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Art Almanac|February 2020

Manly Dam Project

Eight contemporary artists; Shoufay Derz, Blak Douglas, Nigel Helyer, David Middlebrook, Sue Pedley, Melissa Smith, Cathe Stack and Nicole Welch – along with eight engineers from the Water Research Laboratory (WRL), formed an open forum to research and discuss the critical role water and coastal management play in Australia’s future. Their focus, the Manly Dam area – a unique landscape in Sydney’s north rich in natural biodiversity, shaped by the interventions of engineering and science, layered with Aboriginal cultural significance, and social and recreational activity. Their efforts led to the Manly Dam Project, curated by Professor Ian Turner and Katherine Roberts, and the third of a series of significant art and science partnership projects involving the Manly Art Gallery & Museum, with works currently on show until 23 February. Some…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Adelaide Festival

‘Adelaide Festival’ celebrates a 60-year milestone with over 70 events taking place around the city from 28 February to 15 March, and will be sharing the spotlight with the 30th anniversary of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s ‘Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art’ showcasing ‘Monster Theatres’. Curator Leigh Robb says the show ’proposes an arena of speculation, a circus of the unorthodox and the absurd, a shadow play between truth and fiction.’ Visual art, theatre, music, opera, dance, film and writing across 16 Australian premieres and seven world debuts alongside 17 events exclusive to Adelaide fill the program. Major highlights include Samstag Museum of Art’s ‘2020 Adelaide//International’, which explores how built forms can engage us in the social, spatial and temporal present across five exhibits including ‘Somewhere Other’ by artists…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

AND WHAT?

Ken Bolton and Kurt Brereton pose the question, ‘and what?’ Both interrogative and blasé in its delivery, these words have piqued our curiosity about its context; and in turn, the contents of this limited-edition publication. ‘AND WHAT?’ is an intersection of art and literature; an entertaining mix of paintings, drawings, photographs and poetic responses to random topics, which oscillate between creative thought and critical opinion. The book opens with a garden hose shaped in an ampersand, a symbol of connection and multiplicity. Throughout the following pages, Bolton and Brereton offer us the ‘what for – “where” “why” “how” “this”’. The work, fragmented yet elegantly written, touches on philosophy, Modernism, art and social history with each turn of the page offering a new perception, thought and invented scenarios or conversations. Although…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Pleasure

‘This exhibition seeks to embrace frivolity, contradictions and minor perversities’, I am told by one of its curators, Julian Goddard. It ‘examines various forms and manifestations of pleasure as opposed to trying to define it.’ After hearing from each of the three curators (Goddard, Helen Rayment and Evelyn Tsitas), and observing the diverse articulations of pleasure that play out in works of more than 40 artists, I am left with a deeper appreciation for the exhibition’s mission not to reify the term ‘pleasure’ in any way. The genesis of ‘Pleasure’ was a ‘collaborative exercise’, as Tsitas explained to me. It came about through shared ‘interests in representations and disruptions and decorations of and to the body.’ When planning was in its infancy, the exhibition had the working title ‘Pleasure &…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Select exhibition previews

Belonging: Stories of Australian Art National Gallery of Australia Ongoing Australian Capital Territory The history of 19th century Australian art is recast in this epic presentation of historical and contemporary work created by more than 170 artists from across Australia. By placing a range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous works side by side for the first time, ‘Belonging: Stories of Australian Art’ reconsiders Australia’s history of colonisation through a visual narrative of its impact and ongoing effects, from traditional European depictions of Australian landscapes void of First Nations people to contemporary works representing Indigenous perspectives. Feedback Loops Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Until 22 March, 2020 Melbourne Madison Bycroft, Tianzhuo Chen, Lu Yang, Sahej Rahal, Justin Shoulder and Zadie Xa explore the role of the cycle, the echo and reiteration…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Submissions & Proposals

A4 Art Australia T (03) 9428-0568, 0407-059-194. E mail@contemporaryartsociety.org.au W www.contemporaryartsociety.org.au A unique exhibition of A4 sized artworks; 2D and 3D entries. Open to established and emerging contemporary artists across Australia. Entry fee $13 per artwork. Maximum four per artist. Exhibition March 14 to April 13. Visit the website for details and entry. Entries close Fri Feb 21. See ad page 77. Andy. R Gallery Level 1, 32 Johnston Street, Fitzroy 3065. T (03) 9419-1828. E info@andyr.com.au W www.andyr.com.au/gallery Applications now open for 2020 program. Focus on experimental, avant-garde works. Please email for fees and details. 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. Exhibition at Fitzroy May 1 to Aug 19 and at Eltham Aug 14 to…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Consultants & Valuers

