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51 Articles

Letter from the Editor

Here we are again. Summer. A time of warmth, freedom, exploration and, most importantly, creativity. This issue is the perfect guide to what's happening in the arts across the country, from exhibitions and events to studio life and artist opportunities. The gallery is transformed into a magical, dense, jewel-like space that encourages you to consider your connection to place, personal histories, and the changing nature of a region in Glenn Barkley's Plant Your Feet. Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists exhibits work by a new generation of artists. The exhibition encompasses spoken word, choreography, scent, weaving, and moving image to refocus our attention on the what, how, who and why of our present moment. Other exhibitions invite us to “play” despite the pensive subtext of the works, a reminder to enjoy ourselves…

Editor's choice

Powerhouse Museum Until 3 June 2023 Sydney Hello, my youth is calling. In the 1990s, a disparate assortment of music was aired over the radio waves – “dirty” guitar, strong riffs, and heavy drumming, mixed with emotional, often cryptic “anti” lyrics. That was Grunge, part of a movement that deliberately avoided the mainstream and anything popular. Yet, ironically, it became the dominant cultural movement of the period with artists that helped define the genre – Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Bikini Kill, and more. Unpopular draws on the never-before-seen archive of music promoter and record company founder Stephen “Pav” Pavlovic, including footage of live performances, unheard music demos and live audio recordings, photographs, original graphic art, posters and fanzines, and Kurt Cobain's Martin guitar plus new commissions. Courtesy Stephen Pavlovic and Powerhouse Museum,…

Editor's choice

Sydney Festival 2023

The annual Sydney Festival returns in 2023, transforming the city once again into a kaleidoscope of colour, creativity, and activity from 5 to 29 January. This year's presentation features a dynamic program of over 100 unique events comprising 748 performances across fifty-four venues. Highlights include Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon at The Cutaway in Barangaroo, a multi-sensory experience via nine transformational spaces, from collections of historical photographs and original films, holography, 360 degree projections, and augmented reality that transports you inside Kahlo's most famous works. Rhythmic offerings include drummer Chloe Kim's musical response to South Korean artist Do Ho Suh's large-scale installation Staircase-III, 2010, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The hand-stitched fabric staircase suggests the passage of time and is symbolic of the link and connective…

Sydney Festival 2023

Bega Valley Shire Council, New South Wales, unveils the new South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA), a purpose-built contemporary art space opening in early 2023, following the completion of a major redevelopment and expansion of the thirty-year-old site formerly known as Bega Valley Regional Gallery. SECCA Gallery greets its visitors with a new façade while inside treats them to a multi-purpose project and workshop space, archive and storage areas to house their expanding public collection featuring over 350 historical works and significant loans, as well as new exhibition rooms such as the new Chamber Gallery featuring the iconic curved walls of the original building which will present major pieces by Australian artists working in digital media. SECCA will also host touring exhibitions. Visit their website to view their inaugural exhibition program. gallery.begavalley.nsw.gov.au Courtesy…

Marawar-ak | From the West

Marawar-ak | From the West: Contemporary Art from Western Australia celebrates Western Australian art and showcases artists working across design, animation, sculpture, drawing and installation at Fremantle Arts Centre (FAC) until 22 January. Marawar-ak presents stories of regional and remote life, love, family, grief, choice, and sacrifice alongside works that map geography and memory through four exhibitions: Anna Louise Richardson andAbdul-Rahman Abdullah: Still Watching; Katie Breckon: Backtrack; Sally Bower: A Gift and a Shadow, and Tyrown Waigana: The RinDin Dai. The exhibition season includes a series of public programs and events, including Disclosure: Art Today in WA, a panel discussion comprising artists, curators, critics and creative producers reflecting upon WA's artistic legacies, contemporary practice and future trajectories; and 4X15, a curator-led speed session tour in each exhibition. fac.org.au Courtesy the artist and Fremantle…

Marawar-ak | From the West

The Art Gallery of New South Wales’ (AGNSW) new transformation – the Sydney Modern Project – opens to the public this summer, with official celebrations kicking off on 3 December. A new standalone building, public art garden and revitalised historic building, including a complete re-installation of the collection, will bring together art, architecture and landscape in spectacular new ways, with dynamic galleries, site-specific commissions by leading Australian and international artists: Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Karla Dickens, Simryn Gill, Jonathan Jones, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Mingwei, Richard Lewer, Lisa Reihana, and Francis Upritchard; and extensive outdoor spaces for everyone to enjoy. The new construction almost doubles the AGNSW's exhibition space, which comprises a permanent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gallery at entrance level. The expansion project also includes a vast underground art space, repurposed from…

