Gateless Gate

The main cabinet comprises of work made in response to the conflict in the Middle East and was commissioned for the Art Gallery of South Australia for an exhibition of Contemporary Trench Art. The auxiliary works are similar in conceptual intent.

—Fiona Hall

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Fiona Hall has mounted numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many groups exhibitions in Australia and internationally, and was the country’s representative at the Australian Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 with the installation work 'Wrong Way Time' (2012–15). Notable exhibitions include 'Wrong Way Time', National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2016); Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2014); Australia, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2013); dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2000 and 2010); the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2009); 'DeOverkant/Downunder', Den Haag Sculpture, Netherlands (2007); and 'Prism: Contemporary Australian Art', Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo (2006). Major retrospectives of Hall’s work have been held by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (both 2005). Hall’s work has been collected by all the major Australian state museums. She has also completed a number of important public commissions in Sydney and Canberra in the past two decades.