Peer Review: 2016 NCCA Member's Show

Last Friday was my last day as the Program Manager for the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA), an amazing and important gallery both locally and nationally. It has been a real honour to be a part of the great work that NCCA does and to now be one of the NCCA Program Manager Alumni! The final exhibition of the year was also the final exhibition I installed and is open until this Saturday (17th Dec) although I believe there will be a few treats over the holiday closure period (open on Saturdays) for those local Stay-cationers and daring Interstaters who brave the Darwin's brutal Xmas weather!

Peer Review saw a handful of local artists take home some pretty sweet prizes for their portraits of other local artists. Here are some highlights from the show, including my own portrait of NCCA Director Maurice O'Riordan:

Andy Ewing, Sianne, 2016, mixed media on paper, 16 sheets.

Amina McConvell, Exploded Stuff - The Meaning Attributed to Identity is Fleeting (For Sadat Laope) (detail), 2016, wall drawing from acrylic and Posca markers.

David Hancock, Untitled, 2016, digital photograph.

Matthew van Roden, Smashing Times, 2016, installation.

Merran Sierakowski, Who is that masked emoji?, 2016, computer data cable and mesh.

Simon Cooper, Triple Double-Ganger: Portrait of the artist as the artists or portrait of the artists as the artist, 2016, digital photographs. Subjects: Fiona Morrison, Sarah Pirrie, Amina McConvell.