Art Almanac December 2018 – January 2019 $6
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Art Almanac December 2018 - January 2019
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In summer, we look back on the year that was and sow hope for the next. By chance this issue attracted artists who are storytellers; the varied practices enshrine or challenge what has passed but go on to imagine bright futures. The young artists in ‘Primavera’ reappraise histories from colonialisation to gender as do those included in the ninth ‘Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’, who are ‘vehemently transgressive and in search of the new’. Our cover artist Tai Snaith, included in the group show of leading Australian artists, ‘Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms’ and Toby Ziegler at the Museum of Old and New Art share a multivalent approach to narrative; using ceramics and podcasting to muse on the question ‘why make art?’ where as digital technology and an electrical sanding machine posit ‘what is art?’
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Tai Snaith, A world of her own, 2018, ceramic, ten pieces and audio Audio production: Bec Fary Courtesy the artist and Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
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Love & Desire The Pre-Raphaelite movement drew inspiration from history, literature and religion to create detailed, colourful compositions dense with symbolic meaning. From Shakespeare’s tragicromantic characters to Tennyson’s Arthurian maidens, and Victorian narratives of fallen women and moral conduct, their works combined medieval romanticism and modern life anchored to female beauty, sexual yearning and altered states of consciousness. The National Gallery of Australia presents ‘Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate’, exclusive to Canberra from 14 December to 28 April 2019. The exhibition includes some of Tate Britain’s most iconic paintings of the period, alongside 40 loans from British and Australian collections. Together they form an impressive survey of the 1848 movement: its themes, different styles, draughtsmanship and fondness for collaboration. nga.gov.au John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888, oil on canvas Tate collection presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894 © Tate Courtesy Tate Britain, United Kingdom and National Gallery of Australia, Australian Capital Territory
Sydney Festival Sydney Festival returns to transform the city with a diverse program of music, cabaret, circus, dance, theatre and visual art, as well as scheduled talks and workshops, from 9 to 27 January 2019. Experience site-specific soundscapes resonating from an enormous decommissioned military fuel tank hidden in Mosman, or get physical as you collectively cycle 384,400km in celebration of the first moon landing at World Square. Be confronted by socio-political issues in Jacob Nash’s large-scale outdoor sculpture dealing with the impact of colonialism; Ryan Presley’s reinvention of national currency as a celebration of Indigenous history, or Phuong Ngo’s ten-day durational performance inspired by immigration involving the folding of thousands of origami boats, and recorded interviews with Vietnamese refugees. sydneyfestival.org.au Phuong Ngo, Article 14.1 Photograph: Alex Clayton Courtesy the artist and Sydney Festival
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Peter Boggs: Transfigured Realities Sasha Grishin
Melbourne Books
The works of figurative painter Peter Boggs favour the silence of deserted towns and landscapes, and empty rooms rendered in prevailing browns, pale olive greens and ochres, complemented by filtered light, shadows and geometrical precision. In ‘Transfigured Realities’, Sasha Grishin examines the artist’s style and technique, his composition and manipulation of space to discover new environments outside the picture frame – accessible via an open doorway or window. His uninhabited scenes are distant yet familiar with ‘a slightly disturbing sense of déjà vu,’ says Grishin; ‘somewhat uncanny’. The scenes illustrating the pages of this book, from his Boboli Gardens and laneways series to silent streetscapes and dark interiors accented by peering sunlight, offer a deeper understanding of Boggs’ artistic oeuvre.
