Art Almanac June 2021 Issue

Art Almanac

June 2021 $6

Sally Rees Darren Sylvester Telling Tales

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Art Almanac June 2021

Letter from the Editor In this issue, we examine the way we perceive the world, and ourselves, as a product of both physiological and cultural dispositions.

In ‘Treasure Island’, Darren Sylvester creates handmade Hollywood-esque sets, props and stages, showcasing a wide range of pop culture moments and artefacts in his photographs.

Dr Joseph Brennan speaks with the artist about the study of language between perceived high and low culture, the nature of authenticity, desirability and mortality.

Similarly, Emma-Kate Wilson explores the harsh truths and stereotypes faced by aging women and the crone archetype in ‘CRONE’, where artist Sally Rees reclaims her authentic self and wears her years with ‘a badge of pride’.

Exhibitions often look effortless, but they involve large amounts of research, planning and preparation. We look behind the scenes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as Victoria Hynes speaks with ‘Archie 100’ curator Natalie Wilson about the history of the Archibald and the laborious task of selecting and finding works from more than 6,000 entries. While Art Van Go reveal they have created a sustainable brand and business built on passion and professionalism in art transportation. Anna Meyerowitz writes, ‘It is important for good art to move an audience, but sometimes to look at how the art is moved can be just as inspiring.’

Melissa Peša We acknowledge and pay our respects to the many Aboriginal nations across this land, traditional custodians, Elders past and present; in particular the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land on which we work.

Cover Sally Rees, Flock (video still), 2020, multi-loop HD video installation Courtesy the artist and Mona, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania Read more on page 26.

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Wandoo 2021, watercolor on archers paper, 66cm x 102cm

WA N D O O JO DAR VALL 5 - 2 7 JUNE 2021

Linton & Kay Galleries 11 Old Aberdeen Place West Perth WA 6005

Dan McCabe, Shadows on the hill, 2016-ongoing, digital photographic print on synthetic fabric using dye-sublimation, aluminium frame, steel, polyester mesh and fixings, 137 × 197 × 457cm; 1/1, printed by Emerald Dreams Courtesy the artist and Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia

FAC Print Award The ‘Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award’ presents a diverse selection of traditional printmaking, artist books, and unconventional multi-media works by 51 finalists on show at Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) in Perth, until 18 July.

Many of the works demonstrate the impacts of COVID-19 on contemporary society and artmaking. Emma Buswell, FAC Print Award Coordinator, explained, ‘With the forced isolation of 2020, many artists spent a lot of time alone in their studios, offering them the time to play with unusual ideas and, indeed, to reflect on the often sombre, indeterminate mood of the outside world.’

Highlights include Western Australian artist Susanna Castleden, whose seven-metre-long work features a graphite imprint of plane wings from a 1950s Expeditor. Her work speaks to the lost worlds of planes and of travel that were once integral to our lives, and now reside in the desert, obscured from our reality.

Kununurra-based artist, Dan McCabe’s work is a 1:1 scale representation of a Toyota car, rendered in sublimation print on fabric. Also functioning as a tent, the work explores concerns around homelessness and housing affordability, issues that have worsened due to the pandemic.

These notions of home and the built environment are also seen in the collaborative work of artist duo Pip Lewi and Paul Sutherland, which articulates the network of roads and built environment immediately surrounding their home. A documentation of the rituals of daily suburban existence, their work mirrors the universal experience of being landlocked and rediscovering our own backyards.

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ART NEWS

Dark Mofo As winter descends on the city of Hobart, ‘Dark Mofo’ will plunge audiences into the darker realms of centuries-old rituals from 16 to 22 June. The program of art, music, and film, the daring Nude Solstice Swim, a community-focused Winter Feast, guided tours, the burning of the OgohOgoh, and fireworks, invites audiences to explore ruminations of ancient and contemporary mythology, humans and nature, religious and secular traditions, darkness and light, and the cycles of birth, death, and renewal.

Highlights include work by Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Jonathan Schipper, Sally Rees, Pictoplasma x Akinori Oishi, 404.zero, and Ryoji Ikeda’s spectra, as well as an exhibition of video works by Julie Rrap, Monira Al Qadiri, Jonathas de Andrade and Tianzhuo Chen at Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. darkmofo.net.au Pope Alice, Outback Tea Party Photograph: Pope Alice Courtesy the artist and Dark Mofo, Tasmania 2021

French Impressionism The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) presents ‘French Impressionism from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’, a display of more than 100 masterworks: paintings and works on paper by Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt and more – including 79 that have never-before-been exhibited in Australia, as part of the Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition series.

