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Life of the System 1980 - 2005

Jacky Redgate , [email protected]

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In the eleven years throughout the artists such as Bill Henson, Rosemary Redlands Westpac Art Prize’s existence, Laing, Patricia Piccinini, Robert Owen, the exhibition has focused exclusively Hossein Valamanesh or Shaun Gladwell on painting. I believe it was a very good might still be accessible for the Redlands concept to keep the prize within these Art Collection. narrow constraints for such a sustained The second reason for expanding the period and the resultant collection parameters beyond just painting is that, is of a remarkably high standard. It today, such categories seem a little too includes significant paintings by a range compartmentalised or even redundant. of ’s leading artists including For example, the Art Gallery of New South Gordon Bennett, Sally Smart, Lindy Lee, Wales’ new Contemporary Handbook Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Rosella eschews such categories, grouping artists Namok and myself among them. according to movements, concerns or However, when I was asked to be the themes rather than the media in which curator for the prize this year, my first they express themselves. As Edmund impulse was to broaden the scope of the Capon, the director of the AGNSW, exhibition, and thus the collection, to and this year’s judge of the Redlands include the whole range of media used Westpac Art Prize, writes: “The world by contemporary artists today. There were of contemporary art is extraordinarily several reasons for this. dynamic, wide-ranging and bristling with Firstly, I felt that the prize money was an energy that genuinely reflects the perhaps no longer enough (given the pace and tenor of contemporary life and rapid expansion of the Australian art society.” world and the growth of prices in the So in keeping with this sentiment, which last ten years) to attract the top echelon I share with Edmund and many others, of today’s painters, whereas it was I wanted an art exhibition which would still sufficient to attract the foremost be both dynamic and exciting and also contemporary practitioners in other present an up-to-date cross-section of the media, for example photography, and best contemporary art practice today. As even in sculpture, installation and video. a teaching resource for Redlands students Thus works by such leading contemporary I felt that both the exhibition and the

Beth Norling “Nothing to Hold on to” Nominated Artist winner 2006

2 collection should reflect the diversity of art It was a stroke of good fortune that which is already present in the secondary Edmund Capon agreed to judge the art curriculum, rather than focusing on prize and I am very grateful to him. I just one form – painting. would also like to thank Paul Greenaway In my selection of eighteen artists I from Greenaway Art Gallery, ; have chosen a core of older or senior Roslyn Oxley from Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, figures in Australian art such as Robert ; Suzanne Hampel from Arc One Owen, Michael Nelson Jagamarra, Pat Gallery, and Michael Eather Brassington and Marianne Baillieu and from Fireworks Gallery in for then other significant artists such as Hilarie their suggestions and help in making my Mais, Lindy Lee, Jacky Redgate, Hossein exhibition possible. Also many thanks to Valamanesh, John Young and Vanila Olivia Sophia for her indispensable and Netto (who all appear in the AGNSW cheerful assistance and to Meg Lomm, handbook). Mark Harpley, David Day and the other staff at Redlands who have facilitated the In addition, there are often contemporary planning of this exhibition. Finally I would artists who are less well known yet who like to thank Redlands for asking me to produce work that I find exciting and of curate this exhibition and my daughter a high calibre. I am pleased to present Saskia (who is a student at Redlands) for a significant amount of contemporary giving me the pretext for agreeing to do indigenous art, and the works come from it. Also I would like to thank my partner all over Australia from as far away as Jennifer Slatyer for her encouragement Cairns, Adelaide, Hobart and Papunya as and advice. well as from metropolitan Sydney. I am very grateful to all the artists for accepting Above all I am indebted to all the artists my invitation – all accepted except for Bill in the exhibition for supporting my Henson who while very positive about concept and I hope that it is a stimulating and interesting event not only for the the exhibition was unwilling to break a Redlands community but for a much 30 year habit of not entering prizes. wider audience. My thanks also go One of the joys of this exhibition is that to the three eminent speakers in the the artists I have nominated will in turn associated speaker series: Luca Belgiorno- each nominate a younger ‘emerging’ Nettis, Leon Paroissien and Ivor Indyk. artist and therefore the composition of Their contribution will give an important the exhibition as a whole is to a large intellectual dimension and context to degree a mystery to me. This might an exhibition which is primarily a visual seem a risky curatorial practice, but I am experience. confident that there will be some very dynamic younger participants, given the Imants Tillers high calibre and sophistication of the Curator more established artists. Redlands Westpac Art Prize 2007

