Art Almanac July 2019 Issue

Art Almanac

July 2019 $6

Vincent Namatjira Lucina Lane Mary Tonkin

Art Almanac June 2019

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Deadline for August 2019: Wednesday 3 July, 2019.

We acknowledge and pay our respect to the many Aboriginal nations across this land, traditional custodians, Elders past and present; in particular the Guringai people of the Eora Nation where Art Almanac has been produced.

We view solo shows from contemporary artists whose painting is an aperture to what lies beyond, be that labour, a politicised identity, the architecture of space or the beauty of nature. Vincent Namatjira places himself at the centre of his pictorial world as Tristen Harwood writes, with an ‘acute attention to materiality and bodily presence’. The makings of art and subjectivity of the creator is also a provocation for Lucina Lane, Kael Stasce and Mary Tonkin.

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Vincent Namatjira, Self Portrait (Miami Beach 1), 2019, acrylic on linen, 122 x 91cm Courtesy the artist, Iwantja Arts, South Australia and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne

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Voice. Treaty. Truth ‘NAIDOC Week’ is an annual celebration of the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia. On from 7 to 14 July there is a range of activities for Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities to get involved in. Festivities include the National NAIDOC Awards Ceremony, in recognition of Indigenous Australians who work to improve the lives of people in their community and who are a voice for Indigenous issues, as well as exhibitions and events, which coincide with ‘NAIDOC Week’ and showcase the remarkable creative practices of Indigenous artists.

Highlights: Artitja Fine Art is showing ‘OUR LAND | OUR PLACE’ a visual interpretation of the importance of place and story, in Perth from 8 July. From 13 July Art From the Margins Gallery, Brisbane has ‘Listening, Healing, Connecting’ by artist Duane Doyle showing alongside artworks from Indigenous communities reflecting on the NAIDOC theme of ‘Voice. Treaty. Truth’, which is also the focus of the ‘NAIDOC19’ exhibition at Arts Academy Post Office Gallery, Victoria until 14 July. In Sydney, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia screens ‘No Way to Forget’ with four episodes of ‘Trans Black’ on 9 July and ‘Servant or Slave’ on 11 July, between these on 10 July is a panel discussion with speakers from Aboriginal education, the screen industry, Aboriginal women’s advocacy and the arts.

Hazelhurst Arts Centre showcases 50 works by 16 Indigenous watercolour artists until 9 July, and Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative artists express their concerns and ideas about what ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth.’ means to them, on view until 28 July. naidoc.org.au Judy Mengil, 2015, natural ochre on canvas, 140 x 100cm Courtesy Warringarri Aboriginal Arts, Western Australia and Artitja Fine Art, Western Australia

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Daydreamer Wolf Elyas Alavi ACE Open

This publication is the final component of artist Elyas Alavi’s co-commissioned project ‘Daydreamer Wolf’, initiated by ACE Open, South Australia, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne and Firstdraft, Sydney, which culminated in a major exhibition alongside performance works and public programs.

Alavi’s interdisciplinary practice is marked by concerns for the refugee experience; of war, trauma, loss and displacement. Drawing from personal and shared experiences, Alavi radiates a strong sense of empathy and understanding for the people whose lives are fraught by conflict, which is conveyed in his writing, poetry, visual art and performance works.

Essays by Andy Butler and Andrew Hill accompanied by images and a series of emotive poems present a compelling narrative of the plight of refugees.

Apókryphos Cherine Fahd m.33

Apókryphos by artist Cherine Fahd is an artwork veiled as a book that guides us through the highly emotive ritual and experience of grief and mourning.

Fahd reproduces 24 photographs of her grandfather’s funeral and burial in 1975. We are plunged into intimate diaristic poetic fragments, two creative texts as a ‘call and response’ between the artist and Daniel Mudie Cunningham which are connected to the images numerically annotated by hand, recalling memories and questions in personal historiographies that are by their nature brimming with subjectivity and speculation. It is a beautiful and tender tribute, and creative opportunity to which the artist credits a new understanding of ‘what it means to inherit.’

