Gallery Crawl: Current Exhibitions

Queensland Art Gallery:Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism
16 October 2010 - 13 February 2011 QAG
Vida Lahey (1882-1968) is one of Queensland’s best loved artists of the first half of the twentieth century and is recognized as much for her work in promoting of art in Queensland and art education as for her own paintings.

Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award 2010
28 August – 7 November 2010 | GoMA
This exhibition features the work of leading new media artists invited to participate in the Premier of Queensland’s National New Media Art Award for 2010.

Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future
7 August – 14 November 2010 | GoMA
Exclusive to Brisbane, ‘Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future’ is a major exhibition developed by the renowned institution, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris. It explores the work of the celebrated Italian fashion house Valentino, known around the world for its sophisticated, timeless design and glamorous clientele.



Heiser Gallery:Celeste Chandler
love is homesickness
October - 13 November 2010
Chandler’s work has been curated in a number of group exhibitions including Work by 1999 Residents, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris (1999), The Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney (2001), Synergy, CSIRO Marine Building, Hobart (2002), and Scratching the Surface, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, (and touring 2003/04).





Jan Manton art:Imants Tillers& Dadang Christanto
Dual Worlds : Views of the Landscape
4 November - 23 December
For the past 30 years Dadang Christanto has produced controversial work rooted deeply in the human experience. Originally from Tegal in Central Java, Indonesia, Christanto now lives in Brisbane where he continues to produce art with an unrelenting message of human suffering and the need for compassion regardless of differing faiths and political systems.
Imants Tillers is one of Australia’s most revered artists. Tillers has represented Australia at important international exhibitions such as the Sao Paulo Bienal (1975), Documenta 7 (1982), and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986).



Philip Bacon Galleries:Ralph Wilson
19 October - 13 November
"Subject is important to me. Rather than choosing it to convey some existing emotion or meaning, the subject is usually the reason for the painting. The challenge is to make the paint become the place or object and for the painter to disappear."
-Ralph Wilson





Jugglers Art Space:Gimiks Born
Bitter Winds
5 - 26 November 2010
Brisbane based artist Gimiks Born will create an unpredicted storm when the doors of the Bitter Winds exhibition blow open at Brisbane based gallery, Jugglers Art Space on November 5th 2010.
His novelist approach to art will not only sooth the visual senses, it will entice art enthusiasts to enter his unique realm of fantasy, a place where strange and wonderful creatures flourish in a mystical world riddled with chaos.

Jugglers Showcase for BARI Fest 2010. 1-29 October 2010
The BARI Festival is an initiative founded by the crew at Jugglers Art Space in 2008, aimed at celebrating and acknowledging the creative and cultural contribution that is often harbored by ARIs within a city.


Institute of Modern Art:Pieter Hugo
Nollywood
25 September — 20 November
The ghost of the Emperor Haile Selassie meets Idi Amin, Charlie's Angels do Rambo Foxy-Brown-style, David Lynch's Lost Highway snakes through Lagos, Ghostface Killah mutates into Fela's 'Zombie', and Dracula gives way for Blacula. Voodoo, hoodoo, and mambo are mashed up with Igbo rituals. Ahhwooooo . . . Werewolves of Lagos.
—Stacy Hardy


Brook Andrew
The Cell
25 September — 20 November
Brook Andrew is of Wiradjuri and Scottish descent. Although he is concerned not to be pigeonholed as an Aboriginal artist, his work nevertheless centres on Aboriginal politics. Conflating contraries, it confounds clear political readings.

Christian Marclay
Looking for Love
25 September — 20 November
Christian Marclay has long criss-crossed the art and experimental-music scenes. Back in the 1970s, the Swiss artist pioneered the use of turntables and records as musical instruments, operating independently of but parallel to hip hop. He also developed a career in art, making works that play on music's materials, supplements, and representations.