CIRCUIT
Oct-Dec 2011
Association of Western Australian Contemporary Art Galleries
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SUPPORTERS OF CIRCUIT
University of Western Australia Museums
Artsource
FORM and Skalitzers - ROA exhibition
FORM - The Canning Stock Route
Revealed - Emerging aboriginal art markets
Holmes a Court Collection
City Of Perth - 2011 Artwork Commission
City of Joondalup - 2011 Invitation Art Award
City of Stirling - 2011 Art Award and Exhibition
Greater Geraldton Regional Art Gallery - Mid West Art Price 2012
Arts Edge Gallery
Art Presentations
Plastic Sandwich Graphic Presentation Services
Lamb Printers
Indigenart - Mossenson Galleries
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
676A Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley
Gallery hours: Wed – Sat 11am – 4pm, and by Appointment
Closed School and Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9271 6459
admin@emerge-art.com.au
IF NOT FOR THE DAWN
BEN SHERAR
19 OCTOBER – 4 NOVEMBER
Ben Sherar’s second solo exhibition at emerge continues his moody and evocative oil paintings examining the Perth urban inner-city nightscape and the shadowy ambiguity of alleyways, car parks and the concrete underbelly of the city after dark. This is another powerful show with Ben’s signature intrinsic light permeating and illuminating these new works.
CELESTIAL ANIMAL
SHARON DAWES
9 NOVEMBER – 2 DECEMBER
CELESTIAL ANIMAL will be the fourth solo exhibition by Sharon Dawes, whose beautifully rendered paintings of animals continue to be highly sought after. Celestial Animal explores the systems ancient man used to understand and recognise the night sky. Many images of animals were imprinted onto the star patterns and these formed the basis for the figures of myth, as well as a means of finding a way about the sky and charting the movement of astrological bodies.
The subject has fascinated Dawes for a long time, as she has an avid interest in animals and astrology and in particular star signs.
The animals are rendered in what Dawes describes as ‘paint specificity’; where paint is used in such a way that it describes something of the animal, beyond its superficial appearance. This technique of painting has won over many people in the genre of animal painting so do get in early to secure one of these mesmerising and covetable new paintings!
DIRECTORS’ CUT CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION
6 DECEMBER – 16 DECEMBER
Just in time for Christmas this will be an eclectic and engaging exhibition of affordable paintings, sculpture and jewellery by emerge ART SPACE’s diverse range of artists. Come join with us to celebrate another year of exceptional art at emerge and pick up something wonderful by our talented stable of artists.
Ben Sherar
If not for the dawn 2011
Oil on hemp
62.5 x 45 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Sharon Dawes
Persues 2010
Oil on canvas
25 x 25 cm
Courtesy of the artist
9 Glyde Street, Mosman Park
Gallery hours Wed – Fri, 11am – 5pm, Sun, 2 – 5pm, and by Appointment
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9384 0890
AS IF FROM A DISTANCE I COULD ALREADY SEE MYSELF
BRENDAN VAN HEK
16 OCTOBER - 13 NOVEMBER
In this exhibition of new works, Brendan Van Hek produces a series of two-dimensional works in neon, alongside a number of configurations of oval mirrors and prints on paper.
The use of these materials continues on from works produced in recent years that investigate the potential of neon and mirror.
Influenced by popular culture, and the diverse, conflicting and varied sources that affect all cultural producers today, the work emerges from elaborate narratives, located in personal history, fictions and social politics. In particular this recent work takes the maze or labyrinth as a starting point to consider the idea of direction, destiny, fortune and what comes together to shape the view of one’s future.
ANYDAY NOW
MARK PARFITT
27 NOVEMBER - 23 DECEMBER 2011
Preparing for the worst usually brings out your best. Mark Parfitt in his exhibition Anyday Now, tells the stories along the way of getting ready, conducting oneself and spreading the word to counter any kind of worry.
Coming from a simple desire to make an ordinary life more celebratory, Parfitt journals his investigations of growing barley, developing great abs, and finding the overland route across the promised land of Australia. Using drawing, diagrams and photography combined as some kind of misguided scrapbooking, Parfitt elevates the humble visual diary to unforeseeable art-form.
Anyday Now is an account of living a good life, learning through experience and preparing for any trial in the face of a mundane life.
This solo exhibition has been made possible through the Galerie Dusseldorf, Curtin University Postgraduate Scholarship and the All Art Forms Grant from the Department of Culture and the Arts WA.
Brendan Van Hek
Maze Challenge 2011
(work in progress)
Courtesy of the artist
Mark Parfitt
Composite of drawings photographs and notations 2010-2011
Courtesy of the artist
Gallery East
94 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle
Gallery hours: Tue – Sat, 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9336 6231
admin@galleryeast.com.au
PERSONAL SPACE DEFINED
JEWELLERY
BRENDA RIDGEWELL
23 SEPTEMBER – 16 OCTOBER
The work of Brenda Ridgewell, the Director of Jewellery and 3D Design at Curtin university, is developed through a system of units constructed in varying manners to develop sculptural forms for the body. Repetitive elements are utilized as a constant reminder of the repetition within our lives and bodies. the exhibition showcases body pieces of outstanding elegance and beauty, using precious and semi precious materials to reflect the tenacity and preciousness of life itself.