National Cartoon Gallery & Rotary National Cartoon Awards

Cartoons are recognised as exaggerated pictures intended as satire, caricature, or humour, where an interdependence of images and words help define the characters’ actions or convey a particular point of view, particularly the social or political. Located in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, the National Cartoon Gallery, Australia's only cartoon gallery, is home to the most extensive collection of contemporary cartoons in the Southern Hemisphere. Its exhibition and awards program champions cartoon and comic art, highlighting its value to culture and society. The history of the National Cartoon Gallery and the Rotary National Cartoon Awards, the oldest and largest cartooning competition in Australia, are closely intertwined. The former was reconstructed from a derelict WWII Air Force bunker in 1996, to house the latter's expanding collection, acquired since the inaugural iteration in 1989.…

National Cartoon Gallery & Rotary National Cartoon Awards

Temple of Bloom

The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) presents the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission: Temple of Boom Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International, Melbourne, is a contemporary tribute to the Classical Greek architectural masterpiece, The Parthenon, on the Athenian Acropolis. Tony Ellwood AM, Director of the NGV, said: “Temple of Boom overlays this ancient structure with new connections to time and place – especially here in Melbourne.” Designed by Melbourne-based architects Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang, Temple of Boom invites audiences to consider the effect of time on all architecture as the structure gradually transforms with artworks and murals by local artists, painted in three phases, the first of which began last month and continues until August 2023. From vibrantly coloured floral motifs to optical illusions, the artworks draw inspiration from the colourful and…

Temple of Bloom

Liam Benson Virtue Without Stain

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery “The crest of Clan Russell, that of Liam Benson's beloved Scottish-born ‘Gran’ hung in the artist's childhood North-West Sydney home. The Russell heraldic motto, Virtus sine macula, translated as ‘Virtue without stain’ gives title to this exhibition,” Barbara Dowse writes. “Such insignia, texts and motifs of ethos, heritage and identity via flags, banners, embroidery, studio-made ceremonial regalia and body painting continue to inform and pervade the multi-media practice of the artist-activist.” Liam Benson: Virtue Without Stain presents sixty-seven images of Benson's works, words from the gallery director, exhibition curator and artist, and four essays that contextualise a visual arts practice spanning two decades – by Dowse, Dr Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Dr Christine Dean and Steven Lindsay Ross. “Benson's earliest works, produced from 2004 to 2013, were based entirely around…

Liam Benson Virtue Without Stain

Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists

Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney, looks to tomorrow in a sensitive reimagining of speculative futures. The exhibition is alive, with emotions, feeling, and in sculptural form – activating the senses through textile artworks, sculptures, sound, video, smell, poetry, and documented performance. Featuring six artists, Sundari Carmody (SA), Angela Goh (NSW), Julia Gutman (NSW), Amrita Hepi (VIC), Jazz Money (NSW), and Katie West (WA), the artworks venture into the unknown, exploring themes of personal and shared identities, making art that speaks to life, full of action anti-static. The exhibition is the result of curator Michael Do's interest in performative, multidisciplinary, hybrid practices while also considering a post-pandemic world, exploring the anger, the pain, and the confusion. “These are artists dealing with the ‘what now’…

Primavera 2022: Young Australian Artists

Glenn Barkley Plant Your Feet

Ceramicist Glenn Barkley creates a rich visual journey by excavating his rural community's colonial past. For his exhibition Plant Your Feet at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Barkley wears two hats. He describes the show as both a creative and curatorial act, in which he combines his own pottery with museological artefacts and materials, alongside a collection of art pieces created by the Nowra community. These sections intersect and interrelate, building up a dense interior space filled with fascinating cultural history. Barkley has held a long fascination with craft-based forms and how they feed into contemporary art. Over the past decade, he has devoted himself to creating exuberant, colourful vessels encrusted with bright decorative shapes, patterns, plants, and animal life. He hand-builds his pots, using a coiling method and a…

Glenn Barkley Plant Your Feet

Warrnambool Art Gallery Until 5 March 2023 Victoria Self-Creation explores a nuanced area in the artform of drag and the idea of gender presentation through the specific medium of DIY and low budget, self-produced music videos. Audiences are invited to reconsider the popular imagination of drag as binary – men cross-dressing as women – and used exclusively as a tool for subversion; to instead open up reflections about what this medium can offer contemporary understandings of gender, sexual identity, community care building, individual identity, and self-creation. Artists: CHRISTEENE, Vaginal Davis, The Huxleys, Max Lawrence, and Dyan Tai. Courtesy the artist and Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria…

Gamepieces Art Gallery of South Australia Until 22 January 2023 Adelaide Gamepieces presents the scope of Indian artist Nalini Malani's oeuvre – from her pioneering experimentations in film and photography in the late 1960s to her “video/shadow plays” that draw on mythology and political histories. Highlights include the large-scale installation, Gamepieces, 2003-20, encompassing six rotating Mylar cylinders combined with video projection, sound, kinetic movement, and light to delve into history, poetic allusion, and memory. Can You Hear Me?, 2019, comprising eighty-eight stop-motion animations projected at scale in what the artist describes as “Animation Chambers,” is also on view. © the artist Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide…

