Art Almanac
August 2021 $5
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ART NEWS
SALA Festival The ‘South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival’ 2021 is gearing up to present a phenomenal 9,167 artists participating in over 600 exhibitions across the City of Adelaide and out to regional South Australia. From August 1 to 31, SALA Festival will bounce from gallery to community space, into cafes, across open studios, into retail outlets, and exhibitions online. SALA Festival is backed up with a public program brimming with art tours, a participatory photography tour, bilingual tours, podcasts, presentations of contemporary art, a slide night and more, showcasing all levels of artistic ability from amateur to emerging and established artists. For easy access to SALA Festival events and to save your favourite picks, download the free SALA App, available from the App Store and Google Play. salafestival.com
Roy Ananda, Untitled, 2006 Photograph: Steph Fuller Courtesy the artist and South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival, South Australia
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) celebrates the vibrance of Aboriginal culture and storytelling through art. In 2021, DAAF will be presented across a cutting-edge digital platform, which has been designed to bring global art audiences together with artists and art centre communities from remote areas of Australia. From 6 to 11 August, DAAF online invites the public to view spectacular collections of First Nations art, unique textile creations and designs in fashion, and purchase direct from over 70 Aboriginal-owned art centres, while also diving into a program of workshops, artist talks, film presentations, a book launch, traditional dance performances and more. Highlights include the ‘Cultural Keepers Program & Symposium’, the ‘Country to Couture’ runway fashion parade, and the ‘National Indigenous Fashion Awards’. Visit the website to register. daaf.com.au Anindilyakwa Arts weaving workshop at DAAF 2018 Photograph: Murray Hilton Courtesy Anindilyakwa Aboriginal Art Centre, Northern Territory and Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Northern Territory
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FEATURED EXHIBITIONS
Future U By Dr Joseph Brennan Dr Joseph Brennan speaks with curators Dr Evelyn Tsitas and Associate Professor Jonathan Duckworth about the works of ‘Future U’ – 18 artists’ shifting and speculative visions of a both wonderous and nightmarish future. The future is the time that will come after the present, but what is the ‘U’? ‘On one hand, U is YOU – the human in the maelstrom of technological change in the 21st century,’ Curators Dr Evelyn Tsitas and Associate Professor Jonathan Duckworth tell me about the exhibition, which draws together works from 18 artists. But the runaway acceleration of technological advancement throws up other questions here, too. A ‘future that may be Unknowable, Undefined, Utopic, Upgraded, Unlimited, Unexplored, and also, Unavoidable’. In curating ‘Future U’, Tsitas and Duckworth sought artworks that open debate rather than offer answers. ‘We did not seek out artists with a shared vision of the future,’ they tell me. ‘We found ourselves drawn to diverse artists whose work grappled with key questions about human endeavour, society, relationships and rituals, the environment,
Christian Mio Loclair, Blackberry Winter, 2019, video Art direction Christian Mio Loclair; AI artist Meredith Thomas; executive production Celia Bugniot; music Christian Losert; design AJ Walsh Courtesy the artists and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
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WHAT’S ON NEAR ME
Chloe Vallance
Emma Walker
Step. Float. Fly.
Distillations
Chloe Vallance presents an exhibition of 40 small, finely detailed, colour pencil studiobased drawings on plywood and colour swatches, which reflect the artist’s everyday observations and perceptions of people and animals. Vallance articulates her definition of contemplation within these works as ‘a long, loving look.’ Often the people are seen to be looking into the middle distance, pausing or walking, each on their own journey. In this body of work, Vallance presents three movements of the imagination – Step. Float. Fly.
