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GST) ART COLLECTOR 86 THE GLOBAL ISSUE + NATSIAA PICKS + ELISABETH CUMMINGS + JOHN STEZAKER + MORE 9 772209 731009 > DAWN NG SULLIVAN+STRUMPF / SYDNEY 24 NOVEMBER – 22 DECEMBER 2018 SYDNEY BALL SULLIVAN+STRUMPF / SYDNEY 27 OCTOBER –17 NOVEMBER 2018 JAMES GEURTS SEISMIC FIELD 21 NOV - 21 DEC 2018 WWW.GAGPROJECTS.COM | [email protected] | 39 RUNDLE ST, KENT TOWN, ADELAIDE | +61 8 8362 6354 Image: James Geurts, Prime Meridian: International Date Line, 2018, neon light Darryn George Hikoi 31 October - 24 November 2018 Opening Preview: Tuesday 30 October, 5-7pm GOW LANGSFORD GALLERY 26 LORNE ST / CNR KITCHENER ST & WELLESLEY ST AUCKLAND NZ PO BOX 5461 T: +64 9 303 4290 WWW.GOWLANGSFORDGALLERY.COM JACQUI STOCKDALE GHOST HOOVANAH 21 NOVEMBER – 9 DECEMBER OLSENGALLERY.COM Jacqui Stockdale Duel of the Mount # 1 (detail) C Type Print 2018 JAKE WALKER 31 OCTOBER - 24 NOVEMBER 2018 gallery9.com.au 9 Darley St, Darlinghurst GALLERY 9 Sydney +61 2 9380 9909 [email protected] NGANAMPA NGURA KURUNTJARA THE PLACE OF OUR SPIRIT 31 OCTOBER – 18 NOVEMBER OLSENGALLERY.COM Yaritji Young Tjala Tjukurpa (detail) acrylic on linen 198 x 152 cm Tjala Arts 2018 CONTENTS THE GLOBAL ISSUE ON THE COVER: Paul Yore, Happy Are Ye Poor, 2017. Mixed media appliqué; found materials, iron-on printed fabric transfers, wool, beads, sequins buttons, 230 x 207cm. COURTESY: THE ARTIST AND NEON PARC, MELBOURNE. PHOTO: DEVON ACKERMANN. UPFRONT 29 52 NEWS & EVENTS BEHIND THE SCENES News and views on the art world. How does international success effect an Australian artist’s market back home? 34 IN THE WORKS 59 Visual Arts 101 with critic Edward Colless. SURVEY What makes a collection memorable? 38 EXHIBITION 62 Everything you need to know about the CULTURAL CAPITAL 9th Asia Pacific Triennial. Carrie Miller and Andrew Frost discuss some of the reasons people collect art. 44 ART FAIRS 70 The forthcoming art fairs on our calendars. ON THE COUCH We speak to the curators, directors and 47 gallerists at the coalface of the global stage. AGENDA What happens to an artist when a gallery closes? 76 Ingrid Periz asks. NOT TO BE MISSED The must-see exhibitions this quarter. 48 LIFECYCLE OF A COLLECTOR 88 Ideas for the collector who has already filled the IF I COULD HAVE… house (and the beach house) with art. Curator Kate Britton presents the artwork on her wish list. 9 ART COLLECTOR ARTISTS COLLECTING #86 OCT-DEC 2018 90 176 WHAT NOW? ART CENTRE: Our writers speak to three established THE INNOVATORS Editor-In-Chief Susan Borham artists about their recent work. Tjungu Palya Art Centre may be small, but its influence is profound. Publisher 96 Beatrice Spence WHAT NEXT? 182 Editor We introduce the work of three DEALER: IMAGINE WHAT artists for your radar. Camilla Wagstaff YOU DESIRE 106 Hobart-based dealer Michael Bugelli on Assistant Editor combining the old and the new. Kirsty Sier CRITIC’S CHOICE The artists who have recently captured 188 Art Director curator Francis McWhannell’s attention. COLLECTOR: Louise Summerton 114 THE ART MACHINE Senior Designer We roam through the five-level warehouse of Justine Scott NATSIAA PICK OF THE CROP Peter Wilson and James Emmet – complete Our wrap on some of the standout works from with its rotating moveable art racks. Interns this year’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Annie Tonkin, Rose Leake, Islander Art Awards. 196 Zoe Zheng PREVIEWS 124 Associate Editors Three notable commercial gallery exhibitions Dr Alan Cholodenko GLOBAL WARMING across Australia and New Zealand this quarter. Local artists setting the world stage on fire. Dr Edward Colless 204 Michael Hutak 138 John Young ONE SENTENCE REVIEWS BEING TIMELESS Dr Rex Butler Recent exhibitions reviewed by our writers in Professor James Choo Sasha Grishin discusses how Elisabeth 30 words or less. 