JUDY MILLAR

 

Judy Millar, a distinguished and internationally acclaimed artist and New Zealand's 2009 Venice Biennale representative, will have her first Australian exhibition  in a decade at Sullivan + Strumpf between 1 - 26 May 2012. Millar's exhibition The Split Ferryman will extend central aspects of her painting practice with a body of work that represent the intense physicality of the artist and her work.

Through the processes of erasure, wiping and scraping paint as well as incorporating various printing techniques Millar creates her 'embodied paintings'. Her work engages the relationship between the immediacy of the artistic gesture in the studio and its condensation via translation into digital or screen-printed imagery, creating over-sized images of clarity and authority.

 

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ALEXANDER SETON
ELEGY ON RESISTANCE

ARTHK12
17 - 20 MAY 2012
STAND 3X19

In Alexander Seton's first international solo show, at ArtHK12 this coming May, the artist will present an installation of a series of white marble hooded jerseys or 'hoodies'. The exhibition, titled Elegy on Resistance, is a reflective visual poem on themes of identification, isolation, privacy trust and control.

Seton's work explores the tension and often the contradiction of using marble carving, a traditional skill, to explore contemporary themes and ideas, particularly of our digital world. The detailed rendering of the folds, the surface of the puckered material, and the way the garments fall flimsily over the coat hangers draws us in. Yet when up close to the work we discover the embodied central figure is hollow and absent from the intricately carved form. The passive figure tries to find a sequestered space under which a right to anonymity and privacy still exist, serving to ask the greater reflective question, 'In what am I participating?'

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SAM LEACH
THE CIVILIZING PROCESS

VOLTA8, Basil, Switzerland
11 - 16 JUNE 2012

Sullivan + Strumpf are pleased to announce that Sam Leach's upcoming exhibition The Civilizing Process will be presented at VOLTA8, Basel's cutting edge art fair for new and emerging art, between 11-16 June 2012.

The Civilizing Process will consist of a multi-paneled and interconnected series of works underpinned by Leach's exploration of the history of science, technology and philosophy and his analysis of how these concepts change the relationship between humans and non-human animals. Specifically, Leach's project aims to invoke a discussion of options by connecting the aesthetic legacy of early humanism found in Cornelius van Dalem's 16th century artwork with the anti-humanism theories of Jakob von Uexhall.

CONGRATULATIONS

 

Tony Albert's major collaborative work Pay Attention Mother Fuckers (2009-2010) will be exhibited as part of the 2012 National Indigenous Art Triennial at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra between 11 May - 22 July 2012, followed by a national tour.

Juan Ford is participating in The Cosmopolitain Stranger: Hotel de Immigrantes 2, curated by Koen Vanmechelen and DTomas Wendland, in Hasselt, Belgium. Part of Manifesta 9 (the European Biennale) Manifesta is the only itinerant European biennial of contemporary art, together with events such as the biennial of Venice and the Documenta in Kassel, Manifesta is one of the foremost art events of Europe.

Michael Lindeman has been shortlisted in the Alice Art Prize 2012.  The Alice Art Prize is an acquisitive award of $25,000 and will be announced on Friday 11 May 2012. 

Kate Shaw and Juan Ford have both been shortlisted in Rockhampton Art Gallery’s invitational Gold Award. The shortlist consists of 8 artists with the winner being drawn on Friday 1st June and a prize of $50,000. 

 

GO SEE

Sam Jink's first survey exhibition Sam Jinks: Body in Time at the Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria. This survey will fill the entire ground floor of SAM.

Judy Millar's solo show Der Regenbogen Loop at the renowned Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf Germany between 14 April  - 14 June 2012.

Alasdair Macintyre's Art on Art at Gold Coast City Gallery 12 May - 24 June 2012 presenting the galleries major acquisition of works by Alasdair McIntyre from his 2011 solo exhibition Dinky Di at Sullivan+Strumpf.

Alasdair Macintyre's solo exhibition Ways of Seeing at Albury Art Gallery curated by David Smith. The exhibition showcases works from 2004 to the present and runs from the 29 March – 25 May 2012. 