Emma Walker’s hybrid creations merge painting and sculpture through her seemingly meditative processes of carving, sanding, layering, grinding, glazing, dripping and scratching into plywood. Walker’s unhurried and intuitive approach nurtures the artist’s engagement with the natural world and ‘the ineffable nature of that which lies beneath the surface of appearances,’ and in turn, evoke the sensitivities of feeling and memory, atmosphere and sense of place. Her practice also incorporates video work in which she collaborates with digital media artist Grayson Cooke.
fortyfivedownstairs 3 to 14 August, 2021 Melbourne
Sway, 2021, colour pencil on plywood, 29.5 × 60cm Courtesy the artist and fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
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Arthouse Gallery 13 August to 11 September, 2021 Sydney
Akṣara (Imperishable), 2021, gesso, acrylic polymer, wax on marine ply Courtesy the artist and Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
Locust Jones Waiting for news
Bett Gallery Hobart Until 21 August, 2021 Tasmania
Locust Jones depicts a world slowly going to hell through woven layers of stories and images that replicate the frenetic pace at which society consumes daily news and current affairs in a variety of mediums: inboxes, radio waves, internet. Filtering the world news through his own personal lens, ‘Waiting for news’ comprises ten lightboxes and numerous smaller drawings reflecting current times, from political assassinations, wildfires in the U.S., military operations, and COVID-19 outbreaks, restrictions and vaccine rollouts, to a record temperature reading of 52 degrees in Death Valley – ‘Whoa’.
Tension(s) 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial artisan Until 4 September, 2021 Queensland
Curated by Vic McEwan, ‘Tension(s) 2020’ acknowledges that the world has long been a place under various tensions. To bear witness, contribute and respond to these tensions, the triennial focuses on the future of people and place through textile as a material and human experience as materiality. McEwen aims to take ‘the tension(s) these artists are exploring, and attempt to bring them together into a coherence of composition: a spatial and visual composition that is sometimes in unison, sometimes dissonant, sometimes sweet and melodic, and sometimes pure noise.’
Waiting for News (detail), light box – Galkyd, pigment, pencil, ink, shellac, oil bar on multiple layers of photographic backlit film, 75 × 75 × 13cm Courtesy the artist and Bett Gallery Hobart, Tasmania
Julie Briggs and Kelly Leonard, Curation of Shadows, 2020, linen, burnt remnants of work, documentary video, dimensions variable Photograph: Miranda Heckenberg Courtesy the artists, Tamworth Regional Gallery, New South Wales and artisan, Queensland
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ART & INDUSTRY
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! Design Fringe: First Nations Commission
We congratulate leading First Nations artist Nicole Monks who was recently announced as the recipient of the Design Fringe: First Nations Commission. Monks is a multidisciplinary artist of Yamaji Wajarri, Dutch and English heritage. She is an award-winning design practitioner with a conceptual approach to her creative practice that involves furniture and objects, textiles, video, installation and performance. Through these modalities, Monks explores her Aboriginal culture and heritage and cross-cultural identity. She draws inspiration from Aboriginal philosophies of sustainability, innovation and collaboration.
For this commission, Monks will create a large-scale installation of her winning work birli nganmanha (eating together), which will include crockery and cutlery made from natural materials found on Yamaji Country: grass tree resin, kangaroo teeth and skatt, driftwood, river reed, shell, acacia, and charcoal and echidna quill (wiradjuri), and will be presented as a floor-based artwork on red and white sand and charcoal. ‘Whilst on Country, I have been considering the complex stories behind these traditional materials that were transformed into everyday cultural belongings over such a long time. These natural materials connect us to nature and each other; the rituals surrounding their manufacturing; the collecting and foraging; the seasonal relocation to particular regions of home; the cultural burns; the grinding; and learning and knowledge transfer in the creation of a thriving lifestyle and connected community,’ Monks shares. birli nganmanha (eating together) will form the centrepiece for the ‘Design Fringe’ exhibition at Linden New Art in St Kilda from 4 September to 21 November, as part of Melbourne Fringe. lindenarts.org melbournefringe.com.au
DESIGN Canberra Festival designer-in-residence
We also applaud the 2021 DESIGN Canberra Festival designer-in-residence recipient, Scottishborn Canberra-based sculptor and educator Lucy Irvine. During the residency, Irvine will create a new sculptural work that will respond to the festival theme of ‘transformation’, which will be part of DESIGN Canberra Festival, on across Canberra from 8 to 28 November.
