EXHIBITION ARCHIVE
 

From Space to Place

From the International Art Space Kellerberrin comes a new multi-media group exhibition exploring notions of rural identity and isolation.

Hotspot
Hotspot presents the work of 15 contemporary artists from the great Southern region of Western Australia who have explored a range of issues relevant to the environment and their place within it. The exhibition takes its name from the WA hotspot (an area with a high number of endemic species in danger of extinction), one of only 34 in the world and the only one in Australia. Artists in the show are Jenny Crisp, Severin Crisp, Charlie Colbung, Kimberley Krakouer, Athol Farmer, Katie Thamo, Jim Duddles, Kim Marsden, Ann Copeman, Ian Weir, Kerrie Argent, Joan May Campbell, Barbie Greenshields, Linda Hadley and Jenny Boshell.



Aboriginal artists of the South-west: Past and Present
This exhibition demonstrates the artistic creativity of contemporary Aboriginal artists working in Perth and the South-West of Western Australia, providing a reassessment of the significance of ‘non traditional’ Aboriginal art and its place in the broader field of Australian art. Artists represented in the show include Revel Cooper, Sally Morgan, Alma Toomath, Shane Pickett, Clarrie Isaacs, Julie Dowling, Norma MacDonald, Lance Chadd, Toogarr Morrison.



3 Elements
The exhibition is a cross-cultural and cross art-form exchange and collaboration between three internationally acclaimed artists. Japanese Nanga artist, Tousui Tanaka and Australian artists, Anne Farren (textiles) and Sandra Black (ceramics) have developed a series of installation works which opened at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, followed by a State tour.



Configured
Configured is an exciting selection of contemporary representational painting from Perth artists, all of whom have had substantial relationship with the renowned Gotham Studios in Northbridge. Curated by Perth figurative artist Kevin Robertson, Configured situates current figurative practice in a distinctly postmodern context by selecting artists who choose to re-work images from the past and explore contemporary imagery. The exhibition also includes a younger generation of artists exploring representation. Exhibiting artists are Jo Darbyshire, Leanne Emmitt, Richard Gunning, Thomas Hoareau, Joanna Lamb, Kevin Robertson, David Lamb, Andrew Daly and Garry Pumfrey.


 

Mine Own Executioner
Mine Own Executioner is an exhibition of self portraits by contemporary Western Australian artists selected from 10 years of the Mine Own Executioner exhibitions held annually at the Mundaring Arts Centre, WA. Renown WA artists such as Nalda Searles, Robert Juniper, George Haynes, David Gregson and Brian McKay are exhibited together with mid-career artists such as Bevan Honey, Rina Franz, Paul Caporn and Jo Darbyshire.

Out of Site - A Survey of the IASKA International Artists Program (1998-2002)
Out of Site documents the development of the International Art Space Kellerberrin. Australia (IASKA), a ground breaking cultural and artistic project based in a small rural town in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. The exhibition offers an opportunity to compare and contrast the multi-media works by artists from very diverse backgrounds.



Brine Obelus
Brine Obelus (Salt Dagger) is an installation work comprising 12 aluminium obelisks sited in the landscape at locations in regional WA. The work addresses the impact of salt degradation on regional communities and on the landscape.



Pojagi and Beyond
The Pojagi and Beyond exhibition is the direct result of the interchange between Chunghie Lee, her assistant Wendy Lugg, and 15 Australian textile artists, in an April 2002 masterclass taught by Lee through The Australian Forum For Textile Arts. Lee shared the processes and ethos of the making of Chogakpo pojagi, traditional patchwork Korean wrapping cloths, which Lee herself reinterprets in contemporary work which has earned her international acclaim. Artists in the show include Chunghie Lee, Wendy Lugg, Cherry Johnston, Judy McDermott, Marli Popple and Elizabeth Rose.




Prelude - Early work by Elizabeth Durack 1947 -1950
Prelude presents 20 watercolours and 15 pencil drawings of landscapes and figures by Elizabeth Durack (1915 - 2000) between the years 1947 - 1950. Shaped by the art and lives of Aboriginal people on and around the station property owned by her family, Elizabeth Durack documented the lives and times of station workers and their families in the East Kimberley.



 
Promised Land
Promised Land, an installation work created from hundreds of topographical maps of Australia, provokes audiences to consider an ecologically sustainable future by reflecting on the cumulative effects of human activities on the land and to reflect on the impact individuals may have on re-shaping the landscape and the resources within.

 

Sky LAb
An Exhibition by Dave Carson


Seven Sisters: Fibreworks Arising From the West
This exhibition presents the work of a number of Indigenous and non-indigenous fibre artists living in the western half of Australia. The Seven Sisters exhibition highlights the cultural exchange undertaken between Nalda Searles and Aboriginal women artists from the wheat belt town of Narrogin and Australia’s Western Desert. Searles has learnt their language and absorbed their stories, including the Kungkarangkalpa, or Seven Sisters story that interprets the Pleiades star cluster. The exhibition is accompanied by an education package that includes information about the project, the themes in the exhibition, the artists exhibiting and project sheets for teachers that provide ideas for projects that connect with the themes in the show. Artists in the show include Nalda Searles, Kate Campbell-Pope, Holly Story, Kantjupayi Benson, Elaine Lane, India Flint, Philomena Hali.



Sublime 25 Years of the Wesfarmers Collection
Sublime traverses the full historical span of the Wesfarmers collection of Australian art. It links works from colonial through to contemporary periods within an overarching theme of the sublime, specifically looking at ways in which works of art can engage traditional and contemporary understandings of this concept.

 

Transient - the work of Hans Arkeveld
Transient is an exhibition which represents a sample of the life work of prominent WA sculptor Hans Arkeveld. Curated by Robyn Taylor, the show includes drawings, prints, paintings, journal pages and three dimensional work, all of which give viewers an insight into one of the most interesting artistic minds in the Australian art community. Over the years, working from his studio inside the Anatomy and Human Biology Department at the University of Western Australia, Arkeveld has been able to successfully marry science and art resulting in a unique and poignant body of work which will make a lasting impression on those who view it.



Transpositions - Contextualizing recent Dutch Australian art
Transpositions developed out of a Dutch Cultural Heritage Group project on the question of the sociology of migration and cultural understanding. Aanpassen (fitting in) is a distinctive lifestyle of adjustments to life in Australia adopted by the Dutch new Australians who outwardly conformed to assimilation mandates, adopting their host nations language and way of life. Transpositions documents the work of 14 first and second generation Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian migrants and demonstrates their shared cultural heritage and their individual responses to belonging in two places.

 


Welcome to Veudplatz - Empty City
Veudplatz is a pocket retrospective of the work of artist, Stuart Elliott, arranged to coincide with David Bromfield’s book Fakeology: the Art of Stuart Elliott. It is in the form of a floor installation, a walk-through city, like the model villages set up for tourists. Stuart is WA’s own archaeologist of the soul. He calls his work Fakeology, a fake archaeology that digs deep in our collective obsessions and memory for its specimens. Veudplatz presents the imaginative history of Western Australia as an excavated town site.




Year 12 Perspectives 04
Year 12 Perspectives 04 is an exhibition that celebrates the truly outstanding contribution young people make to the cultural life of our community. The show provides audiences with an insight into the ideas and influences that creatively inspire visual arts students in their final year of schooling. ART ON THE MOVE presents a selection of 33 of the works that were a part of the larger exhibition that was shown at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in March and April, 2005. The works are predominantly two-dimensional with artforms such as painting, printmaking, textiles and digital media being represented. The young artists in the exhibition explore universal issues such as the vices of contemporary life, racial issues and issues of sexuality and commercialism as well as those that more directly concern youth such as body image, and the very popular theme of ‘self’.


   

Right to Be Counted
This important photographic exhibition has been made in collaboration with Tobias Titz and the indigenous people of Port Hedland and near-by communities. It celebrates the anniversary of Indigenous Australians' right to vote.