The Summer Show

UMI Arts Gallery Until 1 February 2023 Queensland UMI Arts presents The Summer Show – a collectible, gift-worthy display of works in a variety of mediums, including paintings, works on paper, artefacts, woodcarvings, a multimedia installation, fabric, homewares, and ceramics by fifteen member artists: Cecelia Slade, Edna Ambrym, Erinjia, George Passi, Kassandra Savage, Kevin Edmondstone, Leanne Fredericks, Lisa Michl Ko-manggen, Michelle Yeatman, Paulene McIntyre, Philomena Yeatman, Rhys Miles, Shirley Collins, Valmai Pollard, and Wayne Connolly – emerging and established Indigenous artists from across Far North Queensland who draw inspiration from the dynamic energy of the tropics. Courtesy the artist and UMI Arts, Queensland…

The Summer Show

The Cost of Living

Art Gallery of Western Australia Until 29 January 2023 Perth This collection display explores how understandings and misunderstandings of value shape art and everyday life and impact howwe relate to each other physically, emotionally, and economically. Artworks by Pat Brassington, Peter Cooley, Robert Dickerson, Richard Giblett, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Catherine Opie, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Khaled Sabsabi, Ronnie Van Hout, and Anne Wallace weigh on various themes, including the lure and limits of aspirational romance, social and emotional dislocation, toxic living environments, police violence, the ravages of war, and the impact of social media. Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth…

The Cost of Living

Virtue Without Stain Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Until 15 January 2023 New South Wales Self-performance and body adornment are at the core of Liam Benson's practice, and central to that work is the way his video, craft techniques, and photography overlap, subverting and cross-referencing entrenched ideologies, popular iconography, art, and media language. As a means of both empowerment and humour, Benson creates unsettling images of great beauty that subtly deal with issues of masculinity, homophobia, gender, culture, subculture, and colonial history. This exhibition surveys Benson's existingbody ofwork and includes new collaborative pieces made with local communities in Bathurst, New South Wales. Courtesy the artist and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales…

The Art of Flowers Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Until 12 March 2023 New South Wales Margaret Olley's unique approach to house cleaning resulted in an eclectic, flower-filled home studio interior. Fresh, dried, and synthetic flowers occupied the space; even desiccated flowers, far beyond their prime, were left in place so she could see “the bones” of the flowers and continue to refer to them as subjects for painting as though they were fresh from the garden. This exhibition celebrates Olley's love for these blooms through works spanning five decades, the earliest being Still life, 1956, and the latest being Poppies and checked cloth, 2011. Courtesy Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre, New South Wales…

Jingo was born in the Slum Canberra Museum and Gallery Until 4 March 2023 Australian Capital Territory This darkly powerful exhibition reflects on the iconic bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang's exploits in late 1870s Australia, and the enduring legacy of the Kelly myth in contemporary culture. The exhibition features photographs and costumes fromjustin Kurzel's 2019 film True History of the Kelly Gang, alongside Sidney Nolan's iconic Ned Kelly paintings that influenced the film. Artist and filmmaker Matthew Thorne, who was present during the film's production, has created a parallel body of work that is part behind-the-scenes documentary, part exploration of the Kelly myth. Courtesy the artist and Canberra Museum and Gallery, Australian Capital Territory…

These Stories Will be Different Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania 9 December 2022 to 25 January 2023 Hobart Zanny Begg's These Stories Will be Different brings together three of the artist's most significant video installations that explore contested histories. The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod), 2017, The Beehive, 2018, and Stories of Kannagi, 2019, reimagine a medieval feminist utopia, probe the unsolved murder of a high-profile anti-gentrification campaigner, and explore the connections between love, loss, and language in diasporic communities. Drawing on ancient literary traditions, nonlinear timeframes, and computer-generated re-sequencing, these works challenge the politics of storytelling and invite us to see the world differently. Courtesy the artist and Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart…

Capturing Nature:

Early photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893 Charles Darwin University Art Gallery Until 1 April 2023 Northern Territory Taken from the Australian Museum's extensive archival collection of glass plate negatives, sixty-seven large-format photographic prints showcase the Museum's scientific discoveries between the 1850s and 1890s. Sitting at the nexus of science and art, they tell the story of pioneering research and documentation and the advent of photography in Australia. Subjects vary from large sunfish and the flipper of a sperm whale to a gorilla and the fragile bones of a flamingo. Alongside the specimens, the figures of scientists can often be seen as a gauge of scale. Courtesy Australian Museum, Sydney and Charles Darwin University Art Gallery, Northern Territory…

Capturing Nature:

