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April – July 2013 Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia

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ContentsArtifacts is published three times a year by the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia Inc. (the ‘Friends’) PO Box 48Northbridge WA 6865Tel: +61 (0)8 9492 [email protected]

© 2013: the artists, authors and the Art Gallery of Western AustraliaCopyright for all images and works is owned by the artists or their representatives. No part of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.The Friends and the Art Gallery of Western Australia do not necessarily endorse statements and opinions expressed within.

President’s Message ................................... 4

Meet your new council members .............. 4

Rewards of the Volunteer .......................... 5

Membership Update .................................. 6

A Tribute to Robert Juniper ...................... 7

Preview ....................................................... 8

Open Studio ............................................... 9

The Jewish East End of London.............. 10

Trompe l’Oeil: the art of illusion ........... 11

Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond ................... 13

Supremacy, exoticism and patronage ..... 16

Singapore – a vision of historical

and futuristic culture ........................... 17

Friendship................................................. 20

Your Collection – in focus ...................... 21

What’s on at the Gallery ......................... 22

Exhibitions ............................................ 22

Picturing New York – AGWA Nights ... 22

Art Workshops for Kids ....................... 23

AGWA Summer Sunday Talks ............ 23

Books, Websites & Trivia ....................... 24

WA, Australia & the World .................... 25

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CoverVincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)The Olive Trees June-July 1889oil on canvas28⅝ x 36” (72.6 x 91.4 cm)The Museum of Modern Art, New York.Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest

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Carola Akindele-Obe, Mariana Atkins, Christina Backus, Kay Campbell, Stefano Carboni, Tanja Coleman, Gary Dufour, Gwen Gaff, Allan Green, Melissa Harpley, Louise Jones, Lee Kinsella, Colin Mildon, Tanya Sticca

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IT IS AN HONOur TO HAvE been elected as President of the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western

Australia, as the organisation enters its 40th year since the Art Gallery Society of Western Australia was re-established in 1973. The Society changed its name to the Friends of the Art Gallery of WA in 1993.

It is appropriate to reflect on the achievements of the Friends over the past 40 years. We have purchased more than 52 works for the Art Gallery at a total value of over $3 million – the first gift was Flight into Egypt by Frank Hinder which won the Blake Prize in 1952 and the latest is Born into this skin by vernon Ah Kee.

Over the years the Friends have also organised a variety of events for the education and enjoyment of our members. These have included tours to local art galleries, artists’ studio visits, visits to private collections, lectures and films.

It is important for the Friends to build on this wonderful history as we look to the future. The Council’s 2013 Planning Day on 23 March will develop strategies for this

President: The Honourable

Justice Carmel McLure

The Honourable Justice McLure was appointed as President of the Court of Appeal in November 2009. She became a member of the Court of Appeal upon its inception in 2005 following her appointment to the Supreme Court on 23 April 2001.

She studied at the university of Western Australia where she obtained a Bachelor of Jurisprudence with Honours in 1976 and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 1979. Amid her studies, she took on the role of assistant private secretary to Senator Durack, the former Commonwealth Attorney General, from 1977-78. She later became the private secretary to Senator Durack before departing for Oxford university where she obtained her Bachelor of Civil Law in 1983.

Prior to her elevation to the Supreme Court Justice McLure practiced as a barrister and in 1997 was appointed Queen’s Counsel.

Treasurer: Ian Adams

Ian has had a career as an accountant in manufacturing, Tv, hospitality and accommodation and until recently was the accountant for the WA Opera 1999-2011. He is interested in music and art and is currently taking drawing classes.

Leanne Casellas

After being exposed to the art galleries of Europe and beyond, Leanne Casellas joined the AGWA Friends on her return from living overseas in Hong Kong, France and the uK to maintain her love affair with the arts.

Leanne’s career began as a journalist at the Daily News. She left Perth in 1993 and after 17 years living and working overseas as a consultant communications advisor and freelance journalist she returned home three years ago. Harking back to her involvement with the arts before she

year and I will be writing to inform you of the outcomes of this day and our key objectives for 2013. Our focus will continue to be on enhancing our relationship with the Art Gallery, providing stimulating activities for our members and supporting the arts scene generally in Western Australia.

Two objectives I will propose for consideration will be to provide opportunities for young people to become more involved in the Friends and to build relationships with other arts organisations, particularly those who share the Northbridge arts precinct with us.

I encourage all of you to remain active in the Friends and to let us have your ideas and feedback, which will help guide future events and programmes.

I look forward to getting to know you over the coming weeks and months as we embark on an exciting year ahead for the Friends.

Meet your new council members

It is important for the Friends to build on this wonderful

history as we look to the future.

BelowLeft to right: Ian Adams, Carmel McLure, Leanne Casellas, Michelle Kosky. (Absent – Gillian Yudelman.) Photo: Mariana Atkins

President’s MessageCarmel McLure


left Perth, she has exchanged the bureaucracy of the corporate world for the heady mayhem of the arts world. She currently has her finger in a number of arts-related pies including Movies in the vineyard and the FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival. Her latest personal project is the creation of HouseSit Match.com.

Michele Kosky

Michele has recently retired as CEO at Health Consumers Council, a position she held for 18 years. She has also served as the Chairperson of Deckchair Theatre 1995-2005 and 2009; Deputy Chair, Mental Health Law Centre 2004-2010; Member, National Health and Medical research Council 1996-2006; Member, Family Planning Board 2002-2004; Member, Metropolitan Health Service Board 1996-200; and Chairperson, Organ Donation and Transplant Foundation 2006-2008.

Gillian Yudelman

Gillian has a keen interest in art and collects textiles, paintings with a political theme and tribal artefacts. She is the founder and Director of Mothers Home Nepal, a charity that works in the area of human trafficking. She is the Charter President of the rotary Club of Bay view Claremont and a Board member of the American Women’s’ Club, Perth.

AboveJohn DeAndrea, Allegory: After Courbet 1988oil and synthetic polymer paint on polyvinyl acetate and silicone rubber172.2 x 152.2 x 190.2 cmState Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased 1989© John DeAndrea 1988

Rewards of the VolunteerColin Mildon, Friends Desk Coordinator

Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember.

Involve me, I’ll understand.

THErE CAN BE NO TruEr STATEMENT WHEN applied to the arts and especially if you are a member of the Friends of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

When we join an organisation, such as the Friends, we want to come to events, enjoy the company and a common interest in the arts, but for many of us we also want a little more. We are looking for involvement and we become volunteers.

All Friends events and activities are made possible by like-minded people who enjoy engaging more closely through volunteering. We work with the Friends and Gallery staff, making wonderful friendships and gaining valuable knowledge on the way. It may be as little as just arriving early to an event to welcome old and new Friends or staying behind at the end of an event to help clear and tidy.

We are now recruiting volunteers to coordinate our events and to assist at the Friends Desk during Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World Reimagined, so if you have some time to spare, either randomly or on a regular basis, embrace the opportunity to be more involved – become a participating member and an integral part of the art community. volunteer! It’s a privilege.

For further information please call the Friends Office direct 08 9492 6750 during opening hours or email your enquiry anytime to: [email protected]

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Membership UpdateGwen Gaff, Executive Officer, the Friends

W E CAN BOAST A rICH events programme for the rest of 2013 that will meet a

variety of interests, including Members Only events and others for members to bring guests. Please invite your friends to join our vibrant community. There’s much to enjoy!

Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, New York closes on 12 May. Join the Members’ only tour finale with AGWA Director Dr Stefano Carboni. The third exhibition from MoMA, Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World Reimagined opens on 22 June with a choice of associated Friends events.

