Art Equity Gallery

 

Western Desert Artists
New Paintings
Until 27 February 2009

Chen Ping
Girl in the city
12 - 27 March 2009

 

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NSW

Art Gallery of NSW

Monet and the ImpressioniHorace Trenerry
Horace Trenerry was a remarkably adventurous South Australian painter. It is his late work that provides the most significant evidence of his genius; chalky, boldly designed images that place him on a par with the finest modern Australian landscape painters of his time.
Until 15 March 2009

Country Culture Community
Over 32 key artists from the Art Gallery’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collection are represented in this exhibition and publication, which collectively highlight the many different communities and art making practices.
Until 19 April 2009

Justene Williams
Sydney-based artist Justene Williams presents a new five-channel video installation exploring her ongoing interest in the history of images, gesture and dance.
Until 14 June 2009 (note changed dates)

Angela Ferreira & Narelle Jubelin
This collaborative exhibition unites the artists’ interests in post-colonial experiences: Ferreira’s in Mozambique and South Africa, Jubelin’s in Australia. Both artists work within a research-based practice, building narratives in which every new work connects to their previous projects.
Until 14 June 2009

Óscar Muñoz: Biografías
Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz is something of a gentle magician, his ‘disappearing drawings’ are poignant and beautiful. The five-channel video installation Biografías is one of a series of works in which portraits slowly vanish, reflecting the disappearance of people on a regular basis in Colombia.
19 February - 14 June 2009

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Korean Dreams
Korean Dreams, paintings and screens of the Joseon Dynasty - The U Fan Lee Collection in the Guimet Museum, Paris. This exhibition, the first showing of traditional Korean painting in the Gallery, will comprise Korean screens, hanging scrolls and album leaves dating from the 17th to 19th centuries.
5 March - 8 June 2009

Archibald Wynne & Sulman Prizes 2009
The Archibald Prize is one of Australia's oldest and most prestigious art awards. J.F. Archibald's primary aims were to foster portraiture, support artists and perpetuate the memory of great Australians.
7 March - 24 May 2009

Tim Johnson: Painting Ideas
A visionary and often eclectic search for artistic and spiritual connections between cultures and countries is at the core of Tim Johnson’s art. This major survey exhibition will range from Johnson’s light performances, films and artist books of the early 1970s to his mature collaborative paintings.
13 March - 17 May 2009

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Museum of Contemporary Art

Simryn Gill: Gathering
This solo exhibition presents the work of leading Sydney-based Malaysian artist, Simryn Gill. It reveals the artist’s pursuit of meaning through materials, forms and ways of working and is focused around new works from the past five years including photography, objects, collections, books and text pieces.
Until 22 March 2009

New Acquisitions 2008
New Acquisitions 2008 presents works by contemporary Australian artists purchased by the MCA over the past 12 months. A highly anticipated event in the MCA calendar, the annual exhibition reveals the artists recently selected by MCA curators to become part of the Museum’s permanent collection. New Acquisitions 2008 provides an insight into current influences and practices of Australian artists and encompasses diverse media, from painting and photography to prints and three-dimensional works.
Until 1 March 2009

Korean Dreams
This major exhibition features selected work from the past forty years by Yayoi Kusama, a prolific and internationally acclaimed Japanese artist. Renowned early installations such as Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (1965) along with recent immersive environments including Fireflies on the Water (2000) and Clouds (2008) provide insight into the creative energy of this extraordinary artist and her lifelong preoccupation with the perceptual, visual and physical worlds.
Until 8 June 2009

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I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing
Drawing is enjoying a renaissance in contemporary Australian art. This exhibition examines new approaches to drawing and the reinvigoration of drawing practice by many (mostly young) artists from across the nation who have spear-headed its resurgent popularity.

17 March - 24 may 2009

YINKA SHONIBAREscover the work of internationally acclaimed artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, with this major solo exhibition encompassing 12 years of his artistic practice. From his eye-catching headless mannequins to engaging photographic narratives, Shonibare explores ideas about contemporary African identity, the legacy of European colonialism, class structures and social justice.

