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 RED CENTRE 2008 Ever since the first reports from the 19th Century explorers who confronted the vast interior of Australia (often with fatal consequences), the red centre has held the attention of the Australian people. The outback landscape has pervaded all aspects of our culture. It has been an ever-present force, not always understood.
Jeff Makin has pursued the very essence of the Australian landscape in his long career, spanning four decades. He holds a particular fascination for the true red interior of this continent -its harsh yet uniquely beautiful landscape. Prone to visual clichés, the centre commands much more from an artist than banal references to red earth and vastness of view.
Red Centre is the culmination of Makin's epic challenge to image this landscape with visual intensity and an understanding of the spirit of place. The crumbling walls of the McDonald Ranges give way to hidden gorges where an oasis of life springs forth -where none should exist. Throughout this body of paintings the searing blue sky is ever present, cutting across the ridgelines. For Makin, this is pictorial nirvana. Prominent landforms juxtapose against the flatness of the desert plane whilst intense colours give weight to the artists' natural inclination to order the composition.
As one of Australia's most articulate art historians and commentators, Makin also gives a nod throughout to those who have played such a fundamental role in the construction of our visual culture. Namatjira, Drysdale and Williams are all acknowledged within the unmistakably personal picture plane of this foremost Australian landscape painter. Ralph Hobbs, 2008 |
MAIN IMAGE: Jeff Makin, Boabs and Emus 2008, Oil on canvas, 168x168cm (*Available) TOP: Jeff Makin, Brachina Gorge2008, Oil on canvas, 168x168cm (*Available) ABOVE: Jeff Makin, MacDonnell Ranges at Glen Helen 2008, Oil on canvas, 168x168cm (*Available) |
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TOP: Raj Nanda and Patrick Grieve at the opening of Farmland Coastal Series on June 12th NEXT: Jeff Makin, Brachina Gorge2008, Oil on canvas, 168x168cm (*Available) NEXT: Laura Matthews, Blue Mountain Dreaming, oil on canvas, 153x130cm (*Available) BOTTOM: Ralph Hobbs photographed for the Sunday Telegraph (22nd June) Photo courtesy: The Sunday Telegraph. |
Patrick Grieve show draws the crowds The opening of Patrick Grieve's Farmland Coastal Series attracted a keen crowd last Thursday evening. The stunning oil paintings dipicting the dramatic coastal landscape of north western Tasmania have excellent corporate rental appeal. Click Here to view all works
abc Lateline business interviews raj nanda - 18 June 2008
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Top Movers
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Kathleen Petyarre Kathleen Petyarre's Thorny Desert Lizard Dreaming 2003 has been selected by the Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation in Tokyo as one of its first contemporary acquisitions. Imants Tillers' Nature Speaks H, a major work comprising 16 canvas boards was also acquired along with the work of American artist Sean Scully. The art collection amassed by the Ishibashi family ranks as one of the finest in Japan. Find out more about this artist >
Australia’s international festival of contemporary art officially opened last week. The theme of the 16th The 2008 Biennale of Sydney Revolutions – Forms That Turn, suggests the impulse to revolt, a desire for change, and seeing the world differently. Click here for the official website George Gittoes is one of 180 exhibiting artists (from 42 countries) in the Biennale. THE TIME: A Season in Pakistan on show at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery from July 5th, shows glimpses of the inner Gittoes creating his latest period of work. THE TIME: A Season in Pakistan (2007-08) began when Gittoes set up his studio for six months in the ancient city of Peshawar in the North West frontier of Pakistan. This 'season' includes his new feature film The MISCREANTS on which he is both director and cinematographer. This major work will be released in international film festivals and galleries in 2009. Film loops from The MISCREANTS feature in this exhibition and self-portraits from the film are on the billboards in the Hazelhurst gardens. Showing Gittoes' simultaneous, compulsive use of every medium available to him, the exhibition also includes ink drawings and oil paintings - two major works where exhibited at his 2007 Art Equity exhibition and are on loan by their owners. Curated by Gabrielle Dalton, THE TIME: A Season in Pakistan opens on 5th july and runs until 17th August. Click here to view the catalogue. Find out more about this artist >
