archive 2011

22 OCTOBER - 6 FEBRUARY 2011

Max Dupain on Assignment
3 December 2010 - 6 February 2011

Max Dupain is widely considered to be one of Australia's greatest photographers. His photographs evoke a strong sense of time, place and were used to promote Austraila to domestic and international audiences.

Collections Celebration

Enjoy the breadth and diversity of New England’s collection of art, housed at NERAM. Together these permanent collections of Australian art, including the Howard Hinton and the Chandler Coventry, form one of the largest and most significant in regional Australia. The Art Museum’s storeroom has been opened wide, and the entire Museum is now devoted to a number of professionally curated exhibitions. Come and be inspired!

(1) Gruner: Light and Landscape.
According to Norman Lindsay, Gruner was “perhaps the greatest painter of pure light the world has ever seen”. This exhibition focuses on the lyrical paintings of Elioth Gruner in the NERAM Collections. It is enhanced by loans from the Art Gallery of NSW and in particular, Gruner’s iconic work, Spring Frost of 1919. Sponsored by the Friends of the Old Teachers College.

(2) Inside and Out: Landscape in all its Forms.
The Chandler Coventry and NERAM Collections include many paintings and works on paper which are interpretations of landscape that challenge our pre-conceptions.

(3) Looking in the Mirror: New England Self-Portraits.
Six local artists: Del Bernett, Isabelle Devos, Pat Elkin, Michael Jarochowicz, Jonathon Larsen and Matt Pilkington will work in the gallery on their own self portraits - looking in their mirrors, using different mediums and challenging their own ideas and ours.

Self portraits from NERAM's permanent collections hang opposite. from Ester Paterson who painted her portrait in 1935, to Brett Whiteley's work of 1972 these paintings and drawings provide a contrast and inspiration.

(4) Black and White: Treasures from the Howard Hinton Collection.
Prints and drawings highlighting the beauty and impact of black and white media.

(5) Alarming Bras: From the Museum of Printing.
An exhibition of advertising blocks from the 1930s to 1960s mainly of lingerie and underwear, with some original newspapers in which they were published. These include images of bras like the Hollywood Maxwell "the film star bra" and corsets such as the Lady Ruth which "coaxes the body into the fashionable silhouette". The actual items have also been loaned from
The Powerhouse in Sydney.

Through the Collector's Lens: Dissecting Booloominbah
11 February - 15 May 2011

The University of New England’s museums and collections constitute one of the most diverse and significant holdings of scientific and cultural material in Australia. This exhibition uses the iconography and history of John Horbury Hunt’s famous Arts and Crafts masterpiece, Booloominbah, as a springboard with which to celebrate and explore the University’s aggregated collections.

The Figure in the Landscape: From the Chandler, Coventry and NERAM Collections
11 February - 15 May 2011

Does the figure draw us into the landscape and help us explore it? Or, does it distract us? A figure can help us empathise and interact with the landscape. Questions are raised, a story ensues, we delve further…

Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
11 February - 15 May 2011

From Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
known as EMSLA is now in its 4th year. Still life is possibly the most exacting
of genres and this competition reveals that the challenge of still life is as
fresh and demanding today as it has been through the centuries.

Parallel Connections in the Hinton, Coventry and NERAM Collections
11 February - 15 May 2011

By exploring all the collections at NERAM, this exhibition finds the special
connections and links that draw them all together.

Stuart Boggs: To Cut Away the Surface
11 February - 27 March 2011

The works are about the uplifting earth and the subsequent erosional
balance. Stuart's previous training as a Geologist has focused my attention
on the underlying landscape. In addition, living and working in the gorge
country of the New England gives that perfect cross-section of above and
below.

Robyn Jackson and Julia Hardman: Mixed Mediums
11 February - 27 March 2011
Dulce Lindsay Gallery

Robyn is inspired by the stories and characters from every day living in a country town. She has created a series of fun, colourful artworks imbued with just a little touch of mischief. A small gesture in a coffee shop, a hairdresser or just an interesting face passing in the street is enough to trigger the imagination and the creation of a new artwork.