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Photo: Haru Sameshima CONTRIBUTORS Lucinda Bennett is the 2017 curatorial in- Briony Downes has worked in the arts for more Francis McWhannell has contributed to a va- tern at Dunedin Public Art Gallery prior to than 20 years as a writer, actor and art theory riety of arts and culture magazines and web- which she was a curator at The University tutor, among other things. sites including Art News New Zealand, HOME of Auckland’s Window project space. She is and Runway Conversations. He is based in New based in Aotearoa. Gina Fairley is the current the visual arts editor Zealand and co-curated Project 18 as part of for ArtsHub Australia. this year’s Auckland Art Fair. Kate Britton’s current curatorial concerns centre around queer theory and practice, and Dr Andrew Frost is an art critic, broadcaster Joanna Mendelssohn is an art historian spe- the dialogue between writing, text and con- and lecturer. cialising in Australian art. temporary art. She is a Sydney-based writer and curator. Professor Sasha Grishin has published 17 books Carrie Miller is a freelance writer based in and more than 1,000 articles. He is an emeritus Wollongong. Dr Rex Butler’s research interests include of the school of literature, languages and linguis- Australian art and art criticism, post-war tics at the Australian National University. Tai Mitsuji holds a masters in art history from American art and critical theory. He is an art the University of Oxford. He has contributed historian and professor at Monash University Leonhard Hilzensauer is a photographer based to publications including Art and Australia, in Melbourne. in Vienna. Art Monthly Australasia, Art Guide Australia and The Sydney Morning Herald. Based in Laura Couttie is an independent writer, ed- Jesse Hunniford is a Tasmania-based photogra- Sydney, he also works as a curator. itor, curator and arts administrator based in pher and videographer. Melbourne. Andrew Nicholls is an artist, writer and cura- John Hurrell is the editor of EyeContact and is tor based in Western Australia. Edward Colless lectures in critical and theo- a New Zealand-based writer, artist and curator. retical studies at the Victorian College of the Jane O’Sullivan has written for publications Arts, University of Melbourne. He is also the Victoria Hynes has been a columnist for the including the Australian Financial Review, editor of Art + Australia. Sydney Morning Herald and written for numer- Artnet, Art Guide and Ocula. She is a former ous Australian and international art magazines. editor of Art Collector. Dr Ashley Crawford is the author of a num- Based in Sydney, she is currently contributing ber of books on Australian art, including editor at Asian Art News magazine. Ingrid Periz writes about contemporary art Transformations: The Work of Sonia Payes from her home outside Princeton, New Jersey. and Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley. Paris Lettau is currently a sessional tutor in art history at the University of Melbourne. Tan Walter is a photographer and creative di- Ineke Dane is interested in overlaps between rector based in Singapore. architecture, politics, society and the envi- Jane Llewellyn, a former editor of Art Collector, ronment, and a progression towards seam- is based in Adelaide. Coen Young is a Sydney-based artist. lessness between art and life. She is a curator currently based in Brisbane where she works Jacquie Manning is a photographer based in with the international studio Urban Art Sydney. Projects. Louise Martin-Chew is a freelance arts writer. Micheal Do recently curated Soft Core, a travelling exhibition for Casula Powerhouse Helen McKenzie conducts international art Arts Centre and Not Niwe, Not Nieuw, Not tours for Art Collector subscribers and readers CORRECTION: In issue 85 of Art Collector, we stated Neu for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian and works out of Sydney as an art adviser and that Anthea Polson Art was in Brisbane.