2008
DECEMBER 2008
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
We are unsuitable for framing
20 December 2008 - 31 May 2009
Caroline Rothwell is included in the group exhibition We are unsuitable for framing at the Museum of New Zealand, Wellington.
This exhibition also features works by Judy Darragh, Margaret Dawson, Jaqueline Fraser, Christine Hellyar, Alexis Hunter, Barbara Kruger, Hye Rim Lee, Vivian Lynn, Lauren Lysaght, Julia Morison, Anne Noble, Fiona Pardington, Lisa Reihana and Christine Webster.
www.tepapa.govt.nz
NOVEMBER 2008
BROOK ANDREW, BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG,
ADAM CULLEN, BRENT HARRIS, BILL HENSON, ROSEMARY LAING, PATRICIA PICCININI
Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand is the first comprehensive survey of all that is cutting edge in Australian and New Zealand contemporary practice.
Current features profiles of 80 artists from Australia and New Zealand, along with essays by the region's leading writers and curators.
Seven artists from Tolarno Galleries are included;
Brook Andrew, Benjamin Armstrong, Adam Cullen, Brent Harris, Bill Henson, Rosemary Laing and Patricia Piccinini
For more information or to purchase a copy, visit
www.artandaustralia.com.au
NOVEMBER 2008
PETER ATKINS
Signature of M Art Prize
Winner
Peter Atkins is the receipent of the $150,000 Signature of M Art Prize.
Four hundred books were used to construct the piece, with Melbourne-based references replacing the original book titles.
Peter Atkins' work will represent Melbourne alongside other Signature Series winners from cities including Sydney, New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris.
Right:
Peter Atkins, Melbourne Bookshelf (and detail view)
NOVEMBER 2008
BROOK ANDREW
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Half Light
21 November 2008 - 22 February 2009
Work from Brook Andrew's Kalar Midday series is included in HALF LIGHT - PORTRAITS FROM BLACK AUSTRALIA, the first major survey of of the work of Indigenous artists engaging with the photographic medium and the portrait. Curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones.
Right:
Brook Andrew, Narcissus 2004
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
NOVEMBER 2008
TIM MAGUIRE & PATRICIA PICCININI
Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art
Contemporary Australia: Optimism
15 November 2008 - 22 February 2009
The Falling snow prints, with their strong sense of the ephemeral and of placelessness, suggest the possibility of loss but also a sense of freedom, the prospect of new horizons. In the potential of this uncharted territory, we locate the driving force behind Maguire's creative practice and his optimismm.
Ruth McDougall
Patricia Piccinini's Vespas look beyond the automotive automatons of the present and towards the possibility of machines as sentient beings...Piccinini's Vespas evidently do not just possess artificial intelligence but artificial emotions as well. As she so often does, the artist reminds us to ask what will become of our creations. Francis E Parker
Right:
Tim Maguire, Falling Snow III 2007
Patricia Piccinini, The Stags 2008 and detail
www.qag.qld.gov.au/optimism
OCTOBER 2008
BROOK ANDREW
AAMU - Utrecht
Brook Andrew: THEME PARK
17 October 2008 - 13 April 2009
AAMU has been transformed into a remarkable, unusual and at times uncomfortable theme park. Brook Andrew takes on the entire museum, and plays with the perception of racial identity exploring the international, colonial connections with Australia and the Aboriginal people.
Alongside his own work are seventeenth-century engravings from the Maritime Museum in Rotterdam; contemporary works of art by Marlene Dumas, Felix De Boeck and Marcel Broodthaers; along with traditional objects and works from the collections of AAMU and other international museums.
Brook Andrew's Theme Park is a spectacle of objects, sounds and images, rich with irony and humour.
