Upcoming exhibitions

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Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield campus
7 September – 9 October 2009
Curator: Danny Lacy

+ /- examines the minimal and the maximal, the reductive and the additive, the positive and negative, exploring the formal visual elements of pattern, repetition and grid across a wide range of mediums. Inspired by Kerrie Poliness’ geometric Black O wall drawings, +/- focuses upon works from the Monash University Collection, and selected loans, that play with formal aesthetics. Featuring Damiano Bertoli, Lane Cormick, Eugene Carchesio, Mikala Dwyer, Anne Ferran, Marco Fusinato, Tony Garifalakis, Robert Hunter, Clinton Nain, David Noonan, Louise Paramor and Sandra Selig, among others.

Jacky Redgate, Chiswick 1953 #1 from the series photographer unknown. A Portrait Chronicle of Photographs, England 1953–62 1980–83,15 parts, gelatin silver photograph, mat, wooden frame. Courtesy of the artist, William Wright Artists’ Projects, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne. Purchased 2007

Photographer Unknown

Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton campus
16 September - 28 November 2009
Curator: Dr Kyla McFarlane

Found or anonymous photographic images and film footage are a fascinating subject for many artists. The snapshot, the amateur photograph, the flea market find, the postcard and the work of the anonymous, jobbing photographer have all provided material fodder, or acted as conceptual springboards for making new work. Engaging with this material, artists enact a series of reversals, reprisals and re-workings – bringing the snapshot to the status of the fine art print, calling into question conventions of authorship, quality, the public and private, the nature of the archive and monumentality. Titled after Jacky Redgate’s photographer unknown series from 1980-3, this group exhibition charts a course through these encounters in the contemporary context, including works that draw upon flea market analogue prints, to those inspired by more recent forms, such as videos uploaded to youtube by a myriad of internet users. Artists include Susan Fereday, Marco Fusinato, Donna Ong, Patrick Pound, Jacky Redgate, Elvis Richardson and Fiona Tan.

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