EXHIBITION OPENINGS – Kirtika Kain and Patricia Piccinini
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to announce upcoming exhibitions of new work by artists Kirtika Kain and Patricia Piccinini.
Opening reception: Saturday, 2 December from 4-6pm*
Exhibition dates: 2 December 2023 – January 2024
*Please register your attendance to the opening reception via the link in our bio.
Kirtika Kain: Blue Bloods
Blue Bloods is a constellation of new material paintings that reflect on the unseen colour and vibrancy of Dalit history. Paying tribute to the colour of Dalit resistance,
Blue Bloods is an imagining of the grandeur of an ancient history that has not been valued or archived, but has been absorbed and witnessed by the body, the earth and the cosmos. Each canvas is created by laying raw materials associated with religious festivals and prayer, including cotton wicks, pigments and powders, golds, glass, grains, oils and waxes. The surfaces are compressed, erased, built upon and let to dry layer by layer, an intuitive and unpredictable process unique to each work in the series.
Patricia Piccinini:The way they connect without seeing
In this captivating new body of work, Piccinini presents an exhibition that transcends mediums and seamlessly explores the delicate beauty of hand-blown glass alongside the figurative sculptures rendered in silicone and hair for which she is well-known.
Image (Left): Kirtika Kain, 'Blue Bloods VIII', 2023, cotton wicks, rangoli pigment, gold leaf, tar, artist pigment, acrylic paint, 120 x 120 cm.
Image (Right): Patricia Piccinini, 'Cerulean Consciousness', 2023, hand blown glass, 21 x 29.5 x 29 cm.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery: The First 40 Years
We are immensely proud to announce the forthcoming release of 'Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery: The First 40 Years,' a comprehensive overview of four decades of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery's history and its role in fostering the careers of many of the most influential Australian and international artists of our time.
Since its establishment in 1982, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery has showcased the works of more than 350 artists, with a focus on fostering creativity, experimentation, and uncensored ideas. Four decades on, the Gallery continues with this enduring vision and commitment of support.
Published by Formist Editions and with a foreword by Anna Waldmann, former Director of Visual Arts for the Australian Council for the Arts, this major publication features and includes contributions from over 50 prominent artists, curators and philanthropists whose stories are seamlessly woven together by the central essay written by esteemed academic and curator, Felicity Fenner.
This publication offers an invaluable educational resource, presenting extensive installation imagery in chronological order from 1982 to the present day. This is interspersed with a wealth of social photographs capturing the effervescence of exhibition openings and events over the years.
'Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery: The First 40 Years' will be launched on the evening of Valentine's Day, 14 February 2024, with a celebration at the Gallery. Copies are available for pre-order through to 14 February 2023 at an exclusive price of AU$ 100. Following this, they will be available for purchase for AU$ 110 from the Gallery and through reputable bookstores nationwide.
Join us in celebrating this major milestone and be sure to acquire a small piece of contemporary art history on Valentine's Day next year.
To pre-order a copy, email [email protected].
EXHIBITION OPENING: Imants Tillers 'Remembering the unknown'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present 'Remembering the unknown', an exhibition of new works by Imants Tillers.
Opening reception: Friday, 27 October from 6–8pm*
Exhibition dates: 27 October – 25 November 2023
*Please register your attendance to the opening reception.
Imants Tillers is one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists whose practice spans five decades. Since 1981 Tillers has used his signature canvas boards to explore themes relevant to contemporary culture, from the centre/periphery debates of the 1980s to the effects of migration, displacement and diaspora. Since moving to Cooma in 1996, his paintings have been concerned with place, locality and evocations of landscape. Tillers juxtaposes layers of imagery and text drawn from a great many sources of influence and inspiration. The result is a convergence of ideas and a multiplicity of references that cite art – predominantly other artists’ work – history, literature, philosophy, poetry and the artist’s personal history.
Imants Tillers has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1990.
Image: Imants Tillers, ‘Critical Forest 5’, 2023, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 32 canvasboards, 204 x 143 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENING: The Winter Bride
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of important historical works from the oeuvres of seven prominent contemporary artists: Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Isaac Julien, Linda Marrinon, Tracey Moffatt and Jenny Watson.
Exhibition dates: 06–21 October 2023
Opening reception: Tomorrow Friday 7th October from 3–5pm
Illustrating key moments in time from the archives of seven luminaries, ‘The Winter Bride’ represents an opportunity to revisit artworks that have left an indelible mark on the contemporary Australian art landscape. Highlights include Destiny Deacon’s tragicomic photographic odyssey Waiting for Goddess; photographic work from the 1970s by prominent Australian artist Fiona Hall; work from from Bill Henson’s enigmatic 1987/88 photographic series capturing the neon-lit nightscapes of New York City in the late 1980s; a collection of sumptuous silver gelatin photographic works by Isaac Julien from his series Looking for Langston, a lyrical exploration of the private world of the artists and writers who formed the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s; selected works from Tracey Moffatt’s renowned series Laudanum, a hallucinatory tale of sexual violence taking place in a colonial mansion filtered through what appears to be a drug-fuelled haze; a series of small etchings from 2003 by Linda Marrinon; and selected works by Jenny Watson from her presentation at the Venice Biennale in 1993.
EVENT: Artist Talk Tom Polo in Conversation with Jenny Brockie
To mark the occasion of his latest solo exhibition 'somewhere on the edge of you', we are delighted to host Tom Polo in conversation with acclaimed journalist Jenny Brockie at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery on Saturday, 23 September at 11:30am.
Tom Polo uses painting and painted environments to explore how conversation, doubt and gesture are embodied acts of portraiture. Frequently incorporating text and figurative elements, his works draw upon acute observations, absurdist encounters, personal histories and imagined personas. An ongoing interest across his practice is the emotional and performative relationships between people within social, theatrical and psychological space.
Jenny Brockie is one of Australia’s most respected and experienced journalists, broadcasters and facilitators, reporting in Australia and abroad for current affairs programs including Four Corners, Insight and Nationwide. She has received various awards for her work including the Gold Walkley, two AFI Awards, a Logie, and a Human Rights Award. Jenny has also won eight United Nations Association Media Peace Awards for her work on Insight.
As numbers are limited, please register your attendance.
EXHIBITION OPENINGS – Tom Polo and Sarah Contos
Exhibition Dates: 25 August – 23 September 2023
*Please register your attendance to the opening reception
Sarah Contos: BODYDOUBLE 24 X A SECOND
Sarah Contos’ practice revolves around themes of femininity, sexuality and materiality, offering unrestrained, personal and emotional dialogue. Theatrical narrative and drama define her assemblages. Contos is fascinated by the relationships between objects and one’s autonomous associations with them. Exploring the dual nature of “things”, her tantalising installations play on the friction that exists between seduction and repulsion. Sarah Contos has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2015.
Image right: Sarah Contos, Body Double #4 (Odette), 2023, oil on canvas, 172 cm x 157.5 (framed). Photo: David Suyasa
EVENT: Exhibition Tour — Renee So and Charlotte Day at UNSW Galleries
Join Renee So and exhibition curator Charlotte Day for an intimate walkthrough of ‘Provenance’ Saturday 19 August 2023 from 3–4pm at UNSW Galleries.
Together Renee and Charlotte will discuss key developments within So’s practice from early motifs of bearded men and masculine archetypes to more recent representations of feminine forms and observations of elginism.
Exhibition dates: 17 August – 19 November 2023
Exhibition tour: 3-4pm Saturday 19 August 2023
First shown earlier this year at Monash University Art Museum in Melbourne, 'Renee So: Provenance,' brings together more than a decade of art-making alongside new work, surfacing narratives within So's evolving practice.
"I want my works to look timeless and placeless, to create something that looks like it may have already existed, but so that you can't really place where that might be... it looks slightly familiar and reminds you of other things." – Renee So in conversation with Charlotte Day, 2023
Image: Portrait of Renee So, courtesy of UNSW Galleries, Sydney
EVENT: Artist Talk – David Noonan and Shaun Gladwell in conversation
On the occasion of his solo exhibition 'MASKEN', we are delighted to host David Noonan in conversation with artist Shaun Gladwell at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery on the final day of the exhibition.
Saturday, 19 August at 11am
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
As numbers are limited, please register your attendance
David Noonan’s collage works, films, paintings, sculptural objects, tapestries and installations are characterised by a complex layering of found historical and contemporary images. In his work, he is interested in the liminal and temporal; in the dialogue between figuration and abstraction and a de-linear sense of time; in ambiguities, contradictions and in-between spaces. Noonan lives and works in London.
Shaun Gladwell uses disciplines of human movement to investigate function and meaning within urban, natural, and extended reality environments. His oeuvre is considered an important contribution to the cataloguing and celebration of movement based sub-cultures that have emerged within his generation. The artist has also been recognized for pioneering work with immersive, extended reality technologies. Gladwell lives and works in Sydney.
EXHIBITION OPENING: 'Renee So: Provenance' at UNSW Galleries
First shown at Monash University Art Museum (MUMA), Melbourne, from 27 April – 8 July 2023, Provenance, a major survey exhibition of works by Renee So, will open next Thursday 17 August at UNSW Galleries, Sydney.
Guest curated by Charlotte Day, the exhibition is co-presented with MUMA and brings together more than a decade of art-making alongside new work, surfacing narratives within So's evolving practice.
"I want my works to look timeless and placeless, to create something that looks like it may have already existed, but so that you can't really place where that might be... it looks slightly familiar and reminds you of other things." – Renee So in conversation with Charlotte Day, 2023
Opening Event: Thursday 17 August, 6–8pm
Exhibition Dates: 17 August – 19 November 2023
Image: Renee So, Drunken Bellarmine II, 2023, knitted acrylic yarn, 150 x 110 x 4 cm
24th Biennale of Sydney artists announced
We are thrilled to announce the participation of Kirtika Kain, Tracey Moffatt and Kaylene Whiskey in the 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns (9 March – 10 June 2024).
Curated by Artistic Directors Cosmin Costinau and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney works across time periods, beyond the borders separating cultural practices rooted in different genealogies, and from all continents. The edition owes a profound debt to the rich heritage of what is known today as Australia, especially to the struggles and practices in which First Nations communities and migrants have played key roles.
The selected artists’ practices are firmly rooted in diverse communities and artistic vocabularies, inviting audiences to bear witness to multiple histories. The exhibition carries hope to resist the mainstream mindsets of perpetual crisis that often leads to inaction
Newell Harry: 'Esperanto' at MAMA
We are thrilled to share news of Newell Harry's forthcoming solo exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), the artist's largest solo project to date and the first time MAMA has presented a major solo exhibition of works by a contemporary Australian artist.
Exhibition dates: 28 July - 26 November 2023
Esperanto presents the breadth of Newell Harry’s practice, woven together in a complex network of ideas and narratives. The exhibition recognises pivotal moments in Australian, South African and Indo-Pacific histories of the 60s and 70s, such as the end of the White Australia Policy, the 1967 referendum, anti-apartheid rugby protests, environmental and anti-nuclear testing movements, as well as themes of South African pop culture, ideas of trade, gift giving, family stories of migration and care, and an open engagement with notions of museological display and value.
Newell Harry is an Australian born artist of South African and Mauritian descent who draws from an intimate web of connections across Oceania and the wider Indo-Pacific, to South Africa’s Western Cape Province where his extended family continue to reside.
EXHIBITION OPENING: David Noonan 'MASKEN'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present 'MASKEN', an exhibition of new works by David Noonan.
