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Established in 1992, Sutton Gallery is committed to the presentation and promotion of serious contemporary art by a select and highly respected group of innovative artists whose practice takes on a challenging position within today's visual culture.
A monthly program of exhibitions by those artists features work across the whole spectrum of media - painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video and electronic media.
For further and detailed information on all the represented artists, please contact the gallery.
Gallery hours
11am - 5pm Tues - Sat
Projects @ 230 Young Street
Sutton Gallery has opened up space in its converted warehouse for a series of experimental art projects throughout 2008. An alternative to the conventional gallery space, the venue offers new possibilities for artists seeking to extend their exhibiting language and potential.
Invited artists are given space to try out new ideas and approaches that will supplement and stretch their practice. Unrestricted by the formalities of a commercial show, these artists are freed to play with more temporal forms of representation, such as performance, multimedia and site specific installations.
Artists may choose to use the project as an opportunity to broaden their horizons through collaboration with other artists or by taking on the role of curator. The space also provides a platform for artists wishing to reflect on the processes and outcomes of external projects that viewers would not ordinarily have access to, such as residencies and public commissions.
Projects will changeover every 4-5 weeks during 2008.
Projects @ 230 Young Street
Fri and Sat 1 - 5pm
230 Young Street
Fitzroy
VIC 3065
PROJECT CALENDAR
Feb 28 - March 15 DAVID ROSETZKY
May 8 - May 31 SIMON TERRILL
June 5 - July 19 NICK SELENITSCH
July 24 - Aug 23 GORDON BENNETT
Aug 28 - Sep 27 ELIZABETH GOWER
Oct 23 - Nov 6 JANE TRENGOVE
Nov 13 - Dec 20 NICK MANGAN
Latest news
Eugene Carchesio solo exhibition at QAG
Posted on: 08 Aug 2008
Someone's Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio
Queensland Gallery of Art
25 October 2008 - 1 February 2009 Gallery 4
The exhibition will be a focused survey of work by leading Brisbane contemporary artist Eugene Carchesio. Known for his repeated use of particular images and patterns, his work has an overall sense of rhythm and composition which echoes his keen interest in music.
For more information see:
http://www.qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/coming_soon/someones_universe_the_art_of_eugene_carchesio
Rosslynd Piggott recieves the Helen Macpherson Smith Commission at ACCA
Posted on: 10 Jun 2008
Rosslynd Piggott: Extract in 3 parts
ACCA
August 1st - September 21st, 2008
We are excited to announce that Rosslynd Piggott has recieved the 2008 Helen Macpherson Smith Commission at ACCA. Rosslynd is the fourth recipient of the commission, which has become one of the most significnat and generous commissions in Australia.
Extract: in 3 parts is a major new work employing film, painting and sculpture across three galleries, and sees Piggott continue her ongoing exploration of the micro-world of nature, the elements and life itself.
"In commissioning Rosslynd Piggott for this year's Helen Macpherson Smith exhibition, we shift the emphasis from the monolithic and monumental to the intricate and detailed," says Juliana Engberg, "And yet, even while she dwells upon the smallness and intimacy of things, Rosslynd's works contemplates the grandeur of nature in its complicated minutea and pattern - and its status as part of an ineffable grand plan."
Kate Beynon @ Level 2 Contemporary Project Space
Posted on: 09 May 2008
Kate Beynon: Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living
Level 2 Contemporay Project Space
Art Gallery of New South Wales
7 August - 26 October, 2008
Kate Beynon presents a new series of paintings in which she explores ideas of transcultural identity and the ‘global citizen'. Beynon's works are informed by a diverse range of art forms including calligraphy, comic book graphics, animation and textiles, and are embellished with auspicious symbols and protective charms such as talismans, amulets and mythical beasts.
For more information see: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/coming/Kate_beynon
Stephen Bush\'s unlikely fan
Posted on: 09 May 2008
Stephen Bush's newest fan has emerged from an unlikely corner; a band named the "Silver Jews" from The United States. The lead singer and songwriter of this indie rock band, David Berman, has used an image of Bush's "Lure of Paris" as the cover for their latest album, "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea."
