DOODLING A NATIONAL SELF

Presented by Benjamin Sheppard

Hosted by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
08/10/2020
Talk #97

Images courtesy of Benjamin Sheppard

BENJAMIN SHEPPARD presents: ‘Doodling a national self'

Presented in collaboration with Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

This talk explores a body of work which offers a working drawing practice to reflect on and represent the true nature of the Australian nation state and its ostensible identity – that being a relational tangle of manifold cultures and bureaucracies. Not an invented heroic ideology cast in bronze or set in gilt frame, rather, an ongoing, deliberative continuum of works in progress.

BENJAMIN SHEPPARD is a multi-disciplinary artist and academic based in contemporary drawing practice. His PhD research examines the capacity for ‘drawings in progress' to better articulate nationalistic representation and ideologies. He holds a position as Associate Lecturer in the Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing) at RMIT.