Opening reception: Friday, 21 July from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 21 July – 19 August 2023
David Noonan’s collage works, films, paintings, sculptural objects, tapestries and installations are characterised by a complex layering of found historical and contemporary images. In his work, he is interested in the liminal and temporal; in the dialogue between figuration and abstraction and a de-linear sense of time; in ambiguities, contradictions and in-between spaces.
David Noonan has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1999.
Image: David Noonan, 'Issie', 2023, liquid pigment on hand-dyed fabric, aluminium frame, 57.5 x 42 x 4 cm.
Isaac Julien Releases Limited Edition Series of Prints, 'Looking for Langston – What Freedom Is To Me'
Isaac Julien has released an edition of 100 prints to accompany his major solo exhibition at the Tate Britain What Freedom is to Me.
This ambitious exhibition highlights Julien's critical thinking and the way his work breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines. Julien draws from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture by utilising the themes of desire, history and culture.
Alongside this series of 100 prints, entitled Looking for Langston – What Freedom Is To Me, Julien has generously donated 10 signed Artist Proofs to support the Art Monthly Subscription Donation Fund.
Destiny Deacon recipient of the Musee du quai Branly 2023 Photographic Prize
Congratulations to Destiny Deacon who is one of three laureates of the Musee du quai Branly’s 2023 Photographic Prize for her project 'Outside Looking In'
Since its launch in 2008, the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac Residency program has supported contemporary photographic artists to create an original body of work.
Made especially for the prize, 'Outside Looking In' will mark Deacon's return to her early usage of Polaroid and digital prints as she deploys her renowned ‘blak’ humour within taut compositions of dolls, family and friends. Her work confronts colonialism, sovereignty and racism with an assortment of Koorie kitsch and a cast of rescued dolls: “I feel sorry for those little dolls lying in trash and treasure markets…looking all forlorn and stuff. I just seem to rescue them.”
Image: Destiny Deacon at the Sharjah Biennial, 2023.
'Nightshifts' — group show featuring Mikala Dwyer, Tracey Moffatt, Callum Morton and David Noonan at Buxton Contemporary
Works by Mikala Dwyer, Tracey Moffatt, Callum Morton and David Noonan are currently on display at Buxton Contemporary as part of nightshifts, a group exhibition curated by Hannah Presley and Annika Aitken.
Exhibition dates: 26 May – 29 October 2023
nightshifts considers the importance of solitude through contemporary arts practice. Shifting in and out of focus like a dreamscape, the exhibition looks to the shadows and after hours as metaphors for the work and thinking that happens beneath the surface, away from the public gaze: time alone in the studio, during the quiet of the night and while asleep.
These artists demonstrate the natural cycles and shifting conditions of working alone, from rumination to meditative, flow-like states and the periods of quiet and rest that necessarily follow. Solo human journeys and cosmic trajectories diverge and connect, and perspectives on Deep Listening demonstrate the power of singular focus to sharpen attention and reveal things unseen.
Image: Featuring Lisa Sammut, 'How the earth will approach you' 2023, David Noonan, 'Owl' 2006, Tracey Moffatt, 'Invocations # 5' 2000.
Fiona Hall: 'Hunger for Power / Power of Hunger' at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery in Hobart
Fiona Hall's incredible mixed media installation 'Hunger for Power / Power of Hunger', 2023 is currently on display at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery in Hobart as part of 'Twist', a group exhibition bringing together artworks by exceptional Australian and Irish artists to engage with themes explored by author Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
In his novels, Dickens addressed issues such as crime and punishment, the dire impact of poverty on women and children and the grim conditions in public institutions such as orphanages, prisons and workhouses. He was as fascinated by the people and social interactions in the far-flung colonies as he was in those of the dirty streets of London. Many of his characters were transported or immigrated to Australia.
Artwork details: Fiona Hall, 'Hunger for Power / Power of Hunger', 2023, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Brook Andrew, 'NGAAY’ (2023) for the Liverpool Biennial 2023
For the Liverpool Biennial 2023, Brook Andrew was commissioned to create a large-scale neon work which is now installed at Stanley Dock. Entitled ‘NGAAY’ (2023), a Wiradjuri word meaning ‘to see’, Brook's newly created commission combines languages including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, isiXhosa, Wiradjuri, Urdu, Mandarin and Welsh, symbolising the cultural and historical linguistic diversity of Merseyside.
It is at once a celebration and a critical examination of this diversity, highlighting its origins in the city’s history of trade in goods and enslaved peoples. The river Mersey acts as a witness to these histories of violence and extraction which remain mapped across the world today: Sydney, Australia is home to a place called Birkenhead Point and a suburb named Liverpool. These duplicate monikers serve as reminders of the British colonial exploits that spanned the globe. Through centring indigenous language and perspectives, Andrew’s work questions the limitations imposed by colonial power structures, historical amnesia, and stereotyping. Drawing on his Wiradjuri heritage (Indigenous Australian), Andrew disrupts Western conventions of space and time, to present alternative histories and ways of being.
The 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial, curated by Khanyisile Mbongwa, uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. In the isiZulu language, uMoya means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind.
Exhibition dates: 10 June – 17 September 2023
Brook Andrew: Commissioned Public Artwork 'Warrang' at the MCA
This public artwork, Warrang (2012) by Brook Andrew, was commissioned as a contemporary interpretation of the heritage significance of the colonial naval docks located under the new wing of the MCA. In an alcove just to the side of the museum’s entrance, a sculptural LED arrow, measuring over 2 metres in length, pulsates with a dynamic pattern of radiating rectangular shapes.
The arrow directs our gaze to seven lines of poetry written by Andrew and engraved into the concrete forecourt. As the artist says, readers following the text will walk along ‘a dock’s edge, water edge, imaginary edge of the archaeology and sandstone under the earth. Visitors will not only be physically drawn to the arrow from far across Circular Quay, especially during evening times, but will congregate to contemplate the text which specifically speaks to the site as Sydney Cove. This arrow and text mark the present site as a historical and colonial ship-building port, docks and architecture’.
Jenny Watson: HOTA Painting Masterclass
Jenny Watson at HOTA: Pop Power Painting Masterclass — Saturday, 27 May 2023
Jenny Watson’s conceptually oriented work explores experimental use of mediums such as acrylic, oil, Japanese pigments, ink staining, often with ribbons, diamantes, dress and furnishing fabrics. Images are drawn from content that is highly personal; self-portraits, friends, horses, cats, houses and flowers, also with the use of text. Femininity and feminism are often part of the equation.
In this Pop Power Masterclass participants are asked to bring photographs and other images that hold some personal meaning to them as the basis for exploration over the course of the day. The masterclass includes all materials, but participants are also welcome to bring their own materials.
Del Kathryn Barton: receives 2023 Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting
Congratulations to Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero who were the recipients of the 2023 Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards last night for their script Blaze, produced in 2022 by Causeway Films.
Blaze had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival (2022) and its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Film Festival (2022) to rapturous acclaim, and follows a young girl who, after witnessing a violent sexual assault, retreats into her imagination where a shimmering magic dragon who has been her childhood companion, allows her to express her rage and ultimately find renewal.
The judges said: "This is a stunning script, vivid in its visual language and inexorable in its conclusion. Character and theme are universal, yet placed in a contemporary world and plotted with social issues that reverberate with today’s audience. It provides us with such an interesting and evocative take on a crime that has resonated down through centuries. Puppetry and animation give the work a thematic and stylistic twist, and the mid-story turning point is sharply spun."
Patricia Piccinini 'Hope' at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong
atricia Piccinini's immersive exhibition HOPE, currently on display at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, is her most ambitious exhibition ever in Asia. Covering 20 years of Piccinini's practice through sculpture, drawing, video and installation, HOPE taps into our hopes and fears about the impact of science on humanity.
Her hyperrealistic and surreal works, often rooted in art historical forms, explore various “unexpected consequences”, whether negative or positive. HOPE raises important questions about the nature of history, progress, and technology, and ponders our collective ability to create warm and caring relationships and to live lovingly with each other.
Exhibition dates: 24 May – 3 September 2023
Newell Harry in 'Remedios' at C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía in Córdoba, Spain
An installation of works by Newell Harry are currently on display in the group exhibition Remedios, curated by Daniela Zyman, at C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía in Córdoba, Spain.
Exhibition dates: 14 April 2023 - March 2024
In Untitled (Anagrams and Objects for R.U. & R.U. (Part I) and (Part II), 2015, Harry employs a familiar methodology of tracing and inventing material and linguistic relations through the inclusion of Kula Ring, a traditional system of exchanging ceremonial gifts, and through a series of anagrammatic Tapa cloth (Tongan Ngatu) banners.
Image (1): Newell Harry, Untitled (Anagrams and Objects for R.U. & R.U. (Part I), 2015, seven unique ink screen prints on hand-beaten Tongan Ngatu, overall dimensions: 310 x 850 cm.
Linda Marrinon: Sense and Sensibility – Art Collector Feature
For four decades, Linda Marrinon has practiced with distinguished earnestness and humility. Ahead of her solo exhibition Pierre Fresnay and other sculptures at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Marrinon spoke with Jacqueline Millner for Issue 104 of Art Collector.
“Rising to prominence in the early 1980s very soon after graduating from painting at the Victorian College of the Arts, Marrinon was picked for the cover of the arch postmodern art magazine, 'Art and Text', with ‘I sailed to Tahiti with an All Girl Crew’, 1982 a piece that mixed her love of pop cultural forms, playful anti-heroic mark-making and feminist knowingness.
But unlike much art from this high-water mark of postmodernism, Marrinon’s always retained elements of genuine emotion: pleasure in the making process, warmth towards her sources of inspiration including art history, and empathy for her often vulnerable and hapless subjects (including herself). And it is this distinguishing earnestness and humility that drove the artist’s continuing experimentation with styles and media. For, after her early success with “bad painting”, Marrinon radically changed tack to embark on a quest to be good at sculpture, and 19th century sculpture no less." –Jacqueline Millner, 2023
'Renee So: Provenance' at MUMA
Renee So's incredible survey exhibition, Provenance, curated by Charlotte Day, is on view now at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne.
Exhibition dates: 27 April – 8 July 2023.
Renee So’s practice is distinguished by its embrace of traditional crafts, cross-cultural thinking, underlying sense of the comedic and persistent feminist worldview. Her idiosyncratic ceramic and textile works are inspired by art history, museum collections and popular forms of gendered symbolism.
Renee So: Provenance is the first major exhibition of the London-based artist’s work in Australia, where she grew up after migrating with her family from Hong Kong at a young age. The exhibition brings together more than a decade of art-making alongside new work, surfacing narratives within her evolving practice.
Save the date for the closing event at MUMA on Saturday, 8 July from 3–5pm.
The exhibition will be presented at UNSW Galleries, Sydney from 18 August – 19 November 2023.
Image: Installation view, Renee So, Provenance, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne (27 April – 8 July 2023). Photo: Andrew Curtis.
Kaylene Whiskey – 2023 Archibald and Sir John Sulman Prize Finalist
Congratulations to Kaylene Whiskey whose paintings 'Cooking my famous Indulkana soup' and 'Come see Kaylene' are finalists in the Art Gallery of NSW's 2023 Archibald and Sir John Sulman Prizes, respectively.
"Just like my hero Dolly Parton, I work “9 to 5” from Monday to Friday, painting at Iwantja Arts, and so on the weekends I like to relax. I put on my favourite music or movies, and I cook soup. I’m famous in my home community of Indulkana for making a delicious soup!’ says Kaylene Whiskey, who lives in Indulkana on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, South Australia."– Kaylene Whiskey, 2023 in reference to her painting 'Cooking my famous Indulkana soup' which is a finalist in the 2023 Archibald Prize.
