DEAN CROSS

BLACK SMOKE WHITE CUBE Gertrude Contemporary 10 February–7 April 2024 Melbourne

Press Release

Dean Cross is an artist primarily working across installation, sculpture and painting. Interested in the collisions of materials, ideas and histories, Cross is motivated by an understanding that his practice sits within a continuum of the oldest living culture on Earth – and enacts First Nations sovereignty through expanded contemporary art methodologies. His cross-disciplinary practice often confronts the legacies of modernism, rebalancing dominant cultural and social histories.

Dean has exhibited widely across the Australian continent and beyond and his work is held by major institutions including The Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Cross has shown his work extensively across Australia, this includes the FREE/STATE, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, curated by Sebastian Goldspink (2022), Sometimes I Miss the Applause: Dean Cross, Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Melissa Keys (2022), LaTrobe Art Museum, Bendigo, curated by Karen Annett-Thomas (2022). Bus Projects, Melbourne, Carriageworks, Sydney (2022), Monuments, 4A Gallery, Sydney, curated by Bridie Moran (2022), Primavera 2021 #29, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, curated by Hannah Presley, (2021) We Change the World, National Gallery of Victoria: Ian Potter Centre, Melbourne curated by Hannah Presley (2021), Absorption, Asad Raza & Kaldor Public Projects, The Clothing Store, Sydney (2019).

Dean Cross is represented by STATION, Naarm Melbourne and Eora Sydney.

About the Artist

Dean Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country and a Worimi man through his paternal bloodline. He is a paratactical artist interested in collisions of materials, ideas and histories. He is motivated by the understanding that his practice sits within a continuum of the oldest living culture on Earth – and enacts First Nations sovereignty through expanded contemporary art methodologies.

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About the Gallery

Gertrude Contemporary is a non-profit contemporary art organisation in Preston South, Naarm/Melbourne, with an additional project space, Gertrude Glasshouse, in nearby Collingwood. Established in 1983 as 200 Gertrude Street in Fitzroy, it pioneered Australia’s first combined gallery and studio complex and remains one of the country’s longest-running centres for experimental art.

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21 - 31 High Street
Preston South, VIC
Melbourne
Australia

Opening Hours

Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm

Gertrude Contemporary

21 - 31 High Street, Preston South, VIC, Melbourne, Australia

+ 61 3 9480 0068.
http://www.gertrude.org.au

Opening hours

Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm

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