Dobell Exhibition Grant
PARTNER | MUSEUMS & GALLERIES NSW
The Dobell Exhibition Grant offers specific funding to regional art galleries for the creation of new exhibitions, public programs, and experiences for regional audiences.
The Dobell Art Foundation offers $40,000 each year to a NSW regional gallery to develop a new exhibition and supporting programs for their community. Based on a competitive application process, the program provides the opportunity for curators to develop and deliver purpose-built exhibitions for their regions. An important element is to involve local artists and offer targeted public programs for school students and the general public.
2025
Bathers and Lifesavers on Bondi Beach, David Henry Souter, 1934. Cropped. Australian National Maritime Museum Collection funded by Australian National Maritime Museum Foundation.
Souter’s Bondi
WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
BONDI PAVILION
10 May – 29 June 2025
This exhibition reintroduced the bold and imaginative paintings of D.H. Souter. His murals painted between 1920 and 1934 offer a glimpse into Bondi’s history, early beach culture and Australian Art Deco. These historic works explored social changes and reflected themes of leisure, mythology, and local identity.
In a dynamic dialogue with the past, Souter’s Bondi also featured new contemporary art commissions by Australian artists including:
Billy Bain, Lillian O’Neil, Maz Dixon, Gerwyn Davies, Paul Blackmore, Anne Zahalka, Samuel Leighton-Dore, and Cigdem Aydemir.
This important exhibition was brought to life in partnership with Waverley Council and Museums & Galleries of NSW and the major lender of Souter’s paintings, the National Maritime Museum. It coincided with celebrations surrounding the 100th anniversary of Art Deco.
A glimpse into Bondi’s history and beach-going culture in the early 20th century
2024
Kylie Caldwell and Aunty Julia Paden passing on the practice
Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali
WINNER | LARGER GALLERY GRANT
GRAFTON REGIONAL GALLERY
21 December 2024 - 9 February 2025
Bundjalung Weavers: Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali - We Weave Together
Bundjalung Weavers: Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali presented new work by contemporary Bundjalung First Nations artists responding to their great grandmothers’ artistry of weaving alongside historic woven objects from the collection of the Australian Museum. In collaboration with Arts Northern Rivers, travelled from Grafton Regional Gallery to Lismore Regional Gallery and Tweed Regional Gallery on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
Coiled and twined bags by Bundjalung women have been held by the Australian Museum since 1879. Bulaan Buruugaa Ngali was an opportunity to return these rarely seen bags to Country and exhibit them alongside contemporary works, bringing together generations of weavers and reclaiming and strengthening knowledge of traditional weaving practices. Some of the contemporary weavers featured in this exhibition are descendants of the original makers, representing generational reconnection across time and place.
The Australian Golf Museum, Simone Rosenbauer
Small Museum
WINNER | SMALLER GALLERY GRANT
MAITLAND REGIONAL GALLERY
2 March - 30 June 2024
Small Museum | Simone Rosenbauer
Curator Simone Rosenbauer’s Small Museum took us inside the world of true collectors. This exhibition of photographs, taken of 41 community museums across Australia, highlighted the buildings, people, and collections within them.
Small Museum fostered an appreciation and understanding for the lesser known cultural treasures that are embedded within these community collections. The project celebrated their role in preserving local heritage, history, and identity through contemporary art.
Coinciding with this exhibition, Maitland Regional Art Gallery commissioned four contemporary artists to develop artistic responses those historical collections.
Audiences were invited to ‘curate’ their own historical collection using objects found by Simone Rosenbauer. The exhibition included a suite of public programs including youth focused workshops, arts and health programs, and digital video engagement tools.
2024
2023
Liam Benson, hello good to meet you, 2019, fabric, netting, felt, cotton, dance fringe,
Sensorial
WINNER | LARGER GALLERY GRANT
BLUE MOUNTAINS ART GALLERY
23 September - 19 November 2023
Sensorial embraced all the senses and moved beyond the dominance of sight within the gallery space
Immersive environments were created to be experienced through a variety of senses.
Created for and by the neurodivergent community, the exhibition aimed to be an inclusive space for those who are often overwhelmed by their environment.