Pilar Mata Dupont

Las Hormigas/The Ants Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts Until 8 January 2023 Western Australia Pilar Mata Dupont's practice plays out the complex, constantly unfolding processes of remembering, forgetting, and rewriting history. Influenced by her background and upbringing in the settler-colonial states of Brunei, Argentina, and Australia, Dupont works with dark, absurdist humour to reflect on her family's complicated past, memory fatigue, colonial anxiety, and how trauma manifests over large geographical and temporal distances. Here, the artist presents a vivid exploration of intergenerational storytelling and the fragmentation of memory across video, photography and performance, including her new work Las Hormigas, 2022. Courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY, Perth and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia…

Pilar Mata Dupont

Trying to act casual City Library Gallery 21 December 2022 to 29 January 2023 Melbourne Brent Lukey presents a photographic series of twelve large prints and an installation. The work explores our public persona within the urban environment that surrounds us, particularly the “street” as a transitional space, a public space of movement, and guarded interaction. The paths we take, the way we move, the clothing we wear, the eye contact we make, and the facades we pass in this ordered yet random habitat – the street is a place where humans are the softest, most fluid part of the landscape.…

NorthSite Contemporary Arts Until 28 January 2023 Queensland Meanwhile celebrates the power of the collective creative experience. Sixfold Project artists Jennifer Valmadre, Rose Rigley, Julie Poulsen, Louisa Ennis-Thomas, Barbara Dover, and Raewyn Biggs respond to time and place, drawing upon their own personal and philosophical frameworks to simultaneously create new multi-disciplinary works for this exhibition. Based in Cairns, Melbourne and Aotearoa, the collective's regular online exchanges become integral to each individual's processes and material experiments, describing this process as an “energising” opportunity to “reject, reshape, reaffirm, and re-navigate their works through a shared creative process.” Courtesy the artist and NorthSite Contemporary Arts, Queensland…

The Summer Show 2023:

Grand Design EVERYWHEN Artspace 23 December 2022 to 31 January 2023 Victoria EVERYWHEN Artspace presents a seasonal celebration of contemporary Indigenous art: paintings, barks, ochres, and sculptures of large scale and high quality by leading artists from the remote and regional desert communities of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Central Australia, Utopia, the Kimberley, the Pilbara, and Arnhem Land. Exhibiting artists include Kunmanara Pepai Jangala Carroll, Atipalku Intjalki, Anita Pumani, Betty Campbell, Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Charmaine Pwerle, Djul'djul Gurruwiwi, Muluymuluy Wirrpanda, Janice Stanley, Lizzie Moss Pwerle, Mabel Juli & Atlanta Mercy Umbulgarri, Raylene Walatinna, Yatjiki (Vicki) Cullinan, and many more. Courtesy the artist and Iwantja Arts, South Australia and EVERYWHEN Artspace, Victoria…

The Summer Show 2023:

Freedom of Movement:

Contemporary Art and Design from the NGV Collection NGV International 3 December 2022 to 10 April 2023 Melbourne Crossing cultures, disciplines, and traditional divides, Freedom of Movement presents a selection of more than sixty works from the NGV Collection bound together by ideas of movement – physical, technological, or geographical. From an amorphous floating mass made from hundreds of black microphones to a moving conveyor belt with a computerised scanner, the exhibition invites audiences to contemplate concepts of movement, change, perception, and transformation in contemporary life. Artists include Patricia Piccinini, KAWS, nendo, Paola Pivi, Nick Cave, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Shilpa Gupta, and Alicja Kwade, to name a few. Courtesy the artist, König Galerie, Berlin and NGV International, Melbourne…

Freedom of Movement:

Marikit Santiago

We Eat This Bread Fairfield City Museum & Gallery Until 1 April 2023 Sydney Marikit Santiago embraces and layers imagery from the canon of Western art history with rich cultural symbolism that calls upon Philippine heritage, Catholicism, folklore, myth, and personal memories. For We Eat This Bread, Santiago presents a series of works exploring The Last Supper, which provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist. Santiago extends the story to consider the rituals, traditions, and structures that shape the artist's cultural and social identities, examining the collective and personal with a reverent criticality that negotiates what is inherited, reclaimed, and nourished. Courtesy the artist and Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Sydney…

Marikit Santiago

Angelica Mesiti

ASSEMBLY National Gallery of Australia Until 29 January 2023 Australian Capital Territory Angelica Mesiti's three-channel video installation ASSEMBLY is on view for the first time since debuting at the 2019 Venice Biennale. The work explores the fragility of democracy and considers how communities are formed through shared movement and communication. By establishing an evolving set of intergenerational and cross-cultural translations, from the verbal to the written word and stenographic codes, to music and performance, Mesiti creates a hospitable place for the “other” to gather, disassemble and reunite, and demonstrate the strength and creativity of a plural society. Courtesy the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and National Gallery of Australia, Australian Capital Territory…