Lily Kelly Napangardi Art Equity will showing major new works by Lily Kelly Napangardi in an exhibition in late August. Work by this leading Indigenous artist is in high demand as paintings continue to be acquired for major public and private collections around the world. A new auction record was set at Sothebys last year for Lily Kelly's Sandhills Around Mount Leibig,
176 x 120cm. The work sold for $39,600.00 against the pre-sale expectation $12,000- $16,000. He is currently in the Australian Art Collector's 2008 list of the 50 most collectable Australian artists. CLICK HERE to view a full image and further information
Also released today is a collagraph by the acclaimed and widely collected artist, Judy Napangardi Watson. Watson has completed two highly successful sell out editioned works over the last 5 years. There is considerable demand for her work both in the primary and secondary markets, with collectors joining a waiting list for this next superb collagraph. CLICK HERE to view a full image and further information |
TOP: Kathleen Petyarre, Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, (AEPETKA14802MM), Acrylic on canvas, 200x200cm (*Available) NEXT:George Gittoes, Crossroads, 2005, Oil on canvas, 198x310cm (SOLD) Included in Gittoes Biennale exhibition; THE TIME: A Season in Pakistan on show at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery NEXT: Lily Kelly Napangardi, Sandhills, (AENALKA10101MM), Acrylic on linen, 180x300cm (*Available) NEXT:Judy Watson Napangardi, Mina Mina Dreaming, (detail) Collagraph, Printmaker: Paul Smith, Edition Size: 50, 61x80cm (*Available) NEXT: Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Rockholes near Pirupa, (detail) Collagraph, Printmaker: Paul Smith, Edition Size: 50, 84x60cm (*Available) LEFT: Dean of COFA, Professor Ian Howard welcomes Gittoes and Nelson to UNSW's highest honour, The Honorary Doctorate at UNSW. |
Market Watch
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The painting Le bassin aux nympheas, or Water Lily Pond, was sold by Christie's, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold by the auction house in Europe. This past six months has seen the emergence of contemporary art taking precedence on the global stage culminating in major results for Freud, Koons and Francis Bacon. Yesterday a waterlily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $A82 million at auction in London - almost doubling the previous record for the artist. The sale sets the scene for a week of modern-art sales expected to reach records that defy the global economic downturn. Year to date, we have seen AU$58 million pass under the gavel, which sees the market on track for exceeding AU$100 million for the third year running. The major result in the past few weeks domestically is undoubtedly the sale of Picasso’s Sylvette for AU$6.9 million (including buyers
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The Picasso (below) is one of a handful of works that have traded at auction in Australia this year that have surpassed the AU$1 million mark. Compared to 2007, where the top 15 or so lots for the year were all in excess of AU$1 million, so far this year we have seen only four paintings selling for seven figures or more. This is undoubtedly going to have an impact on the overall turnover at auction. What did impress at the Deutscher-Menzies auction was the clearance rate by volume of 85% and on value at 106% (against low-end estimates). Mossgreen had similar success with a clearance on value of 97% which included a new auction record for David Boyd at AU$200,000.00 for the 1958 oil painting King Found. The Boyd is one of 32 new auction records for Australian and Aboriginal artists set at auction for 2008, alongside the likes of Drysdale, Judy Watson Napangardi, Tim Storrier and Walangkura Napanangka. Is the secondary market going to see a turnover of AU$170 million plus in 2008? – We doubt it. Does this mean that the market is in decline? We doubt that too. The growth in 2007 was extraordinary and the turnover at auction was in part consistent with the number of multi-million dollar lots hitting the market, along with the major sale of Sotheby’s auction of the QANTAS collection. The market is on track for a third successive year at AU$100 million plus at auction and trading on the private treaty and primary markets have been solid. Tim Abdallah from Deutscher-Menzies made the point in an interview on ABC’s Lateline last week, that the nature of the art buyer is different to 10 – 15 years ago. Art buyers are not only making aesthetic decisions in their purchasing of art, they are also making investment decisions and assessing the associated risks of art investing. This includes managing and awareness of liquidity in their art portfolios. Investment lies in the quality. TOP: Jason Benjamin, We're at the gates, 2007, Oil on linen,180x240cm (*Available) LEFT: Picasso's Sylvette which sold for $6.9 million (including fees) at Deutscher Menzies last week. (Photo courtesy abc.net.au) |