Lucy Irvine, The Stills, 2021 DESIGN Canberra signature artwork Photograph: Lean Timms Courtesy the artist and DESIGN Canberra Festival, Australian Capital Territory Nicole Monks, Untitled, 2021, grass tree resin, kangaroo skatt, charcoal, driftwood, river reed, shell, kangaroo teeth, echidna quill and eucalyptus, dimensions variable Courtesy the artist
Reflecting on the notion of ‘transformation’, Irvine says, ‘Our appreciation of transformation can too easily rely upon a definitive before and after. What if transformation could also be an ongoing process without a beginning or an end, existing in a million Art & Industry 53
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MELBOURNE
Federation Square CBD Art at St Francis’ Contemporary Art
326 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9663-2495. W www.stfrancismelbourne.com/art H For information about exhibitions please contact bwremmen@bigpond.net.au
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 8663-2200. W www.acmi.net.au General entry, free. H Mon-Fri 12.00 to 5.00, SatSun 10.00 to 6.00.
Koorie Heritage Trust
Yarra Building, Federation Square, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 8662-6300. E info@koorieheritagetrust.com W www.koorieheritagetrust.com CEO Tom Mosby. Free entry. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00.
National Gallery of Victoria The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, cnr Russell and Flinders streets, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 8620-2222. W www.ngv.vic.gov.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Aug 22 She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism. To Sept 9 We Change the World. To Oct 3 Maree Clarke: Ancestral Memories. To Feb 6, 2022 Big Weather. Aug 27 to Feb 6, 2022 Sampling the Future.
One Star Gallery
301-303 Victoria Street, West Melbourne 3003. T 0432-357-537. E onestargallery@gmail.com H Wed-Fri 3.00 to 7.00, Sat 1.00 to 7.00. Instagram: @onestarlounge Aug 11 to 28 BIG Sculpture presents small WORKS – plinth and wallbased works by contemporary Victorian sculptors.
RMIT Gallery
344 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9925-1717. W rmitgallery.com H Visit the RMIT Gallery website for information regarding our exhibitions and opening hours.
Tolarno Galleries
Level 4, 104 Exhibition Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9654-6000. E mail@tolarnogalleries.com W www.tolarnogalleries.com Director: Jan Minchin (member of ACGA). H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 1.00 to 4.00.
West End Art Space
112 Adderley Street, West Melbourne 3003. T 0415-243-917. E westendartspace@gmail.com W www.westendartspace.com.au Director: Anna Prifti. H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 4.00, or by appt. To Aug 8 Cliff Burtt: Disenlightenment, and Rose Moxham: Surfacing the White Bay. Aug 11 to Sept 3 Fionna Madigan Solo Show.
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Flinders Lane ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9650-0589. E mail@arc1gallery.com W www.arcone.com.au Director: Fran Clark (member of ACGA). H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00, Tues by appt. Aug 3 to Sept 4 Remember me when the sun goes down by Cyrus Tang.
BLINDSIDE
Nicholas Building, 714/37 Swanston Street (enter via Cathedral Arcade lifts, cnr Flinders Lane), Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9650-0093. W www.blindside.org.au H Tues-Sat 12.00 to 6.00. Aug 1 to Oct 31 Blindside MOBILE | Salt + Loving; Halophile – Grace Ferguson, Emma Phillips, Trevor Santos and Annika Koops, curated by Josephine Mead. Aug 11 to 28 THEY MADE A MEME OUT OF MY LEGACY by Henrik Haukeland. Also, Kawita Vatanajyankur, curated by Alicia Renew, Channels Festival.
