Helen Mueller - Ships in the Night

HELEN MUELLER ships in the night 20 May to 14 June 2014

Helen Mueller ships in the night 20 May to 14 June 2014

Humble pods pass us by unnoticed, to deliver their cargo of life. They are like ships in the night. Once spent, they vanish, their beauty and importance unacknowledged. In making this work, I wanted to halt their disappearance, pay them close attention, and celebrate their wonder.

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 11’ 2014 woodblock print + wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 17’ 2014 woodblock print + wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 8’ 2014 woodblock print, edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 16’ 2014 woodblock print + wash, edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 10’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 9’ 2014 woodblock print + wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 12’ 2014 woodblock print + wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 2’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 6’ 2014 woodblock print +wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 5’ 2014 woodblock print + wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 1’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 14’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 4’ 2014 woodblock print + wash edition of 10 variable 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 7’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 13’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 3’ 2014 woodblock print edition of 10 60 x 30cm (paper)

Helen Mueller ‘Ships in the Night 15’ 2014 woodblock print 60 x 30cm (paper)

HELEN MUELLER SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2013 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2009 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2007 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2005 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2004 Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

1999 James Harvey Gallery, Sydney.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 ‘Revelations: Sculpture from the RMIT University Art

Collection, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.

2013 ‘Christmas show’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

Silk Cut Awards for Linout Prints finalists’ exhibition, Glen

Eira Gallery, Melbourne

‘Linolschnitt heute’ award, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany.

‘Paper Works II’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2012 The Australian Bookbinders Exhibition XV, Art Gallery of

New South Wales Research Library, Sydney

‘Lessons in History Vol. II: Democracy’, grahame galleries

and editions, Brisbane.

‘Chiaroscuro’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Artworks and Artwords’, Project Space, National Art

School, Sydney.

‘Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian

Prints, Tweed River Gallery, Murwillumbah NSW

‘Paper Now’, The Incinerator Art Space, NSW. 2011 Workshop exhibition, Skopelos Art Foundation, Skopelos

Island, Greece.

Sydney Printmakers 50th anniversary touring show – NSW

regional galleries and Manly Art Gallery.

‘Body Language’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Art + Humour Me’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Personal Space: Contemporary and Australian Prints’,

Manly Art Gallery and touring.

‘Tasmania 1: 100,000 Mapping the Island’, touring show

in TAS. 2010 ‘Linolschnitt heute VII’, Staedtische Galerie, Bietigheim-

Bissingen, Germany.

‘Paper Works’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2009 ‘Drawcard 09’, National Art School, Sydney.

‘Tasmania 1: 100,000 Mapping the Island’, IXL Atrium, Hobart.

‘The Flower Show’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2008 ‘In Your Dreams’ touring QLD and NSW regional galleries.

Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne.

B R E N D A M AY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (cont’d) 2008 ‘Memento Mori’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Sculpture 2008 - In the Elements’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

Libris Awards: Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace,

Mackay Qld.

Swiss + Oz Art Expo, Swiss Australian Cultural Assoc. &

Consulate General of Switzerland, Bondi Pavillion.

‘Silk + Sand, Chinese & Australian Prints’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery.

‘Silk + Sand’, Central Academy, Beijing, China.

‘In Your Dreams’, Amerika Haus Munich and Museum fuer

Papier, Lenningen, Germany – touring to Australia.

2007 Christmas show, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Books.07 works of imagination’, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD.

‘I’m Mad as Hell…’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Sydney Prints’, Hawkesbury River Gallery, Windsor and

Tamworth Regional Galleries.

2006 ‘Sydney Prints’, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

‘pARTnership’, Australian & Canadian Art, Alcan, Plaza

Terrace, Bris.

‘In Your Dreams’, The Art Gallery of SW Manitoba and

Winnepeg, Canada – touring to Germany.

‘Small’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

2005 ‘Object Show’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

10th Sydney Art on Paper Fair, Sydney.

Thai-Australian Contemporary Prints 2005, Chiang Mai

University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

‘Couples/Collaborators & Other Partnerships’ Brenda May Gallery.

‘Collaboration’, Sydney Printmakers exhibition touring

Gosford, Tweed River and Noosa Regional Galleries.

2004 ‘Books 2004’, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Queensland.

‘Art for Labor’, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Woollahra, Sydney.

‘Three Colours-White’, Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

‘Scratch, Pull, Grind & Scrape’, Sydney Printmakers

exhibition, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton NSW. COLLECTIONS City Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of NSW Research Library, Sydney; Federal Court of Australia, Melbourne; Silk Cut Foundation, Melbourne; Sutherland Shire Council, Sydney; Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation, Sydney; Artspace, Mackay, QLD.

G A L L E R Y

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