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...
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
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.
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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.
Caroline Rothwell at Hazelhurst Arts Centre opens today
A new installation exploring the intersection of art and science by Caroline Rothwell opens today at Hazelhurst Art Centre.
'Horizon' encompasses a tableau of surreal sculptures and video works that invite viewers to consider their relationship with the natural environment.
Visitors to the gallery are invited to explore the Hazelhurst gardens and create their own hybrid 'morphed' plants as part of Rothwell's 'Infinite Herbarium' digital program created in collaboration with Google Creative Lab. 'Infinite Herbarium' is currently on view at the MCA as part of 'The National' and at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
'Horizon' will be on view until 5 September 2021.
Tracey Moffatt in Tate's 'A Year in Art: Australia 1992'
A Year in Art: Australia 1992 brings together works by Australian artists to examine debates around land rights and the ongoing legacies of colonialism.
This exhibition features artworks made before and after 1992 that explore the continuing relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have with their lands. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not state that the land ‘belongs’ to them in a Western sense of ownership.
The land is not seen as something to be purchased or divided, but rather a living entity that is the basis for and sustains cultural existence. This includes language, lore, family and identity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a reciprocal, custodial relationship with Country, with the knowledge and responsibility to care for their lands. This is referred to as connection to Country.
'The Other Portrait' featuring Julie Rrap
For Sydney artists Cherine Fahd and Julie Rrap capturing a likeness is merely at the surface of what working with portraiture offers. In curating The Other Portrait, these two artists pursue deeper questions about the transmission of self-image across the gulfs between people.
Mikala Dwyer at Melbourne's Gertrude Glasshouse
Originally due to open on the eve of Melbourne’s latest lockdown, Mikala Dwyer's Ode to 'O'O at Gertrude Glasshouse is now open to the public.
Ode to 'O'O will be on view until Saturday, 10 July.
Join Mikala Dwyer in conversation with Gertrude Artistic Director Mark Feary on the final day of the exhibition.
Image: Ode to 'O'O, installation detail, Gertrude Glasshouse.
[Image description: Aerial view of a bird bath containing water and coins. Green and blue fluorescent lights reflect on the surface of the water.]
National Indigenous Times: 'Story of the stars shines the brightest'
The highly anticipated 2021 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes have been announced in Sydney, with Yolngu painter Nyapanyapa Yunupingu winning the Wynne Prize for her painting Garak — night sky.
Julie Rrap's 'Double Eclipse' at Dark Mofo in Hobart
Julie Rrap's 2015 fantastic video work 'Double Eclipse' looked over guests at Dark Mofo, Mona's midwinter festival in Tasmania, over the weekend.
Taking place from 16-20 June across Hobart, Dark Mofo delves into centuries-old winter solstice rituals, exploring the links between ancient and contemporary mythology, humans and nature, religious and secular traditions, darkness and light, and birth, death and renewal.
David Noonan's 'Stagecraft' Catalogue: Best in Show
We are thrilled that the exhibition catalogue for David Noonan's solo show 'Stagecraft' at the Art Gallery of Ballarat has won the Best in Show and Best Small Catalogue at the 2021 Museums Australasia Publication and Design Awards (MAPDA).
Marley Dawson in the Washington Post
Marley Dawson and the Phillips Collection operate on different planes. The museum is known for paintings that are hushed, serene and even transcendental; Dawson makes metal sculptures that spin, pivot and occasionally spit fire. But the Australian conceptual sculptor and the Washington museum meet in midair, like high-wire acrobats from disparate troupes, for 'Ghosts'. It’s the latest instalment in “Intersections,” a series in which contemporary artists respond to the Phillips’s art.
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu - WINNER of the 2021 Wynne Prize
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Nyapanyapa Yunupingu who is the WINNER of the 2021 Wynne Prize with her fantastic painting 'Garak – night sky' (2020).
"Djulpan, the Seven Sisters, are one of the first creations. They left the ancestral elders Nyiwuu1e49ba and Rranyirranyi at the islands called Djakapurra, Gurrarri, Nalkuma, Dhakalu014ba, Bandayu014ba, u014aarrayarri and Wärru. They paddled until they arrived at Nanydjaka (Cape Arnhem). There they rested for some time to gather their strength, then set off again along the coast, passing the Gumatj lands near Manydjarrarru014ba (Daliwuy Bay). They travelled past the Dhuwa lands, Bariu014burawuy and u014aumuwuy (Turtle Beach), and landed at Gärriri (the Yirritja side of the creek at Rocky Bay). They paddled up the beach called Dhuraka (Rocky Bay) and this is where the Djulpan ended their journey." – Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, 2021
'Garak – night sky' (2020) was included in Yunupingu's solo exhibition 'The Little Things' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in January of this year.
Yunupingu has been represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 2008.
Artwork details: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, 'Gärak - Night Sky', 2020, natural earth pigments on board, 244 x 244 cm.
A Constructed World performance at Carriageworks
EVENT: Glenn Thompson and Cassandra Bird will return to sing at A Constructed World's installation ‘Partition #13, Ass Assembly / Assemblée des culs’ today at 11:30am at Carriageworks.
Drawing from songs as before by Custard, Kurt Weill, John Lee Hooker and Michael Hutchence, amongst others, Glenn and Cassandra will add a new number to their performance.
Glenn Thompson is member of iconic Australian rock band Custard, and also Exhibition Manager at Carriageworks. Cassandra Bird is Associate Director at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Image: A Constructed World, ‘Partition #13, Ass Assembly / Assemblée des culs’, 2017-21. Installation view ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’, Carriageworks.
POSTPONED: Patricia Piccinini's exhibition 'A Miracle Constantly Repeated'
Unfortunately due to the lockdown in Melbourne, Patricia Piccinini's landmark exhibition 'A Miracle Constantly Repeated' will remain closed until after the Queen's Birthday weekend, with plans to reopen Tuesday 15 June.
In the meantime, we are thrilled to share images of Piccinini's first extensive hometown show in almost two decades, situated in Melbourne's Flinders Street Station Ballroom.
After holding Melbourne’s imagination for decades, the mysterious ballroom above Flinders Street Station (and its surrounding hidden rooms) have transformed into an eco-system of hyper-real silicone sculptures, video, sound and light devised by Piccinini.
'A Miracle Constantly Repeated' forms part of 'RISING', a major cultural event created by a diverse team of local, national and international artists and curators.
Images courtesy of Bri Hammond for The Design Files.
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu finalist in the 2021 Wynne Prize
We are thrilled to share Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's fantastic painting 'Garak – night sky' (2020) which is a finalist in the 2021 Wynne Prize.
"Djulpan, the Seven Sisters, are one of the first creations. They left the ancestral elders Nyiwuu1e49ba and Rranyirranyi at the islands called Djakapurra, Gurrarri, Nalkuma, Dhakalu014ba, Bandayu014ba, u014aarrayarri and Wärru. They paddled until they arrived at Nanydjaka (Cape Arnhem). There they rested for some time to gather their strength, then set off again along the coast, passing the Gumatj lands near Manydjarrarru014ba (Daliwuy Bay). They travelled past the Dhuwa lands, Bariu014burawuy and u014aumuwuy (Turtle Beach), and landed at Gärriri (the Yirritja side of the creek at Rocky Bay). They paddled up the beach called Dhuraka (Rocky Bay) and this is where the Djulpan ended their journey." – Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, 2021
Image: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, 'Gärak - Night Sky', 2020, natural earth pigments on board, 244 x 244 cm.