Laith McGregor’s solo exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary, Fitzroy, Victoria, between 20 April – 26 May 2012 exhibiting works that reflect his multi-disciplinary practice including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. 

Penny Byrne’s upcoming solo exhibition, Life is a Riot, at Albury Library Museum curated by Kim Ciancio & Jules Boag. The exhibition showcases a number of works from her 2011 show Plausible Deniability. The exhibition runs from 24th March until 21st July 2012 at the Albury Library Museum

Juan Ford’s ambition installation The Sleep of Reason at La Trobe University Visual Arts Space, Bendigo, Victoria from 10 May – 17 June 2012

Juan Ford's portrait of The Hon. John Brumby, Premier of Victoria, to be hung in Queen's Hall, at Victorian Parliament House. 

DANE LOVETT: FORKING IN THE RIVER OF TIME

27 MARCH - 21 APRIL 2012

Dane Lovett`s still-life paintings hark back to the familiar. They are delicate observations of remnants from music and popular culture in which private histories collide with universal stories. On a stark background domestic plants nest around forgotten and outdated technology; stacks of copied CDs, piles of old LPs, and home recorded cassette tapes. We question if these objects belong as they float between being both personal and universal. This transient state is further reiterated in his handling of the material where washes of colour on the canvas, on close inspection, are loose and gestural yet from afar appear controlled and precise. 

 

LEAH EMERY: IN & OUT

27 MARCH - 21 APRIL 2012

In Leah Emery’s work, the feminine and domestic craft of needlework collides playfully with the pornographic images that she references. The beauty of the woven colours, patterns and texture of the cross-stitched surface conflict with the nature of the image itself. In an attempt to decipher the obscured image we are drawn in closer, eyes moving across the pixilated surface, suddenly, we become engrossed by the happenings within the work. In this new body of work vintage porn is cross-stitched into tiny, cinematic-like panels. The more explicit the imagery the greater the pull between Emery’s subject and the medium, resulting in a beautiful clash of sensibilities.

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JUDY MILLAR: THE SPLIT FERRYMAN

1 - 26 MAY 2012

Major international artist and New Zealand's 2009 Venice Biennale representative, Judy Millar, will have her first Australian exhibition at Sullivan + Strumpf between 1 - 26 May 2012. Millar's exhibition The Split Ferryman will extend central aspects of her painting practice with a body of work that represents the intense physicality of the artist and her work. 

Through the processes of erasure, wiping and scraping paint as well as incorporating various printing techniques Millar creates her 'embodied painting'. Her work engages the relationship between the immediacy of the artistic gesture in the studio and its condensation via translation into digital or screen-printed imagery, creating over-sized images of clarity and authority. 

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to all our finalists in the 2012 AGNSW Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. Winners announced Friday 30 March 2012.

Archibald
Juan Ford

Wynne
Juan Ford
Kate Shaw
Michael Lindeman

Sulman
Dane Lovett
Marc de Jong

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Penny Byrne who has been shortlisted for the Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Artist for her work in The Art of the Possible! In the Adelaide Fringe Awards

GO SEE

Alasdair Macintyre's solo exhibition Ways of Seeing at Albury Art Gallery curated by David Smith. The exhibition showcases works from 2004 to the present and runs from the 29 March – 25 May 2012. 

Penny Byrne’s upcoming solo exhibition, Life is a Riot, at Albury Library Museum curated by Kim Ciancio & Jules Boag. The exhibition showcases a number of works from her 2011 show Plausible Deniability and runs from 24 March until 21 July 2012 at the Albury Library Museum

Alasdair Macintyre and Penny Byrne`s sculptural works will feature in the Penrith Regional Gallery’s show Hello Dollies. The exhibition presents a range of artworks by accomplished artists who depict, subvert and manipulate the various forms which `dollies` manifest. The exhibition is currently showing and runs through to 22 April 2012 

GO SEE

Darren Sylvester’s exhibition of four polished bronze sculptures at Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. Polished to create a sense of modern allure they resemble golden death masks, eyes and mouths frozen open in horror, recalling all the attempts through the ages for a more beautiful life. The exhibition runs from Saturday 17 March through to 7 April 2012.

