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Wilma Tabacco / Fosse
Wilma TabaccoFosse
© Wilma Tabacco
Photography: Mark Ashkanasy
Essay: Emeritus Professor Sasha Grishin, AM, FAHA
Design & Production: Daniel Cordner Design
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FosseExhibition Dates:
October 10 – November 9, 2019
Wilma Tabacco www.wilmatabacco.com
Gallerysmith170-174 Abbotsford Street
North MelbourneVictoria, 3051, Australia
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 1), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 2), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 3), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 4), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 5), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 6), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Campus Martius (Field of Mars 7), 2019, oil on linen, 100x100cm
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Wilma Tabacco has been making and exhibiting art for over four decades. A self-reflective artist with an enormous awareness of history, visual culture and an obsession with the archaeology of past cultures, Tabacco works intuitively, but then analytically tries to determine why she made certain decisions in her work. She is an artist who has developed a high degree of visual literacy with an extensive knowledge of developments in twentieth and twenty-first century art, yet there few direct parallels between her practice and that of other artists. Frank Stella, Agnes Martin and Sean Scully can all be described as fellow travellers.
Although Tabacco has lived in Australia since childhood, her Italian birth in a small village in the central Apennine Mountains in the region of Abruzzo, in the province of L’Aquila, an area surrounded by the Gran Sasso and Sirente ranges, looms prominently in her thinking. Possibly as she grows older, her Italian heritage increasingly asserts itself. This is particularly the case in the present exhibition titled Fosse – which can be interpreted as a moat or a ditch surrounding or protecting something – a precious vulnerable centre.
Early in 2019, Tabacco participated in a group project – Reciproco – which brought together five Australian artists of Italian extraction with five artists from Italy. Tabacco worked with Angelo Bellobono, who is an artist, mountain climber and ski instructor. Coincidently, he had climbed areas of the Gran Sasso where Tabacco was born. He met her cousin (who still lives in the vicinity); visited the town where she was born (left uninhabited after the 2009 earthquake and within the red zone
that for reasons of personal safety is out of bounds for visitors) and took video footage that included the house in which she was born. From this footage, Tabacco and Bellobono spliced together a short video, Saluti dai Paesi Fantasma1. They also created collaged maps of the area with insertions from maps of Australia.
In Tabacco’s art, it is somewhat foolhardy to draw direct or literal causational links between any body of her art and specific circumstances in her biography, and her entire oeuvre has a sense of continuum – almost a diary-like sequence where each piece builds on something that happened earlier. In the series of nine Small Panels2 included in this exhibition, there is a sense of introspection and the idea of excavating the past – literally and metaphysically. In terms of execution, this series consists of collage, where strips and patches of linen have been applied to a wooden panel and then explored and manipulated with acrylic and pigment. On realising that the linen is actually derived from earlier paintings by Tabacco, where we are seeing the back of the painted linen – the verso rather than the painted recto – through the material, this suggests a retrospective and personal dimension. The artist is interrogating and rediscovering her earlier work from a new perspective in a different period of her life. The areas of paint suggest architectural or landscape forms, but frequently seen from an aerial perspective or in dramatic profile.
It is possible that while collaborating with Bellobono on the collaged aerial maps, the idea of seeing things from a distance and from above had arisen and had extended into this body
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of work. The titles of some of these small panels including, Outpost barricade, Outpost parapet, Rampart and Naples carapace, may suggest something of a military campaign or of things holding out against the tides of change. Not infrequently in Italian villages, one encounters Roman and Etruscan remains – a slice of archaeology – a cross-section in time where many centuries are compressed together and not completely subsumed in the most recent redevelopment. Although these small panels are exquisite and refined, they also contain considerable tension, not only in the surface textures, but also in a design that in some instances, as in Outpost parapet and Outpost barricade, creates a considerable visual tension with the compositional elements locked-in and held together like a tightened spring. The palette is subdued favouring in most of the panels earthy tones, but, at the same time, the colours can be provocative and unexpected, as in Rubian fall and Tyrian rise, where the verso of the old linen has suggested these unexpected reds and purples.
All of this series, in one way or another, suggests a dialogue between the individual elements that involves looking back at a personal past from a great distance, a past that is unattainable, but at the same time real and tangible. Despite the modest scale, there is something solemn and majestic in these paintings.