JOURNEY THROUGH MEMOIRS
SCULPTURES
PETER TILLEY
21 OCTOBER – 13 NOVEMBER
A regular and popular exhibitor at sculpture by the sea, in Cottesloe, Bondi and Denmark, Peter Tilley’s work seeks meaning and inspiration in everyday objects; through their material form and history. As such they are a record of time, place and circumstance and reflect the rituals of life.
INSTALL
SHANNON LYONS
21 OCTOBER – 13 NOVEMBER
Reflecting her studies of gallery space as both the content and context for work, the exhibition includes representations/fabrications of installation ‘drawings’ from previous group exhibitions that she has been in. taking the form of wall based/leaning panels, these are, in fact, meticulously constructed sections of “walls” from other galleries.
THE GREAT LITTLE CHRISTMAS SHOW
18 NOVEMBER – 18 DECEMBER
Paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewellery and icons in miniature for the ideal unique seasonal present, created by Gallery east’s artists and sourced from around the world and from down the centuries..
Brenda Ridgewell
Defined Space 2011
Sterling silver
5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Peter Tilley
The world beneath 2011
Painted wood, bird bone
29.5 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Shannon Lyons
Installation Study I 2011
Unique state digital print
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
James Road, Middle Swan
Gallery hours: Wed – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Free Admission
T 9274 3996
MUSE
JULIET STONE
UNTIL 30 OCTOBER
An acknowledgement of place, its vastness and sense of natural phenomena.
SPECIAL PREVIEW
23 OCTOBER
Special preview of the Wirrin, bronze sculpture designed by Senior Nyungar Artist Tjyllyungoo and realised by R.M. (Ron) Gomboc as a maquette for a 5 metre sculpture to memorialise the victims of the Pinjarra Massacre.
Works by Norma MacDonald, Margaret Woodward, Wendy Stavrianos, Bjorn Dolva, Craig Gough, Dean Bowen, Ian R. Hill, Mary Knott, Brian Richard Taylor, Juliet Stone, Jon Denaro, Albie Herbert,
R.M. Gomboc and Jean-Pierre Rives
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
In conjunction with advertised exhibitions, Gomboc Gallery has an extensive gallery space exhibiting paintings and sculptures by both
established and emerging artists.
Juliet Stone
idyll 2011
Mixed media
70 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Tjyllyungoo
Wirrin (spirit) 2011
Bronze maquette
Height 50 cm
Limited edition 10
Courtesy of the artist
6 Gugeri Street, Claremont
Gallery hours: Tue – Fri, 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pm
Closed Sunday & Monday & Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9383 4433
WA ARTISTS SHOWCASE
HOME GROWN
30 SEPTEMBER – 15 OCTOBER
Greenhill Galleries is pleased to present an exciting exhibition of new works from a selection of the gallery’s Western Australian artists. Putting the spotlight on locally created artworks, Home Grown is a rare and unique opportunity that affords both art lovers and collectors a chance to view the diverse styles and artistic visions that are a product of Western Australia. The exhibition features work from highly celebrated artists Crispin Akerman, Shaun Atkinson, Madeleine Clear, Nigel Hewitt, Robert Juniper, Alan Marshall and Leon Pericles.
THE WAITING GARDEN
JASON BENJAMIN
21 OCTOBER – 5 NOVEMBER
Returning to Western Australia with another keenly anticipated show, Jason Benjamin’s The Waiting Garden uses his experiences and memories of the Monaro Region in Southern New South Wales to create works that engage with emotion and mindscapes, as opposed to geography and landscapes. Seeking to explore “a place filled with everything and nothing, everyone and no one”, Benjamin’s paintings utilise the backdrop of nature to tap into innate human expressions and desires. Having exhibited in both Australia and overseas, Benjamin is represented in numerous public and private collections. He has also been the recipient of many prestigious awards, as well as being a finalist in the Archibald Prize.
RECENT PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
ANGUS MCDONALD
18 NOVEMBER – 3 DECEMBER
In recent years Angus McDonald has left a mark on the Australia art scene as a highly sought after and collectable artist. Having exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, Greenhill Galleries is to host McDonald’s first solo exhibition in Western Australia. Best known for his sublimely rendered still life paintings, Recent Paintings and Drawings showcases his sensual and detailed portraits of everyday objects, as well as works featuring the graceful bovines that have also become a trademark of his style. Both his still life works and bovine subjects bring together his interest in capturing intensities of light and shade, ultimately searching for the beauty distilled in fleeting moments.