Image: Kaylene Whiskey, 'Cooking my famous Indulkana soup', 2023, acrylic on linen, 152.2 x 168 cm.
Dhambit Mununggurr - 2023 Wynne Prize Finalist
Congratulations to Dhambit Mununggurr whose bark painting 'Yolngu voice' is a finalist in the Art Gallery of NSW's 2023 Wynne Prize.
This work shows Gunyungarra/Ski Beach, the home of Dhambit Mununggurr, in Melville Bay, North-east Arnhem Land. The community is part of the Gumatj homelands and was established by Mununggurr’s maternal grandfather, Munggurrawuy Yunupingu, when he led a return to Country in the 1970s, away from missionary influence and control. Gunyungarra has a rich history of political action; the community was run by land rights campaigner G Yunupingu, the artist’s uncle, until his recent death.
The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists’.
Image: Dhambit Mununggurr, 'Yolngu voice', 2023, acrylic on bark, 223.5 x 108.5 cm.
Daniel Boyd in 'The National 4: Australian Art Now'
New works by Daniel Boyd are included in 'The National 4: Australian Art Now' at the MCA, curated by Senior Curator, Jane Devery.
In the context of the ongoing Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements, and in 2023, a year when Australians will vote at a referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament for constitutional change to enable greater representation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the amplification of marginalised voices is a concern that resonates with particular urgency.
In 'The National' at the MCA, it finds expression in diverse ways and across diverse media, through projects ranging from Daniel Boyd’s critical reframing of Eurocentric historical narratives that addresses the consequences of colonisation for First Nations peoples; to Nicholas Smith’s gentle assertion of a queer aesthetic in his investigation of masculinity and personal identity; to Isabelle Sully’s sound installation which addresses the under-acknowledged role of women in the history of Australian broadcast media; and in Leuli Eshraghi’s recentring of the global Indigenous diaspora and fa‘afafine-fa‘atane, mahu, queer, trans, and non-binary peoples throughout the Great Ocean.
Image: Installation view, 'The National 4: Australian Art Now' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Photo © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Jenni Carter.
'Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me' at Tate Britain
The UK’s first ever survey exhibition celebrating the influential work of British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien opens at the Tate Britain next Wednesday, 26 April!
'Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me' presents a selection of key works from Julien’s pioneering early films and immersive three-screen videos designed to be experienced in a gallery setting, to the kaleidoscopic, sculptural ten-screen installations for which he is renowned today. Together, they explore how Julien breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines by drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting, and sculpture – this exhibition will be one to remember.
'Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me' is on view at Tate Britain from 26 April – 20 August 2023.
EVENT: Tom Polo in conversation with Emilia Terracciano
Join Stolon Press for a conversation on the afterlife of gardens, with Tom Polo and Emilia Terracciano, at St Peters Town Hall tonight from 6-8pm, and a drink after at the General Gordon Hotel opposite Sydenham Station.
Thursday 30th March, 6-8pm
St Peters Town Hall
39 Unwins Bridge Rd, Sydenham NSW 2044
General Gordon Hotel
20 Swain St, Sydenham NSW 2044
Tom Polo will show phone and family album photos taken in his parent's backyard—a productive and decorative garden in Fairfield—to think aloud about what draws his eye to form and colour, before thoughts or decisions emerge. Polo uses painting and installation to explore how conversation, gesture and emotional exchange can be transformed into recordings of social interaction and the self. His practice is characterised by a distinctive style of abstracted figuration, rendered in bold, expansive fields of colour.
Photo: Tom Polo
Forthcoming from Stolon Press: Il Giardino di Olindo (Olindo’s Garden)
Tom Melick, Anna Polo, Olindo Polo, Tom Polou
Daniel Boyd - George Street Plaza & Community Building
Sydney's George Street Plaza & Community Building, designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye in collaboration with Daniel Boyd is now completed.u2060
u2060The George Street Plaza sits in between cultures. It also sits between moments in time, marking a distinct philosophical shift, especially in Australia, from a period that celebrated the “hero” architect, building, view, to one that seeks to decentralize the architect and their architecture. This new perspective envisages architecture as an opportunity to support shifting and evolving modes of use and experiences, and as just one part of a bigger and ever-changing network. u2060
u2060To connect this profound center with the site’s heritage and origins, Adjaye Associates collaborated with Daniel Boyd on the project’s key feature—a 27x34m perforated canopy that shelters and unites the community building and the plaza under a poetic layer of light and dark, solid, and void.
Daniel Boyd 'RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)' at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Huge congratulations to Daniel Boyd whose solo exhibition 'RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)' opened in Berlin at the prestigious exhibition space the Martin-Gropius-Bau overnight.
Exhibition dates: 24 March – 9 July 2023
'RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)' is the most comprehensive exhibition of Daniel Boyd’s artistic practice in Europe to date. It provides an overview of Boyd’s image-making that counters the colonial narrative of Australia’s history, engages transnational networks of resistance, Indigenous knowledge production and personal family histories, which he reflects in relation to the context and architecture of the Gropius Bau.
As part of the exhibition's public programs, this Saturday 25 March, Daniel Boyd will be in conversation with architect and scholar Michael Mossman, moderated by Stephanie Rosenthal. On Saturday 29 April, Boyd will be joined by artist and curator Asad Raza for Mangrove Sunset, a six-hour dramaturgy of sound, speech and changing light inspired by the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant in the exhibition's atrium.
Julie Rrap in the March issue of Harpers Bazaar Australia
For the March issue of Harpers Bazaar Australia, Julie Rrap spoke with Grace O'Neill about her remarkable four-decade career. Making particular reference to her recent exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Julie discusses the reasoning behind the use of her own body in her practice as well as the ongoing relevance of her feminist-inspired work today.
Mikala Dwyer 'Penelope and the Seahorse' at Chau Chak Wing Museum
Mikala Dwyer’s new aquatic-themed installation, 'Penelope and the Seahorse', is now open at Sydney University's Chau Chak Wing Museum.
'Penelope and the Seahorse' alludes to the hippocampus and its multiple meanings: the genus name for the fragile and now endangered sea-horse; the equine fish in Greek mythology who drew Poseidon’s water chariot; and the structure within the brain often associated with memory and spatial navigation.
Caroline Rothwell in Artist Profile Issue 62
"Born in Yorkshire to an industrial chemist and a 'street botanist', Caroline Rothwell treats artmaking as a playful form of research into the natural world, and our human histories of encounter with it."
For the latest issue of Artist Profile, Caroline Rothwell spoke with Andy Butler ahead of her solo exhibition 'What if we could remember the future' which is on view now at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery through 1 April.
'Isaac Julien: PLAYTIME' at The PalaisPopulaire, Berlin
'Isaac Julien: PLAYTIME' is currently on display at the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin.
On view in Germany for the first time, 'PLAYTIME' is more topical than ever. It is about networking, interconnectedness, and the influence that capital, which eludes any explicit possibility of representation, has on all political, social and societal spheres and thus on the lives of almost everyone on the planet.
In 2013, five years after the world has been convulsed by a global banking and financial crisis, Isaac Julien premiered his film 'PLAYTIME' to address an important question: can capital be rendered visible?
In the current day, the PalaisPopulaire and the Wemhöner Collection have joined forces to shed new light on 'PLAYTIME' from today’s perspective and to testify to the work’s topicality, as capital as a medium plays into almost all political, social and societal issues and influences the lives of nearly every human being on this planet.
Exhibition dates: 8 March – 10 July 2023
Patricia Piccinini: 'Metamorphosis' at Kunsthal in Rotterdam
Patricia Piccinini's incredible solo show Metamorphosis is entering its final week on view at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. Metamorphosis is Piccinini's first solo exhibition in the Netherlands.
Exhibition dates: 25 February – 4 June 2023
With her almost lifelike, alienating sculptures, Piccinini investigates whether it is possible to allow people, nature and technology to exist in harmony. Her fairytale creatures move and evoke empathy for 'the other'. Piccinini uses her art to imagine a possible shared future and asks questions such as: what does it mean to be human? She blurs – with her cyborgs, among other things – the boundary between organic and technological bodies.
Photography: Fred Ernst
Artist Talk: John Wolseley in conversation with Charles Massy
To mark the occasion of his latest solo exhibition 'Regenesis - Slow Water - Deep Earth', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to host John Wolseley in conversation with farmer, agricultural scientist and author Charles Massy.
Saturday, 11 February 2023
11:30 - 1:00pm
As numbers are limited, please register your attendance.
Brook Andrew: 'burbangbuwanha winha-nga-nha (Returned Ceremony of Memory)', at Sharjah Biennial 15
Working in collaboration with cultural practitioners, performers and creative professionals from First Nations Australia, Sharjah and Berlin, Brook Andrew transformed the courtyard of Bait Hassan Abdulla into a ceremonial ground for the Sharjah Biennial 15. Arraying it with colourful ceramic objects in the shape of vessels, furnaces and incense holders, Brook created a space for a performance led by the character MEMORY from his play GABAN. GABAN is a story of the removal and eventual restitution of cultural objects to their Indigenous homelands through poetry and song. The work continues to serve as a space for gathering after the performance. u2060
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Artwork details: Brook Andrew, burbangbuwanha winha-nga-nha (Returned Ceremony of Memory), 2023, performance, ceramics and installation.u2060
Performers: Performers: Aaron Reeder, Sahar Mohdali, Malavika Suresh and Ashraf Awad and the Ayala Ensemble.u2060
Exhibition Openings: John Wolseley and Kaylene Whiskey
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present two new exhibitions from John Wolseley and Kaylene Whiskey.
Opening reception: Friday, 27 January from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 27 January – 25 February 20223
Patricia Piccinini in Ocula Art
In this video interview by @ocula.art, Patricia Piccinini discusses her strategy of winning us over with category-defying creatures that valorise care.
Known for hyper-realistic silicone sculptures of hyper-imaginative creatures, Piccinini is among Australia's greatest living artists. She represented the country at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003, and frequently exhibits at institutions around the globe.
Among her most spectacular undertakings is the creation of hot air balloons called 'Skywhales'—giant imaginary beasts who evolved to live in the atmosphere—and the exhibition 'A Miracle Constantly Repeating', which took place in the long-abandoned ballroom of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station in 2021.
Piccinini invited Ocula Magazine's Sam Gaskin to visit her studio in November 2022, when she was preparing to share new works at Singapore Art Week alongside her exhibition 'We Are Connected' at the city's ArtScience Museum. 'We are Connected' is on view now until 29 January 2023.
Video excerpt filmed and edited by Tov Belling, Pea Shooters Films. Conceived and produced by Sam Gaskin.
Video excerpt courtesy of Ocula @ocula.art
Dale Frank Botanical Gardens Open Day
We are thrilled to share details of the highly anticipated 2023 Dale Frank Botanical Gardens Open Day.
Sunday, 26 March 2023
10am - 3pm
535 Hambledon Hill Road
Singleton NSW
Dale and his team have been working tirelessly for months to relocate entire gardens to ensure their survival after eight years of drought followed multiple flooding events over the last two years. Despite these set back, they have managed to save many beautiful plants and also introduce much more to Dale’s incredible space.
Sir Isaac Julien's Exhibition 'Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass' at Virgina Museum of Fine Arts
Sir Isaac Julien's incredible 10-screen film installation 'Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass' is currently on view at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Exhibition dates: 10 December 2022 – 9 July 2023
The poignant 10-screen meditation on the great 19th-century abolitionist collapses time and space to bridge persistent historical and contemporary challenges of the day. In this profoundly resonating art experience of arresting visuals and sound, internationally renowned London-born artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien brings the historical figure to clear focus for the next generation.