2013 has brought new volunteers to the Friends team, whose work is the essential fabric of Friends. We also welcome new Councillors: Carmel McLure, Ian Adams, Gillian Yudelman, Leanne Casellas and Michelle Kosky; and thank our outgoing Councillors robert Buratti, Greg Jude and

Helen Smith for their devotion and valuable contributions over the past years.

robert will continue his support in an advisory capacity as Immediate Past President. Along with strategic leadership and direction, robert launched the Friends online and has provided the website hosting, managed its content and the e-news since their inception four years ago. Greg Jude has fine-tuned the Treasury functions, handing over a streamlined system to Ian. Helen remains as the ADFAS coordinator whose behind the scenes effort and hosting of the lecturers makes ADFAS possible.

rosita valladares, founder of the Friends Film Festival, after more than a decade of work, has handed over the reins to Felicity Baargman and we also welcome Debbie Thornton to the Administration team.

Our partnerships continue with Jane Brook Estate Wines, ASA Tours, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Write

Business and Perth’s exceptional artists and arts organisations. Thank you to outgoing sponsor Comestibles for their fabulous catering at the Gallery in 2012 and we welcome Crowe Horwath Australia for their pro-bono auditing services.

Sincere gratitude is extended to our Patron Trevor Eastwood and his wife Judy who in March opened their home to Friends for the fabulous annual fundraiser and viewing of their Private Collection.

I’m looking forward to working with you as we develop your organisation. See you at an event or at the Gallery soon!

Thank youWe are blessed to have many volunteers who work quietly behind the scenes to ensure our membership activities and events are memorable and hassle free.Administration Team: Anne-Marie Drew, Phillida Preston, Karine Carroll and Debbie Thornton, each offering up to eight hours per week in office work.Photographer: Christina Backus

Friends Desk, led by Colin Mildon

and Marilyn Fowler: Kevin Jackson, Allan Green, Jenni ross, Fiona Johnson, Doug Tweed, Liliana Andrijich and Liz Harrison.Catering Team led by Lorna White: Linley Cook, Marion Nairn, Phillida Preston, Lee Walsh, Jane Green, Ella Allen and Kay Campbell.

Top leftGwen Gaff Vernon Ah Kee, Born in this skin (detail) 2008crayon, charcoal and synthetic polymer on canvas 179.5 x 239.5cm each, three panels. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased with assistance from the Friends of the Art Gallery, 2008© vernon Ah Kee, Courtesy Milani Gallery, Brisbane

Belowrobert Juniper (seated) with robert Buratti, then President of the Friends, studio visit, 2011


ROBErT JuNIPEr WAS A Western Australian son who gained fame as an accomplished

painter, illustrator, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. Aside from his many achievements he was a warm and generous man with a keen sense of humour and charm. He had a long and personal association with the Friends of the Art Gallery of WA and will be greatly missed by many of us.

Although he worked as a teacher in the early years of his career, he essentially taught art lovers and aspiring young artists all his life. Many members of the Friends will attest to the knowledge gained in conversations with him and from his talks delivered when he and his wife Trish opened their home and studio to our members.

A major retrospective of robert Juniper’s work was held at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1999 and his works can be found in private and public collections throughout Australia, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, other state galleries and Parliament House in Canberra.

Western Australians are also privileged to enjoy his work as part of their built environment, for example in the design of the coat of arms for the Commonwealth Law Courts in Perth, in his steel sculpture Plant form (1974) in the grounds of the university of Western Australia and most recently in a series of 17 stained glass windows in the rebuilt St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral in Bunbury, completed in 2011. The Friends were honoured to have the

Membership UpdateGwen Gaff, Executive Officer, the Friends

A Tribute to Robert Juniper

(1929–2012)Allan Green, former Secretary and Vice President of the Friends

opportunity to purchase prints of these window designs on visits to his home and studio.

Such is the esteem in which robert Juniper was held during his life that he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the university of Western Australia in 1984 and declared a State Living Treasure in 1998. In 2011 he was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the visual arts.

The unique connection with robert Juniper, such a loved and accomplished

AboveRobert JuniperOutcamp 1977oil on canvas172.8 x 233.8 cmState Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Art Gallery, 1978

local artist, has enriched the Friends of the Art Gallery, and indeed we are all the richer for his increasing our awareness of the Australian landscape.

Aside from his many achievements he was a warm and generous

man with a keen sense of humour and charm. He had a long and

personal association with the Friends of the Art Gallery of WA

and will be greatly missed by many of us.


Preview Introducing the forthcoming season of Friends events

THE BrEADTH AND diversity of the upcoming events programme at Friends is

astounding and a reflection of Western Australia’s artistic talent as well as our members’ desire to learn more each year. Art undeniably enhances our spiritual wellbeing and thus the common thread running through the 2013 programme of events is ‘enlightenment’.

The events will transport you through time, across continents and art forms, from ancient empires to worlds re-imagined. Presented to you in tours, talks, films, studio visits and behind closed doors.

Friends is privileged to host lecturers from ADFAS (The Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies) and the ASA International Scholars Series who are eminently qualified and regarded internationally in their chosen

field. Be transported to the East End of London and experience the history of the Jewish community there, appreciate the significance of the tiger in Asian art, the art of illusion in trompe l’oeil painting and the evolution of the conservatory. Imagine life in a time of great kings, empires and conquerors – the stuff of legend and glory.

You can walk in the footsteps of artists on the streets of New York, painting en plein air in Provence, partying in the jazz soaked Paris of the 1920s or building a surrealist life in Spain.

Closer to home, jump on your bikes to take in the sea air and sculpture in Cottesloe and board the train to Midland to view the outstanding initiative of the Midland Atelier Workshops. Embark vicariously on an artist’s journey of self-discovery by visiting artists Leon Pericles and Brendon Darby in their studios.

Behind the scenes at the Gallery you can access first hand the efforts of the AGWA conservation team who are responsible for keeping the Collection in tip-top condition. Look up close at the works currently under repair and learn about intricate conservation techniques.

The Trilogy of Indigenous Art tours offer opportunities to become acquainted with the significant holdings of Indigenous art at AGWA and to support the incredible talent of our Indigenous artists.

Community and vitality are integral to our philosophy at the Friends and our events seek to uncover for Friends the broader story of art and artists whilst supporting the Gallery and the local arts scene. Come and enjoy the 2013 Friends Events programme, bring your friends and ‘be enlightened’.


A NuMBEr OF YEArS AGO I WAS INvOLvED IN setting up a pilot festival that encouraged artists to open their studio doors to the general public over a couple of

weekends. Despite a few teething niggles, as you would expect with an experiment, the response from artists and public alike was overwhelmingly positive. Equally it was an immensely rewarding experience for me.

About 2000 emerging and established artists took part, opening up their working spaces or demonstrating their practice in studios, galleries and public spaces across the whole of Western Australia.

Artopia – Living Artists of WA, as it was known, proved to many artists that they could benefit from opening up and sharing their world a bit more and it introduced the visiting public to the depth of uncovered talent in WA and our artists’ immense professional expertise and capacity.

It is a daunting experience for many artists to open their private working spaces to the public – some will never do it, but others throw open their doors every weekend. It takes practice to work out how best to deliver a casual artist’s talk – to articulate your creative motivations – and to make the most of the opportunity to connect with potential art collectors.

Most artists are obsessive. Some artists present pristine studios with colour coded filing, others amass enormous collections of found objects, and visitors have to navigate scrap yards to find their way in.

Whatever the practice, it is clear that learning direct from the artist, about how and why their art is made is of limitless intrigue. No two approaches are the same. Studio visits, artists’ talks and curators’ tours help us to discern authentic artists, skillful techniques and thus improve our ability to appreciate and select quality works of art.

It is for this reason that Friends make an effort to organise studio visits for members. This season members are lucky to be offered three opportunities to visit three different studio set ups, to uncover a variety of art practice and approaches in quite intimate settings.

Leon Pericles has long been a beloved local printmaker, illustrator and painter. visitors to his studio love to hear where his clever, humourous illustrations come from and to watch him demonstrate a technique, such as etching in the style of a renaissance artist. An experience like this adds so much to understanding and appreciating the craftsmanship of printmaking.

Brendon Darby has an impressive career to date. Notably in 2007 Brendon’s multi media (music, film and painting) exhibit, presented in New York as part of G’Day uSA, raised over one million dollars for the Australian environment. His recent paintings

explore his fascination with viewing scenes through rain on glass. He says, ‘I’m intrigued by the way water on glass distorts, abstracts and to my mind, enhances the cityscape.’

The Midland Atelier Workshops is a ground-breaking initiative developed by FOrM in partnership with the Midland redevelopment Authority (MrA). The disused railway yards have become a hub for creativity and design innovation, the first of its kind in WA. A visit introduces us to the Australian and international designers working across creative mediums from photography to furniture design.

Post Artopia I interviewed a number of people who visited artists in their studios and many of the responses can be encapsulated in this one quote:

I’m an engineer and I hadn’t met many artists before. I can now appreciate the skill, craft and thinking that goes into an artist’s work. It has added another dimension to my life.

The three ‘open studio’ Friends events are not to be missed!

Places are limited for Open Studio visits. See the Friends Event Guide for booking details.

AboveLeon Pericles, Full Palette, mixed media

Open StudioCarola Akindele-Obe


The Jewish East End of LondonLouise Jones linked up with Yasha Beresiner ahead of his ADFAS 2013 lecture tour.

IN APrIL THE FrIENDS ArE DELIGHTED TO welcome Yasha Beresiner, a fascinating man and an accomplished public speaker, to deliver a lecture on ‘The

Jewish East End of London’. The ‘history of the Jews in England’ essentially starts with their arrival at the behest of William the Conqueror, expulsion in 1290 and later return in 1655 where they settled in the East End and thrived, together with other immigrant communities.

Yasha’s knowledge of the history of the Jews in London’s East End is encyclopaedic; their diverse ethnic backgrounds, their trades and professions, their schools all created a rich cultural life in the East End such by the 1900’s their ‘shuls, chevrot and steiblich’ were built all over St Georges, Whitechapel and Spitalfields.

Born in Turkey and living in Istanbul with his russian father, Greek mother and younger brother, Yasha was eight when his family moved to live in Israel and later Milan and London. As a young man he was fluent in Turkish, Hebrew, Italian and English with some Greek, russian and French thrown in for good measure.

After studying Law at university in Jerusalem, Yasha travelled to work and live in Latin America for a London company, on the west coast, an area he describes as ‘exceptionally beautiful’. Based in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador,

it was the days long before terrorism… we travelled by car from Bogota to Lima, staying in windowless and door-less hotels en route, perfectly safe and happy.

Yasha fondly recalls that the ‘Latins’, lived with the relaxed approach of magnana, maintaining little sense of time and schedule, with the consequence that week-long trips could sometimes last for a month!

It was while Yasha was working as a lawyer and also lecturing and writing about his then hobby, world currencies and paper money, that Stanley Gibbons Plc, a company now famous for its collectable stamps and philately, recruited Yasha to set up their Paper Money Division. As a dealer in paper money his collecting days were sadly over and he quickly developed a new collecting passion – playing cards. Yasha lists books, maps and prints as his other collecting passions although firmly believes that anyone with more than three of anything is a passionate collector.

LeftThis painted silk banner was made around 1925, and is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain. It belonged to the London Jewish Bakers’ union, the longest lived Jewish trade union, which operated from 1905 to 1970. Image courtesy of the Jewish Museum in London.

“ … it was the days long before terrorism…

we travelled by car from Bogota to Lima,

staying in windowless and door-less hotels

en route, perfectly safe and happy …”


TROMPE L’OEIL LITErALLY TrANSLATES TO ‘trick the eye’ and paintings that do this temporarily defy logic. Employing deft technique, the artist both

adheres to the science of perspective and the play of light, while also imbuing a scene with a sense of movement.

Two local artists who successfully negotiate this balance are trompe l’oeil mural painter Graeme richards and artist Leanne Emmitt.

Graeme richards has completed commissioned trompe l’oeil murals for commercial and domestic interiors, courtyards and exterior walls in Australia, Indonesia and Singapore. In 2006 richards was commissioned to produce a religious trompe l’oeil ceiling within the lobby of private residence in Jakarta. Taking cues from the architecture and colour scheme of the built environment, richards painted illusionary or fictive architectural features to demarcate space. vaulting architecture, populated by cherubs, angels and religious figures perched on tiers of cloud, combine in a scene that seems to recede deep into the sky.

In response to commissions from other clients, richards has produced a variety of subjects, including sweeping vistas of Italian countryside, seascapes, and even a 1950s-era motorbike workshop. In each case, windows into aspirational, parallel worlds have been made real in paint.

Leanne Emmitt’s current portraiture practice is informed by her experience as a trompe l’oeil mural painter. Emmitt enjoys testing the boundaries of what she can render in a realistic way, and she taunts us with her powers of illusion.

I try to work each area of the image as much as I can from life and from a fixed position and light source. There are subtleties of tone, texture and light that either aren’t evident in a photo or differ in direction and intensity. So whilst I use found images for the initial headpiece designs, I will make an actual mask based on the image, pop it on my head and light it the same way as the face has been lit for the portrait. This way I can alter the shadows accordingly and extend them to the face if necessary. As with the hands – I will light them

Trompe l’Oeil: the art of illusion

Inspired by Tom Errington’s forthcoming ADFAS lecture, Lee Kinsella talked to local

artists Graeme Richards and Leanne Emmitt about trompe l’oeil painting.

from the same direction as the face has been lit and then have someone photograph them for me so I can use them as a guide.

In both portraits the subject is clearly not a face, nor a mask, yet appears so realistic as to have forged a space. Each portrait has been composed from theatrically lit fragments that hover within a dark space, and Emmitt’s restricted palette creates sharp contrasts that lift the subject forward. The incredible detail and her rendering of form permits us to experience the texture of felt gloves, versus the

AboveGraeme RichardsTrompe l’oeil classical ceiling commission (detail), Jakarta, 2006acrylic, 1000 x 400 cmCourtesy of the artist.


The incredible detail and her rendering of form permits us to experience the texture of felt gloves,

versus the crispness of the sheet music headdress, as read against the fleshiness of the sitter’s face.

The annual Australian and Decorative Fine Arts Societies’ (ADFAS) lecture series, hosted in Perth by the Friends, takes place at the Central Institute of

Technology. refreshments are served from 6pm with each lecture commencing at 6:45pm and concluding around 8pm.

Friends are invited to bring their friends and to book early, as the talented lecturers usually attract a big crowd.

For booking details see the Friends Event Guide or visit www.artfriends.com.au/events.

