- Gallery
Closed throughout January 2005
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January - 13 March 2005
- Howard
Taylor Phenomena : Cairns Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
    
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Installation @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
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February - 13 March 2005
(shelf)(life)
silent
contemplation - juxtaposition - inference - metamorphoses – transcendence
- re-mapping projection – generation - transformation
    
- Shelf
Life exists all around us. Generally referring to a period of
time during which something lasts or remains popular or may be
stored and remain suitable for use. In this exhibition the generic
meaning greatly expanded tackles the metaphoric head on. Nowhere
is shelf life more actively evident than in a supermarket or increasingly
less evident than in today’s public libraries. In its development
through language and technology it invades the tangible and intangible.
Culture, sub-culture, art practice, design, fashion and architecture
are just a few instances where shelf life is reasoned using notions
of usability and exhaustion of idea.
Finally , we all individually and collectively are given a ‘shelf
life’ and we negotiate it as best we can.
This exhibition brings together the work of a diverse group of
established and younger artists from East Coast to West Coast
to explore - Shelf Life through silent contemplation - juxtaposition
- inference - metamorphoses - transcendence - re-mapping - projection
- generation and transformation.
Works by:
Su Baker, Susanna Castleden, Lesley Duxbury, Sarah Elson, Caspar
Fairhall, Pamela Gaunt, Simon Gevers, Richard Giblett, Bevan Honey,
Janet Laurence, Brian McKay, Hilarie Mais, Akio Makigawa, Tom
Müller, Jánis Nedéla, Louise Paramor, Douglas
Sheerer, Mike Singe, Bruce Slatter, Alex Spremberg, Virginia Ward,
David Watt
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April - 15 May 2005
- Howard
Taylor Phenomena: New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South
Wales
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Installation @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
3
- 24 April
Born
in 1950 Philip McLeish has lived and painted in and around the Northcliffe
region in the deep South West Karri forests of Western Australia
since 1975 and for many years was Howard Taylor's personal studio
assistant.
Painting has been a constant pursuit through all these years. He
has spent much of that time alone at work in the South West forests
and has been able to witness on a consistent basis the distinct
local phenomena. Such isolation has enabled him to absorb the consequentiality
of his subject matter. His paintings have a deep sense of place
and reveal knowledge gained experiencing the intricate balance and
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- 29 May
- The
exhibition will be opened by Janet Holmes à Court, Chairman,
Heytesbury Pty Ltd on Sunday 1 May 2005 3-5pm
(Exhibition dates: 1 - 29 May 2005)
- Born
in Meckering Western Australia in 1926, Brian McKay was the subject
of a major survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia
in 1988. This exhibition of recent work runs concurrently with a new
survey of his work 1954 - 2004 at The Holmes à Court Gallery
from 22 April to extended to 10 July 2005 - (Brian McKay Floortalk Sunday
8 May - contact Holmes á Court Gallery for details on 9218 4540).
In 1990 he was awarded the Australia Council Emeritus Award and in 1991
the Order of Australia Medal for services to Contemporary Art. His work
is held in numerous public and private collections throughout Australia.
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June - 28 August
- Howard
Taylor: Phenomena TasmanianMuseum and Art Gallery
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Installation @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
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June - 10 July
- West
Australian Artist TOM MÚLLER selected for prestigious MCA
PRIMAVERA 2005
- MCA
announces Primavera 2005 artists
- The
Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney has announced the artists
selected to show in the prestigious Primavera 2005: Exhibition
by Young Australian Artists which will, for the first time, include
artists
from remote areas of Australia as well as urban centres.
The artists are: Monika Behrens (NSW), Madeleine Kelly (QLD),
Fiona Lowry (NSW), Danie Mellor (ACT), Tom Müller (WA), Yukultji
Napangati (WA), Michelle Ussher (VIC), Pedro Wonaeamirri (NT),
Jemima Wyman (QLD).
In another first, Primavera 2005 will have two central, linked
themes. All works use painting as their primary medium and share
a conceptual theme of land and landscape. Referencing synergies
between the history of documenting the landscape and contemporary
approaches to the land and landscape painting, the exhibition
is themed The Lie of the Land by guest curator Felicity Fenner.
“With this year’s Primavera show, we’re listening
for the responses of younger artists to the land – Australia
- at a time when issues of global conflict, land rights and environment
are at the political forefront”, says Ms Fenner. “We
are very excited that this exploration includes the voices of
young Aboriginal artists from remote areas in Western Australia
and the Northern Territory”
Primavera has become Australia’s “talent spotting”
art event, unveiling talents lying hidden across the country,
many of them the stars of the future! It’s a much sought-after
opportunity for young artists and a much anticipated event for
Australian audiences, each year attracting huge numbers of visitors
to the MCA. Primavera offers a perspective that reaches right
across contemporary art in Australia, revealing themes and trends
that might not otherwise be visible to the general public. Offering
a truly national vision of contemporary art this year, Primavera
2005 includes a very diverse range of artistic styles and backgrounds
- and of course signals a new wave of young artists to watch out
for.
