About Tracking Echoes

Tracking Echoes is the online research resource for Echoes of Home: Memory and Mobility in Recent Austral-Asian Art.

An initiative of the Museum of Brisbane and curated by Christine Clark (Independent Curator and Exhibitions Officer, National Portrait Gallery), Echoes of Home features works by Australian and Australian-based artists of Asian descent. The exhibition opened at the Museum of Brisbane in 2005 to critical and audience acclaim; and through Visions of Australia support, it tours nationally to selected metropolitan and regional venues between 2006 and 2008.

Convened by Dean Chan, this AASRN online project tracks the exhibition’s national tour in 2007-8. The project website provides a free access archive for this exhibition by collating curatorial essays, images of the artworks, and other resource materials.

Tracking Echoes is also a key aspect of the exhibition’s public program in 2007-8. Local responses to the exhibition at each of its touring venues will be invited and published online. These responses, which include contributions by AASRN members, provide a valuable record of the exhibition’s plural meanings and its diverse reception at the different locales.

About the Echoes of Home Exhibition

Echoes of Home: Memory and mobility in Recent Austral-Asian Art features 14 Australian based Asian artists whose work continues to show clear influences from their ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Curated by Christine Clark, this exhibition highlights these artists’ various skills, traditions and stories from ‘homelands’ and reveals their significant contribution to contemporary Australian art and craft.

Made from a diverse range of media such as ceramics, textiles, paper, jewellery, sculpture and painting, the artworks in the exhibition reveal the significant contribution these artists have made to visual culture, particularly contemporary craft, in Australia.

Over the past two decades various exhibitions and projects have included Australian artists of Asian backgrounds. As well as highlighting the ever-increasing presence of Asian cultural practices within the Australian art, Echoes of Home’s distinctiveness lies in its focus on the artists’ personal stories.

Largely, the Australian public still views the Asian region as being culturally homogenous, a perception the exhibition aims to counteract. By focusing on personal accounts, the exhibition aims to explain the uniqueness present within each Asian cultural group and illuminate the vast cultural diversity of the region. It also highlights the new technical and cultural ideas that these artists have drawn on in their Australian environments.

	Echoes of Home: Memory and mobility in recent Austral-Asian art is toured by Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council and supported by Visions of Australia.

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