Curated by Rilka Oakley, the exhibition showcased local and national artists whose work created a full experiential environment.
Featured artists were Liam Benson, Inspired by Art led by Clare Delaney, Alison Bennett with Megan Beckwith, Ramana Dienes-Browning, and the Katoomba Neurodiversity Hub with Amy Bell, Bailee Lobb, Prue Stevenson and Hannah Surtees.
There were free drop in spaces with family-friendly activities designed by local participating artist Hannah Surtees, as well as collaborative workshops with Liam Benson, amongst others.
The exhibition toured to Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre, Tamworth Regional Gallery, Glasshouse Regional Gallery (Port Macquarie) and Western Plains Cultural Centre (Dubbo).
Sarah Goffman, (detail) 2023
Precious
WINNER | SMALLER GALLERY GRANT
WAGGA WAGGA ART GALLERY
15 July 2023 - 14 January 2024
Precious | Sarah Goffman
Australian artist Sarah Goffman utilised her practice of exploring the aesthetics of plastic to reimagine and recreate works from the National Art Glass Collection.
During 2023 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery devoted its entire exhibition programming to considerations of the environment. It is within this context that Dr Lee-Anne Hall curated Precious, an exhibition which asks audiences to reconsider their relationship to plastic.
Playful and intellectually rigorous, Goffman’s artworks are created with the material she critiques – salvaged and single use plastics - and weaved into the work commentary on garbage and pollution.
Public programs included school group tours, school holiday art camps, artist and curator talks, and educational offerings around sustainability in the community.
2023
2022
True Blue, Jane Skeer, 2018, 300 x 700 x 150cm, used rachet tie downs bought from Bunbury, Albany, Whyalla, Freeling, Alice Springs, Mount Gambier, Millicent, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and BrisbaneFoundation.
Halfway
WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
YARRILA ARTS AND MUSEUM, COFFS HARBOUR
8 December 2023 – 11 February 2024
Coffs Harbour: a highway town soon to be by-passed
Most Australians know Coffs Harbour as a place on the Pacific Highway, with a big banana, halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. The exhibition responded to the highway bypass of Coffs Harbour, the last of 30 towns to be by-passed by the highway upgrade.
Halfway explores the duality of Coffs Harbour. It is a place and non-place, where the built environment is dominated by motels, service stations, ‘Big Things’ and tourism objects like windmills and model villages. The highway cuts mercilessly through, with the town experienced fleetingly or glimpsed through a windscreen.
This inaugural exhibition was the opening event of Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM), which included a new gallery, museum, and library.
Curated by Jo Besley and Chloe Waters, the exhibition encompassed commissions, loans and items from the gallery and museum’s collection.
The commissioned and exhibition artists included Jane Skeer, Yannick Blattner, Alyson Pearson, Alanna Shorter aka YOWA, Peter Wade, Blak Douglas, Margaret Dodd, Alana Hunt, Ronnie Grammatica and Robert Moore, among others.
Peter Wade, Mood Banana, 2023, White Beech, acrylic, ink
Jane Skeer pictured with artwork ‘True Blue’ 2023. Used ratchet tie downs bought on eBay, Gumtree and Grays Online from Bunbury, Albany, Whyalla, Port Augusta., Freeling, Alice Springs, Mount Gambier, Millicent, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Coffs Harbour. Image credit: And the Trees Photography
Ronnie Grammatica, Roadside Memorial #2, 2017, pigment print
Robert Moore, The Sydney to Brisbane silver hardarse service, 1989, sculpture/found object
Install image Halfway, Yarrila Arts and Museum (YAM) 2023. Image credit: And the Trees Photography.
Peter Wade ‘Mood Banana installation’ . Image credit: And the Trees Photography
Alyson Pearson pictured with her artwork ‘Are We There Yet?’ 2023. Archival Fine Art Print, 100% cotton, 1/5 limited edition print. Image credit: And the Trees Photography.
YOWA pictured with artwork ‘The Journey’s End’ and ‘The Far Side’ 2023, Timber, ply, melamine MDF with acrylic, ink and mixed media. Image credit: And the Trees Photography.
