Indholdsfortegnelse for November/December 2023 i Art Guide Australia

Fremantle Biennale: SIGNALS 23 Various Fremantle locations 3—19 November The fourth Fremantle Biennale looks toward the ocean and beyond. From the Fremantle foreshore to Rottnest Island (Wadjemup), the festival makes use of the city’s varied environments with specific intention. “We’re looking at the shared histories between the coast and the islands, which were once connected to the mainland,” says festival artistic director Tom Mùller. Included in this year’s program is Kastoms—an immersive installation by Taloi Havini. First exhibited as Answer to the Call at the 2021 Venice Biennale, it has been reimagined for its new home in the heritage Old Customs House. Mùller describes it as “a parallel world between [Havini’s] ancestral understanding of Oceania at large, and a scientific voyage she’s undertaken aboard a research vessel. She brings two…

This will only hurt for a second! Amy Claire Mills Outer Space 4—25 November Medical instruments are often seen as cold and obtrusive. Yet Amy Claire Mills is rethinking this, creating soft sculptures that replicate pieces of medical equipment in the colourful and flashy style that is synonymous with her practice. In transforming clinical objects into absurd play things, she has created sculptures to be touched, cuddled and explored. Mills describes this work as “a love letter to [her] disabled and neurodivergent communities”. The exhibition’s title, This will only hurt for a second!, references the flippancy that people with a disability often receive within the medical system. “This will only hurt for a second” is a phrase used to calm someone’s fears, but it can also dismiss the longevity of…

The Ripple Effect Ariel Ruby Penny Contemporary 15 December—8 January 2024 Ariel Ruby conjures a sense of wondrous play into her explorations with the elemental. “I’m most excited by the physical experience of materials,” she says. “I collect things and I just play with them until they do something unexpected.” From liquids and particles to plastics, ceramics and fruits, the scenes she creates are rich in abundance—especially in her sculptural dioramas, where she creates small, vivid worlds. Fresh off a residency in Taiwan, and working between Sydney and Hobart, the artist has lately been inspired by storytelling, folk religion, ritual and tradition, and how these inform our present and future in an accumulative way. “My nonna, or grandmother, is from Campania in southern Italy, and her religious beliefs, aesthetics, food,…

Sundari Carmody is explaining dark matter to me, from her home studio in Adelaide. She’s not a trained scientist—neither am I—but she speaks about the hypothesised unseen matter that holds the universe together, that if it weren’t there, would lead to stars at the edge of space flinging off into nothingness, untethered. The unseen parts of human existence underpin the work of the artist. Carmody started looking into dark matter after seeing a 1970s photograph of female astronomer Vera Rubin looking through a telescope. Carmody was so taken by the image that she was drawn into Rubin’s universe: the astronomer’s work led to a turning point where “there was this compelling evidence that dark matter existed. That there was this secret mathematics holding the universe in place.” A lot of…

19 Karen Contemporary Artspace www.19karen.com.au 19 Karen Avenue, Mermaid Beach, Gold Coast, QLD 4218 [Map 13] 07 5554 5019 Tues to Thurs 9am–4pm, Fri and Sat 10am–2pm. 14 October–25 November Happy Place Solo Show Joaquin Valdez Macher (USA) Mini solo shows Amber Kingi (AUS) Caitlyn Taylor (AUS) Nector (CO) Sean Edward Whelan (AUS) Silas (NL) Above and Below Gallery www.aboveandbelowgallery.com.au Shop 12a, Port of Airlie, 33 Port Drive, Airlie Beach QLD 4802 [Map 14] 0419 941 162 Weds to Sat 9am–4pm, Sun 9am–1pm. Focusing on the ocean as a canvas, from both above in the aerial sphere and below the waters surface, this collection will have you in awe of nature and its wonderous colours and spaces. Brooke’s goal is to capture the moment and slow down time, one photo…

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. 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 the State Library Victoria, among many others. Oslo’s latest book is Overheard: The Art of Eavesdropping. BRIONY DOWNES is an arts writer based in Hobart. She has worked in the arts industry for over 20 years as a writer, actor, gallery assistant, art theory tutor and fine art framer. Most recently, she spent time studying art history through Oxford University. SALLY GEARON works across writing, publishing and contemporary art. Based…

