Art Almanac August 2022 Issue

Art Almanac

August 2022 $5

Chiharu Shiota Ultra Unreal SALA Festival

Contents

Art in Australia Art News – Art Almanac team

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Margo Lewers: no limits – Jeremy Eccles

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Chiharu Shiota: The Soul Trembles – Louise R Mayhew 24 Ultra Unreal: New myths for new worlds – Dr Joseph Brennan

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In the studio: Julia Gutman – Emma-Kate Wilson 32 In the studio: Dean Home – Sophia Halloway 35 What’s on near me – Art Almanac team

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Behind the scenes: National Art School Archives and Collection – Kirsty Francis

Art & Industry Artist Opportunities and Awards 53 Submissions and Proposals 59 Materials 59 Services 60 Consultants and Valuers 62 Member Organisations 62 Training 64

What’s On Gallery Index 66 Melbourne 70 Victoria 94 Sydney 102 New South Wales 124 Australian Capital Territory Tasmania 138 South Australia 142 Western Australia 147 Northern Territory 153 Queensland 156 Artist Index 167

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Art Almanac

IS A MEDIA PARTNER OF

Art Almanac is proud to be a Media Partner of Sydney Contemporary 2022, working with Artist Profile and leading independent Australian curators, 3:33 Art Projects to present the exhibition Origins and Imagination at this year’s fair.

Catalogue enquires info@333artprojects.com

Art news

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair From 5 to 7 August, the vibrance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and culture will be celebrated on Larrakia Country during the sixteenth Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. This year, the spectacular showcase of art, fashion, and design by leading First Nations artists and designers can be experienced in person at the Darwin Convention Centre and online.

An array of artworks made from a variety of media will provide art lovers and collectors with the opportunity to ethically purchase works directly from over seventy Art Centres. There is time to meet the artists, hear about their arts practices, stories of culture, history, and heritage, and participate in the program of masterclasses, talks, and demonstrations. Special events include the Country To Couture fashion runway and National Indigenous Fashion Awards. daaf.com.au Syd Bruce Shortjoe posing with his red tomato and potato cod sculptures made from ghost net and recycled materials Photograph: Paul Jakubowski Courtesy the artist, Pormpuraaw Art & Culture Centre, Queensland and Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Northern Territory

BLEACH* Festival BLEACH* Festival is the Gold Coast’s annual showcase of art, performance, workshops, interactive events, and entertainment staged across the beachside of North Burleigh, Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Miami’s industrial pocket, and around the historic suburb of Mudgeeraba at the base of the hinterland.

BLEACH* Festival is on from 11 to 21 August. Highlights include: the official opening at sunrise on day one with a First Nations ceremony of dance, fire, and song; the film premiere of RADIAL, a video art, dance, music, and fashion feature, with electronic wizardry by mixed-abilities ensemble Tralala Blip; and Indigenous sustainable fibre artist Norton Fredericks will demonstrate how to create botanical contact prints on paper using the ancient crafts of felt and botanical dyes. Plan your festival experience online. bleachfestival.com.au Tralala Blip, RADIAL Photograph: Jorge Serra Courtesy the artists and BLEACH* 2022

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Featured exhibitions

Ultra Unreal: New myths for new worlds “. . . uncover hidden histories and reorientate visions of the future.”

By Dr Joseph Brennan “I have been researching artists working at the intersection of performance and simulation for many years,” Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) curator Anna Davis tells me about Ultra Unreal: New myths for new worlds, an exhibition that evolved from ongoing Australian and international research. “I was interested in how artists were simulating and performing other realities, and by doing so, creating new worlds.” From this research, Ning Ken’s concept of the ultra-unreal emerged as a key theoretical frame.

“Ning’s idea was complex, dealt exclusively with literature and was specific to China,” Davis says, “but in a very broad sense, it seemed to be arguing that what we need now are new myths for the new kinds of worlds we are creating and inhabiting.” This idea resonated with Davis who “became interested in how the process of creating new worlds could give birth to new mythologies, and how artists were re-imagining myths in their work to uncover hidden histories and reorientate visions of the future.”

Lawrence Lek, Geomancer (still), 2017, single-channel video, HD, colour, and sound © the artist Courtesy the artist, Sadie Coles HQ, London and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney

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In the studio

Julia Gutman “. . . layering the fabric through machine embroidery and hand-stitching, layers so thick it breaks the needle.”

