The Night Parrot

15 March – 19 April 2015

HAYDEN FOWLER MANDY MARTIN DAVID WATSON Curated by Catherine Benz, Delmar Gallery

HAYDEN FOWLER

DAVID WATSON

(right) HAYDEN FOWLER, New Romantic ii

ANTONWATSON DAVID PULVIRENTI

DAVID WATSON

REX HAZLEWOOD

DAVID WATSON

REX HAZLEWOOD, State Timberyard, Uhrs Point, Rhodes

DAVID WATSON, Swimming Home

DAVID WATSON

DAVID WATSON, Fuse (detail)

DAVID WATSON, Power Walk With Me?

MANDY MARTIN

MANDY MARTIN

MANDY MARTIN Incident (left) Vivitur Ex Rapto (right)

MANDY MARTIN Conversations about the Night Parrot at Whistling Duck Creek

MANDY MARTIN Sketchbooks

MANDY MARTIN Dust Storm / Power Station (left) Incident I (right)

LIST OF WORKS

HAYDEN FOWLER New Romantic i - v 2012 type c print, 87 x 87cm

DAVID WATSON Swimming Home 2011 DVD, 7 mins Camera: George Evatt, Noelene Lucas; Editing & Sound: Virginia Hilyard Wild Ryde 2011 2 lightboxes, 18 inkjet prints on glass, 20.8 x 27.8cm each, (Map) David Watson’s route west on foot from Rozelle [right of map] to Brush Farm (200507), and return from Ermington to Rozelle via the Parramatta River (2011). The walk was completed in 19 instalments, the swim in four.

REX HAZLEWOOD State Timberyard, Uhrs Point, Rhodes c1911-1916 inkjet print, 24 x 32cm, scan from 16.5 x 21.5cm glass-plate negative Timber Drawing, Epping c1911-1916 inkjet print, 24 x 32cm, scan from 16.5 x 21.5cm glass-plate negative Three Men Honey Gathering c1911-1929 inkjet print, 24 x 32cm, scan from 12 x 16.5cm glass-plate negative Fruit Growing: Epping c1911-1916 inkjet print, 24 x 33cm, scan from 12 x 16.5cm glass-plate negative Sydney Markets c1911-1916 inkjet print, 33 x 24cm, scan from 16.5 x 12cm glass-plate negative

Fruit Growing: Pennant Hills c1911-1916 inkjet print, 24 x 33cm, scan from 12 x 16.5cm glass-plate negative Courtesy of State Library of NSW See ‘Swimming Home’, David Watson’s 2014 State Library magazine article regarding the surprising connections between his contemporary glass slides and the early-20th-century work of Epping-based commercial photographer, later rose retailer and landscape designer, Rex Hazlewood

DAVID WATSON Fuse 2013 1:100,000 maps showing proposed walk following power grid from Rozelle to Hunter valley source Power Walk with Me? from “The Stuttering Frog”, Williams River Valley Artists’ Project November 2013

MANDY MARTIN Incident #2 2014 oil and pigment on linen, 150 x 150cm

Hill 60 1987 gouache, medium, oil stick, enamel house paint, 14 x 104cm

Vivitur ex rapto 2014 oil and pigment on linen, 300 x 300cm

Outer Harbour, Port Kembla 1987 gouache, medium, oil stick, enamel house paint, 14 x 55cm

Conversations about the night parrot at Whistling Duck Creek 2014 oil and pigment on linen, 300 x 300cm

Sketchbook - Latrobe Valley & Kangaroo Island 1989

Incident 2014 oil and pigment on linen, 300 x 300cm

North Beach, Wollongong 1987 gouache, medium, oil stick, enamel house paint, 14 x 54.5cm

Dust Storm / Power Station 2007 oil on linen, 80.5 x 92cm Incident #1 2014 oil and pigment on linen, 150 x 150cm Sketchbook - Flinders Ranges & South Coast 1987

Courtesy of Australian Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne