STELARC
KATE BERGIN
STEPHEN BIRD
LEAH BRADY
AMELIA CARROLL
PETER COOLEY
STEFAN DUNLOP
BERN EMMERICHS
RON FRANCIS
TODD HUNTER
AARON KINNANE
ALESANDRO LJUBICIC
JOANNA LOGUE
CAMIE LYONS
LILY MAE MARTIN
JOHN PASTORIZA-PIÑOL
SONIA PAYES
AMELDA READ FORSYTHE
JENNIFER RIDDLE
JULIA RITSON
ANDREW ROGERS
LUKE SCIBERRAS
JAMES SMEATON
VIPOO SRIVILASA
DICK WATKINS
JOSHUA YELDHAM
When the high-priest of American modernism, critic Clement Greenberg, visited Australia in the early 1960s he singled out one artist for especial praise: Dick Watkins. In 1968 when Watkins was featured in the ground-breaking exhibition, The Field, the then art critic for The Age, Patrick McCaughey declared that in Watkins’ painting, The Mooch, both “the opening of the field and the loosening of the paint promise a view of the future.” It is little wonder that national, state and private museums Australia-wide clamour to secure his worksThe National Gallery of Victoria alone holds 21 of his works.
Now in his 80s, it has become abundantly apparent that the shy and retiring artist is amongst the ranks of the Grand Old Masters of Australian art. His gestural mastery of the brush secures his place alongside the likes of Tony Tuckson and Ian Fairweather. Whether he is dealing with harsh calligraphic monochromes or howling, anarchic colouration, the sheer boldness of his line-work is without peer.
It is an understatement to say that the gestural and the abstract are difficult to master, as most artists learn. Most despair of achieving the Zen-like potency of simplicity that is required. The challenge is in both composition and execution both of which Watkins has clearly conquered, despite, or perhaps because of, being largely self-taught (between 19551958 he did occasionally attend the Julian Ashton Art School and East Sydney Technical College, Sydney). If Watkins had teachers, they are Picasso and Pollock, the maestros of the Gesture.
Watkins is renowned as an ‘artists’ artist’, one happiest in the studio rather than sipping champagne at openings. He is rigorously devoted to his practice. Each canvas exudes a stringent physicality, tearing into the retina like the crashing crescendo of an operatic extravaganza. Wherever they reside they make the walls hum with almost hallucinatory vigour. Amongst the last of his generation, Watkins paints like a man a third of his age while his paintings remain inarguably ageless. (Dr. Ashley Crawford, 2018)
Dick Watkins was born in 1937 in Sydney, Australia. As an artist, Dick Watkins is largely self-taught, although between 1955 and 1958 he occasionally attended the Julian Ashton Art School and East Sydney Technical College in Sydney.
Watkins held his first solo exhibition at The Barry Stern Galleries in 1963 and from 1966-69 was a driving force amongst the artists of Sydney’s Central Street Gallery.
In 1968 Watkins was a key participant in the National Gallery of Victoria’s landmark exhibition, The Field , the first major survey exhibition of colour field painting and geometric abstraction in Australia. In 1970 Watkins began a decade long association with Chandler Coventry, exhibiting at the Hargrave Street Gallery and at Coventry Gallery.
While associated with Yuill/Crowley Gallery, in 1985 Watkins represented Australia at the XVIII Biennial de Sao Paulo in Brazil. In 1989 the Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery celebrated Watkins’ significant contribution to Australian art with a major retrospective exhibition and in 1993 the National Gallery of Australia mounted the exhibition Dick Watkins in context: an exhibition from the collection of the National Gallery.
A pioneer of abstract painting in Australia, Watkins is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, most regional gallery collections and numerous distinguished corporate and private art collections in Australia.