By Emma-Kate Wilson Sydney-based artist Julia Gutman revels in contradiction for her larger-than-life textile artworks. They are soft works in materiality, yet as Gutman “stabs” the textiles with her large needle, she enjoys the metaphorical “harshness” that rejects traditional polite and feminine embroidery notions.

In her current exhibition, Muses at Sullivan+Strumpf, Gutman turns on the male gaze in art history, reclaiming female bodies as she casts her friends posing in the studio, utilising clothing worn and donated by friends and family.

The process unfolds as she follows an intuitive process of layering the fabric through machine embroidery and hand-stitching, layers so thick it breaks the needle. Gutman invites us into the studio to tell us more.

All Adults Here, 2021, donated textiles and embroidery, metal chain, approx. 200 × 200cm

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What’s on near me

Natalie Popovski Absorption

JamFactory Icon 2022 Jessica Loughlin: of light

Tweed Regional Gallery Until 18 September 2022 New South Wales

JamFactory Adelaide Until 18 September 2022 South Australia

Absorption is an ongoing body of work driven by an innate curiosity in humans. Natalie Popovski uses the mundane to highlight subtle nuances in individuals in “indirect portraits,” paintings depicting her subject’s “stuff” – the seemingly insignificant corners of mess found in bathroom cabinets, kitchen benchtops, or bedside tables that you are unaware you keep, yet they outline your beliefs, personality, and daily rituals.

Popovski seeks the “sacred in the mundane, the moments of awe all around us that we dismiss so easily, the great novels being written right under our noses.”

Jessica Loughlin creates ethereal kiln-formed glass works that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space.

Inspired by the vast, flat landscapes and rarely filled salt lakes of South Australia, which seemingly fuse land and sky as one infinite plain, Loughlin fuses opaque and translucent glass sheets that allude to shadow, reflection, and refraction. A strict reductive sensibility and restricted use of colour, with a gentle palette of soft muted hues and the mirage motif, frequently reoccur across her practice.

depth of field i, 2020, kilnformed and cold worked glass, 3.5 × 49 × 37.5cm Photograph: Rachel Harris Courtesy the artist and JamFactory Adelaide, South Australia

The Neighbour, 2021, oil on canvas, Tasmanian oak frame, 90 × 58cm Courtesy the artist and Tweed Regional Gallery, New South Wales

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Twenty Melbourne Painters Society 104th Annual Exhibition

Of Soap And Stone

Glen Eira City Council Gallery 11 to 28 August 2022 Melbourne

ANCA Gallery 17 August to 11 September 2022 Australian Capital Territory

In 1918 Max Meldrum, incensed at not being re-elected as President of the Victorian Artists Society, resigned and took with him nineteen like-minded artists to form their own exhibiting group, the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Membership is exclusive and retained at twenty. New members are invited upon natural attrition or resignation of existing members, keeping the group prestigious and unique in the artworld of Tonal Realism. This is their 104th annual exhibition, featuring 150 works across a range of subjects within the framework of representational tonal painting.

Working across mixed-media sculpture and ceramics, Kati Gorgenyi, Fran Romano and Melinda Brouwer have created an immersive and reflective experience that engages with notions of remembrance, memorialisation, and the transience of life.

Gorgenyi investigates loss and memory; Romano explores the rituals and ephemera surrounding death, and Brouwer’s interest lies in death’s material nature.

On weekends, visitors can engage with the artworks and themes by making clay votives which will become part of the exhibition, developing into an ephemeral installation in the gallery courtyard to decompose.

Fran Romano, Loculus IV, 2021, midfire ceramic, black stain, underglaze colour, copper leaf and oxide, and found house bricks Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery, Australian Capital territory Amanda Hyatt, Batu Caves, Kuala Lumpur, watercolour, 95 × 80cm Courtesy the artist and Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne

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Art & industry listings

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!

“My artwork for the Wheeler Commission is closely linked to the architecture and sensory experience of the site, while remaining anchored in my ongoing investigations of hospitality,” Willing explains.

Her large-scale textile creation looks to the Perth locale’s olfactory and sensory offerings, including that of the nearby Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River), botanic gardens, and the wine region. From these explorations she will create an inventory of symbols that form their own performative, multisensory lexicon. The newly commissioned piece will be unveiled in February 2023 and will be on view for one year.