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Art Equity Gallery Laura Matthews Lily Kelly Napangardi Exhibition Openings To join our Exhibition mailing list, please click here and leave your name, address and email address. Educational Seminars If you are interested in attending a seminar at Art Equity Gallery, please click here. NSWBiennale of Sydney 2008 The Biennale
includes over 180 artists from 42 countries exhibiting at galleries and public spaces across Sydney. 18 June - 7 September 2008 Art Gallery of NSW Bill Viola Bill Viola is internationally recognised as one of the most important artists working in video today. Fall into Paradise is part of a series inspired by Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. 10 April - 27 July 2008
The most prolific and the most eclectic artists of the 20th century are unknown photographers. This exhibition draws from a number of collections of discarded amateur photographs. 10 April - 16 July 2008
This exhibition comprises a generous selection of Jan Senbergs' screenprints, presented within the context of his work as a whole, underlining their central importance to his evolution into a remarkable, idiosyncratic and admired draughtsman and painter. 5 April - 25 May 2008
Adam Cullen is a unique figure in contemporary Australian art, a larger-than-life artist whose abrasive yet expressive paintings are a confronting and incisive view of contemporary life. His often satirical works are a form of social allegory, a cutting portrait of our national psyche caught in a suspended stage of development. Japan in the early 20th century was a place of great change. The essential question of the day was: how could one be both Japanese and modern at the same time when modernity was defined as Western? 22 May - 3 August 2008
Judy Cassab Landscapes from the collection 29 May - 31 August 2008
Harold Cazneaux Artist in Photography 5 June - 10 August 2008 COMING... Francis J Mortimer
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7 August - 26 October 2008 THE 2008 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY REVOLUTIONS - FORMS THAT TURN Established in 1973, the Biennale of Sydney is Australia’s largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts festival. 18 June - 7 September 2008 They are meditating: Bark Paintings from the MCA’s Arnott’s Collection 14 February - 3 August 2008 COMING... Video Logic Video Logic features new and recent work by six artists who have been 19 August - 2 November 2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australian Centre for Photography Hijacked 13 June - 19 July 2008 COMING... Darren Sylvester: Our Furture Was Ours Darren Sylvester's photographs tackle life's big issues: the fleeting nature of happiness; the importance of friendship; disappointment in love; the inevitability of death. Intuitive rather than didactic, each image is a contemporary parable; each title a distilled prose poem. 25 July - 30 August 2008 Marian Drew: Every Living Thing In Every Living Thing, Marian Drew embraces the formal properties of seventeenth century European painting in a series of works which contrast the violence of road-kill with the gentrified traditions of the still life. 25 July - 30 August 2008 James Brickwood: Schoolies In researching this series of works, Sydney photojournalist James Brickwood accompanied two groups of teenagers on the annual end-of-high-school pilgrimage to the Gold Coast known as Schoolies week. 25 July - 30 August 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Historic Houses Trust Sydney's pubs: liquor, larrikins & the law Sydney’s pubs: vibrant, noisy, democratic, character-filled, sometimes controversial, always handy for a celebration or a quiet drink at the end of the day – the landscape of the city is unthinkable without them. More than mere commercial purveyors of alcohol, pubs define the pulse, personality and tempo of a city. 23 February – 2 November 2008
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National Gallery of Australia Richard Larter Richard Larter is widely considered to be one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. Born in 1929 he arrived in Australia from England in 1962 and, over the ensuing four decades, created an impressive, provocative, lively body of work. 20 June - 14 September 2008 COMING...