Paintings For Tomorrow’s Yesterday Andrew Taylor Olsen Gallery 22 November—15 December Andrew Taylor is concerned with time. Or more specifically, how we perceive time, the nature of memory and the impossible task of preserving the present moment. The works in Paintings For Tomorrow’s Yesterday, some of which appear to offer the same landscape view but experiment with different colours and patterns to vary the effect, are an attempt to capture an ephemeral sensation. “I get lost in how to distill this awareness and communicate [it] through my work,” says the Melbourne-based artist. “It’s often the feeling of something quite delicate that I chase. It’s a present moment, that through the process of painting becomes tomorrow’s yesterday.” Taylor’s paintings depict the view from windows in houses he has lived in throughout…

Pintupi Way Drill Hall Gallery On now—17 December The paintings that make up Pintupi Way, over 90 of them, offer a window into thousands of years of culture and survival for the Pintupi people of the Western Desert. “The Pintupi roamed the vast desert for millennia, and to survive needed to hold everything about their Country in their mind,” says curator Christopher Hodges. “Their paintings capture this holistic view of their precious land.” The artists on show are both living and late members of the Alice Springs-based Papunya Tula Artists co-operative, regarded as the very first Aboriginal arts business, dating back to 1972 and celebrating 50 years last year. Hodges describes Pintupi Way as the “most significant” exhibition Papunya Tula has ever staged, providing a cross-section of styles, as well…

Womanifesto: The Womanifesto Way 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art 4 November—17 December When the world shut down in 2020, Womanifesto sprang to action. The group, which formed in Thailand in 1995 as a grassroots women’s art collective and biennale, began hosting weekly gatherings of local artists around the world, continuing rituals of sharing and art making in “the Womanifesto way”. For the Sydney contingent of the group, the works they conceptualised during that time—including performance, video, multimedia and sculpture—are now realised in an exhibition celebrating Womanifesto’s ethos of collective care. “The artists are leading the reflection on and the telling of their own history of Womanifesto through contemporary works that are about exchange between contemporary artists,” says co-curator and publications manager Marni Williams. An accompanying digital anthology with Power…

Lisa Gorman has always looked to art as inspiration. The Gorman founder and former creative director, who departed the eponymous fashion label after 22 years, is starting a new chapter as a multidisciplinary artist, drawing on her love of colour and textiles to create luminous sculptures. At Warrnambool Art Gallery, in a show curated by director Aaron Bradbrook, Gorman’s sculptures, plus her large-scale, site-specific installation, are being exhibited alongside the art of Mirka Mora, including Mora’s doll-like creatures, paintings, and rarely exhibited tapestries. The two artists’ visions of celebrating life, ‘joie de vivre’, and imagination are united through a selection of garments from their Gorman X Mirka Mora collaborations in 2016 and 2018. Drawing inspiration from the two fundamental components of weaving, the warp and weft, Gorman’s latest work captures…

ACAE Gallery www.acaearts.com.au Australasian Cultural Arts Exchange 82A Wellington Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3] 0406 711 378 Tue to Sun 10am–5pm. 4 November—3 December Hyperglyphs David Freney-Mills David Freney-Mills new exhibition Hyperglyphs is inspired by the expressive possibilities of Eastern and Western writing systems and their origins in organic and built structures. Forms alluding to Korean, Chinese and Western scripts infuse his canvas-mounted ink-on-paper works. Titled collectively as Hyperglyphs, these highly saturated compositions reveal energetic articulations of glyphs and symbols. ACMI www.acmi.net.au Fed Square, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2] 03 8663 2200 Open daily 10am–5pm. Alcaston Gallery www.alcastongallery.com.au 84 William Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2] 03 8849 9668 Thur 12pm–6pm or by appointment. 8 November–24 November Woven: Connected Judy Holding 29 November–15 December Prints and Works On Paper…

