FEBRUARY 1 – FEBRUARY 19
JANE WHELAN
Whelan's chooses to expressive subject matter
— persons, plants, still life and landscapes as a metaphor for her
own emotion. Work that is personal rather than in the wider sense political,
it does not deal with issues but intensities.
SHARON
HIGHLAND
Artist's statement not available at time of publishing.
FEBRUARY 22 – MARCH 5
JULIEN GLOVER
'PURE LINES, POLYMORPHS AND PLAIN TRUTHS'
The paintings deal with ideas about biology, primarily genetic engineering.
The line work or rope shapes can be read as genetic master plan overlaying
the landscape, while the figurative elements play out a pseudo-narrative
within this setting.
TOMIKO
MIYAZAWA
'FROM THIS PLACE'
An invitation into places that are still wavering, weaving, undoing, recoiling.
The 'meaning' within the work empties and fills and fluctuates as they
are inlets, points of departure for the participating audience. It is
important to allow experience to slip in and grow quietly.
MARCH 8 – MARCH 19
KENDRA ABAY
Abay's self described 'expressionist photography'
shows us that technology can enhance one's creative vision, and not hinder
it. The Federation Square series and The China Series create an impact
which is truly engaging.
MARCH 22 – APRIL 2
ANDREA JENKINS
'GRIT'
Moody and mysterious oil paintings exploring and uncovering the camouflaged
beauty within Melbourne's alleyways.
WORKS
FROM THE GALLERY STOCKROOM
BRIAN SPITERI, GAYLE SLATER, JOHN OLSEN,
NICHOLAS POLICARPOU, TATE ADAMS, JANINA GREEN,
JASON HARDCUP, ALAN GARCIA, DAVID HARLEY,
PAUL JURASZEK
APRIL 5 – APRIL 23
DAVID
GRAHAM [profiled artist]
'SELF AND ABYSS"'
Nietzsche once said “when you stare into an abyss for a long time,
the abyss also stares into you.” This exhibition explores the tension
between Self and abyss: I cannot exist without my Self and the abyss exists
by virtue of my Self and the World. I cannot therefore have meaning without
the abyss. I am the totality of self and abyss.
CHERYL
OSBOURNE
'CHERAMINE'S DREAMS'
Osbourne's work is essentially cheering, whimsical and vibrant. Cheramine's
dreams presents a grappling — through the hallucinogenic haze of
pain blocking medicine — with the life changes the artist faces
since diagnosed with a severe chronic pain condition.
APRIL 26 – MAY 14
MIGS
[profiled artist]
A former animator who has worked on films for disney, warner brothers
and dreamworks. he is also an experienced cartoonist who has contributed
graphic designs to mambo clothing. after a successful 14 year career in
commercial art, he is now focused on producing work which is both personally
relevant and which above all, SAYS something.
DAVID
GRAHAM [profiled artist]
'UNTITLED INSTALLATION (KOAN 2005)'
A 'Koan' is posed: fallen branches and the sizzle
of electric flytraps surrounding a trinity of dioramas (a hand, two birds,
a secret)
MAY 17 – MAY 28
ROBYN BASE
'QUEENS OF HEAVEN'
These works bring together symbols and images from a number of religious
and ethnic backgrounds. The mother and child relationship is elemental
to all because the maternal bond is understood as both commonplace and
universal. The paintings portray equality and holiness of humanity.
RUTH
McCALLUM-HOWELL
'MORPHOLOGY'
Works of recycled glass billets left over from the creation of The Great
Hall, in the National Gallery of Victoria by Leonard French in 1968.
In homage to the geomtetric aesthetic of the Great Hall, the work reflect
the geometric feel utilised by Leonard French in the original ceiling.
MAY 31 – JUNE 18
CATHERINE
LAWLOR
'AWAKENINGS'
This series of abstract expressionist work seeks to explore the sensitivity
of colour, texture and compositional divisions. Movement expressed in
both the diptychs and triptychs trace the subtle nuances of change, the
innate hope that comes with growth and moving forward.
JUNE 21 – JULY 2
VIVIAN
ASHWORTH
'ELEMENTS OF LIFE'
Representations of aerial views of the interaction between nature and
human nature. Large scale Acrylics that envelope the viewer and seduce
them into viewing the world from outside themselves.
BELL RYAN
'THIRTEEN PICTURES'
Large scale urban and semi-neglected landscapes that carry a subtle but
discernable malevolent presence. These works represent, among other things,
the refusal of the past to be obliterated by the present — irrepressible
nature reclaiming its inevitable domain.
