Tim Price has been painting up a (fire)storm down in Melbourne, so stand by for our first show of the year opening on Friday 22 February. This work (titled Ceremony) gives us a clue, but we can’t wait to see how the other dozen paintings relate… Some of his previous (see gallery) will also be on show…

We’re open to visitors on Saturday and Sunday on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th, and the following weekend 1st and 2nd March. Or in between by appointment. Please call and make a time…

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… straight into the Hobbs and Harris collection!

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[stretching an elastic band until it snaps, spray-paint, cardboard, elastic band, 2007]

Charlie Sofo’s studio show at ANCA Dickson (SOME THING LIKE A HUMAN) opens on Wednesday night at 6.00pm, and will be open for the next four days from 12.00 to 5.00pm. ArtWranglers is happy to email the list of works and prices on request. Please contact Willa if you want to see the show outside normal hours.

[tooth-pick, paper, ink, toothpick, 2007]

With this body of work Sofo continues with the essential ingredients of his art. A constant dimension of all of his work over the past three years has been a kind of revelation and celebration of its processes – an aesthetic of discovery whereby the processes of observing, conceiving, making, ordering, and presenting continue until the work reaches a definitive state of completion. Most often his materials determine the form of the work, and sometimes the materials are so ephemeral the completion of the work is a forecast of its own destruction. With his fascination for what evolves in front of his eyes, he neither predicts the final character of the work, nor is longevity one of his criteria. The primary pleasure for Sofo is in the discovery of the final form through its processes, and only secondarily whether the outcome is something which will appeal to others. There is also we suspect a kind of perverse pleasure in the (human) body at play. We imagine him looking at his hands and asking himself: “what have I got to work with today? Ah! that looks interesting!” and so the process begins which results in a perfect circle of finger-grease, (paper, finger oil + grime), number 5. in this exhibition.

You can see what Charlie has to say about it all on the previous post.

See all the works in the show in the Gallery at Charlie’s name in the sidebar ->

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At the closing ceremony for Trouble, Rachel Jessie-Rae O’Connor and Erica Seccombe are wearing each other’s chest objects: a knitted Aliens scarf, and a plastic bead necklace. The significance of this exchange is magnified by a recent post from the recent NGA party… perhaps there’s a category emerging here?

Other moments included Head of School Gordon Bull, launching (closing), in front of the dinosaur.

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On the last day of the Trouble exhibition at the ANU School of Art, Jan Hogan and Antonia Aitken complete their cycle of wall drawings: The Breathing Project – the heart, by way of the breath, to the line (Gundaroo dirt, Namadgi charcoal, compressed charcoal, BFK Rives, wall and fence palings). A .pdf of the snappy catalogue, designed by ArtWranglers designer Caren Forance at ampersandduck, can be found here.

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An exhibition of photographs by Jon Rhodes opens at the National Library of Australia this week. Cage of Ghosts is to be officially opened by Howard Morphy at 11am Wednesday 26 September 2007. The exhibition itself opens on 27 September and runs to 25 November 2007 – more information here, but you need to scroll down.
 

 
ArtWranglers received the exhibition’s catalogue essay last night and Jon gives an eloquent overview of the history of his photographic practice, from the Western desert, to the suburbs of Canberra, to the reminders of Aboriginal occupation across south-eastern Australia. He describes how he stumbled across the book by David Brooks, The Arrernte Landscape of Alice Springs, on the mantelpiece of a local artist in Alice Springs on a visit in 1992, a discovery which shifted his approach and interest in what he had been seeing and experiencing since the 1970s.
 
It is delightful to read how Jon found and lived with books, how they played an important part in his approach to his photography. It is not surprising that as a result of his H.C Coombs Creative Art Fellowship at the Australian National University in 2006, his book, Cage of Ghosts, will be published in late 2008.
 

 
On Friday 5 October ArtWranglers will open a show of five of Jon Rhodes’ panoramic landscapes to coincide with the NLA exhibition, but more about that later…

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Here’s an image of the final work in our “hands” exhibition – a looped dvd by Maryam Rashidi titled mono-logue.

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Here’s some snaps of the current exhibition.

Axel Poignant

Jon Rhodes

Catherine Rogers

Patrick Hartigan

Patsy Payne

William Yang

Maryam Rashidid

See the list of works in the previous post for details, and also the Ben Cauchi.

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Here’s the list of works in our first exhibition: “At Home – an exhibition of images of hands”, held at 18 Morphett St, Dickson from August 24 – September 1, 2007 – viewing Saturday August 25 or by appointment:

Axel Poignant, Hal Missingham’s hand, (also known as Artist’s Hand) silver gelatin print on Agfa RR paper, 1939-40

Ben Cauchi, The photographer’s hand (a tribute), tintype, 2006

Jon Rhodes, Emu Hand, Tanami Desert, NT, silver gelatin print (edition of 20), 1987/2000

William Yang, The Hand of the Dalai Lama # 1, silver gelatin print, 1996, edition 1/30 (represented in Canberra by Helen Maxwell Gallery)

Maryam Rashidi, Mono-logue, DVD, 2006

Patsy Payne, Shadow IV, ink on elephant dung paper, 2005 (represented in Canberra by Helen Maxwell Gallery)

Patrick Hartigan, Bird, watercolour on paper, 2005

Catherine Rogers, Tree fern, Styx Valley, piezograph, (cone quad tone on Hahnemulle – pigment inkjet) 2003/4 (represented in Canberra by Helen Maxwell Gallery)

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