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» 02/11/2024: The New York Times has published a feature interview with Archie Moore by Arun D'Souza in the final weeks of the Venice Biennale.
» 01/11/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson features in the just released book of the Celine Art Project collection, curated by Hedi Slimane. Slimane was the creative, artistic and image director of the leading French fashion house 2018 — 2024. The 500-page book features a double page spread of each artist in the collection arranged alphabetically and is an edition of 500, exclusively gifted to celebrities and VIP clients of Celine.
» 22/10/2024: Opening tonight in Adelaide: Archie Moore — Dwelling: Adelaide Issue | Adelaide Film Festival / Samstag Moving Image Commission Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia | 5.30 — 7.30pm | exhibition until 29.11.24. Archie Moore’s ambitious new large-scale installation work, Dwelling: Adelaide Issue, is the thirteenth AFF & Samstag Art Moving Image Commission and the fifth iteration of Moore’s installation Dwelling, in which he recreates the mise-en-scene of his childhood home this time with a significant new moving image component. This ongoing investigation of memory and the effect of colonisation draws on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory elements.
» 18/10/2024: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Travis MacDonald and to welcome him warmly to the gallery. MacDonald is a figurative painter of sometimes intimate social spaces and urban arcadias. Atmospheric veils of colour envelop incidental pictorial moments. Monuments are liquid, edges are soft, time passes and space recedes. Light, perspective and transparent materials operate together in the expansion of conventional two-dimensional supports to include the spatial depth between a painting’s surface and the wall upon which it hangs. MacDonald’s paintings carry influences: contemporary activations of Clarice Beckett’s tonal reckonings of landscape, utopian spaces of the Nabis unified by soundtracks of colour. Travis MacDonald (b. 1990 NZ, l. Victoria AU) was awarded the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize by judges Josè Da Silva, Jane Devery and Jason Smith. MacDonald has had a significant international trajectory. In recent years, he has exhibited in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom as well as on significant contemporary art platforms online. Travis is exhibiting in a group show at The Commercial opening 23.11.24 with his first solo exhibition in 2025.
» 17/10/2024: Works by Amanda Williams are included in the exhibition Borrowed Landscapes at Mosman Art Gallery. The exhibition 'features the work of artists exploring and connecting with the Australian landscape and telling stories that have been previously overlooked.' 19.10.24 — 02.02.24
» 17/10/2024: Mosman Art Gallery is presenting Jazz Money’s sound installation, This Is How We Love. Included in the 2024 Adelaide Biennial, TIHWL is an enveloping multichannel sound installation that invites audiences into a community of sound and love. The poem, originally written by Jazz Money for World Pride in Sydney 2023 was arranged for a choir by composer Joseph Twist. Presented here as an immersive audio work, the piece was recorded with members of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir to emphasise queer systems of care and reciprocity. The Cube at Mosman Art Gallery 19.10.24 — 02.02.25.
» 10/10/2024: Nigel Milsom and Michael Riley are exhibiting at Maitland Art Gallery in the exhibition Twitcher. 12.10.24 — 16.02.24.
» 07/10/2024: Angela Brennan's 1992 portrait of Geoff Lowe as Sgt. Pepper from the Monash University Museum of Art Collection is included in Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the Guitar at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. exhibition 12.10.24 — 02.02.25
» 06/10/2024: Congratulations to Archie Moore and Ellie Buttrose for being jointly awarded the 2024 QAGOMA Medal for their landmark achievement at the Venice Biennale 2024. The medals were announced at the QAGOMA Foundation dinner in Brisbane 05.10.24.
» 01/10/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting a major new sculpture in the inaugural Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: The Burden of Objects at Villa Alba Museum, 44 Walmer Street, Kew. Augusta is giving an artist talk Sunday 13.10.24 at 1pm. Exhibition 09.10.24 — 13.10.24, 10am — 5pm.
» 23/09/2024: Jazz Money has developed a major new outdoor work for the 2024 Canberra Art Biennial. Located by Lake Burley Griffin adjacent to Canberra Contemporary Art Space, “Only Country Lasts Forever responds to the buildings and infrastructure of Canberra, asking viewers to consider the manipulation of Country that creates the landmarks of the nation's capital. Interrupting view lines across the Canberra line axis of the parliamentary triangle, the imposing text reminds audiences of the ever present, sovereign soil below their feet, and the simple truth that only Country lasts forever.” (Jazz Money) exhibition 27.09.24 — 26.10.24
» 23/09/2024: Jazz Money's feature documentary, WINHANGANHA, continues to screen internationally including at Harvard Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts USA as part of the Ancestral Futures: Indigenous Cardinal Relations Symposium, 04.10.24 and Filmhaus Nürnberg, Germany 06.10.24 as part of the Australian First Nations Cinema Program. Visit NSFA website for further details.
» 18/09/2024: Works by Matthew Harris, Stephen Ralph and Michael Riley are included in Hold the world to its word at Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, the exhibition “recognises the notion of an inherently good and just world is a fragile one. That faith in promises held personally and collectively is easily eroded.” The exhibition includes works by Hoda Afshar, Matthew Harris, Spence Messih, Stephen Ralph, Sandra Selig, and what, alongside the collective et al., and works by Michael Riley and Susan Hiller. Exhibition until 16.03.25
» 09/09/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson's bronze wall sculpture, Tumbling, trying to, has been shortlisted for the 2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize at Woollahra Art Gallery. Exhibition: 13.09.24 — 20.10.24.
» 04/09/2024: Jazz Money is presenting at Sydney Contemporary as part of a panel discussion on the subject of Poetics, Politics and the Personal: A Method. Panel members: Luke Letourneau, Jazz Money, Marikit Santiago and Daniel Browning. Carriageworks, Saturday 7 September, 3 — 4pm.
» 02/09/2024: The Commercial is exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks with a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns in Booth H02. Jude Rae's solo exhibition at the gallery in Marrickville will be open regular visiting hours: Thursday — Saturday, 11 — 4. Sydney Contemporary dates: 05.09.24 — 08.09.24. The gallery is a 10 minute drive from the art fair.
» 19/08/2024: The Australian Government has acquired Archie Moore’s kith and kin. Commissioned by Creative Australia and curated by Ellie Buttrose, it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale di Venezia 2024. kith and kin is being acquired by the Australian Government to be gifted to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane who, along with their acquisition partner Tate, London, will see two of the world’s leading art museums ensure its enduring legacy on the global stage. The joint custodianship maps geographically Moore's matrilineal (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) and patrilineal (English/Scottish) kinship. The acquisition/donation was announced last night at the National Gallery of Australia at an event attended by the Australian Prime Minister, Federal Minister for the Arts and Governor-General.
» 19/08/2024: Jazz Money is exhibiting a new neon work in the group exhibition, Echoes, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition presents works that “uncover past lives, alter egos and feedback loops, Echoes explores reverberations in the human experience.” Exhibition 23.08.24 — 09.11.24
» 09/08/2024: Congratulations to Travis MacDonald announced today as winner of the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for his painting, The top of the pond. The $ 30,000 acquisitive award was judged by José Da Silva, Jane Devery and Jason Smith and will be on exhibition at Geelong Gallery until 03.11.24.
» 05/08/2024: The Commercial is looking forward to presenting a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks 05 — 08.09.24. Cairns brings a signature combination of wit and discipline to his figurative oil paintings. The Commercial is in Booth H02. Contact the gallery to receive a preview of works ahead of the fair via this link.
» 01/08/2024: Jazz Money's second book of poetry, mark the dawn, has been published by University of Queensland Press. mark the dawn is the recipient of the UQP Quentin Bryce Award. Buy mark the dawn online at this link.
» 31/07/2024: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Angela Brennan and welcome her warmly to the gallery. Brennan (b. 1960, l. Naarm/Melbourne) is an artist whose practice over four decades is a thesis in colour and its relationships. She creates exuberant, primordial experiences in oil paint. While predominantly abstract, her paintings, footnoted with external references in titles, text and figurative elements, "build a potent self-image of the artist, reflecting her various interests, beliefs and preferences" (Michael Graf). For art of such unbridled joy, Brennan’s work houses an erudite core. It is sensate, material, intellectual. The Commercial will be presenting an exhibition of Brennan’s paintings from her recent solo show at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in October this year.
» 27/07/2024: Works by Matthew Harris and Jazz Money are on exhibition at Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, in the ACCA touring exhibition, Between Waves, curated by Jessica Clark. "Between Waves amplifies concepts related to light, time and vision – and the idea of shining a light on our times – as expressed by the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung word ‘Yalingwa’. The exhibition presents the work of ten First Nations artists and collectives". Casula exhibition dates: 27.07.24 — 29.09.24.
» 10/06/2024: UNSW Gallery is presenting a solo exhibition by Lillian O'Neil: The light that spills across the ground between shadows. The exhibition is curated by Director José Da Silva, giving Sydney audiences the chance to see O'Neil's recent large scale analogue collages in the wake of the 2024 Adelaide Biennial at the Art Gallery of South Australia. UNSW Gallery exhibition: 28.06.24 — 08.09.24.
» 06/06/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson's bronze wall sculpture, Floating, was acquired by The Celine Art Project and installed in the recently opened Celine Gold Coast Pacific Fair store designed by Hedi Slimane.
» 01/06/2024: Matthew Harris' The British Museum series, recently acquired in full by the National Gallery of Victoria, is on exhibition in Wurrdha Marra at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Federation Square, Melbourne.
» 30/05/2024: Congratulations to Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae shortlisted for the 2024 Sulman and Wynne prizes respectively at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. A portrait of Matthew Harris by Sally Ross has been shortlisted for the Archibald Prize. Winners announced Friday 07.06.24.
» 27/05/2024: The book accompanying Archie Moore's Venice Biennale exhibition, kith and kin, is now available online. The small black monograph draws upon the artist’s research with family, community and archives to celebrate First Nations sovereignty and kinship ties. The 304 page book is edited by Archie Moore, Ellie Buttrose and Grace Lucas-Pennington, designed by Žiga Testen, Stuart Geddes with essays by Archie Moore, Djon Mundine, Diane Bell, Felicity Meakins, Larissa Behrendt, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Raymond Kelly and Melissa Lucashenko. The book is available in Australia from Perimeter Books via this link and in Europe from Spector Books via this link.
» 16/05/2024: Today the Federal Minister for the Arts and Leader of the House, Tony Burke MP, spoke at length in the Australian House of Representatives in celebration of Archie Moore's historic win of the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale. In conclusion he said, "kith and kin is a sublime expression of Aboriginality but also of the humanity that ultimately connects us all, and all Australians can be rightly proud of this triumph." Mr Burke's speech was echoed by the shadow minister. Read full Hansard transcription of speech here.
» 15/05/2024: The National Gallery of Australia has installed Archie Moore's 2021 Family Tree next to The Aboriginal Memorial. The Aboriginal Memorial was conceived by Djon Mundine and realised by 43 artists from Ramingining and neighbouring communities of Central Arnhem Land in 1987-1988. It comprises 200 hollow log coffins commemorating all the Indigenous people who have lost their lives defending their land over the 200 years since colonisation. The Aboriginal Memorial is on permanent display at the National Gallery of Australia. Moore's Family Tree is one of two precursors to the significantly larger genealogical drawing that forms part of Moore's exhibition kith and kin in the Australia Pavlion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
» 14/05/2024: There has been an immense amount of press coverage both Australian and internationally of Archie Moore's exhibition kith and kin in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Here are links to a few highlights: Verónica Tello in Memo, Lorena Allam in The Guardian, Julian Tomkin in The Australian, Daniel Browning on ABC, Browning, Bremer, Tan, Tilly and Liddy on ABC, Gareth Harris in The Art Newspaper, Peggy Kasabad Lane in Art Monthly Australasia, Wes Hill in Art Forum.
» 10/05/2024: The Art Gallery of Western Australia is presenting The Medium is the Medium || Agatha Gothe-Snape Material, a solo exhibition by Agatha Gothe-Snape and the artist's first exhibition at AGWA, Perth, curated by Robert Cook. The exhibition is situated across three of levels of the museum, focussing on "several key wall works made between 2015 and 2024, a form that represents just one aspect of Gothe-Snape’s output that also includes performance, installation, sculpture and drawing. Nonetheless, these wall paintings each engage with the central concerns of an extended practice that is consistently involved with shaping dynamic occasions to experience how we materially (and immaterially) negotiate pathways through contingent and persistent frameworks of belief, experience and knowledge." 11.05.24 — 06.10.24.
» 01/05/2024: Augusta Vinall Richardson has been shortlisted for the 2024 National Works on Paper exhibition at Mornington Penninsula Regional Gallery. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is announced 31.08.24 with exhibition continuing until 24.11.24. Judges of this year’s prize are: Dunja Rmandic (Curator – Exhibitions MPRG), Erica Green (Director, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia), Lisa Waup (artist and 2022 NWOP finalist), Trent Walter (Director, Negative Press).
» 20/04/2024: The International Jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia today announced Archie Moore as recipient of the Golden Lion for best National Participation for his exhibition, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion curated by Ellie Buttrose. It is the highest honour awarded by La Biennale and the first time Australia has received any award at the Venice Biennale which it has attended since 1954. Deep congratulations and much love to Archie and Ellie and huge thanks to Creative Australia for their belief in and support of the project. We could not be more proud.
» 15/04/2024: To enquire about Archie Moore and his Venice Biennale exhibition, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion, email the gallery via this link.
» 13/04/2024: Archie Moore in Venice Biennale in New York Times. “Indigenous Artists Are the Heart of the Venice Biennale” by Julia Halperin.
» 10/04/2024: The Venice Biennale opens next week. We are so excited in advance of Archie Moore’s solo presentation, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion being shared with the world. Warmest wishes to Archie, Ellie and team and everyone from Creative Australia for these final days of preparation. kith and kin officially opens with formalities at the Australia Pavilion in the Giardini at 10:45am Venice time, Wednesday 17 April and will be live streamed on Instagram @ausatvenice | Venice 10:45am = GMT 8:45am = AEST 6:45pm
» 08/04/2024: VENICE: ‘In discussion with kith and kin’ | Presented by ArtReview in partnership with Creative Australia. During Venice Biennale vernissage week, ArtReview is presenting a series of panels focussed on kith and kin, Archie Moore’s presentation in the Australia Pavilion, Thursday 18 April 2024, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. Session one — 9:30am-10:50am | Art for Abolition Archie Moore’s kith and kin brings attention to how First Nations Australians are one of the most incarcerated populations globally and the impacts this has on Indigenous families. This panel will discuss how art can highlight carceral practices that disproportionally target First Nations peoples and people of colour and champion the urgent need for law reform. Session two — 4:00pm – 5:00pm | Enacting First Languages In kith and kin, Archie Moore includes terms in his familial Gamilaraay and Bigambul languages and the Aboriginal names of his ancestors. This panel will reflect on how global First Nations practitioners use art to enact Indigenous language maintenance and imprint First Nations words in the present so that they can re-enter common usage. Full program details and registration via artreview.com
» 03/04/2024: Berlin Artlink interview by Adela Lovric with Archie Moore in lead up to Venice Biennale: "Going beyond mere reference to kinship and familial relations, the titular phrase ‘kith and kin’ refers to First Nations understanding of attachment to place and time. Moore intertwines his ongoing genealogical research with broader histories of Australia, recognizing the cultural and linguistic losses resulting from colonization, and striving to reclaim them." Read here
» 27/03/2024: Archie Moore in Frieze magazine Venice Biennale Roundtable. Dare Turner talks with First Nations artists Jeffrey Gibson, Archie Moore and Inuuteq Storch about working within the settler colonial framework of American, Australian and Danish pavilions. Read here.
» 23/03/2024: On the eve of his presentation, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale opening 20.04.24, Steve Gow interviews Archie Moore about his life and family background in The Saturday Paper. Read here.
» 21/03/2024: In 2021, Powerhouse commissioned artist Amanda Williams to document the last days of the museum’s former Castle Hill Experimental Research Plantation. The commission was conceived as both an archival recording of the site and heritage interpretation. Williams documented the site and its ongoing changes throughout the expansion project, creating images that will enter the Powerhouse Institutional Archives. Another outcome is a major artwork commission titled The Last Stand 2021–23, comprising 32 works that demonstrate Williams’ diverse approaches to analogue photographic image making across eight conceptual engagements with the former plantation site. The Last Stand will be on display at Building J from its opening on 23 March 2024 and be accessioned into the Powerhouse Collection.
» 20/03/2024: The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, has announced Mitch Cairns as a finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize 2024. The judges of this year's $ 75,000 prize are Bree Pickering, Director, National Portrait Gallery; Erin Vink, Curator First Nations Art (local and global), Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tara Heffernan, Art Historian and Critic. Winner announced 21.06.24. Exhibition: 22.06.24 — 22.09.24
» 13/03/2024: Diena Georgetti's Community of the People (2021) features on the cover of the March/April issue of Vogue Living as part of a Melbourne interior by Flack Studio created for both painting and collector.
» 04/03/2024: It is a pleasure to announce that the full set of Archie Moore's Mīal, a self portrait in 34 monochrome paintings, has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and is now on display in Gallery One at the NPG in Canberra.
» 04/03/2024: Diena Georgetti, Archie Moore and Tim Schultz are exhibiting in At Home with Painting, curated by Madeleine Kelly at SCA Gallery at the University of Sydney. The exhibition opens from 6pm – 8pm on Wednesday 06.03.24 and continues until 26.04.24.
» 01/03/2024: Matthew Harris' Consigned to oblivion series, first shown in Between Waves at ACCA, Melbourne in 2023, is being exhibited in Wild Grass: Our Lives, the 8th Yokohama Triennale, curated by Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu. exhibition 09.12.23 — 10.03.24
» 10/02/2024: ArtReview has announced that it is partnering with Creative Australia to present a talks programme during the 6oth Venice Biennale. Reflecting on Archie Moore’s presentation kith and kin, curated by Ellie Buttrose for the Australia Pavilion, the talks programme will explore two of the exhibition’s central themes: First Nations languages revival initiatives and the injustices of carceral systems that disproportionately target First Nations people and people of colour. As an extension of Moore’s ongoing research into identity, heritage, language, racism and the universality of the human family, the talks programme will invite speakers from around the world to share in their experiences of language revival techniques and methods to counter carceral injustices, and to consider what role art can play in highlighting these issues. More details to be announced soon.
» 09/02/2024: Creative Australia has announced the first details of Archie Moore's presentation in the Australia Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Ellie Buttrose. kith and kin is the title of the presentation that will run from 20.04.24 to 24.11.24. In kith and kin, Moore will reflect on the nature and strength of Indigenous kinship, issues of surveillance and incarceration, the enduring impact of colonisation and First Nations language revival. Moore has said, "The phrase 'kith and kin' simply means friends and family but an earlier Old English definition for kith dates from the 1300s and originally meant 'countrymen' (kith also meant 'one's native land) and Kin: 'family members'. These words gradually took on the present looser sense: friends and family. Many Indigenous Australians, especially those who grew up on Country, see the land and other living things as part of their kinship system — the land itself can be a mentor, teacher, parent to a child." See full press release on Creative Australia website here.
» 09/02/2024: Coverage of the announcement of first details of Archie Moore's Venice Biennale presentation in Australia Pavilion in today's The Guardian.
» 09/02/2024: Coverage by Steve Dow in Art Guide of first details of Archie Moore's kith and kin, his presentation for 2024 Venice Biennale.
» 06/02/2024: Archie Moore at the Venice Biennale | On 09.02.24, Creative Australia, will announce the title for Archie Moore's Venice Biennale exhibition in the Australia Pavilion, curated by Ellie Buttrose.
» 29/01/2024: The Commercial looks forward to exhibiting at Melbourne Art Fair 21 — 25 February, 2024, with a two-person exhibition by Diena Georgetti and Augusta Vinall Richardson. In addition to our booth presention, Jazz Money has been invited by guest curator Shelley McSpedden to create a new neon text work for BEYOND that will occupy the central piazza area of the fair. The Commerical — Booth C1. Contact the gallery for early preview of works.
» 25/01/2024: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the 4th edition of the Lagos Biennial, Nigeria, invited by Co-Artistic Director Kathryn Weir. The biennial is located at Tafawa Balewa Square, "a one hundred and fifty thousand square metre expanse of concrete which served as a racecourse under the British Colonial Administration and was later redesigned as a military parade ground. Within the layered historical monument, the 2024 edition of the Biennial provokes reflection on construction of the nation-state." Smith's work, "Wound Response, uses natural liquid latex extracted from Amazonian rubber trees, filling cracks and crevices of the concrete structure of the Square, a wound response from the architecture itself, drawing connections between the histories and ongoing environmental and social legacies of colonial plantation systems across tropical geographies." Exhibition dates: 3 — 10 February, 2024.
» 24/01/2024: Jazz Money and Lillian O'Neil are exhibiting in the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum, curated by José Da Silva, at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Exhibition: 01.03.24 — 02.06.24.
» 22/01/2024: As part of an entrance redevelopment in 2024, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art will temporarily relocate its foyer from James Street to the western façade and its Performance Space. Inaugurating this new entrance will be a major new commission by Agatha Gothe-Snape. "In conceiving the new foyer, Gothe-Snape has used ‘colour as a bridge through time’, gleaning, gathering, rearranging and performing fragmentary remembrances, images, words and impressions from various moments in PICA’s early history." Dates: 09.02.24 — 01.01.25
» 11/12/2023: Diena Georgetti's mosaic, Community of the People / AMBASSADEN, for the Eero Saarinen-designed former US Embassy in Oslo features in Wallpaper* as part of coverage on the major restoration project of the 1959 heritage building.
» 07/12/2023: Amanda Williams' double yellow daisy from her recent exhibition is hanging in Troye Sivan pop-up this week at Chinatown Country Club styled by Flack Studio. 222 Clarence Street, Sydney.
» 04/12/2023: Diena Georgetti recently completed a major mosaic commission, Community of the People / AMBASSADEN (2023), for Fredensborg for the new ground floor champagne bar and restaurant of the 1959 Eero Saarinen-designed former US Embassy in Oslo, Norway. The striking heritage building, acquired by Fredensborg for its headquarters, has recently undergone an extensive refurbishment by interior architects, Paulsen & Nilsen, and project architects, Lundhagem and Atelier Oslo. The building is located at Henrik Ibsen gate 48 in central Oslo adjacent to the Royal Palace. Community of the People / AMBASSADEN is visible from the street and is made entirely of hand-cut, hand-poured glass. The 28sqm wall-based artwork develops over four distinct visual chapters, meeting and wrapping around the acute apex of Saarinen’s triangular building design and its original Carrara marble wall corner. Community of the People / AMBASSADEN can be viewed from different angles within the Frances restaurant, champagne bar and adjacent café which are now open and accessible to the public.
» 29/11/2023: Creative Australia has announced the Pavilion Attendants for Archie Moore’s exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale. The Attendants and Attendant Managers’ program is designed to leverage Australia’s participation in the Venice Biennale to create professional development opportunities. Creative Australia has partnered with major galleries and museums to invite applications for these roles. The Attendants and Attendant Managers will travel to Venice for a period of 6–12 weeks to undertake mediation of Archie Moore’s presentation in the Australia Pavilion, curated by Ellie Buttrose. The 60th Venice Biennale takes place from 20. 04.24 — 24.11.24 (pre-opening from 17.04.24). Attendant Mangers: Gillian Jones, Museum and Art Gallery of the NT; Luisa Randall, UQ Art Museum; Sanja Zeljko, QAGOMA. Attendants: Jayden Gonsalves, Art Gallery of SA; Joy Angelo Santos, Art Gallery of NSW; Laura Lewis-Jones, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; Leah Pirone, Art Gallery of WA; Max Boland, National Gallery of Victoria.
» 21/11/2023: Launching this Friday in Naarm/Melbourne, Memo Review’s inaugural print issue features an extended artist focus on Archie Moore, the 2024 Venice Biennale Australian Representative, with essays on Moore by Rex Butler, Tara Heffernan, Tristen Harwood and Hilary Thurlow. Friday 24.11.23, 6—8pm Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier St, Fitzroy pre-orders available at memoreview.net — AUD 35.00
» 06/11/2023: Listen to Jazz Money in conversation with Rudi Bremer on ABC Radio National, Awaye! in the lead up to the national premiere screenings of Money's feature length film, WINHANGANHA, commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive. Broadcast 04.11.23.
» 01/11/2023: Jazz Money’s first feature-length film, WINHANGANHA, commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, is premiering in each Australian capital city, starting Friday 10 November at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and Wednesday 15 November at the NFSA, Canberra. Dates for other states to be announced. Book tickets for Sydney and Canberra screenings via NFSA website here. View trailer for WINHANGANHA here.
» 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
» 25/10/2023: Jazz Money is participating in a conversation with Gerald McMaster (Power Institute’s inaugural Visiting Professor in First Nations Art), Lynette Riley and Jakelin Troy on Indigenous Visual Knowledge and Country hosted by The Power Institute at SCA gallery, University of Sydney, 30.10.23, 6 — 7.30pm. Register via Power Institute website.
» 20/10/2023: Congratulations to Jazz Money announced as one of ten artists offered an Artspace, Sydney, One Year Studio Program. Aligned with the reopening of Artspace’s home, The Gunnery building, in December this year after its major redevelopment, Money’s residency comes at an important moment of the Sydney institution’s history. The highly competitive, rent-free “One Year Studio Program offers artists the space to research and produce new works without constraint in an open and critically engaged environment.”
» 18/10/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson has a solo exhibition TEMPLATE / SKETCH at Caves, Melbourne, opening Friday 20.10.23, 6 — 8pm. The exhibition consists of studies for future sculptures in metals. The exhibition opening coincides with the launch of the publication TEMPLATES which is an edited transcript of recorded conversations between Vinall Richardson and fellow artist Rose Nolan that took place between May — August 2023. The publication has been designed by Yanni Florence, is an edition of 200 and is available from Caves, a not for profit organisation.
» 03/10/2023: The University of South Australia today announced Yasmin Smith as recipient of the 2024 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. The scholarship provides institutional fees for an academic year of study, a $ 70,000 tax-free allowance and travel expenses to a leading international art school of their choice.
» 29/09/2023: Mitch Cairns is shortlisted for Still: National Still Life Award 2023 with his vinyl and dry pastel on linen work, Belfry. The biennial acquisitive award is hosted by Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour, the prize will be announced by judge, Max Delany, Artistic Director and CEO, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne on 07.10.23.
» 25/09/2023: It is a pleasure to announce a major acquisition of Diena Georgetti's work by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Community of the People / yellow and Community of the People / blue were exhibited earlier this year in The National: Australian Art Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. They are part of a group of three pairs of large-scale paintings constructed from contributions of artist predecessors constructed around complimentary colour groups, the legacies of artists and colour.
» 14/09/2023: Amanda Williams is talking at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of a panel organised by The Power Institute on the subject of photography and place. Panel members: Peta Clancy, Simryn Gill, Amanda Williams and Brett Neilson. Friday 22.09.23, 6 — 7.30pm.
» 12/09/2023: Yasmin Smith is presenting as part of a panel on the subject of Deep Time as part of an annual Interdisciplinary Forum at Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, following a keynote address by Professor Gerald McMaster, curator, artist, author, and professor emeritus OCAD University, Toronto. 23.09.23, 10 — 4. Follow this link for further details.
» 06/09/2023: Jazz Money and Lillian O'Neil have been announced as exhibiting artists in the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum, curated by José Da Silva. Presented throughout all spaces of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Exhibition dates 01.03.24 — 02.06.24.
» 30/08/2023: It is a pleasure to announce that the University of Melbourne has acquired an 11-piece group of Yasmin Smith's Forest. Forest was exhibited at The Commercial in 2022. It is Smith's most ambitious work to date, comprising 11 ceramic glazes made from fly ash from 11 coal-fired power stations in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Arranged tonally from darkest to lightest glazes, representing the youngest most 'impure' brown coals to the oldest and most 'pure' black coals respectively, Forest is a timeline dating 18 million to 200 million years and represents the afterlife of plants, the dissipation of other elements and the archiving of carbon as evidenced in Smith's glazes.
» 18/08/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson is presenting work in her first institutional exhibition opening tonight at La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo. The exhibition is curated by Amelia Wallin. “This is an exhibition about artistic impact and the different ways it can be felt, as history, memory, tranference and affect. Using Inge King’s modernist sculpture ‘Dialogue of circles’ as a beginning point, the exhibition radiates outwards, inviting artistic input of contemporary sculptors, dancers, performance and visual artists, and artists working in the public realm, who each pay particular attention to the thresholds where the body meets the rest of the world.” Artists include Diana Baker Smith, Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Dean Cross, Zoë Croggon, Narelle Desmond, Inge King, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Emily Floyd, Sriwhana Spong. View on The Commercial website. Exhibition: 18.08.23 — 05.11.23
» 03/08/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting a new sculpture in the group exhibition, Surface edge, curated by Darcey Bella Arnold, at Sutton Projects, Melbourne. exhibition 05.08.23 — 26.08.23.
» 03/08/2023: Oscar Perry is currently in Sweden participating in the Småland triennial 2023, the first instance of a recurring collaboration between art institutions, art practitioners and smaller art societies. The theme for this year’s triennial “Små Land” (Small Land) stems from the historical name used to describe the chequered landscape of Småland . visit exhibition website.
» 28/07/2023: A work from Agatha Gothe-Snape's POWERPOINTS catalogue is currently on exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia as part of Adam Linder, Hustle Harder. Hustle Harder is a new performance exhibition by acclaimed choreographer Adam Linder. Performed for the duration of the Museum’s opening hours by a rotating cast of nine dancers, including costumes commissioned by Australian designer Dion Lee, Hustle Harder highlights how the format of the exhibition converges with the physical, durational and collaborative dimensions of live performance. Until 20.08.23.
» 27/07/2023: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 07.09.23 — 10.09.23. We will be presenting a group exhibition in Booth F16 with works by Archie Moore, Augusta Vinall Richardson, Jazz Money, Jude Rae and Mitch Cairns. Please contact the gallery via this link to receive advanced preview of works.
» 21/07/2023: Jazz Money's work, With textual consent, co-commissioned by La Trobe Library and La Trobe Art Institute, is included in the group exhibition Alt/Text, curated by Jenna Lee, at Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne. exhibition: 22.07.23 — 24.09.23.
» 19/07/2023: Yesterday, Agatha Gothe-Snape’s integrated public artwork, A Well Being, was launched at the University of New South Wales. A Well Being encompasses 87 words and phrases in the artist’s handwriting taken directly from mind maps the artist drew during conversations with the University’s students and faculty. The texts have been scaled-up and applied, as part of a collaboration with landscape architects TCL around the running track and multicourts of the Wellness Precinct that surrounds the UNSW Village Green. Playful and provocative, A Well Being invites viewers to consider their own understanding of wellness as they move across and encounter the artwork.
» 01/07/2023: A newly commissioned 3-channel video work by Jazz Money, infinite iterative piece, is part of the exhibition Between Waves, curated by Jessica Clark, at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Between Waves is a continuation of ACCA'S Yalingwa exhibition series devoted to highlighting the significance of First Nations contemporary art practice of the Southeast within a national context. Money's installation brings together imagery and text drawn from notebooks and unpublished work in infinite and random combinations accompanied by a commissioned score by E Fishpool. exhibition 01.07.23 — 03.09.23.
» 29/06/2023: Amanda Williams is exhibiting a combination of new photograms and a recent silver gelatin portrait series in In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism & the Surreal at Hazlehurst Arts Centre, Sydney. The exhibition brings together 21 significant female Australian artists including Del Kathryn Barton, Pat Brassington, Louisa Chircop, Madeleine Kelly, Deborah Kelly, Juz Kitson, Lucy O’Doherty, Caroline Rothwell, Kaylene Whiskey, Jelena Telecki, Lynda Draper, Freya Jobbins, Jenny Orchard, Jill Orr, Patricia Piccinini, Julie Rrap, Honey Long and Prue Stent, Marikit Santiago, Anne Wallace and Amanda Williams. Exhibition dates: 0 1.0723 - 03.09.23.
» 27/06/2023: Anna Kristensen's 2017 painting Dip is currently on exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia as part of the exhibition Spacingout, curated by Robert Cook and Bahar Sayed. The exhibition presents works from the permanent AGWA collection and "considers aspects of the affective dimension of contemporary life with particular interest to sensations of emotional and perceptual ambivalence." Exhibition until 17.09.23.
» 26/06/2023: Yasmin Smith is in conversation with Senior Curator, Kelly McDonald, in her exhibition Sediment at Mosman Art Gallery. Wednesday 28.06.23, 6 — 8pm. Free, bookings requested via this link.
