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.
Tender Cuts has been assisted by The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence Program and the Visiting Fellow program at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.
Congratulations….
Deborah Kelly is a finalist in the Beleura National Works on Paper Prize at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria. The exhibition runs from 11 September to 31 October.
Jonathan Jones’ museum installation of blue poles has been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria.
Joan Ross’ video work When I grow up I want to be a forger has entered the collections of Artbank, Campbelltown Art Centre and Newcastle Region Art Gallery.
Joan’s print Once upon a time in Great Parrotland has also been acquired by the Macquaire Group Collection.
Artbank has also acquired a suite of four text works by Grant Stevens.
International flights….
Gordon Bennett and Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy feature in roundabout° at City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand from 25 September to 11 January. www.citygallery.org.nz/roundabout-unique-expressions-of-shared-experience/
Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy are part of the Setouchi International Art Festival 2010 which takes place on the Seven Islands of the Seto Inland Sea + Takamatsu, Japan, until 31 October. Sean & Claire are exhibiting on Teshima alongside Cameron Robbins, Chiharu Shiota, Chiyoko Todaka, Christian Boltanski, Hiroshi Fuji, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Mariko Mori, Noe Aoki, Olafur Eliasson, Pipilotti Rist, Rei Naito / Ryue Nishizawa, Ryo Abe, Sue Pedley, Susumu Kinoshita, Tadanori Yokoo, Tobias Rehberger. http://setouchi-artfest.jp/
Jitish Kallat’s new site specific installation Public Notice 3 will be on show at the Art Institute of Chicago from 11 September to 2 January. www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/kallat
Jitish’s exhibition Likewise will open at Arndt Berlin on 5 October. www.arndtberlin.com/website/page_3732
Deborah Kelly has been invited by the Canada Council for the Arts and Winnipeg Arts Council to participate in Showing Up, Speaking Out. Deborah will be directing a workshop focused on producing collaborative public art with local people in Winnipeg, Canada from 26 September to 5 October. www.showingupspeakingout.ca/
Jess MacNeil’s video work ‘Aqueous Trace’ features in Dreamworlds, an exhibition curated by Melinda Rackman and shown on a spectacular 27m outdoor media screen in Beijing’s Sanlitun Village. The exhibition runs until 16 October. www.dreamworlds.com.au/
Grant Stevens features in Songzhuan Art Festival (Australian) diversity at Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing, from 10 September to 10 October.
Grant is also participating in The International Art Residency at OCAT Contemporary Art Terminal, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China until 16 November.
Domestic flights…
As part of the Artist Residency Program on Cockatoo Island, the boat-people.org, featuring Deborah Kelly, will be exhibiting their work ‘Muffled Protest’. The exhibition continues until 4 October from 10 am to 4 pm daily. www.boat-people.org/