EXHIBITIONS CALENDAR JANUARY - JUNE 2015 Until 22 FEBRUARY 2015 BUNGAREE: THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN Bungaree: the First Australian returns to Mosman Art Gallery as part of the bicentennial celebrations associated with the establishment of Bungaree's Farm, the first land grant by colonial authorities to an Aboriginal person in Australia. Bungaree is an exhibition by sixteen emerging and established contemporary NSW Aboriginal artists who have created works that acknowledge and critically reinterpret the story of Bungaree, known as the Chief of the Broken Bay Aborigines, who was a central figure in early colonial Sydney. Curated by renowned Aboriginal curator Djon Mundine, the exhibition features artworks by Frances Belle-Parker, Mervyn Bishop, Daniel Boyd, Karla Dickens, Fiona Foley, Adam Hill, Warwick Keen, Gary Lee, Peter McKenzie, Danie Mellor, Caroline Oakley, Rea, Lynette Riley, Gordon Syron, Leanne Tobin and Jason Wing. Jason Wing, Getting away with murder, 2012 Digital print on paper, variable dimensions 31 JANUARY - 8 FEBRUARY BUNGAREE'S FARM Bungaree's Farm is a site specific exhibition, responding to and interpreting the site of the first Aboriginal land grant in Australia located at Georges Heights/Middle Head, Mosman. The exhibition has been timed to co-incide with the 200th anniversary of the land grant made by Governor Lachlan Macquarie to Bungaree on 31 January 1815. Exhibition curator Djon Mundine has continued the process of working with a range of emerging and established Aboriginal artists, exploring Bungaree's legacy and pushing the boundaries of contemporary art making. Works will be showcased in the Camouflage Fuel Tanks T5 at Headland Park, Georges Heights. Open 10am to 4pm. Caption: Daniel Boyd and Djon Mundine participating in a Bungaree: The First Australian workshop at Middle Head, Mosman in 2012. Photograph courtesy Peter McKenzie 7 - 29 MARCH 2015 MOSMAN YOUTH ART PRIZE This exhibition features the diverse talents of our region’s young, aspiring and emerging artists and offers them the opportunity to exhibit their work in a public art gallery. This is a popular competition with close to 400 entries received annually with entrants from all over Sydney. Young artists aged between 12 – 21 submit artworks in a variety of media including: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, video, photography and ceramics to win over $8,000 in cash prizes, scholarships and art materials. George Butler, Self Portrait 2 Driven by 11 APRIL - 3 MAY ARTISTS OF MOSMAN: 2088 Mosman has long been a source of inspiration for artists since the late 19th century's Impressionist Artists Camps at Balmoral and Sirius Cove. Following in this rich tradition, the Artists of Mosman exhibition brings together the best of contemporary art practices by local resident artists in Mosman and the Friends of the Mosman Art Gallery. This eagerly anticipated exhibition is a highlight of the community's cultural calendar. June Spiers, Landscape Diptych,Oil 9 MAY - 12 JULY ART - maker, patron, lover Photographs by Gary Grealy In this series of portraits, professional photographer Gary Grealy captures some of the most unique characters of Australia’s art world. This world inhabited by the talented, strong, generous and at times eccentric characters of art patrons, gallery directors, art lovers and artists is portrayed as a carefully constructed and realised universe with film noir overtones. In this exhibition, the sitters await the gaze of the viewer in much the same way as their curated, purchased or created artworks. From the doyens of public and private galleries such as Edmund Capon, Frank Watters and Geoffrey Legge, art patrons and collectors, Gene Sherman, John Kaldor and Dr John Yu to renowned artists Adam Cullen, Jenny Sages, Robert Klippel and Jia Wei Shen, Grealy has followed his passion for recording these important contributors to Australia’s cultural heritage. Gary Grealy, McLean Edwards, Artist 2007 Gary Grealy has been a frequent finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery and his work has been collected by the NPG and National Gallery of Australia. 