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Mary Tonkin Ramble Melissa Pesa

Cocooned by a thicket of trees and branches, our escape obstructed by a fallen trunk and overgrown ferns; in the forest, we remain. Amid the dense and impenetrable landscape, there is comfort in a small pocket of sky casting light on the foliage below; it’s characteristic viridescent hues replaced with autumn shades of red, orange, yellow, blue and brown, accentuated by a splash of white. These saturated colours, alongside painterly application, deliver a sense of depth, perception and exploration as we begin our journey through this new, warm and inviting wilderness, with our companion: artist Mary Tonkin.

For her latest body of work, Tonkin has returned to her family farm at Kalorama in the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne sowed with cultivated flowers, rare bulbs and perennials, and surrounded by national parkland. ‘It enfolds me,’ says the artist of what she affectionately terms as ‘her gully’, where she has been working periodically amidst the open landscape and in her studio for at least 15 years. ‘I’ve been playing with this idea of making a very long work for about ten years now; a piece that reflects time spent moving through a place, being with it,’ says Tonkin.

The result, Ramble, Kalorama (2017-19) composed of 21 panels, stretching almost 19 metres across the walls of Australian Galleries, Melbourne in an exhibition titled, ‘Ramble’ – alongside a charcoal drawing of similar scale and a handful of smaller paintings.

Tonkin primarily completes her work en plein air, capturing the forest environment – a living organism, constantly changing, and frequently challenging. As the seasons change, so do the colours of the leaves on deciduous trees, flowers wilt and die, plants grow, and branches, barks, logs and bristles litter the once clear forest bed, covered by a resilient layer of moss; altered further by the temporal daily light.

‘Ramble, Kalorama is the culmination of more than ten years of drawing and painting around the problem of how to make a work that conveys the immersive and somewhat episodic experience 32

Wayan Kun Adnyana Santarupa

Thienny Lee Gallery 25 July to 13 August, 2019 Sydney

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Octopus 19: Ventriloquy Gertrude Contemporary Until 20 July, 2019 Melbourne

The narrative paintings of Balinese artist Wayan Kun Adnyana take inspiration from the Yeh Pulu relief carvings, a set of primeval images found on a sacred river-bank in central Bali, bringing an ancient mode of storytelling and visual cues into a contemporary context. To date the artist has engaged with the art history of Bali and these paintings aim to share this knowledge on a global stage ‘my work attempts to connect with common people of multiple narration in our modern world,’ says Kun Adnyana.

Ventriloquy is the art of projecting voice to create the playful illusion that the sound originates from another source, figure or place. Through inquiry into this unique form of storytelling curator Joel Stern delivers ‘Ventriloquy’, a group display of works exploring body, voice and identity by Australian and international artists and is presented as part of Gertrude Contemporary’s ‘Octopus’ series, an annual curatorial project and platform for new forms of exhibition making.

The Treasure of Archipelago, ink and acrylic on canvas, 80 x 80cm Courtesy the artist and Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney

Simon Zoric, Self Portrait / Self Portrait (incognito) Courtesy the artist and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

FEM-aFFINITY Arts Project Australia Until 20 July, 2019 Melbourne ‘FEM-aFFINITY’ explores womanhood through the eyes of Arts Project studio artists alongside other Victorian-based contemporary female artists with an exhibition revealing varied perspectives of female identity.

Through interdisciplinary approaches, feminist methodologies and looking at artwork as a complex and nuanced way of thinking about embodied knowledge, we see how feminism materialises in distinctive and uncanny ways.

Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscape UNSW Galleries Until 7 September, 2019 Sydney

How do we see, feel and represent the land?

Artists respond by being in commune with the earth, experiencing it from a zoomed out perspective be that in Google maps or on an intellectual or spiritual plane, as well as through First Nations’ intergenerational relationships to Country. When thinking about the materiality and aesthetic of the Australian landscape we are introduced to inextricable issues such as land rights and environmental degradation. A group show curated by Ellie Buttrose.