22 April The Jewish East End of London with Yasha Beresiner

13 May The Tiger in Asian Art with Zara Fleming8 July Trompe l’Oeil: the art of illusion with

Tom Errington12 August From Orangery to Conservatory: the garden

under glass with Steven Desmond23 September Hedonistic Paris: Art, Life and Culture of

Paris during the Jazz Age 1920-1930 with Linda Collins

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Top leftLeanne EmmittBlack and White Study 1, 2012acrylic, 59.5cm x 42.5cmCourtesy of the artist.

Top rightBlack and White Study 2, 2012acrylic, 59.5cm x 42.5cmCourtesy of the artist.

crispness of the sheet music headdress, as read against the fleshiness of the sitter’s face.

It is with a sense of intrigue that we look at trompe l’oeil. Is it real? Did it move? While we know that we are subject to a visual effect, there remains the desire to check that our eyes are not deceiving us. The artist has succeeded if we have to fight the urge to touch the painted surface.

To learn more about trompe l’oeil techniques and examples in historical and contemporary painting, book now to attend Tom Errington’s ADFAS lecture on Monday 8 July.

Lee Kinsella is the Project Manager of Exhibitions for the Cultural Precinct of The university of Western Australia and in 2012 was the acting curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. Lee has curated exhibitions at various Australian state and national public institutions, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive and the Australian War Memorial. Lee would like to thank Leanne and Graeme for so generously giving their time to talk about their work.


V an Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World Reimagined is the third exhibition in the Art Gallery of

Western Australia’s dynamic, multi-year partnership with The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Prepared exclusively for presentation in Perth, Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World Reimagined allows viewers to observe how 96 of the world’s most significant and influential artists have reinvented landscape, still life and portraiture from the late nineteenth century to the present day. By adopting these traditional genres, these modern artists gesture toward art historical precedents while inventing radical new languages to describe the people, places, and things of their own times.

This visually stunning exhibition presents 134 masterworks by many of the world’s greatest artists. reimagining the world around them, these artists invented the strategies that shaped modern art in the twentieth century and beyond. This outstanding collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, prints and media works from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York spans over 120 years and presents the

Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond:

The World ReimaginedGary Dufour, Chief Curator | Deputy Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia

RightFrida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954)Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940oil on canvas15¾ x 11” (40 x 27.9 cm)The Museum of Modern Art, New York.Gift of Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.© 2012 Frida Kahlo/Artists rights Society (ArS), New York/SOMAAP, Mexico.

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If Paul Cézanne’s faceted oranges were revolutionary at the dawn of the twentieth century,

Urs Fischer’s hybrid of a real apple and pear shows us what a still life can be at the dawn of

the twenty-first.

BelowPaul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)Still Life with Ginger Jar, Sugar Bowl, and Oranges 1902-06oil on canvas23⅞ x 28⅞” (60.6 x 73.3 cm)The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lillie P. Bliss Collection.

RightGerhard Richter (German, born 1932)Self-Portrait 1996oil on linen20⅛ x 18¼” (51.1 x 46.4 cm)The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jo Carole and ronald S. Lauder and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds.© 2012 Gerhard richter

of a real apple and pear shows us what a still life can be at the dawn of the twenty-first. The solidity of Auguste rodin’s portrait of Honoré de Balzac sculpted in the 1890s gives way to Gerhard richter’s self-portrait in the 1990s, in which the subject dissolves in a blur of paint.

While some artists are intimately associated with a particular subject or genre – such as Giorgio Morandi‘s metaphysical still lifes – others have applied their aesthetic innovations to a wide range of subjects and situations. Pablo Picasso’s Cubist interpretations of both a portrait bust and a café table, for example, invite viewers to make connections between the exhibition’s Landscape, Still Life and

timeless subjects of landscape, still life and portraiture with urgency and vitality. Outstanding works by eminent artists such as van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, Dalí, Kahlo, Wesselmann, Koons and richter will allow you to experience some of the most innovative interpretations of traditional genres, each engendering a renewed sense of wonder at what the world can be.

From vincent van Gogh’s twisted olive trees to Lawrence Weiner’s seascape in words, we see the definition of a landscape expand to include not only the representation of a site but our own experience of it. If Paul Cézanne’s faceted oranges were revolutionary at the dawn of the twentieth century, urs Fischer’s hybrid

Portrait sections. Shared strategies – from abstraction to appropriation – and common movements – from Surrealism to conceptual art – similarly create links across categories.


In harmony with the exhibition Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World Reimagined the Friends are presenting a Film/Lecture Series and specialist guided tours.

Vincent van Gogh Wednesday 5 June, 6 – 8.30pm

Director Dr Stefano Carboni will talk about the exhibition and introduce Dominik rimbault’s documentary In The Footsteps of Vincent van Gogh (56 mins).

Guided tour Sunday 30 June, 2 – 4pm

Curator’s Tour Sunday 13 October, 2-4.30pm

with Ms Tika Bachu, Curatorial Assistant, MoMA SeriesSalvador Dalí Monday 11 November, 6 – 8.30pm

Glenn Isegar-Pilkington AGWA curator will talk about the world of surrealism and introduce French documentary Salvador Dalí: A Soft Self-Portrait 1969 (60 mins). Directed by Jean-Christopher Averty, with narration by Orson Welles.

See the Friends Event Guide for further details.

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Van Gogh, Dalí and Beyond: The World Reimagined is organised by The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. The exhibition is showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia 22 June – 2 December 2013.

Simultaneously venerating and disrupting

tradition, the artists in Van Gogh, Dalí and

Beyond: The World Reimagined accepted

convention only to overthrow it, deploying

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SAMArKAND IS AN ALMOST LEGENDArY NAME for many in the West. redolent of golden glamour, turquoise, spices and oriental cruelty, the capital of Timur

is a grand monument to high culture. Its very foundations were constructed on the blood and bones of countless artisans and craftsman dragged in bondage from the great cities of Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, to beautify this memorial to a warrior king, founder of one of the greatest dynasties of the medieval world: Timur Leng and the Timurids (Timurid dynasty 1370-1509).

Even today in the Persian poetry of Iran, Samarkand is described as the desired destination for the learned man and lovers alike; for Babur, founder of the great Mughal dynasty of India, Samarkand was his lost ancestral home, mourned even as he and his descendants carved out their magnificent Indian empire; to merchants and traders from as far afield as venice and Beijing, Samarkand was a marketplace where they could safely meet at the intersection of the legendary silk roads. Yet although Samarkand today sits squarely within the modern state of uzbekistan, a Turkic speaking people, the tradition of the city is solidly Persian. Like her sister city of Bukhara, (another name redolent of Eastern exoticism) Samarkand was deliberately ripped from her Tajik/Persian heartland and ‘donated’ by Stalin in 1925 as capital of the uzbek Soviet Socialist republic, part of the Communist programme to ensure russian dominance of myriad peoples of the Central Asia through divide and rule. Still today, despite vast investment in a faux official ‘uzbek’ history, the arts, architecture, culture and even language of the great Central Asia cities remains indelibly linked to their kin in Iran.

The history of Persian Iran and Central Asia is an epic cast of Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, Alexander, Zoroaster, Julian the Apostate, Nestorious the Heretic, Chingis Khan, Persepolis, Timur Leng,

The Friends are delighted to host Iain Shearer to present the 2013 ASA International Scholars Series.

Glories of The Great Kings – the Achaemenid adventure

in Iran Wednesday 7 August, 6 – 8pm

Artists, Astronomers and Conquerors – The Timurid

legacy in Uzbekistan Thursday 8 August, 6 – 8pm


Supremacy, exoticism and patronageIain Shearer ignites our passion for the history, tales and arts of the Middle Eastern empires.