Imants Tillers “The Day of Metaphysical Healing” Art Prize winner 1996

3 SELECTED ARTISTS

1. Marianne Baillieu 2. John Beard 3. Pat Brassington 4. Maria Fernanda Cardoso Born in Stockholm, Marianne lives in Born in Aberdare, Wales, John studied at Pat is one of Australia’s leading Maria is a Colombian artist who uses Williamstown, Victoria. Marianne studied the University of London and the Royal photomedia artists. She has exhibited unconventional materials to produce Art at Canterbury University in NZ and College of Art. He has held numerous widely both in Australia and overseas for her sculptures and installations. Striking Science and Anthropology at Monash solo exhibitions and participated in the past 20 years. enough to be the girl in the skimpy University. group shows around the world. In 2005 Pat’s images are at once charming bikini flying high on a trapeze, she was John was awarded a major grant from and menacing. They rouse a sense of also serious enough to graduate from “As it was in the beginning” the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Last year disquiet as they subtly and humorously Yale. Instead of running away to join he won the Art Gallery of New South scratch at the underbelly of the human the circus, she decided to make her own In all of Marianne’s paintings; colours Wales Wynne Prize and the Kedumba – The Cardoso Flea Circus. Now she’s and abstract images are used to express condition. In her unique way, she blurs Contemporary Drawing Award, was the boundaries of the real and imagined, ringmaster, flea-trainer, prop-builder, set energies underlying visible reality. This invited to participate in the Australian and costume designer, friend and lunch one suggests creative forces stirring in stripping photography of its authority, Drawing Biennale and was made a bestowing it instead with the logic of to a bunch of highly-educated fleas: the primordial dark. Other interpretations Visiting Professorial Fellow at the College the stars of her tiny ‘Spectacular’. In her are possible. The title is provisional. Only dream or fantasy. Her work was selected of Fine Art, University of New South for inclusion in the Biennale of Sydney former life as a sculptor and installation after being long and livingly lived will Wales. This year he won the Archibald artist, Maria exhibited widely in major such a work speak its real name. in 2004, underlining the importance of Prize for Portrait Painting. her work in the context of international museums and galleries in Latin America, the U.S., and Europe. She currently Price: $24,000 contemporary art. “Sphinx” resides in Bogota and Sydney. “House Guest # 1” Sphinx is part of a new series called “Emu (Rectangle)” Other Faces, which is a solo exhibition “House Guest # 2” The emu is the national bird of Australia, opening in London in November. It Pat’s scenes hide the familiar. At a very tall bird, prominently featured in is an enigma and sits on the edge of first glance these new works appear the Australian emblem. perception – there is a silent dignity somewhat perplexing as the extra- about the painting. There are strong ordinary subjects allure the viewer The Emu works are a way of connecting images, which express a vulnerability in a into a strange intimacy. She explores to the land where I now live. Emu’s cultural sense. the uncanny of the everyday while camouflage with their background and Price: $37,500 unleashing the human desire of the colours and textures are reminiscent of the colours of the Australian bush. seduction and curiosity. House Guest 1 The feathers, which are unlike any other & 2 capture the fragile moment when a bird feather (double shaft, and they look curious child crawls or swings freely until and feel a little bit like straw), move in confronted by a feeling of vertigo. the same way as long grass. Price: $5,500 each Price: $28,000

4 5. Michael Eather 6. Michael Nelson Jagamara 7. Lindy Lee 8. Hilarie Mais Michael is a painter, sculptor and Michael began painting in 1983 at Born in Brisbane, Lindy lives and works Hilarie was born in Leeds, UK, and was occasionally a freelance curator of Papunya, with the classic dot and circle in Sydney. Work is an on-going educated at Bradford School of Art, Indigenous Art. Born in Tasmania, living tradition. But his flair for colour and new investigation into issues of selfhood Winchester School of Art and The Slade for a time in Maningrida, Michael is now composition set his work apart from identity and authenticity. Lindy’s works School of Fine Art, University College based in Brisbane. In 1988, Michael, many of his peers. During the 1990’s are represented in most major public London. During her early intensive along with others, co-founded Campfire Jagamara developed a series of new collections including AGNSW, NGU, NGA period when deconstructive and feminist Group, a collective of Indigenous expressionist paintings and drawings and Queensland Art Gallery. Lindy won discourses were at their dialectical and non-Indigenous artists working often working with Campfire Group the Redlands Westpac Art Prize in 1998. apogee, Hilarie’s largely constructive on contemporary art projects and artists in their Brisbane studios. He has sculptural works became increasingly commissions. He has maintained a strong regularly produced new bodies of work “Traveling the Blue” subjective and associative in character, interest in collaborative artworks and which compliment his role as a most culminating in her 1979-80 “Weapon cross-cultural projects with the seminal senior and active Warlpiri artist and “The painting is based on a small Series”. In 1980, Hilarie moved to image of the stingray an ongoing theme custodian. figurine of Kuanyin, which a Buddhist Sydney, where she continues to live and in his personal work. friend gave to me in China in 1995. work. “Mt Singleton Stories” Kuanyin is the embodiment of complete “Backwards & Forwards compassion. In , compassion “Shaft” (The Unutterable)” After 20 years of painting dot and is not only kindness but the capacity to circles, Michael largely now works in hold, and to be with everything that Shaft, 2006 is one in a continuing series “The idea/form of a stingray has linear designs. Indeed they are more exists – the good and the joyful as well of structurally fragmented works based always contained an intensely personal akin to drawings. Often these designs as the difficult and the painful.” on naturally occurring formations and narrative, based on journeys between are coded versions of the Western processes. Its frayed form is implicitly Tasmania and Arnhem Land, Indigenous Desert symbols and read as logos for Price: $20,000 part of a larger whole, its patterning and European cultures, and more. the complex stories within. Described Ultimately, a kind of homesickness as both a map and song of his country the outcome of a systematically ordered prevails. The Aboriginal (Na-Kara this work with numerous sites, dreaming sequence of painted intervals. language) text on the stingray is an symbols, tracks and events, also Price: $24,000 extract from conversational notes I made retains the shimmer of a sand pattern in 1984 living in Maningrida. It translates referencing the terrain of Mt Singleton to: where Michael was born. In this instance Where are you going? I’m going home! the original design, painted in acrylic, Where’s home? I don’t know…home is has been followed over with silver where the heart is… (home and heart leaf, allowing the image to sing with same place)…” heightened sparkle and allure. Price: $13,200 Price: $22,000

