Criterion Gallery — News

Geoff Parr work acquired by Gold Coast Art Gallery

Kevin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:47:48 +0000

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

Kevin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:47:04 +0000

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

Kevin — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:32:38 +0000

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

Kevin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:56:54 +0000

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

Kevin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:04:32 +0000

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

Kevin — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:23:40 +0000

Jamin has been awarded the Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency in Paris from September 2011.

The Rosamond McCulloch Studio is a four month residency in Paris, offered annually. This residency is open to Tasmanian visual arts graduates of the University of Tasmania who currently reside in Tasmania. The successful applicant will receive an Arts Tasmania grant of $10,000 to assist with service fees, airfares and stipend.

Megan Walch finalist in two art prizes.

Kevin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:42:43 +0000

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.

Walch’s next solo exhibition is at Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne. The Lineage of Eccentricity 1 opens on March 24th showing until April 9th.

Megan Walch is also a recipient of an Arts Tasmania Grant to make new work in 2011.

What Goes Up…., 2010, oil and mixed media on 6 masonite panels, 70cm x 240 cm

Neil Haddon finalist in 2011 Glover Prize

Kevin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:26:25 +0000

Grafted Landscape (Southern Tasmania), 2011, enamel and polyester paint on aluminium composite panel, 150 cm x 120 cm.

Neil Haddon is one of two Criterion artists (the other being Megan Walch) to be selected as a finalist in both the 2011 Glover Prize and Arthur Guy Memorial Prize.

Haddon will be having a solo show later in the year, in October, at Dianne Tanzer Gallery.

Kit Wise receives awards

Kevin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 03:05:43 +0000

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.

Kit is also presenting new work in When the Dead Help the Living, at Light Projects ARI, Melbourne, in April. The exhibition features two Australian and two UK artists - Jordan Baseman, Damiano Bertoli, Si Sapsford and Kit Wise.

In the era of ERA

Kevin — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:36:17 +0000

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.