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<![CDATA[Fehily Contemporary - News]]>Mon, 21 May 2012 22:15:10 +1100Weebly<![CDATA[Gregor Kregar at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts]]>Mon, 21 May 2012 16:56:59 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/05/gregor-kregar-at-te-tuhi-centre-for-the-arts.html

Gregor Kregar's latest installation Dream House Project is showing at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts until 29 July.

The Dream House Project is a significant new development on this body of work. Kregar used the project as an opportunity to experiment with materials, construction and collaboration. The resulting installation is an enormous bird nest-like timber structure that viewers can walk through and sit within. Constructed entirely out of old discarded timber, the structure parasitically engulfs Te Tuhi's foyer entrance in a complex web of wooden refuse.

In a nearby gallery space, Kregar also displays the dream architecture of local youth. In the weeks leading up to the exhibition, Kregar worked with over three hundred students from Elm Park Primary School to create drawings and cardboard models of their own dream houses. Together the installation and exhibition explore the importance of imagination, experimentation and spontaneity in creating dynamic architectural forms.

For more information about the exhibition, please visit Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts' exhibition page.
Also, New Zealand's The Times spoke to Gregor. To read their profile and find out how Gregor's installation is "probably the safest place in the building to be in the event of an earthquake", click here.

]]><![CDATA[David Chesworth at the Art Gallery of New South Wales]]>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:21:05 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/05/david-chesworth-at-the-art-gallery-of-new-south-wales.html

David Chesworth's performance project Richter/Meinhof-Opera tours to Art Gallery of New South Wales for two nights only, from 8 to 9 June 2012.

What happens when the German artist Gerhard Richter and the jailed journalist turned terrorist Ulrike Meinhof are placed in the same room?Richter/Meinhof-Opera has its origins in the controversial painting series 'October 18, 1977' by Gerhard Richter. The paintings depict scenes surrounding the apparent suicides of jailed members of the notorious Baader/MeinhofGang responsible for a deadly campaign to overthrow the West German establishment. This intimate performance artwork entangles art with politics, the real with the ritualised and the personal with the State.

For some background on the project, please click here. Bookings at the Art Gallery of New South Wales can be made here.

]]><![CDATA[Ken Fehily appointed Chairman of the Melbourne Art Foundation]]>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:07:18 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/05/ken-fehily-appointed-chairman-of-the-melbourne-art-foundation.html

Ken Fehily has been appointed the new Chairman of Melbourne Art Foundation. Ken joined the Melbourne Art Foundation Board in 2009 and says, I feel very privileged to have been entrusted with the task of building on the significant achievements already made by the MAF in its primary mission, being the support of living Australian artists'.

]]><![CDATA[SONIA LEBER & DAVID CHESWORTH at the University of Queensland Art Museum]]>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:46:08 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/05/sonia-leber-david-chesworth-at-the-university-of-queensland-art-museum.html

Sonia Leber & David Chesworth's The Way You Move Me will be screened at the University of Queensland Art Museum as part of ANIMAL/HUMAN, a group exhibition curated by Michele Helmrich. ANIMAL/HUMAN features a jam-packed public program and will run from 12 May to 22 July.

Artists today are depicting animals in their work with remarkable frequency. The exhibition ANIMAL/HUMAN presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explore our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. A number of works continue traditions whereby animals are depicted in symbolic or totemic form, are endowed with human qualities, or stand in for the self. Works range from playful to provocative, while others refuse easy categorisation.

ANIMAL/HUMAN includes works by artists such as Lisa Adams, Adam Cullen, Marian Drew, Julie Fragar, Fiona Hall, Pat Hoffie, Janet Laurence, Sam Leach, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Laith McGregor, Noel McKenna, Tim McMonagle, Danie Mellor, Dennis Nona, Patricia Piccinini, Ryan Presley, Alick Tipoti, Jenny Watson, and Michael Zavros.

For more information about the exhibition and its jam-packed public program, please visit the University of Queensland Art Musuem

]]><![CDATA[SALLY SMART at Purdy Hicks Gallery]]>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:29:50 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/05/sally-smart-at-purdy-hicks-gallery.html

Sally Smart's large-scale collage installations will be on display at Purdy Hicks Gallery, London from 25 May to to 18 June.

]]><![CDATA[SONIA PAYES at the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center]]>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:47:07 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/04/sonia-payes-at-the-shanghai-urban-planning-exhibition-center.html

Sonia Payes's work has been selected for Fantastic Dreamland: Exhibition of Contemporary Australian Photography, an upcoming group exhibition in Shanghai with Jane Burton. The exhibition runs from 24 April to 13 May at the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, with opening celebrations on 27 April from 3pm.

]]><![CDATA[VERONICA KENT at MARS Gallery]]>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:26:20 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/04/veronica-kent-at-mars-gallery.html

Veronica Kent's work is currently showing at MARS Gallery as part of Small Room with Animals, a group exhibition exploring our relationship with the animal realm. Small Room with Animals runs until 6 May.