5 SELECTED ARTISTS (CON’T)

9. Dani Marti 10. Vanila Netto 11. Robert Owen 12. Jacky Redgate Dani was born in Spain, studied in New Vanila is a Sydney-based artist born Robert’s practice, which includes Jacky was born in London and emigrated York and now lives between Australia in Salvador, Brazil. In 2002, Vanila painting, sculpture and installation, to Australia in 1967. Her first solo and Europe. He glances at minimalism completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree continues to explore the invisible wonder exhibition in 1978 was at the SA School and all the abstract geometric tradition with first class honours at the College of of sense perception and light formation of Art, Adelaide. She has exhibited in of the twentieth century in his forms – in Fine Arts, University of NSW. through his innate intuition of science, national and international high profile the way he uses space, in the choice of Vanila has been the recipient of a space, colour and form. Robert revisits curated exhibitions. lowly and industrial materials and in the number of awards including the 2006 geometric abstraction with an artist’s eye Jacky’s recent exhibition “Jacky Redgate: patient warping of the surfaces. Citigroup Australian Photographic for both transformation and continuity. survey 1980-2003” toured the Perth Dani’s practice is stimulated by what we Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, He has had over thirty solo exhibitions Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) perceive as challenges within the act Sydney. and participated in numerous group and the Museum of Contemporary Art, of portrayal. He is fascinated by what exhibitions in Australia and Europe, Sydney in 2005-6. lies behind the surface of the subject “I’m a lousy frangipani” representing Australia in the 38th Venice as an essence to be grasped or sought Biennale in 1978. “Life of the System 1980–2005” after through attempting to represent “I often feel that I am fading away into it. The meditative dexterity of weaving an insignificant, shadowy, odd blob, “Model for New Constellation” “In 1980 I worked with sculptural inevitably redundant, prematurely dead. objects that I exhibited as tableaux. rhythms of thread, rope or jewels This work is the model for New becomes symbolic of the idea of molding This photograph is part of a body of They were based on a diary my mother work called “For those about to rot”, Constellation commissioned by the MLC wrote when I was hospitalized as a a “second skin”. Each “skin” with its Centre foyer entrance, Sydney. Here, individual pattern, like DNA coding, which plays with notions of obsolescence three-year old child. The sculptures and transformation.” a dialogue is in play of Sosef Albers’ were lost and I recently discovered might represent a person who occupies Wrestling of 1976, situated on the MLC the space beneath the layer. Price: $3,300 photographic documentation of Plaza wall. This work, a 15 meter high them shot in sunlight. I have enlarged 2D drawing is from a series of drawings “The Pleasure Chest” them and restaged them as artistic Albers called Structural Constellations… documentation”. the discrepancy between physical fact Second hand beaded necklaces and Price: $24,000 (6 prints - framed) and psychic effect. Robert’s 3D painted Spanish rosary beads collected between $3,800 each (unframed) steel ‘drawings’ jump this effect into 2000 and 2003. Tubular mesh used $4,300 each (framed) for mussel farming on wood. These 21st Century geometry unfolding in a second hand beads and necklaces are visual dance of paradox and intrigue. woven into an intricate complexity Price: $19,800 which resonates with a sense of the many people who have worn them, thus creating an abstract “group portrait”. Price: $30,000

