ARIEL HASSAN's latest exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery is featured on international art news website www.artdaily.org. Click on link for full article: http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36126&b=hassan

SALLY SMART's latest exhibition Performativities opened at Amelia Johnson Contemporary in Hong Kong on 4 February and runs until 6 March.
www.ameliajohnsoncontemporary.com/

PETER HENNESSEY's exhibition My Hells Gate is on show at Gertrude Contemporary Art Space from 5 - 27 February. For this exhibition Peter will be restaging the blast which announced the beginning of the era of explosives, Hell's Gate NY. http://www.gertrude.org.au/

MICHAEL KUTSCHBACH will have a solo exhibition at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Germany from 25 March - 11 April. The exhibition will showcase the works made as part of his Australia Council residency. http://www.bethanien.de/


images: left: Michael Kutschbach; centre: Sally Smart; right: Peter Hennessey

MICHELLE NIKOU and MATTHEW BRADLEY have both been selected for the 2010 Adelaide Biennial as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts. Michelle will exhibit with Greenaway Art Gallery in July 2010.

ARIEL HASSAN has just returned from 5 months residency at GAGPROJECTS, Berlin, and will show at Greenaway Art Gallery during the Adelaide Festival of Arts, alongside Pieter Hugo in February / March 2010.

ANNETTE BEZOR is the 2010 recipient of the Arts SA Fellowship (this $50,000 award is Arts SA's major individual acknowledgement each year).

NICHOLAS FOLLAND's work 'Anchor (1-5)' was recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and will be on show as part of their exhibition 'New Acquisitions 2009' which runs until 31 January 2010. This work was exhibited at Greenaway Art Gallery in late 2008.

PETER ATKINS is one of the finalists in this year's Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, on view at the National Gallery of Victoria until 7 February 2010.

ADAM CULLEN has just been honoured by having a boutique hotel in Melbourne named after him, do visit 'The Cullen' next time you're there - 64 Commercial Road, Prahran. http://www.artserieshotels.com.au/the-cullen/

PETER HENNESSEY has just completed a major permanent public artwork in Sydney's Harris Street in Ultimo. ROOT LEVEL is a giant rhizhomatic root system in 50m long window frontage.

MICHAEL KUTSCHBACH is currently undertaking the Australia Council Kunstlerhaus Bethanien studio residency in Berlin, and has been involved with several group exhibitions in Berlin in recent months.

NOEL MCKENNA's 'Pipe Smoking Suite' has just been acquired by The Art Gallery of NSW.

MARK SIEBERT is currently working in Vietnam and has just been awarded an Asialink Visual Arts residency.

DARREN SIWES provided the Contemporary Collectors group at the Art Gallery of SA with two editioned works for their yearly fundraiser last month.

SALLY SMART has recently had a major exhibition at the OV Gallery, Shanghai, China. Sally will exhibit at Greenaway Art Gallery in April 2010 with a new body of work.

HOSSEIN AND ANGELA VALAMANESH have both recently had successful exhibitions in Finland. Their Adelaide Botanic Gardens entrance gates are almost finished, and Hossein is preparing for an exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery, opening 28 July 2010 for the SALA Festival.

JENNY WATSON's exhibition 'American Idyll' at Galerie Transit in Belgium continues the artist's long-term plans for European recognition.

MARK SIEBERT will exhibit at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide from 15 May - 13 June. His exhibition Forever 27 is a series of photographs and watercolours that explores the cult of the rock star and the ill fated age of 27 years. http://www.eaf.asn.au/2009/siebert.html

PAUL HOBAN will have a major survey exhibition of his paintskins at the Contemporary Art Centre of SA for the 2009 SALA Festival, running from 31 July - 6 September, and will also have a solo exhibition Selected Works: 2004-2008 at Place Gallery in Melbourne, from 22 April - 16 May.

NICHOLAS FOLLAND will exhibit in Colliding Worlds, and MARK KIMBER in Phantasia (an Australian Centre for Photography touring exhibition). Both exhibitions are at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, from 15 May - 24 July. Folland will also exhibit in a collaborative show with SAMANTHA SMALL at Felt Artspace in Adelaide, from 7 - 23 May.

ANNETTE BEZOR will exhibit a new body of work Speaking Silences, at Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, from 8 - 30 May.

