SUMMER 2009-10 NEWS
GREAT IDEAS FOR CHRISTMAS...
BOOKS
Just arrived this week is new stock of the popular Marian Drew book, just $55 dollars for a handsome
hardback volume complete with DVD.
- David Bromfield, Fakeology: The Art of Stuart Elliott 1994-2004, 184 pages in full colour, $67.70
- Marian Drew: photographs + video works, 100 page hardcover, $55
- Closet Circus: Works from the Horn Collection, 224 pages in full colour, $50
- Love Andrew Nicholls: Drawn works 1998-2008, 120 pages in full colour, $50
- Cath Kenneally, Angela Valamanesh, About Being Here, 88 page hardcover, $45
- Matthew Hunt: Backwater, 190 page hardcover, $55
Don’t forget we also have stock left of Stuart Elliott’s Underpass Motel book [$22] and DVD [$33].
LIMITED EDITION PRINTS
We have a great selection of limited edition prints available from an impressive array of well known Australian artists. Ranging in price from $225 to $900. View them at: www.turnergalleries.com.au/artangels/aa_ltd.php
ART ANGEL SUBSCRIPTION
What a fantastic gift this would be! An Art Angels subscription gives the lucky recipient a whole year of membership that includes artist studio visits, exhibition previews, gallery discounts, three limited edition artworks, plus they go into the draw for the artworks we buy each year. On top of that you are supporting an innovative artist in residence programme run by Turner Galleries and local artists. Enormous value at just $1,100.
ARTWORKS
Turner Galleries has a large stockroom of available artworks that the public is welcome to view.
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Congratulations to the following artists whose work was acquired by major public and corporate collections:
- Graham Miller & Trevor Richards both had artworks acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia
- Ben Jones had a work from Underpass Motel acquired by the City of Fremantle
- The City of Perth acquired a suite of four Lisa Wolfgramm paintings
- Wesfarmers acquired a major Marion Borgelt painting
GALLERY CLOSING FOR ANNUAL BREAK
We will be closing for the year on Friday 18 December and will be reopening in 2010 on 5 February. Staff are available whilst we are closed by appointment, please contact us via email: info@turnergalleries.com.au
2010 AT TURNER GALLERIES
We have a great program lined up for 2010. It will be uploaded onto our website over the next couple of weeks. Kicking off the year will be a major solo exhibition by Andrew Nicholls, complimented by an installation in our entry room by Susan Flavell. We are pleased to be involved with FotoFreo again, and will be showing the work of Annet van der Voort and Simon Obarzanek. Simon will be our first artist in residence for 2010. We wish you all a very safe and happy festive season.
SPRING 2009 NEWS
TURNER TURNS TEN!
On the 22 October 1999 The Church Gallery opened its doors in Claremont, with an exhibition featuring some of Perth’s leading artists in The Sir Charles Gairdner Art Award. Since then the gallery has introduced a successful residency programme, along with its popular Art Angels support group, and continued to show exhibitions that provoke and stimulate. In 2006 The Church Gallery moved to temporary premises in Northbridge and in March 2007 opened in new premises as Turner Galleries. The new gallery has proved to be a roaring success and continues to attract many of Perth’s best artists. The residency programme has gone from strength to strength, appealing to leading artists from around Australia.
RECENT ACQUISITIONS
- Paul Caporn’s Slump, the huge rubber crane from his Reconstructed exhibtion, has been acquired by the Ipswich Art Gallery in Queensland.
- Murdoch University Collection acquired a major series of text works from Matthew Hunt’s entry room exhibition Sunshine, cocktails, chicken wings & trampolines.
- The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art acquired a major work from Lisa Wolfgramm’s exhibition.
- Royal Perth Hospital has acquired a full set of posters from the Underpass Motel exhibition.
- Murdoch University acquired a four-panel painting from Trevor Richard’s exhibition, along with a fabulous sculpture.
