2008
September 2008 Andrew Leslie has been invited to exhibit at Minus Space at PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of The Museum of Modern Art, is one of the oldest and largest non-profit arts centers in the United States solely devoted to contemporary art. Recognized as a defining force of the alternative space movement, P.S.1 stands out from other major arts institutions through its cutting-edge approach to exhibitions and direct involvement of artists within a scholarly framework. P.S.1 acts as an intermediary between artist and audience. Functioning as a living and active meeting place for the general public, P.S.1 is a catalyst for ideas, discourses and new trends in contemporary art.
July 2008 Andrew Leslie included in group exhibition Australia - Contemporary Non-Objective Art at Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück, Germany
Die Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche zeigt in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg und der Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e. V. (gkg) und raum 2810 in Bonn bis August 2008 an drei Stationen eine von der Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e. V. und raum 2810 konzipierte Ausstellung (Kurator: Christoph Dahlhausen). Erstmals in Europa wird in dieser Ausstellung eine breite Palette aktueller australischer ungegenständlicher Kunst (Malerei, Skulpturen, Installationen, Wandmalerei) präsentiert. Die europäische Vorstellung von australischer Kunst reicht – von einigen international bekannten Stars der Kunstszene wie Tracy Moffat oder Lawrence Carroll abgesehen – kaum über die klischeehafte Kenntnis von Aboriginal Art hinaus.
June 2008 Jennifer Goodman & Dale Hickey included in group show This Way Up: abstract work from the La Trobe University Art Collection at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Throughout art history Abstractionism has taken many forms. Australian artists, like their overseas peers, have been part of this continually changing dialogue. This exhibition documents key post war abstract movements as represented in the La Trobe University Art Collection. The exhibition includes works by notable Australian abstractionists including George Johnson, Roger Kemp and Dale Hickey.
June 2008 Carl Scrase included in Project Rooms curated space at Melbourne Art Fair 2008
Project Rooms profile the work of innovative and independent artists by presenting new work in a series of spaces in and around the Royal Exhibition Building during the time of the Fair. Melbourne Art Fair 2008’s Project Rooms will see new work created by: Damiano Bertoli, Jonas Dahlberg, Pat Foster and Jen Berean (in external forecourt sites curated by Mark Feary); Chantal Faust, Gabriella and Silvana Mangano, Dorota Mytych, Kouichi Tabata, Jong Gu Yoon (Centre of Contemporary Photography Melbourne); Jensen Tjhung (Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces); Sean Bailey and Alex Vivian (Joint Hassles); Ronnie van Hout (Satellite Art Projects); Brook Andrew and Claudia del Fierro (The South Project); Kyungah Ham; Kaori Kato; Anne Zahalka (offsite Project Room at Sofitel Melbourne); and profile artists from Tai Snaith’s curated program House Proud in association with Next Wave Festival.
May 2008 The National Gallery of Victoria curators Dr Alex Baker and Cathy Leahy have reserved 12 works on paper by Gareth Sansom for the NGV Prints and Drawings Collection. This selection covers the period 1981 till 2004, and includes watercolours made in New Delhi in 1989. This initiative is to cover gaps in their Sansom holdings.
May 2008 Albert Street Open Day: Contemporary Art Conversations on 10th May 2008
May 2008 Simon Strong included in group show FX in Contemporary in Contemporary Photography at McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria
Bringing together images of mystery, intrigue and illusion this exhibition looks at ways contemporary artists are exploring the interior and exterior world through the photographic and digital image. From the cinematic and staged tableaux through to provocative and surreal montages, these selected works of altered and constructed worlds play with notions of fantasy, place and the body.
April 2008 Carl Scrase included in group show We've Got A Love Like Electric Sound at Seventh Gallery, Fitzroy
Catherine Connolly, Candice Cranmer, Stephen Palmer, Carl Scrase, Sally Tape, Fiona Williams 'We've Got A Love Like Electric Sound’ is inspired by the making of a mix tape and its symbolic place within contemporary culture, and consists of works exploring the transactions between art, music and popular culture.