Image: Installation view, Isaac Julien, 'Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass', Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (10 December 2022 – 9 July 2023).
Rosalie Gascoigne Top 10 Sales at Auction in 2022
Rosalie Gascoigne is best known for her distinctive and poetic assemblages of mostly found materials: wood, iron, wire, feathers, and yellow and orange retro-reflective road signs. Gascoigne brought these items from everyday life into new frames of reference, often finding beauty in overlooked things that had been discarded and left to weather.
This incredible assemblage, 'Beaten Track', was created from sawn pieces of wooden Schwepps soft drink crates. Initially shown at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in 1992, this work has gone on to be one of the top 10 sales results at auction in 2022, selling yesterday for $1.04 million (including buyer's fees).
Callum Morton Appointed New Chair of Gertrude
Congratulations to Callum Morton who has been appointed as the new chair of Gertrude.
The Board of Gertrude is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Callum Morton as its new Chair. Morton is Professor of Fine Art at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA) Melbourne and Director of Monash Art Projects. A highly respected and recognised artist, Morton brings to the organisation a rich knowledge of contemporary art and its broader role within Australian culture.
ArtReview's Power 100 list: Brook Andrew and Isaac Julien
Congratulations to Brook Andrew and Isaac Julien who have been named in ArtReview's Power 100 list of the most influential people in 2022 in the contemporary art world.
This is Brook Andrew's fourth consecutive year on the Power 100 list. Brook has been named in 2022 for challenging dominant narratives with Indigenous knowledge systems. Sir Isaac Julien is included for his ambitious film-installations offering constellation-like portraits of historic Black figures.
Bill Henson 'PARIS OPERA' Publication
In 1990 Bill Henson was commissioned by the Paris Opera House to produce a series of photographs inspired by either the music or environment of the opera. In this celebrated series, Henson juxtaposes portraits of the audience with images of brooding landscapes.
Over the course of a year, Henson traveled to the three great opera houses of Paris. On returning to his Melbourne studio, he recreated moments of beauty and tenderness witnessed during performances.
For the first time, all 50 images from this series are brought together as a delicately printed hard back monograph.
Preorder a copy of 'PARIS OPERA' today via Stanley Barker Books.
Del Kathryn Barton and Daniel Boyd in the Good Weekend
52 News Makers of 2022: Good Weekend’s annual list of the Australians making us sit up and take notice this year names both Del Kathryn Barton and Daniel Boyd.
After her hugely successful exhibition at Roslyn Oxley Gallery in May, Del Kathryn Barton made her feature-length directorial debut in the coming-of-age film, 'Blaze', which she also co-wrote. 'Blaze' was selected for international competition in the Tribeca Film Festival and the prestigious Camerimage International Film Festival. With another script in development, Barton recently opened a solo show in Los Angeles and is working on a commissioned portrait of Maggie Beer for the National Portrait Gallery.
It’s been a seminal year for Daniel Boyd. His first major solo exhibition by an Australian public institution opened at the Art Gallery of NSW in June and earlier this month his hugely successful solo show 'Tacit Testudo' opened at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Boyd's works are also on view in Japan at the Okayama Art Summit. Early next year, Boyd’s new public artwork, made from perforated steel, will be suspended 20 metres above the ground at Circular Quay and following this he will present his first comprehensive solo exhibition in Europe at the prestigious Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.
Brook Andrew's 'Hope and Peace' series on display at Penrith Regional Gallery
An incredible exhibition of works by Brook Andrew from his 'Hope and Peace' series are on display at Penrith Regional Gallery until this Sunday, 27 November.
This exhibition considers the role of the artist as both the creator and donor of an artwork to a public collection. Brook Andrew has a longstanding connection to Penrith, having lived in nearby Blackett and attended Cambridge High School. In 1991 Andrew enrolled in Interior Design at the University of Technology Sydney, but after a month transferred to Visual Arts at the University of Western Sydney (now WSU), Nepean Campus. In Their graduating year, 1993, his wall-based text piece piece 'Naraga Yarmble Bungalgaragara' (1993) was awarded the Mary Alice Evatt Prize at Artspace for the best final year artwork in the annual Bachelor of Visual Arts students’ exhibition.
Patricia Piccinini and Brook Andrew at Penrith Regional Gallery
Works by Patricia Piccinini and Brook Andrew are included in '52 ACTIONS' at Penrith Regional Gallery, featuring works from 52 Australian artists and collectives across generations, geographies and cultural backgrounds. Working in a wide variety of mediums, together they highlight the diversity, complexity and dynamism of contemporary Australian art.
Exhibition dates: 27 August - 20 November 2022
'52 ACTIONS' is grounded in art as action. The artists explore and reflect on what art is, what it can do within the gallery and far beyond: art as a political motivator, a cultural transmitter, a means for understanding, a tool for shifting perspectives, holding memory, bridging divides and inciting change. These ideas are intimately connected with the role of the artist, from facilitator to provocateur, creator to witness.
Newell Harry at the 17th Istanbul Biennial
We are delighted to share images of Newell Harry's presentation 'Sul Mare', 2022 at the 17th Istanbul Biennial.
Newell Harry’s artistic practice is rooted in a prodigious kind of foraging for stories, documents, images of things, during his extensive travels and in various activities and collections,
both public and personal. Reflecting on his own diasporic family history, and journeys in the geography increasingly known as the ‘Indo-Pacific’, Harry’s work explores the cultural friction
brought about by migration and the associated complexities of identity, dislocation and myth.
Exhibition dates: 17 September–20 November 2022
EXHIBITION OPENING: Daniel Boyd 'Tacit Testudo'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present Tacit Testudo, an exhibition of new paintings by Daniel Boyd. In this incredible body of new work, acclaimed contemporary artist Daniel Boyd invites us into a space of prismatic reflection where intricately entwined stories of Enlightenment conquests and colonial escapades are brought to life by dappled light and softly obscured images. This soft focus generates windows through which we view the violent impact of the colonial legacy and the ongoing impact of the 18th and 19th century voyages of discovery.
Opening reception: Friday, 18 November from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 18 November – 17 December 2022
Del Kathryn Barton Nominated for Best Direction at 2022 Australian Directors Guild
Huge congratulations to Del Kathryn Barton who has been nominated for Best Direction in a Debut Feature Film at the 2022 Australian Directors Guild for her incredible feature film 'Blaze'.
Starring Simon Baker, Yael Stone, Josh Lawson and introducing Julia Savage as Blaze, the film tells the story of a young teenager who witnesses a violent crime and, struggling to make sense of what she saw, retreats to imaginary worlds to activate her own rage and ultimately find renewal. 'Blaze' is an ode to female courage and a celebration of the power of the imagination.
The 2022 ADG Awards will take place on Thursday, 8 December.
Kirtika Kain at Oyoun Cultural Centre
Works by Kirtika Kain are currently on view at Oyoun Cultural Centre, Berlin as part of the group show ‘Wake Up Calls for my Ancestors’.
Colonial archives in various museums and institutions across Europe generate diverse discourses related to history, memory, archiving, art and the authenticity of the colonized nations. ‘Wake Up Calls for my Ancestors’ is a long-term, critical artistic-archival project that gives an active voice to the silent voices of Dalit and other archived subaltern subjects, appropriated, exhibited, made accessible, edited, and disseminated as mere photographs.
Exhibition dates: 28 October – 15 November 2022.
Kaylene Whiskey at Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery
Kaylene Whiskey's fantastic 'Seven Sistas Sign', 2021 is currently on view at Ngununggula Southern Highlands Regional Gallery as part of the touring exhibition 'Kungka Kunpu'.
Exhibition dates: 22 October – 11 December 2022
Drawn from Art Gallery of South Australia's collection, 'Kungka Kunpu' (Strong Women) showcases major contemporary works by celebrated women artists from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands – cultural custodians of an oral tradition that epitomises the art of storytelling.
Brook Andrew theatre performance 'GABAN' at Art Gallery of NSW
We are thrilled to share news that Brook Andrew's theatre performance 'GABAN' will be included in nine days of art, music, performances, talks and workshops in December to celebrate the opening of the Art Gallery of NSW's new building 'Sydney Modern'.
PERFORMANCE: 'GABAN'
Saturday, 3rd December at 6:00pm
Sunday, 4th December at 6:00pm
A three-channel video installation of 'GABAN' was shown earlier this year at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin in the group exhibition 'YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal'. An incredible exhibition of images derived from the video stills were shown at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in September this year as part of Brook Andrew's solo exhibition 'GABAN: House of Strange'.
John Wolseley in Artist Profile Magazine
“There is something decidedly circulatory about his work – respiratory, even – with each ventifact breathed in and out by the land, riding the ripples of its heartbeat.”– Elli Walsh for Artist Profile
For Issue 61 of Artist Profile, Principal Writer Elli Walsh spoke with the inimitable John Wolseley ahead of his solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery opening in late-January 2023. In her essay, Walsh delves into Wolseley’s collaborations – both with other artists, including Mulkun Wirrpanda, and with nature itself – his childhood and flight from England in 1976, and his extensive library of scientific, philosophical, and poetic texts.
Tracey Moffatt's Site-Specific Installation 'A Haunting'
“‘A Haunting’ is a house with a rhythmic heartbeat and it burns red. It sits campfire-like and honours First Nations peoples on whose land it sits.”– Tracey Moffatt, 2021
Tracey Moffatt’s eerie site-specific installation ‘A Haunting’, situated just outside Armatree in rural New South Wales, has now been burning for 12 months.
‘A Haunting’ takes its form as an abandoned farm house that pulses an ominous red light. Situated on the Castlereagh Highway within Wailwan country, this rundown 1920s house invokes issues around settlement, domesticity, landscape and the worldwide pandemic and is described by Moffatt as a “lighted vigil”. Moffatt has also said that ‘A Haunting’ can be “read like a crime scene”.
Moffatt developed this artwork prior to Sydney’s lockdown when only travel to regional areas was possible. The artist sought to create a work that encouraged people to travel inland rather than to the edges or beyond. Working with the local community to realise the work, the artist’s commitment to its placement within the region will see it displayed for a duration two years. It was produced in collaboration with Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo.
Daniel Boyd included in Phaidon's 'PRIME: ART'S NEXT GENERATION'
Looking at a picture by Daniel Boyd is akin to observing a painted mirror whose contours reflect, refract, and rescind a multitude of histories at different wavelengths. Blotches of colour coalesce into portraits of invented heroes, reanimated scenes of conquest, and intimate depictions of the dispossessed." –Omar Kholeif
Daniel Boyd is included in Phaidon's 'PRIME: ART'S NEXT GENERATION', a stunningly illustrated survey bringing together more than 100 of the most innovative and interesting contemporary artists working across all media and spanning the globe. "These are tomorrow’s art superstars as chosen by the future leaders of the art world: the curators, writers, and academics with their fingers on the pulse of contemporary art and culture."
Brook Andrew at 'uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things' the 2023 Liverpool Biennial
We are thrilled to share news that Brook Andrew will be one of 30 artists and collectives to respond to the theme 'uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things' at the 2023 Liverpool Biennial from 10 June to 17 September next year.
'uMoya' means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind in isiZulu, the language of the Zulu people, who mostly inhabit South Africa. Curator Khanyisile Mbongwa observed that while 'wind often represents the fleeting and transient, the elusive and intangible', it has an enduring legacy in the historic port city.
