Gift Trilogy

Willoh Weiland

15 July–19 August

Opening: Friday 14 July, 4.30pm–7.30pm. Free cake, courtesy of CWA Lindisfarne.

Gift Trilogy is a series of video works celebrating volunteerism.

A body of work spanning five years and created by artist Willoh Weiland in collaboration with renowned director of photography and auteur Sandi Sissel ASC, cinematographers Keith Deverell and Ursula Woods, and composer Kelly Ryall.

Together the works in Gift Trilogy sit in the realm of portraiture and draw on visual tropes of cinema. Elevating the participants and their work, this exhibition represents a counter to the often invisible labour that volunteers contribute to the communities and spaces they serve.

Lick Lick Blink was originally commissioned for The National, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Willoh collaborated with 120 people from the Older Women’s Network NSW to create a work that subverts the power of the male gaze in cinema through installation, film and the pleasure of ice-cream.

For Visions, originally presented at Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Willoh worked with 300 majority female, art gallery volunteers, re-contextualising their guide roles to function as seers and oracles to the collection.

Chant, commissioned for Mona Foma, was a collaboration with Tasmanian female and non-binary sporting groups to re-imagine historic and contemporary feminist protest chants as soundtracks to their routines.

Gift Trilogy at Contemporary Art Tasmania is the first time these three works are shown together.

Willoh Weiland is the recipient of the two-year CAT residency (2023-2024).

Commissioning curators

Lick Lick Blink, The National (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art – Anna Davis and Clothilde Bullen

Visions, Adelaide Biennial of Australia Art (2020), Art Gallery of South Australia – Lee Robb

Chant, Mona Foma Festival (2023), Old Tafe Building Launceston – Emma Pike