There are two other series of works in this exhibition, both closely related with the Small Panels, Formation Works, in the same medium as the previous series but on slightly larger panels3 and the seven paintings of the Campus Martius (Field of Mars) in the more conventional oil on linen with each
painting a metre square. The Formation Works are to some extent conceived as individual clever explorations into colours that bear place names – Siena, Verona, Venetian, etc. The Field of Mars, in other words, the ancient Roman military parade grounds, is the most disciplined and deliberate of the series in the exhibition with a heightened colour palette and compressed design. The compositions are like military formations – tight, compact and self-contained.
Tabacco enjoys the spatial game with an illusionist centre that appears to be suspended in space and a tight articulation with defined edges that keeps it in control and fixed to the flatness of the picture plane. If the first two series were more openly explorative and seemed to possess a more personal perspective, the Field of Mars paintings, especially Field of Mars #6 and Field of Mars #7, are more preoccupied with formalist games of structure and visual control. It is a series where little is left to chance and the artist is determined to take no prisoners.
Wilma Tabacco is an artist with an extensive and consistent track record who is presently working at the peak of her powers and is now overdue for a major retrospective survey exhibition of her art.
Sasha GrishinSeptember 2019
1 Wilma Tabacco and Angelo Bellobono, Saluti dai Paesi Fantasma https://vimeo.com/3458713982 The series of Small Panels vary in dimensions from 40 x 40 cm to 50 x 50 cm3 In this instance the wooden panels measure 60 x 70 cm
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Formation 3 (Venetian), 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 60x70cm
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Formation 5 (Mars), 2019, acrylic, pigment on wood, 60x70cm
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Formation 4 (Indian), 2019, acrylic, pigment on wood, 60x70cm
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Formation 2 (Verona), 2019, acrylic, pigment on wood, 60x70cm
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Formation 1 (Siena), 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 60x70cm
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Outpost parapet, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 40x40cm Outpost barricade, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 40x40cm
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Naples caesura, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 40x50cm
Naples carapace, 2019, linen, acrylic, oil, pigment on wood, 40x50cm
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Rampart, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 50x50cm
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Moraine, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 50x50cm Madder lake, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 50x50cm
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Tyrian rise, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 50x50cm Rubian fall, 2019, linen, acrylic, pigment on wood, 50x50cm
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Metamorphoses: Nazca Gold, 2019, metal on wood panel, 90x120cm
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Wilma Tabacco was born in the province of L’Aquila, Italy and has lived in Australia since childhood. She received a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University in 1972 and Diploma of Education in 1973. In 1979 she undertook a Diploma of Fine Art at Phillip Institute, Melbourne and whilst lecturing in painting and drawing at the University of Melbourne, continued studies at RMIT University where she completed a Master of Arts in 1995 and a PhD in 2006. Wilma has lectured variously in painting, drawing and printmaking at the University of Melbourne, Canberra School of Arts and at RMIT as part of the international programme in Hong Kong and in Melbourne.
She has received several grants from the Australia Council Visual Arts and Craft Board including a studio residency in Italy, and has also worked and exhibited in Seoul as the recipient of an Asialink residency in Korea.
In 2011 she, together with Dr Irene Barberis, established Langford120, a contemporary gallery space which she currently co-directs.