Aarwun Gallery www.aarwungallery.com.au 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. 20 October—19 November Sacred Realm Kris Ancog Artists Shed www.artistshed.com.au 1–3/88 Wollongong Street (lower), Fyshwick, ACT 2609 0418 237 766 Tues to Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 10am–4pm. The Artists Shed has works by the principle artist Margaret Hadfield and ‘Shed Artists’ who are rising students and friends. The Artists Shed is a unusual artist run Gallery, Art School and Art Store. November—December Wildlife Photography Exhibition Susan Maine A inaugural exhibition by Susan with prints on canvas and metal. Susan has been honing her skills with the camera, particularly around Canberra. Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Gallery www.anca.net.au 1 Rosevear Place, (corner…

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental www.ace.gallery Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End) Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8211 7505 Tue to Sat 11am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 11 November—16 December Studios: 2023 Teresa Busuttil, Georgia Button, Brad Darkson, Jennifer Mathews and Truc Truong. Art Gallery of South Australia www.agsa.sa.gov.au Kaurna Country North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8207 7000 Daily 10am–5pm. Free entry. See our website for latest information. 20 October–21 January 2024 Tarnanthi 2023 The Tarnanthi Festival returns with exhibitions at AGSA and at dozens of partner venues across Adelaide and around South Australia. Acclaimed across Australia, the Tarnanthi Festival showcases the latest contemporary works by hundreds of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the continent. As part of the Tarnanthi…

Araluen Arts Centre, Mparntwe www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870 08 8951 1122 Tues to Sat 10am–4pm. Sun 10am–2pm. Closed Mondays. See our website for latest information 10 November–18 February 2024 Raw Earth Claire Freer Inspired by her life in Central Australia and her experience living in remote communities, Claire Freer is presenting new ceramic, textile and sculptural creations deeply connected with the lands she has been living on. “From 2017 - 2021 with permission from traditional owners from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands I collected wild clays and built coiled forms which I pit-fired in the earth, using the local mulga wood (Acacia aneura). I also experimented with terra sigillata and developed a mulga ash glaze. Working with unknown clay bodies and random firing temperatures I continue to push…

Tarnanthi Art Gallery of South Australia alongside state-wide exhibitions On now—21 January 2024 Tarnanthi is a Kaurna word meaning to come forth and appear. It’s an apt name for Adelaide’s annual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art festival, which this year includes the first-ever survey exhibition by Vincent Namatjira, as well as artworks by over 1500 Indigenous artists, and the annual art fair both online and in person. While the festival’s centre is the Art Gallery of South Australia, it expands across the state to 27 venues. Among the highlights are the Warlayirti artists from Balgo, Western Australia, who went out to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) and painted their impressions of the salt lake, exhibited alongside moving image work. “It’s a sitemost of the people that went to visit this particular…

Emily Kam Kngwarray National Gallery of Australia 2 December—28 April 2024 In collating a comprehensive new survey of work by Emily Kam Kngwarray, curators Kelli Cole and Hetti Perkins offer illuminating perspectives about her place on the international stage. Rightfully describing her as one of Australia’s most significant painters to emerge in the 20th century, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) curators note there has been a tendency to position Kngwarray’s work in relation to abstract expressionist painters, such as Jackson Pollock. “We didn’t want to do that,” Cole says. “Her paintings come out of the wealth of her knowledge of Country.” That depth of experience is brought into full relief in this extensive exhibition, taking in 88 works, which includes an assessment of Kngwarray’s early explorations with batiks (textiles),…

Blaze Murray Fredericks Arc One Gallery 28 November—3 February 2024 Ensuring that his interventions in the natural environment are minimal, Murray Fredericks questions the concept of “landscape” and pushes past the limitations of documentary photography. “Landscape is a human construct,” he says. “It doesn’t exist until you put a frame around it, or make a garden, or designate it as being apart from everything else.” Fredericks’s work looks at human emotional responses to the land we inhabit. For his latest photographs, he specifically enquires into our reactions to fire. “We all have an evolutionary response to fire—a deep feeling of excitement or fear, or a strong memory. There are many layers to it.” His intense imagery of trees in flames is situated amid Australia’s major inland ephemeral river systems. Under…

The Antipodean Manifesto Art Gallery of Western Australia On now—18 February 2024 In 1959 seven emerging Australian artists signed their names beneath ‘The Antipodean Manifesto’, protesting what they believed to be a superficial acceptance of abstract art over figuration. The collective included an esteemed list: Charles Blackman, Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval, Clifton Pugh and art historian Bernard Smith, who wrote the manifesto. While only staging a single exhibition at Melbourne’s Victorian Artists Society, the group created an enduring impact on Australian art. Despite being only two pages in length, the Manifesto makes powerful declarations such as: “the existence of painting as an independent art is in danger” and that abstraction in art permits “many artists to claim that they have invented a new language”.…

