Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me The Way to Go Home
‘Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me The Way to Go Home’ ‘will be an eye-opener,’ insists Sydney art dealer, Martin Browne. ‘No other Australian painter has had a full third of their output bought by public institutions.’ This exhibition surveys a decade of the artist’s intricate and animated paintings, bringing together major works from her Pamp/Swamp, Kendall River, Wutan, Ikalath, Yalgamunken, intertidal estuary and powerful bushfire series for the first time. Read Jeremy Eccles article on the show here.
Queensland Art Gallery
21 March 2020 to 7 February 2021
Brisbane
Neridah Stockley: Hermannsburg and Paint
‘Hermannsburg and Paint’ by Neridah Stockley is a unique body of work in response to Hermannsburg, site of Lutheran Mission activity coupled with the Hermannsburg School of watercolour painting made famous by Albert Namatjira. Through fieldwork and referencing both the Araluen Art Collection and secular material from the Strehlow Research Centre, Stockley continues to explore landscape based forms and motifs through drawings, studio-based paintings and sculptural works.
Araluen Arts Centre
Until 8 November 2020
Northern Territory
Drew Pettifer: A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk
‘A Sorrowful Act: The Wreck of the Zeewijk’ derives from a broader investigation within Drew Pettifer’s work to unearth hidden queer histories through archival art practices. The exhibition focuses on the ‘poignant and captivating’, ‘little-known story’, says Pettifer, on the first recorded moment in (European) queer history in Australia: a sodomy trial following the wreck of the Dutch ship the Zeewijk in 1727 where two young men were sentenced to death by marooning. Read Dr Joseph Brennan’s review of the show here.
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
29 August to 5 December 2020
Western Australia
Cynthia Schwertsik: Take Up Residence 2020
“‘Whether print or digital, we are engaged with the words of others on paper. Words as actions that disrupt, distract and promote. Schwertsik prompts us to consider ourselves ‘one of them’; the papers (the words, the actions). What is our becoming when we absorb careless and considered words? Do they transform us or we them. The cupboard suggests our exposure to any reality is limited, confined to time and space. Yet our content, our live-d moments are so much bigger than this cupboard but it muffles the screams just like the words it swallows.” – Inneke Taal, artist and writer based in Adelaide
FELTspace
7 to 24 October 2020
South Australia
Graham Lang: In The Clear Night Of Day
Graham Lang’s semi-biographical works often evoke both the external and internal realities of place and being; an interest further explored in this exhibition, which ‘alludes to the paradoxical power of contradiction to expose the essential unity of all things,’ says the artist.
Despard Gallery
16 September to 10 October 2020
Tasmania
