Art Almanac August 2017 $6
Tom Polo SannĂŠ Mestrom Milingimbi: A Living Culture
Art Almanac August 2017
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‘Good art’ does not necessarily provide an answer but can be a channel for experience. Tom Polo, Heidi Yardley, the group on show in Tolarno’s 50th anniversary exhibition and the work of Milingimbi artists all transport us with their unique essence and openness. Sanné Mestrom adds to this current with sculptures described as ‘a tool for public good, rather than rarefied contemplation’, prioritising that which is integrated, inclusive and interactive.
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Cover Tom Polo, Emotional Patrol (The Trial), 2017 acrylic and Flashe on canvas, 180 x 140cm Photograph: Andrew Haining Courtesy the artist and STATION, Melbourne
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Dark Horizons: Fear of an Imagined threat Fear is an all-powerful emotion with the ability to influence our thoughts and actions. MuslimAustralian artists present solo exhibitions at Patāka Art Gallery and Museum in Wellington, New Zealand from 27 August 2017 to 21 January 2018. Abdul-Rahman Abdullah’s sculptural work fills a room with ornate glass chandeliers that, through a haze of refracted light reveal a pack of wild black dogs. Khaled Sabsabi’s six channel video installation ‘We Kill You’, suspended from the gallery ceiling, takes a hard look at the effects of war on people. Abdul Abdullah will show paintings and embroidered fabric works, portraits of returned Australian military personnel. Together the artists explore oppression and the power of real and imagined threats. pataka.org.nz Khaled Sabsabi, We Kill You (installation detail), 2016 Courtesy the artist and Pataka Art Museum, New Zealand
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SALA Festival Celebrating its 20th year, the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival features a record 6,282 artists in 660 exhibitions at 560 venues across metropolitan and regional areas through August. Highlights include: the SALA Parlour, a funky converted shipping container on the South Australian Museum lawns; celebrity portrait sessions as part of the Royal South Australian Society of Art Third Biennial Portrait Prize; art dinner experiences, artist residencies, art tours and Art After Dark. SALA Forum Day at ACE Open on 19 August from 11-4pm presents discussion and debate led by artists, concerning the value of visual arts, now and in the future, and from 25 August FRAN Fest pays tribute to 40 years of women’s artistic achievement. salafestival.com Jane Skeer, Flyers, 2017, paper, stainless steel wire Courtesy the artist
Byron Writers Festival Byron Writers Festival, 4 to 6 August invites writers, journalists, songwriters and artists to come together to share their ideas. Events include public talks, satellite exhibitions and workshops. ‘The Image Unbound’ showcases Artist Books at Lone Goat Gallery until 9 August. Joshua Yeldham has two shows, ‘Endurance’ and ‘Surrender’ at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre. In Mullumbimby, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, workshops the ‘A to Z of Gond Art’ at Byron School of Arts on 3 August, and on 6 August at 6pm the Courthouse Hotel hosts ‘Art in the Pub’ with Sebastian Smee, art critic and author of ‘The Art of Rivalry’ discussing the relationship between artists Lucian Freud and Frances Bacon. byronwritersfestival.com 24
Byron Writers Festival flags Photograph: Louise Griffin
NOHARDATTACK: Lane Cormick Edited by Daine Singer Design: Daisy Watkins-Harvey VERSION
Daine Singer introduces artist Lane Cormick warmly in ‘NOHARDATTACK’, praising his endearing nature and unique approach to art making. Cormick is influenced by industrial aesthetics, music, culture and life. Singer says, “Lane’s work achieves the tricky feat of being intensely personal and suburban, whilst avoiding nationalism and identity.” Contributions include essays and images by writers, artists and photographers including Masato Takasaka, Vanilla Sigaartje, Lisa Radford, Paul Philipson, Tony Garifilakis, Cath Martin and others presenting conversations regarding Cormick, and his practice. A limited edition of 100 copies, each with a handmade screen-printed cover has been published.
Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art Melissa Loughnan Thames & Hudson
Thematic chapters divide ‘Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art’. The title is a misnomer as it is a guide that reflects the author’s role as a gallerist in Melbourne in the ‘noughties’. That being said the book forecasts popular and emerging practices in an engaging fashion, with subjects such as Environment, Geometry, Kitsch, Love, Religion, Sport, and Xerox. Among the 78 emerging and established, yet under-represented artists, readers will find Abdul Abdullah, Rebecca Baumann, Zoë Croggon, Eric Demetriou, Minna Gilligan, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Jess Johnson, Nell and Paul Yore.
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Heidi Yardley The Sinking Belle Carrie McCarthy
There is something ill-defined and unsettling about the women who feature throughout Heidi Yardley’s oeuvre. Begun as collages which then act as source material for larger paintings and drawings, each figure is a multilayered hybrid of iconic 20th century imagery, antediluvian mythology, cultural taboos and subconscious emotion, fragmented and rearranged to find confluences between seemingly disparate subjects. Elusive and otherworldly, their faceless beauty simultaneously evokes fear and intrigue in the viewer. Inherent to the success of Yardley’s esoteric compositions is the way narrative and art historical approaches blend together. Dadaist pastiche, Modernist photography, and Symbolist chiaroscuro merge with subjects both political and prosaic, including abstract psychological states, Paganism and the ongoing subjugation of women. Rendered almost photorealistic in oil paint and charcoal, she makes credible her implausible scenarios with a masterful command of traditional techniques and intuitive thought. Vaguely neo-Gothic, but with a vulnerability at odds with the horror of true Goth, the artist’s works biographise the female experience both personal and collective. As powerful depictions of sensuality and empowerment, they confound as they flit between naive sensuality and dangerous eroticism. It’s David Lynch does Succubus, with a nostalgic nod to 1970s soft porn. Yet where Lynchian depictions of sexually precocious women exaggerate the grotesque, Yardley’s vamps are a patchwork of tender private moments and blatant public performance. Channelling the languorous sexuality of Australian New Wave cinema, they’re coquettish rather than transgressive, feigning modesty with turned torsos and delicately draped fabrics. Now, in a new suite of works ‘The Sinking Belle’, Yardley lets that naivety give way to darker realities. The women of ‘The Sinking Belle’ offer a view of femaleness that is detached from external scrutiny. For the artist, these women are ‘private warriors, survivors of an interior jungle’, each one having worn a heavy path through their emotions and experiences. Where earlier contemplations might have manifested as inexperienced ‘Lolitas’, here Yardley presents female figures hardened to the male gaze. Embellished with animal motifs and body markings, they are less femme fatale than they are stately, a resemblance that is heightened by the inclusion 40
Milingimbi: A Living Culture Melissa Pesa
Traditionally, bark paintings were transient objects produced for instructional and ceremonial purposes, illustrating cultural mythologies and implementing rites of passage. These cortexes of ancestral knowledge are now canvases for contemporary Indigenous art, blending sacred geometric forms with modern abstract design, also found in other art forms such as fibre works, ceremonial poles and carvings. This month, the Berndt Museum at the University of Western Australia presents ‘Milingimbi: A Living Culture’ at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Subiaco. The exhibition comprises Indigenous artworks from Milingimbi Island, off the north-east coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory – derived from the Berndt Collection and the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, with the support of the Milingimbi Art and Cultural Centre, a community-run centre with an extensive history of producing works rooted in Yolŋu culture. The first Methodist missionaries arrived in Milingimbi in the 1920s. They encouraged artists to use their creative skills in the art and craft field as a commercial activity, but it was not until the 1960s that it would become a major market, and acquisition for national and international collections. Missionaries such as Reverend Ted Webb supported the purchase of many of the barks on show, with reference to the receipts held in the Berndt archives. ‘Milingimbi’ was conceptualised after the significant event ‘Makarrata: Bringing the Past into the Future’, held in August 2016 at Milingimbi Island. With representations 43
Sanné Mestrom Corrections Eleanor Zeichner