Judy Millar’s solo show Der Regenbogen Loop at the renowned Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf Germany between 14 April – 14 June 2012. 

 

LAITH MCGRGEOR: OHNE TITEL (Them Listless Folk From Apocryphal)

28 February - 17 March 2012

Ohne Titel (Them Listless Folk from Apocryphal) will be McGregor’s largest solo show to date and will showcase his diverse practice, including paintings, drawings, video works and sculpture. McGregor’s works are exploring an in-between state, a place that does not exist, a grey area of the unknown. 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. 

NEXT AT SSFA

LEAH EMERY
IN AND OUT

27 March - 21 April 2012

In Leah Emery's work, the feminine and domestic craft of needle-work collides playfully with the pornographic images that she references. The beauty of the woven colours, patterns and texture of the cross-stitched surface conflict with the nature of the image itself. In an attempt to decipher the obscured image we are drawn in closer, eyes moving across the pixilated surface, suddenly, we become engrossed by the happenings within the work.

In this new body of work vintage porn is cross-stitched into tiny, cinematic-like panels. The more explicit the imagery the greater the pull between Emery's subject and the medium. The result is a beautiful clash of sensibilities.

 

 

NEXT AT SSFA

DANE LOVETT
FORKING IN THE RIVER OF TIME

27 March - 21 April 2012

Dane Lovett's still-life paintings hark back to the familiar. They are delicate observations of remnants from music and popular culture in which private histories collide with universal stories. On a stark background domestic plants nest around forgotten and outdated technology; stacks of copied CDs, piles of old LPs, and home recorded cassette tapes. We question if these objects belong as they float between being both personal and universal. This transient state is further reiterated in his handling of the material where washes of colour on the canvas, on close inspection, are loose and gestural yet from afar appear controlled and precise.

 

CONGRATULATIONS

Art Omi Australia has awarded the 2012 Art Omi International Artists Residency to Alexander Seton. The Residency invites thirty artists from around the world to participate in a retreat at Omi, New York, for three weeks every July.

CONGRATULATIONS

Michael Lindeman’s works Semi-multicoloured Caucasian #2 and Semi-multicoloured Caucasian #3 have been acquired by Artbank. The works are an extension of Lindeman’s previous text-based canvases which conceptualize our exposure to advertising and challenge notions of artistic trade.

BOOK RELEASE

Darren Sylvester has released his first book Compass Point, about the Compass Point Studios complex in the Bahamas, where artists such as Grace Jones, AC/DC and Roxy Music recorded seminal albums. Coinciding with the launch of Sylvester`s book is the release of Flamingo, a lightjet print encapsulating the essence of this exotic location. Launch, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy March 7 2012

Compass Point is available to order at SSFA
$55 + postage

 

GO SEE

Alastair Macintyre and Penny Byrne’s sculptural works will feature in the Penrith Regional Gallery’s show Hello Dollies. The exhibition presents a range of artworks by accomplished artists who depict, subvert and manipulate the varies forms which ‘dollies’ manifest. 11 Feb – 22 Apr.

Penny Byrne’s solo exhibition at the Albury Library Museum, Life is a Riot The exhibition, curated by Kim Ciancio & Jules Boag, will showcase a number of works from her 2011 show Plausible Deniability. 24 Mar - 22 Jul

 

GO SEE

McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park’s Double Vision show continues until 18 March. The exhibition explores notions of portraiture and the body and features works by artists Juan Ford, Sam Jinks and Alexander Seton. 

Marc De Jong will feature in Ground Up - Fundraising Art Exhibition at Damien Minton Gallery Annex Space. The exhibition acts as a fundraiser for the Ground Up Community Support Network. 8 -12 March 2012, to be opened by Dr Marie Bashir, Governor of NSW

 

 

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