» 24/06/2023: Archie Moore’s solo exhibition, Pillors of Democracy, at Cairns Art Gallery opens to the public today with opening celebration to be held Wednesday 12.07.23, 6—8.30pm, the night before opening of Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. The exhibition will be opened by Bruce Johnson McLean MAICD, Assistant Director, First Nations and Head Curator, National Gallery of Australia. “Archie Moore’s Pillors of Democracy is, as the play on words implies, is a critical examination of the four strands of modern democracy — legislature, judiciary, executive, media — and the way in which they fail to protect the most vulnerable in our community. Moore reminds us that architectural symbols of power, conquest and dominance are illusory and are now highly contested sites.” —Larissa Behrendt AO (Gamilaroy / Eualeyai) Distinguished Professor and Laureate Fellow at the Research Unit, Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology, Sydney (excerpt from exhibition text)
» 12/06/2023: Amanda Williams is in conversation with Dr Jarrod Hore at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Friday 23.06.23, 7.30-8pm. As part of MCA Late, a discussion regarding the concerns and questions of contemporary landscape photography in Australia. Join this informal in-gallery conversation between photo media artist Amanda Williams and environmental historian and author Dr Jarrod Hore in front of Williams' work in The National 4: Australian Art Now. Artist Plus One: Amanda Williams & Dr Jarrod Hore, Free, no booking required, Location: MCA Galleries: Level 3.
» 12/06/2023: Opening this weekend at Mosman Art Gallery is Yasmin Smith: Sediment, the artist's first solo exhibition in a public institution. The exhibition is curated by Kelly McDonald, Assistant Gallery Director/Senior Curator, Mosman Art Gallery, and forms the basis of the first monographic publication on the artist with newly commissioned texts that will become available in coming months. Opening reception Friday 16.06.23, 6—8pm, exhibition: 17.06.23 — 10.09.23.
» 04/05/2023: Patrick Hartigan is presenting his first solo exhibition in the UK at Moon Grove, Manchester. Moon Grove is an occasional independent unaffiliated contemporary art gallery founded in 2022 by Andrew Hunt. Hunt is a curator, writer and educator based in London and Manchester. He is Professor of Fine Art and Curating at Manchester Metropolitan University. Patrick Hartigan — A Clay Hand, 11.05.23 — 08.07.23. Opening party Wednesday 10.05.23, 6—9pm.
» 27/04/2023: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced today as a finalist in the 2023 Archibald Prize with his portrait of fellow artist, Elizabeth Pulie. The winner of the Archibald is announced 05.05.23. The exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales takes place from 06.05.23 — 03.09.23. Mitch previously won the $ 100,000 prize in 2017 with a portrait of Agatha Gothe-Snape.
» 21/04/2023: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith shortlisted for the Ramsay Art Prize 2023 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, the acquisitive Ramsay Art Prize aims to support and encourage contemporary Australian artists to make their best work at a pivotal moment in their career, with the winning artist receiving $100,000. The 2023 panel of judges comprises of Aaron Seeto, Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Nusantara, Jakarta; Perth-based visual artist and creative producer Erin Coates; and Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The winner is announced 26.05.23.
» 17/04/2023: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore’s flag installation, United Neytions, commissioned for the inaugural iteration of The National at Carriageworks, Sydney in 2017, has been acquired by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, supported by the museum’s Future Collective patron group. United Neytions was exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art in 2021 in 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, a large-scale project of Australian and Korean artists curated by Artspace Sydney and SeMA. A scaled-to-site version of United Neytions was commissioned in 2018 as a permanent public artwork airside at Sydney International Airport T1 Terminal, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
» 03/04/2023: Easter opening hours: For the final week of Nigel Milsom's exhibition, The Commercial will be open special hours for drop-in visits 11am — 4pm Wednesday 5th, Thursday 6th and Saturday 8th April. Patrick Hartigan's portraits in hallway also on view.
» 27/03/2023: The National 4: Australian Art Now is opening this week with major presentations by Diena Georgetti and Amanda Williams at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Exhibition dates 31.03.23 – 09.07.23
» 20/03/2023: It is a pleasure to announce that The Commercial is now representing Augusta Vinall Richardson. Augusta Vinall Richardson (b. 1991, l. Naarm/Melbourne) works with sheet and cast metals in the production of abstract composite sculptures that activate both the private and public domains. She has exhibited widely in commercial and artist-run-initiatives. In 2022, Vinall Richardson was awarded a Master of Fine Art by Monash University, Melbourne. As part of her undergraduate studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, she undertook an exchange semester at Gerrit Reitveld Academie in Amsterdam. She exhibited in the group exhibition LIGHTMOVING at The Commercial in 2022. It is a great pleasure to welcome Augusta to the gallery.
» 14/03/2023: PODCAST: Inside The Gallery Podcast has posted an interview with Archie Moore and curator Ellie Buttrose on the announcement of their 2024 Venice Biennale presentation for the Australian Pavilion. Listen here
» 10/03/2023: Archie Moore's 2017 t-shirt series, Shirtfront, is on exhibition at the Museum of Sydney as part of Just Not Australian, curated by Artspace, Sydney, the final leg of the exhibition's regional tour. The exhibition "presents work by 19 Australian artists at the forefront of national debate and practice. Spanning generations and diverse cultural backgrounds, the artists deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood." Exhibition 11.03.23 — 04.06.23. Works from Moore's small edition t-shirt series are available from The Commercial. enquire here.
» 01/03/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson has been shortlisted for the biennial Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is being judged this year by Melissa Keys, Hanna Presley and Jason Smith. Montsalvat's Barn Gallery, Melbourne. Announced 20.04.23.
» 15/02/2023: The Commercial would like to acknowledge Yasmin Smith on her achievement of being shortlisted to represent Australia at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Smith together with Kathryn Weir were one of five artist-curator teams shortlisted by the Australia Council on the advice of a panel of independent industry advisors including national and international visual arts experts. “The Australia Council wishes to thank industry advisors Stephen Gilchrist, Carol Yinghua Lu, Victoria Lynn, Hammad Nasar, and Colin Walker for their considered deliberation in reaching this decision.”
» 13/02/2023: Augusta Vinall Richardson has co-curated with Angela Brennan a one weekend exhibition of outdoor sculpture, Sculpture thinking thinking sculpture, at Branching Universe Gallery, Melbourne. Artists include Isabella Besen, Aaron Carter, Emily Floyd, John Lim, Chris Madden, Anne-Marie May, Elvis Richardson, Augusta Vinall Richardson. Exhibition 18.02.23 — 19.02.23.
» 08/02/2023: "The Australia Council has announced leading First Nations artist Archie Moore will represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2024, with the exhibition to be curated by Ellie Buttrose, Curator of Contemporary Australian Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane."
» 31/01/2023: Yasmin Smith is working towards her first solo museum exhibition. Mosman Art Gallery will present Yasmin Smith: Angophora 17.06.23 — 10.09.23, curated by Kelly McDonald.
» 19/01/2023: Nigel Milsom's solo exhibition will open on Saturday 04.03.23 with drinks with the artist at 2 — 4pm. The exhibition continues until 06.04.23. Please note change of dates. Please contact the gallery to request preview of works.
» 16/01/2023: Final week to see Archie Moore's Inert State in Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery, ends 21.01.23.
» 16/01/2023: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting part of Forest, her recent installation featuring eleven coal fly ash glazes, in We Are Electric at UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, curated by Anna Briers. Exhibition: 14.02.23 — 24.06.23.
» 23/12/2022: The Commercial is closed for the summer recess from 24.12.22 until 01.02.23 (inclusive).
» 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.
» 17/12/2022: LIGHTMOVING final week special hours. The Commercial will be open special hours for the final week of 2022. Wednesday 21.12.22 — Friday 23.12.22 inclusive, 11 — 4. We hope you can visit to see this group exhibition with works by Augusta Vinall Richardson, Jazz Money and Mitch Cairns.
» 11/12/2022: Archie Moore features in the current issue of Artforum. “Moore excavates both institutional and individual memories, quantifying the weight and qualifying the texture of oppression.” Helen Hughes. A review of Archie Moore’s recent solo exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary, Dwelling (Victorian Issue), and his work, Inert State, in Embodied Knowledge at Queensland Art Gallery are reviewed by Helen Hughes. Artforum, vol. 61, no. 4, December 2022. Read full review.
» 08/12/2022: Concurrent with her work in LIGHTMOVING at The Commercial, Augusta Vinall Richardson is exhibiting in Atoms and Passions with Angela Brennan, Madeline Simm and Augusta Vinall Richardson, at Chauffeur Gallery, Sydney. Exhibition: 08.12.22 — 21.12.22
» 15/11/2022: Diena Georgetti and Amanda Williams are exhibiting in The National 4: Australian Art Now. The National 4 will take place across four major Sydney venues: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Campbelltown Art Centre, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Georgetti's and Williams' works will be exhibited at the MCA, curated by Senior Curator, Exhibitions, Jane Devery. Exhibition dates 31.03.23 – 09.07.23
» 27/10/2022: The opening reception for Jude Rae’s exhibition is regretfully postponed. It will now take place at the new time of Saturday 05.11.22, 2–4pm. The gallery is open and the exhibition on view from 29.10.22, as originally scheduled. Images of the exhibition are now viewable online.
» 24/10/2022: lt is with great respect and sadness we acknowledge the passing of senior Yolŋu artist Mr Gudthaykudthay and offer condolences to the Ramingining community and all who knew him for this loss. “He was an extraordinary painter focussing on Gandayala; the Creation Being of Ramingining, and the Wagilag Sisters Creation Story. He was the last of a generation of Bula’Bula Arts founders and first artists.” Bula-bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation has said. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to present a solo exhibition of Mr Gudthaykudthay’s work in 2021, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, in association with Bula’bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation. Mr Gudthaykudthay (Pussycat) contributed five burial poles to the Aboriginal Memorial conceived and coordinated by Djon Mundine in 1988, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Aboriginal Memorial was recently relocated and celebrated as part of the 40-year anniversary of the NGA.
» 06/10/2022: Archie Moore will present a work ‘Bannertree’ in Eromheen of erin (Round About or Inside) at VANDENHOVE Center for Architecture and Art, Ghent University in Belgium. First shown in 2021 at the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, the exhibition 'aims to explore how artists from different geographic and cultural contexts might contribute to map and describe the manifold spaces and sites that mark our lives.” Exhibition dates: 14.10.22 — 12.11.22.
» 06/10/2022: As Powerhouse Creative Industries resident, Amanda Williams is giving a talk ‘Expanded practice and archival research’ at Powerhouse Museum, in conversation with curator Sarah Rees, as part of the public program Powerhouse Late. Williams will present a selection of Australian photography and talk about the historical legacy and contemporary significance of labour-intensive photographic imagery. Free to public. Thursday 13.10.22, 6:30pm.
» 06/10/2022: Mitch Cairns is presenting a solo exhibition 102.5fm at the Sydney artist- run-space Knulp. Opening Thursday 13.10.22, 6-8pm.
» 28/09/2022: Congratulations to Stephen Ralph shortlisted for the 2022 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. The $25,000 acquisitive prize is Australia’s pre-eminent award for small sculpture presented by Woollahra Council. Announced 28.09.22. Exhibition at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf: 13.10.22 — 20.11.22.
» 28/09/2022: It is a pleasure to announce that four monochrome paintings from Archie Moore’s 2022 exhibition Mīal have been acquired by Artbank.
» 28/09/2022: It is a pleasure to announce that Mitch Cairns’ painting Coloured Glass (for Roland), exhibited in the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State, has been acquired by Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
» 28/09/2022: Lillian O’Neil is exhibiting in Unpopular at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. “Unpopular draws on the never-before-seen archive of music promoter, record company founder and entrepreneur Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavlovic, taking audiences behind-the-scenes of the alternative music scene in the 1990s”. Pavlovic invited O'Neil to work with his archive, from which she has drawn upon photographic material as well as fan mail in the production of three major new collages. exhibition 27.10.22 — 03.06.23.
» 15/08/2022: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks with a solo project — CAMPAIGN — by Diena Georgetti. CAMPAIGN will comprise a significant group of new construction paintings by this influential artist that bring together past and distant communities of artists in an offering for here and now and for the future. The Commercial will be located in Booth G04. Collector Preview: Wednesday 07.09.22. Art fair: Thursday 08.09.22 — 11.09.22. Contact the gallery via this link to request preview of works.
» 12/08/2022: AVAILABLE NOW: Eucalyptusdom publication, a major new book accompanying the Eucalyptusdom exhibition, now in its final weeks at Powerhouse, Sydney. Exhibition until 28.08.22. Eucalyptusdom has been developed by Agatha Gothe-Snape as Powerhouse Artistic Associate alongside co-curators Emily McDaniel, Sarah Rees and Nina Earl. The exhibition features a ceramic installation commissioned from Yasmin Smith. The Eucalyptusdom book features a 32-page folio of photographs by Amanda Williams commissioned by the Powerhouse as part of Williams' ongoing Creative Industries Residency. “Eucalyptusdom reckons with Australia’s cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree. This publication expands upon a body of research and creative output generated via the eponymous exhibition at Powerhouse. It showcases the more than 20 creative practitioners commissioned to produce new works in dialogue with 500+ objects from the Powerhouse collection. The publication also offers insights from the award-winning exhibition design team and includes a new work of literary non-fiction by acclaimed Australian author Ashley Hay, a 32-page folio of art photography by Amanda Williams, and an oral history shared by D’harawal Elder Aunty Fran Bodkin. Edited by Sally Rose. Design by Studio Ongarato.” Eucalyptusdom book: AUD 99.00. Available at Powerhouse via this link.
» 08/08/2022: Archie Moore is presenting a solo exhibition, Archie Moore — Dwelling (Victorian Issue), at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. Dwelling (Victorian Issue) is redevelopment of Moore's HouseShow exhibited in Brisbane in 2020 during covid lockdowns and his Dwelling at Accidentally Annie Street in Brisbane in 2010. Gertrude Contemporary dates: 27.08.2022 — 23.10.2022.
» 01/08/2022: Archie Moore has a major new work, Inert State, in Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane. Inert State, commissioned for the iconic Water Mall at QAG, presents 200 floating coroner's reports into Indigenous deaths in custody that took place between 1987-91 across Australia alongside two towers of Hansard volumes, parliametary transcriptions representing inaction. Curated by Ellie Buttrose and Katina Davidson. Exhibition: 13.08.2022 — 22.01.2023
» 01/08/2022: Amanda Williams is exhibiting in Return to Nature, curated by Stella Loftus-Hills and Pippa Milne, at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. The exhibition looks at Australian landscape photography through the lenses of over 40 photographers, including colonialists of the 1870s and contemporary artists working today. 08.07.2022 — 18.09.2022
» 01/08/2022: Amanda Williams is shortlisted for the 2022 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship - Travel. The FLMS aims to support Sydney College of Arts (SCA) graduates to pursue a program of professional development through travel and is valued at $30,000. Announced 28.09.22.
» 18/07/2022: Mitch Cairns is judging the 2022 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, an award for young painters won by Cairns in 2012. The Brett Whiteley Studio, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, awards an annual travelling art scholarship to artists aged between 20 and 30 for an established body of work. For the 2022 scholarship, the Studio will offer two types of residencies under the one application: a residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, for one artist, and a two-week residency at Shark Island Kangaroo Valley for five artists. Applications close 1 August. Further information at this link.
» 11/07/2022: It’s a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith’s ceramic installation, Terroir, commissioned for the 2021 TarraWarra Biennial and exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair earlier this year has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
» 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.
» 01/06/2022: Mitch Cairns, Patrick Hartigan, Anna Kristensen, Nigel Milsom, Jude Rae and Tim Schultz are exhibiting in the group exhibition, Zombie Eaters, at Murray Art Museum Albury. Curated by Michael Moran, Zombie Eaters looks to celebrate the strengths in recent Australian figurative painting.17.06.2022 — 16.10.2022
» 23/05/2022: Works by Archie Moore and Michael Riley from the National Gallery of Australia collection are on exhibition at the National Gallery of Singapore in the landmark exhibition, Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia. The exhibition "surveys historical and contemporary works by over 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across Australia—the largest exhibition of its kind to travel to Asia. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, the artworks show deep interconnections between past and present, as well as extraordinary artistic innovation." 27/05/22 - 27/09/22
» 16/05/2022: Philip Gudthaykudthay and Amanda Williams have been invited as finalists for the The King's School Art Prize 2022. The $20,000 acquisitive prize is being judged this year by Isobel Parker Philip, Senior curator of Australian contemporary art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Prizes are announced Friday 20/05/22.
» 13/05/2022: Congratulations to Jude Rae for the High Commendation for her portrait of Saul Griffith in the 2022 Archibald Prize. Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales: 14/05/22 - 28/08/22.
» 05/05/2022: Congratulations to Jude Rae whose entries have been shortlisted for both the 2022 Archibald and Wynne Prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Her Archibald entry is a portrait of renewable energy inventor and engineer, Saul Griffith. Her Wynne entry, The white fig (Ficus virens), Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Prizes are announced Friday 13/05/22. The prize exhibitions at AGNSW continue until 28/08/22.
» 07/04/2022: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Slow Churn, at The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. “In the face of a changing climate, global shifts in agriculture and food production and the increased recognition of traditional land management strategies, artists in Slow Churn explore the delicate interactions and interdependencies that exist between us and our natural world.” Exhibiting artists: Zanny Begg, Lindy Lee, Mylyn Nguyen, Jody Rallah, Yasmin Smith, Judy Watson, Elizabeth Willing. Exhibition 09/04/22 – 03/07/22.
» 04/04/2022: It is with pleasure that The Commercial hosts the launch of Patrick Hartigan - The Village is Quiet, Hartigan's second book of writings published by Gazebo Books. The launch of the book coincides with Hartigan's solo exhibition, Archetypes, at the gallery. Friday 08/04/22, 6 - 8pm.
» 18/03/2022: Mitch Cairns' artist talk at the Art Gallery of South Australia, on 05/03/22 in conversation with Leigh Robb as part of the public program for the Adelaide Biennial: Free/State, is available to listen to online at this link.
» 11/03/2022: Oscar Perry is co-producing a car boot art fair at ACCA Melbourne as a concluding event for the exhibition Who’s afraid of public space? ACCA will activate public outdoor space surrounding the gallery for the one-day only presentation of DAS BOOT: Artist Car Boot Fair, curated by Melbourne/ Naarm-based artists Oscar Perry and Esther Stewart. ACCA Forecourt, Saturday 19/03/22, 11-4pm, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, Melbourne.
» 03/03/2022: Mitch Cairns is giving an artist talk at the Art Gallery of South Australia Saturday 05/03/22, 12 noon, about his works for the Adelaide Biennial: Free/State. Free to public,
» 02/03/2022: Patrick Hartigan's solo exhibition, Archetypes, at The Commercial will be open from Thursday 10/03/22 during the Biennale of Sydney vernissage week. Gallery visiting hours Thursday to Saturday 11 - 4 and by appointment.
» 01/03/2022: Mitch Cairns has created a major new body of work for the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State opening this week at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The Adelaide Biennial is Australia’s longest-standing survey of contemporary Australian art. This iteration curated by Sebastian Goldspink. Exhibition 04/03/22 - 05/06/22
» 11/02/2022: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Melbourne Art Fair at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 17 - 20 February, 2022, with a group exhibition of works by Gunter Christmann, Patrick Hartigan, Yasmin Smith and Amanda Williams in Booth E2. The Sydney gallery will be closed during Melbourne Art Fair week. Contact the gallery via this link to receive an advance preview of works.
» 08/02/2022: Congratulations to Amanda Williams who has been offered a three-year Creative Industries Residency at the Powerhouse (Sydney) giving her dedicated studio and access to the Museum’s archive and historic camera collection.
» 31/01/2022: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Yasmin Smith will be in conversation at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Friday 04/02/22, 1-2pm as part of the exhibition, Eucalyptusdom. "Eucalyptusdom reckons with our cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree, presenting over 400 objects from the Powerhouse Collection alongside 17 newly commissioned works by creative practitioners working across the fields of design, architecture, film, applied arts and performance." Eucalyptusdom has been instigated by Gothe-Snape in her ongoing role as embedded artist at the Powerhouse and developed in collaboration with curators Nina Earl, Emily McDaniel, and Sarah Rees. Smith has been commissioned by the PHM to make a new ceramic installation for the exhibition. The conversation between Gothe-Snape and Smith is the first in a series of monthly artist-led tours of the exhibition. T he tour is free. Bookings can be made via the PHM website via this link.
» 23/12/2021: The Commercial is closed for the summer recess from Friday 24/12/21 until Friday 21/01/22 inclusive. Our first exhibition for 2022 is a solo show of Gunter Christmann's early 1980s rubbish paintings opening Saturday 22/01/22. We look forward to presenting a group exhibition of works by Gunter Christmann, Patrick Hartigan, Yasmin Smith and Amanda Williams at Melbourne Art Fair (Booth E2) at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 17/02/22 - 20/02/22.
» 16/12/2021: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting a new wall-based ceramic installation in Rethinking Nature at Museo Madre, Naples (IT) curated by Kathryn Weir and Ilaria Marion. Smith’s work, Terra Dei Fuochi, focusses on a symbiotic earth-healing relationship between humans and plants. The work is named after a region of Campania in Southern Italy, between the North of Napoli and the South of Caserta, known to have been heavily polluted through the mismanagement of urban waste disposal and an illegal Camorra-led waste disposal enterprise, beginning in the 1980s. The name Terra Dei Fuochi describes the fires and plumes of black smoke that were commonly seen in agricultural fields and along roadsides where waste was illegally burnt and buried. Smith conceived the project establishing a collaboration with a Professor of Agronomy, Massimo Fagnano from the University of Napoli, who provided Smith with 500kg of poplar wood and leaves from an experimental phytoremediation plantation, an open-air laboratory called San Giuseppiello. This land was seized by the government in 2008 and the process of phytoremediation began in 2015 with the planting of 20,000 poplar trees. Labour source is an ongoing concern in Smith’s work. Due to covid travel restrictions stopping Smith from going to Italy, Terra Dei Fuochi was executed by local ceramicist, Angelica Tulimiero, to Smith’s instructions. Smith exhibited a related work in Sustaining Assembly - Pratiche artistic per una transizione ecologica dal basso’ at PAV, Turin, earlier this year. exhibition dates: 17/12/21 – 02/05/21
» 13/12/2021: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Archie Moore are exhibiting in 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, a large-scale project of Australian and Korean artists curated by Artspace Sydney and the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), opening at SeMA 14/12/21. "UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA commemorates the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and South Korea, amplifying artistic practice representing contemporary issues vital to Australia and invites audiences to examine privilege, dominance and power from several perspectives. The project unpacks the complexities of national histories and the present moment through self-presentation and multiple forms of knowledge and resistance that challenge the standard representations of Australia." Gothe-Snape is presenting a revised version of her performance work, Lion's Honey, while Moore is exhibiting the fourteen original Queensland designs from his larger 2017 United Neytions flag installation. Seoul Museum of Art, Korea. Exhibition dates 14/12/21 - 06/03/22.
» 01/12/2021: It is a pleasure to announce that the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia has made a major acquisition of Amanda Williams’ silver gelatin mural hand prints, purchasing four works from her 2020 Alpine Bogs and Associated Fens series.
» 27/11/2021: Anna Kristensen's exhibition Sets opens today and continues regular gallery hours (Thursday - Saturday, 11 - 4 and by appointment) until 23/12/21 with special hours final week: Tuesday 21/12/21 - Thursday 23/12/21.
» 18/11/2021: Yasmin Smith's ambitious ceramic installation, Open Vase Central Leader Widow Maker, acquired by Shepparton Art Museum in 2017, is on exhibition as part of Flow: Stories of River, Earth and Sky in the SAM Collection to coincide with the reopening of the new SAM from 20/11/21.
» 15/11/2021: An indepth profile on Lillian O'Neil by James Mcardle on the occasion of O'Neil being awarded the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize. On this date in photography website link.
» 12/11/2021: Congratulations to Lillian O’Neil, announced last night as the winner of the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. The $30,000 acquisitive prize was awarded by judges Del Kathryn Barton (artist), Anouska Phizacklea (Director Monash Gallery of Art) and Karen Quinlan AM (Director National Portrait Gallery, Canberra). O’Neil’s analogue collage, Drawing to a close, was selected from over 730 entries and 52 shortlisted works. The Bowness Prize exhibition continues at Monash Gallery of Art until 05/12/21.
» 18/10/2021: Yasmin Smith’s Salt Harvesting Vessels, a component from her vast ceramic installation, Drowned River Valley (2017-2018), produced for the 21st Biennale of Sydney, curated by Mami Kataoka, is currently on display at the Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, as part of Clay Dynasty: 50 Years of Australian Studio Ceramics. Drowned River Valley is a site-specific process-based exploration of the presence of salt in the waters around Cockatoo Island and in the Parramatta River and the role that salt plays in the river’s ecology and in human-based socio-economic systems historically along the river. The huge volume of material components of Drowned River Valley was collected and processed by Smith over the course of 2017-2018 and continued during the months of the Biennale on Cockatoo Island. There, hundreds of salt-glazed salt-harvesting vessels made from clay that Smith produced from the pulverised sandstone waste from the nearby Barangaroo headland excavation, were produced and fired on site in a purpose-built salt kiln. As part of the work’s process, Smith invited visitors to the Island during the Biennale to contribute their labour to the project by hand modelling small salt harvesting cups. The salt needed for the salt kiln firing process for the cups came from thousands of litres of Sydney Harbour water which Smith evaporated both by months-long solar evaporation off-site and a more accelerated evaporation process over steel grid furnaces onsite during the course of the Biennale exhibition. Clay Dynasty at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney continues until 29/01/23.
» 15/10/2021: It is a pleasure to announce that Xerox Meadow by Diena Georgetti from her exhibition Civil Dawn has been acquired by The Blackstone Group Collection, New York.
» 11/10/2021: The Commercial will recommence regular gallery hours from Thursday 14/10/21. Our current exhibition, Philip Gudthaykudthay - The Pussycat and the Kangaroo, curated by Djon Mundine OAM, continues until 06/11/21.
» 07/10/2021: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith selected for the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Smith will be exhibiting her 2018 installation, Flooded Rose Red Basin, made in Chengdu, China and exhibited in Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence in Chengdu (presented by Centre Pompidou and the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation). We are thrilled also to announce that the entire Flooded Rose Red Basin ceramic installation has been acquired for the QAG|GOMA collection. APT10 exhibition dates: 04/12/21 – 28/04/22.
» 02/10/2021: In light of current NSW Health regulations, the Philip Gudthaykudthay - The Pussycat and the Kangaroo exhibition, curated by Djon Mundine OAM will be online from today 02/10/21 and then open usual gallery hours once possible from Thursday 14/10/21 continuing until Saturday 06/11/21.
» 01/10/2021: In light of the cancellation of the physical art fair at Carriageworks, The Commercial will be participating in Explore Sydney Contemporary with a group show of new paintings by Mitch Cairns, Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae. The online event takes place 11/11/21 - 21/11/21. During this time, we will install our presentation intended for the art fair at the gallery in Marrickville. Contact the gallery via this link to receive a preview of artworks.
» 27/09/2021: Between 1979 and 1995, Bandjalung curator, writer, artist and activist, Djon Mundine OAM, worked as resident art advisor on the island of Milingimbi and then at the newly-formed Bula’bula Arts centre in Ramingining, Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. During his sixteen years living at Milingimbi and Ramingining, Mundine developed close connections with Yolgnu artists. One of these artists was Liyagalawumirr painter Philip Gudthaykudthay (pronounced ‘g’day, g’day’). Gudthaykudthay is also known by the nickname, ‘Pussycat’. Pussycat, born around 1935 or possibly some years earlier, is the senior living artist from Ramingining and one of the senior artists from the larger Central Arnhem Land area. Pussycat’s mother’s country is Ramingining. He paints both his mother’s and his father’s country. Philip Gudthaykudthay – The Pussycat and the Kangaroo is an exhibition curated by Djon Mundine of 23 paintings on canvas by Gudthaykudthay ranging in dates from 2005 to 2019. The exhibition is presented in association with Bula’bula Arts Aboriginal Corporation, Ramingining.
» 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.
» 18/09/2021: Jude Rae is presenting an online talk for the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of their public program, The Artist Speaks 2021. Rae is a current finalist in the Archibald Prize 2021 and the Sulman Prize 2021 with her works Inside out (highly commended) and On the beach (Malua Bay, NYE 2019), respectively. She was an Archibald finalist in 2014 and 2019, when she was highly commended for her portrait of actor Sarah Pierse. Rae was a subject for her father, David Rae’s Archibald entry in 1983. Bookings essential via AGNSW website at this link. Wednesday 22/09/21, 12.30-1.30pm
» 15/09/2021: Mitch Cairns has been announced as one of 25 artists invited to participate in the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State at the Art Gallery of South Australia curated by Sebastian Goldspink. The Adelaide Biennial is the longest-running curated survey of contemporary Australian art. Exhibition dates 04/03/22 - 05/06/22.
» 01/09/2021: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 11/11/21 - 14/11/21 (revised dates). We are presenting an exhibition of figurative painting by Mitch Cairns, Nigel Milsom and Jude Rae. Concurrent with the art fair at nearby Carriageworks will be a solo exhibition at The Commercial by New York-based Anna Kristensen. Click here to receive advance preview of works for Sydney Contemporary and Anna Kristensen's exhibition.
» 10/08/2021: Geelong Gallery has commissioned Lillian O’Neil to create a new large scale collage for its foyer wall. Evening (2021) will be on display 10/08/21 - 17/10/21. The project has been supported through Creative Victoria’s COVID-19 Strategic Investment Fund.
» 29/07/2021: Congratulations to Lillian O'Neil for being shortlisted for the 2021 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art with her collage, Drawing to a close (2020). The $30,000 prize is in its 16th year. exhibition dates 09/09/21 - 07/11/21 in gallery and online. The judging panel this year is comprised of artist, Del Kathryn Barton, Director of National Portrait Gallery, Karen Quinlan, and MGA Director, Anouska Phizacklea.
» 09/07/2021: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting in the group exhibition This is a Poem, curated by Melissa Keys, at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne. "Bringing contemporary art and poetry into dialogue, This is a poem is a multi-disciplinary project encompassing new commissions in a diverse mix of media and forms, live performances, a publication and an exhibition. The project draws notable artists and poets into creative discourse." Mitch Cairns was invited to create a visual identity for the exhibition (in the form of a series of A4 Letraset collages) and has created a new text work in response to a work of art by Peter Tyndall in the Buxton collection. exhibition 09/07/21 - 14/11/21
» 01/07/2021: Diena Georgetti's solo exhibition, Civil Dawn, scheduled to open 03/07/21 will not be open for physical viewing until current NSW Government health restrictions change. Please check The Commercial website for updates and contact the gallery by email or phone for further information. Full documentation of the exhibition will be published on the website as usual from opening date.
» 12/06/2021: Nigel Milsom features in today's The Saturday Paper in an article by Tony Magnusson covering Shadow Boxer at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
» 04/06/2021: Nigel Milsom has a large group of paintings included in the group exhibition, Shadow Boxer, at Maitland Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition highlights the "cultural fascination and showcase the work of contemporary Australian artists who explore ideas of race, gender and class and the sheer physicality of Boxing in their work." Artists include Karla Dickens, Blak Douglas, Richard Lewer, Michael Willson, Nigel Milsom, Keri Glastonbury, Fiona McMonagle, Bianca 'Bam Bam' Elmir, David Matthews. Exhibition dates: 08/06/21 - 08/08/21.
» 03/06/2021: As part of her contribution to The National: New Australian Art, Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a talk, Rogue monologue, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday 19/06/21 at 2pm about her work, Every Act of Reading Performs the Work, exhibited at Carriageworks and produced with Andrew Burrell. "Agatha Gothe-Snape with Andrew Burrell’s contribution to The National 2021 is a single work comprising three parts: an immersive virtual environment of text fragments, created and engineered by the artists over the past four years; a performance monologue streamed live directly from this virtual space that appears at Carriageworks multiple times throughout their exhibition run; and this single inverted monologue performed by Gothe-Snape once only, at the Art Gallery of NSW. The scheduling of Rogue monologue coincides with the closure of The National 2021 at Carriageworks." Bookings essential through AGNSW website. Link here.
» 02/06/2021: Interview with Diena Georgetti by Nick Miller in The Age over her being awarded the 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize.
» 01/06/2021: Congratulations to Diena Georgetti announced last night as the winner of the 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The $30,000 acquisitive award was given for her 2020 painting, AMPERSAND. "The selection panel included eminent art historians and curators, Jenepher Duncan and Grazia Gunn and Geelong Gallery Director & CEO, Jason Smith, who were drawn to AMPERSAND for its conceptual poise and eloquent formal composition." Georgetti was one of 28 finalists chosen from over 600 entries. In Geelong Gallery’s 125th anniversary year, the 2021 iteration of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize is the latest in a series of acquisitive painting prizes that have been staged since 1938. Georgetti was awarded the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize in 2017 and the Sunshine Coast Art Prize in 2019, all acquisitive prizes.
» 27/05/2021: Congratulations to Jude Rae shortlisted for both the Archibald and Sulman prizes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. For the 100th year anniversary of the Archibald, a prize for which her father David Rae was also a finalist, Rae has included a self-portrait. Her Sulman entry is a large-scale history painting based on a photograph posted on Instagram by Alex Coppel of the 1999/2000 New Year’s Eve fires at Malua Bay on the South Coast of New South Wales. The Archibald and Sulman prizes are announced 04/06/21.