OTHER NEWS
Peter Dailey has been named the next artist for the Syndicate. Lloyd Horn and Ron Wise have initiated this new patronage of art program. Ten shareholders sponsor an artist for up to two years to produce a body of work that will then be divided among the shareholders.
The Leeuwin Estate Art Series Chardonnay from 2006, featuring a painting by Lisa Wolfgramm on the label, has been rated number 11 in the most cellared wines in Australia by Wine Arc. This makes it the most popular white wine to be collected in Australia.
Rebecca Dagnall was included in a group exhibition The Lake, at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney from 28 August to 10 October 2009.
Garry Pumfrey had a solo show with Flinders Lane Gallery in Melbourne in September. It sold very well. Garry will be showing new works at Turner Galleries in October 2010.
Turner Galleries has been selected to have a stand at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2010. We will be featuring the work of Matthew Hunt, and a group exhibition by Indra Geidans, Trevor Richards, Paul Caporn and Marion Borgelt.
Andrew Nicholls’ book was launched with much fan-fare on 24 September. This impressive 120 page, full colour publication, covering his work from 1998 to 2008, can be purchased from Turner Galleries for just $50.
Our Next Artist in Residence, Marian Drew, arrives in Perth on 20 November.
WINTER 2009 NEWS
Paul Caporn’s exhibition catalogue is still available at Turner Galleries. If you missed his knock-out show, do come in and pick one up, they are free, courtesy the DCA who helped fund his exhibition.
Graham Miller has had an exciting six months with much international exposure. In December 2008 he was nominated as one of the finalists in Critical Mass. Critical Mass is an annual online program created by Photolucida. Photographers at any level, from anywhere in the world, submit portfolios for review. Through a pre-screening process, the field is narrowed to a select group of 175 Finalists who go on to have their work reviewed and voted on by over 200 esteemed international photography professionals. The top 50 are named and have their work featured on the Photolucida website: www.photolucida.org
Graham was in the top six finalists. Graham was then nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography, the Leopold Godowsky Jr Photography Awards and the Review Santa Fe earlier this year.
He currently has work included in Transient States at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA, (as has Rebecca Dagnall) and is also the current Critic’s Pick (by critic Andy Adams) at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester Massachusetts.
Graham’s photographs are available through Turner Galleries. There are still images available from the very successful Suburban Splendour series, although Frank has now sold out (but can be found in the collections of Edith Cowan University and the National Gallery of Victoria). View his works from this series, with prices and availability in the gallery stockroom. Other works can be viewed on Graham’s own website: www.grahammiller.com.au. Last year Graham was featured in the opening pages of the wonderful photographic book Hijacked, edited by Mark McPherson and Max Pam. Copies are for sale at Turner Galleries. Ask staff to view this impressive publication.
Matthew Hunt is another extremely busy artist, with four shows over four months. He currently has work in a two person show with Diane Tanzer Gallery, who now represents him in Melbourne. New work will be on display in the Entry Room of Turner Galleries from 26 June to 25 July 2009. Upcoming group exhibitions include Making it New: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and Persuasion Equation at the Linden Contemporary Arts Centre in St Kilda, Melbourne.
Olga Cironis has had work from her Handle me gently series selected for the exhibition Turbulent Terrain: Manifestations of the sublime in contemporary art at the Latrobe Regional Gallery in September and touring to the Shepparton Art Gallery and the Hamilton Art Gallery in 2010.
IN BRIEF: What our previous artists in residence have been up to...
- Guan Wei is currently featured in The China Project at the Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art
- Annette Bezor had a solo show with Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
- Lisa Roet had a solo exhibition in June at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne
- Angela Valamanesh has a solo exhibition in Helsinki in August 2009
- Valerie Sparks has been awarded a three month Australian Council residency in London from July 2009
- Deborah Paauwe has had a solo show at the new Queensland Centre for Photography
- Simon Strong currently has photographs on display in Phantasia at the Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide