the hegemonic depiction of colonial Australia’s visual history.
These strategies are at the service of exploring the suppression and erasure of Aboriginal cultural history from the Australian landscape through the ongoing legacy of colonialism. Tylor considers his actions of learning Kaurna language and reviving culture on Country as a means of repatriation. ‘Turrangka…in the shadows’ looks at the complex interplay of techniques and the incisive observations on Australia’s fraught history that characterise Tylor’s prolific and profound artistic practice.
Curated by Leigh Robb
UNSW Galleries touring exhibition.
19
Image: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring Introductory Text. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring Introductory Text. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image credit: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Un-resettling’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image credit: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Un-resettling’ and James Tylor, ‘Turralayinthi Yarta’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Image credit: Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor ‘Turralayinthi Yarta’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor “Turralayinthi Yarta’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor “Turralayinthi Yarta’ (detail) and James Tylor, ‘Un-resettling’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Aotearoa My Hawaiki’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘From an Untouched Landscape’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘From an Untouched Landscape’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Territorial Encounters’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘We Call This Place’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘We Call This Place’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Terra Botanica’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, “Hopes Dreams & Tears, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, “Hopes Dreams & Tears and James Tylor, ‘De-Cookolisation’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘De-Cookolisation’ (Detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Darkness of Enlightenment’, curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.
Installation view James Tylor 'Turrangka...in the shadows' featuring James Tylor, ‘Darkness of Enlightenment’ (detail), curated by Leigh Robb. A UNSW Galleries exhibition at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Courtesy the artist, N.Smith. Gallery, Sydney, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne, and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide. Copyright the artist. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.