» 25/05/2021: The National Gallery of Australia today announced the artist list for the second chapter of its landmark exhibition, Know My Name. Included are major works by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Diena Georgetti and Jude Rae from the permanent collection. Know My Name is "the National Gallery's ongoing gender equity initiative, is a celebration and a commitment to women artists - intending to recast a male-dominated art history and reimagine a more inclusive future at the Gallery and beyond." exhibition dates: 12/06/21 - 26/01/22
» 01/05/2021: A feature article on Oscar Perry's recent solo exhibition at The Commercial, HIGH MIDDLE AGES, written by Steve Cox is in the latest issue of Vault Australasian Art and Culture. "Oscar Perry's latest exhibition is a kaleidoscope of historical reference and cultural allusion rendered in bold gesture across paintings and sculptures that, together with the works' evocative titles, weave connective threads across time and space." Issue 34, May - July 2021, pp78-82
» 30/04/2021: The Commercial looks forward to Stephen Ralph's forthcoming solo exhibition with the gallery. 'Stephen Ralph: Life is long' brings together for the first time three major new carved marble sculptures by the Sydney-based artist. The exhibition will be the culmination of the series Ralph began in 2018 with his work, 'Stardust', with a second work presented at Sydney Contemporary in 2019. Stephen Ralph: Life is long, at The Commercial, Sydney, 22/05/21 - 20/06/21.
» 13/04/2021: Congratulations to Diena Georgetti announced today as one of 28 finalists in the $30,000 acquisitive Geelong Contemporary Art Prize with her painting AMPERSAND (2020). The selection panel included eminent art historians and curators, Jenepher Duncan and Grazia Gunn together with Geelong Gallery Director & CEO, Jason Smith. Other finalists include Julia Gorman, Helga Groves, Rose Nolan, Stieg Persson, Jenny Watson and Louise Weaver. exhibition: Geelong Gallery 28/05/21 - 22/08/21
» 12/04/2021: Bonita Bub and Anna Kristensen are participating in the group exhibition Out of Place at Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra, curated by Oscar Carpezio. Bub is exhibiting two major sculptural works, two paintings by Anna Kristensen have been lent by private collections. "Reflecting on our increasingly precarious notions of place and belonging, this exhibition examines ways in which contemporary artworks embody, transpose and reconfigure a sense of locality in a globalised world." Artists in the exhibition include Hany Armanious, Boyle Family, Bonita Bub, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Fiona Connor, Thomas Demand, Dale Harding, Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, Anna Kristensen and Jasper Jordan-Lang. exhibition 17/04/21 - 13/06/21. Documentation now on The Commercial website.
» 31/03/2021: Yasmin Smith's major new ceramic installation, Terroir, is now on exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall. Terroir is the result of Smith working directly with grape vines and viniculturists on the TarraWarra Estate. Images of Yasmin Smith's Terroir are now on The Commercial website. exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art 26/03/21 - 11/07/21.
» 26/03/2021: A large presentation of Agatha Gothe-Snape's Every Artist Remembered drawings are being exhibited at City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, in the group exhibition Every Artist. "Art history is too important to be left to art historians. Every Artist is an exhibition of local, national, and international artists who rethink, remap, queer, and even gamify the history of art—often by subverting the tools of art history (maps, charts, diagrams, books, the biopic). This is art history as fodder for art making, not the other way round." Artists include Isiaha Barlow (NZ), The Cool Couple (ITA), Matthew Couper (NZ/US), Agatha Gothe-Snape (AUS), Julia Holden (NZ), Emily Karaka (NZ), Tracey Moffatt (AUS), Kent Monkman (CAN), Ella Sutherland (NZ), Hank Willis Thomas (US), and Johnson Witehira (NZ). Hundreds of others are listed, pictured, invoked, collaborated with, played, or performed. exhibtion: 27/04/21 - 25/07/21.
» 25/03/2021: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting two recently-fired ceramic branch bundles from her seminal 2015 Ntaria Fence glaze project in the group exhibition On Earth at QUT Art Museum in Brisbane. Curated by Sarah Werkmeister, "On Earth traces conceptions of landscape and the environment as it is expressed and represented through the poetic devices of art." Artists include Robert Andrew, Ray Beattie, Ian Burn, Michael Cook, Dean Cross, Nici Cumpston, Bonita Ely, Emma Fielden, Greg Forsyth, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Kinly Grey, Dale Harding, Isaac Walter Jenner, Jillian Namatjira, Claude Pannka, Toni Robertson, Joe Rootsey, Kate Shaw, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Yasmin Smith, Warraba Weatherall, Keemon Williams, Women’s Domestic Needlework Group and two historical works by artists once known. exhibition 27/03/21 - 06/06/21
» 22/03/2021: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting major new work in the biennial exhibition The National 2021: New Australian Art at Carriageworks, Sydney, curated by Abigail Moncrief. exhibition 26/03/21 – 20/06/21.
» 22/03/2021: The culmination of a six-year project, Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting major new work in the biennial exhibition The National 2021: New Australian Art at Carriageworks, Sydney, curated by Abigail Moncrief. Gothe-Snape is the only artist invited to exhibit in the three iterations of The National (2017, 2019 and 2021). exhibition 26/03/21 – 20/06/21.
» 15/03/2021: After its recent exhibition at UNSW Galleries as part of The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W.E.B. Du Bois curated by José Da Silva, Archie Moore’s monumental Family Tree was installed this week at The Commercial so that we could photograph it on the walls and under the natural light at Jabez Street between exhibitions. Family Tree will be open for viewing for one day only, this Saturday 20/03/21, 11 - 4.
» 10/03/2021: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia has included Yasmin Smith's recently acquired ceramic installation, Seine River Basin, commissioned in 2019 by Centre Pompidou (Paris), in the new collection exhibition, MCA Collection: Perspectives on place. Seine River Basin will be on view at the MCA until 04/09/22.
» 25/02/2021: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti's four-part painting SUPERSTUDIO (2015 - 2017), has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
» 18/02/2021: Lillian O'Neil and Amanda Williams have been commissioned to make outdoor works for PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography: The Truth, 2021, Melbourne. The festival commences 18/02/21 (postponed from 2020 due to covid interruptions). O'Neil's work is located in University Square, Parkville Station precinct (corner Grattan and Leicester Streets, Carlton). Williams' work is located at Royal Botanic Gardens, Anzac Station precinct (near intersection of Albert and Domain Roads).
» 01/02/2021: Yasmin Smith was commissioned to make a new work for the group exhibition Tree Story at Monash University Museum of Art. Tree Story, curated by Charlotte Day with Dr Brian Martin, Associate Dean, Indigenous, Monash Art Design & Architecture, "brings together creative practices from around the world to create a ‘forest’ of ideas relating to critical environmental and sustainability issues. At its foundation—or roots—are Indigenous ways of knowing and a recognition of trees as our ancestors and family." Artists include Brook Garru Andrew (AU), Yto Barrada (FR/MA), Berdaguer & Péjus (FR), Joseph Beuys (DE), Tania Bruguera (CU), Hayley Panangka Coulthard (AU), Nici Cumpston (AU), Agnes Denes (HU/US), Yanni Florence (AU), Ceal Floyer (UK), Henrik Håkansson (SE/DE), Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (PS/IT), Beth Mbitjana Inkamala (AU), Judith Pungarta Inkamala (AU), Tim Johnson (AU), Reena Saini Kallat (IN), Peter Kennedy (AU), Olga Kisseleva (RU/FR), Janet Laurence (AU), MAIX Reserved Forest (MY), Brian Martin (AU), Kent Morris (AU), Peter Mungkuri OAM (AU), Uriel Orlow (CH/UK), Jill Orr (AU), Katie Paterson (UK), Ed Ruscha (US), Yasmin Smith (AU), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (BR/ES) and Stelarc (AU). exhibition 06/02/21 - 10/04/21.
» 11/01/2021: Archie Moore is presenting three major new and recent works in The Colour Line: Archie Moore and W.E.B. Du Bois at UNSW Galleries. The exhibition, curated by José Da Silva, brings Moore's works into dialogue with infographics by African American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963). Moore reflects on ideas of empirical evidence from the perspective of Indigenous Australia. Moore's new commission, Graph of Perennial Disadvantage 2020, begins by revisiting The Australian Constitution of 1901 that stated that Aboriginal people were to be no part of statistical information. Alongside this new work, Moore will recreate and update his Family Tree 2018 wall drawing, a sprawling chalkboard style genealogy that complicates historical diagrams drawn up by anthropologists. For the American section of the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, Du Bois led the creation of over 60 hand-drawn charts, maps and infographics, visualising data on the economic and social progress of African Americans since Emancipation. These extraordinary examples of 19th-century data visualisation are at once a social study of populations in Georgia and throughout the United States and a pioneering model of reimagining data as a form of resistance and protest. Presented in association with Sydney Festival and with the support of the UNSW Galleries Commissioners Circle. exhibition dates 16/02/21 - 06/03/21.
» 01/01/2021: SUMMER RECESS: The Commercial is open by appointment only throughout January 2021. Please contact us via this link to make an appointment.
» 09/12/2020: Amanda Williams is exhibiting a new series of photographs as part of the group exhibition, Archie Plus, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Williams' work, curated by Isobel Parker Philip, is located in the European Old Master painting and sculpture courts, James Fairfax Galleries. A departure from her more familiar mural-scaled landscape photographs of recent years, Williams' new work, 'Or your shadow, rising to meet you', is a series of abstracted portraits of the artist's daughter. exhibition until 01/03/21.
» 27/11/2020: To mark the culmination of a twelve-month mentoring program with a local emerging artist, Nigel Milsom is participating in the exhibition Locus Focus at Newcastle Art Space. exhibition 26/11/20 - 13/12/20.
» 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.
» 20/11/2020: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith, announced this week as an exhibiting artist in the TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall. The exhibition will feature 24 Australian artists making new works that explore ideas of slowness, deceleration, drift and the elasticity of time. Smith is developing a new ceramic installation for the exhibition. 27/03/21 – 11/07/21
» 16/11/2020: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns and Agatha Gothe-Snape announced yesterday as exhibiting artists in The National 2021: New Australian Art, the third iteration of the biennial event presented across the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Carriageworks. Opening 26/03/21.
» 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.
» 30/10/2020: Archie Moore is exhibiting a new site-specific window-based work, Unholy Trinity (Colonialism, Christianity and Capitalism), at Murray Art Museum Albury as part of the exhibition 20:20. 20:20 brings together twenty contemporary Australian aritsts, commissioned by MAMA at the beginning of the pandemic to create work for this major Summer exhibition, curated by Michael Moran. Archie Moore: “I see Colonialism, Christianity and Capitalism as arms of the same beast that changed the lives of Aboriginal peoples forever. This beast also brought with it: contagions, confinement, ”civilisation", the Crown, chauvinism and conflict.” See MAMA website for extended artist statement. Exhibition until 31/01/2.
» 17/10/2020: LIVE WEBINAR Tuesday 20/10/20 8pm AEST: Agatha Gothe-Snape is in conversation with fellow artists Amrita Hepi and Latai Taumoepeau as part of Monash University Museum of Art's 3-part Precarious Movements: Conversations series, moderated by curator, Hannah Mathews. Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum is a research project led by a group of independent artists, curators, conservators, and academics affiliated with UNSW, AGNSW, MUMA, NGV and Tate. Three artists—each working with choreography in distinct ways and regularly invited to work within the space of the gallery—share their experiences of presenting work of a choreographic nature within the white cube. Register for Zoom access via this link.
» 05/10/2020: Bonita Bub is exhibiting a major new outdoor sculpture in contour 556, Canberra's biennial public art festival, curated by Neil Hobbs. Bub's work, Scissor Lift, a 5 metre high sculpture in polished stainless steel, is located at 16 Marcus Clark Street, Canberra. exhibition: 09/10/20 - 31/10/20.
» 01/10/2020: Huge congratulations to Yasmin Smith who tonight was awarded the $30,000 2020 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship for a mid-career/established artist for her ceramic installation Flooded Rose Red Basin. The award exhibition is at the newly-opened Sydney College of the Arts Gallery on the main campus of the University of Sydney. Exhibition details: SCA Gallery, The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship, 02/10/20 - 13/11/20, Monday - Friday, 11am-5pm, via appointment only: email: [email protected]
» 24/09/2020: Listen to Jude Rae interviewed by Maria Stoljar during her solo exhibition, 424 - 428, at The Commercial for Talking with Painters podcast.
» 21/09/2020: The Commercial is participating in Sydney Contemporary Presents with a solo presentation of works by Patrick Hartigan. Sydney Contemporary Presents is an online platform taking place 01/10/20 - 30/10/20. Register here.
» 24/08/2020: Congratulations to Patrick Hartigan shortlisted for the 2020 Mosman Art Prize with his painting, Roma (2020). The $50,000 acquisitive award was inaugurated in 1947 and this year will be judged by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney. Announced live on the Mosman Art Gallery's Facebook page at 7pm, Tuesday 25/08/20.
» 20/08/2020: Amanda Williams is shortlisted for the 2020 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art. The $30,000 prize is in its 15th year. exhibition dates 30/10/20 - 17/02/21 in gallery and online. The judging panel this year is comprised of artist Fiona Hall, NGA Senior Curator of Photography, Dr Shaune Lakin, and MGA Director, Anouska Phizacklea.
» 13/08/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith’s Bundles of Ntaria branches 4 and 8, early examples of the artist’s site-derived glazes, have been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 12/08/2020: Mitch Cairns has been invited as a finalist in the 2020 The King’s School Art Prize. Maud Page, Deputy Director/Director of Collections at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is judging the annual prize in its 41st year. Announced 11/09/20.
» 01/08/2020: Interview with Jude Rae by Lucy Stranger for Artist Profile on the occasion of Rae's first solo exhibition at The Commercial.
» 22/07/2020: The Commercial is open by appointment only from 23/07/20 - 21/08/20 inclusive. During this time we are working on special projects and doing a minor renovation. We look forward to Jude Rae's solo exhibition at the gallery opening 22/08/20.
» 19/07/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith’s major ceramic installation, Seine River Basin, exhibited in 2019 at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in Cosmopolis #2 - Rethinking the Human, curated by Kathryn Weir, has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
» 09/07/2020: Archie Moore has been "self-isolating for months, working on an immersive, interactive, multi-media installation about the home and memory". Archie Moore - HouseShow is "the third iteration of a recurring series that uses domestic interiors and objects (banal keepsakes, diaries, drawings, newspaper clippings, toys, old TV programs ...) to explore the artist's personal and transgenerational memory. It follows on from Dwelling at Accidentally Annie Street, Brisbane (2010) and Archie Moore 1970-2018 at Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane (2018)." Archie Moore - HouseShow will be open for three weeks from 11/07/20 - 01/08/20 at The Cottage, a temporary location at 272 Montague Road, West End, Brisbane. Wednesday - Saturday, 10 - 3 or by appointment. Full documentation of Archie Moore - HouseShow is on The Commercial website at this link. Please note that entry to Archie Moore - HouseShow is via the back door and is at the viewer's own risk.
» 08/07/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O’Neil’s Compound Falls (2019) has been acquired by the Sir Elton John Collection.
» 01/07/2020: Kaldor Public Art Projects have released Agatha Gothe-Snape's Lion's Honey: A Reader, as the culmination of Gothe-Snape's "durational performance commissioned for the exhibition Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Public Art Projects at the Art Gallery of NSW. From 7 September 2019 to 16 February 2020, Gothe-Snape and a roster of readers occupied the space of the exhibition, reading to themselves each day while curious visitors looked on. Lion’s Honey: A Reader documents the performance from the perspective of the artist and readers, beginning with a list of every book read throughout the performance. The publication includes a poem by Anne-Marie Te Whiu, an essay by Stella Maynard and a personal reflection by Agatha Gothe-Snape. Lion’s Honey: A Reader is a downloadable pdf, designed to be read on a screen or printed out double-sided on A3 paper."
» 10/06/2020: Out of concern for public safety, The Commercial will be closed Saturday 13/06/20 due to a major tree branch trimming operation taking place in the carpark at 4 Jabez Street. Patrick Hartigan's solo exhibition, The Ground, will commence Saturday 20/06/20.
» 01/06/2020: Bonita Bub, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jude Rae will be live in conversation online on Zoom as part of Melbourne Art Fair, Saturday 06/06/20 at 12.30pm. The talk is around the presentation of the three artists' work in The Commercial's Melbourne Art Fair viewing room, hosted by Ocula. VIP Preview 01-02/06/20. Public dates 03-07/06/20. Register here.
» 30/05/2020: 'Portraits of the artists in isolation' - Yasmin Smith in today's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
» 22/05/2020: The Commercial is looking forward to presenting an online viewing room for Melbourne Art Fair from 1-7 June 2020, hosted by ocula.com, with works by Bonita Bub, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Jude Rae. The presentation on Ocula is taking place in lieu of the physical fair which has been postponed until 4-7 February 2021. Follow this link to register for early VIP access for the first two days of the online fair and contact us by email to receive an advance preview of works.
» 18/05/2020: The Commercial will be open 11am - 4pm for the final two Saturdays of our current group exhibition, The Humanity. The exhibition presents two new works each by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and two late works by Gunter Christmann. Saturdays 23/05/20 and 30/05/20.
» 14/05/2020: Jude Rae was invited by the Colin McCahon House project to contribute a piece of writing on the New Zealand artist's work. Rae unravels the impact on her own practice of encounters with McCahon's work at formative moments of her career, specifically his 1970 painting, Victory over death 2, a gift from the New Zealand Government to the Australian national collection in 1978. The text is published on the Colin McCahon House website.
» 05/05/2020: Join the National Gallery of Victoria's Curator, Contemporary Art, Pip Wallis, for a live 20-minute interview on the NGV's Instagram with Agatha Gothe-Snape about her works in the NGV collection. 6pm AEST, Wednesday 06/05/20.
» 01/05/2020: Patrick Hartigan is participating in a live online interview with Sebastian Goldspink for the National Art School's Art Forum series. Follow this link to join live by Zoom AEST 12.30-1.30pm, Thursday 06/05/20.
» 30/04/2020: Monash University Museum of Art have published an online sound encounter with Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo survey exhibition The Outcome is Certain on Soundcloud. Join the artist via this link for an unrehearsed 30-minute talkthrough of her exhibition as she traces with her voice a path through her works as installed in the Museum's spaces. Visual documentation of the exhibition is on The Commercial website here.
» 28/04/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Mitch Cairns’ Self-portrait as a Lemon Tree, exhibited in his recent solo exhibition Waylaid S T O O P at The Commercial, has been acquired by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. It is the second work by Cairns in the MUMA collection which is also home to his 2017 Archibald Prize-winning portrait of fellow artist, Agatha Gothe-Snape.
» 22/04/2020: As part of the program for The Humanity, a group exhibition with new work by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and late work by Gunter Christmann, Oscar Perry will be presenting a music set on The Commercial’s Instagram, from 3pm AEST Saturday 25/04/20. We hope you can join us. The artists in the exhibition will be taking over The Commercial’s Instagram each week of the exhibition: Oscar Perry: 29/04/20 - 02/05/20; Patrick Hartigan: 06/05/20 - 09/05/20; Yasmin Smith: 13/05/20 - 16/05/20; Jude Rae: 20/05/20 - 23/05/20; Diena Georgetti: 27/05/20 - 30/05/20.
» 17/04/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Anna Kristensen’s 2014 painting, Desert Window, exhibited last year in the group exhibition Certain Realities, has been acquired by Murray Art Museum Albury.
» 27/03/2020: Coinciding with his brilliant solo exhibition, Waylaid S T O O P, The Commercial has invited Mitch Cairns to takeover the gallery's Instagram and Facebook posts for the next week 28/03/20 - 03/04/20.
» 25/03/2020: In the best interests of the community, in order to minimise circulation and contact, from today The Commercial will be open online only. We continue to be fully operational for email and phone communication. We also intend to continue our 2020 exhibition program as much as possible as planned going forward with full content online as usual. We regret that it will not be possible to visit us at Jabez Street until further notice. We hope you enjoy viewing Mitch Cairns' stunning exhibition, Waylaid S T O O P, on our website at this link. Please stay safe and well, love The Commercial.
» 18/03/2020: The Commercial is deeply concerned about the seriousness of the Covid-19 situation and is tailoring all gallery activities and processes to minimise risk. We will however be at the gallery during regular visting hours (Wednesday-Friday 12-5, Saturday 11-5). To make a contactless visit to the gallery, please call us when you are at the front door (02 8096 3292) rather than ringing doorbell, and we will let you in. Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition, Waylaid S T O O P, will be on view until 09/04/20, or experience the exhibition online on The Commercial website (at this link). We are responding to emails, phonecalls and Instagram/Facebook messages as usual. Please contact us if you would like to receive details of available works.
» 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.
» 04/03/2020: BOOK LAUNCH: Sydney launch of Agatha Gothe-Snape – The Outcome Is Certain, Perimeter Editions co-published with the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Join Agatha Gothe-Snape, designer Ella Sutherland and special guests, with talks beginning at 7pm. Tuesday March 10, 5.30-8pm, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh, NSW. Agatha Gothe-Snape – The Outcome Is Certain is available for purchase from The Commercial - $50 book + $20 express post (within Australia).
» 29/02/2020: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's survey exhibition, The Outcome is Certain, at Monash University Museum of Art, by Anador Walsh in The Saturday Paper.
» 27/02/2020: Review of Amanda Williams' exhibition, Alpine Bogs and Associated Fens at The Commercial, by Benjamin Clay on Un Projects.
» 26/02/2020: The Commercial will be open regular hours throughout Biennale of Sydney preview week - 11/03/20 - 14/03/20. Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition, Waylaid S T O O P, will be on in the main gallery as well as practice practice practice, a Hallway Project show by Anna Peters.
» 21/02/2020: Lillian O'Neil will be exhibiting a major new work at the National Gallery of Australia as part of the exhibition, The Body Electric opening next month. "The Body Electric draws together both photo-based and video work made by female-identifying artists on the subject of sex, pleasure and desire." Artists include: Polly Borland (USA/Aus), Lynda Benglis (US), Pat Brassington (Aus), Nan Goldin (USA), Claire Lambe (Aus), Annette Messager (France), Tracey Moffatt (Aus), Momo Okabe (Japan), Lillian O’Neil (Aus), Fiona Pardington (NZ), Carolee Schneemann (USA), Collier Schorr (USA), and Cindy Sherman (USA). Exhibition: 28/03/20 - 20/09/20.
» 13/02/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti’s FORT, recently exhibited in Conscious Intuition at Margaret Lawrence Art Gallery, Melbourne, been acquired by Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane.
» 11/02/2020: "We have come to bring you metaphors." Robert Nelson reviews Agatha Gothe-Snape’s survey exhibition, The Outcome is Certain in today’s The Age. “There are many conundrums devised by this cerebral artist but the paradoxes are evocative.” Exhibition until 09/04/20
» 06/02/2020: Jude Rae has donated a painting to HOME, a Bushfire Relief Art Auction Fundraiser at the National Art School Gallery on Wednesday 12 February 7pm-10pm, organised by Sydney Contemporary. All proceeds go to WWF Australia, Climate Council and Firesticks Alliance.
» 27/01/2020: Monash University Museum of Art is presenting a solo survey exhibition of the work of Agatha Gothe-Snape, The Outcome is Certain, curated by Senior Curator, Hannah Mathews. The Outcome Is Certain brings together key works from Gothe-Snape’s oeuvre from 2008 to the present borrowed from public and private collections. Alongside performance, wall drawings, PowerPoint presentations, sculpture, works on paper and collaborations with her close circle of artist-peers, the exhibition will feature two major new artworks, with one drawing on Gothe-Snape’s recent experimentation with virtual and augmented participatory environments. The exhibition opens Saturday 08/02/20, 3-5pm. Exhibition dates: 08/02/20 - 09/04/20.
» 13/12/2019: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is representing Jude Rae (b. 1956, Sydney; l. Sydney) and to warmly welcome her to the gallery. Rae’s observational painting practice is analytic of objects, space and light. She works within the genres of still life and large-scale interiors and the conceptual and perceptual propositions they offer as within a laboratory, subtly manipulating the variables of composition and the desires of media - oil paint on textured linen, charcoal, watercolour and etchings on paper – for palpable effects. She chooses objects emptied of sentimentality and familiarity and places them under “inquisitorial” (Rae) light. Economies of composition are narrowed to formal elements, sensitising and slowing the activity of looking via nuanced constructions and interpretations of light and affecting tonal relationships. Rae’s practice conflates the traditions of Netherlandish 17th Century painting, early French modernists’ ventures in subjective (imaginative) vision with late 20th Century philosophies of abstraction and speed. For four decades, Jude Rae has presented regular solo exhibitions in Australia and New Zealand, her movement between the two countries has resulted in firmly-rooted artistic citizenship of both. In 2017, a large-scale survey exhibition of Rae’s work, Jude Rae: A Space of Measured Light, was presented by the Drill Hall Gallery at the Australian National University, Canberra, curated by Terence Maloon. Rae has been the recipient of major painting prizes including the 2016 Bulgari Art Award at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Portia Geach Memorial Award 2008 and 2005. Rae’s work is held in many major public, university and corporate collections in Australia and New Zealand. Details of forthcoming exhibitions will be announced in the new year.
» 11/12/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Archie Moore are exhibiting in AUSTRALIA. ANTIPODEAN STORIES curated by Eugenio Viola at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan. The exhibition includes work by 32 artists and is the largest representation of contemporary Australian art presented to date in Italy. exhibition 16.12.19 - 09.02.20
» 04/12/2019: Lillian O’Neil and Amanda Williams announced as exhibiting artists in the inaugural PHOTO 2020 International Festival of Photography 23/04/20 - 10/05/20 taking place in multiple venues across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
» 25/11/2019: Congratulations to Lillian O'Neil one of twelve artists shortlisted for the National Photography Prize 2020. The $30,000 acquisitive prize exhibition at Murray Art Museum Albury opens 21/02/20, winner announced 01/05/20. The exhibition is part of PHOTO 2020, a new international festival of photography.
» 21/11/2019: Stephen Ralph is exhibiting in Rock, Paper, Scissors, a group show at The Delmar Gallery of the Trinity Grammar School. Opening: Saturday 23/11/19, 3-5pm. Exhibition: 24/11/19 – 8/12/19.
» 18/11/2019: Patrick Hartigan is in conversation with Justin Paton, Head Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of NSW, on the subject of Hartigan’s book, Offcuts, published by Gazebo Books. Wednesday 20/11/19, 7-8pm. Ariel Bookseller, 98 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst.
» 13/11/2019: Andrew Liversidge is exhibiting in a group exhibition of Gertrude Studios 2019 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The annual show presents new and recent works and projects produced within the 16 studios of the organisation. Opening: Friday 22/11/19, 6-8pm. Open Day: Saturday 30/11/19, 11am-3pm. Exhibition: 23/11/19 – 14/12/19.
» 09/11/2019: Archie Moore is presenting works in Portico, the inaugural exhibition of a new gallery in Melbourne, Conners Conners. Opening Thursday 21/11/19, 6:30 - 8:30 pm. Exhibition 21/11/19 – 21/12/19.
» 08/11/2019: Full video documentation, by Associate Curator Ilaria Marion, of Yasmin Smith's artist talk at Centre Pompidou, Paris, on 07/11/19 as part of the public programs for Cosmopolis #2. 50 minutes.
» 06/11/2019: An interview with Yasmin Smith on the Centre Pompidou's YouTube channel about her work, Seine River Basin, for Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human.
» 02/11/2019: Yasmin Smith is giving a one hour artist talk, Decolonialising Ecologies, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, as part of the public programs associated with the exhibition, Cosmopolis #2 - rethinking the human. Thursday 07/11/19, 6.30-800pm in the Cosmopolis exhibition.
» 01/11/2019: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in a group exhibition of Parramatta Artist Studios artists (Kalanjay Dhir, Rebecca Gallo, Yasmin Smith, Anthony Macris and Tom Polo) at the Ideas Platform at Artspace, Sydney. Opening Friday 15/11/19, 6-8pm. Exhibition 16/11/19 - 15/12/19. Smith will be presenting a reconfiguration of part of her ceramic installation produced in Chengdu, China last year for Cosmopolis #1.5 for the Centre Pompidou.
» 01/11/2019: Archie Moore's band, ∑gg√e|n, is performing at Murray Art Museum Albury on Friday 08/11/19 as part of the closing events for the exhibition, Certain Realities, curated by Michael Moran. 7-9pm
» 01/11/2019: Stephen Ralph is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Rock, Paper, Scissors, curated by Catherine Benz at Delmar Gallery, Sydney. Exhibition 15/11/19 - 10/12 19.
» 24/10/2019: Cosmopolis #2 - rethinking the human, curated by Kathryn Weir at Centre Pompidou, Paris is now open and continues until 23/12/19. Documentation of Yasmin Smith's major new ceramic installation, Seine River Basin, is now on The Commercial website.
» 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.
» 10/10/2019: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns on the opening tonight of his curatorial project, Primavera 2019: Young Australian Artists, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and congratulations to all the artists involved in the exhibition: Mitchel Cumming, Rosina Gunjarrwanga, Lucina Lane, Aodhan Madden, Kenan Namunjdja, Zoe Marni Robertson, Coen Young. Primavera is the MCA’s annual exhibition of young Australian artists aged 35 and under. Since 1992, the Primavera series has showcased the works of artists in the early stages of their career. Each year, a curator is invited to select artists from across Australia that they feel represent current trends and styles emerging in the next generation. Primavera 2019 is the 28th edition of the exhibition. It is the first time artist Mitch Cairns has been invited to curate an exhibition in a public institution. Primavera 2019 MCA exhibition dates: 11/10/19 - 09/02/20.
» 27/09/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape is featured in the current issue of Artlink magazine. In an interview with Eve Sullivan, Agatha Gothe-Snape discusses the Kaldor Public Art Projects Symposium on Art Education, UNSW Art & Design, 2018.
» 25/09/2019: Archie Moore is giving an artist talk at Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliff, as part of the exhibition 15 Artists. Join the artist and discover more about his work and practice. Saturday 11am-12pm 12/10/19.
» 18/09/2019: Amanda Williams was today announced as one of three selection panel members for the 2020 National Photography Prize at Murray Art Museum Albury. Williams was the winner of the $30,000 prize in 2018. Other panel members are Michael Moran, Curator MAMA, and Isobel Parker Philip, Curator of Photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
» 09/09/2019: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is now representing Amanda Williams. Following her debut at the gallery in the group exhibition, Peace Altitude, earlier this year, we will present three stunning, mural-scaled silver gelatin prints on our stand at Sydney Contemporary 12-15 September. Amanda’s first solo exhibition at The Commercial will be in February 2020. A very warm welcome, Amanda, to the gallery.
» 06/09/2019: Kaldor Public Art Projects have commissioned Agatha Gothe-Snape to make a new performance work, Lion's Honey, to be presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of KPAP's five-month long 50th Anniversary celebrations. "During the course of Making art public, a performer will occupy space within the exhibition to read. Starting with David Grossman’s Lion’s honey, a gift to the artist from John Kaldor, the performers will accumulate a collection of books which will be displayed in the gallery." Saturday 7 September 2019 – 16 February 2020, 11am–4pm, Art Gallery of NSW, Lower level 2.
» 04/09/2019: Patrick Hartigan is presenting a talk in Melbourne this Saturday as part of the WRITING&CONCEPTS program: PATRICK HARTIGAN presents "Shapes and Words". Exploring the ways in which short prose and books have guided and been guided by his studio work. Tracing around Offcuts - a recently published collection of short fiction and memoir. Some pictures and words about time spent in a village in eastern Slovakia. 3pm, Saturday 07/09/19 at Buxton Contemporary, Melbourne. Registration via Eventbrite - details on the WRITING & CONCEPTS website and Facebook page.
» 02/09/2019: The Commercial looks forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks 11-15 September. We are presenting a three-artist exhibition with new works by Archie Moore, Stephen Ralph and Amanda Williams in booth F06. The gallery will be open during regular hours (Wednesday-Friday 12-5, Saturday 11-5) throughout the fair. We look forward to welcoming interstate visitors who have not yet seen the new space in Marrickville. A solo exhbition, RADIO is RADIO, by Diena Georgetti will be on view. Please contact the gallery for a preview of works to be exhibited at Sydney Contemporary.
» 02/09/2019: Oscar Perry is in a group exhibition, Saltbox Catslide Roof, at Ve.Sch, Vienna. Artists include Julia Hohenwarter, Peter Höll, Anna Hostek, Oscar Perry, Zlatan Pintek and Aline Sofie Rainer. Exhibition: 07/09/19 - 21/09/19. Opening 07/09/19, 3-10pm.
