2009
OCTOBER 2009
JUDY WATSON
UQ Art Museum
Judy Watson Heron Island
9 October 2009 to 15 November 2009
Judy Watson visited Heron Island in February 2009 as artist-in-residence at The University of Queensland's Research Station. Her residency coincided with the official launch of the Research Station, rebuilt after being destroyed by fire in 2007. Scientists speaking during her visit gave Watson an insight into how such remote and apparently pristine marine environments are showing signs of pollution and temperature changes linked to global warming. Her experiences resonate in a range of works in this exhibition, including sculpture and paintings, prints and drawings, sound and video.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
University of Queensland Art Museum
The University of Queensland
St Lucia
SEPTEMBER 2009
BROOK ANDREW
Musee du Quai Branly, Paris
PHOTOQUAI 2009
EXHIBITION ON THE EMBANKMENTS OF THE SEINE
22 September 2009 to 22 November 2009
The 2nd biennial festival of non-Western contemporary photography PHOTOQUAI 2009 includes the work of 50 contemporary artists from around the world. Included are works from Brook Andrew's Kalar Midday and Replicant series.
Right:
Brook Andrew
Owl 2006
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
15, rue Jean-Baptiste Berlier
F-75013 Paris
www.photoquai.fr/en/
SEPTEMBER 2009
ROSEMARY LAING
EYEMAZING MAGAZINE
ISSUE 3
The current issue of EYEMAZING magazine features Rosemary Laing's most recent series a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes along with an in depth interview by Anna Samson.
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Rosemary Laing
a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes #5 2009
Cover image EYEMAZING magazine Issue 3 2009
To access article follow the link below, enter EYEMAZING site and select Rosemary Laing from artists listed for Issue 03:
http://eyemazing.com/
SEPTEMBER 2009
ROSEMARY LAING
prostrate your horses: weather and then some
Rosemary Laing at The University of Queensland
Art Museum
24 September 2009 to 15 November 2009
Curated by Michele Helmrich, Rosemary Laing's complete weather series from 2006-2007, including a group of the artist's working drawings, have been gathered together for the first time in Australia. Also including a number of related works from Laing's Natural Disasters series, swanfires 2002/2004, remembering Babylon, a collaboration with Stephen Birch 2003, one dozen unnatural disasters in the Australian landscape 2003, to walk on a sea of salt 2004 and a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes 2009 this exhibition explores some of the thematic concerns that have underpinned Laing's practice over the last two decades.
A fully illustrated publication accompanies this exhibition.
Right:
Rosemary Laing
weather #10 2006
www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au
SEPTEMBER 2009
BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG
Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
STILL VAST RESERVES
24 September 2009 to 24 October 2009
Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Emily Cormack, Francesco Stocchi, this project is supported by Arts Victoria and the Australian Embassy in Rome.
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces presents an exhibition entitled Still Vast Reserves featuring artwork by eight Australian artists to be held at Magazzino D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy. Still Vast Reserves features work in a range of disciplines including print making, performance, video and installation.
Right:
Benjamin Armstrong
Sorcery 2008
Magazzino D’Arte Moderna
Via dei Prefetti, 17 - Roma, Italy
www.gertrude.org.au/
SEPTEMBER 2009
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
The Economist Plaza
Caroline Rothwell Dispersed
18 September 2009 to 13 November 2009
The Contemporary Art Society, London and The Economist Group present Caroline Rothwell - Dispersed at the Economist Plaza, London.
In Dispersed Caroline Rothwell's bronze Tygers roam the plaza against a backdrop of silhouetted PVC drawings based on hybrid flora. The Tygers are imagined animals influenced by historical drawings and current explorations into genetic recreations of the now extinct Tasmanian tiger — one of the many strange and unknown creatures from our colonial past.
Right:
Caroline Rothwell
Tyger II 2009
The Economist Plaza
25 St. James Street, london SW1A 1HG
www.contemporaryartsociety.org
AUGUST 2009
PETER ATKINS AND LOUISE HEARMAN
2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
17 September 2009 to 7 February 2010
Peter Atkins and Louise Hearman have been selected for the prestigious 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria.
The Award is a triennial exhibition that celebrates the ongoing achievement of some of Australia's most distinguished contemporary artists. This will be the sixth and final award in the series. Both Atkins and Hearman have produced major new bodies of work for the Award.
