News 2009-07-23 12:Jul:rd 2009-07-23 12:Jul:rd http://www.acga.com.au mail@acga.com.au Copyright 2009 Australian Commercial Galleries Association Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:15:47 +1000 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:15:47 +1000 http://www.acga.com.au/news/id/111 MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ivy Tropes
Curated by Melissa Loughnan, acga Programme Manager

Lynne Boyd Charles Nodrum Gallery
Jane Burton Heiser Gallery
Lynda Draper Stella Downer Fine Art
Roy Jackson Heiser Gallery
Kate Just Nellie Castan Gallery
Yvonne Kendall Niagara Galleries
Julia Robinson Über Gallery
Roh Singh Dianne Tanzer Gallery

The Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) is pleased to announce the opening of Ivy Tropes curated by Melissa Loughnan, ACGA Programme Manager, at the acga gallery, Federation Square from 6 - 8pm on Tuesday 28 July 2009.

Ivy Tropes explores narrative in nature; whether traversing the landscape of the fantastical or the everyday, each work selected for inclusion in the exhibition recounts a tale. Eight artists represented by ACGA member galleries present works across a variety of media to explore the mythologising of nature through subversive or puristic binaries.

Kate Just’s practice, for example, depicts the connection between women and nature, positing the female form as a metaphor for the human condition and the fragile state of our environment. Her collages have informed her most recent installation work, exploring a foreign landscape comprising various creatures, plants and unknown forms in the process of metamorphosis. Her highly aesthetic, purist works at times promote a sombre mood through their environmental messages.

Contrastingly, Julia Robinson’s works delight in the tension between the aesthetic and the abject, shifting between the boundaries of the jocular and macabre. Her three-dimensional works combine traditional craft techniques, ornamental veneers and hybridised objects. Untitled is emblematic of this combination, and presents a soft sculpture of a goat formed from highly adorned tapestry fabric. Lying on its back, with its head tilted and legs in the air, the creature appears to be in a state of submission or defeat.

Ivy Tropes will take place at the acga gallery, Federation Square, from Tuesday 28 July to Sunday 9 August 2009. For further information, images or to arrange an interview please contact Melissa Loughnan via melissal@acga.com.au or (03) 9662 2209.

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tues – sun 10 – 5pm I www.acga.com.au | mail@acga.com.au | (03) 9662 2209 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:21 +1000 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:00:21 +1000 http://www.acga.com.au/news/id/101 ON YOUR MARKS!

Sport inspires strong passions. Throughout the history of Australian art a wide variety of social, psychological and cultural concerns have been tackled in the name of sport. Winners and losers, rules and penalties, fans and souvenirs, triumphs, scandals and nation-building are just some of many crossovers between art and sport, brought together in the Basil Sellers Art Prize.

Submissions for the Basil Sellers Art Prize close 24 July 2009

This prize is supported by Mr Basil Sellers AM, who wishes to encourage contemporary artists to engage with the many themes within sport and promote critical reflection on all forms of sport and sporting culture in Australia.

The $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize will be awarded in August 2010, in conjunction with an exhibition of finalists’ work at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne. Finalists will receive a $3,000 participation fee. A further prize of $5,000 will be awarded to one of the exhibiting finalists on the basis of votes in the People’s Choice Award.

This is the second biannual award in a ten-year cycle. Over the life of the Basil Sellers Art Prize, we hope to change perceptions of the relationship between sport and art.

For further information contact Andrea Bell at the Ian Potter Museum of Art:
T: 03 8344 3014
E: basilsellers-artprize@unimelb.edu.au

Downloadable entry form and conditions of entry available at: www.sellersartprize.com.au

To review the 2008 prize and exhibition see:
www.sellersartprize.com.au/prize-and-exhibition/ Wed, 06 May 2009 22:03:07 +1000 Wed, 06 May 2009 22:03:07 +1000 http://www.acga.com.au/news/id/91 The ACGA has a new address, telephone and fax number. Please update your records.

acga gallery @ federation square
Atrium, Federation Square
Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts
Melbourne VIC 3000
T (03) 9662 2209
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mail@acga.com.au Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:08:04 +1000 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:08:04 +1000 http://www.acga.com.au/news/id/81 NOW 2.0

opening 7 – 20 april
launch 15 april 6 - 8pm

The web 2.0 phenomenon has come to dominate the spaces of innovation
within our cultural and discursive landscape, gaining considerable
prominence within much contemporary thought. Creating an open space of
reciprocal communication and re-examining the power relations between
subject and object - as technology grows and evolves, so do we.