Jason Benjamin
I’ve seen them come and go 2011
Oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Angus McDonald
Flowers and Heels 2011
Oil on canvas
60 x 75 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Holmes a Court Gallery at Vasse Felix
Vasse Felix, Cnr Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd, Cowaramup
Gallery hours: Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 6217 2640
WILDFLOWER BOUQUETS FROM THE JANET H0LMES A COURT COLLECTION
HILDEGARDE BASSETT, M.E.(MAY) CREETH, PENNY LEECH, CLIFFORD POSSUM,
CLIFTON PUGH, MARGARET PRESTON, DAVID ROSS, ELLIS ROWAN, LESLEY VAN DER SLUYS, CHRISTINE WEST, UTOPIA ARTISTS
29 September 2011-29 January 2012
Featuring selections from various strands of the botanical works in the collection and including an installation of the very contemporary wildflower work of artist EVA FERNANDEZ.
Clifton Pugh
Purple Tassles, Milk Bush, Common Donkey Orchid 1982
Oil on hardboard
50.5 x 60 cm
Copyright Dunmoochin Foundation
Indigenart – Mossenson galleries
115 Hay Street, Subiaco
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 4pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9388 2899
art@mossensongalleries.com.au
A PLAY ON WHITE
COL JORDAN
12 October – 5 November
Following the success of his survey exhibition at Wollongong City Gallery, Mossenson galleries presents Col Jordan’s exhibition A Play on White. It will feature a selection from Jordan’s oeuvre including his Mosaic series. In keeping with his previous exhibitions, these works are a celebration of optically charged colour presented as visual paradox. They ask questions for which there are no simple answers.
KAPI PULKA (BIG RAIN)
ARTISTS OF IWANTJA
15 November – 10 December
In the paintings of Kapi Pulka (Big Rain) we see inspirational works supporting the rise of an exciting new branch to the art movement out of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands of South Australia. With a community of around 300 people, Iwantja is nurturing an artistic renaissance through the endeavours of its art’s centre Iwantja Arts. Water is the underlying theme on which these four artists base their work. Each artist maps out totemic sites that are not only significant to their Dreaming, but also to their rituals of collecting bush foods and punu (wood) for their carvings. The exhibition will feature works by Alec Baker, Peter Mungkuri, Whiskey Tjukangku and Tiger Yaltangki.
DIRECTORS CHOICE
13 – 23 December
This month the gallery will present a selection of important works from represented artists and art communities for the Christmas period.
Col Jordan
Mosaic 4 - Starring the eclipse 2010
Acrylic on cotton duck
162 x 162 cm
Tiger Yaltangki
Apu Hills 2011
Acrylic on linen
121 x 101 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Julie Dowling
The King 2010
Mixed media
91 x 76 cm
Courtesy of the artist
49 Colin Street, West Perth (cnr Colin & Richardson St, entry off Richardson St)
Gallery hours: Wed – Fri 11am – 4pm, Sun 1 – 4pm, or by Appointment
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9486 9822
CELINE DONEGAN
14 SEPTEMBER – 9 OCTOBER
Celine Donegan is an expressionist style painter, working in oils. Her paintings have been exhibited in Australian galleries since 2002 and are in collections in Australia, England, France, Germany, and Croatia. This is her first exhibition in Western Australia
JEANNETTE DYSON
12 OCTOBER – 6 NOVEMBER
Jeannette Dyson is a well established and winner of many art awards in Western Australia. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas. She currently works in an impressionistic style, her work reflecting her love of the Western Australian landscape.
JOANNE DUFFY
9 NOVEMBER – 11 DECEMBER
Joanne Duffy is an emerging artist working predominantly in acrylic on canvas. She draws inspiration from the natural environment seeking to achieve an abstraction of how we relate to a sense of place, time and emotion.
Celine Donegan
Gum Nut Flowers 2011
Oil on canvas
100 x 140 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Jeannette Dyson
Fired Earthl2011
Acrylic, ochre and gold dust
118 x 114 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Joanne Duffy
Cantos 2011
Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
Courtesy of the artist
316 Rokeby Road, Subiaco
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 1pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9382 8188
admin@listergallery.com.au
Lister Gallery exhibits and deals in leading modern and contemporary art by major Australian artists. The gallery represents artists including Andrew Browne, Peter D Cole, John Firth-Smith, Amanda Marburg, Brent Harris, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Tim Johnson, Tim McMonagle, Gregory Pryor & David Wadelton.
A selection of important Australian art from the 50’s to the present day is held in the stockroom and is available for viewing on request. Offering a high degree of confidentiality and an unconditional guarantee of authenticity, Lister Gallery also provides valuations for market appraisals and insurance and expert advice on the formation, management, valuation and conservation of private and corporate collections.
Tim McMonagle
Bison 2011
Oil on linen
92 x 92 cm
Courtesy of the artist
92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle
Gallery hours: Tue – Fri, 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 5pm, Sun 2pm – 5pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9433 4414
admin@perthgalleries.com.au
Member of Australian Commercial Galleries Association
RITORNELLO
BELA KOTAI
21 OCTOBER – 13 NOVEMBER
At first glance, linking ceramics and classical music seems an odd combination, an internal contradiction like lead balloon. Weighty reality with the abstract.
That combinations of form and surface can have an emotional effect on a viewer is well known and this exhibition forms part of a return to a wider empirical investigation to find and systematise Kotai’s understanding of the causes and triggers of this effect.