Tom Polo finalist in the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize
We are thrilled to share Tom Polo's fantastic painting 'the embrace (every other way around)' (2021) which is a finalist in the 2021 Sir John Sulman Prize.
"In my paintings, I’m interested in the emotional and physical space between people and their relationships to one another.
In 'the embrace (every other way around)', two faces are engaged in a stare-off, whilst an oversized pink hand appears to draw one figure closer to the other. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to depict intimacy, particularly after the last year where our proximity to one another has been largely restricted or confined.
Thin washes of dark colour act as veils or barriers, creating a space that is both layered yet shallow. These layers contain fragments of text – often my own musings or things overheard – extending ideas of what is hidden and what is revealed." – Tom Polo, 2021
Image: Tom Polo, 'the embrace (every other way around)', 2021, acrylic and Flashe on canvas, 198 x 213 cm.
Patricia Piccinini's Flinders Street Station Ballroom Commission
NOW OPEN: Patricia Piccinini's landmark exhibition 'A Miracle Constantly Repeated' opens to the public today from Melbourne's Flinders Street Station Ballroom.
After holding Melbourne’s imagination for decades, the mysterious ballroom above Flinders Street Station (and its surrounding hidden rooms) open today to become an eco-system of hyper-real silicone sculptures, video, sound and light devised by Patricia Piccinini.
For her first extensive hometown show in almost two decades, Piccinini has augmented the ballroom’s architecture with enormous dioramas, sentient saplings, nurturing marine mammals and enormous life-sustaining foliage.
'A Miracle Constantly Repeated' forms part of 'RISING', a major cultural event created by a diverse team of local, national and international artists and curators.
Due to overwhelming demand, 'A Miracle Constantly Repeated' has been extended until 31 August.
Mikala Dwyer’s new public art commission 'Apparition'
Mikala Dwyer’s new temporary public art commission, 'Apparition', can be seen after dark at University Square in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton.
Activated after dark, 'Apparition' responds to University Square as a space in flux, suspended between stages of landscape redevelopment for the Metro Tunnel project. This temporary public artwork was developed through a long-term engagement with the site, beginning with a two-week intensive that focused on the contested public realm.
Dwyer is interested in the sensibility and mythology of objects and spaces, including the irrational and the repressed. For Apparition, she was inspired by a population of possums that inhabits the mature elm trees at the heart of the square.
Dwyer worked with animator Gina Moore to create a giant holographic possum, which haunts the square’s northern plaza at night.
'Apparition' was commissioned by the City of Melbourne in collaboration with RMIT University.
Dwyer will have her 5th solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery this July.
'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now' featuring Mikala Dwyer, Louise Hearman, Caroline Rothwell, and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu
We are thrilled to announce the inclusion of Mikala Dwyer, Louise Hearman, Caroline Rothwell, and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu in Part Two of 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now' at the National Gallery of Australia.
With part two of the exhibition, 'Know My Name' will continue its evolution as one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of art by women ever assembled in Australia.
Mainly drawn from the national collection, 'Know My Name' continues to propose alternative histories, challenge stereotypes, and celebrate the achievements of more than 250 artists.
Co-curators of the exhibition Dr Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt emphasise that this is still an exhibition – and a broader conversation – that we need to have in Australia.
The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, 12 June.
Daniel Boyd's 'For Our Country' in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
We are delighted that Daniel Boyd's fantastic War Memorial Commission 'For Our Country' is included as part of 'Inbetween' the Australian Exhibit at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Curated by Creative Directors Jefa Greenaway and Tristan Wong, 'Inbetween' presents a collection of architectural projects and processes selected for their powerful representation of Indigenous and First Nations peoples and cultures; projects that enable cross cultural exchange and highlight the value of Indigenous knowledge for improving the built environment.
Premiering last night, 'Inbetween' will be exhibited this year throughout Australia, across the Pacific region and more broadly, as well as online.
'For Our Country' is the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial, designed in collaboration with Edition Office.
Mikala Dwyer featured in Issue 55 of Artist Profile
"Magic and the modern rarely match. Working across the vocabularies of hard-edged abstraction and sculptural 'excess', Mikala Dwyer brings these historical forces to bear on each other, as she faces both weirdness of the present and the ghosts of the future." - Erin McFadyen
Installation artist Mikala Dwyer is currently featured in a fantastic profile in Issue 55 of Artist Profile.
Dwyer will have her 5th solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery this July.
Marley Dawson's sculptural exhibition now open at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC.
We are thrilled to share 'ghosts', a sculptural exhibition now open at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC.
Inspired by the dramatic architecture of the Phillips’s Goh Annex stairway, Marley Dawson has created two kinetic sculptures that accentuate its spiral configuration.
The first group is comprised of brass chairs—five suspended from the Annex dome at different heights and floating at different axis points, and two seated on the landings and set in motion via mechanised shafts.
Dawson’s other piece is a wall-mounted sculpture consisting of hundred of brass rods arranged on a brass track to allow movement. It speaks to Morris Louis’s painting Number 182, scaled to Dawson’s height. A small motor within the work oscillates the rods, giving them a sway and hum that echo the shimmering radiance of Louis’s painting.
'ghosts' forms part of 'Intersections' at the Phillips Collection, a series of contemporary art projects that explores—as the title suggests—the intriguing intersections between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and museum spaces and artistic interventions.
Dawson will have his sixth solo show at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery this July.
Caroline Rothwell winner of the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize
Congratulations to Caroline Rothwell who won the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize with her painting 'Vault' (2020) last night.
The Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize is an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. It is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia.
'Vault' interrogates the seduction of the 19th-century Wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities), where specimens and artefacts were displayed in European aristocratic house museums. The process of collection and display reflects a Western disconnect from nature that is under review for our 21st-century moment in which a battle rages to recognise the value of traditional knowledge and the natural world.
Image: Caroline Rothwell, 'Vault', 2020, acrylic on linen, 163 x 183 cm.
Fiona Hall in Mona's winter festival 'Dark Mofo'
We are thrilled to announce Tasmanian local and RO9 artist Fiona Hall's participation in Mona's midwinter festival, Dark Mofo.
Taking place from 16-20 June across Hobart, Dark Mofo delves into centuries-old winter solstice rituals, exploring the links between ancient and contemporary mythology, humans and nature, religious and secular traditions, darkness and light, and birth, death and renewal.
Hall will be collaborating with the local Tasmanian Aboriginal community in a work titled 'Home State Nipaluna' taking place on Wednesday 16 June from 6–7pm.
"Walk with us.
Follow fire and smoke to the place where the trees have taken root: a street through our town retaken by vegetation, as people gather for the festival’s opening night.
The list of artists grows as individuals come forward to own the project."
Julie Rrap in Mona's winter festival 'Dark Mofo'
We are thrilled to announce artist Julie Rrap's participation in Mona's midwinter festival in Tasmania, Dark Mofo.
Taking place from 16-20 June across Hobart, Dark Mofo delves into centuries-old winter solstice rituals, exploring the links between ancient and contemporary mythology, humans and nature, religious and secular traditions, darkness and light, and birth, death and renewal.
Rrap's 2015 video work 'Double Eclipse' will be featured daily, metaphorically representing the power of the gaze, the blindness of desire, and a window to the mind of the artist.
Event: Daniel Boyd discusses his installation 'Pediment/Impediment'
Join artist Daniel Boyd and a multidisciplinary panel at 6:30pm tonight in the Chau Chak Wing Museum for a discussion exploring Boyd’s installation 'Pediment/Impediment' and the idea of darkness as a form of Indigenous resistance.