AAMU, Utrecht, The Netherlands
www.aamu.nl
OCTOBER 2008
BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG
Gertrude Contemporary Spaces - Studio 12
BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG
Sorcery
11 October - 15 November 2008
Benjamin Armstrong
Sorcery, 2008
Lino-cuts printed with activated carbon and metallic pigment on dyed BFK rives paper
7 parts : Paper size 48 x 38 cm
Edition of 10
www.gertrude.org.au
OCTOBER 2008
LOUISE HEARMAN
Glen Eira City Council Gallery
Hello Darkness : The Art of Louise Hearman
8 October - 2 November 2008
Hello Darkness: The Art of Louise Hearman is the first comprehensive survey of Louise Hearman's work. Included are more than 80 paintings and drawings from the late 1970s to the present day.
Louise Hearman
Untitled 1213, 2007
Oil on composition board
61 x 61 cm
Glen Eira City Council Gallery
Glen Eira Town Hall
www.gleneira.vic.gov.au
SEPTEMBER 2008
BILL HENSON
FESTIVAL MARIBOR 2008
LUMINOUS takes the classical music concert in an entirely new direction. Bill Henson joins the Camerata Salzburg Orchestra in a groundbreaking collboration featuring the unique voice of Katie Noonan, the sound sculptures of Paul Healy and music from 20th century classical works through to pop classics.
Part gallery, part light-box - live music combines with Henson's stunning portraits and dreamscapes.
For more information and program details visit
www.festivalmaribor.si/en/
AUGUST 2008
PETER HENNESSEY
MELBOURNE ART FAIR FOUNDATION ARTIST COMMISSION
Peter Hennessey's My Humvee (inversion therapy), 2008 is a full sized, highly detailed rendition of a M1025 HMMWV, more commonly known as a Humvee or Hummer, balanced on its nose and constructed from black painted plywood.
This sculpture was commissioned by the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation and gifted by the MAFF to the University of Queensland Art Museum
Photography by David Marks
Melbourne Art Fair 2008
JULY / AUGUST 2008
BROOK ANDREW, PETER HENNESSEY, ANASTASIA KLOSE, PATRICIA PICCININI AND CAROLINE ROTHWELL
MELBOURNE ART FAIR
30 July - 3 August 2008
TOLARNO GALLERIES
STAND E 19
Photography by Christian Capurro
AUGUST 2008
BROOK ANDREW
TarraWarra Museum of Art
TarraWarra Biennial 2008
LOST & FOUND
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PRESENT
1 August - 9 November 2008
Works by Brook Andrew are included in Lost & Found: An Archaeology of the Present at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
Charlotte Day is the guest curator of the second edition of the TarraWarra Biennial. Lost & Found brings together 21 Australian and New Zealand artists who reinvent traditional techniques evoking historical forms, mythologies and folklores.
Brook Andrew
The Island VI, The Island II, and The Island III 2008
Mixed media on Belgian linen
Each 250 x 300 x 5 cm
www.twma.com.au
JULY 2008
ANASTASIA KLOSE, PETER GRAHAM AND PATRICIA PICCININI
Lismore Regional Gallery
New Millennium
18 July - 6 September 2008
Works by Anastasia Klose, Peter Graham and Patricia Piccinini are included in New Millennium at Lismore Regional Gallery.
New Millenium is a survey of 21 artists from the Asia Pacific and Mediterranean regions and looks at what ideas artists are articulating in the new millennium. The exhibition considers what has changed our world, what is new in the world, and how we have responded.
Right:
Anastasia Klose
Me on the tram, post performance, 2006
Digital photograph
84 x 119 cm
Photographer: Elizabeth Presa
JULY 2008
ADAM CULLEN, LOUISE HEARMAN, ROSEMARY LAING, PATRICIA PICCININI, AND CAROLINE ROTHWELL
The University of Queensland Art Museum, St Lucia
neo goth: BACK IN BLACK
26 July - 21 September 2008
Works by Adam Cullen, Louise Hearman, Rosemary Laing, Patricia Piccinini and Caroline Rothwell are included in neo goth: BACK IN BLACK a group exhibition curated by Alison Kubler at The University of Queensland Art Museum.
