Art Almanac February 2020 $6
Misklectic Sublime Sea Kate Baker
Manly Dam Project Eight contemporary artists; Shoufay Derz, Blak Douglas, Nigel Helyer, David Middlebrook, Sue Pedley, Melissa Smith, Cathe Stack and Nicole Welch – along with eight engineers from the Water Research Laboratory (WRL), formed an open forum to research and discuss the critical role water and coastal management play in Australia’s future. Their focus, the Manly Dam area – a unique landscape in Sydney’s north rich in natural biodiversity, shaped by the interventions of engineering and science, layered with Aboriginal cultural significance, and social and recreational activity. Their efforts led to the Manly Dam Project, curated by Professor Ian Turner and Katherine Roberts, and the third of a series of significant art and science partnership projects involving the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, with works currently on show until 23 February. Some artists drew direct inspiration from the Manly Dam environment. With deep respect and responsiveness to the Aboriginal cultural heritage of the area, ‘they researched its biodiversity, social history and engineering story to create work that is poetic, powerful and provocative,’ said Roberts. Several public programs accompany the exhibition. Join sculptor, sound artist and writer Dr Nigel Helyer (a.k.a. DrSonique) for a Sound Walk Workshop on Monday 10 February and be led on an audio journey to find the descriptive and analytical language to describe sound in the environment. Attend the WRL Open Day on Saturday 15 February, and participate in a guided walk on Friday 21 February along the escarpment of the Manly Dam to the Curl Curl Creek waterfall, returning along the water’s edge. Blak Douglas, Dam nation, 2019, synthetic polymer on canvas, 200 x 300cm Courtesy the artist and Manly Art Gallery & Museum
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Adelaide Festival ‘Adelaide Festival’ celebrates a 60-year milestone with over 70 events taking place around the city from 28 February to 15 March, and will be sharing the spotlight with the 30th anniversary of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s ‘Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’ showcasing ‘Monster Theatres’. Curator Leigh Robb says the show ’proposes an arena of speculation, a circus of the unorthodox and the absurd, a shadow play between truth and fiction.’ Visual art, theatre, music, opera, dance, film and writing across 16 Australian premieres and seven world debuts alongside 17 events exclusive to Adelaide fill the program. Major highlights include Samstag Museum of Art’s ‘2020 Adelaide//International’, which explores how built forms can engage us in the social, spatial and temporal present across five exhibits including ‘Somewhere Other’ by artists John Wardle and New York-based Natasha Johns-Messenger. A group show with Zoë Croggon, Helen Grogan and Georgia Saxelby, as well as a moving-image work by Belgian artist David Claerbout, a sound and sculptural work by First Nations artist Brad Darkson, and at SASA Gallery is artist and architect Matthew Bird’s experimental project ‘Inspiral’. ‘Adelaide Writers’ Week’ contemplates ‘Being Human’ from 29 February to 5 March, and will launch the commemorative book ‘Adelaide Festival – 60 Years’. And ‘WOMADelaide’ unfolds over four days with music, arts and dance in the Botanic Park from 6 to 9 March. adelaidefestival.com.au John Wardle Architects, Somewhere Other, installed in the Arsenale di Venezia for the 2018 Biennale Architettura Photograph: Peter Bennetts Courtesy the artists and Samstag Museum of Art, South Australia
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AND WHAT? Ken Bolton and Kurt Brereton Jellied Tongue Press
Ken Bolton & Kurt Brereton
Ken Bolton and Kurt Brereton pose the question, ‘and what?’ Both interrogative and blasé in its delivery, these words have piqued our curiosity about its context; and in turn, the contents of this limitededition publication. ‘AND WHAT?’ is an intersection of art and literature; an entertaining mix of paintings, drawings, photographs and poetic responses to random topics, which oscillate between creative thought and critical opinion. The book opens with a garden hose shaped in an ampersand, a symbol of connection and multiplicity. Throughout the following pages, Bolton and Brereton offer us the ‘what for – “where” “why” “how” “this”’.
AND WHAT ?
Ken Bolton & Kurt Brereton
AND WHAT ?
