Past Exhibitions

Complete

10 - 24 July 2010
Debra Dawes, Complete?, 2010
Debra Dawes, Complete, installation view
Debra Dawes, Complete, installation view
Debra Dawes, Got a hankering (green), 2010
Debra Dawes, Sweet surrender, 2010
Debra Dawes, Complete, installation view
Debra Dawes, Dare two, 2010
As you may already know, Debra has occupied our project space as her open studio since March; the culmination of her celebrated Double-dealing series is now Complete.

gbk @ Art HK 10

26 - 30 May 2010

Where We've Been, Where We're Going, Why.

6 May - 3 July 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+79_black, 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+85_blue, 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+10_green , 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+77_blue&white, 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+100_red&orange, 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+85_red&blue, 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+78_red&yellow, 2010
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, T+64_yellow, 2010
The title of Sean & Claire’s exhibition is what was to have been the title of Christa McAuliffe’s lesson to the schoolchildren of America from the space shuttle Challenger.

I loved you yesterday

15 April - 1 May 2010
Fiona Lowry, for you I have lived and for you I will die, 2009
Fiona Lowry, the truth has no patterns for me tonight, 2010
Fiona Lowry, step out of a triangle into striped light, 2010
Fiona Lowry, I’m anywhere tonight, 2010
Fiona Lowry, I could tell you what I saw in you, 2010
Fiona Lowry, I loved you yesterday, 2010
Fiona Lowry, study for apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, 2010

"This is part of the paradox of her work – it is as much about formal qualities and beauty as it is about the evocation of impending doom or unease. Indeed there is a seductive weightlessness to the effervescent application of paint that belies the paintings’ thornier content…..the viewer’s vision shudders across the surface: the point of focus staggered over the painting, denying a single point of perspective and a conventional reading of foreground and background. Here, the historical specificities associated with the term landscape slide into the paradigm of place, a broad concept accommodating also nuance and imperceptibility. In the place of Lowry’s pictures narrative is subverted and the optical field oscillates, infused with a melancholy air that is often erotically charged.”

 

Natasha Bullock, Wilderness, Balnaves contemporary: painting cataolgue, Art Gallery of New South Wales

Open Studio - untitled

3 March - 3 June 2010
Debra Dawes, poetry reading 23 February: Jelle van den Berg
Debra Dawes, poetry reading 23 February: Jelle van den Berg
Debra Dawes, poetry reading 23 February: Ross Gibson
Debra Dawes’ has occupied our Project Studio for her ‘performative’ work Open Studio – untitled. Debra will be turning her normally cloistered studio practice inside out and will be working in public and interactively. Please email the gallery for more details.

revolution

2 March - 10 April 2010
Jonathan Jones, revolution installation view
Jonathan Jones, revolution installation view
Jonathan Jones, revolution installation view
Jonathan Jones, revolution installation view
Jonathan Jones, revolution installation view, 2010
Jonathan Jones, revolution installation view, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 1, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 2, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 3, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 4, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 5, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 6, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 7, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 8, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 9, 2010
Jonathan Jones, untitled (salt) 10, 2010

Jonathan Jones’ exhibition revolution, introduces new fluoro works that pull traditional Koori line marking into three dimensions and graphite works that resonate with the crystalline structures of salt from as far afield as the Murray River and the beaches of Gandhi’s Gujarat.

 This installation reflects on the idea of cultural revolution within the Australian landscape by drawing on parallels found within India’s fight for independence, led by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi famously led the passive resistance movement and in 1930 undertook his famous Salt March from Ahmedabad to Dandi, where he protested against the British-imposed Salt Tax, “the condiment of the common man”. This foundational act of Independence was driven by salt, a base material, the same material that today is encrusting the Australian environment from years of colonial farming practices. These two moments in history are cantilevered against each other in the structure of the light sculptures to create one narrative. The dense graphite drawings are detailed surveys of salt crystals, and their structure, collected in both India, at Dandi, and in Australian, from the Murray River.

group gbk

5 - 27 February 2010

Thukral & Tagra 315, Sector 23 (opp. Bosedk mega mall).