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS2019 Fosse, Gallerysmith, Melbourne2018 Transitions, Langford120, Melbourne The Great Sea, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW Who’s afraid…of the dark? (with Irene Barberis), Langford120 2017 Then, Now: Now, Langford120, Melbourne Corallium, Langford120, Melbourne2016 Scylla and Charybdis, Nancy Sever Gallery, Canberra2015 Cycladic, Langford120, Melbourne2014 Gilded Lies, Langford120, Melbourne2013 Gilt Edge, Langford120, Melbourne2012 Zaffiro, Langford120, Melbourne2011 Who’s afraid of greenpinkpurpleblue? with Irene Barberis, Langford120, Melbourne 2009 Picture This…, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra Flights of Fantasy, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne2007 In The Blinking of An Eye, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra2006 Ave atque Vale (for now), Niagara Galleries, Melbourne2005 A Brush with Colour, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra2004 Slipstream, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne2002 Tease, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra Agrodolce Bliss Bomb, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne2000 Up Down In Out, Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra1999 Ghostbusting, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Saying it with Flowers, with Irene Barberis, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria; Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria; The University Gallery, Tasmania; Albury Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales; RMIT Gallery, Melbourne1998 Cherry Blossom Time, aGOG, Canberra Saying it with Flowers, with Irene Barberis, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide1997 Cuts, with Irene Barberis, Victoria University Gallery, Melbourne Conversations, with Jan Murray, Westspace Gallery, Melbourne
CVWilma Tabacco www.wilmatabacco.com
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Primavera, Kookmin University Gallery, Seoul, Korea Pot-Pourri, Savina Gallery, Seoul, Korea Pageant, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne1996 Tripping, Photospace, Canberra School of Art, ACT1995 Relocations, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Fabrications, aGOG, Canberra Les Fleurs, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne1994 Florilegia, Chiesa di S. Massimo, Opi di Fagnano Alto, Italy1993 La Nouvelle Constellation, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne1991 Continental Crossings, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Niagara Galleries, Melbourne1989 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne1988 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Holdsworth Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2019 Celebrate XXV, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne Geometries, QAG, Brisbane Reciproco, with Angelo Bellobono, Readings, Melbourne2018 And then, Global Centre for Drawing, Langford120, Melbourne Of Colour & Light, West End Art Space, Melbourne Beyond the Field-still, Contemporary Art Tasmania, Hobart On Drawing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Abstraction TwentyEighteen, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Five Walls, Langford120, Deakin University Library Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists, Tweed Heads Regional Gallery, NSW, Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld Chaos & Order: 120 Years of Collecting at RMIT, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall New Horizons. An Exhibition of Italian Australian Artists, Museo Italiano, Melbourne2017 The Void. Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art, Deakin University Art Gallery Coney Island, Counihan Gallery in Brunswick Scheme 5: Garden, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne Chromatopia: A History of Colour, Tacit Contemporary Art, Melbourne Abstraction: celebrating Australian women abstract artists, Geelong Gallery, Victoria Newcastle Regional Gallery, NSW Four Drawings: Barberis, Bradbeer, Southall, Tabacco, Langford120, Melbourne
Contemporary Australian Drawing #7, Langford120, Melbourne2016 Nearly Monochrome, Five Walls, Melbourne Abstraction 16, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawing #6, The Bury Art Museum, Bury, Manchester, UK Neo-0-10 #2, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne2015 Contemporary Australian Drawing #5 (Facsimile exhibition), Sachi Gallery, SACI Institute, Florence, Italy, 2015 Neo-0-10, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne After 65: The Legacy of OP, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria2014 Dark: More than Black, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawing #4, New York Studio School, New York, USA Blue on Blue, Langford120, Melbourne2013 Abstraction 12, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Squaring Up, Langford120, Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawing 3, New York Studio School, New York2012 Room; A Series of Schemes, Scheme Four: Laundry/Bathroom, Langford120, Melbourne Crossing the Line: Drawing in the Middle East, Tashkeel Gallery, Dubai NONOBJECTIVE – present, Curator, Stephen Wickham, Langford120, Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawing 2, Wimbledon SPACE, London & Langford120, Melbourne2011 Fun with Colour, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSW2010 Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Ballarat Gallery, Victoria More, The Arts Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland Magnetic Islands, Project Space, RMIT, Melbourne Contemporary Australian Drawings 1, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne2009 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 09, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Reductive, ACGA Gallery @ Fed Square, Melbourne Drawing of the World/World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Korea Surveying the Field, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne Regards Croises: Australie – France, Espace Beaurepaire, Paris, France2008 Transcentric, Lethaby Gallery, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London Secondary Sources, School of Art Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne 2007 Room: A Series of Schemes – Scheme Three: Living Room, Counihan
