1992 - 1996
New Tracks Old Land
Contemporary Prints from Aboriginal Australia
Co-curated by Adrian Newstead and Theo Tremblay, New Tracks Old Land, was the result of two years planning and negotiation between the curators, the Massachusetts College of Art, the Aboriginal art Management Association, and the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council for the arts, travelled to venues throughout the USA, beginning in Boston in November 1992, and to more than 25 venues throughout Australia.
New Tracks Old Land was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fine art prints by Aboriginal artists ever organised for Australia and overseas.
In conjunction with its Australian launch at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin (1996) and its later installation at the Araluen Art Centre in Alice Springs, two Getting in to Print Symposia were held, each of which attracted more than 150 artists and arts administrators.
USA venues included the Huntington Gallery (Massachusetts), Australian Galleries, New York, The Australian Embassy (Washington), The Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, the Portland Art Museum, The Seaforth Centre, Seattle, and the Snohomish Centre of the Arts.
The exhibition was accompanied by a 76-page fully illustrated colour catalogue with authoritative essays by the prominent artist and arts administrator, Lin Onus, the exhibition coordinator Chris McGuigan, and the curators Adrian Newstead and Theo Tremblay.
It was nominated by the Boston Globe as the fourth best exhibition to tour the USA in 1992, and was covered in a major article published by the prestigious magazine Art in America.