Artifacts - April 2012

April 2012 – July 2012 Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

JEFF WALL PhotographsPicasso to Warhol Film Festival

What’s on at the Gallery and beyond

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Behind the Scenes

Including the

Friends

Event Guide 2012

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President’s Message .............................. 4

Announcements .................................... 4

Membership Update ............................. 5

JEFF WALL Photographs ................... 6

Behind the Scenes ................................. 8

Bringing New York to Perth ........... 8

Perpetual Triangles .......................... 9

Art Exposure ....................................11

Celebrating the Gallery Guides .... 13

Film Festival ..........................................14

Friends Event Guide

What’s on at the Gallery ................... 16

Mid West Art Prize 2012 .................. 18

Friendship ............................................. 20

Books, Websites & Trivia ................ 223

WA, Australia & the World .............. 24

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MEMBERSHIP

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CoverJeff WallPolishing 1998transparency in light box, 1/2. 162 x 207cmState Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased with assistance from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 1999 © Jeff Wall

Our rEvISEd FOrmAT FOr Artifacts has received a wealth of praise, and we look forward

to continuing to develop the quality and presentation of the entire Friends. If you are interested in getting involved with the Friends Council or as a volunteer, don’t hesitate to contact the office. We’ve just had the AGm and are pleased to welcome new councillors, as well as to thank retiring councillors for their generous contribution: rosemary Fitzgerald, reg Gillard, Colleen Harris and Annie Silberstein.

I’d also like to thank members and the public for their support and emails of gratitude for the Friends Children’s Activity Space which formed part of the Princely Treasures exhibition. Created to provide a dedicated family space and to assist in introducing young children to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the project was a great success with the valuable support of Lotterywest. The Friends have now had the pleasure of donating the wonderful centrepiece and activity space equipment to the soon to be launched, Gowrie Family and Children’s Centre. With a long and successful history of support to families and children, ‘The Gowrie’ is a not-for-profit community organisation, established in 1940, that provides Early Childhood Education and Care and complementary programs aimed at creating a community where all children and families are valued and thrive (see www.gowrie.com.au). Since The Gowrie plans to apply art as a form

of community and child development, this collaboration with the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia is a perfect alignment of values. The donated palace and interactive play equipment will address the National Early Years Learning Framework – “Being, Belonging and Becoming” – offering children who access the Centre an opportunity to become confident and involved learners, with dispositions for learning such as curiosity, creativity, enthusiasm and imagination. As an organisation, we are very excited to continue this association and further developing community interaction. Special thanks are due to mariana Atkins, Gwen Gaff, di Yarrall and her team for bringing this project together.

Looking forward, the countdown to Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters begins this month with the Gallery starting to take shape behind the scenes for what is looking like one of Perth’s most fascinating exhibitions to date. Congratulations to dr. Stefano Carboni and his team for such a coup. As usual the Friends will be offering a range of events as part of the exhibition schedule, including a dedicated film festival and lecture series (see all details in our new Friends Event Guide in this magazine). Be sure to book tickets early to avoid disappointment!

I look forward to seeing you at a Friends event soon.AboveCourtly Characters art activity, supported by Lotterywest

President’s MessageRobert Buratti

I’d like to start by wishing all

our members a Happy New

Year for 2012. As usual your

support is always valued

and appreciated, as is your

feedback on events and

member services.

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Friends of AGWA Gallery,

Lounge and Office

The Gallery’s re-cladding project although progressing well has meant a longer than anticipated closure of the Friends Lounge and the relocation of the Office. AGWA staff and Friends Council are grateful for your patience and support of the Gallery’s facelift, and the staff and volunteers who do a wonderful job at reception.

A transformation of the current Friends Lounge into a themed vIP and Friends Lounge is planned to coincide with the momA exhibitions and activities. reopening in June, members will enjoy the usual relaxing refreshments plus additional benefits. Access to the lounge will be upon presentation of your valid membership card.

The Friends Office will remain in the Centenary Galleries, where we will reinvigorate the ‘Friends of AGWA Gallery’. This gallery space was dedicated in 1995, the Centenary year of AGWA and the Friends 21st Anniversary, in recognition of the Friends’ generous contribution to the Gallery.

Access to the Friends Office will be through the Friends Gallery (where Frederick mcCubbin’s Down on his luck 1889 is displayed). A waiting area and temporary lounge will also open, by the

Announcements

Top leftL-r: Friends Council 2012: mariana Atkins (vice president), Helen Smith, david Bliss, Kay Campbell, marcelle Anderson (secretary), Kevin Jackson, robert Buratti (president), Allan Green (vice president), melanie Price, Fiona Johnson, Gregory Jude (treasurer).

Top rightIan de Souza with Gwen Gaff, Artsource studios

Membership UpdateGwen Gaff, Executive Director


THE 2012 FrIENdS CALENdAr OF EvENTS IS rich and vibrant, and we’re very pleased to feature the full schedule of upcoming events for the year in this edition of

Artifacts, including the ADFAS Lecture Series; the Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters Film Festival; Gallery-based events; Studio visits; Art Walks and ‘save the dates’ for the ASA International Scholars Series and Christmas Party.

members are invited to make their bookings online through the events listing on the Friends website: www.artfriends.com.au. You’ll then be taken to the secure online booking system, TryBooking. This convenient and popular system used by community and school associations, with a very economical 0.30c booking fee, will supply your tickets and a receipt.

We will, of course, continue to take bookings over the phone, in the post (the booking form is on the back of the address coversheet that came with your Artifacts package), and in person at the Gallery reception. The new Friends Office, when open to members, through the Friends Gallery, will also be able to take bookings.

I’d again like to thank our wonderful volunteers who contribute a very valuable one day per week to administration and membership, Anne-marie drew and Phillida Preston, photographer maxine murray and advertising manager Kay Campbell.

We continue to need volunteers in administration, membership, sponsorship, marketing, events coordination and bar service. Please register your interest with the Friends Office.

I look forward to seeing you at a Friends event.

beginning of may. more information about the Lounge and access to the Office will be provided via email.

meanwhile, the Gallery’s reception will continue to attend to members’ enquiries and bookings with Friends’ Executive Officer and volunteers also available by phone and email.

ADFAS venue change

The venue for the AdFAS Lecture Series will change from monday 7 may to the larger Lecture Theatre at Central Institute of Technology in Northbridge (formerly known as Central TAFE). Located in Building 1, the entrance is in Francis Street, opposite the entry to the State Library car park. Council members will be outside the entrance to guide you.

Art in Bloom

The artworks visiting from The museum of modern Art (momA) have strict conservation requirements. This means it will not be possible to have plant material in the Gallery during the exhibitions over the next three years – and that has implications for our ever-popular Art in Bloom. Consequently, Art in Bloom will not take place in 2012 and the Friends Council is working with the Gallery on an alternative, but equally exciting, event for 2013. Watch this space!

Special Guided Tours for Friends, their Children and

Grandchildren

Friends are developing guided tours of the Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters exhibition during the July and October school holidays, just for members, their children and grandchildren. Further information will follow through email and the next Artifacts in August.


JEFF WALL IS rECOGNISEd THrOuGHOuT THE world as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. His photographs are in collections such as

Tate, momA, Centre Pompidou and numerous others including your Collection at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. In the past decade solo exhibitions have been presented in London, Basel, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, dresden, Brussels, vancouver and Kiev.

