人物簡介
現居墨爾本的彼德．沃波斯-克羅是恩格利哥族的視覺及表演藝術家，身為原住民藝術家，其跨領域的創作經驗、與社區健康和藝術組織合作的創作，使他對藝術和社區文化發展擁有獨特觀點。沃波斯-克羅大膽、色彩豐富的作品探索原住民在流行文化中的形象再現，並常以澳洲犬為原住民族的圖騰形象及比喻。
《野蠻人》採用平面形式與混合媒材，探討與澳洲原住民族相關，由殖民心態而生的身分、歷史和刻板印象等議題，運用歷史疊合的概念，在創作脈絡中開展出殖民時代到當代時空的直系系譜，以利觀眾理解歐洲凝視下產生的刻板印象。
此錄像系列作品源於另一個名為「開墾者與野蠻人」的大型展覽，同時展出非原住民藝術家梅根．伊凡斯再現的殖民時期傢俱，同名的影片則描述恩格利哥岩石藝術被該區殖民者催毀的故事，沃波斯-克羅的長老舅舅約翰．凱西告訴他這個故事，他再與伊凡斯與影片中重現其內容，影片中可見沃波斯-克羅身穿一件傳統袋貂披風，伊凡斯則身著其曾曾祖母的洋裝複製品，講述英國入侵者如何抺除原住民文化並批評澳洲殖民文化的延續。
Peter Waples-Crowe is a Ngarigo visual and performance-based artist living in Melbourne. His intersecting experiences as an Aboriginal person and his work with community health and arts organisations give him a unique perspective as an artist and community cultural development worker. Waples-Crowe creates bold colourful work that explores the representation of Aboriginal people in popular culture, often referencing the dingo as a totemic figure and an analogy for Indigenous peoples.
SAVAGES uses mixed media in the 2D format to explore identity, history, and the stereotyping of First Nations peoples in Australia, produced by the colonial mindset. The artist draws on the concept of collapsed histories, which in this context enables him to draw a direct lineage from the colonial era to contemporary times, to better understand the stereotypes created by the European gaze.
The videos come from a much larger exhibition called SQUATTERS AND SAVAGES that included the Non-Indigenous artist Megan Evans re-visioned colonial furniture. The film of the same name, tells the story of Ngarigo Rock art being scrubbed away by the colonisers of the area. It was told to Waples-Crowe by his Elder Uncle John Casey, which Megan and he reenacted. He was wearing a traditional possum skin cloak and Megan was dressed in a replica of her great great grandmother’s dress. It speaks of the erasure of Aboriginal Culture at the hands of the English invaders and speaks to the continuing legacy of colonization in Australia.
官方網站：https://peterwaplescrowe.wordpress.com/
《野蠻人》採用平面形式與混合媒材，探討與澳洲原住民族相關，由殖民心態而生的身分、歷史和刻板印象等議題，運用歷史疊合的概念，在創作脈絡中開展出殖民時代到當代時空的直系系譜，以利觀眾理解歐洲凝視下產生的刻板印象。
此錄像系列作品源於另一個名為「開墾者與野蠻人」的大型展覽，同時展出非原住民藝術家梅根．伊凡斯再現的殖民時期傢俱，同名的影片則描述恩格利哥岩石藝術被該區殖民者催毀的故事，沃波斯-克羅的長老舅舅約翰．凱西告訴他這個故事，他再與伊凡斯與影片中重現其內容，影片中可見沃波斯-克羅身穿一件傳統袋貂披風，伊凡斯則身著其曾曾祖母的洋裝複製品，講述英國入侵者如何抺除原住民文化並批評澳洲殖民文化的延續。
Peter Waples-Crowe is a Ngarigo visual and performance-based artist living in Melbourne. His intersecting experiences as an Aboriginal person and his work with community health and arts organisations give him a unique perspective as an artist and community cultural development worker. Waples-Crowe creates bold colourful work that explores the representation of Aboriginal people in popular culture, often referencing the dingo as a totemic figure and an analogy for Indigenous peoples.
SAVAGES uses mixed media in the 2D format to explore identity, history, and the stereotyping of First Nations peoples in Australia, produced by the colonial mindset. The artist draws on the concept of collapsed histories, which in this context enables him to draw a direct lineage from the colonial era to contemporary times, to better understand the stereotypes created by the European gaze.
The videos come from a much larger exhibition called SQUATTERS AND SAVAGES that included the Non-Indigenous artist Megan Evans re-visioned colonial furniture. The film of the same name, tells the story of Ngarigo Rock art being scrubbed away by the colonisers of the area. It was told to Waples-Crowe by his Elder Uncle John Casey, which Megan and he reenacted. He was wearing a traditional possum skin cloak and Megan was dressed in a replica of her great great grandmother’s dress. It speaks of the erasure of Aboriginal Culture at the hands of the English invaders and speaks to the continuing legacy of colonization in Australia.
官方網站：https://peterwaplescrowe.wordpress.com/