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Australian Centre for Photography

Batteries Not Included
Part art exhibition and part Frankenstein's laboratory, Batteries Not Included gives a heart-starting jolt to contemporary photocollage. Splicing photographs with performance, re-animating found images or mechanising the moving picture, the artists in this exhibition embrace experimentation, creating vigorous new hybrids from unlikely unions.
Until 7 March

Michael Corridore: Angry Black Snake

Shrouded by thick, toxic-looking smoke, spectators at a racetrack endure an alarming, post apocalyptic world devoid of trees, blue skies or clean air to pursue their passion for racing.
Until 7 March

Deborah Kelly: Big Butch Billboard
Big Butch Billboard is a bold public art project showing both at the ACP and as a mobile billboard touring metro and Western Sydney as part of the 2009 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival.
Until 7 March

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Denis Darzacq: Hyper

Hyper is the latest series of works by French photographer Denis Darzacq, who continues to explore the place of the individual in society, a theme which has been crucial to his work in the last few years. Exhibited extensively throughout France and internationally, Darzacq won a World Press Photo award in 2007 for his series La Chute. He lives and works in Paris

13 March - 12 April 2009

Kate Bernauer: I'll Be Home In Time For Dinner

In this series of images, Kate Bernauer explores the bittersweet nature of human experience. Using theatrical lighting and simple props, she creates scenarios in which ordinary people attempt impossible tasks, blind to their own folly and to the potentially disastrous results of their actions. Darkly humorous, Bernauer's images serve as poetic metaphors for hope, determination and ultimately, failure.

13 March - 25 April 2009

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Historic Houses Trust

Tails of the city: Sydney's passion for pets
Discover Sydney’s surprising social history of pets, from the early days of the colony where favoured animals served practical purposes for their masters, through to today's indulged furry and feathered family members. Tails of the city is an exhibition for the whole family that explores our passion for pets through photographs, paintings, objects, hands-on activities and film

Museum of Sydney
Until 22 March 2009

A home on the goldfileds: paintings by Gloria Shead
Gria Shead is a second generation painter who finds inspiration in the town and countryside of her home in Hill End. Known for her en plein air paintings of the landscape, Gria has more recently turned her attention to the evocative interiors of Hill End’s historic built environment, especially those of Craigmoor, Hill End’s best known historic house, managed by The National Parks and Wildlife Service.

The Mint
Until 24 April 2009

Irish orphan girls
This fleeting chapter in Australia’s immigration history looms larger than most: weaving together Ireland’s harrowing years of famine, its culture and countryside in turmoil and families torn apart, with hopes of a future beyond the seas.

Hyde Park Barracks Museum
Until 30 October 2010

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Femme fatale: the female criminal
Australian authorities have grappled with how to control wayward women from the moment raucous female convicts stepped ashore. The brutal reality of notorious female criminals such as ‘the man woman murderer’ Eugenia Falleni, sly grogger Kate Leigh and poisoner Yvonne Fletcher is in stark contrast to the glamour of the noir seductress and pulp novel siren. This exhibition examines these extremes, traversing criminological theory, popular culture and case studies.

Justice & Police Museum
7 March - 18 April 2009

Shooting through: Sydney by tram
In collaboration with the Sydney Tramway Museum at Loftus, this hands-on exhibition brings together tram memorabilia, photos and archival film spanning a one hundred year history from the first horse-drawn tram in Pitt Street in 1861 to the last electric tram (to La Perouse) in 1961. Experience the sights and sounds of the much-loved trams that played a crucial role in shaping Sydney.