1937 Born, Sydney NSW Lives & works Sydney, NSW
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Dick Watkins, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2023 Abstract and sketches of pain done under duress with eyebrow pencil and lipstick, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2022 Black & White Paintings, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Dick Watkins 2019, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Iconic Paintints, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Painting Against Time, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2016 Prime Numbers, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2015 Torrid Zone Storm Tactics, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2014 Dick Watkins: Love of Women, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland
2014 Six Paintings You Must See Before You Die, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Seven Paintings You Must See Before You Die, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2013 ‘The Great Contender’, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2012 Welcome to Chagrin Falls, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2011 Currents, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2010 Recent Work, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2010 Round the World in 56 Days, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2008 Invisible Pictures, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2007 ‘better git it in your soul’, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 13 Landscapes, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2006 Dick Watkins, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 New Work 2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2003 New Paintings 2003, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney
2002 Abstraction, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Newcastle Lights, John Miller Galleries, Newcastle
2001 Marks and Angles, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
2000 New Paintings, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1999 Recent Work 1998-1999, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1998 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1997 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Paintings 1993-1996, Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney
1995 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1995 Twilight of the Gods, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1994 Twin Peaks, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1993 Dick Watkins in Context: An Exhibition from the Collection of the National Gallery.
1993 15 January-15 July, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1993 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1993 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1992 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1992 Works on Paper, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1992 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1990 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1989 Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery, New South Wales
1989 Arteries, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1989 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1988 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1988 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1987 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1987 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1987 Paintings - Drawings 1981-1987, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth
1986 Dick Watkins: Australia, XVlll Bienal de Sao Paulo, Heide Park and Art Gallery, Victoria
1986 Dick Watkins: A Retrospective, Broken Hill City Art Gallery, New South Wales; Manly Art
1986 Gallery and Museum, Sydney
1986 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1986 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1985 Dick Watkins: Australia, XVlll Bienal de Sao Paulo, Parque Iberapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1985 Yuill/ Crowley, Sydney
1984 Style Master, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1984 Recent Paintings, Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Continued)
1984 Pinacotheca, Melbourne
1983 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1983 Pinocotheca, Melbourne
1982 Yuill/Crowley, Sydney
1981 Paintings 1981, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1980 Paintings 1980, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1979 Landscapes, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1979 Recent Paintings, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1977 Paintings from Hong Kong, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1975 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1975 New Paintings from Paris, Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1973 Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1972 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1971 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1970 38 Hargrave Street, Paddington, Sydney
1969 Retrospective, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1968 Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1967 Recent Paintings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1966 Paintings, Central Street Gallery, Sydney
1965 Exhibition of Interesting Pictures, Watters Gallery, Sydney
1963 The Barry Stern Galleries, Sydney
Allens Arthur Robinson
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
Broken Hill City Art Gallery
Gold Coast City Art Gallery
Geelong Art Gallery
High Court of Australia
Holmes à Court Collection
Queensland Art Gallery
Laverty Collection
Loti and Victor Smorgon Collection
Macquarie University
Maitland Regional Gallery
Monash University
Moree Plains Regional Gallery
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Museum of Modern Art at Heide
National Australia Bank
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
New England Regional Art Museum
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Philip Morris Collection
RGC Limited Collection
Sports and Entertainment Ltd
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick
TarraWarra Museum of Art
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
The British Museum, London
The Laverty Collection
The University of Queensland Art Museum
The University of New South Wales
The University of Melbourne
The University of Western Australia
University of Tasmania
Wesfarmers Collection, Western Australia
Wollongong City Art Gallery
17 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER 2024
After seeing some owls at the Powerhouse Museum by Joyce Gittoes, it struck me how relevant they look in colour & decoration to the Australian landscape, with their added air of mystery.
It has taken a while to adapt the decoration of the owls to incorporate a feeling of the Blue Mountains landscape. There is a big acknowledgement minoan, mycenean, pre Golden-Age Greek ceramics, Islamic, modernism & Papuan New Guinea sculpture.
Based in the Blue Mountains, Peter Cooley’s work cuts across painting, ceramics and installation, and draws on his natural environment as a major source of inspiration. Early 20th century German expressionism and modernist ceramics are also of major interest.