Artists: Helga Groves, Wendy Dawson, Yvette Coppersmith, Lisa Reid, Prudence Flint, Cathy Staughton, Jane Trengove, Fulli Andrinopoulos, Heather Shimmen, Bronwyn Hack, Jill Orr, Janelle Low and Eden Menta.

Prudence Flint, Shower #2, 2017, oil on linen, 122 x 102cm Courtesy the artist and Arts Project Australia, Melbourne

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Nicholas Mangan, Termite Economies (detail), 2018, 3D printed plaster, dirt, synthetic polymer paint, plywood, painted mild steel, fluorescent bay lights, archival and recorded footage, monitors, four channel surround sound of termite warning signals Photograph: Andrew Curtis Courtesy the artist, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne and UNSW Galleries, Sydney

Kate Dorrough

Bill Henson

The Lyrical River

The Light Fades But The Gods Remain

Kate Dorrough has created new works in response to the ecological and spiritual importance of the Manning River. In this process she has extended the boundaries of her practice using new mediums such as combining concrete-based sculpture with ceramic forms overlaid with video projections and textile made from fabric and paper.

Installed amongst four rooms and a corridor the pieces are an ode to the natural site which itself is comprised of a unique double delta system, islands, tributaries, catchment areas and two entrances.

New photographic works exploring the suburb of Glen Waverley where artist Bill Henson grew up celebrate the gallery’s 25th anniversary.

They will be shown alongside a prior suburban series Untitled (1985-86). As the artist shared, the uniqueness of the project lies in ‘the possibility of photographing the landscape of memory and in so doing return to the ‘lost domain’ of childhood seemed both beguiling and yet so unlikely.’

Painting: Running River, 2019, acrylic on linen, 152 x 168cm Sculptures; Landforms and rocks, 2019, cement, foam, ceramic shards, shells, left to right 93 x 58 x 57cm, 30 x 34 x 32cm, 72 x 97 x 63cm, 42 x 36 x 30cm Courtesy the artist and Manning Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales

Untitled 73, 1985-86, from the series ‘Untitled 1985–86’, chromogenic print, 106 x 86cm Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection Courtesy the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Manning Regional Art Gallery 25 July to 1 September, 2019 New South Wales

Monash Gallery of Art 27 July to 29 September, 2019 Melbourne

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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!

Taiwan – Australia Indigenous Artist in Residence

A unique cultural exchange is set to take place between two First Nations arts practitioners as part of a new collaboration between Artback NT, Alice Springs and the Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Centre, Taiwan. Janet Kalidjan Marawarr and Aulu Tjibulangan are the recipients of the 2019 Taiwan – Australia Indigenous Artist in Residence program. The artists will cross borders to undertake a six-week residency in the other’s country to further develop their artistic practices, they will draw upon new knowledge and ideas gained through interaction with the art forms and cultural customs practiced in these destinations and will each create a new body of work.

Dancer and choreographer Aulu Tjibulangan performing Courtesy the artist and ArtbackNT, Northern Territory

Tjibulangan is a Paiwan dancer and choreographer interested in learning about the Sun, Earth and birdlife that is imbued within Aboriginal Lore. During his residency Tjibulangan will aim to bring traditional and modern ideas together through dance, movement and environmental theatre, and will be in Darwin, Northern Territory from August.

‘The exchange aims to promote Indigenous cultures and histories within Australia and Taiwan and provide audiences with contemporary representations of First Nations perspectives through the arts,’ says Louise Partos, Artback NT Executive Officer. artbacknt.com.au

ArtGeminiPrize

Entries close 1 August 2019 The ArtGeminiPrize is a global contemporary art award calling for works in painting, photography and sculpture by emerging and established artists from across the world to be in the running for $30,000 (US) in cash prizes which include First Prize $15,000, Second Prize $7,000 and the Young Artist Prize (up to 30 years) $3,000 and an exhibition at the Fullerton Hotel Singapore in November 2019.

