Rosslynd Piggott is exhibiting in two exhibitions across the summer months at Queensland Gallery of Art and Gallery of Modern Art. Piggott features in ‘Air’ until 23 April and ‘Courage and Beauty – The James C. Sourris Collection’ until 25 June 2023.
‘Air’ showcases more than 30 significant Australian and international artists, reflecting the vitality of our shared atmosphere through the invisible, ethereal and vital element of air.
‘Courage and Beauty’ is dedicated to Queensland art collector and philanthropist James C. Sourris AM gifts of the past decade, with major works by contemporary Australian artists including Rosslynd Piggott and Gordon Bennett.
Launching on Friday 24 February, Nick Selenitsch features in ‘Recreation’ at Project8.
‘Recreation’ seeks to illuminate something of our inclination toward play through the experiential realm of art. What is the place of art in relationships between work and recreation?
Nick Selenitsch explores play in the formation of understanding. The works presented for this exhibition mingle co-existing subjects and symbols—sport, leisure, and abstraction —with an antipodean twist: a contemplation of the laconically hybrid Australian cultural experience.
Catherine Bell and Mia Bow both feature in ‘Fragile Beauty’ alongside Caitlin Dear, Hannah Gartside and Pilar Mata Dupont at Bundoora Homestead until 4 March 2023.
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‘Fragile Beauty’ celebrates the strange and vulnerable existence of being in a human body – an experience that is distinctly individual, yet also part of a shared corporeal reality. The exhibition pays homage to fragile bodies past and present, giving voice to experiences and explorations of embodiment and disembodiment. The exhibition offers artists and visitors a space to reclaim bodily agency by embracing softer states of the human experience that don’t always feel safe to express.
Hosted by Res Artis and Gertrude Contemporary in celebration of the Stonehouse-Glasshouse Residency program, Karen Black launches her new publication with Virginia Leonard.⠀
Stonehouse-Glasshouse Residency is a program developed in collaboration between Antje and Andrew Géczy, and Res Artis benefactors Michael Schwarz and David Clouston. In 2019, Virginia Leonard and Karen Black undertook the residency.
Death is often an uncomfortable topic, but as an inevitable part of life, it’s something that we should seek to find comfort with.
Bone is intrinsically linked to the concept of life and of death, and this event seeks to explore how we can transform it from simply a material, into a concept that collectively connects us.
Join Sutton artist Catherine Bell as she guides participants to sculpt a personal memento to loss and grief, death and dying—and the ways we cope with it that fundamentally make us human.
MMEETS Comfort in the Uncomfortable Sat 18 Feb 2023, 11am—12pm
Once a year, Gertrude opens their private studios to the public, providing audiences with a special opportunity to meet the artists, view works in progress, and experience the environment in which Gertrude Studio Artists create their work. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Join Sutton artists Mia Boe, Catherine Bell & Gian Manik this Saturday 18 February for a peek into their studio practice alongside the 2022-2024 cohort.
Nusra Latif Qureshi at Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present
7 February – 11 June 2023
Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15), titled Thinking Historically in the Present, reflects on Enwezor’s visionary work, which transformed contemporary art and established an ambitious intellectual project that has influenced the evolution of institutions and biennials around the world. Bringing together more than 160 artists from over 70 countries, SB15 will take place in 16 venues across the emirate of Sharjah from 7 February – 11 June 2023. Qureshi’s artworks, along with other participating artists, will offer unique perspectives that interconnect regions, histories, and practices.
Sutton Gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Melbourne based painter, Mia Boe.
Born in Brisbane in 1997, Boe received a Bachelor of Art, Majoring in Art History from the University if Queensland in 2020. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and is a current Gertrude Contemporary Studio artist. Forthcoming exhibitions include ‘Melbourne Now’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and ‘Portrait23: Identity’ at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Boe’s first exhibition at Sutton Gallery will take place later in 2023, alongside artwork from the Gordon Bennett Estate, curated by Tim Riley-Walsh
George Egerton-Warburton was selected for the ISCP program in 2022. The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) supports the creative development of artists and curators, and promotes exchange through residencies and public programs. Housed in a former factory in Brooklyn, with 35 light-filled work studios, two galleries, and a project space, ISCP is New York’s most comprehensive international visual arts residency program, founded in 1994.
