Narelle AUTIO, Trophy 2006, type C photograph. Courtesy the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney.
MURRAY COD: THE BIGGEST FISH IN THE RIVER
Curator: John Kean, for Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Exhibition Development Fund recipient, 2005
Artists: Ian Abdulla, Narelle Autio, Arthur Bartholomew, Badger Bates, Ludwig Becker, William Blandowski, Nici Cumpston, Kurwingie Kerry Giles, Ponch Hawkes, Roy Kennedy, Esther Kirby, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Rhyll Plant, Bluey Roberts, Clare Whitney and others.
Murray Cod: the biggest fish in the river is a rich showcase of visual art inspired by Australia's most iconic fish. Consisting over 40 works of art by 27 artists, this timely and unique touring exhibition examines a great fish that symbolises the Murray River itself. Works by colonial artist Ludwig Becker, through to narratives about the fish by Ian Abdulla and a contemporary view of the river by Narelle Autio, the exhibition explores the cultural and historical significance of the Murray cod through images drawn from memory, spiritual association and acute observation.
Destinations
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery 2 December 2006 - 4 February 2007
Mildura Arts Centre 26 April - 10 June 2007
Albury Regional Art Gallery 13 July - 19 August 2007
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 27 August - 30 September 2007
Shepparton Art Gallery 25 October - 9 December 2007
Finders University City Gallery 4 January - 28 February 2008
Melbourne Museum 11 April - 22 June 2008
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
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery 7 November 2009 - 17 January 2010
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 30 January - 28 February 2010
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 Gallery 21 June - 27 July 2008
Horsham Regional Art Gallery 9 September - 2 November 2008
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery 15 November 2008 - 11 January 2009
Bendigo Art Gallery 28 March - 26 April 2009
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
Portland Arts Centre 5 November 2007 - 2 December 2007
Horsham Regional Art Gallery 11 December 2007 - 3 February 2008
Hamilton Art Gallery 12 February 2008 - 23 March 2008
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 4 April 2008 - 4 May 2008
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale 31 May 2008 - 29 June 2008
Riddoch Art Gallery 18 October 2008 - 30 November 2008
Flinders University Art Museum 6 February 2009 - 20 March 2009
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries 2 May - 16 June 2009
Matthew SLEETH, Untitled #26 2003 from the series Rosebud, type C photograph. Courtesy the artist, Josef Lebovic Gallery (Sydney) and Jan Manton Art (Brisbane)
VICTORIANS ON VACATION
Curator: Clare Williamson, State Library of Victoria
Exhibition Partnership
Victorians on Vacation celebrates holidays and leisure in Victoria since the 19th century - from sea-bathing in St Kilda to skiing and boating, bush-camping and caravanning. It showcases a fascinating selection of historical and contemporary material from the State Library of Victoria's collections, including evocative photographs, colourful travel posters and postcards, maps and guidebooks. A highlight of the exhibition is a multimedia display of early-1900s slides and nostalgic home movies from the 1940s and 50s.
Victorians on Vacation reveals how our holiday habits have changed over time, reflecting changes in our society, lifestyles and tastes. It traces the postwar rise of the affordable family car, which enabled Victorians to venture further afield, and compares styles of holiday accommodation, from grand 19th-century hotels to fibro beach-shacks and the popular Don caravans. The exhibition brings to life many individual characters and their stories - such as the early 20th century alpine tour-leader Alice Manfield, known as 'Guide Alice', famed for her lyrebird studies and her mountaineering trouser-suit.
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria's Major Touring Initiative. Indemnification for this exhibition is provided by the Victorian Government.
Destinations
State Library of Victoria 30 November 2007 - 9 March 2008
Gippsland Art Gallery 19 April - May 25 2008
Mildura Arts Centre 16 October - 26 November 2008
Warrnambool Art Gallery 6 December 2008 - 8 February 2009
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 4 March - 12 April 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 10 October - 23 November 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 1 October - 15 November 2009
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 4 October - 16 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
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
The world in painting is currently touring Thailand, the Phillipines and Vietnam, courtesy of Asialink. NETS Victoria will manage the Australian tour, which is expected to be presented in regional Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia from late 2008.
