Telstra NATSIAA Finalists Announced
11 August, 2017The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA) is Australia's longest running and most presitigious Indigenous art award.
The 2017 Finalists include Papunya Tula artists Yukultji Napangati, Yalti Napangati and Ray James Tjangala
Winners are announced on Friday, August 11. Exhibition continues until 26 November, 2017 at the Museum and Art Galllery of the Northern Territory, Darwin.
Image: Ray James Tjangala, Untitled 2016
longrain tokyo
4 August, 2017Christopher Hodges light sculpture commissioned for the new Longrain Tokyo restaurant opening soon.
Simryn Gill acquired by AGNSW
01 August, 2017The Art Gallery of NSW has acquired three of Simryn Gill's recent Pressing In unique prints. Gill inked found lumber washed up on the shores of the Straits of Malacca, and printed onto paper from used ledger and wages books.
Image: Pressing In 2016, unique print
Salon Des Refuses
29 July - 15 October, 2017Mantua Nangala and George Tjungurrayi have been selected in this year’s Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney
Image: George Tjungurrayi, Untitled, 2017
WYNNE PRIZE Finalists: AGNSW
29 July - 22 October, 2017Angus Nivison, John R Walker and Yukultji Napangati have been selected as finalists in this years Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW).
Image: Yukultji Napangati, untitled 2015, 244 x 183cm
Glenn Barkley: yetmorecontemporaryart
28 July - 20 August, 2017Glenn Barkley presents 'yetmorecontemporaryart' at Artspace, Sydney.
Simryn Gill: 'Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs'
15 July - 31 October, 2017Simryn Gill exhibiting in the travelling exhibition 'Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs', curated by Cosmin Cistinas and Inti Guerrero.
Opening now in an adapted version at the Jim Thompson Art Centre in Bangkok, the exhibition was previously presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila and at Para Site in Hong Kong.
Artist Profile - Australasian Painters 2007 - 2017
8 July - 10 September, 2017Christopher Hodges and John R Walker at Orange Regional Gallery
Artist Profile magazine and Orange Regional Gallery have partnered to present a selection of paintings by over 140 artist who have been featured Artist Profile over the past 10 years.
Tjungunutja, From Having Come Together
2 July, 2017 - 18 February, 2018Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Tjungunutja will reveal the largest and most important collection of early Papunya paintings in the world. Comprising of over 130 paintings, rare cultural artefacts and historical ephemera, this startling exhibition will provide an extraordinary insight into the genesis of the contemporary Aboriginal art movement.
Glenn Barkley: Shepparton Art Museum
17 June - 13 Aug, 2017
Glenn Barkley is one of 5 finalists in the 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, (SMFACA) at Shepparton Art Museum (SAM).
Simryn Gill: A Temporary Futures Institute
28 April - 17 September, 2017Simryn Gill is included in 'A Temporary Futures Institute', at the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Antwerp, Belgium.
Co-curated by Anders Kreuger and Dr May Van Leemput, the exhibition combines displays by professional futurists with works by contemporary artists, making us think critically about the future rather than re-interpereting past imaginings of the future
Earth & Fire
18 March - 21 MayMarea Gazzard & Glenn Barkley, exhibit in 'Earth & Fire', curated by Vanessa Van Ooyen at QUT Art Museum.
Ceramics from the QUT Art Collection
QUT Art Museum: Brisbane
Kylie Stillman: Opposite of Wild
27 May - 6 August, 2017Kylie Stillman presents the 'Opposite of Wild' at Linden New Art, Melbourne
The Opposite of Wild is a new body of work created specifically for the Linden New Art's temporary space at Domain House, Melbourne.
Sculpture in the Valley
5 - 7 May, 2017
Christopher Hodges works on display
In its second rendition, 'Sculpture in the Valley', displays works throughout the grounds of the property at Cedar Grove, Kangaroo Valley.
Glenn Barkley in NYC
May 2017Glenn Barkley on display at the 'Collective Design Art Fair', in New York
The National 2017
30 March - June 18, 2017The National: New Australian Art presents the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art, curated across three of Sydney's premier cultural institutions: the AGNSW, MCA and Carriageworks.
Peter Maloney has been included with new paintings and a series of related works on paper. Maloney explores a new interconnected, almost organic cellular structure composed of connecting lines that form rings, symbols of growth or the pulsing of energy.
Marking The Infinite
Until February, 2019Yukultji Napangati and Wintjiya Napaltjarri are included in this touring exhibition of a selection of the collection of Debra and Dennis Scholl. The exhibition of of nine contemporary indigenous Australian women artists travels to Florida, Arizona, Nevada, and Washington DC, before it finishes in Vancouver in early 2019.
Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award
17 June - 13 August, 2017Glenn Barkley is one of five shortlisted finalists for the 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, at Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria. With prize money of $50,000, the award is now Australia's premier award for ceramic artists. Each finalist will exhibit a body of work and the winner will be announced at the opening on June 17. Image: Glenn Barkley everythingivegotbelongstoyou (snake pot) 2016
Who's Afraid Of Colour
Until April 17, 2017Emily Kame Kngwarreye is included in "Who's Afraid of Colour", An unprecedented survey of over 100 Indigenous Australian Women artists from 1990 to the present. The exhibition is drawn from the NGV collection, and includes all media from traditional woven baskets and bark paintings to contemporary paintings, photographs and video. Also included are Papunya Tula artists Wintjiya Napaltjarri and Tjunkiya Napaltjarri.
Landmarks
12 January - 13 December, 2017Simryn Gill is included in Landmarks, a touring exhibition of contemporary art, featuring works from the John Kaldor Family Collection at the AGNSW.
Blue Mountains City Art Gallery, Katoomba (until 19 March)
Tamworth Regional Gallery (9 June - 13 August)
Murray Art Museum, Albury (29 September - 3 December)
Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists
24 February, 2017 to 26 August, 2018Liz Coats exhibiting in Abstraction.
Drawn from the extensive collection of the National Gallery of Australia, and including 38 artists, ‘Abstraction' is an exhibition which celebrates female artists who have made a significant contribution to the genre. Curated by Lara Nicholls, the exhibition tours to Geelong Art Gallery (20 February - 7 May), Newcastle Art Gallery (21 May - 23 July), Cairns Art Gallery (15 September - 24 November), Tweed Regional Gallery (2 March - 27 May, 2018), QUT Art Gallery (1 June - 26 August, 2018)
Versus Rodin: bodies across space and time
4 March - 2 July
80/80 Eighty years of SAM
From 1 MarchShepparton Art Museum is celebrating 80 years with a publication and exhibition of the highlights of their collection.
Marea Gazzard is included in the Shepparton Art Museum's collection, which has a strong focus on contemporary ceramics.
Weird Ceramic
25 November - 12 February, 2016Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Including: Glenn Barkley and Donna Green
The idea of weirdness in ceramics is not new. Makers for centuries have been giving from their wildest fantasies through clay. But only in more recent times have artists reclaimed the notion of the weird and made it their own.
