Sunday, February 9, 2014

Wildcards - Bill Henson shuffles the deck

Wildcards - Bill Henson shuffles the deck
Monash Gallery of Art
1 February - 30 March 2014


The opening of the exhibition Wildcards - Bill Henson shuffles the deck took place on a very hot Saturday 8 February 2014.

A friendly welcome.

Yifang © Barbara Oehring 2014



© Barbara Oehring 2014

 
Bill Henson is a long-time supporter of the gallery and ex member of the Committee of Management of MGA. He has, for the first time, curated an exhibition of Australian photography.

Henson has selected 88 photographs from MGA's collection covering the history of Australian photography. It includes two albumen prints c. 1870-80 by Fred Kruger and Darren Sylvester's 'On holiday' 2010. Norman Lindsay is well represented and so are Mark Strizic, David More and Wesley Stacey.

Jan Minchin, director of Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne talks with her artist Bill Henson in front of Joachim Froese's 'Rhopography #20'.



 
Bill Henson and Jan Minchin © Barbara Oehring 2014



Bill Henson's opening remarks centred around the importance of the individual's experience when looking at a work of art. Admirers were happy to get a chance to speak with him afterwards.


© Barbara Oehring 2014
 


© Barbara Oehring 2014


Wildcards - Bill Henson shuffles the deck

Monash Gallery of Art
860 Ferntree Gully Road
Wheelers Hill Victoria 3150
Telephone +61 3 8544 0500
T-F 10am-5pm S&S 12-5pm


More details and information on the exhibition can be viewed here: http://www.mga.org.au/exhibition/view/exhibition/140


Saturday, February 1, 2014

Future Memorials at TarraWarra Museum of Art


I explored the two current exhibitions 'Russell Drysdale' and 'Future Memorials' at TarraWarra Museum of Art in Healesville. I particularly appreciated 'Future Memorials'.


The project, commissioned by TarraWarra Museum of Art, explores the effects of colonialism on Wurundjeri people and seeks new ways to understand and renew the relationship between the past and the present.

FUTURE MEMORIALS involves the Sydney-based Wiradjuri-Kamilaroi artist Jonathan Jones, Melbourne-based non-Aboriginal artist Tom Nicholson and Senior Wurundjeri elder Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy AO.


Tom Nicholson's Towards a monument to Batman's Treaty 2008-2013 comprises 101 A0 sheets on the museum wall and 3456 used bricks collected from citizens around Healesville.

© Barbara Oehring 2014







Jonathan Jones with Aunty Joy Wandin Murphy after William Barak
untitled (shield design) 2013

© Barbara Oehring 2014

 

© Barbara Oehring 2014


The architecture and the landscape delight.

© Barbara Oehring 2014




© Barbara Oehring 2014



Future Memorials
until 9 February 2014
TarraWarra Museum of Art

311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road,
Healesville, Victoria, Australia
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 11am to 5pm