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 - 27 July 2008
Joungmee DO, My dearest wishes (no.3 Fish) 2005-06, steel, fine silver, fine gold, copper, gilding material. Courtesy the artist. Photographer: Terence Bogue
THE PRESENCE OF THINGS: SENSE VENEER AND GUISE
Curator: Stephen Gallagher, for the Embroiderers Guild, Victoria
Artists: Bernabeifreeman (Rina Bernabei and Kelly Freeman), Julie Blyfield, Nicola Cerini, Kate Cotching, Jill Dickson, Joungmee Do, Laura Healey, Melanie Hill, Gretchen Hillhouse, Julie Shepherd, Lesley Uren, Nicole Welch and Ilka White
The Presence of Things brought together new works by 14 Australian artists and crafts practitioners created in response to the embroidery and lace collections of the Embroiderers Guild, Victoria. Considered to be one of the most important in Australia, the Guild’s textile collection includes 3,000 pieces from around the world, covering a variety of historical eras and techniques. New works integrating woven, embroidered and printed textiles, glass, ceramics and jewellery, cut paper, metalwork, inlay and printmaking, were exhibited alongside the historic pieces of embroidery and lace from which the artists’ drew inspiration. Traditional techniques, patterns, motifs and materials were utilised by the artists and transformed into unique and contemporary works of art.
Toured April 2006 – July 2007
- Monash Faculty Gallery, Monash University
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum
- Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
- Ararat Gallery
- Mildura Arts Centre
- Warrnambool Art Gallery
- Shepparton Art Gallery
Callum MORTON, Apartment #1: Beau Block 2006, wood, acryclic, synthetic polymer paint. Courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery (Sydney), Anna Schwartz Gallery (Melbourne), Gimpel Fils (London) and Karyn Lovegrove Gallery (Los Angeles)
TOMORROW LAND: CALLUM MORTON
Curator: Stuart Koop
One of Australia’s most significant artists, Callum Morton envisaged a world where high architecture meets multi-national, mass-market franchises in Tomorrow Land. As the Australian representative for the 11th India Triennale in 2005, this was the first time Morton’s award-winning exhibition had been shown in Australia. It comprised 16 digital images presented at the Triennale along with a new series of architectural models that were specially created for this tour.
Toured June 2006 – August 2007
- Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
- Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
- Hamilton Art Gallery
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
- Dubbo Regional Gallery
- Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts
Asher BILU, Heavens 2006, installation, 42 parts pigment and resin. Courtesy the artist and Jewish Museum of Australia. Photographer: Mark Ashkanasy.
HEAVENS: ASHER BILU
Curator: Dr Helen Light, Jewish Museum of Australia
Australian artist Asher Bilu created a major site-specific installation at three galleries across Victoria. Physical and experiential, Heavens aimed to inspire mystery, awe and profound contemplation for people of all faiths, cultures and spiritual philosophies.
Toured November 2006 – September 2007
- Jewish Museum of Australia
- Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- Benalla Art Gallery
EARLIER TOURING EXHIBITIONS
Winners are Grinners
Curator: Hannah Mathews, for 2006 Next Wave Festival
Artists: John Breiner, Marcus Canning, Mark Hilton, Fiona McMonagle, Michael Moran, Heather Webb, Wilkins Hill and Wayne Youle
Winners are Grinners investigated the back-slapping spirit of winning within Australian culture, while also revealing its darker complexities off the sporting field. Responding to the occasion of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Winners are Grinners revealed that all that glitters is not gold, or silver, or even bronze!
Toured March – December 2006
- Culture Lab, Meat Market
- First Draft ARI, Sydney
- The White House ARI, Brisbane
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts
LAKE GNOTUK: A LAYERED HISTORY
Curator: Anna Clabburn, for Geelong Gallery
Artists: Brigid Cole-Adams, Christine James, Richard Thomas, Ewa Narkewicz and Cameron Robbins
Conceived as a collaboration between art and science, Lake Gnotuk: a layered history featured works created in response to this extinct volcanic site located in Western Victoria. The artists’ collaboration with scientists and the local community invited a broader environmental debate focused through the Lake and its rich repository of cultural history.
Toured October 2005 – October 2006
- Geelong Gallery
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Warnambool Art Gallery
- Riddoch Art Gallery
- Bundoora Homestead
So you wanna be a Rock'n'roll star: Australian Painting from the NGV Shell Collection
Curator: Jason Smith, National Gallery of Victoria
Artists: Peter Atkins, Lynne Boyd, Stephen Bush, Jon Campbell, Liz Coats, Sarah Curtis, Dale Frank, Brent Harris, Philip Hunter, Tim Johnson, Stewart MacFarlane, Tim Maguire, Hilarie Mais, Mandy Martin, Jan Nelson, Lin Onus, Stieg Persson, Rosslynd Piggott, John Scurry, Mark Titmarsh and Jenny Watson
So you wanna be a rock'n'roll star presented works of art drawn from the Shell Collection of Contemporary Art, which was donated by Shell Australia to the National Gallery of Victoria in 2002. So you wanna be a rock'n'roll star offered a revealing and entertaining glimpse into the artistic and cultural influences that shaped Australian art at the end of the 20th Century.
