Barbara Cleveland is an Australian contemporary performance

art collective An artist collective is an initiative that is the result of a group of artists working together, usually under their own management, towards shared aims. The aims of an artist collective can include almost anything that is relevant to the needs ...

who primarily work on Gadigal land in

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. Barbara Cleveland's works examine the histories of visual and performing arts and are informed by queer and feminist theories.

History

The members of the group are Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, and Kelly Doley. The artists started their collaborative practice in 2005 while studying at the College of Fine Art at the

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. Since 2011, the collective have produced an ongoing series of work which explores the life and legacy of Barbara Cleveland: a mythical Australian performance artist who was active in the 1970s and who disappeared in 1981. The group previously worked under the title ‘Brown Council’ then ‘Barbara Cleveland Institute’ before taking the name ‘Barbara Cleveland’ in 2016.

Selected performances and presentations

*20th Biennale of Sydney *2018 Adelaide Biennial *

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(Sydney) *Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney) *Artspace (Sydney) *Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide) *

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(Sydney) *

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(Melbourne) * The Physics Room (Christchurch) * National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul).

Collections

Their works are held in the permanent collections of Artbank,

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, the

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...

Campbelltown Arts Centre Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C or CAC) is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre located in Campbelltown, New South Wales, south west of Sydney, Australia. It is a cultural facility of Campbelltown City Council, assisted by other governm ...

and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

References

External links

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Artist biography, list of works, links to published articles
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