Group Show

Head On Photography Festival

Featuring works by Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, TV Moore, Julie Rrap and Anne Zahalka.

Exhibition Dates: 6 May – 11 June 2011

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present a group exhibition of photographic and video work in association with the 2011 Head On Photography Festival. The exhibition presents new work alongside iconic pieces by some of Australia’s most distinguished artists working with photography and video. Destiny Deacon’s incisive photographs from 2003/2004 use props, performance and blak humour to undermine racial stereo-types and question the status-quo. Fiona Hall’s large Polaroid photographs of aluminium sculptural reliefs emerged after a residency in New York in which Hall had access to one of only four large-format Polaroid cameras in the world. In this selection of images, domestic objects are abstracted and re-presented and popular spiritualism receives a consumerist twist. Ten photographs by Bill Henson from the series Untitled 1985/86 (“Suburban/Egyptian”) present urban landscapes and portraits. Images from this series were included in Henson’s major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Victoria in 2005. Tracey Moffatt’s iconic Scarred for life II (1999) hits you in the gut. Full of pathos, the devastating combinations of image and text tell the painful story of growing up. In the small gallery, TV Moore’s haunting video work, Urban Army Man (2000), captures a vagrant dressed in camouflage running down Sydney’s Oxford Street. Shot in night vision, Moore’s character advances endlessly towards the retreating camera. Julie Rrap’s latest body of work, Outerspace (2011), re-presents the (artist’s) body in a state of suspension. Three large photographs and a video work reveal a narrative of ‘otherness’ in which the body occupies space but not place. Anne Zahalka’s uncanny celebrity portraits, The Immortals (2011), were shot at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Los Angeles. Captured in wax and re-captured in film, these characters exist in an eerie realm of the undead.

Exhibition opening: Friday 6 May 6 – 8pm
Exhibition dates: 6 May – 11 June 2011
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Saturday 11am - 6pm

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Destiny Deacon Where's Mickey?, 2002
Lamda print from Polaroid original
109 x 90.5 cm; Paper size: 100 x 80
Edition of 15 + 2 APs

Destiny Deacon Blak lik mi, 1991-2003
Light jet print from Polaroid original
100 x 214.5 cm
Edition of 15 + AP

Destiny Deacon Last Laughs, 1995-04
light jet print from Polaroid original
80 x 100 cm
Edition of 15 + 2 APs

Destiny Deacon I seen myself, 1991-2003
light jet print from Polaroid original
121 x 158.5 cm; (framed)
Edition of 15

Destiny Deacon Welcome to my island, 1993-2004
light jet print from Polaroid original
4 parts, dimensions variable
Edition of 15 + 2 APs

Fiona Hall S.O.S., 1994
polaroid photographs
53 x 68 cm; (image size) tryptich

Fiona Hall The Real Thing (a) [front Buddha], 1994
polaroid photographs
68 x 53 cm; each (image size), diptych
Edition of 9

Fiona Hall Untitled, 1994
polaroid photographs
68 x 53 cm; each (image size), diptych

Bill Henson Untitled #146, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #50
archival inkjet pigment print
128 x 100 cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #62, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #34
Type C Photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #25, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #111
Type C photograph
128 x 100 cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #44, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #96
Type C photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #121, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #72
Type C photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #112, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #81
Type C colour photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #129, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #64
Type C colour photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #144, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #52
type C colour photograph
128 x 100 cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #13, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #128
Type C photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Bill Henson Untitled #51L, 1985-86
gallery catalogue reference #90
Type C photograph
134.5 x 114 cm; Paper size: 128 x 100 Image size: 105 x 86cm
Edition of 20

Tracey Moffatt Responsible but Dreaming, 1984, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Always the Sheep, 1987, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Suicide Threat, 1982, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Scissor Cut, 1980, 1999
from the series Scarred for Life II
offset print
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + 10 APs

Tracey Moffatt Door Dash, 1979, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Homemade Hand-knit, 1958, 1999
from the series Scarred for Life II
offset lithograph
94.5 x 75 cm; Paper size: 80 x 60cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Piss Bags, 1978, 1999
from the series Scarred for Life II
offset lithograph
94.5 x 75 cm; Paper size: 80 x 60cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Pantyhose Arrest, 1973, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

Tracey Moffatt Mother's Reply, 1976, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + 10 APs

Tracey Moffatt Brother was Mother, 1983, 1999
from the series Scarred For Life II
offset lithograph
80 x 60 cm
Edition of 60 + AP 10

TV Moore Urban Army Man, 2000
2 channel split signal DV/DVD
duration 7:05 min
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Julie Rrap Outerspace No. 9, 2010
Digital Print on Archival Rag Paper
175 x 120 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Julie Rrap Outerspace No. 7, 2010
Digital Print on Archival Rag Paper
175 x 120 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Julie Rrap Outerspace No. 11, 2010
Digital Print on Archival Rag Paper
120 x 175 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Anne Zahalka Uma Thurman, 2009, 2011
archival pigment ink print
89.5 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Anne Zahalka Nicole Kidman, 2007, 2011
archival pigment ink print
89.5 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Anne Zahalka Lady Gaga, 2010, 2011
archival pigment ink print
89.5 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Anne Zahalka Beyonce Knowles, 2004, 2011
archival pigment ink print
89.5 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Anne Zahalka Meryl Streep, 2009, 2011
archival pigment ink print
89.5 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

Anne Zahalka Madonna, 2010, 2011
archival pigment ink print
89.5 x 60.5 cm
Edition of 5 + AP 2

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Group Show, All Stars
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Group Show, T.I.S.E.A.
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