Vivienne Binns in ‘The Possibilities Are Immense: Fifty Years of the George Paton Gallery’
Vivienne Binns’ acclaimed video work Self-portrait, self-image (1980) will feature in the forthcoming exhibition The Possibilities are Immense, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne. Produced during the seminal Mothers’ memories others’ memories project undertaken in various academic and community venues in Sydney between 1979 and 1981, the two-channel slide work with overlaid audio interview features images of Vivienne’s mother Joyce Binns alongside corresponding years in Vivienne’s life.
Renowned for as a genesis point for some of Australia’s most well-known artists, writers and curators, the George Paton Gallery has a rich history of fostering experimentation, new media, and innovative artistic practices. For over fifty years the gallery has played a crucial role in championing progressive art movements, encouraged new media such as video and performance art and provided a forum for ideas, debate and innovation.
The Possibilities Are Immense: Fifty Years of the George Paton Gallery George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Naarm/Melbourne 24 October – 9 November 2024
Vivienne Binns iconic painting The Aftermath and the Ikon of Fear (1984-85) is included in the current group exhibition WILDER TIMES: Arthur Boyd and the mid 1980s Landscape on show at Bundanon Homestead.
In 1984 Arthur Boyd was commissioned to create a series of Shoalhaven landscape paintings for the new Arts Centre Melbourne. In this exhibition, Boyd’s series of fourteen powerful paintings returns to Bundanon for the first time since its creation. Responding to these paintings, WILDER TIMES brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
WILDER TIMES: Arthur Boyd and the mid 1980s Landscape Bundanon Homestead, Illaroo, NSW 6 July – 13 October 2024
Conners Conners is presenting a solo exhibition of enamels by Vivienne Binns. The exhibition at Fitzroy Town Hall, Naarm/Melbourne will bring together a varied array of enamelled works from throughout Binns’s career, revealing the breadth of her experimentation and approach.
Showcasing iconic two-dimensional works alongside rarely exhibited enamelled goblets and copper-based sculpture from archives and private collections across Australia, the exhibition highlights the ways in which process and relationships have remained consistent, animating currents underscoring the artist’s manifold career.
Vivienne Binns: Enamels Conners Conners (Fitzroy Town Hall, Naarm/Melbourne) 16 May – 15 June, 2024
Vivienne Binns in ‘Staging Oneself’ at Cairns Art Gallery
Vivienne Binns’ video work Self-portrait Self-image (1980) is featured in the group exhibition ‘Staging Oneself: Photography and New Media Self-Portraits by Women Artists’ currently on show at Cairns Art Gallery.
Staging Oneself examines the creative ways in which contemporary women artists use role play, disguise, and self-portraiture to explore womanhood and female identity within the public and private spheres. Using photography and new media, these self-portraits reveal a complex interpretation and understanding of identity informed by real and imagined experiences.
Vivienne Binns’ video work Self-portrait Self-image (1980) consists of an interview and a two-channel slideshow – one depicting the life of her mother Joyce, and the other revealing events from corresponding years in the artist’s life. The artist’s work seeks to give value to hitherto ignored, and subverted aspects of women’s lives, questioning notions of self-identity, along with the colliding public and private worlds inhabited.
Staging Oneself: Photography and New Media Self-Portraits by Women Artists Cairns Art Gallery 24 February – 19 May 2024
Vivienne Binns and Elizabeth Gower at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Works by Vivienne Binns and Elizabeth Gower are included in the landmark group exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now | Part2 at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG). On tour from the National Gallery of Australia (NGA), this exhibition follows on from the success of the first iteration that took place at the NGA in 2020.
A celebration, a commitment and a call to action, Know My Name is a gender equity initiative of the National Gallery of Australia, celebrating the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.
Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now | Part 2 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery 25 November 2023 – 18 February 2024
‘Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface’ now open at the MCA
A partnership between the MCA and Monash University Museum of Art, ‘Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface’ brings together over 100 artworks spanning six decades alongside a rich selection of archival materials. Curated by Anneke Jaspers, Senior Curator, Collection, MCA and Hannah Mathews, Senior Curator, MUMA.
Vivienne Binns is included in 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘌𝘙: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘎𝘝 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘌𝘙 shines a light on the NGV Collection to examine and reveal the queer stories works of art can tell. This exhibition of works from the NGV Collection spans historical eras and diverse media including painting, drawing, photography, decorative arts, fashion, video, sculpture, and design and explores queerness as an expression of sexuality and gender, a political movement, a sensibility, and as an attitude that defies fixed definition. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On at the National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road, 10 March 22 – 21 August, 2022.
‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’ by Anne Marsh
Doing Feminism represents over 220 artists and groups including Catherine Bell, Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Sara Hughes, Helen Johnson, Laresa Kosloff, Lindy Lee, Rosslynd Piggott, Nusra Latif Qureshi and Jane Trengove, with 370 colour illustrations punctuated by extracts from artists’ statements, curatorial writing and critique.
Tracking networks of art practice, exhibitions, protest and critical thought over several generations, Marsh demonstrates the innovation and power of women’s art and the ways in which it has influenced and changed the contemporary art landscape in Australia and internationally.
Vivienne Binns at MUMA and the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022
Since the 1960s, Binns’ ground-breaking work has played an important role in the evolution of feminist, collaborative, community-based and studio practice.
A new retrospective of her work titled On And Through The Surface will show at Monash University Museum of Art from February 5 – April 2022, then at the Museum of Contemporary Art from July 15 – September 25, 2022.
The exhibition will encompass over 100 key works and cover six decades of Binns’s practice, spanning painting, drawing, assemblage and collaborative projects, loaned from public and private collections as well as the artist.
Major works by Vivienne Binns, Nicholas Mangan acquired by Tate/MCA
We are thrilled to announce that major works by Vivienne Binns and Nicholas Mangan have been jointly acquired by Tate, London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney. The acquisitions were made possible through a corporate gift from the Qantas Foundation that has enabled both museums to expand their collections each year, bringing the work of Australian artists to new global audiences. Binns and Mangan join a group of esteemed Australian artists–among them Gordon Bennett and Helen Johnson–whose work has been acquired as part of this ambitious program.
7 Sutton Gallery artists featured in landmark National Gallery of Australia initiative ‘Know My Name’
Kate Beynon, Vivienne Binns, Anne Ferran, Elizabeth Gower, Helen Johnson, Lindy Lee and Rosslynd Piggott are included in Know My Name: Australia Women Artists 1900 to Now. A gender equity initiative of the NGA, Know My Name features a program of exhibitions, events, commissions, creative collaborations, publications and partnerships that highlight the diversity and creativity of women artist throughout history and to the present day.
