Category: Exhibitions

Exhibition and Public Programs: William Kentridge - Five Themes at ACMI

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William Kentridge: Five Themes Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 8 March to 27 May Tickets are now available via the ACMI website About the Exhibition Premiering in Australia after travelling to San Francisco, New York, Paris, Vienna, Jerusalem and Moscow, the exhibition explores five key themes that have captivated Kentridge throughout his career. Well known for his stop motion films of charcoal drawings, Kentridge’s multi-disciplinary approach will be showcased through over 60 works ranging from animations, drawings and prints to theatre models, sculptures and books. More on the ACMI website. William Kentridge: Public Programs held from 4 March until 27 May 2020 Coinciding with the exhibition William Kentridge will inspire and take part in a series of public programs presented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). Note some programs have limited places and require pre-booking. Nebula Date: Sunday…

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Exhibition | Museums in the Incident

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Museums in the Incident Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, 15 February - 22 March 2021 Local and international artists have chosen works from the Monash University collection and paired it with a work of their own, creating a whole new artistic experience. Eleanor Crook, Ysabelle Dauguet, Sam Martin, Michelle Neal, Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock and Wyndham Lewis, Benet Spencer, Kristina Tsoulis-Reay, Michael Vale, Rosie Weiss, Anna White. Alongside work they have curated from the Monash University Collection: Rick Amor, Mike Brown, Domenico De Clario, John Heartfield, Maria Kozic, Stieg Persson, Yikartu  Bumba (Petersen), Ceilia Rosser, Wolfgang Sievers, Louise Weave Opening Event: Wednesday 15 February 5 - 7.30pm Venue: Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, open 10am-5pm Monday-Friday and 12-5pm on Saturday Limited edition (500) catalogues will be available for purchase on the opening night. Join them on Facebook to receive instant updates or for more information please visit their website.

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NGV | Contemporary Twilight Series - Ranjani Shettar

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Contemporary Twilight Series - Ranjani Shettar Free late night exhibition viewing showcasing our brand new contemporary project spaces and a range of talks. Food and beverages available for purchase. Talk - The context and bodily terrain of Ranjani Shettar’s installations Peter Cripps, artist and Senior Lecturer, Sculpture, RMIT Over a forty year period, Peter Cripps’ practice of object based works and sculptural installations have continued to explore the relationships between object and display, context and the evolution of interpretation from one pe­riod to the next.  Cripps has worked in Australian museums, galleries, universities and the related art industry since the 1970s and has taught sculpture in the School of Art at RMIT since 1989. His work is held comprehensively in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australian National Gal­lery, Canberra and most state galleries in Australia, as…

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Short Talks Afternoon: Private lives / public spaces - Photography, art and the law

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Short Talks Afternoon: Private lives / public spaces - Photography, art and the law The NGV is holding an afternoon of discussion about photography, privacy and the public space in association with the present NGV exhibition Looking at Looking: the Photographic Gaze (exhibition website). The cutting look: Art, photography and public space Dr Melissa Miles, Lecturer, Theory of Art & Design, Monash University Melissa Miles will discuss the affects that increasing restrictions on photography are having on artists and on the types of photographs that they are making. The legal side: The restrictions of photography in public spaces Dr Kate MacNeill, Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, Arts & Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne Contemporary photography practice lies at the intersection of artistic freedom and the regulation of public and private spaces. In this lecture Dr Kate MacNeill will address the…

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Exhibition and Opening: Oculi - Terra Australis Incognita at Monash Gallery of Art

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Oculi: Terra Australis Incognita 27 January 2021 to 25 March 2012, Monash Gallery of Art A Manly Art Gallery & Museum Touring Exhibition curated by Sandy Edwards Exhibition Opening: 3.00pm Saturday 4 February 2021 To be opened by Michael Coyne Adjunct Professor of Photography, RMIT University and eminent Australian photojournalist Monash Gallery of Art, 860 Ferntree Gully Road Wheelers Hill,  VIC  3150. Ten years ago, a group of Australian photographers began Oculi. Committed by a collective vision to represent contemporary Australia and its regions, each member of the group embraces a range of distinctive styles and perspectives that include a strong documentary focus. The exhibition comprises approximately 80 photographic images of Australia as we understand and experience it today. Oculi photographers: Donna Bailey, James Brickwood, Tamara Dean, Jesse Marlow, Nick Moir, Jeremy Piper, Andrew Quilty, Dean Sewell, Steven Siewert, Tamara Voninski.

