Defiance Gallery Spring Newsletter

DEFIANCE GALLERY SPRING NEWSLETTER Red Mountains / Blue Cloud 2015, carborundum relief with hand painted wash on paper, Ed 1/10, 137 x 197cm On view at Defiance Gallery at The Yellow House until October 4

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS The next few months are going to be action packed for Defiance Gallery and our artists with a fantastic line-up of exhibitions. Here is a timeline outlining upcoming shows and their locations to help you plan your visits. You can read more detail about these exhibitions in the body of the newsletter.

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Paul Hopmeier: New Work - Defiance Gallery- 47 Enmore Rd Newtown |11-5 wed-sat 26 August – 3pm, 19 September

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Peter Godwin: Mountains/Clouds - Recent works – Defiance Gallery at the Yellow House- 59 Macleay St, Potts Point |11-5 wed-sat, 11-4 sun 16 September- 4 October Exhibition Preview 11am-5pm September 12-13 Opening 6-8pm September 16

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The 20th Annual Defiance Gallery Miniature Sculpture Exhibition – Defiance Gallery- 47 Enmore Rd Newtown |11-5 wed-sat

23 September – 24 October Exhibition Preview 11am-2pm September 20 Opening 6-8pm September 23

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FIVE ARTISTS | SEVEN DAYS The AWC Pungalina Gulf of Carpentaria Exhibition - Defiance Gallery at the Yellow House- 59 Macleay St, Potts Point |11-5 wed-sat, 11-4 sun 14 October – 8 November Exhibition Preview October 11 Opening 6-8pm October 14 Artists Talk Sunday 18 October Film screening Sat 31 October

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Daniel Kyle – Defiance Gallery- 47 Enmore Rd Newtown |11-5 wed-sat 28 October – 21 November Exhibition Preview 11am-2pm October 25 Opening 6-8pm October 28

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Michael Buzacott – Defiance Gallery- 47 Enmore Rd Newtown |11-5 wed-sat 25 November – 19 December Exhibition Preview 11am-2pm October 25 Opening 6-8pm November 22

DEFIANCE ARTISTS IN EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS

• Michael Buzacott Retrospective 25 September – 1 November

Drill Hall Gallery

Kingsley Street, off Barry Drive, Acton, ACT 12-5pm Wednesday to Sunday

• Tim Allen Contour

18 September -18 October Weswal Gallery 192 Brisbane St, Tamworth 10am-4pm Tues-Fr and 10am-3pm Sat-Sun

• Peter Godwin in The Art of Shakespeare Melbourne: Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, September 2 – October 1 Canberra: Australian Parliament House, October 8 – 25 Sydney: Sydney Opera House, November 2 – 15

• Anita Larkin in The Sculptural Felt International 5 September – 29 November

Wollongong Art Gallery Cnr Kembla and Burelli Streets, Wollongong 10am-5pm Tues-Fr and 12am-4pm Sat-Sun

Paul Hopmeier: New Work at Defiance Gallery- 47 Enmore Rd Newtown |11-5 wed-sat until 3pm Saturday September 19.

20th ANNUAL MINIATURE SCULPTURE EXHIBITION 23 September – 24 October | Defiance Gallery- 47 Enmore Rd Newtown |11-5 wed-sat Opening 6-8pm Wednesday 23 September | Preview 12-3pm Sunday 20 September 80 Artists |over 100 Sculptures $20,000 in prizes | Prize winners will be announced at 7pm Wednesday 23 September The Miniature Sculpture show is turning twenty! This milestone could not have been reached without the curiosity and engagement of each and every visitor and collector, the generosity of our prize sponsors and the extraordinary innovation of all the artists who have collectively made 2000 sculptures in the past two decades.

MINIATURE SHOW PRIZES 2015

The Kelton Plains Artist Residency

The Defiance Gallery Miniature Sculpture Prize

The CATalyst Palace Prize for an Emerging Artist

The Lady Nock Sculpture Prize

The RMB Prize for Bronze Sculpture

The Borton Sculpture Prize

The Normyle Artist Residency on the Monaro

FIVE ARTISTS | SEVEN DAYS 14 October – 8 November | Yellow House: 59 Macleay St, Potts Point

Euan Macleod | Watters Gallery Angus Nivison | Utopia Art Sydney Charmaine Pike | Defiance Gallery Dave Teer | Defiance Gallery Jason Capobianco | Title Artist Management

Following the extraordinary success of the inaugural AWC exhibition in 2013, which raised over $200,000 for the work of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, this year a second exhibition will celebrate the Pungalina-Seven Emu Sanctuary in the Gulf of Carpentaria. This important area, traversing the Calvert River and 55km of the coastal plains of the Gulf of Carpentaria, protects nearly 50 mammal species, over 200 bird species and over 100 reptiles.

In August of 2014, the AWC, in conjunction with Lea and Bill Ferris and Defiance Gallery, organised for five leading Australian artists - painters Euan Macleod, Angus Nivison and Charmaine Pike and sculptor Dave Teer alongside photographer Jason Capobianco and writer John McDonald, to travel to Pungalina. The artists spent a week exploring the 307,224 hectares of protected wilderness working closely with scientists from the AWC Research Centre.

