One of Australia’s greatest artists, Hans Heysen (1877-1968), is celebrated with the first major retrospective of his work in three decades at the Art Gallery of South Australia, from 14 November. The exhibition which will tour nationally in 2009 and 2010, features more than a hundred works created over the artist’s seventy year career, and marks the 40th anniversary of Heysen’s death.
Curator of the exhibition, Rebecca Andrews, says “Heysen’s art was prolific, popular and hugely influential. Of course, he remains South Australia’s most loved and renowned artist but during his lifetime, he was affirmed as one of the most significant artists in the country.”
Hans Heysen, Australia, 1877 - 1968, The Land of the Oratunga, 1932, Hahndorf, South Australia, watercolour on paper, 47.3 x 62.6 cm; South Australian Government Grant 1937, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Testament to Heysen’s national standing, the Gallery has borrowed masterpieces from every major collection in the country as well as from many regional and private collections, to tell the story of Heysen’s art in this exhibition.
“Hans Heysen was one of those rare artists who changed the way we view the Australian landscape. His distinctive gum trees have become part of our national imagery” says Art Gallery Director, Christopher Menz.
In addition to his iconic ‘gum tree’ paintings, the exhibition takes a fresh look at Heysen’s lesser-known themes. It traces his development from early student days painting in Europe from 1899-1903, including images of Paris and Venice, to the revelation of barren landscapes and ancient mountain forms in the Flinders Ranges from 1926 onwards.
The Art Gallery of South Australia holds the largest and most representative collection of works by Hans Heysen, including more than two thousand drawings, oils and watercolours bequeathed by the artist himself. Included in the exhibition are many of Heysen’s greatest oil and watercolour paintings, alongside rarely-seen preliminary sketches and studies.
Born in Germany in 1877, Hans Heysen emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia with his family at the age of seven. After four years studying in Europe, Heysen embarked on one of the most successful careers in Australian art. He became synonymous with the Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf, where he worked and lived with his wife Selma (“Sallie”) and their eight children, including the acclaimed artist, Nora Heysen. Today, Heysen remains a household name in South Australia.
2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Sir Hans Heysen. This timely exhibition, staged by the Art Gallery of South Australia, is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work since the Gallery’s Hans Heysen Centenary Retrospective of 1977. It is accompanied by a comprehensive, illustrated exhibition book which includes essays on many of Heysen’s most important works by Australian scholars.
National Exhibition Tour
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
23 April - 21 June 2009
Art Gallery of Ballarat
11 July - 2 October 2009
Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery
27 November 2009 - 14 February 2010
National Gallery of Australia
30 April - 4 July 2010
Queensland Art Gallery
31 July - 24 October 2010
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
19 November 2010 - 30 January 2011
Exhibition sponsor
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American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met with iconic Australian paintings - Brisbane
30 May – 20 September 2009
The Queensland Art Gallery will be the only venue in the world to show American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met, featuring more than 70 impressionist and realist paintings from The Metropolitan's collection of American paintings and sculpture. The exhibition will present works by some of America's foremost artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase, Maurice Prendergast and Mary Cassatt. Highlighting how Australian artists responded to key artistic developments of the time, more than 30 iconic Australian paintings will also be included in the exhibition. Australian artists will include Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin and Rupert Bunny. Queensland Art Gallery.
Dean Bowen paintings, prints and sculpture - Canberra
3–22 September 2009
Dean Bowen paints, sculpts and makes prints, however each mode of practice is interrelated. Bowen's aesthetic is modelled on artistic conventions popularised by French artist Jean Dubuffet with his concept of 'Art Brut' or 'Raw Art'. Through his prints Dean transforms the geography of the landscape into the geography of the face using reductive markings to replicate the features, often with a touch of humour. Beaver Galleries, Deakin.
Rick Amor - Melbourne
1–26 September 2009
Rick Amor has has shown annually at Niagara Galleries for the past 25 years and these paintings from 2008-09 explore seasons, street scenes and still life. In 2007 Rick won the prestigious McClelland Award for Sculpture, the largest cash prize for sculpture in Australia. 2008 brought the launch of The Beagle Press monograph Rick Amor by Gavin Fry, and A Single Mind, a survey show of Rick's paintings and drawings dating from 1966. Niagara Galleries, Richmond.