A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast Amber Creswell Bell Thames & Hudson
Landscape painting can offer a unique understanding of the land and our relationship to it. This is never more apparent than in a place like Australia where Indigenous art is exhibited alongside contemporary non-Indigenous art. This book showcases the work of 50 living painters from multicultural backgrounds who depict this expansive and diverse country. Robert Malherbe says ‘I feel that the greatest subject matter for any artist is what is around them… It’s a gift that surrounds us and keeps giving.’ ‘A Painted Landscape’ is broadly divided into sections by defined topographical features including bush, mountain, outback, cities and suburbia, with artist’s including Elizabeth Cummings, Rick Amor, John Olsen, Mavis Ngalametta, Euan Macleod and Ildiko Kovacs. 27
Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms Kathleen Linn For much of the relative softness of the materials used in crafting techniques: yarn, fabrics, wool and felt, craft itself has a hard edge – it is uncompromising and political. This strong lineage of subversion and lasting entwinement with protest and social change has seen the emergence of craft’s own form of critique or means through which to explore the power dynamics operating in society. More recently, this has expanded and morphed with other contemporary practices and mediums as contemporary artists reach for craft-based materials and use them in new and more experimental ways. ‘Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms’ has been co-curated by Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) Director Dr Rebecca Coates and Senior Curator Anna Briers who take on this nexus of craft+activism – or Craftivism – asserting craft practices firmly within the concerns of contemporary art, banishing the art versus craft dichotomy of the past. The exhibition includes 18 contemporary Australian artists who work with craft-based practices or materials and whose work has an expressly political dimension. These artists are: Catherine Bell, Karen Black, Penny Byrne, Erub Arts, Debris Facility, Starlie Geikie, Michelle Hamer, Kate Just,
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Primavera Eleanor Zeichner ‘Why is identity important today?’ asks Megan Robson, this year’s curator of ‘Primavera’, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s (MCA) annual exhibition of artists under 35 years of age. As she notes in her catalogue essay, ‘identity politics has once again become a significant issue in public debate.’ For the artists in this exhibition, however, identity represents not an externally imposed categorisation but a framing of multivalent expressions of self, notched by the currents of history. Hoda Afshar’s stunning 2-channel video work Remain (2018) returns narrative agency to men whose stories have been distorted, discarded and ignored. The work was shot on Manus Island and made collaboratively with seven refugees who remain trapped in Australian immigration detention. Kurdish writer Behrooz Boochani, who has been detained on Manus since 2013, served as a collaborating producer, acting as translator and facilitating access to shoot on the island. Remain is a tender and powerful portrait. The camera lingers on their faces and bodies as they walk through the dense jungle, describing the terror and tedium of their existence on the island. A series of choreographed actions – reenacting the pieta in the crystal clear shallows, Boochani cradling a gutted fish – punctuate the work. The hopelessness of their indefinite situation hangs in the air like humidity.
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Olsen Ormandy: A Creative Force Chloe Mandryk Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy have a synergistic relationship. They are lovers, business partners, parents and yet, when it comes to artistry in their own right each maintains a unique point of view. Arguably the two practices are united by an affinity for dualities; Olsen is inspired by the ebb and flow of nature, and Ormandy the dance between figurative and non-objective art. The couple met at art school in Sydney in 1983 and quickly discovered they shared a passion for art and design; more than 30 years later their reputation is unique, garnering commercial success and the regard of peers and museums. In a recent survey book gallerist Karen Woodbury states that their output is ‘very much a vernacular of the Australian landscape – the light, the forms and the palette of the natural world’ and Michael Brand, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, praises their ‘conceptually strong work, technical innovation, followed by continual experimentation.’ ‘A Creative Force’ on view at Newcastle Art Gallery is a platform for more than three decades of their partnership (the popular jewellery and homeware brand Dinosaur Designs) as well as the products of two individual artistic practices. Between them there are more than 50 works of art from oil paintings to sculptures in resin and wood, textiles, metal and pieces using marble and stone. In addition Olsen reveals a never before seen series of watercolours, and Ormandy offers new ‘totems’ a smaller iteration of these made their debut at Design Week London in 2016. On process and also material outcomes Olsen says ‘there is a something beautiful about the time things take to evolve and perfect in the natural world. Resin, one of the materials we have worked with in this exhibition has a wonderful viscous fluidity that allows us to cross the boundaries of sculpture and painting.’ An enquiring mind susceptible to whimsy is a winning combination in this 46
Weapons for the soldier Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre Until 3 February, 2019 Sydney
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Clara Adolphs Remembering Words
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 7 December, 2018 to 2 February, 2019 New South Wales
New work by 41 Indigenous and nonIndigenous artists from art centres of the APY Lands and across Australia examine complex and varied responses to weaponry and warfare, and the connection to protecting land and country; fostering dialogue around multigeographical and multi-generational battles. ‘Weapons for the soldier’, the first Anangucurated exhibition involving non-Indigenous artists includes Ray Ken, Vincent Namatjira, and Mumu Mike Williams alongside Abdul Abdullah, Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Richard Lewer, Jonathan Jones, Danie Mellor and Alex Seton among others.