A recent trip to Brazil gave Julia a new insight into observing and expressing the landscape. Her interest focused on people in the environment, either working or playing. On returning home, her garden became an immediate acknowledgement of what she saw in her travels from cities and to the northern most tip of the coastal regions. Wide open spaces, the lazy swinging hammocks, outdoor beach activities, boats, yachts and sail craft.

This exhibition represents a love of the seaside and the beauty of nature be
it far away or at home.

11 FEBRUARY - 15 MAY 2011

Through the Collector's Lens: Dissecting Booloominbah
11 February - 15 May 2011

The University of New England’s museums and collections constitute one of the most diverse and significant holdings of scientific and cultural material in Australia. This exhibition uses the iconography and history of John Horbury Hunt’s famous Arts and Crafts masterpiece, Booloominbah, as a springboard with which to celebrate and explore the University’s aggregated collections.

The Figure in the Landscape: From the Chandler, Coventry and NERAM Collections
11 February - 15 May 2011

Does the figure draw us into the landscape and help us explore it? Or, does it distract us? A figure can help us empathise and interact with the landscape. Questions are raised, a story ensues, we delve further…

Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
11 February - 15 May 2011

From Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
known as EMSLA is now in its 4th year. Still life is possibly the most exacting
of genres and this competition reveals that the challenge of still life is as
fresh and demanding today as it has been through the centuries.

Parallel Connections in the Hinton, Coventry and NERAM Collections
11 February - 15 May 2011

By exploring all the collections at NERAM, this exhibition finds the special
connections and links that draw them all together.

Naomi Ullman: Dreams are made of this
1 April - 15 May 2011

Dreams are made of this, satirizes the “great Aussie dream” of home ownership - a dream that is becoming increasingly out of reach and for many Australians, even nightmarish. Gone are the humble and welcoming semi-detached homes of my Bondi childhood, replaced by fortress-like and excessive McMansions. Sadly, this is a nationwide phenomenon and we currently lead the world in constructing overly large houses.

Barry & Lucy McCann: Something Old, Something New
1 April – 15 May 2011

The exhibition is a meeting of two ways, in one studio. The inspiration of travel, and the beauty of our own back yard. Its the tenth year of Barry & Lucy’s apprenticeship. This exhibition is the journey so far.

Menagerie
20 May – 17 July 2011

NERAM's own menagerie that does not bite or smell. View our exotic animals from the Chandler Coventry, NERAM, and Armidale City Collections.

Anna Henderson: Still
20 May – 17 July 2011

“A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.”
Eckhart Tolle

Only when you are still inside, do you have access to the realm of stillness that rocks, plants, and animals inhabit. Only when your noisy mind subsides can you connect with nature at a deep level and go beyond the sense of separation created by excessive thinking.

Artexpress
20 May – 14 August 2011

A dynamic and inspiring exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding artworks developed for the 2010 NSW Higher School Certificate examination in Visual Arts from students in both metropolitan and regional NSW. Artexpress includes a broad range of approaches and expressive forms, including ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture and textiles,

Hinton and the Sea
20 May – 14 August 2011

Howard Hinton rose to the position of Director with W & A McArthur Ltd, a shipping agent. This exhibition focuses on his fascination with the sea; the ships, the waves, and the harbour.

UNESAP
22 July – 14 August 2011

The University of New England School Acquisitive Art Prize is held annually with the purpose of encouraging talented young artists in regional New South Wales.

pARTicipate
20 May – 17 July 2011

pARTicipate is a series of evolving exhibitions where you, the visitor, generate the display. Based on the idea of an interactive gallery, the visitor will face a variety of choices, thereby creating an evolving space. pARTicipate in the creative process first hand and feel free to add, alter or ignore.

John Caldwell and James Rogers
19 August– 23 October 2011

Renowned watercolourist and winner of the Wynne Competition, John Caldwell works directly in his chosen landscape, whether it is Antarctica, the granite country of NSW, the Murray River or his local Blue Mountains region. Dramatic and textured, insightful and subtle, Caldwell’s exhibition focuses on his unique vision of the landscape.

James Rogers abstract sculptures, constructed of welded, recycled steel are given new life in surprisingly fluid forms and often retain a beautiful patina acquired during past lives.

