Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery presents a new exhibition of work by Isaac Julien, one of Britain’s most influential and critically acclaimed artists working today. Presented from 21 October until 19 November 2016, Isaac Julien: Refuge is a survey of the artist’s complex, poetic film and photographic installations spanning three continents and eight years, including the Australian debut of Julien’s new multi-screen installation Stones Against Diamonds (2015), a work shot inside the Icelandic Vatnajökull caves, Europe’s biggest glacier.

Julien’s new work Stones Against Diamonds (2015) will be juxtaposed with one of the artist’s most prophetic works WESTERN UNION: Small Boats (2007) that was shot in Sicily and which pre-dates the current global crisis on migration by a nearly a decade. Together the works explore cartographies of displacement, from the baroque to modernist architecture, from Italy, to Iceland and Brazil.

Known for pioneering multi-screen installations, Julien is one of Britain’s most influential artists working today with his cinematic and photographic works combining theoretical sophistication with visual luxury and sensuality.