Angelica Mesiti

Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt The Lock-Up 3 December 2022 to 5 February 2023 New South Wales Glass is a solid produced by cooling molten material that still holds its liquid memory. Here, Alex Seton contrasts the layered geological time evident in his favoured material of marble with this captive moment, presenting a series of glass installations that contemplate memory, forgetting, and loss with the passing of time. In tribute to Newcastle's discontinued Leonora Glassworks, who made aircraft bomb sights before moving into art glass, seven sitespecific chandeliers riff upon light fittings that were ubiquitous in the entranceways of clubs and RSLs of post-WWII Australia. Courtesy the artist and The Lock-Up, New South Wales…

Museum of Brisbane 9 December 2022 to 16 April 2023 Queensland Play Moves transforms the audience's role from observer to participant. The exhibition invites us to step in, touch, move, weave, dance, build and embrace the works while leaving our mark with every action, making the art grow, change, and come alive. Use a mega loom to weave a new tapestry; activate the sensor detectors of a tentacle orchestra and a cloud of digitally projected pixels; partake in a technicolour demolition party; find a hidden party with dancing pot plants; sink into a faux fur-lined bathtub/music booth. Courtesy the artists and Museum of Brisbane, Queensland…

Tomás Saraceno

Oceans of Air Mona, Museum of Old and New Art 17 December 2022 to 24 July 2023 Tasmania Tomás Saraceno is an Argentinian-born Berlin-based artist attuned to the changes modern humans and capitalism have wrought on today's world (in a new era called “the Capitalocene”). In this exhibition, “air”, or “toxified air,” is the central theme explored through community projects and artworks made from various materials, from tiny dust particles and air quality samples to streamed radio waves and thermodynamic sculptures, all informed by multiple perspectives. New Mona commissions: a series of intricate hybrid webs and site-specific herbarium diptych works add to this call for environmental action. Courtesy Studio Tomás Saraceno, Berlin and Mona, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania…

Leave only footprints Monash Gallery of Art Until 19 February 2023 Melbourne Emerging from the depths of nature, Tamara Dean's practice examines the human condition. Leave only footprints marks the first survey of the artist's photographic career spanning twenty years. Eleven key bodies of work incorporate scent, photography, installation, and the moving image to create an environment that engages the senses. These works explore transitional moments in our lives: rites of passage, rituals and motherhood. They are underpinned by Dean's longing and desire to be within and to protect nature; to remind us that humans and nature are intricately connected. Courtesy the artist, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney/Berlin and Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne…

Melbourne Etching Supplies

Printmaking is an evolving art form that continues to expand; from seventh-century woodcuts to the most recent developments in digital technologies, with multidisciplinary applications for a range of materials from paper to fabric, plastic to glass, and ceramics to metal. In support of its broad spectrum of techniques and purposes, product supply and accessibility are crucial. So, we look beyond the medium of print itself, into the rich history of one of Melbourne's oldest art stores. In 1974, Margie Burnett and Neil Wallace established Melbourne Etching Supplies (M.E.S), then commonly known as the Print Guild. Their aim: to supply printmakers with fine-quality materials and to promote Australian printmakers by providing a space for them to exhibit their work. The quality and quantity of paper stock swiftly grew; a testament to their…

Melbourne Etching Supplies

Artist Opportunities

Copyright Agency Partnerships’ inaugural commission and exhibition TextaQueen's Bollywouldn't was commissioned in 2021 as the first in a three-year series run by Copyright Agency Partnerships (CAP), an initiative of the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, with leading Australian arts institutions 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (4A), Sydney, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, and Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, designed to support midcareer and established visual artists with an $80,000 artistic commission and solo exhibition opportunity. For over twenty years, TextaQueen has been known for using the humble fibre-tip marker to draw out complex politics of gender, race, sexuality, and identity in detailed portraiture. Bollywouldn't, on view at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney NSW 2000, until 18 December, is a balm to the displacement of diaspora, deconstructing the “-isms”…

Artist Opportunities

Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing T (02) 9704-5693 E adelaideperrygallery@plc.nsw.edu.au W apg.plc.nsw.edu.au This prize is a $25,000 acquisitive award for Drawing. The exhibition of finalists’ works will be on display at Adelaide Perry Gallery in Croydon NSW 2132, from Feb 24 to March 24, 2023. Entries close midnight, Wed Jan 11, 2023. See ad page 107. Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize T (03) 9261-7111. E gallery@bayside.vic.gov.au W baysideacquisitiveartprize.com.au Entries are open for the annual Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize for painting. The Major Prize is $15,000. The exhibition of shortlisted works will be on view at Bayside Gallery, Brighton VIC 3186, from May 12 to July 2, 2023. Visit the website for details and entry. Entries close Fri Feb 17, 2023. See ad page 10. The Collie Art Prize W www.collieartgallery.org.au The Collie Art Prize is one of regional Australia's richest art…

