Innholdsfortegnelse for September/October 2024 i Art Guide Australia

The Great Southern Reef (GSR) is a vast stretch of coastline winding its way around the southern states of Australia. It tracks over 8000 kilometres—going as far north as Brisbane, down to Tasmania and all the way around to Kalbarri in Western Australia. While not as colourful as its tropical equivalent, the Great Barrier Reef, the GSR contains a plethora of biodiverse habitats and marine life anchored within its rocky reefs and sponge gardens. Living on the southern Victorian coast, Germanborn artist Vera Möller is deeply inspired by the GSR and much of her recent work is devoted to the colours, forms and patterns of life found beneath the waves. “They [the artworks] look like abstract forms, but they are all full of creatures with sensory organs,” she explains. “A…

ACAE Gallery acaearts.com.au Wurundjeri Country, Australasian Cultural Arts Exchange, 82A Wellington Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066 [Map 3] 0406 711 378 Tue to Sun 10am–5pm. See our website for latest information. 5 September–8 September Sydney Contemporary 2024 Featuring Gonkar Gyatso, Jaedon Shin, Zou Yinong Alcaston Gallery alcastongallery.com.au 84 William Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2] 03 8849 9668 Thu 12pm–6pm or by appointment. See our website for latest information. Established in 1989, Alcaston Gallery is based in Melbourne with a national and international focus and exhibition schedule. The gallery represents contemporary artists from Australia and the Asia Pacific Region and is renowned for representing and exhibiting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. Anna Schwartz Gallery annaschwartzgallery.com 185 Flinders Lane, Woiwurung Country, Melbourne, VIC 3000 [Map 2] Tue to Fri 12noon–5pm, Sat…

Aarwun Gallery aarwungallery.com.au Ngunnawal Country, 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. 25 October–17 November Sacred Realm Kris Ancog Artists Shed artistshed.com.au 1–3/88 Wollongong Street (lower), Fyshwick, ACT 2609 0418 237 766 Tue to Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 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 acquired for a bargain.…

JESSICA ALDERTON is a Dharug Boorooberongal and European person based in Naarm/Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. She is an independent curator, writer, and filmmaker currently employed by Museums Victoria. They have a background in art history, history, and curation. 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…

In a quiet gallery in Naarm is a formidable display of the strength of sisterhood and the collective resistance that empowers Aboriginal women to assert culture. In These Arms Hold at Incinerator Gallery, the very cultural practices that colonisation actively repressed are armed in defence of culture; delicate weaving, stitching, digging and mark making is shared from one sister, mother, aunty to the next in beautiful continuity from Ancestors to now. When I asked Lardil curator Maya Hodge what inspired this powerful focus on sisterhood and resistance, she shared that “this project is a testament to the strength of south-eastern Aboriginal women and their cultural practices. To call these women my friends and sisters means the world to me, and their presence alone makes me feel strong.” The exhibition features…

Annandale Galleries annandalegalleries.com.au 110 Trafalgar Street, Annandale, Sydney, NSW 2038 [Map 7] 02 9552 1699 Wed to Sat 11am–4pm. Through varying styles and contexts the aim of Annandale Galleries is to show the best of Australian and international contemporary art. Recent exhibitions have included a range of artists recognised and revered the world over. Artbank Sydney artbank.gov.au 222 Young Street, Waterloo, NSW 2017 [Map 9] 02 9697 6000 Tue to Thu 12pm–4pm or by appointment. Artbank is part of the Australian Government Office for the Arts, in the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. For 40 years Artbank has supported Australia’s contemporary art sector. Artbank Window Gallery: 3 September–1 November Countesses are Calculating. Artbank invites The Countess.Report to curate the window gallery. Art Gallery of New…

Bett Gallery bettgallery.com.au Nipaluna Country, Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart, TAS 7000 [Map 17] 03 6231 6511 Mon to Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 29 August—21 September The Footy Show 30 August—21 September Richard Wastell 27 September—19 October David Keeling 25 October—16 November Amanda Davies Contemporary Art Tasmania contemporaryarttasmania.org Nuenonne Country, 27 Tasma Street, North Hobart, TAS 7000 [Map 17] 03 6231 0445 Wed to Sat, noon–5pm. See our website for latest information. 9 August—21 September Figure Holding Ground Marion Abraham, Mia Boe, Jo Chew, Sam Field, Brent Harris, Pat Hoffie, Helen Johnson, Jelena Telecki and Nicole Zhang. Devonport Regional Gallery paranapleartscentre.com.au Paranaple Arts Centre, 145 Rooke Street, Devonport, TAS 7310 03 6420 2900 [Map 17] Mon to Fri 9am–5pm, Sat and pub hols…

Art Collective WA artcollectivewa.com.au Whadjuk Country, 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. 5 September—8 September Vantage Point - Sydney Contemporary
Art Merrick Belyea, Jo Darbyshire, Antony Muia, Kevin Robertson and Jon Tarry. Collective WA is presenting new works by five exceptional Western Australian artists at Sydney Contemporary. This group exhibition explores the essence of WA’s diverse natural landscapes. Each work tells a story of the land’s raw beauty, exploring its rivers, oceans, deserts, and ancient geological formations, while interrogating our often-complex relationship with the natural world. 10 August—14 September Calligraphic Skies Paul Uhlmann Paul Uhlmann contemplates transient, often imperceptible processes that unfold all around us but are often overlooked as we rush through our hectic…