JEFF WALL Photographs is the first Australian survey of his work and brings together twenty-six photographs to present an overview of his outstanding achievements. The exhibition features key major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large-scale and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art form it is today.

Jeff Wall (Canadian b.1946) is widely acknowledged as one of the most inventive artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His approach to photography is diverse, ranging from photographs presented as illuminated colour transparencies in light boxes, black and white

JEFF WALL PhotographsGary Dufour, Chief Curator | Deputy Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia

prints and colour prints to intimate small-scale photographic observations. JEFF WALL Photographs will present iconic works including: The Destroyed Room 1978, A sudden gust of wind (After Hokusai) 1993, After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue 1999-2000, Night 2001 and recent works such as Knife throw 2008, Boy falls from tree 2010 and Ivan Sayers, costume historian, lectures at the University Women’s Club, Vancouver, 7 Dec. 2009. Virginia Newton-Moss wears a British ensemble c.1910, from the Sayers’ collection 2009.

Wall’s photographs are diverse, ambitious and embrace an expansive curiosity about photography, art, and the picture-making possibilities of both today. His tableau-scale photographs are based on first hand observations of everyday situations and incidents, often reconstructed by means of what the artist calls a ‘cinematographic approach’. His approach is to remember and recreate situations so they can be photographed. Not so much the decisive moment of straight photography but photographs that are the result of the decision to act on what he has seen. The resulting photographs are large and their size and the photographic quality he achieves attract viewers’ attention and offer the chance to revel in an imaginative near documentary moment recalled.


JEFF WALL PhotographsGary Dufour, Chief Curator | Deputy Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia

The near life-size works in JEFF WALL Photographs, often over two by three metres, are testaments to the ambitions this artist brings to photography. The detail, intensity and quality of his colour, and black and white photographs allow viewers a chance to savour the unique moments his photographs create. For Wall, the event depicted, formal composition and poetics are always important and in combination extend photography as a medium, tell stories, and test the limits of ‘near documentary’ and conjectures built on memories. All of Jeff Wall’s photographs are distinctive and each is a new pictorial reality.

Wall’s vision and use of photography represent a bold step forward in the reconsideration of this medium and contemporary art. Jeff Wall’s Polishing 1998 was purchased for your Collection with the assistance from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation in 1999. The first of his works acquired by an Australian collection, Polishing extends the particularly strong focus in the State Art Collection on figurative art initiated by the purchase of mcCubbin’s Down on his luck in 1896. Similar in subject and separated by 100 years, both extend upon a tradition of figurative art and art based on society observed, continuous themes stretching

back hundreds of years. JEFF WALL Photographs is an opportunity to engage with art by one of the world’s most highly regarded artists who combines a knowledge of history with a keen and compassionate eye to create unique outstanding ‘near documentary’ photographs of the world today. See and enjoy many of his most dazzling and recognised images, images that have changed the trajectories for photography in JEFF WALL Photographs.

JEFF WALL Photographs is an exhibition organised by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in association with the National Gallery of victoria.

For exhibition dates, events and talks see p16.

Opposite pageJeff Wall, A sudden gust of wind (after Hokusai) 1993. transparency in light box, unique state. 250 x 397cm. Tate, London. Purchased with the assistance from the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation and from the National Art Collections Fund 1995. © Jeff Wall

AboveJeff Wall, A woman and her doctor 1980-1981. transparency in light box, 3/3. 100.5 x 155.5cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Jeff Wall

Wall’s photographs are diverse, ambitious and embrace an

expansive curiosity about photography, art, and the picture-making

possibilities of both today.

ROBErT BurATTI, PrESIdENT OF THE FrIENdS had the pleasure of speaking with the Gallery’s director, dr. Stefano Carboni recently to gain an insight for Friends

members on what will be heading our way.

Robert Buratti: How did the MoMA partnership come together?

Stefano Carboni: momA is the third partner in our series “Great Collections of the World”, which we inaugurated with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in venice in 2010, followed by the victoria and Albert museum in London in 2011. However, unlike the first two partnerships, it is a much more ambitious collaboration because it entails six consecutive exhibitions borrowing from the splendid, comprehensive, exciting collections of The museum of modern Art (momA) in New York. my conversations with Glenn Lowry, the momA director whom I have known since my years at The metropolitan museum of Art, started with a single project and quickly escalated into this fantastic, ambitious, sustained three-year long partnership opportunity for Western Australia to my delight and alarm! I am very grateful for the support of my Board, the minister for Culture and the Arts, and ultimately the Premier and Treasury for making all this possible.

RB: What can the public expect from the first exhibition,

Picasso to Warhol?

SC: The public can expect to be ‘wowed’. The first show in the series of six from momA is simply spectacular. Not only do we have the very best artists of modern Art, but we have some of their

Behind the Scenes

Bringing New York to Perth Robert Buratti in conversation with Dr Stefano Carboni

very best works in substantial numbers. So, the public will see significant groups of works by artists who changed art forever in the 20th century. These are true icons, powerful, intense, inspiring and endlessly fascinating. The exhibition is a distillation of this immensely creative period and an absolutely unique opportunity for visitors to experience first-hand the works that defined it.

RB: Do you have a particular favourite of the 14 Masters

coming to Perth this year?

SC: The field of 14 masters is so strong that it is impossible to choose a favourite artist, so I’ll give you three! Constantin Brancusi: he challenged the established ideas about figurative sculpture, creating the most moving and innovative abstract works. marcel duchamp: he challenged the established ideas about art and what constitutes it. Jackson Pollock: he challenged the established ideas about painting, creating the drip-painting technique that comes from a deep engagement with the paint material and its tools, away from the easel.

RB: I’m sure there will be a rush for tickets given the

already high anticipation. Can the Friends and public

purchase pre-sale tickets prior to the opening?

SC: We anticipate tickets going on sale in mid-April. We will soon be appointing a ticket provider, and tickets will be available online, by telephone and at the Gallery. The Gallery ticket office will be located at the reception desk in the foyer, making it more convenient for our visitors to buy their tickets prior to going upstairs to the exhibition galleries.

The countdown to Picasso to Warhol begins

this month with Gallery activity rising to a

pitch behind the scenes for what is looking

like one of Perth’s most fascinating and

ambitious exhibitions to date.


RB: What highlights can we expect?

SC: This is an exhibition composed entirely of highlights! Truly. If forced to name some, though, I would say that the exquisite Snow Flurry mobile by Alexander Calder is a true delight. It is softly and lyrically poetic, evoking the movement of snow flakes through the sky. map by Jasper Johns, a refigured map of North America, is a masterpiece of late modernism: it uses the found object (map) as a base for an overlay of patchwork colours that claims back the rationalism of cartography for something altogether more personal and more dynamically vague. Then of course there is Picasso’s The Bather: it is a work at the height of his cubist creativity, and will connect to a Perth audience, looking almost as if the figure could have been painted at Cottesloe beach on a hot summer’s day. The selection of Leger works will see this artist win many new fans, as will the groups of works by de Chirico and miro. One of miro’s most significant works, Person throwing a stone at a bird, is in the display and is bound to be much loved by all visitors.