25 November - 23 December 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Installation view
Thukral & Tagra, Installation view
Thukral & Tagra, Installation view
Thukral & Tagra, Delightfully Dreadful - 2 (project bosedk), 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Delightfully Dreadful - 4 (project bosedk), 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Dominus Aeris- Grand Mirage 1, 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Dominus Aerius elegance – 6, 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Immortalis 10 & 11, 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Pigeons, 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Artificial Chocolate Flavour - single shelf, 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Daily Dose 1, 2009
Thukral & Tagra, Daily Dose 2, 2009
Featuring in the upcoming 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, India’s emerging dynamic art duo Jiten Thukral & Sumir Tagra work collaboratively in a wide variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, video, graphic and product design, websites, music and fashion.

Thukral & Tagra blur the lines between fine art and popular culture, product placement and exhibition design, artistic inspiration and media hype.

The work focuses on the dream-come-true burgeoning of consumer culture and a newly prevalent postmodern architectural style that can be found throughout India and is commonly referred to as “Punjabi Baroque.”

Vulgar and ostentatious, confused and desperately misguided, the style has been propagated by builders without the assistance of architects, reflecting the jumble of sensibilities that come together to create the new exploding middle-class of India.

T&T pump up the volume to turn these suburban homes into surrealist castles, sugar coated and floating on clouds of flowers. In paintings and sculptures, they explore this aesthetic of the proudly bastardized, the boisterous Mamma’s boys who pretend to be gangsters, the teenage farmers who dream of making it big in Bollywood.

Paksploytation

30 September - 14 November 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Spring fresh, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, He gave her a gentle little nudge towards it, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, And everyone seemed to be talking at once, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, What lies beneath # 1, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, What lies beneath # 2, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, What lies beneath # 3, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Red cannas, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Magnolia Grandiflora, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Blue columbine, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Brevipetala, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Krona and Thena, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, The hood, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Agni, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Akash, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Pani, 2009
Hitesh Natalwala, Pawan, 2009

Paksploytation explores Hitesh’s diverse histories and those of the sub-continental diaspora with abstraction and the imagery of Holly- and- Bollywood, flora and the manmade world.

Opening of the Universe (Brahmasphutasiddhanta)

4 - 26 September 2009
Richard Dunn, Installation view
Richard Dunn, Installation view
Richard Dunn, Installation view
Richard Dunn, Fibonacci Tree #1, 2009
Richard Dunn, Fibonacci Tree # 2, 2009
Richard Dunn, Fibonacci Tree # 3, 2009
Richard Dunn, By leaves we live #1, 2009
Richard Dunn, By leaves we live #2, 2009
Richard Dunn, By leaves we live #3, 2009
Richard Dunn, By leaves we live #4, 2009
Richard Dunn, By leaves we live #5, 2009

Through abstraction and figuration, the work engages with the Fibonacci sequence, which appears throughout nature - in the branching of trees, the uncurling of ferns, the arrangement of a pine cone and the spiral in shells. In the relationship of mathematics to the physical world, abstraction can provide a parallel visual experience in mediating the affects of nature.

another day in paradise

23 July - 29 August 2009

“Where we once had nature and god, we now have design and conspiracy theory.” (Boris Groys, Self Design and Aesthetic Responsilbilty, e-flux)

Prospect

23 July - 29 August 2009
Daniel Templeman, Installation view
Daniel Templeman, Installation view
Daniel Templeman, Prospect 1, 2008
Daniel Templeman, Prospect 2, 2008
Daniel Templeman, Prospect 3, 2008
Daniel Templeman, Prospect 4, 2008
Daniel Templeman, Prospect 5, 2008
Daniel Templeman, Smoking in a dark cinema 1, 2009
Daniel Templeman, Smoking in a dark cinema 2, 2009
Daniel Templeman, Flint, 2009
Daniel Templeman, Facet, 2009
Daniel Templeman, Distance, 2009
Daniel Templeman, Black Light, 2009
Daniel Templeman, Prospectors Dream 1, 2008
Daniel Templeman, Prospectors Dream 2, 2008

Gemstones and gold are materials valued highly because of their rarity and, one suspects, their sparkle! Daniel Templeman has taken basic building materials and cut, assembled, polished and coated them to create wall relief and free-standing sculptures that now capture and reflect light. This process of refinement parallels prospecting and lapidary; the viewer the new prospector.

Salon Jetpack

27 May - 18 July 2009

Fox’s flight of fancy proposes a Jetpack Salon city transport network, each neighbourhood salon providing a style of hair and a corresponding jetpack, with a hair protector helmet to maintain the ‘do (chose from Quiff, Mohawk, Bob, Ponytail or Afro) as you and your tribe traverse the cityscape conveniently powered by hydrogen peroxide.