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- Tom
Múller is part of a new generation of artists who have achieved
a delicate balance in their artwork by representing a cultural past
inside the global future. Tom Múller creates paintings and installations
that meld isolated elements of design, architecture and art into universal
forms and shapes. These simple images become signifiers not just of
the universalized building forms found around the world, but also of
the process of globalization that has existed for millennia. With Stadium,
Múller explores the world of playing fields and how they have become
images of global design. International regulations, standard surface
control and many other factors have enabled the sporting world to be
practiced almost identically around the world. Stadium provides the
viewer with the experience of becoming a spectator and a player simultaneously.
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July - 14 August
- Bruce
Slatter’s recent work explores the expectation and potential of
everyday objects and structures from the urban environment. Ideas of
endeavour, anxiety, apprehension and empathy are prevalent in the work
through the carefully constructed miniatures sited within possible scenarios.
By diminishing the scale, the work attempts to intensify focus, to distil
the essence and meaning of an object, while still retaining its original
form. The dioramas cast the viewer as participant, reminding them of
familiar and shared experiences and as witness by providing an all seeing
perspective and understanding.
Bruce was the recipient of the 2003 Curtin University - Galerie Düsseldorf
Scholarship and also won the 2004 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
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August - 11 September
Catalogue
No.17 Wrasse - Landscape #6 2005 Acrylic paint on Canvas 75 x 75 cm
- Jánis’
current works are preoccupied with seductions of surface, colour, grids
and patterns. Obsessively linked to the nature of text and representation,
his paintings succeed both optically and contemplatively. In his current
work, the use of multi- coloured dots invites the viewer to look through
the surface beauty of the overall image to its detail, where we begin
to recognise elements that help to create different illusions and movements
and familiarity in objects that are part of the world around us and
question the making of marks and the system used for their placement.
- Download
Jánis Nedéla 2005 CV in .pdf format
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September - 16 October
- Howard
Taylor: Phenomena Orange Regional Gallery NSW
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Installation @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
25
September - 16 October
Alex
Spremberg: Paint - Works
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PAINT
AND PROCESS
At
the base of my practice lies an experience of not being able
to see what was in front of me. Once it was pointed out, it
was clearly visible. It was a shock because I believed that
my eyes conveyed to me what was out there.
It is a common human experience that led to the realization
that we are unable to see purely what is in front of us. We
constantly perceive life through an invisible veil of social
and personal conditioning; our mind and our perception are geared
towards utility and survival. For most humans, a river is never
a river; it is always either an opportunity to go fishing, boating,
photographing or relaxing, etc.
My approach is an investigation into the conditions of painting.
I am attempting to recognize and analyse its components and
present those distinctions visually by altering their conventional
relationships.
Earlier work examined the distinction between support and surface.
More recently, I am questioning the relationship between colour
and paint. What is a painting? Does it have to have colour?
Does it have to have paint? Is there a difference?
I am also looking at processes, gestures and attitudes. I am
interested in gestures of non-interference, where processes
are activated that create their own inherent results and then
collide with my own expectations.
My work is not representational as nothing is re-presented.
The paintings have undergone processes and have become autonomous
objects.
I am interested in artworks as an impersonal phenomenon, like
a rainstorm is just a rainstorm; it carries no inherent meaning.
Viewers are given the opportunity and responsibility to recognize
their own processes of creating meaning and significance.
Alex Spremberg
2004
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October - 20 November
- Works
on paper & canvas continuing the artists exploration of random
mark making. There is evidence of a more structured approach to
surfaces, and the intoduction of colour indicates a subtle shift
away from the shadow world of contemporary ideas.
- John
Teschendorff was born in Melbourne in 1942 and moved to Perth
in 1985. He studied at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (now
Monash University), the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
and the Royal College of Art London. He has held solo exhibitions
in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle (NSW), Perth (WA) and Oxford (UK)
He has participated in numerous national and international group
exhibitions; representing Australia at the 36th Concorso Internazionale
della Ceramic D’Arte, Faenza, Italy (1978) and in Contemporary
Australian Ceramics at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington USA
(1981). In 1995 he was selected for Australian Ceramics 1830-1995
a major survey exhibition presented at the Museo Internazionale
della Ceramiche, Faenza Italy. His work is represented in major
Australian & international public and institutional collections.
Since the early 1980’s Teschendorff has been working with
constructed forms and works on paper whilst holding a number of
senior academic appointments in Melbourne (Melbourne State College),
Perth (Curtin University) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian Institute
of Art & Limkokwing Institute of Technology). John Teschendorff
currently lives and works in Fremantle.
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- 15 December
- Megan
Salmon : New Works - Discovery Search Joy - Art + Fashion
- Artist
Megan Salmon has successfully positioned herself amongst the finest
fashion designers of this country with a clothing label that captures
the sensitivities of her studio practice and long respected artistic
background.
Through the textiles she manipulates and the forms she creates she has
successfully found the critical nexus between fashion and art.
As a visual feast the exhibition at Galerie Düsseldorf in Mosman
Park, will be launched with a fashion parade. The fusion of both disciplines
is clearly depicted through a journey of processes where initial creation,
production and manipulation is manifested in wearable art / fashion.
Megan Salmon’s paintings and drawings are held in the collections
of The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Curtin University
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