The work, fragmented yet elegantly written, touches on philosophy, Modernism, art and social history with each turn of the page offering a new perception, thought and invented scenarios or conversations. Although filled with printed images and the occasional artwork insert, ‘AND WHAT?’ is primarily a playful, lyrical poem. Self-declared ‘trendy “mash it up” art bombers’, Bolton and Brereton shout, ‘ENOUGH ART LET’S POETRY’ and direct us to the Poetry section in the Dymocks bookstore; fittingly, ‘next to the GAMES and PUZZLES’. So, join the game and see if you can connect the dots between cinema, celebrities, musicians and artists, social media, life in New South Wales, unironed shirts and cooking, as well as mortality, happiness and the term Arcadia repeated throughout the publication. This Fluxus, Mail Art and Dada-esque art piece encourages us to ‘place a question mark in front of everything’; to consider art as a verb, to think.
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Ildiko Kovacs Two Grounds Eleanor Zeichner
For Ildiko Kovacs, painting begins with a feeling. A particular colour will beckon to her and she will follow it towards a conclusion, which may take weeks to find. Oil paint is applied directly to a ground of raw plywood with foam rollers, sinuous lines snaking their way around the field in complex interweaving strokes. Each day Kovacs begins again, wiping the surface down with turpentine to leave only a trace of the previous day’s work – sometimes she will even throw a bucket of turps across to invite a greater element of chance. She will continually rotate the board to provide herself fresh perspectives on the work (though the rotate function on her smart phone does help with what can be a strenuous physical task). This process allows the work to become regenerative and activated, relieving the artist of an attachment to a particular composition before the work is finished. She continues in this method until ‘something in the form surprises me,’ evoking the ‘history of what has gone on before.’ Kovacs values a lack of preciousness and self-consciousness in art making, saying, ‘at the end of the day it’s just painting. It’s getting into that space where the doing takes over.’ This approach belies Kovacs’ extraordinary skill and deftness, and her trust in the process comes with practice. A major survey titled ‘Down the Line: 1980-2010’, initiated by Hazelhurst Regional
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Anne Wallace Strange Ways
QUT Art Museum Until 23 February, 2020 Queensland Anne Wallace’s major survey exhibition is curated by Vanessa Van Ooyen, and includes more than 80 pieces which may entice us with a familiar narrative but as the gallery says, ‘Like any good ‘story’, there is sexual and social confusion, vulnerability and violence, alienation and loneliness, feelings of the abject, or fantasies of power and revenge. Wallace’s paintings have an uncanny ability to tap into a shared psyche, drawing upon the language of pop culture.’
Entrance Uncovered, 2001, oil on canvas, 130 x 160cm Private collection, Brisbane Courtesy the artist and QUT Art Museum, Queensland
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Tracey Moffatt & Hayley Millar-Baker The Truth of What Occurred Remains Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery Until 23 February, 2020 New South Wales
‘The Truth of What Occurred Remains’ brings together two major bodies of work that reflect on the transgenerational trauma of colonisation experienced by Indigenous people. Tracey Moffatt’s Up in the Sky (1997) touches on race, violence and poverty; the deleterious ramifications of the Stolen Generation whose wounds never healed. Hayley Millar-Baker’s A Series of Unwarranted Events (2018) depicts the violent truths behind the European occupation of southwestern Victoria, land of the Gunditjmara people. By layering, cutting and repositioning imagery complexities of Aboriginality are revealed.
Hayley Millar-Baker, Untitled (The best means, of caring for, and dealing with them, in the future), 2018, inkjet on cotton rag, 80 x 100cm Courtesy the artist and Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang Chalkroom
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 9 February to 19 April, 2020 Western Australia
Collector/Collected Shepparton Art Museum Until 1 March, 2020 Victoria
Giant blackboards construct a vast virtual space where walls, floors and ceilings are covered in handwritten text and drawings in this collaboration between artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang. Guided by Anderson’s voice, visitors enter the ‘Chalkroom’, an almost entirely black-andwhite dream-like world, navigating through a labyrinth of fractured memories as words sail through the air only to fall to dust – continually forming, and reforming. In our disembodied state, we are encouraged to interact; to immerse ourselves in the narrative and architecture of the space.
The Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) has invited contemporary artists Tony Albert, Kate Daw, Geoff Newton and David Sequeira who have a preoccupation with ideas of collecting and collections to artistically respond to the concept, materiality and action of collecting, and the collector. Looking back, SAM also showcases two major collections of Australian studio pottery from the 1960s and 70s: the Studio Pottery from the John Nixon Collection and SAM’s own collection from this period.
Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang, Chalkroom, 2017, fluorescent paint on slate walls Courtesy the artists and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Phyl Dunn and Reg Preston, untitled (yellow dinner set), not dated, glazed stoneware, 2007 Shepparton Art Museum collection, donated by Joanne Trumble, 2007 © the artist’s estate and Susie Cordia Photograph: Stephanie Bradford Courtesy Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
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Artist Opportunities We have selected a few galleries and funding bodies calling for submissions for Art Awards, Artist Engagements, Grants, Public Art, Residency Programs, Exhibition Proposals and more. Enjoy and good luck! SPARK NT Curator
In this issue, we congratulate writer, activist and arts worker Carmen Ansaldo as SPARK NT Curator for Artback NT’s 2019/2020 program. The initiative supports an independent or emerging curator, residing in the Northern Territory, to develop an exhibition project for touring in the region. In her research, Ansaldo examines the intersection between visual arts and political engagement with a focus on First Nations art practices and remote and regional arts development. And, engages in collaborative discussion with artists, activists and community members.
Carmen Ansaldo, SPARK NT Curator 2019–2020 Photograph: Roxanne Fitzgerald
Sharing her enthusiasm Ansaldo said, ‘I’m excited to be presented with this unique opportunity to be the next SPARK NT curator and develop my curatorial practice as a regional arts worker. Exploring the dual role of the curator as activist appeals to me. As a SPARK NT curator, Artback NT has provided me with a new platform to materialise these interests through the development of a touring exhibition. As an emerging curator holding strong concerns for my community, I am thinking about what I can contribute and how I can implement tangible change as an arts worker. I see communalism as our only way out if the Territory is to have a liveable environment and sustainable future.’
Ansaldo’s exhibition ‘Groundswell: Recent movements within art and territory’, which is currently in the development stage will tour NT galleries in 2020 and 2021 with a showcase of work by Northern Territory artists including Jacky Green, Kelly Lee Hickey, June Mills, Aly de Groot, Patricia Phillipus Napurrula, Winsome Jobling, Lee Harrop, Maicie Lalara, Mel Robson, Jennifer Taylor and Tarzan Jungle Queen. For more information about the SPARK NT Curator program, touring dates and how to apply visit the Artback NT website. artbacknt.com.au
Blake Prize
Submissions close 3 April Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (CPAC) is calling for entries for the 66th Blake Art & Poetry Prizes. Artists exploring the wider experience of spirituality, religion and belief are invited. Three prizes will be awarded for the best contemporary work addressing the religious or spiritual including The Blake Prize $35,000 (nonacquisitive main prize), The Blake Emerging Artist Prize $6,000 (acquisitive) and The Blake Established Artist Residency – residency and solo exhibition hosted by CPAC. The Blake Poetry Prize winner will be awarded $5,000 and will feature alongside the Art Prize Exhibition finalists. casulapowerhouse.com
Every Picture Tells A Story
Entries close 26 February Gasworks Arts Park is calling for photographic works featuring the buildings, beaches and bustle of the City of Port Phillip for an installation of 90 images on the enormous inner wall of Gasworks Arts Park located on the corner of Pickles and Graham streets from 28 March to 4 May. ‘Every Picture Tells A Story’ is open to amateur and professional photographers, with those 25 and under eligible to enter one image for free and be in the running for the Youth Prize Award. For a $30 fee per image photographers can enter up to one portrait and one landscape oriented image for the Gasworks Photography Award and People’s Choice Award. Submissions are accepted via email to The Curator at visualarts@gasworks.org.au
Head On Photo Awards
Entries close 16 February National and international emerging and established artists are invited to enter contemporary, classic and experimental works; shot on a camera, phone or made using an alternative process for the 2020 Head On Photo Awards. There are three competition categories including the Head On Portrait, Landscape and Student Awards with a total of $70,000 in cash and prizes on offer. Finalists will be exhibited in Head On Photo Festival 2020 from 1 to 17 May. Visit the website for more information and how to enter. headon.com.au
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Yarra Sculpture Gallery (YSG) Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA)
117 Vere Street, Abbotsford 3067. T (03) 9419-6177. W yarrasculpturegallery.com.au H Thurs-Sun 11.00 to 4.00. Feb 16 to 23 (opening Sun Feb 16, 2-4pm with artist talks) as part of the Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA) 2020 Exhibition Program, Yarra Sculpture Gallery is excited to present a group of innovative and engaging artists whom have been selected to participate in the Summer Residency program. Artists in Residence: Gallery 1: Kerry Buckland and Anne-Marie Kuter. Gallery 2: Julian Di Martino. For inquiries for our next Residency Program in July please send an email with the subject heading ‘2020 Winter Residency’ to yarrasculpturegallery@gmail.com or refer to the website for rates and information.
