Commissioned by Kingston Arts for NAIDOC week in 2021, Steven Rhall made a series of commercials, each one a variation of Chris Burdens’ of the late 1970’s and investigating the same themes yet as they pertained to his own practice. Rhall is a post-conceptual artist operating from a First Nation, white-passing, positionality. Rhall’s interdisciplinary practice responds to the intersectionality of First Nation art practice and the Western art canon. He interrogates modes of representation, classification and hierarchy using installation, performance, process lead methodologies, ‘curatorial’ projects, sculpture, and via public & private interventions. He was recently awarded the Paul Selzer Prize, and is represented in various collections including the National Gallery of Victoria. Steve is represented by Mars Gallery and is a current studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary.
Stephen Rhall