"The geographical breadth of artists will provide new perspectives on our city that acknowledge its past and continued effects on the world and suggests new modes of repair, freedom and joy," said the Biennial's Director, Sam Lackey.
Bill Henson featured in Issue 1 of 'RUSSH Home'
"When the master of darkness, enigmatic Australian photographer Bill Henson, meets with his tailor, Tom Riley, the cloth they discover is a stimulant for conversation around the physical things in the world – especially how one's imagination navigates just those things. From his home in the inner Melbourne suburb of Northcote, Henson recognises the spirit of place, his deep connect with his garden and the impossibility of Opera."
Issue 01 of 'RUSSH Home' includes an incredible feature on Bill Henson. For the inaugural publication's first issue, Bill spoke with his tailor, Tom Riley, to discuss his abundant garden, his library and his favourite examples of film, cinema and art.
Caroline Rothwell at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Caroline Rothwell is currently installing her fantastic site-specific wall drawing Tessellated (2006) on Level 2 of the MCA Australia.
Tessellated is made from signwriter’s vinyl, an industrial material generally used for promotional signage and displays. Hand-cutting sheets of this vinyl with scalpel, Caroline adheres them to walls in designs such as this, alluding to the intersections of science and nature.
Caroline once worked in the studio of American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, whose hand-drawn wall drawings of arcs, circles, grids and diagonals work on a similarly large scale. LeWitt’s systematic analysis of line as the basic element of drawing resulted in works that were resolutely abstract and non-representational.
Caroline includes elements of this ancestry in Tessellated through the two grid motifs that structure the work’s composition. Overlaid on them is the third, and dominating, element of the work: a depiction of a native Australian plant – the tessellated spider orchid. Like much of Australia’s native flora, this plant depends on a delicately balanced ecosystem and a habitat of complex interrelationships. Once widespread along Australia’s eastern seaboard, the plant is now a rare species – threatened by urban and suburban development.
Destiny Deacon Awarded the 2022 Royal Photographic Society Centenary Medal
Huge congratulations to Destiny Deacon who is the recipient of the 2022 Royal Photographic Society Centenary Medal for her sustained and significant contribution to photography.
Destiny is an Indigenous Australian photographer and media artist who works across photography, video, sculpture, and installation to explore and satirise cliched and racist stereotypes.
The Royal Photographic Society Awards are the world’s longest running and most prestigious photography accolades. Now in its 144th year, the awards recognise individuals working across both still and moving image.
Caroline Rothwell at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Caroline Rothwell's incredible hanging sculpture 'Bird World' is currently on view on Level 2 of the MCA Australia.
Caroline's research-based practice investigates how ideologies and beliefs have shaped contemporary society. In 'Bird World', Rothwell creates an environment at odds with itself, a site in which the natural becomes unnatural. In this world, birds swoop around the suggestion of a tree that hangs suspended from the ceiling rather than rooted in the ground. Instead of the expected elemental substances of feather, wood and leaf, each bird and branch is finished in shimmering silver nickel.
Image: Caroline Rothwell, 'Bird World' (installation view), 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Ferrier Hodgson, 2022. Photograph: Oliver Quirk
Daniel Boyd Featured in Issue 01 of 'RUSSH Home'
Issue 01 of 'RUSSH Home' features Daniel Boyd's incredible painting 'Untitled (GB)', 2015 on the cover.
RUSSH Home is a glimpse inside the spaces and internal worlds of creative minds within our global community who are uninterested in aesthetic conventions. This issue includes a conversation between Daniel Boyd and artist Tony Albert as well as a feature on Bill Henson and his incredible garden.
'Untitled (GB)', 2015 is currently on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in his solo exhibition 'Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island'.
Image: Daniel Boyd, 'Untitled' (GB), 2015, oil, charcoal and archival glue on polyester, 183 x 137.5 cm. Private collection, Sydney. Photography: Ivan Buljan.
Artist Talk: Julie Rrap in conversation with Catharine Lumby
To mark the occasion of her latest solo exhibition The Dust of History, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to host seminal artist Julie Rrap in conversation with academic, author and journalist Catharine Lumby.
Saturday, 29 October
2:00 - 3:00pm
As numbers are limited, please register your attendance via the link.
Artist Talk: James Angus in conversation with Barbara Flynn
To mark the occasion of his latest solo exhibition New Sculpture, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to host James Angus in conversation with curator Barbara Flynn.
Saturday, 22 October
12:00 -1:00pm
As numbers are limited, please register your attendance via the link.
Dale Frank in the Summer Issue of the Australian Financial Review
"Dale Frank’s house is a challenging mix of the old-fashioned and the avant-garde, with the odd stuffed polar bear thrown in."
Take a look inside the incredible homestead of Dale Frank in the summer issue of the AFR's Fin Review.
Located in Hambledon Hill, a farm and former racehorse stud about 20 minutes out of Singleton in the NSW Hunter Valley, the 1860s estate has been transformed by Dale into an otherworldly and unexpectedly regal house attached to a studio and budding botanic garden.
Isaac Julien wins the 2022 Goslarer Kaiserring Award
Huge congratulations to Isaac Julien who was awarded the prestigious Goslarer Kaiserring award for 2022. Julien is honoured for his sensual and poetic visual narratives that break down barriers between different artistic disciplines.
In their justification, the Kaiserring jury wrote about Isaac Julien: “He breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines by drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture and uniting them in a highly sensual visual narrative. Julien’s work deals with important social and human issues of our time – racism, migration, diversity, queerness, homophobia and chauvinism – and encourages us to rethink and explore social responsibility.” Isaac Julien combines pointed political expressiveness with an aesthetic of visual seduction.
The city of Goslar has been awarding the Kaiserring every year since 1975. It consists of an aquamarine set in gold and engraved with the seal of Emperor Henry IV. Former award winners include Joseph Beuys and Christo.
Brook Andrew in Art Collector Magazine
"Brook Andrew seems to thrive with complex, ambitious and challenging creative projects, and over the last few years his interdisciplinary practice has increasingly found meaningful convergence abroad. Today he is an artist of the world...", says Judith Blackall for Issue 102 of Art Collector
In line with his current solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Brook Andrew spoke with curator Judith Blackall about 'GABAN: House of Strange' as well as the inspiration behind this show– his three-channel screen-based artwork 'GABAN' which is currently showing at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin in the group exhibition 'YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal'.
Imants Tillers at Schaeffer Fine Arts Library
An exhibition of works by Imants Tillers and emerging artist Jennifer van Ratingen is now open at Schaeffer Fine Arts Library, located at the University of Sydney’s Camperdown campus.
The exhibition features a new painting by Tillers, alongside a selection of works from his rarely seen “Daily Research” series, working drawings and texts produced over several years. Paired with Tillers work is a new piece by Jennifer van Ratingen.
The Schaeffer Fine Arts Library Residency is a new initiative, funded by a generous gift to the Power Institute. It offers a graduate or final-year undergraduate student from the Sydney College of the Arts the opportunity to be mentored by and exhibit with a practicing contemporary artist, and engage with the rich collections and ethos of the Schaeffer Library.
Exhibition dates: 5 October – 16 November 2022
Fiona Hall 'Exodust—Crying Country' at MONA
"At first, even the air may feel charred. Giant trees cut down, uprooted and burned. Tasmanian manferns (called lakri in palawa language), survivors from before the age of dinosaurs, lie dead in a dried-out forest gully. And yet, as you slowly take a winding path between heaps of black debris, you will hear signs of life still there within the ashy soil. As you look and listen, drawn gradually towards the light to discover artworks within the artwork, there is, perhaps, a chance for renewal and redemption." —Jane Clark, senior research curator at Mona
'Exodust—Crying Country', an exhibition from Fiona Hall and AJ King, is currently on view at Mona until 17 October 2022.
Linda Marrinon's Sculpture 'Woman in Jumpsuit' Installed in NGA Sculpture Garden
Linda Marrinon’s incredible larger-than-life sculpture 'Woman in jumpsuit' is now installed in the NGA's Sculpture Garden as the first commission in the UAP Art Makers x National Gallery commission series.
This sculpture was made possible by Linda Marrinon in collaboration with Urban Art Projects Art Makers, the National Gallery of Australia and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Image: Linda Marrinon, Woman in jumpsuit, 2022, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, Commissioned with the generous support of Art Makers. Image courtesy of Linda Marrinon and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Art Basel Stories: In the studio with Daniel Boyd, the artist recalibrating Australia’s history
Step inside the creative practice of Daniel Boyd as writer Erin Vink visits his Marrickville studio situated in Gadigal and Wangal Country, amidst the labyrinthine corridors of the former General Motors plant.
Installation view of Daniel Boyd’s exhibition ‘Treasure Island’ at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Jenni Carter for the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Daniel Boyd Named AFR Magazine's Cultural Power List for 2022
Huge congratulations to Daniel Boyd who has been named in the AFR Magazine's Cultural Power List for 2022.
The AFR Magazine defines cultural power as the ability to shape Australia’s view of itself, crystallise an overarching issue in any given year, or reflect us back to ourselves.
Daniel Boyd is one of ten named in the Cultural Power List for 2022. Boyd is included alongside the likes of the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney MP; music sensation The Kid Laroi and emerging rapper Baker Boy; recently retired tennis stars Ash Barty and Dylan Alcott; TV entertainer Hamish Blake; and filmmakers Sally Riley and Baz Luhrmann.
Daniel Boyd Exhibition at Okayama Art Summit
'DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY?'
This year's iteration of the Okayama Art Summit includes an incredible collection of works by Daniel Boyd. Held in Okayama City once every three years, the Okayama Art Summit is an international exhibition of contemporary art. With Rirkrit Tiravanija taking the reins as artistic director, the Okayama Art Summit 2022 brings the artistic touch to various historical and cultural sites near Okayama Castle and Okayama Korakuen Garden for two months from September 30 to November 27, 2022.
James Angus in the latest issue of Artist Profile
“The pleasure of experiencing urban sculpture is not simply the forms themselves, but also the way in which they emerge and recede from all the noise of everyday life: public transport, traffic, strangers, graffiti, weather. So, I’m hopeful that the stakes have been raised, even if the audience may be dwindling, for now. Sculpture helps us rejoin the world.”
In the latest issue of Artist Profile, Inga Walton writes on James Angus’s sculptural practice, exploring the place of sculpture in public space and life, the modernist vernaculars that Angus appraises in small and large-scale works, and his preparation for a solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, opening next month. The essay is accompanied by portraits of Angus working at home, taken by the photographer Liz Linden – who is also his wife.
Mikala Dwyer installation 'Chromkinda' at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
Mikala Dwyer's dazzling new immersive installation, 'Chromkinda', opened at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) over the weekend.
Dwyer is the first artist to to exhibit in MAMA's brand new gallery space designed specifically for children and their families. The space is ergonomically designed with modular tables and chairs at different heights for children of various ages.
Inspired by early 20th Century Bauhaus theatre, 'Chromkinda' is a space where children can learn through play and performance. Costumes, moveable sets, curtains and wall paintings will provide a lively space where young people can present their own stories and create plays that enrich their imaginations.
'Chromakinda' will be on display at MAMA until March 2023.
Exhibition Openings: Brook Andrew and Robert Campbell Jnr
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present 'GABAN: House of Strange', an exhibition of new works by Brook Andrew and an exhibition of historic works by the late Robert Campbell Jnr, in the artist's second posthumous exhibition with the gallery.
