2015
Juan Ford at the 2015 Nakanojo Biennale
The 2015 Nakanojo Biennale will take place in the Gunma Prefecture and include the work of 132 groups of artists and collaborators. Melbourne based-artist Juan Ford will join 19 artists from 6 countries in the Tomasz Wendland curated project Empty Garden as a key international program of the 2015 edition.
Curator: Tomasz Wendland
Artist: Juan Ford
Dates and venue: 12 September - 12 October 2015, Former Isama Elementary School, Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture
Catalogue
Key Images
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Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist -
Flock Propagation, 2015, vinyl stickers, dimensions variable Images courtesy of the artist
Partners
Ford is represented by Dianne Tanzer Gallery (Melbourne)
The Asialink Visual Arts Touring Exhibition Program is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Asialink Arts is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
Jamie North: Concrete
Jamie North was supported by Asialink Arts to be part of the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) group exhibition Concrete in Istanbul at Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. The exhibition was a key event in the Cultural Festival associated with the '2015 Year of Australia in Turkey' (developed by the Federal Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | DFAT) and was timed to overlap with the opening of the 2015 Istanbul Biennial. An earlier version of Concrete was presented by Monash University Museum of Art in 2014 programmed to coincide with centenary of the First World War.
Curator: Geraldine Barlow
Artist: Jamie North
Partner: Monash University of Modern Art
Tour: 29 August - 26 September 2015. Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
Processes of construction and destruction, growth and decay, are at the heart of Sydney based artist Jamie North's practice. North works with cast concrete, aggregate, ash, and living plants. It is never clear whether we are looking at natural processes or the results of man-made catastrophe. His works often suggest ruins, symbolic fragments of a larger, now-absent building. They also evoke the rise and fall of cities, states and cultures. North dramatises the inherent tension between building and decay, between the built form and nature, between ideas of progress and the potential for collapse. North's works are cast from industrial leftovers. To create Spoils (Tophane-i Amire) 2015 in Istanbul he has chosen to work with marble dust, assembling a pyramid of ruined spheres, each the scale of a cannon ball. Drawing upon the history of the exhibition space as a cannon foundry as well as rubble and plants from the site itself, the spheres are planted with species such as Purslane, Ailanthus and the vine Parthenocissus. Growth, the potential for destruction, the perpetual cycle of reuse and adaptation all meet in these somewhat imperfect versions of the sphere and the pyramid. – Geraldine Barlow, Curator of Concrete
The Asialink Visual Arts Touring Exhibition Program is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Asialink Arts is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
Neverwhere / Erewhon
Neverwhere brings together the work of eight contemporary Australian artists to disturb distinctions between our real and imagined selves, between authentic and fantastical scenarios. Works in this exhibition perform and postulate identity however narratives are largely informed by external – often mysterious – forces, both seen and unseen. The characters and identities represented here all seem to have fallen through the cracks of reality and landed somewhere different, into an underside; somewhere that is Neverwhere.
Curator: Vikki McInnes, Director Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Faculty of VCA & MCA
ITINERARY
Dates and venue: 14 August - 12 September 2015, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Artists: Brook Andrew, Mikala Dwyer, Tony Garifalakis, Lou Hubbard, Veronica Kent, Claire Lambe, Clare Milledge, Kathy Temin
Australia (touring as Erewhon under NETS Victoria)
Dates and venue: 2016-2017
Artists: Brook Andrew, Mikala Dwyer, Tony Garifalakis, Claire Lambe, Clare Milledge
Tour:
Margaret Lawrence Gallery 2 September – 1 October 2016
Horsham Regional Art Gallery 11 November 2016 - 23 January 2017
Warrnambool Art Gallery 11 February - 12 June 2017
Benalla Art Gallery 22 September - 26 November 2017
Latrobe Regional Gallery 16 December 2017 – 11 March 2018
CATALOGUE
KEY WORKS
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MIKALA DWYER Square Cloud Compound 2010 Wood, metal chain, ceramic, acrylic. Courtesy of the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney -
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TONY GARIFALAKIS Untitled #28 from the Mob Rule (Family) series 2014 Enamel on C Type print 60 cm x 40 cm Courtesy of the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide -
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Kathy Temin, 'Auditions for a pair of Koalas(2002)', 24 x digital prints mounted on aluminum. Courtesy of the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney -
Veronica Kent, 'Clown Transfer 1' and 'Clown Transfer 2', digital prints framed. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne -
Mikala Dwyer, Captain Thunderbolt's Sisters (2010), Courtesy of the artist, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney -
Veronica Kent, 'Cloak', digital print, framed. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne -
Claire Lambe, Miss Universal (2015), C Type photograph, mounted on foam core (four panels) 120 x 172cm. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne -
BROOK ANDREW Anatomie de la mémoire du corps : au-delà de la Tasmanie 2013 (detail) Wood, glass, rare books, paper, bone Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels -
Brook Andrew, Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania (2013) detail, wood and glass vitrine, with wooden gramaphone, archival material, ephemera. Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris -
Brook Andrew, Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania (2013) detail, wood and glass vitrine, with wooden gramaphone, archival material, ephemera. Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris -
Brook Andrew, Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania (2013) detail, wood and glass vitrine, with wooden gramaphone, archival material, ephemera. Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris -
Brook Andrew, Anatomy of a Body Record: Beyond Tasmania (2013) detail, wood and glass vitrine, with wooden gramaphone, archival material, ephemera. Courtesy of the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris -
(L) Lou Hubbard, Eye Ops (2013), 5 x single channel videos. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne (R) Veronica Kent, 'Clown Transfer 1' and 'Clown Transfer 2', digital prints framed. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne -
(L) Tony Garifalakis, Mob Rule (Family) (2013), 21 x digital prints (framed). Courtesy of the artist and Hugo Michel Gallery, Adelaide (R) Clare Milledge, Academic Suspicion - Staging a Hermeneutics of Incommensurability (2015), 5 x paintings (on glass), masks, textiles, scultural objects. Courtesy of the artist and The Commercial, Sydney -
Clare Milledge, Academic Suspicion - Staging a Hermeneutics of Incommensurability (2015), 5 x paintings (on glass), masks, textiles, scultural objects. Courtesy of the artist and The Commercial, Sydney -
Clare Milledge, Academic Suspicion - Staging a Hermeneutics of Incommensurability (2015), 5 x paintings (on glass), masks, textiles, scultural objects. Courtesy of the artist and The Commercial, Sydney -
Neverwhere installed at Gaia Gallery, Istanbul
MEDIA
Media: Ocula, The Guide Istanbul, NTV , Sanat Burada, BANTmag, Artful Living , Time Out Istanbul, Hürriyet Kelebek, XOXO The Mag, Walking Istanbul, LeCool Istanbul , Arts Hub
PARTNERS
The Asialink Visual Arts Touring Exhibition Program is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Asialink Arts is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its principal arts funding body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
Clare Milledge's participation in Turkey is supported through The Australian Artists' Grant, a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts. This project is supported by the 2015 Artspace Sydney studio residency as well as the NSW Government through Arts NSW.
