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| home | news lTracey Moffatt exhibition set to break attendance records at MCA24 February 2004 - Museum of Contemporary Art - Media Release - The [Sydney] Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)’s highly popular exhibition of work by Australian artist Tracey Moffatt closes to the public at 5pm on Sunday 29 February, 2004. The exhibition, which has been seen by over 100,000 people since it opened on 17 December, is set to break all prior attendance figures. “We have been overwhelmed by the level of interest in Tracey’s work. It proves that there is a great demand for critical contemporary work that deals with complex ideas yet engages with people from all walks of life, and of any age. We are especially proud that our highest visited exhibition should be by an Indigenous Australian“, said MCA Director and the exhibition’s curator Elizabeth Ann Macgregor. The exhibition features key photographic series and film works from the mid 1980s to the present day. Included amongst the 140 images from 14 major works and seven film and video pieces is Moffatt’s best known photographic series, Something More (1989). Other works include GUAPA (Good Looking) 1995; the cinematic Up in the Sky (1997); and Fourth (2001), capturing moments of anguish, despair, surprise and humiliation on the face of athletes who came fourth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Film works include the widely acclaimed short film Night Cries – A Rural Tragedy (1989); the 1993 feature beDevil; the experimental video works Lip (2000) and Artist (2000), created in collaboration with film editor Gary Hillberg; as well as Moffatt’s new work Love (2003). The exhibition has also drawn record school audiences in the first weeks of the 2004 school term. Over 5000 students and teachers in nearly 200 groups have visited the exhibition in just three weeks, with many more planning trips in the final week. School groups have travelled to the MCA from all regions of NSW, including Armidale and Wollongong, to view the exhibition with MCA Education staff. Several hundred school students are booked to visit each day during this final week, representing one of the few opportunities students have to view work by a key artist in the Visual Arts curriculum at senior level. Moffatt’s photo-series and films will be used by students in case studies, essays and in the study of Post-Modernism and the Conceptual Framework in the curriculum. “Once is not enough. Just as Tracey Moffatt keeps returning to her images, her shows demand more than one visit.” The Sydney Morning Herald, December 2003 “Her range is remarkable, including still photography, videos and short films that work through almost every technical and stylistic development in the photographic arena from photogravure (a type of photographic etching), to the wobbly suburban hand-held super-8 video.” The Weekend Australian, January 2004 Media release is from: Museum of Contemporary Art
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Born on November 12, 1960, in Brisbane, Australia, Tracey Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art, from which she graduated in 1982. She then moved to Sydney, where she continues to live and work. Moffatt first gained critical acclaim for her short film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy, which was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature film, Bedevil, was shown in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. She has also made documentary film and music videos. Since her first exhibition in 1989, Moffatt has shown her photographically based art in numerous exhibitions in Australia and abroad.
