February 2012
GROUP SHOW 2012
31 Jan – 19 Feb
Sullivan+Strumpf will open the new year with the annual group show. The exhibition will feature new works by all Sullivan+Strumpf artists and also introduces four new artists to the gallery; Judy Millar, Tony Albert, Sam Jinks and Leah Emery.
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LAITH MCGRGEOR
OHNE TITEL (Them listless folk from Apocryphal)
28 Feb – 17 March
In what will be McGregor’s largest exhibition to date, Ohne Titel (Them listless folk from Apocryphal), will showcase his diverse practice including paintings, drawings, video works and sculpture. McGregor is exploring an in-between state, a place that does not exist, a grey area of the unknown - Apocryphal. The body of work sits within a poetic sphere- with ghosts and lost souls wandering through the works. McGregor's work blends aspects of photorealism with memory, literature, art history, popular culture and the imagination.
CONGRATULATIONS
Laith McGregor has been awarded the Art & Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award. The award supports emerging artists through the publication of their works on Art & Australia’s back cover.
The Embassy of Australia Gallery in Washington DC, USA will showcase works by Australian artists including Juan Ford, Sam Leach and Michael Lindeman in the exhibition Lie of the Land: New Australian Landscapes. The project aims to display recent works that explore and complicate the character of Australia’s national landscape tradition. Lindeman received the Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant, administered by NAVA, to assist in the transport of works being exhibited in Washington.
Tony Albert’s installation A Collected History is in the Roundabout: Face to Face exhibition showing at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. The exhibition presents a global community that is often estranged and separated by national borders and cultural conflicts, yet remain united by the common goal of creative expression and international artistic exchange. Exhibition closes April 2012. Albert is also currently on residence at Artspace Sydney until Jun 2012.
Penny Byrne is a finalist in the Albury Art Prize at the Albury Art Gallery 27 Jan – 4 March 2012. Penny has also been accepted by the Associate Artist Residency Programme to partake in a London residency at Acme Studios as an Associate Artist in June.
GO SEE
Penny Byrne will be participating in the National Visual Arts Education Conference 2012 held at the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
Byrne's work is also included in the group show The Art of the Possible opening at Jam Factory in Adelaide, 23 Feb, as part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Penny will also lead a discussion at Jam Factory on 25 Feb 2012.
Byrne's solo touring exhibition, Commentariat touring show begins in Warrnambool 7 Feb. It continues until 26 June 2012.
Alexander Seton’s solo show Flags at the Lismore Regional Gallery continues until 29 Jan. This show explores the trappings of nationhood, presenting carved yet 'soft' hanging flags in marble which evoke the powerful and fragile sense of monument and tradition inherent in the flag.
Perspectives, a travelling exhibition from the Australian War Memorial, features works by eX de Medici and Jon Cattapan that record the activities of Australian peacekeepers in the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. Exhibiting at Artspace Mackay, 3 Feb – 25 March 2012
Sydney Ball is included in the current display Hard Edge and Colour Field Paintings and Sculpture at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The exhibition includes examples of his iconic Canto and Modular works. The show continues until mid 2012.
Kate Shaw’s works are currently being projected onto Brisbane’s William Jolly Bridge as part of the city’s William Jolly Bridge Creative Lighting Project, an ongoing initiative which will create an iconic centerpiece for the city.
Arlene TextaQueen will feature in the exhibition They’re a Queer Mob at Blak Dot Gallery. The show presents a vision of queer culture from non-western perspectives. Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick, VIctoria 19 Jan – 5 Feb 2012
Double Vision, 5 Dec – 18 Mar 2012 at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, features artists Juan Ford, Sam Jinks and Alexander Seton. The exhibition explores notions of portraiture and the body. Ford will also be included in Peter Burke’s curated project Pursuit to be exhibited at the India Art Fair, 26 – 29 Jan 2012, New Delhi.
Sam Leach furthers his exploration of the intersection between art, science and philosophy in his solo exhibition The Ecstasy of Infrastructure on view at TarraWarra Museum of Art. 19 Nov – 4 March 2012