Iconic: Works from the Hinton Collection
19 August – 13 November 2011
Richard Lalor Harris Gallery

The Howard Hinton Collection, in sheer breadth of its cover of Australian art from the 1880s to the 1940s, is the only collection of its kind in regional Australia. This exhibition brings together some of the iconic works in this collection by artists including Streeton, Gruner, Preston, Lindsay, Heysen, Long and Dobell.

Black: From the Permanent Collections
19 August – 13 November 2011

Peter Booth’s viscous and glistening black painting “Untitled” is the highlight of this exhibition which focuses on minimalist abstract work in the Coventry and NERAM Collections.

Michelle Schouten and Lin Quaife
19 August – 2 October 2011

"Light is the beginning of all art, it allows us to see form" This exhibition sets about stimulating the senses of the eye and mind. "Glint" is an appropriate title that best describes this meld of ideas and also alludes to the vibrant and yet sometimes more subtle transitory images we see. and which enrich our lives.

GLINT aims to please and challenge viewers using reflected light, colour and shape in surprising ways. GLINT began in 2009 when Lin and Michelle were introduced by the Boggs' who knew they both loved looking at glass. This inspires Lin to print and Michelle to smash and melt glass.

Mike Riley
19 August – 2 October 2011

Mike likes to paint land from an aerial perspective. He wants to evoke the endless bush by creating a pattern from the bush and rocky country he knows so well.

Annual Packsaddle Selling Exhibition
28 October - 13 November 2011
East and West Galleries

A variety of painting and original prints by established and emerging artists from major Sydney galleries. A drawcard for art collectors statewide.

Iconic: Works from the Hinton Collection
19 August – 13 November 2011
Richard Lalor Harris Gallery

The Howard Hinton Collection, in sheer breadth of its cover of Australian art from the 1880s to the 1940s, is the only collection of its kind in regional Australia. This exhibition brings together some of the iconic works in this collection by artists including Streeton, Gruner, Preston, Lindsay, Heysen, Long and Dobell.

Black: From the Permanent Collections
19 August – 13 November 2011

Peter Booth’s viscous and glistening black painting “Untitled” is the highlight of this exhibition which focuses on minimalist abstract work in the Coventry and NERAM Collections.

Pat Elkin: Sometimes Birds Fly In
7 October – 13 November 2011
Dulce Lindsay Gallery

Her exhibition entitled Sometimes Birds Fly In refers to Pat’s joy of bird watching and the whimsical manner in which her paintings change direction, seemingly out of her control. This is when the birds fly in, either for compositional reasons, or just a whimsy.

Matt Pilkington
7 October – 13 November 2011
Dulce Lindsay Gallery

Matt’s art practice is a process of collecting discarded materials and found images to evoke memories and experiences. His new body of work combines his assemblage pieces with stenciling techniques, making each of his artworks unique.

MCA: Almanac
18 November 2011- 5 February 2012
East and West Galleries

Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO draws upon the major donation of works from Ann Lewis AO to the MCA.

Mapping changes in ideas and styles, taste and influence, the exhibition includes examples of important movements such as Sydney-based abstract art and the establishment and rise of remote indigenous painting as an essential part of contemporary Australian culture.

Focusing mostly on painting, the exhibition also includes photography, sculpture and printmaking.

Fashionable Hinton
18 November 2011- May 2011
Lalor Harris Gallery

Fashionable Hinton is a selection of works from the Hinton collection that focuses on the elegant fashions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Satin, lace and fur – a peek at fashion through the eyes of Hinton’s paintings. Return to a time where hats, gloves, and matching shoes were de rigueur!

Julia Griffin: Walking Larapinta
18 November 2011 - 5 February 2012
Dulce Lindsay Gallery

This ancient red country and the beauty of its natural arrangements are so quietening that even a walking track feels intrusive. The iconic status of this part of Australia and the accompanying plethora of visual advertising media makes the actual experience feel almost surreal by comparison. These paintings try to describe a more intimate way of seeing this landscape.

1000 words, 1000 notes
18 November 2011- 5 February 2012
Mazda Gallery

Inspired by NERAM’s permanent collections writers will have their work hung along-side the painting, drawing or print they have selected

A ‘Reading in the Café’ will take place on Sunday,
Dec 4, 2-4pm, in the NERAM Café – neram harvest.