2021
Blums Touring Boxing Troupe, Boxing troupe canvas featuring Les Darcy - in boxing pose c.1950, Mixed Media 175 × 233cm, Purchased by Maitland Gallery, 2024
Shadow Boxer
WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY
8 June 2021 – 26 September 2021
Shadow Boxer explores Maitland’s boxing legacy
Shadow Boxer tapped into the deep-rooted connection the City of Maitland has with boxing, contemporising the Gallery’s 100-year-old collection of rare items relating to ‘Maitland Wonder’ Les Darcy.
It featured acquisitions by artists Karla Dickens and Blak Douglas paying homage to Aboriginal tent boxers of the 1920’s – 1950’s, commissions and loans by Richard Lewer, Michael Willson, Nigel Milsom, Keri Glastonbury and Fiona McMonagle, public programs featuring boxer Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir, and digital content with UK journalist David Matthews.
Wesley Enoch’s catalogue and essay brought audience’s closer to First Nations stories of championship, pride and exploitation.
Karla Dickens, Hokey-pokey, 2019, Inkjet-print-Edition-10, 38 × 58cm
Tayla Harris, photo: Michael Willson
Karla Dickens, Pound For Pound 3, 2019, Mixed-media, 161-41-41cm, Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2020, medium-scaled
Richard Lewer, Northside Boxing Rules, enamel on steel 100cm x 70cm
Blums Touring Boxing Troupe, Boxing troupe canvas featuring Les Darcy - in boxing pose, c.1950, Mixed media, 175 x 233 cm, Purchased by Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2004
Richard Lewer, Northside Boxing Gym, wall drawing Fremantle Arts Centre
Three works by Nigel Milsom, Judo-House Part 9 (Birdland), 2021, oil on linen.
Richard Lewer’s ‘Skill, discipline, and training’ in ‘Shadow Boxer’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021
Richard Lewer’s ‘Skill, discipline, and training’ in ‘Shadow Boxer’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021Richard Lewer’s ‘Skill, discipline, and training’ in ‘Shadow Boxer’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021
Richard Lewer’s ‘Skill, discipline, and training’ in ‘Shadow Boxer’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, 2021
2020
Lesley Duxbury Bogong, 2020
Notes from the Field
WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
MURRAY ART MUSEUM ALBURY (MAMA)
26 February – 27 June 2021
Notes from the Field: a portrait of place
Fifteen artists in residence at Bogong Village exhibited works that presented a portrait of place. Bogong Village, in the Alpine region of North East Victoria, is a place of exceptional natural beauty and is the habitat of the threatened Bogong moth.
Halfway between Mount Beauty and Falls Creek, Bogong Village was established as a workers’ village for the Kiewa Hydroelectric scheme. The exhibition explored the enduring threat of industrial agriculture, habitat destruction, and climate change impacts.
It is in this environment that Madelynne Cornish and Philip Samartzis run the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture. The centre invites artists from across the globe to travel to this remote part of Australia and immerse themselves in the site. The artists have observed and recorded the dissonance between landscape, humans and technology and presented their findings for us to consider, in the gallery and online.