Laresa Kosloff, Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023
Congratulations to Laresa Kosloff, who has been announced as a finalist in the 2023 Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA). This Prize is awarded every two years and is open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia.
In 2023, the NPCA prize winners will be selected by an independent judging panel including, Hannah Presley, Melissa Keys, and Jason Smith at Montsalvat on 21 April.
Lindy Lee is currently exhibiting at Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre.
‘Flowing Everywhere and Always’ meditates on the concept of nature in Lee’s adopted home of the Northern Rivers. On display until 6 February 2023, the exhibition includes a series of scrolls, ‘rain works’, sculptures, and a room-scale installation.
We are excited to announce that John Meade will feature in a major solo exhibition curated by Simon Lawrie at McClelland in 2023.
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This exhibition will present new and existing works by Meade surveying three decades of practice and is curated to reflect various personal threads in his work relating to alterity, including queer culture, politics, and artistic experimentation. The exhibition will coincide with the permanent relocation of Meade’s Southern Way McClelland Commission Love Flower (2019).
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Image: John Meade, Puschelhockers, 2018, real and fake fur, stainless steel, plastic, acrylic paint, (detail)
Catherine Bell’s new project ‘Maker Unknown’ is a year-long project by Bell to reimagine the City of Melbourne’s Memorial Drinking Fountains as feminist monuments.
‘Maker Unknown (2022)’ is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.
Special thanks to the team at the Women’s Art Register for their support of this project.
David Rosetzky’s ‘Gaps’ in touring exhibition ‘Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection’
David Rosetzky’s Gaps’ is showing at Benalla Art Gallery in the touring exhibition ‘Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection’ alongside artists Kaylene Whiskey, Jason Phu, Deborah Kelly, Zanny Begg, and Christian Thompson.
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Of his 2014 work, ‘Gaps’, Rosetzky states “I wanted to explore a number of different performative modes and tonal ranges and to shift between these registers in an ambiguous way. I am interested in how we do this in our everyday lives.”
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‘Between the Details: Video Art from the ACMI Collection’
Benalla Art Gallery
9 Dec 2022 — 26 Feb 2023
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Image: David Rosetzky, Gaps, 2014 (video still)
George Egerton-Warburton / Laresa Kosloff announced in Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria
Congratulations to Laresa Kosloff and George Egerton-Warburton, who have been announced in the first round of Melbourne Now‘s participating artists. Melbourne Now will highlight the work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios, and firms whose practices are shaping the cultural landscape of Victoria. The exhibition will be presented at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from March 2023.
Image: George Egerton-Warburton, ‘Gut fugitive’, 2022, Mixed media, 192 x 180 x 190cm
ACCA Art Kitchen #4 ‘Primary Colour Oil Painting with Gian Manik’
Join Gian Manik to learn how to create an oil painting from a source image by mixing the three primary colours, plus black and white. You will also hear why Manik approaches painting as a discipline, thinks of his practice as a form of self-portraiture, and chooses to work in a dedicated art studio.
Image: Gian Manik, ‘Micro-dosing in Kallista 3’, 2018, oil and aerosol on canvas, 153 x 112cm.
You can view the work of Nusra Latif Qureshi in ‘The Cost of Living’ at the Art Gallery of Western Australia alongside Anne Wallace, Pat Brassington, Peter Cooley, Richard Giblett, Catherine Opie, Robert Dickerson and Ronnie Van Hout. ‘The Cost of Living’ explores how understandings and misunderstandings of value shape art and everyday life. It looks at what and how we place value and how that value impacts the way we relate to each other physically, emotionally, and economically. ‘The Cost of Living’ The Art Gallery of Western Australia 22 Oct 2022 – 29 Jan 2023 Image: Nusra Latif Qureshi, ‘DARK MONTHS-I’, 2020, Acrylic, ink and gouache on illustration board, 24.5 x 19.5cm.
