Joel Gailer 4 Nov - 26 Nov 2023
Joel Gailer Joel Gailer is an artist based in Melbourne, whose work explores materiality and reproduction. His multi-artform practice includes print, painting, sculpture, video and performance. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is included in collections such as the National Gallery of Victoria, University of Southern Queensland, National Art School, Curtin University, RMIT University, Burnie Regional Gallery, City of Fremantle and private collections. He was the recipient of the Fremantle Print Award in 2008 and has been awarded artist residencies at Art Haus in the National Art Gallery Solomon Islands, Megalo Print Studio Canberra and the Art Academy of China. He was awarded a PhD from RMIT University with an Australian Post Graduate award and runs a Brunswick based studio, Cozens Street, and co-founded collaborative performance art project Performprint. He is currently a lecturer in Visual Arts at Deakin University, lecturer in Printmaking at RMIT. This is Joel’s first exhibition with & Gallery.
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1. Between me and the medium tradition leaves only a definition acrylic and oil on steel and marble 20 x 10 x 10 cm $350
2. Exposing absdurdity, the convention communicates acrylic and oil on canvas 122 x 410mm $ 950
3.Big Edge Acrylic and oil on canvas 500 x 920 mm $900
4.Interdisciplinary madness IV linen board on paint on paper 450x390cm $650 framed
5. Interdisciplinary madness VI linen board on paint on paper 450x390cm $650 framed
6. Interdisciplinary madness VII linen board on paint on paper 450x390cm $650 framed
7. Interdisciplinary madness VIII linen board on paint on paper 450x390cm $650 framed
8. Interstitial 4 acrylic and oil on canvas and linen 305 x 305 mm $550
9. Interstitial 2 acrylic and oil on canvas and linen 305 x 305 mm framed $550
10. Interstitial 3 acrylic and oil on canvas and linen 305 x 305 mm framed $550
11. Fontana’s Interstitial fungi 3 acrylic and oil on canvas 310 x 900 mm $680
12. Fontana’s Interstitial fungi 5 acrylic and oil on canvas 310 x 900 mm $680
13. Fontana’s Interstitial fungi 2 acrylic and oil on canvas 310 x 900 mm $680
14. Fontana’s Interstitial fungi 4 acrylic and oil on canvas 310 x 900 mm $680
15. The difference between warm and cool acrylic and oil on canvas 480 x 360 mm $650 framed
16. Interstitial 10 acrylic and oil on linen 300 x 140 mm framed $350
17. The guts of art acrylic and oil on canvas 260 x 210 mm framed $330
18. Interstitial 2 acrylic and oil on canvas 210 x 210 mm $300
19. Interstitial 5 acrylic and oil on canvas and linen 210 x 210 mm $300
20. Interstitial 1 acrylic and oil on canvas 320 x 320 mm $420
21. Interstitial 1.1 acrylic and oil on canvas 210 x 210 mm $300
22. Painted Edge, riotus border acrylic and oil on canvas 440 x 310 mm $400
23. Interstitial space acrylic and oil on linen 200 x 150 mm $350
24. Border Tension acrylic and oil on canvas and linen 42 x 21cm $420
25. Interstitial Edge acrylic and oil on linen 310 x 610 mm $480
26. Interstitial 6 acrylic and oil on canvas 305 x 305 mm $450
27. The imminence of the picture plane, 2023 acrylic and oil on canvas 380 x 200 mm $480
28. Little Edge 7 acrylic and oil on canvas 260 x 200 mm $350
29. Binding medium II acrylic and oil on paper and linen 100 x 420 mm $360
30. Little Edge 3 acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 130 mm $200
31. Little Edge 4 acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 130 mm $180
32. Little Edge acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 130 mm $180
33. Little Edge 2 acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 130 mm $200
34. Little Edge 1 acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 130 mm $180
35. Little Edge 6 acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 130 mm $180
36. A new bird, of unknown descent 4 mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
37. Sign posts 2 acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
38. He collapsed like a convention exposed as arbitrary abstraction mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
39. Composition in Similar Motion Collage on paper 56cm x 76cm framed $420
40. No example of the colour sample, the iridescent medium mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
41. And the cyclone passed, the outlook brightened mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
42. Heart 1 acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
43. Cyclops pursuing the immigrant aboard theseus ship mixed media, marble steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
44. Honey eater 2 acrylic and oil on steel and marble 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
45. The carnival ride, the endless cycle mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
46. Heart mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
47. Flying Fox mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10cm $350
48. The lorrikeets nest mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
49. Honey eater mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10cm $350
50. Cyclops pursuing the immigrant aboard theseus ship mixed media, marble steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
51. Untitled mixed media, marble steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
52. And the cyclone passed mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
53. Swooping towards the earth, the prey is marked mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
54. And the cyclone passed 2 mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
55. Sign posts 1 acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
56. A new bird, of unknown descent 3 mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
