AUGNOV 2020
members newsletter no. 81
CAIRNS ART GALLERY
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD
In late March the Gallery closed to the public when the whole world watched in disbelief as the Coronavirus epidemic began to change the lives of everyone everywhere. Having just opened the major Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly exhibition, the first in a series of significant events to celebrate the Gallery’s milestone 25th birthday, we were thrilled to be able to extend the dates of its presentation and reopen in June to many joyful visitors. To celebrate our reopening the Gallery has also embarked on an exciting program of exhibitions to celebrate a quarter of a century of collecting practices, looking at art from different periods of time and from diverse cultures. The Collection is a major cultural asset that offers a unique commentary on critical issues facing us today, including racial equality and social justice, and ways in which artists have sought to articulate their experiences of living in and responding to one of the oldest and most exciting tropical regions in the world. I am excited to announce that this year the Gallery will be launching two new initiatives to support and showcase artists from our region.
IMAGE COVER James MORRISON Goodenough Bay 1959 2016 oil on linen 91 x 91 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2017
The Artists Fellowship Program is a two year partnership with the Cairns RSL Club that will offer six Artist Fellowships of $7,500 to produce a new body of work for exhibition at the Gallery and the online Artist Showcase project funded through the Australia Council for the Arts will promote our diverse artists to audiences beyond the region. Finally, I want to recognise and thank all the members of the Gallery who have been supportive of our endeavours during the last few difficult months. We are thrilled that so many members have renewed and purchased gift memberships for family and friends. This support is particularly critical as we enter our first year of reduced multi-year Council funding, and a challenging business environment. Please continue to show your support for the Gallery, so that we can remain relevant, sustainable, and free of charge, while contributing to an economic recovery in the creative arts sector of Cairns and the region. Andrea May Churcher Director
IMAGE LEFT Danie MELLOR bala dulga yubanday 2002 mixed media on paper 300 x 360 cm (9 panels) Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Kelly Salteri, 2018
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EXTENDED UNTIL 4 OCT 2020
2020 EXHIBITIONS Aug–Nov
SIDNEY NOLAN’S NED KELLY SERIES
A NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA EXHIBITION
Sidney Nolan’s 1946–47 paintings on the theme of the 19th–century bushranger Ned Kelly are one of the greatest series of Australian paintings of the 20th century.
Sidney NOLAN Ned Kelly 1946 from the Ned Kelly series 1946 – 1947 enamel on composition board 90.8 x 121.5 cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977 © National Gallery of Australia
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SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES Continuing the Gallery’s commitment to and interest in contributing to international research to explore diverse narratives around issues of race, identity and place.
IMAGE LEFT Naomi HOBSON A Bed No-more (detail) 2019 from the Adolescent Wonderland series digital print 75 x 104 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased Cairns Art Gallery, 2019
IMAGE OVER Daniel BOYD Untitled 2013 oil and archival glue on linen 196 x 300 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Daniel Boyd for the people of Yarrabah, 2015.
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SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES
Art is a powerful language through which to give expression to and raise ideas for discussion and debate, including the revisiting of histories that for so long have been regarded as grounded in truth. Shifting the Narrative, Alternative Histories brings together 50 works by 17 artists from the Gallery’s Collection that have been grouped together to suggest new ways of unravelling some of the complex and disturbing histories around the settlement and development of far north Queensland. The history of sugar cane farming in Queensland is based on an intersection of cultures, repression, slavery and racism, beginning with the Anglo-Saxon appropriation by force of Aboriginal lands and the enforced ‘recruitment’ of some 62,000 South Sea Islanders who, between 1863 and 1904, were ‘black birded’ to work on Queensland’s sugar cane farms. Daniel Boyd, who has both Aboriginal and South Sea Islander ancestry, and Francesca Rosa, the daughter of an Italian immigrant who came to Australia under assisted passage in 1956 to work the cane farms around Innisfail, south of Cairns, create works that draw upon very personal stories about how the cane industry impacted the lives of their immediate families.