Flinders Lane Gallery
Level 1, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9654-3332. E info@flg.com.au W www.flg.com.au Director: Claire Harris. H Tues-Fri 11.00 to 6.00, Sat 11.00 to 3.00. FLG presents their annual exhibition program both in-house and online via virtual tours. Their website also features an extensive, fully searchable online stockroom. Aug 3 to 21 Reflect by Michelle Molinari – represents the painted interpretation of reflective surfaces and invites the viewer to reflect on personal notions of mortality and our relationship to nature. Also, The Flying Gardeners by Gina Kalabishis – pays homage to the activity and work of nature’s winged pollinators. Aug 24 to Sept 18 Futurescape by Jacob Leary – showcases a series of wall-based assemblages, prints and videos in Leary’s signature style of cornucopic abundance. Also, Hapyhazard by Michael Gromm – furthers the artists search to find balance within contrasting visual methodologies. Each painting functions in simultaneous states of coming together and falling apart, in which both the accidental and the mundane are celebrated and contradictions becomes formulas.
Annika Koops Courtesy the artist and BLINDSIDE
Craft Victoria
Gina Kalabishis, We are the Same, 2021, watercolour, ink and gouache on paper, 124 × 91cm Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery
Watson Place, off Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9650-7775. E craft@craft.org.au W www.craft.org.au Free entry. H Mon-Fri 11.00 to 6.00, Sat 11.00 to 4.00. Closed Sun and public hols. Visit website for exhibition program.
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SYDNEY
Inner West Annandale Galleries
110 Trafalgar Street, Annandale 2038. T (02) 9552-1699. E info@annandalegalleries.com.au W www.annandalegalleries.com.au H Wed-Sat 12.00 to 4.00. Aug 14 to Oct 9 (opening Sat Aug 21, 12-4pm) Tapestries by William Kentridge – aquatint etchings and Sonnets HD Film.
Barbara Campbell, and Clare Grant Sat Aug 14, 6pm. ARTICULATEUPSTAIRS July 30 to Aug 15 (opening Sat July 31, 2-5pm) Decade show on Performance – Perform.doc – presents documentation by artists who have done a performance at Articulate over the last ten years. Aug 20 to Sept 5 (opening Sat Aug 21, 2-5pm) Mixing Things Up an installation developed in situ by Lesley Giovanell. BACK ROOM: Perform. doc continues. Aug 20 to Sept 5 (opening and performance Sat Aug 21, 2-5pm) Mange Tes Morts – video performance combined with live elements by Emma Varker.
Artsite Galleries
165 Salisbury Road, Camperdown 2050. T (02) 8095-9678. E enquiries@artsite.com.au W www.artsite.com.au H Thurs-Sun 11.00 to 5.00, Mon-Wed by appt. Browse in Gallery. Acquire online.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
William Kentridge, Colleoni, 2020, hand-woven mohair tapestry, edition of 6, 300 × 250cm Courtesy the artist and Annandale Galleries
Artereal Gallery
747 Darling Street, Rozelle 2039. T (02) 9818-7473. E info@artereal.com.au W www.artereal.com.au H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00. Check website for updates.
55-59 Flood Street, Leichhardt 2040. T (02) 9560-2541. E boomalliartgallery@gmail.com W www.boomalli.com.au www.facebook.com/boomalligallery, www.instagram.com/boomalliartgallery H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 4.00. Aug 14 to Oct 2 Saltwater Freshwater Arts 2021 Touring Exhibition – this exhibition features a public art program showcasing Aboriginal artists and cultural practitioners from the Gumbaynggirr, Dunghutti, Biripi and Worimi nations. The exhibition is made up of the Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance Aboriginal art award (sponsored by Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance) and contemporary cultural objects exhibition.
