Whats On - Araluen Galleries
37trh Alice Prize
a National Contemporary Art Award
Exhibition open from Saturday 12 May – Sunday 10 June
Presented by the Alice Springs Art Foundation, the Alice Prize is one of Australia’s oldest and most renowned art prizes. The exhibition artworks are selected from hundreds of entries from across Australia by a panel of experts.
The judge for this year’s $25,000 Prize is Nick Mitzevich, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. The exhibition showcases an eclectic mix of contemporary art practice from emerging and established artists representing a range of cultures and disciplines. Adding to this diversity, the Prize is not exclusive to any medium, ensuring a dynamic and engaging exhibition.
Image: Image: Alison Alder, Carcass, screen printed gouache on paper, 2009. Acquired by the Alice Springs Art Foundation 2010.
Slow Burn
By Henry Smith
Exhibition Opening Friday 1 June
Exhibition open from Saturday 2 June – Sunday 8 July
In Slow Burn, Henry Smith departs from the traditional landscape genre that he has adopted in the past. The artworks are experimental, permitting original ideas to grow along with the work, allowing meanings to accumulate, cross references to proliferate, and new entities to be born. Individual works are brought to a place of rest and rightness, never entirely secure as each moment passes. The work as a whole is in constant flux. Slow Burn sees Henry Smith use a multi view point perspective, to blur the line between elevation and plan, and avoids rendering tone that builds 3-dimension, as a way to flatten the picture plane. This mix allows the viewer to experience landscape that is new but familiar.
Image: Henry Smith
Kuru Alala: Eyes Open
Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Alison Clouston
Exhibition Opening Friday 15 June
Exhibition open from Saturday 16 June – Sunday 15 July
The Araluen Arts Centre is proud to present the exhibition KURU ALALA Eyes Open, which showcases artwork generated as a result of an extensive residency and workshop programme held over two years in remote desert communities across Central Australia. Tjanpi Desert Weavers are a renowned group of Indigenous women artists who work with grass fibres to make baskets and sculptures. They invited contemporary installation artists Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Alison Clouston to visit and camp with them on the Ngaanyatjarra and Pitjantjatjara Lands respectively and to literally open their eyes to new experiences in their country. The artists have collaborated on the development of the KURU ALALA exhibition with the aim of stimulating greater awareness and insight into concepts of culture, country and community.
Image: Tjaria Stanley, Iluwanti Ken and Mary Pan dancing for country at Iyukutanya near Wamitjara, May 2009. Photo: Alison Clouston
Alice Springs Beanie Festival
Exhibition
Exhibition Opening Friday 22 June
Exhibition open from Saturday 23 June – Sunday 22 July
We invite you all to come along and be a part of this year’s festival. Enjoy the warmth, colour and joy that everyone brings to our unique Central Australian event.
We have a bumper crop of beanies arrived from all over the world to take part in the festivities and they are all looking for heads to keep warm so lash out and get yourself and your friends some of the world’s most creative head gear.
A key aim of the festival is to provide opportunities for the Indigenous women of remote Central Australia to get involved. The artists have produced some beautiful, inspiring beanies. These women will be attending the festival, so take some time to join their workshops and get to know some of their stories.
Image: Adele Kenny, Phoenix Rising, medium. Section Winner 2011
Four Elements
Kerry Martin
Exhibition Opening Friday 20 July
Exhibition open from Saturday 21 July – Sunday 19 August
“I have had a fascination with rocks for as long as I can remember – spending time as a child in ‘secret’ places perched high on rocky outcrops overlooking the bushland where I grew up. “
The four elements came to mind when painting this series: earth - the rocks formed by the land; water courses that have tumbled and carved the rocks; fire in summer - rocks forged in fiery ordeal and air – the breath of life in their creation. I have returned again and again to Central Australia’s Indigenous communities over an interval of twenty five years and it is travelling through Australia’s deserts special places like Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Karlu Karlu (the Devil’s Marbles) that inspire my paintings.