‘French Impressionism’ charts the trajectory of the late-19th century artistic movement, emphasising key milestones and figures. A highlight includes a monumental display of 16 Claude Monet paintings presented on curved walls referencing the oval gallery Monet helped design for his famous Water Lilies at the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. On view from 4 June to 3 October at NGV International. ngv.vic.gov.au Pierre Auguste Renoir, French 1841-1919, Woman with a parasol and small child on a sunlit hillside, c.1874-76 oil on canvas, 47.0 × 56.2cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bequest of John T. Spaulding Photography © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All Rights Reserved Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

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FEATURED EXHIBITIONS

Sally Rees CRONE

By Emma-Kate Wilson In 2020, three landmark exhibitions were set to open at Sydney’s Carriageworks, Melbourne’s Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Hobart’s Mona, Museum of Old and New Art; each recognising an artist working in Australia through ‘The Suspended Moment: The Katthy Cavaliere Fellowship’ – using the funds of Cavaliere’s deceased estate to remember her artistic legacy (1972-2012).

On 18 June 2021, the Mona iteration finally opens with Hobart-based artist Sally Rees’ ‘CRONE’; postponed from its original date; it now lives on a year later. Taking shape as an installation of 17 screens, featuring hand-painted animations that communicate through ‘bird-like calls’, forming the ‘crone-dome’, the exhibition reflects on both Rees and Cavaliere’s exploration of the self and the other side of femininity that rejects conformist notions of womanhood.

‘The work evolved to become a fairytale made of screens,’ Rees reveals. ‘Made up entirely of videos/animations, it centres the ‘Crone’ amongst her (my) network of fellow crones, a group of women who call out to each other like birds, accessed by a ceremonial entryway and precluded by a record of the Crone’s ‘becoming’ (the dawning of my 50th).’

Rees was first inspired to create this body of work through her research that found ‘some pretty scary statistics around the social position of older women in Australia.’ The artist noticed this group becoming the fastest-growing demographic for poverty and homelessness in the nation.

Croning, 7 August 2020, 2020, timelapse video, duration 01:35

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WHAT’S ON NEAR ME

Critical Time

Dystopia/Utopia 2070

Midland Junction Arts Centre Until 17 July, 2021 Western Australia

artisan Until 17 July, 2021 Queensland

Curated by Melissa McGrath, ‘Critical Time’ brings together the work of Western Australian artists Tom Freeman, Andre Lipscombe, Joana Partyka and Gemma Watson, ‘who keep time, waste time, or chronicle time, charting tempos through meditative, accumulating, and reflective practices’. Works include a 16-part work on paper created by dipping a piece of string in paint, recycled materials given new life with salvaged household paints, a suite of glazed ceramic vessels embodying the artist’s emotional states in their curves and divots, and A4 drawings using repetition to reclaim time.

What does the future hold for humankind and the natural world? Seven artists forecast their imagined possibilities in ‘Dystopia/ Utopia 2070’, an artisan touring show bringing together art, science, and technology.

Diamonds for data storage, jewellery that can manifest a protective bubble around the wearer, an edible water carrier and filter doubling as a musical instrument, clothing and bio headpieces designed to store small seed reliquaries, and an immersive and mediative space for downtime in the workplace, challenge our visions for the future.

Claire Poppi, Seed Reliquaries, 2020-2021, 925 silver, sapphires, glass, live plants, seeds, grouped size: 12 × 17 × 2cm Photograph: Michelle Bowden, Visual Photography Courtesy the artist and artisan, Queensland

Gemma Watson, camouflage feelings, 2020, pen and sharpie on 90gsm coloured card, 29.7 × 21cm Courtesy the artist and Midland Junction Arts Centre, Western Australia

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Therese Ritchie

Kait James

YOU ARE HERE

Hang us out to dry

‘YOU ARE HERE’ by Therese Ritchie is an exhibition with ‘truth-telling at its core’.

Ritchie unleashes deep-felt concern for the processes of land appropriation that resulted in the formation of the Australian nation.

For the most part, Ritchie’s digital imagery appropriates historical Australian paintings of landscapes and events commemorating the arrival of Europeans in Australia, overwriting them with text and timelines, which challenge the historical atrocities, discoveries, manoeuvres, ploys and misdemeanours, that have led us to this moment in Australia’s history.

For ‘Hang us out to dry’, Wadawurrung artist Kait James sets the towels to wash, wringing the generalisation and stereotype of Indigenous culture out of Aboriginal-themed calendar tea towels from the 1970s and 1980s.

Through embroidery, she subverts them with pop cultural references and Indigenous issues to mirror a contemporary perspective.

Charles Darwin University Art Gallery 10 June to 17 July, 2021 Northern Territory

Art Gallery of Ballarat Until 1 August, 2021 Victoria

The textile works, executed with humour and employing vivid colours, address the way white western culture has dominated Australia’s history and how First Nations people are perceived, as well as James’ personal reflections on her Indigenous heritage.

Mutant, 2020, digital inkjet print on paper, 50 × 80cm (image), 64 × 91.6cm (paper) On loan from the artist Courtesy the artist and Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Northern Territory Warning: Please be advised that the content of this exhibition may cause distress to viewers – especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Annus horribilis, 2020, vintage tea towel, cotton © the artist Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria

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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!

NGV Architecture Commission

The winners of the NGV Architecture Commission for 2021 have been revealed. From a strong shortlist of applicants, the recipients are Melbourne-based architectural firm Taylor Knights with James Carey, artist and lecturer in Interior Design at School of Architecture & Urban Design, RMIT University.

These creative partners have collaborated on the design of a beautiful architectural installation entitled pond[er]. Replete with a pink pond evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes, pond[er] will become part of the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International. The collaborator’s vision is to provide a relaxing atmosphere for visitors to cool off during the summer months and emanating a space for the public to reflect on their relationship with the environment.

a natural resource. Beds of Victorian wildflowers, designed in association with Ben Scott Garden Design, will bloom at different times throughout the installation highlighting the beauty, precariousness, and temporality of our natural ecology. pond[er] will entice audiences to move through a series of interconnected walkways and accessible platforms to explore the spaces of flora and water with an invitation to step down and wade through the pink pond.

‘Through an elegant interplay of architectural and landscape elements, this work draws our attention to the challenges facing Australia’s many catchments and river systems, whilst also ensuring that the design itself has minimal environmental impact by considering the future lifecycle of the materials used,’ says Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV. ngv.melbourne

DOT SPRINGBOARD Scholarship for Object Designers

Applications close June 14, 2021 In 2021 Designed Objects Tasmania (DOT) is again inviting emerging designers to apply to undertake The Springboard Scholarship. The Scholarship runs for one year and provides emerging designers with; a studio space at DOT’s North Hobart location; access to DOT’s equipment and tools; mentorship and practical guidance; and some financial assistance.

The aim of the scholarship is to support an emerging designer, in the transition stages from educational institution to self-driven practice and business.

Email applications to info@dot.org.au. Applicants can deliver or post any material not submitted electronically to 27A Tasma Street, North Hobart, 7000. For further queries please call (03) 6231-0512. dot.org.au

City of Melbourne Annual Art Grants

Taylor Knights and James Carey, pond[er] render, interior view looking south east Courtesy the artists and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Referencing Sir Roy Grounds’ open-air courtyards in the original design of NGV International, this architecture and landscape installation comprises two key design elements: a selection of indigenous plants and a body of water. The water is coloured pink, making direct reference to the many inland salt lakes in Victoria with a view to drawing focus to the scarcity, importance, and political implications of water as

Applications close 5pm, June 15, 2021 The City of Melbourne invites applications from artists working across a range of practices, including but not limited to, painting, sculpture, dance, writing, performance, and film, for grants of up to $20,000 to support the development of a new project. Grants are available to artists and small to medium arts organisations from all backgrounds and abilities in three categories: arts projects, Aboriginal arts projects, and arts residencies. Support will be considered for one-off projects, a specific component of an annual program or a creative development that results in a public outcome within the City of Melbourne’s boundaries in 2022. Projects presented online and creative developments without a public outcome will also be eligible if they can demonstrate a connection to the City of Melbourne. More information, terms and conditions are available on the website. melbourne.vic.gov.au

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MELBOURNE

in.cube8r gallery

116 Greville Street, Prahran 3181. T 0466-527-160.

W incube8r.com.au H Open daily check website for gallery hours. Closed public hols.

