The Sculptures of Ataúro Island

An assignment to design the branding and catalogue for the exhibition ‘The Sculptures of Atauro Island’ at Charles Darwin University Art Collection & Art Gallery in Australia. The exhibition opened in March 2017 and featured sculptures from the CDU Art Collection, the National Collection of Timor-Leste, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, and the private collections of Maria do Céu Lopes da Silva, Michael Abbott and John Graham.

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The exhibition was curated by Joanna Barrkman in collaboration with Timor Aid and the Secretary of State for Arts & Culture in Timor-Leste. Two documentaries produced by David in Ataúro island were featured as part of the exhibition: Wawata Topu – Mermaids of Timor-Leste and Ro’o Putin Hatin.

 

In 2019, the exhibition travelled back to Timor-Leste for a show at the Timorese Resistance Archive & Museum in Dili curated by Rosalia Soares†. Once again, the assignment was to brand the exhibition and re-design the original catalogue into a trilingual publication.

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