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JUDY WATSON: HERON ISLAND
9 OCTOBER - 22 NOVEMBER 2009
Judy Watson visited Heron Island in February 2009 as artist-in-residence at The University of Queensland’s Research Station. Her residency coincided with the official launch of the Research Station, rebuilt after being destroyed by fire in 2007. Scientists speaking during her visit gave Watson an insight into how such remote and apparently pristine marine environments are showing signs of pollution and temperature changes linked to global warming. Her experiences resonate in a range of works in this exhibition, including sculpture and paintings, prints and drawings, sound and video.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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Image details
Top left & Bottom centre
Judy Watson on Heron Island when artist-in-residence at The University of Queensland's Heron Island Research Station, February 2009
Top right
pisonia
ink on paper
Bottom left & right
Heron Island no.4 2009
colour etching on paper
Courtesy of the artist, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane & Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Heron Island no.2 2009
colour etching on paper
Courtesy of the artist, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Brisbane & Milani Gallery, Brisbane
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prostrate your horses: weather and then some
Rosemary Laing at The University of Queensland
Art Museum
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Rosemary Laing’s complete weather series (2006–2007), including a group of the artist’s working drawings, has been gathered together for the first time in Australia. Additionally, the weather series has been brought into conversation with a number of related works, including Laing’s Natural Disasters series (1988), and works from swanfires (2002/2004), remembering Babylon, a collaboration with Stephen Birch (2003), one dozen unnatural disasters in the Australian landscape (2003), to walk on a sea of salt (2004) and a dozen useless actions for grieving blondes (2009). Not a survey, the exhibition looks to place the weather series with particular works so as to discover some of the thematic concerns that have underpinned Laing’s work over a period of two decades. Many of the exhibited works speak literally or metaphorically about natural and unnatural disasters, while being charged with suggestions of cultural turbulence.
Rosemary Laing is a Brisbane-born artist who lives and works in Sydney. Her photographic work has been critically acclaimed internationally.
A fully illustrated publication accompanies the exhibition and is available for $39.95.
Curator: Michele Helmrich
26 SEPTEMBER - 15 NOVEMBER 2009
Image details:
Rosemary Laing
weather #10 2006
Type C photograph
Edition of eight
Courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
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THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME, THE CLOSER I GET
Video Program
2 March – 30 November 2009
Dorota Mytych, Mutatis mutandis 2005 (detail)
Tea leaves on paper/video(DVD), 1:20min.
Courtesy of the artist
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2 - 31 MARCH
1 - 30 APRIL
1 - 31 MAY
1 - 30 JUNE
1 - 31 JULY
1 - 31 AUG
1 - 30 SEPT
1 OCT - 1 NOV
2 - 30 NOV
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Laith McGregor and Kellie Wells
Todd McMillan and Sanja Pahoki
Channon Goodwin and Liam Benson
Grant Stevens and Dorota Mytych
George Tillianakis and Darren Sylvester
Anastasia Klose and Hannah Raisin
Alex Chomicz
Adel Abdessemed and Mariko Mori
Kate Murphy
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Curated by Alison Kubler | Email alisonkubler@gmail.com for more information.