» 31/08/2019: Andrew Liversidge is presenting PROOF OF WORK, a solo show at the Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne. The exhibition consists of five metal cubes of various scales produced by melting Australian one-dollar coins into a molten liquid that is then cast into cube-shaped moulds. Contemplating on the discourses of form, repetition, reduction, material continuity, clarity, and control, the works would spark a conversation about value itself and interrogate ideas of consensus, civil compliance, social contacts, subjectivity, instability, economics, free markets, systems of control, individual sovereign and the state. Opening: Thursday 05/09/19. Exhibition dates: 06/09/19 – 05/10/19.
» 30/08/2019: Huge congratulations to Diena Georgetti announced last night as winner of the 2019 Sunshine Coast Art Prize. The $25,000 acquisitive award was judged by Alison Kubler, editor of Vault Magazine and Member of the Council of the National Gallery of Australia. “This work is a reminder that painting can be a vital force. In terms of abstraction it describes the tension between objective painting and the expressive gesture. I love how it is both controlled and flamboyant, compartmentalised and loose, at once an homage to modernist art history and a declaration of the relevance of painting now. Diena Georgetti is undeniably one of our great female artists.” Alison Kubler. Georgetti’s 2018 painting TALISKA will join the Caloundra Regional Gallery collection. Supported by Sunshine Coast Council and Argon Law. Exhibition continues until 15/09/19.
» 29/08/2019: Archie Moore is exhibiting in 15 Artists at Redcliffe Art Gallery, an annual acquisitive art prize that celebrates the best of contemporary art practice by Australian artists. Archie Moore is giving an artist talk at 11am-12pm on Saturday 12 October. Opening: Saturday 07/09/19, 5:30pm. Exhibition continues until 16/11/19.
» 24/08/2019: Anna Kristensen and Archie Moore are presenting works in Certain realities, a group show at Murray Art Museum Albury. The exhibition of sculpture, painting, installation, and performances recognises artists as agents of social investigation and cultural articulation. On Saturday 31 August Archie Moore is giving an artist talk in conversation with artists Spence Messih, Brian Fuata, and Lizzie Thomson. The closing event features a live performance of Archie Moore fronted art rock band, ∑gg√e|n. Opening: Friday 30/08/19, 5:30-7:30pm. Closing: Friday 8/11/19, 5:30-6:30pm. Exhibition dates: 30/08/19 - 10/11/19.
» 24/08/2019: Diena Georgetti is exhibiting in New Women at the Museum of Brisbane. The exhibition reveals ‘the art, personal stories and enduring legacies of Brisbane’s most significant and ground-breaking women artists between 1920-2019 reflected in painting, photography, sculpture, performance and installation works on a scale never before seen.’ Exhibition dates: 13/09/19 – 15/03/20.
» 23/08/2019: Amanda Williams is exhibiting in Light matters, an exhibition of eight lens-based artists curated by Yvette Hamilton and Ellen Dahl, at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Exhibition 24/08/19 - 26/10/19.
» 22/08/2019: Diena Georgetti is presenting new paintings in a two-person show Conscious intuition – Diena Georgetti & Eugene Carchesio at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, curated by Dr David Sequeira. ‘Both highly influential artists make work that connects contemporary art, art history and human experience in profound ways. Often creating imagery within the formalist context of geometry and colour, intuition – the ability to understand something instinctively – plays a large part in each of their working processes.’ Opening: Thursday 05/09/19, 5:30pm. Exhibition: 06/09/19 - 05/10/19.
» 05/08/2019: On 29/06/19, Archie Moore presented an artist floortalk at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, as part public programs for the exhibition On Vulnerability and Doubt, curated by Max Delany. The podcast of that talk is now on ACCA's Soundcloud page (26:40 - 34:04).
» 05/08/2019: Lillian O'Neil and Amanda Williams are shortlisted for the 2019 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. The exhibition opens and the winners announced at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery on Friday 20/09/19, 6-8pm. Exhibition 21/09/19 - 17/11/19.
» 01/08/2019: Amanda Williams is one of five artists shortlisted for the 2019 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. The $28,000 Scholarship is announced Wednesday 02/10/19, 6-8pm. SCA Galleries. Exhibition 03/10/19 - 02/11/19.
» 31/07/2019: Interview with The Commercial Director Amanda Rowell in the July-October issue of Art Collector. Full text on Art Collector website.
» 26/07/2019: Anna Kristensen is undertaking a four-week Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Residency, commencing early August. Founded in 1984, the Vermont Studio Center is the largest international artists' and writers' residency program in the United States.
» 26/07/2019: Works by Archie Moore from the National Gallery of Australia permanent collection are on exhibition at Mildura Arts Centre as part of the regional tour of Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial. Mildura dates: 26/07/19 - 13/10/19.
» 22/07/2019: Tim Schultz is exhibiting in The Abyss at Griffith University Art Museum, curated by Naomi Evans. "The Abyss explores art that contends with the push and pull of seduction and repulsion. The artists in this exhibition employ strategies to generate schisms in the psyche: those moments where understanding is stalled, language fails, chimeras are registered, and norms are discarded." Opening Saturday 27/07/19, 3pm. Exhibition 27/07/19 - 28/09/19.
» 19/07/2019: Yasmin Smith is on residency in Paris for four months, supported by the Australia Coucil for the Arts, researching and developing a new ceramic work to be exhibited at Centre Pompidou in late October as part of Cosmopolis #2.0, curated by Kathryn Weir. The current project follows Yasmin’s work in Chengdu, China last year where she also participated in #1.5 of the Pompidou’s new biennial exhibition platform.
» 19/07/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a solo exhibition, Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth. The exhibition is the outcome of a period of research and site-specific responses to works held in the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Australia’s only public collection of women’s art, gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. With works and contributions from: Elise Blumann, Penny Bovell, Angela Brennan, Susanna Castleden, Penny Coss, Janet Dawson, Helen Eager, Rosalie Gascoigne, Helen Grace, Giles Hohnen, Narelle Jubelin, Eveline Kotai, Maria Kozic, Mei Swan Lim, Lily Napanangka and Peter Jupurrula, Elizabeth Newman, Ann Newmarch, Michelle Nikou, Miriam Stannage. exhibition 27/07/19 - 06/10/19. Opening 6.30-8.30pm Friday 26/07/19.
» 17/07/2019: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape and Wrong Solo Certain Situations at Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, on Art Agenda, by Tara McDowell.
» 15/07/2019: The Commercial looks forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks 11/09/19 - 15/09/19. We are presenting a three-artist show with works by Archie Moore, Stephen Ralph and Amanda Williams. Stand F06. Contact the gallery to receive a preview of works.
» 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.
» 08/07/2019: Lillian O’Neil is presenting Dawn, a solo Ideas Platform exhibition at Artspace, Sydney. "I took the Ideas Platform as an opportunity to experiment with scanning an archive of Australian women’s magazines held by the State Library of Victoria, material that I couldn’t cut up. My interest lies in the photography of cultural histories and the materiality of obsolete print technologies. The magazines I looked at spanned ‘The Dawn’ 1888-1905, to 'Australian Women’s Forum’ 1991 -2001.” opening Thursday 11/07/19, 6-8pm. exhibition: 12/07/19 - 04/08/19.
» 24/06/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a solo exhibition, Certain Situtations, including collaborative works with Brian Fuata as Wrong Solo, at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The four-gallery exhibition features new and newly reimagined artworks spanning video, binaural sound, sculpture, poetry, performance, drawing, and installation. Opening Saturday 29/06/19, 6-8pm. Exhibition 29/06/19 - 31/08/19.
» 23/06/2019: A book of Patrick Hartigan's short stories, Offcuts, published by Gazebo Books, is being launched at Gleebooks on Friday 19/07/19 from 6pm. The book will be launched by Erik Jensen, author of Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen and On Kate Jennings and Editor-in-Chief of The Saturday Paper. 6.00 for 6.30pm start. RSVP here.
» 18/06/2019: Archie Moore is giving an artist talk at ACCA, Melbourne, as part of On Vulnerability and Doubt, curated by Max Delany. Saturday 29/06/19, 3pm.
» 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
» 06/06/2019: Archie Moore is exhibiting in On Vulnerability and Doubt, curated by Max Delany at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. The exhibition brings together artists who engage with questions of intimacy, vulnerability, doubt, desire, modesty, awkwardness and love through various mediums including painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. Artists: Andrea Büttner, Cherine Fahd, Brent Harris, Tala Madani, Linda Marrinon, Archie Moore, Charlie Sofo and Ambera Wellmann. exhibition 29/06/19 - 01/09/19.
» 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.
» 25/05/2019: Lillian O'Neil is presenting a group of collages in Caught Stealing, an exhibition of 19 artists curated by Dr Jaime Tsai at NAS Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition explores appropriation as a conceptual device. Artists include Hany Armanious, Destiny Deacon, Fiona Hall, Shane Haseman, Andrew Hurle, Soda_Jerk, Tom Nicholson, Daniel Boyd, Joan Ross and Marian Tubbs. It will be the largest body of O'Neil's work seen outside a solo exhibition to date with works dating from 2013 to 2019. exhibition dates: 14/06/19 - 10/08/19.
» 24/05/2019: It is a pleasure to announce that Anna Kristensen's Dip (2017) has been acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
» 18/05/2019: Oscar Perry is launching his poetry book, 'A car, a man, a maraca', published by Foolscap Publishing, at The Labour in Vain, Fitzroy Melbourne, 5pm Saturday 01/06/19.
» 17/05/2019: Anna Kristensen is undertaking a coveted residency at MASS MoCA, USA, during June.
» 15/05/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Bonita Bub are exhibiting works in the group exhibition In-Formalism at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. “In-Formalism witnesses the evolution of abstract non-objective art in Australia from 1968. The exhibition surveys the key generations of artists who have contributed to the ongoing language of abstract art. The exhibition presents these works alongside a wide range of artefacts in design, textiles, advertising, architecture, urban design, film and performance.” Exhibition dates: 18/05/19 – 30/06/19.
» 13/05/2019: Congratulations to Diena Georgetti announced today as a finalist in the 2019 Sunshine Coast Art Prize for her painting TALISKA. The $25,000 acquisitive award is presented by Caloundra Regional Gallery. Exhibition dates 24/07/19 - 15/09/19. The judge of this year’s prize is Alison Kubler. Winner announced 29/08/19.
» 07/05/2019: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents Peace Altitude, a group exhibition of new works by invited artists Nabilah Nordin, Salote Tawale and Amanda Williams.
» 04/05/2019: Yasmin Smith has been on a residency in Tasmania during April developing a new work for the Australian Ceramics Triennial. She has created two new glazes from two species of hydrowood, trees that have been submerged since the 1980s from the damming of the Lower Pieman River during the building of the hydroelectric scheme. Images of her three-part installation, Lower Pieman, are now on The Commercial website. Lower Pieman presents a record of grand scale human intervention into nature at the point at which carbon, hydrogen and oxygen cycle though the ecosystem as water and wood. Australian Ceramics Triennial, 1- 4 May.
» 01/05/2019: Agatha Gothe-Snape has contributed to Absorption, a major new work by New York-based artist, Asad Raza, Kaldor Public Art Projects’ latest commission at Carriageworks, Sydney. Raza’s “Absorption brings the ground beneath us into the foreground, drawing our attention to the living and changing nature of soil. The work constitutes almost 300 tonnes of organic and inorganic material, including sand, silt, clay, phosphates, lime, spent grain, cuttlebone, legumes, coffee and green waste, combined into a new soil mixture or neosoil.” Gothe-Snape has created high viz vests for the cultivators within Raza’s work to wear for the duration of Absorption. The garments are lined with fragments of vintage fabrics from Kaldor’s fabric-making enterprise. Exhibition dates: 3 – 19 May 2019, The Clothing Store, Carriageworks, Sydney, 10am – 6pm
» 29/03/2019: For the second iteration of The National: New Australian Art, opening this week in Sydney, at the Art Gallery of NSW, Carriageworks and Museum of Contemporary Art, Agatha Gothe-Snape will be presenting a four-minute trailer for her monumental, six-year project which will be exhibited in its final form in the 2021 chapter of The National. Still in-progress, Gothe-Snape's EVERY ACT OF READING PERFORMS THE WORK (2017 - 21) is a monolithic virtual reality sculpture that is the repository of accumulated inquiries into The National and its cultural, interpersonal and historical ambiences. The promotional trailer for work to be presented in the 2021 chapter can now be viewed on The National's website at this link.
» 27/03/2019: >> NEW VISITING HOURS from 07/04/19. The main exhibition space at The Commercial's new location at Jabez Street is lit solely by natural light. Once AEST Daylight Saving ends on 07/04/19, we will be changing to new gallery visiting hours: Wednesday - Friday 12-5, Saturday, 11-5, or by appointment.
» 20/03/2019: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting work in The Whiteley at 20: Twenty Years of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship at S.H. Ervin Gallery. “The exhibition features works by Sally Anderson, Alice Byrne, Mitch Cairns, James Drinkwater, Petrea Fellow, Becky Gibson, Nathan Hawkes, Alan Jones, Nicole Kelly, Belem Lett, Lucy O’Doherty, Wayde Owen, Timothy Phillips, Tom Polo, Ben Quilty, Karlee Rawkins, Samuel Wade, Amber Wallis, Natasha Walsh, and Marcus Wills, alongside the four paintings by Brett Whiteley that secured him the Italian Government Travelling Scholarship, displayed together for the first time since 1959. The exhibition presents the works by each artist that were entered and/ or won the scholarship, works resulting from their residency at the Cite Internationale des Art, Paris and recent work.“ Mitch Cairns was the recipient of The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2012. A catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition. Exhibition dates: 22/03/18 - 05/05/19
» 25/02/2019: Anna Kristensen is included in Still Life Pt. II curated by Adam Stone opening Thursday 28/02/19, 6-8pm at Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney. Artists include Colleen Ahern, Alan Constable, Lauren Dunn, Anna Kristensen, Alasdair McLuckie, Sanne Mestrom, Tully Moore, Toby Pola, Jake Preval, Kieran Seymour, Jackson Slattery, Lydia Wegner. Exhibition dates 28/02/19 - 06/04/19.
» 20/02/2019: Emily Hunt is exhibiting a series of new soft ground etchings, engraving plates and ceramics in Second Sight: Witchcraft, Ritual, Power, at UQ Art Museum, Brisbane. "The exhibition brings together artists who conjure ideas related to witchcraft, sorcery and magical practices. The exhibition offers a space for intuition, rituals, collective happenings, incantations, and peripheral activity — practices recurrently dismissed as mere magical phenomena. A series of renowned historic etchings counterbalance new artworks that depict or disrupt ‘witch iconography’ and impressions of witchcraft." Artists include: Hans Baldung Grien, Monika Behrens and Rochelle Haley, Naomi Blacklock, Eric Bridgeman, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Albrecht Dürer, Mikala Dwyer, Emily Hunt, Clare Milledge, Judith Wright. Exhibition dates: 01/03/19 - 29/06/19.
» 18/02/2019: Works by Diena Georgetti from the Michael Buxton Collection will be exhibited in the group exhibition, A New Order, at Buxton Contemporary. Curated by Linda Short, the exhibition includes works by Stephen Bram Tony Clark, Daniel Crooks, Emily Floyd, Marco Fusinato, Rosalie Gascoigne, Diena Georgetti, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Mike Parr, Daniel von Sturmer, Constanze Zikos. Exhibition opens 08/03/19.
» 15/02/2019: 'Micro Macro: Lillian O'Neil' - interview with Lillian O'Neil by Louise Martin Chew in Issue 25 Vault - Australasian Art & Culture. Out now.
» 13/02/2019: At the conclusion of her three-month Youkobo Y-AIR Studio Program residency in Tokyo, Lillian O'Neil is presenting a short studio exhibition at Youkobo Art Space. There will be an artist talk at 5pm 22/02/19 with drinks reception from 6pm. Studio-3. Exhibition dates: 20/02/19 - 24/02/19. Lillian's Tokyo residency is supported by Asialink/The University of Melbourne. Further details on Youkobo Art Space website.
» 01/02/2019: Emily Hunt is exhibiting in the group. show, MODEL, at Murray White Room, Melbourne. The exhibition includes work by: Aubry/Broquard, Stephen Benwell, Emma Borland, Michael Bullock, Tony Clark, Emily Hunt, Ruth Hutchinson, Linda Marrinon, Anne-Marie May, Rob McHaffie, Alex Pittendrigh, Renee So, Heather B Swann, Kate Tucker, Jake Walker. Opening Friday 01/02/19, 7-9pm. Exhibition until 16/03/19.
» 28/01/2019: Congratulations to Anna Kristensen on her appointment as Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. Anna will be teaching Painting 1: Introduction to Painting.
» 22/01/2019: It is with pleasure that The Commercial presents for sale Shirtfront, a series of nine small-edition t-shirt designs by Archie Moore. The t-shirts are each editions of 20 and are available in a limited selection of S, M, L, XL and XXL sizes. Purchase t-shirts here via enquiry form under each image on website.
» 11/01/2019: Mitch Cairns' 2014 portrait of philanthropist, Reg Richardson, is currently on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, as part of the exhibition, Electric! Portraits that Pop! The painting was runner-up in the 2014 Archibald Prize and is part of the permanent collection of the NPG. Exhibition continues until 22/04/19.
» 08/01/2019: Archie Moore is exhibiting new work in the group exhibition, Just Not Australian, at Artspace Sydney, 18/01/19 - 28/04/19. The exhibition brings together 19 Australian artists across generations and mediums to deal broadly with the origins and implications of contemporary Australian nationhood. This timely thematic show will showcase the sensibilities of larrikinism, satire and resistance to interrogate presenting and representing Australian national identity. Artists include: Abdul Abdullah, Hoda Afshar, Tony Albert, Cigdem Aydemir, Liam Benson, Eric Bridgeman, Jon Campbell, Karla Dickens, Fiona Foley, Gordon Hookey, Richard Lewer, Archie Moore, Vincent Namitjira, Nell, Raquel Ormella, Ryan Presley, Joan Ross, Soda_Jerk, Tony Schwensen. Exhibition opening Friday 18/01/19, 6-8pm.
» 04/01/2019: As Cosmopolis #1.5 - Enlarged Intelligence in Chengdu, China, draws to a close (ends 06/01/19), individual artist pages including video documentary footage with Yasmin Smith are now published on the Cosmopolis #1.5 website.
» 21/12/2018: The digital catalogue documenting the 21st Biennale of Sydney: Superposition - Equilibrium & Engagement (curated by Mami Kataoka) is now available online, with new essay and images for Yasmin Smith's Drowned River Valley.
» 13/12/2018: Photodocumentation of Yasmin Smith's work and seven-week residency for Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, in Chengdu, China, is now on The Commercial's website.
» 11/12/2018: Announced today by Artspace Sydney, Lillian O'Neil will present a solo project exhibition for Artspace's Ideas Platform in July 2019. She will work with archive material from the National Library of Australia to create a new body of work.
» 01/12/2018: Listen to Tai Snaith interview Agatha Gothe-Snape as part of the podcast series A World of One's Own - Season Two - on ACCA Soundcloud.
» 30/11/2018: We are excited to be presenting the inaugural exhibition at our new address: Mitch Cairns - Soliloquy Workshop, 04/12/18 - 22/12/18 at 5/4 Jabez Street, Marrickville. Images online soon.
» 28/11/2018: Anna Kristensen has paintings included in Obsession: Devil in the Detail, curated by Danny Lacy at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. A number of major works by Kristensen have been lent from private collections. Artists include: James Gleeson, Sam Jinks, Jess Johnson, Anna Kristensen, eX de Medici, Callum Morton, Jan Nelson, Sandra Selig, Ricky Swallow, teamLab, Eugene von Guerard. Opening Friday 30/11/18. Exhibition continues until 17/02/19.
» 18/11/2018: Bonita Bub is exhibiting in a group exhibition in Vienna at Ve. Sch Kunstverein. Artists include: Bonita Bub & Marilyn Schneider, Olivia Coeln, Helmut Heiss, Julia Znoj. Eröffnung: Sa. 17. Nov 2018 13-22h. Ausstellung: 18.11. – 08.12.2018. Öffnungszeiten: Sa., 15-18h
» 16/11/2018: This week, The Commercial moved out of 148 Abercrombie Street, Redfern, its home since opening in 2012. We are currently completing renovations at our new address in Marrickville. The program at the new space will commence with Soliloquy Workshop, a solo exhibition by Mitch Cairns which we very much look forward to sharing with you soon.
» 03/11/2018: Works by Michael Riley will be featured in the exhibition ‘Ngabindiyi dulmarra (measured pressure)’, curated by Jonathan Jones at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. 'The exhibition presents the work of Michael Riley and Lorraine Connelly-Northey who are visionary Wiradjuri/Waradgerie artists of national significance.' Exhibition dates: 10/11/18 until 03/02/19.
» 02/11/2018: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting work with the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Chengdu, China. The exhibition, curated by Kathryn Weir, is titled 'Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence' and presents artworks and programs by almost 60 artists and artist groups. 'The Cosmopolis platform, launched by the Centre Pompidou in 2016, constructs bridges between new forms of artistic practice and research, between conceived geographies and histories. Cosmopolis #1.5 engages with urban and rural space and the shifts in the dynamic between them due to the digital economy and other technological, ecological and cultural shifts. Yasmin Smith's work represents the culmination of a residency in Sichuan's "Red Basin" where she worked with bamboo, eucalyptus and tea plantations, finding ways of materializing the ecological intelligence of different species of plants, through combining ceramics with chemistry and environmental science.' Exhibition dates: 03/11/18 - 06/01/19
» 24/10/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is participating in Kaldor Public Art Projects and UNSW Art & Design art education symposium, 'All Schools Should be Art Schools' today. The symposium is being streamed live online. Keynote address by Sir Nicholas Serota CH, former Director of Tate and current Chair of Arts Council England, as well as two panel discussions by leading education advocates, practising educators, researchers and artists, including National Gallery of Australia Director Nick Mitzevich and artist Tony Albert. Gothe-Snape will respond to the discussion through a text-based drawing made throughout the morning. Watch the live stream and join the online Q&A to be part of the conversation. Wednesday 24/10/18, 9am - 1pm. Nicholas Serota keynote starts at 9.20am.
» 05/10/2018: Yasmin Smith is currently in residence in Chengdu, China, developing a new ceramics installation for Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, a major exhibition organised by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Chengdu. Smith’s resulting work will be presented in an exhibition 02/11/18 – 06/01/19. Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, curated by Kathryn Weir (Head of Cultural Development, Centre Pompidou), with associate curator Ilaria Conti and curatorial advisor Zhang Hanlu, presents artworks and programs by almost 60 artists and groups, exploring ecology, technology and the commons, and envisioning how we today may draw on intelligent technologies, as well as on ecological intelligence, to advance social values—rather than leaving capital to largely define the uses of these techniques and knowledge systems. The Cosmopolis platform was launched by the Centre Pompidou in 2016 to highlight research-based creative practices that are rooted in a particular context yet engage in international conversations, reflecting on cultural translation and the situatedness of knowledge. The first two-year cycle, centered on collaboration and collective practice, culminated in the exhibition Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence. Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence is the second major exhibition associated with the platform. Website www.cosmopolischengdu.com.
» 04/10/2018: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced today as curator of Primavera 2019: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Primavera is the MCA’s annual exhibition of young Australian artists aged 35 and under. Since 1992, the Primavera series has showcased the works of artists in the early stages of their career. Each year, a curator is invited to select artists from across Australia that they feel represent current trends and styles emerging in the next generation. Primavera 2019 will be the 28th edition of the exhibition. It is the first time artist Cairns (b. 1984) has been invited to curate an exhibition in a public institution. He has a been involved in artist-run-initiatives in Sydney as a founder and committee member for over a decade. Primavera 2019 exhibition dates: 11 October 2019 - 9 February 2020.
» 19/09/2018: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti’s Hexer, recently exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair, has been acquired by The Michael and Janet Buxton Collection, Melbourne.
» 07/09/2018: The Commercial looks forward to presenting an exhibition of major new cast concrete and stainless steel sculptures by Bonita Bub and monumental collages by Lillian O'Neil at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, 13/09/18 - 16/09/18. Booth E19. The gallery will be open by appointment only for the duration of the fair. Request preview of works being exhibited at the fair.
» 06/09/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is a participating artist in the 12th Gwangju Biennale 'Imagined Borders', opening in South Korea next month. The Biennale will showcase the works of 153 artists from 41 countries, divided into seven independently curated exhibitions, addressing issues ranging from migration to technology. Agatha Gothe-Snape was selected by curator David Teh. Biennale dates: 07/09/18 - 11/11/18
» 30/08/2018: Oscar Perry is featured in the current edition of Artist Profile magazine, with an interview by Laura Couttie.
» 25/08/2018: Mitch Cairns and Agatha Gothe-Snape have works included in 'The Horse', a group exhibition of works on paper curated by Noel McKenna at Darren Knight Gallery. Exhibition dates: 25 August - 22 September
» 15/08/2018: Mitch Cairns is one of 50 National Art School Alumni included in 'National Art - Part One' at the NAS Gallery in Sydney. The exhibition features works from graduates spanning seven decades, from 1947-2018, and presents 165 works donated to the NAS Collection. Exhibition dates: 14/08/18 - 27/10/18
» 10/08/2018: Yesterday, Archie Moore's major public artwork, United Neytions, was launched at the T1 Terminal of Sydney International Airport. The permanent installation marks the first partnership between Sydney Airport and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Geoff Culbert, CEO Sydney Airport, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director MCA and Larissa Behrendt, Distinguished Professor at UTS, award winning author and filmmaker, spoke on a panel to media at the site of the artwork located airside (Departures) in the recently refurbished terminal. Eight dancers from Dance Bunaan Corroboree performed under the twenty-eight 4.5 metre long flags. A notable Welcome to Country was given to mark the launch by two elders of adjoining lands, Bidjigal elder, Vic Simms, and Gadigal Elder, Allen Madden. Larissa Behrendt has written a 1,000 word essay for a publication to accompany the commission. 43 million passengers pass through Sydney Airport each year, making United Neytions, as remarked Geoff Culbert, possibly one of the most seen artworks in Australia. Barbara Flynn was art consultant on the project and Djon Mundine OAM acted as cultural adviser.
» 07/08/2018: Congratulations to Archie Moore who today was awarded the 2018 Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award by Queensland University of Technology. Moore received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from QUT in 1998 and is today acclaimed as one of Australia's most significant contemporary artists.
» 04/08/2018: Archie Moore has work included in the exhibition EX-EMBASSY on the site of the former Australian embassy to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Berlin. Five artworks and five commissioned texts are presented in and around the 70's era modernist structure, as part of Berlin's Project Space Festival 2018. Exhibition dates: 04/08/18 - 31/08/18
» 03/08/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape has work featured in the TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form, currently taking place at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. Curated by Emily Cormack. Exhibition dates: 03/08/18 - 06/11/18
» 03/08/2018: Congratulations to Bonita Bub for being shortlisted for the 2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. Her work, Box Study for Industry II, will be included in the exhibition at Woollahra Council 20/10/18 - 11/11/18. This year's judges are Australian arts administrator, Michael Lynch AO CBE and Director of independent art advisory LoveArt, Amanda Love.
» 29/07/2018: The Commercial is excited to be exhibiting at the new Melbourne Art Fair in the Southbank Arts Precinct, 2-5 August. We are presenting an exhibition of works by Diena Georgetti and Oscar Perry that approaches both artists' interests in architectural and social contexts and constructed languages. A publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition. We are Stand A9 in the Riding Hall. Tickets available from Melbourne Art Fair website.
» 17/07/2018: Yasmin Smith is featured in The Journal of Australian Ceramics, July Issue, with coverage by Jan Guy.
» 07/07/2018: Yasmin Smith is featured in the current Art Collector magazine. Coverage by Rachel Tolosa Paz.
» 07/07/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape has artwork included in 'From Here to There: Australian Art and Walking' at Lismore Regional Gallery, curated by Sharne Wolff and Jane Denison. The exhibition presents the work of leading Australian artists who use the everyday act of walking in their practice. Exhibition dates: 07/07/18 - 26/08/18
» 03/07/2018: Archie Moore's work is included in the exhibition 'Continental Drift: Black/Blak Art from South Africa and North Australia' at the Cairns Art Gallery. The exhibition opening takes place on 11/07/18 at 6pm and is presented in partnership with the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. Exhibition talks are programmed for 12/07/18, including a guided exhibition tour at 10:30am along with artist and curator talks 11am - 1pm. Full details via the Cairns Art Gallery website. Exhibition dates: 06/07/18 - 23/09/18
» 24/06/2018: Archie Moore's essay 'Daze of our lives' features in the current issue of Artlink magazine. "Forty‑something years later you are still interested in the self inside time and space, and a history of place. In particular your self, an Aboriginal self, but not in an ancient spiritual sense, more like your self based upon how you think others perceive you. So most of the time with your art you are attempting to place the viewer in your shoes, to experience your experiences, to remember your memories. More precisely, to explore that impossibility of knowing that one has a shared experience with you. And this condition, being a metaphor for the failure of reconciliation, supports your view that maybe black and white Australians will never know or understand one another." [excerpt, full article via Artlink.com.au]
» 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
» 09/06/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Mitch Cairns have works exhibited in 'Bowerbird: Clinton Bradley and the Art of Collecting' at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, curated by Kent Buchanan. 'For Clinton Bradley collecting is more than just amassing works, it is a creative dialogue with the artist, dealer, and audience. Bradley has been collecting art since 2007 and now has a collection of works by some of Australia's most sought-after artists; spanning sculpture, digital and conceptual art.' Exhibition dates: 09/06/18 - 26/08/18
» 07/06/2018: Archie Moore's work is included in Architecture AU magazine's review of group exhibition 'Unsettlement', currently at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). Coverage by Patrick Hunn. Exhibition until 07/07/18.
» 31/05/2018: The catalogue of Archie Moore's solo exhibition at Griffith University Art Museum earlier this year 'Archie Moore: 1970 - 2018' is now available. It includes an introduction by Moore; essays by Toni Ross and GUAM curator Angela Goddard; an interview with Journalist Steve Dow; along with artwork and installation images. Copies of the catalogue are available from the gallery on request.
» 31/05/2018: Coverage of Yasmin Smith's work 'Drowned River Valley', 2018, is included in The Monthly review of the Sydney Biennale, '21st Biennale of Sydney', by writer and curator Julie Ewington. "Australian Yasmin Smith has set up a workshop transforming her clays, Parramatta River mangrove wood for glazes, and the salt of Sydney Harbour in a beautifully calibrated process that will endure throughout the exhibition; her drying room, on the island's upper level, is physically separate but conceptually integral." [excerpt, full article on TheMonthly.com.au, May edition of the magazine.] The Sydney Biennale continues until June 11.
» 27/05/2018: Works by Emily Hunt are included in the exhibition ‘It takes time. It’s risky. It might last forever’ at the Arp Museum in Remagen, Germany. The exhibition is curated by Olga Vostretsova and includes artists-in-residence of the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral along with grant recipients of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Exhibition dates 29/04/18 – 15/07/18.
» 27/05/2018: Works by Gunter Christman are included in the exhibition ‘The Field Revisited’ at the National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition is a re-staging of the iconic 1968 exhibition ‘The Field’, curated by John Stringer and Brian Finemore, that opened the new premises of the NGV as the first, comprehensive display of colour field painting and abstract sculpture in Australia. 'By reassembling as many of the original 74 works as possible, 'The Field Revisited' re-examines the initial exhibition’s impact and significance for Australian art history and allows a new generation to experience it for themselves.’ Exhibition until 26/08/18
» 04/05/2018: Edmund Capon AM OBE will facilitate a panel discussion regarding the contemporary collecting environment and practices, in conjunction with the exhibition '5 x 5 - The Artist and The Patron' at Penrith Regional Gallery. Art collector Lisa Paulsen, patron of Patrick Hartigan, will join the panel this weekend, 2 - 4 pm on 06/05/18. 'The forum considers: relationships that are built between collectors and artists; what drives the urge to collect, to possess, to hold? Custodian or collector? Philanthropic or private impulse? How does one inform and influence the practices and taste of the other?' '5 x 5 - The Artist and The Patron' explores the trajectories of five artists and their parallel collector relationships. Exhibition continues until 20/05/18
» 02/05/2018: Work by Archie Moore is currently included in 'Unsettlement', an International group exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), curated by Charlotte Day, Shelley McSpedden and Elise Routledge. 'The exhibition explores the ways that power manifests through architecture and in the built environment. The artworks presented register the material force and histories of architecure, and encourage a productive sense of upheaval and re-appraisal.' Exhibition until 07/07/18
» 23/04/2018: Anna Kristensen has been shortlisted for the 2018 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, along with 36 other leading and emerging artists. The recipient of the $30,000 acquisitive award will be announced 08/06/18. Exhibtion dates: 09/06/18 - 19/08/18, at Geelong Gallery.
