PROGRAM2015

WELCOME2015

The Counihan Gallery in Brunswick was established in 1999 in honour of the Australian artist Noel Counihan (1913 - 1986). As a young man Counihan protested for free speech only a stone’s throw from where the gallery is located. Counihan was a humanist, pacifist and an advocate for the rights of workers, women, migrants and Australia’s indigenous people as demonstrated through his activism and art practice.

The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick has similarly developed a profile where social, political and cultural issues – sometimes contentious ones – are addressed through contemporary art practice with the aim of creating opportunity for discussions and connections within the community.

In 2015 The Gallery will present 12 exhibitions. Some of the highlights for the year are:

• Synthetica – a playful exhibition featuring humourous, hypnotic and experimental works;

• Sky Lab: Lines of Sight Forces of Attraction – inspired by astronomy, light and technology;

• Black Art, White Walls – a dazzling collection of artwork by more than 50 indigenous artists;

• The Moreland Summer Show – the popular annual fixture showcasing artists with strong connections to the City of Moreland.

Each year the annual exhibition program is accompanied by a variety of public programs designed to open up discussion about contemporary art and exhibition themes and to involve the community. These include curator and artists floor talks, hands-on workshops, seminars and performances.

On behalf of the Moreland City Council I would like to congratulate and thank all the artists in the 2015 exhibition program and I invite you all to visit and enjoy a diverse and exciting year ahead at the Counihan Gallery In Brunswick.

Cr Meghan HopperMayor Moreland City Council

Artists and curators are invited to submit proposals for projects that can be developed and achieved in the next year. We welcome innovative ideas and critical approaches to contemporary art practice.

For more information download an application pack:moreland.vic.gov.au/gallery

DEADLINE: Friday 26 June 5 pm

Andrew TetzlaffDisplace I (twist) 2014Digital print, pine250 x 150 x 180 cm Courtesy of the artist Image: Christian Capurro

CALENDAR2015

VISIT USWednesday to Saturday 11 am to 5 pmSunday 1 pm to 5 pm

A range of after-hours events, talks and performances will be held throughout the year. Join the mailing list for updates.Note: The Gallery is closed on public holidays and between exhibitions for installation.

Allegories of the PRB | The Prosopopeias23 January to 15 February

06Opening: Thursday 22 January, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 31 January, 2.30 pm

Sky Lab: Lines of Sight and Forces of Attraction31 July to 30 August16

Opening: Thursday 30 July, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 8 August, 2.30 pm

08Song for the Stage, the Captives and the Line of Production | With Her Feet Off the Ground27 February to 29 March

Opening: Thursday 26 February, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 7 March, 2.30 pm

Other Side11 September to 4 October18

Opening: Thursday 10 September, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 19 September, 2.30 pm

10Re-Citing | Shift10 April to 3 May

Opening: Thursday 9 April, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 18 April, 2.30 pm

Black Art | White Walls16 October to 8 November20

Opening: Thursday 15 October, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 24 October, 2.30 pm

12Synthetica15 May to 7 June

Opening: Thursday 14 May, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 23 May, 2.30 pm

Moreland Summer Show: Science Friction20 November to 13 December22

Opening: Thursday 19 November, 6 pm

14Both Sides of the Street19 June to 19 July

Opening: Thursday 18 June, 6 pm

Artist talks: Saturday 27 June, 2.30 pm

Daniel DorallThe Good Shepherd 2007 - 2014Cardboard, sand, plastic, hydrocryl50 x 30 x 6 cm

Olivia Pintos-Lopez Untitled figure. 6 2013 Linen, lace, kid leather, thread, resin, metal armature, cotton20 cm

Steve Cox'Study of a Young Girl (for William Holman Hunt)' 2014Pencil30 x 21 cm

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A ‘prosopopoeia’ is the representation of an abstract quality or idea in the form of a person or creature. Pintos-Lopez's primary interest lies in the fleeting preciousness of objects and symbolic meanings that become attached to them. Using collected fragments and materials that have meaningful yet temporary value, Pintos-Lopez assembles figures existing as something between doll and puppet. These free standing characters appear frozen in movement, their positions and stances forming relationships between each other and with the viewer. In their inanimate state they suggest their own unique histories but also hint at new and unfinished stories set to unfold.