Paint

29 April - 23 May 2009

Wobbly

19 March - 24 April 2009
Grant Stevens, The Night Tiger, 2009
Grant Stevens, Future Untold, 2009
Grant Stevens, Emotional Blanket, 2009
Grant Stevens, If Things Were Different, 2009
Grant Stevens, Well Being, 2009
Grant Stevens, It Will Be Tonight, 2009
Grant Stevens, No Bad Days, 2008
Grant Stevens, The Wandering, 2009
Grant Stevens, Of Knowing, 2009
Grant Stevens, Installation view

In our quest for peace and quiet, things sometimes get a bit unsteady. Using a variety of media including video, photography, painting and sculpture, Wobbly presents works that teeter between domestic bliss and emotional crisis.

The Floating Edge

10 February - 14 March 2009
Jess MacNeil, Syzygy - The Gulls, 2008
Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Pink), 2009
Jess MacNeil, Installation view
Jess MacNeil, Self Portrait as a City 2, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Installation view
Jess MacNeil, Installation view
Jess MacNeil, Installation view
Jess MacNeil, Aqueous Trace: Bondi, January   , 2009
Jess MacNeil, The Swimmers, 2009
Jess MacNeil, The Wall, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Self Portrait as a City 1, 2009
Jess MacNeil, The Floating Edge, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Installation view
Jess MacNeil, Essaouira Port 1   , 2009
Jess MacNeil, Hidden Cities, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Essaouira Port 2, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Installation view
Jess MacNeil, Current Trace (Black on Red), 2009
Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Blue), 2009
Jess MacNeil, Parallax Drift (Lambeth Bridge), 2009
Jess MacNeil, Parallax Float (Southwark Bridge), 2009
Jess MacNeil, Self Portrait as a City 3, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Continuous Cities, 2009
Jess MacNeil, Tower Bridge, 2009
Jess MacNeil, London Trace (White on Green), 2009
Jess MacNeil, Installation view

Situated at the point of contact between the individual and the city, this exhibition negotiates the interplay between physical and psychological space and the resonances of ephemeral experience.

Drawing on recent personal experience living in the London and travel further afield and closer to home, the work traces the movement of bodies through space, and the pliancy of space as it is traversed over time, translating these into manipulations of paint and digital video.

A cartography of disorientation emerges as the individual traverses the city; a succession of possible understandings of temporal experience, motion, place, space, the mutability of matter and the shifting perspective of the subject.

The Landing

27 November - 20 December 2008

Alwast’s practice engages the construction of ‘reality’ in both the digital and painterly worlds. His seamless stitching together of the various modes of virtual reality which won him the recent new media award is in this exhibition contrasted with his paintings, which show a fondness for what many now see as the quaint naivety of the medium, and the foibles of humanity the painted surface exudes when compared to the clinical exactitude of the virtual world.

Come a little closer

30 October - 22 November 2008
Joan Ross, Just between you and me (Hers), 2008
Joan Ross, Just between you and me (His), 2008
Joan Ross, Australian cameo pox: Australia Blight (the wife), 2008
Joan Ross, Australian cameo pox: Australia Blight (the lover), 2008
Joan Ross, Australian cameo pox: Australia Blight (the husband), 2008
Joan Ross, Oh look along my stick at our land (after Lycett), 2008
Joan Ross, George and Fanny (after Lycett), 2008
Joan Ross, WTF, 2008
Joan Ross, OMG I think I love you, 2008
Joan Ross, Northern Terrortory, 2008
Joan Ross, Heart of abstraction, 2008
Joan Ross, detail: We watch from our unmarked graves, 2007
Joan Ross, That vase was driving me crazy, 2008

Coincidental or controlling? Joan Ross’ peculiarly seductive new work co-mingles raw and refined human emotions with wild and manufactured materials.

Fur and acrylic, water and plastic, freedom and claustrophobia, attraction and repulsion in video and sculpture.

Aquasaurus

25 October - 20 December 2008

Jitish Kallat’s installation ‘Aquasaurus’, at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, is a monumental seven-metre long skeletal sculpture of a water-tanker morphing to become prehistoric creature that personifies the radical transformation of Indian city life. Resembling a prized natural-history museum piece, Aquasaurus – with its grinning mouth, menacing teeth and interior void – is both inviting and repulsive.