Sanné Mestrom’s sculptural practice revisits and recasts icons of art history, disrupting the viewer’s memory with surprising critiques and interventions. Previous series directly reference specific historical works, such as Black Paintings (2014) which reinterpreted the minimalist paintings of Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt as thickly woven tapestries stretched over steel frames, or The Internal Logic (2013) which saw Mestrom bring Matisse’s painting Green Stripe (1905) into three dimensions as a semi-abstract sculpture in marble, steel and timber found objects. In her upcoming solo exhibition at Sullivan+Strumpf, she expands her focus to a subject matter that preoccupies the history of sculpture: the female nude. “I love seeing such traditional subject matter be reinvented again and again and again – much like a cover song – often a cover can be better than the original, despite what is ‘lost’ in the process,” Mestrom states. Titled ‘Corrections’, the body of work explores the dense and storied history of the female nude by considering the changeable physicality of the female body. As she explains, “The body is an ever-present, always-changing thing that contains us, and to a large extent 47
Another Green World: The Landscape of the 21st Century Western Plains Cultural Centre 26 August to 3 December, 2017 New South Wales
Christian Fletcher Mid West
Linton & Kay Galleries Subiaco 26 August to 17 September, 2017 Western Australia
Landscape is a subject that holds aesthetic and intellectual gravitas across the arts. This selection of paintings, photography and video from artists Kylie Banyard, Erin Coates, Megan Cope, Ashleigh Garwood, Siân McIntyre, Perdita Phillips, Lynn Roberts Goodwin and Caroline Rothwell considers how our environments and our reasoning of them shapes us. Curator Andrew Frost seeks an Australian perspective, asking about the hidden, obscured, darker corners of our landscapes and ourselves, as well as how we include these in the ‘Australian narrative’.
Christian Fletcher’s photographs for this show depict the Midwestern landscapes of the United States. Energised by the work of American photographer Stephen Shore in the 1975 exhibition ‘New Topographics’, Fletcher says, “what we so often overlook, to understand that the banal is extremely interesting when viewed in a different light. I wanted to explore the small wheat belt towns we unseeingly speed through, to challenge myself to create exceptional minimalist images from very little.”
Megan Cope, Boon Wurrung, 2014, synthetic polymer paint and India ink on canvas Courtesy the artist, THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery and Western Plains Cultural Centre, New South Wales
Water Tanks and Windmill, 2017, pigment print on archival fine art paper, 110 x 111.25cm Courtesy the artist and Linton & Kay Galleries Subiaco, Western Australia
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Shades of Grey Tacit Galleries 17 August to 24 September, 2017 Melbourne
Resolution: New Indigenous photomedia Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) 26 August to 29 October, 2017 Victoria
‘Shades of Grey’ presents work that falls within non-objective and abstract parameters. Paintings, drawings and installations create areas of calm and spaciousness, allowing the viewer to submit to a silent, reflective pause rather than react. Many artists carry out repetitive or gradual actions with form and line relating to music, syncopation, a mapping or charting of time, space and place. Others take thought as their subject, exploring and employing notions of consciousness and transcendence.
‘Resolution’ presents important works produced by leading and emerging Indigenous artists working with photography and new media in Australia tackling the challenging, hybrid nature of contemporary society. Artists include; Michael Aird, Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Ali G. Baker, Daniel Boyd, Megan Cope, Brenda L. Croft, Nici Cumpston, Robert Fielding, Nicole Foreshew, Ricky Maynard, Danie Mellor, Steaphan Paton, Damien Shen, Darren Siwes, Christian Thompson, Warwick Thornton, James Tylor and Jason Wing.
Magda Cebokli, Curved Space #4, 2014, synthetic polymer on paper, 30cm diameter Courtesy the artist and Tacit Galleries, Melbourne
Ali G. Baker, Bound / Unbound Sovereign Acts II Simone Ulalka Tur, 2015, pigment inkjet print National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 2016
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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! Lloyd Rees Art Prize Announcement
Philip Wolfhagen is the winner of the $20,000 Lloyd Rees Art Prize for 2017 with his painting Transitory Light (2017). This is an acquisitive prize awarded to the work that best reflects the ‘light in the land’, and is presented in recognition of the winning artist’s contribution to Australian landscape painting. Tasmanian-born Wolfhagen’s art practice is inspired by Tasmanian landscapes – the light within it and the weather. The Highly Commended award winners are artists Richard Crossland, Jerzy Michalski, Hamish McBride and Garry Currin. And in the Watercolour category first prize goes to Barnaby Smith for Mt Direction I, II, III, and Highly Commended to Christina Kerkvliet Goddard.
