current exhibitions

10 Iconic Masters: Artists from the Howard Hinton Collection
Beginning 24 November 2007

Curated by Barry Pearce, Head Curator of Australian Art ant the Art Gallery of NSW, this is a prime selection from ten of the Howard Hinton Collection’s most revered artists: Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Elioth Gruner, Lloyd Rees, E.Phillips Fox, Roland Wakelin, Roy de Maistre, Herbert Badham, Margaret Preston and Nora Heysen.

Evolving Views: Lucy and Barry McCann
30 May to 27 July

Artists watching people…watching people. A response in watercolours, oils and acrylics by the two artists to their observations of people around them, both their companions and those they see on their travels.

Print and Process
27 June to 17 August

Printmaking involves reproduction, which means that you can have many (almost) identical copies of an artwork. However, the constraints of reproductive technologies (relief, intaglio, lithography, screen printing) cause the artist to develop a process related language. This exhibition reveals how artists from the collections have used the different print processes to express their creativity in a wonderfully varied panorama.

Sally Hook: Ceramic objects in black and white
27 June to 17 August

Sally Hook is an intuitive artist who responds to the medium that she is working in. She allows her clay and preparatory drawings to direct her in the creation abstract forms inspired by the human body. For this show, Sally has indulged in ‘whatever feels right’ - creating shapes and sculptural objects that express her impressions of being alive. Works are for sale.

From subject to object - Abstraction in Australian Painting 1959 to 1977 Works from the Coventry Collection
27 June to 21 September

Using works from the Coventry Collection, this exhibition highlights some approaches to abstraction in Australian post-war art. Comprising of works by major Australian artists including Charles Blackman, Ralph Balson and Peter Booth, the exhibition ranges from figurative abstraction to practices abandoning the subject for an objective and conceptualised approach to pictorial structure. Exploring certain shifts in representation which occurred during this period, From subject to object suggests the variety of responses which developed from artists' engagement with abstraction. Curated by Denise Mimmocchi, Assistant Curator of Australian Art, Art Gallery of NSW.

coming exhibitions

Isabelle Devos: On a Clear Day
1 August to 12 October

Isabelle Devos is a contemporary landscape painter who interprets the landscape with simplicity and colour. Her perceptive work depicts the incursion of humankind into nature and how abstract these elements can be: a road cutting on the diagonal, a long shadow in late afternoon or the unusual curve of a hill. Devos is not exacting with the laws of perspective and likes to alter things to create a sense of stillness, a moment where anything could happen. All work will be available for purchase.

Winch4
22 August to 12 October

The late John Winch, Madeleine Winch and daughters Martina and Jess. Winch4 is a celebration of this prolific family of artists. Madeleine and John brought up their two daughters in a household of printmaking, drawing, painting and pottery. John loved to push the boundaries with materials, and worked skilfully in a wide variety of disciplines. Madeleine’s practice similarly includes many art mediums, but for this show she uses monotypes and collographs to express memories of her time spent in Greece. Martina works intuitively - her abstract works evoking a sense of movement, space and time. Jess is a printmaker and is influenced by the art, architecture and symmetry in Islamic, Indian and Chinese cultures. A number of these works are for sale.

The Old Woman Who Loved to Read
22 August to 12 October

John Winch’s highly detailed and imaginative original illustrations from this award winning children’s book (International Board on Books for Young People Honour Book, Australia). Both written and illustrated by John, his infinite knowledge of materials provided great stimulus to his artistic endeavours as did his love of nature, ancient art and architecture, and mythology.

Focus: Photography and War 1945 – 2006
17 October to 23 November

This latest Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition provides an overview of the historical and aesthetic richness of the Memorial’s extensive photography collection. It covers a new era in modern warfare since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

Bark and Wood: Indigenous works from the NERAM Collection
17 October to 25 January

A rare view of these important works covering a broad geographical area right across Arnhem Land from Oenpelli in the west to Yirrkala in the east. The exhibition exposes the varying styles of both carving and painting from bold geometric painting through to the refined detail of rarrk or cross-hatching. A number of key Aboriginal artists have works included in the exhibition including David Malangi, Dick Nguleingulei,and Mick Kubarkku.

9 Shades of Whiteley: Brett Whiteley Studio on tour
29 November to 25 January

A mini-retrospective of this great Australian artist’s work - tracing Whiteley’s life and career from his earliest work of the 1950s as a gifted adolescent to just a few years before his death in 1992.