Picture Paradise In mid 2006 Director Ron Radford announced that over the next decade the National Gallery of Australia’s collecting and exhibition programs would more strongly demonstrate Australia’s geographic, political and cultural position within the Asia and Pacific region and play an active role in the appreciation, nationally and internationally, of the art of our region. 10 July – 9 November 2008
The new National Portrait Gallery opens December 2008 Animated: Self Portraits Online Launched Friday 26 October 2007 VICNational Gallery of Victoria - International (NGVI) I did not paint war pictures in order to prevent war. I would never have been so arrogant. I painted them to exorcise the experience of war. All art is about exorcism.’ Otto Dix’s series War [Der Krieg], 1924, arose out of his personal experiences as a soldier in the First World War. Dix (1891–1969) fought as a machine-gunner on the Western Front, where he was wounded a number of times. War profoundly affected him as an individual and as an artist. 12 April – 10 August 2008 Resonant Visions Until 17 August 2008 Moon in Reflection 11 April - 21 September 2008 291 2 May – 28 September 2008 COMING... Art Deco 1910–1939 28 June - 5 October 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Gallery of Victoria - The Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square (NGVA) Black in Fashion Mourning to Night (NGV International and Ian Potter Centre) 8 February – 24 August 2008 Preseserving the past, enriching the future: Hugh Williamson's legacy A National Gallery of Victoria Touring Exhibition Although he moved at the highest levels of corporate life Hugh Williamson neither forgot his modest beginnings nor lost sight of the values of kindliness, integrity and honesty. The foundation he established has carried on these values and has been responsible for enormous service to the community. Hugh Williamson’s legacy has been immense and has touched the lives of many people. 14 March - 24 August 2008 SAArt Gallery of South Australia S.T. Gill on display at Carrick Hill House, Springfield 9 April - 29 June The Ballets Russes in Australia 2 May - 6 July Empires and Splendour: The David Roche Foundation 6 June - 27 July Culture Warriors: 2007 National Indigenous Art Triennial 20 June - 31 August ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia SOFTPOWER: ASIAN ATTITUDES LIDA ABDUL, GULNARA KASMALIEVA & MURATBEK DJUMALIEV, CHEN CHIEH-JEN, LEUNG MEE PING, MAHMOUD YEKTA, QIU ZHIJIE The term 'soft power' was coined in the 1990's by Harvard Professor Joseph Nye to describe an international relations strategy to modify behavior of others without use of force or financial incentive. In this context Soft Power: Asian Attitude investigates the phenomenal international success experienced by Asian Artists in recent years, and the complex cultural exchange and development that has resulted. 6 June - 13 July 2008 TASTasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Personal Perspectives : Artists and Their Portraits Personal Perspectives is an exhibition that reveals the sense of community within the Australian art world. Using paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from the TMAG collection, audiences can view work in new contexts along with other items not seen before. 18 April–29 June 2008 COMING... Cabinet of Curiosities The Cabinet of Curiosities is a captivating and curious exhibition from the National Museum of Australia that has been wending its way around the country and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery is excited to showcase it in late June. The 36 drawers of the cabinet all contain something interesting that is set to intrigue and captivate adults and children alike. From 30 June 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Artstart—Reflections Artwork by primary school students from northern Tasmania Wildlife of Gondwana This exhibition will provide a 'world first' display of the fossil record from Australian and South American sources and will describe the Wildlife of the Great Southern Super continent—Gondwana, from 3.8 billion years ago to the present. 3 May to 3 August 2008 360 Professions - China Trade Paintings 28 June to 7 September 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WAArt Gallery of Western Australia Circle of Friends 'Circle of friends' is a small Collection-plus exhibition of work by two Melbourne-based artists David Rosetzky and James Lynch. It will feature the newly purchased DVD projection by Rosetzky, Nothing like this, 2007, that explores the nuances of friendship amongst a group of twenty-somethings over a holiday weekend. The show will also include a new work by Rosetzky called No fear, a sound piece based on self-help tapes that involves subtle interaction between the work and its viewers. 22 March - 25 August 2008 COMING...PEEP: GLIMPSES OF THE LAST 4 DECADES FROM THE KERRY STOKES COLLECTION 30 May - 25 August 2008 GRACE CROWLEY BEING MODERN 'Grace Crowley: being modern' is an important retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by one of Australia's most influential modern artists. This is the first exhibition of Grace Crowley's work since 1975. It includes important works from public and private collections and traces her remarkable artistic journey from traditional landscapes to avant-garde experimentation and pure abstraction. 