Submissions and proposals

A4 Art Australia Call for Entries T (03) 9428-0568, 0407-059-194. E mail@contemporaryartsociety.org.au W www.contemporaryartsociety.org.au A unique exhibition of A4 sized artworks in 2D and 3D, open to established and emerging contemporary artists across Australia. All 2D artworks will be framed for exhibition. Showing March 4 to April 10, 2023, Herring Island Gallery, as part of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival. All Artworks exhibited also displayed on website. Entry fee: $15 per artwork. Max 4 per artist. Enter online. Entries close Fri Feb 17, 2023. See ad page 76. Blackcat Gallery Proposals E info@blackcatgallery.com.au W blackcatgallery.com.au/submit BlackCat Gallery is currently seeking proposals for our Jan to June 2023 exhibition program. We invite artists, curators, and collectives working in all mediums to apply. This space is available for inspection during gallery opening hours Wed-Sun 11.00 to 5.00. Ladder Art Space 81…

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Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants W www.bhfineart.com Catherine Asquith Art Advisory T 0492-149-053. E catherine@catherineasquithart.com W www.catherineasquithart.com Director: Catherine Asquith, B.A., B.Litt. (Hons.) AVAA Certified Practising Valuer. Specialist advice on buying and selling art, collection development and management, and auction agency and liaison. Curatorial management for commercial and residential property projects. Valuations for insurance, estate planning and division, and Family Law property negotiations. Greer Adams Fine Art W www.greeradamsfineart.com Louise Smith Fine Art W louisesmithfineart.com.au Noël Stott of Adam Galleries W www.adamgalleries.com Private View Art Collections T 0412-360-985. E info@privateviewart.com W www.privateviewart.com Private and corporate collection development and advice. Offering assistance with sourcing, framing, conserving, and investing in art with an extensive range of specialist networks. Stella Downer Dealer, Consultant, Valuer T 0402-018-283. E stellart@bigpond.com.au W www.stelladownerfineart.com.au H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00. Approved valuer for the Australian Government Cultural Gifts Program. Insurance/market value, authentication, consulting, and collection management.…

Member Organisations

Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) T (02) 9225-1878. E info@artsallerysociety.org.au W www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/members Call or visit the website for information about gallery membership; discounts, free exhibition viewings, magazine, and over 400 lectures, workshops, and other events each year. Copyright Agency T 1800-066-844 (landlines toll free). E memberservices@copyright.com.au W www.copyright.com.au The Copyright Agency is a not-for-profit rights management organisation enabling the use of text and images in return for fair payment to visual artists, writers, and publishers. National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) T (02)9368-1900. E nava@visualarts.net.au W nava.net.au NAVA is the peak body representing and advancing the professional interests of the Australian visual arts, craft, and design sector. Visit the website for details about NAVA's New Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design, and membership. The Print Council of Australia Inc. W printcouncil.org.au A national not-for-profit member organisation that promotes…

Art Academica Creative School 1/763 Centre Road. Bentleigh East VIC 3165. T 0410-817-905. W www.art-classes.com.au Oil painting classes and classic drawing classes. European classic art school. All materials provided. Small groups, with an individual approach to every student. Artists who Teach W www.theartofteaching.com.au Learn how to teach art to kids. This online course covers everything you'll need to know to start running art workshops for kids and supplement your art career with a creative income. Learn classroom management and strategies. Bradford Art Academy 1st Floor, 1310 Malvern Road, Malvern VIC 3144. T 0401-769-379. E info@bradfordartacademy.com.au W www.bradfordartacademy.com.au H Tues 4.30 to 8.30, Sat 10.00 to 2.30. Learn true fundamental skills to create beautiful oil paintings with no prior experience required. Book a free introductory class online. Brisbane Sculpture School Perides Art Projects, 138 Robinson Road East, Geebung QLD 4034. W www.peridesartfoundry.com.au/sculpture-school/Sculpture classes in Brisbane…

37.8136° S | 144.9631° E Online OzLink Entertainment To March 31, 2023 OzLink Entertainment proudly presents HIDDEN FACES – the 2022 Victorian Salon des Refusés exhibition online. A curated selection of portraits by Victorian artists submitted for national portrait prizes either not hung in the official exhibitions or previously seen in Melbourne. Works by Daisy Birtchnell, Ross Cockle, Andy Comisso, Julian De Lio, Jeremy Elkington, Peter Ferrier, Louise Foletta, Janine Good, Jaq Grantford, Andrew Greensmith, Tessa Hubble, Kenneth S Hunt, Polly I fould, Judy Mackintosh, John Mandich, Lana McLean, Joanne Morris, Louise Otten, Chris Sea ter, Todd Simpson, Mia Stylianou, Liz Sullivan, Caroline Thew, Jim van Geet and Victoria Watts. Jacqueline Taylor OAM, Manager/Curator 0418-357-814; jtaylor@ozlink.com.au Full exhibition and People's Choice voting at www.ozlink.info/hidden-faces-2022.html YouTube link https://youtu.be/xJmSD_ovpOM Federation Square / CBD ACMI Federation Square, Melbourne 3000. T (03) 8663-2200.…