» 20/04/2018: Artlink review of 'Archie Moore: 1970 - 2018', at Griffith University Art Museum, by Djon Mundine. "If one enters Archie’s labyrinth through the first left door, you come into the Camera Verbum (Word Room); another child-like space of quiet observation. Like a child in bed listening to sounds and conversations in the dark. In the space, words in large white letters are projected on the black walls—words, insults and more heard from outside people passing by on the left, and those remarks heard spoken by his family inside the house, dad jokes and witticisms, nick-names and banter. Interestingly, the more complex and sophisticated words are produced within, rather than the common insults of the town people." [excerpt, full article on Artlink.com.au.] Exhibition contines until 21/04/18
» 17/04/2018: Works by Patrick Hartigan from the private collection of Lisa Paulsen are included in ‘5 X 5 The Artist and The Patron’, curated by Michael Do, at Penrith Regional Gallery. Catalogue online now. Hear the collector's perspective: Sydney-based collector Lisa Paulsen talks in interview about her ongoing acquisition of Hartigan's paintings. Exhibition continues until 20/05/18.
» 14/04/2018: Archie Moore Profile on Frieze.com coinciding with Moore's solo exhibition at Griffith University Art Museum. Profile by Wes Hill: "The Australian artist Archie Moore is the lead singer in a metal band called Eggvein – or ∑gg√e|n. His stage name is Magnus O’Pus and, like all good front-men, he performs without a shirt, wearing tight black jeans and a goth-version of a Marie Antoinette bouffant wig that, á la Cousin Itt, covers his entire face. Difficult to categorize, the band is partly a joke and partly a therapeutic outlet for the working-class masculine angst of its members, who include artist David M. Thomas – a key figure from the artist-run-gallery scenes of Sydney and Brisbane – on an extremely loud guitar. When performing, Moore, who turns 48 this year, appears charismatic, shy, depressed, angry and, given the band’s raucous sound, oddly obsessed with his lyrics. These conflicting energies spill over into his art practice, which centres on memory and the symbolic slippages he sees as integral to his Aboriginal identity, always shapeshifting across media in unexpected ways, from taxidermied dogs (Black Dog, 2013) to the manufacturing of his own cologne (Les Eaux d’Amoore, 2014)." [excerpt, full article on frieze.com]
» 13/04/2018: Archie Moore in conversation with Djon Mundine: view the artist talk given at Griffith University Art Museum. Moore talks through the work included in 'Archie Moore: 1970 - 2018' and his career more broadly. The exhibition continues until 21/04/18.
» 07/04/2018: ABC Radio National program AWAYE! interview with Archie Moore. Listen to Moore talk through his current solo exhibition at Griffith University Art Museum. Interview by Daniel Browning.
» 06/04/2018: Coverage of Archie Moore's current solo exhibition 'Archie Moore: 1970 - 2018' at Griffith University Art Museum, in Artforum, by Emily Wakeling.
» 04/04/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been announced as a participating artist in the 12th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. The Biennale 'Imagined Borders' will showcase the works of 153 artists from 41 countries, divided into seven independently curated exhibitions, addressing issues ranging from migration to technology. Biennale dates: 07/09/18 - 11/11/18
» 30/03/2018: EASTER WEEKEND The Commercial will be closed Good Friday 30/03/18 and OPEN Saturday 31/03/18. The Commercial is closed Sundays, including Easter Sunday 1/04/18.
» 24/03/2018: Join Archie Moore in conversation with Djon Mundine this weekend as he talks through his solo exhibition at the Griffith University Art Museum. The exhibition Archie Moore 1970 - 2018 takes the form of a multi-sensory installation, across multiple rooms, examining childhood and transgenerational memory. The artist talk will take place at 2pm on 24/03/18. Exhibition until 21/04/18.
» 23/03/2018: Works by Patrick Hartigan are included in the exhibition ‘5 X 5 The Artist and The Patron’ at Penrith Regional Gallery, curated by Michael Do. ‘The artist-collector relationship has existed for millennia, manifesting in multiple forms with varying outcomes. 5 X 5 recognises the cultural significance of these pairings by exploring the trajectories of five artists and their collector relationships. The exhibition encompasses five collector-artist pairings; five artists, five collectors, five collections and five recently acquired artworks’. Features artists: Tracey Emin, Uji ‘Hahan’ Handoko Eko Suputro, Patrick Hartigan, Julian Meagher, and Nigel Milsom. Exhibition dates: 24/03/18 – 20/05/18
» 16/03/2018: TimeOut Sydney magazine includes Yasmin Smith in 'Six must-see works at Biennale of Sydney'. The Biennale opens to the public today across seven venues, with Yasmin Smith's project at two sites on Cockatoo Island. The project is participatory for the the first month of the Biennale. "Smith will install a large-scale participatory work in what was once a timber-drying shed on Cockatoo Island. It’s an ambitious project involving the creation of an operating studio with a kiln and its own salt farm. Using materials gathered from the island and salt from the surrounding water, Smith will create a forest of ceramic tree branches." Coverage by Elissa Blake.
» 15/03/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is taking part in the 2018 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize this year at the National Art School Gallery. The unique, acquisitive, artist-led prize involves both established and emerging artists exhibited side by side. Agatha Gothe-Snape, selected by curator Nike Savvas this year as one of the established artists, has brought in emerging artist Aodhan Madden. Winning works of both established and emerging artists are acquired into the Redlands collection, all other exhibited artworks are available for purchase. The prize winners will be announced at the NAS Gallery the evening of 21/03/18. Exhibition continues until 12/05/18.
» 05/03/2018: Art Almanac has published an interview with Oscar Perry in the lead up to his upcoming solo exhibition ‘The Michelin Star’ at The Commercial. The exhibition, an installation of both painting and sculptural works, opens 10/03/18. Interview by Elli Walsh.
» 05/03/2018: Oscar Perry's The Texas fast shooter fallacy/ Velvet hush puppies, acquired by Artbank in 2017, is being included in the group exhibition Conscious Process at Artbank's gallery space in Alexandria, Sydney. Opening Thursday 08/03/18.
» 03/03/2018: Yasmin Smith will deliver an Artist Talk at the Superposition Studio, Cockatoo Island, as part of the 21st Biennale of Sydney PREVIEW, 3 - 4pm on 14/03/18. Smith will talk through her major site-specific ceramic project on Cockatoo Island, which she has worked on since being selected into the Biennale program, in March 2017, by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka. Yasmin Smith's ceramics practice uses research and archeological processes to explore the chemistry of glaze techniques to furnish material evidence of histories, ecology, geology and culture. Join the studio audience to gain insight into Smith's dynamic practice, her artwork build and outcomes, and the site-specific nature of her work on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney. The preview talk is FREE to attend. The Biennale of Sydney opens offically 16/03/18 - 11/06/18.
» 03/03/2018: Archie Moore's solo exhibition at the Griffith University Art Museum is just one week away. Titled 'Archie Moore 1970 - 2018' the exhibition will take the form of a multi-sensory installation, across multiple rooms, examining childhood and transgenerational memory. The Opening will take place next week at 3pm, on 10/03/18, with an Artist Talk at 2pm on 24/03/18. The exhibtition will run 08/03/18 - 21/04/18.
» 01/03/2018: Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Mami Kataoka, has highlighted Yasmin Smith's work to view within the Biennale program. ‘Artists like Yasmin Smith, whose site-specific ceramic work at Cockatoo Island uses the earth – clay as art – water, fire and wood to make that fire. It’s one of the ancient ways of making daily objects and this medium is so current,’ says Kataoka, 'Merging aspects of art, archaeology and science, Smith examines the processes and chemical composition of glazes made from material found on site to reveal the history, ecology, geology and culture of a place'. Visual ArtsHub coverage, by Gina Fairley.
» 01/03/2018: Andrew Liversidge is included in the Gertrude Contemporary 2018 studio program. Artists include Rebecca Agnew, Mathieu Briand, Deanne Butterworth, Beth Caird, Georgina Cue, Greatest Hits (Gavin Bell, Jarrah De Kuijer and Simon McGlinn), Eugenia Lim, Andrew Liversidge, James Nguyen, Spiros Panigirakis, Steaphan Paton, Andre Piguet, Mark Shorter, Isadora Vaughan, Jahnne Pasco-White and Simon Zoric. Studio outcomes can be viewed in the annual Gertrude Studios exhibition which will take place later this year 16/11/18 - 15/12/18.
» 23/02/2018: Asialink have announced their 2018 Creative Exchanges, with Lillian O’Neil as the recipient of a studio residency at Youkobo Art Space, in Japan. Since 1991, Asialink Arts has supported 822 residencies throughout the Asian region. Encompassing all art forms and practices, the Residency Program has been generously funded by program supporters. Lillian O’Neil is supported by Creative Victoria.
» 15/02/2018: The upcoming Biennale of Sydney opens in exactly one month, with an anticipated program. Yasmin Smith has been selected by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka to develop a site specific project for Cockatoo Island. The ceramic project will investigate the presence and significance of salt in the Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River tidal exchange. ‘Smith’s work will explore the long history of abuse Parramatta River has suffered since colonisation – through industrialisation and urbanisation – which has changed the foreshore line and the makeup of the vegetation and river itself.’ – Broadsheet Sydney. The 21st Biennale of Sydney will be presented across seven venues over twelve weeks 16/04/18 – 11/06/18
» 12/02/2018: POSITION VACANT Part-time Images and Exhibitions Manager/Registrar 2+ days/week (flexible) - start April 2018 The Commercial is looking for a part-time Images and Exhibitions Manager/Registrar to join our small team. The Commercial places great importance on the quality of images of its artists’ works and handles all aspects of photography and post-production Photoshop in-house with the gallery’s high-end DSLR camera. We are looking for a highly-motivated individual who has two key skillsets: 1) Has general knowledge of DSLR photography and advanced Photoshop skills. In particular, we are looking for someone with a sensitivity to colour correction in the digital reproduction of artworks. 2) Has art installation skills. We are hoping to find someone who can also handle the installation of exhibitions at the gallery as well as general stockroom/gallery maintenance. Duties for this position include: Documenting artworks and exhibitions; Managing images on website, for print and gallery’s image archive; Handling artworks (installing, wrapping, labelling, transport, loans); Handling copyright requests; Creating exhibition roomsheets; Regular ladder work and lifting. Essential: Proficient with Adobe Photoshop (especially colour correction), and general DSLR camera use; Skilled in the use of powertools; Well-presented, self-motivated with customer service ethos; High level written/verbal literacy and attention to detail; Current class C NSW drivers licence and ability to drive gallery’s 3 tonne van; Tertiary qualification in fine arts or visual arts (can be current student); Interest in/knowledge of contemporary art; Available two days/week minimum plus flexible hours including evenings. Please email cv and cover letter addressed to Amanda Rowell, Director to [email protected]
» 09/02/2018: Last weekend to view Archie Moore’s work in Boundless Volumes, a group show at Parliament House, Canberra. ‘The Parliament House Art Collection engaged nine artists to create artworks that reinterpret, reuse and recycle the leather-bound volumes of parliamentary proceedings, spanning almost 120 years of Australian political history. Artists have created artworks that engage with the materiality of the books as well as the social, cultural and political issues within their pages’. Co-curated by Justine van Mourik and Aimee Frodsham. Artists include Michael Eather, Simryn Gill, Katherine Hattam, Pam Langdon, Archie Moore, Elvis Richardson, Kylie Stillman, Imants Tillers and Hossein Valamanesh. The exhibition continues until 11/02/18
» 08/02/2018: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Infrastructuralism, a group show curated by Kent Wilson at the La Trobe Art Institute. ‘In Infrastructuralism, five artists produce and deliver work that ingratiates itself inside the physical system of the gallery. The exhibition exposes the hidden, neglected or secretive support structures that serve as platforms for the presentation of art objects. Presented across all spaces at La Trobe Art Institute, the artworks marry humour with material awareness in a playful incursion into the nature of our cultural organisations. All the various facets that go into making up architecture, display, function and administration are brought into play’. Artists include Agatha Gothe- Snape, Carolyn Eskdale, Helen Grogan, Jessie Bullivant, and Shannon Lyons. Exhibition dates: 08/02/18 – 17/03/18
» 06/02/2018: Diena Georgetti’s work Stadium, 2017 has been acquired by the City of Stonnington. Recent works brought into the collection are on display at 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran, Melbourne. The exhibition continues until 25/02/18
» 22/01/2018: In the current Jan / Feb 2018 edition of LOOK Magazine, Agatha Gothe-Snape discusses artworks from the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection that have influenced her outlook and ongoing art practice. Gothe-Snape mentions artists Len Lye, Margaret Worth, Lawrence Weiner and David Aspden.
» 19/01/2018: Diena Georgetti can be heard in conversation with artist Tai Snaith in 'A World of Her Own: Painting Yourself out of the Dark'. Listen to the discussion on what it is like to live with a mental ilness and make art. Snaith and Georgetti speak about how difficult it can be to make art when we are critical not only of our work but of ourselves. They talk about painting as a way of existing when life itself is really hard, and finding consolation in the making of successful artworks. The conversation project has been produced as a part of Unfinished Business, currently exhibiting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and co-curated by Paola Balla, Max Delany, Julie Ewington, Annika Kristensen, Vikki McInnes and Elvis Richardson.
» 19/01/2018: Join The Boomalli Ten exhibition curator Djon Mundine In Conversation this Saturday 12 – 2pm, speaking with founding Boomalli artists Brenda L Croft, Bronwyn Bancroft, Euphemia Bostock, Fern Martins, Arone Meeks, and Avril Quaill. 'The Boomalli Ten' is a 30 year anniversary exhibition recognising The Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative established in 1987. The exhibition includes works by the ten founding members of Boomalli including Boronwyn Bancroft, Euphemia Bostock, Brenda L. Croft, Fiona Foley, Fern Martins, Arone Meeks, Tracey Moffatt, Avril Quaill, Michael Riley and Jeffrey Samuels.
» 18/01/2018: The opening of the Michael Buxton Centre of Contemporary Arts (MBCOCA) has been announced to take place in March. The new, purpose-built museum on the University of Melbourne’s Southbank campus is the product of a $26 million gift from Michael Buxton, a Melbourne collector known for his extensive collection of Australian contemporary art. Curator Melissa Keys has put together the inaugural exhibition, titled The Shape of Things to Come, including work from twenty artists within the collection. The Michael Buxton Collection includes more than 300 works by 53 of the country’s most significant Australian artists, including Diena Georgetti, Hany Armanious, Benjamin Armstrong, Peter Booth, Daniel Boyd, Pat Brassington, Nadine Christensen, Juan Davila, Destiny Deacon, Virginia Fraser, Mikala Dwyer, Emily Floyd, Marco Fuscinato, Tony Garifalakis, Shaun Gladwell, Jess Johnson, Helen Johnson, Nicholas Mangan, James Morrison, David Noonan, Mike Parr, Patricia Piccinini, David Roseetzky, Ricky Swallow, Peter Tyndall, and Francis Upritchard.
» 12/01/2018: Daily-Lazy, independent blog and artist collective, has written a review of Remedial Works, a group show curated by Andrew Varano and exhibited at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) last year. The exhibition presented an international set of artists including Clare Milledge.
» 12/01/2018: Independent Australian experimental art journal Runway has published a review of Remedial Works, a group show curated by Andrew Varano and exhibited at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in Nov/Dec 2017. Clare Milledge works were included in the exhibition, along with artists Sophie Cassar, Pakui Hardware, Shana Moulton, Jess Tan and Anicka Yi.
» 10/01/2018: Anna Kristensen, Bonita Bub and Mitch Cairns are included in a group show, Unreal City, curated by Sarah Rees at Firstdraft, Sydney. “Unreal City is an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Australian contemporary artists. The exhibition traces art and architecture back and forth through historical and social associations. Artisanal traditions are conflated with contemporary modes of practice to create a new vernacular. Classical iconography is juxtaposed with mass-produced, industrial materials. Lyrical imagery and whimsical forms morph into utilitarian objects and vice-versa. The title of the exhibition (after Mario Merz) describes the absurdity of these confounding elements. Unreal City references traditions of Minimalism and Arte Povera in its examination of objects, structures and spacial relationships. In the context of the virtual contemporary, it is an elegy to the material world.” Opening Wednesday 10/01/18, 6 - 8 pm. Exhibition dates: 10/01/18 – 28/01/18
» 23/12/2017: The Commercial is closed for summer holidays from 23/12/17 until 17/01/18.
» 21/12/2017: “Archie Moore Artwork to be Installed at Sydney Airport - Does this signal that a greater investment in public art is on the horizon?” – coverage by Broadsheet.
» 20/12/2017: Coverage of Archie Moore public art commission for Sydney Airport on ABC News, by Dee Jefferson.
» 19/12/2017: Exciting day at Sydney International Airport with the media announcement of a new permanent public artwork commission by Archie Moore for the T1 International Terminal. The commission is a new partnership between Sydney Airport and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. It will be a reconfiguration on a significantly larger scale of Archie Moore's United Neytions flag series exhibited earlier this year as part of 'The National: New Australian Art' at Carriageworks, Sydney. The work is due to be installed in June 2018.
» 14/12/2017: The Biennale of Sydney has released its full list of artists for the 21st Biennale of Sydney curated by Mami Kataoka opening in March 2018. Yasmin Smith has been busy developing her incredible site specific ceramics project for Cockatoo Island investigating the presence and significance of salt in the Sydney Harbour/Parramatta River tidal exchange waters.
» 30/11/2017: Opening this week at Australian Parliament House in Canberra, Archie Moore is presenting a new work made from decommissioned volumes of Hansard for the group exhibition Boundless Volumes. Artists in Boundless Volumes: Michael Eather, Simryn Gill, Katherine Hattam, Pam Langdon, Archie Moore, Elvis Richardson, Kylie Stillman, Imants Tillers and Hossein Valamanesh (30/11/17-11/02/18).
» 24/11/2017: "What makes a chair a chair? Legs, a base, a back? How abstract can a chair become before it’s completely unrecognisable – before it turns into a creature or a sculpture or a hatstand?" from review of Emily Hunt's solo exhibition, Bad Ems, at The Commercial by Rebecca Gallo on Running Dog.
» 14/11/2017: Archie Moore has a new self-portrait paint skin work in a group show, Flat Earth Society, at POP Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane. Exhibition artists: Paul Bai, Julie Fragar, Matthys Gerber, Fiona Lowry, Archie Moore, David Thomas, James Thomson and Jenny Watson, 15/11/17-25/11/17.
» 08/11/2017: Clare Milledge is presenting her performance, Strigiformes: Binocular, Binaural at 2pm (AWST) on 11/11/2017 as part of Remedial Works, curated by Andrew Varano at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), Perth. "Remedial Works is an exhibition that groups an international set of artists working together to understand the novel and specific materials of contemporary global societies, and how these materials and their embedded meanings can affect human bodies and relationships." Artists: Sophie Cassar, Pakui Hardware, Clare Milledge, Shana Moulton, Jess Tan and Anicka Yi. Exhibition: 10/11/17 - 24/12/17.
» 06/11/2017: A review of Diena Georgetti's recent solo exhibition, FUTURclassic, at The Commercial, on Frieze.com.
» 01/11/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti's Self Portrait, exhibited in her recent solo exhibition at The Commercial, FUTURclassic, has been acquired by the Wesfarmers Collection, Perth.
» 01/11/2017: "Painting works for me because the brief is very simple: I just have to fill in the frame." Mitch Cairns in video interview with Agatha Gothe-Snape, subject of winning Archibald Prize portrait, on the Art Gallery of New South Wales' YouTube channel.
» 21/10/2017: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's Rhetorical Chorus at Carriageworks by Ben Neutze on Daily Review.
» 16/10/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's Rhetorical Chorus as part of Liveworks program at Performance Space, Sydney, co-presented by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Commissioned for PERFORMA, New York, in 2015, Rhetorical Chorus is Agatha Gothe-Snape’s largest and most ambitious performance work to date. Inspired by a chance encounter with the legendary American conceptual artist, Lawrence Weiner, Rhetorical Chorus brings together a choir, PowerPoint projection, spoken text and choreography. With guest artists including Megan Clune, Brian Fuata, Sarah Rodigari, Brooke Stamp, Lizzie Thomson and renowned American vocalist and musician, Joan La Barbara, Gothe-Snape's Rhetorical Chorus fragments the singular, rhetorical voice, dissolving it into a spectacle of transmission, calling into question both the circulation and consumption of knowledge. Performance times (duration 1 hour): Thursday 19 October - 9pm [sold out]; Friday 20 October - 9pm; Saturday 21 October - 3pm and 9pm; Sunday 22 October - 7pm. Purchase tickets on Performance Space website.
» 13/10/2017: Archie Moore has a solo exhibition, Whipsaw, at the artist-run-initiative Fontanelle Gallery in Adelaide as part of the city-wide Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. "The show invites the viewer to encounter an unknowing, indiscriminate and overwhelming psychological space that erupts between incommensurable histories, perspective, and experience. Whipsaw’s gaseous architecture envelopes and questions our immediate realities, generating a meditative space on time, memory and inequality, referencing racialized space bordering trans-generational trauma; two difficult situations or opposing pressures at the same time." exhibition dates: 15/10/17 - 12/11/17.
» 09/10/2017: Works by Michael Riley will be included in Boomalli Ten, the 30 year anniversary exhibition of Boomalli Aboriginal Arts-Co-operative, the ground-breaking gallery founded in 1987 by Bronwyn Bancroft, Euphemia Bostock, Brenda L. Croft, Fiona Foley, Fernanda Martins, Arone Raymond Meeks, Tracey Moffatt, Avril Quail, Michael Riley and Jeffrey Samuels (known as the ‘Boomalli Ten’). The exhibition, curated by Djon Mundine will showcase the work of all the founding members. The establishment of ‘Boomalli’ meaning ‘to strike’ or ‘make a mark’ in at least three Aboriginal languages: Bandjalung, Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay and Wiradjuri, was motivated by disappointment in the lack of action and progress on Aboriginal issues since the 1967 Referendum 20 years earlier. “Boomalli was the result of 20 years of political action, it was largely female in number, gay, communal and widely open to ideas and new artists,” said artist, Djon Mundine, OAM, who will be curating the exhibition. Opening Friday 03/11/17, 6pm. The exhibition continues until 28/01/18.
» 03/10/2017: It is with pleasure that The Commercial presents Every Artist Remembered, a performance project by Agatha Gothe-Snape for the Live program at Frieze London, 05/10/17 - 08/10/17 (Preview 04/10/17). Every Artist Remembered 2017 will take place at Frieze, Regent's Park, London, in Live Square (adjacent to the Focus galleries sector of the fair). Gothe-Snape will perform five sittings of Every Artist Remembered for Frieze Live, one two-hour performance each afternoon of the fair. Participating artists for Every Artist Remembered 2017 are: Wednesday 04/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: AMA JOSEPHINE BUDGE (b. 1991, lives between London and Accra). Thursday 05/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: RICHARD WENTWORTH (b. 1947, lives London). Friday 06/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: RICHARD GRAYSON (b. 1958, lives London). Saturday 07/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: KEIKEN (Tanya Cruz, Hana Omori and Isabel Ramos, b. 1993-1994, live London, Falmouth, Berlin). Sunday 08/10/17, 3.30-5.30pm: SUSAN JACOBS (b. 1977, lives London and Melbourne). Gothe-Snape first performed Every Artist Remembered at the artist-run-initiative, Firstdraft, Sydney, in 2009 and subsequently at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne in 2011. Many of the drawings from Every Artist Remembered 2009 and 2011 are in public collections in Australia.
» 01/10/2017: The Commercial will be closed from today while exhibiting at Frieze art fair in London. Reopening on Thursday 12/10/17.
» 28/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's You and everything that is not you (Art Gallery of New South Wales), has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The text work was exhibited earlier this year in The National: New Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
» 26/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Mitch Cairns' portrait of Agatha Gothe-Snape that won the 2017 Archibald Prize has been acquired by Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
» 25/09/2017: Bonita Bub is exhibiting in a group show, Holiday curated by Conor O'Shea, at the first Sydney iteration of The Lock Up International. The Lock Up International is a transient project space in storage units worldwide initiated by Mexico City-based Lewis Teague Wright. Holiday Artists include: Hany Armanious, Bonita Bub, Joshua Petherick, Koji Ryui, Anna Solal, Eric Veit. The Lockup International, Kennards Storage, Moore Park, 813/851 S Dowling St, Moore Park. By appointment only. Exhibition dates: 25/9/2017 - 15/10/2017.
» 18/09/2017: It is a great pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith's ceramics installation, Open Vase Central Leader Widow Maker, a forensics of site-specific wood ash glazes, shortlisted for the 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramics Award, has been acquired by Shepparton Art Museum. We look forward to seeing Open Vase Central Leader Widow Maker installed in the new SAM building, due to commence construction in 2018.
» 16/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Oscar Perry's painting, The Texas fast shooter fallacy/Velvet hush puppies, exhibited by The Commercial at Sydney Contemporary, has been acquired by Artbank. It is the first acquisition of Perry's work by a public collection in Australia.
» 12/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti's painting, Stadium, currently on exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art as part of Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art, has been acquired by the City of Stonnington Art Collection, Melbourne.
» 29/08/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that three Estate editions (Aunty Ruthie, Kenny Copeland and Nanny Wright and dog) from Michael Riley's 1990 series A common place: Portraits of Moree Murries have been acquired by Monash Gallery of Art.
» 17/08/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O'Neil's monumental collage, Mirage (2017) exhibited in O'Neil exhibition Escape Velocity earlier this year has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
» 17/08/2017: An interview with Diena Georgetti by Sara Savage, 'Diena Georgetti: Art and Artifice', features in the current issue of Vault magazine, Issue 19.
» 13/08/2017: The Commercial is pleased to announce the first in an ongoing series of outdoor sculpture projects in the rear sculpture court at the gallery. The inaugural commission is a major new work by Bonita Bub and is the first time that Bub has made sculpture specifically for outdoors. Its launch will coincide with Sydney Contemporary art fair in early September.
» 11/08/2017: Interview on ABC Arts with Agatha Gothe-Snape and Mitch Cairns on the confluence of their divergent art practices in the context of the launch of Gothe-Snape's Biennale of Sydney Legacy Artwork commission in Surry Hills and Cairns' recent Archibald Prize win.
» 10/08/2017: On 10/08/17, the second Legacy Biennale of Sydney Artwork Commission, 'Here, an Echo' by Agatha Gothe-Snape, was launched in Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills, by Lord Mayor Clover Moore with words by Penelope Seidler, MCd by Biennale of Sydney CEO, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. The text work in the Surry Hills laneway is the culmination of a 2.5 year project realised for the 20th Biennale of Sydney (2016), curated by Stephanie Rosenthal. 'Here, an Echo' will remain in place for 25 years. A 7.35 minute video on the Biennale of Sydney's YouTube channel documents the project.
» 04/08/2017: The Commercial looks forward to presenting at Frieze London 4-8 October 2017 in the Live section with a solo project by Agatha Gothe-Snape. Further details available shortly.
» 02/08/2017: Oscar Perry is presenting an exhibition of collaborative paintings with fellow artist, Benjamin Sexton, at the artist-run-initiative, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne, opening Thursday 03/08/17, 6-8pm. exhibition 03/08/17 - 26/08/17.
» 01/08/2017: Mitch Cairns and Agatha Gothe-Snape are in conversation about Archibald Prize win with Richard Glover at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wednesday 02/08/17, 6.30pm duration: 30mins. Free.
» 28/07/2017: Huge congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced today as the winner of the Archibald Prize 2017 for his portrait of fellow artist and partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape. It is the fourth time Cairns (b. 1984) has been a finalist in the $100,000 prize which is in its 96th year. Both Cairns and Gothe-Snape are represented by The Commercial. The Archibald exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales opens to the public tomorrow and continues until 22/10/17.
» 24/07/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's two-channel video work, Inexhaustible Present, is included in The Score curated by Jacqueline Doughty at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne. "In this international group exhibition, scores and notation are considered as a starting point to explore the current cross-disciplinary trend in contemporary art, which has seen dance, music and vocal performance increasingly incorporated into visual artworks. Opening Thursday 03/08/17, 6-8pm. exhibition 01/08/17 - 05/11/17.
» 20/07/2017: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns announced this morning as a finalist in the 2017 Archibald Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for his portrait of fellow artist and partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape. Both Cairns and Gothe-Snape are represented by The Commercial. ‘In this painting, Agatha is both an active subject and a recalcitrant muse embracing and resisting simultaneously any idea of what it is to be fixed. Ultimately this is what is most attractive about Agatha. She embodies an uncompromising agency whilst having the grace to accept the ready complications inherent within our life as artists,’ says Mitch Cairns. ‘I composed this portrait with love in the full knowledge of its inevitable and palpable quake.’ The Archibald winner is announced Friday 28/07/17. Exhibition dates 29/07/17 - 08/10/17.
» 17/07/2017: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks, 7-10 September, 2017. We are presenting our largest art fair stand to date with all new works by Bonita Bub, bonMitch Cairns, Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Anna Kristensen and Oscar Perry. Please contact the gallery to receive a preview of works in the lead up to the fair. Stand E06
» 15/07/2017: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting new work in Grounded, a major alumni exhibition at NAS Gallery at the National Art School in Sydney. The exhibition is curated by Judith Blackall and includes works by Mitch Cairns, Karla Dickens, Newell Harry, Jumaadi, James Nguyen, Addison Marshall, Joan Ross and Justine Varga. Exhibition dates 18/08/17 - 14/10/17.
» 12/07/2017: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial is now representing Bonita Bub. Bub (b. 1982, lives Sydney) is a sculptor who produces elevated replicas of industrial equipment and furniture in materials and with processes upgraded and more highly-refined than their expressly functional, mass-produced prototypes. Her selection of and improvements to found design (stainless steel over mild steel, perfected welds etc.) are part of a subtle conversation between form, function and aesthetics in which she draws almost solely on her own technical skill and labour. Superficially, Bub’s work is ego-less and academic but it becomes quickly apparent that it is motivated by sophisticated and idiosyncratic formalist concerns and an acute sense of beauty. Her close attention to colour (powder coatings, sometimes predetermined by colour standards) and the occasional appearance of canvas or canvas-like materials reveals her practice as invested in the field of painting within sculptural dimensions. Bub was awarded a Master of Fine Arts (Painting) at Sydney College of the Arts in 2012. Work towards her Masters degree included twelve months (2011) in Vienna in the Heimo Zobernig Class at the Akademie der bildenden Künste. Recent solo exhibitions include Minerva, Sydney and Knulp, Sydney (both 2017). She has presented regular solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in artist-run-initiatives and university galleries for over a decade (especially in Sydney but also Vienna and Glasgow). In 2013, she exhibited at The Commercial as part of the group exhibition, JANIS II, co-curated by Kelly Doley and Amanda Rowell. Bub is currently working on a new outdoor work to be presented in the sculpture court at The Commercial in September 2017, concurrent with Sydney Contemporary art fair.
» 05/07/2017: Works by Gunter Christmann and Diena Georgetti are included in Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. The exhibition is curated by Sue Cramer and Lesley Harding. A 162 page catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition. exhibition dates: 05/07/17 - 08/10/17.
» 30/06/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Gunter Christmann's 1973/2013 sound sculpture and associated text work, EINE SEITE TEXT, have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
» 30/06/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's 2017 wall painting, Three physical doorways, one conceptual wedge and a gentle breeze, and a POWERPOINTS subscription have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
» 30/06/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O'Neil's 2017 diptych, Standing Stones, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
» 29/06/2017: Anna Kristensen is currently undertaking an International artist Residency at Art Omi in Columbia County, New York.
» 27/06/2017: The Commercial is thrilled at the announcement today of the reinvented Melbourne Art Fair, the appointment of the brilliant Maree Di Pasquale as CEO/Director and of the exciting new venue in a temporary structure within the Melbourne Southbank Arts Precinct alongside the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Melbourne Art Fair will take place as the anchor event of Melbourne Art Week, 2-5 August 2018. "[T]he renewed focus is about quality Australian content and programming. With that comes a very selective art fair." di Pasquale
» 16/06/2017: Oscar Perry has contributed work to the 9 X 5 NOW exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Gower, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. 9 X 5 NOW showcases generations of practicing artists who have studied or taught at the National Gallery School or VCA Art. The most experienced artist represented attended the National Gallery School in the 1940s, and the youngest completed studies at the VCA just one year ago. All works reproduced in online exhibition catalogue. exhibition dates: 16/06/17 - 25/06/17.
» 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.
» 01/06/2017: Clare Milledge is presenting a performance, Strigiformes: binocular, binaural, on 02/06/17 in Tori Wrånes installation at Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo. The sound component is a collaboration between Milledge and Sydney artist Tom Smith, sourced from owl calls and songs from Tinder users' profiles.
» 30/05/2017: Oscar Perry has a solo exhibition, The Natural, at the Adelaide artist-run-initiative Fontanelle until 23/06/17.
» 28/05/2017: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial announces that it is representing Oscar Perry. Perry (born 1988, Kent, UK) is a Daylesford and Melbourne-based artist whose energetic studio practice is focused primarily on abstract painting. The work however occupies both a decidedly three-dimensional space and a web-based informational space in the professed motivation of its painterly gesture and in its amused and formal extension into the realm of sculpture. At its core is a serious affection for the muscularity of late modernism. In 2016, Perry was included in the landmark survey exhibition of contemporary Australian painting, Painting. More Painting, curated by Max Delany, Annika Kristensen and Hannah Mathews at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. He has presented solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in commercial galleries and artist-run-initiatives in Australia and New Zealand since 2011. His work is in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland. The Commercial will present Perry’s work as part of a group exhibition at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in September 2017 in advance of a solo exhibition at the gallery in March 2018.