Andrew Tetzlaff Photographic investigations during fieldwork on Bogong High Plains and Bogong Village, January 2018
Bridget Chappell Kiewa Hydro-Electric Scheme, 2020
Shannon Leah Collis, Kiewa, 2018
Shannon Leah Collis, Kiewa, 2018
Shannon Leah Collis, Kiewa, 2018
Lesley Duxbury Bogong, 2020
Andrew Tetzlaff, Sited experiments with string and marking tape during fieldwork on Bogong High Plains and Bogong Village, January 2018
Andrew Tetzlaff, Sited experiments with string and marking tape during fieldwork on Bogong High Plains and Bogong Village, January 2018
Felix Wilson, Boulder, Rocky Valley Creek, 2019
Sabine Vogel Bogong Gum Trees sound installation at Bogong Center for Sound Culture, 2015. Photo by Bryden Williams
Christophe Charles Yellow Mountain, 2021
Michael Vorfeld KONTAKT, a light and sound installation, 2020
Daniella D'Arielli Field Drawing, 2019
Notes From the Field, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Installation view, Notes From the Field, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Michael Vorfeld
Michael Vorfeld
Michael Vorfeld
Bridget Chappell, Installation view, Notes From the Field, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Bridget Chappell
Notes From the Field, Murray Art Museum Albury, 2021 Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
Daniela d’Arielli
Daniela d’Arielli
Madeline Cornish
Andrew Tetzlaff
Andrew Tetzlaff
Bridget Chappell
Bridget Chappell
Bridget Chappell
Bridget Chappell
James Geurts
James Geurts
James Geurts
Lesley Duxbury
Lesley Duxbury
Felix Wilson
2019
Satoru HOSHINO Beginning Form – Spiral ‘17 2017 smoked earthenware 850°C, black stoneware Artist collection Photography Oginuma, Hidekazu
SODEISHA
WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY
2 March - 19 May 2019
SODEISHA: Connected to Australia - a dialogue between post-war and contemporary ceramic artists
SODEISHA: connected to Australia displayed the works of 10 contemporary ceramic artists from Australia and Japan alongside the Gallery's Sodeisha collection.
The Australian artists involved included Alterfact Studio, Penny Byrne, Juz Kitson, Julie Bartholomew, and Kenji Uranishi, while artists Takashi Hinoda, Satoru Hoshino, Yusaku Ishida, Rokubei Kiyomizu, and Hideo Matsumoto represented Japan.
A highlight was invited artist Satoru Hoshino, an original member of the Sodeisha group and exhibitor in the original 1979 exhibition, who created a major installation and conducted a series of masterclasses.
This was the first international cultural partnership project based on the city’s collection.
BYRNE Penny, #EuropaEuropa 2017, dimensions variable, blue and white porcelain figurines, cups, plates, bowls, gravy boats, epoxy resin and enamel paint, Artist collection,
Kazuo_Yagi_Sodeisha_HERO
Tadayasu SASAYAMA Waves cube B n.d stoneware plates on wood base 28.5 x 21.0 x 14.5cm Gift of members of the Sodeisha Group 1981 Newcastle Art Gallery collection
HOSHINO Satoru, God and his medium n.d, 56 x 23 x 28cm, hand-built form, glazed white clay, Newcastle Art Gallery collection.
SODEISHA- Connected to Australia URANISHI Kenji, Pleated bowl 2009, 12.2 x 20.0cm porcelain with inlaid slip and celadon glaze, Newcastle Art Gallery collection
2018
Lauren Brincat, This Time Tomorrow Tempelhof, 2011, Documentation of an action, Single-channel High Definition video 16:9, colour, silent 5 minutes 20 seconds. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
From Here to There
WINNER | LARGER GALLERY GRANT
LISMORE REGIONAL ART GALLERY
7 July – 26 August 2018
From Here to There: Australian art and walking
Conceived by locally‑based independent curators Jane Denison and Sharne Wolff, the exhibition featured 12 Australian artists for whom walking is a key part of their practice.
Work by Lauren Brincat, Dean Brown, Daniel Crooks, Nici Cumpston, Rebecca Gallo, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Alex Karaconji, Noel McKenna, Sarah Mosca, Nell, Liam O’Brien and Sarah Rodigari was included. An innovative public and education program creatively engaging both artists and the community underpinned the exhibition.
Funding allowed the exhibition to expand to include more works of greater scale. The gallery commissioned works by Rebecca Gallo, who undertook a series of walks in and around Lismore collecting discarded objects and transforming them into a sculptural installation in the exhibition, and Sarah Rodigari who showcased a new performance on the opening night as a result of her residency.
Nell, A white bird flies in the mist, a black bird flies in the night, a woman walks, wild and free, she is not afraid to die, 2008, bronze, mother of pearl, resin, 33 individually hand-blown clear glass ghost sculptures. Installation view, Lismore Regional Gallery.
Nell, A white bird flies in the mist, a black bird flies in the night, a woman walks, wild and free, she is not afraid to die, 2008, bronze, mother of pearl, resin, 33 individually hand-blown clear glass ghost sculptures. Installation view, Lismore Regional Gallery.