Opening reception: Friday, 23 September from 6-8pm
Exhibition dates: 23 September – 15 October 2022
Destiny Deacon and Daniel Boyd in Art Guide
A few weeks ago, the local Melbourne council that looks after suburbs from Brunswick to Coburg renamed itself as Merri-bek City Council. The significant decision challenges how slavery was rooted in the previous title Moreland, named after a Jamaican slave estate. It’s also fortuitously heightened by the exhibition Sydney Road Blaks at Counihan Gallery in Brunswick—where Aboriginal, South Sea and Pacific Islander artists make the suburb’s history known.
Curators Kim Kruger, Savanna Kruger and Lisa Hilli reveal the area’s connection to slavery, showing how settler amnesia and denial erases Australia’s role in this. Sydney Road Blaks tells the story of 10 enslaved South Sea Islander men who in 1847 were seen walking down Sydney Road; part of up to 200 other men who were ‘imported’ by Benjamin Boyd, a Scottish entrepreneur and slaver.
Image: Destiny Deacon, Dolly Eyes, 2020. Digital print.
Isaac Julien in The Art Newspaper: An overdue ode to the influence of Black cinema opens in Los Angeles
The numerous Black filmmakers, actors and other professionals who silently shaped the early decades of Hollywood are honoured in the overdue exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. The exhibition’s scope is as broad as its timeframe, featuring clips, archival footage, film equipment, posters, costumes and props across the Renzo Piano-designed museum’s fourth floor.
Bookending the checklist with 1898 and 1971 offers a crucial window to the emergence and rise of American cinema but also points to a critical moment in Black representation, when Blaxploitation films emerged in the mainstream, according to the exhibition curators Doris Berger and Rhea Combs.
“We realised 1971 was a watershed moment before Hollywood took over and started creating these low budget films for Black audiences,” Combs tells The Art Newspaper. The next year saw the release of two important films of this genre: Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song and Shaft by Gordon Parks. Given the indelible legacy of his photojournalism, Parks is less well-known as a director, but the late icon is not the only familiar name for art audiences in the exhibition.
James Angus in VAULT Magazine
"The new sculptures I've been making are all appropriated from a particular branch of geometry that academics would describe as 'triply periodic minimal surfaces'. They are forms that could be conjoined infinitely without any obvious seams. I've selected chunks of these forms and cast them in steel, and they look as if they were severed from a larger structure with an oxy-acetylene torch." –James Angus in Issue 60 of Artist Profile ('James Angus: Re-joining the World' by Inga Walton)
The latest issue of Artist Profile includes a fantastic feature on James Angus ahead of his solo exhibition opening at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in October this year.
Daniel Boyd in Art Guide
For Daniel Boyd, the past isn’t a single story. It’s a source material that changes depending on who’s looking at it, a set of fictions that can be cracked open and remade. The renowned artist, a Kudjala, Ghungalu, Wangerriburra, Wakka Wakka, Gubbi Gubbi, Kuku Yalanji, Yuggera and Bundjalung man with ni-Vanuatu heritage, is best known for shimmering paintings comprising tiny ‘lenses’. This metaphor for how we see, what’s hidden and exposed when we look at an image, also extends to the sculptures and spatial interventions that are increasingly guiding his work.
Boyd works out of a sprawling Marrickville warehouse that hints at the poetics of his practice. Every element speaks to a careful geometry— from the paintings that command each wall, their proportions playing off each other, to the art books carefully displayed in a wooden case. Here Boyd, who’s preparing for his solo Treasure Island at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, speaks about wrestling with the language of representation and challenging his viewers’ perception of the world.
Isaac Julien in The New Yorker: A Black British Artist Asks, "What Was Africa to the Harlem Renaissance?"
Isaac Julien in The New Yorker: 'A Black British Artist Asks, "What Was Africa to the Harlem Renaissance?"
The video artist Isaac Julien and the cultural theorist Kobena Mercer explore “primitive” sculpture and the queering of the New Negro.'
Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Fauset, and others—as America’s first Black literary movement. But, if things had gone differently, he might have left an even deeper mark in the visual arts. Among his greatest unrealized ambitions was to establish a Harlem Museum of African Art, where the next generation of sculptors, painters, photographers, and printmakers could draw inspiration from the continent as they enacted their own transformation of Black American identity. “We must believe that there still slumbers in the blood something which once stirred will react with peculiar emotional intensity toward it,” he wrote in a special issue of Opportunity devoted to African sculpture. “Nothing is more galvanizing than the sense of a cultural past.” –Julian Lucas for The New Yorker, 2022
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'Isaac Julien: Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die)' is on at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through September 4.
Images: Installation view of Isaac Julien, 'Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die)', Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, 2022. Photography: Henrik Kam
Tracey Moffatt 'First Jobs' Series Displayed at Queensland College of Arts
Works from Tracey Moffatt's acclaimed 'First Jobs' series are currently on display at Queensland College of Art as part of
'Persona: 50 Years of Photography at QCA', curated by Henri van Noordenburg, is an exploration of half a century of photographic teaching and learning at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
This exhibition features the work of over twenty-five QCA alumni, including Tracey Moffatt, and will feature a wide range of media. Focusing on works that have a strong personal or autobiographical element, the exhibition serves as a salutation to the past fifty years of Photography at the Queensland College of Art, and a celebration of what’s to come.
Exhibition dates: 1 August – 13 August 2022
Artwork (left): Tracey Moffatt, 'First Jobs, Parking Cars 1981', 2008, archival pigments on rice paper with gel medium, 73.5 x 94.5 cm.
Artwork (right): Tracey Moffatt, 'First Jobs, Canteen 1984',
2008, archival pigments on rice paper with gel medium, 73.5 x 94.5 cm.
Dhambit Munungurr Finalist in the Bark Painting Award at NATSIAA Awards 2022
Congratulations to Yolnu artist Dhambit Munungurr who was a finalist in the Bark Painting Award at the 2022 NATSIA Awards at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin.
'My Father Painting Balana' (2021) is a portrait of the artist's father, Mutitjpuy Munungurr (1932–1993). It captures him painting a very sacred and sensitive area known as Balana. Although the Djapu trace their origin to the Dian'kawu sisters, they rarely paint this topic or place. The first time it was revealed in public was when Mutitjpuy Munungurr entered this bark into the National Aboriginal Art Award (now NATSIAA) in 1990. It won First Prize. This artwork captures him creating it.
Dhambit Munungurr's second solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 'Healing / Dilthan Yolnunha', opens this Friday, 12 August from 6-8pm.
Artwork: Dhambit Munungurr, 'My Father Painting Balana', 2021, synthetic polymer paint on stringybark, 249 x 116 cm.
Kaylene Whiskey in OCULA Magazine
New York gallery Fort Gansevoort has brought the artist alongside Kaylene Whiskey and Tiger Yaltangki—fellow members of the art collective, Iwantja Arts—to the U.S. art scene this summer with a well-received group exhibition.
Namatjira spoke with Ocula Magazine about his powerful portraits that seek to balance humour with the complexities of colonial history.u2060u2060 'There's definitely humour in my work, but there's also a serious side to my paintings—I want to shed light on some untold or overlooked Indigenous stories. Humour helps grab people's attention, but I hope they look a little deeper.'
Image: Kaylene Whiskey, Dolly and Catgirl (2021). Acrylic on linen. 100.965 x 111.76 cm. Exhibition view: Vincent Namatjira, Kaylene Whiskey, and Tiger Yaltangki, Iwantja Rock n Roll, Fort Gansevoort, New York (7 July 2022–20 August 2022). Courtesy Fort Gansevoort.
Kaylene Whiskey at the 2022 Aichi Triennale
We are thrilled to share a first look at Kaylene Whiskey's incredible video work installation at the 2022 Aichi Triennale in Japan.
For this iteration, Aichi Triennale artistic director Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, has titled the exhibition “STILL ALIVE.” While nodding to the ongoing pandemic, the show’s title takes its name from a series by the late Aichi-born artist On Kawara, whose work is also included in the Triennale.
The Aichi Triennale is on view through October 10.
Images and video courtesy of Teruyo Horie.
Dhambit Munungurr in The Monthly
The idiosyncratic work of Yolngu artist Dhambit Mununggurr.
The Yolnu artist Dhambit Munungurr, perched in her wheelchair alongside one of the largest bark paintings I’ve ever seen – a work in steady progress – looks at me with eyes flashing mercurially. Or she would be looking at me if I were there. Instead she’s looking at my digital version, playing out on a phone screen in the northern heat, as I try to ask questions of her from afar. I fear I’ve already put my foot in it. Influence, at least in a Western sense, can be a sensitive subject among tradition-minded Aboriginal artists, and I’ve just suggested that Munungurr, who has only relatively recently begun painting at the local art centre (like most local artists, she previously worked at home), may have received support and guidance from the small group of older women, among them her aunt Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, who were already there. My mistake. Munungurr clutches a cigarette in her right hand, left near-useless by the vehicle accident that almost took her life in 2007, and inhales deeply. “I do whatever I want,” she says emphatically, before pausing to let smoke billow from her nostrils.
Image: Dhambit Mununggurr, Bees at Gangan, 2019, synthetic polymer paint on stringybark, 183 cm x 117 cm
Julie Rrap in VAULT Magazine
For VAULT Magazine's 10th birthday issue, Julie Rrap sat down with Louise Martin-Chew to distill some of her experiences and hopes for the future on the back of her inclusion in the NGA's 'Know My Name' exhibition.
"Julie Rrap's oeuvre, spanning photography, film, performance and installation, is broad; its unifying thread circles around and implicates her body. Its concepts draw from the dynamic political juggernaughts of her era – feminism, activism, politics – but its power is propelled by humour and a potency of ideas." – Louise Martin-Chew
Isaac Julien in Vogue: "At the Barnes Foundation, Isaac Julien Stages a Soaring Ode to Black Creativity"
"Entering Isaac Julien’s newest installation, 'Once Again … (Statues Never Die)', is like entering into a series of questions, each composed in sumptuous, film-like black-and-white video, each projected on five wall-sized screens. The visitor to the exhibition ... stands in the half-circle of views, a panorama of five characters, each moving through museums and art studios, through mansions and nightclubs and landscapes of time. Altogether, it’s a dream that makes a point to not make a point at all, but instead foreground old (but still charged) debates about art and objects, about how people see things or don’t, about the resonances of violence and the power of questions to reposition us. It’s a summer must-see." – Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 29 July 2022
'Isaac Julien: Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die)' is on at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through September 4.
Bill Henson's portrait of Barry Jones to be auctioned
A portrait by Bill Henson of former minister for science Barry Jones will be offered at an auction on 1 August 2022 to raise funds for 'Capital Punishment Justice Project' at an event to mark the centenary of the death penalty being abolished in Queensland in 1922.
Barry Jones is variously known as a former minister for science, a pioneer of talkback radio, and a champion quiz contestant, but it’s his decades-long fight against the death penalty that is being honoured in a new photographic portrait by Bill Henson.
A day-long program at Parliament House in Brisbane on August 1 to commemorate the centenary will include an address by former High Court judge Michael Kirby, discussions about the death penalty, the launch of Jones’s book and the auction of his portrait.
Art After Hours co-produced with Daniel Boyd at AGNSW
Art After Hours celebrates leading contemporary First Nations artist, Daniel Boyd – whose exhibition 'Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island' is on display now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
In this Art After Hours co-produced with Boyd, participate in and be inspired by First Nations-led conversations and art-making, and explore the exhibition until late.
Wednesday, 27 June:
6.30pm: Join Erin Vink, curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, in the Entrance court for an artist talk wit Daniel Boyd. They will discuss the conceptual threads and historical narratives intrinsic to Boyd’s art practice as celebrated across the exhibition.