NExT TImE YOu WALK INTO the Art Gallery of Western Australia, pause in the foyer

between the shop and the café and look up at the triangles that make up the ceiling. designed by architect Charles Sierakowski, the Gallery is built around 120 degree angles and each of the nine gallery spaces comprises, essentially, a triangle. There are no 90 degree angles in the gallery at all and this represents a unique proposition for curators but particularly for exhibition designers.

Tash Levey is the Exhibition designer at AGWA and just one of a large staff ‘behind the scenes’ that follows the art in its journey from hometown to transit crates to the walls and spaces of our State Gallery. months, occasionally years of negotiation, planning, scoping and scheduling takes place before a collection arrives at the gallery doors to be shaped by a curatorial and design vision, installed and then finally opened to public applause.

Top leftdr Stefano Carboni standing in front of Vernon Ah Kee, Born in this skin (detail) 2008crayon, charcoal and synthetic polymer on canvas 179.5 x 239.5cm each, three panels. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased through funds from the Friends of the Art Gallery, 2008

AboveInterior, Art Gallery of Western Australia

None of the teams at AGWA work in isolation, group effort is critical and Tash works collaboratively with exhibition curators, a graphic designer and installation teams, amongst others, whilst delivering a design brief that interprets and communicates the curatorial vision.

Jerry Neuner has been Head designer at The museum of modern Art (momA), New York for thirty years. He visited the Gallery earlier this year in anticipation of Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, to meet with Tash and others, and to view and ‘walk’ the available space in the Gallery. It doesn’t matter how intimately a curator or designer knows the art, each new gallery space presents its own unique challenge and Jerry was fascinated by the unconventional angles and strong architectural space at AGWA.

Tash’s professional background is in Industrial design, including product and furniture design, and her private passion is perma-culture and sustainable

Perpetual TrianglesLouise Jones tracked down Tash Levey, Exhibition Designer, to

find out how the Gallery designs an incoming exhibition


landscape design. Wherever possible in her work, Tash does her best to maintain a design ethos that recycles materials and involves responsible environmental choices.

Tash commences her design preparation by calculating the lineal meterage of each work of art then considers and adds to that equation the space required around each piece, taking into consideration factors such as the visual demands of the art, the likely traffic flow of visitors, specific art conservation requirements for particular pieces, lighting and in the case of this first momA blockbuster, the chronological presentation of the exhibition.

These measurements inform a designer whether additional temporary walls or ‘rooms’ are required to be created within the existing space. Fitting artworks into spaces can be challenging and Tash utilises the architectural and engineering software Autocad. Tash and robert Cook, curator for Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, were able to play around with a model of the gallery spaces on the computer to visualise the art in situ and to develop the design of the exhibition.

The anticipation of installing a new exhibition almost certainly means the de-installation, deconstruction and packing up of another; the stripping of the gallery space bare, walls repaired and repainted according to the new exhibition design. For security reasons Tash is rarely informed of exactly when the incoming art will arrive at the Gallery; only a privileged few have that information, it’s closely guarded by the registration team.

In addition to her collaboration with curators, Tash also works closely with AGWA’s graphic designer dean russell to design the marketing material that promotes the upcoming exhibitions and visually directs the public in the Gallery. Tash will not reveal any secrets but we can expect a visual and atmospheric transformation of the Gallery as New York arrives in Perth.

Tash has had a long time to study the dimensions of the momA works of art and considers how best they will be displayed in the spaces. When asked which pieces she is most looking forward to seeing up close, she nominates the hanging Alexander Calder mobiles, the Calder jewellery and the iconic Piet mondrian paintings.

AboveL-r Installation Assistant Kyle Cannon, Curator robert Cook with Installation Assistant Jann Thompson installing the Tom malone Prize 2012, Art Gallery of Western Australia.


V ISITOrS ArE THE LIFE FOrCE OF A PuBLIC gallery and school children on educational visits are a big part of the equation. In the last financial year

alone, some 1076 student groups visited the Gallery totalling an astounding 22,404 students and their teachers.

Kerri dickfos, Lisa Young and Greg Fletcher look after education and visitor development, with Kerri concentrating on public programs, Lisa on educational programs and Greg working across both areas.

AGWA provides visiting school groups with an opportunity to participate in tours and workshops designed to encourage the students to engage and connect with the State Art Collection. many of these are specifically developed in direct regard to the designated WA curriculum, such as Indigenous and Historical (Early Settlement) studies. Greg and Lisa strive to deliver classes and workshops in an interactive and energetic way to enhance the students’ art education and encourage them to return to the Gallery with families and friends.

Lisa Young has been a visual arts educator for over 20 years, teaching art at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. As Head of Art at St mary’s Anglican Girls School for 12 years Lisa regularly participated in examination and curriculum writing panels. For the upcoming momA exhibition she has developed a series of curriculum based educational resources for Kindergarten to Year 12, offering teachers lesson plans and activities.

Greg Fletcher is constantly surprised and delighted by how the visiting children respond to the art at the Gallery. He observes

that the younger ones, lacking in inhibition, are often the most interesting and even with works they don’t necessarily understand, they often end up unravelling an artist’s intent. He usually commences by asking the children what they see and feel, and this conversation is continued with older children by explaining an artist’s intention and encouraging them to look beyond their first impression for clues that might hint at this intent. One of his favourite works to show younger children is Triptych Alice by Charles Blackman where Alice appears to be falling through the rabbit hole. After they have guessed which famous story the picture is based on, Greg explains to them that the artist’s wife was blind and that mr Blackman used to read the story to her. He asks students if they think the painting of Alice could be the artist’s wife.

Lisa likes to expose students to a range of works from robert Juniper’s massive landscapes to Henry moore’s Reclining Figure 1965. Her preference however is to talk with student groups about contemporary art and welcomed the opening last year of Your Collection 1890 to Present as an invaluable teaching resource at the Gallery. …continued over

Art ExposureGreg Fletcher, Visitor Development Officer, and school art teachers, spoke to Louise Jones about art education at the Gallery.

‘…what better way to learn about a country’s history or culture than to study its art.’

AboveStudents and teacher from Living Waters Lutheran College taking part in a visual Analysis workshop with an AGWA Education Officer.Background: Sandra Hill, Home-maker #4 2010oil on canvas. 91.0 x 76.0 cmState Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased through the TomorrowFund,Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2011© Sandra Hill, 2011


Karen Sabitay, Primary visual Arts Specialist at Scotch College Junior School, agrees:

‘Presented as a series of interconnected chronological displays: highlighting Indigenous, Western Australian, Australian and global art and design from the 19th to 21st Century, directly parallels the new National Curriculum which aims to encourage students to consider local, national and global perspectives’.

‘The sequential presentation of the Collection makes it easier for students to grasp concepts of time and place and for educators to pursue their renewed focus upon history, encouraging students to understand their own history as well as their Asian neighbours and increased global awareness.’

She reflects that ‘learning through the arts’ presents a new perspective for educators, ‘what better way to learn about a country’s history or culture than to study its art.’

Karen believes that what teachers themselves understand shapes the resources they choose, the learning experiences they develop and their effectiveness as educators,

‘teachers need to maintain and develop their discipline of visual art through professional development and regular contact with colleagues who share a commitment to teaching arts through inquiry. The Gallery can support both educators and students in their quest for understanding, knowledge and inspiration.’