The story of twenty-one-year-old Mary Watson is a sad one and the events surrounding her death have all the hallmarks of a tragic legend. But the recording of history, and the separation of fact from fiction, is complex. What really happened to her in September 1881 remained a mystery until historian Suzanne Faulkner published a version of accounts based on a previously unrecorded story from an Aboriginal viewpoint. Recording of the ‘new’ history was visually documented by Australian artist Alan Oldfield in a series of fifteen paintings in the Cairns Art Gallery Collection. Together these works create unforgettable images of the people and events around the Lizard Island mystery and the white retaliatory massacre of more than 150 Aboriginal men, women and children for a crime they did not commit. Between 1898 and 1939 more than 7,000 Aboriginal people were removed to 64 missions throughout Queensland. For artists such as Heather Koowootha, who grew up on the Yarrabah Mission, this history of enforced separation continues to shape her life and inform her art. Similarly, artists Roy McIvor from Hope Vale and Teho Ropeyarn from the Northern Peninsula Area community of Injinoo revisit historical events to present alternative ‘truths’ through their art practice.
IMAGE ABOVE Francesca ROSA Cane Cutters 2015 single-channel slideshow projection silent, 16:40 mins Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased by Cairns Regional Gallery, 2015
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IMAGE ABOVE Alan OLDFIELD The Settlement 1986 from The Story of Mrs. Watson 1881 series oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas board 30.5 x 38 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased by Cairns Regional Gallery, 1999.
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IMAGE RIGHT William YANG detail from My family in North Queensland 2001 gelatin photograph variable (60 photographs in installation) Cairns Art Gallery Collection Commissioned by Cairns Regional Gallery, 2001
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UNTIL 15 AUGUST 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCREEN SERIES
MELANIE SMITH FORDLANDIA
An extraordinary visual narrative that ponders Henry Ford’s failed utopia in the tropical Brazilian rainforest and the tensions between colonisation, industry and nature. Melanie SMITH Born Poole, England, 1965 Fordlandia (still) 2014 single channel video, colour, sound 29:42 mins Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
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21 AUG–11 OCT 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCREEN SERIES
QUESTION BRIDGE BLACK MALES
chris johnson kamal sinclair bayeté ross smith hank willis thomas
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Question Bridge is a compelling video created by four American black male artists. Chris Johnson, Kamal Sinclair, Bayeté Ross Smith and Hank Willis Thomas collaborated to produce a powerful filmic work that reveals intimate and rarely documented conversations between black men living in contemporary America. The process for creating this work involved several years of travel, with each of the artists crisscrossing the United States as they interviewed one hundred and fifty black men. The methodology of using interviewing processes in order to dismantle myths and misconceptions that have evolved around race and gender in America is immediately engaging and disturbing. Through the recording of questions and answers, the viewer is brought into very personal discussions in order to experience the spectrum of consciousness of black American men struggling for identity and belonging. For the four artists the process also meant that they variously assumed the roles of researcher and subject.
pushing the boundaries and challenging issues, the process of creating Question Bridge was especially poignant and painful, as it compelled him to confront and contextualise the death of his cousin, Songha Willis, outside a nightclub in February 2000. For Thomas, this project brought into sharp focus questions around the intersection between advertising, race, and consumerism, including the huge divide between media images of strong black men, and the prevailing racial attitudes in a predominantly intolerant white American society. Question Bridge addresses issues that have a particular relevance in the wake of the death of black American George Floyd, and the world-wide response of the Black Lives Matter campaign calling for social justice and racial equality for all.
Hank Willis Thomas, an internationally acclaimed American conceptual artist, is best known for his photography and appropriation art that considers racial identity through the lens of advertising and popular culture. For Thomas, who is renowned for
IMAGE PP 15/16 Chris JOHNSON Kamal SINCLAIR Bayeté Ross SMITH Hank Willis THOMAS Question Bridge: Black Males 2012 single channel video, sound, 2 hours 53 mins Courtesy of the artists and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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16 OCT–6 DEC 2020 INTERNATIONAL SCREEN SERIES
XAPIRI
GISELA MOTTA LEANDRO LIMA 19
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16 OCT–6 DEC 2020
XAPIRI GISELA MOTTA LEANDRO LIMA
Xapiri is an experimental film by two artists, Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima, who live and work in São Paulo, Brazil. The film is inspired by Yanomami shamanism. The Yanomami are one of the indigenous forestdwelling peoples deep in the Amazon River basin in South America. They did not have sustained contact with the outside world until the 1950s and were characterised as the “fierce people”. The deeply spiritual world of the Yanomami centres around their shamanic leaders. They access the spiritual realm by inhaling powerful psychedelic substances derived from rainforest plants: ‘This is how we make the spirits (xapiri) dance. There are many, many xapiri, not just a few, but thousands, like stars. Some live in the sky, some live under the ground and others live in the high mountains which are full of forests and flowers.’
