Indholdsfortegnelse for May/June 2022 i Art Guide Australia

ANDY BUTLER is an artist, writer and curator based in Narrm/Melbourne. His arts criticism has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, and frieze. REX BUTLER teaches art history at Monash University and is one of the editors of the online weekly art review website Memo Review. OSLO DAVIS is an illustrator, cartoonist and artist who has drawn for The New York Times, The Age, The Monthly, Meanjin, SBS and The Guardian, as well as the National Gallery of Victoria, Golden Plains and State Library Victoria, among many others. Oslo’s latest book is Overheard – The Art of Eavesdropping. STEVE DOW is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly,…

Pliable Planes UNSW Galleries 29 April—17 July Porcelain and sound waves do not immediately come to mind when thinking about textiles, yet these are the materials used by artists Janet Fieldhouse and Akira Akira to produce their textile-based work. Casting a wide net for Pliable Planes, co-curators Karen Hall and Catherine Woolley specifically looked for artists whose practice expanded the creative parameters of contemporary textiles. “The 12 artists we have chosen don’t always use fabric, but they are working with the processes of textiles, like weaving,” says Woolley. “We are really interested in approaches that challenge what people think textiles look like.” Seven artists were commissioned to create new work for the exhibition, including Anne-Marie May, Kate Scardifield, Lucia Dohrmann, Paul Knight and Katie West. In addition is further work…

Helmut Newton: In Focus Jewish Museum of Australia: Gandel Centre of Judaica (As part of PHOTO 2022) 29 April—29 January 2023 While the overarching theme of the PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography is expansive—“being human”—the headline Helmut Newton exhibition is an intimate look at the artist’s life and trajectory. Festival artistic director Elias Redstone, like many, was very familiar with Newton’s most circulated works—the elegant, sexy fashion images of the 1950s—but has discovered new perspectives through In Focus. From 200 exhibition items, there are not only 78 original photos (many from Berlin’s Helmut Newton Foundation) but also objects such as first-edition magazines featuring Newton’s work, his cameras, his passport stamped with a “J” for Jew, and other ephemera loaned from institutions, private collectors and libraries. “I am personally excited…

Climbing the Plane Richard Blackwell Flinders Lane Gallery 10—28 May In Climbing the Plane, print media and sculptures collide. A continuation of the ideas from Richard Blackwell’s 2016 show Doubling the Cube, the artist is exploring the places where the real and unreal intersect in our increasingly digitised world. “It’s about the kind of augmented world we’re moving towards, and trying to approach the junction between physical and virtual,” the Sydney-based artist says. Blackwell’s modular pieces range from colour prints to aluminium geological forms, modelled after rock climbing grips, as well as robotically engraved designs rubbed and buffed with etching ink to create a distorted sense of depth. The pieces, some of which are reconfigured from previous projects, will be spread across the gallery space to create a physical manifestation…

On a recent visit to a historic submarine base, Nuha Saad learnt about the Razzle Dazzle military technique used in World War I. Initially developed by artist Norman Wilkinson while he was serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1917, Razzle Dazzle was a type of camouflage paint scheme that covered war ships in bright colours and bold geometric patterns. The idea was to make it difficult for enemies to decipher the size and speed of a ship, and the result yielded fleets of vessels that looked like floating Cubist paintings. As an artist whose aesthetic is dominated by kaleidoscopic colour and sinuous patterns, this experience prompted Saad to base her latest exhibition at James Makin Gallery on a similar technique. “Through the use of colourful patterning, I see…

Brookes Street, Macalister Street, Brunswick Street, Doggett Street, Hasking Street, Russell Street, Bundall Road, Fernberg Road, Fortescue Street, Abbott Street, Jacaranda Avenue, Maud Street, Arthur Street, Pelican Street, Village Boulevard, George Street, Oxley Avenue, Bloomfield Street, Victoria Parade, Stanley Place, Ruthven Street, Flinders Street, Wembley Road Artspace Mackay www.artspacemackay.com.au Civic Precinct, corner Gordon and Macalister Streets, Mackay, QLD 4740 [Map 14] 07 4961 9722 Tue to Fri 10am–5pm, Sat and Sun 10am–3pm. Free entry. 15 April—22 June Undulations Tamika Grant-Iramu 2 April—19 June Focus on the Collection: Barbara Hanrahan 2 April—19 June The Art of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Ida Rentoul Outhwaite 9 April—19 June 2022 Libris Awards: The Australian Artists’ Book Prize Art Lovers Gold Coast Gallery www.artloversaustralia.com.au Unit 14, Brickworks Annex, 19 Warehouse Road, Southport, QLD 4215 [Map 13]…

