Photo: Emma Wright.
Current exhibition
Creation
24 February – 28 May 2022
Deborah Kelly’s CREATION is a collaboration between artists and communities to develop an art work that offers ways to gather and commune – a counterpoint to the natural disasters, plagues and leadership failures of our era. A work drawn from politics, evidence, mysticism and collectivity, CREATION is developed through a multi-venue series of cross-disciplinary projects, public brainstorms and participatory performances.
Future exhibition
Jeff Gibson: Countertypes
9 June – 27 August 2022
Jeff Gibson: Countertypes considers one of Australian art’s most significant voices in image-based art. Shaped by his upbringing amidst punk and new wave culture in Brisbane and Toowoomba in the late 1970-80s, Gibson’s 40 year career has contributed to an international shift in the way photographic imagery is engaged with as art. Forging what is known today as ‘image-based art’, Gibson is a leading exponent of digital image-based art that incorporates and analyses mass-media imagery, elevating appropriation, quotation, excerptation, juxtaposition and staging as crucial artistic strategies. Such treatments have their roots in postmodern ‘Pictures’ art, but they remain integral today for any artist interested in examining the influence of social media and the World Wide Web.
Upcoming exhibition
Future exhibition
Future exhibitions
Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No’?
8 September - 21 November 2020
Elizabeth Newman: Is that a ‘No'? surveys 30 years of the career of Australian artist Elizabeth Newman.
Formal structures in the work of Melbourne-based artist Elizabeth Newman (b.1962) resonate and repeat.
Newman's paintings, cut-fabric pieces, collages, sculptures and constructions engage with voids and frames, offering encounters between words and wordlessness.
This selection spans 30 years, from 1989-2019, and focuses on the way in which negations, disavowals, excisions and certain articulations of space can function throughout art as a type of existential thinking.
Newman's creative and linguistic acts include a questioning attitude to art, as well as to the unconscious, which is unruly, which manifests, and finds meaning and likewise a lack of meaning.
- Elizabeth Newman Untitled 2016. Oil and tape on linen, 100 x 80cm.
- Courtesy the artist, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, and Neon Parc, Melbourne
The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies
July - September 2021
The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies is a groundbreaking project that brings together eminent and emerging artists and designers to show how creative applications of data technology are crucial for a vital, inclusive and sustainable future.
Managing and presenting data are central concerns in our contemporary lives. Comprising an exhibition and publication, the project will provide a unique platform for audiences to explore data both critically and playfully. The audience will also be empowered to respond to climate change patterns and future city design, interact with empathy from remote locations, learn about Indigenous cultural knowledges and reflect on everyday habits that secure data privacy.
In the era of rapid global warming, privacy corruption and fake news, the relevance of critical and creative engagements with data could not be any more crucial than they are now. Unless the catastrophes of climate change, online surveillance, and debased historical legacies are attended to urgently the rights of the living (animals, plants and humans) will be only exponentially eroded.
The exhibition will include artworks and designs that engage audiences in critical, playful and agentic reflections on data and creative technologies.
Due to COVID-19, the exhibition has been postponed until 2021. To collaboratively develop the curation of the Data Imaginary with the public and debate how our changing engagements with data are evolving, the exhibition will be developed in a series of online events.
- Lola Greeno Ceremonial green maireener shell necklace, 2018. 180cm long.
- Private collection, Sydney. Photo: Carl Warner.