Hugo Michell Gallery
Hugo Michell Gallery is thrilled to announce that it will exhibit the work of the following artists at Sydney Contemporary 2015:
Tony Garifalakis
Lucas Grogan
William Mackinnon
Trent Parke
& more
Sydney Contemporary 2015 will be held at Carriageworks from 10 – 13 September 2015.
Hugo Michell Gallery will be at stand D-01!
Image: Tony Garifalakis, Dream, 2012, from The Affirmations, adhesive vinyl on paper shooting target, 87.5 x 56.5 cm.
"William Mackinnon’s landscape paintings portray the Australian terrain and the road laid upon it with ebullience, wonder, whispers—and even terror. The artist makes paintings you can almost inhabit. His visions of the rural parcels around Melbourne capture the vastness of his domain in manners both terrestrial and emotional. But movement and displacement abound in his pictures too, conveying temporal urgency with stunning effect.
In day-lit, long-range views of wooded cliffs along the sea, and racy snapshots from nocturnal car rides wrought with dazzling, painterly invention and compositional risk, Mackinnon suggests the notion that the extraordinary abounds in the mundane and that the search for a perfect wave is not unlike the struggle to make a perfect work of art."
An extract hot off the press from The Speed of Light and Dark: The paintings of William Mackinnon
by Alex Weinstein in The Surfer's Journal
Trent Parke's The Black Roseis reaching its final days on show at The Art Gallery of South Australia. The media coverage is pumping!
Here's part 2 for all you Trent Parke junkies:
Review: photographer Trent Parke's double shot of darkness
by John McDonald in The Sydney Morning Herald
Trent Parke's The Black Rose
by Gretchen Shirm in The Saturday Paper
The Black Rose: Trent Parke
by Richard Butler on Visual Arts Hub
In Search of Lost Past in Trent Parke's The Black Rose (paywall)
by Christopher Allen in The Australian
Trent Parke - The Black Rose
in In Daily
Trent Parke's The Black Rose has been open at the Art Gallery of South Australia for almost a month, and the reviews are flooding in.
Here's a taste of some of the media coverage so far:
Trent Parke: The Black Rose
by John Neylon in The Adelaide Review
Review: Trent Parke: Images, stories and rooms like pages turning
by Polly Dance on Raven Contemporary
Trent Parke's photos capture the brilliantly ordinary struggle for life
by Heather L. Robinson on The Conversation
Excavating histories: Trent Parke's Black Rose - in pictures
by Jonny Weeks on The Guardian
The Black Rose: an odyssey born of loss
by Susie Keen on The Conversation
Trent Parke's moving Black Rose photo exhibition at Art Gallery of SA
by Sharon Verghis in The Australian
Interview with: Trent Parke
by Benjamin Chadbond and Patrick Mason in Try Hard Magazine
Trent Parke: The Black Rose, screens 21 April on ABC
by Catherine Hunter on ABC
Adelaide photographer Trent Parke uses The Black Rose exhibition to deal with childhood trauma
by Brett Williamson on ABC
William’s landscape paintings sit at the intersection between reality and imagination and convey a powerful sense of place and mood. William showed his latest body of work 'Crossroads' at Hugo Michell Gallery from 12 February to 21 March, hot off his sell-out show at Melbourne Art Fair 2014. In 2014 he was also a finalist in the Basil Sellers Prize and shortlisted for the Alice Prize. Born in Melbourne in 1978, he had his first show at the age of 19. He has exhibited widely nationally, and internationally in London, Washington DC, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. His work is held in the collections of Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne University, State Library of Victoria, Artbank, Griffith University, Holmsesglenn, Macquarie Bank Collections, RACV and Stonnington Council Collections, as well as various private collections in Australia and overseas.
We are thrilled to add this talented young artist to our great group of artists!
Trent Parke’s The Black Rose, the culmination of 7 years of work, opens on March 14 at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
“Collectively, they represent the fruits of an epic journey Parke began in a coastal Adelaide suburb in 2007, and which would end up yielding more than 3000 photographs, 15,000 words of text, 14 books, and various videos, installations and short films harvested from images taken around the South Australian capital and on road trips across the country over a period of seven years. In March at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Parke, the only Australian full member of the prestigious international Magnum Photos agency, will launch The Black Rose, an intensely personal exhibition born of childhood grief and one he views as the most significant of his career. The exhibition, which will occupy the entire bottom floor of the gallery, will be the largest single exhibition of the artist’s work, featuring everything from 120cm x 150cm silver gelatin prints to a site-specific installation at the entrance of the stairs (the “forest” with birds and bats) at around 26m by 4m.The director of AGSA, Nick Mitzevich, says the institution is honoured to “be the first gallery to present The Black Rose, one of our most ambitious contemporary art projects to date, and presented on a scale seldom seen.””
Read more about the journey of this body of work at The Australian