14 June - 21 September 2008 Frank Hinder This exhibition presents a selection of works on paper by Frank Hinder, drawn exclusively from the State Art Collection. 14 June - 21 September 2008 COMING... Wonderlust Wonderlust is a dynamic new presentation of the State Art Collection, featuring Indigenous, Australian and international art, craft and design acquired since the Gallery's inception in 1895. This exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, craft and projections. Begins 28 June 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Perth Institute of Contemporary Art An Ever Expanding Universe Artists: Maria Cruz, Tim Johnson, Lara Merrett, Viv Miller, Pip and Pop (Nicole Andrijevic and Tanya Schultz, Ben Pushman, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Noël Skrzypczak, Gulumbu Yunupingu. Featuring exquisite miniatures, work grounded in both Indigenous and Buddhist traditions, images of the cosmos and contemporary abstraction An Ever Expanding Universe brings together a constellation of ten leading artists. 12 June - 3 Aug 08 Oottheroongoo (Your Country) Julie Dowling Making her first foray into multi-media, Julie Dowling is a Perth based Badimaya artist known for her paintings detailing land, country and family. At once gentle and incisive, this installation is both a self-portrait and a wider history. It reveals an unfolding personal journey and offers glimpses of her physical and spiritual reconnection with her ancestral country - an experience Dowling has meticulously documented via film and photography. 12 June - 3 Aug 08 Australian Gothic: Video Art Now Artists: Alex Avzoglou, Marsha Berry, John A Douglas, Robert Hecimovic, Larissa Hjorth, Tammy Honey, Sam Keene, Brendan Lee, David McDowell, Aaron McLoughlin, Krystal Shultheiss, Brie Trenerry, Shaun Wilson, Marco Kin Ming Wong. Well before Australia was charted it was 'imagined as a grotesque space peopled by monsters'¹. Early settlers found their new land eerie, disorientingly unfamiliar and hostile - a response which became ingrained n our national consciousness, literature and cinema. 12 June - 3 Aug 08
NTMuseum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory Windows on Australian Art - Focus Inspire / Expire Windows on Australian Art offers rotating selections from the MAGNT Visual Arts collection. Artists are inspired by people, landscape, nature, human endeavour, religion, science and inanimate forms. Until 20 July 2008
QLDQueensland Art Gallery Gordon Bennett Presenting work from 1987 to the present this comprehensive retrospective exhibition brings together many of the Notes to Basquiat 1998–2001 paintings and selected works from the Home Décor series. 10 May – 3 August 2008 GoMA Lee Mingwei Gernika in sand This project developed by artist Lee Mingwei re-creates Picasso’s famous work in sand. Midway through its display the artist returns to alter the work. 3 May - 6 July 2008, GoMA Picasso & his collection 9 June - 14 September 2008 GoMA Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective 6 June – 28 September 2008 Jacques Prévert A special program celebrating French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert (1900-1977), considered by many as unequalled in the history of French screenwriting. His striking surrealist collages are also included in the Picasso and his Collection exhibition.
COMING... Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award (2008) Modern Ruin
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4 April - 6th July 2008 State of Play Created in conjunction with C&K, founded in 1907 as Queensland’s Creche and Kindergarten Association, State of Play illustrates the importance of play through heart-warming historical photographs of Brisbane children at play. These wonderful images are accompanied by information from early childhood experts and incredible insights from C&K kindergarten-aged children sharing their thoughts about how they play. 23 May - 19 August 2008 David Nixon: A Quiet Immanence A series of linoblock prints that are quietly meditative in their beauty and suggestive of something sacred. Nixon's work also celebrates the notion of art being true, simple and direct. 13 June - 10 August 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QLD Centre for Photography COMING... Blaze by Tatjana Plitt 29 June - 20 July The Rapture by Kate Kirby 29 June - 20 July Details by Danielle Walpole The heart nourishes the eyes with new blood as the darker blood drains away like old news. 29 June - 20 July ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Modern Art The Dating Show at IMA@TCB 27 June — 27 July
COMING... Rose Nolan Why We Do The Things We Do Melbourne artist Rose Nolan traffics in forms, codes and ideals founded in utopian strands of 20th Century avant-gardism. 28 June — 16 August Johan Grimonprez Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his collage video Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. Premiering at Paris's Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel in 1997, it eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11. 28 June — 16 August |
TOP:Laura Matthews, Escarpment, Oil on canvas, 140 x 90cm (*Available) BOTTOM: Opening night at Patrick Grieve's Coastal Farmland Series |