The Shirl National Youth Portrait Prize
Entries close 8 September, 2017 The ‘Shirl’ is a $10,000 acquisitive biannual prize specifically offered to young and emerging artists between the ages 16 to 25. HSC students, tertiary students and practicing emerging artists are invited to enter. Entries in any 2D traditional medium, digital new media, animation, or gif, completed within the last 12 months are accepted. shirleyhannan.com
Portia Geach Memorial Award
Entries close 8 September, 2017 The Portia Geach Memorial Award is a prize for portraiture by women artists, and was established by the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. This non-acquisitive award of $30,000, is for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences by any female artist resident in Australia during the 12 months preceding the close date for entries. shervingallery.com.au
The Women’s Gallery Inc. Archives project 2017
Artists, performers and supporters of The Women’s Gallery are being called to get involved with the Archive Project. This program involves sorting, collating, archiving and storing of invitations, catalogues, posters, reviews, artist statements, photos, slides, media material, gallery diaries and all other papers and articles created in relation to the artists, exhibitions, performances and concerts that took place during its operations from 1988-95, including preparing material to be made available digitally and on the web. The publication of an art book will record and celebrate the achievements of the women involved in the Women’s Gallery from 1987-1996. See ad page 105. thewomensgallery.com.au
International opportunities for performing arts practitioners
Philip Wolfhagen, Transitory Light, 2017, oil and beeswax on linen, 57 x 46cm Winner 2017 Lloyd Rees Art Prize Courtesy the artist and Lloyd Rees Art Prize
EOI’s close 15 August, 2017 The Australia Council for the Arts is supporting practitioners to attend key market opportunities for the performing arts in North Asia, Europe and North America in 2017 and 2018. International opportunities include: IETM Autumn Plenary, Brussels, Belgium 23 to 26 November. International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY), Philadelphia, USA, 24 to 27 January 2018. New York in January, New York, USA 1 to 31 January 2018. TPAM: Yokohama, Japan 10 to 18 February 2018. australiacouncil.gov.au
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Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Level 8, Room 16, 37 Swanston Street (cnr Flinders Lane), Melbourne 3000. T 0407-317-323. W www.stephenmclaughlangallery.com.au Director: Stephen McLaughlan. H Wed-Fri 1.00 to 5.00, Sat 11.00 to 5.00 or by appt. Aug 2 to 19 Fossil – a slow acting violence, curated by Felicity Spear. Aug 23 to Sept 9 Close to here, curated by Cara Johnson. Zac Koukoravas, Peak, 2017, acrylic paint on acrylic panel, 124 x 244cm Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9662-9966. E briar@fortyfivedownstairs.com W www.fortyfivedownstairs.com H Tues-Fri 11.00 to 5.00, Sat 12.00 to 4.00. To Aug 5 Art, Life, Love, Death, Immortality, and a Respectable Haircut… painting and mixed media by Rehgan De Mather, and Imaging the Filmic Gloriana/The Mask of Elizabeth painting by Janita Ryan. Aug 8 to 19, 45 at 45 – a mixed media group exhibition. Also, Happy Hour linocuts and engravings by David Frazer. Aug 22 to Sept 2 Convenire – Rhonda Baum, Michael Sibel and Jamieson Miller – photography, works on paper and sculpture. Also, The Trees Are Falling Into The Sea And Other Stories: Part Two watercolour painting by Rosie Weiss (see ad page 85).