Throughout his practice, Boyd often works with archives and museum collections as source material to create his vision of decolonisation. Over a period of months, Boyd researched the Chau Chak Wing Museum’s various collections, eventually selecting a group of 19th century plaster casts from the Nicholson Collection of antiquities. Veiled in pinpoints of light, the installation employs the idea of darkness as a form of Indigenous resistance to counter the power of Enlightenment ideas and western civilisation.
'WAH-WAH x KAYLENE WHISKEY' a creative collaboration
We are thrilled to share 'WAH-WAH x KAYLENE WHISKEY' a creative collaboration between designer Kaylene Milner and artist Kaylene Whiskey.
This 100% superfine merino wool knitted jumper is available for pre-order for shipping in July.
"I first came across Kaylene Whiskey's artwork back in 2017 when I was visiting the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. I was immediately drawn to this colourful canvas that captured an imagined world of pop cultural icons amongst the everyday goings on of life. I felt such a connection to the sense of escapism that different musical genres can inspire. The composition of the artworks were not all that unlike the colourful all over knitwear designs I had been working on with WAH-WAH. And then I saw the artists name! Another Kaylene! It was a sign, and I knew our paths would have to cross one day." -Kaylene of WAH-WAH AUSTRALIA
Kaylene Whiskey's solo exhibition 'Sistas' opens at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery tomorrow, May 12.
Photography: @simon.eeles
Event: Caroline Rothwell discusses her multi-channel projection 'Infinite Herbarium'
Join Caroline Rothwell and a panel of experts in person or via LiveStream at The Calyx as she discusses her multi-channel projection and participatory experience 'Infinite Herbarium'.
Taking place tomorrow at midday, the panel will discuss how the 'Infinite Herbarium' came together as a project, where you can see it, how you can interact with it and how you might connect art and science to create engaging experiences.
'Infinite Herbarium' launched at the MCA as part of 'The National 2021: New Australian Art' at The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
This project was created in collaboration with Google Creative Lab.
Patricia Piccinini discusses RISING with Broadsheet
One of the busiest buildings in Melbourne is also one of the most neglected. The ballroom and the adjacent upstairs spaces of Flinders Street Station have near-mythical status.
It’s the perfect environment for the uncanny, uncomfortable, but very human work of artist Patricia Piccinini. Her new show, A Miracle Constantly Repeated, appearing at Rising, layers new work on old, reimagining the space within the parameters of Piccinini’s world. It’s not always pretty, but it is always beautiful.
Event: Fiona Hall lecture at 'The Mint'
Join Fiona Hall at 'The Mint' on Macquarie Street this Sunday, 2 May from 2-3pm as she delves into her fascinating artistic practice, examining how she has responded to site and history across her career.
Hall’s latest work, 'Who goes here?' at the Hyde Park Barracks, focuses on the stories of 300 individuals from the tens of thousands of convicts, immigrants, asylum inmates and officials who passed through the Hyde Park Barracks between 1819 and 1887 and looks at how place shapes our sense of belonging and identity.
Photograph: Joshua Morris for Sydney Living Museums.
Event: Bill Henson live Q&A via Instagram with Newcastle Art Gallery
This Friday, 30 April at 7pm Bill Henson will be participating in a live Q&A via Instagram with Newcastle Art Gallery Curator, Sarah Johnson.
Henson's travelling exhibition 'The light fades but the gods remain', curated by Pippa Milne, is showing at Newcastle Art Gallery until 16 May.
Ahead of the event, you can ask Henson a question via @newcastleartgalleryaustralia Instagram Stories. The Q&A will begin at 7pm this Friday via @newcastleartgalleryaustralia.
Image: Installation view, Bill Henson, 'The light fades but the gods remain', Newcastle Art Gallery (27 February - 16 May 2021).
Event: Fiona Hall discusses her latest site-specific installation 'Who goes here?'
Join Fiona Hall this Thursday, 29 April from 6.00–6.45pm as she discusses her latest site-specific installation 'Who goes here?', with Sydney Living Museums curator Mel Flyte.
This live conversation forms part of 'After Dark at the Hyde Park Barracks', a monthly late night series at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Barracks at Queen's Square.
Photograph: Joshua Morris for Sydney Living Museums.
Kaylene Whiskey is featured as part of 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women', a light projection on the Sydney Opera House
We are thrilled that Kaylene Whiskey is featured as part of 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women', a light projection on the Sydney Opera House depicting artworks in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ collection.
Curated by Coby Edgar, the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women' marks a creative collaboration between the Opera House and AGNSW to mark the latter's 150th anniversary.
As the sun sets each day, the Opera House's eastern Bennelong sail will be illuminated with a projection of a vibrant six-minute animation, all depicting artworks from the AGNSW's collection.
The animation will repeat three times each night — approximately every hour, with the timing changing every evening depending on the season and events at the Opera House's Forecourt.
'Badu Gili' also ran in 2018; however, in 2021 it will display its first all-female lineup featuring Kaylene Whiskey, amongst other female artists.
'Badu Gili: Wonder Women' will light up the Sydney Opera House's sails every night until 31 May 2021.
Image: Kaylene Whiskey's 'Dolly visits Indulkan' as part of 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women'. Courtesy of Sydney Opera House.
Tom Polo: finalist in the 2021 Ramsay Art Prize
We are thrilled to announce that Tom Polo has been selected as one of 24 finalists in this year’s Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The exhibition will run from 22 May - 22 August, 2021.
Polo's fantastic two-panel painting ‘Guiding Guardians (This Wasn’t Yours)’, 2020 will be included in the show.
Image: Tom Polo, ‘Guiding Guardians (This Wasn’t Yours)’, 2020, acrylic and Flashe on canvas, 192 x 426 cm. Photography: Jessica Maurer
John Wolseley limited-edition prints available
We’re thrilled to share news of the release of a series of limited-edition prints by John Wolseley.
Wolseley is one of Australia’s most successful artists, who works across painting, printmaking, watercolour and installation. He has created three prints, each available in a limited-edition through @mca_store_australia.
The prints coincide with a major presentation of his work in 'The National 2021: New Australian Art' at the MCA.
This series is supported by Major Partner @raywhitegroup in celebration of 10 years of partnership with the MCA.
Image: John Wolseley, featuring: ‘Djirrididi – forest kingfisher with scavenger moths and bombardier beetles’, 2021, installation view, ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, etching, watercolour on paper.
Courtesy of the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Photograph: @annakucera.au
Patricia Piccinini in RISING, Melbourne
After holding Melbourne’s imagination for decades, the mysterious Flinders Street Station ballroom (and its surrounding hidden rooms) will open to the public to become 'A Miracle Constantly Repeated'—an eco-system of hyper-real silicone sculptures, video, sound and light devised by Patricia Piccinini.
For her first extensive hometown show in almost two decades, Piccinini will augment the ballroom’s architecture with enormous dioramas, sentient saplings, nurturing marine mammals and enormous life-sustaining foliage.
'A Miracle Constantly Repeated' forms part of 'RISING', a major cultural event created by a diverse team of local, national and international artists and curators.
The inaugural festival will take place from 26 May – 6 June 2021 in the heart of Melbourne, beginning on the evening of the total lunar eclipse in May 2021.
AUCTION - Tom Polo in support of Very Special Kids
We are thrilled to share Tom Polo's fantastic work on paper 'something spectacular', 2016-2020 which is due to be auctioned next Thursday, 29 April as part of ‘Art with Heart’, an exhibition and auction of exceptional fine paintings and sculptures from leading contemporary artists.