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott - Canberra
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, Yellow fade, with three bowls, 2008, translucent porcelain. Image courtesy of the Drill Hall Gallery.
20 August – 27 September 2009
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott is an internationally celebrated artist whose years of dedication to ceramics and her study of the oriental traditions of pottery have produced highly refined surfaces and forms and delicately nuanced glaze colours. Her harmonious still life groups are beautiful in themselves, but they also work to subvert at a very sophisticated level the old art/function dichotomy that has traditionally divided the visual arts community. She does this by creating sets that have great wholeness and yet are composed of individual vessels that are both useable and aesthetic. Drill Hall Gallery.
Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize exhibition - Bendigo, Victoria
9 August – 27 September 2009
Designed to attract some of Australia’s finest contemporary artists and high calibre works, the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize (AGMPP) is Australia’s richest open painting prize. Thirty-nine artists have been shortlisted for 2009. Winners will be announced at opening. Bendigo Art Gallery.
Hans Heysen - Ballarat, Victoria and national tour
17 July – 2 October 2009
Hans Heysen, The Land of the Oratunga, 1932, Hahndorf, South-Australia. Courtesy of Art Gallery of South Australia.
[27 November 2009 – 14 February 2010, Hobart; 30 April – 4 July 2010 Canberra; 31 July – 24 October 2010 Brisbane; 19 November 2010 – 30 January 2011 Newcastle]
One of Australia's greatest artists, Hans Heysen (1877–1968), is celebrated with the first major retrospective of his work in three decades by the Art Gallery of South Australia's touring exhibition. The exhibition features more than a hundred works created over the artist's seventy year career, and marks the 40th anniversary of Heysen's death. Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
The Blake Prize - Exploring the Religious & Spiritual in Art - Sydney
4 September – 3 October 2009
The Blake Prize, first awarded in 1951, is an annual national exhibition dedicated to stimulating an interaction of spiritual and religious thought and ideas in contemporary Australian art. The Blake Prize is awarded by the Blake Society Ltd in partnership with the National Art School. NAS Gallery.
Karlee Rawkins, Orchard - Main Beach, Queensland
19 September – 3 October 2009
Karlee Rawkins won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2003 because of the 'integrity and visual literacy' in her work. In the ensuing years Rawkins has gone on to produce a significant body of work. Functioning both as narrative and lyricism, her paintings in Orchard aim to stimulate the viewer into finding new interpretations and relevance amidst the everyday. Anthea Polson Art. Seaworld Drive.
Tony Tuckson, Pairs - Sydney
9 September – 3 October 2009
Works on paper especially gouache, charcoal, ink; pencil and oil wash on paper. Tony Tuckson settled in Australia after the Second World War in which he served as a Spitfire pilot. He exhibited only spasmodically until 1962 and then not at all until his first solo show at Watters Gallery in 1970. He held a second solo show in 1973—six months before his death in November of that year. Since his death his reputation as one of the greatest artists to work in Australia has grown consistently. Watters Gallery, East Sydney.
Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand (MAANZ) Symposium 09 - Brisbane
9–11 October 2009
The MAANZ 2009 Symposium will host a conference with a series of workshops and an exhibition. The key note speaker is Karen Ami, President of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) and Director of the Chicago Mosaic School. Other speakers and topics will be from around Australia, NZ, USA, Turkey and Egypt. The 30:30 Vision Exhibition is a themed exhibition for works measuring 30cm x 30cm. This year's theme is Crusty Oceania—all sea life, as long as it's classified a crustacean. Conference at North Quay, exhibition at Brisbane Square Library.
Andrew Nicholls: Blue Australian - Canberra
10 September – 17 October 2009
A solo exhibition of ceramic works and drawings by Andrew Nicholls. Inspired by the links between blue and white china dinnerware and British imperialism, Blue Australian references the way the blue and white medium has been used historically to articulate colonial narrative. Nicholls' works draw upon this legacy to explore anxiety and melancholia implicit in post-colonial Australian culture. Craft ACT.
Nathan Gray: Attack Decay Sustain Release - Melbourne
Nathan Gray, Dome. Image courtesy of Craft Victoria.
18 September – 17 October 2009
Drawing on the concept of musique concrete, the combination and manipulation of found sound to create musical landscapes, Nathan Gray presents a new installation combining, linking and manipulating objects. Attack Decay Sustain Release explores synthesised and manufactured elements as constituent parts of both sonic and sculptural composition. The exhibition explores what happens when elements are repeated and recombined in different ways and how these elements change and change the spaces into which they are released. Craft Victoria.
