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PETRINA HICKS FEATURED IN EXHIBITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSUEM

The University of Queensland Art Museum
James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre (Building 11)
12 May – 22 July 2012

Petrina Hicks’ Sphynx from the series Beautiful Creatures features in Animal/Human, an exhibition that explores the human complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Hicks’ work is presented amongst a selection of works from her contemporary Australian peers including Adam Cullen, Janet Laurence, Patricia Piccinini and others. http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=176220

PAT BARSSINGTON SURVEY AT THE AUSTRALIAN CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, ADELAIDE

11 August – 23 September
ACCA, Adelaide, South Australia

A must see exhibition of influential Australian artist Pat Brassington which brings together a survey of work, showing her early to transisition from analogue into digital photography.

WILLIAM YANG WORKS FEATURED IN THE LIFE OF PATRICK WHITE, AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

13 April – 8 July 2012
National Library of Australia, ACT

William Yang’s images of Patrick White are featured alongside the Library’s vast collection of his papers. The exhibition not only tells the story of White in all his guises, it also provides great insight into the post-war Australian arts scene – straight from the man who was often its star attraction. After Canberra, the exhibition goes to the State Library of NSW from 13 August to 28 October 2012.

STILLS GALLERY: SHANGHAI CONTEMPORARY 2012

SH Contemporary 2012 takes place from September 7th to 9th, with preview on the 6th, in downtown Shanghai, at the extraordinary Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Stills Gallery will exhibit a selection of Stills artists, exposing them and the gallery to a new market. This will be the 6th edition of the fair and is organized into 2 main sections, providing visitors with a selection of cutting-edge and emerging art, including video, film, photography and new media.

PAT BRASSINGTON FEATURED AT THE ADELAIDE BIENNIAL 2012 IN
PARALLEL COLLISIONS

2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian art
Art Gallery of South Australia
Fri 2 March to 29 April 2012, Daily 10am to 5pm

An experiential proposition inspired by art, cinema and literature, the 2012 Adelaide Biennial explores the ways in which ideas emerge, converge and re-form through time. The Biennial considers the temporality of the present as it parallels and collides with the past. Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works including that of Pat Brassington and some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.

http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2012/visual_arts/adelaide_biennial_parallel_collisions

ABORIGINAL BENEFITS FOUNDATION FUNDRAISING ART AUCTION 2011

Stills Gallery
Tax deductable donation at the door
Sunday 13 November 2.00 - 4.00pm
On Sunday 13 November, the Aboriginal Benefits Foundation is holding an auction of works by major artists from the Warmun Art Centre, WA, as well as by other Indigenous and non-Indigenous artist.

Proceeds will be used to restore the flood-damaged Warmun Art Centre known hub for the beginnings of the east Kimberley painting movement and for the ABF to continue to provide support to Aboriginal communities across Australia. There will be entertainment by dancers from NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association Dance College) and refreshments served.

http://www.aboriginal.org.au/Events.html

PETRINA HICKS’ WORK FEATURED IN DOUBLE VISION AT MCCLELLAND GALLERY

McClelland Drive, Langwarrin, VIC 3910
3 November 2011 until 5 February 2012

Petrina Hicks’ Ghost in the Shell 2008 plus Infinity and Emily the Strange from Beautiful Creatures, 2011 will be featured as part of a group exhibition at the McClelland Gallery in an exhibition, which exuberantly explores contemporary art with ideas of portraiture and the body as the focus. Double Vision exhibition explores the captivating art of Realism and the intriguing exchanges that occur between painting, photography, digital image and sculpture.

http://www.mcclellandgallery.com/index.php?prfPageId=future-exhibitions

STEPHANIE VALENTIN AT RMIT GALLERY CONTEMPLATING THE FUTURE

2112: Imagining the Future
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2 December until 28 January 2012

A selection of works by Stephanie Valentin from her Earthbound series will be exhibited at RMIT, Victoria in 2112: Imagining the Future. Tapping into general anxieties about an uncertain future and public concern about the consequences of climate change, 2112 Imagining the Future presents a range of images revealing how contemporary artists imagine the world might look in one hundred years’ time.

http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=8wp1e99wt98cz

NARELLE AUTIO THE PLACE IN BETWEEN EXHIBITED AT LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY, NSW

Where there is water…
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
9 December 2011 until 5 February 2012

Narelle Autio’s body of work The Place In Between from 2007 will be deatured as part of an exhibition exploring the complex dualities of water. Where there is water, there is life but water also has the potential to take life as these artists depict. With its endless aesthetic range, the slippery nature of water remains a potent and enchanting subject for artists.

http://www.lakemac.com.au/art-gallery/future-exhibitions

ROBYN STACEY’S ‘HOUSE’ NOW AVAILABLE

The release of Robyn Stacey’s publication House coincided with the opening of Stacey’s exhibition House at the Museum of Sydney on show until February 20112. The exhibition showcases the extraordinary and everyday objects from the Historic Houses Trust’s collections and properties.