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 1/24 Wellington Street, Waterloo, 2017. Approved valuer for the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program. Insurance/market value, authentication, consulting and collection management.…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Melbourne

Federation Square CBD Art at St Francis’ Contemporary Art 326 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 9663-2495. E bwremmen@bigpond.net.au W www.stfrancismelbourne.com/art Contact: Brigitte Remmen. H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00, Sun 9.00 to 3.00. Feb 4 to March 3 Listening to the Land – responses in charcoal and paint to the Northern Grampians by Wendy Havard. 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…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

New South Wales

Newcastle Central Coast Finite Gallery 60 Caves Beach Road, Caves Beach 2281. T 0419-471-660. E info@finitegallery.com W www.finitegallery.com H Fri-Sun 10.00 to 4.00. Gallery 139 Online and pop-up exhibitions T 0434-886-450. E info@gallery139.com.au W www.gallery139.com.au Director: Ahn Wells.facebook.com/gallery139. Instagram: @gallery_139 Please visit our website for Feb online exhibition. Gosford Regional Gallery 36 Webb Street, East Gosford 2250. T (02) 4304-7550. E gallery@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au W www.gosfordregionalgallery.comFree entry. H Daily 9.30 to 4.00. The Lock-Up 90 Hunter Street, Newcastle 2300. T (02) 4925-2265. W www.thelockup.org.au H Wed-Sat 10.00 to 4.00, Sun 11.00 to 3.00. Feb 1 to March 29 UNCERTAIN PATHS by Lucas Davidson – incorporates the The Lock-Up cells into his work creating a series of site-specific installations that challenge the viewer perception through phenomenological inquiry. Using light and space as material these works aim to disrupt…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

South Australia

Adelaide ACE Open Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Kaurna Yarta 5000. T (08) 8211-7505. E admin@aceopen.art W www.aceopen.artFree admission. H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 4.00. South Australia’s leading organisation for contemporary visual art and artists. Feb 29 to April 25 Mariana Castillo Deball: Replaying Life’s Tape – Mexico-born, Berlin-based Mariana Castillo Deball’s exhibition is an artistic and scientific telling of the multifaceted story of the fossils extracted from the Ediacaran Hills in the Flinders Ranges, SA. Combining photographic imagery, lino prints, scientific data and display systems, Replaying Life’s Tape considers and contests the relationships between site, time and history. A touring exhibition from Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Originally presented as part of the 2019 Melbourne International Arts Festival and supported by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Adelaide Central Gallery…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Can’t Do Tomorrow

Melbourne’s new urban art festival ‘Can’t Do Tomorrow’ is open from 20 to 29 February in The Facility, a warehouse space in Kensington. The ticketed event will showcase work across three exhibition zones curated by Toby Benador. Audiences will find ‘Unleash’ a selection of new work for sale by 80 independent artists, ‘Unlock’ comprises presentations from galleries showing both new work and charting the development of urban art, and ‘Unlimited’ is an immersive display of installation and experiential art from Alex Lehours, Callum Preston, Georgie Seccull – as well as Kaff-eine whose work ‘Infinite Thanks’ pays tribute to LGBTQI ‘rainbow deities’ and Michael Peck who prompts us to consider the postmodern condition, whilst floating in a sailboat within a shipping container. cantdotomorrow.com…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Present Tense

Doug Hall ‘Present Tense’ is a record of the journey and contribution Anna Schwartz has made with several contemporary Australian art galleries and her unwavering advocacy for artists and ideas. It is not only a recollection of events but also the active element by which 35 years of artistic alchemy is enacted – the relationships one forms. The book communicates an oeuvre of personal and professional creativity, perhaps these are inextricable, through historical vignettes, interviews, photographs and artworks traversing key figures in Australian art and culture, at home and as they take international stage. The book opens with a rich family history, imparting how Schwartz’s personal and family’s ideological compass and experience of Modernism in Australia foregrounded bold experimentation in the arts. As Schwartz shares ‘A defining moment [for me]…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Sublime Sea: Rapture and Reality

