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.
09 November — 10 December 2022.
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
With new works by Sutton artists Gian Manik and Catherine Bell.
Gertrude’s annual Gertrude Studios exhibition presents new and recent works produced in the organisation’s 16 studios and celebrates the site as a conduit for dialogue and making. As a collective snapshot of the practices supported within the program, the exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a broad diversity of works from leading arts practitioners in Naarm Melbourne, as well as examine material and conceptual developments in contemporary practice.
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The exhibition is conceived across the year by the Gertrude Studio Artists and the Curator in Residence Tim Riley Walsh.
Image: Catherine Bell, Sensory Archaeology #2 (Mother’s Archive) (detail), 2022
‘a do ocean’ curated Christopher L G Hill at Kings Artist-Run, featuring Sutton artists: Gian Manik, George Egerton-Warburton, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch
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Also with Cameron Allan McKean, Ricarda Bigolin, Hugo Blomley, Nicola Blumenthal, Holly Childs, Stacey Collee, Renee Cosgrave, Gabriella D’Costa, Debris Facility, Endless Lonely Planet 11, Sam George, Luke Gerrard, Aurellia Guo, Chloe Hagger, Christopher L G Hill, Jesse Hogan, Lou Hubbard, Helen Hughes, Eleanor Laver, Alice McIntosh, Sean McMorrow, Kate Meakin, Virginia Overell, Ashley Perry, Lisa Radford, Yuval Rosinger, Amy May Stuart, Savanna Szelski, Christopher Theofanous, Yundi Wang, and more.
Nicholas Mangan has been commissioned to produce a new large-scale installation to be premiered at the NGV in the exhibition Melbourne Now. With the working title Core-Coralations, Mangan’s project incorporates both film and sculpture. It examines the material evidence of climate change’s effects on this vast organism, The Great Barrier Reef, and how this correlates with human activity in a warming world.
Core-Coralations is supported by the Blue Assembly program at the University of Queensland Art Museum; Ian Potter Moving Image Commission; Copyright Agency; and Australia Council.
Congratulations Nicholas on this significant achievement.
Jane Trengrove along with Katie Ryan has curated ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’. Includig artists: Dion Beasley, Jane Trengove, Lara Chamas, Ruark Lewis, Sam Petersen, Sophie Cassar.
Congradulations to Helga Groves who is included in the 2022 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship exhibition held at the Sydney College of Arts.
Exhibition Dates: 29 Sep – 29 Oct.
Lindy Lee brings her installation ‘The Spheres’ aboard Brisbane’s Art Boat for a truly immersive, celestial art, light and sound experience during the Brisbane Festival, 2 – 24 September, 2022.
Jane Trengrove along with Katie Ryan has curated ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’. Includig artists: Dion Beasley, Jane Trengove, Lara Chamas, Ruark Lewis, Sam Petersen, Sophie Cassar.
15 September – 8 October 2022
69 Capel Street, West Melbourne
Congratulations to Catherine Bell on her inclusion in this years Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award with her work ‘Bouquet #1 (Lily) & Bouquet #2 (Pansy)’
The exhibition of the finalists’ work will be on display at Deakin University Art Gallery from Thursday 8 September 2022–Friday 21 October 2022.
Raafat Ishak has been announced as one of the five artists commissioned to deliver the Metro Tunnel legacy artworks in Melbourne.
Ishak will create a large-scale permanent artwork for Anzac Station, with the stations scheduled to open in 2025.
Ann Debono presents a solo exhibition Sieve See at Gertrude Glasshouse. 5 August – 3 September, 2022, Gertrude Glasshouse, 44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood.
Sara Hughes has been commissioned to create a new 2,400sqm glass work, spanning over 550 panels that wrap around the top level of the NZICC.
Sara Hughes has created an immersive new artwork for the Willow St bus shelter in Tauranga, New Zealand. Comprising 96 individual panels of glass together creating a total of 260sq m, the artwork is suspended above the former Willow St bus shelter and wraps around the wall and front of Tauranga Art Gallery to Wharf St creating a beautiful corridor of coloured light for central city-dwellers. It is the largest integrated public artwork in New Zealand.
Monash University Museum of Art presents Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends, the work of two leading Australian artists which explores complex and varied perspectives on colonisation, with an emphasis on the experience of women.
Dates:
10 September – 12 November 2022
Curators:
Jaklyn Babington, formerly Senior Curator, Contemporary Art; Tina Baum, Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri peoples, Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art; and Elspeth Pitt, Senior Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia with Hannah Mathews, Senior Curator, MUMA.
Available now through the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Monash University.
Edited by Anneke Jaspers and Hannah Mathews, softcover, 33.5 x 24.2cm, 280 pages
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.
MCA 15th July – 25th September 2022.
Raafat Ishak and Sean Loughrey present ‘Box Hill’. A collaborative project where Abstraction is held accountable to representational devices, namely photographic representation in a dialogue with a black box.
22 July – 6 August 2022
Anne Ferran is currently included in Return to nature, Monash Gallery of Art, 8 July -18 September 2022, and Robert Wilson: Moving portraits, Art Gallery of South Australia, 9 Jul – 3 Oct 2022.
Links below for further info:
Laresa Kosloff’s work La Perruque, 2018, will be shown in rushes group show at Hayden’s Gallery, 9 – 23 July 2022.
Nicholas Mangan’s ‘Termite Economies: Phase 2 #1’, 2019, is on view in Buxton Contemporary’s current exhibition ‘Still Life’, 03 June – 06 November 2022.
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Curated by Jacqueline Doughty.
Congratulations to Ann Debono as a finalist in this years Geelong Contemporary Art Prize.
The exhibition runs from 25 June—11 September 2022 with the official opening and announcement of the winner on 15 July.
The Prize is judged by Lisa Sullivan, Senior Curator, Geelong Gallery; Kyla McFarlane, Senior Academic Programs Curator, Museums & Collections, The University of Melbourne; and Lisa Byrne, Director McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery.
Vivienne Binns is included in 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘌𝘙: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘎𝘝 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
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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.
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On at the National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road, 10 March 22 – 21 August, 2022.
Mangan’s ‘Termite Economies (Trophallaxis V/ White-anting III)’ will be on view in the 2022 exhibition held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 13 August to 27 November 2022.