From 5–6.30pm & 7.15–8.30pm: Watch a live durational artwork unfold, by emerging Bundjalung artist Shaun Daniel Allen. Working with paint and rollers on a large, floor-mounted canvas, Shal will produce a work that draws on rich textures and expressive linework.
The exhibition and events are free to attend, with no bookings required. A free shuttle bus runs every 20mins from 7pm until closing from the Art Gallery to various locations in the city close to public transport.
Daniel Boyd in OCULA Advisory
Daniel Boyd's first major Australian solo exhibition has opened at Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Taking its name from Robert Louis Stevenson's eponymous novel Treasure Island, the show traces two decades of the artist's practice, which engages with Australia's colonial histories.
Born in 1982 in Cairns, Queensland, Boyd graduated in 2005 from the Australian National University's School of Art & Design in Canberra. Since then, he has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, video, installation, and sculpture.
Sharing the same title as the artist's Australian institutional show, Boyd presented painting and multimedia works at Kukje Gallery in Seoul last year, marking his first exhibition in South Korea.
Image: Exhibition view of Daniel Boyd, Treasure Island, Art Gallery of New South Wales (4 June 2022–29 January 2023). Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales. Photo: Jenni Carter.
Dhambit Mununggurr in Art Guide
"Before 1970, no Yolngu women painted on bark or larrakitj in their own right. If we reflect upon the relatively short journey from there to today – and to a world where Mununggurr's iridescent blue works combine ancient lore and 21st century politics – we are reminded, yet again, that Indigenous art is contemporary art, and that the works coming out of the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre are some of the most rich and vital forces in artmaking in Australia today." –Kelly Gellatly, 2022
Issue 138 of Art Guide features a fantastic profile on Dhambit Mununggurr ahead of her second solo exhibition with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, due to open next month.
Gellatly's article includes astute commentary on the unconventional subject matter taken on by the artist. Presenting works such as 'Order' and 'Welcoming the Refugees / Scott Morrison and the Treasurer', Mununggurr's put Yolngu people at the forefront of contemporary Australian politics.
Daniel Boyd in Art Guide
"For Daniel Boyd, the past isn't a single story. It's a source material that changes depending on who's looking at it, a set of fictions that can be cracked open and remade." –Neha Kale, 2022
Issue 138 of Art Guide features a fantastic conversation between Neha Kale and Daniel Boyd, conducted ahead of his solo exhibition 'Daniel Boyd: Treasure Island' which is currently on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Boyd works out of a sprawling Marrickville warehouse that hints at the poetics of his practice. Every element speaks to a careful geometry– from the paintings that command each wall, their proportions playing off each other, to the art books carefully displayed in a wooden case. Within issue 138 of Art Guide, Daniel Boyd speaks about wrestling with the language of representation and challenging his viewers' perception of the world.
Pierre Mukeba in Art Guide
"I want 'Amri Kumi' to be both aesthetically and intellectually beautiful and open to whoever is willing to welcome the work." –Pierre Mukeba, 2022
Issue 101 of Art Collector includes a fantastic profile on Pierre Mukeba ahead of his solo exhibition 'Amri Kumi' opening at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery next month.
Brian Obiri-Asare shares exclusive details of what to expect from Mukeba's second solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery which draws inspiration from the Book of Exodus and adopts a contemporary take on the ten commandments.
Pierre Mukeba's solo exhibition 'Amri Kumi' opens at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery on 12 August 2022.
Tom Polo at Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne
Incredible paintings by Tom Polo are included in ‘Expanded Canvas’, a curated group exhibition at Town Hall Gallery at the Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne.
‘Expanded Canvas’ showcases the ideas and aesthetics that characterise painting practice today, including artworks that reveal the continually evolving nature of the medium when fused with other disciplines and materials.
Visit Town Hall Gallery today from 12-4pm.
Photography by Christian Capurro.
Tate Britain will present a major exhibition 'ISAAC JULIEN' in April 2023
Just announced: Opening in April 2023, Tate Britain will present 'ISAAC JULIEN', a major exhibition revealing the full scope of Sir Isaac Julien’s pioneering work in film and installation from the early 1980s through to the present day.
Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and his video art installations, Sir Isaac Julien is one of the leading artists working in film and video today. The exhibition highlights Julien's critical thinking and the way his work breaks down barriers between different artistic disciplines, drawing from film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture by utilising the themes of desire, history and culture.
The exhibition will present works from early films to large-scale, multi-screen installations which investigate the movement of peoples across different continents, times and spaces. Isaac Julien’s work across forty years will be presented for the first time in the UK.
Image: Isaac Julien, 'The Lady of the Lake (Lessons of the Hour)', 2019.
Tracey Moffatt at Ngununggula Gallery, Bowral
Tracey Moffatt's fantastic 2008 video work 'REVOLUTION', edited by Gary Hillberg, is currently on view at Ngununggula, the Southern Highlands' recently opened regional art gallery in Bowral.
'REVOLUTION' is pictured here with textile works by Abdul Abdullah in the foreground within the exhibition titled 'Lands Abounds', which also features works by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah.
View 'Lands Abounds' at Ngununggula through 24 July 2022.
Image courtesy of Ngununggula Gallery. Photography: Zan Wimberley
Fiona Hall and AJ King's joint installation 'EXODUST—CRYING COUNTRY' at Mona
Fiona Hall and AJ King's joint installation 'EXODUST—CRYING COUNTRY' is now open at the Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart in line with Dark Mofo 2022.
'Last year, Fiona Hall turned her Dark Mofo exhibition space over to AJ King, a Bigambul / Wakka Wakka cultural practitioner, and many other Aboriginal collaborators. Together they all built a bark Pakana cremation hut, after AJ told Fiona about one the French had observed in the 1790s at laylatiya / Recherche Bay, far south from here.
Now, at Mona, Fiona and AJ have teamed up again. A large timber hut—scorched inside and out—stands amid a scene of devastation: a blasted landscape, reminiscent of a fire-bombed logging coupe; blackened, charred, nature’s demise.'
'Exodust' includes Hall’s meticulous tin sculptures of decimated trees and penises, and the evolving work Crumb: An Atlas of Ruins of our Time, for which the multitalented sculptor cuts scenes of global tragedy into loaves of bread (Ukraine is still a work in progress, she says).
'EXODUST—CRYING COUNTRY' is on view until 17 October 2022.
Destiny Deacon awarded the First Nations Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement
Huge congratulations to Destiny Deacon who was recently awarded the First Nations Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in the 2022 First Nations Arts Awards, alongside Bangarra’s Artistic Director, Stephen Page.
The First Nations Arts Awards are held each year on May 27, marking the anniversary of the 1967 referendum and the start of National Reconciliation Week.
Deacon's work covers performative photography, Indigenous identity with provocative and humorous imagery that mocks and satirises clichéd and racist stereotypes. The Kuku and Erub/Mer artist, based in Melbourne, has broken many boundaries in the visual arts world – often in partnership with the late Virginia Fraser – culminating in her 2020 solo retrospective, ‘Destiny‘ at the NGV in 2020.
Del Kathryn Barton 'Blaze' at Sydney Film Festival
Del Kathryn Barton's extraordinary debut feature film 'Blaze' will be screening this month in the exclusive Official Competition at Sydney Film Festival, fresh from its international premiere tonight at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.
In 2022, the Official Competition celebrates 13 years of awarding the prestigious Sydney Film Prize to each year’s most “audacious, cutting-edge and courageous” film.
In 'Blaze', "the coming of age genre gets reimagined in this astonishing drama about a family in crisis. Simon Baker stars as the attentive single father of twelve-year-old Blaze (played by Julia Savage), who goes off the rails after experiencing trauma." –Lucy Mukerjee, Senior Programmer, Tribeca Film Festival
'Blaze' will screen at the State Theatre on Friday 17 June and Saturday 18 June and at Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace on Sunday 19 June as part of Sydney Film Festival. Join Barton in 'The Hub' at 1:45pm following the Saturday screening as she discuss the film.
Image credit: Daniel Boud.
Major acquisition of Fiona Hall sculptures by QAGOMA
We are incredibly proud to share news of QAGOMA's major acquisition of two series' of intricate and enthralling low-relief sculptures by artist Fiona Hall AO.
Fiona Hall's 'Australian Set' (1998-99) and 'Sri Lankan Set' (1999) (from 'Paradisus Terrestris' series) have been acquired through funds from The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Charitable Trusts, alongside two large-scale works by internationally renowned artists Olafur Eliasson and Tacita Dean CBE.
The series title ‘Paradisus Terrestris’ (‘Paradise of the Earth’) is the collective name for a body of work that occupied Hall for ten years from 1989.4 The sculptures acquired through the Trust are the third and fourth iterations in the series: the Australian set addresses debates around native title; while the Sri Lankan set alludes to the civil war that afflicted Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009.
Visit Queensland Art Gallery this weekend to view Hall’s series of intricate sculptures, currently on display in Gallery 12 of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Galleries.
Copper Wire Weaves and Spirals into Organic Sculptural Forms by the Late Artist Bronwyn Oliver
Widely regarded as one of the most renowned sculptors in Australia, the late artist Bronwyn Oliver possessed an unparalleled ability to shape thin copper wire into intricate patterns. Her sculptures of ammonites, palm leaves, and single buds are minimal in form and incredibly detailed in construction, with oscillating lines delineating the edge of a fossil or an elaborate web expanding into a plump cherry blossom.
Evidence of Oliver’s devoted and time-consuming practice, the pieces are the result of intense twisting and brazing, a higher-temperature version of soldering. “My sculpture, I like to think of them as the bones of something. It might only be bone, but it might be the beginning or ending of something as well,” the artist says in a clip from the recent documentary about her life and work, The Shadows Within—the trailer is available on YouTube, but the full documentary is only streaming in Australia at the moment.
Oliver has gained greater recognition in recent years and is included in the corrective exhibition held at The National Gallery of Australia. Know My Name, which runs through June 26, showcases works from dozens of women who’ve significantly contributed to the country’s culture. Oliver’s sculptures are housed in major Australian collections, including those at The National Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the National Gallery of Victoria, and her public pieces can be seen at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden, the University of New South Wales, and Queen Street Mall in Brisbane.
Image: “Globe” (2002), copper, 2.5 meters in diameter
David Noonan in Art Guide
The ‘stage art’ of David Noonan is back in Australia.
Highly stylised European-centric and Japanese theatre have long influenced Ballarat-born artist David Noonan’s film, collage and sculpture making, in which his figures are often presented in liminal states, positioned somewhere between lacking self-consciousness and performing for display.
Despite basing himself since 2005 in London, one of the great theatre cities in the world, Noonan rarely sees contemporary stage productions, instead naming long by gone productions of expat Melbourne opera director Barrie Kosky, as well as opera based on American composer Philip Glass’s music, as formative artistic provocations.
Moving between representation and abstraction, Noonan’s art relies more on his memories of such theatre artists’ mise-en-scéne: “I don’t know whether the [avant-garde] theatre I’m interested in is really available any more,” he says during a short visit to Australia to unveil his latest exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art. “I’m not that interested in conventional theatre; it’s more the aesthetics of it. In the 1960s and 70s, there was a period of amazing experimentation, particularly in set design. The imagery left over from such theatre has a science fiction quality, constructing a world that exists outside our own: props and a DIY construction environment.”
Image: David Noonan, Mnemosyne, 2021, installation view, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2022. Photography by Christian Capurro. Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London.
Brook Andrew, Destiny Deacon, Isaac Julien, and Tracey Moffatt selected for 2023 Sharjah Biennial
Huge congratulations to Brook Andrew, Destiny Deacon, Isaac Julien, and Tracey Moffatt who have been selected to participate in the 2023 iteration of the Sharjah Biennial.