“Highly respected by his peers and an acknowledged inspiration for the younger generation of ceramists, Cooley also enjoys an international reputation and his works can be found in museums and private collections across Australia and Europe. While clay has been at the centre of his artistic practice for some 15 (plus) years, Cooley was first renowned as a painter. Following his studies at the Brisbane College of Art and then at Sydney’s City Art Institute until 1979, he created boldly-coloured paintings inspired by pop culture, some of which can be seen in the collections of the Australian National Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria. When asked in interviews about the reasons for eventually swapping canvas for clay, Cooley recollects his first encounters with the ceramic medium as a twelve-year-old: his mother agreed to enrol him in a local Saturday pottery course in Tweed Heads and he has never forgotten how much he enjoyed Mrs Helen Moffatt’s classes...
The freedom that clay offered to “play” with space and time fascinated Cooley. He could extend his painting into the third dimension on forms that could be shaped and reshaped, that could stand while defying gravity or be reconstructed with a hammer. He could push the medium to its limits. Then there was the surface to explore: winding its way around the forms and through space, the thickly-applied and textured majolica glazes, splashed or painted with quick brushstrokes, so luscious, glowing, painterly.
Like his earlier painting practice, Cooley’s ceramic sculptures owe greatly to his interest in early twentieth century German expressionism and Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter artists. He particularly draws out Emil Nolde. Like the teenage Cooley drawn to artefacts from the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Sepik River displayed in Surfers Paradise galleries, Nolde sought inspiration for his art in the regions’ distinctive imagery and aesthetic.”
- Eva Czernis-Ryl, Garland Magazine, 2019.
1956 Born, Born Murwillumbah, Australia
Lives and works NSW
EDUCATION
1974-76 Diploma of Fine Art, Brisbane College of Art
1976-79 Diploma of Art, City Art Institute, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2020 “From Samarkand via Leura”, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2019 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 “Environment, Colour, Tone”, Martin Browne Contemporary, Syydney
2017 “Melbourne to Leura - 2003 to 2017”, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2015 Marsupial II, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2014 Marsupial I, Martin Browne Contemporary at Melbourne Art Fair
2013 Through the Archipelago II, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2012 Through the Archipelago I, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2011 Through the Archipelago, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2010 Gould Galleries Melbourne Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2009 Where we know with Toni Warburton, Wollongong City Gallery
2009 Focused, Bathurst Regional Gallery
2008 Peter Cooley: Mixture, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Peter Cooley, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2005 Peter Cooley, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Peter Cooley: Jamison Valley Panorama, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2005 Peter Cooley, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2003 More Tea Towels, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2002 Central and Northern Australia revisited (after the tea towels), Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1999 Paintings from Central and Northern Australia, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1998 From Leura to Blackheath, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1996 Peter Cooley, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1994 Homemade and Slutty: Paintings and Ceramics, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1993 Paintings and Ceramics, Gallery Rhumbarallas, Melbourne
1992 Screen or Scream, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1992 Peter Cooley, Sammlung Gallerie North, Germany
1991 Peter Cooley: Paintings on Metal, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1990 Peter Cooley: Paintings, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1989 Ceramic Show, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1989 Peter Cooley, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1988 Peter Cooley, Girgis and Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1986 Show Time, Studio 666, Paris
1985 Peter Cooley, Mori Gallery, Sydney
AWARDS
2014 Highly Commended, Woollahra Small Aculpture Prize
2010 Gold Coast International Ceramic award
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Artbank
Powerhouse Museum Sydney Macquarie Group
Bathurst Regional Gallery
Goulburn Regional Gallery
Wollongong City Gallery
University of Queensland Art Museum
The Australian National Gallery, Canberra NRMA
The British Museum, London Gold Coast City Art Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Art Gallery of South Australia
Phillip Morris Collection
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Mollison/Langford Collection
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Rococo Colonial”, Hazelhurst & Bathurst Regional Gallery
2018 Sydney Contemporary 2018, Scott Livesey Galleries
2018 “Wild”, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2017 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2017 Martin Browne Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 From Nature, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2016 Winter Group Show, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
