Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 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. BRENDA L CROFT is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory of Australia, and Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese heritage. She has been a key participant in the Australian First Nations and broader contemporary arts and cultural sectors as a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner—artist, arts administrator, consultant, curator, educator and researcher—since the mid-1980s. Brenda is Professor of Indigenous Art History and Curatorship, Australian National University. In 2023—2024 Brenda will be Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. STEVE DOW is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre,…

When Todd McMillan starts taking a video, it’s like “punching in at work”, he says. “I find myself actively seeing and actively enduring time.” Early in his career in the 2000s, he made video works that circled endurance, time, futility, melancholy and the sublime. He stood on a clifftop for the timelapse video work By the Sea, 2004, and filmed an attempt to swim the English Channel for Ague, 2009. He also recorded footage of the shy albatross off the coast of Tasmania for a body of work he made in 2011 and 2012. More recently, he has made paintings of clouds that were not so much copies than imaginative summaries of hours of footage shot on residency in Sweden. Video is partly a diary practice for McMillan, but it…

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. 25 June—31 July Exhibition #10: Other Possible Worlds: Contemporary art from Thailand Including work by 12 younger and midcareer artists, Other Possible Worlds presents contemporary art from Thailand to Australian audiences. Reflecting on Thai art, the exhibition includes works in many media—painting, sculpture, photography, installation, neon, video, prints and works on paper—and from many parts of the country. While Thailand is a major destination for Australian tourists, few Australians engage with Thai culture. Part two of the exhibition is on view at Delmar Gallery. 20 August—24 September Exhibition #11: Our Grandfather Road: Art by women from southeast Asia Our Grandfather Road is the first exhibition from…

“I’ve got something to say,” reads the caption on Hayley Millar Baker’s cover image for this issue, which overdubs a photograph of a young child sitting casually on the phone. The mix of emotions is emblematic of the Gunditjmara artist’s practice, and in this issue we get to know Millar Baker, from her art crushes to her process of creating. But thinking even larger, especially in recent post-election Australia, the sentiment of ‘having something to say’ rings true throughout this issue. Artists do have something to say, from the apparent to the oblique (even those artists who deny that their work ‘says anything’!). We largely say things through language, and for Robert Andrew, a descendant of the Yawuru people, art is a way to reveal the colonial power structures of…

Drawn Together David Fairbairn Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 5 August—16 October David Fairbairn’s deeply felt, emotive portraits are a soulful meditation on ageing and companionship. These are perhaps long-time themes for the widely respected artist, yet in moving from single portraits to double portraits for Drawn Together, he has brought new dimensions to his ongoing study of intimacy. For him, the process of creating portraits with two subjects allows “more scope for a psychological examination and interaction between the personalities”. In some of Fairbairn’s recent works, for the series Double Lives, the two subjects depicted are none other than Fairbairn himself and his partner, the artist Suzanne Archer—the drawings became an exploration of new emotional ground. “I believe it is not that common for a male artist to express the intimacy…

While Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr seemed to burst onto the scene with her tremendous installation of vibrant blue bark paintings and larrakitj (hollow logs) for the National Gallery of Victoria Triennial in 2020, she had in fact been painting for over 40 years, since the age of 12. Munuŋgurr comes from an extraordinarily creative lineage; one where art, politics and Yolŋu lore coexist. Her artist grandfather Muŋgurrawuy Yunupiŋu (c.1904-1979) was a contributor to the 1963 Yirrkala Church Panels—the first significant claim to land by Indigenous Australians through the documentation of ancestral narratives. And her artist parents Mutitjpuy Munuŋgurr (1932-1993) and Gulumbu Yunupiŋu (1945-2012) were both first prize winners at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA). Munuŋgurr’s uncle Dr M. Yunupiŋu AM (1956-2013) was the lead singer…

Art Lovers Gold Coast Gallery www.artloversaustralia.com.au Unit 14, Brickworks Annex, 19 Warehouse Road, Southport, QLD 4215 [Map 13] 1800 278 568 Tues to Sat 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 9 July—30 July Here, Hear! Emerging from this year’s NAIDOC theme, Art Lovers Australia proudly presents Here, Hear! This exhibition showcases a range of artworks from Yugambeh peoples and Aboriginal Australians from across the country. This exhibition explores themes of connecting to Country and storytelling while acknowledging the long history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities fighting for change today. Together, we show up and listen. Artists include; Bianca Gardiner-Dodd, Cara Shields, Brad Turner, Lionel Philips, Grace Brown and Kate Constantine. 6 August—10 September The Art of Gestalt Gestalt is founded on a psychological theory about perception. It…

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. 8 July—30 July An Elemental Persistence Kelly Austin 8 July—30 July A Hopeful Mirage Amber Koroluk-Stephenson 5 August—27 August Water[shed] 50 artists for 50 years of loss including: A Published Event (Justy Phillips & Margaret Woodward), Peter Adams, Rick Amor, Joan Baez, Michaye Boulter & Linda Fredheim, Pat Brassington, Tim Burns, Lou Conboy and Tom O’Hern, Amanda Davies, Helena Demczuk, Julie Gough, Piers Greville, Guerrilla Girls, Neil Haddon, Fiona Hall, Patrick Hall, Marian Hosking, Locust Jones, David Keeling, Janet Laurence, Sam Leach, Sue Lovegrove, Euan Macleod, Sara Maher, Noel McKenna, Mish Meijers, Ashlee Murray, Brigita Ozolins, Geoff Parr, Joan Ross, Troy Ruffles, Michael Schlitz,…