Rebecca Gallo, An Irregular Dancing, 2018, found objects collected on walks in Lismore, stainless steel, fishing line. Photo- Carl Warner
Rebecca Gallo, An Irregular Dancing, 2018, found objects collected on walks in Lismore, stainless steel, fishing line.
Liam O’Brien, Whistling in the Dark 2013, 4 minutes 50 seconds, HD single channel digital video. Image courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney
Nell, A white bird flies in the mist, a black bird flies in the night, a woman walks, wild and free, she is not afraid to die, 2008, bronze, mother of pearl, resin, 33 individually hand-blown clear glass ghost sculptures. Installation view, Lismore Regional Gallery. Photo: Carl Warner
Agatha Gothe-Snape, We All Walk Out in the End, 2012/18, acrylic paint. Collection- Amanda Love. Courtesy the artist and The Commercial, Sydney. Photo- Carl Warner
Lauren Brincat, This Time Tomorrow, Tempelhof, 2011, single-channel digital video, colour, sound. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
Noel McKenna, 14 Days in New York (detail), 2013, 13 diary pages of drawings from spiral sketch book. Courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery
2017
Nell, Skate Face, 2017, skateboard decks, installation 80 × 254cm. Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Board
JOINT WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY
9 December 2017 – 4 February 2018
Surf and skate cultures meet contemporary art
Aptly titled Board, the exhibition curated by Meryl Ryan spanned installation, video, photography and sound, and included works by Vernon Ah Kee, Gerry Bobsien, Shaun Gladwell, Nancy Kilgour, Brett McMahon, Tracey Moffatt, Nell and John Turier, as well as emerging artists from Hunter St TAFE.
A love of surfing and skating brought these artists together, as did political, cultural and emotional aspects of board-based subcultures. The exhibition explored how board riding on land or water is very much part of life in present-day Australia, whether you practice or spectate.
Works looked at challenging stereotypes and considered how board-based pursuits entwine with risk-taking, courage, physical skill and creativity. This is explored in Brett McMahon’s newly commissioned four-part installation.
Vernon Ah Kee, cantchant (wegrewhere), 2007, (still) three-channel digital video installation, colour, sound, 7mins. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery.
John Turier + emerging artists, Hunter St TAFE; Darren Atkins, Jodi Cameron, Lynelle Elliott, Victoria MacNamara, Belinda Russell, Genevieve Unicorn, Hit the Road Jack (detail), 2017, interactive skateboard installation: cardboard, metal, approx. 350 x 600cm. Courtesy the artists.
Jud Wimhurst, Francis Bacon, 2014. wood, polyurethane resin, epoxy resin, pigments, nitro cellulose lacquers, acrylic lacquers, 108 x 27.5 x 20 cm
Shaun Gladwell, Skateboarders vs Minimalism (still),2016, single-channel HD video,colour, sound, 16:9, 53mins 28secs. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.
Nell, ghost deck #1, 2015
Tracey Moffatt, Heaven (still), 1997, experimental film, 28mins. Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
2017
Liam Benson, The Crusader 2015, Inkjet print on cotton rag paper, edition of 5 90 x 134cm, Photograph by Alex Wisser, Courtesy of the artist and Artereal Gallery
The Unflinching Gaze
JOINT WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY
14 October - 3rd December 2017
The Unflinching Gaze: photo media & the male figure
The exhibition surveyed how the male figure has been depicted by Australian and international artists in photo media over the last 140 years. It included historic and contemporary fine art photography and film, fashion photography, pop videos and homoerotic art. Images range from the beautiful to the banal to the confounding.
Curator and BRAG Director Richard Perram OAM selected 200 photos and videos by 62 leading artists (24 Australian and 38 international).
Key artists in the exhibition included: American artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, and avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson; European artists such as Eadweard Muybridge, and Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden; and historic and contemporary Australian artists including Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss, Max Dupain, Deborah Kelly, William Yang, Gary Carsley, Owen Leong and Liam Benson.