Museum of Sydney
4 April - 18 October 2009

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Newcastle Region Art Gallery

Artexpress
The annual exhibition of artworks created by students for the NSW Higher School Examination in Visual Arts.
Until 26 April 2009

9 Shades of Whiteley
A travelling exhibition from the Art Gallery of NSW showcasing the nine phases of Brett Whiteley's career.
Until 26 April 2009

The World in Painting
From domestic interiors to dream-like landscapes, eight distinguished artists present visions of their worlds. Curated by Zara Stanhope and developed by Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.
Unril 10 May 2009

Private Dreams, Public Collections: Ruiz Pipo
Born in Spain, Manolo Ruiz Pipo studied extensively throughout Europe. Despite this European pedigree he has a fascinating connection with the City of Newcastle. This exhibition includes new work by Pipo "unearthed" from Hunter collections.
Until 10 May 2009

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Casula Powerhouse

Viet Nam Voices – Australians and the Vietnam War
Viet Nam Voices – Australians and the Vietnam War, is an exhibition that gives voice to the hidden lives and experiences of ordinary people during extraordinary times. Using art created by Australian and Vietnamese war veterans, anti war protesters, and soldiers from both North and South Viet Nam, Viet Nam Voices is a deeply moving and delicate journey through personal and unofficial histories of the war and its effects on Australians.  Each of the hundreds of works on exhibition is by someone who has been touched by the Vietnam War.

Until 15 March 2009

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33º South

This artwork is a three-channel audio-visual installation that examines the cities of Sydney (Australia) and Santiago (Chile) using a custom made data mapping system and database. Both cities lie on the globe at parallel points- 33º South. Through video and new media, 33º South sets in motion a whole set of relationships between these apparently unrelated urban places. Two cities’ histories and geographies meet in a different imaginary place. A new cultural story is created in this act of experimental geography.

28 March - 3 April 2009

 

ACT

National Gallery of Australia

Degas - Master of French art

For the first time ever in Australia, audiences will have the opportunity to see an exhibition on one of the most important and admired Impressionist artists – Edgar Degas (France 1834-1917). The exhibition highlights the artist’s favourite themes of modern life in Paris, such as portraits, horseracing, the ballet, laundresses and bathers, and demonstrates his skill as a master painter, sculptor and draughtsman.

Until 22 March 2009

Misty moderns
Australian Tonalists 1910–1950

Misty moderns travels to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, from the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. It is the first major exhibition to tell the story of Australian Tonalism, a movement championed by the influential and often controversial painter Max Meldrum in the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition is brought together from collections around Australia and includes approximately 80 works of art by Meldrum and his followers. The exhibition features works by Meldrum's best known pupils, Clarice Beckett, Percy Leason and Colin Colahan, as well as formative works by Australian Modernists Roy de Maistre, Roland Wakelin, Lloyd Rees, Arnold Shore and William Frater.

Until 26 April 2009 | Project Gallery

Degas' world - the rage for change

Degas’ world, an exhibition of European prints from the National Gallery of Australia’s collection, opens in association with the major exhibition Degas: master of French art. It includes prints by Degas’ contemporaries: Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassat, Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and many others. These artists, including Degas, altered the direction of art at the end of the nineteenth century, moving away from the tradition of the Paris Salon towards art that was revolutionary, independent and modern.

Until 3 May 2009

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Silently stirring

Many artists are attracted to ideas of movement, change and transformation, and animals and beings (real and mystical) are favourite subjects when depicting these ideas in works of art. Silently stirring explores these themes through prints, drawings, photography and sculpture from the national collection.

21 March – 8 June 2009 | Children’s Gallery

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National Portrait Gallery

For a recent press article about the new National Portrait Gallery opened on December 3rd Click HERE

Open Air: Portraits and Landscapes
This is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them. The exhibition extends the notion of portraiture beyond the simple definition of ‘pictures with faces’ to embrace deeply-rooted visual expressions of identity in which various artists have engaged with different kinds of ancestral history. Inclusive, lyrical and strongly Australian in character, Open Air will be a defining exhibition for the new National Portrait Gallery.
Until 1 March 2009

My Favourite Australian
A joint initiative with the ABC, My Favourite Australian calls on the Australian people to actively develop the exhibition by voting for their favourite Australians. Once voting has closed and the favourite Australians have been chosen, commissioned Australian filmmakers and new media artists will create short digital portraits of them, which will be screened in the Introductory Gallery.
Until 1 March 2009

COMING...

