Nicholas Mangan
Between a rock and a hard place
Nauru is the starting point for a richly imaginative installation incorporating found objects, collages and video, as Melbourne-based artist, Nicholas Mangan explores the idea that “the middle of nowhere is the center of everything”.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
Art Gallery of New South Wales
in
Sydney
precinct,
New South Wales,
Australia.
From
Thursday 25 June 2009 to Sunday 13 September 2009
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales on Tuesday 11 August 2009.
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For his new project Mangan looks to the tiny South Pacific island of Nauru. At just 21km², the Republic of Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation. Its troubled history includes temporary, fabulous wealth from phosphate mining, status as a tax haven and money laundering hub in the 1990s, and home to an immigration detention centre as part of the Howard Government’s ‘Pacific Solution’.
Level 2 AGNSW projects are supported by Andrew Cameron