Small Room with Animals and Humans at MARS brings together local and international visual and performing artists, architects, philosophers, writers and scientists interested in exploring questions of biodiversity, sustainability and the aesthetic and ethical engagement with animals and with each other.
The animal realm is so often opposed to the human realm. This exhibition asks the audience to rethink this opposition. It explores a range of questions. How can we bring about a new regard for all living beings and the various and diverse manifestations of life that inhabit the earth? What are the distinctions between animals and humans and what happens when those distinctions are blurred? What are the possibilities for giving new representations to animals who have been the subject of art since pre-historic times? Given the environmental challenges, how can we sustain biological diversity when the earth itself now seems to have only “small room” for living. And finally, in the wider community, who is inclusively creating hospitality in their own 'small rooms' for animals and humans, and what do these spaces look like? Throughout the duration of this exhibition and its related performances, talks and events, we will explore these questions from a variety of perspectives.

Participating artists include: Sam Burke and Domenico de Clario, Xiao Yu Bai, Erin Tappe, Grant Cowan, John Scurry, Martin King, Geoffrey Ricardo, Jessica Emily-Price, Lotte and Toots, Kerrie Poliness, David Shea and Lateral Movement, Alexis Beckett, Mark Minchinton, Georgia Anson, Veronica Kent, Gregory Burgess, Meg Williams, Lisa Roet, Janno, Lin Onus and The Donkey’s Tail.

Small Room with Animals and Humans is part of The Centre for Ideas, VCA, symposia series “In Flesh and Blood: Animals in Art and Philosophy” led by philosophers including Peter Singer (3 April), Raimond Gaita (24 April) and Andrew Benjamin (11 May), exploring the philosophical limits between animals and humans.

For more information, please visit MARS Gallery.

]]><![CDATA[DAVID CHESWORTH at West Space]]>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:07:58 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/04/david-chesworth-at-west-space.html

West Space will be exhibiting David Chesworth and Katie Lee's collaborative sound and sculpture installation All Who Occupy This Great Space from 20 April to 12 May. There will be an opening celebration on 10 April 6-8pm, an artist talk on 10 May 5:30pm and two twenty-minute performances by Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Carolyn Connors (28 April, 3pm and 10 May, 6:30pm).

"Pressure is being brought to bear on all who occupy this great space.
Mountains, great plains, dense jungles and vast deserts. All out there.
All this needs to be breathed in.
Leave yourself behind and climb into your new skin."

For more information, please visit West Space.

]]><![CDATA[NICK DEVLIN at Margaret Lawrence]]>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:53:06 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/04/nick-devlin-at-margaret-lawrence.html

Nick Devlin's collaboration with Kirsten Rann is being shown at Margaret Lawrence Gallery as part of Ocular Lab Inc.. The exhibition runs until 5 May, with an opening celebration and book launch to be held on 3 May from 5 to 8pm.

"Ocular Lab 2003-2010 was established as a site for experimental and alternative models of artistic representation and activity that encouraged the development of professional practice. 'The Lab' developed through discussions, relationships and professional activities, building on the histories of 'h' project (1997-1998) and Ocular Lab's past incarnation, Ocular Laboratory (2000 -2001), as well as numerous off-site projects and collaborations. However, it was principally through experimentation, discussion, participation and a strong notion of hosting-as-practice - manifested through regular dinner events as well as a strong element of artists' residencies at the Lab premises - that Ocular Lab created certain alternatives to mainstream opportunities.The exhibition is also an opportunity to launch Hostings: Ocular Lab Inc 2003-2010, published by Surpllus, a retrospective publication on Ocular Lab and its activities."

For more information, please visit Margaret Lawrence Gallery.

]]><![CDATA[PATRICK POUND & PETER MADDEN at Gus Fisher Gallery]]>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:58:48 +1100http://www.fehilycontemporary.com.au/3/post/2012/04/patrick-pound-peter-madden-at-gus-fisher-gallery.html

Peter Madden and Patrick Pound have been selected for Paper-jams: artists between the covers, an upcoming exhibition at Gus Fisher Gallery. Peter Madden will be discussing his work at the gallery along with Tessa Laird on Saturday 14 April at 1pm. The exhibition runs until 28 April.

"Acknowledging the substantial history of text in art, Paper-jams looks sideways from that legacy to foreground those artists who address the page as a physical and political context rather than focusing on the content of the words contained within. For them, paper is a surface to excavate, to break through the conventional ways we absorb and present information. Similarly, books become objects with their own history of exchange, value and meaning. These works challenge the materiality of the page and the creative potential of its limitations. In an age of online information and electronic tablets, the threatened extinction of the conventional book brings renewed poignancy to the physical structures and systems that have supported publishing since the invention of the codex and the printing press. Artists include Gretchen Albrecht, Bruce Andrews, Billy Apple and Wystan Curnow, Dan Arps, Elliot Collins, Fiona Connor, Lyell Cresswell, Paul Cullen, Philip Dadson, Johanna Drucker, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Marco Fusinato, Tony Green, Robert Grenier, Fiona Jack, Tessa Laird, Alan Loney, Peter Madden, Allan McDonald, Teri Moon, Patrick Pound, Ed Ruscha, Katrina Van Roon and Ivan Zagni. Curated by Andrew Clifford."

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