Tag: Melbourne Exhibitions

Nite Art Melbourne 2014

by Katrina Grant • July 21, 2020

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Nite Art Melbourne is returning for its second year. On Wednesday 23rd July over 40 sites across Melbourne will open from 6pm until late. Galleries and Museums including the NGV, ACMI and the Ian Potter Museum of Art will be open alongside smaller galleries, artist-run spaces and temporary installations. The program is organised around precincts across the city: Melbourne University, Flinders Lane, Upper Bourke, Federation Square, North Melbourne, Spencer St, Guildford Lane and the Arts Centre. NiteArt has also collaborated with Open House Melbourne and several buildings from the 2014 program will be open for NiteArt with exhibitions at the J Substation, Grainger Museum, Royal Melbourne Hospital Tunnels, Kelvin Club and Athenaeum Library. As well as exhibitions there are walks, tours, talks, and workshops including: FUTURE NOW: What might the gallery space look like in the future? at Fed Square; Tours and Life Drawing at the Harry Brookes Allen Museum of…

Exhibition | Fiona Connor: Wallworks | MUMA

by Katrina Grant • July 15, 2020

Fiona Connor: Wallworks at MUMA from 18 July – 20 September 2020 Opening event: Saturday 19 July 2014, 3-5pm With opening remarks by Professor Edwina Cornish, Provost and Senior Vice-President, Monash University at 3.30pm Presented across the entire museum, Wallworks is the first major solo exhibition in Australia by New Zealand-born, Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor. The exhibition sees Connor work with the Monash University Collection and associated works to recreate the location and installation of a number of artworks that hang in offices, lecture theatres and public spaces across Monash campuses, bringing the various architectures of the University into the museum along with the artworks themselves. For Wallworks, Connor turns her attention to the everyday settings of Monash University to provide an intimate look at the life of an artwork after it has entered an institutional collection. Having spent…

Exhibition | Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century at MUMA

by Katrina Grant • September 25, 2020

Arguably the most influential artistic development of the twentieth century, the readymade was set in motion one hundred years ago when Marcel Duchamp mounted an upturned bicycle wheel on a stool. Duchamp’s conversion of unadorned, everyday objects into fine art completely inverted how artistic practice was considered. Suddenly, art was capable of being everywhere and in everything. It was a revolutionary moment in modern art and the ripples from this epochal shift still resonate today. Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century pays tribute to Duchamp’s innovation, including two key examples of his work: Bicycle wheel 1913 and Bottle dryer 1914. Other important historical works that MUMA has borrowed for the exhibition reveal the readymade’s presence in Minimalism and Conceptual art as well as its echoes in Pop art. The exhibition traces some of the ways the readymade has been reinterpreted…

Exhibition Review | Louise Bourgeois and Australia. Reviewed by Anthony White

by Katrina Grant • February 4, 2021

There are many reasons to celebrate the work of Louise Bourgeois at this particular time and in this specific place. Her powerfully moving works have cemented her place in the canon of significant twentieth and twenty-first century artists, not least of all in Australia because of the strong affinities between the artist’s work and that of several painters and sculptors working in this country.

Forum and Exhibition Viewing | The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster at the NGV

by Katrina Grant • August 15, 2020

The Four Horsemen: Apocalypse, Death and Disaster at the NGV The NGV will hold a forum with two distinguished speakers discuss key themes of the exhibition with particular reference to Dürer’s Apocalypse, the end of time and the representation of death. Presented in association with ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Melbourne. Keynote Speakers Prof Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas ‘Dürer’s Apocalypse: The End of the World or the Beginning of a Career? Prof Dagmar Eichberger, University of Trier, Germany ‘ The Rider of the Pale Horse: Depicting Death In Art’ Introduction to the Exhibition Cathy Leahy, Senior Curator, Prints & Drawings, NGV Date: Fri 31 Aug, 2–4pm (exhibition viewing from 4–5pm) Venue: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road Tickets: $18 Adult / $12 NGV Member / $14 Concession Information & bookings: Ph +61 3 8662…