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Exhibition and Seminars: Sensorial Loop 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial

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Sensorial Loop - 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial RMIT Gallery 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne, February - 24 March Opening February 9 at 6pm RSVP 03 9925 1717 or rmit.gallery@rmit.edu.au A Victorian style mourning dress stained with a fugitive dye; pictures made of buttons detailing a migrant experience; hand printed resist style patterned cloth and machine knitted metal sculptural forms. These are some of the textile works to be shown at the 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial exhibition titled Sensorial Loop. More on the RMIT website Sensorial Loop: New directions in the field of textiles Presented by TTT curator Patrick Snelling and Tamworth Regional Gallery Director Sandra McMahon with artists Michele Elliot, Cecilia Heffer, Michelle Hamer and Cresside Collette. Each artist will discuss and present their Tamworth work in a 20min presentation. Audience feedback welcome. Date: Friday 10 February 10.30am - 12pm Venue: Storey Hall Conference…

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Exhibition: Fred Kruger - Intimate Landscapes at NGV Australia

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Exhibition Fred Kruger - Intimate Landscapes The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 4 February to 27 May 2012  On 4 February the National Gallery of Victoria will open Fred Kruger: Intimate Landscapes, the first comprehensive survey of Fred Kruger’s (1831–88) photographs ever to be mounted. The exhibition features features over 100 works drawn predominantly from the NGV Collection and incorporates loans from Museum Victoria, the State Library of Victoria and private collections. Fred Kruger was one of the leading landscape photographers of the 19th century in Australia, working extensively throughout Victoria. Kruger migrated from Germany in 1860 and a few years later opened a photographic studio in Carlton, Melbourne before moving his thriving practice to Geelong. Many of the photographs in this exhibition depict iconic locations that will be familiar to Victorians, providing visitors with a glimpse back more than 130 years to…

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Lecture: Sasha Grishin ‘Voices in artists’ books - the collaborative venture’

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Free Public Lecture at State Library of Victoria Voices in artists books – the collaborative venture  Sasha Grishin The artists book frequently brings together the creative endeavours of many individuals, who may include the artist, the poet, the letterpress artisan and the binder, amongst others.  Each of these ‘collaborators’ has a particular and distinctive ‘voice’.  In this lecture Professor Sasha Grishin explores some strategies involved in listening to voices in artists books. Professor Sasha Grishin AM FAHA is the Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University and works internationally as an art historian, critic and curator. He has published 18 books and over a thousand articles dealing with various aspects of art, especially printmaking and artists’ books. Professor Grishin is currently undertaking an Honorary Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria. Venue: State Library of…

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Monash Museum of Art Exhibitions open Feb 2012: Hany Armanious, Adrian Paci and Contemporary Portraiture

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Three new exhibitions opening at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA in Melbourne on 1st February 2012 Exhibition Dates: 1 February to 7th April Opening Function: Saturday 4 February 2012, 3.00 - 5.00pm, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus. Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread is the Australian premiere of works shown at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, presented alongside a suite of new works and an artist’s book developed for MUMA. The first major exhibition of Hany Armanious’ work in Melbourne, The Golden Thread builds upon a burgeoning critical reception that has grown around the artist’s work internationally over the past decade. Born in Egypt in 1962 and migrating with his family to Australia six years later, Sydney-based Hany Armanious was the sole Australian representative at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Hany Armanious: The Golden Thread was developed by the Australia Council,…

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Exhibition - Sea of Dreams: The Lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830-1914

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Sea of Dreams: The Lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830-1914 Opens at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Wednesday 7 December 10am Shattered dreams, fresh beginnings, an expansive economy, rising fears and the emergence of a middle class are detailed in this rich display that traces the journeys of so many who were lured by the dream of a better life. Sea of dreams tells the fascinating story of Port Phillip Bay and the integral part it played in 19th and early 20th century survival, settlement, trade and commerce, defence and leisure. With more than 100 works displayed, many of Australia’s best known and loved artists are represented. There are paintings by Charles Conder, Fred McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Louis Buvelot, along with rare drawings and prints by Emma Minnie Boyd, S. T. Gill, Georgiana McCrae, John Mather and Eugene…