Like an early version of Instagram, from the 16th century onwards the still life genre has captured staged collections of objects to reveal intimate details about our social standing—from the possessions we covet to the food we eat. As historical women artists became increasingly visible in the public realm, practitioners like the 19th-century French painter Berthe Morisot used the still life format to illustrate the nuances of daily life, particularly within the private domestic sphere. This was the realm of women and children: the objects Morisot chose to depict visually symbolised aspects of a woman’s life at the time. In 2023, still life still endures. Using Virginia Woolf’s seminal 1929 essay, A Room of One’s Own, as a subtle framework, Hobart’s Bett Gallery has brought together 16 contemporary women artists…

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. 16albermarle is a gallery and project space that provides Australian audiences with the opportunity to see and learn about contemporary art from southeast Asia. Until 11 November All That Surrounds Us: New art from Cambodia Curated by Lauren Elise Barlow, Vuth Lyno, Chum Chanveasna and Moeng Meta Including work by 12 younger and mid-career artists, All That Surrounds Us presents contemporary art from Cambodia to Australian audiences and provides the opportunity to learn more about the country through its art. Reflecting Cambodian art that explores the country’s complex history, future and place in the broader community of southeast Asia, the exhibition includes works in many media…

Bett Gallery www.bettgallery.com.au Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart, TAS 7000 03 6231 6511 Mon to Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat 10am–4pm. 27 October–18 November Farms and Other Places Neridah Stockley Bett Gallery Award Winner 2022 (Platform 2) Lucinda Bresnehan 24 November–16 December A Room Of Ones Own - Still Life Exhibition Rachel Milne, Elizabeth Barnett, Katherine Hattam, Amy Cuneo, Melanie Vugich, Kiata Mason, Fiona Cotton, Sally Anderson, Nicole O’Loughlin, Peggy Zephyr, Irene Briant, Pamela Pauline, Myfanwy Gulifer, Natasha Jumanee, Honor Freeman, Jess Dare An exhibition of strength and vitality, honouring the tradition of women working in still life, with an extraordinary group of highly collectable artist’s working within the genre today. Capturing the delightful and the atmospheric found in the fleeting moment of the everyday, A Room of One’s Own -…

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 12pm–4pm, or by appointment. Until 21 January 2024 TEN Showing at Holmes à Court Gallery, Vasse Felix, Margaret River In celebration of Art Collective WA’s first decade of operation as an artist-owned, non-profit organisation, TEN showcases the achievements of its 36 member artists with a group show of entirely new works including painting, sculpture and photography. The exhibition illustrates the richness of contemporary art practice in Western Australia and features many of the state’s most significant artists. Until 18 November In Search of Painting George Haynes Tracing his influential, 60-year career, In Search of Painting is a survey exhibition of new and existing works by George Haynes, one…

MAP 1 VICTORIA 1 Ararat Gallery TAMA 2 Art Gallery of Ballarat 3 Arts Space Wodonga 4 Benalla Art Gallery 5 Bendigo Art Gallery 6 Castlemaine Art Gallery 7 Central Goldfields Art Gallery 8 Cusack & Cusack 9 East Gippsland Art Gallery 10 Everywhen Artspace 11 Geelong Art Space 12 Geelong Gallery 13 Gippsland Art Gallery 14 Hamilton Art Gallery 15 Horsham Regional Gallery 16 Latrobe Regional Gallery 17 La Trobe Art Institute 18 Maffra Exhibition Space 19 Mildura Arts Centre 20 Platform Arts 21 QDOS Art Gallery 22 Post Office Gallery Art Academy 23 RACV Goldfields Resort 24 Salt Contemporary Art 25 Shepparton Art Museum 26 Silver Leaf Art Box 27 Stockroom Gallery 28 Swan Hill Regional Gallery 29 Switchback Gallery 30 Wangaratta Art Gallery 31 Warrnambool Art Gallery 32…