Katrinna Lievense teaches students in Years 8 to 12 at John Curtin College of the Arts, in the Gifted and Talented visual Arts program. She says AGWA provides her students with the perfect environment to extend and enrich their learning experiences. The Gallery education officers support her by readily choosing works that compliment her learning programs. She has observed first hand her students’ inspiration growing as they respond to the Gallery educators’ intimate knowledge and analysis of the art on display. There is no substitute in her mind for the students’ experience of seeing artworks first hand.

From time to time AGWA arranges an introduction of major exhibitions for teachers to launch its schools’ programs and

resources. At exclusive previews in march this year, the Gallery’s director dr Stefano Carboni introduced the momA works to teachers. At the same time, Greg and Lisa unveiled the Picasso to Warhol education resources designed for Early Childhood, middle Childhood, Early Adolescence and Late Adolescence.

The education and public programs could not flourish at AGWA without the assistance of the volunteer Gallery Guides who work closely with Greg, Lisa and Kerri to ensure that their tours for children and others are tailored to the particular educational objectives or group needs.

AGWA runs ‘Touch and descriptor’ tours for people who are blind, vision impaired or deaf with guides specifically trained for these tours. There are also Guides fluent in a second language including French, Italian, Spanish, German and dutch; and Japanese speaking guides offering a monthly appreciation styled ‘Japanese Art Club’.

The education and public programs could not flourish at AGWA without the assistance of the

Volunteer Gallery Guides who work closely with Greg, Lisa and Kerri to ensure that their tours

for children and others are tailored to the particular educational objectives or group needs.


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MOST OF THE FrIENdS ArE FAmILIAr WITH the work of the voluntary Gallery Guides at the Gallery but few would be aware of the breadth of their endeavour

and commitment. managed and administered autonomously by a committee and Constitution under the helm of President debra majteles, there are currently 76 active Guides, passionate about the Gallery and communicating their knowledge with the public.

This eclectic group of people has arrived at AGWA from all walks of life, motivated to become Guides for a variety of reasons and generously sharing with each other their interest in art, their experience and knowledge. The Guides are bound together by a common mission and have formed dear and precious friendships over the years.

debra majteles’ love affair with art commenced in her late teens; ‘guiding allows me to share that passion and enthusiasm with a wider public, not just family and friends’. debra considers the opportunity to guide visitors through some amazing exhibitions at the Gallery, as a ‘privilege’ and believes the volunteer Guides strive to improve and enhance people’s understanding of art. In december 2011 alone, 108 tours for 2039 visitors were conducted by the volunteer Guides.

In 1976 Lou Klepac, then deputy director of the Gallery, approached the Art Gallery Society, now the Friends, to ask for assistance with researching the history of the Gallery. This original research group of 10 was later asked to guide groups of school children through the 1977 Perth International Survey and Collectors Pride exhibitions. Later that year the voluntary Guiding Scheme was officially constituted with 22 members.

The volunteer Guides, have amassed and continue to amass an encyclopedic knowledge of art history and art appreciation amongst them. They receive considerable training, attending education sessions once a fortnight for a year before they are officially ‘qualified’ to lead groups through the Gallery.

Training includes an in-depth familiarisation with the State Collection, research and the development of visual awareness and image analysis. The Guides complete written assignments and are mentored whilst sharing tours with more experienced colleagues.

Celebrating the Gallery GuidesRosemary Wallace, Co-ordinator

of the Voluntary Guides with

Louise Jones

It goes without saying that a Guide’s art education is never complete, new exhibitions demand new research and the Guides spend valuable time with the exhibition curators attending lectures and ‘walk-throughs’ to become familiar with an artist and their work. They also work closely with the Gallery’s education officers who have tailored school tours for the Guides to deliver.

The Guides are part of a wider army of volunteers that include the voluntary visitor Information Assistants and the voluntary Education Assistants. Together all these volunteers generously contribute thousands of hours of service to the Gallery, enabling and enriching the overall ‘visitor experience’. The Guides enjoy their interaction with the public, observing the public’s reaction to the art on display and answering as many questions as they can.

dorothea Hansen is in her 35th year of guiding and can recall many grounding moments including one during an exacting tour of a very large group of visitors to the Sidney Nolan exhibition. At the end of the tour dorothea asked her group if there were any questions and a lady put up her hand and asked ‘Yes, could you tell me where you get your hair cut’.

When asked why she became a Guide, Libby Ince, a newly graduated guide puts it simply ‘I love art, I love people, I love teaching’.

Application forms to become a Guide can be found

on the Gallery’s website.

members of the voluntary Guides committee and Gallery staff interview applicants. regular attendance at training is required. Training for 20 new 2012 guides has just commenced. refresher courses are also on offer for current guides.

The Voluntary Guides are offering exclusive tours to Friends

and their friends on June. See Friends Event Guide p.

AboveL-r: michelle ranieri (Auslan interpreter), rita Pasqualini (Gallery Guide), Jenny Pupich (WA deaf Soc), Princely Treasures exhibition.


Film Festival


THE FrIENdS ArE dELIGHTEd TO BrING YOu THE PICASSo To WARHoL: FoURTEEN MoDERN MASTERS Film Festival, a special season of four films accompanied by APPRECIATING talks.

designed to enlighten the context of the works of art featured in the exhibition, Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, the eminently qualified guest speakers will introduce perspectives that further our appreciation of the artists’ work and make each evening not only educational but very enjoyable too.

This Film Festival is the third program created by Friends to complement AGWA’s “Great Collections of the World” series of exhibitions. Kicking off with a Gala Opening on monday 6 June in celebration of Picasso and closing with Warhol in November, the season is accentuated by duchamp in August and Bourgeois in September. These four evenings promise to be a highlight of the Friends’ calendar this year (you know we’re going to say it – book early!).

Picasso and Braque go to the Movies

GALA OPENING,

WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE, 6 – 9pm

As a celebration of Picasso’s contribution to the art world, we invite you to a Spanish extravaganza of dance and music in the main concourse of the Gallery. Thrill to the machine gun footwork of flamenco dancers accompanied by Spanish guitarist, from the acclaimed danza viva Spanish dance Company, of recent Octagon Theatre success.

dr Stefano Carboni, director of the Gallery, will officially open the Festival and for the APPRECIATING talk he will discuss the work of Picasso to introduce the first of the festival films, Picasso and Braque go to the Movies.

Born at the same time as cinema itself and both avid cinephiles, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were pioneering figures in the world of modern art. Their creation of the Cubist movement changed the face of modern art forever. This film examines the possible aesthetic links between the advent of the cinema and Cubism. Narrated by martin Scorsese and featuring insights from various artists, it’s a fascinating window into the genesis of an artistic revolution.

Marcel Duchamp: A Definitive BiographyMONDAY 7 AUGUST, 6 – 8.15pm

Born in 1887 in France, marcel duchamp – painter, sculptor, and author – was associated with Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, though he avoided strict alliances. duchamp’s early works were Post-Impressionist in style, though he eventually turned toward the avant-garde. His most famous work, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, caused a furore at New York City’s famous Armory Show in 1913.

duchamp’s work is characterised by humour, a wide variety of media, and its incessant probing of the boundaries of art. His legacy includes the insight that art can be about ideas instead of objects, a revolutionary notion that would resonate with later generations of artists. As a sculptor, he pioneered a main artistic innovation of the 20th century: ready-made art. “ready-mades” were banal objects of everyday use, which he signed with his name and gave titles totally unconnected with their functional use. They demonstrated his profound contempt for the middle class conception of art.