THE PROSOPOPEIAS Olivia Pintos-Lopez 23 January to 15 February

Allegories of the PRB investigates the lives, work and relationships of the mid 19th century artist group known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with a view to re-establishing an understanding of their radicalism. Dorall and Cox examine the nature of the revolutionary aspects of their artistic output, including attention to detail, ‘modern’ subject matter and symbolism.

The exhibition features re-staging of the key paintings and drawings from the central figures of the Pre-Raphaelite movement; John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt and references eminent Victorian critic John Ruskin, an early champion of the movement whose romantic life intersected spectacularly with that of Millais.

Cox and Dorall present a contemporary take on the Pre-Raphaelite movement using many of the group’s painstaking methods in their interpretations.

ALLEGORIES OF THE PRB

Daniel Dorall and Steve Cox 23 January to 15 February

Hermione Merry & Henriette Kassay-SchusterSong for the stage, the captives and the line of production #2 2014 (detail)Video Still Image Courtesy of Rachel Edward

Clare RaeUntitled Action (For Stages) 2014 (detail)Silver gelatin print50 x 60 cm

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With Her Feet Off the Ground brings together the work of four female artists that depict the female form in a state of flux. In the absence of a cultural language that fully defines the female subject, the artists in this exhibition depict women entangled, suspended and immersed. This literal state of flux acts as a metaphor for the ambiguous and undefined spaces that feminine identity occupies in an incomplete cultural knowledge.

WITH HER FEET OFF THE GROUND

Barbara Brugola | Clare Rae | Kawita Vatanajyankur | Heidi YardleyCurated by Simone Hine

27 February to 29 March

“Whoever has approved this idea of order... will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.”TS Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent

Song for the Stage, the Captives and the Line of Production is a three channel video shot in three iconic Moreland locations; Coburg Drive-In, Pentridge Prison Village and the former Kodak factory site in which a lone figure stands on a small stage with a scenic backdrop singing unaccompanied into the night. The project is inspired by nostalgia, theatricality, and local archaeology whilst mourning the imminent burial of Melbourne’s history beneath the swell of urban development.

This work has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, Emerging Artist Development Grant – Visual Arts 2013.

SONG FOR THE STAGE, THE CAPTIVES AND THE LINE OF PRODUCTION

Hermione Merry and Henriette Kassay-Schuster 27 February to 29 March

Renée UgazioRe-Citing 2013Digital photograph Dimensions variableImage courtesy of Kate Mollison

Valentina PalonenNeoflora 2013Mixed media52 x 72 x 35 cmCourtesy the artist and Gould Galleries

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Shift: to change or to cause (something) to change.

In Shift Valentina Palonen, Sharon Billinge and Celeste Chandler use the human figure to negotiate what it is to be human and to consider the impact of external forces upon the formation of identity. The exhibition Shift draws on the overlap of their practices to explore the obliteration of the figure as a signpost of regeneration or change.

SHIFT Sharon Billinge | Celeste Chandler | Valentina Palonen10 April to 3 May

Re-citing is an experimental project that applies the gestures and processes of a jewellery practice to an urban environment. In particular, the use of ferric oxide – used in gold and silver smithing as both an inhibitor and polishing agent – reflects both decay and renewal and an infinite and interdependent life cycle. In Re-citing it is primarily the actions of polishing and its trace that are exploited to investigate sites in Moreland. Ugazio uses aspects of traditional jewelling practice to address the materiality of the urban environment, exploring the potential relationships between these sites and processes.

RE-CITING Renée Ugazio 10 April to 3 May

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Kristin McIverThought Piece (What’s Going On) 2013Neon, steel, concrete, motion sensors, vinyl, neurons, electrical impulsesImage courtesy of the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne and Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney

Above

Bonnie LaneMake Believe 2012 Single channel HD video, 1 hour 5 minutes Image courtesy of the artist and Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne

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Synthetica, a NETS Victoria and BLINDSIDE touring exhibition curated by Claire Anna Watson, presents sumptuous experimental works by seven of Victoria’s most cutting edge contemporary artists selected for their visually charged and hypnotic imagery, pulsing machines and courageous forms brimming with life and wonder. They use humorous, performative and theatrical devices to interrogate the role of nature and culture in the world around us.