David Frazer, Happy Hour II, 2017, linocut, 39 x 25cm Courtesy the artist and fortyfivedownstairs
Southbank Sth Melbourne Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
111 Sturt Street, Southbank 3006. T (03) 9697-9999. W www.accaonline.org.au Free admission. H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 12.00 to 5.00, Mon by appt. To Sept 17 Greater Together – presents eight artist projects that complicate individual notions of authorship to focus on ideas of collaboration and cooperation as a means of agency and solidarity, in a complex and changing world. While acknowledging the inherent challenges of working together, and the often-utopian ideals of collectivity, the exhibition explores various models of artistic collaboration (from conscious, pragmatic decisions to divide skills and labour; to the natural result of long-term friendships, romantic partnerships or family ties) to consider broader ideas of community, communication and cooperation – both in the discipline of art and in the wider, global, networked world. Artists: Bik Van der Pol, Clark Beaumont, Courtney Coombs & Antoinette J. Citizen, Céline Condorelli, Field Theory, Goldin+Senneby, C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska and Patrick Staff. A ninth project, WORK/SHOP, engages four artist practitioners and collaborators who have developed conceptual retail projects for the ACCA bookshop as a physical and metaphorical extension of the exhibition. Artists: Debris Facility, Get To Work, OK YEAH COOL GREAT and Paradise Structures.
C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska, Halka/Haiti 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W 2015 (still), multi-channel video projection Directors of Photography: Barbara Kaja Kaniewska, Mateusz Golis Courtesy the artists and The Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
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Armadale Malvern Artbank
845 High Street, Armadale 3143. T (03) 9500-2119. W www.artbank.gov.au A Commonwealth Government art leasing program for contemporary art. Supporting Australian artists.
Duldig Studio museum + sculpture garden
Ten Cubed
1489 Malvern Road, Glen Iris 3146. T (03) 9822-0833. E info@tencubed.com.au W www.tencubed.com.au . H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 4.00. A private collection of contemporary art, open to the general public. Aug 1 to Sept 30 David Rosetzky. Ten Cubed is excited to announce we will be reopening for the second half of the year with David Rosetzky. His second exhibition with Ten Cubed will feature an in-depth look at his photography. Alongside a selection of Rosetzky’s works from the Ten Cubed collection, this exhibition includes a new series of black and white photographs which combine unexpected layers of imagery as a way to explore themes of identity, memory and the self.
92 Burke Road, East Malvern 3145. T (03) 9885-3358. E enquiries@duldig.org.au W www.duldig.org.au H Tues, Thurs and second Sat of every month 1.00 to 3.00, or groups by appt. SLAWA: modernist art and design. Art, invention and reinvention – discover the world of a Viennese modernist in Melbourne.
Firestation Print Studio Gallery
(map ref Melway 59 A8) 2 Willis Street, Armadale 3143. T (03) 9509-1782. E fire@fps.org.au W www.fps.org.au H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00. Aug 9 to 26 Leafy Greens by Sue Top. Aug 30 to Sept 30 Afterlife: images and poetry by Gita Mammen.
MAS Gallery
David Rosetzky, Kazim with Lilies, 2017, gelatin silver prints Courtesy the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
1297-1299 High Street, Malvern 3144. T (03) 9822-7813. E malvart@optusnet.com.au W www.malvernartists.org.au H Daily 11.00 to 4.00 during exhibitions.
Hawthorn
Scott Livesey Galleries
Bird’s Gallery
909a High Street, Armadale 3143. T (03) 9824-7770. E info@scottliveseygalleries.com W www.scottliveseygalleries.com H Tues-Fri 11.00 to 5.30, Sat 11.00 to 4.00. To Aug 12 Winter Salon. Aug 16 to Sept 9 Emergence by Sonia Payes.
236 High Street, Kew 3101. T (03) 9855-0327. W www.birdsgallery.com.au H Wed and Sat 10.00 to 3.00, Thurs-Fri 10.00 to 5.00 or by appt. Aug 17 to 23 INKT group exhibition – Amanda Lugg, Fay Abromwich, Jeremy Boland, Pamela Dempster and Sophie Riviere-Verninas.