APPRECIATING guest speaker:

robert Cook, the Gallery’s Curator of modern and Contemporary Photography and design, will talk on the works of marcel duchamp.

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters By Rosita Valladares


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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine

MONDAY SEPTEMBER, 6 – 9.30pm

chronicles the life and imagination of Paris-born artist Louise Bourgeois. Her creative process is on full display in this documentary, which features the artist in her studio and with her installations, shedding light on her intentions and inspirations. Throughout the documentary, Bourgeois reveals her life and work to be imbued with her ongoing obsession with the mysteries of childhood.

Bourgeois has for six decades been an important and influential figure in the world of modern art. In 1982, at the age of 71, she became the first woman to be honoured with a major retrospective at New York’s museum of modern Art. She is perhaps best known for her series of massive spider structures that have been installed around the world. Filmed with unprecedented access to the artist between 1993 and 2007, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine is a comprehensive examination of the creative process.

APPRECIATING guest speaker: dr Ann Schilo, Senior Lecturer, School of design & Art, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin university, will talk on the works of Louise Bourgeois.

Andy Warhol: Ten Lizes

MONDAY 1 NOVEMBER, 6 – 9pm

Ten identical faces printed in black, over two rows, on canvas 5.65 metres long and 2 metres high. But are the faces really identical? With subtle revelations, the observer gradually notices a myriad of small differences, minor variations and inconsistencies.

Andy Warhol created this image from a photo of actress Elizabeth Taylor and repeated it ten times using silkscreen printing techniques. Why did he choose her image as his subject and repetition as his theme? Working in New York at the epicentre of the Pop Art movement, Ten Lizes breaks from the traditional art of portraiture, but demands as much decoding as pictures from earlier ages.

APPRECIATING Guest Speaker: Alan dodge Am, Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Art Adviser, will speak about the works by Andy Warhol in the Exhibition.

OppositeNicola de rosa with flamenco guitarist Jose Giraldo of danza viva Spanish dance Company will perform at the Gala Opening.

…a fascinating window into the genesis of an artistic revolution.

VENUE & BOOKING DETAILS

All Film Festival events take place at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, either on the Concourse or in the Theatrette. Ticket prices vary for each. For details see Friends Event Guide (p4, 7, 9, 10).Bookings can be made online at www.artfriends.com.au or call (08) 9492 6750.

What’s on at the GalleryFor more information about the Gallery’s exhibitions and events visit: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

Your Collection 1800 – today

Our most important asset is the State Art Collection. Your Collection is the leading public, art collection in the State, with many areas of acknowledged excellence, including Western Australian art, modern British art and Indigenous art. The many highlights of the inspiring art in the Your Collection displays are presented across all ground floor galleries in both the Centenary Galleries and the main Gallery Building. The displays are chronologically arranged from the 1800s to today.

Art, craft and design, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous works are displayed together in Your Collection and are presented in four parts; 1800-1920 Here and There located in the Centenary Galleries includes works by Hans Heysen, Frederick mcCubbin and Auguste rodin; 1920-1960 Many Modernisms includes works by Stanley Spencer, Sidney Nolan and Kathleen O’Connor; 1960-1980 Anything Goes features work by Jenny Watson, Barbara Hepworth, Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and Alec mingelmanganu; 1980-today Expanding Fields brings us up to date

with major works by rover Thomas, Ken unsworth, Sally Gabori and max Pam.

JEFF WALL Photographs

6 May – 10 September 01

Jeff Wall is recognised throughout the world as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. JEFF WALL Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together 26 photographs to present an overview of his outstanding achievements and features major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large-scale and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art form it is today.

Jeff Wall Opening Party

Friday 5 May 01 from 6.30pm

Come celebrate the opening of JEFF WALL Photographs. Sign up for AGWA’s electronic newsletter, eview, to receive your special invite. Join here: artgallery.wa.gov.au/subscribe

Jeff Wall – Artist’s talk

Sunday 7 May 01 at pm Free Join artist Jeff Wall and AGWA Chief Curator | deputy director Gary dufour in an artist’s talk and a question and answer session, and discover the mind behind these amazing photographs. This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn more about one of the most influential photographers of our time.

[See Friends Event Guide, p4, for details of a special tour of JEFF WALL Photographs, with Gary dufour.]

JEFF WALL Photographs is an exhibition organised by the Art Gallery of Western Australia in association with the National Gallery of victoria.

Picasso to Warhol:

Fourteen Modern Masters

Opens Saturday 16 June 01

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters is the first exhibition in a series of six incredible

AboveRover Thomas, Mirriya (Mureeya) Texas Downs Country 1989. ochre on canvas. 90 x 180 cm (sight) 92.7 x 182.7 cm (framed). State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased with funds from the Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2002. © rover Thomas 1989


shows from The museum of modern Art (momA) in New York. It features a rich selection of works by the world’s most important and inspiring modern artists: Pablo Picasso, Henri matisse, Piet mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Leger, marcel duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan miro, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, romare Bearden, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.

Together, this group transformed the art and culture of the 20th century. In order to convey their outstanding achievements, each artist is represented with a group of key works, many of which are on show for the first time in Australia, and rarely seen outside momA. This is a powerful and exciting show of the most breathtaking and significant treasures of modern art.

Picasso to Warhol Opening Party

Friday 15 June 01

Come celebrate the opening of Picasso to Warhol from The museum of modern Art. This late night, New York-style party will be brimming with food, drink and live entertainment.

Admission fees apply. For ticketing information, exhibition details, program of events and all the latest news, visit: artgallery.wa.gov.au

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LeftRebecca BaumannAutomated Colour Field 2011100 flip clocks, laser-cut paper, duration 24 hours130 x 360 x 9 cmState Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased through the TomorrowFund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2011

Top leftAndy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Brillo Boxes (Soap Pads), 1964. synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on wood, Each box: 17 1/8 x 17 x 14” (43.3 x 43.2 x 36.5 cm). The museum of modern Art, New York. Gift of doris and donald Fisher.© 2012 Andy Warhol Foundation for the visual Arts/Artists rights Society (ArS), New York.

Top rightBrian CorrEnsō 2011waterjet cut, cold worked and constructed flat and kiln-formed glass80 x 80 x 16.5 cmPhotograph courtesy of rob Little

Winner of the Tom Malone Prize 2012

This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrated 10 years of the Tom Malone Prize. Established in 2003, the Tom Malone Prize is an acquisitive prize for Australian glass artists and has been the conduit for a range of inspiring purchases in this exciting medium.

This Year the Tom Malone Prize was exhibited alongside Translucence: contemporary glass. The combined exhibitions featured work by the 2012 winner Brian Corr for Ensō, the 2012 shortlisted makers, all past winners and a selection of glass works from the State Art Collection. Works were selected to bring to view objects which have been recently purchased, and those works that precede and parallel the works of the Tom Malone Prize acquisitions.

Judges’ comments on the winner of the Tom Malone

Prize 2012

Elizabeth Malone, Stefano Carboni, Klaus Moje and Robert Cook

“We were truly impressed by Corr’s achievement in balancing intuition and technique to convey form, and form within space. His activation of glass as a medium of light sees him employing its natural qualities in a subtly dramatic way. The captivating interplay of void and shadow is the perfect showcase for his masterful combination of craft and poetry.”


