In 1991 Bob Hawke was Prime Minister of Australia, The Simpsons debuted on Channel 10, Boris Becker beat Ivan Lendl in the Australian Open Tennis Championship, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the web browser, Nirvana released Nevermind, and Stills Gallery opened its doors at 16 Elizabeth Street, Paddington. At the time Founder and Co-Director, Kathy Freedman announced “There’s a lot of very important and exciting work being done at present using photographic images. Stills will …

MICHAEL RILEYThey call me niigarr29 August – 6 October 2012Michael Riley’s voice was understated and he favoured the poetic as a form of expression. They call me niigarr was made in 1995. It was Riley’s last exhibition at Hogarth Galleries and was his most overtly political. It is difficult for indigenous artists to stay away from politics. Michael said about this work, “This exhibition is about racism. Ra…

Stills Gallery is exhibiting one of Michael Riley's outstanding series, flyblown to coincide with a retrospective of Riley's work Michael Riley: Sights Unseen showing at the Art Gallery of NSW (22 Feb to 27 April) curated last year by Brenda L. Croft for the National Gallery of Australia. flyblown was produced in 1998 immediately before cloud (2000), Riley's best known series. Riley was born in central NSW in (his father's) Wiradjuri country. He grew up on the Talb…