East & West Art
665 High Street, East Kew 3102. T (03) 9859-6277. E info@eastwestart.com.au W www.eastwestart.com.au Director: Marjorie Ho. H Mon-Fri 11.00 to 5.30, Sat 11.00 to 4.30. Specialists in Asian Fine Arts and Antiques. From Aug 17 Imagine Worlds – House of Memory – digital art on metal by Marguerite Swann.
Sonia Payes, Minerva in Gold, 2016, edition 1/3 , C-type print, metallic paper, 112 x 163cm Courtesy the artist and Scott Livesey Galleries
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Darwin Charles Darwin University Art Gallery
Ground Floor, Building Orange 12, Casuarina Campus, Darwin 0909. T (08) 8946-6621. W www.cdu.edu.au/artgallery H Wed-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00. Visit our website for programs and events. Aug 10 to Sept 30 Salon des Refusés.
response to the impact of development and mining in particular on their country. Part of Darwin Festival program. Screen Room and Gallery 2: Present Tense: Tennant Creek Men’s Centre Art – experimental painting and 2D works by participants in an art therapy program for Aboriginal men in Tennant Creek, run by Anyinginyi Health’s Piliyintinji-ki Stonger. Families Men’s Centre and facilitated by Melbourne/ NT-based artist Rupert Betheras.
Outstation Gallery
8 Parap Place, Parap, Darwin 0820. T (08) 8981-4822. W www.outstation.com.au Established in 2008, Outstation Gallery works directly with art centres in the presentation and promotion of Indigenous art from the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land, the Western Desert, the Kimberley and Central and South Australia. Aug 1 to 20 Black & White by Nawurapu Wunungmurra and Djirrirra Wunungmurra Yukuwa.
Tactile Arts Gallery Contemporary Craft Studios and Gallery
Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Milngurr, earth pigments on bark, 97 x 90cm Courtesy the artist and Charles Darwin University Art Gallery
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)
19 Conacher Street, The Gardens Darwin 0820. T (08) 8999-8264. E info@magnt.net.au W www.magnt.net.au Free entry. H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 10.00 to 5.00. To Aug 13 Hot! Highlights from the MAGNT art collection. To Aug 27 Undiscovered by Michael Cook. To Feb 18, 2018 Tjunguntja: from having come together. Aug 12 to Nov 26 (opening and awards ceremony Fri Aug 11, 6-10pm) Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (see ad page 3).
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)
Vimy Lane, Parap 0820. T (08) 8981-5368. W nccart.com.au Director: Maurice O’Riordan. H Wed-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 9.00 to 2.00 or by appt. Closed public hols. The Northern Centre for Contemporary Art delivers leading local, national and international contemporary art to Darwin. Aug 5 to 26 (opening Thurs Aug 10, 6pm) Gallery 1 & 2: Open Cut – Jacky Green, Therese Ritchie and Sean Kerins – photographic portraits by Therese Ritchie form the core of the exhibition, supported with paintings by Jacky Green. The works represent Garawa voices from Borroloola in the Gulf region of the NT in
19 Conacher Street (located in the grounds of the Museum and Art Gallery of NT), Fannie Bay 0810. T (08) 8981-6616. E admin@tactilearts.org.au W www.tactilearts.org.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat-Sun 10.00 to 4.00. Aug 11 to 26 Into the water – Indigenous fibre artists from the Maningrida region of the Northern Territory.
Alice Springs Artback NT Arts Development and Touring
67 Bath Street, Alice Springs 0871. T (08) 89535941. W www.artbacknt.com.au Artback NT is the Northern Territory’s arts development and touring agency. The visual arts program works with individuals, groups and arts-based organisations to present and tour dynamic and exciting visual arts exhibitions nationally and within the Northern Territory with a focus on the development and promotion of Northern Territory artists.
Watch This Space ARI
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, Sat 10.00 to 2.00 during exhibitions. Showcasing local, interstate and international emerging and established artists. Aug 4 to 19 (opening Fri Aug 4, 6pm) Searching For Dialogue by Susan Gourley. Artist talk: Sat Aug 5, 11.30am.
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