News
Danks Street Depot in March 2010
Look out for Nellie Castan Gallery at Danks Street Depot in March 2010. The gallery will be showcasing a selection of Melbourne artists to Sydney enthusiasts during Sydney Art Month. Artists included are: James & Eleanor Avery, Chris Bond, Penelope Davis, Craig Easton, Prudence Flint, Stephen Haley and Kate Just
Congratulations Kate Shaw
Kate Shaw has been awarded an Arts Victoria Grant 6 months residency at Flux Factory in New York. She has also been commissioned by UAP for the Brisbane City Councils Laneways, Alleyways and Small Spaces strategy.
Darren Wardle and Kate Shaw
Darren Wardle and Kate Shaw have been selected for a group show called " The possibility of a painting" at the Chelsea Hotel New York from March 6th 2010
Sam Leach Self as Zip
Sam Leach's self portrait Self as Zip has been acquired by the University of Queensland. The portrait was included in the 2009 University of Queensland National Artists Self - Portrait Prize.
Marina Strocchi and Wayne Eager
Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law is a new exhibition of 48 benchmark works by senior artists from the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands. The exhibition features works from major private, and public collections and is presented by the South Australian Museum and Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation during Visual Arts Week at the 50th Adelaide Festival. Curated by artists Marina Strocchi and Wayne Eager in response to selections made by art centre managers, the exhibtion is free and will be opened formally on Wednesday 3 March at 6.00pm by The Hon Dr JC Bannon AO. It will open to the public from 4 March and remain on show each day until 14 March at the South Australian Museum, North Terrace Adelaide. The exhibition celebrates works of senior artists currently making art in their own country and the work of the Aboriginal-owned community art centres:
Louise Paramor COSTCO commission
Louise Paramor is working towards her COSTCO commission, where she will be installing six sculptures, collectively titled ‘Heavy Metal Jam Session’, which are scaled up versions of earlier plastic assemblage works
Congratulations David Ray!
David Ray has been shortlisted for the 2010 Basil Sellers Art prize and exhibition. We look forward to seeing new work based on the trophy series
Veg Out community Art Spaces
Congratulations to Penelope Davis, Prudence Flint and Kate Just for each successfully receiving a St Kilda Bowling Club Studio.
The Shilo Project
We are pleased to announce a large number of our artists are involved in Chris McAuliffe's curated show, The Shilo Project at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne. The project is based on Neil Diamond's 1970 song and album cover Shilo, which features a do it yourself, connect-the-dots portrait of the musician that invited fans to complete their own portrait. One hundred contemporary Australian artists have been invited to complete their own version of the blank cover. These works will be exhibited along with ten anonymous amateur responses. The exhibition examines the crossover between art and popular music. Artists included in this exhibition from Nellie Castan Gallery are Chris Bond, Sam Leach, Louise Paramor and David Thomas
Bindi Cole now represented by Nellie Castan Gallery
Bindi Cole has recently joined Nellie Castan Gallery. Cole won the 2009 Victoria Indigenous Art Award with a photograph from her current project photographing the Sister Girls in the Tiwi Islands.
Bindi Cole is an emerging artist and photographer whose work reveals some uncomfortable truths about the fundamental disconnection between who we are – the communities and identities by which we shape our sense of self – and how the prevailing culture attempts to place and define. In 2008, Cole was a finalist in the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (Boscia Galleries, Melbourne) and the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin).
Bindi Cole will have her solo exhibition 'Sister Girls' at Nellie Castan Gallery in July 2010. Watch out for this exciting new body of work.
Gordon Hookey residency in USA
Gordon Hookey is heading off in October for a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation residence studios in Connecticut, USA, as part of the OZCO residency
Stephen Haley exhibiting NY, Paris, Berlin & Hamberg
Stephen Haley is now showing in New York, Paris, Berlin and Hamberg with Lumas Gallery. He will be part of Melbourne International Festival show at RMIT Storey Hall Gallery
David Ray exhibiting in Philadelphia 2010
David Ray has been curated into an exhibition as part of the American National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 2010 conference. The exhibition will be held at The Clay Studio Philadelphia where David has had a residency
Prudence Flint finalist in The Stan and Maureen Duke Art Prize
Prudence Flint is a finalist in The Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, with Boiled Egg. She has a solo exhibition at Nellie Castan Gallery in April 2010
Kate Just @ Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Kate Just will have her Studio 12 solo show at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces in November. Kate was featured in the last issue of Art World
Congratulations Prudence Flint!
Congratulations to Prudence for being included in the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
The Portia Geach Memorial Award is recognised as one of the most important celebrations of the talents and creativity of Australian female portrait painters.
Chris Bond @ Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts
Chris Bond’s work is currently on exhibition in a curated group show Persuasion Equation at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (August) and a group show at Counihan Gallery, Moreland City Council, Melbourne (October 2009)
Darren Wardle solo show in NY
Darren Wardle has a solo show at Luxe Gallery in New York in October. He was featured on Sunday Arts in August where he discussed the influences behind his work
Sam Leach exhibition in London September 2009
Sam Leach is holding an overseas exhibition at 3 Bedfordbury Gallery in Convent Garden, London in September.
He had a great feature in the last issue of Art World