Elina Simbolon, My country is my pain, 2019, digital print Courtesy the artist and Alternating Current Art Space
The Cullen
Julian Di Martino, Shovelling nasturtiums, 2019, wood, acrylic, 50 x 100cm Courtesy the artist and Yarra Sculpture Gallery
Toorak Sth Yarra Prahran Alternating Current Art Space
(map ref Melway 2L, K12) 248 High Street, Windsor 3181. T (03) 9528-2459. E info@alternatingcurrentartspace.com W www.alternatingcurrentartspace.com H Thurs-Fri 11.00 to 6.00, Sat-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. Feb 21 to March 14 Gallery 1: Ester Poyas: SIMPLY PERFECT. Gallery 2: Elina Simbolon: 120598 cuts. Gallery 3: Emma Pattenden: Walking through a memory. Gallery 4: Natasha Manners: Men go to Sea, Women Don’t. The Cupboard: Bambi Johnson: Corps.
84 Melbourne
164 Commercial Road, Prahran 3181. T (03) 9098-1555. W www.artserieshotels.com.au/ cullen A boutique hotel featuring original artwork and prints by Australian contemporary artist Adam Cullen (1965-2012).
Finkelstein Gallery
Basement 2, 1 Victoria Street, Windsor 3181. T 0413-877-401. E ask@finkelsteingallery.com W www.finkelsteingallery.com H Wed-Fri 11.00 to 5.00, Sat 12.00 to 5.00. Feb 6 to March 19 Sublimate by Kate Baker.
in.cube8r gallery
116 Greville Street, Prahran 3181. T 0466-527-160. W incube8r.com.au H Tues-Wed 10.30 to 5.30, Thurs-Sat 10.30 to 7.00, Sun 12.00 to 4.30, closed Mon and public hols.
Kinross Arts Centre
603 Toorak Road (rear Toorak Uniting Church), Toorak 3142. T (03) 9829-0340. W www.kinrossarts.org.au Free entry. H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 3.30. www.facebook. com/KinrossArtsCentre Feb 6 to 27 (opening Thurs Feb 6, 6-8pm) Celebrating Life in Small Works by Jo Reitze www.joreitzeartist.com.au See ad page 95.
Gippsland South East arc Yinnar Gallery
19 Main Street, Yinnar 3869. T (03) 5163-1310. W www.arcyinnar.org.au H Tues-Fri 12.00 to 4.00, Sat 11.00 to 3.00. Feb 1 to 22 (opening Sat Feb 1, 2pm) artists are invited to explore and interpret the 2020 zeitgeist.
Gippsland Art Gallery
70 Foster Street, Sale 3850. T (03) 5142-3500. E galleryenquiries@wellington.vic.gov.au W www.gippslandartgallery.com H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.30, Sat-Sun and public hols 10.00 to 4.00. To July 19 The Art of Annemieke Mein. Feb 1 to March 15 The Nature of Decay by Simon Deere. Feb 1 to April 26 Australia Phoenix: A Cosmology by Susan Purdy. Feb 15 to March 15 Art Aid Gippsland – 2020 Gippsland Bushfire Appeal Exhibition & Auction. Feb 15 to May 3 The Circus of Life by Peter Cole. March 21 to April 19 The Lost Impressionist by Jan Hendrik Scheltema.