Intrigued by the ability of music, especially classical music, to access the deepest expressive content with the power that it does, Kotai turned to musicology, that deep well of formalised information about artistic expression built by many generations of musicians and composers. As a hitch-hiker’s guide, he has examined the sequencing of music structures of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras and selectively interpreted them into frameworks for building multi-piece ceramic pieces that embrace time as well as the other dimensions. An orchestration that determines, not only the form and surface of the parts, but also the relative size, shape and space between them, creating a tempo to the viewer’s experience of the pieces.
This exhibition is a summary of the intensive developmental work that began with a ten week residency at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado at the beginning of 2011 and is supported by Creative Development Fellowship.
CROSSING
HOLLY GRACE
18 NOVEMBER – 11 DECEMBER
Travel, for Holly Grace, has been a pathway to traverse a larger path. The myriad of trips from Australia to Northern Europe to learn her craft have been instrumental in her understanding of glass as a material and in forming her aesthetic.
Crossing is a traverse of experiences, exploring inspirations that come from the diverse landscapes and cultures that one experiences when travelling. It is an exploration of the landscape, understanding the subtle differences that are unique to both and how they can be interpreted in glass.
By interpreting these landscapes across a variety of forms and surfaces using photographic imagery Grace aims to create a translation that is both personal and unique.
Bela Kotai
Untitled 2011
Vapor glazed stoneware
70 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Perth Galleries
Holly Grace
Lybster 2011
Mixed media
Total dimensions 48 x 40 x 40 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Perth Galleries
Indigenous and Contemporary
271 Rokeby Road, Subiaco
Gallery hours: Tue – Sat, 11am – 5pm, and by Appointment
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9380 9938
PEGGY GRIFFITHS
OPENING 18 OCTOBER
Presented in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts, Kununurra, East Kimberley and celebrating CHOGM 2011
Peggy Griffiths is one of the leading artists from the Kimberley. Her paintings are based on the winds lifting and moving grass seeds across Spinifex country. Painting with traditional natural ochres and pigments, she blends these ochres to render an exceptional and varied array of subtle colours. Executing paintings with supreme confidence, the highly detailed brushwork is stunning. Griffiths’ produces paintings that are immediately seductive and uplifting.
MALALUBA GUMANA
OPENING 12 NOVEMBER
Presented in association with Buku-Larrngay Mulka, Yirrkala Eastern Arnhem Land
Maluba Gumana is a very fine exponent of “marwatthe” - the cross hatching technique using a fine ‘hair brush’. She paints her mother’s Galpu clan designs of the waterlily and rainbow serpent. This exhibition showcases her beautiful barks and hollow logs. Artworks can be previewed at the gallery from October.
Peggy Griffiths
Jinamoom 2011
Natural ochre on canvas
144 x 59 cm
Malaluba Gumana
Dhatam 2011
Natural ochre on bark
144 x 59 cm
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street Mall, Perth
Gallery Exhibitions and Gallery Shop hours: Wed – Mon, 10am – 5pm, closed Tuesdays
Free Admission (An entry charge may apply for special exhibitions)
Gallery Cafe hours 8am – 5pm
Information Line T 9492 6622
PRINCELY TREASURES:
EUROPEAN MASTERPIECES 1600 -1800 FROM THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
OPENS SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
ADMISSION FEES APPLY
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London has one of the greatest collections of European decorative art of the 17th and 18th centuries, from the miniature to the monumental. Over ninety masterpieces from these magnificent collections have been selected for this exhibition, including painting and sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and furniture, textiles and dress, prints and drawings.
The exhibition presents a series of themes encapsulating important aspects of courtly life in Europe. It begins with an opening section looking at power and patronage in Europe between 1600 and 1800, presenting key figures from European courts who were great patrons of the arts. The following sections focus on four different aspects of courtly life: the importance of war; the role of religion; the peaceful arts of the domestic interior and the magnificence of personal adornment.
For further information on talks and events visit greatcollections.com.au
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN
INDIGENOUS ART AWARDS 2011
OPENS SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER
The Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, the richest Indigenous arts prize in the country, is a national award founded in 2008 to celebrate the breadth, diversity and excellence of art from all corners of Indigenous Australia.
The awards acknowledge the significant and ongoing contribution Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists make to Australian art, culture and society.
These national awards, now in their fourth year, are open to all adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists currently living in Australia, working in any theme or media, including (but not restricted to) painting on bark, canvas and paper, prints, sculpture, fibre art, ceramics, glass, photography, and digital media.
Bodice ornament
Spain, about 1700
Diamonds set in gold scrolling openwork
V&A: 320-1870
Copyright of Victoria and Albert Museum/V&A Images
Sack-back gown
England 1760-1765
Silk with linen lining
V&A: T.426&A-1990
Copyright of Victoria and Albert Museum/V&A Images
Jan Billycan
Kirriwirril 2011
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
120 x 90 cm
Courtesy and copyright of the artist and Short Street Gallery, Broome, Western Australia
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury
Gallery hours: 10am – 4pm daily, Free Admission
T 9271 8226
FIBRES WEST TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION
JIYOUNG CHUNG AND HELEN O’HARE
24 SEPTEMBER – 13 NOVEMBER
Being the sole venue in Australia, the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries are proud to host two very diverse international textile artists in Fibres West Triennial Exhibition. Korean Joomchi artist Jiyoung Chung, and Irish Textile artist Helen O’Hare will present two separate bodies of contemporary works drawing from their own varied environments, cultures, and heritage.