Funds from this auction will support @veryspecialkids - a children’s charity that helps families across Victoria caring for a child with a life-threatening condition, with ongoing support from diagnosis all the way through to bereavement.
The event will take place on Thursday, 29 April 2021 from 6.30-9.00pm at ELEVEN40 Studio Gallery in Malvern, Victoria.
Image: Tom Polo, 'something spectacular', 2016-2020, acrylic and Flashe on paper, 76 x 56 cm.
AUCTION - Brook Andrew in support of Very Special Kids
We are thrilled to share Brook Andrew's 'Black & White Special Cut', 2005 which is due to be auctioned next Thursday, 29 April as part of ‘Art with Heart’, an exhibition and auction of exceptional fine paintings and sculptures from leading contemporary artists.
Funds from this auction will support @veryspecialkids - a children’s charity that helps families across Victoria caring for a child with a life-threatening condition, with ongoing support from diagnosis all the way through to bereavement.
The event will take place on Thursday, 29 April 2021 from 6.30-9.00pm at ELEVEN40 Studio Gallery in Malvern, Victoria.
Image: Brook Andrew, 'Black & White Special Cut', 2005, from the Hope & Peace Series, colour screenprint on paper, 100 x 98 cm (image), 107 x 100 cm (sheet).
Newell Harry in 'Here Be Dragons, a Reprise' at Copperfield London
We are delighted that Newell Harry is included in Here Be Dragons, a Reprise a group exhibition at Copperfield London, opening on 14 April 2021.
This exhibition proposes a process of unlearning the way we conceptualise space, rethinking it from an ocean-based perspective that embraces a relational understanding of the sea and celebrates its complexity as an indivisible entity in constant transformation.
Image: Newell Harry, 'untitled (Palm Island Coconut / Rough)', 2011, gift mat, Pandanus, dye, 147 x 175 cm.
AUCTION - Daniel Boyd in support of the Dhadjowa Foundation
Daniel Boyd's fantastic cave painting 'Untitled (RINYTPOTM #2)', 2019 will be auctioned tomorrow via @this_mob.
The sale of this painting will be in support of the Dhadjowa Foundation, with the funds going directly towards supporting families fighting for justice for their loved ones who have died in custody.
The auction takes place this Thursday, 15 April at 6pm, marking 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Visit @this_mob for more information.
Image: Daniel Boyd, 'untitled (RINYTPOTM #2)', 2019, oil, charcoal and archival glue on digital print on paper mounted to linen, 133 x 94.5 x 4 cm.
Patricia Piccinini on view at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Patricia Piccinini's exhibition 'Patricia Piccinini: Embracing the future' is currently on view at Kunsthalle Krems in the currently locked-down Austria.
Curated by Florian Steininger, this exhibition in Krems presents a retrospective cross-section of Piccinini's artistic work. The first major retrospective in Austria shows sculptures and installations from almost two decades of artistic creation.
The exhibition is being developed in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen and has already been shown in the ARKEN Museum for Modern Art in Copenhagen and in the Borås Art Museum in Sweden.
Photo: @simonwrees28
Fiona Hall's Hyde Park Barracks Commission
We are delighted to announce that Fiona Hall has been commissioned to transform the courtyard of the Hyde Park Barracks into a forest of signposts, in a bold visual representation of the journeys that brought convicts and migrants to the NSW colony.
Hall is to dress the Unesco World Heritage-listed site with 300 signposts representing those who once lived at the Barracks, from its days as a dormitory for convict labourers to immigration depot and asylum for the sick and destitute.
Opening weekend: Saturday, 3 April & Sunday, 4 April.u2060
Congratulations to Caroline Rothwell who is included in ‘The National 2021'
Congratulations to Caroline Rothwell who is included in ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Image: Caroline Rothwell, 'Carbon Emission 5, Constructivist Rococo', 2020, installation view, The National 2021: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, single-channel digital animation, loop, image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Anna Kucera
Congratulations to Fiona Hall who is included in ‘The National 2021'
Congratulations to Fiona Hall who is included in ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Image: Fiona Hall ‘EXODUST’, 2021, burnt tree, rope, iron bell, LED lighting, eucalyptus sapling, birds’ nests, water-based oil. on burnt book, water-based oil on burnt fabric, installation dimensions variable.
Congratulations to A Constructed World who is included in ‘The National 2021'
Congratulations to A Constructed World who is included in ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ at Carriageworks.
Image: A Constructed World, ‘Partition #13, Ass Assembly / Assemblée des culs’, 2017-21. Installation view ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’, Carriageworks. Photo credit Zan Wimberley.
Congratulations to John Wolseley who is included in ‘The National 2021'
Congratulations to John Wolseley who is included in ‘The National 2021: New Australian Art’ at the MCA.
Image: John Wolseley, 'Magnetic, arboreal and subterranean termite nests on the savannah plains of East Arnhem Land', 2020-21, woodcut, linocut, etching, graphite frottage, and watercolour on cottong, Mino washi and Gampi paper.
Kaylene Whiskey in 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women'
Curated by Coby Edgar, the Art Gallery of New South Wales' Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women' marks a creative collaboration between the Opera House and AGNSW to mark the latter's 150th anniversary.
As the sun sets each day, the Opera House's eastern Bennelong sail will be illuminated with a projection of a vibrant six-minute animation, all depicting artworks from the AGNSW's collection.
The animation will repeat three more times each night — approximately every hour, but the timing changes every evening depending on the season and whatever might be on at the Opera House's Forecourt.
'Badu Gili' also ran in 2018; however, in 2021 it will display its first all-female lineup featuring Kaylene Whiskey, amongst other female artists.
'Badu Gili: Wonder Women' will light up the Sydney Opera House's sails every night from Friday, April 23.
Image: render of Kaylene Whiskey's 'Dolly visits Indulkan' as part of 'Badu Gili: Wonder Women'. Courtesy of Sydney Opera House.
'Doomed' by Tracey Moffatt in Brisbane's IMA
Tapping into the looming sense of danger that the climate crisis instills in many, 'Doomed' by Tracey Moffatt and collaborator Gary Hillberg brings together cinematic depictions of crisis, disaster, and apocalypse.
On display in the Screening Room at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art, the work features a pulsing soundtrack partly appropriated from 2003’s 'The Matrix Reloaded', illustrating the ubiquity of fantasies about our planet’s demise on film.
'Doomed' shows that speculations of societal and planetary fragility are hardly new, and that through their repetition, these events gradually inure themselves to our minds, even becoming banal.
However, this overfamiliarity is far from innocuous—especially in a present when such scenes are increasingly crossing over from fantasy to reality.
See 'On Fire: Climate and Crisis' until this Saturday 20 March.
Brook Andrew at Murray Art Museum Albury
We are delighted to share images of 'GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY', a new commission by Brook Andrew, currently on view at Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA). This installation premiers as part of 'DIWIL', an exhibition featuring significant works by Brook Andrew from the last decade.
The Wiradjuri word ‘diwil’ translates to 'collection' and reflects on the artist’s relationship with objects, history, and Country. 'GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY' is a wall drawing and neon installation that fully surrounds audiences in the museum’s collection galleries. The work is part of a continually evolving approach to wall drawing and museum intervention, and prominently includes language, with the words 'NGAJUU NGAAY – I SEE' making the gallery a place of inspection, reckoning and exchange.
Within the space created by 'GARRU NGAJUU NGAAY', key works from the last decade amplify the artist’s approach to harnessing alternative narratives to explore the legacies of colonisation and modernism.
View Andrew's exhibition at MAMA until 5 September 2021.