Inaugural Judy Wheeler Commission recipient

This month, we congratulate Brisbane-based artist Elizabeth Willing as the first recipient of the recently established Judy Wheeler Commission. The new ten-year initiative is supported by a generous gift from the Simpson family with the view to fund an annual site-specific work by an Australian-based visual artist that responds to the architecture and history of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA).

Willing’s work is performative and often involves participatory explorations of food and hosting. Working across sculpture, installation, and performance, her work also manifests in the form of concept dinners; unique collaborative performances making use of the dining table as a stage for interactive designs and experiences. Her work has been exhibited both in Australia and internationally and she has undertaken several professional development mentorships and residencies.

Elizabeth Willing, Pick-me-up, 2015–ongoing, Kinder Icekonfekt chocolates in wrappers and glue, 350 × 100 × 0.5cm each Photograph: Gina Folly Courtesy the artist, Tinguely Museum, Switzerland and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia

“We selected Elizabeth for her compelling proposal that explores the topic of hospitality, at an individual as well as institutional level,” shares PICA Curator Sarah Wall. PICA will work with Elizabeth to develop the work throughout July to December this year.

The Commission will be open to all Australian-based visual artists annually. Artists working at any stage of their career and whose mediums include, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, sound, and video are eligible to apply. pica.org.au

Bondi Pavilion – Call to Artists

Elizabeth Willing in front of her work Strawberry Thief, 2018 Photograph: David Kelly Courtesy the artist, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia

The artist will receive support for the production of her site-specific work, which will respond to PICA’s entrance, defining how visitors engage with the space as they step in from Perth’s vibrant cultural centre.

Applications close midnight, August 8, 2022 Waverley Council is calling local artists to submit artworks to be part of the program for the reopening of the much loved Bondi Pavilion. This is an opportunity for artists to present original work in the newly renovated Pavilion during the opening festivities. Applications are open to individuals and collectives who have experience in creating contemporary performance works and who are local to the Waverley Council local government area, or who can demonstrate close, ongoing ties to it. Artists will receive advance access to the venue and artist fees as well as Waverley Council production, event, and delivery support. Works will be presented to the public in Bondi NSW 2026, from September 23 to October 3. More information is available online. bondipavilion.com.au

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Melbourne listings

Australian Galleries

35 Derby Street, Collingwood 3066.

T (03) 9417-4303. F (03) 9419-7769.

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

Aug 2 to 20 Rare Sightings: Etchings by Daniel Moynihan. See ad page 9.

Daniel Moynihan, Hobart tiger 2, 2009, etching, chine collé, aquatint, drypoint and sugar lift on copper, ed. of 3, 29 × 30cm Courtesy the artist and Australian Galleries

Australian Galleries Stock Rooms

28 Derby Street, Collingwood 3066.

T (03) 9417-2422. F (03) 9417-3433.

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

Aug 2 to 20 Mini Beasts by Monique Auricchio.

Also, Landscapes Tasmania by Wayne Viney, and Hand-coloured linocuts by Kit Hiller.

BlackCat Gallery

420 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy 3065.

T (03) 9913-5833. E info@blackcatgallery.com.au W www.blackcatgallery.com.au H Wed–Sun 11.00 to 5.00. July 27 to Aug 7 S1: The solo Mum by Danielle Milne. S2: Tony J King. S3: Al Lane.

Aug 10 to 21 S1–2: Out of the Box group Show.

S3: Thinn Thinn. S4: Sorab Kaikobad.

Aug 24 to Sept 4 S1: Lee Waddell.

S2: Julia Kennedy-Bell. S3: Ed Unwell Bunny.

S4: Nathan Sims. Window: Raphy.

Lee Waddell, Boulevard Raspail, 12 November 2014, 8:11pm, Epson UltraChrome K3 ink printed on Canson Infinity Museum Art Canvas, 62 × 83cm framed Courtesy the artist and BlackCat Gallery

Brunswick Street Gallery

Wurundjeri Country, Level 1 and 2, 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. Closed Mon. Follow us on social media to keep up-to-date with new artist profiles, online stockroom additions, and general news.