» 27/05/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape interview (in Japanese) in Bijutsu-techno, coinciding with her solo exhibition, Oh Window, at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
» 25/05/2017: Due to temporary illness, Archie Moore’s artist talk for Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, at the National Gallery of Australia on Saturday 27/05/17 has been cancelled.
» 22/05/2017: Video documentation of Agatha Gothe-Snape's artist talk on the opening weekend of her solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo is now available for viewing on MAM's YouTube channel. The 9.25 minute video includes footage of the exhibition and opening performance as well as discussion by Gothe-Snape's various collaborators on the project including Tokyo-based, Michiko Tsuda and Sydney-based, Anna John. Photo documentation of the exhibition will be on The Commercial's website within the next couple of weeks. Agatha Gothe-Snape, Oh Window, continues at Mori Art Museum until 11/06/17.
» 17/05/2017: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns for being one of 37 artists shortlisted for the $50,000, acquisitive Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery. Exhibition dates 17/06/17-20/08/17. List of artists on BAG website. Winner announced Friday 16/06/17, 6pm
» 12/05/2017: Excellent review of Tim Schultz's solo exhibition, Eccentric Melancholy, on new (Melbourne-based) critical platform, Random (re)View. "Allusions to Dali, and to Tanguy's indeterminate space appear obvious yet fond, and whilst at a glance these might appear as just intelligent pastiche I think they are actually richly subversive & playfully serious specters reflecting the archetype human condition. Whereas Modernism might have tried to kill History, these modest pictures suggest that we can always return to a 'mother lode' of the past."
» 08/05/2017: Early paintings by Gunter Christmann and a mix of recent paintings borrowed from private collections together with a series of new paintings by Diena Georgetti will feature in the large survey of Australian Constructivism curated by Sue Cramer and Lesley Harding at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. Call of the Avant Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art exhibition dates: 5 July 15 October 2017.
» 01/05/2017: Chapters on Agatha Gothe-Snape, Emily Hunt, Andrew Liversidge and Mary Teague are included in the new Thames & Hudson publication, Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art, written by Melissa Loughnan.
» 27/04/2017: Hossein Ghaemi is presenting a new performance work, Enter at the intermission, at Salt Projects, Beijing on Saturday, 29/04/17, 6-8pm. It will be Ghaemi's first performance work outside Australia.
» 20/04/2017: As part of her solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a series of performances in May. In preparation for the performances, Gothe-Snape will conduct a series of walks around the Roppongi Hills area in the immediate vicinity of MAM. These walks are open to all. Meet in front of the Mori Art Museum information desk (Mori Tower 3F, to the left of the Mori Art Museum ticket counter). Each walk is 10.30-11.30am. Dates as follows: Sunday, April 23; Monday, April 24; Sunday, April 30; Monday, May 1; Monday, May 8; Sunday, May 14; Monday, May 15; Sunday, May 21; Monday, May 22; Sunday, May 28.
» 12/04/2017: Mitch Cairns is presenting some new drawings and sculpture in a two-person exhibition, TUG OF WAR (ROPE), TUG OF LOVE (BON-BON), with Matthew Tumbers at the Sydney artist-run-initiative, KNULP, opening Friday 14/04/17, 6-8pm.
» 07/04/2017: Yasmin Smith in coverage of Biennale of Sydney's announcement of first 21 artists in Artist Director Mami Kataoka's 21st Biennale of Sydney in The Guardian.
» 06/04/2017: Today the Biennale of Sydney announced the names of the first 21 artists selected by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka for the 21st Biennale of Sydney. Congratulations to Yasmin Smith on her inclusion on this list. Smith is one of three Australian artists on the preliminary list (the list includes Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ai Weiwei, Brook Andrew, N.S. Harsha, Koji Ryui and George Tjungurrayi). Exhibition dates 16/03/18 - 11/06/18.
» 28/03/2017: Huge congratulations to Diena Georgetti for being awarded the 2017 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize for her work THE HUMANITY OF CONSTRUCTION PAINTING. The $ 25,000 acquisitive award is in its 21st year and is this year guest curated by Callum Morton. Judges of the 2017 prize were Judith Blackall (Director NAS Gallery), Mark Harpley (Visual Arts Coordinator, Redlands School) and Justin Paton (Head Curator of International Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales). Following the tradition of the prize, Morton invited twenty established artists to participate in the exhibition who in turn each invited an emerging artist. Previous winners of the prize include Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Bennett, Pat Brassington, Mikala Dwyer, Callum Morton, Ben Quilty, Julie Rrap and Imants Tillers. The Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize is on exhibition at the NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney until 20/05/17.
» 26/03/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, curated by Haruko Kumakura has been reviewed by Franz Thelmair as a Critic's Pick on Artforum.com.
» 25/03/2017: In the lead up to The National: New Australian Art opening this week at AGNSW, Carriageworks and MCA, Agatha Gothe-Snape in today's The Australian newspaper talking about her six year project 'The Fatal Sure/The National Doubt', a long form documentary about Australian art commencing now, commissioned to link the three venues over three iterations of The National with the final work being presented in 2021. Gothe-Snape takes Robert Hughes' monologue at the conclusion of Episode 8 of The Shock of the New (1980) as a starting point.
» 23/03/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti's CABLE (2016), exhibited in ART as COMPANION at The Commercial in 2016, has been acquired by the Art Gallery of Western Australia. CABLE joins Georgetti's BLOK PLASTIK/Division (2007) already in the AGWA collection.
» 22/03/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape is talking on the panel, Situating Practice, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the opening week events for The National: New Australian Art. Panel participants are Daniel Browning, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Helen Hughes and Tom Nicholson, moderated by AGNSW curator, Anneke Jaspers. Thursday 30/03/17, 12.30-1.30pm. Free but booking necessary here.
» 22/03/2017: Archie Moore is presenting a talk at Carriageworks, Sydney, about United Neytions, his major new flag installation commissioned for The National: New Australian Art. Saturday, 01/04/17, 10am, free, no booking required.
» 17/03/2017: Diena Georgetti and Agatha Gothe-Snape have been invited by guest curator, Callum Morton, to present new works as part of the acquisitive $ 25,000.00 Redlands | Konica Minolta Art Prize at the National Art School Gallery. The 2017 exhibition marks the 21st year anniversary of the high profile prize. Each year a guest curator invites a number of established artists to participate who in turn each invite an emerging artist. For the 2017 exhibition, Georgetti has invited Brisbane-based Spencer Harvie and Gothe-Snape has invited Sydney-based Ella Sutherland. Exhibition dates 28/03/17 - 20/05/17.
» 03/03/2017: Review of group exhibition Harvest - Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Robert Pulie - at The Commercial by Claudia Arozqueta on New York-based Art Agenda.
» 24/02/2017: The National Gallery of Australia today announced that Archie Moore is one of thirty artists selected for Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial. Curated by Tina Baum, the exhibition brings together established, mid-career and emerging Indigenous artists from across the nation, whose works mark the ongoing resistance, resilience and defiance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people against colonisation from first contact to recognition through the 1967 Referendum (granting Indigenous peoples the right to be counted as Australian for the first time) and up until today. Moore will be exhibiting a range of artworks acquired by the NGA since 2012. Exhibition dates: 26/05/17 - 10/09/17.
» 11/02/2017: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's solo exhibition, Oh Window, at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, by Kent Wilson on The Submachine.
» 11/02/2017: Coverage of Mitch Cairns' exhibition, Stray Geranium, at the end of last year in the Sydney round up by Wes Hill on Frieze.com.
» 11/02/2017: Clare Milledge has a major body of work in the NETS Victoria touring exhibition, Erehwon, curated by Vikki McInnes. Erehwon exhibition artists: Brook Andrew , Claire Lambe , Clare Milledge , Mikala Dwyer and Tony Garifalakis. At Warrnambool Art Gallery until 12/06/17.
» 09/02/2017: Clare Milledge is presenting an new installation, by invitation of Tori Wrånes, as part of What Remains, a group exhibition curated by Silja Leifsdottir at Fotogalleriet, Oslo. Artists include Liv Bugge, Kristina Bengtsson, Toril Johannessen, Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Tori Wrånes featuring Clare Milledge. Exhibition dates 09/02/17 - 19/03/17.
» 03/02/2017: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith for being one of five artists shortlisted for the 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The $ 50,000 prize will be announced at Shepparton Art Museum on June 17. Finalists are Glenn Barkley, Karen Black, Laith McGregor, Jenny Orchard and Yasmin Smith. The exhibition will comprise all new work commissioned for the award exhibition.
» 01/02/2017: Agatha Gothe-Snape's 2012 wall painting, Emotional Wall with Everything Else, recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is currently on display as part of Primavera at 25: MCA Collection. Gothe-Snape's wall painting was originally commissioned by Shepparton Art Museum as part of their ongoing Drawing Wall series. Emotional Wall with Everything Else is based on the Lüscher colour test, a psychological test invented by a Swiss psychotherapist, Dr Max Lüscher in the early 1970s. The Lüscher test claims to objectively measure a person's psychological state through their responses to specific colours. A traditionally-trained signwriter is employed to write the cursive script on the final panel. The artist sees this last panel as a contemplative space, with the hand-painted white text offering difference and respite.
» 30/01/2017: Coinciding with her solo exhibition, Oh Window - MAM Project 023 - at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Agatha Gothe-Snape will present a talk about her exhibition, joined by collaborating artist Tsuda Michiko. Following the talk, a short performance by Gothe-Snape along with artist/musician Anna John will be given in the MAM Project 023 exhibition space. Saturday 04/02/17, 14:00-15:30. Book here.
» 23/01/2017: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting works from her 2015 Ntaria Fence series in the group exhibition, World Material, guest curated by Chloé Wolifson at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition opens Saturday 28/01/17, 4-6pm and continues until 25/02/17. Artists include Connie Anthes, Rebecca Gallo, Eloise Kirk, Michelle Nikou, Lisa Sammut, Lotte Schwerdtfeger, Yasmin Smith and Louise Weaver.
» 18/12/2016: The Commercial will be open by appointment only from 18/12/16 - 08/02/17, with limited availabilty due to the summer break. Please contact us by email if you would like to arrange a visit during this period.
» 12/12/2016: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a solo exhibition, Oh Window, at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, her first solo exhibition in Japan. For Oh Window - MAM Project 023, Gothe-Snape will interpret the view of Tokyo from the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower venue, along with the MAM motto, as a metaphor for the ‘Life’ of ‘Art + Life’ to create a number of imaginary ‘windows’ in the windowless exhibition space. The site-specific installation will include text, video footage and objects developed from conversations between Gothe-Snape and Museum staff, and discoveries the artist has made around Roppongi Hills. A series of performances will complement the content of the installation, staged over the duration of the exhibition, both in the gallery itself and in settings around Roppongi Hills. exhibition dates 04/02/17 - 11/06/17.
» 06/12/2016: Emily Hunt, Clare Milledge, Archie Moore and Robert Pulie have work in the group show, Mnemonic Mirror, curated by Gary Carsley and Kylie Banyard, at Griffith University Art Museum. Exhibition dates 08/12/16 - 11/03/17.
» 01/12/2016: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been invited to produce a significant new work for The National: New Australian Art. The National is a major exhibition partnership between three of Sydney’s premier cultural institutions, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The National is a six-year biennial initiative presenting the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art over three editions in 2017, 2019 and 2021. The inaugural exhibition dates of The National are 30/03/17 - 25/06/17.
» 01/12/2016: Archie Moore has been invited to produce a significant new work for The National: New Australian Art. The National is a major exhibition partnership between three of Sydney’s premier cultural institutions, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. The National is a six-year biennial initiative presenting the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art over three editions in 2017, 2019 and 2021. The inaugural exhibition dates of The National are 30/03/17 - 25/06/17.
» 29/11/2016: Tess Maunder was the recipient of the inaugural 2016 MPavilion and Art Monthly Australasia Writing Award. "'Dwelling' as a political form", her commissioned essay on architecture and memory in the work of Archie Moore, is out now in the December issue of Art Monthly.
» 21/11/2016: Big congratulations to Emily Hunt for being awarded a nine month residency at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems, Germany (between Cologne and Frankfurt). The Schloss Balmoral fellowship comes with a generous stipend as part of a program by the institution of the Foundation for Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate to support international visual artists in one nominated artistic genre or one theme each year to enable deeper mutual creative cross-fertilisation among the resident artists. The 2017 intake commences in June and will focus on ceramics.
» 14/11/2016: A series of Michael Riley's early urban portraits, which included a significant number of dancers, are in the exhibition Naya Wa Yugali (We Dance) at Carriageworks, Sydney. The exhibition, curated by Tahjee Moar, is a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Dance Association College. Founded by Carole Johnson in 1976, indigenous dance workshops in Glebe and Redfern led to the formation of the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) and a school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance that is now known as NAISDA. Naya Wa Yugali (translating to We Dance in Darkinyung language) features oral histories, a new commission by Vicki Van Hout and Marian Abboud and the work of artists including Tracey Moffatt, Michael Riley, Juno Gemes, Lee Chittick and Elaine Kitchener. Until 11/12/16.
» 11/11/2016: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is celebrating its 25 year anniversary this weekend with lots of performances and events. On Sunday 13 November, Hossein Ghaemi is presenting Passing Within & Singing for New Stars, a new two-hour performance as part of the celebrations. Two performances 11am and 2pm, Sunday 13/11/16.
» 11/11/2016: Mary Teague is presenting a two-person exhibition with Luke Parker, Sydney Crystal Show, at the artist-run initiative 55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville. Exhibition dates 11/11/16 - 27/11/16.
» 27/10/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that an Estate edition of Michael Riley's 1990 portrait, Avril and Miya, has been acquired by the University of Technology Sydney Collection.
» 27/10/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's Book Marks FOUR (Margo Snape and Rollo May), recently exhibited in her solo exhibition Volatile Medium at The Commercial, has been acquired by the University of Technology Sydney Collection.
» 21/10/2016: Interview with Anna Kristensen in Two Thousand by Del Lumanta on Cover, Kristensen's first solo exhibition at The Commercial, opening Saturday 22/10/16, 5-7pm
» 21/10/2016: Hossein Ghaemi has produced an audio podcast in two parts for Status Effect as part of an ongoing series of longform podcasts produced and edited by Andrew Varano. For Part I: Closest Star to the Moon (0:00-18:50), Ghaemi is in conversation with his mother, Nahid Ghaemi, talking about dreams and the Moon in English and Farsi. "I love the Moon." In Part II: Second Sight (1:16:50 - 1:42:56) Nahid Ghaemi sings and more conversation. "Sometimes I thought I am supernatural. My thinking might be a dream."
» 20/10/2016: Coverage of Archie Moore's work, Crop (Noun/Verb), for Contour 556 in The Canberra Times. Moore's work, a planting of a Daisy Yams food crop and encyclopedias, is located on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin, just to the North of the National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden.
» 17/10/2016: Archie Moore is exhibiting an outdoor work, CROP (Noun/Verb), in Contour 556, a new public art festival on the foreshore of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. He is planting a bed of Yam Daisies (Microseris lanceolata), a local indigenous food plant that "represents a point where Western science and Indigenous knowledge came into contact. Without any visible forms of what was known then as agriculture, (to the Europeans) the Yam Daisy was just a field of flowers and not a crop. Aboriginal people had education, science, astronomy, trade routes, a legal system, villages etc. but this wasn’t visible due to the sense of racial superiority the occupiers brought with them." Contour 556 features fifty local, national and international artists responding to the layers of Canberra’s history. Exhibition dates 21/10/16 - 13/11/16. Maps and further information on the Contour 556 website.
» 10/10/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti's ARMOUR, recently exhibited in Painting. More Painting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, has been acquired by the UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
» 03/10/2016: Emily Hunt and Clare Milledge have been shortlisted for the 2016 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney. Both artists have produced new bodies of work that will be exhibited as part of the scholarship exhibition at SCA Galleries until 1 November. The winner of the $ 28,000 award will be announced at the opening of the exhibition, Wednesday 05/10/16, 6-8pm.
» 03/10/2016: From 4pm on Saturday 08/10/16, the final day of her solo exhibition, Volatile Medium, Agatha Gothe-Snape will execute Afterword, the companion drawing to Foreword which was executed in the gallery at the commencement of the exhibition as part of the performance Eight Mediums, No Audience after Chris Brennan.
» 21/09/2016: Coinciding with Holy Balm's launch tour for their brilliant second album, Activity, band member, Emma Ramsay, has interviewed Robert Pulie about his paintings, Activity Fliptych, adorning the album's cover. The Sydney launch of Activity is at Newtown Social Club, Saturday 24/09/16, 8pm. Activity, is available on vinyl from Chapter Music.
» 02/09/2016: On the first day of the exhibition, Painting. More Painting, Mitch Cairns is giving an artist talk at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. 3pm, Saturday 03/09/16.
» 31/08/2016: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial now represents Patrick Hartigan. Hartigan (b. Sydney, 1977) is a painter with a mind also for drawing and the moving image. His paintings, brushy renderings of classic genres (portraits, nudes, interiors, still lifes), pull childhood and familial nostalgia from the comforts of memory and push artist legacies around (a Picasso head, a Modigliani nude, various permutations of Brancusi) as fresh material. This core forms constellations in his exhibitions with imagery that is emotionally and formally more abstract and more sparing. Predominantly oil on found supports, his recent paintings demonstrate a sculptural mindfulness, incorporating dimensions of depth and time beyond the flat plane. His work is housed in The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, The Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Wollongong University Art Collection. Patrick Hartigan has been the art critic for The Saturday Paper since its inception in 2014.
» 30/08/2016: A sequel to Neverwhere presented at Gaia Gallery in Istanbul in 2015, Clare Milledge is exhibiting several recent works in the group exhibition, Erewhon, curated by Vikki McInnes at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, at the University of Melbourne. Exhibition artists are Brook Andrew, Mikala Dwyer, Tony Garifalakis, Claire Lambe, Clare Milledge and Justene Williams. Erewhon is a NETS Victoria and Asialink Arts touring exhibition, traveling to several regional venues over the next eighteen months. Margaret Lawrence Gallery exhibition dates: 02/09/16 - 01/10/16.
» 08/08/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's Emotional Wall with Everything Else, commissioned by Shepparton Art Museum for a Drawing Wall project, has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
» 05/08/2016: Yasmin Smith is presenting a site-specific process based work, Contours of Our Heart, for Sculpture at Barangaroo. Engaging with the recent massive excavation and relandscaping of the Barangaroo site, Smith has sourced local sandstone, a prominent feature of Barangaroo Reserve but also synonymous to Sydney. Sandstone also denotes the colonial city as it was a popular building material from the late 1790s to the 1890s. Typical of her development of glazes related to specific sites and histories, Smith has ground Barangaroo sandstone to form a site-specific clay and glaze and is inviting participation in daily workshops to create individual clay pieces. A kiln, the centrepiece of a makeshift campsite, is heated daily to fire the clay pieces and to allow for glazing. Yasmin Smith in Sculpture at Barangaroo, Nawi Lawn, Barangaroo Reserve, 06/08/16 - 21/08/16.
» 26/07/2016: Big congratulations to Tess Maunder who has been awarded the MPavilion/Art Monthly Writing Award. The prize has been awarded from a field of applications on the basis of a 200-word proposal for a 2,000-word essay exploring one or more aspects of the field of interdisciplinary practice within art and design today. The subject of Maunder's essay will be Archie Moore's work from the 20th Biennale of Sydney, 'A Home Away From Home (Bennelong/Vera's Hut).' She will present her piece in person during MPavilion's 2016/17 program.
» 16/07/2016: Video interview with Anna Kristensen in her studio at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, in 2013.
» 13/07/2016: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial is supporting the first project outside London for House of Voltaire, the fund-raising arm of leading independent arts organisation, Studio Voltaire. House of Voltaire will be in-residence at 80 Collins Street, Melbourne at the former Le Louvre Townhouse from 14 to 24 July. The lauded London store's first Melbourne shop will be selling a cornucopia of unique artworks, limited-edition prints and specially-commissioned homewares, clothing and accessories by artists and designers of world notoriety in support of Studio Voltaire's renowned exhibition and artist studio program. House of Voltaire contributors include: Laura Aldridge, Anton Alvarez, Aaron Angell, Hany Armanious, Peter Blake, John Booth, Boys Forever, Pablo Bronstein, Matt Connors, Craig & Karl, Enrico David, Michael Dean, Jeremy Deller, Nicole Eisenman, Simone Rocha & Kim Gordon, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Sharon Hayes, Camille Henrot, Emily Hunt, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Helen Marten, David Noonan, Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan, P.A.M., April Crichton & Nicolas Party, Eddie Peake, Tom Polo, Roksanda, Eva Rothschild, SIBLING & Jim Lambie, Rosemarie Trockel, Luc Tuymans, Peter Pilotto & Francis Uprichard and Francesco Vezzoli. | House of Voltaire at 80 Collins Street, Melbourne opening hours: Monday to Thursday & Saturday 10-6; Friday 10-8; Sunday 12-6 | www.houseofvoltaire.org | www.studiovoltaire.org
» 13/07/2016: In 1990, Michael Riley donated the first edition of his A common place: Portraits of Moree Murries to Moree Plains Gallery, where the series of fifteen black and white portraits were taken. The photographs are on exhibition at Moree Plains Gallery for NAIDOC week along with photographic portraits by Greg Weight and John Williams. Coverage of the exhibition in the Moree Champion.
» 13/07/2016: Archie Moore's video, Blood Fraction, acquired last year by the University of Queensland, will be included in group exhibition, beyond the Tower - UQ Art Museum - 40 years and counting, to mark the 40 year anniversary of the museum. exhibition dates: 15/07/16 - 13/11/16.
» 09/07/2016: The exhibition of Michael Riley's 1990 series, A common place: Portraits of Moree Murries, has been extended until 23/07/16.
» 08/07/2016: A two-minute video excerpt of Agatha Gothe-Snape's one hour performance, 'Rhetorical Chorus (LW)', presented for PERFORMA 15 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture 18/11/15 is now available for viewing on The Commercial's website.
» 04/07/2016: Mitch Cairns and Diena Georgetti are two of fourteen focus artists whose work will be given solo presentations in the larger exhibition Painting. More Painting at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, curated by Max Delany, Annika Kristensen and Hannah Mathews. "Painting. More Painting will be the first major institutional exhibition of contemporary Australian painting in over a decade. The work of fourteen influential Australian painters will be presented in a series of solo studies offering in-depth insights into the evolution of these artists’ interests, techniques and approaches. These will be complemented by an extensive panoramic survey presented in ACCA’s main exhibition hall that brings together works by over sixty senior, mid and early-career Australian artists, offering audiences the chance to draw on the many diverse conceptual, polemic and stylistic connections that exist between generations." Painting. More Painting. will be presented in two chapters: Chapter 1: 29 July – 28 August 2016, Chapter 2: 1 – 25 September 2016. Cairns and Georgetti are both producing a series of new works that will be presented in Chapter 2 of the exhibition.
» 28/06/2016: Article today by Brooke Boland on ArtsHub about recent public art commissions in Sydney, including Agatha Gothe-Snape's forthcoming installation in Wemyss Lane, Surry Hills, "Here, an Echo." co-commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and the City of Sydney.
» 23/06/2016: Anna Kristensen and Robert Pulie have works in the exhibition Blind, curated by Shane Haseman at the Sydney artist-run inititiative, KNULP. Exhibition dates 23/06/16-10/07/16.
» 20/06/2016: Mitch Cairns' portrait of philanthropist Reg Richardson recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra is currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery alongside Howard Arkley's portrait of Nick Cave and Adam Cullen's portrait of Neil Armfield. Cairns' portrait of Richardson was runner-up in the 2014 Archibald Portrait Prize. An article about the painting features in the current issue of the NPG's magazine, Portrait.
» 08/06/2016: Concurrent with their exhibition at The Commercial 10/06/16 to 09/07/16, Michael Riley's 1990 portraits of the Aboriginal community in Moree, A common place: Portraits of Moree Murries, will be on display at the State Library of New South Wales. An audio interview with Ronald Briggs, Indigenous Services Librarian at the SLNSW, is available on the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association website. Briggs is himself from Moree. The SLNSW exhibition continues until 28/08/16.
» 01/06/2016: Lillian O'Neil has been awarded a two year studio residency at the Gasworks Arts Park in South Melbourne, administered by the City of Port Phillip.
» 13/05/2016: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Auckland Art Fair 25/05-29/05/16. The gallery will be closed for the duration of the fair, reopening 08/06/16 during the installation week of the Michael Riley exhibition. We will be contactable by phone and email as usual.
» 11/05/2016: Emily Hunt is exhibiting in the group exhibition, OVERUNDERSIDEWAYSDOWN, curated by Glenn Barkley at Manly Art Gallery & Museum. The exhibition is presented jointly with the Australian Ceramics Association. Opening Friday 13/05/16. Exhibition continues until 26/06/16.
» 10/05/2016: Archie Moore's 'A Home Away from Home (Bennelong/Vera's Hut)' is singled out as a highlight in Jennifer Higgie's review in Frieze of the 20th Biennale of Sydney curated by Stephanie Rosenthal.
» 09/05/2016: Congratulations to Agatha Gothe-Snape on being awarded the second Biennale Legacy Artwork commission. The Biennale of Sydney and City of Sydney today announced that the 2016 Biennale Legacy Artwork Project will be created by Gothe-Snape, the second time this 25 year jointly-commissioned public art work has been awarded. The 2016 Legacy Artwork will be a work developed during the ‘20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed’, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal. The final work will relate to a series of three scored walks that Gothe-Snape is presenting during the course of the Biennale and which are already underway. These performances will result in a major new permanent public artwork for the City of Sydney’s City Art Collection. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said, “I applaud Stephanie Rosenthal’s proposal of Agatha Gothe-Snape as the recipient of the 2016 Legacy Project. I am delighted her work will connect with the residents of Sydney and reveal their stories. The success of events like the Biennale shows there is enthusiastic public support for contemporary art in Sydney – people want to be inspired, challenged and delighted by art, and Agatha’s project will, I’m sure, succeed on all fronts. The City is committed to making Sydney the sort of place where groundbreaking art is encouraged and appreciated.” Full press release on the Biennale of Sydney website.
» 06/05/2016: Emily Hunt, Clare Milledge, Archie Moore and Robert Pulie have works in the group exhibition, Mnemonic Mirror, curated by Gary Carsley and Kylie Banyard, at UTS Gallery. The exhibition continues until 01/07/16 before travelling to Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, later in the year.
» 17/04/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's 100 selfportrait photographic installation and related video, Blood Fraction, has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia.
» 15/04/2016: It is a pleasure to announce that Clare Milledge's painting Copulatory Vigilance has been acquired by Artbank.
» 08/04/2016: As part of the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Agatha Gothe-Snape with Brooke Stamp presents 'Here, an Echo', a series of three scored walks over three Sundays - 17/04, 15/05 and 5/06 between 3.30-4.30pm. These choreographies for the city begin in The Domain and culminate in Wemyss Lane in Surry Hills. They are expansive, non-monumental and discursive events. Further details on the Biennale of Sydney website.
» 08/04/2016: Archie Moore's 'A Home Away From Home (Bennelong/Vera's Hut)' is given extensive coverage in Nathalie Thomas' review of the 20th Biennale of Sydney on Melbourne-based blog, Natty Solo.
» 06/04/2016: Archie Moore's work, 'A Home Away From Home (Bennelong/Vera's Hut)', is singled out as "One of the most affecting commissions" in Jon Bywater's review of the 20th Biennale of Sydney on New York-based Art-Agenda.
» 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)
» 24/03/2016: The Commercial is closed for the Easter break. Normal gallery hours resume 30/03/16.
» 20/03/2016: Mary Teague has been selected by this year's curator, Mikala Dwyer, for the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize at the NAS Gallery. The exhibition opens on Wednesday 23/03/16, 6-8pm and continues until 14/05/16.
» 18/03/2016: Archie Moore is presenting an Art Forum talk at the Cell Block Theatre at the National Art School in Darlinghurst 1-2pm, Wednesday 23/03/16. The talk coincides with Moore's major new work, 'A Home Away From Home (Bennelong/Vera's Hut)' in the Royal Botanic Gardens for the 20th Biennale of Sydney. FREE. All Welcome.
» 18/03/2016: Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting a talk for the Biennale of Sydney at the site of her billboard work, 'Physical Doorway (Three Ways)', on Cockatoo Island on Sunday 20/03/16, 12 noon. "Physical Doorway (Three Ways) is the third manifestation of this text, the first appearing as a PowerPoint Show TRYING TO FIND THE PHYSICAL DOORWAY.pptx at Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany in 2015 and the second Physical Doorway and Energetic Wedge in a group show TPOLR at The Commercial Gallery Sydney in late 2015."
» 14/03/2016: A Welcome to Country for Archie Moore’s 'A Home Away From Home (Bennelong/Vera’s Hut)', a major new work for the 20th Biennale of Sydney, will take place on Wednesday, 16 March at 10:00am, Bennelong Lawn, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. This occasion is an opportunity to acknowledge the traditional owners of the site known as Tubowgulle, on Gadigal land. Gadigal Elder, Uncle Charles (Chicka) Madden will present the Welcome with a smoking ceremony by Mathew Doyle. All welcome.
» 02/03/2016: In the lead up to his work for the 20th Biennale of Sydney, a major outdoor project in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, Archie Moore speaks with Tess Maunder. Full interview on Ocula.
» 21/02/2016: Big Ego Books, the brainchild of collaborators Emily Hunt and Raquel Caballero, has found a bricks and mortar home at Alaska Projects in the Kings Cross carpark. "Big Ego Books arose from the desire to bring together a library of great artists and writers whose original, inspiring and sometimes maniacal work resides on the fringes of popular culture. A passion project for Sydney-based collaborators Raquel Caballero and Emily Hunt, Big Ego Books is a personally sourced and curated online collection of fascinating, hard-to-find, and frequently unusual titles that reflect the singular tastes and preoccupations of its creators." The launch of Big Ego Books at Alaska Projects is Wednesday 24/02/16, 6-8pm at Kings Cross Carpark, Level 2, 9a Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay. Ongoing opening hours Saturday and Sunday, 1-6pm.
» 08/02/2016: Clare Milledge is exhibiting in Magic Object - the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, curated by Lisa Slade, held at mulitple venues across Adelaide. Milledge's work will be presented at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia. "With attendant meanings and manifestations, including contemporary artists’ interests in the talismanic, in cultural rituals and material riddles, this exhibition offers the ‘Wunderkammer’ as a tool with which to both view the world and critique it." The Adelaide Biennial is the longest-standing survey of contemporary Australian Art. Exhibition dates: 27/02/16 - 15/05/16.
» 05/02/2016: Works from Michael Riley's earliest series of conceptual photographs, Sacrifice, are included in Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. The exhibition, curated by Stephen Gilchrist, "surveys contemporary Indigenous art from Australia, exploring the ways in which time is embedded within Indigenous artistic, social, historical, and philosophical life. For Indigenous people, the past is understood to be part of a cyclical and circular order known as the “everywhen”; conceptions of time rely on active encounters with both the ancestral and natural worlds. While the exhibition focuses on the last 40 years of Indigenous art, it also includes historical objects from the rich collections of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to underscore both the continuity of cultural practice and remarkable adaptive innovations." Exhibition dates: 05/02/16 - 18/09/16.
» 01/02/2016: MItch Cairns' book, THE READER'S VOICE, that accompanies his solo exhibition of the same name at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, is being launched at The Cross Art + Books Saturday 06/02/16, 4-6pm. 33 Roslyn Street, Kings Cross. All welcome. THE READER'S VOICE is published by Gang Atelier. Collages from the book are viewable on The Commercial website and available for purchase.
» 01/02/2016: Clare Milledge is exhibiting in a three-person exhibition curated by Alexie Glass and Talia Linz at Artspace, Sydney. "Featuring new, site-specific work commissioned from three of the inaugural Artspace One Year Studio Artists: Nick Dorey, Mikala Dwyer and Clare Milledge, Dämmerschlaf highlights the states of consciousness that arise through creative practice. It explores ideas around the supernatural, the occult, alternate spiritualities and ways of perceiving reality, as well as the physical and conceptual thresholds between the studio and the gallery." Dämmerschlaf continues until 28/02/16
» 31/01/2016: Interview with Mitch Cairns as part of the Art Sets series about some of his favourite works in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.
» 10/01/2016: A video interview with Clare Milledge on Sydney College of the Arts, website.