April 2008 John Buckley Gallery welcomes Carl Scrase into its stable of artists
April 2008 Simon Strong included in group show Phantasia at Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Vivid, complex and magical, the works in this exhibition abandon the traditional realm of the photographic - the real world - to conjure images of the fantastical. From Magdalena Bors' fairytale scenes to Alexia Sinclair's regal women of history and Simon Strong's dreamscapes; from Andrew Mamo's phantasmagoria to Mark Kimber's landscapes of the imagination, it is an odyssey of the fabulous. The result of highly skilled and detailed construction these enchanted scenes are either created as theatrical settings and then photograph or pieced together from hundreds of photographic fragments.
April 2008 Gareth Sansom interview: 6 April 2008 at 10am on ABC radio Arts National
March 2008 download March gallery newsletter
February 2008 The John McCaughey Memorial Prize 2008 awarded to Gareth Sansom
GARETH Sansom first entered the John McCaughey Memorial Prize for art 43 years ago, and perhaps it was just as well that he didn't win then. In 1961, the prize money was £200 — between $4000 and $5000 in today's money. Last night he became the 50th recipient of the prize recognising the lifetime achievement of an Australian artist, which these days comes with $100,000 prize money.
February 2008 Emma van Leest receives Sanskriti Kendra residency, New Delhi, India
The Programme is a retreat offered to artists and scholars where they can reflect, interact, and create. Over the past few years the Kendra has provided residencies to over 300 artists, poets, scholars, and writers from nearly 30 countries, and to some 300 craftspersons and cultural activists. Sanskriti's Residency Programme also works in collaboration with international organizations like UNESCO, Asia-Link, Association Française d'Action Artistique, and the Fulbright Fellowships Program. The residency programme has helped to significantly foster understanding between different cultures through the sharing of ideas and life experiences.
February 2008 Emma van Leest included in Paper-cut, 24HRArt Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
The ‘folk art’ technique of ‘paper cutting’ developed in China with the advent of an abundant and cheap source of material, mass produced paper. It has become an integral part of Chinese cultural life, existing for thousands of years celebrating wedding ceremonies, folklore legends and traditional festivals. In present day China, the ‘paper cut’ has found it’s way into animation, television backdrops and advertising campaigns, and into the art practices of a number of contemporary Australian artists.
January 2008 John Buckley Gallery welcomes Domenico De Clario, Lesley Dumbrell and Andrew Leslie into its stable of artists
2007
November 2007 John Beard solo exhibition at Fine Art Society, London
A new series of strikingly dark and mysterious “portraits” of animals, humans, landscapes and architectural icons has been painted by John Beard for Other Faces, his first solo exhibition at The Fine Art Society at 148 New Bond Street, London W1 from 28 November to 20 December 2007. Beard, who was born in Wales but now lives and works primarily in Australia, has produced a collection of faces, both mythical and real, that have a common sense of stillness and silence and examine the ature of perception itself.
October 2007 Jennifer Goodman & Giles Ryder selected as finalists in the 2007 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast Art Gallery, Queensland
October 2007 Emma van Leest in 2007 Arc Biennial at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
The Arc Biennial is unique in that it works equally through both symposium and exhibition programs. Sitting under the one curatorial rationale, the exhibition and symposium work together to examine the themes being explored. Titled 'To be confirmed...' the 2007 Arc Biennial exhibition has been curated by Gordon Craig and Simone Jones.
October 2007 Contemporary Art Conversations, Albert Street Galleries Open Day
Join us on Saturday 13 October for a day of talks, exhibitions and education at the Albert Street Galleries Open Day. The program of talks is detailed below. If you require further information regarding speakers, or exhibitions, please click on the relevant gallery link and you will be taken to that gallery's web site. For the convenience of visitors, a refreshment vendor will be located in Albert Street on the day.