ArtSpace Wonthaggi
1 Bent Street, Wonthaggi 3995. T (03) 5672-5767. E artspacenquiries@gmail.com W www.artspacewonthaggi.com.au H Daily 10.00 to 4.00. 2D and 3D contemporary and traditional art. Feb 18 to March 30 (opening Sun Feb 23, 2-4pm) The Infinite Birdcage – an exhibition by highly reputed artist John Mutsaers in collaboration with musician and composer Mark Finsterer. Writers are invited to respond to the artworks and theme exploring the human need for freedom. Winning writers will be published in the Gippsland Lifestyle magazine. Peter Cole, Song for the Kimberley, 2009, mixed media, 96 x 87 x 20cm Courtesy the artist and Gippsland Art Gallery
Latrobe Regional Gallery
138 Commercial Road, Morwell 3840. T (03) 5128-5700. E lrg@latrobe.vic.gov.au W latroberegionalgallery.com H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 11.00 to 4.00. To Feb 9 Moving Pictures. To Feb 16 JamFactory ICON // Catherine Truman: no surface holds. To May 3 Small Town Fetish: Pezaloom. Feb 22 to May 17 Weapons For The Soldier: Protecting Country, Culture and Family. Feb 29 to May 17 Any Which Way: Leigh Hobba. Feb 29 to May 24 Contemporary Women: Artworks from the Latrobe Regional Gallery permanent collection.
John Mutsaers, Tessellated Chicken, oil on canvas, 101 x 61cm Courtesy the artist and ArtSpace Wonthaggi
Pezaloom, Dopa Kinesia, 2015, C-type photograph on di-bond mount, 29.7 x 42cm Latrobe Regional Gallery Collection, acquired 2019 Courtesy the artist and Latrobe Regional Gallery
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South Coast Bega Valley Regional Gallery
Marika Schmidhofer, Girl on Red Couch Courtesy the artist and Bowral Art Gallery
Zingel Place, Bega 2550. T (02) 6499-2202. E gallery@begavalley.nsw.gov.au W gallery.begavalley.nsw.gov.au facebook.com/begavalleyregionalgallery Free entry. H Mon-Sat 10.00 to 4.00. Feb 14 to May 2 Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms – Catherine Bell, Karen Black, Penny Byrne, Erub Arts, Debris Facility, Starlie Geikie, Michelle Hamer, Kate Just, Deborah Kelly, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Raquel Ormella, Kate Rohde, Slow Art Collective, Tai Snaith, Hiromi Tango, James Tylor, Jemima Wyman and Paul Yore.
Sturt Gallery & Studios
Duck Print Fine Art
Cnr Range Road and Waverley Parade, Mittagong 2575. T (02) 4860-2083. E shop@sturt.nsw.edu.au W www.sturt.nsw.edu.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Sturt was established in 1941 and is a nationally significant and award winning centre for the teaching, sale, production and exhibition of contemporary Australian craft and design.
Call For Entries
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RUTHERGLEN
Tastes of Art Prize
39-41 Wentworth Street, Port Kembla 2505. T (02) 4276-1135. W www.duckprintfineart.com.au Prints for sale, workshops available, custom printing + editions.
The Egg & Dart
Shop 2, 1-3 Raymond Road, Thirroul 2515. T (02) 4268-4885. E info@egganddart.com.au W www.egganddart.com.au H Wed and Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Thurs 10.00 to 7.30, Sat 10.00 to 2.00. Tues by appt. Jan 29 to Feb 22 Dazzle by Julia Flanagan.
Thirroul Gallery
228 Lawrence Hargrave Drive (shed at the rear yard of Wombats Collectible store), Thirroul 2515. T (02) 4267-1322. W www.thirroulgallery.com @thirroulgallery @wombatinthirroul. H Daily 9.00 to 5.00. Feb 1 to March 1 All the Things that Happened by Tess Dawson.
6-15 March 2020
Painting/Mixed Media Photography Printmaking Sculpture Work on paper
Total prize pool $7,000 Entries close 14th February 2020 Enter online: trybooking.com/BEGEO
rts RUTHERGLEN 134 New South Wales
Tess Dawson, unsent messages (detail), acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80cm Courtesy the artist and Thirroul Gallery
M16 Artspace
21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith 2603. T (02) 6295-9438. E exhibitions@m16artspace.com W www.m16artspace.com.au H Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. To Feb 2 Gallery 1: Unnatural Histories by Dan Power and Luke Hadland. Gallery 2: Migration by Sian Watson. Gallery 3: A Month of Sundays by Brenda Goggs. Feb 6 to 23 Gallery 1: Illumination – Tin Shed Art Group, curated by Manuel Pfeiffer. Gallery 2: Colour Me Happy by Alicia Gilchrist. Gallery 3: Rondo by Dörte Conroy.