6 13. Susan Rushforth 14. David Sequeira 15. Darren Siwes 16. Hossein Valamanesh Susan is a printmaker whose works Working in a range of media, David Darren completed his Bachelor of Born in Iran, Hossein immigrated to reflect her interest in nature explores the notion of language Visual Arts with Honours at the South Australia in 1973. He graduated from particularly the qualities of water in the and information through colour and Australian School of Art in 1997. In 2000 the South Australia School of Art and landscape. She studied traditional and geometry. David is a self-confessed He won the prestigious Gordon & Anne has exhibited in Australia and overseas. contemporary woodblock printmaking in hoarder and his collections of books, Samstag Scholarship which enabled him He is represented in most Australian Kyoto, Japan from 1990-1994. vases, petals, elaves and picture frames to complete a ‘Master of Fine Arts’ at the public art collections. A major survey of Susan completed a Master of Fine Arts find their way into his art practice. David ‘Chelsea School of Art’, London. He is his work was held in the Art Gallery of at the University of NSW on her return to is a doctoral candidate at RMIT. widely collected and has exhibited both South Australia in 2001. Australia. nationally and internationally. “Time and Space” (1) “Twins” “The Just and the Unjust” “Elapse” “Infinite Wisdom” (2) “Twins uses two palm fronds to form Elapse attempts to depict the subtle “There is a Season” (3) “In this current body of work I aim to the shape of plaited hair. It appears that qualities of change in the Australian From the series “My Mother’s Garden” elicit imagination and new fictitious (or the two people are joined or brought landscape. The horizon represents non-fictitious) dialogue regarding justice. together by the plaiting of hair. I like the This series takes colours from the an element of ambiguity where both I am also interested in eliciting dialogue humour of this work. For me they could spectrum and translates them through water and the lack of water informs the regarding the rigidity of divisional lines also be lovers.” petals and leaves into shimmering landscape. It implies time passing where (whether real or imaginary) in class Price: $14,000 fields of colour . Each subtle change of subtle shifts in light reveal the character or culture, and perhaps encourage tone locked down with stitched thread of the land or results of water moving in them to go beyond their boundaries to carefully reproducing a geometric and over the land in an ever changing allow their imagination to explore new pattern. Some of these patterns are process. thoughts and ideas.” straight forward, others are borrowed Price: $4,500 for one work; Price: $2,400 from Islamic art, but each brings a new $12,500 for the set of 3 works meaning by imposing an aesthetic order over nature. Price: (1) $4,000 pair (2) $1,000 (3) $1,100 to $1,400 each; $7,500 For the set of 9 works

7 SELECTED ARTISTS (CON’T)

17. Ian Waldron 18. John Young In 1995 Ian was the Open Painting John is a Hong Kong-born Australian Award winner in the 12th National artist. During the time of The Great Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China, Award. Since that time, his painting he was sent to Australia to complete career has been marked by regular high his education. In the 1970s, he read profile curated exhibitions in public philosophy at The University of Sydney, and private galleries. Most recently, a later attending and lecturing at the large installation of his work traveled Sydney College of the Arts. to Vienna as part of Spirit and Vision, Since the early 80’s, he has worked a survey exhibition of Aboriginal art. on many series of works, in particular Exhibitions such as these have stimulated the “Square Painting” series (1995 - huge interest from collectors. present). This work revolves around such The continuing innovation within this issues as frameworks of representation, body of art has meant that Ian has mood states, certainty, the plight of the capacity to capture and keep the Asians in the diaspora, and images in interest of a wide audience. Ian is of the and memories of cultural tourism. Kurtijar language group from the Gulf of Carpentaria. “Castiglione’s Garden”

“Untitled” “The painting is a tribute to the Yuan Ming Yuan or the Garden of Perfect “This painting depicts language groups Splendor, in Beijing. Designed and built of Far North Queensland. Superimposed by the Jesuit Guiseppe Castiglione from over the land are bloodwood trees, 1709 - these remarkable gardens and which are totems from my country, palaces, also known as the Chinese Kurtijar, which covers Normanton to the Versailles, were subsequently destroyed Gilbert River in the Gulf of Carpentaria.” around 1860. These gardens were, Price: $16,500 in retrospect, a great cross-cultural achievement, built by an Italian Jesuit on Chinese soil. Though these palaces at present exist only in memory, the painting is testament to the power of art in resurrecting symbolic import, despite the ravages of history.” Price: $38,000