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Gallery In Brunswick, Melbourne Room: A Series of Schemes – Scheme Two: Kitchen Dining, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Innovators 3, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria2006 Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria If You Were to Collect… Elements of Abstraction, Deloitte Corporate Offices, Melbourne X Marks the Spot, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne2005 Room: A Series of Schemes, Forty-five Downstairs, Melbourne The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria2004 Disorientate: Colour, Geometry and the Body, Plimsol Gallery, Hobart2003 Return Nature II: Pastoral, Nanjing Shenghua Arts Centre, Nanjing, China Embark/Disembark: An Exploration of Cultural Dislocation, Immigration Museum, Melbourne The Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2003, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Paris Art Fair, The Louvre Museum, Paris, France Four, holmes à court Gallery, Perth North: Art from the Other Side of the Yarra, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne Odd, Faculty Gallery, RMIT University, School of Art and Culture2002 Good Vibrations, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne Geelong Contemporary Art Award, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria2001 Painted Spaces, Rice Talbert Museum, Edinburgh, UK Little Treasures, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne2000 Korea-Australia Print Exchange Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Liberty, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Not the Done Thing, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney On the Brink: Abstraction of the 90s, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne A Matter of Distance, Linden Gallery, Melbourne Painted Spaces, ACCA, Melbourne; New Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand1999 Grands et jeunes d’aujourd’hui, Espace Eiffel-Branly, Paris, France Bernheim Invite L’Australie, French National Library Festival, Noumea, New Caledonia Works on Paper, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea1998 People of Australia-Richness in Diversity: Identity Art, Australian
Museum, Sydney and touring The Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea RMIT Fine Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong Korea/Australia Exchange Exhibition of Prints, The Contemporary Museum of Seoul, Korea Propositions Australiennes, Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris Nature: Traditional & Contemporary, Cooloola Shire Public Gallery, Queensland1997 Patterning, curated by Merryn Gates, touring Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila; Regional centres, Philippines; Jakarta, Indonesia; Canberra School of Art Australia; Silpakorn University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria Re:search, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania1995 Our Parents’ Children, curated by G Pradolin, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, curated by Christopher Heathcote, La Trobe University Art Museum, Melbourne Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria1994 James McCaughey Memorial Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne RMIT / LICT Exhibition, Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia1993 Contemporary Australian Paintings - Works from the Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection, at the Melbourne International Festival, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne Margaret Stewart Endowment B, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Margaret Stewart Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne1992 C.D. Art, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe 1982-1992, Australian Pavillion, World Expo, Seville, Spain; Australian Embassy, Paris, France Small Works – Wide Vision, Downlands Art Exhibition, Queensland Il Disegno Ritrovato, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Salone San Francesco, Como, Italy1991 Freedom of Choice, curated by Maudie Palmer, Heide Park & Art Gallery, Melbourne1990 Niagara Galleries at Hill-Smith Gallery, Adelaide Art From Elsewhere, The University of Tasmania, Hobart Niagara Print Exhibition, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
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1989 Niagara at Watters, Watters Gallery, Sydney Eight Women Printmakers, Stuart Gerstman Gallery, Melbourne1988 New Art Three, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne Print in Context, Print Council of Australia, Melbourne
COMMISSIONS2000 Christmas Stamp Design Commission, Australia Post1998 The Stamp Collection, Ugg Boot Press, Victoria 1997 Print Council of Australia, Limited Edition Print, Victoria1990 Banner Project, Arts Building, Institute of Education, University of Melbourne, Victoria1988 100 x 100 Print Portfolio, Dr. M. Lefevbre, Print Council of Australia, Victoria