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IMAGE PP 19.20.21 Gisela MOTTA Born São Paulo, Brazil, 1976 Leandro LIMA Born São Paulo, Brazil, 1976 XAPIRI 2012 single channel video, sound, 55 mins Courtesy of the artists
Xapiri is a surreal journey into the heart of Yanomami shamanism. The film is designed to have two different notions of the image - the Yanomami and ours. It does not try to explain shamanism, rather it visualises the way shamans incorporate the xapiri within their bodies to give them form and voice. Xapiri was filmed in the village of Watoriki Reserve, Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon, over the course of two annual meetings of shamans in March 2011 and March 2012, and included the collaboration of Indigenous organisation Hutukara Yanomami Association.
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UNTIL 23 AUG 2020
DESTINATION NORTH MELANIE HAVA JULIE MCENERNY HANNAH PARKER CATHY SNOW This project supports the Gallery’s Works On Paper initiative that provides mentoring and professional development opportunities for regional artists
IMAGE RIGHT Cathy SNOW Bush Turkey and Wild Bananas 2020 acrylic paint on paper 76 x 56 cm Collection of the artist
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28 AUG–18 OCT 2020
TROPICAL TROPES
IMAGE LEFT James MORRISON Goodenough Bay 1959 (detail) 2016 oil on linen 91 x 91 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2017
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TROPICAL TROPES
Tropical Tropes brings together works by six artists who are represented in the Gallery’s Permanent Collection. Together their works explore narratives around the theme of life in the tropics, and specifically address how the complex environment of the tropics can shape lives and inform perceptions of identity and belonging.
while also serving to record important seasonal changes and the types of plants traditionally used for medicinal purposes.
For many of us, reference to the tropics evokes images of a place of great beauty, of lush and bountiful vegetation and vivid colours. For others, the tropics engender a sense of fear and foreboding – a place that is deep and dark, impenetrable and menacing. For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists living in far north Queensland, the tropics are home - a place that has provided food, shelter and cultural connection and identity for millennia. Segar Passi, an important Elder from Mer (Murray) Island, has a deep knowledge of the marine life that abounds in the Torres Strait, which he records through carefully detailed drawings and watercolours. For Melanie Hava, a Mamu Aboriginal woman, of the Dugul-barra and Wari-barra family groups from the North Johnstone River catchment of the Wet Tropics of Far North Queensland, the hidden under-world of the Great Barrier Reef, with its ever-changing light, colours and dancing shapes of plants and animals, is a source of artistic inspiration. Heather Koowootha, a Wik Mungkan, Djabuguy/ Yidinji woman, recalls the rituals of growing up in remote communities in Cape York, and gathering native foods and plants as a child. Her carefully patterned works are based on these memories,
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Melbourne-based artist James Morrison grew up in the tropical environment of Papua New Guinea. His childhood memories of the landscape are largely imagined and fantastical and often include indicators of times past and times future in order to convey a world of abundance and exoticness. Roland Nancarrow lives and works in Cairns and has an enduring passion for the tropics. In recent years he visited tropical South America where he was captivated by its tropical bird and plant life, references to which are evident in his new works. The lush vegetation of the tropics has similarly inspired Melbourne-born artist and designer, Linda Jackson, who spent many years working in far north Queensland. The boldly colourful plants and flowers of the region are distinctive elements in her textile designs for clothing and furnishings. Tropical Tropes continues the Gallery’s research interest in exploring our particular place in the world’s tropic zone and how artists who live and work in this region respond to and articulate social, environmental and political conditions specific to the tropics.
