Who Do You Take Me For?
The following is an exchange between Clare Williamson, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photography at the Queensland Art Gallery, and Filmmaker and Photographer, Tracey Moffatt. They refer to the exhibition, Who Do You Take Me For?, which Clare curated for the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. In refusing to participate in the exhibition, Tracey outlines her position in detail. She suggests that Eyeline publish both Clare's and her letters in the interests of widening the dialogue. The letters are also being exhibited as part of the exhibition, Who Do You Take Me For? is currently touring and will be reviewed in the next issue of Eyeline.
23 June 1991
To: Ms Tracey Moffatt
Dear Ms Moffatt,
Denise Robinson, from the Australian Centre for Photography, gave me your fax number in relation to an exhibition I am currently curating for the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane. Unfortunately I missed your exhibition there last year as I was in Great Britain and the United States for seven months on a Professional Development grant (from the VA/CB). However, I am familiar with the work which you showed, and we recently had two images from the Something More series on display at the Queensland Art Gallery as part of the Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers exhibition.
I would like to invite you to consider participating in a group exhibition at the I.M.A. in September this year. It is hoped that the exhibition will also tour to two or three other contemporary art spaces in Australia during late 1991—1992. The exhibition will include approximately eight artists, four from Great Britain and four from Australia. All use studio-based or constructed photography to explore... The rest of this article is available to subscribers of Eyeline