Works were sourced from Australian and international collections, including a major loan of 60 works from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York.
A feature of the public programming involved working with local Bathurst LGBTI community groups.
Christopher Makos Altered Image: Five Photographs of Andy Warhol 1982 Portfolio of five gelatin silver prints Each sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6cm) Each image: 18 x 12 3/4 in. (45.7 x 32.3cm)
Owen Leong (Australian, b. 1979) Milk Teeth 2014 Archival pigment print on cotton paper, edition of 5 + 2Ap 120 x 120cm Courtesy of the artists and Artereal Gallery Sydney
Royale Hussar (Basil Clavering and John Parkhurst) Queens Guard 3 1959-1960 Digital print from original negative
Robert Wilson, Brad Pitt 2004, Video portrait, looped, Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist and the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, New York
Horst P. Horst (Germany; United States, 1906-1996) Male Nude I NY, 1952, Silver gelatin print 25.4 x 20.3cm, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, gift of Ricky Horst
Owen Leong (Australian, b. 1979) Resistance Training 2017 Archival pigment print on cotton paper, edition of 5 + 2 AP 120 x 120cm Courtesy the artist and Artereal Gallery, Sydney Commissioned by BRAG for The Unflinching Gaze: photo media & the male figure with funds from BRAGS Inc. (Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Society Inc.)
Fergus Greer Leigh Bowery, Session VII Look 34, June 1994 Digital reproduction Courtesy Fergus Greer
M. P. Rice (American) American poet Walt Whitman and his ‘rebel soldier friend’, Pete Doyle Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle, Washington DC. c. 1865 Charles E. Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress Photograph: Library of Congress/Library of Congress/Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Unknown American photographer Vintage photograph from the Closeted History/Wunderkamera Nd Tintypes, paper photographs Collection of Luke Roberts
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Unknown photographer Untitled [Auschwitz victim] Nd Photograph: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
William Yang (Australian-Chinese, b. 1943) ‘Allan’ from the monologue ‘Sadness’ 1992 19 gelatin silver photographs in the monologue 51.0 x 41.0cm each sheet Photograph: William Yang/Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden (Germany; Italy, 1856-1931) Untitled c. 1910 Albumen silver print 20.3 x 15.2cm Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Founders’ gift
George Platt Lynes (American, 1907-1955) Blanchard Kennedy 1936 Gelatin silver photograph 23 x 18.2cm National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1981
Fergus Greer (United Kingdom, 1961-1994) Leigh Bowery, Session V Look 27 February 1992 Digital reproduction Courtesy Fergus Greer
Samuel J Hood (Australian, 1872-1953) The 9th Field Brigade (four images) 24/2/1938 (Liverpool, NSW) Photo negative (copied from original nitrate photograph) 35mm From the Collections of the State Library of NSW
Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946-1989) Roger Koch aka Frank Vickers: From the “Roger” Series 1983 Gelatin silver photo 48.9 x 38.1cm Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, Founders Gift © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission
Liam Benson (Australian, b. 1980) The Executioner 2015 Inkjet print on cotton rag paper, edition of 5 90 x 134cm Photograph by Alex Wisser Courtesy of the artist and Artereal Gallery
Liam Benson (Australian, b. 1980) The Terrorist 2015 Inkjet print on cotton rag paper, edition of 5 90 x 134cm Photograph by Alex Wisser Courtesy of the artist and Artereal Gallery
Liam Benson (Australian, b. 1980) The Crusader 2015 Inkjet print on cotton rag paper, edition of 5 90 x 134cm Photograph by Alex Wisser Courtesy of the artist and Artereal Gallery
American & Australian Photographic Company (Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss) Mssrs. Bushley & Young Nd Digital reproductions from glass photo negatives, quarter plate, From the Collections of the State Library of NSW
Nikki Johnson (American, b. 1972), David Amputation Fetishist, 2007, Digital print (from a set of images), Courtesy the artist
Casa Susanna Attributed to Andrea Susan (Lee in white dress) 1961 Digital copy from colour photographs, Collection of Art Gallery of Ontario, purchased with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain 2015 © Art Gallery of Ontario Photo: Ian Lefebvre