National Photographic Portrait Prize
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual event intended to promote the very best in contemporary photographic portraiture by both professional and aspiring Australian photographers. With the generous support of Visa International Service Association, the National Portrait Gallery is offering a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait.The exhibition will be displayed in the National Portrait Gallery from 20 March to 24 May 2009 and will subsequently tour to a select number of Australian capital cities and regional centres.

20 March - 24 May 2009

VIC

 

National Gallery of Victoria - International (NGVI)

The cricket and the dragon: Animals in Asian art
Aimed at children of all ages, The cricket and the dragon explores images of animals from the Asian Collection. Works from South East Asia, China, India, Persia and Japan explore the symbolic and mythological meanings of animals in Asian art.

Until 15 March 2009

Order and disorder

This exhibition brings together artists drawn largely from the permanent collection of the NGV who explore the idea of archives as complex, living and occasionally mysterious systems of knowledge. Several of the selected artists act as archivists, collecting and ordering their own unique bodies of photographs, while others create disorder by critiquing the ideas and systems of archives.
Until 19 April 2009

Remaking Fashion

Remaking Fashion examines the process of making – and evidence of the process of making – in contemporary fashion. In recent years a new aesthetic has emerged where elements of clothing construction have become components of design.
Until 19 April 2009

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National Gallery of Victoria - Ian Potter Centre

Rosalie Gascoigne
After first exhibiting her work at the age of 57, Rosalie Gascoigne rapidly established a reputation as one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artists.Rosalie Gascoigne is the first major retrospective exhibition of Gascoigne’s work to be seen in Melbourne and is accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalogue.

Until 15 March 2009

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Centre for Contemporary Photography

On the line
Curated by Anne Wilson On the line brings together national and international artists whose process involves risk or who use their immediate environment to explore universal themes. Initially these environments are seen relative to the artists’ methodology, yet over time a shift occurs in the viewing experience transporting viewers into a poetically inscribed reflection on the human condition. Produced through a variety of mediums, these works are heartfelt, and the underlying curatorial cohesion comes out of a resonance that continues long after first viewing.
Until 21 March 2009

SA

Art Gallery of South Australia

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The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections
Exclusive to the Art Gallery of South Australia, The Golden Journey is a stunning display of almost 300 diverse objects revealing the astonishingly rich heritage of Japanese art held in Australia's major public and private collections. The exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of its kind in Australia, tells the story of Japanese art from prehistoric times until Japan opened its doors to the West at the commencement of the Meiji era (1868-1912).
6 March - 21 May 2009

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Samstag Museum of Art (University of SA)

Lynette Wallworth: Duality of Light
Wallworth specialises in the creation of 'immersive' installation environments which offer a tactile gateway to the viewing experience. These environments are not passive spaces, but 'ecosystems' that rely on activation by the participant/viewer. The artist's primary focus is the interplay between moving image, sound, space and visitor.
Until 24 April 2009

 

TAS

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

MIKE PARR
The Tilted Stage with a 'for as long as possible' Cartesian Corpse
Australia's most influential performance artist, Mike Parr, will exhibit selected works from the last thirty-seven years in an exhibition entitled The Tilted Stage. The exhibition will extend across two venues in Hobart - the Bond Store of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, and the Detached artspace in Campbell Street
Exhibition : Until 1 March 2009
Performance: commencing 21 November

 

Mining, Mud and Mirth: Robinson's photographs of Waratah 1913–45
In 1913 JH Robinson was employed to work at Mt Bischoff Mines on the rugged West Coast of Tasmania. As an amateur photographer he was the principal biographer of Osmiridium mining at the Savage River and Mount Stewart fields, and recorded many features of the Mt Bischoff mine operations-one of the richest tin mines in the world at the time. For over 30 years Robinson captured the lives and endeavours of the industrious individuals who lived and worked in the extreme and isolated conditions of the Waratah region.
Until 30 June 2009

 

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Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
(Inveresk)

Phenomena Factory
Phenomena Factory is the result of a successful partnership between Rio Tinto Alcan and the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, with generous support from the Tasmanian State Government and Launceston City Council. The objective of the partnership is to encourage the community to explore and engage with science and technology.