2016 Gold Coast International Ceramic Award, Gold Coast Art Centre
2015 21 Casula Powerhouse, Sydney
2015 Martin Browne Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney
2015 Previewfor Art Month, Martin Browne Contemporary, NSW
2014 Sculpture Show, Wangaratta Regional Gallery, VIC
2014 Woollaha Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra, NSW
2013 Woollaha Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra, NSW
2012 Picturing the Great Divide, Blue Mountains Regional Gallery, NSW.
2012 Animal Human, Univeristy of Queensland Art Museum, QLD
2009 Sylvania Waters, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2007 Pots of Paint, The Delmar Gallery, NSW
2006 Living Treasures, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
2006 Director’s Choice, Gould Galleries, Melbourne, no. 18, illustrated
2003 Home Sweet Home: works from the Peter Fay collection, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, illustrated
2003 Hung, Drawn & Quartered - 25 Years, 25 Artists, Tin Sheds Gallery, Faculty of Architecture, Sydney University, illustrated
2001 GOULD contemporary, Gould Galleries, Melbourne
2000 Australian Landscape, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2000 Thinking Aloud, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1999 Exchange, Ray Hughes Gallery at the George Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Swish, Casula Powerhouse, Casula
1997 Ceramic Show, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1997 Queers Crossing, Ivan Dougherty, Sydney
1996 Group Exhibition, Craftspace, Sydney
1996 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1996 Contemporary Australian Abstraction, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Road to Love, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
1996 Ray Hughes at Doggett Street Studio, Brisbane
1995 Asia and Oceania Influence, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1995 It’s about time, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1993 Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings, Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection
1993 Rotary Collection of Australian Art from NGA, Touring Sydney &Melbourne
1993 After the Field, Manly Art Gallery, NSW
1993 We are Here, ACCA, Melbourne
1993 Sshh…, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1993 Rotary Travelling Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1992 You are Here, ACCA Melbourne, IMA Brisbane, CAS Melbourne
1992 Wish Hard, Biennale Satellite, Wollongong City Gallery
1992 Ceramic Design Group, Mori Annexe, Sydney
1992 We are Here, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1991 Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney
1991 Rules for Drawing, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1991 Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Art within Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Art Frankfurt 1990, Mori Gallery and Frankfurt
1990 Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1988 Invitational Prize, Centre Regional Gallery, Queensland
1988 Dissonances, Espace, Vendome, Paris
1988 The New Generation, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1987 Modern Objects, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1987 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Grand Palais, Paris
John McBride Collection
Peter Fay Collection
Allen, Allen and Hemsley Collection
University of Queensland Art Museum
1987 A First Look, Drill Hall, ANG
1987 Girgis & Klym Gallery, Melbourne
1985 Queensland Works, University of Queensland Art Museum, Queensland
1985 Colour-Form-Pattern, University of Tasmania Art Gallery, Tasmania
1984 Five from Sydney, Loaded Brush Gallery, Seattle, USA
1983 Landscape, Mori Gallery, Sydney
WINNIE NAKAMARRA - PINTUPI
Winnie (Bernadette) Nakamarra was born in hopital in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in 1961. She is the daughter of world renowned Papunya Tula artist Makinti Napanangka, and Nyukuti Tjupurrula, the older brother of Nosepeg Tjupurrula. Following the establishment of Walungurru (Kintore community) during the homelands movement, Winnie and her family returned to their traditonal Country.
Winnie often paints the site Lupulgna, the place where her mother first encountered settlerAustralians on camels as a young woman. Lupulngna, a rockhole site south of Kintore, is associated with the Pewee (Magpie-lark) Tjukurrpa. During mythological times, a group of ancestral women visited this site holding ceremonies associated with the area, before continuing their travels north to Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald).
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
2011 ‘Recent Pintupi Works’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2012 ‘Papunya Tula Artists: Women Painters from Kintore and Kiwirrkura’, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
2012 ‘Desert Mob 2012’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2012 ‘Tjukurrpa Ngaatjanya Maru Kamu Tjulkura - Dreaming In Black And White’, ReDot Gallery, Singapore.