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES2007 City of Moreland Arts Grant 2000 Australian Postgraduate Research Scholarship1999 Arts Victoria, Artists Development Grant1998 Nets Victoria, Exhibition Development Fund Grant1996 Australia Council, Visual Arts Craft Fund, Project Grant, New Works Artist-in-Residence, Canberra School of Art, ACT Asialink Residency, Seoul, Korea1992 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Artists Development Grant1990 Australia Council, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Overseas Residency in Italy
COLLECTIONSAnglican Church Grammar, QueenslandArarat Regional Art Gallery, VictoriaArtbank, NSWAustralian National University, CanberraBenalla Art Gallery, VictoriaBendigo Regional Art Gallery, VictoriaCanberra University Collection, ACTCanson Australia Pty LtdCharles Sturt University, N.S.WDeakin University Collection, MelbourneFondazione Antonio Ratti, ItalyGeelong Art Gallery, VictoriaGlasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, NSWIvanhoe Girls’ Grammar, Melbourne
Latrobe Valley Arts Centre, VictoriaLatrobe University Gallery, MelbourneMildura Arts Centre, VictoriaMuseum of Modern Art at Heide, MelbourneNational Gallery of Australia, CanberraNational Gallery of Victoria, MelbournePrint Council of Australia, MelbourneQueensland Art Gallery, BrisbaneQueensland University of Technology, BrisbaneQueen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, TasmaniaRMIT University Collection, MelbourneUniversity of Southern Queensland, QueenslandUniversity of Tasmania, HobartWarrnambool Regional Art Gallery, VictoriaWaverley City Gallery, MelbournePrivate Collections in Australia, USA, France and Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONSCatalogues and BooksFosse, exhibition catalogue, essay Sasha Grishin, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, 2019Chaos & Order: 120 years of collecting at RMIT, RMIT Gallery Publication, 2018Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour, David Coles, Thames & Hudson, 2018On Drawing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Irene Barberis, curator, June 2018The Great Sea, text Sophia Errey, Glasshouse Gallery Publication, 2018The Void. Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art, Christopher Heathcote, Deakin University Art Gallery Publication, 2017Coney Island, Jane O’Neill, Counihan Gallery Publication, 2017Ritratti: Thirty-One Italian Artists from Victoria, Consulate General of Italy, Melbourne, 2017Abstraction: Celebrating Australian women abstract artists, NGA publication, 2017Cycladic, Catalogue text, Sophia Errey, Wilma Tabacco, 2015After 65: The Legacy of OP, Latrobe Regional Gallery, essay J. Miller, 2015The Drawn Word, S. Farthing, Dr J McKenzie (eds.) Studio International & Studio Trust, 2014Gilt Edge, Catalogue essay, Sophia Errey, 2013Janet Mckenzie, Contemporary Australian Drawing, Volume 1, Palgrave Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012,
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Soo-Hong Jhang, Drawing of the World/World of Drawing, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, 2009David Hagger, reductive, exhibition catalogue, ACGA GalleryWilma Tabacco, Flights of Fantasy, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2009Fiona Capp, If you can’t stand the heat…, exhibition catalogue, Linden, 2007Wilma Tabacco, Slipstream, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, 2004I Dover, embark/disembark: an exploration of cultural dislocation, exhibition catalogue, Immigration Museum, Melbourne, 2003C. Heathcote, North: Art from the Other Side of the Yarra, LaTrobe University Museum, 2003Four, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries/holmes à court Gallery, Perth, 2003Mystic Medusa, Mystic Medusa on Art, New Contemporaries Sydney, 2003Zara Stanhope, Good Vibrations, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, Heide, 2002Edward Colless, Agrodolce Bliss Bomb, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries, 2002Cynthia Troup, A Matter of Distance, exhibition catalogue, Linden Gallery, 2000Daniel Thomas, Painted Spaces, exhibition catalogue, Rice Talbert Museum, UK, 2000RMIT Fine Art at the Hong Kong Art Centre, exhibition catalogue, RMIT, 1998A Decade of Contemporary Australian Printmaking, exhibition catalogue, The Contemporary Museum of Seoul, Korea, 1998Wilma Tabacco and Irene Barberis, Saying it with Flower, exhibition catalogue, 1998M Scott and P Zika, research, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 1997M Gates, Patterning: Layers of Meaning in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Canberra School of Art, 1998Pot- Pourri, exhibition catalogue, Savina Gallery, Korea, 1997Don Williams and Colin Simpson, Art Now Contemporary Art Post-1970 Book Two, McGraw Hill, Australia, 1996G. Pradolin, Our Parents’ Children, exhibition catalogue, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, 1995Christopher Heathcote, The Situation Now: A Survey of Local Non-Objective Art, exhibition catalogue, La Trobe University Art Museum, 1995Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection, exhibition catalogue, Geelong Art Gallery, 1995 Wilma Tabacco: Les Fleurs, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries, 1995Alan McCulloch, revised by Susan McCulloch, Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, 1994