National Library of Australia
Parkes Place, Canberra 2600. T (02) 6262-1111. W www.nla.gov.au Free entry. H Visit website for opening times and exhibitions.
National Portrait Gallery
King Edward Terrace, Parkes 2600. T (02) 6102-7000. E info@npg.gov.au W www.portrait.gov.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Feb 9 The Look. To Feb 16 Eye to Eye. To March 9 Primed.
Scott Leggo Gallery
45 Jardine Street, Kingston, 2604. T (02) 6179-7422. E info@scottleggo.com W scottleggo.com H Daily from 10.00. Premium Australian landscape photography artworks and gifts.
Greater Canberra Belconnen Arts Centre
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
118 Emu Bank, Belconnen 2617. T (02) 6173-3300. E hello@belcoarts.com.au W www.belcoarts.com.au H Tues-Sun 10.00 to 4.00, closed public hols. Feb 14 to March 29 The Ancient Gaze by Sally Blake – brings the ancient wisdom embodied in Paleolithic European female figurines into conversation with contemporary environmental concerns. Also, Adaptation by Sian Watson – figurative sculptural works that explore our shared vulnerability with nature in a shifting landscape, and F A C E Unframed – enter Belco Arts’ open exhibition, themed around the face and identity. Works must be on A3 unframed paper, with all eligible for the $500 People’s Choice Award. Entries close Mon March 23.
Christopher Pease, Target 3, 2017, oil on Belgian linen Purchased 2019 Courtesy the artist and National Gallery of Australia
Sian Watson, Retreating Forward, 2019 Courtesy the artist and Belconnen Arts Centre
Dörte Conroy, Rondo (detail), 2018, paddle pop sticks, 12 x 16cm Courtesy the artist and M16 Artspace
Megalo Print Studio + Gallery 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston 2604. T (02) 6232-6041. E info@megalo.org W www.megalo.org H Tues-Sat 9.30 to 5.00.
Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600. T (02) 6240-6411. E information@nga.gov.au W www.nga.gov.au Admission to the permanent collection is free. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To March 9 Lichtenstein to Warhol: The Kenneth Tyler Collection. To March 29 Hugh Ramsay. To April 13 Matisse & Picasso. Ongoing: Belonging: Stories of Australian Art.
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Hobart Sullivans Cove Battery Point Art Mob
29 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6236-9200, 0419-393-122. E euan@artmob.com.au W www.artmob.com.au Director: Euan Hills. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00. Aboriginal fine art, including Tasmanian Aboriginal artists.
Bett Gallery Hobart
Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6231-6511. E info@bettgallery.com.au W www.bettgallery.com.au Directors: Carol Bett, Emma Bett and Jack Bett. H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.30, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. To Feb 8 group show. Feb 14 to March 7 Watersong by Troy Ruffels.
Troy Ruffels, A sky’s archeology, 2018, digital print on aluminium, 220 x 330cm Courtesy the artist and Bett Gallery Hobart
Colville Gallery
91a Salamanca Place, Hobart 7004. T (03) 62244088, 0419-292-626. E info@colvillegallery.com.au W www.colvillegallery.com.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Jan 28 to Feb 5 Light on the Channel by Robert Brown. Feb 11 to 19 The Valley by Glen Preece.
Glen Preece, The Valley, 2019, oil on board, 45 x 35cm Courtesy the artist and Colville Gallery
Despard Gallery
Level 1, 15 Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6223-8266. E hobart@despard-gallery.com.au W www.despard-gallery.com.au H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 3.00, Sun 12.00 to 3.00. Feb 5 to March 1 New Percepts by Josh Foley.
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Alice Springs Araluen Arts Centre
Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs 0870. T (08) 8951-1122. E araluen@nt.gov.au W www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 4.00, Sun 10.00 to 2.00. Closed Mon. To Feb 9 Franca Baraclough: The Visitors. To March 1 Greenbush Art Group: Shake, Rattle and Roll – A History of Central Australian Transport. Feb 22 to March 29 (opening Fri Feb 21, 6pm) For Country, For Nation – an Australian War Memorial Touring Exhibition exploring stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander experience during war and peace. Franca Barraclough, Crowned Land (detail) Photograph: Mick Walters Courtesy the artist and Araluen Arts Centre
Artback NT Arts Development and Touring
67 Bath Street, Alice Springs 0871. T (08) 8953-5941. W www.artbacknt.com.au Artback NT works with artists from around the Northern Territory to develop and tour their work to local, national and international audiences. From visual arts and music to performing arts and traditional and contemporary dance, we collaborate with artists to create, cultivate and share their stories. Artback NT identifies and assists with funding opportunities, establishing and coordinating local, national and international tours of artistic work and the designing of public programs and marketing materials.