Blind faith

24 September - 25 October 2008
Debra Dawes, from clockwise Green 04-08
Debra Dawes, from abstract painting Green 88-08
Debra Dawes, Tip Toe, 2008
Debra Dawes, Light fantastic 08
Debra Dawes, from abstract painting Magenta 88-08
Debra Dawes, from lifting the sky 99-08
Debra Dawes, pp black 06-08
Debra Dawes, Night and day 08
Debra Dawes, Dare to 08
Debra Dawes, Surrender 08
Debra Dawes, Dazzle Camouflage (horizontal), 2008
Debra Dawes, to and fro 08
Debra Dawes, Dazzle Camouflage (narrow), 2008
Debra Dawes, Dazzle Camouflage (straight), 2008
Debra Dawes, Dazzle Camouflage (vertical), 2008

Blind faith releases a selection of paintings of wildly varying scale that began as studio experiments; paintings that bridge the ideas between discrete bodies of work, that pull threads from a previous painting to a future work. The exhibition reveals the various beginnings and afterthoughts of systems explored in Dawes’ practice since 1988.

Second Nature

21 August - 20 September 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature vi, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature i, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature ii, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature iii, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature iv, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature v, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature vii, 2008
Hayden Fowler, Second Nature viii, 2008

untitled (the tyranny of distance)

14 August - 11 October 2008

In Jonathan Jones’ immersive installation ‘untitled (the tyranny of distance)’ at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, six free standing walls have been covered in blue tarpaulin and glow with filtered light from fluorescent tubes articulated in a continuous chevron design. The chevrons are derived from elements of traditional Koori (South Eastern Aboriginal) line work and resonate with Western minimalism.


2008 Melbourne Art Fair

30 July - 3 August 2008


I ACT AS THE TONGUE OF YOU

16 July - 16 August 2008

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
July 2008

Interiors and Coloured People

18 June - 12 July 2008

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, June 2008

Wall House

18 June - 12 July 2008

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, June 2008

Cliffhanger

21 May - 15 July 2008

solo exhibition, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, May 2008

2008 Hong Kong Art Fair

14 - 18 May 2008

Exhibited artists:
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy
Debra Dawes
Hayden Fowler
Jitish Kallat
Hitesh Natalwala
Jess MacNeil

Somnium Genero

19 April - 17 May 2008

NY / LA

18 March - 12 April 2008

new works by artists resident in New York and Los Angeles:
Mark Bennett (LA)
Ivan Navarro (NY)
Vincent Ramos (LA)
Guy Richards Smit (NY)
Seher Shah (NY)
Grant Stevens (LA)
Rosha Yaghmai (LA)

Disruptive Colouration

12 February - 15 March 2008

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, February 2008
inaugural exhibition at 285 Young Street, Waterloo

Education, Education

7 November - 1 December 2007

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
November 2007

you and me we're on the same team

7 November - 1 December 2007

gbk @ silvershot

24 October - 3 November 2007

Exhibited Artists:
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy
Richard Dunn
Fiona Lowry
Joan Ross
Daniel Templeman

trade mark

4 October - 3 November 2007

The Thaw

30 August - 29 September 2007

Let's Talk

1 - 25 August 2007

Lubricant City

1 - 25 August 2007

Call of the Wild

4 - 28 July 2007

South Africa on Paper

4 - 28 July 2007

Exhibited Artists:
Conrad Botes
Liza Grobler
Norman O’Flynn
Johannes Phokela
Lyndi Sales
Johan Thom
Guy Tilim
Andrew Tshabangu

CITY

9 May - 2 June 2007

I'm having dreams about you

9 May - 2 June 2007

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
May 2007

Knicker Knot

11 April - 5 May 2007

Shutter

11 April - 5 May 2007

gbk @ silvershot

6 - 17 March 2007

Exhibited Artists:
Debra Dawes
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Grant Stevens
Paul Wrigley

Now That The Neighbours Can Dance

28 February - 31 March 2007

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, February 2007

The knitted brow

28 February - 31 March 2007

Rickshawpolis - part 3

17 January - 24 March 2007

The Devotee Exhausts the Forces of Activity

17 January - 10 February 2007

Exhibited Artists:
Mala Iqbal
Yamini Nayar
Prajakta Pallav
Seher Shah
Aditi Singh

Cover up

8 November - 2 December 2006

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2006

The Path of the Accident

19 October - 4 November 2006

Painting Rubbish

13 September - 7 October 2006

(extended remix) we can work it out

17 August - 9 September 2006

AS SEEN ON TV.