JENNY WATSON currently has a touring exhibition in Europe Material Evidence, Works on Fabric 1981-2005. For those German speakers who would like to read a recent article from German newspaper 'Oberbayisches Volksblatt', please click here.

HOSSEIN VALAMANESH will show at GRANTPIRRIE in Sydney from May 27 – June 20, and then at Gallery Ama, Helsinki, Finland, from August 1 - 25, 2009. http://www.ama.fi
Brink Productions' 2008 Adelaide Festival premiere, When the Rain Stops Falling, by Andrew Bovell with design by Hossein Valamanesh, will run for six weeks with the Sydney Theatre Company from May 11 – June 13, with previews from May 7 and in Melbourne at the New Sumner Theatre from October 12 to November 22, with previews from October 7. http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/whentherainstopsfalling.aspx

GARRY SHEAD (with Adrienne Levenson) is a Finalist in the 2009 Archibald Prize.

ANNETTE BEZOR and NOEL MCKENNA are Finalists in the 2009 Sulman Prize.

DARYL AUSTIN and NOEL MCKENNA are Finalists in the 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. McKenna will also exhibit in "Avoiding Myth and Message: Australian Artists and the Literary World" at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney from 7 April - 12 July 2009.

NICHOLAS FOLLAND and LOUISE HASELTON are in a group exhibition in Hobart as part of the ‘10 days on the Island Festival’, which will then be shown in Adelaide at SASA Gallery in June – ‘Chance Encounters’, curated by Mary Knights and Maria Kunda, will be at the Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, from March 25 - April 30, and SASA Gallery, Adelaide, from June 23 - July 31, 2009.

CHRISTIAN LOCK, MARK KIMBER, JOHNNIE DADY, WARREN VANCE and DEBORAH PAAUWE are part of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia’s ‘Road Movie Project’ as part of the Adelaide Film Festival, with the CACSA screening new DVD works by these artists from February 13 – March 22, 2009.

DEBORAH PAAUWE was recently commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to photograph Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton of Sass & Bide, with the portrait recently unveiled at the new National Portrait Gallery building. Deborah has also been commissioned to create an image featuring the fashion label Hugo Boss. The exhibition will open on 16 March 2009 as part of the 2009 “Fashion loves Art” exhibition at the L’oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, Melbourne, Australia and touring. Deborah Paauwe will be exhibiting in a solo exhibition at the new gallery of the Queensland Centre for Photography from May 9 – June 7, 2009.

SALLY SMART's exhibition The Exquisite Pirate is on show at the Australian Embassy Gallery, Washington DC, until 3 April 2009.

ANGELA VALAMANESH is the recipient for the 2009 South Australian Living Artists publication, which will be published in August and she also has a solo show at Galleria Johans, Helsinki, from August 4 - 30. http://www.galleriajohans.fi

image: Angela Valamanesh Miscellaneous Items (Group G), 2006, 10 ceramic pieces, 195 x 25 x 5cm

GRAHAM FRANSELLA is a Finalist in the 2009 Wynne Prize and winner of the 2009 Trustee's Watercolour Prize.

FRANZ EHMANN will show in Germany at Koloni in Dresden from February 29 – March 13 and later in the year at Lisi Hämmerle Galerie, Bregenz, Austria from October to November 2009. http://www.koloni.wordpress.com

SUZANNE TREISTER will exhibit in 'Drawing 2009 Biennial Fundraiser' at the Drawing room, London, England from 30 April - 20 May, 'The Secret of the Ninth Planet', CCA Curatorial Practice exhibition at the Queens Nails Projects, Photo Epicenter and the Studio for Urban Projects, San Francisco, USA, from April 24 - May 24, 'Awake are only the Spirits' at Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), PHOENIX Halle, Dortmund, Germany, from 16 May - 18 October, and 'Reinventing Ritual' at The Jewish Museum, New York, USA, from September 13 to January 31, 2010.

KARINA GRUNDY was recently mentioned in 'The Great Feminist Denial" by Monica Dux and Zora Simic, Melbourne University Press 2008, and is currently preparing a new body of work for Greenaway Art Gallery.