Margaret Gold To The Promised Land exhibition runs 2 august – 13 august opening event 2 august 6–8pm 45 flinders lane melbourne 3000

Image: Untitled 4 (detail), 2021, pen, pencil and synthetic polymer paint on Arches paper, 70 × 56cm

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tues–fri 12–6pm sat 12–4pm evenings tues & fri 6–8pm fortyfivedownstairs.com

VIC listings

Mornington Peninsula Frankston Arts Centre

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MT ELIZA Manyung Gallery Mt Eliza Manyung Gallery Art & Design MORNINGTON Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery

HASTINGS Gordon Studio Glassblowers RED HILL MERRICKS RED HILL SOUTH

Merricks House Art Gallery

Montalto Sculpture Park

Cook Street Collective FLINDERS

PHILLIP ISLAND EVERYWHEN Artspace

EVERYWHEN Artspace

1/39 Cook Street, Flinders 3929. T (03) 5989-0496.

E info@everywhenart.com.au W everywhenart.com.au Directors: Susan McCulloch OAM and Emily McCulloch Childs. H Fri–Tues 11.00 to 4.00. Closed Wed–Thurs. Specialising in contemporary Aboriginal art from 40+ Aboriginal owned art centres around Australia.

Frankston Arts Centre and Cube 37 Galleries

27–37 Davey Street, Frankston 3199.

T (03) 9784-1060. W www.thefac.com.au H Please check the website for dates and changes to opening hours prior to visiting. Glass Cube & Art After Dark view 24/7 from the street front: Sea Change by Penelope Davis. Cube Gallery: Belonging – FAC Open Exhibition. FAC Curved Wall Gallery: Works on Paper – Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency.

FAC Mezzanine: Through Her Eyes by Brodie Alserda, and The Impossible Dream by Jonathan Thompson.

FAC Atrium: Faces by Cameron Howe.

FAC Foyer. FAC Design Store.

Manyung Gallery Mount Eliza

2/85 Mount Eliza Way, Mount Eliza 3930.

T (03) 9787-2953. W www.manyunggallery.com.au H Mon–Sat 10.00 to 5.00.

From Aug 19 Titane Laurent.

Cook Street Collective

41 Cook Street, Flinders 3929. T (03) 5989-1022.

E info@cookstreetcollective.com.au W www.cookstreetcollective.com.au H Fri–Mon 10.00 to 4.00, Tues–Thurs by appt.

July 30 to Aug 21 Blackroom Gallery: Ocean Calling

by Steve Salo.

Titane Laurent, No Fear, mixed media on canvas, 90 × 90cm Courtesy the artist and Manyung Gallery Mount Eliza

Steve Salo, December Light, Portsea, oil on aluminium, 20 × 20cm Courtesy the artist and Cook Street Collective

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UTS Gallery

University of Technology Sydney, Level 4, 702 Harris Street, Ultimo 2007. T (02) 9514-1652.

E utsgallery@uts.edu.au W art.uts.edu.au H Mon–Fri 11.00 to 4.00. To Sept 9 She Speaks in Sculpture by Diana Baker Smith. Artist talk: Sat Aug 6, 2–4pm with Verónica Tello, art historian and writer.

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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

181–187 Hay Street, Haymarket, Sydney 2000.

T (02) 9212-0380. E hello@4a.com.au W www.4a.com.au H Tues–Sun 11.00 to 5.00, Thurs 11.00 to 8.00. Closed Mon. Aug 13 to Oct 2 NO FALSE IDOLS.

Diana Baker Smith, She Speaks in Sculpture, 2022, two-channel 4K video Photograph: Lucy Parakhina Courtesy the artist and UTS Gallery

White Rabbit Gallery

30 Balfour Street (near Central Station), Chippendale 2008. T (02) 8399-2867.

W www.whiterabbitcollection.org H Wed–Sun 10.00 to 5.00. To Nov 21 I Loved You – love turns up in unexpected places. From old rickshaws to a pool of dazzling lights. The 28 artists featured in I Loved You show us that love can be a time, a place, or even a memory. Its traces can be found on our father’s wristwatch, our lover’s skin, or our grandparent’s home.

Nabilah Nordin, Sculpture House, 2020 Photograph: Christo Crocker and Guy Grabowsky Courtesy the artist and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Sydney Contemporary

Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh 2015.