17 August - 9 September 2006

2006 Melbourne Art Fair

2 - 6 August 2006

Exhibited Artists:
Debra Dawes
Richard Dunn
Hayden Fowler
Chris Fox
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy
Bronia Iwanczak
Jonathan Jones
Deborah Kelly
Fiona Lowry
Jess MacNeil
Hitesh Natalwala
Joan Ross
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Grant Stevens
Daniel Templeman
Paul Wrigley

The Shape of Between

29 June - 29 July 2006

Custom Living

1 - 24 June 2006

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, June 2006

faceless

1 - 24 June 2006

light maps

3 - 27 May 2006

one mind

3 - 27 May 2006

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
May 2006

Mani-Fold Paintings+Photography

12 - 29 April 2006

Boarded

18 January - 25 February 2006

Here's one I prepared earlier

18 January - 25 February 2006

EMPTY

4 - 26 November 2005

Handle on nowhere

4 - 26 November 2005

gbk @ Elastic residence, London

12 - 30 October 2005

Hayden Fowler
Grant Stevens

Plant

29 September - 29 October 2005

Many Fish Sacrifices

1 - 24 September 2005

gbk @ Span, Melbourne

16 - 27 August 2005

Simon Cavanough
Debra Dawes
Richard Dunn
Hayden Fowler
Chris Fox
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy
Bronia Iwanczak
Jonathan Jones
Fiona Lowry
Jess MacNeil
Hitesh Natalwala
Joan Ross
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Grant Stevens
Daniel Templeman
Paul Wrigley

I Like Ike

3 - 13 August 2005

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
August 2005

Ether

15 - 30 July 2005

Home Invasion

15 - 30 July 2005

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, July 2005

Jeez

2 - 25 June 2005

Jeez

2 - 25 June 2005

white lines

2 - 25 June 2005

International Painting on Paper

4 - 28 May 2005

Exhibited Artists:
Ross Chisholm
Debra Dawes
Dan Ford
Jitish Kallat
Jess MacNeil
Andrew McLeod
Hitesh Natalwala
Seung Yul Oh
Nusra Qureshi
Guy Richards Smit
Arjan van Helmond

34R+H 15 371L

6 - 30 April 2005

Product Placement

6 - 30 April 2005

Left behind

3 March - 2 April 2005

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
March 2005

Like pulling hair from butter

3 March - 2 April 2005

Fixed

12 - 29 January 2005

blue poles

4 - 27 November 2004

Clouded Signals

4 - 27 November 2004

clock wise

8 - 30 October 2004

solo show, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, 2004

2004 Melbourne Art Fair

29 September - 3 October 2004

Debra Dawes
Bronia Iwanczak
Jonathan Jones
Fiona Lowry
Jess MacNeil
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Grant Stevens
Paul Wrigley
David Sequeira
David Watson

Seeing Things

2 - 25 September 2004

Tarmac

11 - 28 August 2004

Ascension

14 July - 6 August 2004

Role Models

8 July - 1 August 2004

The Rate of Forgetting

16 June - 10 July 2004

A Love Story....Unfortunately

11 June - 4 July 2004

Some Want It All

27 May - 6 June 2004

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
May 2004

Biennale Group

20 May - 12 June 2004

Jonathan Jones
Jess MacNeil
Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
Paul Wrigley

Executioner's Drop

29 April - 23 May 2004

solo exhibition
Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
April 2004

it's either you or them

22 April - 15 May 2004

Terror Australis

25 March - 25 April 2004

Sir of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

28 February - 21 March 2004

The Practical Guide to Mental Hygiene

28 February - 21 March 2004

now or never

22 November - 14 December 2003

The Beetles

8 October - 16 November 2003

David Griggs
Matthew Griffin
Sharon Goodwin
Blair Trethowan

white poles

18 September - 5 October 2003

Tenuous Ground

12 August - 7 September 2003

Painting Ecstasy

17 July - 10 August 2003

The Farm Comes to Town

19 June - 10 July 2003

Peter Alwast
Shaun Weston
Martin Smith

Behold The Man

22 May - 22 June 2003

gbk’s inaugural exhibition