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SH Contemporary, which ran from 8th-10th September at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, has just finished. We exhibited with Aura Gallery from Beijing as they also represent Ariel Hassan. With excellent results and many new contacts, the future looks bright for both Hassan and Sierra. Paul Greenaway is now curating a video show in Hong Kong also as a result of our participation.

Greenaway Art Gallery participated in the Auckland Art Fair from 4-7 August 2011 showing the work of SALLY SMART, IMANTS TILLERS and JENNY WATSON. As a result, Sally Smart is now represented in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand, and will now be represented by Gow Langsford Gallery in New Zealand. Imants Tillers' work was purchased by a private collection in Auckland and we negotiated representation for Adam Cullen with Bath Street Gallery. Altogether a very positive outcome. Now we prepare for SH Contemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, 8 - 10 September, where we will share a booth with Aura Gallery from Beijing as we now both represent Ariel Hassan. We will also profile Santiago Sierra and Yin Zhaoyang.


image: Greenaway Art Gallery's stand at the 2011 Auckland Art Fair

NOEL MCKENNA has won the $50,000 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize for his work “My Backyard”. The judge was Glenn Barkley, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Hossein Valamanesh: Out of Nothingness a hardcover publication on the work of HOSSEIN VALAMANESH authored by Mary Knights and Ian North will be released in August 2011 by Wakefield Press.

MARK KIMBER has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the SALA Publication sponsored by Arts SA and Wakefield Press.

HOSSEIN VALAMANESH and ANGELA VALAMANESH have been commissioned by the Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium through the State Government’s Public Art and Design: Major Commission grant from Arts SA to create a gate for the Western Entrance of the Botanic Gardens. This intricately designed gateway has been named the “Ginkgo Gate”.

DARYL AUSTIN has been commissioned to paint a portrait of former head of Trinity College, Mr Luke Thomson.

MICHAEL KUTSCHBACH has an exhibition in Hamburg at Galerie Carolyn Heinz, running from 30 July – 27 August, and one in Berlin at Semjon Contemporary in September.

JENNY WATSON is currently exhibiting at Gimpel Fils in London. The exhibition titled “Striped Paintings and Undercover” is on until 26th August.

PETER HENNESSEY has been selected to participate in the 2012 Biennale of Sydney from 27 June – 16 September 2012.

SALLY SMART is currently exhibiting at Postmasters Gallery in New York. The exhibition Flaubert’s Puppets has been listed on the Saatchi Online Magazine as one of Doug McClemont’s Top 10 New York Shows, June 2011.

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Our team at GAG has been working hard this summer updating our website. We hope you enjoy it!

GAG started the year with exhibitions at two international art fairs :

INDIA ART SUMMIT 20 - 23 January Booth B10 Hall N° 18, Pragati Maidan, India Trade Promotion Organisation New Delhi, India presenting Hossein Valamanesh and Jenny Watson

ART STAGE SINGAPORE 12 - 16 January Stand E1-02 Marina Bay Stands Exhibition and Convention Centre 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore presenting Ariel Hassan in a project space

...congratulations to all three artists for their great success overseas!

DEBORAH PAAUWE will be exhibiting in a group exhibition titled Sumptuary at the ACP in Sydney from 25 Nov - 22 Jan 2011.

PETER ATKINS will give an artist talk titled Readymade Abstraction at House Museum, Melbourne, on Sunday 12 December at 3pm, email museum@lyonhousemuseum.com.au for bookings.

IMANTS TILLERS' stage design for Exile and Homeland, a play by Janis Balodis, will premier at the Australian Latvian Festival in Melbourne on Sunday 26 December. Imants and Jenny's daughter Saakija will also perform a cello duet at the opening ceremony.

CACSA Contemporary have organised The New New, a survey of South Australian artists over several venues throughout November. Of the 44 artists, Greenaway Art Gallery was proud to have 9 of our represented artists, ARIEL HASSAN, PAUL HOBAN, MARK KIMBER, CHRISTIAN LOCK, DEBORAH PAAUWE, MARK SIEBERT, DARREN SIWES, ANGELA VALAMANESH, and HOSSEIN VALAMANESH, and 10 of our Associated Artists, ANDY BEST, BRENDA L. CROFT, JONATHAN DADY, MARGARET DODD, SIAMAK FALLAH, NICHOLAS FOLLAND, LOUISE HASELTON, IAN NORTH, LEE SALOMONE, and WARREN VANCE. Congratulations to these artists and curators Alan Cruickshank and Peter McKay.

image - left: Mark Siebert, right: Paul Hoban, installation views from The New New

MICHELLE NIKOU, her partner and daughter, are beginning a 12-month stay in Berlin, Germany, where she will take up her Samstag Scholarship under the supervision of Thomas Rentmeister.