Exhibition and Artist Talk Program at Monash Faculty Gallery | Arlo Mountford, Sonia Leber and Adam Cruickshank

by Katrina Grant • August 7, 2020

Exhibition and Artist Talk Program at Monash Faculty Gallery | Arlo Mountford, Sonia Leber and Adam Cruickshank The Faculty Gallery at Monash University Artist Talk Program will feature Arlo Mountford, Sonia Leber and Adam Cruickshank as part of its current exhibition ‘The Social Life of Things’ curated by Alicia Renew. ‘The Social Life of Things’ is an exhibition featuring works by five Melbourne-based artists whose work focuses on how ‘things’ (both physical and theoretical) circulate through our lives and how they illuminate and drive human experience. This series of talks will look at each artists practice from inception to completion and finish with a Q&A. Artist Talk Program (details below) Arlo Mountford: Wednesday 8 August 2pm Sonia Leber: Friday 10 August 12pm Adam Cruickshank: Monday 20 August 5pm Groups welcome. Exhibition and Artist Talk Program Free Enquires: Alicia.Renew@monash.edu ARLO MOUNTFORD Wednesday 8th…

Review | Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond. Reviewed by Adam Bushby

by Katrina Grant • June 22, 2020

Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond Reviewed by Adam Bushby Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond, State Library of Victoria, Keith Murdoch Gallery, until 1 July 2012. Illustrated manuscripts from Persia, Ottoman Turkey and Mughal India are rare treats in Melbourne. Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond presents a modest but varied collection of manuscripts drawn mostly from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, covering the period between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. The subject matter is both profane and sacred, familiar secular stories such as One Thousand and One Nights giving way to stories of love and illustrations of the natural world representing the divine. I suspect that most viewers, like me, approach these manuscripts tentatively, because the images they contain appear so different from those one is accustomed to meeting in traditional art histories. For…

Public Talk | Beyond Love & Devotion: Exhibiting and Engaging with the Past

by Katrina Grant • June 18, 2020

Beyond Love & Devotion: Exhibiting & Engaging with the Past How effective are exhibitions in presenting the culturally unfamiliar? Shane Carmody, Director of Development at the State Library of Victoria will consider the Love & Devotion: From Persia & Beyond exhibition as it draws to a close highlighting how & why the Library created the exhibition and the associated public programs. Dr Kate Brittlebank (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University) will reflect on the public and media responses to the exhibition and her own response to the value of such an exhibition, as a teacher of pre-modern Asian history and specialist in pre-modern Islamic South Asia. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Constant Mews, Director, Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology and a medievalist, teaching at Monash University. Love & Devotion: From Persia & Beyond Exhibition www.love-and-devotion.com This…

Exhibition | Napoleon: Revolution to Empire, NGV International

by Katrina Grant • June 6, 2020

Napoleon: Revolution to Empire NGV International, June 2nd to 7th October 2012 This year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpiece, Napoleon: Revolution to Empire, has opened at the National Gallery of Victoria International. The exhibition traces the career of Napoleon Bonaparte from the latter part of the French Revolution through his rise to Emperor and to his exile to St Helena in 1815. The exhibition includes a number of exceptional paintings, with a particular emphasis on portraits of Napoleon, his family and various important people from the Napoleonic era. There is also a rich selection of decorative arts including jewellery, furniture and dinner services. The exhibition is organised around several themes that take the visitor from the fall of the ancien régime and the rise of Napoleon as a military leader during the French Revolution. Other themes include the relationship between Napoleon and…

Exhibitions | MUMA exhibitions April - July 2012: Narelle Jubelin, Meijers + Walsh and Dissonant Visions

by Katrina Grant • April 17, 2021

Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA Exhibitions 24 April – 7 July 2020 Opening function: Saturday 28 April, 3.00-5.00pm Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion Art comes face to face with architecture in this major project by Sydney artist Narelle Jubelin. Vision in Motion animates an Australian history of modernism, presenting a survey of Jubelin’s intricately sewn petit point needlework of the past three decades alongside newly commissioned works inspired by architecture and the built environment. Guest curators: Ann Stephen and Luke Parker Meijers + Walsh | The Collector 7: The Processor of Circumstance The latest instalment of the superfiction ‘Henri Papin – The Collector’ by Hobart-based artists Meijers + Walsh. Deriving traits from literary and cinematic figures, this ongoing project examines aspects of social anthropology through the development of an obsessive character and psychological schema within a series of large…

Exhibition and Seminars: Sensorial Loop 1st Tamworth Textile Triennial

by Katrina Grant • February 2, 2021

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…