INVISIBLE WINDS

Curated by Marnie Badham, Pia Johnson, Tammy Wong Hulbert and Madeleine Sherburn. 

Invisible Winds explores the different moods of the wind and its impacts. How this element can be seen as destructive, a source of creativity and potentially productive.  

The exhibition features works by Vicki Couzens, Gretel Taylor & Gülsen Özer, Kent Morris, Pia Johnson, Philip Samartzis, Polly Stanton & Byron Dean, Christiaan De Beukelaer and Marnie Badham in collaboration with Tammy Wong Hulbert, Ai Yamamoto & George Akl.

Exhibition: April 26th – May 28th 2023 

Opening Event: Wednesday 26 April 2023, 6pm – 8pm  

Performance by Gretel Taylor & Gülsen Özer 

CLIMARTE Gallery, 120 Bridge Road, Richmond 

Public Program:

Saturday 6 May 2023, 2pm – 4pm, Artist Talk and Panel Discussion 

Saturday 27 May 2023, 10am – 2pm, Affect: Wind and the Body public participatory workshop with Gretel Taylor and Gülsen Özer.

This is a RMIT Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) Migration, Mobility and Art project. Supported by CLIMARTE, Australia Council of the Arts, City of Yarra and RMIT University. 

 
The Family Mantle, Bundoora Homestead, 2018. Photo courtesy of Jorge de Araujo.

The Family Mantle, Bundoora Homestead, 2018. Photo courtesy of Jorge de Araujo.

 

THE FAMILY MANTLE

Curated by Pia Johnson
New work by artists: Sofi Basseghi, Kati Javan, Janelle Low, Morganna Magee, Andy Mullens, Talia Smith and Pia Johnson.

The Family Mantle presents a series of photographic responses to notions of the family. Through the exploration of memory, archive, and photography, the artworks sift through the cultural and social constructs of familial relations and the role of the individual within them.

22 September - 11 November 2018

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

7 Prospect Hill Drive, Bundoora

Thursday - Sunday 10am - 5pm

Exhibition opening:  Saturday 22 September | 2–4pm
Exhibition curator/artist talk: Saturday 20 October | 2pm

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CHINESE WHISPERS AND OTHER STORIES

Curated by Pia Johnson
With artists: Pia Johnson, Tammy Law, Janelle Low & Siying Zhou

Bringing together four emerging female artists of Chinese descent, this exhibition seeks to reveal the complex and shifting nature of cultural difference, identity and migrant stories in ‘multicultural’ Australia.


Exhibitions tour schedule:
27 April - 21 May 2017
Huw Davies Gallery, PhotoAccess, Manuka Arts Centre
Canberra ACT

21 June - 8 July 2017
Blindside, Melbourne VIC

Chinese Whispers and Other Stories is full of beautiful, evocative and
conceptually enticing images. Some of these are outstanding and a tribute
to the talents of the artists and to the selective intelligence of the curator.
Another “must see” exhibition.
                                     - The Canberra Times

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