Clara Adolphs uses photographs randomly amassed from books, flea markets and vintage newspaper articles to create her compositions, rendered in thick impasto paint. In her examination of the impermanence of memory, Adolphs captures the seemingly familiar, fleeting moments and emotions of her found subjects only to reimagine their ambiguous histories by repainting over their faces and locations. In doing so, she offers a loose, fresh interpretation of their narratives. ‘Remembering Words’ presents her most recent body of work.
Ray Ken, Weapons for the soldier, 2018, acrylic on linen, 200 x 300cm Courtesy the artist, Tjala Arts, South Australia, and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Sydney
Woman, Seated (detail), 2017, oil on linen, 65 x 45cm Courtesy the artist and Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales
Dress Code Museum of Brisbane Until 28 January, 2019 Queensland
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Mira Gojak & Takehito Koganezawa The Garden of Forking Paths Buxton Contemporary Until 17 February, 2019 Melbourne
What impact does fashion have on identity, gender and culture and are there ethical issues surrounding its production? Gerwyn Davies, Hannah Gartside, Lisa Hilli, Grace Lillian Lee and Emily McGuire investigate diverse cultural approaches to making, buying and wearing across the Asia Pacific region. The exhibition showcases playful photography by Davies, a large-scale kinetic sculpture by Gartside, an installation by Hilli and wearable artworks created by Lee, along with a series of handstitched pieces from McGuire.
Takehito Koganezawa and Mira Gojak come together in this first annual exhibition that pairs an international and Australian artist, with the aim to contextualise ‘local’ practice on a global stage. Both practices are poetic, elemental, and consider the shifting landscape of time and space, but have ‘overlapping and divergent impulses,’ say curators Shihoko Iida and Melissa Keys. Tokyo-based Koganezawa presents early works on paper and speciallymade performative video drawings and improvisational pieces, while Gojak shows drawings, sculptures, installations and photographs from the past 20 years.
Hannah Gartside, Sophia as a herald, 2017, digital photograph Courtesy the artist and Museum of Brisbane, Queensland
Takehito Koganezawa, Untitled, 2018 Courtesy the artist, Loock Galerie, Berlin, and Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne
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! NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship awarded to EO Gill
We congratulate EO Gill as the recipient of the $30,000 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship for 2018. This Fellowship, offered by Create NSW aims to support early career artists to undertake a selfdirected program of professional development, and is Artspace’s key exhibition showcase, shaping emerging contemporary artistic practice in New South Wales. Gill was selected from a finalist group of ten Sydneybased artists, whose work is on view until 10 December and includes Kieran Butler, Biljana Jancic, Shivanjani Lal, JD Reforma, Marikit Santiago, Georgia Saxelby, Shireen Taweel, Kai Wasikowski and Jodie Whalen. Gill’s practice is based on the moving image to explore queer intimacy, gender dysmorphia and queer ways of looking in the Australian suburban context in which they grew up. Conceiving loose plots and working with non-performers, including friends and family, Gill toys with reality TV and documentary modes in their work. Gill’s site-specific installation Let it Wail if it Wants To (2018) features a selection of new and existing video and photographic works that speak to expanded notions of gender, sexuality, pornography and the body with relation to class.
The works are intimate, made with and for the artist’s community. Their intention was to explore different possibilities for care and touch, as the subjects depicted cut, probe, rub and spit on each other, as well as highlight the urgency and importance of kinship for queer communities.