Abovevakil Mosque, Shiraz, Iran. Photo: A. Edwards

Iain Shearer is a scholar, author and Tv presenter, who has always been fascinated by the many cultures and stories to be unearthed and explored within the Islamic World. He recently left the Middle East department of The British Museum where he was the Sackler Scholar for Afghanistan and Iran. He currently divides his time between Australia, the uK, the Maghreb, the Middle East and Central Asia.

Iain is passionate about exploring and sharing the thrilling histories and cultures of the Arabic, Persian and Turkic speaking peoples and hosted an episode of National Geographic and Lonely Planet›s ‘roads Less Travelled’ to Kazakhstan.

While in Britain Iain lectures for NADFAS and regularly leads cultural tours for, amongst others, The British Museum. Iain was appointed a Fellow of The royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2008. He was the Lonely Planet author for the Saudi Arabia and Hajj guides in 2009, as well as the upcoming edition for 2013, Lonely Planet Iran 2012 and the author of the forthcoming updated Bradt guide to Iran.

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Avicenna, Gowhar Shad, uleg Bek, Shapur I, Mokanna The veiled One, Sassanian Queens Azarmedukht and Boran; Khosru and Shirin, al-Khwarizmi, and all are encapsulated by beautiful Scheherazade and her 1001 tales.


Singapore – a vision of historical and futuristic culture

Louise Jones

THIS EXTrAOrDINArY island nation, Singa-pura, the Lion City, has long been the stop over of

choice for travellers to and from Europe and a popular posting for expatriate families. Many travel to Singapore to experience the hotels and the shopping, without ever digging beneath the surface to appreciate the diverse mix of ethnic and racial groups that make up its population, its rich colonial and cultural history and its growing arts community.

Occupying a unique geographical position in the shipping routes between India and China, Singapore has quickly become one of the most successful nations in the world. Observers credit this success with the foresight of the colony’s founding Lieutenant, Sir Stamford raffles and later Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s formidable Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990. But ask a Singapore taxi driver – and they are full of useful information – and they will tell you that everyone in Singapore just works extremely hard and that is the work ethic of the nation.

Consistent with a strict approach to law, public order and modesty, a conservative censorship is reflected in the arts and freedom of expression in Singapore. However since the early 2000s the arts calendar in Singapore has increased considerably, both in local and international content and visitors to Singapore have a great deal to choose from.

Every city in the world can learn something from Singapore’s incredible and constantly growing public art collection. Thanks to a government policy that demands new commercial developments in Singapore devote a percentage of cost and space to public art works, many of Singapore’s hotels and commercial buildings are home to some impressive installations.

Tackling Singapore district by district, a good place to start is the civic area of the city, the area north of the river and home

to much of its most beautiful and historic colonial architecture.

Here Friends will find, amongst other landmarks, the iconic Raffles Hotel, the Anglican St Andrews Cathedral with its stark white plaster applied by convicts and the Singapore Art Museum, affectionately known as SAM and housing a permanent collection of over 4000 southeast Asian paintings. Friends visiting Singapore later in 2013 can enjoy the 4th Singapore Biennale at SAM and other venues, themed ‘If the World Changed’ which invites artists

Many travel to Singapore to experience the hotels and the

shopping, without ever digging beneath the surface to

appreciate the diverse mix of ethnic and racial groups that

make up its population…

RightAnthony Gormley, Drift 2009, 39.6 x 14.6 x 23 metres; 16,138 x 12.7mm square stainless steel and 8,327 x 32mm diameter balls. Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

18 artifacts april – july 2013 www.artfriends.com.au

to respond to and reconsider the worlds we live in and the worlds we want to live in.

This area is also home to the National Museum of Singapore and down towards Boat Quay on the Singapore river there is a statue of Sir Stamford raffles at raffles Landing where he arrived in 1819 and negotiated the terms of a treaty with local Malay rulers. Further along the river to Empress Place, Friends can visit the Asian Civilisations Museum, housing extraordinary Chinese and Southeast Asian collections of sculpture, porcelain, textiles, ornaments and other decorative arts.

Singapore is famous for its parks and botanic gardens, the most historic of which is Fort Canning Park, once known as the Forbidden Hill, home to the Malay royals in the 14th century and where raffles built the first Governor’s residence in the early 1800’s. There are guided walks in the park covering its colonial history (including the decision to surrender to the Japanese made at the Battle Box bunker), but also the magnificent flora and fauna of this incredibly lush park.

Fort Canning Park also has a lively outdoor programme of arts events including ballet, concerts and theatre (Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ is scheduled to start in April), so it is worth checking before you go.

There are two relatively new attractions in the Marina Bay area, the privately owned ArtScience Museum, designed by architect Moshe Safdie and reminiscent of a lotus flower and the Gardens by the Bay. There are 21 gallery spaces at the ArtScience Museum,

three of which, ‘Curiosity, Inspiration and Expression’, house the museum’s small permanent exhibition. Currently until mid April is New York artist Nathan Sawaya’s exhibition The Art of the Brick, 52 incredible sculptures using only LEGO bricks.

The Gardens by the Bay is an extraordinary and breathtaking endeavour and part of the Singapore National Parks ‘vision of creating a City in a Garden’. These gardens house many attractions including the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest, the former replicating the cool dry climates of South Africa and California and the latter a 35 metre lush mountain ‘shrouding the worlds tallest indoor waterfall’.

Beautiful as these are, the most ambitious ‘exhibit’ at Gardens by the Bay is arguably the Supertree Grove, an incredible construction of living sculpture, essentially 12 trees made of a reinforced concrete core and trunk and then planted panels of living skin up the tree and into a canopy. The panels comprise over 200 species and varieties of bromeliads, orchids, ferns and tropical flowering climbing plants. Friends can enjoy ‘Garden rhapsody’ a short but spectacular music and light show amongst the Supertrees each evening that celebrates ‘the harmonious existence of Man and the Garden’.

At the adjacent Marina Bay Sands hotel and casino, Friends will find large-scale public art installations showcased to an extraordinary extent with the commissioned works styled the ‘Marina Bay Sands Art Path’ estimated to be worth uS $50 million.

Friends can start in the hotel foyer and look up as Andrew Gormley’s Drift, a huge three dimensional steel matrix rises up

seven floors inside the atrium. Also in the atrium, Zheng’s Rising Forrest connects the hotel with the landscape outside creating a walkway of 83 ceramic tree filled vessels.

Moving towards the casino façade, Friends will find Carpenters Blue Reflection Façade with Light Entry Passage, an incredible curved installation of blue vertical glass and metal fins. Your perception of this installation will change depending upon what time of the day you visit and the light.

The hotel entrance and main reception is home to Sol LeWitt’s happy and bold geometrical drawing Wall Drawing #917 Arcs and Circles 1999 which was created by local artists consistent with LeWitt’s view that the ‘idea’ is the artwork and that others can execute that vision. LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #915 Arcs and Circle and Irregular Bands can also be found in the underground MrT station connected to Marina Bay Sands. (These installations were created with the support of the state of the art Singapore Tyler Print Institute that Friends can visit at 41 robertson Quay).

Ned Kahn is responsible for three installations in the Art Path, Wind Arbor, Rain Oculus and Tipping Wall. On the outside western façade of the hotel atrium Wind Arbor comprises 260,000 aluminum panels mounted on hinges that move freely, ‘flapping’ as the wind blows and creating an incredible shimmering visual.

To get a real appreciation for the diverse ethnic cultures that come together to create Singapore, Friends should spend some time in Chinatown, Kampong Glam, Little India, Joo Chiat and sample the Malay spiced Peranakan cuisine in the Katong.

