MATERIALBYPRODUCT (Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald), Soft Hard Harder Dress Curtain, 2007, silk, polyester, plastic, cotton, Courtesy the artists, Photographer: Slowlight Images
HOW YOU MAKE IT
Curator: Kate Rhodes, Craft Victoria
Exhibition Development Fund recipient, 2007
Artists: Simon Cooper, Paula Dunlop, Ess.Laboratory, FORMALLYKNOWNAS, Anthea van Kopplen, MATERIALBYPRODUCT, Project, and S!X.
The designers in How You Make It create not only new garment forms and new ways of wearing clothes, they develop new design systems. How You Make It explores artisanal fashion design practices that draw on traditional tailoring techniques to form contemporary collections. Here we encounter unique materials, tools, techniques and templates for making. In the finished garments we see the tangible results of considered choices about where, when and how to cut fabric. Existing garments are deconstructed: unpicked, reconfigured and reworked, using fine tailoring and conceptual templates in order to create a new style of clothes. These Australian conceptual fashion designers open a dialogue between craft and design that places the focus back on how and why objects are made.
LAUNCH VENUE:
Craft Victoria 6 March - 12 April 2008
Destinations
Object Gallery 21 June - 24 August 2008
Latrobe Regional Gallery 27 September - 2 November 2008
Fremantle Arts Centre 3 December 2008 - 25 January 2009
Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery 28 February - 29 March 2009
Ararat Regional Art Gallery 9 April - 17 May 2009
Mildura Arts Centre 11 June - 15 July 2009
Louise WEAVER, Moonlight becomes you (possum) 2007, hand crocheted lambswool over high density foam, artificial fur, wire, sequins, cotton thread, silk organza, diamantes. Courtesy the artist and Darren Knight Gallery (Sydney)
THE ENCHANTED FOREST: NEW GOTHIC STORYTELLERS
Curator: Jazmina Cininas, for Geelong Gallery
Exhibition Development Fund recipient, 2006
Artists: Jazmina Cininas, Deborah Klein, Milan Milojevic, James Morrison, Louise Weaver and Louiseann Zahra
Six of Australia's most respected contemporary artists evoke a mesmerising woodland with intersecting storylines possessing both the charm and the implied menace of a Grimm's fairytale.
In The enchanted forest, woodland animals sport shimmering sequined pelts, fallen birds are turned to bronze amongst etched glass flowers, and moths metamorphose into beautiful women and back again. Werewolves and dingoes lurk in the wolfsbane undergrowth, giants are felled among eucalypts, while fanciful trees with nocturnal blooms are home to chimeras.
Working across a range of mediums, the artists in The enchanted forest explore fables and folklore, creating their own personal mythologies to explore the socially constructed notions of nature.
LAUNCH VENUE:
Geelong Gallery 12 April - 9 June 2008
DESTINATIONS:
Bendigo Art Gallery 19 July - 17 August 2008
Shepparton Art Gallery 1 November - 14 December 2008
Latrobe Regional Gallery 21 February - 19 April 2009
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 1 May - 15 June 2009
Dubbo Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre 4 July - 13 September 2009
Tweed River Art Gallery 2 October - 15 November 2009
Shaun GLADWELL, Storm Sequence 2000, still from DVD videography: Techa Noble, sound: Kazumichi Grim, commissioned by Peter Fay. Courtesy the artist and Sherman Galleries (Sydney).
LOOP: NEW AUSTRALIAN VIDEO ART
Curator: Daniel McOwan, Hamilton Art Gallery
Exhibition Development Fund recipient, 2006
Artists: Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell, Jess MacNeil, Arlo Mountford and Daniel von Sturmer
Loop: new Australian video art showcases innovative contemporary video art by five of Australia's leading artists. In bringing together this group of seemingly diverse artists, Loop is intended to provide a glimpse into some of the fresh methods being employed in video art today. Testing the boundaries of this visual medium, the works in Loop present a spliced meditation on time, space, motion, place and perspective.
Destinations
Hamilton Art Gallery 19 September - 28 October 2007
Warrnambool Art Gallery 26 April - 15 June 2008
Ararat Regional Art Gallery 21 June - 27 July 2008
Horsham Regional Art Gallery 9 September - 2 November 2008
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 10 December 2008 - 26 January 2009
Bendigo Art Gallery 1 April - 26 April 2009
Dubbo Regional Gallery, Western Plains Cultural Centre 23 May - 2 August
2009
Anne ZAHALKA, Sunday, 2:09 pm 1995, from the series Open House, type C photograph. Courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney) and Arc One Gallery (Melbourne)
HALL OF MIRRORS: ANNE ZAHALKA PORTRAITS 1987-2007
Curator: Karra Rees, Centre for Contemporary Photography
Exhibition Partnership
Hall of Mirrors: Anne Zahalka Portraits 1987-2007 explores the thread of portraiture through the prolific career of one of Australia's pre-eminent photomedia artists. Featuring many iconic images, this major survey examines portraiture, representation and identity throughout Zahalka's celebrated career, which spans over 20 years. Her portraits reveal more than just the individual - with an ironic and critical voice the images cleverly subvert stereotypes while capturing subcultures and a spirit of the times with acute observation.