RICHARD TIPPING will exhibit in ‘Against Myth and Metaphor’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (curated by Glenn Barkley) from April onwards, including 50 screenprints from the 'Sydney Morning' series, and ‘Abstract Landscape’ at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (curated by the Director, Richard Perram) from October onwards, including 'Sea Song' - a large installation of engraved sea stones. Tipping has just completed the manuscript for a new book of poems, called 'Love Slowly' and will be sending that to publishers soon.

MARIO DALPRA has a 4-month residency in India and a 1-month residency in Moscow later this year. He will exhibit in two exhibitions this year in Austria.

RICHARD GRAYSON’s 'The Golden Space City of God' is a solo exhibition and residency at ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (curated by Trevor Smith), opening March 20. http://www.artpace.org/ Richard will also exhibit at Matt's Gallery in London, England, from April 22 – June 14, 2009.

SIMONE KENNEDY will exhibit in the Linden Postcard show 2009 (with three small works from Halflight). Halflight (notes on my father) is an exhibition of 8 paintings and 2 soft sculptures, to be held at The University of Adelaide during the 2009 SALA Festival (organised by Mirna Heruc). Simone is also currently working on a new body of 14 paintings titled The Orphans (basic emotions) for an exhibition at Greenaway Art Gallery in September 2009.

On 21 November PETER ATKINS was announced as the winner of the Signature of M prize with his work Melbourne Bookcase (image detail of winning work shown below).



October 31st 2008 marked the official opening of GAGPROJECTS' Berlin premises. Our first project in this space is an installation by Sally Smart, video works by Matthew Bradley, and sculptures by Michelle Nikou. http://www.gagprojects.com/

IVAN NAVARRO has been selected to represent Chile at the next Venice Biennale.

ADAM CULLEN has just been announced as the winner of the 2008 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize for his work "Pegasus Flying Over Sydney".

SALLY SMART - USA Currently showing at Postmasters Gallery in New York http://www.postmastersart.com/ "Decoy Nest" is Sally's second exhibition with Postmasters. Until 11 October 2008.

MATTHEW BRADLEY, MARK SIEBERT, LOUISE HASELTON - SINGAPORE All three artists are in a show, curated by Peter McKay, titled "Flipside" at The Substation in Singapore. 3 - 18 October 2008.

DEBORAH PAAUWE - NEW ZEALAND Deborah has exhibited in New Zealand before but this is her first showing with Chaffers Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand http://www.chaffersgallery.co.nz/ Until 16 October, 2008

ARIEL HASSAN - SYDNEY Ariel is currently showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney as part of Primavera. http://www.mca.com.au/ Until 30 November 2008.

MARK KIMBER - SYDNEY Currently exhibiting at Stills Gallery, "Edgeland" runs until 1 November 2008. http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/

In other news, Michelle Nikou is preparing for a Cite International 'des Arts residency in Paris, Noel McKenna is preparing for a show in Ireland, Hossein Valamanesh is preparing for a show in Finland, and Darren Siwes has been selected for the 2009 Havana Biennial in Cuba.

Michelle Nikou will leave Australia in October 2008 to take up a Power Institute Studio Residency at the Cite International 'des Arts, Paris.

Jenny Watson currently has work at Artbrussels art fair, (Gallery Transit stand). This work is similar to the body of work she will exhibit later this year at Greenaway Art Gallery (October 15 - November 9). On the 3rd June Jenny will talk at Malkasten in Dusseldorf alongside her exhibition of 25 watercolours (created for Paris Fashion Week, 2006) and a film created by Arno Carazel. The evening will be chaired by Belgian curator Jan Hoet. Jenny will also exhibit work at Art Basel art fair in June, as part of Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery's stand.

Gordon Bennett is in a solo exhibition curated by Nicholas Thomas and developed through the University of Cambridge - Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge, England, entitled "The Expiation of Guilt". It opened in May 2007 and continues into April 2008.

John Citizen aka Gordon Bennett is in an exhibition curated by Zara Stanhope and developed in partnership between Asialink and Heide Museum of Modern Art, entitled, "The World in Painting" - which is due to open at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi this month following its tour to Chiang Mai University Gallery, Chiang Mai; Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Yuchengco Museum, Manila. The tour finishes at Heide, Melbourne in July.