Entrants must be over the age of 18 years. artgeminiprize.com

Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

Janet Kalidjan Marawarr, Rock Country story, lino print, 2019 Courtesy the artist and ArtbackNT, Northern Territory

Marawarr from Maningrida in the Northern Territory is a textile design artist and bark painter who also performs cultural song and dance. She uses the methods of linocut and screen printing to weave together narratives of cultural, spiritual and environmental significance. Marawarr will be in Rinari, Taiwan from October.

Entries open July 1 to 4 September 2019 This annual art prize invites artists to submit works across a variety of mediums and categories. With a total of $38,000 in prize money on offer, the Open section is acquisitive to the Campbelltown City Council collection and is valued at $25,000. Other categories are: Contemporary, Traditional, Sculpture, Photography, Primary Students and Secondary Students. The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award coincides with Campbelltown’s annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost, which celebrates Australia’s most famous ghost – Frederick Fisher. The exhibition of finalists will be on view from 26 October until 5 December at Campbelltown Arts Centre. c-a-c.com.au

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Brunswick Northcote Arts Project Australia

24 High Street, Northcote 3070. T (03) 9482-4484 F 9482-1852. E info@artsproject.org.au W www.artsproject.org.au H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 5.00. To July 20 FEM-aFFINITY – Helga Groves, Wendy Dawson, Yvette Coppersmith, Lisa Reid, Prudence Flint, Cathy Staughton, Jane Trengove, Fulli Andrinopoulos, Heather Shimmen, Bronwyn Hack, Jill Orr, Janelle Low and Eden Menta.

Blackman, Noel Counihan, Julian Di Martino, Gabrielle de Vietri, Rennie Ellis, Helga Groves, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Joy Hester, Deanna Hitti, Kirsten Lyttle, Jordan Marani, Jill Orr, Louise Paramour, Wolfgang Sievers, Shaun Tan, Stephanie Valentin, Stephen Wickham and James Wigley.

Islamic Museum of Australia 15A Anderson Road, Thornbury 3071.

T 1300-915-171. W islamicmuseum.org.au H Mon-Sat 10.00 to 4.00.

Langford120 and Langford Consulting

PO Box 88, Brunswick South 3055.

E Langford120@gmail.com W www.langford120.com.au Directors: Irene Barberis (0433-138-058) and Wilma Tabacco (0417-517822). Upcoming projects will be listed as they arise.

Tinning Street Presents

Lot 5/29 Tinning Street, Brunswick 3056.

E tinningstreet@gmail.com W tinningstreetpresents.com H Thurs-Sun 11.00 to 5.00. July 25 to Aug 11 Untethered by Marina Mason. Also, Storyboards by RRAA. July 4 to 21 Kimspired by Tyler Payne. Also, In Some Way by Nicki Brancatisano.

Richmond Charles Nodrum Gallery

Bronwyn Hack, Prom, 2015, ink on paper, 38 x 28cm Courtesy the artist and Arts Project Australia

Counihan Gallery In Brunswick 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick 3056. T (03) 93898622. E counihangallery@moreland.vic.gov.au W www.moreland.vic.gov.au/counihan-gallery Curator: Victor Griss. Free entry. H Gallery: Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00, Sun 1.00 to 5.00. To July 7 Gallery 1 & 2: Fantastic Worlds – Graeme Base, Lance Belchin, Leigh Hobbs, Elise Hurst, Alison Lester, Marc Martin, Cat Rabbit & Isobel Knowles (Soft Stories), Tai Snaith, Shaun Tan and Anna Walker.

Curated by Edwina Bartlem. 19 July to 18 August Gallery 1 & 2: Sights Unseen: Recent Acquisitions from the Moreland Art Collection – Charles

80 Melbourne

267 Church Street, Richmond 3121. T (03) 94270140. E gallery@charlesnodrumgallery.com.au W www.charlesnodrumgallery.com.au Director: Charles Nodrum (member of ACGA). H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 6.00. July 13 to Aug 3 The Studio a group show presented by Sadie Chandler and Richard Dunn with works by themselves, Helen Maudsley, Dale Hickey, Jan Murray and Mark Galea. Also, The Backroom a group show of works selected from the gallery stockroom.

Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Inc.

CAS Inc. PO Box 283, Richmond 3121.

T (03) 9428-0568, 0407-059-194.

E mail@contemporaryartsociety.org.au W www.contemporaryartsociety.org.au A non-profit art society run by artists, for artists, established 1938.

To Aug 9 The Australian National Brooch Show 2019 at Fitzroy Library, 128 Moor Street, Fitzroy (see ad page 68). To Aug 22 Contemporary Showcase 25 at Decoy Café & Gallery, 303 Exhibition Street, Melbourne.

Niagara Galleries

245 Punt Road, Richmond 3121. T (03) 9429-3666.

E mail@niagaragalleries.com.au W www.niagaragalleries.com.au Director: William Nuttall (member of ACGA). H Tues-Fri 11.00 to 6.00, Sat 12.00 to 5.00 or by appt. July 2 to 27 Julie Dowling. Also, Sometimes for some reason by Mary Barton. Also showing in our stockroom: Rick Amor, Glenn Barkley, Terry Batt, Stephen Benwell, Tony Bevan (UK), Paul Boston, Angela Brennan, Robert Bridgewater, Gunter Christmann, Julia Ciccarone, Brenda L. Croft, Harry Dixon Mptyane, Riley Dixon, Julie Dowling, Fiona Foley, Star Gossage (NZ), Michelle Grabner (US), Malaluba Gumana, Rubaba Haider, Euan Heng, Dale Hickey, Dianne Jones, Jennifer Joseph, David Keeling, Yvonne Kendall, Richard Larter, Kevin Lincoln, Song Ling, Travis MacDonald, Euan Macleod, Helen Maudsley, Noel McKenna, Sean Meilak, Samuel Namunjdja, Lena Nyadbi, Martin Parr (UK), Angelina Pwerle, Hu Qinwu (CN), Steven Rendall, Andreas Ruthi (CH), Jan Senbergs, Neil Taylor, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Wolpa Wanambi, Wukun Wanambi, Bradd Westmoreland, Ken Whisson, Helen Wright and Liu Zhuoquan (CN).

Women’s Art Register

Richmond Library, 415 Church Street, Richmond 3121. E womensartregister@gmail.com W www.womensartregister.org Member organisation with information on 5,000+ women artists.

Supported by the City of Yarra.

Yarra Sculpture Gallery (YSG) Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA)

117 Vere Street, Abbotsford 3067.

T (03) 9419-6177. E yarrasculpturegallery@gmail.com W yarrasculpturegallery.com.au H Thurs-Sun 11.00 to 4.00. To Aug 11 Winter Residency with participating artists – Josh Hook, Elizabeth West, Andrea Hughes and Sharon West. Open to the public only on Fridays, 11am to 3pm, during Winter residency.

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. To July 13 Gallery 1: Hootan Heydari: Your Afterprint Still Lingers. Gallery 2: Natalya Stern: The Complexities of Sympathy and Empathy. Gallery 3 and 4: Mat Vaughan: Errance. The Cupboard: Janice Gobey: Intervention.

Julie Dowling, Margundi (Tomorrow), 2018, acrylic and Mica gold on canvas, 40 x 30cm Courtesy the artist and Niagara Galleries

William Mora Galleries

60 Tanner Street, Richmond 3121. T (03) 94291199. E mora@moragalleries.com.au W www.moragalleries.com.au Director: William Mora.

H Wed-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, or by appt. July 18 to Aug 2 (opening Thurs July 18, 6-8pm) Dawyan by Mick Jawalji – Aboriginal art / Western Australia.

Hootan Heydari, your afterprint 3, 2018, plaster, 10 x 12cm Courtesy the artist and Alternating Current Art Space

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Paddington Woollahra Annette Larkin Fine Art

Suite 4, 8 Soudan Lane, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 9332-4614. E annette@annettelarkin.com W www.annettelarkin.com Director: Annette Larkin.

