|
|
CONNECTIONS and COLLABORATIONS
Thursday 7 February - Sunday 30 March 2008
Connections and Collaborations - Euan Macleod
The work of internationally acclaimed artist Euan Macleod employs a
bold, expressive style that is
evident in both his painting and artist’s prints. Emotive and
convincing, Macleod’s work can be placed
within the recent international return to figurative expressionism.
His work displays a strong sense of the
masculine, the looming figure filling a dramatic presence within the
work and providing a central focus.
Macleod’s work also exhibits an interest in memory and subjective
experience, the gestural marks on
either his canvas or printing plate speaking volumes of emotion and
physical exertion.
This exhibition combines a rarely-viewed mix of the artist’s
paintings and his more recent exploration of
printmaking. Macleod enjoys the processes involved in printmaking,
having learnt new skills in this
medium through collaborations with Australian printmakers including
Ron McBurnie, Michael Kempson
and Paul Smith.
Euan Macleod is represented by Watters Gallery – Sydney, Victor Mace
Fine Art Gallery – Brisbane, Niagara Galleries – Melbourne and Bowen
Galleries – Wellington, NZ.
Gems from the National Art Glass Collection
Gems from the National Art Glass Collection is a Wagga Wagga Art
Gallery Exhibition. Wagga Wagga
has been collecting studio glass since 1979 and in 1992 the glass
collection was formally named the
National Art Glass Collection to recognise and celebrate its
national significance as the largest public
collection of studio art glass in Australia. The collection
currently consists of approximately 500 works that
represent the history and development of the Australian studio glass
movement. Gems from the National
Art Glass Collection celebrates the diversity of style and
techniques in this fascinating
collection.
This is a very exciting opportunity to view some of this most
exquisite collection of works.
From the South Seas: Australian South Sea Islander descendants
From the South Seas: Australian South Sea Islander descendants is a
Tweed River Art Gallery touring
exhibition. The exhibition showcases Gilbert Bel-Bachir’s powerful
photographic portraits of
descendants of South Sea Islanders, brought to Australia during the
19th and early 20th century. This
series of 35 portraits was selected from Bel-Bachir’s collection of
over 170 images, considered by some
to be the largest visual archive of contemporary descendants of
South Sea Islanders. The images were
taken between 1988 and 1995, a time leading up to the first
recognition by the Australian government of
South Sea Islanders as a distinct ethnic group in Australia with
their own history and culture.
pflight of the paper balloons
pflight of the paper balloons is a series of collaborative artworks
by Sara Bowen, Darren Bryant, Liz
Deckers, Rebekah Evans, Louise Irving, Joanna Kambourian and Tim
Mosely as part of the codex event
programme co-ordinated by Tim Mosely and facilitated by Southern
Cross University’s School of Arts
and Social Science. Codex events are a series of workshops that
bring invited artists together to explore
ideas using the medium of artists’ books. The idea of paper balloons
being able to cross boundaries was
the initial idea for codex event 4. The balloons became a metaphor
for the plight of refugees who also
tried to cross boundaries to freedom. The balloons finally took the
form of a book which when opened
takes the shape of a boat. The names for the ‘boats’ were taken from
the identified detention
centres used by the Australian Federal Government to ‘deal’ with
illegal immigrants.
|