Right:
Peter Atkins
Disney Color Project 2009
Detail
Louise Hearman
Untitled #1296 2009
www.ngvartbeat.org.au/
AUGUST 2009
ADAM CULLEN, PETER GRAHAM AND BRENT HARRIS
The 58th Blake Prize
2009 Finalists announced
Established in 1951, The Blake Prize is the oldest prize in Australia dedicated to spirituality, religion and cultural diversity.
Included in the 2009 finalists are Adam Cullen, Peter Graham and Brent Harris.
Right:
Brent Harris
Judas 2009
www.blakeprize.com.au
AUGUST 2009
ROSEMARY LAING, PATRICIA PICCININI
The Ian Potter Museum of Art
The University of Melbourne
Reframing Darwin: evolution and art in Australia
12 August 2009 to 1 November 2009
Developed and curated by celebrated scholar and art historian Professor Jeanette Hoorn from the University of Melbourne, this exhibition traces Darwin's impact from the voyage of HMS Beagle to contemporary engagements with ideas of the post-Darwinian body.
Reframing Darwin: evolution and art in Australia includes the work of Rosemary Laing and Patricia Piccinini.
www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au
JULY 2009
BROOK ANDREW
DETACHED, Hobart
Brook Andrew - 8 Months of War
2 May 2009 to 30 August 2009
DETACHED and The University of Queensland Art Museum present 8 Months Of War by Brook Andrew, a site specific installation and online project occupying the deconsecrated church of DETACHED in Tasmania's colonial heart of Hobart.
8 Months Of War is a growing Public Archive reflecting on conflict in the world. Visitors can view and add to the archive via live web cams or by sending stories and media clippings etc.
www.detached.com.au
MAY 2009
PATRICIA PICCININI
KadE Kunsthal in Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass
2 May 2009 to 30 August 2009
Patricia Piccinini's Big Mother
is included in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass an international exhibition featuring work by 22 artists "evoking ‘parallel worlds’ based on their own imaginations and using fabulous, fairy tale imagery".
www.through-the-looking-glass.nl
APRIL 2009
CHRISTOPHER LANGTON
National Gallery of Australia
Soft sculpture
24 April 2009 to 12 July2009
Christopher Langton's Sugar the pill 1995/2009, is included in Soft sculpture an exhibition that looks at the ways artists use unconventional materials and methods to challenge the nature of traditional notions of sculpture. It includes sculptures and installations by artists Eva Hesse, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Beuys and Annette Messager along with works by Australian artists.
www.softsculpture.com.au
MARCH 2009
BENJAMIN ARMSTRONG
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
NEW09
Presented by The Balnaves Foundation
ACCA - Exhibition Hall
17 March 2009 to 17 May 2009
ACCA's annual commissions exhibition - this year curated by Charlotte Day with new works from eight contemporary Australian artists including Benjamin Armstrong, Justine Khamara, Brodie Ellis, Marco Fusinato, Simon Yates, Matthew Griffin and Pat Foster and Jen Berean.
MARCH 2009
TIM JOHNSON
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas
Rudy Komon Gallery, Upper Level
13 March 2009 to 17 May 2009
A visionary and often eclectic search for artistic and spiritual connections between cultures and countries is at the core of Tim Johnson's art. This major survey exhibition will range from Johnson’s light performances, films and artist books of the early 1970s to his mature collaborative paintings.
The exhibition will focus on the humanist conceptual project that underlies Johnson's practice, his engagement with Aboriginal culture and belief in collaboration, and his search for spiritual meaning influenced by Buddhist and other philosophies.
Organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Queensland Art Gallery.
JANUARY 2009
PATRICIA PICCININI
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Patricia Piccinini: Evolution
13 March 2009 to 14 June 2009
Patricia Piccinini has received worldwide attention for her startling sculptures, digital environments and images that compel us to consider an ecology and biology that blend species in the frontier world of experimental technological and biological environments. Piccinini's works take us to a post-Darwinian destination populated with fantastical creatures, new communities and bio-ethical conundrums.
Curated by Juliana Engberg, this is the first major survey of Patricia Piccinini's works to be presented in Tasmania.
JANUARY 2009
BROOK ANDREW
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
New Acquisitions 2008
12 December 2008 to 1 March 2009
New Acquisitions 2008 presents works by contemporary Australian artists acquired by the MCA over the past 12 months.
Brook Andrew's installation Loop. A Model of how the world operates was selected by MCA curators for acquisition, and is now part of the Museum's permanent collection.
www.abc.net.au
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