February 15 - March 28 2012 at the Hume Global Learning Centre in conjunction with the Islamic Council of Victoria.
A collaborative exhibition celebrating the diversity and uniqueness of the Australian Muslim identity through an exciting collection of works by local and interstate Contemporary Muslim Artists.

FROST DRAWING FOR JOSHUA TREE and SITUATIONS #1-14 (2012): a 3-day drawing performance on glass windows, walls, in public and nature locations across Joshua Tree and surrounds during one-week residency at the BoxoHOUSE, Joshua Tree, California, USA, 3 - 5 February 2012

BETWEEN WANDER & SETTLEMENT: an exhibition which includes: a drawing installation SKIN OF THE WALL, a two-week residency to create a series of performative works titled DUST COVER CAMPUS FURNITURE and screening of two animated films with sound-drawings: THE TRAIN TRIP and MT. BAKER, at Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA, 16 January - 3 March 2012.

The line-up for the Gallery of Modern Art’s (GOMA) upcoming ‘Contemporary Australia: Women‘ exhibition was recently announced and includes 33 artists and collectives to feature as part of the large scale exhibition opening on April 21.
This exhibition follows on from the hugely popular ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’ at GOMA in 2008—09 and this second exhibition in the series is the most extensive regular presentation of contemporary Australian art in the country.
This latest installment will showcase new and recent work by emerging, established and senior female artists both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian.
‘Contemporary Australia: Women’ encompasses a project of performative works called Embodied Acts; a Children’s Art Centre installation by Fiona Hall; a film program curated by the much-loved film guru Margaret Pomeranz; and a GOMA Talks program of evening discussions around exhibition themes.
Exhibition visitors will be treated to more than 70 works in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, textiles, video and performance.
This engaging exhibition will explore a number of key themes relating to women including ‘performing’ femininity; sexuality; the body; motherhood and ageing; the return to everyday materials; political and social issues; and the different ways that some artists are approaching painting.
The exhibition opening weekend will be a must-see, featuring a jam-packed program of Embodied Acts, artist talks and events and an in-conversation with Margaret Pomeranz and special guests.

LISA REIHANA featured in Restless curated by Victoria Lynn as part of the Adelaide International 2012 Festival. Exhibition runs from 2 March - 5 April at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide. www.adelaidefestival.com.au

THE DRAWING WALL #6 - GOSIA WLODARCZAK 17 February - 15 April 2012
Melbourne-based Polish artist Gosia Wlodarczak will be undertaking the first Drawing Wall project for 2012 to coincide with the launch of Shepparton Art Museum, on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 February. Wlodarczak will be creating a site-specific performance based drawing translating what she sees into an automatic drawing across the Drawing Wall.
www.sheppartonartgallery.com.au

As part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival Gregor Kregar's work Model for Liquid Geometry 1, is included in the exhibition- Art, pattern and complexity launch, on until 16 May 2012 www.riaus.org.au

_Sonia Leber and David Chesworth are joining our gallery.

They are a Melbourne-based collaborative duo that work across sound, video and installation art, using the human voice as their principal medium. Their sound-based installations transform public sites into zones of exploration and discovery, with visitors left to navigate their way though the physical space and the dense compositions of sonic elements. These are immersive works that envelop the viewer and blur the distinctions between observing and being observed. At times confronting and disorientating, Leber and Chesworth’s work uncovers a portal to the phantasmagorical, hidden amongst the everyday.

Leber and Chesworth were finalists in the 2011 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture.

_Nick Devlin's TwoThousandAndEleven runs until December 17

Review from the Saturday Age (10/12/11) Life&Style, page 7

"Although the paintings behind Richard Lewer's striking new exhibition, Safe Travels, are rich in texture and detail, they also possess an astute sense of economy. Painted in the wake of a road trip from Melbourne to Coober Pedy and Alice Springs, these stark acrylic-on-fabricated-steel works use the rusting surface of the metal as a key facet of their colouration, texture and compositional sensibilities (pictured). Lewer's road trip doesn't fit the free-and-easy archetype; the roads he travels are littered with the signatures of weather-beaten infrastructural, economic and social decay. A mother and child huddle together, faceless and inscrutable against a sea of red earth; creepy figures forage amid roadside refuse; a kangaroo carcass bakes in the desert sun. The figures and landscapes are somehow alien, removed from our grasp. It feels like a huge step for Lewer. While his wonky explorations of criminal activity, urban legend and moral impropriety have often been littered with humour and witty text, he achieves something far subtler and more evocative here. Among the blank faces, the dust and detritus, these works render the Australian interior as a site laid to waste."

Dan Rule

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Veronica Kent and Scott Miles have been selected as new Gertrude Studio Artists for 2011/2012. They will serve a two-year residency with solo shows in the Studio 12 space and an inclusion in the annual studio artists' group exhibition. Congratulations to both artists. We look forward to visiting them there.