36.9848° S | 143.3906° E Mornington Peninsula Cook Street Collective 41 Cook Street, Flinders 3929. T (03) 5989-1022 E info@cookstreetcollective.com.au W www.cookstreetcollective.com.au Instagram: @csc_gallery H Fri-Mon 10.00 to 4.00, Tues-Thurs by appt. Dec 3 to 24 Blackroom Gallery: A Field of Flowers by Elizabeth Barnett. Dec 28 to Jan 6, 2023 Smalls – CSC Group Show. Jan 7 to 29, 2023 The Bush and Beyond by Sally Joubert & Sarah McDonald. EVERYWHEN Artspace 1/39 Cook Street, Flinders 3929. T (03) 5989-0496. E gallery@everywhenart.com.au W everywhenart.com.au Directors: Susan McCulloch OAM and Emily McCulloch Childs. H Dec: Fri-Tues 11.00 to 4.00. Jan: daily 11.00 to 4.00. Specialising in contemporary Aboriginal art from 40+ Aboriginal owned art centres around Australia. Dec 2 to 20 Atlanta Mercy Umbulgurri – Gungi to Gungi: Old Days/New Days – The living art of Mabel Juli's dreamings. Famous Warmun artist Mabel Juli has gifted…

33.8688° S | 151.2093° E CBD The Rocks Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) Art Gallery Road, Sydney 2000. T (02) 9225-1744, 1800-679-278. W www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au Admission charges apply to some exhibitions. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Jan 2023 Daniel Boyd: Treasure island – the artist's first major exhibition held in an Australian public institution. Featuring more than 80 works from across his nearly twodecade career, the exhibition unpacks the ways in which Boyd holds a lens to colonial history, explores multiplicity within narratives, and interrogates blackness as a form of First Nations’ resistance. Also, Local Rhythms and Actions – jointly curated by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and 11 residents from Wool loo moo loo, Local Rhythms and Actions is the first exhibition in our Open Studio program, which offers new…

New South Wales

31.2532°,S | 146.9211° E Newcastle Central Coast Flying Spanners Gallery 7 Anzac Parade, Teralba 2284. T 0417-250-240. W www.flyingspannersgallery.com H Sat-Mon 9.00 to 3.00. Paintings. Sculpture. Ceramics. Gosford Regional Gallery 36 Webb Street, EastGosford 2250. T (02) 4304-7550. E gallery@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au W www.gosfordregionalgallery.com Instagram: @gosford gallery Free entry. H Daily 9.30 to 4.00. To Jan 29, 2023 Lionel's Place: Lionel Lindsay from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection. Also, James Hazel: Underscoring the Commons. Dec 17 to Feb 26, 2023 Foyer gallery: Katerina Apale: Present Memories. The Lock-up 90 Hunter Street, Newcastle 2300. T (02) 4925-2265. W www.thelockup.org.au Free entry. H Wed-Sat 10.00 to 4.00, Sun 11.00 to 3.00. Dec 3 to Feb 5, 2023 Alex Seton: Everything was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt. Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG) 230 High Street, Maitland 2320. T (02) 4934-9859. E artgallery@maitland.nsw.gov.au W www.mrag.org.au H Tues-Sun 10.00 to 5.00. Closed public hols. Visit…

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Australian Capital Territory

35.4735° S | 149.0124° E Civic Inner North Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) Gallery 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson 2602. T (02) 6247-8736. E gallery@anca.net.au W www.anca.net.au H Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. Closed public hols. ANCA Gallery is a not-for-profit artist-run initiative. The Gallery presents a professional program of art exhibitions and events, supporting critical approaches to contemporary arts practice. Jan 18 to 29, 2023 This Vessel of Mine by Jemima Campey, 2021 Emerging Artist Award Scheme (EASS) recipient. Feb 1 to 19, 2023 Regular/irregular by Al Munro is a continuation of the artist's investigation into pattern, form and colour. Through the inclusion of foldlike corrugations in the artwork's physical structure, Munro activates the viewer's experience of the space and time of the painted surface. Canberra Museum and Gallery Cnr London Circuit and Civic Square, Canberra City 2600. T (02)…