Sharjah Biennial 15: 'Thinking Historically in the Present' will feature works by more than 150 artists, including never-before-seen works and 30 major commissions, presented at 16 venues across the emirate.
Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by the Foundation’s Director Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15) reflects on Enwezor’s visionary work, which transformed contemporary art and has influenced the evolution of institutions and biennials around the world, including the Sharjah Biennial. The Biennial is being realised with the support of the Sharjah Biennial 15 Working Group and Advisory Committee.
SB15 runs from 7 February to 11 June 2023, with the opening week events scheduled from 7 to 12 February 2023.
Patricia Piccinini in ABC News
Adelaide residents were treated to some unusual visitors floating over the city this morning.
The renowned hot air balloon Skywhale was inflated above the River Torrens, along with newly created partner Skywhalepapa and babies, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The 10-storey papa was launched last year and cradles several baby whales in its fins. It was the first time both parents — described by the event's organisers as a "strange and wonderful pair of Leviathans" — have appeared together in Adelaide.
"It is just glorious," co-artistic director Rachel Healy said.
"Of course we'd seen the photographs but nothing can prepare you for their scale, their beauty, for the sense of connection that you feel.
"It's just one of those extraordinary moments, a festival morning like no other."
The Skywhales' creator, contemporary artist Patricia Piccinini, said the exhibit aimed to get audiences talking and thinking.
"It's been literally euphoric," she said.
"It's a wonderful moment to come together to think about things that we're really interested in, like care and like nature — especially now that we're in the middle of a climate crisis."
Daniel Boyd in 'Experimenta Life Form: International Triennial of Media Art'
Daniel Boyd's fantastic video installation 'History is Made at Night', 2013 is included in the 2021 iteration of 'Experimenta Life Form: International Triennial of Media Art'.
'Experimenta Life Forms' reveals how contemporary artists are exploring notions of life, at a time when technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down.
This touring exhibition features a diversity of artforms including robotics, bio-art, screen-based works, installations, participatory and generative art. The exhibition showcases 20 artworks by 26 leading Australian and international artists.
'Experimenta Life Forms' will be touring regional cities across Australia, starting today at The Lock-Up in Newcastle. It will then travel to Murwillumbah, Townsville, Dubbo, Mount Gambier, Albury, Armidale, and Hobart. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience some great Media Art if you outside of metropolitan cities in Australia.
Image: Installation view, Daniel Boyd, 'History is Made at Night', 2013, two channel video with audio, 10:21 min (looped).
Photo: Ben Adams
The Guardian: Edinburgh Art Festival review
Isaac Julien’s ambitious 10-screen installation Lessons of the Hour at National Galleries Scotland explores the life and triumphs of American abolitionist, freed slave, and the most photographed man of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass...
Sarah Contos – Waverley Artist Studios Residency
We are thrilled to share news that Sarah Contos has been named as one of five artists selected to occupy a year-long residency at Waverley Artist Studios.
Waverley Artist Studios provide a studio space for twelve months in Bondi to develop new work. Contos will be involved in an open studio event in the second last month of her residency to showcase the works she produced in that time.
Kaylene Whiskey – 2022 Melbourne Art Foundation Commission
We are delighted to announce that Kaylene Whiskey has been awarded the 2022 Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, in partnership with ACMI.
Whiskey's strong connection to Indulkana, the remote Indigenous community upon which she lives, and her Yankunytjatjara heritage will be the foundation of a new single channel video work, responding to ‘Djeembana/Place’ – the theme of the artistic program of the 2022 Melbourne Art Fair.
Image: Kaylene Whiskey in her studio on the APY Lands.
Isaac Julien in the 2021 Edinburgh Art Festival
In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival, the UK and European premiere of Isaac Julien’s ‘Lessons of the Hour’ will be a highlight of the 2021 Edinburgh Art Festival program displayed at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) from today.
The major ten-screen installation reflects on the life and times of visionary African American, writer, and prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Douglass spent two years in Edinburgh in the 1840s campaigning across Scotland, England, and Ireland for freedom and social justice.
Isaac Julien – Piccadilly Art Takeover
Congratulations to Isaac Julien who was selected by the Royal Academy of Arts as one of five artists to transform London's Piccadilly Circus into a 'gallery without walls'.
The Piccadilly Art Takeover is a partnership between the Royal Academy of Arts and Art of London, along with Westminster City Council and the Mayor of London.
The installation will be on display through to 31 August as part of Art of London’s summer season.
Julien will be showing 'Lessons of the Hour' as a 30-minute film on Piccadilly Lights next month as part of the Royal Academy's take over of Piccadilly Circus. This will coincide with a 10 ten-screen installation of 'Lessons of the Hour', opening in Edinburgh next week as part of the Edinburgh Arts Festival.
Pictured: Isaac Julien (center) with artists Michael Armitage and Vanessa Jackson in front of part of the installation.
Louise Hearman in 'Archie 100'
This week we will be sharing some of the fantastic portraits included in 'Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
'Archie 100' unearths fascinating stories behind more than 100 artworks carefully selected from every decade. It reflects not just how artistic styles and approaches to portraiture have changed over time but, importantly, the changing face of our nation.
Today we share Louise Hearman's 2016 Archibald Prize winning portrait of Barry Humphries (1934-).
Louise Hearman is known for her dark, evocative and enigmatic paintings. Her portrait of performer Barry Humphries, who has been the subject of seven Archibald finalists, was the artist’s first foray in the prize. When she learned of her win, she declared:
"… the best thing about the Archibald Prize, really, is that it gets all artists in the public eye. Today is the one day each year artists eclipse sportsmen in the news!"
Del Kathryn Barton in 'Archie 100'
This week we will be sharing some of the fantastic portraits included in 'Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
'Archie 100' unearths fascinating stories behind more than 100 artworks carefully selected from every decade. It reflects not just how artistic styles and approaches to portraiture have changed over time but, importantly, the changing face of our nation.
Today we share Del Kathryn Barton's celebrated portrait of actress Cate Blanchett with her three children, titled 'Mother (a portrait of Cate)'.
Motherhood is a prominent theme in Del Kathryn Barton’s highly individual work, and she is acutely aware of the oftentimes competing and demanding dual roles of being an artist and mother. Cate Blanchett (born 1969) is one of the most internationally renowned and successful Australian women working in the arts today. Recognised for her multi-award-winning film, television and stage work, at the time this portrait was painted Blanchett was co-artistic director of Sydney Theatre Company, a role she held for six years.
In 2013, Barton became one of two women to have won the Archibald Prize twice, joining Judy Cassab, who won in 1960 and 1966. Barton won in 2013 with a portrait of actor Hugo Weaving, and in 2008 with a self-portrait including her children.
Robert Campbell Jnr in 'Archie 100'
This week we will be sharing some of the fantastic portraits included in 'Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
'Archie 100' unearths fascinating stories behind more than 100 artworks carefully selected from every decade. It reflects not just how artistic styles and approaches to portraiture have changed over time but, importantly, the changing face of our nation.
Today we share Robert Campbell Junior’s vivid portrait of fellow Dunghutti/Ngaku man Malcolm ‘Mac’ Silva from the 1989 Archibald Prize. Silva was the drummer and lead singer of bands Silva Linings and Black Lace.
Robert Campbell Junior was primarily a self-taught painter who emerged during the 1980s as an extremely important Indigenous artist. Campbell’s striking, dynamic paintings are based on the patterning, colours and stylistic conventions of traditional Ngaku designs. They tell the story of his Ngaku people, entwined with the politics surrounding Aboriginal rights at that time.
Mikala Dwyer in Art Collector
"Esoteric yet direct, playful yet considered, the practice of Mikala Dwyer flits between fantasy and reality with a delightful yet unnerving oddity." –Edward Colless, Art Collector, Issue 97
The July–September Issue of Art Collector, 'The Under 5K Issue', features an excellent Artist Profile on Mikala Dwyer, with words by Edward Colless.
Dwyer's solo show 'Bird' will open online at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery on Thursday, 29 July.
Kaylene Whiskey in Illuminate Adelaide
Kaylene Whiskey’s fantastic works will be projected onto the heritage façade of the Institute Building in Adelaide city as part of Illuminate Adelaide. Paintings such as 'Anangu Kungka and London Lady' will be brought to life in animations the artist has produced in collaboration with Jackson Lee.
In the APY Lands community of Indulkana, Whiskey grew up surrounded by the Tjukurpa (cultural stories) and inma (ceremonial song/dance) taught by her Elders, and the super-heroines and superstars on the TV and radio.
Today, Whiskey’s art draws on that rich and eclectic set of influences to remix celebrity culture and remote community life, as pop idols like Tina Turner, Dolly Parton and Wonder Woman are dropped into the red dirt and blue skies of Central Australia.
Fri 16 July - Sun 01 August
Nightly 6pm - 11pm
Mikala Dwyer in art Two of 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now' at the NGA
We are thrilled that Mikala Dwyer's fantastic sculptural work 'The Silvering' is included in Part Two of 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now' at the National Gallery of Australia.
'The Silvering', a sculpture assembled out of more than 200 balloons filled with helium, is one of the largest pieces in Part Two and was recently acquired by the NGA.
"Artistic precursors of 'The Silvering' include the junky silver walls of Andy Warhol’s Factory and the space-age aesthetic of 1960s design.
The work’s most profound influence, however, is the artist’s mother, the modernist jeweller Dorothy Dwyer, who worked with sterling silver."
Dwyer will have her 5th solo exhibition, titled 'Bird', at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery later this month.
Limited-edition prints by John Wolseley
Coinciding with a major presentation of his work in 'The National 2021: New Australian Art', a series of limited-edition prints by John Wolseley are available to purchase in-store and online via the MCA.
These prints are unique and reveal the hand of the artist, who has hand-painted in watercolour onto each work. To make the series, Wolseley has used various printmaking techniques such as woodcut, etching and chine-collé, a technique used in conjunction with printmaking processes such as etching or lithography, that results in a two-layered paper support.
Pierre Mukeba in Art Almanac
"With remarkable skill and sensitivity, the art of Pierre Mukeba brings an original and powerful voice to contemporary art in Australia that expresses the heartbreak and hope, pain and healing of new immigrants from a war-torn land." –Victoria Hynes, Art Almanac, 2021
We are thrilled that Pierre Mukeba is featured in the July issue of Art Almanac, with a text by Victoria Hynes.
The artist's solo exhibition, 'Black Emotion' runs at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until 17 July. Following the latest advice from the NSW Government, the gallery is currently closed to the public.
Julie Rrap – Successful Applicant – New Dimensions: NSW Visual Arts (Established)' Fellowship
Congratulations to Julie Rrap, who is one of five successful artists in the NSW Government's Fellowship program.
The 'New Dimensions: NSW Visual Arts (Established)' Fellowship will offer Julie Rrap financial support from Create NSW aim to help artist focus on a self-directed professional development program, to undertake an additional project or acquisition commission from the MCA. This marks the third year of a partnership between Create NSW and MCA for the 'New Dimensions: NSW Visual Arts (Established)' Fellowship.
Image: Jacquie Manning
COVID-19 Update
Following the latest advice from the New South Wales Government, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery will be open by appointment only from Saturday 26 June, 2021.
We invite you to stay connected with our artists and our continuing program by exploring past, current and upcoming exhibitions on our website and Instagram.
In the meantime, don't hesitate to get into contact with us via email at [email protected].
We hope you stay safe and well, and look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery again soon.