A4 Art Australia
Entries close 28 February 2019 The Contemporary Art Society of Victoria is calling for submissions from established and emerging artists for A4 sized, two and three-dimensional artworks for the A4 Art Australia exhibition on show from 23 March to 22 April 2019. Part of Herring Island Summer Arts Festival. contemporaryartsociety.org.au
Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Entries close 15 March 2019 The Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) celebrates Indigenous art from around Australia. The 2019 call for entries is now open with $80,000 in prizes on offer across the Telstra Art Award $50,000, and each of the following $5,000 awards; Telstra Bark Painting Award, Telstra General Painting Award, Telstra Works on Paper Award, Wandjuk Marika Memorial Three-Dimensional Award, Telstra Multimedia Award, and Telstra Emerging Artist Award. magnt.net.au
Women’s Art Prize Tasmania
Applications close midnight, 14 December 2018 Entries are invited for the 2019 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania. This award aims to inspire, facilitate and celebrate the development of professional and emerging women artists in Tasmania and is open to citizens or those who have held permanent Australian resident status for at least 6 of the last 12 months in Tasmania preceding the entry closing date. Awards: $15,000 acquisitive prize, $3,000 Bell Bay Aluminium People’s Choice award and $1,500 Zonta Emerging artist prize. A series of exhibitions of finalists’ works will be held throughout 2019. womensartprizetas.com.au
ANAT Synapse Residencies 2019
EO Gill, Let it Wail if it Wants To (detail), 2018 2018 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship recipient Photograph: Zan Wimberley Courtesy the artist and Artspace, Sydney
Applications close 5pm, 19 February 2019 Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from artists and scientists for the Synapse Residency program, which supports creative research collaborations between artists and scientists. Residencies are open to Australian artists working in any discipline and/or medium, with the residencies to take place over 16 weeks full-time (or part-time equivalent) during 2019. A joint application must be submitted by the artist and the host organisation. It is strongly recommended that you discuss your project proposal with ANAT prior to application. anat.org.au Art & Industry 59
Fitzroy Collingwood Abbotsford
Australian Galleries
Alcaston Gallery
Australian Galleries Stock Rooms
11 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065. T (03) 9418-6444 F 9418-6499. E art@alcastongallery.com.au W www.alcastongallery.com.au Director: Beverly Knight (approved to value Aboriginal paintings, ceramics, sculpture, textiles and artefacts for the Cultural Gifts Program). H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00, or by appt. To Dec 21 Baratjala: Sea Spray and Lightning Strike by Nonggirrnga Marawili.
35 Derby Street, Collingwood 3066. T (03) 9417-4303 F 9419-7769. E melbourne@australiangalleries.com W www.australiangalleries.com.au Director: Stuart Purves AM. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00. To Dec 9 Painted from my Life by William Robinson. Dec 11 to 21 Group Exhibition. Jan 14 to Feb 17, 2019 Group Exhibition.
28 Derby Street, Collingwood 3066. T (03) 9417-2422 F 9417-3433. E melbourne@australiangalleries.com.au W www.australiangalleries.com.au Director: Stuart Purves AM. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00. Dec 11 to 21 Group Exhibition. Jan 14 to Feb 17, 2019 Group Exhibition.
Australian Print Workshop
210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy 3065. T (03) 9419-5466. E auspw@bigpond.com W www.australianprintworkshop.com Director: Anne Virgo OAM. Free entry. H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00. To Feb 16, 2019 Impressions 2018 – APW’s major fundraising exhibition featuring original limited edition fine art prints by over 180 contemporary artists. See ad page 15. APW is closed from Dec 22, and reopens Jan 8, 2019.
BlackCat Gallery
95 Johnston Street, Collingwood 3066. T (03) 9913-5833 , 0413-584-829. E info@blackcatgallery.com.au W www.blackcatgallery.com.au H Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. Dec 5 to 16 (opening Fri Dec 7, 6-8pm) Jason Hazle, Mohamed Abumeis and Supmanee Chaisansuk. Dec 19 to 30 (opening Fri Dec 21, 6-8 pm) Edward Burger, Peter Shapland and Lulu Lala. Jan 9 to 20, 2019 (opening Thurs Jan 10, 6-8pm) Jess Merlo.
Brunswick Street Gallery
Level 1, 322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065. T (03) 8596-0173. E info@brunswickstreetgallery.com.au W www.brunswickstreetgallery.com.au H Tues-Sun 10.00 to 6.00. Dec 5 to 18 (opening Fri Dec 7, 6-9pm) Art and Life by Colin Palethorpe. See ad page 79.