Berman said the following in a recent interview:
"All of it came together through the painting that I got to be on the cover, which is by a guy named Stephen Bush who's an Australian painter. He's done this painting 27 times... It's a painting of three elephants, you could say it's Babar, I'm not positive. For him, it's something to do with French colonialism. It's called "The Lure of Paris." For me, it's great. There's this character, the hero, but he's an elephant... There's never really been any connection to what's under the cover. And this time, it's everything."
For more information visit: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/49832-silver-jews-announce-tour-reveal-cover-art
Raafat Ishak & John Citizen in The World in Painting
Posted on: 09 May 2008
Raafat Ishak and John Citizen have been included among 8 distinguished Australian artists into "The world in painting" - an exhibition curated by Zara Stanhope that focuses on the different way artists' respond to their personalized worlds through painting.
Often accused of being boringly conventional and on the verge of irrelevance, painting has endured to become a medium that is as diverse as the artists who use it. Each of the artists in this exhibition brings something different in their use of paint that reveals it to be so much more than just paint and canvas - "recognizing diversity, this exhibition celebrates the freshness artists bring to the now venerable medium." - Zara Stanhope, Asialink website (see below)
Having toured to Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Manila and Hanoi since the beginning of October 2007, there is a proposal to extend "The World in Painting" exhibition to enable audiences in regional Australia to experience this wonderful show. Keep an eye on this page for details of confirmed dates.
For more information see:
http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/our_work/arts/visual_artscrafts/
Stephen Bush @ Neuberger Museum of Art
Posted on: 18 Apr 2008
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape presents work by sixty artists who take a look at the state of the environment and express their concerns with global change.
Curator Dede Young, focuses on painting, highlighting this mediums historical association with traditional landscape, although works on paper, sculpture and installations are interspersed. Landscape representations featured, range from the literal and historical to the fictional and satirical. Artists explore complex political and social themes as they examine the foreboding presence of architecture, science and technology.
A moral imperative is present as some artists depict the harsh realities of recent events and others offer alternative solutions for potentially sustainable conditions.
May 11, 2008 - July 20, 2008
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape
Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College,
State University of New York
735 Anderson Hill road, NY 10577
For more info visit: http://www.neuberger.org/exhibitions.php?type=upcoming
David Rosetzky showing at Art Gallery of Western Australia
Posted on: 20 Mar 2008
Circle of Friends
The Art Gallery of Western Australia
March 22 - August 25, 2008
As part of the Art Gallery of Western Australia's ongoing Artist if focus series, 'Circle of friends' pairs up two young, Melbourne-based artists David Rosetzky and James Lynch. Central to the exhibition is the new aquisition for the State Art Collection -Rosetzky's DVD projection Nothing like this, 2007, which explores the nuances of friendship amongst a group of twenty-somethings over a holiday weekend. The show will also include a new work by Rosetzky called No fear, a sound piece based on self-help tapes that involves subtle interaction between the work and viewers.
for more information visit http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/futureex.asp
Nick Mangan @ SITE Santa Fe International Biennial 2008
Posted on: 12 Feb 2008
Lucky Number Seven
June 22 - October 26, 2008
Curated by Lance Fung
Nick Mangan is one of 22 international artists invited to participate in the seventh SITE Santa Fe International Biennial. The artists have each been asked by the Curator, Lance Fung, to develop new site specific works for the exhibition.
Fung partnered with 19 non-profit art organisations from around the globe, asking them to nominate a handful of artists from which he selected one as the institutions representative. Nick Mangan will represent Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces at the Biennial.
Selected artists visited Santa Fe in early January of this year to begin generating ideas for the project; they are scheduled to return in June to create the final works. With a focus on process and temporal experiences, all works will be destroyed at the close of Biennial.
For more info visit: www.sitesantafe.org