Destinations
Warrnambool Art Gallery 15 September - 28 October 2007
National Portrait Gallery 23 November 2007 - 31 March 2008
Ipswich Art Gallery 17 May - 27 July 2008
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 29 August - 12 October 2008
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre 6 December 2008 - 1 February 2009
Artspace Mackay 6 February - 22 March 2009
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery 24 April - 21 June 2009
Riddoch Art Gallery 4 July - 2 August 2009
Wangaratta exhibitions Gallery 26 September - 25 October 2009
Devonport Regional Gallery 6 November - 31 December 2009
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 30 January - 28 February 2010
Nicky HEPBURN, Cuttlefish, Seed Pods, Galls II, Bark 2007, cuttlefish, found seed pods, steel, tree bark. Courtesy the artist. Photographer: Terence Bogue.
WALK
Curator: Martina Copley
Exhibition Development Fund recipient, 2006
Artists: Peter Corbett, Vicki Couzens, Nicky Hepburn, Brian Laurence, Jan Learmonth, Carmel Wallace, Ilka White and John Wolseley
At the heart of this exhibition is a 250 kilometre journey along the Great South West Walk, an increasingly endangered natural environment cradled in the far south-west corner of Victoria. For three weeks, this seemingly diverse group of artists travelled together through forest and river, estuary and bay to create work in response to their experience of the Walk. The artists followed a path that took them far from the familiarity and isolation of the studio into a landscape conceived as a creative, social, cultural, ethical and aesthetic relation to place.
LAUNCH VENUE:
Portland Arts Centre 5 November 2007 - 2 December 2007
Destinations
Burnie Regional Art Gallery 15 August - 14 September
2008
Riddoch Art Gallery 18 October - 30 November 2008
Flinders University Art Museum 23 January - 28 February 2009
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries 2 May - 14 June 2009
Shepparton Art Gallery 18 July - 23 August 2009
Counihan Gallery 28 August - 27 September 2009
Trevor FLINN, The Puma, The Stranger and The Mountain 2007, still from DVD. Courtesy the artist and Next Wave.
COME ON THE SCENE
Curators: Jeff Khan (Artistic Director) and Tamara
Marwood (Associate Producer, Regional Projects), Next Wave
Exhibition Development Fund recipient, 2008
Artists: Ellen Coyle, Trevor Flinn, Carly Preston, Roderick Sprigg, Pip Stafford
Come on the Scene presents the work of five young regionally-based
contemporary artists who transform the communities around them through their
creative practices.
Based in diverse locations across regional Australia, each artist's work
fuses innovative contemporary art methodologies and processes with a grass-roots
connection to the people and communities which characterise their town or
regional centre. The resulting works provide a fresh perspective on regional
Australia and the role of art in fostering a new sense of community and
connectedness.
Curated by Jeff Khan and Tamara Marwood, this touring exhibition of young
contemporary artists from Next Wave's Regional Kickstart program features
new media, sculpture, painting, printmaking and installation works alongside
documentation of the works.
Come on the Scene is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian
Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance
for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia.
LAUNCH VENUE:
Warrnambool Art Gallery 14 February - 29 March 2009
Destinations
Shepparton Art Gallery 11 April - 31 May 2009
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 12 June - 19 July 2009
Latrobe Regional Gallery 1 August - 11 October 2009
Horsham Regional Art Gallery 27 October - 20 December 2009
Amanda DAVIES extreme physical conditions are present here 2007, enamel on plastic on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Bett Gallery (Hobart)
THE WORLD IN PAINTING
Curator: Zara Stanhope, Heide Museum of Modern Art for Asialink
Exhibition Partnership
Artists: Gordon Bennett (John Citizen), Amanda Davies, Diena Georgetti, Raafat Ishak, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, James Morrison, Clinton Nain, Nancy Naninurra Napanangka and Lizzy Newman
The world in painting brings together eight of Australia's most distinguished artists, which collectively presents personalised worlds through painting that range from domestic interiors to dream-like landscapes.
This touring exhibition offers a perspective into how Australian
artists, from a range of generations and locations, are painting their worlds.
Curated by Zara Stanhope, The world in painting explores a number of themes
including the workings of subjectivity and power, the strangeness and fantasy
of the natural world, and the desire to encourage forms of creativity that
are accessible to all.
AUSTRALIAN LAUNCH VENUE:
Heide Museum of Modern Art 26 July - 9 November 2008
Destinations
Newcastle Region Art Gallery 21 February - 10 May 2009
Latrobe Regional Gallery 27 June - 23 August 2009
Warrnambool Art Gallery 12 September - 15 November 2009
The world in painting toured Thailand, the Phillipines and Vietnam in 2008, courtesy of Asialink.
Trevor NICKOLLS, Warmun mandala 2002, synthetic polymer paint on canvas. Private collection, Perth. Couretsy the artist and Vivien Anderson Gallery (Melbourne)
OTHER SIDE ART: TREVOR NICKOLLS, A SURVEY OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1972-2007
Curator: Michael O'Ferrall
Exhibition Partnership
Other side art is the first museum survey of the
work of senior South Australian artist, Trevor Nickolls. Nickolls has been
described as ‘the father of urban Aboriginal art’. He stands
as a seminal figure whose career has spanned an unprecedented era of Aboriginal
cultural expression. Over more than thirty years, he has developed unique
methods and motifs to depict the impact of Western culture on Aboriginal
traditional life. This major survey will chart in detail Nickolls’s
themes, symbols and techniques to establish a powerful comprehension of
his inspiration and direction.
LAUNCH VENUE:
The Ian Potter Museum of Art 13 May – 2 August 2009
Destinations
Other side art will tour the Northern Territory, Victoria, South
Australia and Western Australia until mid 2010.