June 5 to 28 Square – a group show featuring works from a variety of artists and mediums, all working within the format of square.

The Olsen

637-641 Chapel Street, South Yarra 3141.

T (03) 9040-1222.

W www.artserieshotels.com.au/olsen The Olsen is an elegant hotel with suites featuring lyrical works of Australian landscape artist John Olsen.

Scott Livesey Galleries

MARS Gallery

7 James Street, Windsor 3181. T (03) 9521-7517.

E andy@marsgallery.com.au W www.marsgallery.com.au H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00.

To June 20 Divided Subject by Sophia Hewson.

Also, half past by Nancy Constandelia, and Ladies of the Cemetery by Dana McCrea.

June 22 to July 11 Ngirramini, Yimunga, Murrakupupuni (Story, Tribe, Country) – Chris Black, Columbiere Tipungwuti, Janice Murray, Michelle Woody Minnapinni, Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri and Timothy Cook. Also, The Light In Her Eyes by Amani Haydar.

610 High Street, Prahran 3181. 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, Mon by appt.

To June 12 Joanna Logue.

June 26 to end July Group Exhibition.

STATION | Melbourne

9 Ellis Street, South Yarra 3141. T (03) 9826-2470.

E post@stationgallery.com.au W www.stationgallery.com.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 4.00.

Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition

T Director: Tony Fialides 0419-005-052.

W www.toorakvillage.com.au To June 13 the Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition is an annual showcase of contemporary sculpture in shop windows and on the sidewalks of Toorak Road, Toorak Village. A free event. All exhibits are for sale.

See ad page 95.

Sophia Whitney Hewson, (untitled), 2020-21, bronze, edition of 4, 62 × 40 × 32cm Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery

BILL WOOD

TORN Drawing life in a time of isolation June 8 to 11

Opening Tuesday 8 June, 6-9pm

Gallery Elysium 440-444 Burwood Road, Hawthorn 3122 0417 052 621 elio@galleryelysium.com.au www.galleryelysium.com.au Tuesday-Friday 10.30 to 4.30

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MELBOURNE

TarraWarra Museum of Art

313 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road, Healesville 3777.

T (03) 5957-3100. E museum@twma.com.au W www.twma.com.au Adults $10, Seniors $8, Concession $5. H Tues-Sun 11.00 to 5.00, and all public hols. To July 11 TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall.

Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre

(map ref Melway 90 D8, E7) Cnr Walker and Robinson streets, Dandenong 3175.

T (03) 9706-8441. E walkerstgallery@cgd.vic.gov.au W www.greaterdandenong.com/arts H Tues-Fri 12.00 to 4.00. Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre is South Eastern Melbourne’s premier art centre. Visit website for exhibition information. June 3 to 25 Invisibility by Zakiria Tahirian. Every community has invisible problems. This series of work is about refugees who have left everything behind and come to Australia, seeking a safe and peaceful place. All they want is safety, but there are many hidden feelings that aren’t being shared more widely with society. Many are struggling with memories and finding the right place to share their stories. This exhibition will use both coloured and invisible ink to uncover the feelings that many refugees grapple with, but are unable to find a place to express. Also, Gone to Carolina in my mind by Callum Jackson, a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This exhibition conveys optimism and hope during such an uncertain time through printmaking, drawing, painting and photography. The exhibition focuses on an individual’s productive and constructive use of time, even when faced with pandemic.

Whitehorse Artspace

Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill 3128. T (03) 9262-6250.

E artspace@whitehorse.vic.gov.au W www.whitehorseartspace.com.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 12.00 to 4.00.

To June 5 Exit & Return: Simon Grennan.

June 10 to July 24 Quarantine Castles: Nick Wellman – a photographic capture of two lockdowns, Quarantine Castles is a social portrait of residents isolating at home during the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions of 2020. Part one is an introspective time capsule of daily portraits of the photographers own household. During the second lockdown Wellman looked to the neighbourhood, photographing residents at their place of exile – a focus shift from one family to one community (see ad page 91).

Nick Wellman, Richard and Isabelle, 2020, digital print © the artist Courtesy the artist and Whitehorse Artspace

Yering Station Art Gallery

38 Melba Highway, Yarra Glen 3775.

T (03) 9730-0102. E artgallery@yering.com W www.yering.com Contact: Dr Ewen Jarvis.

H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 10.00 to 6.00.