8 NOMINATED ARTISTS

19. Matthew Allen 20. Lisa Andrew 21. Andrew Blake 22. Mitch Cairns Nominated by Hilarie Mais Nominated by Nominated by Daren Siwes Nominated by Newell Harry Matthew achieved First Class Honours in Maria Fernanda Cardoso Born in Adelaide, Andrew gained his Mitch graduated from the National Art a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Sydney Born in Tokyo, Lisa has lived in Milan, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) at the School with Honours in 2006. His work College of Arts in 2004 and a Master in Manila, Melbourne and New York and University of South Australia and has been included in ‘The Year in Art’, Visual Arts in 2006. now Sydney. She completed an MFA Bachelor of Education (Spec) at the the ABN AMRO emerging art prize at the School of Visual Arts, New York University of South Australia. and the ‘Helen Lempriere Travelling Art “Red/Green” in 1994. Scholarship’. “Figures of the Imagination” “My work is concerned with the breath Lisa has shown work extensively around A recipient of the ‘Clitheroe Foundation of colour experience available within Sydney and was short listed for the ABN “These two figures, modeled in clay, Painting Scholarship’, Mitch is currently a painting. I am interested in the viewers Amro Award, 2006. She has shown represent a personal response to the committee member with Sydney’s “artist subjective engagement with the works in Colombia, Cologne, New York, uncertainty of contemporary life. Since run space”, MOP Projects. “colour-space”, which is grounded in Paris and Manila. Lisa teaches at the the late 90’s my sculptural work has the painted object.” MCA. involved the human figure as a malleable “Feature Organ” surface where the dichotomies of good/ Price: $6,500 “Camping in the City” Feature Organ belongs to a larger evil, refined/primitive and past/future collection of paintings entitled ‘Support The work is digital and by hand. It is coexist, and a face can simultaneously be Act/ Residency’. As the Actress said to printed on to the interface, coated and a window to the soul and a diversionary the Bishop! mask. I particularly like the poetry of then sewn into. This layered process Price: $2,500 is drawn three times on to the same William Blake and the way he embraces piece of paper. Each layer is floating and contradiction; believing that “Opposition attempting to be the clearest. The gaze is true Friendship.” hovers between the foreground (sewing/ Price: $900 each drawing) and the background and the final stitch, is to create a spatial drawing. Price: $5,000

Sally Smart ‘A.W. of K. (Beeology)’ Art Prize winner 2004

Philip Wolfhagen ‘Dark traverse’ Art Prize winner 2001

9 NOMINATED ARTISTS (CON’T)

23. Christine Christophersen 24. Peter Davrington 25. Claudia Damichi 26. Juan Ford Nominated by Nominated by Robert Owen Nominated by David Sequeria Nominated by John Young Michael Nelson Jagamara Peter gained a Master of Fine Art, from Claudia studied at COFA UNSW, where Juan completed a Master of Arts (Fine Christine was born in Darwin. Her the Victorian College of the Arts. she received her BFA in 1993 and Art) by Research at RMIT in 2001. He has mother’s country is located in Kakadu ‘Perspective for me is a choice - it’s a followed this with a Master of Art in held 16 solo exhibitions to date, and has National Park. She is a member of the way of seeing the world as a vast 1997. Stylistically her paintings employ participated in many important group Murran Clan, north-west Arnhem Land interconnected labyrinth - one that a kind of ‘flattened realism’. Her work and survey exhibitions nationally. He has and Iwatja language group. Actively places the viewer at centre stage of a is informed by painters such as David received various awards, such as the painting since the late 1990s, she has centre-less world. I use painting as a Hockney and Rene Magritte as well as op prestigious Fletcher Jones Contemporary exhibited in France, Sydney, Darwin and model to portray the subjectivity of art painters of the 1960’s. Claudia has Art Prize in 2004, the 2006 Fisher’s Brisbane. In 2006 Christine was awarded viewpoints and the infinite multiplicity exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Ghost Art Prize, the 2004 Salon des a NEWflames residency in Brisbane of space. I am interested in geometry, and London. Refuses Peoples’ Choice Award, the where she developed a new body of perspective, light and architecture as 2003 Conrad Jupiter’s Art Prize, and was work, some of which have since been visual cues that warp and twist between “I feel funny inside” the recipient of the Australia Council for collected by the National Gallery of the Arts Rome Studio in 2006. His work abstraction and representation, being Claudia’s paintings reveal a fabulous Australia. neither yet both. I see the paintings is represented in significant collections and grandiose natural world that butts nationally. as x-rays of the void. I like the void, up against solitary domestic interiors. “Scarification” it makes sense - yet this void is not A playful manipulation of scale sends “The Last Enemy” Christine’s paintings drift between nothingness, it is a hyperspace.’ a wink of acknowledgement to the both the real and illusory ideas of self, fantastical unconscious mind, as explored “This painting employs a secular use including idyllic images of Aboriginal “Purple Haze” by the Surrealist painters. Executed of the vanitas tradition. We exist in a Women’s ceremony, law, language An oil and enamel painting on canvas, with perfect technical acuity, Claudia time when we’re surrounded by more and social structure. These themes exploring notions of space through makes us feel funny inside because she worldly goods than ever before, but are founded within a complex web of perspective, geometry and architecture. is able to give visual representation to are collectively in a state of potential social and political filters that Christine This painting references Renaissance the uncomfortable tensions between self-annihilation because of our impact simultaneously uses as educational painting, op-art, hard-edge abstraction the internal and external worlds of her on the natural environment. What tools, dance props, theatre set designs, and architectural design plans or imagination. Claudia’s environments are are we but a clutch of smart animals and ultimately as fine art. Scarification computer aided design (CAD). expectant and neglected, like a film-set living tenuously on the moist outskirts depicts a variation of (self) portraiture waiting for the actors. of a massive desert, forever looking Price: $5,500 with actual body scarification marks Price: $2,800 away from the centre, vandalizing the based on her ‘Blue Print’ series of tribal landscape to hell. We forget that the customs and kinship law. environment that spawned us will laugh Price: $6,600 last, and reign on long, long after we have ceased to matter.” Price: $9,900