Articulate project space
497 Parramatta Road (opposite Cass Bros), Leichhardt 2040. W articulate497.blogspot.com.au articulateupstairs.blogspot.com.au H Fri-Sun 11.00 to 5.00. See blogspot for details. July 30 to Aug 1 Decade show of PerformanceBlackLux: Perspectives in time-lapse – dance, video and photography, a collaboration by Lucky Lartey, Lucinda Clutterbuck and Shane Rozario (performances Fri July 30 and Sat 31, 7pm). Artist talks: Sun Aug 1, 2pm. Fri 6 to Sun Aug 8 The Hidden, sound installation and graphic memory map by Jo Truman, and performance Sat Aug 7, 7pm by The Fragile Ids (John Shand, Tim Cunningham, Jo Truman, Andy Milne). Fri 13 to Sun Aug 15 Model the model an invitational drawing action by
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Saltwater Freshwater Arts 2021 Touring Exhibition, installation view Courtesy Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance, New South Wales, and Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
ACT
Canberra Glassworks
11 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston 2604. T (02) 6260-7005. E contactus@canberraglassworks.com W www.canberraglassworks.com Entry by donation. H Wed-Sun 10.00 to 4.00. See website for updates. July 29 to Sept 5 Local Canberra offers an opportunity to explore the present and future of design through the work of five designers – Emma Elizabeth, Tom Fereday, Tom Skeehan, Andrew Simpson and Anna Varendorff. It will acknowledge the importance of design in today’s culture and recognise those designers whose talent, vision and desire to innovate, will set a standard for the future. The imagination, diversity, and techniques on display will attest to the crucial role these five designers have in the ongoing construction of cultural heritage.
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600. T (02) 6240-6411. E information@nga.gov.au W nga.gov.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Check website for updates. To Jan 26, 2022 Part two: Know My Name Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. Visit website for full exhibition program.
Elisabeth Cummings, The Green Mango B and B, 2006 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 2013 © Elisabeth Cummings/Copyright Agency Courtesy the artist and National Gallery of Australia Andrew Simpson, requiem for a cathode ray (concept), 2020 Courtesy the artist and Canberra Glassworks
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 Aug 8 Gallery 1, 2 and 3: Step into the Limelight – group show. Aug 13 to 29 Gallery 1: Shoreline – Michael Desmond, Peta Jones, Bryn Desmond-Jones and Ossian Desmond-Jones. Gallery 2: Testamur – Canberra Art Workshop. Gallery 3: Black and White Edges by Alana Ford.
Alana Ford, Silence, 2020, acrylic, 30.5 × 40.5cm Courtesy the artist and M16 Artspace
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National Portrait Gallery
King Edward Terrace, Parkes 2600. T (02) 6102-7000. E info@npg.gov.au W www.portrait.gov.au H Visit the website for hours. July 31 to Nov 7 Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize 2021.
Marzena Wasikowska, A Covid kind of day, 2020, digital print Courtesy the artist and National Portrait Gallery
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Perth City Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall, Perth 6000. T (08) 9492-6600. E admin@artgallery.wa.gov.au W www.artgallery.wa.gov.au H Wed-Mon 10.00 to 5.00. Closed Tues. To Aug 30 Pulse Perspectives – WA’s talented young artists are celebrated in this yearly showcase, gauging the pulse of young people who will influence, empower and shape the world we live in. The selected works provide a window into young people’s private, social and artistic concerns. It is, in turn, an inspiring, rewarding and insightful look at the world through the minds of our most talented young artists. Have your say, vote for your favourite work in the Act-Belong-Commit People’s Choice Award.
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
Perth Cultural Centre, 51 James Street, Perth 6000. T (08) 9228-6300. E info@pica.org.au W www.pica.org.au Free entry. H Tues-Sun 10.005.00. Closed during exhibition changeover. July 30 to Oct 10 Love in Bright Landscapes, curated by Annika Kristensen. Also, I don’t see colour by Salote Tawale. Also, Sione Monu.
Subiaco West Perth Crawley Gallery 360
176 Railway Parade, West Leederville 6007. T (08) 9381-6577. E info@gallery360.com.au W www.gallery360.com.au www.facebook.com/gallery360aus Instagram: @gallery.360 H Mon-Fri 8.30 to 5.30, Thurs 8.30 to 6.30, Sat 9.00 to 4.00.
Dawn Taylor, John Curtin College of the Arts, Fly in fly out, 2020, porcelain, various textiles, plasticine, pewter, wire, stuffing and glue, 78 × 100.1 × 30cm Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank, Perth
Level 1, Hyatt Regency Perth, 99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth 6000. T 1800-251-651. E enquiries@artbank.gov.au W www.artbank.gov.au H Contact for open times. A Commonwealth Government art leasing program for contemporary art. Supporting Australian artists.
