Curated by Melissa Keys and Laura Lantieri, Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: data for future paintings at Heide Museum of Modern Art features a new series of work by Steven Rendall, prompted by, and exhibited alongside selected studies and photographs by Albert Tucker.
Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: data for future paintings
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne
until 17 March 2024
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest overview of art by First People of Australia artists to be presented in Aotearoa and features work by Julie Dowling. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Ever Present highlights the diverse peoples and artistic practices across Australia. The artworks included in the exhibition address Australia’s complex histories and challenge stereotypes about First People of Australia. Read more about the exhibition in the NZ Herald, ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald, Artshub and Broadsheet.
In addition, a tender portrait by Julie Dowling of her own grandmother features in the exhibition Dance Me to the End of Love at Shepparton Art Museum. Works in the exhibition are selected from the SAM collection and include ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, assemblage and installation.
Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand until 29 October 2023
Dance Me to the End of Love
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
until 11 February 2024
Angela Brennan‘s Portrait of Erik Jensen is currently on display at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, the first stop on the Archibald Prize 2023 regional tour and the only Victorian venue for the exhibition.
Brennan’s work also features in BLAZE: people made known at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, which features portraits drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art.
In addition, We wanna be free: Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s in the VCA Collection at Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, includes work by Angela Brennan, as well as Dale Hickey.
Archibald Prize 2023
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC until 5 November 2023
BLAZE: people made known
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley, Perth until 9 December 2023
We wanna be free: Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s in the VCA Collection
Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank
until 4 November 2023
Artbank and the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) have partnered to present the group exhibition Weaving Together – Tapestries from the Artbank Collection. The exhibition celebrates the initiative of founding Directors Sue Walker (Victorian Tapestry Workshop) and Graeme Sturgeon (Artbank), which resulted in the acquisition of a number of tapestries by emerging and established Australian artists from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, now known as the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW). The exhibition features a major collaboration between Dale Hickey and the ATW.
Weaving Together – Tapestries from the Artbank Collection
Artbank Melbourne, Collingwood, Melbourne
until 17 November 2023
The survey exhibition Paul Boston: Stone Clouds features work from the 1980s to today is now open at Heide Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition curator and Heide Museum of Modern Art director Lesley Harding states that “Boston’s quiet, thoughtful paintings and drawings investigate space, light and materiality rather than representing figures or objects in the world, and over time his visual language has slowly transitioned from a type of hieroglyphic vocabulary, through a minimal or reductive phase, to the more complex and layered illusionistic forms of recent times. Throughout he has adhered to a sophisticated, subdued palette and a resolution that his images operate beyond logical thought and intended meaning.”
An impressive publication to accompany the exhibition will be available from the Heide Museum of Modern Art Shop soon.
Paul Boston: Stone Clouds
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne until 10 February 2024
Paul Boston will be exhibiting new paintings at Niagara Galleries
from 15 November – 16 December 2023
Curated by David Sequeira, We wanna be free: Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s in the VCA Collection features work by Angela Brennan and Dale Hickey, alongside Peter Booth, Jon Campbell, Jon Cattapan, Juan Davila, Kristin Headlam, Lindy Lee, Linda Marrinon, Jan Murray and Trevor Nickolls. Many of the works exhibited have not been seen in the public domain for several years.
We wanna be free: Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s in the VCA Collection
Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne
until 4 November 2023
Angelina Pwerle features in the publication Oceania: The Shape of Time published to coincide with the touring exhibition The Shape of Time: Art and Ancestors of Oceania from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Oceania: The Shape of Time is available for purchase here.
Yvonne Kendall‘s current exhibition at Puul in Vienna features recent work. The artist notes that “Transforming myself into a lioness, a cat, a rabbit, a reindeer, an eagle or a bear. Calling on the attributes of each animal to give me strength, balance, calm, wisdom or endurance.
This is my personal alchemy- transforming myself into a warrior, an acrobat, a joyous creature connected to nature. The figures are part human, part animal, made out of old curtain materials, combined with domestic objects, old wooden tools, wooden furniture, chessboards and toys.”
Yvonne Kendall: Transmutations
Puuul, Vienna, Austria
until Tuesday, 29 September 2023
Thin Skin, curated by Jennifer Higgie, closes this month. The exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), includes work by more than thirty artists from Australia and overseas who explore the liminal space between figuration and abstraction. Helen Maudsley‘s work features in this must-see exhibition. Tai Snatih discussed the exhibition, as well as Helen Maudsley’s exhibition at Niagara Galleries last month on RRR. Listen here.
Thin Skin
Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, Melbourne
until Saturday, 23 September 2023
Stephen Benwell‘s work appears in the current exhibition _islands of desire_ at Kustforum Solothurn, Switzerland. Curated by Hanspeter Dahler, the exhibition features artists from across the globe including Christyl Boger (usa), Kirsten Brünjes (d), Adam Chau (usa), Gundi Dietz (a), Marja Hooft, (nl), Audrius Janušonis (lt), Kathy King (usa), Esther Shimazu (usa), Caro Suerkemper (d), Akio Takamori (usa) and Lena Takamori (uk).
_islands of desire_
Kunstforum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
until Saturday, 23 September 2023
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