W sydneycontemporary.com.au Sept 8 to 11 Sydney Contemporary will present 90+ leading galleries across four days of art on show, performance, talks, and events (see ad page 7).

Art Almanac is proud to be a Media Partner of Sydney Contemporary 2022, working with Artist Profile and leading independent Australian curators 3:33 Art Projects to present the exhibition Origins and Imagination (see ads pages 10 and 12).

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Song Dong 宋冬, Operator, 2009, wood, plastic, and textile, 210 × 180 × 126cm Courtesy the artist and White Rabbit Gallery

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

Closed some public hols, call to confirm.

Craft ACT Craft + Design Centre

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.

Closed Sun–Mon, and public hols. To Aug 27 Beeing

by Dr Julie Bartholomew and Mahala Hill. Also, Confluence: 2021 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition.

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ANCA Gallery

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

E gallery@anca.net.au W www.anca.net.au Free entry.

H Wed–Sun 12.00 to 5.00. Closed public hols.

To Aug 14 Venation by Lucy Quinn and Sophie Quinn. Aug 17 to Sept 11 Of Soap And Stone – Kati Gorgenyi, Fran Romano and Melinda Brouwer.

Julie Bartholomew, Prototype for Habitat 3, 2022, earthenware – terra sigillata Photograph: Ashley Mackevicius Courtesy the artist and Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre

Nancy Sever Gallery

Level 1, 131 City Walk, Civic, Canberra City 2601.

T (02) 6262-8448, 0416-249-102.

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

Fran Romano, Loculus I, 2021, midfire ceramic, black stain, underglaze colour, and glaze Courtesy the artist and ANCA Gallery

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37 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6226-4353.

E Jane.Barlow@utas.edu.au W www.utas.edu.au/ creative-arts-media/events/plimsoll-gallery H Tues–Sat 11.00 to 4.00 during exhibitions.

Closed Sun–Mon and public hols.

To Aug 30 Looking Glass: Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce – Looking Glass is an important and timely exhibition, which brings together two of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists; Waanyi artist Judy Watson and Kokatha and Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce. At its heart, the exhibition is both a love song and a lament for Country, a fantastical alchemy of the elemental forces of earth, water, fire, and air. Looking Glass is organised by TarraWarra Museum of Art and Ikon Gallery with Curator Hetti Perkins.

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Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania

Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park

Elwick Bay Foreshore, Brooker Highway, Glenorchy 7010. W www.gcc.tas.gov.au GASP is a dynamic and inspiring open space providing unique ways to interact with art and create memorable experiences in the natural environment.

Mona, Museum of Old and New Art

655 Main Road, Berriedale, Hobart 7011.

E info@mona.net.au W mona.net.au H Fri–Mon 10.00 to 5.00.

To Oct 17 Exodust – Crying Country by Fiona Hall and AJ King. Also, Within an utterance by Robert Andrew, and Phase Shifting Index by Jeremy Shaw.

Judy Watson, standing stone, kangaroo grass, red and yellow ochre, 2020, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 250 × 181.5cm Photograph: Carl Warner Courtesy the artist, Milani Gallery, Queensland and Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Dunn Place (enter via the Watergate), Hobart 7000.

T (03) 6165-7000. E tmagmail@tmag.tas.gov.au W www.tmag.tas.gov.au H Daily 10.00 to 4.00 (Dec 26 to March 31). Tues–Sun 10.00 to 4.00 (April 1 to Dec 24). Closed Good Friday, Anzac Day, and Christmas Day. Open 10.00 to 4.00 on Mon public hols year-round.

To Aug 28 Gay Hawkes: The House of Longing.

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Robert Andrew, Data Stratification (detail), 2021 Courtesy the artist and Mona, Museum of Old and New Art

NT listings

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Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)

BRINKIN Charles Darwin University Art Gallery NIGHTCLIFF MILLNER

EAST POINT

19 Conacher Street, The Gardens, Darwin 0820.

T (08) 8999-8264. E info@magnt.net.au W www.magnt.net.au Free entry. H Daily 10.00 to 4.00. Visit the website for visitor information.

On now Gumurr’manydji Manapanmirr Djäma (Creating successful enterprise through business) – a photographic exhibition from the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA) celebrating 50 years of Yolŋu economic independence, enterprise, self-determination, culture, and ingenuity.