» 18/12/2015: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial now represents Anna Kristensen. Kristensen (b. 1983) is a painter who navigates pathways and boundaries between painting, photography and various forms of photo-reproduction within the disparate dimensions of actual surface flatness and illusory pictorial depth. Painting is sometimes brought into the sculptural round. Recent work is informed by two residencies undertaken in the USA: the Australia Council for the Arts’ Greene Street Studio in New York and the prestigious Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska (both 2013). An overview of key works is now viewable on The Commercial’s website. Kristensen’s first solo exhibition at The Commercial will be in the second half of 2016.
» 16/12/2015: The Commercial will be closed for the Summer break from 20/12/15 until 02/02/16. Saturday 19/12/15 is the final day of Lillian O'Neil's solo exhibition, Pause before the fall. The gallery will reopen with Mary Teague's solo exhibition on Friday 05/02/16.
» 14/12/2015: Congratulations to Hossein Ghaemi for being awarded one of seven twelve-month, free studios at Artspace, Sydney. The Artspace studio program was relaunched in 2015 to offer artists substantial studio space as well as allowing them to undertake ambitious projects, expand their practice, receive engaged critical feedback from Artspace curators, to meet international curators through the Artspace Visiting Curators program, amongst other things. Hossein will take up his Artspace studio in early 2016.
» 12/12/2015: It is a pleasure to announce that Mitch Cairns' work Reg Richardson AM has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
» 04/12/2015: Review of Agatha Gothe-Snape's work for Performa 15, Rhetorical Chorus (LW), on Hyperallergic.
» 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
» 25/11/2015: Tim Schultz is speaking as part of a panel this Saturday at the National Gallery of Victoria in relation to the exhibition, Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes. Speakers: Tim Schultz, Artist, Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Dr Anthony White, Senior Lecturer, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Simon Maidment, Curator, Contemporary Art. 2pm Saturday 28 November, 2015 at NGV Australia. Tickets available from the NGV website.
» 18/11/2015: In addition to her solo performance on 18/11/15, Agatha Gothe-Snape is presenting work at Performa 15 as part of the collaborative group, WrongSolo (Brian Fuata, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Shane Haseman). On Saturday 21/11/15 at 5pm and Sunday 22/11/15, at the Performa Hub, WrongSolo present Cardinals, a short three-part performance centred around an imagined dialogue between the cardinal point ‘North’, and the intercardinal points ‘South-East’ and ‘South-West’. Accompanied by clarinettist Megan Clune and curated by Amelia Wallin. Further information on the Performa 15 website.
» 09/11/2015: Emily Hunt has been shortlisted for the National Self Portrait Prize at the UQ Art Museum in Brisbane. The $ 50,000.00 biennial by invitation only prize is this year curated by Michael Desmond and will be opened and judged by Jason Smith, Curatorial Manager of Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Thirty artists are shortlisted for the prize, including Fiona Foley, Julie Gough, John Nixon, Patricia Piccinini, Andrew Sayers and Philip Wolfhagen. Announced Friday 13/11/15, 6:15pm. Exhibition dates: 14/11/15 – 13/03/16
» 29/10/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape has created four fundraising editions (three posters and a luxury beach throw) to raise funds for the presentation and documentation of her Performa 15 project, Rhetorical Chorus (LW), to be presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture 18/11/15. Each edition is AUD 500.00. Full details via this link.
» 28/10/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Archie Moore have been selected for the 20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed, to be presented 18/03/16 – 05/05/16. Artistic Director, Stephanie Rosenthal, has conceived of the Biennale at seven main venues conceived as ‘embassies of thought’. Both Gothe-Snape and Moore are developing new projects for ‘in-between spaces’ in Rosenthal’s curatorial scheme that are framed “in terms of our interaction with the digital world, displacement from and occupation of spaces and land, and the interconnections and overlaps between politics and financial power structures.”
» 24/10/2015: Narelle Jubelin in The Australian in Malcolm Turnbull's office.
» 11/10/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape is developing a major new work for Performa 15 in New York in November this year. Performa is the pre-eminent biennial of international performance art. On 18/11/15 at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, Gothe-Snape will present Rhetorical Chorus (LW), a performance inspired by a chance encounter with legendary conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner that explores the role of the physical body in transmitting and receiving knowledge. Her most ambitious and formal performance work to date, Rhetorical Chorus (LW) pieces together a gestural lexicon of Weiner’s hand movements, and an expanded verbal vocabulary gathered from his every text work. Rhetorical Chorus (LW) is a visual and aural collage of images, texts and sounds. It presents an improvised choral performance in the byzantine tradition of cheironomia, a musical system notated by hand gestures, accompanied by an animated digital PowerPoint presentation, each illuminating the dual lexicons of Lawrence Weiner. Unraveling the interconnected legacies and influences of modernism and conceptual art in their respective practices, Gothe-Snape follows these threads through acts of embodiment, expression and transference in this layered and multi-sensory circulation and consumption of knowledge. Gothe-Snape's work for Performa has been jointly commissioned by Performance Space, Sydney and the Keir Foundation with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts as well as private donors. Rhetorical Chorus (LW) has been selected as one of fourteen focus Performa Commissions. Other Performa Commissions for 2015 are by Ryan Gander, Jesper Just and Oscar Murillo.
» 08/10/2015: It is a pleasure to announce that a selection of Gunter Christmann's 1975 and 1977 works on paper have been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 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.
» 02/10/2015: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's video work Blood Fraction has been acquired by the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane.
» 01/10/2015: Mitch Cairns is presenting a solo, project exhibition, The Reader's Voice, at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, curated by Linda Michael. The exhibition includes a large new group of collages, a bronze and substantial new artist book that documents the new work. "Somewhere between cartoons, writing, and concrete poetry, these collages by Mitch Cairns are inspired by all these forms, and by music. As with his painting, he imposes limits that paradoxically allow freer expression; for example using French, a language he doesn’t speak, or letters to make images. Cairns plays with thoughts, ideas and memories with great economy and wit, using the now-defunct Letraset, and Zazzle stickers of images from a personal archive." exhibition dates: 24 October - 21 February.
» 29/09/2015: Tim Schultz is exhibiting a major body of work in Lurid Beauty - Australian Surrealism and its Echoes at the National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition "presents over 200 paintings, drawings, collages, sculptures, fashion, films and photographs as well as considering theatre and performance in an exuberant exploration of Surrealism and its profound influence on Australian art and creative life." The exhibition is curated by Max Delany, Simon Maidment and a curatorial team and brings together historical and contemporary works. It includes works by Leigh Bowery, Pat Brassington, Max Dupain, Dale Frank, James Gleeson, Louise Hearman, Josey Kidd Crowe, Sidney Nolan, David Noonan, Joshua Petherick, Rosslynd Piggott, Stuart Ringholt, Eric Thake, Albert Tucker. A substantial catalogue is being produced to accompany the exhibition in which Schultz's text, 'Historicism and Manic Revolt' is being reproduced in full. NGV Australia at Federation Square. Exhibition dates 09/10/15 - 31/01/16.
» 27/09/2015: Archie Moore has a solo exhibition at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at the University of South Australia as part of Tarnanthi the inaugural Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. Moore will be presenting his installation of aromatic portraits based on memory, Les Eaux d'Amoore. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with a text by Djon Mundine OAM. Exhibition dates 09/10/15 - 04/12/15.
» 27/09/2015: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting a large group of cartoons in the exhibition DEADPAN - Five Contemporary Australian Artists and Humour, curated by Abigail Moncrieff, at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition includes work by Mitch Cairns, Heath Franco, Ronnie van Hout, Z. O'Mahoney and Nat Thomas. Exhibition dates: 02/10/15 - 21/11/15.
» 21/09/2015: Review of Archie Moore's exhibition, Blood Fraction, at The Commercial by Sharne Wolff on The Art Life.
» 17/09/2015: Clare Milledge is shortlisted for the 2015 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Award. The FLMATA supports a Sydney College of the Arts graduate to continue the development of their practice through international travel. The $28,000 prize is awarded on the basis of an application and visual assessment by a panel of judges. This year's award will be announced at the opening of the exhibition at the Rozelle campus on 07/10/15.
» 16/09/2015: It is a pleasure to announce that Diena Georgetti's works COMMUNITY of the people / Nordic and COMMUNITY of the people / Bouquet have been acquired by the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand.
» 16/09/2015: It is a pleasure to announce that Mitch Cairns' work Peter Powditch has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 07/09/2015: Djon Mundine OAM, member of the Bandjalung people of northern New South Wales, curator, writer, artist and activist, will open Archie Moore's solo exhibition, Blood Fraction, at The Commercial on Saturday 12/09/15 (during Sydney Contemporary) at 6:45pm.
» 28/08/2015: Please note changes of date for Archie Moore's exhibition, Blood Fraction. The exhibition will be viewable from Wednesday 09/09/15 during normal gallery hours during the week of Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks. Opening drinks will be held Saturday, 12/09/15, 6-8pm.
» 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.
» 11/08/2015: Clare Milledge is exhibiting a series of five new glass paintings in the group exhibition, Neverwhere, at Gaia Gallery in Istanbul. Curated by Vikki McInnes, Director of Margaret Lawrence Gallery at the University of Melbourne, Neverwhere also features work of Brook Andrew, Mikala Dwyer, Tony Garifalakis, Lou Hubbard, Veronica Kent, Claire Lambe and Kathy Temin. The exhibition is supported by Asialink Arts as a part of Australia in Turkey 2015: Celebrating Contemporary Australian Culture and coincides with the opening of the Istanbul Biennale. Neverwhere exhibition dates 14/08/15 - 12/09/15.
» 23/07/2015: An interview with The Commercial and friends about the Art Money initiative that provides interest-free loans (up to $ 20,000) for buying contemporary art.
» 20/07/2015: Yasmin Smith is presenting a talk about her large ceramics installation, Ntaria Fence, at The Commercial on Saturday 25/07/15, 4pm.
» 20/07/2015: Congratulations to Emily Hunt for being shortlisted for the 2015 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) at Artspace Sydney. Valued at $ 30,000.00, "The NSW Visual Arts Fellowship is Artspace’s key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW." Finalists will present work in the exhibition, and the winner announced on Thursday 12/11/15.
» 18/07/2015: Nice coverage of recent group exhibition, TPOLR, at The Commercial, by Patrick Hartigan in his piece in this weekend's The Saturday Paper.
» 17/07/2015: Huge congratulations to Mitch Cairns for being awarded runner-up for the second consecutive year in the $ 100,000 Archibald Portrait Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for his portrait of fellow painter, Peter Powditch. The Archibald is on exhibition at the AGNSW until 27/09/15 before it goes on its regional gallery tour. Tour details on the AGNSW website.
» 10/07/2015: Hossein Ghaemi has work in the group exhibition RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, curated by Michael Do at Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest. The exhibition continues until 23/08/15.
» 09/07/2015: Congratulations to Mitch Cairns for being selected as a finalist in the 2015 Archibald Prize with his portrait of painter, Peter Powditch. "I was drawn to the idea of painting Peter after attending the recent POP to Popism exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. The inclusion of Powditch’s Seascape II to my mind reaffirmed the significance of his work. In general, Peter’s work is characterised by a directness of purpose, exemplary draftsmanship and an incisive approach to painting problems. He is an unapologetic image-maker." (Cairns) The Archibald winner is announced on Friday 17/07/15 with the exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW continuing until 27/09/15.
» 06/07/2015: Clare Milledge is interviewed by Neha Kale in issue 10 July 2016 of Vault New Art & Culture magazine.
» 02/07/2015: Archie Moore is shortlisted for the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2015 at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. His sewn linen flag series, 14 Queensland Nations (Nations Imagined by RH Mathews), is included in the exhibition. The prestigious $ 50,000.00 award is announced tomorrow night, 03/07/15, in Perth. The exhibition continues until 12/10/15.
» 01/07/2015: Latrobe Regional Gallery is exhibiting Michael Riley's 1996 documentary film, Blacktracker, a film based on the life of the artist's grandfather, Alexander Riley, a legendary tracker who worked for the NSW Police Force from 1911-1950 who "has done more to solve major crime, recapture jailbreakers and save lives than any other Aboriginal man in that state." Exhibition dates: 04/07/15 - 02/08/15
» 01/07/2015: It is a great pleasure to announce that The Commercial now represents Diena Georgetti. Georgetti (b. 1966) has been a significant figure in Australian contemporary art, making paintings that cut through expectation since the outset of her career in the late 1980s. Her work emerged within the context of the artists and curators surrounding Store 5, the influential artist-run-initiative in Melbourne, though Georgetti has gone on to mark out an idiom entirely her own, inspiring a pronounced and dedicated following particularly amongst the art cognoscenti. An overview of key exhibitions has been developed on The Commercial website. The Commercial presented two new paintings by Georgetti as part of a group exhibition at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in September 2015 both of which were acquired by the Chartwell Collection (housed by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki). Georgetti's first solo exhibition at The Commercial will be in mid-2016.
» 26/06/2015: Clare Milledge and Mary Teague have work in the painting group show, Casual Conversation, at Minerva, Sydney. The exhibition continues until 08/08/15
» 22/06/2015: Works by Mitch Cairns, Gunter Christmann, Emily Hunt, Clare Milledge, Michael Riley and Mary Teague are included in the group exhibition, Writing Art, curated by Scott Donovan, at Artspace, Sydney. "Writing Art illustrates how the use of text has evolved into an integral and multifaceted aspect of contemporary art. The use of text may be fundamentally material, focusing on the resonant connotations of words. It may be punning and self-referential. It may be spatial and constructive. It may draw close to poetry while maintaining a strong visual identity. It may be documentarian, or mockingly so, where text is suggested as part of a narrative, or fictional, archive. Ultimately, it is the sheer mutability of the textual within the context of the visual arts that allows it to keep speaking, amongst works and to an ever-growing audience receptive to the form." Opening Thursday 25/06/15, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until 16/07/15.
» 16/06/2015: Archie Moore is exhibiting in a two-person exhibition with Matt Calder, Re-locating the Land, at System Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The exhibition poses the question, "How can we know what it means to experience land in totally different parts of the world? How does the land, its raw matter and our use of it shape us and our views of ourselves?" The works by both artists replicate the raw features of their childhood environments and experiences of clay. The exhibition continues until 26/06/15 and is part of ‘A Cross-cultural Working Group on “Good Culture” and Precariousness’, the exhibition seeks to make sense of and identify paths to discussion through the radical cultural difference at play in interactions between people from Aboriginal Australian communities around Brisbane and people from Ashington, Northumberland as they develop guidelines for collective responses to insecure neoliberal circumstances."
» 09/06/2015: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's works Aboriginal Pagan, Aboriginal Anarchist and Aboriginal Percent have been acquired by Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne.
» 25/05/2015: The Commercial is pleased to announce the release of Agatha Gothe-Snape’s POWERPOINTS Catalogue (2008 - ongoing) Series 3. POWERPOINTS is an ongoing series of digital artworks that have been created with Microsoft PowerPoint. They are endless loops with sound. POWERPOINTS parallel Gothe-Snape's broader conceptual practice stemming from improvisational performance. POWERPOINTS are purchased as an entire series which is updated periodically with releases of new works similar to a subscription. Subscribers receive each new release at no extra cost. POWERPOINTS are a numbered, open edition. With the Series 3 release, there are now forty-six works in the POWERPOINTS Catalogue. POWERPOINTS can be viewed in any format that supports Microsoft PowerPoint at any scale. PowerPoint software has recently been released for smartphones and tablets (both Mac and Android). POWERPOINTS subscribers include: The Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, the University of Western Australia, Perth; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; private collections internationally. POWERPOINTS subscriptions are AUD 800.00 (incl. GST). Email subscription inquiries to [email protected].
» 21/05/2015: A review by Stella Rosa McDonald of Buruwi Burra (Three Skies) on The Art Life.
» 26/04/2015: The catalogue from Clare Milledge's 2014 exhibition, Altus Duel: Total Environment, at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, is now published, with text by Kyla McFarlane.
» 24/04/2015: The gallery is open ANZAC Day, Saturday 25/04/15, 11am-6pm. It is the final day of the Michael Snape exhibition at 146 Abercrombie Street. Emily Hunt's exhibition, Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, has been extended one week until 02/05/15.
» 13/04/2015: Ivan Cheng and Brooke Stamp are presenting a performance in the Michael Snape exhibition at 146 Abercrombie Street, Redfern (next door to The Commercial). Thursday 16/04/15, 6:30pm for 7pm start. The performance will be approximately 15-20 minutes in duration. The Michael Snape exhibition is jointly presented by The Commercial and Australian Galleries.
» 13/04/2015: The Commercial is pleased to be a registered participant in the Art Money scheme. Art Money was launched in April 2015. It provides interest free loans for buying art at participating galleries. Loans are available for artworks priced from $750 to $20,000. Art Money is delivered by 10 Group and supported by the City of Sydney as part of their Cultural Policy Action Plan. Art Money provides interest-free repayments over ten months. Contact the gallery or Art Money for more information.
» 31/03/2015: Review of Emily Hunt's solo exhibition at The Commercial, Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, written by Sharne Wolfe on The Art Life.
» 30/03/2015: The Commercial will be closed for the Easter break, Friday 03/04/15 - Tuesday 07/04/15 inclusive.
» 28/03/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape, Mitch Cairns and Gunter Christmann have work in the exhibition 21st Century Heide: The Collection Since 2000, at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. The exhibition presents 1500 artworks acquired by the Museum since the turn of the century. Exhibition dates: 28/03/15 - 14/07/15.
» 28/03/2015: Big congratulations to Hossein Ghaemi for winning (equal first prize) the 2015 Stonevilla Studios Wearable Art Prize, sponsored by Marrickville Council. The judge of this year's prize was Hany Armanious.
» 25/03/2015: Archie Moore has a new video work, Blood Fraction, in the 2015 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize that opens tonight at the National Art School Gallery in Sydney. Moore is one of twenty-one artists invited by guest curator, Tim Johnson, to make work for the prize who have in turn each invited an emerging artist to participate. Moore has invited Brisbane artist, Dale Harding. The exhibition continues until 23/05/15 at the NAS Gallery.
» 25/03/2015: Emily Hunt is presenting a talk about her current exhibition, Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence, at The Commercial on Saturday 28/03/15, 4pm.
» 23/03/2015: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial and Australian Galleries together present an exhibition of new works by Michael Snape in a temporary exhibition space at 146 Abercrombie Street, Redfern (next door to The Commercial). The exhibition comprises six major new steel sculptures and is accompanied by a text by James Angus. Exhibition dates: 28/03/15 - 25/04/15.
» 11/03/2015: The Commercial is excited to announce that Emily Hunt is the recipient of a 2015 Marten Bequest Traveling Scholarship for painting. She will use the scholarship to pursue her interests in decorative painting on ceramics in Belgium. She intends to undertake a rigorous six-month painting program at the Van der Kelen Logelain School for decorative painting in Brussels.
» 09/03/2015: Mitch Cairns is contributing to a discussion panel on the centrality of painting as part of the Art Month Sydney program. Wednesday 11/03/15, 6.30pm at King Street Gallery on William.
» 03/03/2015: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting in a group exhibition, Outside Thoughts, curated by Wes Hill at Contemporary Art Tasmania in Hobart (formally known as CAST). The exhibition includes work by Mitch Cairns, Emily Floyd, Danie Mellor and Darren Sylvester and is part of the Tasmanian International Arts Festival. Exhibition dates are 18/03/15 - 19/04/15.
» 26/02/2015: Agatha Gothe-Snape is in the '100 Contemporary Artists of Our Time' issue of Tokyo-based magazine, Bijutsu Techno, vol. 67, NO. 1019, with a text by Reuben Keehan. BT is a monthly magazine, first published in Japan in 1948 and, with the current issue, will be published in a separate English and Chinese edition to be circulated in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. Gothe-Snape (#70) is the only Australian artist in the list. Other artists include Urs Fischer, Hito Steyerl, Hernan Bas, Ryan Gander, Tino Sehgal, Sterling Ruby, Oscar Murillo, Shilpa Gupta, Simon Denny, Josh Smith, Teppei Kaneuji, Cao Fei, Thomas Houseago, Kara Walker, Pussy Riot and Eva Rothschild.
» 23/02/2015: Mitch Cairns will be giving an artist talk about his solo exhibition, FINCHES, Saturday 07/03/15, 4pm. This is an Art Month event.
» 16/02/2015: Matthew Holt's excellent text, 'Midnight All Day: Notes on Mitch Cairns' New Work', commissioned to accompany the current exhibition, is available as a pdf on The Commercial website.
» 13/02/2015: Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition, FINCHES, previewed by Sharne Wolff on The Art Life.
» 05/02/2015: Archie Moore is presenting an artist talk on his 14 Queensland Nations (Nations Imagined by RH Mathews) flag series at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute on Saturday 07/02/15, 11am.
» 01/02/2015: Archie Moore is presenting a solo exhibition of his most recent flag series, 14 Queensland Nations (Nations Imagined by RH Mathews), at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide. The series of fourteen sewn linen flags was commissioned by the University of Queensland where they were first exhibited in September 2014 followed by a second exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space in October-November 2014. The exhibition at Tandanya is Moore's first solo exhibition in South Australia. exhibition 06/02/15 - 28/03/15.
» 26/01/2015: Emily Hunt co-dictates with former Duke Magazine collaborator, Raquel Caballero, TV Tunes Dance Off at the MCA Art Bar, bringing judges Frances Barrett, David Capra and Isobel Parker Philip into the fray. Friday 30/01/15. Tickets at www.mca.com.au
» 20/01/2015: The Commercial Gallery is a nominee for the Prudential Eye Awards Best Gallery Supporting Emerging Asian Contemporary Art being announced 20/01/15 at the Sands Theatre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Both Members of the Global Eye Academy and non-members invited by the Academy's Board may be Nominators for the various award categories.
» 19/01/2015: Archie Moore is a finalist in the $ 50,000.00 2015 Western Australian Indigenous Art Award. The prestigious, non-acquisitive award was founded in 2008 and is hosted by the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The fourteen finalists are: Megan Cope, Karla Dickens, Sandra Hill, Simon Hogan, Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Nongirrnga Marawili, Archie Moore, Vincent Namatjira, Steaphan Paton, Eunice Porter, John Prince Siddon, Tjala Collaborative, Carlene West, Billy Yunkura Atkins. The winner will be announced at the opening of the exhibition at the AGWA on Friday 03/07/15. The selection panel consists of Amy Barrett-Lennard, Director of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Kimberley Moulton, writer, curator and Project Officer for the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre at the Melbourne Museum and Clotilde Bullen, Curator of Indigenous Art at the AGWA.
» 05/01/2015: Gunter Christmann's 50-year retrospective at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, curated by Lesley Harding, was named on Blouin ArtInfo's list of Ten of the Best Art Exhibitions in Australia (non-commercial) for 2014.
» 19/12/2014: Clare Milledge is one of seven artists awarded an Inaugural Artspace Non-residential Studio for 2015. Clare will begin the 12 month free studio in February 2015. A key part of the rebranding of Artspace's identity, "[t]he relaunch of the Artspace studio program as free, bolstered by curatorial advocacy, acknowledges the necessity for a studio program in Sydney that offers space for artists to create new work and involvement in a program that leverages crucial professional development opportunities."
» 13/11/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is participating in a series of artist talks at Artspace, Sydney, as part of the NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) exhibition. Agatha is exhibiting six new works from her POWERPOINTS catalogue. Artists included in the talks are Tim Bruniges, Sarah Contos, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Jonny Niesche, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Baden Pailthorpe, Leyla Stevens, Marian Tubbs and Tessa Zettel. Saturday 15/11/14, 2pm.
» 10/11/2014: Tim Schultz presented a paper on The Commercial's stand at Melbourne Art Fair 14/08/14 about three historical/historicist paintings of the 1990s. The full text is now published on The Commercial website.
» 03/11/2014: An interview with Hossein Ghaemi about his 2013 performance, THE DEFICIENT OF SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT: QUIZZING MAKES REMEDY at the Tiny Stadiums Festival in Sydney, with video footage of the performance, on the Das Platforms website.
» 29/10/2014: Coverage by Ian Warden of Archie Moore's Canberra Contemporary Art Space exhibition in today's Canberra Times. For the record, the constellation in 'Kamilaroi Nation' is the Pleiades (Seven Sisters), not the Southern Cross.
» 29/10/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Lillian O'Neil's work The Lonely Isle has been acquired by Artbank.
» 26/10/2014: Lillian O'Neil's monumental collage, The Lonely Isle, currently on exhibition at Artspace, Sydney, as part of the 2014 NSW Visual Artists Fellowship (Emerging), will be be shown at The Commercial as a single-work exhibition (as originally intended by the artist). It will be the focus of our end of year closing drinks on Friday 19/12/14 and will continue on exhibition when the galley reopens on Wednesday 14/01/15 until early February. The Lonely Isle is O'Neil's largest work to date and has been acquired by Artbank. It is the first work of O'Neil's acquired by a public collection.
» 25/10/2014: A two-minute excerpt of Hossein Ghaemi's Primavera video, 'Truth', on the website. Primavera: Young Australian Artists, curated by Mikala Dwyer, continues at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia until 30/11/14.:
» 20/10/2014: Archie Moore's 2012 work, Clover, is included in the group exhibition, 'The Subtropic Complex', at Art on James Street for Resort in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, curated by Tess Maunder. "The word subtropic has long been used as a marketing strategy and cultural signifier to promote Brisbane. The climate is used to distinguish the city from other capitals and its narrative seduces international visitors to travel and do business. Climate is a curious term, with two key meanings: the prevailing weather conditions of a region on the one hand, and as a way to describe the dominant attitudes of a place on the other. It is primarily this cultural sense of climate that can be felt in the exhibition Subtropic Complex, though there is heat." opening Thursday, 23/10/14. exhibition: 23/10/14 - 23/11/14.
» 19/10/2014: Emily Hunt is exhibiting in the group exhibition, 'Sideshow', at UTS Art gallery, Sydney. Curated by Isobel Parker Philip, the exhibition "adopts the spatial logic of the circus sideshow as an allegorical blueprint for exhibition display." It includes work by: Pat Brassington, David Capra, Christopher Day, Charles Dennington, Heath Franco, Andrew Hazewinkel, Matthew Hopkins, Emily Hunt, Anna John, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Polixeni Papapetrou, Sarah Parker and Tom Polo. Opening Tuesday 28/10/14, 6-8pm, exhibition: 28/10/14 - 28/11/14.
» 17/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a solo exhibition, 'Free Speaking', in Studio 12 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The exhibition of marks the end of her two year studio in Melbourne and comprises a series of drawings tangentially related to her work produced earlier this year for the 8th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art. exhibition 17/10/14 - 15/11/14.
» 16/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is giving an artist talk at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in relation to her work in the exhibition Framed Movements. Tuesday 21/10/14, 6pm.
» 16/10/2014: Archie Moore has a solo exhibition opening at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin. 'False Friends' foregrounds Moore’s new media practice, and involves the re-staging of earlier works alongside new works that have been specially made for the NCCA. Curated by Wes Hill, the exhibition will bring to light Moore’s interest in vacillating identities, with the artist directing his practice towards specific sociopolitical issues while shirking clear-cut resolutions. Exhibition: 17/10/14 - 08/11/14.
» 15/10/2014: Emily Hunt's works in Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists are now on The Commercial website. The exhibition, curated by Mikala Dwyer, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia continues until 30/11/14.
» 13/10/2014: Robert Pulie and Mary Teague have work in the group exhibition, 'Work', curated by Helen Johnson at the artist-run-initiative, Slopes, Melbourne. "Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of “making a living”; such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only “worker” left in a laboring society." Hannah Arendt, 1958. The exhibition continues until 01/11/14 and includes work by: Lillian Addie, Nadine Christensen, Gabriel Curtin, Ann Debono, Hamishi Farah, Katherine Hattam, Andrew Mcqualter, Aliza Nisenbaum, Nell Pearson, Robert Pulie, Kate Smith, Mary Teague, Alex Vivian. Slopes, 9 Smith Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
» 09/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Framed Movements at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. The exhibition investigates the potential that lies at the shifting boundaries between dance and art. Exploring how a movement-based approach to the occupation of time and space is practiced in dance and in the realm of contemporary art. The exhibition brings together a series of Australian and international artists who use a choreographic approach in their work. Curated by Hannah Matthews. Exhibition: 10/10/14 - 23/11/14
» 04/10/2014: Archie Moore's new linen flag series, 14 Nations, recently exhibited at the University of Queensland as part of Courting Blakness: Recalibrating knowledge in the Sandstone University, is traveling to the Nation's capital. They are being exhibited at Canberra Contemporary Art Space in Archie Moore: 14 Queensland Nations (Nations imagined by RH Mathews). Opening Friday 10/10/14, 6-8pm. exhibition dates: 10/10/14 - 15/11/14.
» 03/10/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting a new POWERPOINT in Art as a Verb at Monash University Museum of Art, a major thematic exhibition that takes as its departure point the concept of art as action. It draws upon the energy of fluxus and happenings, and looks back to dematerialisation of art. Art as a Verb presents a range of projects from the 1960s to today that challenge the traditional role of the artist and the site of the museum. exhibtion: 03/10/14 - 16/12/14
» 02/10/2014: Clare Milledge has curated an experimental laboratory, Psychomagic: Dead Matters, at the artist-run-initiative, 55 Sydenham Rd. The exhibition culminates in an event this Friday, 03/10/14. From 6pm, the final installation can be viewed before its decomposition beginning at 6.30pm with various phenomena involving Clare Milledge in collaboration with fellow artists, Ryan Bell, Kel Henderson and Hana Hoogedeure as well as Sam Wickham and David Haines and Joyce Hinterding.
» 02/10/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's work Aboriginal Rainbow has been acquired by Griffith University Art Collection, Brisbane.
» 30/09/2014: The Commercial is presenting a two-week exhibition of Mitch Cairns' cartoons to frame the launch of his new book. Dip or Skinny Dip is a compilation of cartoons by Cairns with an accompanying text intervention by Brian Fuata. It is presented as a limited edition, bespoke publication and is the first publishing project by Gang Atelier. Dip or Skinny Dip will be launched at The Commercial by Erik Jensen on Sunday 12/10/14, 4-6pm.
» 28/09/2014: James Valentine does short interviews with Primavera 2014 artists on ABC Television's The Mix 27/09/14. Now on ABC iview. Hossein Ghaemi "the works start talking to each other, they breathe on each other" (3:25 - 3:48) and Emily Hunt "a refined brokenness" (23:11 - 24:25).
» 27/09/2014: Gail Hastings is seeking support for a new studio project.
» 26/09/2014: A selection of works from Michael Riley's 1995 series, they call me niigarr, and his 1997 film, Empire, are included in the exhibition BLAK: Forced into images at AAMU - Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht. The exhibition includes work by Richard Bell, Bindi Cole, Destiny Deacon, Fiona Foley, Michael Riley and Christian Thompson. Exhibition dates 12/10/14 - 04/01/15.
» 26/09/2014: Review of Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists at the Musuem of Contemporary Art Australia by Stella Rosa McDonald on The Artlife.
» 25/09/2014: Hossein Ghaemi and Emily Hunt, along with fellow Primavera 2014 artists, Ben Denham, Nick Dorey and Marian Tubbs, are giving artist talks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia tonight, 6-7pm.
» 24/09/2014: Mary Teague's recent exhibition, Language of Art, at The Commercial has been reviewed in the September 2014 hard copy of Frieze Magazine, written by Eleanor Ivory Weber. Online for subscribers.
» 24/09/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Emily Hunt's work Dread Head June has been acquired by Artbank.
» 08/09/2014: Mitch Cairns is exhibiting in a group exhibition, No fond return of love, at the artist-run-initiative, the Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown. The exhibition includes work by Angela Brennan, Mitch Cairns, Charles Dennington and Liang Luscombe. Opening Thursday 11/09/14, 6-8pm. Exhibition: 11/09/14 - 28/09/14.
» 05/09/2014: Archie Moore has a major new body of work on exhibition at the University of Queensland. 14 Nations is a series of fourteen new flag works by Moore created for the exhibition Courting Blakness in The Great Court of the UQ St. Lucia campus. The exhibition, curated by Fiona Foley, was accompanied by a two-day symposium, Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University, at which Moore also presented a paper. 14 Nations speaks to the "public's awareness of the many nations that existed here before European arrival and this idea of nationhood." The fourteen 'nations' of Moore's flags came from the early 20th Century anthropologist, R.H. Matthews, who posited fourteen Aboriginal nations in the Queensland area. At once acknowledging Matthews' insights into the multiplicity of Aboriginal cultures but mindful of their inauthenticity, Moore created ficticious flags for each of the purported nations. The original idea for the presentation of the work, initially approved by the university, ultimately met with resistance and permission was revoked. In the end, only ten of the fourteen flags have been included in the exhibition. The four large flags intended for the flag poles on the Forgen Smith Tower allegedly contravened flag protocols and were not allowed to be installed there. A silent protest in acknowledgement of this censorship was staged at the opening of the Courting Blakness symposium. Courting Blakness, curated by Fiona Foley, includes work by Michael Cook, Megan Cope, Karla Dickens, Nathalie Harkin, Archie Moore, Ryan Presley, r e a and Christian Thompson. The Great Court, University of Queensland, St. Lucia Campus, Brisbane. Exhibition dates: 05/09/14 - 29/09/14. A publication is being produced that documents the exhibition and symposium, due to be released in 2015. The Courting Blakness exhibition is to be opened by the Hon. Linda Burney MP on Friday 05/09/14, 6-8pm.