House is the result of a four-year collaboration between photographer Robyn Stacey and Historic Houses Trust curators. This sumptuous exhibition focuses on Elizabeth Bay House, Vaucluse House, Rouse Hill House & Farm and the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection and presents a new way of looking at, and interpreting, their unique collections.

Please contact the gallery for more information.

CONSTRUCTED WORLDS: CHRISTINE CORNISH & ROBYN STACEY FEATURED AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

Photography in the 1980s can perhaps be best characterised by work made in the studio. Although photographers continued to document the world by going out in to it, others manipulated and altered the image, often appropriating and reinterpreting imagery from the past. Following inroads made in the previous decade, the 1980s saw photography elevated to a high art form.

The display is in the photospace, part of the permanent galleries and the works are all in the National Gallery collection. Australian photographers included in the display are Christine Cornish & Robyn Stacey, amongst many others.

A half-day forum titled Tableaux Vivant: 1980s Photography is being held on 21 May, here at the National Gallery, where Robyn Stacey will be discussing the themes of the decade.

TRENT PARKE: BORDERLANDS
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON USA
15 February – 8 April 2011

Trent Parke: Borderlands features a selection of more than 40 key works from some of Parke’s best known series including: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, The Christmas Tree Bucket, Dream/Life and Welcome to Nowhere. Some of the work highlighted in the exhibition was made during a journey Parke and his wife Narelle Autio (also a leading photographer) made around Australia.

WILLIAM LAMSON: DUBBO PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE
DUBBO REGIONAL GALLERY, NSW
19 February – 10 April 2011

Western Plains Cultural Centre (WPCC) is pleased to present an exhibition of internationally acclaimed US based artist William Lamson in the Dubbo Regional Gallery. His “Experiments’ with black balloons in the series actions, 2008, a 24 minute video of 33 short performances, involves the artist creating elaborate scenarios in which black balloons ultimately burst.

The exhibition is featured in the WPCC Children’s Space and is part of the WPCC’s ongoing commitment to providing diverse and exciting exhibitions for children. This is William Lamson’s first solo exhibition in an Australian Public institution.

PAT BARSSINGTON, PETRINA HICKS & ROBYN STACEY: SILENT FEATHERS
Maroondah Art Gallery, VIC
28 January – 5 March 2011

Silent Feathers is an exhibition featuring the diverse range of representations of birds. Drawing upon the symbolism of birds and their role as companion animals, food source or as harbingers of environmental loss, 13 artists including Pat Brassington, Petrina Hicks and Robyn Stacey provocatively examine human complicity in the fate of the bird.

TRENT PARKE: Brisbane Powerhouse and Australian Centre for Photography present The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke's Family Album
Tue 1 March - Sun 27 March 2011

Trent Parke’s humorous series The Christmas Tree Bucket will be shown at the Brisbane Powerhouse. The Christmas Tree Bucket is humour of the blackest hue. In a dazzling display of virtuoso storytelling Parke snaps the family rituals of Christmas with the in-laws and builds a gritty gothic tale of a nightmare lurking in the suburban shadows. Operatic in its vision and darkly satirical The Bucket is a photographic masterpiece destined for cult status.

NARELLE AUTIO: 30 to Collect, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney
22 February - 5 March 2011

In support of the recent events in Queensland, Arthouse Gallery have collated 30 artists who are deemed as most collectable in support of the Queensland Disaster Relief. Di and Ali Yeldham will open the exhibition with actor & author Rhys Muldoon. Narelle Autio has donated a work from The Summer of Us series, Green Bottle, 2009. All sale proceeds will be donated to the relief fund for the rebuilding of flood-affected areas.

ROBYN STACEY: CURIOUS COLONY SH ERVIN GALLERY, SYDNEY
CURIOUS COLONY: A twenty first century Wunderkammer
11 January - 20 February 2011
Curious Colony: a twenty first century Wunderkammer is an exhibition organised by Newcastle Region Art Gallery that transforms the S.H. Ervin Gallery into a twenty first century room of wonders where colonial curiosities jostle contemporary art. This major exhibition brings together the work of colonial inspired artists including Stills artist Robyn Stacey. The exhibition will show Stacey’s work from The Great and the good series, Mr Macleay’s Fruit and Flora.

