FISH IN AUSTRALIAN ART now showing at the Australian National Maritime Museum

Co-curator Stephen Scheding and ANMM spokesperson Shirani Aththas offer an insight into the ideas and art on display at the Australian National Maritime Museum's exhibition Fish in Australian Art.
The exhibition is an unconventional look at Australian art exploring how fish have been a source of artistic inspiration from rock art to the contemporary.
Spanning centuries, art movements, and mediums Fish in Australian Art presents more than 170 works from well-known Australian artists such as Margaret Olley, William Dobell, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Rupert Bunny, Anne Zahalka, John Brack, Michael Leunig, John Olsen, Craig Walsh and others.
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Video Transcript:
Fish in Australian Art is a little bit of an unconventional look at Australian art history. It brings together an amazing selection of Australian artists through indigenous rock paintings to contemporary multimedia artists, and they are all linked by fish, which I think for me is one of the most fascinating aspects of this exhibition.
I'm loving it. It's very exciting. You work on something like this for a year and I think it's rich and people are saying they are going to come back and there's a lot of stories here.
So when people come to see this exhibition, they will begin by seeing indigenous art, seeing the way that indigenous people have connected with fish and the importance that fish and fishing have been to their culture. And it takes it through to modern art, artists like William Dobell, Arthur Boyd, Margaret Olley; really amazing artists.
For me it's the stories, there are just wonderfully humorous and engaging stories that are human stories within the exhibition, and I am hoping people go and share those and more people will come as a result.
I think a lot of people when they look at the museum think that it's just about ships and boats, and the reality is it's very different, we have a range of exhibitions, and art and maritime heritage in art is just one of those fascinating areas that we explore.

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