IMAGE PP 27/28 Segar PASSI watercolour on paper size: various Commissioned by Cairns Art Gallery 2017 - 18 Collection: Cairns Art Gallery Visual Cultural Archive
IMAGE ABOVE Linda JACKSON Heliconia poncho 1987 textile hand-print on cotton 108 x 124 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased Cairns Art Gallery, 2019 Photo: Michael Marzik
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9 OCT–29 NOV 2020
NORTHERN LANDSCAPES SIX VIEWPOINTS
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9 OCT–29 NOV 2020
NORTHERN LANDSCAPES SIX VIEWPOINTS
An important focus of the Gallery’s Permanent Collection is the representation of landscape by artists from the region or those visiting the region of far north Queensland. Through these artists’ eyes we can develop new connections with and interpretations of the landscape that surrounds us and explore issues of place, identity and belonging. Danie Mellor is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Born in Mackay, Queensland, his artistic practice is heavily informed by his Western and Indigenous cultural heritage. His works in the Collection are an engagement with and interrogation of the history, culture and landscape of his matrilineal Country of the Atherton Tablelands north of Cairns. Heavily laden with colourful fauna and Aboriginal people holding cultural artefacts, his intricately drawn idealised landscapes reference decorative blue and white English Spode chinaware, aesthetic devices to further interrogate the tension between Indigenous and non-Indigenous readings of Australia’s pre- and postsettlement history. His more recent photographic works demonstrate his continually expanding view and perception of Country and the ancient beauty of the Australian rainforest. Rosella Namok started painting on canvas in 1984 in her community of Lockhart River, a former mission settlement 800 kilometres north of Cairns. Her style of painting was derived from sand drawings, a practice taught to her by her grandmother, who would sit on the beach and tell stories to the young women while running her fingers through the sand, making marks before
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wiping them away to start anew. This traditional approach to sharing cultural knowledge with a deep understanding of the environment informs her paintings of stormy seas and monsoonal rains. Anneke Silver, a Dutch trained artist, settled in North Queensland in 1961. Her monumental painting in the Collection of Mount Bartle Frere, south of Cairns, captures a panoramic and majestic view of the mountain. For Silver, the individual panels that make up the image allow a focused meditation on the complex life forms of the tropical mountain environment and, when assembled together, allow a broader meditation on the mountain as an enigmatic and powerful life force. Ray Crooke moved to Queensland to live with his wife in 1950. His encounters with the landscapes of the far north were an important focus of his art. His extensive travels around the Cape and the Torres Strait Islands attest to his deep fascination with the ‘new’ world of ancient land formations and respect for places of deep spiritual significance for the country’s First People. Crooke’s search for the archetypal Australian landscape resulted in an exceptional body of paintings and prints in the Gallery’s collection that are notable for their carefully considered and observed studies of the unique light, flora and space of the north. Fred Williams is one of Australia’s most influential twentieth-century artists. In 1977 Williams made his first light plane flight, travelling to the mining township of Weipa in Cape York. For the first time in his life he saw the vastness of the Australian IMAGE P 31 Rosella NAMOK Soudees rain 2002 synthetic polymer paint on canvas 76 x 50 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Geoff and Fran Barker, 2005
IMAGE ABOVE Fred WILLIAMS Bushfire, Weipa II 1977 gouache 57 x 75.5 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Lyn Williams AM in memory of Fred Williams, 2018 Photo: Michael Marzik
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IMAGE ABOVE Anneke SILVER Bartle Frere and friends (Air) (detail) 2003/2004 mixed media on canvas 61 x 61 cm each panel (16 panels) Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Anneke Silver, 2004
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landscape laid out below him, experiencing a real rather than imaginary perspective of aerial height. The experience had a profound effect on him and resulted in the creation of what many consider to be his finest works – the Weipa series. The gouache landscapes that Williams completed from sketches made while travelling to Weipa are notable for their luminous colours. Most importantly, it is the removal of the horizon line that gives these works in particular an initial appearance of abstraction and an unsettling sense of endless space. However, his observations of the landscape and particular land formations are incorporated into his paintings with the careful precision of a map marker. Through the generosity of Lyn Williams and the Gallery Foundation, the Gallery has one of the most significant holdings of works from Fred Williams’ Weipa series of gouaches.