In our visit to David Sequeira’s home studio—a beautiful space where Naminapu Maymuru-White hangs beside Cindy Sherman—he mentions that “I am interested in the inseparability between art and life—having a home studio is living amongst and with it.” Cleaning the kitchen bench while appraising a recent sculpture on the dining room table is a foundational convergence of art and life—at once practical, psychological and near-spiritual. And this necessary collapse is mirrored throughout this issue. Our cover artist Sally Smart has been visualising the constructions of gender and identity for three decades through her exquisite assemblages, but this isn’t a merely theoretical endeavour: as she explains, it comes from her own lived experience, leading to advocating for structural change and gender parity in the arts. Sometimes life has its own intrusions—our…

Desire Path Karla Marchesi Jan Manton Gallery 8 June—26 June Karla Marchesi is taking her exploration of still life even further. While her earlier work probed socio-cultural conditions which define our age, using dramatic chiaroscuro, her latest paintings are a contrast of her floral forms, both in tone and colour. Rather than being cloaked in darkness, they are expressed directly, as though under glaring fluorescent light. Residing in Berlin since 2012, Marchesi frames her solo at Jan Manton Gallery through the Greek goddess Baubo. Known for her liberated sexuality and bawdy humour, the Baubo empowers female agency; the ability of the vagina to critique power, identity and relationships. “The key to this work is a metaphor of violence and vulnerability,” says Marchesi. “Last year my feelings were stirred up by…

Encountered Steve Lopes Orange Regional Gallery 21 May—17 July Steve Lopes’s ongoing preoccupation with how the human figure interacts with landscape can be put down to his upbringing. The son of Italian migrants, Lopes explores how cultural and psychological identity can evolve and expand in an Australian environment, with its “intensity of colour and light”, as he puts it. “My interest in these ideas most probably stems from my ethnic background and growing up in a multicultural environment, which provided me with strong subject matter and, I guess, a sense of the outsider,” says Sydney-born and based Lopes. “My paintings touch on aspects associated with assimilation into new territories, community, and the individual adapting and coping with the constantly changing world.” Encountered is an all-encompassing survey that covers Lopes’s work…

Belynda Henry Edwina Corlette Gallery 17 May—4 June Belynda Henry has never lived in the city. Solitude is a habit and, as an artist, immersion in the landscape drives her paintings. Her works distil imagery which is vested in place, conveying its many moods and experiences, but also the way in which place shapes Henry’s own emotions. In her latest show at Edwina Corlette Gallery, landscapes on large canvases are increasingly abstracted. Henry relates that she was inspired by American artist Helen Frankenthaler, who is known for her use of staining and influence on colour field painting. In Henry’s case, embedding her own work in her environment in the Dooralong Valley north of Sydney represented “a new starting point”. She uses dam water to stain raw primed canvases, before building…

“I’ve never been able to conquer my fear of tsunamis and floods,” Karla Dickens tells me, “so I’ve always lived on top of hills.” Dickens has been living in the Northern Rivers region for 18 years. She’s calling me from her house in Lismore—it was spared in the recent catastrophic floods. It’s devastation in the town. Inconceivable, as Dickens puts it—beyond what those on the outside could imagine. There are people who have absolutely nothing except the clothes on their backs. “I’ve been on washing and cooking duty,” she says. Dickens has a roof over her head, a functioning kitchen, and a washing machine. It’s more than many. We stick to the positives amongst the catastrophe. Just a week before the floods, as the arts community was coming back together…

A savoy cabbage, a vacuum cleaner, and a bizarre orthopaedic mask that holds a broken nose in place: these are just a few of the glossy, pristine images that emerge in the work of New York-based Australian-born artist Jeff Gibson. Hundreds of such crisply polished objects—often appropriated from advertising and stock-image libraries—are generously peppered through Gibson’s mesmerising work. A comfortable bench, Gibson says, is essential for viewing them, especially the video works he has installed as part of his exhibition Countertypes. Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) curators have provided such seating—amid three gallery spaces showing Gibson’s 40-year-long artistic output. Gibson may have lived in New York for several decades—where he’s also managing editor at Artforum magazine—but GUAM director Angela Goddard says his upbringing amid punk and new wave in Brisbane…

Federation Square, Kingsley Street, Rosevear Place, Treloar Crescent, Ainsle Avenue, Wentworth Avenue, London Circuit, Blaxland Crescent, Wentworth Avenue, Kennedy Street, Parkes Place, King Avenue, King Edward Terrace, Anzac Parade, Kendall Lane, Reed Street, Manuka Circle, Aspinall Street Aarwun Gallery www.aarwungallery.com 11 Federation Square, Gold Creek, Nicholls, ACT 2913 [Map 16] 0499 107 887 Daily 10am–4.30pm and by appointment in the evening. See our website for latest information. We are glad to be part of the cultural fabric of Canberra for over 22 years. We describe our collection as rich and eclectic. We represent some of Australia’s finest classical landscape and portrait artists as well as carrying a wide portfolio of stunning contemporary works which sit alongside exquisite works from our indigenous artists. Paintings, printmaking, ceramics, glass, bronze and sculpture; we…