ArtRage 2008

Since 1994, QVMAG has been presenting artworks created by students from Tasmanian schools and colleges who are submitting folios of work for the Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE).
Until 26 April 2009

Artstart—In the Eye of the Beholder
Artwork by primary school students from northern Tasmania
Until 30 April 2009

WA

Art Gallery of Western Australia
 

Gordon Bennett
The exhibition will present twenty years of the artist’s work and will bring together many of the Notes to Basquiat paintings and selected works from the Home Décor series. The exhibition will examine the manner in which Bennett’s focus on the disenfranchisement of colonialism resonates globally beyond his specifically Australian context, and the challenge his work makes to political conservatism and social complacency.
Until 22 March 2009

Wonderlust

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

Everywhen

Everywhen explores the richness and beauty of bark paintings from the Yirrkala region of North East Arnhem Land. Works in this exhibition illustrate contemporary issues, clan titles to land and identity, Creation Beings and the formation of the physical and the metaphysical. As the term 'everywhen' describes a state of always, these works are timeless contemporary pieces of art in their own right, imbued with immense cultural wealth and aesthetic value as fine art.

Until 31 May 2009

Larrakit
Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth

Since 2000, a forest of Larrakitj has been gradually taking shape in Perth. Now the public has the opportunity to see this unique collection of Larrakitj for the first time in this free exhibition at the Art Gallery. The Larrakitj collection displays work by Yolngu artists from North East Arnhem Land.

Until 31 May 2009

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Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

Oscar Munoz: Mirror Image
Acclaimed as one of Latin America's most significant living artists, Oscar Muñoz alludes to 50 years of political and social turmoil in his native Columbia in this his first Australian solo exhibition. Described by the prestigious UK magazine Apollo as 'beautiful and mysterious, little miracles and apparitions' Muñoz's art raises questions about the nature of illusion, association and memory. Mirror Image features an eclectic range of objects and media including; camera-obscuras, burnt paper recreations of newspapers and video works. Astonishing and subtle Muñoz's work possesses a transcendental quality that has transfixed audiences around the world.
Until 5 April 2009

Vessel vessel
Canberra based artist Lucy Quinn's poetic and sensuous video Vessel vessel pictures droplets of ink dispersing into water. Projected vertically from the ceiling to the floor, this engaging and mesmerising moving image work explores the interplay of interior and exterior space, body and architecture, permanence and transience.
Until 5 April 2009

Helovanorak

 

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Perth Centre for Photography

Lois Greenfields: Celestial Bodies/Infernal Souls
Celestial Bodies/Infernal Souls is Lois Greenfields newest collection of 54 Photographs. Incorporating in her most recent work in colour with her classic black and white images, this series sets the lithe and graceful form of the dancer in an unexpected narrative. The dancers, as seen
through Lois’ lens, seem to take on an angelic or demonic identity, either flying through the heavens or plunged into the underworld. The poetic figures reveal themselves as creatures playing out a mythic and eternal drama.
Until 8 March 2009

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Jacqui Ball and Honni Mansell
Emerging artists investigate the concept of liminality, a suspended moment in time and space that is characterised by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy. Through the representation of the body and architectural spaces, these two artists create an array of seductive and powerful images.
12 March - 4 April 2009

NT

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Timor-Leste Ami Nian Kultura – From the hands of our ancestors – The Traditional and Contemporary Art and Crafts of Timor-Lester

This international exhibition will present the traditional and contemporary art and crafts of Timor-Leste. The national collection of Timor-Leste will be complemented with works from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. This comprehensive, collaborative exhibition of the textiles, ceramics, wooden carvings and body adornment of Timor-Leste will give insights into the distinctive living cultures of this young nation.

Until 12 July 2009

Supercrocodilians: Darwin’s ultimate survival story
Supercrocodilians: Darwin’s ultimate survival story is an exhibition demonstrating Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through crocodilians.  Supercrocodilias  will feature an array of crocodilian specimens from ancient fossils to modern examples.  Visitors will come face to face with one of the largest crocodilians known to have ever existed, which may have measured over 12 metres in length.  Other displays include Australian fossil species from the last 100 million years, which show a diversity of aquatic forms as well as species apparently better adapted for a life on land.
Until 29 November 2009

 

QLD

Queensland Art Gallery

Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial

‘Culture Warriors: National Indigenous Art Triennial’ is the inaugural exhibition in a series by the National Gallery of Australia celebrating contemporary Indigenous Australian art.Taking the recent ‘Culture Wars’ or ‘History Wars’ waged over interpretations of the Indigenous history/culture of Australia as a starting point, the exhibition showcases works by artists across the country in different genres and media. Here, each work asserts a right to place, culture or history, placing each of the artists as vital players in these ongoing debates — they are all Indigenous Culture Warriors. The exhibition showcases five senior artists — Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Philip Gudthaykudthay, John Mawurndjul, Lofty Bardayal Nadjamerrek and Arthur Pambegan Jr — and ten of the thirty artists included are from Queensland
Until 10 May 2009

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The China Project
‘The China Project’ is a three-part display that considers contemporary Chinese art practice. ‘Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection’ presents around 140 extraordinary works by 40 contemporary Chinese artists from the 1980s to the present, drawing primarily from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection. Paralleling this exhibition is ‘Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul’ an exhibition by one of China’s most eminent painters, as well as the commissioned project ‘William Yang: Life Lines’ highlighting Australia’s long and complex migrant history with its northern neighbour China. Together these displays present three unique points of view on contemporary Chinese art in its richest and most engaging forms.
28 March - 28 June 2009

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Museum of Brisbane

Growing Up: 150 years of Brisbane - 2008 Lord mayor's Photographic Awards

The aim of the 2008 awards theme was to encourage photographers to capture the places, times and events that make Brisbane a great place to live – our streets, our suburbs, our city.  Brisbane’s 150th birthday in 2009 is a great opportunity to reflect on our rich and diverse history and how far we’ve come
Until 8 March 2009

Andrea Fisher: Everyday
Museum of Brisbane presents this compelling solo exhibition by Brisbane-born artist Andrea Fisher. Everyday is an exhibition of hand-crafted bracelets and photographs that provides an insight into both the artist's practice and the issues faced by young Indigenous people everyday. The shackles remind us all of a harrowing past and yet the jewellery and gestured captured in the photographs are very much a reflection of today.
Until 26 April 2009

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Institute of Modern Art

The Same River Twice Part 1
Greek philosopher Heraclitus is famed for his observation that 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.' With its stellar international line-up, The Same River Twice deals with a hot theme in recent art—historical reenactment. The artists all remake history, with a twist.
Until 28 February 2009

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Guy Sherwin Cinema of Perception/Cinema of Performance

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Cinema Of Perception / Cinema Of Performa

The Same River Twice Part 2
This video work mixes up comments they make 'in character' with comments about their real lives in a meditation on the social and political fragmentation of American society, spiritual oppression, bigotry, sadness, war, ethics, and god. Curated by Angela Goddard and Robert Leonard.
7 March - 25 April 2009

Dorothy Napangardi /John Reynolds
This show places the paintings of Dorothy Napangardi and John Reynolds in conversation. An experimental Warlpiri artist from Mini Mina, Napangardi paints her country without recourse to traditional famiy iconography, inventing her own language to portray her country. Her paintings are filigrees of dotted lines that optically expand and contract, collide and implode. 'Her view is constantly changing: one painting giving an aerial perspective; the next being as if she has placed a microscope to the ground.' Auckland painter John Reynolds is known for his drawing-based paintings, many of which present fields of broken lines. Reynolds is known for mashing abstraction and language, conflating history painting and landscape, interweaving the 'primitive' and the digital, and playing on withheld meaning.
7 March - 25 April 2009