Cementa Friendship Exhibition

Published on 26 July 2024

CEMENTA FRIENDSHIP Mudgee Arts Precinct: 2 August – 27 October 2024

Cementa Friendship will be exhibited at Mudgee Arts Precinct from 2 August to 27 October 2024 and celebrates ten years of Cementa ahead of its next festival from 19 – 22 September 2024.

Cementa Friendship is a review and celebration of ten years of one of the most unique contemporary arts festivals in Australia. Curated by co-founder Ann Finegan and current Creative Director and co-founder Alex Wisser, the exhibition will explore and celebrate the journey and evolution of Cementa from the uncertainty and provocation of the first festival to the firm establishment of a unique model of collaboration and engagement that has broadened the horizon of art making for both artists and audiences.

This exhibition will invite artists from across all five biennial festivals to date to restage their work in a collective expression of this journey. The exhibition will feature a selection of the original festival works to create a survey that outlines the course of the festival’s development and expresses the adventurous and experimental spirit in which a community of artists embraced a small working-class town and its community.

Cementa’s uniqueness lies in its invitation to contemporary artists working in conceptual forms including installation, new media and performance to engage with and address the township of Kandos itself. This move takes the artwork out of the gallery context, enabling it to directly address the world it reflects.

Exhibition artists: Alana Hunt, Blak Douglas, Christine McMillan, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Ella Dreyfus, Ian Milliss, Joel Tonks, June Golland, Lena Obergfell, Linden Bray, Margaret Roberts, Mervyn Bishop, Sarah Goffman, Terry Burrows, The Twilight Girls (Helen Hyatt-Johnston & Jane Polkinghorne) and Zio Ledeux. Cementa Friendship: Mudgee Arts Precinct 2 August – 27 October 2024 Mudgee Arts Precinct is open seven days a week from 9am to 5pm. Entry is free.