Single Channel at KI Artworks

The first ever National Gallery Touring Exhibition to be exhibited on Kangaroo Island is now open at Kangaroo Island Artworks Gallery until 27 September 2024.

Single Channel brings together key moving image works made from 2000 to 2019 from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).

One of the exhibition’s curators, Tina Baum, Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the NGA, sent a personal, appropriately digital, message to those at the opening.

She said the Single Channel exhibition was developed as an opportunity to share the NGA collections in venues where conditions don’t always meet museum standards.

“The gallery is thrilled that we could showcase the Single Channel exhibition and the national collection on Kangaroo Island for the very first time and I hope that we are able to share more exhibitions in the future.”

The KI exhibition was opened by KI Councillor Pat Austin, who spoke about the NGA’s aim to inspire all Australians and the efforts to ensure regional communities can experience more of the national art collection.

As well as the National Gallery Touring and Outreach Program, which has brought Single Channel to KI, the NGA now has the Sharing the National Collection initiative, through which regional galleries can borrow works of art from the National Collection of 155,000 works.

Single Channel is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition supported by the Australian Government through the National Collection Institutions Touring and Outreach Program.

The exhibition is open until 27 September at KI Artworks Gallery, 5 Bessell Drive Baudin Beach, 10am to 4pm, Thursday to Monday.

We hope to see you there – and bring your friends.