Art critic John McDonald reviews Bill Henson's solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9
"Bill Henson’s work serves as a warning against fixed ideas and generalisations."u2060
—John McDonald
In the Sydney Morning Herald today, art critic John McDonald reviews Bill Henson's solo exhibition currently on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
To read the full article, pick up a copy of the Sydney Morning Herald today or click the link.
Kirtika Kain's exhibition 'Lustration' at Firstdraft
Kirtika Kain's exhibition 'Lustration' is currently on view at Firstdraft, Sydney.
Lustration (from Latin lustratio, “purification by sacrifice”), features a large-scale silkscreened drawing developed on site over a week-long period.
The work is influenced by methods of the Situationist International group, who created expanded three dimensional drawings that were methodically planned yet spontaneously executed. The activist group would cut and collage city maps, retaining sites of unconscious intensity and link them with red arrows to create new blueprints of urban spaces.
Firstdraft is the final pitstop of Art Month's East Sydney Art At Night Walking Tour. The event will take place this Saturday 13 March from 7-9pm at Firstdraft in Woolloomooloo.
To RSVP, click the link.
Daniel Boyd on ABC Radio National's 'AWAYE'
Daniel Boyd discusses the ideas behind his new installation for the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney with Daniel Browning on ABC Radio National's 'AWAYE'!
The installation, titled 'Pediment/Impediment', is based on five of the half a million objects in the university’s collection.
Peter Craven reviews Bill Henson's solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
"Bill Henson's new exhibition features stark and stunning images from photographs taken more than 20 years ago."
Peter Craven reviews Bill Henson's solo show.
To read the full article, click the link.
Bill Henson in Artist Profile
"Since his first solo show at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975, Bill Henson has been captivated at the liminal, the evasive, and the in-between. Traversing cool grey zones including adolescence and suburbia, his photographic images offer neither conclusions nor condolences to audiences who sense a mystery at work beneath their beautiful surfaces."
We are thrilled that Bill Henson features on the March issue of Artist Profile.
Erin McFadyen’s essay on Henson prepares us for his new solo exhibition which, using his archives, reconsiders his work as a younger artist, the passage of his life and works over time. The formal devices in Henson’s work, whether landscape, portrait or group of figures – transient paths, gaps and connections – touch our emotions and invite us to contemplate the power of love and death without fear.
Bill Henson's solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery opens tomorrow, 5 March.
Bill Henson's 'Sic Transit'
We are delighted to announce the release of Bill Henson's new publication 'Sic Transit', a 164-page hardcover book, housed in a bespoke slipcase, and produced in a strictly limited edition.
This Saturday, 6 March, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery will be holding a book signing with the artist. Copies of 'Sic Transit' will be available to purchase on the day for $155.00.
Exhibition on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery from Friday, 5 March.
Position Vacant at RO9
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is seeking a part-time paid Intern to join our digital media team in Paddington. The internship is six weeks in duration, with the role being 3 days per week that may include working Saturday’s within a roster. The role’s primary responsibility will be to help maintain and update the gallery’s extensive digital and physical photographic archive and corresponding catalogue database.
John McDonald reviews Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's 'The Little Things'
"It’s rare to step into an exhibition and feel bowled over, but this was the case with Nyapanyapa Yunupingu’s exhibition, The Little Things, at Roslyn Oxley9."
— John McDonald, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 Feb 2021
Art critic, John McDonald, reviews 'The Little Things' now showing at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Visit Yunupingu's exhibition until 27 February.
'Every Heart Sings' - A Children's Book by Patricia Piccinini
"Remember to look up. Among the amazing creatures that fill the sky, one day you might just see a skywhale too..."
Published by the National Gallery of Australia, 'Every Heart Sings' is Patricia Piccinini's first children’s book.
“I grew up in Canberra and I first realised I wanted to be an artist when I visited the National Gallery of Australia as a teenager. I now live and work in Melbourne and, as an artist, I am interested in what it means to be alive in the present day. I hope to create a world somewhere between the one we know and one that is almost upon us, and to focus on the emotional lives of the new creatures that might emerge. I am interested in our relationships with them and with nature. I work with a studio of people to help make my work, starting with my drawings and ending up with a sculpture, or a video or even a hot air balloon. 'Skywhalepapa' 2020 is a work that continues my relationship with the people of Canberra that began with the 'Skywhale' in 2013. Together they form a skywhale family that will take to the air over Canberra and go on to explore the country and the world. 'Every Heart Sings' is a project that talks about nature, family, evolution, care and wonder. They float into our lives to make us smile and think.”
Dale Frank Botanical Gardens in Better Homes and Gardens on Channel 7
Tune in to Channel 7’s Better Homes and Gardens this Friday 12 February at 7pm to get an inside look at Dale Frank Botanical Gardens, located on 50 acres of dry garden landscape in the Hunter Valley.u2060
Click the link to stream the episode online.
'For Our Country' is nominated for 'Building of the Year' Award
We are delighted that 'For Our Country' is nominated for ARCH DAILY'S Building of the Year Award! You can find out more about the project and cast your vote for via the link in at the top of our Instagram profile.
'For Our Country' is the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial, designed in collaboration with Kudjla/Ganglu artist Daniel Boyd.
Launching TOMORROW - 'SKYWHALEPAPA'
“Every heart sings is a project that talks about nature, family, evolution, care and wonder. They float into our lives to make us smile and think.” – Patricia Piccinini
Launching in Canberra tomorrow at 5.30am, Patricia Piccinini's Skywhalepapa is a monumental sculpture in the form of a hot-air balloon. A new companion piece to Skywhale, together they form a skywhale family that will be launched near the Gallery and take flight over Canberra three times. Following the Canberra flights, the sculptures will also float across the skies of Australia as a National Gallery Touring Exhibition throughout 2021 and 2022.
'SKYWHALES: EVERY HEART SINGS' – WORLD PREMIERE
- RESCHEDULED TO SUNDAY, 7 FEB 2021 -
This SUNDAY 7 February Patricia Piccinini’s new skywhale family will be flying in the Canberra skies.
Watch Skywhale fly alongside her new companion Skywhalepapa for the first time. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia, with the support of the Balnaves Foundation, this will be Skywhalepapa's global debut.
An immersive sonic experience will accompany the skywhales, with a special live performance of We are the Skywhales by Jess Green and band supported by the Luminescence Children’s Choir.
Due to COVID-19, numbers are strictly limited for this free, family-friendly event and registrations are essential. As part of COVID-19 protocols, the launch will take place within a designated fenced area and only ticket holders will be permitted entry. Read more about what to expect on the day.
Image: Patricia Piccinini’s new airborne sculpture “Skywhalepapa” (at left) prepares for lift-off alongside its companion, “Skywhale”. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Brook Andrew at 'Space YZ'
In times of alarmingly diminishing art school options in the tertiary and higher education systems, 'Space YZ', commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre and curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, draws inspiration from the visual arts legacy of Western Sydney University.
From the first graduating class in 1986 to the final cohort as the curtain closed in 2009, the art school was a pioneering hub for experimentation and risk-taking across a broad variety of media.
Staged twelve years since the closure of the art school, Space YZ presents significant early works created by Brook Andrew and 87 other Visual Arts and Electronic Arts alumni during their undergraduate studies or within two years of graduation.
‘Space YZ’ references the university gallery established on campus in 1992. A transitional space, the gallery was literally an oversized corridor connecting the Z Block art studios to the rest of the university on the Kingswood side of the Penrith campus. Less a destination than an idling walkway, Space YZ speaks to the metaphors of transition and connection that abound at art school; where ideologies are challenged and unique artistic identities forged.