57. Just in time, the liquid dries acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
58. Beach towels, wind gusts 2 acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
59. Untitled 2 mixed media, marble steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
60. Scrambling atop the spire, the empty vista mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
61. Beach towels, wind gusts acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
62. Untiled 3 mixed media, marble steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
63. A new bird, of unknown descent 2 mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
64. Bearing the cross, the unknown burden mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
65. Bearing the cross, the unknown burden mixed media, marble, steel 30 x 10 x 10 cm $350
66. Heart 2 acrylic and oil on steel and marble 25 x 10 x 10 cm $350
Joel’s Story As a child I grew up in an art family, my father Ken Gailer is a professional painter and there were many generations of artists before me. My own art practice began when, as a 19-year-old surf rat, I packed my bundle and left Queensland for Sale Victoria. Arriving at this rural town for the TAFE photography course I had signed up for, I was surprised at how different the town looked from the brochure. Anticipating a ‘gateway to the mountains and sea’ the dead flat terrain, kept afloat by dairy and cattle farmers, had a peculiar conservatism that I experienced early on. The local cops arrested me for wearing checks on checks (checkered jacket and pants). While they rough-housed me for wearing ‘my pyjamas’ in public I questioned their authority regarding fashion and ended up in the paddy wagon and spent a night in the cell. I went on to complete my TAFE photography course, finishing the year committed to be an artist. Moving to Melbourne in 1999, I cut my teeth at Monash University Fine Arts, completing a major in printmaking and first-class honours. In these years I practiced traditional print methods, intaglio, relief printing, and lithography. Awarded the screen printing prize, I loved its immediacy and developed a technique using photo silkscreen and screen filler as a positive, slowing building the image with a reduction style technique and with screen stripper, working backward from a reduction to a positive. This process allowed me to screen print hundreds of layers of colour and fine detail. On finishing the Fine Arts Degree, I founded the gallery Brunswick Arts. Brunswick had become my home because of its cheap rent, $125 p/w for a house, and I was drawn to its multicultural buzz. While there were plenty of artists’ studios in Brunswick, exhibition spaces were low on the ground. So in 2004, I established the gallery, holding monthly exhibitions showing emerging artists. After 24 shows, I handed Brunswick Arts over to a group of artists who kept it running for another eleven years, closing in 2015. At the time of passing the baton on Brunswick Arts I was 28 years old, freshly divorced and sick of art. I jumped in my car and headed north to film surfers for DVD surf magazine Local Liquid created by a childhood friend and I, at a time when DVD technology was new and we anticipated it would have an impact on print media. After two DVDs and six months of chasing surf on the north coast, I missed art and Melbourne.
Returning to Melbourne in 2007 I started working at Niagara Galleries where I installed and catalogued the work of some of Australia’s great artists. My art practice was in lunch breaks and evening hours. I started to engage with mass-produced commercial lithographic printing methods, buying ad space in magazines to publish new work. This process could be executed quickly and reach a large audience. I entered a piece in the 2008 Fremantle Print Award and, to the horror of many, my work Hot Process was awarded first prize. Published in a page in Art Almanac this winning work could be purchased for $4.50. My work during this period, 2008 and 2012 is from the perspective as a print media artist and explores issues around print, publications, mass production, the copy, the unlimited edition, authenticity, the art market, and the much contested space of the original and unique. The work challenges the concept that there is such a thing as the original, reflecting my personal belief that ideas surrounding uniqueness are related to ideas about god and have their formation in religion. This position is very hard for the art audience to accept, as we are always talking about the ‘mark’ and the artist as some kind of unique anomaly in humankind – which in my view is completely bogus. Printmaking, for me, holds the key to these questions as the manufacturer of the copy – and is itself an art technology with a quality that sits comfortably on the fence between concept and production. During this time I wore a number of different hats in the Melbourne Art world, I was registrar for Niagara Galleries, Lecturer in printmedia at RMIT University, Curator at Dark Horse Experiment, and began my PhD. These roles had a huge influence on my work and I see this time as a type of condensed research. Twenty years on from hitch-hiking to Sale Victoria from Queensland to begin a photography course, I have exhibited nationally and internationally, had 18 Solo Exhibitions, and been involved in over 50 group shows. My work is in the National Gallery of Victoria collection, and others including the University of Southern Queensland, National Art School, Curtin University, RMIT University, Burnie Regional Gallery, City of Freemantle, and private collections. I have been the artist in residence at Art Haus National Art Gallery Solomon Islands, Fremantle Arts Centre Western Australia, Megalo Print Studio Canberra, and RMIT Melbourne.