POLIXENI PAPAPETROU: ACP RETROSPECTIVE - Tales from Elsewhere
Friday 4 February - Saturday 12 March 
Following her recent triumphs in China, France, Greece, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Slovakia and USA, ACP presents the first major retrospective of the work of the internationally acclaimed Australian photo-artist Polixeni Papapetrou.

The exhibition focuses on a series of highly evolved bodies of work created in collaboration with her children, Olympia and Solomon, and their friends. Made over the past dozen years as the children are growing towards teenage, the images use play and dress-ups to explore the complex and often contradictory attitudes of the adult world towards children. While the images are made with rigour and intelligence, they retain the lightness and complex inner logic that is the nature of play. The exhibition is supported by a digital archive allowing visitors to explore the full range of Polixeni Papapetrou’s artistic oeuvre.

TRENT PARKE: BORDERLANDS
AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY, WASHINGTON USA
15 February – 8 April 2011
Trent Parke: Borderlands features a selection of more than 40 key works from some of Parke’s best known series including: Please step quietly everyone can hear you, The Christmas Tree Bucket, Dream/Life and Welcome to Nowhere. Some of the work highlighted in the exhibition was made during a journey Parke and his wife Narelle Autio (also a leading photographer) made around Australia.

Robyn Stacey featured in Sumptuary at the Australian Centre of Photography
Friday 26 November - Thursday 23 December 2010
Saturday 8 January - Saturday 29 January 2010
This lavish exhibition features five leading Australian photomedia artists including Stills Artist Robyn Stacey. The exhibition explores the fabrics, costumes, jewellery and tableware of conspicuous consumption and absolute power.
Throughout history, sumptuary laws were enacted in an attempt (almost always unsuccessful) to constrain the acquisition and display of luxury goods. This was at times motivated by a sense of modesty, at times by a desire to maintain hierarchy and at times as a way to curb imports that threatened the domestic market.

Stephanie Valentin: Winner of the RBS Emerging Artists Employee’s Choice Award 2010
Stephanie Valentin was awarded the RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) Employee’s Choice award with her work Earthbound, 2009 from the Earthbound series. The RBS Emerging Artists Award is a prestigious art award and is the seventh annual exhibition of emerging art presented by RBS. Other artists from Stills that have won the award are Petrina Hicks with her photograph Lambswool in 2008 and Trent Parke with Motel (2006).

Works from Beverley Veasey’s series Habitats, a work from Michael Light’s Full Moon Project and Stephanie Valentin’s Earthbound and Rainbook will be shown in the group show Understory at the Devenport Regional Gallery.

Ricky Maynard's survey exhibition, Portrait of a Distant Land, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 4 June - 23 August

Petrina Hicks won the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award 2008 with her entry Lambswool, from The Descendants.

WILLIAM AND WINIFRED BOWNESS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
Monash Gallery of Art
Melbourne
August 30 - November 2 2008
Beverley Veasey, Polixeni Papapetrou, Ella Dreyfus, and Martin Smith have been selected as finalists to exhibit in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, in Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography the prize presents an overview of contemporary photomedia works from the past year.

PRESUMED INNOCENCE, PHOTOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES OF CHILDREN
DeCordova Museum
Lincoln, MA, USA
2 February - 27 April 2008
Papapetrou's is represented in the exhibition Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children. The exhibition features images of children in vintage and contemporary prints by 20th and 21st century photographers.

ARTIST FILE 2008
National Arts Center, Tokyo
5 March - 6 May 2008
Papapetrou's new work, Games of Consequence (2008) together with Haunted Country (2006) will be exhibited at the National Art Center, Tokyo, in the exhibition Artist File 2008.

WHO LET THE DOGS OUT
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
8 February - 30 March 2008
Narelle Autio's photographs Not of this earth 2002 and Christine Cornish's work Threshold 2005, have been selected to appear in Who let the dogs out. The exhibition celebrates the canine in all manner of media and reveals a contemporary Australian take on the traditional genre.

C PHOTO MAGAZINE NEW YORK EXHIBTION
Phillips de Pury & Co
450 West 15th Street
New York, USA
6 - 26 September 2007
Petrina Hicks works Zara II and Shenae & Jade feature in C International Photo Magazine's exhibition celebrating the launch of its fifth issue.

ANNE FERRAN - SURREAL AESTHETIC
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney
12 September 2007
Anne Ferran's photographs are currently on display on level two.

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