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Celebrating 15 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery: 21 November to 9 December 2023
15
Nov

Celebrating 15 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery: 21 November to 9 December 2023

The exhibition Celebrating 15 Years of Hugo Michell Gallery will be open to the public from 21st November to 9th December 2023, celebrating the gallery’s represented artists:

Clara Adolphs, Narelle Autio, Sally Bourke, James Darling & Lesley Forwood, James Dodd, Marc Etherington, Zaachariaha Fielding, Tony Garifalakis, Bridie Gillman, David Booth [Ghostpatrol], Sam Gold, Lucas Grogan, Kate Just, Ildiko Kovacs, Janet Laurence, Richard Lewer, William Mackinnon, Fiona McMonagle, Trent Parke, Julia Robinson, Georgia Spain, Paul Sloan, Justine Varga, Garawan Wanambi, Sera Waters, Amy Joy Watson, Min Wong, Paul Yore.

Please note that the gallery will be closed on Saturday 18th November. 

Preview requests & enquiries | mail@hugomichellgallery.com

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Zaachariaha Fielding & Alfred Lowe | Tarnanthi Exhibition
04
Oct

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Zaachariaha Fielding & Alfred Lowe | Tarnanthi Exhibition

Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the opening of Zaachariaha Fielding & Alfred Lowe’s ‘Z munu A Titutjara’ (Z and A Forever) on Thursday 5th October 6-8pm.
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‘Z munu A Titutjara’ features new works by Zaachariaha Fielding and Alfred Lowe. Both artists combine traditional influences from their respective cultures with contemporary artistic practices. While the journey the two have taken to become practising artists is different, they are now travelling on the same path to recognition and reconciliation. This exhibition celebrates their journeys so far, as well as looking towards the future.
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Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!
Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
This exhibition will be on display from 5 October to 11 November 2023, as part of Tarnanthi Festival presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia.
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Min Wong announced as recipient of Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
04
Oct

Min Wong announced as recipient of Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship

ARTIST NEWS
We are thrilled to share that Min Wong has been announced as a recipient of the prestigious Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship for 2024, offered by the University of South Australia.
 
Wong will receive a scholarship that provides institutional fees for one academic year of study, a $70,000 tax-free allowance, and travel expenses to a leading international art school of their choice.
 
Wong references contemporary ritual practices – from gym-going to yoga and psychotherapy – many of which have their origins in Eastern philosophy and have since been adopted by Western capitalism
 
Congratulations Min!
 
Pictured L-R: Portrait of Min Wong; Min Wong at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair for Hugo Michell Gallery, 2022, image by Document Photography.
Hugo Michell Gallery at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
06
Sep

Hugo Michell Gallery at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair

Hugo Michell Gallery are excited to return to Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, located at Booth F14 from 7th -10th September, 2023.

Presenting:
Richard Lewer
Trent Parke
Justine Varga
Sera Waters
Tony Garifalakis [Installation Contemporary]

Our booth presentation this year creates four distinctive spaces, with an immersive grotto of embroideries and hand-crafted sculptures by Sera Waters that dwell within the gaps of Australian histories to examine settler-colonial home-making patterns and practices. Richard Lewer’s take on the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ - pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth - is loaded with historical reference and surface lustre. Trent Parke’s photographic series ‘Monument’ revisits over 25 years of his most iconic street photography, presenting a single filmic narrative capturing the last moments on earth. Justine Varga’s intimate analogue photographs will seduce with deep colours and gestural marks that writhe across the surface. Tony Garifalakis' 'Scum Suite' engages with the ways in which the meaning of images, signs and symbols might be ascribed, conveyed or transformed in contemporary culture, and how conventional notions of hierarchy and status might be undermined. 

Sydney Contemporary, Australasia’s international art fair presents the country’s largest and most diverse gathering of local and international galleries.


Sera Waters, Justine Varga, Richard Lewer, Trent Parke for Hugo Michell Gallery at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, 2023. Photo by Document Photography. 