AWC is a registered NFP organisation whose mission is the effective conservation of all Australian animals and their habitats. AWC manages 23 sanctuaries covering over three million hectares across Australia, with 80% of their staff working on the ground to implement conservation programs such as fire management and carry out strategic scientific research to help turn back the tide of extinction.

This year’s AWC exhibition will take place in the Yellow House in Potts Point to raise money for the AWC,

with each artist who undertook the trip donating a work developed from their experiences, the proceeds of which will go, in full, to the charity. In addition to this 6-8 smaller works from the trip will be for commercial sale courtesy of Watters Gallery, Utopia Art Sydney and Defiance Gallery.

The exhibition will also become the venue for a program of talks by scientists to discuss the Gulf of Carpentaria and the work of the AWC, as well as artists’ talks about their experiences at the PungalinaSeven Emu Sanctuary. Alongside this, acclaimed photographer, Jason Capobianco is producing a documentary, bringing together footage of the expedition and studio interviews with each of the artists by John McDonald, art critic for the Sydney Morning Herald.

The exhibition is a celebration of the Australian landscape and of our continued attempts to see our land from the perspectives of both the artists and the scientist.

MICHAEL BUZACOTT RETROSPECTIVE In addition to his solo show at Defiance Gallery opening in November, Michael Buzacott will be having a retrospective of his work, curated by Terence Maloon at the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra. You can read more about the exhibition at the Drill Hall Gallery website.

25 September – 1 November Drill Hall Gallery Kingsley Street, off Barry Drive, Acton, ACT 12-5pm Wednesday to Sunday

Michael Buzacott, 2011, Bios, steel, 271.5 x 175 x 28.5cm Image Courtesy of Keith Lo Bue

TIM ALLEN IN TAMWORTH AND HONG KONG Tim Allen has been working hard on several projects this year and has some exciting exhibitions appraching. His solo show Contour will open at Weswal Gallery in Tamworth on September 18, with the exhibition running until October 18. 192 Brisbane St, Tamworth.

10am-4pm Tues-Fr and 10am3pm Sat-Sun. In addition to this, following an expedition to Hong Hong and the Guilin Mountains of China with The Nock Art Foundation, Tim has developed a powerful body of work, which he will be exhibiting at the Nock Art Gallery in Hong Kong in November. Details of this exhibition will be on the Nock Art Gallery website as soon as they are confirmed.

Tim Allen, 2014, Afternoon light I (Zhangjiajie), mixed media on paper, 42x56cm

PETER GODWIN IN THE ART OF SHAKESPEARE 2015 marks 25 years since John Bell founded the Bell Shakespeare Company and also heralds his retirement. In celebration of the company’s achievements in bringing the works of Shakespeare to life across Australia, Bell has invited 13 leading Australian artists, including our very own Peter Godwin, to respond to a work of the Bard. The exhibition, curated by Nick Vickers, is currently touring the following cities: Melbourne Sofitel Melbourne on Collins September 2 – October 1 Canberra Australian Parliament House October 8 – 25 Sydney Sydney Opera House November 2 – 15 Peter Godwin, 2015, Where be your Gibes Now? oil and acrylic on linen, 123 x 102cm Image courtesy of Stephen Oxenbury

PEARLS CHARITY AUCTION

The Annual PEARLS Charity Auction is scheduled for October 17 this year. Several artists including Elisabeth Cummings, Peter Godwin, Tim Allen, Dave Teer, Daniel Kyle, Charmaine Pike, Luke Sciberras, Alison Mackay and Richard Morecroft have already generously donated works to this year’s auction, which will take place at The Art Gallery of NSW. The 2014 auction was the most successful in the organisation’s history, with a staggering $85,000 raised.

The PEARLS auction raises money for vital research into the cause and the early detection of Preeclampsia, which affects 1 in 10 women in pregnancy. The PEARLS research team, under the auspices of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Campbelltown Hospital are the world leaders in their field, working towards a system of early detection through screening.

To read more about the great work PEARLS is doing and to buy a ticket to the auction, please visit their website.

ARTIST PROFILE ISSUE 32 Issue 32 of Artist Profile magazine is now of the shelves of all good newsagents and we couldn’t be prouder of Defiance artists Dan Kyle, who has been interviewed by Owen Craven, and Peter Godwin, who features on the cover, with a fantastic article by John McDonald.

Peter and Dan both have upcoming exhibitions at Defiance Gallery, with Peter showing his new body of large scale carborundum reliefs Mountains / Clouds at the Yellow House (Sept 16-Oct 4). Developed in the UK with master printmaker Andrew Smith (famous for his work with William Kentridge , Howard Hodgkin and Richard Long), these arresting works are a continuation of Peter’s recent series of calligraphic landscapes.

Dan Kyle will also be having his very first solo show of superb recent landscape painting at Defiance Gallery between Oct 28 – Nov 20.

Dan Kyle – Image courtesy of Stephen Oxenbury

NEW WEBSITE After almost a decade on the job, the Defiance Gallery website is having a much-needed makeover.

We are looking forward to relaunching it with cleaner lines a more user-friendly structure in the next weeks. Please bear with us during the transition.

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