10 27. Kath Fries 28. Julie Harris 29. Robert Howe 30. Peter Murraay Djeripi Mulcahy Nominated by Lindy Lee Nominated by Susan Rushforth Nominated by Jacky Redgate Nominated by Michael Eather Kath was born and lives in Sydney. She Julie graduated from the National Art Born in Sydney, Robert lives and works completed her BFA with Honours at School with a Diploma in Painting in in the Illawarra. He received his Bachelor Peter is a descendant of the Gamilaroi COFA in 2001 and after traveling to 1975. She lived in the UK from 1976 - of Creative Arts from the University of people of Northern NSW. Painting for India, Europe and South East Asia, she is 79. She has been exhibiting since 1973. Wollongong in 2000. educational audiences for 15 years Peter has exhibited extensively in Queensland. currently studying towards her Masters Julie’s abstract works ‘allude to an elusive Robert’s artwork often explores themes In 2007 he was awarded a NEWflames of Visual Art at SCA. scripted language sourced from the of collective memory, nostalgia and residency in Brisbane. “My passion is to Kath has had four solo exhibitions natural environment… In human scale, subjectivity. A finalist in the 2000 paint my stories. Paramount is my desire and was a finalist in Emerging 2003 her approach to the bush is personal and Guinness contemporary Art Prize, Robert to teach and learn. A knowingness at Gosford Regional Gallery. Her work intimate; if others examine the body of has also completed three residencies to comes over me, an exciting confidence has been selected for local and national the landscape, Harris examines the skin.’ Antarctica. in the story flooding my mind. I attempt group exhibitions. to capture our culture as it was, as it is “Floating Skies 2” “Julie Andrews practices Qigong” and paint again what it could be. I wish “At the point” - triptych Floating Skies is a 3 paneled work from to reinvigorate and help transplant those Digital colour prints mounted on the series Between the River and the Maria, full of joy, sings as she activates beliefs, knowing and understanding of aluminium. Series of six. Heights. The title refers to the location of her chi flow. our land, creation, spirit and ourselves, my studio in the Kurrajong Hills. Price: $320 each; $1,800 for all six Price: $1,600 into the hearts of all those who find Price: $8,500 affinity with it.”

“Protection” “Like my ancestors I am a storyteller, my art is just my figurative form of language. I consider what I do a privilege, while knowing it to be a responsibility.” Protection represents guardian spirits and a desire to revise cultural images that have largely been lost or forgotten, and make them apparent in the present as a living entity. Price: $4,500

11 NOMINATED ARTISTS (CON’T)

31. Joanne Currie Nalingu 32. Adam Norton 33. Nusra Qureshi 34. Jackson Rowe Nominated by Ian Waldron Nominated by Vanila Netto Nominated by Hossein Valamanesh Nominated by Marriane Baillieu Born in Mitchell at the ‘Yumba’ in Adam has been exhibiting in Australia Born in Pakistan in 1973, Nusra studied Jackson is completing his BFA at the South West Queensland, Joanne began since 2002, most recently with a solo at the National College of Arts in Lahore Victorian College of the Arts. He has painting in 1988. In 1992 Joanne show at Gallery 9, Sydney. and at the Victorian College of the Arts exhibited extensively locally including at was searching for an accurate way to In December Adam’s work will appear in in Melbourne. the Top Arts VCE at the National Gallery represent the visual language of her “The Visitors” Penrith Regional Gallery Nusra has lectured at the National of Victoria. people and country, and following and in “Our lucky country” at Hazelhurst College of Arts and teaches occasionally His focus is large colourful, abstract research undertaken at the Queensland Regional Gallery. in Melbourne. She has exhibited landscapes. He uses different materials Museum, she developed the distinctive internationally in Pakistan, USA, UK, to present a visual rhythm of shape, Maranoa Shield and River designs. “Crop Circle I” India, Japan and Australia. colour and line. Often the surface is the Joanne’s paintings are now represented remnants of reciprocal dialogue between in the Queensland Art Gallery and “UFO reports count among the most “Beneath the Silks – I” the artist and the work. numerous private collections in Australia, common and widespread narratives of USA and Europe. extraordinary experience active in the The image refers to a state of “Senses Centre” modern world. They update the legend sorrow. It laments the extinction and “Calm River” of the supernatural encounter replacing disappearance of birds, plants and The painting sets out to explore the ghosts and fairies with visiting aliens, other forms of life as well as many fine senses incorporating a dyslexic response. Joanne has strong memories of her early and usurp its functions by continuing an crafts and cultural practices. Historically The exploration is embedded with life living on the river bank, seemingly in age-old relationship between humans the ascent of certain aspects of history and meaning. It is about breaking a no-mans land, a grass roots lifestyle, and superhuman beings” wrote Ed civilisation has been closely related to up constructs of text, mapping and kero lamps and heaters, government Bullard in “Folkloric Dimensions of the the accelerated exploitation of natural references. issue blankets – families and hardships. UFO Phenomenon”. resources. Price: $7,000 Yet still today, just the thought of that Price: $2,600 Price: $4,800 river provides a vital link back to her cultural core. Indeed there is a resonating quality with these modified patterns. Her paintings speak of the river as a living entity but also appear to transmit other elements. Whilst instantly recognisable as Aboriginal, they allude to the journey of an artist moving within cultures. Price: $5,500