BelowSupertree Grove at night. Courtesy of Gardens by the Bay.


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Kampong Glam, the former seat of Malay royalty, the Sultan Hussein who granted Singapore to the British and whose former palace Istana Kampong Glam still stands, has been a Malay-Muslim quarter since the 1800’s and the Arab Street area is a favourite with shoppers and foodies. Make sure you visit the golden domed Sultan Mosque in Bussorah Street. From Little India or Kampong Glam, Friends should consider travelling a few streets south to Mount Sofia and stopping at the Old School, the former Methodist Girls’ School that is now an collaborative artistic centre bringing together diverse creative communities in artistic and musical studios and galleries. Also in nearby McNally Street, Friends will find the Singapore Contemporary Institute of Art, a division of the Lasalle College that has seven galleries exploring new contemporary art and an impressive public programme of lectures and seminars that Friends might consider before they travel.

A visit to Singapore should take in the old warehouses and depots of Dempsey Hill, now converted to restaurants, small galleries and antique shops. Formerly the British army base (and where young Singaporeans nervously reported for compulsory national army enlistment) and still referred to by some locals as Tanglin village, Dempsey Hill sits opposite the Botanic Gardens and is at its most lively by night. The Australian owned rEDSEA Gallery has converted 6000 square metres of barracks into an inviting gallery space housing exhibitions from Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe.

Useful Singapore Links

www.singaporefootprints.comwww.acm.org.sgwww.singaporeartmuseum.sgwww.nparks.gov.sgwww.substation.orgwww.gardensbythebay.com.sgwww,dempseyhill.com.sgwww.oldschool.com.sgwww.artstagesingapore.comwww.lasalle.edu.sg

Top rightPua kumbu (sacred cloth)Sarawak, Baleh river, c. 1940sCottonPua kumbu are woven by Iban Dayak women, who gain status through the processes of preparing natural dyes and weaving intricate patterns. These sacred cloths are considered spiritually powerful because they feature many symbols used for protection and as blessings. This one bears the buah remaung (tiger pattern) which is a powerful protective motif. Courtesy of the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.

Armchair travellers and Friends alike, immerse yourselves in Asian culture at Zara Fleming’s ADFAS lecture! Fresh off the plane from Bhutan and Burma,

Zara will enthrall us with tales of tigers in legends, beliefs and art, and explore the tiger as a symbol of power and protection.The Tiger in Asian Art

13 May, 6 – 8pm


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FriendshipPhotos: Christina Backus, Friends Volunteer

Friends recently enjoyed a tour of the Wesfarmers Collection exhibition Luminous World led by its curator Helen Carroll, the Women in Photography tours with PCP and an ADFAS lecture delivered by Oliver Everett, Librarian Emeritus of the royal Library, Windsor Castle.

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W HEN THE ArT Gallery of Western Australia bought Guy

Grey-Smith’s Horseshoe Range in 1961 it was maintaining the Gallery’s tradition of buying outstanding works of contemporary art, a practice which had started with the purchase of Frederick McCubbin’s Down on his Luck in 1896 and continues to this day.

Your Collection – in focusMelissa Harpley, AGWA Curator of Historical Painting, Sculpture and Design

Horseshoe Range is a major work in Grey-Smith’s oeuvre, standing as it does at a point of significant transition in his painting style. Grey-Smith’s early landscapes had been largely drawn from the local Perth environs and showed him as an artist working through various influences on his way to developing his own style. Travel through the north-west from the mid-50s onwards literally broadened his horizons, resulting in arresting paintings like this one that distil the essence of the landscape through the simplification of form and controlled use of intense colour.

At two and a half metres in length, Horseshoe Range was the biggest painting Grey-Smith had ever attempted when he started it in 1958, the size befitting both the subject matter (a striking landform north of Meekatharra) and the scale of the artist’s ambition for the work. This increase in size was also linked to a change in Grey-Smith’s way of working. The laying down of paint now involved more of the artist’s body, the impasto a result of the physical activity of dragging paint across large areas of the surface with a palette knife.

Horseshoe Range is currently on display at the Gallery, and will be one of the key works featured in the retrospective of this important Western Australian artist to be presented at the Gallery in February 2014.

RightGuy Grey-Smith, Horseshoe Range 1958-1961oil on muslin over hardboard. 126 x 250 cmState Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western AustraliaPurchased 1961

The laying down of paint

now involved more of the

artist’s body…


ExhibitionsTom Malone Prize 2013

Until Monday 15 April

Now in its 11th year, the annual acquisitive Tom Malone Prize adds a winning Australian glass artist’s work to our State Art Collection. This year’s winner Tom Moore and the other 11 artists shortlisted for the award, show the diversity and endless possibilities of the medium. Tom Moore comments about his winning work, Buff Sandy: “I have always been excited by improbable stacked forms that seek to defy gravity. I continue to enjoy living on the edge of what is technically possible.”

Year 12 Perspectives 2012

Until 30 June

A showcase of the creative visions of budding Western Australian artists. Through painting, sculpture, ceramics, video and drawing, these talented Year 12 graduates explore themes of social disconnection, the move into adulthood, gender identity, disability and the impact of social media. vote for your favourite in the Santos People’s Choice Award – visit the exhibition or view the online gallery at artgallery.wa.gov.au

What’s on at the GalleryFor more information about exhibitions and events visit: artgallery.wa.gov.au

Picturing New York: Photographs

from The Museum of Modern Art

Until 12 May

Tracing the dynamic rise of modern photography from 1888 to 2005 through a multitude of visions of the ever-changing ‘big apple’ and its famously diverse population, this exhibition is a rare opportunity to see iconic photographs by the world’s most celebrated photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand. visit momaseries.com.au.

Picturing New York – AGWA NightsUntil 3 May

Fridays from 5.30pm

Tickets: $19, no concessions available

(booking and credit card fees may apply)

This season of AGWA Nights will make you feel like you’ve just stepped into NYC’s Central Park. Enjoy Picturing New York with all the usual AGWA Nights’ trimmings: visit the exhibition, attend the 6pm Picturing New York tour by our volunteer Gallery Guides, enjoy a drink from our pop-up bar, along with music sets from local rTr FM DJs.

This season of AGWA Nights also offers new ways to explore this exceptional exhibition from New York’s Museum of Modern Art, including Curator Tours, AGWA Talks and quick-fire theatrical performances. Dive even deeper into the history, culture and transformation of twentieth century photography while enjoying a glass of wine and a bite to eat.

LeftTom MooreBuff Sandy 2012blown and solid glass69 x 30 x 17 cmCollection of the artistPhotographer: Grant Hancock

AboveMichael Spano (American, born 1949)New York Sights, 2005gelatin silver print, 27¾ x 34⅞” (70.5 x 88.6 cm)The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lois and Bruce Zenkel Fund.© 2012 Michael Spano


A series of linked vignettes, each one drawing inspiration from photographs in the exhibition. The work will present a quick-fire narrative, from New Netherland in 1609 through to metropolis, 20th century world city, and the lead-up to the Twin Towers.

Art Workshops for Kids In collaboration with the

Central Institute of Technology

Calling all kids! Get creative with these fun, hands-on art workshops to be held on Wednesday 24 April 2013.

iPad Comics with Chris Schnell

$60 per person (includes entry to

Picturing New York)

Suitable for 7-16 year olds. iPads provided with apps. Basic iPad skills required.Explore apps to create comics on the iPad. Develop your own comic story and images using the latest iPad apps, working with an expert graphic designer to develop unique skills.