H Wed-Fri 11.00 to 5.00, Sat 12.00 to 5.00, or by appt. Deals in post-war and contemporary art and provides tailored advice in all aspects of purchasing, valuing and collection management. To July 27 WINTER 2019 an exhibition of contemporary Australian art.

Australian Galleries

15 Roylston Street, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 9360-5177 F 9360-2361.

E sydney@australiangalleries.com.au W www.australiangalleries.com.au Director: Stuart Purves AM. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00.

July 9 to 28 Formulas by Richard Goodwin.

Samuel Tupou, Live Forever, 2019, arcade machine sculpture: arcylic on perspex and board, original painted wall design Cement Fondu commission © Samuel Tupou Courtesy the artist and Cement Fondu

The Concetta Antico Gallery

13 Gurner Street, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 9358-4968. E look@barometer.net.au W www.barometer.net.au H Tues-Sun 12.00 to 5.00.

469 Oxford Street, Paddington 2021.

T 0476-134-901. E muse@concettaantico.com W www.concettaantico.com H Thurs-Sat 11.00 to 6.00, Sun 2.00 to 5.00, or by appt. Sat July 13, 6-10pm Visions of the Muse watch Tetrochromatic artist Concetta Antico paint live. See ad page 106.

Blender Gallery

Cooee Art Paddington

BAROMETER Gallery

16 Elizabeth Street, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 9380-7080. E info@blendergallery.com.au W blender.com.au www.facebook.com/BlenderGallery.

H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00, Tues by appt.

Cement Fondu

36 Gosbell Street, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 9331-7775. E hello@cementfondu.org W www.cementfondu.org H Thurs-Sun 11.00 to 5.00. To July 21 Here is our Horizon, curated by Talia Smith.

122 Sydney

326 Oxford Street, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 8057-6789. E info@cooeeart.com.au W www.cooeeart.com.au Director: Adrian Newstead.

H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 6.00, Sun-Mon 10.00 to 3.00.

Australia’s oldest Indigenous art gallery. July 4 to 27 (opening Thurs July 4, 6-8pm) Mum – Black Saint of Redfern.

Defiance Gallery at Mary Place

12 Mary Place, Paddington 2021.

T (02) 9557-8483. E lauren@defiancegallery.com W www.defiancegallery.com Directors: Campbell Robertson-Swann & Lauren Harvey. H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00. July 3 to 25 Mask, Music and Studio

by Peter Godwin.

Civic Inner North

Craft ACT Craft + Design Centre

ANCA Gallery

Nancy Sever Gallery

1 Rosevear Place, Dickson 2602. T (02) 6247-8736.

E gallery@anca.net.au W www.anca.net.au H Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. July 3 to 14 (opening Wed July 3, 6pm) Adam’s Ale by David Lindesay.

July 17 to Aug 4 (opening Wed July 17, 6pm) Art Show by Kael Stace.

Level 1, North Building, 180 London Circuit, Canberra 2601. T (02) 6262-9333.

E craftact@craftact.org.au W www.craftact.org.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 12.00 to 4.00.

Gorman Arts Centre, B Hall, cnr Batman and Currong streets, Braddon 2604. T (02) 6182-0055.

E nancy.sever@iinet.net.au W www. nancysevergallery.com.au H Wed-Sun 11.00 to 5.00.

Acton ANU Drill Hall Gallery

Kingsley Street (off Barry Drive), Acton 2601.

T (02) 6125-5832. E dhg@anu.edu.au W dhg.anu.edu.au Director: Terence Maloon.

Free admission. H Wed-Sun 10.00 to 5.00.

To Aug 11 Ildiko Kovacs: The DNA of colour.

ANU School of Art & Design Gallery

Kael Stasce, Triangle metal road sign, 2016, 80 x 100 x 3cm Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery

Cnr Ellery Cres and Liversidge Street, Acton 2601.