12 35. Mimi Tong 36. Lucia Usmiani 37. Jessie Mais Wright Nominated by Dani Marti Nominated by Pat Brassington Nominated by John Beard Mimi was born, and lives, in Sydney. Graduated with a PHD in 2006, Lucia is Jessie achieved a BVA (Hons) at the Awarded a MVA at the Sydney College a sculptor who uses recycled plastics and Sydney College of the Arts in 2003. of the Arts (2004), she has received cans to form her unique sculptures. The “It is hard to describe one’s influences; an Australia Council New Work Grant sinuous forms allow the natural light to an artist is made up of other people (2007, 2004) and the Freedman worm its way through her forms giving a and places, yet is not them. I have been Foundation Traveling Scholarship (2006). wonderful sense of floating weightless. deeply immersed in art since childhood Mimi has recently exhibited at Art space, Lucia’s pieces have been used in the and have borrowed many things, there Hazlehurst Regional Gallery, Tin Sheds IXL Henry Jones Art Hotel as part of are too many to mention and listing and James Dorahy Project Space. their permanent collection along with them would not explain why I do what numerous private collections. I do. However in the words of Matthew “Extended Coastline (Drawing 1)” Collings, author of ‘This is Modern Art’, “Lush” paraphrasing Shakespeare over Tracey Extended Coastline explores the natural Emin’s bed; “none lived, nor saw, nor landscape in relation to the built Lush is a two dimensional work, felt anything in such a way before as I environment of the Sutherland Shire. The made from aluminum beers cans. The do today”, I would state simply that as photographic collage and ink drawing aluminum is cut into 2 cm squares every man and woman in every era has technique maps the material and spatial and arranged to form a repeat surface lived and seen and felt, never is any one experience of walking through a diverse pattern. Taking advantage of the printed experience ever lived again in the same and unique region of Sydney. surface of the can the pattern is formed way, but always made anew.” Price: $1,300 on a grid. Price: $4,795 “Untitled # 9” Untitled 9 is an exploration of the image/ experience of what is beyond the real. The sublime embodies this experience rather than illustrating/standing in for it; it is a primal material response. Price: $5,500

Walangkura Napanangka (Snr) ‘Untitled’ (detail) Art Prize winner 2005 © the artist licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency 2006

