Thanks to the patronage of U.S. photography collector David Knaus, ArtWranglers is pleased to announce that the complete exhibition of Whichaway? is now on loan to the J. Paul Getty Musuem as a promised future gift. Whichaway? Photographs from Kiwirrkura 1974-1996 is an exhibition of 29 works, each of which comprise a number of photographs in sequence or series, taken by Jon during his extended interactions with the Aboriginal community at the Kiwirrkura outstation, between the Great Sandy and Gibson deserts 400km west of Papunya.

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In Beyond the Frame (Weekend Australian Review, Nov 3-4, 2007, p18) art critic Sebastian Smee reviews Jon Rhodes’ exhibition Cage of Ghosts at the National Library of Australia until 25th November, 2007. Smee introduces his review of the NGA inaugural triennial of indigenous art Culture Warriors by commenting on the surfeit of monuments and memorials in Canberra: “This struck me with particular force when… I hit upon a fascinating exhibition of photographs by Jon Rhodes called Cage of Ghosts… Rhodes’ photographs are great anthropology. But against expectations, they tell us more about modern Australian culture and its thirst for symbols than about indigenous culture.” Read Howard Morphy’s opening speech plus recent posts on this and ArtWranglers’ recent Jon Rhodes exhibition at his gallery in the side-bar ->

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Megan posts party pictures here.

Jon’s work will be able to be seen for the next two weeks by appointment: please call 02 6257 0949 and make a date…

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Here’s some details of the two works snapped in the previous post. We can’t show you the panoramic sweep of the whole, but here are single frame details:

And the Trees Grew up Dancing, Boonal Bridge, NSW, 2004

Ceaseless Tidal Trap, Toorbul Point, Queensland, 2004

ArtWranglers will be opening its second “at home” with an exhibition of five of Jon Rhodes’ sequential panoramic photographs this Friday 5th October. The exhibition will be open at 18 Morphett Street, Dickson, from 10am until 5pm on Saturday 6th October, or by appointment. Please call 02 6257 0949 if you miss it this weekend.

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ArtWranglers will be opening its second “at home” with an exhibition of five of Jon Rhodes’ sequential panoramic photographs this Friday 5th October. The exhibition will be open at 18 Morphett Street, Dickson, from 10am until 5pm on Saturday 6th October, or by appointment. Please call 02 6257 0949 if you miss it this weekend.

One of the works on show at ArtWranglers is this piece And the Trees Grew up Dancing, Boonal Bridge, NSW, 2004, which is also on view at his current National Library of Australia exhibition Cage of Ghosts. Neither exhibition should be missed…

The image on the right is the sublime Ceaseless Tidal Trap, Toorbul Point, Queensland, 2004.

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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 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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ArtWranglers is delighted to represent the following artists in Canberra:

Axel Poignant

Jon Rhodes

Slim Barrie

Charlie Sofo

Marina Nielson

Tim Price

Rachel Jessie-Rae O’Connor

Rose Montebello

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