9 MAY - 12 JULY INTERCHANGE: Contemporary printmaking from Australia and Thailand This exhibition features thirty artists from Thailand and Australia, selected to showcase the diversity of print as a contemporary art discipline. All artists work within the traditions of printmaking such as etching, lithography, screen printing, relief printing with many artists extending their work to create non-conventional pieces with an emphasis on innovation. The exhibition features artworks by Vernon Ah Kee, Alison Alder, Surya Bajracharya, G W Bot, Opus Chomchuen, Elisabeth Cummings, Fiona Hall, Rew Hanks, Ingeborg Hansen, Nicci Haynes, Kade Javanalikikorn, Michael Kempson, Vimonman Khanthachavana, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Srijai Kuntawang, Yanawit Kunchaethong, Ammarin Kuntawong, Alex Lewis, John Loane, Euan Macleod, Martha MacDonald Napaltjarri, Amorntep Mahamart, Wittamon Niwattichai, Joshua Parry, Patsy Payne, John Pratt, Ben Rak, Bernie Slater, Kitikong Tilokwattanotai, Adeel uz Zafar. G W Bot, Glyphs - Between worlds, 2012 THE CUBE The Cube is a contemporary exhibition space featuring installation and new media works. 18 OCTOBER 2014 - 1 FEBRUARY 2015 GREG FERRIS: Every time I leave the room Every Time I Leave the Room is a scalable, immersive installation that uses gestural movements to move in and around a cinematic spatiality inspired by Deleuze's concepts of the relative and absolute ‘out-of-field’. Words and actions are repeated and echoed across a number of scenarios situated in a series of hotel rooms. Greg Ferris (2014), Every Time I Leave the Room 7 FEBRUARY - 17 MAY MAI NGUYEN-LONG: NEW MEDIA WORK Artist Mai Nguyen-Long explores place, memory and beyond as she questions constructs of identity and the irreconcilable tension across layered and fractured realities. Inspired by the music her father listened to when she was growing up, Mai’s charcoal drawing installation Beyogmos considers life, love, death, and a diffused existence. Mai Nguyen-Long, Beyogmos, 2014 Mai Nguyen-Long is represented by NG Art 30 MAY - 23 AUGUST THE CLOUD: Biljana Jancic + Alex Munt The vapour cloud is entrenched in art history, in the painting, sculpture, photography, cinema and architecture from both Eastern and Western traditions. Any talk of clouds today, is less likely to be in reference to those amorphous vapour structures drifting high above us, and more towards cloud computing, and in particular the infamous 'iCloud'. These data clouds on remote servers, form the site of our rapidly expanding dataverse. While the information ‘cloud’ allows users to access their information from anywhere, they are inherently fragile with the potential of leaks from a ‘secure’ system. This Biljana Jancic + Alex Munt, The Cloud collaborative new media and installation work by artists The artists are represented by Alaska Projects Biljana Jancic and Alex Munt questions our contemporary interactions with the physical, metaphorical, virtual and omnipresent cloudscapes. IN PROFILE In Profile is an exhibition space featuring works by selected local artists working in a variety of art media. PAMELA BELL: Drawings from the shed Carcoar 18 OCTOBER 2014 - 1 FEBRUARY 2015 In this series of drawings, Pamela Bell reveals the hidden remnants of convict labourers, bushrangers and farmers found in the sheds of a mid-nineteenth century property near Carcoar NSW. These carefully observed drawings are a memory of that place and time. Pamela Bell, Wheels, 2014 ERIKA BECK: Forces of Nature 7 FEBRUARY - 3 MAY This recent series of paintings were made in response to the wild terrain of South Australia’s beautiful Kangaroo Island. Beck captures the particular moods and amazing light of this unique landscape in highly expressive and gestural works. GERALD CHRISTMAS: Close to Home 9 MAY - 23 AUGUST Local artist Gerald Christmas lives near the beach paradise that is Balmoral Beach and it has become central to his work. This series of paintings explore his close ties with this special part of Sydney - its people, culture, environs and strong sense of place. MOSMAN ART GALLERY Cnr Art Gallery Way & Myahgah Road MOSMAN NSW 2088 P: 02 9978 4178 F: 02 9978 4135 E: [email protected] Open 7 days, 10am - 5pm. Closed public holidays. Admission Free www.mosmanartgallery.org.au
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