Image: Kerry Martin, Balancing Marble, 2011, charcoal and oil on linen, 102 x 84 cm
The Central Australian Art Society
Advocate Art Award 2012
Exhibition Opening Friday 27 July
Exhibition open from Saturday 28 July – Sunday 12 August
Walk in the Art Sunday 12 August
The Advocate Art Award is a major showcase for Central Australian artists. It provides local artists with the opportunity to exhibit in a professional gallery setting with potential for feedback and sale of their artwork. The work of both professional and emerging artists is presented in this unique exhibition that represents the vibrant and creative nature of the Central Australian art community.
Image: Mimi Leung, Fall (after Rubens), acrylic on canvas 165 x150cm
Desert Mob 2012
Exhibition
Exhibition Opening Friday 7 September
Exhibition open from Saturday 8 September – Sunday 21 October
Desert Mob is Australia’s premier event featuring new artworks from Aboriginal art centres throughout Central Australia. This event brings together Desart (the Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres) member art centres in a unique exhibition that celebrates the vibrancy of Aboriginal art from this region. It is the only exhibition that offers a snapshot of what is currently happening in contemporary art from Aboriginal owned art centres across Central Australia.
Desert Mob will comprise more than 300 recent artworks from approximately 35 art centres in Central Australia. This is a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks by both established and emerging artists from Desart member art centres, all in the one venue.
Image: Carol Maanyatja Golding, Walu, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 76 cm, Araluen Art Collection. Acquired from Desert Mob 2011.
Alice Springs Quilting Club
2012 Exhibition
Exhibition Opening Friday 2 November
Exhibition open from Saturday 3 to Saturday 10 November
Annual exhibition by the Alice Springs Quilting Club
Image: Alice Springs Quilting Club, 2011
Works on Paper
Neridah Stockley
Exhibition Opening: Friday 9 November
Exhibition Open Saturday 10 November 2012 – Sunday 3 February 2013
Neridah Stockley’s Works on Paper is a series of large scale drawings and dry point etchings. The drawings are largely domestic in subject, featuring forms and functional objects that Neridah collects and engages with. The dry point etchings include a combination of landscape, domestic imagery and manmade forms. This is Neridah’s first exhibition with an exclusive focus on the drawn mark.
Images: Two Shoes, 2008, Graphite on Paper, 60 x 85cm and Untitled, 2008, Pencil on Paper, 60 x 85cm
Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix
A National Gallery of Australia Exhibition
Exhibition open from 17 November 2012 – Sunday 20 January 2013
The National Gallery of Australia holds an important and internationally-significant collection of over 250 works on paper by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923 – 1997). Synonymous with the Pop Art movement, Lichtenstein’s works stand today as icons of American art in the 60s and 70s. His vibrant imagery seamlessly translates into a modern context where Lichtenstein’s ideas, concerns and techniques are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. Alongside popular culture as a source of inspiration, Lichtenstein sampled and appropriated ideas from art-historical figures such as Claude Monet and Picasso as well as from the art-historical styles of Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.
Lichtenstein’s graphics are engaging to both older and youth audiences, irrespective of the audience’s geographical location. The artist’s characteristic comic strip and Benday dot imagery has entered the collective subconscious as an instantly recognisable graphic aesthetic. It is a style that has subsequently had a lasting impact on image makers working in the visual arts, design and advertising.
This exhibition has been drawn from the Kenneth Tyler Print Collection which is the most comprehensive collection of 20th century American art outside the United States in terms of its breadth and depth, consisting of over 7,000 works of art and a comprehensive archive of film, sound and photographic material. Roy Lichtenstein worked with Ken Tyler at both his west and east coast workshops, beginning at Gemini GEL in 1969 and working together until 1994 to investigate the possibilities of combining printing techniques such as screen printing, lithography, embossing and collage to produce remarkable printed works.
This exhibition will also include newly restored and digitised, rare, candid photography and film components drawn from the Kenneth Tyler Photographic and Film and Sound Collections at the NGA to reveal a fascinating insight into the artist’s collaborative working methods in the creation of a number of his best-known printed series.
The National Gallery of Australia acknowledges funding support from the Australian Government through the National Collecting Institutions Touring & Outreach program.
Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Nude with blue hair, 1994, relief, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Licensed by Viscopy.