COMMISSIONED BY JENNIFER GUERRINI MARALDI

Jennifer Guerrini Maraldi (nee Heathcote) is a leading specialist in the art of First Nations Australians. Following her years as a private dealer, where she exhibited regularly at The Saatchi Gallery and Masterpiece London, amongst others, she founded JGM Gallery in 2017. The gallery has since developed a broad program, exhibiting the work of both British Contemporary artists and Aboriginal Australians.

Guerrini Maraldi was born in Melbourne, Australia where, in the 1970’s, she was the owner and director of the Powell Street Gallery in South Yarra. At Powell Street Gallery she advanced the careers of many artists, placing their work in significant public and private collections, including The National Gallery of Australia and various State Galleries. It was also during this time that she was appointed by the Australian Government as a valuation specialist for Contemporary Australian Art.

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An examination of recent acquisitions from JGM Gallery’s collection

Julius Killerby analyses recent significant acquisitions by JGM Gallery. These include works by Jimmy Barrmula Yunupingu, The Burton Women’s Collaborative & Mabel Juli.

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Tim Allen’s The Water In The Well

Matthew Collings analyses the work of Tim Allen in an essay produced on the occasion of the artist’s March 2023 exhibition, The Water In The Well. Titled What Is This Strange Religion?, Colling’s essay examines Allen’s visual cadence, his inspirations and his intentions - or lack thereof - as an artist.

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Matthew Collings

Matthew Collings is an art critic, writer, broadcaster, and artist. Following his studies at Byam Shaw School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London, Collings accepted a position at Artscribe in 1979. He then became the editor of Artscribe, a role which he held between 1983 and 1987. Between 1989 and 1995 Collings worked as a producer and presenter on BBC’s The Late Show, introducing artists such as Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst to British television for the first time. In his time at the BBC, Collings also wrote and presented documentary films on artists such as Donald Judd, Georgia O’Keeffe and Willem de Kooning. In 1997 Collings authored Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst, one of the most significant publications to chronicle the rise of the Young British Art (YBA) Movement.

Collings has also written and presented various television series for Channel 4, including Matt’s Old Masters, Impressionism: Revenge of the Nice, The Me Generations: Self Portraits and This Is Modern Art, which won him a Bafta in 2000. Between 1997 and 2005, Collings presented the Channel 4 TV programme on the Turner Prize and in October 2010, he wrote and presented the BBC2 series, Renaissance Revolution. He has been the regular art critic for The Evening Standard since 2015.

Julius Killerby

Julius Killerby is an artist and the Manager of JGM Gallery. He has more than 7 years of experience working within the Art Industry, including his selection as an assistant for the Australian Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. He has previously held positions at Metro Gallery, Scott Livesey Gallery and Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. He has also worked alongside The Torch, an organisation dedicated to the promotion of artworks by incarcerated or ex-incarcerated First Nations Australians. Within the context of his own practice, he has exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Art Gallery of Ballarat & Geelong Gallery. His work focuses on the psychological ripple effects of certain cultural and societal transformations. Part of his practice also includes portraiture and an attempt to, piece by piece, sharpen his ability to convey the human condition. Killerby completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017 and was an Archibald finalist in the same year, the youngest person to achieve this distinction.

Previous sitters for Killerby include the former Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Ron Walker AC CBE, Paul Little AO, Robert Richter QC, Julian Burnside QC & Brendan Murphy QC.

In the studio with Tim Allen

In the weeks preceding Tim Allen’s exhibition, The Water In The Well, Julius Killerby visited the artist in his East London studio. The visit was an opportunity for the two to discuss Allen’s practice generally, and his upcoming exhibition specifically. Both also discuss Allen’s upbringing and his influences - artistic or otherwise. The result of this exchange was a transcript of their conversation, prefaced with a brief written piece by Killerby.

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Gurrutu: The Art Of Mulkun Wirrpanda

On the occasion of Gurrutu: The Art Of Mulkun Wirrpanda Julius Killerby sat down with William Stubbs (Coordinator of the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre) to discuss the life and work of the late Mulkun Wirrpanda. The conversation casts light, not just on the life of a woman with formidable artistic talent, but also on ‘Gurrutu’ itself, what Stubbs describes as a “...matrix of meaning which is too complex for casual comprehension.”

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Between November of 2022 and January of 2023, JGM Gallery exhibited Creature Comforts, a group show of 14 textile artists, curated by Karolina Dworska. In this issue of the JGM Review, Dworska writes about the show, contextualizing the ideas conveyed by the exhibiting artists.