October 2007 Giles Ryder receives 2008 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
The University of South Australia has announced the 2008 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships. Five artists from around Australia have been presented the prestigious awards for study overseas in the visual arts, commencing in 2008. They are: Simon Terrill (Victoria); Hayden Fowler and Giles Ryder (NSW); Tracy Cornish (South Australia); and Joshua Webb (Western Australia).
September 2007 Dale Hickey, Gareth Sansom and David Stephenson included in group exhibition, 'Cross Currents: Focus on Australian art (Curated by the late John Stringer)' at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
'Cross Currents: Focus on contemporary Australian art' is the third in a biennial exhibition series at the MCA focusing on mid-career Australian artists. Guest curator John Stringer has selected works by 16 leading artists from around the country for this significant exhibition, which encompasses painting, photography, sculpture and installation.
August 2007 Emma van Leest Wintergarden installation at Federation Square images now online
August 2007 David Stephenson receives Australian Council 2007 Fellowship
August 2007 Gareth Sansom and John Beard included in group exhibition, 'Eye to I' at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
Curated by Geoff Wallis, this major exhibition explores the remarkable ways contemporary artists deal with issues surrounding personal identity. It includes works from more the 40 of Australia's most renowned and challenging artists working in a diverse range of modes and media. There is a natural human curiosity about how artists see themselves or more accurately, how they choose to (re)present themselves and this exhibition will, in part satisfy this curiosity.
August 2007 Jennifer Goodman wins the biennial City of Darebin La Trobe University Aquisitive Art Prize 2007
July 2007 Geoffrey Bartlett's major retrospective at NGV Federation Square opens
21 July to 14 October 2007,
Macquarie Bank Series,
Galleries 15 & 16, Level 3,
Admission free
Geoffrey Bartlett is an established Melbourne sculptor. His public works include Obelisk (Melbourne CBD), Constellation (opposite the Casino and produced in collaboration with Bruce Armstrong), Aurora (Melbourne Docklands) and The Messenger (located in the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International). In 1983 Bartlett travelled to New York on a Harkness Scholarship to undertake post graduate study at Columbia University. The two years he spent studying and working in the US were to have a significant impact on his work.
July 2007 John Beard included in group exhibition at Fine Art Society, London
July 2007 July Gallery Newsletter available for download
July 2007 Jennifer Goodman selected as finalist in the biennial City of Darebin La Trobe University Aquisitive Art Prize 2007
Established in 1997, DLAP, City of Darebin La Trobe University Acquisitive Art prize is a biennial exhibition dedicated to supporting contemporary visual artists and arts practices in Victoria. Presented by the City of Darebin and La Trobe University, DLAP 07 offers two awards: $10,000 for ‘best work on show’, to be acquired for the City of Darebin Art Collection and a $3,000 prize for the ‘best work by an emerging artist’ to be acquired for the La Trobe University Art Collection.
June 2007 New opening hours Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 5 pm
June 2007 Gallery Newsletter available for download
May 2007 Gareth Sansom and Janenne Eaton announced as finalist of Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2007
May 2007 Gareth Sansom included in group exhibition, 'Bodies and Minds' at Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
April 2007 John Buckley Gallery welcomes David Stephenson into its stable of artists
March 2007 Giles Ryder included in group show, Disco Baroque at UTS Gallery, Sydney
Disco Baroque is a kaleidoscopic synaesthesic experience, a vertiginous rollercoaster ride through the mirrorball realm of glitter and shine. This exhibition engages with contemporary notions relating to the disco culture of the 1970's merged with the ideas of the historical Baroque period. Parallelled today by Glam, Funk and Bling, the Baroque embodied excessive abundance and ornament at a time when new discoveries in science were seen by the masses as potentially threatening.
March 2007 John Beard announced as Archibald Prize Winner 2007
Sydney artist John Beard has won the 2007 Archibald Prize for his painting of Janet Laurence. The Archibald Prize is now in its 86th year. John receives a prize of $35,000
February 2007 Bruce Armstrong included in group show, Sci-Fi 2007 at Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
February 2007 John Buckley Gallery welcomes John Firth-Smith and Augustine Dall'Ava into its stable of artists
2006
December 2006: John Beard wins The Paddington Art Prize 2006
The PADDINGTON ART PRIZE was established by Marlene Antico, director of Marlene Antico Fine Arts, in 2004. The prize is an acquisitive prize, with $20,000 awardred for a contemporary painting inspired by the Australian landscape.
