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Debra Dawes | e-invite and newsletter

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.


The exhibition continues until 24 July.



International flights….

Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy | e-invite and newsletter


In each lifetime there may only be a few re-defining moments. The title of Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy’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. In these low relief LEGO wall sculptures the artists re-construct this re-defining moment of destruction.

To invent the sailing ship or steamer is to invent the shipwreck." -Paul Virilio

Fiona Lowry | e-invite and newsletter

  In her essay for the exhibition Wilderness, Balnaves contemporary: painting, currently at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Natasha Bullock writes of Fiona Lowry’s oeuvre:

Jonathan Jones and Debra Dawes | e-invite and newsletter

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.

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.

group gbk | e-invite and newsletter

Happy Chinese New Year, wishing all a joyous and prosperous Year of the Tiger!

Our first exhibition for 2010 is a selection of works by gallery artists.

 

 

Thukral and Tagra | e-invite and newsletter

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.

Hitesh Natalwala | e-invite and newsletter

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

The ABC TV Sunday Arts program will be screening a story on Hitesh and his gbk show on Sunday 18 October from 5 pm.

 

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Richard Dunn | e-invite and newsletter

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. 

 

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Daniel Templeman and Sarah Smuts-Kennedy | e-invite and newsletter

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.

Chris Fox | e-invite and newsletter

CHRIS 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.

The exhibition continues through until 18 July.

Paul Wrigley | e-invite and newsletter

PAUL WRIGLEY’s exhibition at gbk, features new paintings exploring belief, power, transcendence and oneness, through an atomized optic.

The exhibition continues through until 23 May.

Peter Alwast features on the Sunday Arts program on ABC TV

The Sunday Arts episode on 5 April will feature PETER ALWAST’s work ‘Everything’, which won the $75,000 Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Award and follow the making of his recent gbk exhibition The Landing.

This episode can also be downloaded from the ABC website http://www.abc.net.au/tv/geo/sundayarts/ or streamed from http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/arts

Sarah Smuts-Kennedy features on the Sunday Arts program on ABC TV

SARAH SMUTS-KENNEDY’s recent gbk exhibition along with new works by Sarah will feature on the ABC’s Sunday Arts program at 5 pm on 29 March.

The episode can also be downloaded from the ABC website http://www.abc.net.au/tv/geo/sundayarts/ or streamed from http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/arts

Grant Stevens | e-invite and newsletter

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.

This project was assisted by the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.

Jess MacNeil features on the Sunday Arts program on ABC TV

Watch out for the Sunday Arts program featuring Jess and the making of her exhibition ‘The Floating Edge’ at gbk, scheduled to screen 1 March from 5pm on ABC.

The episode can also be downloaded from the ABC website http://www.abc.net.au/tv/geo/sundayarts/ or streamed from http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/arts

Jess MacNeil | e-invite and newsletter

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.

Peter Alwast | e-invite and newsletter

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.

Grant Stevens wins QANTAS Spirit of Youth Award for the Visual Arts

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor last night became a ‘mentor’ for young Dr Grant Stevens as she awarded him cash and flights worth $10,000 as the 2008 recipient of the QANTAS Spirit of Youth Award for the Visual Arts, for his fresh and innovative approach to contemporary art.

Peter Alwast wins Premier of Queensland National New Media Art Award

Peter Alwast was awarded the $75,000 Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award.

Alwast won the major prize for his 3D animation work Everything. It took him seven months to create his impressive three-screen installation, which explored the connections between the real and virtual worlds. The work enters the Queensland Art gallery’s collection.

This work will be part of Peter’s upcoming exhibition at gbk, which opens November 27.

Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy

White Elephant Stall, detail
Present their 700 ninja star work, White Elephant Stall alongside photographic records of their installation practice in The Best of Discovery at the 2008 ShContemporary, Shanghai from 9 to 13 September.


Jonathan Jones

installation shot, SCAF
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.

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16 - 20 Goodhope Street, Paddington, Sydney

exhibition continues until 11 October




Melbourne Art Fair

Grant Stevens In the Beyond
gbk will be exhibiting at the Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, 30 July to 2 August.