Tjanpi Desert Weavers
3 Wilkinson Street, Alice Springs 0870. T (08) 8958-2377. E tjanpi.sales@npywc.org.au W www.tjanpi.com.au www.facebook.com/Tjanpi Tjanpi represents over 400 Anangu/Yarnangu women artists from 26 remote communities on the NPY lands. Bronwyn Bancroft, Time marches on, mixed media Made in Balmain, New South Wales, 2010 Courtesy the artist, Australian War Memorial, Canberra and Araluen Arts Centre
Watch This Space
8 Gap Road, Alice Springs 0870. T (08) 8952-1949. E wts@wts.org.au W www.wts.org.au H Wed-Fri 12.00 to 5.00, and Sat 10.00 to 2.00 during exhibitions. Showcasing local, interstate and international emerging and established artists. Wed Feb 26, 6pm Book Launch: Permanent Recession, presented by All Conference. Travelling Artist in Residence: Tarzan JungleQueen. Open studio TBC, see website.
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Suzanne O’Connell Gallery
93 James Street, New Farm 4005. T (07) 3358-5811, 0400-920-022 F 3358-5813. E admin@suzanneoconnellgallery.com W www.suzanneoconnellgallery.com Member of ACGA. H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 4.00, or by appt. Specialising in contemporary Australian Indigenous art. Representing leading Aboriginal artists; works include paintings, fibre and wood carvings. Feb 5 to March 14 ALWAYS ON THE MOVE a solo exhibition by Doreen Chapman.
Gold Coast Anthea Polson Art
Shop 120 Marina Mirage, 74 Seaworld Drive, Main Beach 4217. T (07) 5561-1166. E info@antheapolsonart.com.au W www.antheapolsonart.com.au Director: Anthea Polson. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00.
Lorraine Pilgrim Gallery
Studio 87, 87 Ridgeway Avenue, Southport 4215. T (07) 5532-7170, 0418-767-495. E lorraine@lorrainepilgrim.com W www.lorrainepilgrim.com H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, weekends by appt. To Feb 29 The Summer Exhibition 2019 a selection of works by artists in the stable. To be officially opened by Tracy Cooper-Lavery, Director-Gallery, HOTA Home of the Arts.
Sunshine Coast Doreen Chapman, Untitled, acrylic on canvas, 101.5 x 101.5cm Courtesy the artist and Suzanne O’Connell Gallery
UQ Art Museum
James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (Building 11), University Drive, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4067. T (07) 3365-3046. E artmuseum@uq.edu.au W www.art-museum.uq.edu.au H Mon-Tues and ThursSat 10.00 to 4.00, Wed 10.00 to 8.00, closed Sun and public hols. To March 18 Brook Andrew: SMASH IT – an iconoclastic work that challenges the usefulness of Western laws and structures for Indigenous Australians. To June 18 Front Window Commission: Sam Cranstoun: To Speak of Cities. Feb 22 to July 4 Mel O’Callaghan: Centre of the Centre – traces the origins of life and its regenerative forces.
Montville Art Gallery
138 Main Street, Montville 4560. T (07) 5442-9211. E montart@montart.com.au W www.montvilleartgallery.com.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Featuring the works of 45 regional and interstate artists on permanent display in our 100 year old Queenslander. All works can also be seen on our website.
Wayne Malkin, Turbulence #44, oil on canvas, 90 x 200cm Courtesy the artist and Montville Art Gallery
Noosa Regional Gallery
Ground floor, 9 Pelican Street, Riverside, Tewantin 4565. T (07) 5329-6145. E gallery@noosa.qld.gov.au W www.noosaregionalgallery.com H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat-Sun 10.00 to 3.00. Closed Mon, public hols and during exhibition changeovers. Jan 31 to March 8 A Life in Patches – the stories of lives lived in the company of stitching. Woven into each patchworker’s story is another; the story of the Wallace Workshop, installation documentation Photograph: Carl Warner Courtesy the QUT Art Museum
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