Australian Capital Territory

42.0409° S | 146.8087° E Hobart Sullivans Cove Battery Point Art Mob 29 Hunter Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6236-9200, 0419-393-122. E euan@artmob.com.au W www.artmob.com.au Director: Euan Hills. H Daily 10.00 to 6.00. Check holiday opening times on our Google listing. Aboriginal fine art, including Tasmanian Aboriginal artists. Bett Gallery Level 1, 65 Murray Street, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6231-6511. E info@bettgallery.com.au W www.bettgallery.com.au Directors: Carol Bett, Emma Bett and Jack Bett. H Mon-Fri 10.00 to 5.30, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. Colville Gallery Ground floor, 15 Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7000. W www.colvillegallery.com.au H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. Closed public hols. Contemporary Art Tasmania 27 Tasma Street, North Hobart 7000. T (03) 6231-0445. E info@contemporaryart.org.au W www.contemporaryarttasmania.org H Wed-Sun 12.00 to 5.00. Despard Gallery Level 1, 15 Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7000. H Opening hours vary throughout the year. Handmark Gallery Unique Tasmanian Art & Design, 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart 7000. T (03) 6223-7895. E hobart@handmark.com.au W www.handmark.com.au…

South Australia

30.0002° S | 136.2092° E Adelaide Adelaide Central Gallery 7 Mulberry Road, Glenside 5065. T (08) 8299-7300. E info@acsa.sa.edu.au W www.acsa.sa.edu.au H Mon-Fri 9.00 to 5.00. Adelaide Contemporary Experimental Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide 5000. T (08) 8211-7505. E admin@ace.gallery W www.ace.gallery Free entry. H Tues–Sat 11.00 to 4.00. South Australia's leading independent contemporary visual arts organisation. To Dec 17 Studios: 2022 – Ash Tower, Cecilia Tizard, Shaye Dương, Chelsea Farquhar and Dani Reynolds. Studios: 2022 is a snapshot of the diverse practices and work developed as part of ACE's annual Studio Program. Art by Farquhar 1070 South Road, Edwardstown 5039. T 0414-399-222. E sales@artbyfarquhar.com.au W www.artbyfarquhar.com.au H Mon–Fri 9.30 to 4.30, Sat 10.00 to 1.00, Sun (check website). Art by Farquhar is a 300m² gallery specialising in Aboriginal artworks, both originals and prints, with over 400 paintings in stock. We…

South Australia

Western Australia

27.6728° S | 121.6283° E Fremantle Artitja Fine Art Gallery South Fremantle, 6162. T 0418-900-954. E anna@artitja.com.au W www.artitja.com.au Since 2004. Working with remote community Aboriginal art centres. Fremantle Arts Centre 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle 6160. T (08)9432-9555 E fac@fremantle.wa.gov.au W www.fac.org.au Free entry. H Daily 10.00 to 5.00. To Jan 23, 2023 Still Watching by Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah embodies different experiences and perceptions of mutual observation in the natural world. Embracing both the magical thinking of childhood and the pragmatism of raising a young family in a rural environment, Richardson and Abdullah articulate a personal lore, voicing their relationships with other creatures and the mythic qualities of the worlds we occupy. Also, Backtrack by Aotearoa-born artist, educator, and remote community arts worker Katie Breckon explores expanded drawing and mark making practices through the lens of mapping…

Western Australia

Northern Territory

19.4914° S | 132.5510° E Darwin Charles Darwin University Art Gallery Ground floor, Building Orange 12.1.02, Casuarina Campus, Darwin 0909. T (08) 8946-6621. E artgallery@cdu.edu.au W cdu.edu.au/artgallery H Wed–Fri 10.00 to 4.00, Sat 10.00 to 2.00. To April 1, 2023 Capturing Nature: Early photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) 19 Conacher Street, The Gardens, Darwin 0820. T (08) 8999-8264. E info@magnt.net.au W www.magnt.net.au Free entry. H Daily 10.00 to 4.00. Visit the website for visitor information. To Jan 15, 2023 The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards – Australia's richest art awards held at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Showcasing the very best contemporary art from around the country, from emerging and established artists, this exhibition is the longest running and most prestigious First Nations…

Northern Territory

22.5752° S | 144.0848° E Brisbane artisan 45 Kins Street, Bowen Hills 4006. T (07) 3215-0800. E info@artisan.org.au W www.artisan.org.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 5.00, Sat 10.00 to 4.00. Closed Sun-Mon. artisan is Queensland's home of craft and design. Gallery, store, and workshop space supporting and promoting contemporary craft and design practice for both makers and their audiences. Edwina Corlette Gallery 629 Brunswick Street, New Farm 4005 H Tues-Sat 10.00 to 5.00, or by appt. FireWorks Gallery 9/31 Thompson Street, Bowen Hills 4006. T (07)3216-1250. E art@fireworksgallery.com.au W www.fireworksgallery.com.au H Tues-Fri 10.00 to 6.00, Sat 10.00 to 5.00. To Feb 4, 2023 (opening Sat Dec 3, 2-4pm) 2022 in Review. Griffith University Art Museum 226 Grey Street, South Bank 4101. H Tues-Sat 11.00 to 4.00. Institute of Modern Art Judith Wright Arts Centre, 420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley 4006. T (07) 3252-5750. E ima@ima.org.au W www.ima.org.au H…

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