THE GALLIPOLI SERIES
SIDNEY NOLAN
12 NOVEMBER 2011 – 22 JANUARY 2012
Sidney Nolan: the Gallipoli series showcases a selection of these works, which constitute both a personal and public lament, commemorating not just the death of Nolan’s brother but a campaign that had cost so many Australian lives. The series was inspired not only by the Gallipoli campaign but also the myths and legends of the Trojan Wars and how Australian history and identity are perceived. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity for visitors to experience these striking and iconic works.
THE QUOD PROJECT
TANIA FERRIER
5 NOVEMBER – 4 DECEMBER
The Quod Project is a multidisciplinary art exhibition by Tania Ferrier about a building called the Quod, which is now part of a tourist resort on Rottnest Island. It was built by Aboriginal prisoners. Over 3,600 Aboriginal men from all over Western Australia were incarcerated there between 1864 and 1903. Through the use of a mirror frame and incorporating Ferrier’s film industry background in set design, she presents A Room with Two Views. Friends, family, and Aboriginal elders of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island pose for photographs done in collaboration with photographer, James Kerr. These images represent the past and present incarnations of the same space, cell, and room. The cell installation, based on research of the appearance of a Quod cell around 1900, is also on display and offers the viewer a glimpse into the colonial penal colony history of Rottnest Island.
Helen O’Hare
Detail 2008
Felt, print and hand stitch
Courtesy of the artist
Sidney Nolan
Kenneth 1958
Polyvinyl acetate on hard board
Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial
Tania Ferrier, James Kerr, Glen Stasiuk
Wadjemup 2011
Digital print
90 x 60 cm
Courtesy of the artist
1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle
Open 7 days, 10am – 5pm, Free Entry
T 9432 9555
FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE PRINT AWARD 2011 SUPPORTED BY LITTLE CREATURES BREWING
24 SEPTEMBER – 20 NOVEMBER
The 36th annual Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award exhibition presents a compelling selection of contemporary Australian printmaking. This year’s exhibition is a rigorously refined selection of intricate works that push technical skills and examine the history of print, while simultaneously looking at its future role in all media. The winners of the major prizes will be announced on opening night, Friday 23 September at 6:30pm.
A free Printmaking and Independent Publishing Forum will be held on Saturday 5 November from 1-4pm.
AVANT-GARDEN
DANIEL BOURKE AND CLARE WOHLNICK WITH BIG FAG PRESS
24 SEPTEMBER – 20 NOVEMBER
Daniel Bourke (WA) and Clare Wohlnick (WA) launch the inaugural issue of Avant-Garden, an irregular journal published by their printing studio Benchpress. Concerned with representations of nature in contemporary art, Avant-Garden features new interviews, essays, articles and projects from ten Australian and international artists. Avant-Garden is displayed in a custom designed reading room, alongside a lithographic print developed during their residency with Sydney collective Big Fag Press.
MARK HOWLETT FOUNDATION
MHF20
26 NOVEMBER – 22 JANUARY
2011 marks the 20th anniversary and final year of the Mark Howlett Foundation (MHF)a subscriber based philanthropic group, which each year has selected a mid-career artist to support. MHF20, the group’s final exhibition, will showcase twelve of its participant artists with new work specially commissioned for this celebration. Curated by Andrew Gaynor, MHF20 includes painting, sculpture and ceramics.
MHF20 includes a limited edition set of prints titled ‘The Sportsman’s Suite’ (a wry nod to the memory of Mark Howlett) and a book to commemorate MHF’s history written by Gaynor and Victoria Laurie. MHF has made a major contribution to the on-going sustainability of the arts community in WA. Whilst MHF20 marks the end of one era, this extensive exhibition will bear testimony to what may be accomplished by any community group when motivated by generosity, energy and vision.
Daniel Bourke and Clare Wohlnick
Moon Phases Gardening Calendar (Southern Hemisphere 2012) 2011
Produced for Avant-Garden #1
Courtesy and copyright the artists
Peter Burgess
Modern Equivalence #28 2008-2011
Inkjet print (Ultrachrome inks on Hahnemuhle German Etch, 310 gsm) AP 1/2
112x 228 cm
Courtesy and copyright of the artist
357 Murray Street, Perth
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm
Free Admission
T 9226 2799
ROA
22 OCTOBER 2011 – 13 JANUARY 2012
FORM and Skalitzers Contemporary Art are proud to present the first Australian exhibition of ROA.
A street artist with a fine art pedigree, ROA is considered among the most influential contemporary visual artists in the world. A modern day naturalist, famous for his large-scale depictions of animals on city walls around the world, ROA moves between continents and cities, observing and documenting the creatures that co-inhabit the urban landscape. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe and the United States.
