SHAPE SHIFTERS – A RETROSPECTIVE OF AUSTRALIAN COLLAGE
7 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
Opening Sunday 8 December 1:30pm.
Wollongong Art Gallery
www.wollongongartgallery.com
Shape shifters is an innovative retrospective of Australian Collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth century, have manipulated their images with adjuncts to do many things: to correct drawings, to play with composition, to decorate, and to make social and political comment. Shape shifters will examine how repurposed materials, concepts, and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects will be exhibited in a celebration of this thrilling and accessible art form.
Artists include:
Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Suzanne Archer, Tom Arthur, David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Ray Beattie, Richard Bell, Malcolm Benham, Lee Bethel, John Bokor, Warren Breninger, Mike Brown, Michael Butler, Angie Cass, Tony Convey, Ross Crothall, Grace Crowley, Isabel Davies, Juan Davila, Lawrence Daws, Domenico De Clario, Karla Dickens, Xanthe Dobbie, Stephen Earle, Lise Floistad, Leonard French, Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Richard Goodwin, Elizabeth Gower, Greedy Hen, Robert Grieve, Barbara Hanrahan, Katherine Hattam, Paul Higgs, Frank Hinder, Megan Jenkinson, Anita Johnson, Michael Johnson, George Johnson, Philip Juster, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, Peter Kingston, Brett Whiteley and John Allen, Robert Klippel, Eveline Kotai, John Krzywokulski, Colin Lanceley, Bruce Latimer, Helen Lempriere, Kerrie Lester, Elwyn Lynn, Polly MacCallum, Fiona MacDonald, David McDiarmid, Arthur McIntyre, Bridgid McLean, Danie Mellor, Robert B Mitchell, Allan Mitelman, Margaret Morgan, Elizabeth Newman, John Nixon, Caroline Oakley, Desiderius Orban, Jenny Orchard, Louise Paramor, John Peart, Leon Pericles, Carl Plate, Clifton Pugh, Ken Reinhard, Leonie Reisberg, Joan Ross, Gareth Sansom, Kurt Schranzer, Sandra Selig, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, Eric John Smith, Ian Smith, Madonna Staunton, Ann Thomson, Mark Titmarsh, Nicky Tsekouras, Meredith Turnbull, Nik Uzunovski, Hossein Valamanesh, Vicki Varvaressos, John R Walker, Guy Warren, Brett Whiteley, Vyvian Wilson.
Presented with the support of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Supported by Artbank and Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Defiance Gallery turns 30! This exhibition will include new works by all of Defiance Gallery's artists:
Tim Allen, Tom Arthur, Deborah Beck, Alison Coates, David Collins, Roger Crawford, Laurence Edwards, Ivor Fabok, Lea ferris, Joe Furlonger, Helen Gauchat, Peter Godwin, Clara Hali, Nigel Harrison, Paul Higgs, Pamela Honeyfield, Paul Hopmeier, Roy Jackson, Anita Johnson, Anna Johnson, Jan King, Angela Malone, Ingrid Morley, Kyle Murrell, Charmaine Pike, Anna Pollak, Peter Powditch, Campbell Robertson-Swann, Julia Roche, Tony Slater, Peter Stevens, Anne Thompson, and David Wilson.
SEEING THINGS
22 March - 3 August 2025
Opening event: Sat 5 April 20252:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Wollongong Art Gallery
corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets
www.wollongongartgallery.com
To ‘see things’ is to conjure apparitions, imagine possibilities, and entertain hallucination. The meaning we place on things becomes as elastic as the image itself when we view the world and its saturation of visual culture through a shadowy lens.
Images have long been suspicious. Today, digital images and AI have exploded pictures into an infinite sum of immeasurable parts. But the Surrealists were living proof that artists have long tapped into dreams and the unconscious. Romancing the unknown and uncanny sides of life is what art does best.
Seeing Things draws together works from the collection alongside newly acquired video works and loaned collages by Shoalhaven-based artist Wade Marynowsky. Each of these works offer disquieting narratives of everyday life as a waking dream, a vantage point for seeing with eyes closed.
Artists: Drew Bickford, Stephen Birch, Pat Brassington, Peter Booth, Nici Cumpston, Amanda Davies, Tom Dion, Jutta Feddersen, John Forrest, David Griggs, Brent Harris, John Havilah, Anita Johnson, Madeleine Kelly, Daniel Kojta, Anna Kristensen, Lindy Lee, Mandy Martin, Wade Marynowsky, Joan Meats, Mai Nguyễn-Long, Susan Norrie, Gareth Sansom, Laurens Tan, Ken Unsworth.
The Broken and Repaired exhibition invites artists to recognize that in restoring what was once broken, we also recover a part of ourselves and reaffirm our connection with the past and its memories.
These objects / artworks shown in this exhibition hint at the concept of time – that sometimes the timing is right to repair and mend, renewing and strengthening the memories that may have been shared. These objects:unfinished artworks have been left; stored in boxes; cupboards and not retrieved and loved. The reasons may be many – painful memories? unsure of how to repair? the work of someone much loved.Each broken / unfinished object that has been found by the participating artists, sometimes hidden away in life’s clutter, holds the promise of renewal and hope? Resolution? This implies that each of these pieces has held some importance – and intentionally not discarded.
Mending/ repairing can be seen as an enchantment that restores the original durability of that object, using many experiences and techniques. It is the hours of thoughtful consideration, evoking memories and preserving the integrity of the original object.
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SHAPE SHIFTERS – A RETROSPECTIVE OF AUSTRALIAN COLLAGE
7 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
Opening Sunday 8 December 1:30pm.