to Dunk Island in 1936, before settling on Bedarra Island where he lived a life of artistic isolation before the arrival of the Cohen sisters, Yvonne and Valerie Cohen (later Albiston) in 1938. They settled on nearby Timana Island and maintained a close friendship with Wood. For the next forty years the sisters divided their time between Melbourne and the tropics, developing their reputation as early pioneers of the Modernist Australian painting movement, inspired by the northern landscape. The works of both Wood and Albiston from this period share a view of the tropics as an idealised paradise, a place of wonderment, colour and freedom – a place that afforded unlimited freedom for experimentation with bold colours and abstracted forms.
Two artists whose works have recently been acquired for the Gallery Collection are Noel Wood (1912-2001), and Valerie Albiston (1911-2008). Noel Wood, an Adelaide-born and trained artist, came
IMAGE ABOVE LEFT Ray CROOKE Untitled (Gulf landscape) n.d. oil on canvas on board 14.5 x 22 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Gift of Jo Atherton Jarrett, 2001
IMAGE BOTTOM LEFT Ray CROOKE Laura river c.1970 (n.d) oil on canvas 44.5 x 60 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Denis Savill, 2011
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9 OCT–6 DEC 2020
REIMAGINING BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION
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REIMAGINING BETWEEN TRADITION AND INNOVATION
Reimagining: between tradition and innovation highlights the work of Indigenous artists from the Gallery’s Collection. The exhibition highlights the significance of legacy in contemporary Indigenous art, where the generational transmission of cultural knowledge across time and place informs innovation and is intrinsic to artistic practice. Grace Lillian Lee’s A Weave through time incorporates Torres Strait Islander traditional grasshopper weaving design to create a sculptural installation that explores notions of time past, present and future. To do this the artist created three women’s dresses using different materials coconut fibre for the past, cotton for the present, and plastic for the future. An integral component of this work is a video that shows three generations of women in the artist’s family, each embracing the sculptural dresses as they fade from one generation to the next to highlight the intersecting values of cultural knowledge with contemporary society.
IMAGE P 40 Dr. Ken THAIDAY Snr Eastern Island dhari headdress on a but fish (butterfish) wooden stand 2012 bamboo, plywood, enamel paint, cane, wire, nylon, feathers, seed pods cats eye 42 x 27 x 23 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased by Cairns Regional Gallery, 2012
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IMAGE ABOVE Grace Lillian LEE A Weave Through Time (plastic, fibre, white) 2017 polyurethane, timber cane, cotton and wool thread palm fibre, timber cane, cotton and wool thread cotton webbing, timber cane, cotton and wool thread various Cairns Art Gallery Collection Purchased Cairns Art Gallery Foundation, 2018 Image: Carl Warner
Brian Robinson is of the Kala Lagaw Ya and Wuthathi language groups of the Torres Strait. His printmaking practices stem from early wood carving traditions, and are based on oral stories. However, for Robinson it is the intersection between traditional stories and contemporary culture that gives his work complexity and opens up new ways of navigating cultural stories in a contemporary context. To this end, close scrutiny of his works will often reveal references that initially seem ironic or incongruous, such as popular culture comic
figures and references to western art history. These inclusions are deliberate and are selected by the artist for their ability to extend complex narratives between traditional and contemporary ways of life and culture. Ken Thaiday Snr is a Torres Strait Island artist whose work is inspired by Darnley Island culture. Thaiday’s innovative works include elaborate ceremonial headdresses (dhari) and dance machines (zamiyakal) that are used during traditional cultural practices in the Torres Strait. Like Brian Robinson, Thaiday seeks to create a contemporary context for seemingly traditional works by using present day materials and processes, including the use of automated devices to animate his sculptures. Zamiyakal are ceremonial apparatuses used to provide a visual physical narrative to a particular dance. They are designed for manoeuvrability and when activated during a certain period in a performance become an illustration of the performance. Thaiday effortlessly incorporates traditional zamiyakal with ceremonial dhari to create contemporary sculptural forms, the symbolic imagery of which provides a commentary on Torres Strait Islander peoples and their lifestyles.
