Exhibition Calendar

ELEMENTAL RECKONING: The art of Tim Storrier
11 NOVEMBER – 18 DECEMBER 2011

Tim Storrier is one of Australia’s leading artists and this is the first major survey of his work. The exhibition comprises paintings, graphics and photography from public galleries & private collections. Tim Storrier has created an astonishing range of imagery steeped in his earliest memories of life on the land. The four elements - earth, air, fire and water – provide the framework for the artist’s singular vision of the Australian experience.

An S.H. Ervin Gallery exhibition, curated by Gavin Wilson

(Image: TIM STORRIER, Bunce balancing mango and banana 2007, acrylic on canvas 91.5 x 53.5cm, collection the artist © Tim Storrier)

LUMINOUS: THE LANDSCAPES OF ELISABETH CUMMINGS

Elisabeth Cummings (b.1934) is one of Australian visual arts quiet achievers with a career spanning over 50 years and this survey examining her landscape works is long overdue. Her landscapes are distinguished by heavily impastoed surfaces and luminous colour, whether depicting the glowing red and yellow ochres of the Pilbara region in Western Australia, the ruggedly spectacular Arkaroola ridges of the Flinders Ranges, or the sands of Elcho Island in Arnhem Land. Memories of her travels across Australia are distilled and brought to life in the sanctuary of her bush studio at Wedderburn on Sydney’s outskirts. The exhibition will feature works from the past three decades from public & private collections. An S.H. Ervin Gallery exhibition.

(Image: Elisabeth Cummings, Edge of the Simpson Desert, 2011)

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RUSSELL DRYSDALE DRAWINGS
17 FEBRUARY – 25 MARCH 2011
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of Russell Drysdale, the S.H. Ervin Gallery in conjunction with Carrick Hill, Adelaide is presenting an exhibition of the drawings of this legendary artist. Drysdale is one of the most admired and respected Australian painters. He and Sidney Nolan challenged the traditional vision held by Australians in the 1940s and 50s and produced some of the most remarkable Australian paintings of the twentieth century. These works have now acquired the status of national icons. It is these paintings which ushered in a new and contemporary attitude not only to the Australian landscape but also to the art of painting itself. However drawing was very important to Drysdale – he said that drawing was for a painter what practising the scales was for a musician. All Drysdale’s paintings are based on drawings. By examining his considerable graphic oeuvre, one can understand better the nature of Drysdale’s imagination and see how various observations put down on paper, developed and evolved into exceptional paintings. Curated by Lou Klepac.

SALON DES REFUSÉS
31 MARCH – 20 MAY 2012
The alternative selection from hundreds of entries to the Archibald and Wynne Prizes. Each year our guest selectors go behind the scenes of the Art Gallery of New South Wales to select the exhibition. The Salon has an excellent reputation, and is often cited as more interesting than the “official” exhibition. . The criteria for works selected are quality, diversity, humour and experimentation and cover themes such as contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and artist’s responses to the landscape. 

NOT THE WAY HOME
25 MAY – 1 JULY 2012
In May 2011 artists Margaret Ackland, Elisabeth Cummings, Merran Esson, Joe Frost, Alan Jones, Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Ross Laurie, Steve Lopes, Euan Macleod, Idris Murphy, Amanda Penrose-Hart, Peter Sharpe and Guy Warren embarked on a 14 day arts laboratory, engaging with the arid landscape following drought breaking rains at the UNSW Arid Zone Research Station at Fowlers Gap past Broken Hill. The exhibition presented in association with Artist Profile magazine, will feature the artist’s response to this expedition and is curated by Owen Craven, editor, Artist Profile magagine.