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
UWA, 35 Stirling Highway (cnr Fairway), Crawley 6009. T (08) 6488-3707. E lwag@uwa.edu.au W lwag.uwa.edu.au H Tues-Sat 12.00 to 5.00. To Nov 27 Feeling abstract? Paintings from the UWA Art Collection, 1950-1990 – an exploration of abstract painting over a 40-year period. Also, Matter: Works from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art – focuses on materials and materiality and featuring works of grit, weight and significance. Also, Creatures: Ochred, Pokered, Carved and Twined – presents a diverse menagerie of animal representations from the Berndt Museum of Anthropology.
Cool Change Contemporary
1F Bon Marche Arcade Building, 74-84 Barrack Street, Perth 6000. T 0484-500-838. E hello@coolchange.net.au W www.coolchange.net.au H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00, during exhibitions refer to website. An artist-run-initiative for exhibitions, performances, screenings, workshops and events. Sydney Ball, Ispahan, 1967, acrylic on canvas, 182.8 × 341cm The University of Western Australia Art Collection, Gift of Dr Albert Gild, 1969 Courtesy Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
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QLD
Institute of Modern Art
Judith Wright Arts Centre, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3252-5750. E ima@ima.org.au W www.ima.org.au Free entry. H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00. To Sept 18 Yhonnie Scarce: Missile Park – features a major new commission and draws upon existing works over the past 15 years of Yhonnie Scarce’s practice. Scarce is known for her sculptural installations, which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to intimatelyscaled assemblages replete with personal and cultural histories. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations full of aesthetic, cultural, and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found objects to explore the impact and legacies of colonial and family histories and memory. Developed, and with a new co-commission, in partnership with Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
Mitchell Fine Art
86 Arthur Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3254-2297. E admin@mitchellfineartgallery.com W www.mitchellfineartgallery.com H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.30, Sat 10.00 to 5.00. To Aug 21 Topsy Peterson Napangardi. Aug 25 to Oct 2 Picnic by Matthew Cheyne.
Matthew Cheyne, Party Boat, 2021, oil on canvas, 210 × 270cm Courtesy the artist and Mitchell Fine Art
Museum of Brisbane
Yhonnie Scarce, The cultivation of whiteness, 2013 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, purchased 2014 Photograph: Janelle Low Courtesy the artist, THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne and Institute of Modern Art
Jan Murphy Gallery
486 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3254-1855. E enquiries@janmurphygallery.com.au W www.janmurphygallery.com.au Director: Jan Murphy. H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, or by appt. Aug 3 to 21 Rabbit holes by Michael Muir. Aug 24 to Sept 18 Ken Sisters Collaborative, Sylvia Kanytjupai Ken and Tjungkara Ken.
Level 3, Brisbane City Hall, Adelaide and Ann streets, King George Square, Brisbane 4000. T (07) 3339-0800. E info@museumofbrisbane.com.au W www.museumofbrisbane.com.au Free entry. H Tues-Sun 10.00 to 5.00. Now showing Gallery 2: City in the Sun – large-scale new contemporary artworks alongside historical imagery reveal how the city’s history of migration, tourism, climate, environment and geographic location has contributed to the images of a subtropical oasis of leisure and abundance. Dome Gallery: Blak Superheroes by Yuwi, Torres Strait Islander and Australian-born South Sea Island man Dylan Mooney depicts First Nations characters in a dynamic comic book style. Incorporating a combination of drawing, printmaking and street art, inspired by history, culture and community. Also, carriers of memory – presents new acquisitions from the Museum of Brisbane Collection by First Nations artists: Kim Ah Sam, Sonja Carmichael and her daughter Elisa Jane Carmichael and Kyra Mancktelow.
‘City in the Sun’ installation view Courtesy Museum of Brisbane
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