2012 ‘Community IV’ – Celebrating Forty Years Of Papunya Tula Artists, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2013 ‘Community V’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2014 ‘Community VI’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2021 ‘Papunya: 50 years 1971-2021’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
2021 ‘Community XII – 50 Years Of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2022 ‘Tjukurrtjanu Irriţitja Tjunta – Belonging to the Dreaming for a long time’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2023 ‘Kutjungkarrinyi – Gathering Together, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. 2023 ‘Community IX – Recent Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
These paintings depict designs associated with the site of Lupulnga, a rockhole situated south of the Kintore Community. The Peewee (Magpie-lark) Dreaming is associated with this site. During ancestral times a group of women visited this site holding ceremonies associated with the area, before continuing their travels north to Kaakuratintja (Lake MacDonald), and later the Kintore area. As they travelled they gthered large quantities of the edible fruit known as pura (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa) or bush tomato from the small shrub Solanum chippendalei. This fruit is the size of a small apricot and, after the seeds have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skering them onto a stick.
MARY NAPANGATI – PINTUPI
Mary was born near Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) circa 1955, and is the third child of four girls and one boy. Her family lived in the vicinity of Lappi Lappi, located towards the northern area of Lake Mackay, until they walked in to the Mt Doreen cattle station west of Yuendumu. By this time Mary was approximately ten years old. Her family worked on the station and the children were driven by truck to attend school at Yuendumu. When the station owner died, the family moved to Yuendumu, where she married, later moving further west to Nyirripi and giving birth to two boys.
After her husband passed away, Mary remarried the well-known Papunya Tula artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and moved to (Walungurru) Kintore, where she now lives and paints. Mary and Ronnie’s son, Aubrey Tjangala, is also an established Papunya Tula artist.
These paintings depict designs associated with the rockhole site of Tjutalpi, east of the Kiwirrkura community. In ancestral times a group of men and women travelled to this site. While at Tjutalpi they performed the dances and songs associated with the area. During their travels the men and women gathered a variety of bush foods including pura or bush tomatoes (Solanum chippendalei) and kampurarrpa or desert raisins (Solanum centrale). The also gathered wood for the manufacture of wana (digging sticks). The roundels in the work represent the soakage waters found at this site.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
COLLECTIONS:
Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery Of Modern Art.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
‘Vincent Lingiari Art Award – Ngawa-Ngapa-Kapi-Kwatja-Water’, Exhibition catalogue, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, 2021.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2004 ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2005 ‘Rising Stars’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
2005 ‘Strong and Stately’, Red Dot Gallery, Singapore.
2006 ‘Narratives Preceding All Memory’, Burg Vischering, Luedinghausen, Germany.
2006 ‘Pintupi Art 2006’, Tony Bond Aboriginal Art Dealer, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
2017 ‘Annual Pintupi Exhibition’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2018 ‘Transcend Generations: Papunya Tula, Art Aborigéne du Désert Central, Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2019 ‘Lingkitu Ngalula – Still Strong’, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory
2019 ‘Desert Mob 2019’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory,
2019 ‘Pintupi Show 2019’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2020 ‘Desert Stories, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, Northern Territory
2020 ‘Desert Mob 2020’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2021 ‘Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): 50 Years Of Papunya Tula Artists’, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University Of Virginia, USA.
2021 ‘Vincent Lingiari Art Award – Ngawa-Ngapa-Kapi-Kwatja-Water’, Tangentyere Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2021 ‘Martupura Tjukurrpa – Important Business’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2021 ‘Community XII – 50 Years Of Papunya Tula Artists’, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2022 ‘Tjukurrtjanu Irriţitja Tjunta – Belonging to the Dreaming for a long time’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2022 ‘2022 Desert Mob’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
2022 ‘Fifty Years Papunya Tula Artists’, Sydney Contemporary, Utopia Art Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2022 ‘Tjukurrtjanu Irriţitja Tjunta – Belonging to the Dreaming for a long time’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2022 ‘Community XIII – Recent Paintings’, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
2023 ‘Kutjungkarrinyi – Gathering Together, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
2023 ‘Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): 50 Years Of Papunya Tula Artists’, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Australian Embassy to the United States of America, Washington DC, USA.