The ocean and its seas are a magnificent life-sustaining gift of nature, an alluring yet powerful entity essential to the existence of human and animal life covering over 70% of planet earth. Since ancient times we have been fascinated by the wonders of this voluminous being, relied on it as a source for food, explored with scientific endeavour and used it for recreation and transport. And it is easy to be absorbed in the splendour of the shimmering radiance and mystery it exudes. Inspired by my own love of the sea, and energised by a recent road trip through Tasmania which drew me to some of the most breathtaking seascapes in the state, ‘Sublime Sea: Rapture and Reality’ called out to me. Guest curated by Dr Vivien Gaston, at Mornington…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Ildiko Kovacs

For Ildiko Kovacs, painting begins with a feeling. A particular colour will beckon to her and she will follow it towards a conclusion, which may take weeks to find. Oil paint is applied directly to a ground of raw plywood with foam rollers, sinuous lines snaking their way around the field in complex interweaving strokes. Each day Kovacs begins again, wiping the surface down with turpentine to leave only a trace of the previous day’s work – sometimes she will even throw a bucket of turps across to invite a greater element of chance. She will continually rotate the board to provide herself fresh perspectives on the work (though the rotate function on her smart phone does help with what can be a strenuous physical task). This process allows the…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Artist Opportunities

SPARK NT Curator In this issue, we congratulate writer, activist and arts worker Carmen Ansaldo as SPARK NT Curator for Artback NT’s 2019/2020 program. The initiative supports an independent or emerging curator, residing in the Northern Territory, to develop an exhibition project for touring in the region. In her research, Ansaldo examines the intersection between visual arts and political engagement with a focus on First Nations art practices and remote and regional arts development. And, engages in collaborative discussion with artists, activists and community members. Sharing her enthusiasm Ansaldo said, ‘I’m excited to be presented with this unique opportunity to be the next SPARK NT curator and develop my curatorial practice as a regional arts worker. Exploring the dual role of the curator as activist appeals to me. As a…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Materials

Art Spectrum T (03) 9387-9799. E enquiries@artspectrum.com.au W www.artspectrum.com.au We are the makers of colour, dedicated to creating the finest possible artists’ colours. Visit website for more information on these quality products. See ad page 97. Art Stretchers Art supplies & canvas stretching 309-311 High Street, Northcote VIC 3070. T (03) 9486-4446. E highstreet@artstretchers.com.au W www.artstretchers.com.au H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.30, Sat 10.00 to 3.00. Also at 161 Morphett Street, Adelaide SA 5000. T (08) 8212-2711. E adelaide@artstretchers.com.au See ad page 91. Arthouse Direct W www.arthousedirect.com.au An extensive range of art, graphic and craft supplies for students and professionals. Visit your local Arthouse Direct store or view online. See ad page 129. Deans Art T (03) 9485-9500. E sales@deansart.com.au W www.deansart.com.au Complete range of artists’ materials available. Eckersley’s Art & Craft W www.eckersleys.com.au Shop…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Member Organisations

Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) T (02) 9225-1744. 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). E memberservices@copyright.com.au W www.copyright.com.au Copyright 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 105. Resale Royalty T 1800-066-844 (toll free). W www.resaleroyalty.org.auCopyright Agency has been appointed…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Victoria

Mornington Peninsula Cook Street Collective 41 Cook Street, Flinders 3929. T (03) 5989-1022. E info@cookstreetcollective.com.au W www.cookstreetcollective.com.au H Thurs-Tues 10.00 to 4.00, Wed by appt. Feb 1 to 23 Blackroom Gallery: Caught in a Low Tide new works by Graham Altmann. Feb 29 to March 22 Domestic Bliss by James Needham. EVERYWHEN Artspace 1/39 Cook Street, Flinders 3929. T 0419-896-473. E info@mccullochandmcculloch.com.au W www.mccullochandmcculloch.com.au H Thurs-Tues 10.30 to 4.00, Wed by appt. The Mornington Peninsula’s specialised Aboriginal art gallery, Everywhen Artspace directors Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs represent the work of 40 + Aboriginal art centres from around Australia plus select non-Indigenous artists. To Feb 25 The Summer Collector’s Show 2020 – outstanding new Aboriginal art from around Australia, also featuring select works from the McCulloch Collection of Aboriginal Art. Plus coastal landscapes…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Australian Capital Territory