Leading up to his exhibition in Perth, FORM will host ROA in a journey to select locations throughout the Pilbara and South West of Australia. ROA will use this source material to create a new body of work, working from the historic-industrial workshops of Midland Atelier, in the old Midland Railway Workshops.
ROA
Opossum Family 2011
San Francisco
Courtesy of the artist
FORM - offsite
PERTH CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE
21 Mounts Bay Road, Perth
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri 10am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am – 5pm
Free Admission
canningstockrouteproject.com
THE CANNING STOCK ROUTE
YIWARRA KUJU
2 – 27 November
Yiwarra Kuju: the Canning Stock Route tells the story of Western Australia’s legendary droving highway through the eyes of Aboriginal artists. It is a story of Country, culture and family; of history, first contact and diaspora, interpreted through art, oral history and award-winning new media. Attracting more visitors to the National Museum of Australia in 2010 than any exhibition in its history Yiwarra Kuju returns to Western Australia as the cultural backdrop to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October and will open as a free show throughout November at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. Yiwarra Kuju was jointly produced by WA cultural organisation FORM and the National Museum of Australia.
Patrick Tjungurrayi
Canning Stock Route Country 2007
Acrylic on linen
122.6 x 187 cm
Papunya Tula Artists
National Museum of Australia
Eubena Nampitjin
Kinyu 2007
Acrylic on linen
184.5 x 124 cm
Warlayirti artists
National Museum of Australia
12 Aberdeen Street, Perth
Gallery hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 4.45pm, Sat 2 – 4.45pm (varies)
Free Admission
T 9427 1318
ANGEL HAIR - CONTEMPORARY WA ART FROM THE KERRY STOKES COLLECTION
19 SEPTEMBER - 7 OCTOBER
The works in this exhibition explore the shift that occurred from art being about private experiences to art that deals with essentially shared social and cultural issues. It draws on ethereal elements of the Collection in reference to the mysterious substance, Angel Hair, said to emanate from UFOs. What happens when such subversive and impersonal stuff starts falling from the sky right outside your own town?
REVEALED - EMERGING ABORIGINAL ARTISTS FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA
24 OCTOBER - 12 NOVEMBER
An exhibition launching a new generation of artists. Artistic talent emerges at all ages. This project aims to build the careers of little known Aboriginal artists from all corners of the State.
REVEALED - MARKETPLACE
FRIDAY 28 - SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER 12 - 4pm
Find an Aboriginal art treasure in our bustling marketplace! Buy direct from Aboriginal artists and Art Centres from across WA. An inspiring and affordable range of painting, carving, weaving and sculpture from a vast region, and a chance to meet the artists.
Revealed is produced in partnership with the Department of Culture and the Arts and supported by the Department of Indigenous Affairs and the Federal Government through the Office of The Arts. Part of Commonwealth Festival (Perth 2011)
A SEASON OF GRAD EXHIBITIONS CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
3D Design
21 – 25 Nov at Central Park
Graphic Design
24 – 26 Nov at Gallery Central
Photography
30 Nov – 3 Dec at Gallery Central
Fashion & Textile DESIGN
29 Nov Parade
Visual Art, Jewellery & Object Design
8 – 14 Dec at Gallery Central
Louise Malarvie
Dancing Design 2011 (detail)
Ochre on canvas
45 x 100 cm
Courtesy Waringarri Aboriginal Arts for Revealed
Heathcote Cultural Centre, Duncraig Road, Applecross
Gallery hours: Tue – Fri, 10am – 3pm, Sat & Sun 12 – 4pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 9364 5666
claire.bushby@melville.wa.gov.au
LOCAL GRAVITY – UNKNOWN ARCHITECTURE
CAROL WELLS
5 OCTOBER – 5 NOVEMBER
This exhibition will present a body of work created by Carol Wells in both New York and Fremantle – who worked for 18 years as a designer and art director creating sets on sound stages and on location, for television advertising, film and music videos.
The exhibition includes sculpture, oil painting and installation as well as large backdrop pieces, a room-size ‘tower’ made of recycled packaging, and various paper and cardboard sculptures suspended from the ceiling and walls.
TILT 2011 – CAPITAL CITY
TOM MULLER
12 NOVEMBER – 18 DECEMBER
In 1828 Captain James Stirling considers Heathcote as the site for Western Australia’s capital city.
What if Heathcote had been chosen over Perth?
For Tilt 2011, Tom Muller will develop a series of fictional scenarios inspired by past residents, events and history of the site. Borrowing from a multidisciplinary approach including film, installations and found objects, the artist will present a multi-facetted interpretation of Heathcote if it were Western Australia’s capital city.
Tilt is an initiative by the City of Melville where one artist each year is invited to showcase their talents by exploring an aspect of Heathcote’s multi-layered history, using their chosen art medium or a new exploratory medium.
