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» 28/10/2023: Review of Narelle Jubelin and Helen Grace’s The Housing Question at Geelong Gallery by David Wlazlo on this weekend's Memo Review: “In architecture, people love modernism. They just can’t get enough. Clean lines, large windows open to lush gardens, simple wooden furniture. People also hate modernism. They detest its pretensions of purity, cleanliness, and prescriptive universalism. I’m sure I could find many of you nodding in relief. So, who loves modernism, and who hates it? What class, type, mode, genre of people? What rights do these people have? What category of people are we talking about and what claims can I or anyone else make about this imaginary group of people?” —excerpt David Wlazlo
» 20/12/2022: Review of Narelle Jubelin’ solo exhibition, Nalgures (Someplace), at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, by Ann Stephen in Art Monthly Australia.
» 01/06/2022: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, is presenting a major solo exhibition by Narelle Jubelin, Nalgures (Someplace). The exhibition, curated by Natalia Poncela, is Jubelin's third major museum exhibition in Spain, her country of residency for more than two decades. The exhibition places us "within certain fragmentary geographies: places, vestiges, modes of occupation." 03/06/22 - 16/10/22.
» 20/09/2021: Narelle Jubelin participated in a written interview project with fellow artist Alana Hunt for Hunt's Conversations and Correspondence: Relations as part of The National: New Australian Art 2021. Hunt is Carriageworks' inaugural writer in residence. The interview text is now available on Carriageworks' website at this link.
» 25/11/2020: Madrid-based Narelle Jubelin, governed by constraints of the pandemic, has been undertaking a residency at the Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món in Barcelona. An interview with her by Salvador Garcia Amillas has been published on the Taking Care website. Taking Care is a project that identifies Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as spaces of care and places them at the centre of the search for possible strategies to address issues around their practices. The project is framed around the notion of care, and explores the under-tapped potential of these museums, for thinking critically about planetary pasts and about sustainable, convivial futures.
» 12/11/2020: Three works by Narelle Jubelin from the permanent collection are being exhibited in the landmark first chapter of Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. "Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now showcases art made by women. Drawn from the National Gallery’s collection and loans from across Australia, it is one of the most comprehensive presentations of art by women assembled in this country to date. exhibition part one: 14/11/20 - 09/05/21.
» 12/03/2020: Narelle Jubelin’s work The unforeseen (1989) is included in the current exhibition Shadow catchers at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, curated by Isobel Parker Philip. Drawing on the Gallery’s contemporary collection, the exhibition 'explores the way shadows, body doubles and mirrors haunt our understanding of photography and the moving image’. Exhibition dates: 22/02/20-17/05/20.
» 05/03/2020: Narelle Jubelin is exhibiting in the group show una voz / una Imagen at Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló in Castelló, Spain. Opening: Thursday 12/03/20, 8pm. Exhibition continues until 14/06/20.
» 21/10/2019: The Housing Question, a collaborative video work by Helen Grace and Narelle Jubelin, with sound by Sherre Delys, is being screened in Madrid. Exhibited earlier this year in The Housing Question – Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin and Sherre Delys at the Penrith Regional Gallery, the video focuses on two modernist homes – Harry and Penelope Seidler’s house in Sydney’s Killara (1967) and Casa Huarte (1966) in Madrid by José Antonio Corrales and Ramón Vázquez Molezún – and explores the link between modernist architecture and the aspiration for the equitable provision of public housing. On Friday 25 October a screening will take place at the Case Huarte, where the audience will have the privilege to experience the work in one of the original architectural spaces. A second screening will be on Saturday 26 October at the ABM Confecciones, a collective space for thought, action and debate of which Jubelin forms a part.
» 12/07/2019: Narelle Jubelin is giving an artist talk at Penrith Regional Gallery in relation to the exhibition, The Housing Question. In conversation with curator, Julie Ewington, hear them discuss how the works in the exhibition relate to their locations in the various heritage buildings at the Gallery, and how they speak to each other across space. Sunday 14/07/19, 2pm.
» 17/06/2019: Narelle Jubelin will be part of an artists' panel at Penrith Regional Gallery in association with the exhibition, The Housing Question - Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin, Sherre DeLys. Join The Housing Question artists Helen Grace and Narelle Jubelin as they interview each other, followed by a discussion with Sherre DeLys, chaired by curator Julie Ewington. Sunday 30/06/19, 2pm
» 25/05/2019: Narelle Jubelin is presenting major works in a three-person exhibtion, The Housing Question - Helen Grace, Narelle Jubelin, Sherre DeLys, at Penrith Regional Gallery & the Lewers Bequest, guest curated by Julie Ewington. The Housing Question is an extensive multi-art form exhibition comprising video, photography, sculpture and installation and will include important examples of Jubelin's signature miniature petit point works. The Housing Question takes its title from Friedrich Engels’s seminal 1872 texts addressing the severe housing shortages in his native Germany. exhibition 22/06/19 - 25/08/19.
