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About this body of work, Kate shares: “My Self Care Action series explores the radical roots of self care and its origins in community organising. I knitted it to remind myself and others of the ways we have learned to sustain ourselves and support each other through grief, global upheaval, family stress, and life changes. The touch and tactility in each work seeks to translates a message of love and care.”
This edition of CONTEXTILE 2024, proposes a reflection on Touch. ‘We believe touch is the foremost sense capable of repositioning people in relation to the world and from a less ocular-centric perspective. Touch is a powerful tool for fostering closer, collaborative, and healthier human relationships. Touch, when used with respect, consent, and consideration, can create environments where people feel more connected to each other, a fundamental aspect in building stronger communities and more cohesive societies. Ethical touch goes beyond the physical aspect, representing, above all, an expression of recognizing humanity in one another.
CONTEXTILE 2024 will be presented from September to December 2024.
Pictured: Kate Just with ‘Self Care Action Series’, 2023, hand knitted acrylic yarn, canvas, and timber, 55 x 40 cm each.
Please note that Hugo Michell Gallery will be closed on Thursday 25th April for the Anzac Day Public Holiday.
The gallery will be open during usual hours from Friday 26th April onwards with Sally Bourke's 'Silence is just a sound' and Bridie Gillman's 'The Bend'.
Enquiries to mail@hugomichellgallery.com
Hugo Michell Gallery invites you to the opening of Sally Bourke's 'Silence is just a sound' and Bridie Gillman's 'The Bend' on Thursday 18th April, 6-8pm.
Sally Bourke
Silence is just a sound
In Sally Bourke's exhibition 'Silence is just a sound', abstracted portraits serve as portals to the depths of memory. With a deft hand and keen introspection, Bourke captures the essence of silence—not as absence, but as a profound presence. Through her evocative paintings, she invites the viewer into a realm where silence reverberates with the echoes of the past, offering a nuanced reflection on the complexities of human experience. Her paintings beckon us to listen, to immerse themselves in the quietude where memories echo softly.
Bridie Gillman
The Bend
This exhibition has been made in response to a specific moment experienced while walking in Washpool National Park, NSW, on Gumbaynggirr, Bundjalung and Ngarabal Country. A dramatic shift in light and atmosphere on a bend of the track that called us to pause. From within the bend – hanging, holding vines connect trees to each other, drawing lines to follow from one point to another, left to right, light to dark. This experience and the observations made, act as the starting point for the paintings, translated through colour and line.
Collected field recordings blend seamlessly with Reuben Schafer's instrumentation to create a captivating soundscape.
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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.
GALLERY CLOSURE
Wishing you all as safe and fun filled Easter long weekend!
Please note Hugo Michell Gallery will be closed across the long weekend and will reopen on Tuesday 2nd of April with exhibitions by:
Marc Etherington | My Old Heart
Jeremy Blincoe, Jodie Di Natale, Ella Dunn | The artist
is always alone
Exhibitions continue until 13 April 2024.
Enjoy the break, drive safe!
Georgia Spain has been selected as a finalist in the Bayside Painting Prize with her painting ‘Cosmic Hook’.
The Bayside Painting Prize remains a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today.
The finalist exhibition will be held at Bayside Gallery from 3 May to 23 June 2024.
Congratulations Georgia!
Pictured: Georgia Spain, Cosmic Hook, 2023, oil on linen, 183 x 176.5 cm
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Marc Etherington
My Old Heart
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Jeremy Blincoe, Ella Dunn, Jodie Di Natale
The artist is always alone
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
We are thrilled to celebrate Clara Adolphs' inclusion in the 'The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum' is now showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Adolphs will present a new suite of paintings alongside over 20 artists, poets, and musicians, curated by José Da Silva.
“The Biennial unfolds across exhibitions, performances and talks that explore our engagement with the world and each other. Here the idea of an inner sanctum illustrates the private or sacred spaces we create and the faculty of imagination that allows us to see culture and society differently.
The 2024 Adelaide Biennial offers a snapshot of contemporary Australia that is reflective and hopeful. It provides a setting where art and poetry enliven the social imagination and help us understand the complexities of the human experience.”
2024 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum will be on display at the Art Gallery of South Australia from 1 March to 2 June 2024.
Enquiries to mail@hugomichellgallery.com
We are excited share the launch of Richard Lewer's upcoming solo exhibition ‘What they didn’t teach me at school: Richard Lewer -The Waikato Wars’ at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery (Te Pūkenga Whakaata) on Thursday 22nd February.
For his exhibition Lewer has created a new body of work resulting from his own personal journey learning about the Waikato Wars.
Lewer began researching and making this body of work because he, like many New Zealanders wasn’t taught about the New Zealand Wars when he went through school in Hamilton in the 1980’s. He feels it’s important for all New Zealanders to acknowledge and digest what happened, to help better understand our complex and disputed colonial history. Lewer thinks this will be the most important artwork series he will ever create, as he develops an understanding of the history of the place he comes from and his place within and resulting from that history.
This exhibition is a part of the Aotearoa Festival of the Arts.
‘What they didn’t teach me at school: Richard Lewer -The Waikato Wars’ is on display at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery (Te Pūkenga Whakaata), Wellington, New Zealand from 22 February to 12 May 2024.
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Justine Varga
Diffusion
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Jeremiah Bonson, Serena Bonson, and Chubasco Pascoe
Warraburnburn
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Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
Tues – Fri: 10am-5pm
Sat – Mon: CLOSED
23 December 2023 to 8 January 2024: CLOSED
Open by appointment from 9 January
Please save the date for our first exhibitions for 2024 on Wednesday 7 February; Justine Varga and group exhibition from Maningrida Art Centre.
Enquiries to mail@hugomichellgallery.com
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