Civic Inner North ANCA Gallery 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson 2602. T (02) 6247-8736. E office@anca.net.au W www.anca.net.au H Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. Gallery closed until Feb 5. Feb 5 to 23 (opening Wed Feb 5, 6pm) Nina Juniper and Becky Gibson. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman Arts Centre 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon 2612. T (02) 6247-0188. E info@ccas.com.au W www.ccas.com.au H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 5.00. Feb 28 to April 4 Gorman Arts Centre: Blaze Fourteen – Romany Fairall, Belle Palmer, Harijs Piekalns, Ellen Sleeman-Taylor and Rachel Theodorakis. Curated by Alexander Boynes and Dan Toua. Canberra Museum and Gallery Cnr London Circuit and Civic Square, Canberra City 2600. T (02) 6207-3968. W www.cmag.com.au H Mon-Sat 10.00 to 5.00. Craft ACT Craft + Design Centre Level 1, North Building, 180 London Circuit, Canberra 2601. T (02) 6262-9333.…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Western Australia

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 Celebrating 15 years in 2019, Artitja Fine Art Gallery is a private gallery based in South Fremantle and curates up to six pop up exhibitions a year in public spaces, details of which can be found on our website. At all other times the gallery is open by appointment. Specialising in Aboriginal art, Artitja Fine Art partners with remote art centre communities from Western Australia, Northern Territory and the SouthAustralian APY Lands in bringing the art to the city. This unique business model allows for a personalised and informative approach to viewing and collecting art, in a relaxed home environment. Recipients Fremantle Business Awards: Outstanding Cultural Enterprise in 2017. Corporate…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Asia TOPA

Asia TOPA continues through March with special presentations of theatre, music, visual art and performance exploring the connections between contemporary Australia and its growing diaspora. Among the many venues participating, we suggest visiting Arts Centre Melbourne to see ‘Knowledge in your hands, eyes and mind’ by Phaptawan Suwannakudt, a multi-sensory installation evoking spiritual elements from Suwannakudt’s personal history. Other interesting installations include ‘Biometric Mirror’ at the University of Melbourne, and ‘HuRU-hARa’ and ‘When It Rains (I feel like eating Jeon)’ at Abbotsford Convent. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art will present a speculative future in ‘Feedback Loops’, the National Gallery of Victoria traces the history of Chinese photography in ‘Turning Points’, screens Shirin Neshat’s video work ‘Dreamers’, and exhibits ‘Japanese Modernism’, whereas The Substation hosts a survey of Akio Suzuki’s aurally…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Step Into Paradise

‘I have to be close to nature. I really cherish this Earth, and it inspires everything I do.’ – Jenny Kee Two of Australia’s most iconic textile and haute couture designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson are celebrated in ‘Step Into Paradise’, an exhibition on view at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney until 22 March and in this richly illustrated publication. Presented as the first in-depth survey of their work in the field of fashion from the 1970s until now the book features a marvellous display of Kee and Jackson’s designs, highly recognisable for their bright dyes and bold patterns, predominantly inspired by the flora, fauna and landscapes of the Australian bush and deserts, the pair treasure so deeply. From the outset, we are drawn into…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Kate Baker

It’s a scorcher of a day when I visit Kate Baker at her studio in Sydney; light illuminates her sizeable space and I can see the breadth of her practice all around: sketches, large machinery, a shelf filled with casts of body parts, a section of leaning silkscreens, a computer and two large tables down the middle. ‘Be careful, that’s really sharp’, she warns as I pass by a new delivery of glass sheets. Capturing the intangible has been a running theme throughout Baker’s work and she ruminates on the complexities of lived experiences as a kind of spirituality. ‘We live as if we live forever but we really don’t and when we’re gone, we really are gone. And you can hypothesise about what happens after death but it’s exactly…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

The Eternal Opening

Performance art is considered an ephemeral medium; lost in a phenomenon that disappears as quickly as it is made. It adopts a linear concept of temporality – a beginning, middle and end – and, if not mediatised, cannot be relived. To obtain a permanent form, it relies on the audience; observing, reacting, and remembering. Enter, Mike Parr. Through retrospection, Parr draws on the past in making sense of the present and vice versa. A restaging of his recent works, The Eternal Opening (2019), LEFT FIELD (for Robert Hunter) (2017) and BDH (Burning Down the House) (2016), alongside new durational performances, Towards an Amazonian Black Square (2019), and Jericho (2019) comprising of five acts (instructions from his 1971/72, ‘150 Programmes and Investigations’ archive project); reopens channels of interrogation and awareness concerning…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Awards