» 16/06/2018: Narelle Jubelin has her work exhibited in 'Trabajo', a group exhibition curated by artist collective ABM Confecciónes at Encarnación Gonzales in Madrid. Exhibition dates: 16/06/18 - 23/06/18
» 01/06/2017: Diena Georgetti and Narelle Jubelin have works in the exhibition Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s at the National Gallery of Victoria. Curated by Jane Devery and Pip Wallis, Every Brilliant Eye explores a decade in Australian art, drawn from the NGV Collection. NGV Federation Square. exhibition dates 02/06/17 - 01/10/17.
» 31/03/2016: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Auckland Art Fair 25-29 May 2016. Presented will be a group exhibition of all new works by Mitch Cairns, Gunter Christmann, Diena Georgetti, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Narelle Jubelin and Clare Milledge. (Stand A5)
» 02/12/2015: Narelle Jubelin at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in the Sydney Morning Herald.
» 01/12/2015: Narelle Jubelin's major 1998 installation work, 'Case No: T961301', is being exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, as part of the exhibition, The Biography of Things. "Artists use objects, archives and collections to trace the labyrinthine stories that live behind things. The Biography of Things reveals narratives of loss, intrigue, histories and people, from the objective to the subjective. Working as if detectives, the artists in this exhibition bring a lively approach to object encounters, revealing much about what time has concealed or forgotten." The exhibition is curated by Juliana Engberg, Annika Kristensen and Hannah Mathews. Jubelin's 'Case No: T961301' traces the sale in the 1990s of British fighter jets to Indonesia for aggression against East Timor and the destruction in 1996 of one such jet by the activist Plowshares Four group using common domestic utensils. exhibition dates: 05/12/15 - 21/02/15
» 24/10/2015: Narelle Jubelin in The Australian in Malcolm Turnbull's office.
» 02/10/2015: Congratulations to Narelle Jubelin and her collaborators, Fiona MacDonald, Maria Madeira and Victor De Sousa, for winning the 2015 Freemantle Arts Centre Print Award. The $ 16,000.00 prize was awarded for their print work, Elastics / Borrocha / Elástico (2012 Timor-Leste Mobile Residency Archive). The large offset lithograph, printed by Big Fag Press Sydney, is the outcome of the four artists traveling to eleven of the thirteen districts in a mobile residency in East Timor. This Australian-led project, facilitated by the late curator Jennifer Phipps, delves into the history of one of our closest regional neighbours, presenting an insight into Timorese culture and crossing cultural boundaries through print. The work’s title ‘Elastics / Borrocha / Elástico', is borrowed from the universal collaborative children’s jumping game. The 2015 judging panel, consisted of Marian Crawford, Maurice O’Riordan and Gemma Weston.
» 25/08/2015: The Commercial is exhibiting for the second consecutive year at the biennial Sydney Contemporary art fair, 10/09/15-13/09/15, at Carriageworks. It will present a group exhibition in the Current Contemporary section - Booth A01 - with all new works by Mitch Cairns, Diena Georgetti, Emily Hunt, Narelle Jubelin, Clare Milledge, Lillian O'Neil and Robert Pulie. In addition to the gallery's stand, Stephen Ralph has been selected for the Installation Contemporary section, curated by The Curators' Department (Glenn Barkley, Ivan Muñiz Reed and Holly Williams). A large group of Ralph's cast concrete sculptures will be exhibited. Information about fair opening hours and tickets for opening night is available on the Sydney Contemporary website.
» 24/08/2015: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial now represents Narelle Jubelin. Jubelin (b. 1960, Sydney, lives Madrid since 1996) has an extensive exhibition history which, from the outset, has been marked by international scope and rigour. An overview of key exhibitions is being developed on The Commercial website where an attempt has been made to reproduce her miniature petit point renditions in 1:1 scale. The Commercial will present an intimate introduction to Jubelin’s work as part of a group exhibition at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 10/09/15-13/09/15. It will be the first time that her work has been seen in a primary commercial context in Australia for a decade. Her first solo exhibition at The Commercial will be in mid-2016.