In loving memory
Vale Virginia Fraser. I was saddened by the news yesterday at the passing of Virginia Fraser. My dear friend and an integral part of our 20-year collaboration between Destiny Deacon, Virginia Fraser and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Virginia was a beautiful person - she was sound, sensitive and perfect in every way. Virginia will be sorely missed. Our love and thoughts are with Destiny 🖤
Destiny Deacon in UPTOWN Art
Destiny Deacon's 'Man and Doll (c)' is currently occupying Melbourne's Windsor Place in the format of a street poster. Located at the back of Hotel Windsor, this large-scale poster reproduction forms part of UPTOWN Art Exhibition, a free outdoor art initiative supported by the City of Melbourne.
'Man and Doll (c)' draws on the influence of feminist printmaking and political posters of the 1970s and her own previous work with paste-ups.
'DESTINY', the largest retrospective of Deacon's work to date, is open at the National Gallery of Victoria through to 14 February 2021.
Daniel Boyd in his exhibition 'Pediment/Impediment'
In his exhibition 'Pediment/Impediment', Daniel Boyd has re-imagined sculptural reliefs from our collection of casts. This project challenges Enlightenment ideas, using dappled light to reveal and shadow these works from the Classical world.
If you haven’t been following, #ConnectingCollections is an ongoing series connecting museums worldwide and this month’s theme is 19th and early 20th century casts. Plaster casts and replicas of original artefacts, from small cuneiform tablets to monumental relief panels, were popular at this time for both study and display. The Nicholson amassed a collection of some 250 casts between 1890 and 1941. While many were given away in the 1960s to schools and communities across Sydney, around 80 small and large casts remain in the collection.
The casts displayed in 'Pediment/Impediment' include two reliefs from the Temple of Apollo at Bassae (NM2008.6.3-4), two reliefs from the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi (NM2008.5, NM2008.37) and a cast of relief XXXI of the Parthenon Frieze (NM2018.129). Central to the room is the plaster model of the Acropolis made by the German sculptor Henrich Walger circa 1895 (NM2008.4).
Exhibition runs until June 2021.
Brook Andrew - Artsy's 'Most Influential Artists of 2020'
We are thrilled that Brook Andrew was named as one of Artsy's 'Most Influential Artists of 2020' this week.
Claire Healy + Sean Cordeiro - Parramatta Square Public Art
We are delighted to announce that Claire Healy + Sean Cordeiro have been successful in their Parramatta Square Public Art submission.
This 8 meter tall chrome bus pays tribute to the vehicle bought by Parramatta Eels coach Jack Gibson for his 1981 premiership-winning team. The sculpture will be installed in the new Parramatta Square Precinct.
Photo rendering by Urban Arts Projects.
Bill Henson's 'Sic Transit' now available to purchase
We are delighted to announce the release of Bill Henson's 'Sic Transit' - a sumptuous 164 page hard cover book, with uncoated dust jacket, housed in a slipcase.
Published by Stanley Barker Books, Bill Henson’s 'Sic Transit' presents the panorama of a world shadowed by the images and memories of the past. Two boys wrestle like an act of love, an act of wonder. A face that could be the face of a girl or boy looms in the bewilderment of passion or preoccupation. Bodies tussle and are at peace. There is an effortless knowledge of the body as window of the soul but also a sense of the inscrutable, of that which is beyond time, though at every point time is echoed in immemorial gesture as an adolescent looks at his foot, as a temple beckons and glows in soft light, as a remembrance of other and older ways of imagining. This is an art of shadows and whispers and things known far off. It is a set of images haunted by the spectres of the past even as it uses the grammar of the body finding its way in darkness and touches of light.
It is an art full of the distanced golden glow of the classical and especially the Roman past which also pays homage to the sublimity of Rembrandt’s “Prodigal Son”and the depth of compassion it radiates. But in this sequence of photographs Henson reveals the world of ways in which history is shaded and comes to fade. And so it passes: Henson captures the glory of the world of images as it does. It also honors the ways in which every novice’s discovery traces an ancient ritual and notates an enduring dream. - Peter Craven
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro in 'You Are Here'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present new works by Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro in 'You Are Here'.
"Kites and planes come from the same family but the philosophy behind flying kites and planes are quite different. A kite is a flying object that inspires daydreams while locating you within a specific time and place. Like a pin stuck in a map, the tethered kite marks us within the here and now. Conversely, an airplane makes the yearning to be somewhere else completely, a possible reality.
We have reversed the evolution of manned flight by taking Australian Air Force surplus plane parts and with a bit of paint and string, turned them into Japanese kites. We have used traditional Japanese kite designs because a) they look really awesome and b) Japanese kites are not representative of a culturally hermetic system: Chinese Buddhist missionaries introduced kites to Japan during the Nara period (710-794 AD).
We have in turn appropriated Japanese kite designs to create a body of work that is indicative of our own personal experience of COVID-times. The cessation of International flight cancelled our planned artist residency in Niigata. This residency was to be a period of research looking into the giant kite flying community of Shirone. Therefore 2020 was spent in our studio, daydreaming about kites. This body of work is indicative of the Iso-Age, a time when we have surfeit of global knowledge at our fingertips but we are literally grounded in one place." — Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, 2020
Exhibition opens 3 December at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
'A Painting Show' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present a cross-generational exhibition, 'A Painting Show' featuring new works by three of Australia’s most important painters working today.
All three artists are expressive, gestural and considered in their mark making - masterful colourists conjuring up vivid, fantastical realms, yet their unique styles have paved their way as distinct voices within the Australian and international art world.
Paintings by Tom Polo, Gareth Sansom and Jenny Watson are exhibited within the unique context of the last month of 2020 where the fibres of society are strained. Within a social fabric of distanced inter-personal relationships, disconnection and technological interfaces dominating modes of communication, painting allows us to take space and stand still.
Daniel Boyd at Chau Chak Wing Museum
The Chau Chak Wing Museum presents a series of new contemporary art commissions in the museum’s Penelope Gallery. The inaugural project is Daniel Boyd’s fantastic ‘Pediment/Impediment’.
Exhibition runs until June 2021.
Image: Daniel Boyd, installation using a model of the Acropolis at Athens (NM2008.4), 2020.
'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now'
We are delighted that the following Roslyn Oxley9 artists are included in the National Gallery of Australia's largest exhibition of Australian women's work, 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now':
Del Kathryn Barton;
Sarah Contos;
Fiona Hall;
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro;
Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser;
Mikala Dwyer;
Louise Hearman;
The Estate of Rosalie Gascoigne;
Linda Marrinon;
Tracey Moffatt;
The Estate of Bronwyn Oliver;
Patricia Piccinini;
Julie Rrap;
Kathy Temin;
Jenny Watson.
'Know My Name' showcases art made by all women. Told in two parts, it brings together over 400 works drawn from the Gallery’s collection and other collections across Australia.
Featuring lesser-known and leading artists, 'Know My Name' tells a new story of Australian art. By bringing together artists from different times, places and cultures, the exhibition upends the assumption that modern and contemporary Australian art is a male-dominated narrative.
View 'Know My Name' at the NGA until 4 July 2021.
Kaylene Whiskey in Vault Magazine
We are thrilled that Issue 32 of Vault Magazine showcases the extraordinary work of Kaylene Whiskey.
'APY Sistas' (2020), featured on the front cover, will be included in Whiskey's upcoming show at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in May 2021.