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Brian ROBINSON Usal - the seven sisters that play amongst the stars 2016 linocut printed on paper and mounted to board, pine dowel, rattan, shells, raffia, twine, feathers, plastic beads, plastic skull 100 X 230 cm Cairns Art Gallery Collection Donated through the Cairns Regional Gallery Foundation with the assistance of Rosemary Goodsall, 2016. Photo: Michael Marzik
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23 OCT 2020– 31 JAN 2021
MADE / WORN AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY Made/ Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery is an Australian Design Centre (ADC On Tour) national touring exhibition, presented with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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23 OCT 2020– 31 JAN 2021
MADE / WORN AUSTRALIAN CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY
Liam Benson / Helena Bogucki / Julie Blyfield / Zoe Brand / Maree Clarke / Jess Dare / Anna Davern / Bin Dixon-Ward / Sian Edwards / Emma Fielden / Lola Greeno / Pennie Jagiello / Bridget Kennedy / Inari Kiuru / Grace Lillian Lee / Vicki Mason / Claire McArdle / Tiffany Parbs / Blanche Tilden / Catherine Truman / Manon van Kouswijk / Zoë Veness
IMAGE P 46 Zoe VENESS Return Loop: Double Loop 2020 Image: Zoe Veness
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Made / Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery explores the act of making jewellery, from intimate pieces to large-scale objects. All works in the exhibition are designed to be worn - to adorn and embellish the body and to be a vehicle for personal expression.
In the supporting exhibition publication, Melinda Young explains in her essay, ‘Everything and nothing – jewellery beyond adornment’ that as a maker, a wearer and a viewer of contemporary jewellery, she is interested in jewellery beyond its life as adornment.
Twenty-two jewellers are represented in this exhibition, with works spanning a wide range of materials, techniques and meanings, and designs that are playful, intricate, conceptual, personal and political.
This is a visually exciting exhibition that showcases some of the most striking, personal, conceptual and beautiful items of contemporary jewellery and body adornment being made in Australia today.
Jewellery has been defined as an act of art, craft and design, which lives and breathes on the bodies of those who wear it. It begins with a concept, often in the form of a two-dimensional line drawing, before taking shape as a unique and multifaceted object. Once completed, a piece of jewellery can contribute to the persona of the wearer, while seemingly taking on the attributes of a wearer. Most importantly, it can out-live the initial wearer to become a time-honoured and treasured possession for future generations.
FILM The Made/Worn film was made to accompany the exhibition by Angus Lee Forbes. It features a number of artists in the exhibition and gives some deeper insights into what inspires these artists and what contemporary jewellery can be.
IMAGE ABOVE Jess DARE Making time: Exchange Between Jess and Her Son Banjo 2019 Image: Marcus Ramsay
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CREATIVE LEARNING PROGRAMS Workshops includes a guided art-appreciation session in which children will learn more about the Gallery and exhibitions on display.
booking essential www.cairnsartgallery.com.au Children under 5 years of age must be with an adult guardian * Artists and techniques are correct at time of printing Cairns Art Gallery may vary program content where necessary
YOGA IN THE GALLERY
with Jeany Schall, qualified yoga instructor Mondays (except for public holidays): 5.30 – 6.30pm Adults 16+ Five-class pass $60 ($75 non-members) One-off classes $15 Conducted in the peaceful setting of the Gallery, participants will be guided through various yoga techniques, including learning postures, meditation and breathing techniques to improve core strength, mind and body. Our qualified and experienced yoga instructor Jeany Schall will guide the class, offering the highest and latest standards of modern yoga practice. Participants need to bring their own yoga mat and are also recommended to bring two yoga blocks to aid their practice.
ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS (16+) CERAMIC SCULPTURE with Amanda Eales, artist Mondays: 5.30 – 7.30pm 14, 21, 28 September, 12 October 2020 $140 ($160 non-members) + kiln fee
In this 4-week course participants learn techniques required to sculpt the human form in clay. Learn how to manipulate the clay to create gestural qualities which add character and depth. Work can be kiln-fired to be collected at a later date. All materials are provided. Maximum measurements for final work are 35cm diameter and 30cm height. Kiln fee depends on final dimensions of the sculpture.