12 OCTOBER - 2 NOVEMBER 2024
Home can mean many things. It can be an emotional place or a physical location. It’s the place of memories both good and bad and also the place we can truly be ourselves. And within these homes we create rooms.
Rooms to rest alone, rooms to gather and play and rooms where we share the most basic of our everyday lives and also the most special & extraordinary occasions.
The Living Room, The Rumpus Room, The Dining Room just to name a few. We sit in these rooms inside these houses and watch TV shows about how other people live in their homes and decorate their rooms.
We watch Escape to the Country and imagine moving to an idyllic property in a beautiful small country town. We watch Grand Designs and imagine creating the perfect home. Perhaps we even watch the Housewives series and voyeuristically look through the peepholes of the rich and dramatic. Real estate websites allow a view into houses for sale where we can pore over floor plans and match them to our perfect lifestyle, designating rooms for all the family and imagining how we will all interact together.
Perhaps by calling them Rooms underplays their dramatic role and makes them less disconcerting. The simplicity of “The News Room”, “The Staff Room”, “The Bed Room” and the photographer’s “Dark Room” as opposed to the enigmatic “Powder Room” all make me smile.
And then there are rooms that by their very name may create a sense of anxiety…”The Locker Room”, “The Dressing Room”, “The Green Room” and “The Changing Room”. Changing into a sports uniform in the freezing cold of a Mornington Peninsula winter are memories best forgotten.
You might have a favourite room…”The Ballroom”, “The Breakfast Room” or reading a good book in the “Sun Room”. Whatever the room we can be sure that Virginia Woolf’s concept of “A Room of One’s Own” still persists today.
Woolfe’s essay related to her dissatisfaction with women’s education and the need for a woman to have a room away from domestic responsibilities. With this last house move I found the perfect room to paint. I’ve never called it My Studio it’s always just been My Room. The only difference these days is that I quite like it being close to all the other rooms and being connected with the comings and goings of the house. It feels less separate and more integrated into the open-planned aspect of our lives these days. Perhaps that’s the full circle where freedom is the ability to be artist, wife and mother in every room.
Having just moved from Queensland to Adelaide I can admit to being slightly obsessional about floor plans and dividing the house up into working and living spaces. Bedrooms for everyone and trying to create the perfect balance at least in an architectural sense. The rest we always hope will follow! But what I’ve noticed since starting to think about our personal spaces, our domestic jungle, is how the word “Room” is used for political spaces too my favourite being “The Situation Room”. What a brilliant name for the US 24 hour watch and alert centre that provides intelligence to the President. And the West Wing of the White House has the wonderfully named “The Cabinet Room”. image (opposite): Kate in her studio.
1968 Melbourne, Australia
Lives and works Adelaide, South Australia
STUDIES
1990-92 Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Bach. of Fine Art (Painting)
1990-91 VCA Art History Study Tour to Europe
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne (October)
2023 Table of Contents, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2022 Selected Works, Artbay Gallery, Queenstown, New Zealand
2021 Royal Gala Performance, Arthouse Gallery. Sydney
2020 The Pleasure of Your Company, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2019 Tabletop Variations, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2017 Make Believe, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne & Sydney
2016 Wild Life, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2015 The Company of Unlikely Travelllers, Sydney Contemporary Mossgreen Gallery
2014 Unstill Lives, Mossgreen Gallery
2013 Tabletop Performances & Other Balancing Acts, Mossgreen Gallery
2012 Strange Relations, Melbourne Art Fair, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Wild Things, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2010 The Spoon Collectors, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide; Tabletop Variations, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Hunting & Collecting, fortyfive downstairs, Melbourne
2007 The Collector, Mahoney’s Galleries, Melbourne
2005 From the Studio, Studio Exhibition, Melbourne
2003 Still Life in Painting, Studio Exhibition, Melbourne
2001 Clockwise, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2000 A Time for Flight & Rest, Cafe La, Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne
1999 The Pursuit of Happiness, Cairns Regional Gallery
1996 Menu, Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland; Still Life in Painting, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1995 Square Paintings, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1994 Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1993 Recent Paintings, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 ART in Embassies, United States Embassy, Canberra