Carol Wells
Big Blue 2005
Courtesy of the artist
Tom Muller
Swan Scalp Study 2011
Manipulated found image
Courtesy of the artist
Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley
Gallery hours Mon – Fri, 12 – 5pm, Sun 30 October & 27 November, 1 – 4pm
Free Admission, Closed Public Holidays
T 9266 4155
johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au
gallery@curtin.edu.au
SoDA11
14 OCTOBER - 9 DECEMBER
SoDA11 features a collection of thought-provoking art works by graduates who explore tradition and customs, the environment, light and notions of what is precious.
In partnership with Curtin University’s School of Design and Art (SoDA), the Gallery will showcase a group exhibition featuring Charissa Delima, Terina Eastman, Eden Lennox, Peng Liu, Kevin Raxworthy and Joanne Richardson whose work spans video, jewellery, drawing, installation and painting.
The annual SoDA exhibition presents artists on the cusp of strong careers and this exhibition is the first glimpse of their work in a professional setting. This year SoDA11 will open concurrently with the Department of Art’s own Degree Show.
UNNATURAL PHENOMENA
MIIK GREEN
14 OCTOBER – 9 DECEMBER
Unnatural Phenomena is a collaborative exhibition featuring artist Miik Green and nanotechnologist Chris Malajczuk.
Green and Malajczuk have created a series of stunning works consisting of biological-inspired, small-scale sculptural works and a two-dimensional series of mixed-media works, representative of microscopic tissues and cells. Drawing from the scientific methods of Nobel Prize winning biochemist Christian B. Anfinsen, Green and Malajczuk have explored how the laws of thermodynamics encourage the formation of complex organic structures, capturing and conveying these notions in hydrophobic suspensions.
The exhibition, which has been funded by Curtin Student Guild’s On Show Arts Grant, is a response to the 2011 theme ‘The Right Chemistry’.
Eden Lennox
Wink 2010
Copper, 925 silver (with chemical patina), gold leaf, food tins, brass bolts, vintage dolls eye
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
Miik Green
Petri Sweat #1 2011 (detail)
Mixed media on glass
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
Gallery hours: Tue – Fri 11am – 5pm, Sun 12 – 5pm
Closed Public Holidays, Free Admission
T 6488 3707
RECENT PAST
AUSTRALIAN PAINTING OF THE 70S AND 80S
14 AUGUST - 7 DECEMBER 2011
Recent Past is an exciting selection from the University of Western Australia’s collection of important works that showcase the enormous artistic diversity in Australia over a two-decade period. It samples abstract, figurative and neo-expressionist forms, exploring important ideas from a critical era of Australia’s history.
Through the work of 36 artists, half of whom worked in Western Australia, ideas such as Abstraction, representation, politics and local history, the life of the mind and spirit, the processes of painting and seductiveness of colour were all explored. Some, such as Sydney Ball, who travelled to New York and worked with Mark Rothko, brought back new ideas and inspiration on painting that effected the direction of Australian art.
Recent Past includes hard-edge and resolutely abstract styles such as Sydney Ball’s Ispahan, 1967, the expressionist CoBrA inspired works of Lidija Dombrovska Larsen’s The lonesome traveller, 1989-91, and Sydney Nolan’s giant multi-part Flower panels [Paradise Garden series], c. 1968 and The Snake, 1973.
Through these paintings, Recent Past offers Perth audiences a sense of the energy and excitement of Australian painting during this significant period in our history. The exhibition has been extended to 7th December with numerous public programs. See the website for details: www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au
Carol Rudyard
Wall hanging screen print l c. 1974
Fabric dye on cotton canvas
168.2 x 274.5 cm
The University of Western Australia Collection, University Senate Grant 1974
Copyright the University of Western Australia
Bob Birch
Heartbreaker - doo doo doo doo doo 1973-1974
Synthetic polymer paint, canvas, paper, rubber and fabric
Diptych 203 x 340 cm
The University of Western Australia Collection, McGillivray Bequest Fund 1975
Copyright the University of Western Australia
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Northbridge
Gallery hours: Tue – Sun, 11am – 6pm
Free Admission to all exhibitions
T 9228 6300
STADIUM
TARRYN GILL & PILAR MATA DUPONT
3 SEPTEMBER - 30 OCTOBER
Stadium is an exhibition by celebrated Western Australian artists Tarry Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont. Popular culture, gender stereotypes and sexual power are the focal points of their highly stylised and theatrical photographs, referencing 20th century sources ranging from Busby Berkley choreography and Hollywood musicals to Leni Riefenstahl propaganda films. An extension of this exhibition is the artists’ performance work, Ever Higher, where a Leni Riefenstahl character delivers a choreographed performance on a single rope surrounded by a team of cheerleaders.
WRONG ANGLES
ALEX SPREMBERG
3 SEPTEMBER - 30 OCTOBER
Wrong Angles is a major new solo show of work by the highly acclaimed Western Australian artist, Alex Spremberg. For the past 30 years Spremberg has relentlessly interrogated the possibilities of painting. In this major exhibition, the artist seeks to integrate everyday materials such as cardboard boxes and newspaper into his paintings. The five news series of bold objects and collages focus on two aspects that exert an extraordinary impact on our daily lives: the distribution of consumer goods and the flow of information through the media.