Toured January – June 2005
- Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
- McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
- Hamilton Art Gallery
Raw & Compelling: Australian Naive Art - the continuing tradition
Curator: Helen Kaptein, Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Artists: Ian Abdulla, Catherine Amelia, Henri Bastin, Sam Byrne, Charles Callins, Arthur Carling, Lorna Chick, Henry Dearing, James Fardoulys, Iris Frame, Irvine Homer, L.R. Jones, Roy Kennedy, Victor Litherland, Muriel Luders, George Rathbone, Eric L. Stewart, Selby Warren, George Williams and William Yaxley
Raw and Compelling featured the delightfully direct, colourful and candid works of 20 of Australia's leading naïve artists. This unprecedented national touring exhibition revealed strong connections with environments as diverse as Broken Hill, South Australia’s Riverland, the Central Desert and the coasts of Far North Queensland and Tasmania.
Toured December 2004 – March 2006
- Monash Gallery of Art
- Coffs Harbour City Gallery
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
- Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum
- Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
- Orange Regional Gallery
- Tamworth City Gallery
- Broken Hill City Art Gallery
Three colours: gordon bennett and peter robinson
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Toured April 2004 – July 2006
- Heide Museum of Modern Art
- Bendigo Art Gallery
- Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
- Academy Gallery, Launceston
- Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand
Imaging the Apple
Arts Academy, University of Ballarat
Toured February 2004 – August 2005
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- RMIT Project Space
- Geelong Gallery
- Noosa Regional Gallery
- War Memorial Art Gallery, University of Sydney
- McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
Places that name us. Raka award: contemporary indigenous visual arts #3
Ian Potter Museum of Art
Toured October 2003 – September 2005
- Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
- Benalla Art Gallery
- McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University
- Cowra Art Gallery
- Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
None More Blacker
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Toured October 2003 – September 2005
- Geelong Gallery
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Wollongong City Gallery
- Newcastle Region Art Gallery
- Global Arts Link, Ipswich
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- Mildura Arts Centre
House of Tomorrow
Experimenta
Toured September 2003 – August 2005
- Black Box, the Arts Centre
- Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
- CAST, Hobart
- National Museum of Australia
- WA Maritime Museum
- Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
- Mildura Arts Centre
- Warrnambool Art Gallery
- Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Elastic
Centre for Contemporary Photography
Toured: June 2003 – November 2004
- Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- Geelong Gallery
- Warrnambool Art Gallery
- Horsham Regional Art Gallery
- Bendigo Art Gallery
Home and Away: Place and Identity in Recent Australian Art
Monash University Museum of Art
Toured: March 2003 – March 2004
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Newcastle Region Art Gallery
- University of Queensland Art Museum
- Monash Faculty Gallery, Monash University
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
Sara Thorn: Dreams of a Golden Thread
Craft Victoria
Toured March 2003 – January 2005
- Craft Victoria
- Warrnambool Art Gallery
- Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
- Geelong Gallery
- Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Ararat Gallery
- Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
500 Fridays: 10 Years of Contemporary Plein Air Painting
Geelong Gallery
Toured February 2003 – May 2004
- Geelong Gallery
- Benalla Art Gallery
- Monash Gallery of Art
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- Castlemaine Art Gallery & Historical Museum
- Bundoora Homestead
What’s going on: Contemporary Indigenous Art from the Murray Darling Region
Mildura Arts Centre
Toured September 2002 – March 2004
- Robinvale Resource Centre
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
- Broken Hill City Art Gallery
- Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
- Koorie Heritage Trust, Melbourne
- Thanakakali, Broken Hill
- Wilcannia Telecentre
Yikwani: Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics
Curators: John Patrick Kelantumama, Cyril James Kerinauia, Mark Virgil Puautjimi and David Hurlston, for National Gallery of Victoria
Artists: John Patrick Kelantumama, Cyril James Kerinauia, Jock Puautjimi, Mark Virgil Puautjimi and John Bosco Tipiloura
Yikwani: Contemporary Tiwi Ceramics presented works by five artists associated with Tiwi Design Aboriginal Corporation and featured 16 sculptures and 50 photographs of contemporary life on the Tiwi Islands.
Toured May 2002 – August 2003
- National Gallery of Victoria
- McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
- Bendigo Art Gallery
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
- The Australian Museum, Sydney
Cutting Comments: Contemporary Linocuts 1995–1998
Collection of Duroloid Pty Ltd
Toured July 2000 – July 2003
- McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
- Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
- Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
- Gold Treasury Museum at Old Treasury
- Burnie Regional Art Gallery
- Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
- University Gallery, Launceston
- Noosa Regional Art Gallery
- Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
- Geelong Gallery
- Latrobe Regional Gallery
CCP/Leica 1999 Documentary Photography Award
Centre for Contemporary Photography
Toured November 1999 – February 2002
- Wagga Wagga Regional Art Gallery
- Logan Art Gallery
- Noosa Regional Gallery
- Newcastle Regional Library
- Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
- Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery
- Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
- Shepparton Art Gallery
- Mildura Arts Centre
Powerful Posters
Red Planet Screen print & Design Studio, Melbourne
Toured November 1999 – August 2001
- Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
- Cooloola Shire Public Gallery
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
- Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
- Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
- Geraldton Regional Art Gallery
- Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
- Warrnambool Art Gallery
- Shepparton Art Gallery