Richard Wastell - Sydney
22 September – 17 October 2009
What Richard Wastell wants to do is not necessarily to remove the brackets that define 'untouched nature', nor even to recommend one approach over another, but to encourage us to step outside the brackets for a time so as to understand their meaning, and therefore our place in the broader scheme of things. Only by transcending our habitual ways of thinking can we break out of our isolation. King Street Gallery on William, Darlinghurst.
Why do we do the things we do - Perth
Aleks Danko, Situation: nuts and bolts make a lovely pair when you screw them 1970-2000. Image courtesy of the artists and PICA.
19 August – 18 October 2009
A rare glimpse into the artistic process, this exhibition offers an insight into the decisions artists make when developing their work, and their hopes and fears about how it will be received by their audience. PICA.
Richard Woldendorp & Hugh Brown: Skin Deep: The view from above - Perth
28 August – 18 October 2009
Dutch–born Richard Woldendorp is one of Australia's best-known landscape photographers and is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. This exhibition features work taken over the last two years, a large section of which depicts seasonal flooding. Holmes à Court Gallery.
Mark Galea: Colour by numbers - Bendigo, Victoria
5 September – 18 October 2009
This exhibition presents a selection of recent work by Mark Galea, including sculptures that build upon his fascination with colour and the form of the grid. Galea brings elements of nostalgia, memory and play into the gallery. Bendigo Art Gallery.
Gloucester Art Trail - Gloucester, New South Wales
3–18 October 2009
With support from Regional Arts NSW, the town of Gloucester will become one giant gallery during the Gloucester Art Trail. Over 30 local artists will display a wide range of art including photography, pottery, painting, sculpture, digital media and floral art. On the long weekend artists will also open their studios.
2009 Ranamok Glass Prize finalists' exhibition - Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane, Noosa, Shoalhaven, Wagga Wagga
Canberra 19 August – 21 September 2009, Sydney 5 – 24 October 2009
This is Ranamok's fifteenth year encouraging creativity, skill and innovation in contemporary glass, with Australian/New Zealand glass artists competing for a $15,000 prize. The 2009 Recipient will join previous winners in the Ranamok Winners Collection (1995–2008). Various locations.
Peter Godwin Studio Paintings - Sydney
30 September – 24 October 2009
Peter Godwin's still lifes and interiors possess both sensitivity and strength. Godwin uses egg tempera on linen on board—the medium allows him to reveal the 'workings' of the painting. Each work reveals the continuous application and removal of paint, allowing the viewer to experience time and process. Defiance Gallery, Newtown.
Queensland Centre for Photography (QCP) - Origami Amalgamation and others
Lyndal Petzke, Bonnet, US 19th Century, Paper Fan, 2008.
26 September – 25 October 2009
A series of exhibitions at QCP showcasing Queensland photographers: Origami Amalgamation by Lyndal Petzke uses origami and the hat as a metaphor for the blending of Eastern and Western culture; Horizon Deficit Syndrome by Virginia Miller uses C.B.D. areas of Gold Coast, Brisbane & Melbourne to investigate the experience of urban dwellers navigating high-rise buildings; Mythologies by Hugh Swingler Manning explores the relationships between vernacular photography, memory and personal mythologies, based on dioramas of Greek myths. Queensland Centre for Photography.
Simryn Gill: Gathering - Adelaide
Simryn Gill, Untitled, 1999, gouache on magazine page. Image courtesy of the Samstag Museum.
7 August – 30 October 2009
Simryn Gill's intriguing art operates experimentally across a range of ideas, methods and media, including photography, objects, collections and text works. This major exhibition—produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney—focuses on Gill's new and recent works from the past five years, and includes a selection of works from her time living in Adelaide, early in her career. Samstag Museum.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery (MRAG) - New South Wales
opened 15 August 2009, exhibitions until November 2009
After extensive renovations, the MRAG will open with new spaces and exhibitions. New exhibitions include: Collecting Lines: Selected Works from the Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth Collection; Different Tracks: The Agapitos / Wilson Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Fiona Davies: Intangible Collection Annual; Jon Pryer: Off the Leash art + play. As part of the renovations, a new children's art space, the Art Factory, will open as a dual exhibition and play space aimed at children.
