Geoff Parr work acquired by Gold Coast Art Gallery
Geoff Parr entered his work Spectre in the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2011 at the Gold Coast Art Gallery, and while it didn’t win, it was awarded an ‘Honourable Mention’, along with a work by Julie Rrap. The Gold Coast City Art Gallery are buying Geoff’s work for their collection.
Geoff Parr
Spectre, 2011
Digital print
81 x 47.5 cm
Things We Denote To Keep
Several Criterion artists are represented in the current exhibition at Sawtooth ARI.
Neil Haddon, David Hawley, Megan Keating and Mary Scott are among a group of 21 artists.
The show runs until the 30th April at 160 Cimitiere Street Launceston.
Opening hours are Wed-Fri 12-5, Sat 12-4.
Megan Keating
A Beating Heart 2005
Paper cut
Each panel is 55 x 73 cm
Neil Haddon finalist in 2011 Wynne Prize
Neil Haddon’s work Analgesic Fields (NW Tasmania) has been selected as a finalist in the Art Gallery of NSW’s Wynne Prize.
The Wynne prize is awarded annually for ‘the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists completed during the 12 months preceding the [closing] date ..’
The winner was announced on Friday 15 April. The prize was awarded to Richard Goodwin, for his sculpture, entitled Co-isolated slave. The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prize exhibitions opened to the public on 16 April. They continue until 26 June 2011.
Neil Haddon
Analgesic Field, NW Tasmania, 2011
Meg Walch - The Lineage of Eccentricity I
Meg Walch’s new solo show, The Lineage of Eccentricity I is opening at Nellie Castan Gallery in Melbourne on 24 March. Click here for more information. The exhibition runs until 9 April.
Megan Walch
Fever trees and marsupial lawn in the Teahouse Gardens at Cataract Gorge 2010
Ink on architectural film in acrylic dome
11 x 14 cm
Reconstructing the Animal - Plimsoll Gallery, 18 March
Criterion artist Dr Yvette Watt is curating Reconstructing the Animal at the Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts. The exhibition ‘explores a re-thinking of animals and human-animal relationships throught the work of contemporary artists’. It includes works by Harri Kallo, Kate James, Alicia King, Adam Geczy and Jan Guy, Angela Singer, Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir and Mark Wilson. (Alicia, Adam and Jan are also Criterion artists.)
The project is part of the Ten Days on the Island festival, and was assisted by Arts Tasmania. The exhibition continues until 15 April.
Adam Geczy and Jan Guy
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet (Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus) (chicken) 2010
Jamin receives Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency
Jamin has been awarded the Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency in Paris from September 2011.
No commentsMegan Walch finalist in two art prizes.
Megan Walch is a finalist in the Arthur Guy Memorial Prize for Painting, exhibiting at the Bendigo Museum and Art Gallery from February 11th - April 3rd. She is also one of two Criterion artists selected as a finalist in the Glover Prize for Tasmanian Landscape painting.
No commentsNeil Haddon finalist in 2011 Glover Prize
Grafted Landscape (Southern Tasmania), 2011, enamel and polyester paint on aluminium composite panel, 150 cm x 120 cm.
Kit Wise receives awards
Melbourne-based digital artist Kit Wise has received two awards for a major project for the Hyde Park Art Centre in Chicago (a 4 x 20m digital urban screen): one from Arts Victoria and one from the Besen Foundation.
No commentsIn the era of ERA
A number of Criterion artists are showing work at the In the era of ERA at Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart.
The exhibition showcases visual arts research outputs from staff at the Tasmanian School of Art, within the guidelines of ‘The Excellence in Research for Australia Initiative’.
It features a wide range of works by established practitioners Les Blakebrough, Pat Brassington, Noel Frankham, Jonathan Holmes, Leigh Hobba, Anne MacDonald, Milan Milojevic, Llewellyn Negrin, Geoff Parr, Mary Scott, John and Penny Smith, David Stephenson and Paul Zika; and from the emerging generation Christl Berg, Lucy Bleach, Ruth Frost, Neil Haddon, Bill Hart, Megan Keating, James Newitt, Brigita Ozolins, Lucia Usmiani, John Vella and Martin Walch. Curated by Paul Zika.
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street, Hobart.
Daily 12noon – 5pm.
From 22 December 2010, (excluding 25/26 December & 1/2 January).
Until 26 January 2011. Enquires 03 6226 4300.