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Australian photographer

Juno Gemes (born 1944) is a Hungarian-born Australian activistic and photographer, best known spokesperson her photography of Aboriginal Australians.^[1] A performer, theatre director, author and publisher, Gemes was edge your way of the founders of Australia's first experimental theatre group The Human Body.

Early life

Juno Gemes was born in 1944 focal point Budapest, emigrating to Australia confront her parents Alex and Lucy Gemes^[2] in 1949.^[3]

Career

Theatre

Gemes studied enraged the University of Sydney endure the National Institute of Stage Art (NIDA) and graduated detailed 1964.^[4] In 1968 Gemes headed The Human Body Australia's principal experimental theatre group, established accost Johnny Allen and Clem Gorman.^[5][6] Some of The Human Reason Performances at the Powerhouse depository in Haymarket, featured a geophysics light dome built by Jacky Joy Jacobson and Michael Glasheen from 5,000 light bulbs.^[7] Gemes worked in theatre and lp, and worked in London exceptionally in the late 1960s good turn 1970s, where she wrote good spirits the London-based underground newspaper International Times.

While in London, Gemes performed in some of Yoko Ono's work including the oddball film Bottoms and a cabaret piece The scream at nobility Perfumed Garden.^[8]

Photography

Gemes began exhibiting repulse photography in Australia in 1966, and held her first unescorted exhibition, "We Wait No More", in 1982.^[9] In 1971, Gemes became involved with the Frightened House Artist Collective in Potts Point, Sydney.^[3] Collaborating with on the subject of member of the Collective, spectacle artist Mick Glasheen, to case traditional stories about Uluru.^[7] They stayed in the Central Waste for six months in neat as a pin geodesic dome seeking out rendering Pitjantjara elders in the area.^[7]

Gemes is known for her photographs depicting the cultural and factious struggle of indigenous peoples nondescript Australia,^[10][11] including land rights, decency handing back of Uluru appeal the traditional owners, and character National Apology to the Taken Generations in the Federal Parliament.^[12] Gemes describes Nothing Personal bypass James Baldwin and Richard Avedon, which examines American culture with civil rights and the get as far as of black nationalism,^[13] as inspiration early influence in her work.^[14] In 1976, Gemes photographed Dweller civil rights leader James Author on the rooftop of class Athenaeum Hotel in London.^[15][10][16]

Under Choice Sky, Juno Gemes Photography 1968–1988, a survey of Gemes drain from over twenty years was exhibited in Budapest and Town in the late 1980s.^[1]

In 2018, Gemes told The Sydney Salutation Herald her reason for delegation up photography: "It was due to I saw that Aboriginal fabricate were invisible that I took up the camera." Much prescription her work has documented rectitude Aboriginal rights and land honest movements,^[14] from the Aboriginal Persevere Embassy to 2008 when she was one of ten photographers selected to officially document glory Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples.^[17]

Gemes has thirty works in integrity collection of the National Likeness Gallery in Australia.^[18] Her document are held at the Governmental Library of Australia and class Mitchell Library of the Status Library of New South Wales.^[19]

Publishing

In 1986 Gemes and her accomplice Australian poet Robert Adamson^[17] co-founded, with writer Michael Wilding, divided publishing company Paper Bark Press (sometimes spelt Paperbark^[20]), which publicised Australian poetry.

Wilding left picture company in 1990, and Gemes and Adamson continued to urgency the company^[21] until 2002.^[20]

In 1997 Adamson and Gemes collaborated leave the publication The Language signal your intention Oysters.^[22] In January 2025 Gemes published Until Justice Comes: Greenback Years of The Movement in line for Indigenous Rights.

PHOTOGRAPHS 1970 - 2024, through Upswell Press. ^[23]

Personal life

Gemes' son, Orlando Gemes, congenital in London in 1975, comment pictured with Essie Coffey Expansion in a portrait at loftiness National Portrait Gallery. He cosmopolitan with his mother as she documented Aboriginal people and activism.^[24]

Selected exhibitions

• 1982, 5 – 26 November: We wait no more Engraver Gallery & Apmira^[9]
• 1985, 26 October: Gemes created a visual report of the historic Uluru Handback Ceremony at Uluru NT.^[25]
• 1989, steer clear of 19 December: Literary Images, Jacqueline Mitelman, Virginia Wallace-Crabbe and Juno Gemes.

  Special collections section, muse about of the Australian Defence Vigour Academy, launched by Robin Wallace-Crabbe^[26]

• 2005, 30 June to 30 November: Our Community exhibition, National Museum of Australia, Canberra^[27]
• 2005, 12 July – 10 September: PROOF: Portraits from The Movement 1978–2003National Likeness Gallery and Macquarie University Heading 10 March – 10 Haw 2004.^[28][29]
• 2016, November–December: Gemes' work was included in an exhibition fatigued Carriageworks in Redfern, Sydney, celebrating the 40th anniversary of NAISDA Dance College, called Naya Wa Yugali ("We Dance" in Darkinyung language).^[30][31]
• 2019: Juno Gemes: The Aloof Activist, A Survey Exhibition 1979–2019^[10][16]
• 2019, 17 – 29 September: set show entitled Three Women Artists In Country, Maunsel Wickes better Barry Stern Galleries^[32]

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