Aug 6 to Jan 15, 2023, 2022 Telstra NATSIAA – showcasing work by 63 First Nations finalist artists from across the country.

DARWIN FANNIE BAY Northern Centre for Contemporary Art PARAP Museum and Art Gallery Outstation Gallery of the Northern Territory THE GARDENS Tactile Arts

Charles Darwin University Art Gallery

Ground floor, Building Orange 12.1.02, Casuarina Campus, Darwin 0909. T (08) 8946-6621.

E artgallery@cdu.edu.au W cdu.edu.au/artgallery H Wed–Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00.

Yolŋu wäŋa roŋiyirra marrtji guyaŋura bunhaŋur (Returning home from hunting), people featured: Muwarra Ganambarr Courtesy Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)

Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

Larrakia Country, Darwin Convention Centre, Stokes Hill Road, Darwin 0800.

Aug 5 to 7 Australia’s largest Indigenous visual art event, the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) is returning to the Top End for its 16th year running.

Immerse yourself in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, design and culture. Ethically purchase artwork direct from over 70 Indigenous-owned Art Centres, with 100% of sales going directly back to support the artists and their communities.

Visit daaf.com.au/art-fair-2022

Gwenneth Blitner painting at Ngukurr Arts Centre Photograph: Ngukurr Arts Courtesy the artist, Ngukurr Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Northern Territory and Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair

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2021 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) Exhibition Photograph: Charlie Bliss Courtesy Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT)

QLD listings

Redland Art Gallery Cleveland

Cnr Middle and Bloomfield streets, Cleveland 4163.

T (07) 3829-8899. E gallery@redland.qld.gov.au W artgallery.redland.qld.gov.au Free admission.

H Mon–Fri 9.00 to 4.00, Sun 9.00 to 2.00.

To Aug 14 Rachael Wellisch: Polymorphic Magic: Textiles Transformed, and Fiona West: The Marvellous and Magical: Collage and the Moving Image. Aug 21 to Oct 9 Sihot’e Nioge: When Skirts Become Artworks, and Woven: Works from the Redland Art Gallery Collection.

Gold Coast SOUTHPORT

Anthea Polson Art MAIN BEACH

MACINTOSH ISLAND

CHEVRON ISLAND SURFERS PARADISE

IIma Ugiobari, Gome (Orchid) (detail), 2018, natural plant and ash pigments on beaten bark cloth Courtesy the artist, Omie Tapa Artists Papua New Guinea, Baboa Gallery, Brisbane and Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland

State Library of Queensland

Stanley Place, South Brisbane 4101.

W www.slq.qld.gov.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00.

To Oct 9 Philip Bacon Heritage Gallery: Legacy: Reflections on Mabo – a group exhibition of works, which celebrate the man behind the game-changing Native Title Act, Eddie Koiki Mabo.

UQ Art Museum

James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (Building 11), University Drive, The University of Queensland, St Lucia 4067. T (07) 3365-3046.

E artmuseum@uq.edu.au W www.art-museum.uq.edu.au H Tues–Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 11.00 to 3.00.

To Dec 17 Oceanic Thinking – Amrita Hepi, Madison Bycroft, Ensayos Collective and Angela Tiatia.

Aug 26 to Nov 26 National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony – a National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition.

HOTA Gallery

Anthea Polson Art

29 Tedder Avenue, Main Beach 4217.

T (07) 5561-1166, 0417-707-326.

E info@antheapolsonart.com.au W www.antheapolsonart.com.au Director: Anthea Polson. H Mon–Sat 10.00 to 6.00, Sun 10.00 to 4.00. Visit the website for exhibitions.

BLEACH* Festival

Aug 11 to 21 BLEACH* Festival is the Gold Coast’s annual contemporary arts festival celebrating its 11th year in 2022. The city’s beachside esplanades, Botanic Gardens, and hinterland hideaways will showcase work by 233 artists as well as 94 performances and 36 events. Visit the website to explore the full program www.bleachfestival.com.au

Crossing Borders, BLEACH* Festival 2022 Photograph: Art Work Agency Courtesy BLEACH* Festival, Queensland Madison Bycroft, the fouled compass, 2020, single-channel digital video, colour, sound, 24:37 minutes Courtesy the artist and UQ Art Museum

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