May 29 to July 4 paintings by Mark Wotherspoon.

Zakiria Tahirian, Untitled, watercolour and ink on paper Courtesy the artist and Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre

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SYDNEY

Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre

25 Edgeworth David Avenue, Hornsby 2077.

W www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/lifestyle/arts-and-culture/ wallarobba H Tues-Sun 10.00 to 4.00.

Check website for changes to opening times.

June 4 to 20 Remagine Art Prize finalist exhibition.

Australian Galleries

15 Roylston Street, Paddington 2021.

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

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

To June 13 A Closer Look by Janet Luxton.

Also, Michael Fitzjames. June 22 to July 11 Jennifer Keeler-Milne.

White Rhino Artspace

Level 1, 62 Atchison Street, St Leonards 2065.

E whiterhinoartspace@gmail.com W www.whiterhinoartspace.com.au @whiterhinoartspace. H Wed-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00, or by appt.

Paddington Woollahra Annette Larkin Fine Art

Suite 4, 8 Soudan Lane, Paddington 2021.

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

H Wed-Fri 11.00 to 5.00, Sat 12.00 to 5.00.

Mon-Tues open by appointment only, always available on email. To June 26 Autumn 2021 – a group exhibition of contemporary Australian art featuring Tomescu, Clark, Klippel, Hearman, McKenna, Gazzard, and others.

Noel McKenna, Untitled, oil on canvas, 182.4 × 152cm Courtesy the artist, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and Annette Larkin Fine Art

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Defiance Gallery at Mary Place

12 Mary Place, Paddington 2021. T (02) 9557-8483.

E lauren@defiancegallery.com W www.defiancegallery.com Directors: Campbell Robertson-Swann & Lauren Harvey.

H Wed-Sat 11.00 to 5.00. To June 17 Ann Thomson.

Also, Scrim by Roger Crawford.

June 23 to July 15 (opening Sun June 20, 11am2pm) Peter Godwin. Also, Sculpture Group Show.

Fellia Melas Gallery

2 Moncur Street, Woollahra 2025. T (02) 9363-5616.

E art@fmelasgallery.com.au W www.fmelasgallery.com.au H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, Sun-Mon by appt only. From our Stockroom works by Boyd, Dickerson, Nolan, Crooke, Storrier, Whiteley, Canning, Rubin, Gleeson, Irving, Harvey, Macleod, Edwards, West, Paxton, Winch, Buchan and many others.

Brett Whiteley (1939-1992), The Dove, 1982, etching and collage, edition of 30, paper size 211 × 92cm Courtesy Fellia Melas Gallery

NSW

Galerie Têtu

@the Shac, Shop 4, 74/76 Hoddle Street, Robertson 2577. T 0407-683-739. E info@galerietetu.com.au W www.galerietetu.com.au H Fri-Mon 10.00 to 4.00, Tues-Thurs by appt, contact us by phone or email. To June 14 Formless Circumstance by Maria Gorton. July 3 to Aug 2 Bloomin Life by Stéphanie Têtu a collection of recent work reminiscent of love and travel.

Stéphanie Têtu, Calver would have loved it here, oil on canvas, 100 × 65cm Courtesy the artist and Galerie Têtu

Weecoon Street, Eden NSW 2551 – Nhawandyi / Nanda Beeyaa: I see you, killer whale – First Nations works from the BVRG collection.

BVRG: TARMAC Merimbula Airport, Departure Lounge: Arthur Kaine Drive, Merimbula NSW 2548 – Phil Small: Local Photographer Showcase.

Wollongong Art Gallery

Cnr Kembla and Burelli streets, Wollongong 2520.

T (02) 4227-8500. E gallery@wollongong.nsw.gov.au W www.wollongongartgallery.com H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat-Sun 12.00 to 4.00.

To June 6 WOW! What stories we Tell. Circus WOW is the Women of Wollongong playing and creating together to tell their stories through performance. The exhibition, curated by Libby Bloxham, celebrates 20 years of women’s community circus in the Illawarra.

To July 11 Wunderkammer: Saxon Reynolds – an exhibition which embraces the traditional Victorian ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, to explore the texture and beauty of discarded objects in their raw form and imbue them with new life and function, connecting disparate components to create contemporary relics.

