Eva Schramm & Gary Willis - Reconnaissance Gallery - Melbourne - 1982
Central Journals - installation view 1982 - Reconnaissance Gallery, Fitzroy Melbourne
Eva Schramm's 'Future Girl' pictured front & center.
... for a change, here are two artists showing highly charged responses to central Australia, Willis works use landscape photography and language as a mode of self-portraiture.
Nation Review - 1982
NAKA-NAKA - Oil paint & electrical tape on 'C' type photographs (Ghost Gums - Central Australia)
Collection, National Gallery of Australia
Works from this exhibition were acquired by N.G.A. - A.G.S.A. - A.G.W.A. and exhibited;
'Perspecta 1983' - Art Gallery of N.S.W.
'Beyond Traditional Photography' - The Drill Hall - A.N.U.
'The Centre' - Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
'Willis has learnt from experience that it is impossible to adopt a foreign culture in a simple fashion ... unilke other artists who have adoped aboriginal themes into their work, ... ... ... , Willis recognises the otherness of Aboriginal culture ... his own reference remains at a remove, set appart, ironic'