‘PLAYBACK: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018’ is an Art Gallery of New South Wales Touring Exhibition supported by the Sir William Dobell Foundation.

Image: Lucienne Rickard, ‘So it goes’, 2017, graphite on drawing film, Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Dobell Biennial Acquisition Fund 2018 © Lucienne Rickard.

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PLAYBACK: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018

Continuing the legacy of the Dobell Prize for Drawing and supported by the Sir William Dobell Foundation, this exhibition presents new work by eight contemporary Australian artists who are exploring history through crossovers between drawn and the moving image.

In Playback, works by Vernon Ah Kee, Sharon Goodwin, Laura Hindmarch, Locust Jones, Dorota Mytch, Jason Phu, Lucienne Rickard and Nick Strike respond to images found in art history, archives, newspapers, cinema and online.

“By reanimating images from the past, the artists selected for Playback enliven our sense of curiosity about history but also encourage us to understand the ways in which history repeats itself”, said Art Gallery of NSW curator Matt Cox.

‘PLAYBACK: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2018’ is an Art Gallery of New South Wales Touring Exhibition and will be on display in Orange until 8 December 2019.

Place: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books

Place brings together 38 artists from NSW, ACT, Victoria and Queensland to explore the theme of place in their artists’ books, whether a physical location or a place of their imagination.

Artists’ books, or book works as they are also referred to, are part of most artists’ vocabulary, either as drawings bound together, illustrated diaries or a response to a place, time, political or historical event, or personal emotion.

More than 30 artists were asked to submit new or exhibited work. All have exhibited previously, and many have books in collections both nationally and internationally.

Place presents a substantial body of high-standard artists’ books covering a wide range of styles and structures.

Exhibition runs until 15 December 2019.

Deep Revolt: Arlo Mountford

Deep Revolt is a mid-career survey exhibition of work by Melbourne-based artist Arlo Mountford. Laden with references from art history and pop culture, Mountford’s large-scale video installations, kinetic sculpture and animations take a wry look at the artistic canon through the lens of the contemporary.

Amusing and strange, his animated films are hand drawn with a mouse directly into a computer. He reimagines both real and created spaces from the art world, digitally reconstructing the interiors of iconic museums or retracing the brushstrokes of European masterpieces well known and loved for centuries. This process allows him to experience art with fresh eyes and unpack its ongoing meaning and relevance in contemporary society.

Exhibition runs until 1 December.

CAPTIONS, Apparently they have to be this long as there is a contractual obligation with the loaning gallery….