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Michiel Dolk & Merilyn Fairskye


Michiel Dolk & Merilyn Fairskye
Lives in:
Australia

Merilyn Fairskye and Michiel Dolk are Sydney based artists whose public art collaborations include the now historic Woolloomooloo Mural Project which documented the development of the Green Bans movement, community resistance to urban redevelopment and local identity in the inner city of Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s. Dolk is a Dutch-Australian artist, art historian, educator and activist who has also worked in Zimbabwe and Mozambique as an artist and arts consultant. As an arts educator he has lectured in art history and has researched and published on Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian art. Fairskye’s art practice traces the cultural, political, and scientific webs that connect powerful real events and involves 2D and 3D works encompassing public artwork, digital photo series, video installation and artist film. Her ongoing art project Long Life (2009-) looks at the world through the lens of the post-Cold War nuclear age with a current focus on Australia.