News 2016
November
PATRICIA PICCININI
5 November 2016 – 17 April 2017
On the Origin of Art
Museum of Old and New Art, 655 Main Road Berriedale, Hobart
Guest curators: Stephen Pinker, Geoffrey Miller, Brian Boyd, Mark Changizi
Artists include Bill Henson, Brett Whitely, Bridget Riley, Cindy Sherman, Fiona Pardington, Francois Boucher, Francois Morellet, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jeff Koons, John Glover, Kathleen Petyarr, Kasushika Hokusai, Lola Greeno, Patricia Piccinini, Peter Booth, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Takashi Murakami, Vernon ah Kee, Yayoi Kusama.
October
BEN QUILTY
11 November 2016 – 29 January 2017
Sappers & Shrapnel: Contemporary Art & the Art of the Trenches
Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide
This ambitious exhibition includes trench art from the collection of the Australian War Memorial including those made by Tasmanian Sapper Stanley K. Pearl alongside the compelling work of contemporary artists including Tony Albert, Olga Cironis, Nicholas Folland, Brett Graham, Fiona Hall, Richard Lewer, Alasdair McLuckie, Baden Pailthorpe, Ben Quilty, Sera Waters and Rene Wanuny Kulitja, Judy Ukampari Trigger, Erica Ikungka Shorty, Lucille Armstrong, Mary Katajuku Pan, Janet Inyika, Niningka Lewis and Freda Teamay from the Tjanpi Desert Weavers.
October
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
Composer, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace, Sydney.
The work was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia with funds donated by Ginny & Leslie Green and Sculpture Commission donors, 2016.
Image: Caroline Rothwell in her studio, Photo: Ken Leafore
October
CAROLINE ROTHWELL
21 October – 31 December 2016
International Biennial of Cuenca
Fundación Municipal Bienal de Cuenca
Bolívar 13-89 y Estévez de Toral
Cuenca
Ecuador
September
LOUISE HEARMAN
29 September – 4 December 2016
Louise Hearman
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
140 George Street, The Rocks
Curator: Anna Davis
This exhibition is the first major museum survey of Australian painter Louise Hearman, featuring painting and drawings from across her more than 25-year practice.
September
BROOK ANDREW & DANIE MELLOR
10 September – 18 December 2016
Yinchuan Biennale
For an Image, Faster Than Light
MoCA Yinchuan, China
Curated by Bose Krishnamachari
Other participating artists include: Anish Kapoor, Yoko Ono, Liam Gillick, Mary Ellen Carroll, Liu Wei, Cao Fei, Ivan Navarro, Santiago Sierra, Slavs and Tartars, Song Dong.
July
PATRICIA PICCININI
The TAC has launched its latest provocative road trauma campaign featuring a fictitious creation designed to survive car crashes.
TAC has collaborated with a leading trauma surgeon, a crash investigation expert and Melbourne artist Patricia Piccinini to produce ‘Graham’, an interactive lifelike sculpture demonstrating human vulnerability.
The installation is on show at the State Library of Victoria until August 8, before going on a roadshow of regional centres. Victorians can also interact with Graham online at www.meetgraham.com.au.
June
ROSEMARY LAING
10 June – 21 June 2016
Tempest
Argyle Galleries 1-4, Central Gallery and throughout Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Dunn Place, Hobart
Tempest is presented by TMAG in association with Detached Cultural Organisation and Dark Mofo.
Curated by Juliana Engberg
Historic works from TMAG and other state collections will be shown alongside contemporary works by international and Australian artists including Tacita Dean, Valerie Sparks, Fiona Tan, William Kentridge, Victor Alimpiev, Hernan Bas, Mariele Neudecker, Rodney Graham, Pat Brassington, Rosemary Laing, Paul Wood, Ricky Swallow, Kit Wise and David Stephenson.
April
BILL HENSON
Opens Friday 8 April 2016
ONEIROI
Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
ONEIROI is a photographic installation by one of Australia’s leading artists, Bill Henson that will be housed permanentely at the Hellenic Museum.
The photographs that make up ONEIROI incorporate priceless treasures from our award winning Benaki collection, Gods, Myths & Mortals.
The Hellenic Museum collaborated with the Benaki Museum and artist Bill Henson to develop this unique series. The ONEIROI commission was made possible with the support of Robert Buckingham.
April
BILL HENSON
Thursday 21 April 6 – 8 pm
Book Signing | Particle Mist
Particle Mist draws together works from three of Bill Henson’s earliest photographic series: Untitled 1974, Untitled 1975 with additional previously unseen photographs from an unfinished work begun in 1976. Together they form a portrait of an artist as a young man, which has now been published as a beautiful artist’s monograph by STANLEY/BARKER, with support from Tolarno Galleries.