Tarry Gill & Pilar Mata Dupont
Bloodsport 2010
Courtesy of the artists and Goddard de Fiddes gallery, Perth
Photo Kim Tran
Alex Spremberg
Paint-Skulls 2011 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth and Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
Fremantle Prison, The Terrace, Fremantle
Gallery hours: 9am – 5pm daily, until 9pm Wed & Fri
Free Admission
T 9336 9200
curatorial@fremantleprison.com.au
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE
CONTINUING UNTIL 27 NOVEMBER
The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual event promoting portraiture by contemporary Australian photographers. The Prize provides an opportunity for photographers whose work is unpublished, or carried out as a sideline, to present their work to art professionals and the public. The 55 portraits on display were chosen by four judges from 1,200 entries, submitted online. These extraordinary photographs range from intimate and haunting family portraits to entertaining staged images to complexly executed works.
A National Portrait Gallery exhibition
This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
ROCK BREAKERS
CONTINUING UNTIL 2012
Rock Breakers tells the story of Western Australia’s first official museum which opened at Fremantle Prison in 1881. The Geological Museum was initiated to help chart and aid geological exploration of the colony. It would eventually evolve into the Western Australian Museum. Featuring artefacts from Fremantle Prison, the Western Australian Museum, the State Library of Western Australia and the State Records Office of Western Australia.
Alexia Sinclair
Napoleon I - Emperor of the French 2010
Digital print
63.5 x 63.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist
2011 Winner
Jacqueline Mitelman
Miss Alesandra 2010
Digital print
48 x 38 cm
Courtesy of the artist
Edith Cowan University
Building 3, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley
Check website for opening times
T 9370 6906
scca.ecu.edu.au/projects/spectrum
IRAQUI
NICOLLE DESMARCHELIER
7 October – 14 October
Iraqui meaning Thankyou in Shipibo, at Spectrum Project Space, is an exhibition of works in progress for Phd. Visual Arts candidate, Nicolle Desmarchelier.
In 2010 Desmarchelier completed a three month residency, interacting with and working alongside the Shipibo women artists of the Amazon lowlands in the east of Peru. The artist was a guest in different villages, which enabled her to conduct extensive interviews while sharing food and houses with the Shipibo women and their families who hand stitch their cloths. Often their only common language was mutual hand making within their respective life-worlds. This dynamic is the catalyst for Desmarchelier’s doctoral research and creative praxis.
Iraqui, at Spectrum Project Space, is a way of communicating the artists creative response and the value of momentary impressions of the Shipibo oral culture and tradition, which is passed on in the forms of stories, song, patterns, colours and myths. The purpose of this exhibition is to reflexively respond to the cultural interface of the Shipibo women artists and the artist. In order to explore this intercultural dialogue, Desmarchelier will be using sound, projection, Shipibo hand made cloths and hand made stitched pieces.
YOUNG ORIGINALS
27 OCTOBER - 4 NOVEMBER
The Young Originals annual exhibition provides an opportunity to celebrate the creative and innovative Visual Arts and Design programs offered in Western Australian public secondary schools.
The exhibition features visual arts and design works across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, textiles, printmaking, photography, ceramics, graphic design, video art and computer generated design.
SOUND SPECTRUM FESTIVAL
7 NOVEMBER - 11 NOVEMBER
The annual Sound Spectrum festival set to be held in November 2011, will be curated by Lindsay Vickery, musician, composer and Lecturer at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
PHOTOMEDIA GRADUATE SHOW
24 NOVEMBER - 9 DECEMBER
The annual Edith Cowan University Photomedia Graduation show showcases the work of third year students.
Their work is both creative and critical at once - an attempt to speak in visual terms while learning how to critique visual languages and ideologies.
Nicolle Desmarchelier
Untitled 2011 (detail)
Courtesy of the artist
The Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery
46 Henry Street, Fremantle
Gallery hours: Mon – Sun, 10am – 4pm
Free Admission, managed by Fremantle Arts Centre
T 9335 3519
INTERACTIVE ARTS
SEASONS
15 - 30 OCTOBER
An exhibition exploring our relationship to the seasons through art. Curated by Interactive Arts, a group of 25 fill gallery spaces with their various styles and mixed media in response to the theme.
ARTISTS FROM THE FREEDOM SCHOOL.
GROUP EXHIBITION
5 - 20 NOVEMBER
The Freedom School is a peer studio-based art group founded by David Giles. Over 50 artists, nine of them award-winning, participate in this exhibition, exploring the possibilities of painting in a show characterized by colour, vibrancy, vitality and energy. Each day artists work in the main gallery to enable audiences to witness their processes first-hand.
GEORGE HAYNES
RECENT WORKS
2 - 18 DECEMBER
Recent paintings on a marine theme by George Haynes, one of WA’s most accomplished artists, with special guest painters Robert Juniper, Jeremy Kirwin-Ward, Roger Leevers, Jane Martin, Jonathon Snowball and Peter Fitzsimmons. This exhibition will be an outstanding example of what Western Australia painters have to offer.
George Haynes
Abrolhos Moonlight 2011
Oil on canvas
138 x 152 cm
Courtesy and copyright the artist
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