Whiskey was the 2018 Sulman Prize Winner and the 2019 winner for general painting at the Telstra National ABoriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
Whiskey lives on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in the remote north-west of South Australia and works at Iwantja Arts, Indulkana. Whiskey’s paintings celebrate heroic power, pop culture and cultural knowledge as the blended reality that is contemporary life in a remote Indigenous community of Central Australia.
Deborah Hart in conversation with Fiona Hall
Curator Deborah Hart recently lead a conversation with Judy Watson and Roslyn Oxley9 artist Fiona Hall.
We are delighted that Fiona Hall is included in the NGA's exhibition 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now'.
New works by Linda Marrinon in 'Scene at Edfu and other sculptures'
OPEN: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present new works by Linda Marrinon in 'Scene at Edfu and other sculptures'. Emerging in the 1980's, Marrinon's work is informed by an interest in feminism, architecture and art history.
New works by Gary Carsley in 'ARBOUR ARDOUR'
OPEN: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present new works by Gary Carsley in 'ARBOUR ARDOUR'.
Kirtika Kain has been selected as a finalist in the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship
We are thrilled that Kirtika Kain has been selected as one of eight finalists in the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship.
Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. With over 100 years of history, the Fellowship is a key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW. Now in its 24th year at Artspace, it continues to define new generations of contemporary art practice for both artists and audiences.
Each year Create NSW convenes an independent judging panel of esteemed colleagues to determine the finalists, whom Artspace acknowledges for engaging with insight and passion in assessing what was again a highly competitive round of proposals.
Of the eight finalists, one artist will be awarded the Fellowship at an announcement ceremony streamed live via Facebook on Thursday 12 November at 5:30pm.
View Kain's fantastic works at Artspace until 13 December.
Image: Installation view, '2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship', Artspace Sydney.
Daniel Boyd - winner of The Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture.
We are delighted to announce that 'For Our Country', by Daniel Boyd and the Edition Office, has been awarded The Nicholas Murcutt Award for Small Project Architecture.
The Australian Institute of Architects has announced the winners of 2020 National Architecture Awards, celebrating projects of all types that “go above and beyond” and enliven their surroundings.
A total of 44 projects were recognized, 25 receiving national awards and 19 given commendations.
Boyd's Australian War Memorial Commission in collaboration with Edition Office was just one of over 473 entries, from 14 countries in the Indo-Pacific, showing progressiveness and innovation in an enormous diversity of contexts.
'For Our Country' is the inaugural National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander War Memorial, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial (AWM) in Canberra and located on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. The work provides a space from which to contemplate and commemorate Indigenous connection to country and the sacrifice that Indigenous serving men and woman have made in the protection of their country.
Photography: Ben Hosking
John Wolseley in 'Earth Canvas' at the Library Museum in Albury
New works by John Wolseley are currently showing in 'Earth Canvas', a new group exhibition at the Library Museum in Albury.
To enquire, email [email protected]
Extended: David Noonan's solo exhibition 'David Noonan: Stagecraft'.
We are thrilled about the extension of David Noonan's exhibition 'David Noonan: Stagecraft'.
Visit the Art Gallery of Ballarat until 31 January to view Noonan's fantastic solo show.
Exhibition: Linda Marrinon 'Scene at Edfu and other sculptures'
NOW OPEN: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present new works by Linda Marrinon in 'Scene at Edfu and other sculptures'. Emerging in the 1980's, Marrinon's work is informed by an interest in feminism, architecture and art history.
Often displaying a keen sense of humour, her modestly scaled figures and busts draw on techniques associated with 19th century figurative sculpture. Marrinon's statuaries and plaster tableaux portray historical figures and archetypes drawn from the fathomless archive of our times. Considering the span of Marrinon's subject matter, time is a condition with which the sculptor freely plays.
Visit Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until 6pm.
Image: Exhibition view, Linda Marrinon, 'Scene at Edfu and other sculptures', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (30 October - 28 November 2020). Photo: Luis Power.
Exhibition: Gary Carsley 'ARBOUR ARDOUR'
OPEN NOW: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present new works by Gary Carsley in 'ARBOUR ARDOUR'.
'ARBOUR ARDOUR' is the most recent in a series of room-based flourishes by Gary Carsley that contest among other things: the increasing correspondence between spectacle and material privilege in both art and life and the collapse of historical memory, with all of its attendant intended and unintended consequences. In these immersive environments, laboriousness can be best understood as a calculated expression of queer disruption; where perversely, manuality is a highly refined and conceptual act.
Positioned within a multi-perspectival pergola elaborated by Architect Renjie Teoh around 3 IKEA PAX closets and a suite of geometrically shaped Draguerreotypes1 positioned by the artist as a series of outward looking windows and doors, 'ARBOUR ARDOUR' is more than the sum of its parts. Liminal and latently lavender, this exhibition continues the artist’s engagement with the garden as a trans-cultural, temporally fluid stage where theory becomes practice.
Visit the gallery today until 6pm.
Image: Exhibition view, Gary Carsley, 'ARBOUR ABDOUR', Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (30 October - 28 November 2020). Photo: Luis Power.
Dale Frank in the NGA
"As a kid I had Robert Rauschenberg images pinned to my bedroom walls – his goat and tyre. At the age of 14 or 15, I saw a series of paintings by Robert Ryman in an American exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Ryman’s work built upon my emphatic love for Rothko. Equally, at the same time or shortly after, I came across Vito Acconci and Paul Thek. Overlaying all this was the view of artists in movies." - Dale Frank
Find out where Dale Frank's inspiration led... Now on display on Level 2 at the National Gallery of Australia.
Image: Dale Frank, 'He garaged his new Range Rover as the ABC was due the next day to interview him on what it was like being an artist today even though Sue thought he should park it in the front drive', 2006, varnish on canvas, 200 x 200 cm.
Art Collector's 'Pull Focus' with Bill Henson
Bill Henson discusses his work 'Untitled' (2017-2020) which currently forms part of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery's presentation at 'Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020'.
The 'Pull Focus' video series takes its lead from Art Collector's print magazine feature of the same name, focussing in on what makes a particular artwork WORK as a work of art.
Sydney Contemporary's 'Top picks by our friends'
Brook Andrew, Tracey Moffatt, Bill Henson and Tom Polo were recently featured in Sydney Contemporary's 'Top picks by our friends'.
The 'Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020' platform will be live until 31 October.
Tracey Moffatt receives an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is thrilled to announce that Tracey Moffatt has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society overnight.
Honorary Fellowships are awarded to distinguished people who have an intimate connection with the science or fine art of photography. These leading photographic artists are recognised for their innovative work of the highest calibre.
Congratulations Tracey!
Photo: Tracey Moffatt by Claudia Fitzpatrick (2019).
IN CONVERSATION: Alexie Glass-Kantor speaks with Brook Andrew
Watch a recording of last week's live 'in conversation' between Brook Andrew & Alexie Glass-Kantor to mark the occasion of Andrew's current exhibition 'This Year' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 25 September – 24 October 2020.
Isaac Julien | 'Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass' in San Francisco
'Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass' is a film installation by Isaac Julien that explores the life of the visionary African American writer, abolitionist, statesman, and freed slave Frederick Douglass.
Julien's ten-screen immersive installation is due to open tomorrow at the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco.
Julien will also take part in a series of online discussions with artists, thinkers, and scholars in conjunction with the exhibition. All talks are free and take place via Zoom.
Brook Andrew is leading artists in urgent times
Brook Andrew's passions have never been contained to the artist's studio, from his interest in the anonymous Indigenous sitters of early ethnographic photographs and memorials to the lives lost in Australia's frontier wars, to the repatriation of human remains.