SALLY SMART is participating in No - Name Station, 16 Oct - 14 Nov, at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China. This Gertrude Contemporary initiative involves 14 artists from Australia and China. The exhibition will show from 15 Jul - 20 Aug 2011 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

IMANTS TILLERS features in a major article written by John Barrett-Lennard in Art and Australia, Vol 48, No 1, Spring 2010.

Each year the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney works with Veolia Environment Australia to select an artist from a previous Primavera exhibition for the MCA-Primavera/VEOLIA Acquisitive Art Prize. From a shortIist of five artists, this year’s winner is the Adelaide-based artist ARIEL HASSAN with his work Waters are wiser than we. Doug Dean CEO of Veolia Australia is thrilled with the selection.


image: Ariel Hassan Waters are wiser than we, 2010, cast resin panels, in an edition of 5, 120 x 60 x 4cm each

Greenaway Art Gallery is the only Australian gallery to be accepted into the 2011 India Art Summit. The Summit will be on show from 20 - 23 January, 2011, in New Delhi, India.

WARREN VANCE's exhibition Voyage D'Illumination is on show at Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, until 1 September.

JENNY WATSON's exhibition The Daisy Show is on show at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, until 4 September.

Congratulations to PETER ATKINS, his Hume Highway Suite will remain intact, purchased in its entirety by a private collection.

MARK SIEBERT is currently working in China as part of his Asialink Visual Arts residency.

MICHELLE NIKOU has been awarded the 2010 Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and will travel to Berlin later in the year.

Greenaway Art Gallery recently exhibited at the 2010 Melbourne Art Fair, an image of our stand is below.

We congratulate ANGELA VALAMANESH and HOSSEIN VALAMANESH on receiving their recent AM awards.

Greenaway Art Gallery will exhibit at the 2010 Melbourne Art Fair in August (Stand E19) showing new work by ADAM CULLEN, SALLY SMART, HOSSEIN VALAMANESH, ARIEL HASSAN, and JENNY WATSON.

A new exhibition by SALLY SMART Femmage (Shadows and Symptoms) is on show at McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park from 11 July - 19 September 2010.

NOEL MCKENNA's exhibition 29 Centimeters Closer is currently showing in New Zealand at Brett McDowell Gallery in Dunedin.

ANNETTE BEZOR is a finalist in the 2010 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.

MATTHEW BRADLEY is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre of SA for SALA Festival 2010, opening 30 July.

DARREN SIWES has been busy over the last couple of months, as artist in residence at the Lock-Up Cultural Centre in Newcastle, NSW. His work will be exhibited there in the exhibition Brought To Light, opening 16 July.

ADAM CULLEN is a finalist in the 2010 Archibald Prize with his portrait of artist Gareth Samson.

NOEL MCKENNA is a finalist in the 2010 Wynne Prize and 2010 Sulman Prize.

ANNETTE BEZOR is a finalist in the 2010 Sulman Prize.

Our current exhibition by PIETER HUGO is featured with illustrations in the March 8th edition of 'The New Yorker'.

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 Festivaly.

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

MARK KIMBER, MATTHEW BRADLEY, and HOSSEIN VALAMANESH are all recipients of Australia Council funding to produce new work in 2009/2010.

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.

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Melbourne Art Fair
July 30 - August 3
Stand E21

Scope Basel, Switzerland, 3 – 8 June 2008
GREENAWAY ART GALLERY is proud to announce we have been given the 18m long wall at the entrance to Scope Basel art fair to install a major work by Sally Smart. We will also have a large booth at the fair (Booth 132) where we will exhibit works by Ariel Hassan, Peter Hennessey, Myriam Mechita, Michelle Nikou, Darren Siwes, Thomas Rentmeister, and Jenny Watson.

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

GAGPROJECTS
GAGPROJECTS is the new arm of Greenaway Art Gallery and starts with a bang during the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. See our current projects featuring Thomas Rentmeister, Felix Larreta and Michael Kutschbach /// GAGPROJECTS

Michael Kutschbach Michael Kutschbach is currently dividing his time between Adelaide and Berlin. His sculptural work ‘go, you little dynamo, go!’ features on the poster and most graphics for the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. The sculpture is a unique edition of 10 and available for sale

New artists
Greenaway Art Gallery is proud to announce the addition of two new represented artists – Mark Siebert and Matthew Bradley (who is having his first gag exhibition August / September 2008). See the new artist pages.