13 WHAT’S ON AT THIS YEAR’S ART PRIZE

A word from the Head of School 2007 Speaker Series Redlands Alumni Events at Neil Tucker the Mosman Art Gallery Professor Ivor Indyk 20 November 7.00 - 9.00 pm The School initiated the Redlands Westpac Art Prize Ivor will talk about the challenges faced, and his The 60’s revisited 11 years ago as a means of exposing students to achievements, since extending his career to include 17 November 6.30 - 8.30 pm contemporary Australian artists in a novel and interactive publishing. This is in direct response to Australian Did you finish school at SCEGGS Redlands in the 1960s? manner, and to boost the School’s involvement in authors of high literary standing who have found it Please join us for a decade reunion for all Redlands girls Australia’s arts community. Since its inaugural exhibition increasingly difficult to find an Australian publisher. His from the 1960s to catch up with friends, share four in the School Gym in 1996, the Prize has grown into a rewards speak for themselves, including this year’s Miles decades of memories and listen to young Redlanders two week long festival of artistic and cultural events at Franklin Award winner “Carpentaria” by Alexis Wright. perform. the Mosman Art Gallery. Ivor is the Whitlam Professor in Writing and Society at the University of Sydney and publisher of “Heat”, the Inter-generational reunion Considered one of the more generous art prizes in 24 November 3.00 - 5.00 pm Australia, the Redlands Westpac Art Prize attracts highly regarded magazine combining literature and leading contemporary artists and the winning paintings contemporary art. Redlanders of more than one generation getting are acquired by the school as a learning tool for Luca Belgiorno-Nettis 21 November 7.00 - 9.00pm together! Have members of your family been students or staff at Redlands for more than one generation? students. Luca will discuss how the Biennale of Sydney succeeds All inter-generational Redlanders and their families in fulfilling the need to establish a pre-eminent At this year’s Speaker Series three of Australia’s leaders in are invited to an informal function to celebrate shared international context in which Australian artists are the Arts discuss their personal challenges while realising memories. their visions. Last year’s series was a great success and I featured alongside their peers from around the world. encourage you not to miss this opportunity. In addition, The Biennale also brings the most exciting art from other Exceptional wine tasting countries to Australia, thereby offering opportunities to we are pleased to host two great alumni events, one for 26 November 6.00 - 8.00 pm multi-generational Redlanders and their families as well engage with the artists themselves. Luca is Chairman of as a 60s decade reunion. the Biennale of Sydney and Chairman of the University BackVintage Wines Australia is one of Australia’s fastest Art Committees at the University of Technology, Sydney, growing internet based wine companies. The company The Redlands Westpac Art Prize would not have been and the University of Western Sydney. sources, blends and bottles parcels of wine from possible without our partnership with Westpac, and Leon Paroissien 28 November 7.00 - 9.00pm premium regions throughout Australia and New Zealand we are appreciative of their commitment over so many for sale direct to the consumer under the BackVintage® years. Thank you to the 2007 curator, Imants Tillers, Leon will discuss the value that mid-twentieth century brand. All BackVintage® wines are independently for his outstanding contribution and also to all the Australia gave to expressive capacities and creativity endorsed by Master of Wine Nick Bulleid. participating artists. It is these partnerships which will in education. Recently this has tended to be eclipsed ensure this special event remains part of the Redlands by emphases being placed on mastery of literacy and BackVintage® wine tastings are a fast track experience calendar for many years to come. numeracy, on applied technical skills in vocational to the diversity of styles and regional characteristics training, and on new curriculum areas. However, found in Australian wine. The BackVintage® team will Event Information significant contributions to arts education are being take you through the range, providing an insight into Speaker Series - Tickets are available from Tina Fleming made by innovative developments occurring beyond the styles and varietals of the wines. on 9908 6484 or tfl[email protected]. school campuses. Leon is Adjunct Professor, Design and Please come along and join us - admission free. Cost - $20 per session, $50 for all 3 sessions. Architecture, University of and Chairman of Alumni Events - For more information contact Heleen the City of Sydney Public Art Advisory Panel, and was Fourie on 9908 6483 or [email protected]. the founding Director of the MCA.

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15 SELECTED ARTISTS

1. Marianne Baillieu 2. John Beard 3. Pat Brassington 4. Maria Fernanda Cardoso 5. Michael Eather 6. Michael Nelson Jagamara “As it was in the beginning” “Sphinx” “House Guest # 1” “Emu (Rectangle)” “Backwards & Forwards “Mt Singleton Stories” One in a Series of 3 (The Unutterable)”

7. Lindy Lee 8. Hilarie Mais 9. Dani Marti 10. Vanila Netto 11. Robert Owen 12. Jacky Redgate “Traveling the Blue” “Shaft” “The Pleasure Chest” “I’m a lousy frangipani” “Model for New Constellation” “Life of the System 1980–2005 One in a Series of 6

13. Susan Rushforth 14. David Sequeira 15. Darren Siwes 16. Hossein Valamanesh 17. Ian Waldron 18. John Young “Elapse” “Time and Space” “The Just and the Unjust” “Twins” “Untitled” “Castiglione’s Garden” One in a Series of 3 One in a Series of 3 19. Matthew Allen 20. Lisa Andrew 21. Andrew Blake 22. Mitch Cairns 23. Christine Christophersen 24. Peter Davrington “Red/Green” “Camping in the City” “Figures of the Imagination” “Feature Organ” “Scarification” “Purple Haze”

25. Claudia Damichi 26. Juan Ford 27. Kath Fries 28. Julie Harris 29. Robert Howe 30. Peter Murraay Djeripi “I feel funny inside” “The Last Enemy” “At the point” “Floating Skies 2” “Julie Andrews practices Mulcahy Qigong”- triptych “Protection”

31. Joanne Currie Nalingu 32. Adam Norton 33. Nusra Qureshi 34. Jackson Rowe 35. Mimi Tong 36. Lucia Usmiani “Calm River” “Crop Circle I” “Beneath the Silks – I” “Senses Centre” “Extended Coastline (Drawing 1)” “Lush”

37. Jessie Mais Wright “Untitled # 9” NOMINATED ARTISTS Catalogue designed and sponsored by Rodney Pople Chandelier (San Rocco) Art Prize winner 2006