2010 Net Work, Ballarat Art Gallery
2006 Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda
2005 Linden Postcard Show, St Kilda
2004 Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Mahoneys Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Art in Australia, Works From the Collection, VCA Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Xmas Show, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2000 Seventh Contemporary Art Fair, (Australian Galleries), Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1999 Fine Painting & Sculpture, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, (Gallery 101), Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1998 End to End, Six Far North Queensland Artists, Gallery 101, Melbourne
1997 Fields of Vision, Doggett Street Studios, Brisbane
1997 Gals Work, Recent Acquisitions by Female Artists, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne
1996 Artists of North Queensland, Cairns Regional Gallery
1996 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, (Crawford Gallery), Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1994 Gallery Artists, Crawford Gallery, Sydney
1994 Fourth Contemporary Art Fair, (Crawford Gallery), Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
1991 Images of Women, Gryphon Gallery, University of Melbourne; Award Show, VCA Gallery
1991 Small Works, Wide Visions, Downlands College, Toowoomba, Qld
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales, gifted by Margaret Olley
Bendigo Art Gallery
Brisbane City Hall
City of Albany
City of Port Phillip
Colac Area Health
Department of Education, Queensland
Downlands College
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale
Genazzano FCJ College, Kew
Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne
Lowensteins
Mercure Harbourside
Victorian College of the Arts
2013 Finalist, The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, SA Museum
2013 Finalist, Sulman Prize, finalist, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2012 Finalist, Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery
Finalist, R&M McGivern, Maroondah Art Gallery
2011 Finalist, Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2011 Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (Winner, People’s Choice)
2010 Winner, Albany Art Prize, Vancouver Arts Centre, WA
2010 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery
2009 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Art Gallery
2009 Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
2009 Highly Commended, The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum
2009 Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
2009 Finalist, Mt Buller Art Prize,
2009 First Prize, Corangamarah Art Prize
2009 Flannagan Art Prize, Ballarat;
2009 Finalist, R&M McGivern, Maroondah Art Gallery
2004 First Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, Rosemount Art of Food Award
2001 First Prize, Australian Artist Magazine Competition
1997 Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Irvin Gallery, Sydney
1995 Finalist, The Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1995 2nd Prize Keith & Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Scholarship, VCA Gallery
1995 2nd Prize Victorian Tapestry Workshop design for Melbourne Town Hall
1994 Finalist, Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1993 Finalist, Alice Prize, Alice Springs
1992 Finalist, Artworkz 4, Gallery 101, Melbourne;
1992 Finalist, Alice Prize, Alice Springs
1992 Mid Year Award, Victorian College of the Arts
1991 Theodur Urbach Award, Victorian College of the Arts
2002 Shortlisted for Nillumbik Residency Program, Victoria
1999-2000 Professional Development Grant, Kick Arts Collective, Arts Queensland
1997 Australia Council Overseas Studio Residency - Besozzo, Italy
1996 Regional Arts Development Fund Project Grant, Arts Queensland, Solo Exhibitions
Please contact the gallery for Kate’s full cv...
Kate Bergin studied at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1990-92. While the main building was located on St Kilda Road the Painting Department was housed at the back of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Being able to access the collection on a daily basis and study it up close had an enormous influence and gave her an appreciation for great painting technique.
A favourite artist for Bergin discovered during this time was Hugh Ramsay, an Australian artist considered one of the great students of the Gallery School. He was celebrated at the Paris Salon of 1902 but died at the age of 29 in 1906.
“I found some beautiful sketches of his in the storerooms from his time at the Gallery School.”
“Since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1992 I have been exploring the still life genre and the idea of hunting and collecting.
From my initial paintings of hundreds of red delicious apples to collections of moths and butterflies which I gathered during my five year stay in Cairns, and my discovery of Ellis Rowan and her adventures and beautiful artworks, I have moved on to collections of birds and animals mainly taken from the storerooms of Museum Victoria and also from live animals in zoos around the country. I am also gathering my own collection of bird and animal specimens particularly my much painted foxes.”
