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Sunday December 16, 08:25 AM 
 Exhibition showcases Aussie rock
A new portrait of Midnight Oil has been unveiled as the centrepiece of the National Portrait Gallery's latest show, So You Wanna Be a Rock Star: Portraits and Rock Music in Australia.

At the opposite end of the room is the gallery's first commission, Howard Arkley's Nick Cave.
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They are joined by concert posters for Cold Chisel, Painters and Dockers, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Hoodoo Gurus and others, Carol Jerrums' photographs of Skyhooks' members and Ross Wilson.


There are a host of other portraits from Johnny O'Keefe to Silverchair, including Chrissie Amphlett, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Renee Geyer, Mental as Anything, Radio Birdman, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Sherbet and The Go-Betweens.

A music video loop shows songs from The Saints' (I'm) Stranded in 1977 to Regurgitator's Come On in 2001.

The exhibition includes Australian artists' depictions of overseas performers, with Martin Sharp's Jimi Hendrix and Cream album covers from the time when he lived with Eric Clapton in London, and Brett Whiteley's New York pictures of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith and album cover for Dire Straits' Alchemy.

Rock subculture is celebrated with portraits of fans at Big Day Out, Livid and Homebake festivals, punks, an air guitarist made up of 300 drawings of rock stars by teenagers, and bedrooms wallpapered with posters.

Sharpies of the 1970s - who sported close-cropped mullet-style hair and engaged in gang skirmishes with each other and with rival surfies - are depicted in a Carol Jerrum photograph and a four-minute 1974 film by Skyhooks' Greg Macainsh.

Canberra artist eX de Medici was commissioned to paint Midnight Oil, with the five members set low in the foreground of a painting dominated by the Ranger uranium mine.

"There's a lot of questioning as to what's actually happening in the biodiversity of that region, so it encompasses not only mining, mining communities, a white space inside a black space," Ms de Medici said.

Painted on vellum, "Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground" (a line from the Oils' song Blue Sky Mine) incorporate the band's concerns with environmental degradation and corporate exploitation.

Ms de Medici is a tattooist and has spent 15 years gradually decorating a group of a dozen people and is also artist-in-residence at CSIRO's entomology division, painting unclassified insects.

That, plus the band's concerns with threatened species and her own annual trips to the Northern Territory, led to her outlining rare Kakadu moths on the portrayed band members' throats.

The exhibition runs until February 17.



Lina

 

 

Where is the ground, the beloved country? Women and men who have fallen silent Where are the words that can speak forgiveness? Now is the time Now is the time Now is the time to heal 

Midnight Oil



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<H2><B>Exhibition showcases Aussie rock</B></H2>
<P>A new portrait of Midnight Oil has been unveiled as the centrepiece of the National Portrait Gallery's latest show, So You Wanna Be a Rock Star: Portraits and Rock Music in Australia.</P>
<P>At the opposite end of the room is the gallery's first commission, Howard Arkley's Nick Cave.</P>
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<P>They are joined by concert posters for Cold Chisel, Painters and Dockers, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Hoodoo Gurus and others, Carol Jerrums' photographs of Skyhooks' members and Ross Wilson.</P>
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<P>There are a host of other portraits from Johnny O'Keefe to Silverchair, including Chrissie Amphlett, Joe Camilleri, Kate Ceberano, Renee Geyer, Mental as Anything, Radio Birdman, Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Sherbet and The Go-Betweens.</P>
<P>A music video loop shows songs from The Saints' (I'm) Stranded in 1977 to Regurgitator's Come On in 2001.</P>
<P>The exhibition includes Australian artists' depictions of overseas performers, with Martin Sharp's Jimi Hendrix and Cream album covers from the time when he lived with Eric Clapton in London, and Brett Whiteley's New York pictures of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith and album cover for Dire Straits' Alchemy.</P>
<P>Rock subculture is celebrated with portraits of fans at Big Day Out, Livid and Homebake festivals, punks, an air guitarist made up of 300 drawings of rock stars by teenagers, and bedrooms wallpapered with posters.</P>
<P>Sharpies of the 1970s - who sported close-cropped mullet-style hair and engaged in gang skirmishes with each other and with rival surfies - are depicted in a Carol Jerrum photograph and a four-minute 1974 film by Skyhooks' Greg Macainsh.</P>
<P>Canberra artist eX de Medici was commissioned to paint Midnight Oil, with the five members set low in the foreground of a painting dominated by the Ranger uranium mine.</P>
<P>"There's a lot of questioning as to what's actually happening in the biodiversity of that region, so it encompasses not only mining, mining communities, a white space inside a black space," Ms de Medici said.</P>
<P>Painted on vellum, "Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground" (a line from the Oils' song Blue Sky Mine) incorporate the band's concerns with environmental degradation and corporate exploitation.</P>
<P>Ms de Medici is a tattooist and has spent 15 years gradually decorating a group of a dozen people and is also artist-in-residence at CSIRO's entomology division, painting unclassified insects.</P>
<P>That, plus the band's concerns with threatened species and her own annual trips to the Northern Territory, led to her outlining rare Kakadu moths on the portrayed band members' throats.</P>
<P>The exhibition runs until February 17.</P></DIV><BR><BR><P>Lina</P>
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<P><EM>Where is the ground, the beloved country? Women and men who have fallen silent Where are the words that can speak forgiveness? Now is the time Now is the time Now is the time to heal </P>
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