Build your own Skyscraper


Picturing New York)

Suitable for 7-12 year olds.Make a ceramic skyscraper or cityscape, using hand building techniques and drawing through coloured slips. Your artwork will be fired later when dry. Bring your lunch and an apron/overalls. If you like, bring in your photos or drawings of the city.

Camera-less Photography


Picturing New York)

Suitable for 7-12 year olds. Bring your lunch.Compose unique images on photographic paper inspired by the city. Draw onto glass or perspex, and use found objects to create designs – and use the sun to create photographs.

Each Friday night features a rotating special highlight, see schedule below.

Tickets are available from the AGWA Box Office, through all Ticketek outlets or online at ticketek.com.au

AGWA Nights – Curator Tours

Dates: 5 April & 3 May, 7pm

Join the Gallery’s talented Curators; Lucy Harper, Picturing New York Project Curator, and robert Cook, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design, as they share the ins and outs of how the exhibition was developed and present their insights into the themes of Picturing New York. These informal talks will give you a greater understanding about the thinking behind the presentation of this international show, and the works themselves.

AGWA Nights – Talks

Date: 12 April, 7pm

Be stimulated by some fascinating talks on topics inspired by the show’s NYC content including NYC fashion, architecture and inner city trends. AGWA Nights’ Talks is co-ordinated with the Central Institute of Technology and AGWA. Seating is limited so beat the crowd by arriving early.

AGWA Nights – Game-on!

Date: 19 April, from 6pm

It’s game night at AGWA! Show-off your Chess or Checkers skills and you could be in the running to win some cool prizes. Go to www.picturingnewyork.artgallery.wa.gov.au to register!

On Friday 10 May, as part of the closing party festivities, the four nightly champions will face-off over an oversized Chess or Checkers game to determine the ultimate AGWA Nights’ Champion.

New York, New York:

A History in 20 Minutes

Date: 26 April

A humorous and thought-provoking journey through New York history: the people, the place, the culture, the art, the celebrities, the music, the cityscape.

For more information please visit

momaseries.com.au

For bookings or more info, please contact:Art Portfolio – Short Courses

and Workshops

Phone: 08 9427 1127Email: [email protected]

AGWA Sunday Talks In collaboration with the

Central Institute of Technology

Tickets: $26 per talk (booking and

credit card fees may apply)

AGWA TheatretteGain a deeper understanding of the artists and themes in Picturing New York with this summer lecture series. Join us afterwards for a complimentary cup of coffee or tea and mingle with like-minded art lovers.

Art Deco: Skyscraper Cities

with Sue Geddes-Page

2pm, Sunday 7 Aprilrebuilt after the fire of 1871, Chicago emerged as a towering vertical city. Elevators and water pumps made tall buildings a reality in New York, where the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings added Art Deco narrative and decoration to the skyline.

The Black Box and the Postmodern

City with Sue Geddes-Page

2pm, Sunday 14 AprilBauhaus Modernists brought a formal purity to the New World which led to the geometric corporate forms of the American city. After the austere geometry of Modernism, a new visual language of symbolism, texture and playfulness changed the face of the urban environment, rezoning the city as a place to live as well as work.For more information please visit momaseries.com.au

Tickets to Picturing New York Sunday Talks are available from the AGWA Box Office, through Ticketek outlets or online at ticketek.com.au

These informal talks will give you a greater understanding about the thinking behind the presentation

of this international show, and the works themselves.


Books, Websites & TriviaInto the Light:

The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art

By John Cruthers, Lee Kinsella

If you were fortunate to see the exhibition of the Cruthers Collection (Look. Look again.) at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery last year you will be glad to own a reminder of this distinctive view of Australia through the work of women artists. Lady Sheila Cruthers began collecting art in 1974 and her collection evolved over time to focus on the main themes of self-portraiture and identity, still life, domestic and family life, gender, political activism and abstraction. Into the Light tells the story of the Collection with historical photographs, essays and wonderful colour plates of the artworks dating from the 1880s to the present, by seminal artists such as Grace Cossington Smith, Nora Heysen, Freda

robertshaw, Fiona Foley, Susan Norrie and Julie Dowling.

Published by uWA Publishing, 2012. ISBN 9781742584850. Flexi-bound paperback rrP: Au$29.95 [uwap.uwa.edu.au]

Court & Camera

– The Life & Times of A. H. Stone

A Pioneer Photographer in Perth

By Jacqueline O’Brien &

Pamela Statham-Drewe

This beautifully compiled and illustrated book is a unique pictorial history of pre gold rush Perth in the mid 1860s, just 30 years after its foundation. Alfred Hawes Stone was best known as a legal practitioner who, along with his brother George and only a handful of others, helped establish and administer law in the new Swan Colony. As well as capturing the emergence of landmark buildings alongside ordinary

dwellings, Court & Camera includes excerpts from Stone’s diary.

Published by Fremantle Press, April 2013. ISBN 9780646589442. Hardcover rrP: Au$49.99 [fremantlepress.com.au]Image courtesy of Fremantle Press.

TriviaPablo Picasso lent Salvador Dalí $500 for his first trip to New York in 1934. They are said to have met when Picasso attended Dalí’s first solo exhibition in Barcelona in 1925 and liked what he saw.

Salvador Dalí is said to have collaborated with the Marx Brothers for a

motion picture screenplay. It never made it to production but Dalí remained friends with Harpo. Dalí designed the sets for the dream scenes in Hitchcock’s thriller Spellbound in 1946.

The only painting van Gogh ever sold during his lifetime was Red Vineyards at

Arles (La Vigne Rouge, 1888) now part of the collection at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. He sold it to Belgian art collector Anna Boch, whose brother Eugene was a friend of van Gogh.

With thanks to www.funtrivia.com

WebsitesDr Stefano Carboni is the 11th Director of the Art Gallery of WA and since 2008 has initiated fruitful partnerships with overseas institutions to present exhibitions of exceptional international art for our local Perth audiences. Italian by birth, his pre-Perth professional life was spent in New York in the Department of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Foundation Members were fortunate to enjoy a unique art tour of venice in 2011 and of New York in 2012, led by the Director. Stefano’s local connections and knowledge of the best-kept-secret

restaurants certainly added to the richness of these tours.

We asked Stefano to list the top three websites that he enjoys visiting for Arts & Culture info and news:www.moma.org

This is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds and provides inspiration. Their collection database is extensive.www.abc.net.au

You can find the best up-to-date information on what is happening locally.www.metmuseum.org

I keep in touch with old friends and colleagues.

WA, Australia & the WorldA selection of exhibitions, biennales, art fairs & events


Books, Websites & Trivia

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

BUNBURY REGIONAL ART GALLERIES64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury 6230W: brag.org.au T: 08 9721 8226Open: 10am-4pm every day, entry freeSOUTH WEST STORIES, curated by Olga Cironis26 April-16 June10th BuNBurY BIENNALE20 July-8 September

GALLERY CENTRAL12 Aberdeen St, Perth 6000W: gallerycentral.com.au T: 08 94271318Open: Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pmREVEALED: EMERGING ABORIGINAL ARTISTS FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA 201313 April-4 MayAn exhibition by the next generation of Aboriginal artists is complemented by a bustling marketplace, where visitors have the rare opportunity to buy direct from the artists and 20 Aboriginal Art Centres. A free symposium thrashes out some current issues and celebrates creativity and innovation from regional WA.REVEALED SYMPOSIUMFri 12 April, 1-4pmREVEALED ABORIGINAL ART MARKET AT THE CULTURAL CENTRESat 13 April, 12-4pm

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE1 Finnerty St, Fremantle 6160W: fac.org.au T: 08 9432 9555Open 10am-5pm, 7 daysPETER DAILEY | APPARITION: THE SYNDICATE II13 April-2 JuneHELEN MAUDSLEY | THE LANDSCAPE OF BEING8 June-21 JulyMICHAELA GLEAVE | A DAY IS LONGER THAN A YEAR8 June-21 July

GALERIE DÜSSELDORF9 Glyde Street, Mosman Park 6012W: galeriedusseldorf.com.auOpen: Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sun 2-5pmHOWARD TAYLOR (1918-2001): DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND IDEAS 1946-2001until 21 AprilA comprehensive exhibition of constructions, paintings, drawings and maquettes, including previously unseen early sketches, notations and schematic diagrams.