Quietly Spoken Annette Blair Canberra Glassworks 15 June—14 August Annette Blair has been blowing, sculpting, carving, and painting glass for over 20 years—and now she’s exquisitely demonstrating this knowledge and experience in her first solo exhibition at Canberra Glassworks, Quietly Spoken. Bringing together over 100 individual objects moulded from glass, the pieces include hardware tools, nails, paint cans, brushes, flower petals, leaves, and food. Arranged in clustered groups, these ordinary items resemble sculptural, suburban still life forms. Many of these objects are inspired by those found around Blair’s house, in the sheds of her father and grandfather, or items from European still life paintings. Crafted with glass, their original function is rendered obsolete, ensuring they can be reconsidered with fresh eyes. “I’m really interested in how you can have relationships…

Return to the Hook Olivia Colja Kolbusz Space 22 July—24 July and online A sharp two-stanza poem by Margaret Atwood ends with the lines “a fish hook / an open eye”. It offers an uncomfortable positioning of being both inside and outside the boundaries of control within individual relationships. Navigating such an in-betweenness of chaos and composure especially drives Olivia Colja’s art and her exhibition Return to the Hook. “In a way I’ve always been preparing for this show,” says Colja, who has been creating and exhibiting for more than a decade, alongside being a youth worker and advocate for culturally and linguistically diverse young women. Colja speaks of how difficult questions around intimacy propel her latest work. “Competitive love is dangerous and Returning to the Hook is a line…

TIARNEY MIEKUS: Your most well-known works use machinery, ochre, oxides and water to reveal what’s often a Yawuru word on a gallery wall. The first was in 2013 and revealed “Mimi”, which is “mother’s mother”. It set a trajectory for the next 10 years, but how did that work come about? ROBERT ANDREW It definitely has. It started when I had my studio at home, a little room, and the mechanism was built there for my Honours year. I was looking at language and education, particularly my own education, and the layers that have been built up within Australian history—the colonisers’ history that has been covered up. And going back to my own childhood at primary school, there were blackboards and chalk. I wasn’t very good at English subjects, but…

Describe your practice in seven words? Auto-fiction, multifaceted—conceptually and visually, retrospective, currently shifting! Your first art love? Paul Gauguin and Lin Onus. Why do you shoot mostly monochromatic works rather than colour? I actually shoot in colour and colour grade to a monochromatic palette. In saying that though, the images I have used from my grandfather’s photographic archive in my previous work, I’m the Captain Now, 2016, and Cook Book, 2017-2019, are shot in blackand-white. I think there is a romantic quality to blackand-white photography and film. It’s nostalgic; it suggests robust narratives that require investigation through connection to film noir. It purposefully eludes any particular era, but suggests the past, memory and history—any time that isn’t right now. And I find that desaturating an image removes any extra distractions…

ACAE Gallery www.acaearts.com.au 82A Wellington Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3] 03 9193 3449 Tues to Sun 10am–5pm. See our website for latest information. 14 June—18 July In Focus: Conversations With Eight Contemporary Artists Sarah Mottram ACMI www.acmi.net.au Fed Square, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2] 03 8663 2200 Mon to Fri 12noon–5pm, Sat and Sun 10am–5pm. See our website for latest information. 16 June—13 November Light: Works from Tate’s Collection See art in a new light this winter with ACMI’s exclusive Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition. Surround yourself with striking classical works from J. M. W. Turner, gaze into Yayoi Kusama’s creative mind and immerse yourself in the light installation by James Turrell. Enrich your exhibition experience with ACMI’s scintillating events program, featuring curator tours, late night access, talks, creative workshops, performances…

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. 16 June—3 July Raewyn Carboni, Millie Black and Malcolm Pettigrove 14 July—31 July Sandra Hendy Andrew Grassi Greg Mallyon 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. A private gallery by award winning artist Margaret Hadfield. The ‘Shed’ is a resourceful arts business with quality art materials, art school, gallery, and a music venue space. Margaret’s works are on display with local and ‘Shed Artists’ as well. Margaret paints in most mediums and the gallery features her works on military history, Antarctica and Australian landscapes. Study pieces can be…

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. 4 June—13 August Skin Shade Night Day Allison Chhorn Skin Shade Night Day is the 2022 Porter Street Commission exhibition outcome, exploring the daily routine and rituals practised by the artist’s Cambodian-Australian family. 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. 9 July—3 October Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize & Robert Wilson: Moving portraits Our winter exhibition double celebrates the enduring power of portraiture with 100 years of the Archibald Prize and an Australian exclusive. Buy tickets online. 15 July—31 July Going…

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. 25 June—23 July Paintings 2021–2022 Cathy Blanchflower Organic abstract paintings which explore colour, light and movement to create shifting and intangible spaces. They search for a feeling or presence which cannot be painted directly, but rather revealed within layers and visible structures of paint. 25 June—23 July Loading Paul Caporn A series of 2D and 3D works reflect on the emergence of things; best summed up by the 17th century chemist Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier: “nothing is created and nothing is destroyed but everything is transformed.” The moment of loading Instagram images and the discarded sprues of plastic model-making take on new life. 13 August—10…

Araluen Arts Centre, Mparntwe www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT 0870 08 8951 1122 Daily 10am–4pm. 17 June—14 August SIXTY The Journal of Australian Ceramics 60th Anniversary A celebration of ceramics and sixty years of a publication dedicated to the craft. The exhibition is curated and produced by Australian Design Centre. 17 June—14 August Clay on Country A diverse and eclectic survey, works reflect the rich complexities of Ancestral stories, lived experiences and settler histories, alongside the joys and challenges of making with clay, the stuff of country itself. 24 June—15 July The 26th Alice Springs Beanie Festival A wild array of fantastic textiles by makers from across Australia and the world. The exhibition highlights works from Indigenous workshops held annually in communities across Central Australia. Museum and Art…