November 2006: John Beard wins Kedumba Award for Contemporary Australian Drawing 2006
The judge Janet Laurence announced the results of the seventeenth Kedumba Drawing Award on Saturday, October 28. Janet declared that it was a difficult decision as there were many works that would enhance the Kedumba Collection.
November 2006: Jeremy Kibel solo exhibition at Peloton Gallery, Sydney
October 2006: Giles Ryder wins RIPE Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award
NAVA is pleased to announce that Louisa Dawson (NSW) and Giles Ryder (NSW) are the two winning entrants in the first round of the RIPE Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award.
October 2006: Gareth Sansom included in group exhibition For Matthew and Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
For Matthew & Others: Journeys with Schizophrenia is an extraordinary project that examines the multiple impacts of schizophrenia. It comprises an exhibition, performances, a conference and an education program, all with the aim of raising public awareness of one of the most stigmatised illnesses in contemporary society; schizophrenia. The project is inspired by the death of a young man called Matthew who struggled with schizophrenia for fifteen years, finally taking his own life in 1999.
October 2006: John Beard elected Professorial Visiting Fellow in the School of Art, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
October 2006: Peter D Cole & Bruce Armstrong included in group exhibition The Idea of the Animal as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2006
The Idea of the Animal investigates the complex relationship between humans and animals in contemporary visual culture by contemporary international and Australian artists.
September 2006: John Beard included in group exhibition Monochromed at The Fine Art Society, London
September 2006: John Beard and Gareth Sansom included in group exhibition A Man's World, Museum of Brisbane, Queensland
Fourteen male Australian artists challenge stereotypical notions of masculinity. Each work in the exhibition has been chosen because, in some way, it reflects on what it means to be male today. A Man’s World looks at what men think about cultural identity, violence, beauty, humour, memory, childhood, rock music, sex, cars and their fathers.
September 2006: Simon Strong included in group exhibition Light Sensitive at NGV Australia, Federation Square
Light Sensitive comprises five themes and ranges from the 'uncanny' which includes evocative camera-less images called 'photograms' and surrealist-inspired images; 'new portraiture' which takes a time-honoured subject into fresh creative areas; a distinctive examination of physically (but not psychically) vacant spaces; documentary work that considers reality in provocative ways; and photographs that explore the complex nature of social groupings in our modern world.
August 2006: Drawing on life lessons The Herald Sun
Monday, August 7, 2006
By Jeff Makin
July 2006: John Beard included in the Sixth Drawing Biennale 2006 at Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
Essay by Michael Desmond
June 2006: Gareth Sansom wins the National Works on Paper Award 20006
Artist's statement: Life After Bacon by Gareth Sansom
June 2006: The Age, Su Baker: Paintings by Ashley Crawford
Baker has exhibited nationally in public and commercial galleries since her first solo exhibition in 1983, including the 1989 Perspecta at the Art Gallery of NSW. But this is the first Melbourne show for Baker, who is also the dean of the School of Art at the VCA, and although it has the sense of a grouping of works on canvas that is not quite resolved, when she hits the mark it is a powerful exploration of the power of suggestion. more>
May 2006: The Herald Sun, Shining lights in our art market Reviewer: Jeff Makin
THE new John Buckley Gallery has several things in common with the new Scott Livesey Gallery, reviewed two weeks ago.
Both are a timely upgrading of exhibition facilities that beam an optimism for the future of the Melbourne art market.
You enter both through small ante-rooms that open into larger high-ceilinged, white-walled, well-lit interiors. more>
May 2006 : New Website
The new website is finally up, and we will be adding to it over the coming weeks.
January 2006: John Beard solo exhibition Fugitive Vision:
The Land’s End and other new works, Centro de Arte Monderna, Lisbon
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