Wollongong Art Gallery
www.wollongongartgallery.com
Shape shifters is an innovative retrospective of Australian Collage. Many artists, beginning in the early twentieth century, have manipulated their images with adjuncts to do many things: to correct drawings, to play with composition, to decorate, and to make social and political comment. Shape shifters will examine how repurposed materials, concepts, and subjects have evolved within an Australian context. Works in fabric, paper, moving images, and found or domestic objects will be exhibited in a celebration of this thrilling and accessible art form.
Artists include:
Tony Albert, Brook Andrew, Suzanne Archer, Tom Arthur, David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Ray Beattie, Richard Bell, Malcolm Benham, Lee Bethel, John Bokor, Warren Breninger, Mike Brown, Michael Butler, Angie Cass, Tony Convey, Ross Crothall, Grace Crowley, Isabel Davies, Juan Davila, Lawrence Daws, Domenico De Clario, Karla Dickens, Xanthe Dobbie, Stephen Earle, Lise Floistad, Leonard French, Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Richard Goodwin, Elizabeth Gower, Greedy Hen, Robert Grieve, Barbara Hanrahan, Katherine Hattam, Paul Higgs, Frank Hinder, Megan Jenkinson, Anita Johnson, Michael Johnson, George Johnson, Philip Juster, Deborah Kelly, Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, Peter Kingston, Brett Whiteley and John Allen, Robert Klippel, Eveline Kotai, John Krzywokulski, Colin Lanceley, Bruce Latimer, Helen Lempriere, Kerrie Lester, Elwyn Lynn, Polly MacCallum, Fiona MacDonald, David McDiarmid, Arthur McIntyre, Bridgid McLean, Danie Mellor, Robert B Mitchell, Allan Mitelman, Margaret Morgan, Elizabeth Newman, John Nixon, Caroline Oakley, Desiderius Orban, Jenny Orchard, Louise Paramor, John Peart, Leon Pericles, Carl Plate, Clifton Pugh, Ken Reinhard, Leonie Reisberg, Joan Ross, Gareth Sansom, Kurt Schranzer, Sandra Selig, Martin Sharp, Garry Shead, Eric John Smith, Ian Smith, Madonna Staunton, Ann Thomson, Mark Titmarsh, Nicky Tsekouras, Meredith Turnbull, Nik Uzunovski, Hossein Valamanesh, Vicki Varvaressos, John R Walker, Guy Warren, Brett Whiteley, Vyvian Wilson.
Presented with the support of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Supported by Artbank and Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Defiance Gallery turns 30! This exhibition will include new works by all of Defiance Gallery's artists:
Tim Allen, Tom Arthur, Deborah Beck, Alison Coates, David Collins, Roger Crawford, Laurence Edwards, Ivor Fabok, Lea ferris, Joe Furlonger, Helen Gauchat, Peter Godwin, Clara Hali, Nigel Harrison, Paul Higgs, Pamela Honeyfield, Paul Hopmeier, Roy Jackson, Anita Johnson, Anna Johnson, Jan King, Angela Malone, Ingrid Morley, Kyle Murrell, Charmaine Pike, Anna Pollak, Peter Powditch, Campbell Robertson-Swann, Julia Roche, Tony Slater, Peter Stevens, Anne Thompson, and David Wilson.
SEEING THINGS
22 March - 3 August 2025
Opening event: Sat 5 April 20252:00 pm - 04:00 pm
Wollongong Art Gallery
corner of Kembla and Burelli Streets
www.wollongongartgallery.com
To ‘see things’ is to conjure apparitions, imagine possibilities, and entertain hallucination. The meaning we place on things becomes as elastic as the image itself when we view the world and its saturation of visual culture through a shadowy lens.
Images have long been suspicious. Today, digital images and AI have exploded pictures into an infinite sum of immeasurable parts. But the Surrealists were living proof that artists have long tapped into dreams and the unconscious. Romancing the unknown and uncanny sides of life is what art does best.
Seeing Things draws together works from the collection alongside newly acquired video works and loaned collages by Shoalhaven-based artist Wade Marynowsky. Each of these works offer disquieting narratives of everyday life as a waking dream, a vantage point for seeing with eyes closed.
Artists: Drew Bickford, Stephen Birch, Pat Brassington, Peter Booth, Nici Cumpston, Amanda Davies, Tom Dion, Jutta Feddersen, John Forrest, David Griggs, Brent Harris, John Havilah, Anita Johnson, Madeleine Kelly, Daniel Kojta, Anna Kristensen, Lindy Lee, Mandy Martin, Wade Marynowsky, Joan Meats, Mai Nguyễn-Long, Susan Norrie, Gareth Sansom, Laurens Tan, Ken Unsworth.
The Broken and Repaired exhibition invites artists to recognize that in restoring what was once broken, we also recover a part of ourselves and reaffirm our connection with the past and its memories.
These objects / artworks shown in this exhibition hint at the concept of time – that sometimes the timing is right to repair and mend, renewing and strengthening the memories that may have been shared. These objects:unfinished artworks have been left; stored in boxes; cupboards and not retrieved and loved. The reasons may be many – painful memories? unsure of how to repair? the work of someone much loved.Each broken / unfinished object that has been found by the participating artists, sometimes hidden away in life’s clutter, holds the promise of renewal and hope? Resolution? This implies that each of these pieces has held some importance – and intentionally not discarded.
Mending/ repairing can be seen as an enchantment that restores the original durability of that object, using many experiences and techniques. It is the hours of thoughtful consideration, evoking memories and preserving the integrity of the original object.
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