Andrew speaks to ABC Arts guest host Rosa Ellen about what drives him and what he set out to do as the first Indigenous artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney, which he renamed NIRIN. His latest exhibition, 'This Year', is currently on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
The Long Run #3: John Wolseley on revealing landscapes for 60 years
For over 60 years John Wolseley has been visiting, capturing and sharing his experience of landscapes. But what does it mean to create and innovate over six decades? And what can Wolseley teach us about the life-stages of an artist?
Art Guide Australia’s newest podcast series 'The Long Run' considers this question with artists who have had careers spanning 60 years, each reflecting on their art and lives.
In this third episode Wolseley, one of Australia’s most well-known landscape painters and printmakers, speaks to us from his home in regional Victoria. Moving to Australia from England in 1976, he’s known for immersing himself in an environment before painting it, capturing landscapes ranging from the mountains in Tasmania, to wetlands and rivers, to the floodplains of Arnhem land. Known as a great storyteller, Wolseley captures worlds that invite engagement with nature and the environment.
'Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose"' nominated for Short Film of the Decade by AACTA
We are delighted to announce that Del Kathryn Barton's short film 'Oscar Wilde's "The Nightingale and the Rose"' has been nominated for Short Film of the Decade by AACTA. This 2016 film was directed in collaboration with Brendan Fletcher and produced by Fletcher and Angie Fielder.
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at 'Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present a selection of artworks in 'Sydney Contemporary Presents 2020' from 1-30 October 2020.
In the first online edition of the art fair, the gallery will be presenting five major works by the following artists: Dale Frank, Fiona Hall, Bill Henson, Tracey Moffatt, and Tom Polo.
Exhibition: Brook Andrew | 'This Year'
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is pleased to present new works by Brook Andrew in 'This Year'.
This immersive exhibition originates from a series of collages Andrew made recently from an extensive archive in his Melbourne studio. In frantic actions of cutting and pasting, the artist combines disparate elements of printed matter, from contemporary newspaper headlines, fashion magazines and mid-century comic books to historical anthropological texts and an original edition of engravings from the complete works of British satirist William Hogarth (c. 1860).
The juxtaposition of contemporary sources with the historical, and the popular with the academic, reveals the ways in which the media and visual culture continue to nurture obsessions with capital, race and catastrophe and influence modes of being that sway from hope and joy to ignorance and despair.
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu at her solo exhibition 'the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu' at the MAGNT
After having been delayed by Northern Territory travel restrictions, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu was finally able to see her extraordinary solo exhibition 'the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu' at the Museum and Art Gallery the Northern Territory in Darwin. MAGNT was honoured to welcome Nyapanyapa and her family from Yirrkala.
Yunupingu's next solo exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is due to open in late January 2021.
Images: Exhibition view, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, 'the moment eternal: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu', Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, (25 May - 15 October 2020).
Photography: @charlieblisscreative
2020 Sir John Sulman Prize Finaist - Caroline Rothwell
Image: Caroline Rothwell, 'Vault', 2020, acrylic on linen, 163 x 183 cm.
2020 Wynne Prize Finalist - Del Kathryn Barton
Image: Del Kathryn Barton, 'I take it down to the flow', 2020, bronze, acrylic-painted MDF plinth, 190 x 75 cm.
2020 Wynne Prize Finalist - Gareth Sansom
Image: Gareth Sansom, 'No man is an island', 2020, oil and enamel on linen, 185 x 246 cm.
2020 Archibald Prize Finalist - Louise Hearman
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to congratulate Louise Hearman as a finalist in the 2020 Archibald Prize.
Image: Louise Hearman, 'Barry Jones', 2020, oil on masonite, 61 x 64 cm.
2020 Wynne Prize Finalist - Caroline Rothwell
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to congratulate Caroline Rothwell as a finalist in the 2020 Wynne Prize.
Image: Caroline Rothwell, 'Symbiosis (bluebeard orchid)', 2020, hyrdrostone, canvas, paint, epoxy glass, stainless steel, wood, hardware, 213 x 60 cm.
2020 Sir John Sulman Prize Finaist - Tom Polo
Image: Tom Polo, 'retreat and return (the arrival)', 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 183.5 x 275 cm.
2020 Wynne Prize Finalist - Imants Tillers
Image: Imants Tillers, 'Prayer for rain', 2020, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 54 canvas boards, 227 x 212 cm.
2020 Sir John Sulman Prize Finaist - Gareth Sansom
Image: Gareth Sansom, 'Looking for God in abstract art', 2020, oil and enamel on linen, 185 x 245.5 cm.
New Online Viewing Room - 'The Timbre Texture'
We are delighted to present the fifth instalment of our Online Viewing Room Series - 'The Timbre Texture'.
This group of women artists selected are impeccable makers. Adept at working across varied mediums, their practices are multifarious in both their materials and in their ability to articulate wide ranging concepts simultaneously.
The selection of artworks showcases varied textures and artists whose attention to detail and hand-making allows them to explore the very nature of materiality. The neutral palette of white and black allows surface above colour and form to come into the focus.
Image: Sarah Contos, ‘Chair and Ottoman’, 2019, repurposed cane, screen-print on canvas, foam, wood; 92 x 114 x 86 cm; 34 x 85 x 51 cm.
Isaac Julien | 'Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entaglement' in Madrid
Take a look inside the three-screen premiere of Isaac Julien's solo exhibition 'Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entaglement' which opens today at Galeria Helga de Alvear in Madrid.
Daniel Boyd | #TogetherInArt Interview
Take a look inside Daniel Boyd's studio in the lead up to his exhibition 'AND THE HORIZON SWALLOWED THE TORTOISE' which was on view at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in August of this year.
Hear from the artist about the development of his work, readdressing history, and his hopes for the future.
RO9 artists included in 'Chromatopia' at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
We are delighted to announce that works by Dale Frank, Gareth Sansom and Tracey Moffatt are included in 'Chromatopia' at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
'Chromatopia', an exploration of how and why artists use colour, was inspired by a rarely seen work acquired more than half a century ago. 'Harvest', painted by Dame Laura Knight on the cusp of the Second World War, is a tonic for our times and the inspiration behind this spectral journey.
Image: Exhibition view, Dale Frank, 'Paler Than Pale Custard Cream Moonlight Off White Old Ivory Irish Linen Cream Neutral Beeswax Cornsilk Falmouth Hawaiian Sunset Paloma Burnous (Pansy!)', Art Gallery of South Australia (4 September 2020).
Photo: Saul Steed.
Exhibition: Patricia Piccinini 'The Gardener's Eye' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is delighted to present a highly anticipated solo exhibition with one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Patricia Piccinini.
The Gardener’s Eye features an iconic hyper-realistic life-size sculpture, an assembly of smaller mechanical sculptures, her signature Panelworks, and a suite of drawings.
Art Collector Magazine's Michael Do speaks to Patricia Piccinini
Art Collector Magazine's Pull Focus video series takes its lead from its print magazine feature of the same name. Here, Art Collector focuses in on what makes a particular artwork WORK as a work of art.
Watch Michael Do in conversation with celebrated Australian artist Patricia Piccinini about the works in her forthcoming exhibition 'The Gardener’s Eye' at opening at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery on Thursday, 20 August.
John Nixon's passing
Roslyn and Tony Oxley are saddened to learn of the death of John Nixon, a great Australian Artist who had a formative influence on the Gallery in the 1980’s. He was widely admired for the integrity of his practice. His passing represents a big loss for our community. Our condolences go to Sue and Emma.