To Aug 15 Agnieszka Golda, Martin Johnson and Jo Law: Alchemical Worlds – local artists Agnieszka Golda, Martin Johnson and Jo Law bring us in close proximity to bio-archivists of climate change: corals and trees through philosophies of alchemy and materials transformation. The works in this exhibition entangle textile art with creative technologies, and contemporary art with climate and materials sciences to offer a space for mindful and ecological awareness.

June 12 to Sept 5 Lore: IAVA – artists from the Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA) take on the intangibility of lore by exploring perception, memory, knowledge and the lure of place.

Sturt Gallery & Studios

Cnr Range Road and Waverley Parade, Mittagong 2575. T (02) 4860-2083. E shop@sturt.nsw.edu.au W www.sturt.nsw.edu.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00.

Visit Australia’s oldest design centre and cherished home of contemporary craft. May 30 to July 25 Drawn from the Garden – Fiona Hiscock, Sharon Peoples and Julie Ryder.

South Coast Bega Valley Regional Gallery

Zingel Place, Bega 2550. T (02) 6499-2222.

E gallery@begavalley.nsw.gov.au W gallery.begavalley.nsw.gov.au facebook.com/begavalleyregionalgallery Free entry.

H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 4.00.

To June 18 CONCRETE: art design architecture explores the innovative ways that concrete is being used by artists, designers and architects in Australia.

To Sept 17 BVRG: PORT Eden Welcome Centre:

Angela Forrest, Ceremonious Flight, 2020, synthetic polymer on birch, 100 × 80cm Photograph: Bernie Fischer Courtesy the artist and Wollongong Art Gallery

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ACT country, family and nature. Cope is a Quandamooka woman from North Stradbroke Island in South East Queensland. Her diverse practice of sculptural installations, video work and paintings explore the myths and methods of colonisation.

National Gallery of Australia (NGA)

Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra 2600.

T (02) 6240-6411. E information@nga.gov.au W nga.gov.au Timed entry. Bookings are essential and conditions apply. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00.

To June 14 Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London. Ticketed.

To July 4 Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now. Free. Visit website for full exhibition program.

Greater Canberra Megan Cope, The tide waits for no-one, 2020, cast glass Courtesy the artist, Milani Gallery, Queensland 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 June 6 Gallery 1a: Connections – Canberra PhotoConnect. Gallery 1b: ILLUMINATIONS by Colin Grant & Felicity Green. Gallery 2: In Plight by Sally Mumford. Gallery 3: Scratch the Surface: The Tin Shed Art Group – Jenny Adams, Noelle Bell, Julie Delves, Eva van Gorsel, Manuel Pfeiffer, Alan Pomeroy, Peggy Spratt and Delene White. Curated

by Manuel Pfeiffer. June 11 to 27 Gallery 1: Creative encounters with place – Kerry Johns, Lynne Flemons and Alison Ford. Gallery 2: fold/unfold by Wendy Dawes. Gallery 3: Trees Like Humans – Susanne Ilschner, Lani Shea-An and John Pratt.

Humble House gallery

93 Wollongong Street, Fyshwick 2609.

T (02) 6228-1988. W www.humblehouse.com.au H Wed-Sun 10.00 to 4.00. June 2 to 27 Longitude Latitude Solitude solo exhibition by Andrew Vukosav.

Vukosav’s two passions of aviation and photography come together to create an extraordinary series of images of the remote Australian outback. A gods-eye view of our harsh, vast, volatile and majestically beautiful country. Printed on large scale canvas the viewer can appreciate the colossal magnitude and beauty the Australian landscape offers. Vukosav also hopes this latest series will raise awareness about the importance of sustainability and conservation of our fragile Earth. ‘So that the treasure we have will endure for future generations to enjoy. After all its our only home we must protect it.’

Strathnairn Homestead Galleries

90 Stockdill Drive, Holt 2615. T (02) 6254-2134.

E info@strathnairn.com.au W www.strathnairn.com.au H Strathnairn Homestead Galleries Thurs-Sun 10.00 to 4.00. Wool Shed Gallery Thurs-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat-Sun 12.00 to 3.00.

June 3 to 27 Gallery 1: Cartography of Cloth – The Complex Weavers of Australia.

Gallery 2: Reflected Light by Jennifer Baird.

Sally Mumford, In Plight, 2020, installation detail Courtesy the artist and M16 Artspace

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Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre Lot 3238 , Stuart Highway, Katherine East 0850.

T (08) 8972-3751. E info@gyracc.org.au W www.gyracc.org.au H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00. Closed Sun and public hols.

