On 18 November the new Scott Redford exhibition opened at the Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art. It was opened by the Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh.

The exhibition showcases Scott Redford’s work and also that of his alter ego, Reinhardt Dammn.

For more information click on this link to the Queensland Art Gallery.

See also this review of the exhibition in artdaily.

Scott Redford Introducing Reinhardt Dammn -Install Image
Images courtesy: Queensland Art Gallery / Photographer: Natasha Harth

On Tuesday 9 November James Newitt’s exhibition opened at the Fine Arts Gallery in Split, Croatia. Two of James’ works are on show: Saturday Nights (2007) and If They Fall (2010).

The exhibition was curated by Jasminka Babic.
Gallery of Fine Arts, Split // Galerija umjetnina, Split
www.galum.hr
Kralja Tomislava 15, 21000
Split, Croatia
November 9 – 23, 2010

James also had a screening of his works If They Fall (2010) and Passive Aggressive (2009) at a one night screening at Vesch Gallery, Vienna as part of their special program: < dienstag abend > (Tuesday Evenings).

http://vesch.org/

Kit Wise has been invited to exhibit Xanadu at the Off and Free Film Festival in Korea 9 - 15 December 2010. The theme of the invitation program is ‘ecosystems of the moving image’.

The screening program will also include works by Ishida Takashi, Chris Chong Chan Fui, Oleg Kulik, Marina Paris, Eric Binder, Hiraki Sawa and Anila Rubiku.  Several high profile Korean Directors will also have their films screened.

Xanadu, 2010, HD single channel video, 5′50″

HANGBANG (nightshift) is a new installation made up of John Vella’s artworks not currently in public or private collections. Hundreds of diverse objects - the artist’s archive - will be stored, numbered and displayed around the gallery periphery as a massive assemblage.

Viewed live from 9pm-5am via a window inserted into the gallery external wall, this regular nocturnal operation will translate a dormant archive of objects into a volatile, vital and transient network of interactions.

The exhibition will run until 21 November. For further information visit www.castgallery.org

John Vella 2010

HANGBAG (nightshift)

installation, CAST Gallery

Photo: Sarah Ryan

Matt Coyle’s drawing Still Life is a finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing 2010 at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Details of the exhibition, which opens on 6 November, are on the AGNSW website.

The exhibition continues until 30 January 2011.

Matt Coyle
Still Life 2010
Pen on paper
55 x 80 cm

rosalux art office Berlin is presenting their second solo show by James Newitt.

In it, Newitt presents a new body of work including the premiere screening of his new video from which the exhibition takes its title, If They Fall. It features a continuation of Newitt’s exploration of the forestry industry in Tasmania. In 2009 Newitt premiered the video Passive Aggressive at rosalux. If They Fall expands on this work by probing more deeply into the complexities and contradicting ideologies of communities who are affected by the Tasmanian forestry industry. Newitt focuses his camera on people involved in both activism and industry, to present an intimate portrait of two communities who remain in tension.

The exhibition opens on Friday, September 24, 2010 at 7 pm, and continues until 9 October.

James Newitt
If They Fall 2010
Video still

If They Fall - installation image

Criterion’s Neil Haddon and Meg Walch will be in Primed New Painting in Tasmania curated by Catherine Wolfhagen. Opening Wednesday 25th August, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts at UTAS in Launceston.

James Newitt’s Dreams has won the 2010 City of Hobart Art Prize in the digital category.  In the video Dreams, four street performers are connected through a series of beautifully tragic performances.

Futility and failure seem ever-present during these isolated and introverted performances, which are enacted in public spaces in the evening. The performers seem to be responding to their immediate environment, marking their presence in the city. Subtly extraordinary actions permeate the pulse of the city and everyday space becomes aestheticised and cinematised: a puppet dances to an unknown rhythm, a man hypnotically drums the street and surrounding structures, a clown waits for something to happen and a man softly hums folk songs over the din of relentless traffic. These performances introduce a human dimension to an indifferent urban landscape. Dreams was filmed in Los Angeles in 2008.

Dreams
2008-09
2 channel HDV installation
7:30 mins
Stereo sound

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James Newitt’s work is being showcased at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney from 20 August. He is one of the artists selected for Primavera 2010, and his video work Passive Agressive, 2009, is included in In the Balance: Art for a Changing World.
James has also won the City of Hobart Art Prize for his work Dreams, a two channel HDV work.

Passive Aggressive, 2009
video still

A Generosity of Spirit - Recent Australian Women’s Art from the QUT Art Collection is a travelling exhibition curated by Stephen Rainbird. The exhibition acknowledges the generosity of Betty Quelhurst, whose donation enabled the establishment of a fund for the purchase of major works by leading Australian women practitioners.

The exhibition features such key figures as Pat Brassington, Cressida Campbell, Julie Dowling, Fiona Foley, Janet Laurence, Lindy Lee, Sue Lovegrove, Gloria Petyarre, Robyn Stacey and Judith Wright. The exhibition will be held at QUT from 2 July to 3 October and then travel to the Samstag Museum of Art in South Australia from 22 October to December 2010.