The University of Queensland Art Museum
University Drive, St Lucia
www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au
Right:
Rosemary Laing
bulletproofglass #1 2002
C type photograph
120 x 207 cm
JUNE 2008
BROOK ANDREW
BROOK ANDREW
THE ISLAND
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge UK
24 June 2008 - 1 October 2008
Brook Andrew's spectacular works in this exhibition are based on important historical photographs and sketches in Cambridge and other anthropological collections.
His dramatic enlargements and manipulations bring obscure images into the light, rendering them poignant, palpable, powerful and mysterious.
Text from The Island Catalogue 2008
Brook Andrew
The Island I 2008
Mixed Media
250 x 300 x 5 cm
JUNE 2008
ROSEMARY LAING
2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
REVOLUTIONS - FORMS THAT TURN
18 June - 7 September 2008
ROSEMARY LAING
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
For the Sydney Biennale, Rosemary Laing's weather 2006 works are accompanied by one dozen weather drawings - a selection of Laing's preparatory drawings for the series - exhibited publicly for the first time.
www.bos2008.com
Rosemary Laing
weather #4 2006
C Type photograph
JUNE 2008
BILL HENSON
TEEN CITY
The adventure of adolescence
Musee de l'Elysee Lausanne, Switzerland
15 June until 26 October 2008
Teen, abbreviation of teenager, an adolescent aged between 13 and 19.
City, from French « cité » and Latin « civitas ».
The member of a city, the citizen (latin civis), inhabits a clearly defined territory. He has duties towards his tribe and considers his peers as members of his family or clan.
Work by Bill Henson is included in TEEN CITY The adventure of adolescence at the Musee de l'Elysee curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer.
www.elysee.ch
JUNE 2008
BROOK ANDREW
»typical! Cliches of Jews and Others«
An Exhibition By The Jewish Museum Berlin and
The Jewish Museum Vienna
Brook Andrew's Sexy and Dangerous I 1996 is included in »typical! Cliches of Jews and Others« a touring exhibition about the stereotyped seeing, perceiving, and compartmentalizing of images and objects.
Jewish Museum Berlin
20 March to 3 August 2008
Spertus Institute Chicago
26 September 2008 to 18 January 2009
Jewish Museum Vienna
7 February to 21 June 2009
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin
www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de
JUNE 2008
ANASTASIA KLOSE
2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY
REVOLUTIONS - FORMS THAT TURN
18 June - 7 September 2008
Anastasia Klose’s Rollerskating at ACCA, 2006 is now availble for viewing in the Sydney Biennale Online Venue Revolutionsonline.
Right:
Anastasia Klose
Rollerskating at ACCA 2006 Video still
Music: 'The Lark Ascending', Ralph Vaughan-Williams, performed by the English Northern Philharmonia (Naxos).
Filmed by Elizabeth Presa and Graham Smith
Commissioned by the Australian Centre of Art, Melbourne, for the exhibition New 07
Watch Rollerskating at ACCA 2006 online here:
www.bos2008.com/revolutionsonline
JUNE 2008
JUDY WATSON
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Culture Warriors
National Indigenous Art Triennial
20 June - 31 August 2008
A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition
Judy Watson's work big blue world with three stupas, 2004 is included in Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial now at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Judy Watson
big blue world with three stupas 2004
Acrylic, pigment on canvas
287 x 210 cm
MAY 2008
ADAM CULLEN
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
ADAM CULLEN - LET'S GET LOST
15 May to 27 July 2008
Adam Cullen is a unique figure in contemporary Australian art, a larger-than-life artist whose abrasive yet expressive paintings are a confronting and incisive view of contemporary life.
This exhibition includes paintings, drawings and sculpture from the early 1990s until now.
Rudy Komon Gallery, Upper Level
The Art Gallery of New South Wales
Right:
Adam Cullen
Distant Cousins are in Limited Supply 2000
Ink, enamel and acrylic on canvas
200 x 220 cm
APRIL 2008
BROOK ANDREW
The John Curtin Gallery, Perth
BROOK ANDREW: Eye to Eye
4 April to 30 May 2008
A Monash University Museum of Art Touring Exhibition, Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye is the first major survey of the artists's work.
Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye is an exhibition that spans the artist's practise over the past decade and features photography, neon lighting and installation.
Reflecting equally on global mass-media and traditional grass roots aesthetics, the works in this exhibition speak of an unfolding or recovery of a lost history, a lost identity and a lost language.
The John Curtin Gallery
Curtin University of Technology
Building 200, Kent Street, Bentley, WA 6102
T +61 8 9266 4155.
APRIL 2008
TIM MAGUIRE
Museum Villa Rot, Ulm, Germany
In voller Blute
20 April to 6 July 2008
Tim Maguire's work has been included in an exhibition 'In voller Blute' at Museum Villa Rot in Ulm, Germany.
A group show of recent and past oil paintings including the the work of Araki, Blossfeldt, Cho, Ducret, Geisler, Handschin, Leyendecker, Munding, Simons, Strba, Suda, Taras, and Von Wedemyer.
Right:
Tim Maguire
Untitled (Brownish Poppy)
Oil on Canvas 100 x 90 cm
APRIL 2008
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
ARTSPACE, Sydney
Blowback
4 April to 26 April 2008
"Inflatable islands; a cast metal thylacine with a stuffed toy sensibility; an animal trap and trees make up Caroline Rothwell's installation, Blowback.
The works in Blowback suggest undiscovered territories somewhere between Dr No's technosonic islands, enlarged mass-produced toys and strange drawings by eighteenth-century voyagers.
Industrial urban materials are processed by hand into large-scale distortions of nature to create an other-worldly yet strangely familiar environment." Artspace, 2008
Right
Installation view
Caroline Rothwell, Blowback Artspace, Sydney, 2008
FEBRUARY 2008
ROSEMARY LAING
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
to walk on a sea of salt
ROSEMARY LAING
27 February to 6 April 2008
Rosemary Laing's series to walk on a sea of salt, photographed entirely within South Australia, examines the sense of national identity with reference to the journeys made by early European explorers and recent immigrants and refugees.
Contemporary Visual Art Projects 2008 Project 1
Right:
Rosemary Laing
to walk on a sea of salt,2004
JANUARY 2008
TIM MAGUIRE
IKON GALLERY, BIRMINGHAM, UK
Snow, water and flowers
29 January to 24 March 2008
First Floor Galleries and Tower Room
Tim Maguire has produced new works based on photographs and video imagery for Snow, water and flowers.
Depicting fragments of still-lifes and landscapes - specifically, flowers and falling snow - these sumptuous images celebrate the ethereal nature of beauty. In addition there is a series of smaller photographs and a video capturing the movement of water through the superimposition of separated pure colours.
Right
Refraction, 2007
Digital pigment ink on paper
JANUARY 2008
BROOK ANDREW
THE ISCP RESIDENCY, NEW YORK
Brook Andrew has been awarded a residency to The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), in New York by the Australia Council for the Arts.
ISCP is a residency tailored to suit the practical needs of the visiting artist/curator by providing space in which to produce as well as addressing the magnitude of the world’s art capital. The program prides itself on providing an infrastructure, which accelerates integration and interaction with the host culture and in the course of its development, has become a catalyst for introduction, presentation, connection, exposure and dissemination.
Brook will be undertaking this residency in 2008.
JANUARY 2008
PETER ATKINS
THE LOS ANGELES STUDIO RESIDENCY
Peter Atkins has been awarded The Los Angeles Studio Residency by the Australia Council for the Arts.
"For the past decade my practice has been concerned with the concept of 'readymade abstraction', abstract elements that exist in one form or another in the urban landscape. Discarded plastic and paperforms collected off the footpath, street and store signage, commercial packaging, wallforms, patterns on trucks and buses, incidental designs on book and record covers etc. I see these forms as markers or mapping points of my physical interaction within the landscape. I am particularly interested in the unique vocabulary of form and the way this manifests itself in specific locales. A language of form as unique to Melbourne as it would be to Sydney, New York, Los Angeles or anywhere else. This residency will enable me to extend and further explore these ideas and allow me to push the core of my practice into new conceptual territories."
Peter will be in residence from May through August 2008.
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