hand knitted portrait

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Kate Just + Justine Varga
29
Jan

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Kate Just + Justine Varga

Please join us for the launch of Kate Just‘s 'A Sign of the Times' and Justine Varga’s ‘Somerville Suite’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 5th February, 6-8pm.
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KATE JUST
A Sign of the Times
'A Sign of the Times', is new series of complex hand knitted homages to potent text-based, political, public signs by other artists that continue to resonate in our current political and social climate. The series expands upon her approach in past works such as Feminist Fan and Protest Signs, in which the artist deployed knitting to re-materialise and pay homage to significant historical queer/feminist artworks and protest texts, and affirm their position in the canon of art history.
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JUSTINE VARGA
Somerville Suite
Photography emerged from centuries of scientific inquiry into optics, chemistry, and mechanics. Yet typically, the material components essential to this process—light, chemicals, film, paper—dissolve into invisibility, subsumed within the constructed pictures they produce.
...Somerville Suite (2023-25) reverses this disappearance by reclaiming photography’s experimental origins. (Justine Varga's) prints lay bare an unfamiliar, elemental vision of the medium, gesturing not only outward towards representation of external realities but also inward, revealing layered practices shaped by human touch, skilled labour, and intimate dialogue with history. At first glance, the three prints dazzle with brightly coloured geometric forms in cyan, magenta, and yellow. Looking more closely reveals the artist’s mastery of craft and playful exploration of photography’s hidden processes. - (excerpt from text accompaniment by Erin Pauwels)

Justine Varga, Algebra, 2023-24, chromogenic photograph (edition of 5 + 2AP), 126.7 x 78.2 cm
Justine Varga, Algebra, 2023-24, Chromogenic photograph, edition of 5 + 2AP, 126.7 x 78.2 cm
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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.

Pictured Above: Kate Just, A Sign of the Times: A knitted translation of Susan O’Malley, Less Internet More Love, 2015, Kala art institute public artworks project, Berkely, CA, USA, 2026, Hand knitted wool and acrylic yarn, timber, canvas, 51 x 67 x 2.5 cm
Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Kate Just | Fiona Roberts
17
May

Hugo Michell Gallery Opening: Kate Just | Fiona Roberts


Please join us for the launch of Kate Just’s ‘50 Rules for Making Art’ and Fiona Roberts’ ‘Hereafter’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 23rd May from 6-8pm, with an artist talk with Kate Just at 6pm to launch her accompanying publication.
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Kate Just
50 Rules for Making Art

‘50 Rules for Making Art’ is a series of 50 brightly coloured, hand knitted, square panels of text. About this series, Kate shares: “The rules look like knitted post-it-notes or reminders to self. The texts are in my own handwriting. I drew each text onto a knitting grid before stitching each panel. This series was made during the year I turned 50. While knitting, I reflected on the number of years I’ve lived and the many lessons I’ve learned about making art.”
Artist talk with Kate Just at 6pm to launch her accompanying publication.
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Fiona Roberts
Hereafter

‘Hereafter’ explores humanity's eternal quest for psychological and physical safety, manifested through the interplay of symbolism, superstitions, rituals and belief systems. Drawing upon symbolic representations of life and existence beyond, Roberts explores the profound existential inquiries that have plagued human consciousness throughout history.

Selected work by Fiona Roberts in her solo exhibition 'Hereafter', 2024.

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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.