LANDSCAPE PAINTING
with Marnie Awram Hutchinson, artist & teacher Mondays: 5.30 – 7.30pm $100 ($120 non-members) 19, 26 October, 2 November 2020 In this 3-week course Marnie will teach participant how to create a landscape painting in acrylics on canvas. A focus in this course is on considering landscape composition and bringing in other elements and exploring a layering technique that will help create visual depth to the image.
BOTANICAL DRAWING & PAINTING with Julie McEnerny, Artist Mondays: 5.30 – 7.30pm $130 ($150 non-members) 9, 16, 23, 30 November 2020
Botanical drawing and painting as an artistic, accurate representation of plants is the focus in this 4-week course by artist Julie McEnerny. Based on different plant material each week, participants will learn and develop botanical drawing & painting skills using professional grade watercolour pencils 49
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GALLERY ART SCHOOL
CREATIVE TODDLERS
with Marian Wolfs, artist 3–5 years Tuesdays, 10.00 – 10.45am Cost $75 ($90 non–members) Term 3: 4, 11, 18, 25 August, 1, 8 September 2020 Term 4: 13, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17 November 2020 This program provides an early introduction to the arts and the Gallery for the very young. Children will experience a variety of creative activities relating to the Gallery exhibits in a social and friendly setting. One-off and trial classes available on request. Cost $15 ($17.50 non-members)
LEVEL 1
with Marian Wolfs, artist 5 - 7 years Tuesdays, 3.45 – 4.45pm $80 ($95 non-members) Term 4: 13, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17 November 2020 Our Level 1 program is a wonderful introduction to art skills especially designed for children in early primary school. Creating art allows children to learn and practise skills that help not only in creative learning but assists in creative and critical thinking in core subjects such as maths, science and language. Art skills based on the exhibitions on display will develop a creative skills foundation and give children a sense of achievement and pride in their creations.
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LEVEL 2 - PAINTING
with Marian Wolfs, artist 8 - 11 years Wednesdays, 3.30 – 5.00pm $105 ($125 non-members) Term 4: 14, 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18 November 2020 In Term 4 students will engage with works in the Gallery Collection exhibition Northern Landscapes, studying the different approaches in style, composition, media and techniques used by the exhibited artists. Students will gain practical skills working with water-based and acrylic paints and encouraged to develop their individual stylistic interpretation of landscape to complete their own painting.
LEVEL 3
with Yixuan Ruan, artist 11 - 14 years Thursdays, 3.30 – 5.00pm $105 ($125 non-members) Term 4: 15, 22, 29 October, 5, 12, 19 November 2020 Level 3 students will engage more in depth with the artwork in exhibition Northern Landscapes. They will study the different approaches in style, composition, media and techniques used by the exhibited artists as well as considering the context of the works. Students will enhance their knowledge and practical skills working with water-based and acrylic paints and will work towards their own choice and interpretation of landscape in their final work at the end of the 6-week term.
SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS TUESDAY 22 SEPT
Still-life drawing with Yixuan Ruan, Artist 10.00am–11.30pm 7–10 years Cost $16 ($19 non-members) 1.00–3.00pm 11–14 years $19 ($23 non-members) Goodenough Bay 1959 by James Morrison is the inspiration for participants to arrange their own tropical still-life from provided props to draw from and add an image of a favourite item or figure. Using coloured pencils or water-based paint participants will complete their own artwork on paper to take home. All materials are provided. Option to bring a small favourite item such as an old toy.
THURSDAY 24 SEPT
Botanical drawing & painting with Heather Koowootha, artist 10.00am – 12.00pm 8–12 years $19 ($23 non-members) In this workshop Indigenous artist Heather Koowootha will show participants her unique approach to botanical drawing and painting. Participants will work from live plant material and provided imagery to create their own botanical artwork while also learning about the plants themselves and their use in Indigenous culture.
MONDAY 28 SEPT
Tropical Collage with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00 – 11.00am 5 – 7 years $16 ($19 non-members) Inspired by the Collection work of Melanie Hava Barrier Reef Bubbles I, children will create a colourful collage on card with a tropical reef theme.
