Songs of Australia Volume 16, Aleks Danko
National Gallery of Victoria 

Installation design in collaboration with the artist Aleks Danko

SONGS OF AUSTRALIA VOLUME 16 – SHH, GO BACK TO SLEEP (an un-Australian dob-in mix) 2004, is the culmination of Aleks Danko’s Songs of Australia cycle , a body of work completed between 1996 and 2004. References specific to the artist’s own childhood and his experiences as a child of immigrant parents growing up in the suburbs of Adelaide appear throughout the Volumes, and are used to reflect both the differences and, often, startling similarities between the social, cultural and political landscape of Australia, then and now.

Installation designed in collaboration with Aleks Danko as Exhibition Designer at the National Gallery of Victoria