Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i Art Almanac

Front and back bi-folds reveal Jason Phu’s floor-plan for his exhibition at West Space in 2017 (re-staged for ACE Open in 2018) as well as a ‘to-do’ list. They frame this small paper title with an irreverence that belies the cumulative intellectual processes (of both memory and make-believe) and clever materiality for which the artist is known. Inside we find family anecdotes, photos, Haiku and images of his installation. As Mikala Tai writes ‘Phu inhabits the space between the everyday and the artistic, collapsing their distinctions… investigations of the act of storytelling.’ Playing on the artist’s mix of narrative and experience, Tai recalls time spent with Phu and suggests his installations are portals.…

Burwood Art Prize W www.burwood.nsw.gov.au Entries are now open for the 2019 Burwood Art Prize with a total prize pool of $8,500 on offer for artists aged 16 years and over (as at 29 March 2019) who live, work, study or have a demonstrated connection to Burwood, Canada Bay or Strathfield Local Government Areas. Categories include Artist of the Year ($5,000 acquisitive), New and Emerging Artist ($2,500 acquisitive), and People’s Choice ($1,000). Entries must be in the form of a painting. Entries close 5pm, Fri March 29. Calleen Art Award W www.cowraartgallery.com.au The Calleen Art Award offers a major acquisitive prize of $20,000 for painting in any subject or style. Exhibition May 5 to June 16. Visit website for information and entry form. Entries close Wed March 6.…

A Brush with Jordan W www.abrushwithjordan.com Unique tours for art lovers. Experience the ancient country of Jordan from the artists’ perspective. Visit website for details. Art Production Services T 0404-280-768. E eamonn@artproductionservices.com W www.artproductionservices.com On-Site art documentation for print, publication and archive. Sydney, NSW and ACT. Art. Van. Go. Sydney T 0404-027-445. W www.artvango.com.auAffordable, professional fine art transport for galleries, artists, framers and you in Sydney and NSW. Artist Moving Artists Melbourne T 0437-214-402. E artistmovingartists@hotmail.com W www.artistmovingartists.com.au Art courier Melbourne and regional Victoria. Affordable prices. See ad page 88. Artlink W www.artlink.com.au Contemporary art of Australia and the Asia-Pacific. Online reviews and archive. Arts Accountant & Valuer Michael Fox 79 Langridge Street, Collingwood 3066. T (03) 8560-3583. E michael@artsaccountants.com.au W www.foxmichael.com.au H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 6.00. Michael Fox offers specialist tax…

The Art Room 125 Hyde Street, Footscray VIC 3011. T 0407-197-106. W www.the-art-room.com.auAn art class, studio workshop and all round creative hub in the Inner West of Melbourne. ARTCLASSCO Art Classes in Fitzroy Melbourne W www.artclassco.com Visual artist Jacqui Stockdale offers Short Courses and Masterclasses for all levels. Painting, drawing, collage and mentoring. Hands On Studio Art Classes W www.catholiccarechoices.org.au Hands On Studio is a creative and inclusive art space that provides people with disabilities access to art education and facilities at the M16 studio and gallery complex in Griffith. Classes include painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media and clay. Contact Catholic Care Choices (02) 6295-4300, or visit website. Ku-ring-gai Art Centre T (02) 9424-0310. W www.kmc.nsw.gov.au/artcentreVisual art, guitar, creative writing classes. Exhibitions/ events. Day, night and weekend classes…

CBD The Rocks Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) Art Gallery Road, Sydney 2000. T (02) 9225-1744, 1800-679-278. W www.artgallery.nsw.gov.auAdmission charges apply to some exhibitions. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Art After Hours: Wed to 9pm. To March 24 William Kentridge: that which we do not remember. Kentridge is renowned for his hand-drawn animated films. Be among the first to see the work of one of the most powerful voices in art today. To March 31 Brett Whiteley: drawing is everything – looks at the central place of drawing in Whiteley’s art, from his early drawings of Sydney and France to his later lyrical landscapes, interiors and nudes. To April 28 Chinese bible: revolution and art in China – intimate recollections from five decades of 20th-century China. To May…