GOMBOC GALLERY SCULPTURE PARKJames road, Middle SwanOpen: Wed-Sun, 10am-5pmW: gomboc-gallery.com.au T: 08 9274 3996GUMBURRNA | ANDREW (ANDO) BINSIAR6-27 May

HEATHCOTE MUSEUM & GALLERY58-60 Duncraig road, ApplecrossW: melvillecity.com.au/facilities/museums/heathcoteT: 08 9364 5666Open: Tue-Fri 10am-3pm; Sat-Sun 12-4pm; Closed Mon & public hols

CERAMIC ARTS ASSOCIATION OF WA ANNUAL SELECTIVE ExHIBITION 201313 April-19 MayTIME BIDS BE GONE25 May-30 Jun

LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERYThe university of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, CrawleyW: lwgallery.uwa.edu.au T: 08 6488 3707Open: Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sun 12-5pmClosed Public Holidays, Free AdmissionORIENTING | IAN FAIRWEATHER4 May-13 JulyTOWARDS PERTH: WESTERN AUSTRALIAN WOMEN ARTISTS BEFORE 19504 May-13 JulyDJURRBILK: GOSSIP SONGS OF NORTHWEST ARNHEM LAND29 June-14 December

PAPER MOUNTAINupstairs 267 William Street, NorthbridgeW: papermountain.org.auOpen: Tue-Sun 11am-5pmBACHANALIAN PICNIC | CHERISH MARRINGTON AND LANCE KERSHAW-LADU11 May-26 MayTEST SCREEN | TIM CARTER8-23 JuneNOTES TOWARD A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE | ANNA DUNNILL6-21 July

>>Top left Peter Dailey, Alchemist 2013, PETG, wood, Perspex, stones, acrylic and oil paints

Top rightStuart Elliott, Facility 7 2013, wood, mild steel plate, acrylic sheet, resin, varied dimensions


TURNER GALLERIES470 William St, Northbridge 6003W: turnergalleries.com.au T: 08 9227 1077 Open: Tue-Sat 11am-5pmSTUART ELLIOTT AND ANNA NAZZARI19 April-18 MayPHILIP WARD DICKSON24 May-22 June

VENN GALLERY16 Queen Street, Perth WA 6000W: venn.net T: 08 9321 8366 Open: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-7pmKATE MCMILLAN AND TOM FREEMAN29 March-10 MayCLARE PEAKE17 May-28 JuneINTERSTATE

TURNER FROM THE TATE1 June-8 September 2013, National Gallery of Australia (NGA)J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) is one of Britain’s greatest artists, a key figure of the romantic generation who was valued as a master in his own time and whose impact was felt as far away as Australia. The exhibition consists of 40 oils complemented by 70 works on paper, from large watercolours to intimate sketches, including many of his most famous paintings and works never shown previously. From ambitious early works to remarkable paintings of Turner’s late career, the exhibition culminates with powerful seascapes including A disaster at sea which shows the notorious shipwreck of a convict ship bound for NSW in which many women drowned. [nga.gov.au]

MONET’S GARDEN: THE MUSéE MARMOTTAN MONET, PARIS10 May-8 September 2013, National Gallery of victoria (NGv)Continuing the vogue for imported mega artist shows, this stunning exhibition is devoted to Claude Monet’s iconic garden at Giverny and includes more than 50 masterpieces including a suite of waterlilies paintings that he completed between 1900 and 1919. Monet’s Garden traces the evolution of his garden subjects, revealing the transition of Monet’s purely Impressionist style to the expressive pictorial idiom that he adopted in later life. [ngv.vic.gov.au]

INTERNATIONAL ART FAIRS

FRIEzE NEW YORK10–13 May 2013Frieze’s largest event to date will show over 180 galleries with a strong representation of American and European galleries joined by those from the rest of the world, with 32 countries represented in total. The comprehensive talks program brings together a range of voices, from leading artists to musicians and novelists to cultural critics; discussing some of the most pertinent issues in contemporary art and culture today. [friezenewyork.com]

ART BASEL IN HONG KONG23-26 May 2013If you can’t make it to Europe or the uSA this year visit the inaugural Art Basel in Hong Kong, where half of the participating galleries come from Asia and Asia-Pacific. [artbasel.com/en/Hong-Kong]

ART BASEL13-16 June 2013This monster art fair draws tens of thousands of art collectors, curators and art lovers from all over the world, many of them on a grand tour that also takes in the venice Biennale. Some of the most prominent and respected figures in the international art world share their ideas and knowledge in the Salon talks, and artists great and small are showcased in the satellites of curated projects, site-specific experiential work and film. Basel city embraces visitors by offering free transport and a plethora of other delights. You will need a minimum of three days to take it all in plus the ‘alternative art fairs’ and other art institutions such as the Fondation Beyeler, but it’s a must, at least once in your life. [artbasel.com]

April 7 - April 21 Noir et Blanc

May 4 - May 19 Conversation 5

May 22 - May 28 Youth Art Fest and Exhibition

June 1 - June 30 Helen Norton Solo Exhibition

July 6 - July 28 Forests, Horses, Myths & Legends

OPEN: Mon−Fri 9-4, Sat−Sun 10−4Address: 50 Railway Road, KalamundaT: (08) 9257 9953www.zzcc.com.au

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS


Grant Woodhams MLA

MID WEST Art Prize 2013

Winners of the Mid West Art Prize 2013$3,500 96.5WAFM Youth AwardEmma Itzstein ‘Medicating for my CMY Personality Disorder’

$5,000 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery Mid West Aboriginal AwardBruce Bradfield ‘Untitled’

$5,000 Geraldton Regional Art Gallery Highly Commended AwardMathew Mouchmore ‘Planet of Light’

$5,000 Eastman Poletti Sherwood Architects Mid West AwardAmanda Rowland ‘Port a Pret’

$5,000 Minerals & Metals Group Highly Commended AwardDani Andree ‘A Plied Way’

$20,000 City of Greater Geraldton Award for ExcellenceMark Nodea ‘Texas Country’

Call for EntriesYou are invited to be a part of this unique and nationally respected art award...The Cossack Art Award provides an unmissable opportunity for established and emerging artists to showcase their work in a nationally recognised public forum.

With ten categories and total prize pool of over $100,000, this is the richest regional art award in Australia, attracting high calibre entrants to the Pilbara region every year since 1992.

Download the entry form and conditions of entry from the Shire of Roebourne website www.roebourne.wa.gov.au

Enquiries can be directed to the Shire of Roebourne E. [email protected]. 0417 805 128 | T. (08) 9186 8555

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 4pm, Monday 17 June OR when maximum capacity of entries is reached. For more info visit www.roebourne.wa.gov.au.

ExhIbITION: 21 July – 11 August 2013

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