Mark Siebert and Matthew Bradley will participate in an exhibition called "The Flipside" (working title) which will be shown at the Substation Gallery in Singapore between October 3-18, 2008. "The Flipside" is curated by Peter McKay and includes work by 6 Adelaide artists including Louise Haselton (associated artist with GAG). The exhibition has been negotiated to coincide with the 2008 Singapore Biennale and ARTSingapore 2008, strategised to maximise local and visiting international audiences.

Peter Atkins will undertake an artist residency from 13th May until 14th August at the 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica, creating a new body of work while he is there.

Matthew Bradley will exhibit a one minute version of his video, 'UWR/BOT (in assembly mode), from Not how to make an air cannon' in an exhibition called 'World One Minutes' at the 'Today Art Museum' in Beijing. The exhibition is part of the cultural program created for the Olympic games and features one minute videos from almost 100 countries worldwide that will fill the entire space of the Today Art Museum. World One Minutes, Today Art Museum, Beijing, June 6 - June 28, 2008.

Noel McKenna is showing at Brett Mcdowell Gallery in Dunedin, New Zealand in October 2008 as part of the Otago Art Festival and at  MOther's TAnk Station Gallery Dublin, Ireland in November.

James Geurts will exhibit 2020 at Artspace Meatmarket, Melbourne from May 21-31, Line Drawing at SASA Gallery, Adelaide, in June-July, and in Aug/Sept will have a public art commission in Drouin, Victoria. In Oct/Nov 2008 he will undertake an Artist Residency in La Chambre Blanche, Quebec.

Suzanne Treister will exhibit in solo exhibitions at Annely Juda Fine Art (Sept-Oct 2008) and Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt, Germany (Nov 2008), the group exhibition "1729m Politics of Architecture", German Architecture Museum (DAM) Frankfurt, Germany (late 2008), and has a forthcoming publication
"NATO The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World" Suzanne Treister with essay by Marek Kohn. Black Dog Publishing Ltd, London (publishing date Sept 2008).

Warren Vance will exhibit at the Hong Kong Art Fair in May 2008.

Subvert I Sing, a book of "subvertising" works by Richard Tipping, has been published by Red Fox Press in Ireland, in 2008. ". See more details and page examples at: www.redfoxpress.com/dada-tipping.html

Hossein Valamanesh
Hossein Valamanesh has just completed a limited edition artwork for the Contemporary Collectors Group in South Australia: ‘Here is love’ is 38 x 38cm, edition of 40, fire on Archer’s watercolour paper, 2006. In Oct/Nov 2006 Hossein was a finalist in the Clemenger Art Prize in Victoria and currently he is preparing for a major exhibition here in 2007.

Sally Smart
Sally Smart has had a fantastic year and as a result of Greenaway Art Gallery’s presentation at ARCO she now has representation by Jacob Karpio Gallery (San Juan, Costa Rica and Miami, USA) where she will have her first show in December 2006. Jacob Karpio Gallery will also take her work to Art Basel / Miami. Running concurrently will be Pulse Art Fair and Sally’s New York gallery Postmaster’s will take her work to this fair. She will also be part of the ‘New History’ exhibition, curated by Tracy L. Adler at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College in New York, from 30 January – 10 March 2007.

Michael Kutschbach
Michael Kutschbach was in New York in October for Art(212) with Greenaway Art Gallery. Having just completed an MA at Chelsea School of Art in London he has now moved to Berlin to live for a while. He has been invited to participate in a Video Invitational Project in Milan – Italy by Viafarini Gallery and has already found a studio space in Berlin. He was runner-up in the New Talents Program at Art Cologne in November.

Annette Bezor
Annette Bezor is currently finishing off work for her second exhibition with Florence Lynch Gallery in New York in January 2007.

Jenny Watson
Jenny Watson showed at TRANSIT in Belgium in November 2006. Jenny has just returned from Europe where she completed 22 watercolours used in a one minute film by Arno Caravel with a sound bite of The Rolling Stones’ “Walking the Dog” that was shown at Martin Grant’s parade at Paris Fashion Week. The artworks were then shown at Daniel Varenne’s gallery in Geneva.

Noel McKenna
On the 11 November 2006 Noel McKenna was announced as the winner of the Vista Prize in the Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale in South Australia. Ken Whisson won the overall prize.

Myriam Mechita
Myriam Mechita is currently exhibiting in Paris at La Galerie. Myriam will exhibit with Greenaway Art Gallery in 2008.