Mulberry Road, North Terrace, South Road, Porter Street, Diagonal Road, Melbourne Street, Rundle Street, Pirie Street, Portrush Road, Morphett Street, Sixth Street, Gibson Street, Thomas Street, Kintore Avenue, King William Road, Grenfell Street ACE Open www.aceopen.art Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End) Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8211 7505 Tue to Sat 11am–4pm. 9 April—14 May Metaverse A group exhibition that considers what it means on a human-level to be shaped and governed through the advent of the Internet. This group exhibition curated by Patrice Sharkey brings together a select number of works by Roy Ananda, Britt d’Argaville, Harun Farocki and Giselle Stanborough that foretell dystopian visions in response to our increasingly inescapable relationship to technology. Art Gallery of South Australia www.agsa.sa.gov.au Kaurna Country North Terrace,…

The House of Longing Gay Hawkes Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 18 March—28 August In 2013, Tasmanian furniture maker and artist Gay Hawkes lost her home and art studio in the Dunalley bushfires, along with a significant personal collection of work spanning four decades. “Gay furnished her home with her own furniture,” explains principal curator at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Jane Stewart. “The mats on the floor were painted canvases. She painted the curtains too. Nearly all of the furniture in her home was of her own making.” For the past nine years, Hawkes has slowly been rebuilding new pieces for the future home she hopes to occupy. The House of Longing brings a selection of these hand-crafted cabinets, altar pieces, crucifixes and paintings together with pieces loaned…

Vivaldi’s Seasons Stefanie Schulte Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) 25 May—19 June Working in her Canberra studio, German-born artist Stefanie Schulte listens to music. Many artists do that while working, but Schulte’s listening is different: she sees music as much as she hears it, and that faculty is apparent in her latest suite of paintings, Vivaldi’s Seasons. Schulte does not use an easel when painting. She lays her support flat, directly on to a work table, and works from all angles, embroiled in an intuitive response that translates music into layered lozenges of rich colour that evoke colour field theory more than the Baroque. “I like to move around and see them a bit like maps, creating this two-dimensional architecture,” Schulte says. “Once I sent a painting to a collector…

The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies Flinders University Museum of Art 26 April—8 July Data is often described as the ‘new oil’ of the 21st century. Referring variously to numbers, archives, scientific methods and Internet cookies, data is a sought-after asset in our hyper-connected world, and a longstanding instrument of Western colonialism. The Data Imaginary unearths the ugly history of data and imagines its uncertain future. Against the backdrop of global conversations about data that largely neglect the perspectives of marginalised groups, the show foregrounds First Nations voices. Originally at Griffith Museum of Art in 2021, museum director and show co-curator Angela Goddard explains how data can turn into a reparative force sustaining non-Western histories and systems of knowledge. “Together these works repurpose data,” says Goddard, “to tell stories about…

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Sigh Frank Morris Art Collective WA 20 May—18 June Frank Morris’s paintings in Rock, Paper, Scissors, Sigh are an exercise in formal innovation, to the point that ‘paintings’ may not be quite the right descriptor. These alluring and colourful abstract works, made largely from plaster, acrylic and oil on oriented strand board (OSB), are designed to be viewed from any physical angle. As a result, they approach a form of sculpture. The intention is, for Morris, to allow the viewer to construct interpretation however they wish. There is also a creative decision to be made for the curator or installer. “The idea of choice is operational,” says Fremantle-based Morris, “with all works able to be positioned through 360 degrees.” Morris says that his pieces are informed by…

TIARNEY MIEKUS You’ve created works questioning gender and identity since the 1990s, a moment when identity politics really entered contemporary art. Does it feel different thinking about those questions today? SALLY SMART No, not really. I think because I’m different and because the early practice was when I was a student, so it was more theoretical in study. But previous to that was the 70s second generation of feminism and I followed after. Maybe I’d see the difference being greater between the 70s and 90s, than [the 90s] to now. So I’ve lived through [feminist movements] and while the work has changed, I’ve always been very certain that I didn’t need to be making work that had to look like ‘something particular’ to be a feminist. Somebody was reminding me…