Art Right Now, cd, Discovery Media, 1994Contemporary Australian Paintings-Works from the Allen Allen & Hemsley Collection, Westpac Gallery, 1993Wilma Tabacco: La Nouvelle Constellation, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries, 1993 Wilma Tabacco, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Galleries, 1992J Holmes and E Colless, Rediscovery: Australian Artists in Europe 1982–92, exhibition catalogue, 1991Elizabeth Cross, Freedom of Choice, exhibition catalogue, 1991Neville Drury, New Art 3, Craftsman Press, 1989
INTERVIEWS/VIDEOS/PODCASTSSaluti dai Paesi Fantasma, 2019, https://vimeo.com/345871398Of Colour and Light: West End Art Space, October, 2018 https://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/the-arts-show-with-alex-mcculloch-11-october-2018-guests-west-end-biennial-and-kyle-torney/Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, May 2018 The Great Sea: https://vimeo.com/album/5177988
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWSP. McKay & E. Buttrose, ‘Geometries’, Artlines, QAG, 2019S. Grishin, ‘The tension between planning and chance’, Canberra Times, March 19, 2016http://www.theage.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/review-of-wilma-tabacco-scylla-and-charybdis-at-nancy-sever-gallery-20160317-gni1dk.htmlD Rule, ‘In the Galleries’, Spectrum, The Age, 19 December, 2015 R Schirru, ‘La mappa archeologica delle emozioni, Il Globo, 7 December, 2015 J McKenzie, http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/wilma-tabacco-gilt-edgeD Raintree, ‘Gilt-edged visual manifestations’, The Age, May 29, 2013 R Nelson, ‘Geometric Gems with Kinetic Jives’, The Age, February 8, 2012S Pottinger, ‘Shows display giddy variety of imagery, colour,’ The Chronical, Sept. 11, 2010D Rule, ‘Around the galleries’, The Age, April 11, 2010G G Hubbard, ‘Arte, cultura, identità, simbolismo e creatività’, Il Globo, July 20, 2009S Grishin, ‘Discipline and chaos’, Canberra Times, August 24, 2009S Grishin, ‘Colourful sweeps’, Canberra Times, November 23, 2007R Nelson, ‘Show your wit, but not your poetry’, The Age, August 29, 2007F Capp, ‘Drudgery or inspiration?’ The Age, August 18, 2007
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J Makin, ‘Wilma earns her stripes’, Herald Sun, June 14, 2006S Grishin, ‘Inner strength on display’, Canberra Times, 29 September 2005G Hubbard, ‘Contenuti ed estitica dello spazio privato’, Il Globo, 28 July, 2005Philip Watkins, ‘Disorientate: Colour, Geometry and the Body’, Artlink, vol. 25 no.1, 2005J Makin, ‘In search of gold’, Herald Sun, May 24, 2004R Nelson, ‘Tabacco in playful mood’, The Age, May 14, 2004Robert Cook, ‘Fizz for eyes’, West Australian Saturday Extra, June 28, 2003R Nelson, ‘Good vibrations to test the retina’, The Age, 16 November 2002S Barron, ‘Geometric abstractions and witty sculptures’, Canberra Times, 23 August 2002 Arty Facts, ‘Earning her stripes’, Herald Sun, 6 July 2002M Backhouse, ‘Colours jar and jostle’, The Age, 6 July 2002J Makin, ‘Wilma Tabacco-Agrodolce Bliss Bomb’, Herald Sun, 8 July 2002 E Mahoney, ‘Edinburgh’s dangerous wallpaper’, The Guardian, 25 February 2001J Calcutt, ‘Painted Spaces, Scotland on Sunday’, 18 February 2001S Grishin, ‘Not purely minimalist’, Canberra Times, 6 May 2000R Nelson, ‘Taking space for a walk’, The Age, 19 April 2000S Carroll, ‘Identifying the creative gene, The Age: Extra, 20 Nov 1999O Cameron, ‘Double act’s flower power’, Herald Sun, 16 July 1999R Rooney, ‘The Big Flower Show’, Straits Times, Singapore, 6 July, 1999L Ancilli, ‘SBS Radio, Italian Language Program’, 28 June 1999G Pignatelli, ‘SBS Radio, Italian Language Program’, 4 June 1999 S Barron, ‘Stunning abstract paintings’, Canberra Times, 15 September 1998 J Spinks, ‘Re-search’, Art & Australia, Vol.35, No.3, 1998 A & C Kolon Television, 12 May 1997, Seoul, KoreaArts & Culture Interview, 20 May 1997The Korea Herald, 14 may 1997The Korea Times, 11 May 1997F Capp, ‘Where Fish Once Swam’, Art Monthly, March 1997V Trioli, ‘Below the surface lies the treasure’, The Age, Metro, 31 January 1997S Barron, Canberra Times, 7 October 1995M Galuzzi, ‘Artists & Migration – Italian Language Program’, SBS Radio, 9 November 1995M Sierra-Hughes, ‘Flowers with Flair’ Herald Sun, 8 March, 1995R Nelson, The Age, 8 March 1995C Heathcote, The Age, 20 August 1993L Girdwood, ‘The French Connection’ Artifacts, November 1992.
C Green, ‘Wilma Tabacco – Niagara Galleries’ Artforum International, October 1992R Lancashire, ‘Exposing Ourselves To Art’ The Age, 20 September 1992S Apthorp, ‘Artists On A Journey Of Discovery’ The Age, 17 July 1992C Heathcote, The Age, 11 December 1991C Heathcote, The Age, 15 May 1991G Catalano, The Age, 23 August 1989 G Catalano, The Age, 20 July 1988F Capp, The Age, 19 February 1988R Millar, The Herald, 18 May 1988
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Gallerysmith170-174 Abbotsford StreetNorth MelbourneVictoria, 3051, Australia