The works in Synthetica have been selected to provoke questions about the relationships we have with the physical world and the nature of experimentation in an increasingly technologised climate. A mesmerising display of video, painting, sculpture, installation and works on paper are animated into a super-charged vibration of drama and spectacle.

SYNTHETICA

Boe-lin Bastian | Simon Finn | Bonnie Lane | Kristin McIver | Kate Shaw | Alice Wormald | Paul YoreCurated by Claire Anna Watson

15 May to 7 June

Synthetica is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria’s Touring Victoria program

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Images courtesy of Indigenous Social Justice Association (detail)

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The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick in collaboration with Blak Dot Gallery present Both Sides of the Street, an exhibition that brings together artists from different disciplines and with different perspectives on what it means to live in contemporary Australian society, what it means to live on both sides of the street.

An exciting new exhibition, Both Sides of the Street will include works that are a direct result of dialogue between artists from different communities. Contemporary artists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds will be invited to work with contemporary First Peoples artists, exchanging personal experiences, beliefs and traditional and spiritual knowledge. Through their respective artistic practices, each artist will then produce immersive multi-platform works that will examine what it means to live and make art on colonised land.

Both sides of the street is an exchange and celebration of cultural identity through art making, and is part of an ongoing dialogue within global Indigenous societies.

BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET

Artists to be announced

Curated by Kimba Thompson Assistant Curator: Eugenia Flynn

19 June to 19 July

Left

Tarja TryggThe Sun Paths over a small island Uunisaari in front of Helsinki, Summer 2014 (detail)Lens-less pinhole photography, solargraphyDimensions variable

Above

Dan ArmstrongAqua Optica – Star Cluster 2013Glass, water, digital projection, tripod35 × 35 cm not installed

And (in background)

Felicity SpearDeep Field – interconnected euphoria or the overview effect 20077 pigment inkjet printsTotal size 700 × 350 cm

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Sky Lab: Lines of Sight and Forces of Attraction focuses on cosmic space and sky-situated knowledge.

The artists pose questions about the way we receive and interpret cosmic signs in our everyday world and search for relationships between earth and sky. They take us into the history and properties of the lens and telescope, time lapse photography, the virtual worlds of imaging technologies, the shared ground of abstraction with mathematics and science, the proposition of mapping non-visible space, and alternative or fictional worlds. These thought provoking works draw upon ideas and technologies associated with the emanation and manipulation of light, the medium which connects us to the universe.

SKY LAB: LINES OF SIGHT AND FORCES OF ATTRACTION

Daniel Armstrong | Magda Cebokli | Lesley Duxbury | Harry Nankin | Sam Leach | Felicity Spear | Tarja Trygg | Nancy Henry RipijingimpCurated by Felicity Spear

31 July to 30 August

IMAGES TO BE SUPPLIED

Left

Michael BrennanEither Side 2013 (detail)Timber, rope and steelApprox 90 cm x 150 cm x 600 cm

Above

Paul BattUntitled #1 (from the Suburban series 2014-15) (detail)Archival Digital Print (from digital file)90 x 130 cm

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Every encounter is a negotiation – an exchange composed of layers, subtle conflicts, gaps and overlaps.

No matter what your position, no matter how many others agree, there will always be a view that is contrary to your own. Continuing an investigative project into an ongoing concern, Other Side considers the slippery nature of perception and the experience of discord through the work of five artists approaching similar ideas from slightly (or maybe not so) different viewpoints.

OTHER SIDE

Paul Batt | Fabrizio Biviano | Michael Brennan | Nicholas Ives | Aaron MartinCo-curated by Michael Brennan and Paul Batt

11 September to 4 October

Above

Rover Thomas Bedford Downs 1984 Natural earth pigments on board 94 x 185 cm

Right

Clifford PossumPossum Dreaming 1993 (detail)Synthetic polymer paint on canvas180 x 127cm

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This exhibition draws on the extensive personal collection of Indigenous art accumulated by Adrian and Anne Newstead while working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander artists over the past 30 years. Adrian Newstead is a dealer, writer, consultant and activist who owns the oldest Aboriginal art gallery in Australia. This art collection stands distinctly apart from those of casual collectors. It is a platform by which a different narrative can be told: that of art as an expression of relationships, culture, spirituality, the land and kinship.