41st Alice Prize W www.aliceprize.com Entries are invited for the 41st Alice Prize. This is a national acquisitive contemporary art award offering a $30,000 prize for the winning work. Presented by the Alice Springs Art Foundation. Finalists exhibition April 18 to June 8. Visit the website for details and entry form. Entries close midnight, Fri Feb 7. See ad page 141. The Association of Sculptors of Victoria Annual Sculpture Exhibition E asv_mifgs@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au W www.sculptorsvictoria.asn.au Entries are open for the annual sculpture exhibition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. There are prizes across three sections: courtyard, garden and estate. Exhibition at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens from March 25 to 29. Visit website, or email for information and entry form. Entries close Mon Feb 24. See ad page 87.…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Services

Art Production Services T 0404-280-768. E eamonn@artproductionservices.com W www.artproductionservices.com On-Site art photo documentation for print, publication and archive. Sydney, NSW and ACT. Art Transport and Packing Pack & Send Kings Cross: Professional and affordable art packing and transport for galleries, auction houses, artists, framers and the public. Local/National/International. T (02) 9331-2700. E kingscross@packsend.com.au 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 95. 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.…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Training

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 available. Adult, children, teens. Beginner to advanced welcome. Facebook @kuringgaiartcentre MAS Gallery & Studio Art Classes 1297-1299 High Street, Malvern VIC 3144. T (03) 9822-7813. E malvart@optusnet.com.au W www.malvernartists.org.au Art classes: life…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Sydney

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 Feb 16 Making art public: 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects – celebrates one of the world’s most ambitious public art initiatives and revisits some of the most iconic large-scale artworks to have been presented in Australia. To March 8 Japan supernatural – discover the fascinating world of Japan supernatural, an extraordinary exhibition revealing three centuries of folklore and fantasy in Japanese art. Explore this wildly imaginative realm through more than 180 works from historical master Katsushika Hokusai through to contemporary superstar Takashi Murakami (see ad page 7). To Dec In…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Tasmania

Hobart Sullivans Cove Battery Point Art Mob 29 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6236-9200, 0419-393-122. E euan@artmob.com.au W www.artmob.com.au Director: Euan Hills. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00. Aboriginal fine art, including Tasmanian Aboriginal artists. Bett Gallery Hobart Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6231-6511. E info@bettgallery.com.au W www.bettgallery.com.au Directors: Carol Bett, Emma Bett and Jack Bett. H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.30, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. To Feb 8 group show. Feb 14 to March 7 Watersong by Troy Ruffels. Colville Gallery 91a Salamanca Place, Hobart 7004. T (03) 6224-4088, 0419-292-626. E info@colvillegallery.com.au W www.colvillegallery.com.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Jan 28 to Feb 5 Light on the Channel by Robert Brown. Feb 11 to 19 The Valley by Glen Preece. Despard Gallery Level 1, 15 Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7000. T…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Northern Territory

Darwin Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Cultural Centre Lot 3238 , Stuart Highway, Katherine East 0850. T (08) 8972-3751. E contact@gyracc.org.au W www.gyracc.org.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 3.00. Visit website for exhibition information. Charles Darwin University Gallery Ground floor, 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) Bullocky Point, 19 Conacher Street, The Gardens, Darwin 0820. T (08) 8999-8264. E info@magnt.net.au W www.magnt.net.auFree entry. H Tues-Sun 10.00 to 4.00, closed Mon. To Feb 23 Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series. To March 22 Between the moon and the stars. To June 28 Therese Ritchie: burning hearts (see ads pages 10 and…

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Art Almanac|February 2020

Queensland

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, Fiona Foley, Donna Marcus, Michel Tuffery, Katarina Vesterberg and William Yang. Art from the Margins Gallery & Studios 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3151-6655. E aftm@wmq.org.au W www.artfromthemargins.org.au H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 4.00. Jan 28 to Feb 28 Serenity: the art of John Fu Chong. John Fu Chong grew up in Malaysia and moved to Singapore to study fine art before immigrating to Australia in 1981. Coinciding with the 2020 BrisAsia Festival, Serenity: the art of John Fu…

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