Fremantle Artitja Fine Art South Fremantle, 6162. T (08) 9336-7787, 0418-900-954. E info@artitja.com.au W www.artitja.com.au Directors: Anna Kanaris and Arthur Clarke. H By appt. Celebrating 15 years in 2019, Artitja Fine Art is based in South Fremantle and hold quarterly ‘satellite’ exhibitions. They are open at all other times by appt. Recipients Fremantle Business Awards: Outstanding Cultural Enterprise in 2017. Corporate Social Responsibility in 2016. March 8 to 24 Coastal by Marina Strocchi, and Desert Women: Cultural Expression. Two exhibitions in one space – a solo exhibition of paintings by Strocchi referencing coastal themes, paired with new paintings from Ninuku in the APY lands and Warlukurlangu in the western desert, both an interpretation the artists’ environment. Opening on International Women’s Day, this exhibition is equally a celebration of women artists, as…

Melbourne-based artist Robbie Rowlands is the first to undertake a residency and exhibition at the National Centre for Photography’s new location in Ballarat. This recent acquisition is part of Ballarat International Foto Biennale’s vision to revive the old Former Union Bank building on Lydiard Street South as an arts venue. As the Foto Biennale’s key locale, it will accommodate the Mitchell Family Gallery and Martin Kantor Portrait Gallery, a photobook library, dark room and studios. The inaugural exhibition by Rowlands takes the form of a sculptural site intervention. The work evokes an eerie presence of the passing of time, intricately woven from the historic building’s internal walls and remnant furnishings. A series of photographs document the artist’s process, and is on show until 10 March. ballaratfoto.org…

This ‘green box’ is filled with documents: newspaper extracts, quotes, and letters, even the occasional definition of the title itself. Much like Marcel Duchamp’s original Green Box (1934), extracted texts are placed loosely on the page so that their conceptual relationships and dimension to the overall work is highlighted. Essays by Donald Brook, Rex Butler, Edward Colless, A.D.S. Donaldson, Monique Fong, Marcus Moore, Tom Picton Warlow, Terry Smith, and Daniel Thomas explore the effect the 1967-68 touring exhibition of Duchamp’s work from the Mary Sisler Collection throughout Australia and New Zealand had on local artistic practice, exposition, theory and critical debate. It included his most famous ready-mades, such as the Bicycle Wheel (1913) and the inverted urinal, Fountain (1913).…

With contributions from Elita Ansone, Graham Coulter-Smith, Mark Ledbury, Ian McLean and Imants Tillers himself, along with a comprehensive timeline of life events, this monograph follows the evolution of Tillers’ creative career spanning over four decades; ‘through his myriad sources and their personal and philosophical connections,’ says Ledbury. Displacement, diaspora and an awareness of the complex weave of two cultures – Latvian and Australian – mark his works, from experiments with installation in the 1970s and his appropriation-based art in the 1980s to the complete system of canvasboard paintings that number 108,224 today. A selection of these works grace the pages of this publication illustrating the artist’s search for lost identity, the core question and key focus to his artmaking.…

Ry David Bradley, a Melbourne-born artist who currently resides between London and New York, brings his concerns with the digital, screen-based world to the weighty and lasting painted form. He creates digitally rendered paintings that move between the virtual and the material through, not only their subject matter, but also their construction. In his upcoming exhibition this screenic interest is quite literally woven into his paintings. In keeping with this duality I spoke with the artist online about his approach to painting and his enduring fascination with the interplay between the digital and the material. You have created double-sided paintings that protrude from the gallery wall, paintings on synthetic velvet and works where viewers need to wear 3D glasses. What will we see in your upcoming exhibition? The work will…