Register your interest to receive additional information regarding this presentation by emailing mail@hugomichellgallery.com

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Georgia Spain | Kate Kurucz Exhibitions
25
Aug

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Georgia Spain | Kate Kurucz Exhibitions

Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the opening of Georgia Spain’s ‘No one tells you how to weather a storm’ and Kate Kurucz’s ‘Eventual Horizon’ on Wednesday 30th August 6-8pm.
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Georgia Spain
No one tells you how to weather a storm
This exhibition has been drawn together by an attempt to capture and convey various emotional states, continuing Spain’s exploration and expansion of paint as the medium of choice. Spain shares: “I’ve been looking at a lot of abstract painting and while I still see a lot of figuration in this work, I think the ideas have become broader and looser,” she says. “I’m thinking through ideas around abundance, bodies, excess, ruptures, erasure, togetherness, proximity, and action. Plus birth, life and death, of course!”

Pictured: Georgia Spain, Chorus Of The Whole Heart, 2023, Oil on linen, 198 x 304 cm
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Kate Kurucz
Eventual Horizon
In this body of work for ‘Eventual Horizon’, Kurucz explores the potential power of mystery and the sublime, drawing upon the innate human desire to unravel the great puzzles and mysteries of the world.
‘Eventual Horizon’ is presented as part of the South Australia Living Artist Festival (SALA), and Kurucz a finalist in the 2023 Inspiring SA Science in Art Award for work in this exhibition. She is also a finalist in The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award and UnitCare Moving Image Award.

Pictured: Kate Kurucz,  Party Line, 2023, oil on copper, 45 x 90 cm
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event. Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!

Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Trent Parke Exhibition
19
Jul

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Trent Parke Exhibition

Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the exhibition celebration and publication launch of ‘Monument’ by renown photographer Trent Parke.

In this retrospective body of work, Parke revisits his most iconic black and white street photography. Presenting a single filmic narrative through a series of photographs, this body of work has been inspired by NASA’s Golden Record, a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk carried into space containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth. This is Parke’s photographic record of the last moments on earth. A Monument of humankind.

Join us in celebrating this exhibition and for the Australian launch of the 294 page publication, ‘Monument’ published by Stanley/Barker UK. First edition copies of the now sold-out publication will be available to purchase on the day, in limited supply.

Trent Parke's 'Monument' is part of the 2023 SALA Festival.

Exhibition celebration and publication launch: Saturday 29 July 1:30-3:30 pm
Exhibition dates: 27 July to 26 August
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.

Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Many Threads Group Exhibition
29
Jun

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Many Threads Group Exhibition

Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the opening of ‘Many Threads', an exhibition that celebrates the diversity and strength of contemporary textile art through the presentation of work leading Australian textile artists - Olga Cironis, Karla Dickens, Leah Emery, Michelle Hamer, Natalya Hughes, Kate Just, Hiromi Tango, and Paul Yore on Thursday 29th June, 6-8pm.
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OLGA CIRONIS, KARLA DICKENS, LEAH EMERY, MICHELLE HAMER, NATALYA HUGHES, KATE JUST, HIROMI TANGO, PAUL YORE
Many Threads
The exhibition demonstrates the power of textile practice in communicating social, political, and cultural concerns. Each of the artists explore and interrogate the many threads of these themes, oscillating between traditional and non-traditional materials and techniques.
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!

Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Pictured: Hiromi Tango, Jyugoya 十五夜 (Full Moon), 2022, neon and woven textile, 60 x 60 x 12 cm. Courtesy of Sullivan and Strumpf.
Olga Cironis is courtesy of Art Collective WA
Karla Dickens is courtesy of STATION
Natalya Hughes and Hiromi Tango are courtesy of Sullivan + Strumpf
Clara Adolphs featured on cover of Artist Profile Magazine
20
Jun

Clara Adolphs featured on cover of Artist Profile Magazine

Clara Adolphs has been featured in the most recent issue of the Qantas magazine.