Take a trip to Heide Modern to see Rosslynd Piggott in the exhibition ‘wHole’, curated by Melissa Keys.
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‘wHole’ takes modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s fascination with masses, voids, piercings and hollows as a point of departure to explore the enduring interest that artists have in the phenomena of openings and absences. ‘wHole’ draws together a diverse range of transhistorical and transnational artworks alongside an exciting series of new commissions by leading contemporary Australian artists.
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‘wHole’
Heide Museum of Modern Art
14 Nov 2022 – 26 Feb 2023
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Image: Rosslynd Piggott, ‘self and breathing hole – 117 days in Japan no 1’, 1997-98, type-c photograph, 92 x 64cm.
We’re delighted to share that Eugene Carchesio will be exhibiting as a part of ‘The National 4: Australian Art Now’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Jane Devery.
The National is a celebration of contemporary Australian art. The biennial survey of contemporary art showcases works being made across the country by artists of different generations and cultural backgrounds. The National is a partnership between four of Sydney’s leading cultural institutions, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia). The 2023 edition will be curated by Beatrice Gralton at the Art Gallery of NSW; Emily Rolfe at Campbelltown Arts Centre; Freja Carmichael and Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley at Carriageworks; and Jane Devery at the MCA Australia.
Image: Eugene Carchesio, ‘Works from the Museum of Silence’, 1991, 9.5 x 9.3cm.
David Rosetzky is screening excerpts from Composite Acts (2019) and Half Brother (2013), with choreography by Jo Lloyd.
This event will include a conversation between Rosetzky and collaborators Arabelle Franh-Starkie, and Dance (Lens) curator Siobhan Murphy where David will discuss how visual design is embedded within the themes and concepts of his practice and how it helps create an on-screen world for the dance.
IN FOCUS Screening: David Rosetzky
Presented as a part of Dance (Lens)
26 November 2022
4:30pm—5:30pm
Tickets: via Dancehouse
Image: Composite Acts’ (2019), David Rosetzky [still].
Established in 2002, the Gertrude Editions are an annual series of specially commissioned limited-edition works of art by former studio artists and exhibitors.
‘The Gertrude Editions’ includes works by Sutton artists Kate Beynon (2003), Nicholas Mangan (2007), David Rosetzky (2008) and John Mead (2010).
The Gertrude Editions
15 October 2022 – 13 March 2023
Geelong Gallery | 55 Little Malop St, Geelong
Image: John Meade, ‘Screw Babs’, 2010, hydrostone, polyethylene and steel, 55cm, ed/50. Photo credit: Andrew Curtis.
Nick Selenitsch presents ‘Australian Crawl’ at Savage Garden.
’Australian Crawl’ by Nick Selenitsch
Savage Garden
Rear of 168 Amess St, Carlton North, entrance via alley.
20 Nov – 4 Dec 2022
For our New Zealand friends: Nicholas Mangan is featured in the current exhibition ‘wiggling together, falling apart’ at Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland NZ. Group exhibition organised by Lucy Meyle & Victoria Wynne-Jones.
The singular work in this exhibition by artist Gian Manik is a portrait of Ralph McLean (1957–2010), the first openly gay person to be elected as Mayor in Australia (former City of Fitzroy, 1984-85) and a gay rights and social justice advocate.
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Having researched the City of Yarra Collection, the reference image Manik used for the portrait was one of only two images he found of McLean. The work’s format, execution and framing speaks to the agency of significant historical and cultural collections and commissions.
Gian Manik ‘Ralph McLean’
Friday 11 November 2022 – Friday 27 January 2023
Richmond Town Hall, 333 Bridge Road. Richmond VIC