Curated by Dianne Tanzer for the ACGA, Now 2.0 approaches advances in communication as a lens of investigation into the current state of contemporary art. Celebrating the openness of exchange, the place of the viewer and the democratisation of creative application, Now 2.0 reaches to the edges of the present and engages the future.

Lyndell Brown / Charles Green
Sally Gabori
Owen Leong
Song Ling
Tony Lloyd
Simon Strong
Darren Sylvester
Kit Wise
Anne Zahalka

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acga gallery @ federation square

EXHIBITION SPACE + HEAD OFFICE
OPENING 7 APRIL 2009

The Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) - Australia’s leading national body representing commercial art galleries in the primary market - is delighted to announce the opening of an exhibition space and head office at Federation Square.

National President, Beverly Knight said –

‘This is a very exciting time for the ACGA and its members. In order to promote and support our members and the artists they represent we are opening a new gallery space and head office in one of Melbourne’s most important centres for the arts – Federation Square. We see this as providing a significant benefit for our members and the artists they represent, in addition to other membership benefits and the important advocacy role and representation support we provide. ’

Phoebe Dunn, Chief Executive Officer said –

‘ACGA members are among the most important and exciting galleries in Australia with a commitment to professional and ethical practice in the visual arts. This exciting new venture will afford our members and their artists significant opportunities in a high profile location with local, national and international exposure. In conjunction with the public programs that the ACGA will be running from the new space, we look forward to the ACGA Gallery @ Fed Square becoming an important element of Australia’s visual arts calendar.’

The space, a compact, contemporary wedge-shaped gallery, will also be the new ACGA headquarters. The space is located diagonally opposite the National Gallery of Victoria’s Ian Potter Museum, within the atrium of this architecturally significant Melbourne landmark, and will attract local, national and international visitors.

The gallery will run on a two week rotating exhibition schedule, primarily for ACGA member galleries to exhibit their artists. This is an important new avenue through which ACGA members can showcase the work of the diverse and exciting artists that ACGA galleries represent in a high exposure gallery, promoting the best of contemporary Australian art.

The ACGA will also be offering the space to public galleries, the not for profit visual arts sector and others on application, and intends to establish an emerging artists and curator program, among other things.

The space has been designed by award winning architect, Kerstin Thompson, of Kerstin Thompson Architects.

This news follows other exciting developments within the ACGA, with the recent launch of a new website www.acga.com.au

The gallery will open on 7 April with an inaugural show: NOW 2.0, a group exhibition curated by Dianne Tanzer of dianne tanzer gallery. A media briefing will be held on 15 April 2009 at 11.00. Tony Lloyd, whose work is represented in the exhibition, will present an Artist’s Talk.

The ACGA and its members play a critical role in the visual arts world,
promoting and supporting emerging and established artists and cultivating the Australian art market. ACGA members represent and exhibit Australian artists, driving standards, excellence and innovation in the representation and presentation of contemporary Australian art.

The new ACGA Gallery @ Fed Square will further cement the central tenet of our mission - to develop the livelihood and reputation of Australian artists while enhancing the value and understanding of contemporary art within communities and cultivating the Australian art market and living Australian culture.

The ACGA is grateful for the support and assistance it has received from its members, Kerstin Thompson Architects, the team at Fed Square Pty Ltd, and others in delivering this important project.

The ACGA is committed to ethical representation of living Australian artists.

Beverly Knight Phoebe Dunn
National President Chief Executive Officer
T: (03) 9418 6444 T: (03) 9528 6144


acga gallery @ federation square I atrium, federation square I cnr flinders + swanston sts melb I tues – sun 10 – 5pm thurs til 9pm I www.acga.com.au Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:04:21 +1000 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:04:21 +1000 http://www.acga.com.au/news/id/61 At its Annual General Meeting and National Board meetings held on Monday 24 November 2008, the Australian Commercial Galleries Association (ACGA) made new appointments to its National Board.
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