MONDAY 28 SEPT
Painting with Hayley Gillespie, artist 1.00 – 3.30pm 8 – 13 years $31 ($36.00 non-members) Barrier Reef Bubbles I by Melanie Hava is a painting on a round canvas. Participants in this 2.5-hour workshop with Hayley will be challenged to create their own tropical underwater scene in acrylic paint on a circular support.
TUESDAY 29 SEPT
Tropical Collage with Hayley Gillespie, artist 10.00 – 11.30am 5 – 8 years $21 ($26 non-members) Inspired by the work of Melanie Hava Barrier Reef Bubbles I, children will create a colourful collage on card with a tropical reef theme. Tropical T-shirt with Hayley Gillespie, artist 1.00 – 3.00pm 9 – 13 years $28.00 ($33 non-members) Inspired by Linda Jackson textile works, participants will first develop their own tropical design on paper, before using acrylic paints and techniques such as stencilling to transfer their design onto a T-shirt. All materials including a cotton T-shirt are provided. Please inform the Gallery of the size required at the time of booking.
WEDNESDAY 30 SEPT
Landscape painting with Jim Rea, visual arts teacher 10.00am – 2.30pm 10 - 14 years $34 ($39 non-members) Participants will visit the exhibition Tropical Tropes to look at the way Segar Passi depicts his Torres Strait land- and seascapes. Under the guidance of experienced teacher Jim Rea participants will be taught techniques needed to render their own tropical land or seascape in acrylic paint on canvas board. 52 Participants will need to bring their lunch and a drink
DIARY DATES AUG 11
TODDLER ART CLASS Creative Toddlers with Marian Wolfs, artist Details p. 51
15 FINAL DAY Melanie Smith Fordlandia 17 21 23 28
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YOGA IN THE GALLERY details p. 50 EXHIBITION OPENS Question Bridge details p. 18 FINAL DAY Destination North
EXHIBITION OPENS Tropical Tropes details p. 26
OCT SEPT 14 22 24 28
ADULT ART CLASS - CERAMICS Ceramic Sculpture with Amanda Eales, artist Details p. 50
SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Still-life drawing with Yixuan Ruan, artist Details p. 52 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Botanical drawing & painting with Heather Koowootha, artist Details p. 52 SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Tropical Collage with Hayley Gillespie, artist Details p. 52
SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Painting with Hayley Gillespie, artist Details p. 52 29
SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Tropical Collage with Hayley Gillespie, artist Details p. 52
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SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Landscape Painting with Jim Rea, visual arts teacher Details p. 52
SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Tropical T-shirt with Hayley Gillespie, artist Details p. 52
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FINAL DAY Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series
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EXHIBITION OPENS Reimagining Between Tradition and Innovation details pg. 39
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FINAL DAY Shifting the Narrative, Alternative Histories
EXHIBITION OPENS Northern Landscapes Six Viewpoints details p. 32
NOV
FINAL DAY Question Bridge
KIDS ART CLASS Level 1 (ages 5 - 7) with Marian Wolfs, artist Details p. 51 KIDS ART CLASS Level 2 (ages 8 - 11) with Marian Wolfs, artist Details p. 51 KIDS ART CLASS Level 3 (ages 11 - 14) with Yixuan Ruan, artist Details p. 51 EXHIBITION OPENS Xapiri details p. 22
9 ADULT ART CLASS DRAWING/PAINTING Botanical Drawing & Painting with Julie McEnerny, Artist Details p. 50
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FINAL DAY Northern Landscapes Six Viewpoints
FINAL DAY Tropical Tropes
ADULT ART CLASS - PAINTING Landscape Painting with Marnie Awram Hutchinson, Details p. 50
EXHIBITION OPENS Made/ Worn: Australian Contemporary Jewellery details p. 45
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L-R (TOP) MARGARET HENRY SEGAR PASSI JULIE MCENERNY CATHY SNOW L-R (BOTTOM) CATHY SNOW SEGAR PASSI
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Coming soon... Katherine Mahoney Ceramics
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