McCubbin: Last Impressions 1907–17 - Canberra
14 August – 1 November 2009
For the first time, an exhibition of the late works of foremost Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin. Discover McCubbin's free and expressive style, and the varying effects of light conveyed through striking colour in landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, portraits and interiors. National Gallery of Australia.
Tasmanian Craft Fair - Deloraine, Tasmania
30 October – 2 November 2009
Hailed as one of Tasmania's premier arts and crafts event, the Tasmanian Craft Fair will host 200 exhibitors over 13 venues. Each year, the festival features a special exhibition, with the 2009 theme being Glass Art. In line with this theme, the 2009 Tasmanian Craft Fair will host works from some of the world's best glass craftspeople, and include glass art training courses and demonstrations. The 2009 Tasmanian Craft Fair will also include other activities such as a specialist plant exhibition, and an extensive gourmet food area showcasing Tasmanian food producers. Various locations.
The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize 2009 - Canberra
24 September to 15 November 2009
The Waterhouse is Australia's richest prize for Natural History Art, boasting a total prize pool of $114,500. Each year entries are invited in three categories: Paintings, Works on Paper and Sculpture & Objects. This year, 101 finalists have been chosen from a pool of 837 entries. The winners will be announced on 17 July 2009. South Australian Museum, National Archives of Australia.
2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award - Melbourne
17 September – 7 February 2010
The 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award is the final exhibition in the series of triennials established by Joan and Peter Clemenger through a generous gift to the NGV in 1991. Spanning nearly twenty years, the Award has focused the public’s attention on the achievements of a diverse range of distinguished Australian artists. The Clemenger Contemporary Art Award is national in scope, including participants across generations, and has forged dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists. A $50,000 award accompanies the exhibition. The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square.
Long Distance Vision. Three Australian Photographers - Melbourne
Matthew Sleeth, Opfikin, 1997 pr 2004, Courtesy of The Ian Potter Centre:NGV Australia.
28 August – 21 February 2010
This exhibition examines the idea of the ‘tourist gaze’ and its relationship with three contemporary Australian photographers. This exhibition will consider the work of three contemporary Australian photographers Christine Godden, Max Pam and Matthew Sleeth, who have photographed not only aspects of the everyday at home but venture forth in the world with the delighted, but not uncritical, eyes of the traveller. The Ian Potter Centre:NGV Australia. Federation Square.
Queensland Festival of Photography 3 - Brisbane, Cairns to Toowoomba, Queensland
April 2010
A month long festival presenting the finest photography Queensland has to offer, the festival has expanded to include 20 participating institutions to present an exciting program of events showcasing contemporary photographic practice across Australia. Artists talks and exhibitions will present the work of luminaries such as AES+F from Russia, Tracey Moffatt, Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson, Marian Drew and Ray Cook from Australia. Various locations.
Art Month Sydney
1–30 March 2010
Art Month Sydney is an initiative to celebrate the importance and diversity of the Sydney art world. Commercial art galleries, auction houses, public museums and institutions will unite to stage free artists' talks, lectures, exhibitions, social events and tours, raising the profile of Sydney as a centre of fine, visual and contemporary art.
Clay energy, Gulgong Ceramics Conference - Gulgong, New South Wales
28 April – 2 May 2010
In 2010, hundreds of ceramic artists will again converge in the picturesque historic town of Gulgong, 290 km west of Sydney for a triennial with international ceramics. Energy in all its forms will be the focus of discussion and events. Whether artistic or physical, various types of energy are vital for producing ceramics. In Gulgong there's an energy that keeps delegates returning year after year. It's a buzz that stems from the cross-pollination of conversations about clay, glaze, inspirations, making and firing. Cudgegong Gallery.
Fibre Textile Biennial Momentum - national tour
March 2009 – July 2010
'Textile artists work inventively because of the rapidly changing context of their world, pushing the boundaries and communicating through their original expressive forms. They challenge our preconceptions and move forward into unknown territories. The strength of this work comes from the artists' ability to respect their tradition and history while engaging with the momentum of progress.' The 18th Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial is curated by Valerie Kirk. National tour includes Canberra, Wagga Wagga, Mornington Peninsular, Geraldton, Dubbo, Windsor, Mount Gambier.
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