Andy.R Gallery Level 1, 32 Johnston Street, Fitzroy 3065. W www.andyr.com.au/gallery Applications now open for 2019 program. Focus on experimental, avant-garde works. The Australian National Brooch Show T (03) 9428-0568, 0407-059-194. E mail@contemporaryartsociety.org.au W www.contemporaryartsociety.org.au Call for small wearable artworks. Open to artists across Australia. Visit website for online entry. Entries close Fri April 26. See ad page 89. Maggie Wren’s Art Space Call Out for Exhibitions 178 Johnston Street, Collingwood VIC 3066. E info@maggiesartspace.com.au W www.maggiesartspace.com.auCaters for contemporary and new media art. Petrie Terrace Gallery Call for entries for ‘Brisbane: Landscapes, Landmarks and Personalities’ – entries close Wed 20 March. Call for entries for ‘Abstraction’ – entries close Tues 20 April. Gallery hire bookings open for 2019. Competitive rates at a great Brisbane city location. E entries@rqas.com.au W www.rqas.com.au TooT Artspace Shop…

Louise Smith Fine Art Melbourne T 0418-519-747. E louiseart@bigpond.com W louisesmithfineart.com.au Approved valuer Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program and member Art Consultants Association Australia. With over 30 years’ experience. Noël Stott of Adam Galleries Fine Art Valuer of Australian and European Art T 0407-338-538. E nstott@bigpond.com W www.adamgalleries.com Paintings, drawings, graphics, sculpture and photography. Fine art consultant and approved valuer for the Australian Cultural Gifts Program. Member of Art Consultants Association of Australia. Over 30 years experience. Private View Art Collections T 0409-505-628. E info@privateviewart.com W www.privateviewart.com Private and corporate collection development and advice. Offering assistance with sourcing, framing, conserving, and investing in art, with an extensive range of specialist networks. Stella Downer Dealer, Consultant, Valuer T 0402-018-283. E stellart@bigpond.com W www.stelladownerfineart.com.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 11.00 to 5.00, or by appt at…

Federation Square CBD Art at St Francis Contemporary Art 326 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9663-2495. E bwremmen@bigpond.net.au Contact: Brigitte Remmen. H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sun 9.00 to 3.00. March 12 to April 15 Nature’s Sanctuary an exhibition of prints by Stephanie Rampton. Australian By Design The Terrence John Hadler Gallery Room 303e, 3rd Floor, Lift 1 opposite the Hopetoun Tea Rooms, The Block Arcade, 282 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9663-9883, Terrence 0404-699-033. E sales@australianbydesign.com.au W www.australianbydesign.com.au H Open daily. Featuring an extensive collection of work by Terrence Hadler who is a recognised Australian artist specialising in scenes of the Outback and the rivers of Australia. His paintings range in size from miniatures to very large pieces utilising the colours of this great land. Hadler’s art is represented…

Darwin Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Cultural Centre Stuart Highway, Katherine East 0850. T (08) 8972-3751. E director@gyracc.org.au W www.gyracc.org.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 3.00. Charles Darwin University Art Gallery Building Orange 12.1.02, Casuarina Campus, Darwin 0909. T (08) 8946-6621. E artgallery@cdu.edu.au W cdu.edu.au/artgallery H Wed-Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00. Visit our website for programs and events. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) 19 Conacher Street, The Gardens, Darwin 0820. T (08) 8999-8264. E info@magnt.net.au W www.magnt.net.au Free entry. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To April 14, 2018 NT Year 12 student exhibition. To April 21 Spiders – an exhibition developed and toured by the Australian Museum & Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre. March 23 to March 29, 2020 Between The Moon…

‘Morph’ presents a new series of soft sculptures and abstracted portraits by Polly Borland. Her surreal imaginations of the human form are strange and unsettling yet at the same time compelling, inviting the viewer to look more closely. Each figure is boldly infused with fuchsia, deep blues or ashen tones, which intrude and entwine themselves within the constraints of an opaque nylon sac. Fabricated organs, tumors, genitalia, phallic objects, and sexuality – neither male nor female, test the surface. The book includes four lenticular works by Borland, as well as an essay by Sibylla Phipps titled ‘A Voice from Inside the Gimp Suit’, which recounts her extraordinary experience as the model for Borland’s work.…