About Adolphs' painting practice, Susan Horsburgh writes: “Like old photos, Adolphs’ paints allude to a constancy, suggesting that our experiences aren’t so different from those of our grandparents. “The wider world and society might change but the human condition doesn’t.”.

Clara Adolphs’ exhibition ‘Silent Reply’ is now showing at Hugo Michell Gallery until 20th May.

Enquiries to mail@hugomichellgallery.com

Artist Profile Magazine | Issue 63 | 2023 - MCA Store Museum of Contemporary Art

Pictured: Qantas ‘Travel Insider’ Magazine, May 2023; Cover to pp 131-135.

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Guruwuy Murrinyina, Garawan Waṉambi & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra | David Booth [Ghostpatrol]
19
May

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Guruwuy Murrinyina, Garawan Waṉambi & Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra | David Booth [Ghostpatrol]

Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the opening of ‘Dhulmu -Deep’, featuring work by Guruwuy Murrinyina, Garawan Waṉambi and Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra, and ‘Drawing Is Magic, and I Believe It!’ by David Booth [Ghostpatrol] on WEDNESDAY 24th May, 6-8pm.
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Guruwuy Murrinyina, Garawan Waṉambi and Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra
Dhulmu – Deep
The Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre, located in the Aboriginal community of Yirrkala, is one of Australia’s premier Aboriginal art centres. The meaning of Buku-Larrŋgay in Yolŋu matha is “the feeling on your face as it is struck by the first rays of the sun”.
Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to present the incredible works by artists Guruwuy Murrinyina, Garawan Waṉambi and Djirrirra Wunuŋmurra, ranging from paintings on Stringybark to Larrakitj.
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David Booth [Ghostpatrol]
Drawing Is Magic, and I Believe It!
About the work, Booth shares: “Growing up I was lucky that the scrap drawing paper in my home was nice large never-ending sheets of dot matrix paper recycled from my dad’s work as a bridge engineer. Sometimes this paper had CAD plan drawings on it, and I remember spending a lot of time colouring, scribbling, and playing on that side of the page. There must have been something in those technical drawings that my brain liked.
The task I set for my drawings is to exist as a beacon or portal to help people feel optimistic and remember to access their own magical playground in their mind.
I have strong childhood memories of watching my dad on our holidays admiring massive dams or impressive bridges and observing him soak up all the detail and beauty of these drawings brought to life. My daydreamy child brain loved joining the dots between plan drawings and being dwarfed by the epic structures as we walked across my dad’s bridges. This is my foundation for believing that ‘Drawing is Magic’.
David Booth in the studio with works for 'Drawing Is Magic, and I Believe It!, 2023. Photography by Amber Fletcher
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
We also acknowledge the Yolŋu people whose land on which the works for this exhibition have been created, and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture and pay respects to Elders past, present, and emerging.
Georgia Spain joins Hugo Michell Gallery as represented artist
17
May

Georgia Spain joins Hugo Michell Gallery as represented artist

Hugo Michell Gallery welcomes the addition of Georgia Spain to our represented artists!

Georgia Spain is a visual artist and musician living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). She graduated with a BFA in painting from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2015, where she was the recipient of the Lionel Gell Foundation Scholarship and a finalist for the Margaret Lawrence Gallery's Majlis Travelling Scholarship. In 2020, Spain was the recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2021, Spain's work ‘Six Different Women’ (2021) won the Trawalla Foundation Acquisitive Prize in the Women's Art Prize Tasmania. In the same year, Spain was announced as winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize for her work ‘Getting down or falling up’ (2021).

Her work often explores the complexities of human behaviour; using narrative and storytelling to examine the cultural, political and personal. Her paintings frequently look at ideas around human spectacle, theatricality, ritual and ceremony. She is interested in the emotional and performative exchanges between people in social and psychological spaces and in her paintings physical connection is explored through bodies in groupings.

We congratulate Georgia on her achievements and look forward to her first solo exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery in September 2023.

Register your interest at mail@hugomichellgallery.com

Georgia Spain, Hot wind, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 152 x 198 cm. Private collection.