AboveElisa Markes-YoungThe Strange Quiet of Things Misplaced #24, 2010acrylic, wool, cotton and silk on Belgian linen, approx. 110 x 110 cm.Photo: Christopher Young


CALL FOR ENTRIES

You are invited to be a part of this unique and nationally respected art award… The Cossack Art Award provides an unmissable opportunity for established and emerging artists to showcase their work in a nationally recognised public forum.

With ten categories and total prize pool of over $100,000, this is the richest regional art award in Australia, attracting high calibre entrants to the Pilbara region every year since 1992.

Download the entry form and conditions of entry from the Shire of Roebourne website www.roebourne.wa.gov.au

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 9am, Monday 18 June OR when maximum capacity of entries is reached. For more info visit www.roebourne.wa.gov.au.

ExhIbITION 22 July – 5 August 2012

Enquiries can be directed to the Shire of Roebourne E. [email protected]. 0417 805 128 | T. (08) 9186 8555

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ArT PrIzES ArE BuBBLING uP ALL OvEr THE state. Artists like them or loathe them, local governments lap up the prestige and the community loves the opening

of a gold envelope!An art prize with ambition, the regional Art Gallery in

Geraldton established the mid West Art Prize last year with the view of developing a significant cultural event not only for Geraldton but also for Western Australia (WA). With $45 000 in non-acquisitive awards currently, the mid West Art Prize can be compared very favourably to other high profile art prizes and awards conducted throughout Australia.

James davies, Gallery director, hopes that in a few years the Art Prize can go national ‘with enough prize money to rival those awards that, mostly, originate in metro areas.’

It’s undoubtedly a strategy to attract interest in the Gallery and artists of the region, which other exemplary art prizes and biennials have succeeded in achieving. James’ aspiration is that the mid West Art Prize should challenge ‘those who would suggest that WA is a cultural desert.’

Prizes are a great way for a public institution to build or add to their art collection, for posterity. By attracting newly created works by emerging and established artists from all over the State, James explains ‘the Art Prize affords the Gallery the opportunity to select high quality works for purchase for the City of Greater Geraldton Art Collection.’

The judges commented that the 2012 winning

work of the $20 000 prize is a work of ‘great

sensitivity created with an honesty and passion

rarely seen and even harder to master.’


Mid West Art Prize 2012The first Art Prize and exhibition was exceptionally successful

and set a high standard for the forthcoming year. 2011 winner of the non-acquisitive City of Greater Geraldton Overall Award for Excellence, Elisa markes-Young, a Perth artist originally from Poland, says that participation in the Prize ‘was one of the most positive and affirming experiences I’ve ever had as an artist. The friendly and helpful gallery director and staff, and the beautiful exhibition space, made for a truly memorable show. Winning the main prize still fills me with amazement, especially given the high calibre of the selected artists.’

The 2012 winner of the $20 000 prize, octogenarian Biddy Timbinah, has lived in Halls Creek since 1973, and is one of the Yarliyil Artists. Biddy’s paintings depict her father’s country. He was a Pitjantjatjara man from House Bluff near Ayers rock in the desert. Biddy demonstrates an innate use of colour and texture to recreate the rhythms found in the geography of the land of her father, as seen from the bird’s eye perspective. The judges commented that her winning painting, My Father’s Country Ngaanyatjarra, is a work of ‘great sensitivity created with an honesty and passion rarely seen and even harder to master’.

Grant Woodhams MLA

Mid West Art Prize 2012Exhibition dates4 March to 27 May 2012

Opening hoursTuesday – Saturday,

10am–4pm

Sundays and Public Holidays,

1pm–4pm. Closed Mondays

Geraldton Regional Art Gallery24 Chapman Road

Geraldton WA 6530

T: (08) 9964 7170

E: [email protected]

www.artgallery.cgg.wa.gov.auWinner of the $20,000 City of Greater Geraldton Overall Award for ExcellenceBiddy Timbinah, My Father’s Country – Ngaanyatjarra, 2012. Acrylic on Canvas.

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Information

The Mid West Art Prize exhibition is showing at the

Greater Geraldton Regional Art Gallery until 7 May.

The Geraldton regional Art Gallery is jointly funded and operated by the City of Greater Geraldton and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The Gallery houses and cares for the City of Greater Geraldton Art Collection, comprised of over 404 artworks, principally paintings and works on paper. A major redevelopment is currently in planning stage.

2012 WINNERS

$0,000 City of Greater Geraldton Overall Award for Excellence

Biddy Timbinah, My Father’s Country Ngaanyatjarra$5,000 Minerals & Metals Group Highly Commended Award

Olga Cironis, Take it All$5,000 Eastman Poletti Sherwood Architects Mid West Award

Gabrielle Woodhams, Red Tutu for Lucy$5,000 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery Highly Commended

Mid West Award

marianne Penberthy, The Remnant Diaries Re. Collections$5,000 Mid West Aboriginal Award

margaret danischewsky, Beach to Bush Collection$3,500 96.5WAFM Youth Award

Alicia Hart, The Monitors Garden

FriendshipNew Friend Michael Wass, Retail Design Manager by working week and artist by

weekend, attended the Artsource Studios afternoon. He told us about it:

“I really enjoyed the event after a little initial trepidation, particularly as it was my first Friends event and I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.

As time revealed, it was a good function – once I noticed that one of the presenters had “The mighty Boosh” as her screen-saver I knew it was going to be OK! After an explanation of what was on offer at Artsource, the real fun started as we delved into the minds and spaces of the artists respectively, and en masse sometimes. Not all of the studios were for everyone, but I found myself involved in a number of lengthy discussions, with each having since influenced my painting.

The circus school in the midst of the studios is pretty cool too, it added to the theatre!

An hour and a bit of walking the studios was followed by another walk for a rather spectacular coffee and cake down near the water, with lively debate about the number of paintings that one has to complete to become an artist, and the big question as to whether you can work full time and still be an artist on the weekends! I don’t think the argument was resolved but it was a fun end to a great event.”

1 milani and roberta Giorgio with Stefano Carboni Photo: maxine murray

2 Kathrin Peters, Artsource Studio artist Photo: maxine murray

3 L-r: visitor development manager Peter Lowe, Pam Barras and Friend Beryl mathews, with volunteer Gallery Guide Ian Frith and Friends EO Gwen Gaff; with seeing-eye dog ‘Whisper’, Princely Treasures exhibition.

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AboveLuke Stephenson, Red Canary #1, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.


Hijacked III: Australia/United Kingdom

A fleeting glimpse into the life and times of both countries and beyond, Hijacked III disrupts the way you think about photography.

This 3rd edition in the ‘Hijacked’ series of photography compendiums includes a breathtaking 270 images and essays by leading critics, writers and academics. Locally published by Big City Press (WA), it explores the fantastic and foreboding worlds of 35 artists from opposite sides of the globe. From oblique portraiture and collage to snapshots of society at its best and worst, the photographs reveal what it means to look, capture or construct images

Books, Websites & Triviafor this century. An image driven and artist focused project with a challenging anti-curatorial manifesto, it creates a forum for photography to reinvent itself.Hijacked III: Australia/united Kingdom. Edited by Louise Clements, mark mcPherson and Leigh robb. designed by Andy Simionato. Available from Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA). rrP Au$85.00

Mark Howlett Foundation 1991–2011

The Mark Howlett Foundation’s 20th year project is a significant milestone in Western Australia’s artistic history. This book documents the preceding projects and history of the Mark Howlett Foundation (MHF), alongside the anniversary project MHF20, and is an important legacy for the MHF and a fitting tribute to the people who have made all this possible. [Kieran Wong]

Friends were privileged to meet several artists in January at the mHF closing party, including Penny Bovell (pictured p20) who continued, with friends and

family, the unique artist support model that her husband mark instigated before his untimely death. This beautifully restrained volume is a collector’s item.mark Howlett Foundation 1991–2011. Text by Andrew Gaynor; essay by victoria Laurie. designed by Isabel Kruger with Bo Wong Photography. Limited edition available from FOuNd, Fremantle Art Centre. rrP $70.

Guy Grey-Smith: Life Force

Passionate, tireless, generous, divisive and extremely vivid to all who knew him, Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) remains one of the most important Australian artists of his generation.

Based in Western Australia, Guy exhibited in every other state and in key international exhibitions; received Queens Honours Awards and sat on the Australia Council. Yet, in spite of a

Picasso had a mouthful of a name: ‘Pablo diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno maria de los remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad martyr Patricio Clito ruiz y Picasso’. Baptised after a number of saints and relatives, ‘Picasso’ came from his mother.

It is said that Picasso had his first exhibition at age 13 in the back of an umbrella store.

TriviaThere’s an urban myth that Picasso

stole the mona Lisa. The truth is it was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and Picasso’s friend the poet Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested. Apollinaire pointed the finger at Picasso and he was taken in for questioning. Both of them were later released.

Andy Warhol moved from his Pittsburgh hometown to New York in 1949. His first exhibition of drawings in

1952 was based on the writings of Truman Capote. Capote disliked Warhol and famously said ‘this is a guy that I can’t see anybody liking’.

Warhol made lots of movies. His first, entitled ‘Sleep’, was essentially a film of his friend asleep and lasted for six hours. It is said that nine people attended the premiere and two walked out after an hour!


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Verbitsky’s 25th Anniversary Gala

WASO’s much-loved Conductor Laureate Vladimir Verbitsky celebrates 25 amazing years with the Orchestra.

A concert of Russian masterpieces from Borodin, Liadov, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and more!

Vladimir Verbitsky, conductor (pictured)

Daniel Sumegi, bass-baritone

7.30pm, Sat 23 June3pm, Sun 24 JunePerth Concert Hall

Books, Websites & Trivia

significant 35-year career, Guy Grey-Smith: Life Force is the first book written about him. Granted access to the artist’s papers and estate, independent curator Andrew Gaynor draws a fascinating portrait of a country boy whose life was first liberated, then stalled by the brutality of war. Teaching himself to draw whilst in POW camps, he went on to create some of the most enduring and powerful images of the Australian landscape, redolent with colour, texture and an unmistakable life force.Published by uWA. Available from 10 August 2012. rrP Au$69.95. Special limited collector’s edition to be priced.

Leigh robb is the Curator at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA). With a Cv that most art history students would covet, her accomplishments make her a valuable asset to the Australian visual arts community, not only as a curator but also as a writer and mentor for emerging curators and artists. drawing on her time at the Courtauld in London, the Peggy Guggenheim in venice, Thomas dane Gallery in Piccadilly and residencies last year in Japan, Leigh has intrigued and entertained local audiences with her exhibitions at PICA.

When asked which three websites she would most recommend to web-addicted visual arts buffs, such as the Friends, Leigh had no hesitation recommending her top five!

www.art-it.asia/top

English language art news site run out of Tokyo – best for its seriously in-depth profiles of artists exhibiting in Japan through multi-part interviews, video tours, critical reviews.

Websites I recommend

www.agmamagazine.com

Image led online magazine set up by Francesco Stocchi and Aaron moulton. Antidote for missing far-flung and historic exhibitions from all over the world – full installation views of shows and floorplans.

www.the-exhibitionist-journal.com

Not as risqué as it sounds – The Exhibitionist proclaims to be a magazine for curators by curators, but is really for anyone interested in the making and aesthetics of exhibitions – or maybe for naturists who like going to galleries.

Also take a look at:

www.bidoun.orgwww.e-flux.com/journals

Guy Grey-Smith remains

one of the most important

Australian artists of

his generation.


WESTERN AUSTRALIA

ALBANY TOWN HALL217 York Street, Albany WA 6330T: 08 9841 9260CITY OF ALBANY ArT PrIzE1 April – 22 AprilW: albanyartprize.com.au

BUNBURY REGIONAL ART GALLERIES64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury WA 6230W: brag.org.auT: 08 9721 8226Open: 10am – 4pm, 7 daysSOuTH WESTErN TImES SurvEY 2012until 8 AprilAuSTrALIA WIdE TWO quiltmaking13 April – 20 mayJEFF mINCHAm Ceramics27 April to 10 June 2012NOONGAr COuNTrY contemporary art22 June – 18 August

BURATTI FINE ART222 Queen victoria Street, North Fremantle WA 6159W: buratti.com.auT: 08 9433 6369Open: Wed – Sat 10am – 6pmWENdY SHArPE Artist & model16 march – 18 AprildAEvId ANdErSON20 April – 20 mayALEx PrOYAS Fear Not death’s Shadow25 may – 20 June

WA, Australia & the WorldA selection of exhibitions, biennales, art fairs & events

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE1 Finnerty St, Fremantle WA 6160W: fac.org.auT: 08 9432 9555Open 10am – 5pm, 7 daysFOTOFrEO (various exhibitions)17 march – 13 maySHAuN TAN Suburban Odyssey19 may – 15 JulyTHE IrrEGuLAr COrrECT New Art from Glasgow, group show21 July –16 September

GALERIE DÜSSELDORF9 Glyde Street, mosman Park WA 6012W: galeriedusseldorf.com.auOpen: Wed – Fri 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pmBrENdAN vAN HEK As if from a distance I could already see myself16 October – 13 November 2011mArK PArFITT: Anyday Now27 November – 23 december 2011

GALLERY EAST94 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle WA 6159W: galleryeast.com.auT: 08 9336 6231Open: Tue – Sat 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pmCHrISTOPHEr CrOuCH paintingsTONY dAvIS sculptures4 – 29 AprilALAN muLLEr paintings4 – 27 maySHIrLEY CLANCY paintings1 – 24 JunePAuL mONCrIEFF29 June – 22 July

GERALDTON REGIONAL ART GALLERY24 Chapman road, Geraldton WA 6530W: artgallery.cgg.wa.gov.auT: 08 9964 7170Open: Tue – Sat 10am–4pm, Sun & public hols 1pm–4pm. Closed mon.mId WEST ArT PrIzEuntil 27 may

GREENHILL GALLERIES6 Gugeri Street, Claremont WA 6010W: greenhillgalleries.comT: 08 9383 4433Open: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 4pmWALdEmAr KOLBuSz new works18 may – 2 JunemAdELEINE CLEAr new works14 – 30 JuneSTOrmIE mILLS new works13 – 28 July

GUNYULGUP GALLERYGunyulgup valley drive, Yallingup WA 6282W: gunyulgupgalleries.com.auT: 08 9755 2177Open 10am – 5pm, 7 daysSHArON dAWES new paintings7 – 22 AprilSuE COdEE, CHrISTINE GrEGOrY, PATrICIA HINES & mONIQuE TIPPETT8 – 22 July

HEATHCOTE MUSEUM & GALLERY58-60 duncraig road, ApplecrossW: melvillecity.com.au/facilities/museums/heathcoteT: 08 9364 5666Open: Tue – Fri 10am – 3pm; Sat – Sun 12 – 4pm; Closed mon & public holsKATHrYN HAuG, CHLOE TuPPEr & FIONA LEuENBErGEr remnant14 April – 20 maydENISE BrOWN Tilting at Windmills7 July – 12 August

JOHN CURTIN GALLERYCurtin university, Building 200, Kent Street, BentleyW: johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.auT: 08 9266 4155Open: mon – Fri 11am – 5pm, Sun 1 – 4pmFuTurEGEN 201220 march – 11 mayThe World Is Everything That is The Case1 June – 3 AugustdENNIS dEL FAvErO magnesium Light1 June – 3 August

AboveShaun Tan, Endgame 1998, oil and plaster on plywood, 120 x 120cm.

RightClare McFarlane, A Murder’s Chorus Iv 2011, acrylic & spray paint on canvas, 70 x 70cm. Photo: Acorn Photography.

Top rightStormie Mills, The Start of Everything Has A New Feel To It 2011, acrylic, dirt, spray paint & graffiti remover on canvas, 101 x 101 cm.

Opposite topAnneke De Rooij, Avian Portraits 2012, Porcelain


OK GALLERY5/1 Forbes road, Northbridge WA 6003W: oktachoron.comT: 08 6142 1215Open: Tue – Fri 11am – 6pm, Sat/Sun 12 – 5pm, Closed mon.PATrICK mILLEr Tribute Night28 march – 29 AprilANNEKE dE rOOIJ, LuCAS GrOGAN, JESSIE mITCHELL Ecologies09 may – 10 June

PERTH CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge WA 6003W: pcp.org.auT: 08 6460 9892Open: Thu/Fri 12 – 5pm, Sat/Sun 12 – 4pmrOBBIE COOPEr Alter Ego15 march – 20 mayPHILLIP TOLEdANO A New Kind of Beauty15 march – 20 may

PERTH GALLERIES92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle WA 6159W: perthgalleries.com.auT: 08 9433 4414Open Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 5pm, Sun 2 – 5pmLILIAN HANKEL, EvELINE KOTAI, JEFF mINCHAm, PENNY COSS11 – 29 April

PERTH GALLERIES CONT.NICOLE SLATTEr4 – 27 mayGILES HOHNEN, TrEvOr vICKErS, rJ dOrIzzI1 – 24 JuneANGELA STEWArT29 June – 22 JulySImON COWLING26 July – 19 August

TURNER GALLERIES470 William St, Northbridge WA 6003W: turnergalleries.com.auT: 08 9227 1077Open: Tue – Sat 11am – 5pmCLArE mCFArLANE A murder’s chorus and other winged verse13 April – 12 mayTrEvOr rICHArdS18 may – 16 JunedEBrA dAWES22 June – 21 July

VENN GALLERY16 Queen Street, Perth WA 6000W: venn.netT: 08 9321 8366Open: Tue – Sat 10am – 5pm, Fri 10am – 7pmPETrINA HICKS23 march – 28 AprilPATrICK dOHErTY Invasion4 may – 8 JuneKATE mCmILLAN15 June – 20 July

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INTERSTATE

PARALLEL COLLISIONS: 12TH ADELAIDE BIENNIAL OF AUSTRALIAN ART2 march – 29 April 2012This is the only major biennial dedicated solely to presenting contemporary Australian art and is part of the Adelaide Festival. ‘Parallel Collisions explores the ways in which ideas form, converge and re-form through time. The 21 artists in the exhibition employ the resources of the past – imagery, materials, processes or research from literature, cinema and art history – to reimagine the past in the present or even visualise the future.’ [artgallery.sa.gov.au]

MODERN WOMAN: DAUGHTERS AND LOVERS 1850–1918 DRAWINGS FROM THE MUSÉE D’ORSAY, PARIS24 march – 24 June 2012, Queensland Art Gallery, BrisbaneCelebrating the changing roles of women during the Belle Époque as depicted by renowned French artists of the late 19th and early 20th century. A number of hotels offer great value packages during this exhibition. [qag.qld.gov.au]


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FRED WILLIAMS: INFINITE HORIzONS7 April 2012 – 22 July 2012The Ian Potter Centre: NGv Australia, Federation Square, melbourneFred Williams pioneered a new vision of the Australian landscape, and became one of the most important Australian artists of the 20th century. He sought inspiration from unique landscapes, such as the Pilbara region of Western Australia and Tasmania’s Bass Strait. Although often associated with dry landscapes, this exhibition also presents his fascination with water, as well as portraits of family and friends. A National Gallery of Australia Exhibition. [ngv.vic.gov.au]

18TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY27 June – 16 September 2012 Showcasing more than 100 established and emerging artists from 45 countries, the themed festival ‘all our relations’ will feature site-specific commissions and new collaborative work at major venues across Sydney including the Art Gallery of NSW, the newly redeveloped museum of Contemporary Art, and former shipyard and prison, Cockatoo Island. [biennaleofsydney.com.au]

MELBOURNE ART FAIR 20121 – 5 August 2012Exhibiting over 80 selected national and international galleries at the royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens. visitors can access exclusive accommodation rates at selected Accor hotels.vernissage: Wed 7pm – 10.30pm/Public days: Thu 11am – 7pm; Fri 11am – 8pm; Sat 11am – 7pm; Sun 11am – 5pm [melbourneartfair.com]

7TH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART (APT7)8 december 2012 – 7 April 2013Gallery of modern Art and Queensland Art Gallery, BrisbaneAPT is the only major exhibition series to focus exclusively on the contemporary art of Asia, the Pacific and Australia. [asiapacifictriennial.com]

INTERNATIONAL

SONG DONG: WASTE NOT15 February – 12 June 2012, Barbican Centre, LondonChinese artist Song dong’s extraordinary installation – comprised of over 10,000 household objects collected over five decades – is a poignant meditation on family life and the artist’s childhood during the Cultural revolution. [barbican.org.uk]

11TH HAVANA BIENNIAL11 may – 11 June 2012, CubaThis biennial has become the most important meeting place for artists from “non-Western” countries, with a particular focus on artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. [bienalhabana.cult.cu]

HONG KONG ART FAIR17 – 20 may 2012Hong Kong has become the third largest auction art market in the world after New York and London. This is a chance to see major international art galleries, without the NYC jetlag. [hongkongartfair.com]

MANIFESTA 92 June – 30 September 2012, Genk, Limburg, BelgiumThis roving and innovative biennial of contemporary art changes it location in Europe every two years – this year it’s in Limburg. manifesta purposely strives to stay away from the ‘dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography’. [manifesta9.org]

dOCUMENTA (13)9 June – 16 September 2012, Kassel, GermanyOnly taking place every five years, doCUMENTA runs for 100 days in multiple venues across the city, demonstrating how contemporary art can contribute to our understanding of the world. [d13.documenta.de]

ART 43 BASEL14 – 17 June 2012Allegedly the world’s premier international art show for modern and contemporary art, featuring leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. It is huge, with plenty of satellite fairs and exhibitions. This year you can skip from Basel to manifesta and documenta in one European trip. [artbasel.com]

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