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Hitesh Natalwala || e-invite and newsletter
Kamikaze Wasabi is an exhibition of extraordinary variety (with works across the mediums of collage, drawing, pastel and painting). Hitesh Natalwala exposes his fascination with the intricacies and iconographies of different cultures.
Richard Dunn, "Polychrome" || e-invite and newsletter
‘Polychrome’ is to do with colour! Coming from the abundance and essential quality of colour in India - indicated in photo and painted works made from Hyderabad - and that coming from Albert Namatjira’s paintings of gorges in the MacDonnell Ranges, Central Australia, the six paintings are a small compendium and integration of Richard Dunn’s painting approaches and organisational methods over recent years. These paintings supplement and draw from photoworks made after a recent visit to Hyderabad, India.
Daniel Templeman "Back and Forth" || Deborah Kelly "Awfully Beastly"
Daniel Templeman Back and Forth
"gbk awardees: where are they now?" and "Joan Ross: BBQ this Sunday, BYO"
gbk awardees: where are they now?
gbk at Hong Kong International Art Fair, 25 - 29 May 2011
gbk is pleased to announce our participation in the Hong Kong International Art Fair, from 25 -29 May.
We will be on the main Galleries floor, booth 1G05.
Exhibiting works by Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, Debra Dawes, Deborah Kelly, Fiona Lowry, Jess MacNeil, Hitesh Natalwala, Cameron Robbins, Joan Ross and Grant Stevens
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Cameron Robbins, LSDM: Lunar / Solar Drawing Machine || e-invite and newsletter
Would Cameron Robbins please make up his mind? He has been described as an artist / scientist / engineer / inventor / musician / alchemist. His special interests concern natural phenomena and the way they are documented, or, perhaps more accurately, ways they can illustrate themselves.
From invisible to visible: over the next month a newly installed solar panel on the roof of the gallery will feed Robbins’ Lunar/Solar Drawing Machine, transcribing the sun’s energy.
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Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy "Drunken Clarity", Shay Mazloom "Blank Surface"
You may well think you have missed the celebration; piles of empty bottles litter the floor of a gallery seemingly empty of ‘art’. But Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy have once again taken the destruction of a utilitarian object and made it art, indeed aesthetically extraordinary.
Jess MacNeil || e-invite and newsletter
Join us Tuesday, 1 February from 6 – 8 pm for the opening celebration of First. One. Thing. Then. Another. featuring paintings and a new video by Jess MacNeil.
Gordon Bennett || e-invite and newsletter
Citizenry has implications of community and belonging, but does commonplace labelling clarify or obfuscate the layerings of identity?
The exhibition continues until Saturday 18 December.
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Joan Ross | e-invite and newsletter
Exposing a creeping colonisation of the mind and the eye, is this a history lesson or harbinger? Past, present, or future? All three.
The exhibition continues until 13 November.
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Deborah Kelly | e-invite and newsletter
Kelly’s imagery mates & mutates ideas and pictorial elements salvaged (or savaged) from our collective visual vocabulary, unsettling both the biological and cultural imaginings of the Feminine. Exuberant iconoclasm arrests the spectator. These handmade collages in the Dada tradition confront new social realities. The safety of the everyday is chopped-up and we are forced to rethink our positions through her surgical incisions on the norm.
The exhibition continues until 9 October.
Grant Stevens | e-invite and newsletter
In the wilderness of our modern lives, it can sometimes be difficult to get a clear view. Using a variety of media including video, photography and sculpture, Horizons presents new works that waver between substance and gesture.
The exhibition continues until 4 September.
Debra Dawes | e-invite and newsletter
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
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
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
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
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
Grant Stevens wins QANTAS Spirit of Youth Award for the Visual Arts
Peter Alwast wins Premier of Queensland 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
Jonathan Jones
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16 - 20 Goodhope Street, Paddington, Sydney
exhibition continues until 11 October
Melbourne Art Fair