Elizabeth Willing has transformed the way we think about food and contemporary art, where food is both the medium and the subject. Through sculpture, participatory events, performance, collages and installation, Willing has used materials from marzipan to sherbet to liquorice. The Brisbane-based artist has posed thoughtful, often humourous, questions on eating, taste, sense, consumption, sustainability and foraging, alongside thinking about the cultural rituals and understandings of food. Ahead of her upcoming exhibition at Tolarno Galleries, we asked Willing 20 quick questions. Who was your first art love? Louise Bourgeois. What was the first food item you used as a medium? Toffee. You often use industrial food products as opposed to ‘fresher’ food products. Why so? On the one hand they last longer. Fresh foods decay in the gallery, whereas processed…

Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg met in 1954. Rauschenberg was five years older than Johns, but they had things in common. They were both born in the conservative southern states of America, Johns in Georgia and Rauschenberg in Texas. Both had served in the US Armed Forces: Rauschenberg in the Navy in World War II and Johns in the Special Forces during the Korean War. And both were gay men, although arguably in the closet, and started a relationship soon after meeting. Indeed, needing money early in their careers, they worked together as window dressers, as Andy Warhol would also later do, under the collective name Matson Jones Custom Display, fearing the potential damage to their artistic reputations. It is often suggested that Johns got his ideas from Rauschenberg, who…

Albermarle Street, Soudan Lane, McLachlan Avenue, Blackfriars Street, Flood Street, Darling Street, Oxford Street, Art Gallery Road, Powerhouse Road, Crown Street, Elizabeth Street, Clarence Street, Glebe Point Road, Darley Street, Circular Quay West, Hickson Road, First Street, Dean Street, Jersey Road, Watson Road, Goodhope Street, Gosbell Street, Observatory Hill, Military Road, Edgeworth David Avenue, Abbott Road, Riley Street, Balfour Street, Blaxland Road, Myahgah Road, Old South Head Road 16albermarle www.16albermarle.com 16 Albermarle Street, Newtown, NSW 2042 [Map 7] 02 9550 1517 or 0433 020 237 Thu to Sat 11am–5pm, or by appointment. See our website for latest information. 23 April—21 May Exhibition #9: New art from Bali and Bandung When people think of contemporary Indonesian art, Yogyakarta comes to mind. Famous as a “city of artists”, Jogja is home to…

Albert Road, Hunter Street, Wilmot Street, Elizabeth Street, Tasma Street, Salamanca Place, Harrington Street, Davey Street, Main Road, Maquarie Street, Castray Esplanade, Stewart Street, Liverpool Street, George Street, Dunn Place, Murray Street Bett Gallery www.bettgallery.com.au Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart, 7000, TAS 03 6231 6511 Mon to Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 13 May—4 June Transit Patrick Grieve 13 May—4 June Once Rosie Hastie 10 June—2 July Uncanny Megan Walch 10 June—2 July Platform I: University of Tasmania Bett Gallery Graduate Award Holly Greaves, Kirsty Riddle, Indy Blackmore and Richard Langley. Colville Gallery www.colvillegallery.com.au 15 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, TAS 7004 [Map 17] 03 6224 4088 Daily 10am–5pm. Presenting works by contemporary Tasmanian and Australian artists featuring paintings, works on paper, photography and sculpture…

Elder Place, Perth Cultural Centre, Wittenoom Street, High Street, Finnerty Street, Aberdeen Street, Glyde Street, Bussell Highway, Kent Street, Stirling Highway, St Georges Terrace, Railway Road, Henry Street, Colin Street, Captains Lane, James Street Art Collective WA www.artcollectivewa.com.au 2/565 Hay Street, Cathedral Square, Perth, WA 6000 [Map 19] 08 9325 7237 Wed to Fri 11am–4pm, Sat 12noon–4pm, or by appointment. See our website for latest information. 16 April—14 May Giotto’s Joy Adam Derums Adam Derums upholds the primacy of subjective experience in new paintings that are purposefully developed and revealed through slow and meditative studio processes. The works help to explore nuances of personal experience in a time where our knowledge of the world is mediated through a digital prism of rapid-fire information. Eclipsing Chris Hopewell A new painting series…

Lapinta Drive, McMinn Street, Casuarina Campus, Melville Island, Darwin Convention Centre, Mitchell Street, Cavanagh Street, Garden Point, Conacher Street, Vimy Lane, George Crescent Araluen Arts Centre, Mparntwe www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870 08 8951 1122 Daily 10am–4pm. 9 April—5 June The Alice Prize An acquisitive national contemporary art prize, welcoming entries from around Australia, in any medium or theme. Significant among regional art prizes, The Alice Prize contributes to one of the largest regional collections of Australian art, with works by leading artists from across its near 50 year history. Coordinated by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, The Alice Prize is judged by an expert selection panel and judge of national standing, with national exposure for exhibiting artists and the opportunity to show in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, the…