Peter Elfes, Brenton (Heath-Kerr) as Tom of Finland, 1992, Cibachrome print, 51 x 40.6cm Courtesy the artist © Peter Elfes
Tony Albert, Brother (Our Past), 2013, Pigment on paper, edition of 3 150 x 100cm each Courtesy UTS Art, Corrigan Collection
Tony Albert, Brother (Our Present) 2013, Pigment on paper, edition of 3 150 x 100cm each, Courtesy UTS Art, Corrigan Collection
Tony Albert, Brother (Our Future) 2013 Pigment on paper, edition of 3 150 x 100cm each, Courtesy UTS Art, Corrigan Collection
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1964, 16mm film, black and white, silent duration: 41 min at 16 frames per second
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Andy Warhol, Blow Job [still] 1964, 16mm film, black and white, silent duration: 41 min at 16 frames per second © 2017 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Caregie Institute. All rights reserved
Todd Fuller and Amy Hill, They’re Only Words (video still) 2009, Film, sound duration: 2:42 mins, Courtesy the artists and May Space, Sydney
Gregory Collection, Mr Cullen & Mr Gornall Date unknown, Digital copy from scanned negative, Courtesy the Bathurst Historical Society
Fergus Greer (United Kingdom, 1961-1994) Leigh Bowery, Session VII, Look 34 June 1994 Silver gelatin print 60.7 × 50.5cm
2016
Installation view, Gravity (and Wonder), Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. Left: Richard Serra, Prop, 1968, lead. Collection National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Centre: Amy Joy Watson, Floating Sequence, 2012, balsawood, watercolour, gouache, polyester thread, lead weights, balloons, helium. Right: Marley Dawson, High Speed Counter-balance Disc (Study 2), stainless steel, mild steel, bearings. Photo courtesy Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Gravity (and Wonder)
WINNER | DOBELL EXHIBITION GRANT
PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY
3 September – 27 November 2016
Gravity (and Wonder) drawing together art and science
The inaugural Dobell Exhibition Grant was awarded to Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest for their exhibition Gravity (and Wonder), created in collaboration with The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS).
In this group exhibition curators, Dr Lee-Anne Hall and Katie Dyer, investigated the implications of gravity through the work of 13 contemporary artists whose work blends art and science, along with a series of significant pieces from the MAAS collection.
Rare scientific instruments and inventions, specialist objects and archival material from the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences were on display. They were installed beside work of contemporary artists who examined gravity as phenomena and effect, mass, attraction, motion and acceleration, time and space, and ultimately transcendence.
Rusty Peters, Three mothers for the moon, 2016, ochre on canvas, 150 × 150. Courtesy of the artist and Warmun Art Centre.
Sandra Selig, heart of the air you can hear, 2011, spun polyester sewing thread, nails, paint. Monash University Museum of Art, 3m x 4m x 5.7m. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria. Photography by Sandra Selig.
Hiraki Sawa, Still from Dwelling, 2002, digital film, duration 9.22mins. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York.
Mabel Juli, Garnkiny Ngarranggari, 2014, mowantu (ochre), TharIngarri (Snappy Gum) charcoal on canvas, 150 × 150. Courtesy of the artist and Warmun Art Centre.
Richard Serra, Prop, 1968, lead, 259 × 152 x 112cm. Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1973 © Richard Serra/ARS. Licensed by Viscopy, 2016.
Paul Perov dancing on Bungen Beach in the 1930s from Gillian Lacey, Play: On The Beach With The Ballet Russes, 2008, digital film. Courtesy of the artist
Gillian Lacey, Play: On The Beach With The Ballet Russes, 2008, digital film. Courtesy of the artist
Marley Dawson
Marley Dawson
Marley Dawson
Marley Dawson
Marley Dawson
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, The helium balloon of SoundShip (descender 1) explodes at 33,722m marking the point that the payload begins its return to earth, 2016. Courtesy of the artists and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.
David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, The helium balloon of SoundShip (descender 1) explodes at 33,722m marking the point that the payload begins its return to earth, 2016. Courtesy of the artists and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney.