Barbara Cleveland

Barbara Cleveland is an Australian contemporary performance art collective who primarily work on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.[1] Barbara Cleveland's works examine the histories of visual and performing arts and are informed by queer and feminist theories.[2]

History

The members of the group are Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore, and Kelly Doley. The artists started their collaborative practice in 2005 while studying at the College of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales.[3][4] Since 2011, the collective have produced an ongoing series of work which explores the life and legacy of Barbara Cleveland:[2] a mythical Australian performance artist who was active in the 1970s and who disappeared in 1981.[5] The group previously worked under the title ‘Brown Council’ then ‘Barbara Cleveland Institute’[6] before taking the name ‘Barbara Cleveland’ in 2016.[2]

Selected performances and presentations

Collections

Their works are held in the permanent collections of Artbank,[1] Museum of Contemporary Art Australia,[7][8][9] the Art Gallery of New South Wales,[10] Campbelltown Arts Centre, Monash University Museum of Art and the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.[2]

References
  1. "ARTBANK : Barbara Cleveland - Bodies in Time". Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. "Barbara Cleveland bio". Sullivan + Strumpf. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. "The Feminist Performance Art of Brown Council: An Interview with Diana Smith". Double Dialogues. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. "Barbara Cleveland | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  5. Jaspers, Anneke. "Barbara Cleveland". AGSA - The Art Gallery of South Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  6. French, Blair. "Barbara Cleveland | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  7. "Performance Art (15 Actions for the Face) | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  8. "The One Hour Laugh | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  9. "What Do I Do? (1970-2009) | MCA Australia". www.mca.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  10. "Bodies in time, (2016) by Barbara Cleveland". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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