Tim Storrier has a deep affection for the landscape. Enticed by the stillness it exudes and taking inspiration from the infinite open spaces and arid plains with their distant horizons where ‘almost anything can happen’ – Storrier paints. Author Lou Klepac takes the reader on a captivating journey across varying aspects of the artist’s life and career spanning five decades. Klepac recounts the surrealist’s early years, art school days, his connection with mentors Brett Whiteley (1962-1992) and John Olsen, and documents Storrier’s exhibitions and awards including the Sulman Prize, The Archibald and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, while running detailed commentary on many of the works presented throughout the book including the artist’s figurative representations.…

‘The rhythm of relations of colour and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.’ – Piet Mondrian (1919) Drawing attention to the pervasive presence of depth and form, colour is a core ingredient in Gemma Smith’s practice, which oscillates between painting and sculpture. In her exploration of the sculptural properties of colour and its ability to distort the formalist conception of the flat picture plane, Smith finds and sequentially creates movement and spatial incongruities in three-dimensions; an interplay of pictorial depth and geometric abstraction in what she terms an ‘adaptable’ quality. Smith’s dissent of painterly convention is seen throughout her practice. Her earliest paintings display fragmented patterns with crystalline formations on chessboards that explore shifting planes and game-play, questioning movement and decision-making within the composition.…

Mordant Family/Australia Council Affiliated Fellowship Australian multi-disciplinary artist Alex Seton has been named as the third recipient of the Mordant Family/Australia Council Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 2019. Previously awarded to artist Lynne Roberts Goodwin in 2017 and to Queensland-based artist Jenny Watson in 2018. The artist is renowned for his sculptural works, which he creates using traditional marble and carving techniques. This fellowship will see him venture to the American Academy in Rome for a two-month residency where he will undertake study to investigate the use of the shroud in Roman marble statuary. Seton says, ‘I’m excited and honoured to receive the fellowship in Rome. I look forward to an intensive two months working beside researchers and scholars at the American Academy to develop this…

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Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) T (02) 9225-1664. W www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/members Call or visit the website for information about gallery membership; discounts, free exhibition viewings, magazine and over than 400 lectures, workshops and other events each year. Copyright Agency | Viscopy T 1800-066-844 (toll free). W www.copyright.com.auCopyright Agency | Viscopy are not-for-profit rights management organisations and collection societies. We enable the use of text and images in return for fair payment to visual artists, writers and publishers. National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) T (02) 9368-1900. E nava@visualarts.net.au W www.visualarts.net.au NAVA is the peak body representing and advancing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts, craft and design sector. See ad page 109. The Print Council of Australia (PCA) W www.printcouncil.org.au A national not-for-profit member organisation that…

Brisbane Andrew Baker Art Dealer 26 Brookes Street, Bowen Hills 4006. T (07) 3252-2292, 0412-990-356. E info@andrew-baker.com W www.andrew-baker.com H Wed-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, or by appt. Paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures by leading contemporary Australian, Melanesian and Polynesian artists, including: Lincoln Austin, Leonard Brown, Michael Cook, Karla Dickens, Marian Drew, Ruki Famé (PNG), Fiona Foley, Michel Tuffery (New Zealand/Polynesia), Katarina Vesterberg and William Yang. Feb 27 to March 30 Marian Drew: Survey: 1983-2018. April 3 to May 11 Peking duck duck duck by Tony Coleing. Art from the Margins Gallery & Studios 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3151-6655. W www.artfromthemargins.org.auMarch 2 to April 6 Woven and Tied: Women’s Work? showcases fibre and textile artworks produced during a six-week mentoring program with Artist-in-Residence, Therese Flynn-Clarke and Outsider Artists from…