Nonggirrnga Marawili, Baratjala, 2018, natural earth pigments on bark, 208 x 102cm © the artist Courtesy the artist, Buku Larrnggay Mulka, Northern Territory and Alcaston Gallery
88 Melbourne
S.H. Ervin Gallery
National Trust of Australia (NSW), Watson Road, Observatory Hill, The Rocks 2000. T (02) 9258-0173. E shervingallery@nationaltrust.com.au W www.shervingallery.com.au H Tues-Sun 11.00 to 5.00. Dec 7 to March 17, 2019 Destination Sydney Re-Imagined – the exhibition at three Sydney public galleries; Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and S.H. Ervin Gallery presents work by nine eminent artists responding to the important influence of Sydney as subject and theme. Featured artists include Ethel Carrick Fox, Adrian Feint and Ken Done (Manly Art Gallery & Museum), Roy de Maistre, Robert Klippel and Michael Johnson (Mosman Art Gallery), Jeffrey Smart, Nicholas Harding and Wendy Sharpe (S.H. Ervin Gallery). See ads pages 8 and 9. Gallery closed Dec 24 to Jan 3, 2019 inclusive.
Chippendale Central 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket, Sydney 2000. T (02) 9212-0380. W www.4a.com.au Free entry. H Tues-Fri 11.00 to 5.00, Thurs nights to 8.00, Sat-Sun 11.00 to 4.00. To Dec 16 Justine Youssef: All Blessings, All Curses. Jan 19 to March 24, 2019 Xiao Lu: Impossible Dialogue.
Nicholas Harding, Central Hall, 2007, oil on Belgian linen, 183 x 244cm Courtesy the artist and S.H. Ervin Gallery
State Library of NSW
Cnr Shakespeare Place and Macquarie Street, Sydney 2000. T (02) 9273-1414. W www.sl.nsw.gov.au/galleries Free entry. H Mon-Thurs 9.00 to 8.00, Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 10.00 to 5.00. Visit the Library’s new galleries to explore a display of over 3,000 intriguing objects, and six must see exhibitions. See ad page 14.
Vermilion Contemporary Chinese Art
5/16 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay 2000. T (02) 9241-3323. E info@vermilionart.com.au W www.vermilionart.com.au H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 7.00.
Xiao Lu, One, performance, 5 September 2015, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Photograph: Lin Qijian Courtesy the artist and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Performance Space
Carriageworks, Level 2, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh 2042. T (02) 8571-9111. E admin@performancespace.com.au W www.performancespace.com.au Presenting a program for experimental art practice. Visit website for more information.
Sheffer Gallery
38 Lander Street, Darlington 2008. T (02) 9310-5683. E mail@sheffergallery.com W www.sheffergallery.com H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 6.00. Nov 28 to Dec 8 Lillie Stromland and Randy Smeros. Dec 12 to 22 Tracey Clement. Gallery closed Jan 2019.
120 Sydney
Civic Inner North
Craft ACT Craft and 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 WedSun 12.00 to 5.00. Dec 5 to 16 (opening Wed Dec 5, 6pm) At the Edge of Matter – Christine Appleby, Riley Beaumont, Mahala Hill, Merryn Lloyd and Lucy Quinn – explores the tension between an artist’s process and the dynamic, physical possibilities of the matter they manipulate. Gallery closed Dec 17 to Feb 6, 2019.
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 NewActon ANU Drill Hall Gallery
Riley Beaumont, Second 2th II, 2018, acrylic, oils, enamel, pine, 125 x 20 x 20cm Photograph: Brenton McGeachie Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery
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. Nov 30 to Jan 26, 2019 Christus Nóbrega: Labirinto. Nov 30 to Feb 9, 2019 Alison Alder: NEWSCRAP.
Canberra Museum and Gallery
Cnr London Circuit and Civic Square, Canberra City 2600. T (02) 6207-3968. W www.cmag.com.au H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 12.00 to 4.00. To Feb 24, 2019 EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection – Anish Kapoor, Urs Fischer, Antony Gormley, Isa Genzken, Katharina Grosse, Ugo Rondinone and Rachel Whiteread.
Urs Fischer, Snail crossing helmet, 2016, 29.2 x 24.4 x 31.8cm Courtesy the artist and Canberra Museum and 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 Dec 16 Western Desert Sublime. Gallery closed Dec 17 until Feb 20, 2019.
ANU School of Art & Design Gallery
105 Childers Street, Acton 2602. T (02) 6125-5841. E sofagallery@anu.edu.au W soad.cass.anu.edu.au H During Main Gallery exhibitions Tues-Fri 10.30 to 5.00, closed Sat-Mon and public hols.