Gordon Bennett
The Gordon Bennett survey exhibition will travel to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane from 10 May - 3 August 2008, and then to The Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth in late December 2008. Gordon will exhibit new work at Greenaway Art Gallery from 23 April - 18 May 2008.

Darren Siwes
Darren Siwes has just had his first show in New York. Magnan Projects staged the exhibition and Robert Shuster reviewed the show in the Village Voice. See http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0803,shuster,78833,13.html
Darren won the Redlands Westpac Art Award in December 2007, and will exhibit with Greenaway Art Gallery in July / August 2008.

Sally Smart
Sally Smart has the Australia Council studio in New York. Sally exhibits with Postmaster Gallery there and they have been promoting her at several US art fairs. Sally will exhibit with Greenaway Art Gallery in May / June 2008.

Deborah Paauwe
Deborah Paauwe will exhibit with Greenaway Art Gallery in March / April 2008, and her new work currently features on the cover of the Australian Art Market Report.

Adam Cullen
Adam Cullen will be the subject of a small survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, to be held May 16 – July 27 2008.

Hossein Valamanesh
Hossein Valamanesh will have a busy Adelaide Festival. He will install a major new work in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of SA; he is the designer on ‘When The Rain Stops Falling’, a collaboration with Brink Productions; and he is speaking during Artists Week.

Michelle Nikou
Michelle Nikou is currently in Paris doing some research and a small bronze casting workshop.

Many of our associated artists are also doing great things. James Darling and Lesley Forwood are installing a major work for the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, and also talking at Artists Week. James Geurts has been invited to exhibit in Vienna next month. Jonathan Dady will exhibit at Greenaway Art Gallery in April 2008 and GAGPROJECTS is currently collaborating to produce a cast-iron piano as part of the exhibition.

Darren Siwes
Adelaide artist Darren Siwes is the winner of this year's Redlands Westpac Art Prize. The exhibition is on at Mosman Art Gallery until December 2.

Michael Kutschbach Michael Kutschbach was invited to create the pivotal artwork for the 2008 Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, which was unveiled for the first time at the program launch on October 25. The sculpture, "go, you little dynamo, go!", is made from lacquered fibreglass, laser cut steel, colourful flocked and patterned fabric, and polished silver. Funded fully by GAGprojects . “My inspiration for the design stemmed from memories of the flowing freeway system leading into the Adelaide Hills and the beauty of the manufactured landscape there,” said Michael. “Originally I was commissioned to design the poster but once I’d expressed my vision it became apparent that a sculpture was the desired outcome to communicate my thoughts. I like the idea of the sculpture being thought of as a peculiar kind of alien. An alien that is fresh and new to this city, yet at the same time entirely formed by it and its people. It’s a friendly and uncertain form designed to appeal directly to the viewer’s senses, to deliberately entice the viewer to come closer and to ask what it is and what it might be doing here. This positive uncertainty and desired curiosity runs through the Festival’s theme of What are you seeing?” “For the first time we have an extra dimension that every other poster or graphic in the Festival’s history lacked – a literalthird dimension. With the two concepts merged, the flat and the solid, the polished and the warm, the sculpture appeared to be a futuristic ‘being’. Something of a cross between a flying R2D2 of ‘Star Wars’ and the fantasy creations of Japanese pop-artist Takashi Murakami,” says Festival Director Brett Sheehy. "go, you little dynamo, go!", sculpture, approx 1.8m high, edition of 10 (available in selected colours). Enquiries please contact Greenaway Art Gallery. image right: "go, you little dynamo, go!"by Michael Kutschbach.

Gordon Bennett
Gordon Bennett is to be given a major survey exhibition of his work. 'Gordon Bennett, a survey' will be exhibited at The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, in September 2007. Gordon will again show at Greenaway Art Gallery in 2008.

Adam Cullen
Adam Cullen is currently completing an Australia Council residency in Barcelona, he will show the paintings produced there at Greenaway Art Gallery, opening 6 July 2007, for four weeks.

Nicholas Folland
Nicholas Folland has just had another work purchased by Artbank.

Ariel Hassan
Ariel Hassan is currently in Europe where his work is exhibited in an exhibition titled 'Della Pittura Digitalis - Painting and the digital momentum', a group exhibition of six artists curated by Paco Barragan, opening 1 June 2007 an running until 25 August 2007 at Galerie Caprice Horn in Berlin.

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.