T (02) 6125-5841. E sofagallery@anu.edu.au W soad.cass.anu.edu.au/gallery H During Main Gallery exhibitions Tues-Fri 10.30 to 5.00, closed Sat-Mon and public hols. To July 26 Promised the Moon. The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on 21 July 2019 AEST is an opportunity to reflect on the ACT’s unique space heritage.

Lift-off with panel discussion: Thurs June 27, 6pm. promisedthemoon.net.au

Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman Arts Centre

55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon 2612.

T (02) 6247-0188. E info@ccas.com.au W www.ccas.com.au H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 5.00.

To July 27 Unfinished Business – Peter Alwast, Nigel Lendon, Rebecca Mayo and Lendon/Beer.

Canberra Museum and Gallery

Cnr London Circuit and Civic Square, Canberra City 2600. T (02) 6207-3968. W www.cmag.com.au H Mon-Sat 10.00 to 5.00.

Bec Bigg-Wither, How Do You Read Me Through Honeysuckle Now? (detail), 2019, inkjet prints, 30.5 x 532.5cm Courtesy the artist and ANU School of Art & Design

Nishi Gallery

17 Kendall Lane, Canberra 2601. T (02) 6287-6170.

E hello@nishigallery.com.au W nishigallery.com.au @nishigallery. H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 6.30.

To July 27 Polar Convergence by Rohan Hutchinson and Philip Samartzis.

140 Australian Capital Territory

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Adelaide ACE Open

Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Kaurna Yarta 5000. T (08) 8211-7505.

E admin@aceopen.art W www.aceopen.art Free admission. H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 4.00. Australia’s leading organisation for contemporary visual art and artists. To July 20 Daydreamer Wolf by Elyas Alavi.

How is it possible to understand the trails and realities of the refugee experience? In this cross-disciplinary exhibition, artist and award-winning poet, Elyas Alavi, documents his experiences through personal, playful and mythological lenses. Evoking issues of identity, memory, migration and displacement, he offers a deeper understanding of his trials as a Hazara refugee, artist and migrant to Australia.

Adelaide Central Gallery

7 Mulberry Road, Glenside 5065. T (08) 8299-7300.

E info@acsa.sa.edu.au W www.acsa.sa.edu.au H Mon-Tues and Thurs-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Wed 9.00 to 6.45. After hours by appt. To July 19 Unique State – Susanna Castleden, Ben Forster, Min Wong, Union St Printmakers, Stone & Quoin Studio and #6Manton. July 30 to Aug 30 Other Homes and Gardens by Nicholas Folland.

Susanna Castleden, 1:1 Wing Tip CRJ, 2015, frottage on paper maps, 282 x 151.5cm Photograph: Acorn Photography Courtesy the artist and Adelaide Central Gallery

Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art University of South Australia

55 North Terrace, Adelaide 5000. T (08) 8302-0870.

E samstagmuseum@unisa.edu.au W www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum Free admission, all welcome. H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, closed public hols and during exhibition changeover.

Art Gallery of South Australia

North Terrace, Adelaide 5000. T (08) 8207-7000.

W www.artgallery.sa.gov.au Free entry. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Guided tours daily at 11.00 and 2.00.

To Aug 25 Ramsay Art Prize 2019. Held every two years, the $100,000 acquisitive Ramsay Art Prize invites submissions from Australian artists under 40 working in any medium. Finalists’ works are exhibited in a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Ramsay Art Prize finalist exhibition includes a non-acquisitive People’s Choice Prize, supported by sponsor Lipman Karas. July 6 to Sept 8 William Kentridge: That which we do not remember.

Described as one of the most powerful voices in art today, William Kentridge emerged as an artist during the apartheid regime in South Africa. The exhibition traces the arc of Kentridge’s 30-year career and draws connections between the myriad aspects of his work including drawing, collage, stop-motion animation, performance, theatre, tapestry and sculpture.

William Kentridge, The Hope in the Charcoal Cloud, 2014, Johannesburg, charcoal, coloured pencil, Indian ink, digital print, and watercolour on pages of Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 160 x 120cm Collection of Naomi Milgrom AO Photograph: Christian Capurro © William Kentridge Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of South Australia

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