Exhibition Review : The National at the Art Gallery of NSW
My reactions? Ernest, many social issues, not much fun, no contemporary photography, installations, some painting, and a feeling that you may have seen much of this before.
Month: March 2017
Elaine Campaner
Exhibition: Elaine Campaner at Gallery 9
Always an enjoyable viewing, managed to see the latest works by Elaine Campaner – recommended.
The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD
Dr Blake Mysteries – Exhibition
Ballarat’s Gold museum hosts Dr Blake exhibition
This exhibition at the Gold Museum in Ballarat is good news following the more devastating news on the cancelling of the TV series.
Group M – Philip Bentley
A history of Group M photographers by Philip Bentley
Back in 1996, Philip Bentley, Melbourne historian, wrote a thesis on the history of the Melbourne photographers, Group M.
The Fourth Plinth
News for 2018 and 2020
Click here for news on upcoming works to be atop the Fourth Plinth on Trafalgar Square.
Maggie Diaz photography prize for women
Call for entries
click on image for details – entries close 26 July 2017
Group M
Australian photographers – Melbourne 1959 – late 1960s
click on banner for link to information about this great group of Australian photographers
Ballarat Foto Biennale – Portrait Prize
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize Entry
Applications close: 31st May 2017
click on image for more….
The Photography Room
New Exhibitions at The Photography Room (Canberra)
Exhibitions 24 March – 30 April Continue reading “The Photography Room”
HEAD ON
Updating on HEAD ON Festival (Sydney)
click on the image for the latest on the HEAD ON Festival
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
Review by Peter Haynes
Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean – click on image.
Michael Reid
photography at Michael Reid
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Simon Elliott
Simon Elliott moves from the NGA to Brisbane
from ArtsHub – QAGGOMA gets a new Deputy Director – see below
George W Bell
George W Bell: Australian photographer & painter
George W Bell (1920 – 2008) was member of Group M – in Melbourne.
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
Exhibition curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean
This curated group exhibition is a mixed bag of artworks in various media – which is not necessarily a good or bad thing.
Australian Centre For Photography
Shaun Gladwell, Virtual Imperator – Edge of Empire
Exhibition notice: 17 March – 6 May 2017
Queensland Art Gallery
O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith
Making Modernism
11 Mar 2017 – 11 Jun 2017
Yayoi Kusama
Vermeer
Traces of Vermeer
Following a former post on a Vermeer exhibition, we received a comment and a link to a research site about Vermeer and how it is proposed that the artist used a Camera Obscura.
Stills Gallery to close
news from Stills in Sydney
The photography community and art lovers received this sad news this week. While it is fully understood and we all sympathise, it is still so sad to lose what has been a gallery that has done a magnificent job for the world of photography.
here’s the letter as received:
Bendigo Art Gallery
ACP: photography history
A History of the Australian Centre for Photography 1973-2013
Toby Meagher’s Research Paper–June 2013. The paper was written for a Masters in Art Administration at COFA. Click here.
International Women’s Day 2017
Celebrating with visual art and music
Here’s a couple of things I hope you enjoy as we celebrate International Women’s Day 2017.
Women Photograph
click on the image for the website – Women Photograph
David Hockney
Exhibition: Current at the NGV
I recommend David Hockney’s extraordinary exhibition in Melbourne – till 13 March 2017.
Penny Byrne
Exhibition: Brutal at Linden New Art
At Linden in St Kilda (Melbourne) till 8th March 2017.
Brook Andrew
Exhibition: The Right To Offend Is Sacred
An exhibition till 4th June 2017, by Brook Andrew at the State Gallery in Victoria (NGV*).
Wesley Stacey at MGA
Exhibition: Wesley Stacey – The Wild Thing
Congratulations to the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) for this wonderful exhibition of the Australian photographer, Wesley Stacey.