Visit website for exhibition information.

Darwin

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 Daily 10.00 to 4.00. To June 27 Fresh: connecting new & old art – brings together works from the Aboriginal, Australian and South East Asian art collections. This exhibition will reveal diverse stories from within these collections and the broad geographic regions they represent.

ANKA – Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists

Harbour View Plaza, Ground Floor, 8 McMinn Street, Darwin 0800. T (08) 8981-6134.

E info@anka.org.au W www.anka.org.au, www.facebook.com/ankaartist Instagram: @ankaaboriginalartists. Working together to keep art, country and culture strong since 1987.

ANKA is the peak advocacy and support body for Aboriginal artists and art centres across Northern Australia. ANKA currently represents almost 50 Aboriginal owned remote community art centres and over 5,000 artists across four regions: the Kimberley, Arnhem Land, the Tiwi Islands and Darwin/Katherine.

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.

Visit website for programs and events. June 10 to July 17 YOU ARE HERE by Therese Ritchie.

Eko Nugroho, Kekerasan dan Korupsi, 2007, rayon thread on fabric, 43 × 79cm Purchased 2008, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Courtesy the artist and Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Northern Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA)

Vimy Lane, Parap 0820. T (08) 8981-5368.

E rita@nccart.com.au W nccart.com.au 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.

Outstation Gallery

8 Parap Place, Parap, Darwin 0820.

T (08) 8981-4822. W www.outstation.com.au H Tues 10.00 to 1.00, Wed-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00. Closed Sun-Mon. 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.

See website for exhibition program.

Therese Ritchie, They all look the same to me, 2020, digital inkjet print on paper, 50 × 80cm (image); 60 × 90cm (paper) On loan from the artist Courtesy the artist and Charles Darwin University Art Gallery

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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, Marian Drew, Ruki Famé, Fiona Foley, Stephen Hart, Donna Marcus, Michel Tuffery and Katarina Vesterberg.

To June 19 Riders in the Chariot by Leonard Brown.

Also, Attic by Donna Marcus.

Jane Théau, Portraits of Anca (detail), 2020, a video portrait of the dancer Anca Frankenhaeuser performing with her thread portrait, ANCA (BÖJANDE) Tarlatan, silk organza, thread and wire Courtesy the artist and artisan

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FireWorks Gallery

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. May 29 to July 17 Dystopia/Utopia: 2070 is an innovative project, which challenges artists, craftspeople, designers, and their audiences to consider solutions and innovations for possible dystopian futures. An Augmented Reality app provides a rich performative experience for visitors. July 24 to Sept 4 Tamworth Textile Triennial held every three years showcases the best of textile art from across the country, attracting artist participation from all states in Australia. Tension(s) 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial has been curated by Vic McEwan creating an important record of the changing nature and progress of textile practice from a national perspective. Tension(s) 2020 acknowledges that the world has long been a place under various tension(s), both harmonious and dissonant. In order to bear witness to, contribute to and respond to these tensions, the triennial will focus on the future of people and place through textile as a material and human experience as materiality.

Yinarr Maramali, Weaving Warrabah (Short Neck Turtle), 2019, Lomandra, water vine Courtesy the artist and artisan

160 Queensland

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 June 12 Which way?

– Fiona Omeenyo, Rosella Namok and Samantha Hobson. June 18 to July 24 River Totem Revival: Ian Waldron & Joanne Currie Nalingu.

Griffith University Art Museum 226 Grey Street, South Bank 4101.

T (07) 3735-7414. E artmuseum@griffith.edu.au W www.griffith.edu.au/art-museum/whats-on H Refer to gallery website for opening details.

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 June 5 Khadim Ali: Invisible Border – in his largest Australian solo exhibition to date, Hazara artist Khadim Ali explores the normalisation of war and the experience of refugees through a series of poetic installations and textile works. Also, Tay Haggarty: LINK – Tay Haggarty presents a series of new object-based works that explore slowness, productive ambiguity, and the shared experience of risk taking.

IMA Gala and Benefit Auction: Friday June 15 + an auction online at IMAbids.com. Tickets are selling fast for the IMA’s premier annual fundraising event hosted at The Calile Hotel. Gala guests and anyone across the country are invited to bid on artworks by a selection of local, Australia and international artists who have exhibited at the IMA over its 46 year history. Tickets: bit.ly/IMAgala2021.