Past exhibitions -- 2004

Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life

26 May - 3 July 2004
Opening: Saturday 29 May, 3-5pm
Monash University Museum of Art

Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life presents new work by emerging contemporary artists featured alongside works by leading Australian artists that form part of the Monash University Collection.

Guest curated by Charlotte Hallows, the exhibition examines the aesthetics and psychological implications of our new post-industrial landscapes, where information and communication networks reign amid a proliferation of media, capital, and market-driven myths.

Sharon Goodwin Lovers Leap #5 2003, Courtesy of the artist and Uplands Gallery.

The artists use painting, photography, sculpture, installation and new media to cast into high relief the irreconcilable realities of late-modern consumer culture, and the diminishing boundaries between our bodies, our psychology and the exterior world.

Satellite Cities and Tabloid Life brings together new work by four of Australia's leading emerging artists - Juan Ford (people's choice award winner in this year's Archibald Prize Salon de Refuses), Sharon Goodwin (recently identified as one of Australia's most collectible artists, and widely acclaimed at Artissima, Turin, Italy 2003), Matthew Griffin (renowned for his provocative mural scale paintings of gangsta rappers and alienated youth) and Selina Ou (one of Australia's leading photo-media-artists).

Their works are exhibited alongside those of Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson and Howard Arkley, all of whom have represented Australia at the prestigious Venice Biennale, Kathy Temin, whose most recent project was presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and Callum Morton, whose work was recently the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.