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SUMMER 2018
VOLUME 4
NUMBER 1
2018 EXH IBI TI ON C ALEND AR 7 February – 24 February On-site - group exhibition Black Box Projects: Caroline Garcia 1 March – 17 March Art Month Collectors’ Space Black Box Projects: Todd Fuller 21 March – 14 April Straight Outta Canberra, curated by Alexander Boynes 18 April – 12 May Peter Tilley | Helen Mueller Black Box Projects: Tania Smith 16 May – 2 June Paul White | Daniel Shipp Black Box Projects: Todd Fuller 6 June – 23 June Matt Chun | MUGGED! - group exhibition Black Box Projects: Alex Karaconji 27 June – 21 July Janet Tavener | Daniel O’Toole Black Box Projects: Daniel O’Toole 25 July – 11 August reminiSCENT, curated by Megan Fizell 15 August – 1 September Sybil Curtis | Bridget Dolan Black Box Projects: Tyler Payne 13 September – 16 September Sydney Contemporary: Charlie Sheard 5 September – 22 September Charlie Sheard 26 September – 20 October Dion Horstmans | Julie Brooke Black Box Projects: Claire Anna Watson 24 October – 10 November Al Munro | Leslie Oliver 14 November – 1 December Catherine O’Donnell | Alexander Boynes Black Box Projects: Alexander Boynes 5 December – 22 December Todd Fuller | Carol Murphy Black Box Projects: Todd Fuller
EXH IBIT ION C ALEND AR ON-SITE 7 to 24 February 2018
Catherine O’Donnell Yates Court, London 2017 pencil on paper 50 x 56cm
Simple lines and forms constantly surround us. We house ourselves in geometrical shapes, work in towering blocks and marvel over inventive configurations of contours and boundaries. On-site brings together a group of artists with differing aesthetics who have chosen the built environment as the subject of their work. Interpreting urban landscapes, enlivening industrial sites and representing domestic structures, the artworks in this exhibition will reveal the unnoticed elements, hidden moments and engaging angles of our everyday surroundings
CAROLINE GARCIA Black Box Projects 7 to 24 February 2018 Caroline Garcia is a culturally promiscuous, performance maker. She works across live performance and video through a hybridised aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery.
Caroline Garcia, Primitive Nostalgia 2014, digital video - 5:29mins
Garcia’s practice is shaped by alterity echoing notions of cultural ambiguity and displacement by adopting the role of shape shifter - sliding into the gaps between cultures, experiences of otherness, and timeless clichés of exotic femininity. She takes an intersectional approach to contemporary dance (read: twerking), the politics of cultural identity and the diasporic body.
ART MONTH COLLECTORS’ SPACE curated by Kate Britton 1 to 17 March 2018 Featuring the collections of Abdul Abdullah, Tony Albert, Tess Allas, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, and Emma Price.
Each collector has a deep and enduring connection with the local arts community and the artists in their collections, which reflect these relationships. This year’s Collectors’ Space, generously supported by AON, will shine a light on these stories of connection, engagement, and the journey of an art work from studio to collection and beyond. It will showcase contemporary collections that traverse an exciting diversity of artists, practices and mediums, and share insights into the incredible works on display, each of which has a life of their own beyond their present ‘owners’. - Kate Britton, Art Month Artistic Director
TODD FULLER, Unite Project Black Box Projects 1 to 17 March 2018 In the face of the postal plebiscite, Sydney based artist Todd Fuller undertook a new iteration of his video, Unite Project; the first edition being shown for Mardi Gras 2016. This project is a participatory artwork surveying a range of responses to love, marriage equality, and the LGBTQIA community. (Right and Cover): Todd Fuller Unite project - 3rd Generation (ongoing) 2017 mixed media animation - 5:54min, infinite loop (Soundtrack: Jesse Ledesma)
It was once said that the best thing to come out of Canberra was the Hume Highway, yet in the space of a decade the national capital has gone from being a place where residents said ‘Don’t tell anyone I’m from Canberra’ to now saying ‘Don’t tell anyone ABOUT Canberra’. More than anything this has to do with the city finally developing a personality independent of what happens up at Parliament House, and the recognition of the rich cultural sector bubbling below the surface.
STRAIGHT OUTTA CANBERRA curated by Alexander Boynes 21 March to 14 April 2018
Once upon a time the rite of passage for ANU School of Art graduates was to leave Canberra as soon as possible in order to ‘make it’. The irony is that internationally recognised artists who have called Canberra home (including Alison Alder, Vivienne Binns, Robert Boynes, eX de Medici, Rosalie Gascoigne, Richard Larter, Mandy Martin, Jörg Schmeisser, Ruth Waller etc. etc.) in part made it because they stayed. Following in these footsteps, Straight Outta Canberra presents a group of ambitious emerging artists who have realised the benefits of an easygoing city that is host to every national institution under the sun. Artists include Tom Buckland, Tony Curran, Sanne Koelemij, Julian Laffan, Cat Mueller, Dionisia Salas, Rebecca Selleck and Rosalind Lemoh. - Alexander Boynes, Curator
Cat Mueller, O Romeo Romeo 2017 acrylic on polyester, 162 x 122cm
Tom Buckland, Reality Travelators 3, 2016, wood, electronics, found objects, peephole viewer, dimensions variable
GA LL ERY NEWS TODD FULLER
TODD FULLER ▶ Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Purchased by: ▶ Parliament House Art Collection ▶ Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. ▶ Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Todd Fuller His name was Icarus 2017, acrylic, chalk and charcoal on paper 57 x 76cm
Todd Fuller, Icarus of the Hill 2017, hand drawn animation - 4:50mins, edition of 8. Composer: Paul Smith, cello: Steve Meyer
MYLYN NGUYEN ▶ Purchased by University of Wollongong Art Collection.
Catherine O’Donnell, Inhabited Space 2015-16, charcoal on paper, charcoal wall drawing, 340 x 990cm (overall)
CATHERINE O’DONNELL ▶ Acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Mylyn Nguyen, (L) Bear will be impressed, but we must stop and get him some stones too and (R) To the east. The Mountain Gods will know 2017, watercolour and ink on paper, twine, 110 x 80 x 6cm each
WARATAH LAHY ▶ Purchased by Canberra Museum and Art Gallery. Waratah Lahy, Winter Garden 1 2017, watercolour and gouache on aquabord, 10 x 10cm
Catherine O’Donnell, Available for Public Hire 2009, charcoal and graphite on paper, 150 x 430cm
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