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Exhibition: Victorian College of the Arts Masters Exhibition

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Victorian College of the Arts Masters Exhibition 2011 Works by Masters students from the VCA School of Art, University of Melbourne, will be exhibited at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and throughout the School of Art Studios from 6 to 11 December. The Masters Exhibition features the work of 33 graduating students from the Master of Fine Art and the Master of Visual Art courses. Gallery goers can explore a variety of solo projects starting in the Margaret Lawrence Gallery and continue throughout the School of Art studios and installation spaces. The Masters Exhibition has been curated by two Masters students from the Curatorial Studies program led by Dr Alison Inglis from the School of Culture and Communication. The Awards for the Masters Exhibition will be announced on 5 December by VCA alumna Jennifer Higgie (MFA, 1991), novelist, screenwriter, and art…

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Floortalk: Introduction to the NGV exhibition ‘The Mad Square’

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Floortalk: Introduction to the NGV exhibition ‘The Mad Square’ Join Dr Jacqueline Strecker, curator of special exhibitions, Art Gallery of New South Wales the curator of The Mad Square for her introduction to the exhibition as it opens at the NGV. About the Exhibition In an era of chaos came an explosion of creativity – experimental, provocative and utterly compelling. Germany in the early twentieth century was a country in turmoil. After the First World War, the monarchy was abolished and replaced with the Weimar Republic. This was a period of political unrest, but it was also an era of optimism characterised by industrial development, innovation, and unprecedented freedom of expression. In Berlin and cities throughout Germany, avant-garde art movements flourished: Expressionism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity. Artists shared interest in radical experimentation extended across all art forms, including painting, photography,…

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Exhibition: Treasures - Antiquities from Melbourne private collections

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Treasures: Antiquities from Melbourne Private Collections Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 22nd October 2011 – 15th April 2012 Treasures: Antiquities from Melbourne Private Collections opens at the Ian Potter Museum of Art on October 22nd. the exhibition will feature objects from ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East – some over 5000 years old, and many presented for public display for the first time. The exhibition’s curator Dr Andrew Jamieson says that ‘Melbourne is fortunate to have a number of important private collections of antiquities. These intricately crafted works from various collections reveal fascinating insights into ancient societies.Treasures is a wonderful display of some of selected works from around the world. This exhibition allows us to explore the history and culture of each piece as though we were collectors ourselves.’ Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, Swanston St,…

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Exhibition: Look Closer - Daniel King

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Look Closer - Daniel King Opening Night: Tuesday 4th October 6-8pm with speech by Dr Tony Birch – writer, historian and curator, Melbourne and ‘Welcome to Country’ by Caroline Briggs – Boonerwrung Elder. What ideas and attitudes are held by various people towards those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent? In response to this Melbourne-based Indigenous film-maker and artist Daniel King has produced a series of black and white photographs that invite us to ‘look closer’ at what assumptions might underpin some of our ideas. In doing this he provides an opportunity for viewers to review, recognize and perhaps reconsider their thoughts regarding the range of negative social and cultural stereotypes that seems to prevail in a large proportion of the nation’s unconscious. Human pathos and a wry sense of humour add to King’s acute art-directing skills with playful but powerful results.…

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Exhibition - Parole Viaggiante: Angela Cavalieri’s Travelling Words

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Opening and Public Programs Parole Viaggiante: Angela Cavalieri’s Travelling Words 14 September - 28 October Opening of “Parole Viaggianti: Angela Cavalieri’s Travelling Words” To be opened by professor Sasha Grishin AM, FAHA, Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University. Date: Monday 19th September 2011, 6-8pm. Venue: LUMA Latrobe University Museum of Art Public Programs Angela Cavalieri in Conversation Date: Friday 7th October 2011, 2-3pm. Venue: LUMA Latrobe University Museum of Art Maroondah Art Gallery Curator Wendy Garden will talk to Angela Cavalieri about the literary, architectural and cultural sources of the works forming the focus of the current exhibition. Following the discussion visitors are invited to enjoy afternoon tea with Angela and LUMA staff. About the exhibition Angela Cavalieri’s work explores the art of writing and storytelling. In this exhibition Cavalieri draws on her Italian…

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