Brisbane/Meanjin Kitchen Studio: Food for thought Elizabeth Willing Metro Arts, as part of Brisbane Festival 30 August—26 October Food looms increasingly large in the human psyche, fuelled by beliefs, conscience and identity. In this, Elizabeth Willing is well ahead of the curve. For over 15 years she has explored food as inspiration, subject and material for sculpture, installation and performance. Now her most ambitious project yet will premiere for Brisbane Festival. As Willing explains, “Kitchen Studio has brought together my installation with performance practices, the most significant opportunity I’ve had to blend the two sides of my work.” The result is a day-time exhibition which transforms into a dining room installation in the evenings—the site of a dining performance that invites innovative approaches to edible materials. Kitchen Studio, Willing says,…

For over 40 years, Julie Rrap’s work has been animated by a paradoxical force: that throughout art history, women’s bodies are a ubiquitous motif—but only as objects, narrowly reduced to a set of predictable conventions. Her photography punctures and defangs the dull tropes produced by a male artist observing an idealised female sitter, making an argument against ideals and asserting that women live in messy, fine, imperfect bodies, the variety of which have rarely been shown in art. The work that brought Rrap to notice was Disclosures: A Photographic Construct, an installation in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MCA) collection, in which Rrap plays the role of photographer and model, showing the visual viewpoints of both sides. The work was made in 1982, when the term ‘the male gaze’ was…

For Jacky Cheng, culture and craft have always been inextricably woven. Born in Malaysia with Chinese heritage, Cheng spent a lot of time with her Taoist grandmother. “My grandmother brought China with her,” she says. “She was really particular about rituals, so I grew up practising her rituals. And one of the things I observed was her use of the moon block.” Moon blocks, or jiaobei, are a divination tool used to seek guidance and make decisions. “It’s made out of wood today, but back in the day it was made out of anything with both a flat and curved surface, like a tortoiseshell or a clam. The ones I grew up with were made out of wood carved into a crescent shape.” The block is purified with incense, then…

Artspace Mackay artspacemackay.com.au Civic Precinct, corner Gordon and Macalister Streets, Yuwi Country, Mackay, QLD 4740 [Map 14] 07 4961 9722 Tue to Fri 10am–5pm, Sat & Sun 10am–3pm. Free admission. 9 August—6 October ProppaNOW: OCCURRENT AFFAIR Established in 2003, proppaNOW is one of Australia’s leading cultural collectives, exploring the politics of Aboriginal art and culture, and provoking, subverting, and re-thinking what it means to be a ‘contemporary Aboriginal artist’. Conceived as a collaborative activist gesture, OCCURRENT AFFAIR will address current socio-political, economic, and environmental issues, while celebrating the strength, resilience and continuity of Aboriginal culture. An exhibition from The University of Queensland Art Museum touring with Museums & Galleries of NSW. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding…

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental ace.gallery Kaurna Yarta, Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8211 7505 Tue to Sat 11am–4pm. See our website for latest information. 31 August–19 October Somewhat Eternal Justine Youssef Art Gallery of South Australia agsa.sa.gov.au Kaurna Yarta, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000 [Map 18] 08 8207 7000 Daily 10am–5pm. Free entry. 6 July—20 October Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch Explore the work of contemporary Australian artist Brent Harris. Moving between figuration and abstraction, Harris deploys both humour and the grotesque to examine psychological subject matter and visualise his complex and contradictory feelings. 20 July—13 April 2025 Reimagining the Renaissance Drawing from AGSA’s collection of painting, sculpture, works on paper and decorative arts, alongside loans from public and private collections, this exhibition…

Araluen Arts Centre, Mparntwe araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au 61 Larapinta Drive, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, NT 0870 08 8951 1122 Open daily 10am–4pm. See our website for latest information. The Araluen Arts Centre operates as the visual art and performance hub of Central Australia, presenting an annual program of exhibitions, performances, and film. Known as the keeping place of stories, Araluen holds within its spaces some of the most significant works of art in Central Australia and brings to the stage world class performances from around the nation (and at times the world). 5 September–20 October Desert Mob 2024 Join artists for the official opening of Desert Mob 2024, a celebration of all that is art and culture from the desert. The Desert Mob 2024 opening features live music and dance performances, food and beverages,…

MAP 1 VICTORIA 1 Ararat Gallery TAMA2 Art Gallery of Ballarat3 Artpuff4 Arts Space Wodonga5 Benalla Art Gallery6 Bendigo Art Gallery7 Bendigo Visitor Centre8 Cascade Art Gallery9 Castlemaine Art Gallery10 Central Goldfields Art Gallery11 The Convent Daylesford12 Cusack & Cusack13 East Gippsland Art Gallery14 Everywhen Art at Whistlewood15 Geelong Art Space16 Geelong Gallery17 Gippsland Art Gallery18 Hamilton Art Gallery19 The Hive Gallery20 Horsham Regional Gallery21 Latrobe Regional Gallery22 La Trobe Art Institute23 Maffra Exhibition Space24 Mildura Arts Centre25 Platform Arts26 QDOS Art Gallery27 Post Office Gallery Art Academy28 Pt. Leo Estate29 RACV Goldfields Resort30 Ross Creek Gallery31 Salt Contemporary Art32 Shepparton Art Museum33 Silver Leaf Art Box34 Stockroom Gallery35 Swan Hill Regional Gallery36 Switchback Gallery37 Wangaratta Art Gallery38 Warrnambool Art Gallery39 Wyndham Art Gallery MAP 2 MELBOURNE CBD 1 Alcaston…