16 NOVEMBER - 7 DECEMBER 2024
There is a meditative quality to Aaron Kinnane’s landscapes that suggests his inspiration goes beyond simple fascinations with environment and the materiality of paint. Kinnane has spent years observing the land while mustering cattle on horseback in the mid north coast of New South Wales and he imports something of the solitude and vastness he experienced during that time into his paintings. Like the Impressionists and Romantics before him, Kinnane’s landscapes capture ephemeral effects of light and atmosphere, but overlaid with a quiet spirituality that evokes the sensation of being in nature rather than replicating its precise features. His palette knife technique deliberately reduces detail to something between abstraction and naturalism, allowing the viewer to cast their own interpretation on the scene before them, though an underlying sense of Kinnane’s own contemplations and deep connection to the land remains in the layers of oil paint... - Carrie McCarthy 2022
Aaron Kinnane studied Visual Arts at Newcastle University, and furthered his formal training as assistant to respected Italian artist Sandro Chia (b. 1946) in his Tuscan studio from 2000-2001. In 2017 Kinnane undertook an artist residency at the Chateau de Creancey, Burgundy. A finalist in the prestigious Wynne Prize for Landscape at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2015), the NSW Parliament Plein-air Prize, Sydney (2016), and four-time-finalist in the Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize (2017, 2016, 2015, 2014), his work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and France and his work is held in private and public collections both nationally and internationally.
1977 Born Lives and works NSW
EDUCATION
1998
B.A.V.A Newcastle University
2000- 2001 Assistant to Sandro Chia, Italy
2023 ‘River Song’, EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
2022 ‘Interlude’, Nanda Hobbs Gallery, Sydney
2021 ‘The Lucky Country’, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Natural Blue - Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Creancey Mornings - Redot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore
2017 From where I stand - Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Arthouse Gallery
2017 Collector Spotlight 2017 - ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore.
2016 Return to Eden on a dark horse, Arthouse gallery Sydney
2015 Winter Passing, Milk Moon Rising, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2015 Art Month Sydney, Studio Show
2014 Sunset Studies. Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2012 New Paintings. Gallery One, Gold Coast
2017 Finalist - Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize - Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2016 Finalist - Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize - Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2016 Finalist - NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize - Parliament House
2015 Finalist - Wynne Prize - Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW)
2015 Finalist - Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize - Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2014 Finalist - Tattersall’s Landscape Art Prize - Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2017 Chateau de Creancey, Burghundy, France
2011 In The Night Garden, when extraordinary things happen to ordinary people pt.2 Gallery One, Gold Coast
2010 When Extraordinary Things Happen To Ordinary People.
2010 Iain Dawson, Sydney
2009 The Bandit Moon and the Bastard Son, Charles Hewitt, Sydney
2008 Art Melbourne, New generation stand, Melbourne
2008 Circadian Rhythm, Charles Hewitt, Sydney
2006 Seven steps soft of heaven, john miller gallery, Newcastle
2005 Ships will carry me, pepperina gallery, Newcastle
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Scott Livesey Galleries
2018 Sydney Contemporary art fair, Arthouse Gallery Sydney
2017 Tattersalls Art Prize, Tattersals Club, Brisbane
2016 NSW Parliament Pleinair Prize, Sydney
2016 Tattersall’s Art Prize, Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2015 Wynne Prize, The Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2015 Tattersall’s Art Prize, Tattersall’s Club, Brisbane
2015 Unfolding Splendour,’ Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2014 Under the Sun, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
2014 Tattersalls Art Prize
2014 The Art Hunter-Contemporary Art Now, Hosted by The Cool Hunter, Sydney
2013 Signal 8 Summer show, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2013 Clipboard show. Robyn Gibson Gallery, Sydney
2012 Signal 8 Summer show, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2012 L’Oréal Melbourne fashion week, Windows by design
2011 Wattle, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
COLLECTIONS
Hugh Young, Chateau de Creancey, France
Harriett & Richard England Collection, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The Australian Club, Sydney, NSW, Australia. The Arthur Roe Collection, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
above RIVER FLOWS - GIRO STATION 2024 oil on linen, 72 X 61 cm & Aaron on horse back
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