Black Art / White Walls represents a linear history of Aboriginal art and craft from the earliest days of the movement, through to the establishment of the earliest art centres, into the mainstreaming of Aboriginal art and its national and international acceptance as a dynamic contemporary art movement many would say has been the single most effective vehicle in advancing understanding, empathy and reconciliation between black and white Australia.

• Abie Jangala

• Abie Loy Kemarre

• Andrew Wanambi Marrgululu

• Angelina Tjaduwa Woods

• Balba Napangarti

• Bede Tungutalum

• Bobby Barrdjaray Nganjmirra

• Boxer Milner Tjampitjin

• Charlie Tjararu Tjungurrayi and Willy Tjungurrayi

• Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

• David Daymirringu Malangi

• David Jarinyanu Downs

• Declan Apuatini

• Dennis Nona

• Emily Kame Kngwarreye

• Ena Gimme Nungurayi

• Eubena Nampitjin

• Fatima Kantilla

• Freda Warlapinni

• George Nulumba Milpurrurru

• Gordon Syron

• Hector Jandaday Joongoorra

• Ignatia Djanghara

• Jack Britton

• Jean Baptiste Apuatimi

• Jimmy Pike

• John Mosquito

• Kathleen Kweyetwemp Petyarre

• Larrtjanga Ganambarr

• Lily Nungarayi Hargraves

• Lin Onus

• Loren and Myrtle Pennington

• Lorna Naparrula Fencer

• Maria Josette Orsto

• Mick Kubarkku

• Milliga Napaltjarri

• Millie Skeen

• Owen Yalandja

• Paddy Fordham Wainburranga

• Patsy Anguburra Lulpana

• Peter Marralwanga

• Prince of Wales Midpul

• Queenie McKenzie

• Raymond (Arone) Meeks

• Red Back Graphics

• Richard Bell

• Rover Thomas

• Sally Morgan

• Sunfly Tjampitjin

• Thompson Yulidjirri

• Tommy Gondorro Steele

• Uta Uta Tjangala

• Wimmitji Tjapangarti

BLACK ART | WHITE WALLS

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Selected works from the Adrian and Anne Newstead Indigenous art collectionCurated by Djon Mundine

16 October to 8 November

PUBLIC ARTIN MORELANDMORELAND

SUMMER SHOW20 NOVEMBER

TO 13 DECEMBER

2014/DEC15/DSD/275

CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Moreland Summer Show is an annual exhibition presenting the emerging and established creative talents of visual artists with

strong connections to the City of Moreland. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘SCIENCE FRICTION’.

If you are an artist who lives, works, studies or bases their studio practice in the municipality, visit the website to download an information pack which

includes condition of entry and how to apply. Applications are subject to a selection process and all applicants will be notified of the outcome.

Participating artists are encouraged to create new work responding to this theme.

Application pack:moreland/vic.gov.au/gallery

Deadline: Friday 7 August, 5 pm

This project invites Moreland residents to participate in a community driven creative project that seeks to support the recognition of indigenous people in the constitution.

Further Information:

• moreland.vic.gov.au • rrnh.org.au

RECOGNISE – PUBLIC ART PROJECT

Artist James Voller will be presenting works on the Upfield Line during 2015 as part of a precinct residency.

Proudly supported by Metro Trains and Victrack

Further Information: moreland.vic.gov.au

STATION AGENT

From October, an array of installation, sculpture and performance will populate train stations, open land and diverse public spaces along the Upfield Rail and Bicycle precinct fromJewell to Gowrie station. Join a tour by bike, by foot or on rail of one of Australia’s most distinctive public art events.

Further Information: moreland.vic.gov.au

MOREART

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Kawita VatanajyankurRobes 2014Video Still

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