Letter from Susan Boyd to Bonney Bombach

Letter from Susan Boyd, Head of the Australian Consulate General, Hong Kong and former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, to Bonney Bombach, the curator of the 'Crosscurrents' project from the Australian side. Boyd in the letter wishes success for the touring exhibitions in Australia.

'Crosscurrents' was a collaborative project by mail between six Vietnamese and four Australian artists. It provided an example of how a private initiative between two individuals that begins as a kind of art entertainment, an artists’ game of exchange and collaboration, can result in a number of significant art events both in Vietnam and Australia.

The exhibition was held in Hanoi received good press coverage both in Vietnam and Australia, as well as support from Australian art authorities. Later on the project got a grant to tour the exhibition to ten different venues in Australia. The works from the 'Crosscurrents' project were shown in Lismore, NSW (Lismore Regional Art Gallery), Townsville, QLD (Perc Tucker Regional Art Gallery), Darwin, NT (24 HR ART Gallery), Geraldon, WA (Geraldon Regional Art Gallery), Toowoomba, QLD (Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery), Tewanten, QLD (Noosa Regional Art Gallery), Brisbane, QLD (Queensland College of the Arts), Gold Coast, QLD (Gold Coast City Art Gallery),Murwillumbah, NSW (Tweed River Regional Art Gallery), and Mildura, VIC (Mildura Art Centre).

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English

Publication/Creation date

1999

Creation place

Australia

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Letter from Susan Boyd to Bonney Bombach