Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
19 December 2008  15 March 2009
Curator: Kelly Gelatly

Published March 2009

OK with my decay: Encounters with chronology

Susan Milne, Izabela Pluta, Annie Hogan and Hannah Bertram work with the idea of the theatre of decline set within the grounds of the domestic environment.

Published March 2009

Conference of the birds, the trees, the waves, Correspondences: Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami

Published March 2009

Ghost in the backyard

Using the work of two current Antipodean artists, Amy-Jo Jory and David Pledger, Melbourne-based Kate Sandford explores the place of suburbia in our consciousness and the way that even though real suburbia has changed, some representations of it have stayed the same.

Published March 2009

Avoiding myth and message: Australian artists and the literary world

avoiding myth and message: Australia artist and the literary world,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
7 April  12 July 2009, curator: Glenn Barkley.

Published March 2009

Gooch's Utopia: collected works from the Central Desert

Goochs Utopia: collected works from the Central Desert
Curator: Fiona Salmon
Flinders University Art Museum
3 October  23 November 2008
Riddoch Art Gallery
5 December 2008  8 February 2009

Published March 2009

Life and times: Eternal wake in three chapters

Life. Death. Thereafter was at Silvershot Gallery in Melbourne from 16 September  29 November 2008. Melbourne-based curator Mark Feary produced a relatively new exhibition model, three separate, distinct, but thematically entwined shows, running end to end for eighteen days each showing the work of Kate Just, Steve Carr, Patricia Piccinini, Paolo Canevari, Rob McLeish, Ronnie van Hout, Jesper Just, Jason Greig, Sally Blenheim and Blair Trethowan.

Published March 2009

Atomic Clock: microtime of the molecular and good old-fashioned molar beer

The responses of digital artists David Haines, Jon Hunter and Pete Newman to the molecular scale on which our world is now micromanaged are contrasted with the work of the late Jon Wah whose work stopped time with a saddhu-like discipline of the will. Jon Wah died in August 2008, aged 27. A posthumous retrospective was held for him at Serial Space, Chippendale, Sydney, 8-18 December 2008.

Published March 2009

Daniel Crooks: the future of the past

An edited version of a lecture by Laurence Simmons, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, given in association with Daniel Crooks' exhibition everywhere instantly curated by Justin Paton at the Christchurch Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in 2008. Simmons links Crooks' work to Walter Benjamin's Angel of History and the experiments of Etienne-Jules Marey, the inventor of chronophotography.

Published March 2009

Crystalline signs of the small and poetic

In Audrey Lams Under Development (2007), two detectives investigating a murder seek answers in an ominous, half-built structure. Close attention to the lush, inky compositions reveals the frozen temporality of a Brisbane landmark: the film records the historic erection of the Gallery of Modern Art.

Published March 2009

Open Air: Portraits in the landscape

Open Air: Portraits in the landscape
Curators: Wally Caruana, Michael Desmond, Andrew Sayers
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
4 December 2008  1 March 2009

Published March 2009

Art and the abyss: Manipulations of time at the 2008 Yokohama Triennale

Published March 2009