Foreshore Southside Beaver Galleries
81 Denison Street, Deakin, Canberra 2600. T (02) 6282-5294. E mail@beavergalleries.com.au W www.beavergalleries.com.au Directors: Martin & Susie Beaver (member of ACGA). H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 9.00 to 5.00. Canberra’s largest private gallery featuring regular exhibitions of contemporary paintings, prints, sculpture, glass and ceramics by established and emerging Australian artists. Nov 29 to Dec 23 Small works. Feb 7 to 24, 2019 Dean Bowen paintings, prints and sculpture. Also, Ben Edols & Kathy Elliott, Mel Douglas, Tom Rowney and Alexandra Chambers studio glass. Feb 28 to March 17, 2019 GW Bot paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Also, Holly Grace studio glass. Gallery closed Dec 24 to Jan 14, 2019 inclusive. Australian Capital Territory 149
Brisbane Andrew Baker Art Dealer
26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills 4006. T (07) 3252-2292, 0412-990-356. E info@andrew-baker.com W www.andrew-baker.com H Wed-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, or by appt. Paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures by leading contemporary Australian, Melanesian and Polynesian artists, including: Lincoln Austin, Leonard Brown, Michael Cook, Karla Dickens, Ruki Famé (PNG), Fiona Foley, Simon Gende (PNG), Taloi Havini (Bougainville), Dennis Nona (Torres Strait), Ömie Artists (PNG), Michel Tuffery (New Zealand/ Polynesia), Katarina Vesterberg and William Yang.
Artisan
45 King Street, Bowen Hills 4006. T (07) 3215-0800. E info@artisan.org.au W www.artisan.org.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. Artisan is Queensland’s home of craft and design. Gallery, store and workshop space supporting and promoting contemporary craft and design practice for both makers and their audiences. To Feb 16, 2019 Mona Ryder Lone Star. Over four decades Mona Ryder has developed an emotionally charged and unique visual vernacular, exploring issues of motherhood, marriage, birth and rituals of domesticity. Her skillful crafting and juxtaposition of common household materials, old furniture and detritus illustrate the exchanges of meaning, tensions and shifts in value for which she has become renown.
FireWorks Gallery
9/31 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills 4006. T (07) 3216-1250. E info@fireworksgallery.com.au W www.fireworksgallery.com.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 6.00, Sat 10.00 to 5.00. To Dec 22 Punch the Clock – Anthony Lister, Pat Hoffie, Paul Bong, Jennifer Herd and Vincent Serico. Gallery closed Dec 23 to Jan 29, 2019.
Graydon Gallery
29 Merthyr Road, New Farm 4005. T 0418-740-467. E graydongallery@gmail.com W www.graydongallery.com.au Taking 2019 bookings enquire by email or phone. Dec 11 to 23 Epic Assist. Feb 11 to 17, 2019 Rod Cassidy. Gallery closed through Jan 2019.
Institute of Modern Art
Ground Floor, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3252-5750 F 3252-5072. E ima@ima.org.au W www.ima.org.au Free entry. H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 6.00. To Dec 22 The Commute – Natalie Ball, Hannah Brontë, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Chantal Fraser, Lisa Hilli, Carol McGregor, Ahilapalapa Rands and T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss. Presented by the IMA’s Visiting Curators Freja Carmichael, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Léuli Eshr ghi, Tarah Hogue and Lana Lopesi. From Feb 2019 Dale Harding.
Lisa Hilli, Sisterhood Lifeline, 2018, digital photograph Courtesy the artist and Institute of Modern Art
Jan Manton Art Contemporary Australian + International Art
Mona Ryder, Untitled (detail), 2018 Photograph: Don Hildred Courtesy the artist and Artisan
1/93 Fortescue Street, Spring Hill 4000. T (07) 3831-3060, 0419-657-768. E info@janmantonart.com W www.janmantonart.com Director: Jan Manton. H Wed-Fri by appt, Sat 10.00 to 4.00 no appt required. Jan Manton Art has a changing program of leading and emerging contemporary artists. To Dec 22 Revelation by Jumaadi. Also, Stories with Endings Changed by Michael Doolan. Jan 23 to 27, 2019 we will be exhibiting at S.E.A. Focus Gillman Barracks Singapore. Please visit to view Sydney-based Indonesian artist Jumaadi’s exhibition Convoy.
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