» 27/08/2014: In lieu of a regular opening for the Gunter Christmann exhibition at The Commercial, a special Spring afternoon celebration will be held at the gallery on Saturday 20/09/14, 2-6pm. Details of the live program will be announced closer to the date. The exhibition comprises six paintings made in the year leading up to the artist's death in November 2013 and coincides with the 50-year retrospective currently on exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
» 05/08/2014: Archie Moore is exhibiting in the group exhibition, South, curated by David Corbet at Hazlehurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre. "SOUTH brings together the work of thirteen leading contemporary artists from three regions: Australia, Mexico and South Africa. While their practices and cultural backgrounds are diverse, they are united in the shared response to their identity as artists living and working in the relatively remote southern part of the world. The work presented is personal, political and socially engaged and reflects the changes in our globalised society." Artists include: Eric Bridgeman, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Hasan and Husain Essop, Michael Goldberg, Newell Harry, Archie Moore, Zanele Muholi, Diego Ramirez, Betsabeé Romero and Joan Ross. And, thank you to the writers: Pamella Dlungwana, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Kevin Murray. Opening Thursday 7 August, 6-8pm. Exhibition dates: 8 August - 6 October, 2014.
» 05/08/2014: Mitch Cairns has been shortlisted for the 2014 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The recipient of the acquisitive award will be announced on the evening of Friday 29 August and the exhibition of shortlisted works will be on display at Geelong Gallery from 30/08/14 -23/11/14. The guest judge for this year's prize is Charlotte Day, Director, Monash University Museum of Art.
» 01/08/2014: The Commercial is exhibiting three important historical paintings from the 1990s (Marquise and Psyche both 1993 and The Toilet of Venus, 1996) by Tim Schultz at Melbourne Art Fair. Schultz will present a talk about these works on The Commercial's stand (E113) at 2pm on Thursday 14/08/14.
» 29/07/2014: The Commercial is excited in anticipation of its first presentation at Melbourne Art Fair in the Royal Exhibition Building. The Vernissage takes place on Wednesday 13/07/14 between 6-10pm. The gallery will be presenting a rotating group exhibition in Stand E113 on the ground floor. Further details of the presentation will be announced shortly. Melbourne Art Fair 13/07/14 - 17/07/14. Please note that the Sydney gallery will be closed for the duration of the fair. Hossein Ghaemi's solo exhibition will continue for a week after the fair, ending 23/08/14.
» 26/07/2014: A preview of Gunter Christmann's 50-year retrospective now on at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne until 16/11/14 has been published on Art Guide, written by Megan Backhouse.
» 24/07/2014: Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, is presenting a major retrospective of Gunter Christmann's work. Curated by Lesley Harding, "'Gunter Christmann: Now and Then' is the first exhibition to survey the fifty-year career of this remarkable Australian artist. It includes sound works, photographs and drawings alongside his paintings, and traces the evolution of his major themes and series, from the geometric and constructivist abstracts, splatter and shaker box paintings through to his sensitive figure studies, silhouette paintings and landscapes." A catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition. Exhibition dates 26/07/14 - 16/11/14. Curator, Lesley Harding, is giving a floor talk Saturday 26/07/14 at 2pm.
» 23/07/2014: An interview with Mikala Dwyer, curator of this year's Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Austraila, has been published by Broadsheet. Primavera opens September 23 and includes Emily Hunt and Hossein Ghaemi, whose solo exhibition, WIDE BLUE YONDER AND THE ALMIGHTY HOOF (a painting show!), opens this Friday night at The Commercial.
» 23/07/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Octopus 14: Nothing Beside Remains that opens this Friday 25/07/14 at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The exhibition is curated by Tara McDowell and includes thirteen Australian and international artists. "The exhibition considers the building that houses Gertrude Contemporary as a living organism, accruing its history over time, with each renovation, addition, coat of paint, and temporary resident." For her work, 'An Uncertain Reader', Gothe–Snape "asks Gertrude Studio Artists from the program’s 30-year history to nominate a text that influenced them during their residence. In a performative work that concerns both immaterial labour and access to knowledge, gallery invigilators will read the collated reader during the month-long exhibition, accumulating the collective labour of their reading in the process." Exhibition dates: 25/07/14 – 23/08/14
» 18/07/2014: Mitch Cairns has been named runner-up in this year's Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales for his portrait of philanthropist Reg Richardson AM. The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow 19/07/14 and runs until 28/09/14. The Archibald then tours regionally at the following venues: 4 October 2014 – 16 November 2014: Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; 22 November 2014 – 4 January 2014: Gosford Regional Gallery; 16 January 2015 – 22 February 2015: Maitland Regional Art Gallery; 28 February 2015 – 12 April 2015: Lismore Regional Gallery; 18 April 2015 – 31 May 2015: Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery; 5 June 2015 – 19 July 2015: Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery; 24 July 2015 – 6 September 2015: Griffith Regional Art Gallery.
» 12/07/2014: Archie Moore's exhibition of aromatic portraits, Les Eaux d'Amoore, has been extended for a week, now finishing Saturday 19/07/14. Hossein Ghaemi's exhibition now opens Friday 25/07/14.
» 10/07/2014: Mitch Cairns is a finalist in the 2014 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with his portrait of philanthropist Reg Richardson AM. The winner of the Archibald is announced at noon on Friday 18/07/14, Sydney time. Cairns was a finalist in the 2013 Archibald (with a self-portrait) and a finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2013 (with a portrait of Agatha Gothe-Snape) and 2010 (with a portrait of Brian Fuata).
» 07/07/2014: A selection of Gunter Christmann works from the 1960s and 1970s are included in the group exhibition SNO 106 'Returning to The Field' at SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney. "In 1968 John Stringer was the chief exhibition officer at the National Gallery of Victoria and he was entrusted primarily to develop a temporary exhibition called The Field, for the opening of the new gallery building on St Kilda Rd." "The ideas for this exhibition [at SNO] are based on two main beliefs. Firstly, to trace the history and the critical distance that new formalist abstraction in Australian art has undertaken since 1968. The second objective is to position in this trajectory of ‘abstract’ art, a set of contemporary counterpoints that re-address some of the aspects and outcomes created by both the artists and curators at the National Gallery of Victoria at that time." (extract from letter to invited artists from Andrew Leslie & Ruark Lewis) Artists in the exhibition are Suzie Idiens, Jacky Redgate, Deborah Dawes, Jacqueline Rose, Bill Wright, Sydney Ball, Gunter Christmann, Bengitj Ngurruwuthun, Michael Johnson, Wendy Paramour, Nigel Lendon, Trevor Vickers, Lynn Eastaway, Robert Jacks. Opening Saturday 12/07/14, 3-6pm, exhibition until 24/08/14.
» 04/07/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Lillian O'Neil are two of twelve finalists selected for the 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). The 2014 presentation of the Fellowship will see the exhibition at Artspace, Sydney, transformed from a presentation of individual works to an exhibition that is supported by curatorial development and dialogue. In her inaugural curatorial role at Artspace, recently appointed Executive Director Alexie Glass-Kantor will co-curate the exhibition in collaboration with Sam Zammit, Artspace Curator of Programs and curator of the 2013 iteration of the NSW Fellowship. The winner will be awarded the fellowship (valued at $30,000) on the opening night of the exhibition, determined by a panel of peers.
» 27/06/2014: Emily Hunt has been shortlisted for the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship and will be exhibiting work toward the Scholarship at Sydney College of the Arts Galleries. The FLMATS provides financial assistance to a recent SCA graduate to further their visual arts practice and professional development in an international environment. The scholarship offers $28,000 and is awarded on the basis of an application and visual assessment by a panel of judges. The winner will be announced at SCA Galleries on Wednesday 10/07/14 at 6pm, exhibition dates 10/07/14 - 23/07/14.
» 21/06/2014: An exhibition of Gunter Christmann's late paintings is being held at The Commercial 29/08/14 - 04/10/14 to coincide with the 50 year retrospective of the artist's work presented by Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.
» 20/06/2014: The Commercial is excited in anticipation of its first presentation at Melbourne Art Fair in the Royal Exhibition Building from 13/08/14 - 17/08/14. Presented by the Melbourne Art Foundation, a not for profit organisation, Melbourne Art Fair is one of Australasia’s longest running contemporary art events. For 25 years the Fair has stimulated critical and commercial attention for galleries and their artists directly contributing to the livelihood of living artists. The Commercial will present a group exhibition in the MAF Galleries sector. Collector's passes and tickets to the opening night Vernissage on Wednesday 13 August, 6-10pm are available on the Melbourne Art Fair website.
» 16/06/2014: An extended profile on Archie Moore, including coverage of his current exhibition, Les Eaux d'Amoore at the Commercial, has been written by Simon Marsh for Panoptic Press.
» 09/06/2014: Ace Bourke, Trustee of the Michael Riley Foundation and independent curator, is guest speaker at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on Thursday 12/06/14, presenting a talk and tour of the Beauty and Strength: Portraits by Michael Riley exhibition followed by a lunch. Bookings required.
» 05/06/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's works Certain Situations, Expression Curtain and Every Artist Remembered (with Elizabeth Pulie) have been acquired by the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth.
» 29/05/2014: Hossein Ghaemi and Emily Hunt have been selected for the annual Primavera 2014: Young Australian Artists exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This year's Primavera has been curated by artist Mikala Dwyer. Of the thirteen artists she has selected for Primavera, Dwyer has said, "When I think through the work of the artists I’ve selected for Primavera, all sorts of ideas, interests and associations pop up, including Surrealism, robotics, queer fertility, ritual, time, witchcraft, science, alchemy, dreaming and telepathy." Primavera is both Ghaemi and Hunt's first major presentation of work in a public institution. Both artists are creating new work for the exhibition. dates: 23/09/14 - 30/11/14.
» 27/05/2014: The Berlin Biennale opens this week, with the vernissage on Wednesday 28 May. An extensive interview with Agatha Gothe-Snape by Sonja Hornung has been published on ArtSlant in the lead up to the exhibition.
» 23/05/2014: Mary Teague's solo exhibition, Language of Art, at The Commercial has been reviewed by Sharne Wolff on The Art Life. The exhibition continues until 07/06/14.
» 22/05/2014: Coinciding with her solo exhibition at The Commercial, Mary Teague is exhibiting a group of paintings from 2002 in We Come in Peace, a group exhibition curated by Scott Donovan at the artist-run initiative, The Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown. Including works by Stephen Birch, Kristian Overland Dahl, Mikala Dwyer, Matthys Gerber, David Haines, Sean Kerr, Mary Teague, Phillipa Veitch plus the Ralph Baron pulp Sci-Fi of the 1920s-1940s.
» 19/05/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art curated by Juan A. Gaitán. It is her first major exhibition outside Australia. Gothe-Snape has developed a text-based procedural work, Untitled (2014), for the splash page of the Berlin Biennale website: www.berlinbiennale.de. Eighty word combinations are encountered one at a time, appearing randomly. The sources of the words are mostly found texts – spoken and written. In the months leading up to the Biennale, she has been emailing the word combinations to the curator who forwards them to the London-based designers, Zak Group. In the hands of Zak Group, Gothe-Snape’s phrases are absorbed into the corporate identity of the 8th Berlin Biennale and placed between parentheses (formed by the bisected glyph of the number 8 of this Biennale’s vintage), in a space left intentionally blank. The designers juxtapose these word combinations with thumbnail images that depict cityscapes, demolition, people looking at art etc. Gothe-Snape is not involved in the choice of imagery or its placement relative to her words. Her role is not dissimilar to a copywriter though the texts are far from copywriting. During the Biennale, her word combinations will migrate and find themselves inserted on posters, banners and other ephemera surrounding the exhibition. Gothe-Snape has produced a brochure that documents the work, with commissioned essays by Emily Cormack, Georgina Criddle, Juan A. Gaitán and Erik Jensen. 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: 29/05/14 - 03/08/14. www.berlinbiennale.de. Go there and refresh your screen.
» 11/05/2014: Lillian O'Neil is presenting two major new collages and a series of seven lightboxes for Isle of Somewhere, a two-person exhibition with Laura Delaney at Melbourne's West Space, an artist-run initiative of which Lillian is a former Programming Committee Member (2009-2011). The exhibition opens Thursday 15/05/14, 6-8pm and runs until 14/06/14.
» 06/05/2014: In conversation with Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney, Mary Teague will discuss her recent international residency at the Darling Foundry, Montréal, and her solo exhibition, Language of Art, at The Commercial. Saturday 10/05/14, 1pm.
» 05/05/2014: Stephen Ralph is exhibiting in a group show, Assembly: Contemporary Ceramics, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. The exhibition includes work by Sarah crowEST, Richard Grigg, Katie Lee, Andrew McQualter, Sanné Mestrom, Stephen Ralph and Jake Walker and is curated by Kay Abude. The exhibition is part of a larger festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Lawrence, referencing her keen interest in ceramics and her ceramics collection. Assembly: Contemporary Ceramics opening: Thursday 08/05/14, 6-8pm. exhibition: until 31/05/14.
» 28/04/2014: Gail Hastings' Exhibition: To Do is a 'to-do list' for making art not yet done, a task-at-hand still at-hand, except for the construction of storage shelves that await the art, aligned in the gallery along the Earth's cardinal axes. Clarinetist Megan Clune will perform Exhibition: To Do's score of spatial intervals. Please join us for drinks with Gail Hastings on the last day of the exhibition, Saturday 03/05/14, from 4-6pm with the performance commencing at 4.45pm.
» 25/04/2014: Isobel Parker Philip goes deep into the space of Gail Hastings' eBook, Missing, in her review on The Art Life. "Gail Hastings’ e-book, Missing, is not a catalogue or a monograph. It isn’t even really that comfortable with the moniker ‘artist book’. It stakes out an entirely different territory altogether, challenging the very limits of the ‘page’. The book is not a collection of reproduced images that serve as impoverished reiterations of pre-existing artworks. It is a compendium of four discrete artworks that assert (and preserve) their own structural self-sufficiency."
» 24/04/2014: A review by Chloe Wolifson of Gail Hastings' Exhibition: To Do has been published on ArtsHub. "The visitor is invited to enter the structure, also entitled Exhibition: To Do, via an opening in its eastern wall. This has the effect of placing the viewer at the centre of Hastings’ universe. The surrounding construction is an assemblage of partitions of varying height, which expand incrementally and symmetrically on the pre-existing dimensions of the plywood (18 millimetres thick). ..."
» 16/04/2014: Easter opening hours. The Commercial will be closed for Good Friday 18/04/14 but open as usual 11am - 6pm on Saturday 19/04/14. Gail Hastings' Exhibition: To Do, will be on view.
» 09/04/2014: Michael Riley's fifteen early portraits exhibited last year at The Commercial were acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. The entire series is currently on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery 21/03/14 - 17/08/14 as Beauty and Strength: Michael Riley. They "stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment."
» 01/04/2014: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial announces that Guimard-Schlupfyr, a major work in Tim Schultz's exhibition Ornamental Perversion, has been acquired by Artbank.
» 01/04/2014: The National Gallery of Australia has recently acquired Gail Hastings' sculptuation, Corner. Corner was one of the major works exhibited by The Commercial at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair in 2013 and joins her 1996 work, Encyclopaedia of Time in Art, in the NGA collection.
» 01/04/2014: Archie Moore's major work, Black Dog, shortlisted for the University of Queensland Art Museum's National Artists' Self Portrait Prize has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. Black Dog joins Aboriginal Anarchy, Aboriginal Left and Aboriginal Right from Moore's solo exhibition, Flag, at The Commercial in 2012 in the NGA collection. ""Black Dog" resurrects a portrait of me as a racist joke- something I discovered long after it had started. (I guess you have to be in the in-crowd to hear the in-joke.) A personal event but also one universal to marginalised people."
» 01/04/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape's conceptual work, Text Work and Line Work (DO NOT APPROACH THIS END OF THE ROOM DO NOT CROSS THE YELLOW LINE), recently exhibited at Monash University Museum of Art in the exhibition Reinventing the Wheel: The Readymade Century, has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 29/03/2014: A collection of pencil on paper figure drawings by Tim Schultz dating from 1995-1999 has recently been added to the gallery website.
» 15/03/2014: On Saturday 15/03/14, The Commercial is hosting an Art Month tour for first time collectors. In association with this, we have placed a selection of suggested works on the website. Most of the works are under $ 2,000.00 though a few are a little more expensive. To view the collection, please click here.
» 13/03/2014: Gail Hastings, Robert Pulie and Mary Teague are exhibiting in the twenty year anniversary group show, 20/200, that opens tonight at Sarah Cottier Gallery. The exhibition includes a work by every artist who has ever exhibited with the gallery. Huge congratulations to Sarah and Ashley and all the artists. exhibition dates: 13/03/14 - 17/04/14
» 13/03/2014: Tim Schultz will present a talk in his exhibition, Ornamental Perversion, on Saturday 15/03/14 at 4pm.
» 28/02/2014: Gail Hastings' lastest work, Missing, is an eBook now available for pre-release on iBooks. Missing comprises four new sculptuations in the (relatively) democratic medium of the eBook. With this the artist has introduced a new physical interface, placing the viewer in a new spatial relation to the work with the added aspect of tactility. Missing is actual art, not reproductions of art, in 52 pages and has a Foreword by world-renowned art historian, Richard Shiff. ABC political journalist, Annabel Crabb, has contributed a book review of Missing. "Gail Hastings’ work achieves quite a remarkable state of grace. ..." A special rate of AU$ 14.99 for Missing is available during the iBooks pre-release period.
» 25/02/2014: As part of the series of talks around the group exhibition OUI we, Mitch Cairns and Robert Pulie will be in conversation on the last day of the exhibition, speaking about their own works and each other's. 4pm Saturday 08/03/14.
» 25/02/2014: Hossein Ghaemi is presenting a work for Plinth Projects, an artist-run public art program engaging the empty plinth at the centre of Melbourne's Edinburgh Gardens in the exhibition of temporary public works. Ghaemi's work, Bush Node and the Second Fiddle, takes place Sunday, 02/03/14 from 4pm.
» 22/02/2014: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting a newly commissioned work in 'Trace: Performance and its Documents' at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. ‘Trace draws out relationships between performance and its documents, bringing together new commissions with historical and contemporary works from across the Gallery’s Collection.' The exhibition brings together works by a large number of international and local artists, including John Baldessari, Brown Council, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Rebecca Horn, Bruce Nauman, Mike Parr, Campbell Patterson, Qin Ga; Carolee Schneemann, Sriwhana Spong, Song Dong, Ai Weiwei, Gosia Wlodarczak, Erwin Wurm, Zhang Huan. Gothe-Snape will be presenting a live performance during the exhibition, details to be announced. Exhibition dates: 22/02/14 - 27/07/14.
» 19/02/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's POWERPOINTS Catalogue has been acquired by the Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne.
» 17/02/2014: Yasmin Smith recently spent a month at Hermannsburg in Central Australia assisting the community of potters on the Old Church Project. The project's aim was to create a ceramic replica of the old Lutheran mission church, an installation with soundscape, exploring the material culture of the mission period. A short documentary about the Hermannsburg Old Church Project is being broadcast at 10am AEST on Monday 17/02/14 on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts Daily program. A live streaming of the program is available on the Radio National website.
» 17/02/2014: The March issue of Vogue Australia is devoted to "great Australian artists, the meaning of art in our lives, and, of course, its intrinsic link with fashion.” A number of artists from The Commercial feature by name and in image. In the 'Critic's Choice' article (pp. 161-166) Agatha Gothe-Snape, Gail Hastings, Archie Moore and Lillian O'Neil are nominated in profiles of respected art consultants, Mark Hughes and Amanda Love and collectors James Roland and Becky Sparks. On newstands now.
» 16/02/2014: Simon Barney, fellow artist and long time friend of Gunter Christmann, will present a talk about Gunter and his work in the gallery as part of the ongoing series of talks around the group exhibition, OUI we. Saturday 22/02/14, 4pm.
» 03/02/2014: A series of talks will accompany the group exhibition, OUI we: - Friday 07/02/14, 4pm - Gail Hastings on her sculptuation, sides: red versus blue (2009), and the creation of space in her work. - Saturday 08/02/14, 2pm - Elizbeth Pulie will talk about Agatha Gothe-Snape's work, Every Artist Remembered with Elizabeth Pulie (2009). - more talks will be announced shortly.
» 22/01/2014: A short review of Mitch Cairns' solo exhibition at the artist-run-initiative TCB art inc., Melbourne, appears in today's The Age.
» 20/01/2014: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial announces that it is representing Mitch Cairns. Cairns (b. 1984) is a Sydney-based painter who was represented by BREENSPACE, Sydney, from 2008 until its recent closure. The Commercial would like to acknowledge the good care, effort and insight that BREENSPACE invested in Mitch’s early career. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition at TCB inc., Melbourne and a Drawing Wall commission at Shepparton Art Museum, curated by Elise Routledge. His first solo exhibition at The Commercial will be in early 2015.
» 16/01/2014: Mitch Cairns has been invited to do a Drawing Wall project at Shepparton Art Museum. Curated by Elise Routledge, the Drawing Wall is an ongoing series of temporary, commissioned, site-specific works for the foyer space of the Eastbank Centre, directly outside SAM. Four artists are commissioned each year. Artists commissioned for Drawing Wall projects to date have included: Raquel Ormella, Anna Kristensen, Richard Lewer, Viv Miller, Caroline Rothwell, Justin Andrews and Agatha Gothe-Snape. Mitch Cairns, Drawing Wall #14 07/02/14 - 27/04/14.
» 15/01/2014: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's work Black Dog has been acquired by the National Gallery Australia, Canberra.
» 14/01/2014: During the last week of her solo show, Soiled, at The Commercial, Emily Hunt has work in a group exhibition curated by Elizabeth Reidy called Contemporary Fiction at the new artist-run-space called Breezeblock, Sydney. "Ron Adams, Lucas Davidson, Emily Hunt, Tom Polo & Giselle Stanborough conceptualize covers for fiction books that have resonated in their practice or life." Hunt tackles a novel called The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick. "In the future, humans have started to colonise the moons, and Mars, but life is super depressing, so people chew a lichen to have a complete out of body/reality experience. opening 16/01/14, 6-8pm. Exhibition dates: 17/01 – 09/02/14.
» 12/01/2014: Mitch Cairns has a solo exhibition, Cigarette cm, at TCB art inc., Melbourne. "The Cigarette cm is a somewhat obsolete and inaccurate unit of measurement useful for quantifying both time and space in a variety of ways." (MC and AGS) Exhibition dates 22/01/14 - 08/02/14.
» 07/01/2014: Clare Milledge is presenting a solo exhibition in the Front Gallery at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. The exhibition, Altus Duel: Total Environment, "expands Milledge’s research into the figure of the artist-shaman who gives 'the gift of sight' through painting, sculpture, costume and installation. With overtones of [Alejandro] Jodorowsky and remnants of ritualistic performance, Milledge distablises dualities in favour of ambivalence in the realm of mysticism." 01/02/14 - 01/03/14 (opening Friday 31/01/14, 6-8pm).
» 30/12/2013: Gunter Christmann obituary by John McPhee in the Sydney Morning Herald 30/12/13. Gunter Christmann: "I cover flat areas with paint."
» 24/12/2013: On the last day of her solo exhibition, Soiled, Emily Hunt will be giving a floor talk in the gallery. 4pm Saturday 18/01/14.
» 21/12/2013: A number of previews and reviews of Emily Hunt's exhibition, Soiled, have been published online: Sammy Preston on broadsheet.com.au, Rebecca Gallo on ravencontemporary.com.au, Tracey Clement on artguide.com.au, Bethany Small on thethousands.com.au.
» 17/12/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's work Text Work and Line Work has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 27/11/2013: The gallery will be closed 1- 6pm on Wednesday 27/11/13 due to Gunter Christmann's funeral. Apologies for any inconvenience to those wishing to visit the Robert Pulie exhibition at that time.
» 23/11/2013: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gunter Christmann (23/04/36 - 19/11/13). It was a privilege to have worked with Gunter for the short time that we did and to have known him. Gunter was a great and singular artist and individual whose work – which encompassed painting but also photography and sound sculpture – shifted constantly and until his last days, shaped by his endless reassessment of his own actions and his disavowal of general expectations and rules. A bohemian and an intellectual. A playful mind. We are big fans of his style, the style of his work and the style with which he chose to live his life. We acknowledge his beloved Jenny in this. A retrospective of Gunter Christmann’s work is being presented by Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 26/07/14 – 09/11/14. Vale Gunter. A service will be held on Wednesday 27//11/13 at the South Chapel, Eastern Suburbs Crematorium, Military Road, Matraville commencing at 2.15pm. All welcome.
» 18/11/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting 24 works from her ongoing POWERPOINTS CATALOGUE as part of Melbourne Now at the National Gallery of Victoria, the largest exhibition in the museum's history. The exhibition includes over 300 artists and incorporates art, architecture, design, performance and broader cultural practice. Melbourne Now will take place across both museum venues: NGV Australia and NGV International. Gothe-Snape's works will be exhibited at NGV International on St Kilda Rd. POWERPOINTS will be exhibited on 24 screens concurrently. POWERPOINTS is an ongoing series of digital works created by Gothe-Snape in Microsoft PowerPoint. They are available as a subscription. Subscribers receive the entire back catalogue of works going back to 2008 on a customised USB card and all updates into the future by email. To inquire about POWERPOINTS subscriptions, please write to: [email protected]. Melbourne Now exhibition dates: 22/11/13 - 23/03/14
» 11/11/2013: Hossein Ghaemi has developed a new choral performance for Tiny Stadiums 13, an annual festival that takes place in Erskineville, Sydney, over two weeks this month. In Ghaemi's work, THE DEFICIENT OF SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT: QUIZZING MAKES REMEDY, "Three warriors rise up from three unique and elevated positions to engage in a combat of sonic ‘questions’ as their weapons. These distinct and powerful voices become sweet remedy for serenity as individual uncertainties melt." Location: Triangle of Erskineville Hotel, Erskineville Town Hall and Allans Cakes building – 104 Erskineville Road. Two Saturday performances: 16/11/13 and 23/11/13, 6-7pm
» 08/11/2013: Review of Natalya Hughes' exhibition, Looking Twice, by Chloé Wolifson on her new website. Wolifson is now working full-time as an independent arts writer and curator.
» 06/11/2013: Hossein Ghaemi has been shortlisted for the Fisher's Ghost Art Award - Contemporary Award section - at Campbelltown Arts Centre. The Award is launched Friday 08/11/13 from 7pm. Exhibition continues until 16/12/13.
» 04/11/2013: Lillian O'Neil has been nominated as one of twenty artists in 'The Next Generation' in the December issue of New York's Architectural Digest, nominated by Mark Hughes.
» 01/11/2013: Andrew Liversidge has a solo exhibition at the artist-run-initiative, TCB art inc, Melbourne. THINGS THAT ARE THE SAME ARE THE SAME EVERYWHERE continues until 23/11/13
» 01/11/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Agatha Gothe-Snape's POWERPOINTS Catalogue has been acquired by the National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne.
» 30/10/2013: Andrew Liversidge's cube of 10,000 AUD 1.00 coins, IN MY MIND I KNOW WHAT I THINK BUT THAT’S ONLY BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE, finds a fan in Robert Nelson in his review in The Age of Reinventing the Wheel - The Readymade Century at Monash University Museum of Art. "One of the strongest pieces is a handsome golden cube made up of dollar coins from 2009. The artist, Andrew Liversidge, didn't personally mint the coins but borrowed them from the bank. The coins are individually a kind of ready-made but the artwork is the outcome of ingenious transformation. To call the creation a ready-made stretches the definition. There are 100 stacks of 100 coins. Placing them all in their straight columns would have taken some time and patience; but above all, it's the inventive idea - almost a coup of mathematics - that reveals the intervention of the artist. The result is an archaic gilded temple of small change, a vault without an interior, a chamber that is solid with its own treasure, a storage of pure bullion that seems to weigh on the floor, as if tangibly stamping the awesome footprint of capital."
» 15/10/2013: Archie Moore has been selected for the National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize at the University of Queensland Art Museum, a biennial award that highlights the enduring importance of self portraiture as an artistic subject. UQ Art Museum is developing the National Collection of Artists' Self-Portraits and this acquisitive prize serves to highlight the strength of contemporary Australian self portraiture. The Prize and Collection understand the self portrait in an inclusive way that invites a broad term of reference in both media and meaning. Moore's sculpture, Black Dog, is a taxidermy dog that has been coloured black with shoe polish, wearing a collar and a name tag that says 'Archie'.
» 14/10/2013: Mary Teague's work Offering (2012) has been selected as a finalist in the 2013 62nd Blake Prize. Established in 1951, the Blake Prize is an open art prize that challenges artists to explore the religious and spiritual in art. It is open to all faiths, artistic styles and media. The Blake Prize Exhibition will be held in the new University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts (COFA) gallery space from 18/10/13 - 16/10/13.
» 13/10/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Yasmin Smith are two of five alumni of Sydney College of the Arts shortlisted for the 2013 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists' Travel Scholarship Prize. The scholarship was established to provide financial assistance to a recent SCA graduate to further his/her visual arts practice and professional development in an international environment. The scholarship offers $28,000 and is awarded on the basis of an application and visual assessment by a panel of judges. Major works by the artists will be on exhibition at SCA 17/10/13 - 25/10/13. Announcement of the prize and opening event takes place on Wednesday 16/10/13, 5.30-8pm.
» 09/10/2013: Lillian O'Neil is exhibiting in an exhibition of international collage, In the Cut, curated by Hannah Matthews at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (ACCA). O'Neil's monumental 2012 work, Attack of the Romance, has been selected for the show. In the Cut brings together 16 artists to look at how collage has been employed over the past two decades to question the political and social status quo, manipulate existing narratives, and challenge conventional distinctions between art forms. Artists in the exhibition include: Ellen Gallagher, Richard Larter, Linder Sterling, Elizabeth Newman, David Maljkovic, Henning Bohl, Tom Burr, Nikolas Gambaroff, Matthew Griffin, Mathew Hale, Ry Haskings, Henrik Olesen, Lillian O’Neil, Lia Perjovschi, Amanda Ross-Ho, Kelley Walker. Exhibition dates: 10/10/13 - 24/11/13.
» 01/10/2013: Mary Teague and Sara Oscar are presenting a collaborative work for Mildura Palimpsest Biennial #9 in Mildura, Victoria. The artists are recreating the WORLD'S LONGEST BAR (formerly a stylish feature of the Mildura Working Man's Club) on the lawns of the Old Mildura Homestead on Sunday 6 October from 12.30pm. Merchandising (t-shirts, beer coasters) has been produced to accompany the performance and ephemeral sculpture.
» 30/09/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Andrew Liversidge are both exhibiting at Monash University Museum of Art in the exhibition, Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century. Curated by former MUMA Director, Max Delany, with Charlotte Day, Francis E. Parker and Patrice Sharkey, the exhibition is the most ambitious exhibition that MUMA has presented to date, "[b]ringing together works by over forty artists – from Duchamp and Man Ray to Andy Warhol and Martin Creed, along with some of Australia’s leadingpractitioners – this is a one-of-a-kind salute to an idea that continues to define the very nature of contemporary art." exhibition dates: 3 October - 14 December. (Andrew Liversidge's project is supported by the Bank of Melbourne.)
» 14/09/2013: The Commercial is excited in anticipation of the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair. It is the first art fair for the gallery. There are three separate projects by gallery artists. We are presenting a solo exhibition of Gail Hastings' work in Project Contemporary (PC102), Yasmin Smith has been selected for the Installation Contemporary section (IC11) and Andrew Liversidge has been selected for the Video Contemporary section. Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, VIP Preview and First Night Thursday 19 September. Fair dates 20-22 September.
» 12/09/2013: Yasmin Smith has been selected to exhibit in Installation Contemporary, the curated section for installation and oversized work at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair. Smith is producing a major new group of large ceramic works, an extension of her Apprentice Welder series seen in her solo exhibition at The Commercial earlier this year. Installation Contemporary is curated by Aaron Seeto, Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Sydney Contemporary is being held at Carriageworks between Thursday 19 and Sunday 22 September. Yasmin Smith, Installation Contemporary, IC11.
» 12/09/2013: Andrew Liversidge has been selected to exhibit in the Video Contemporary section at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair. His video work, Clearing the Mists, is being presented. Video Contemporary is curated by Mark Feary, Curator, Artspace, Sydney. Sydney Contemporary is being held at Carriageworks between Thursday 19 and Sunday 22 September. Liversidge's Video Contemporary presentation coincides with the opening of his first solo exhibition, at The Commercial, opening Saturday 21 September.
» 02/09/2013: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial announces that it is representing Gail Hastings and that it will be presenting a solo exhibition of her work at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair 19-22 September 2013 (Booth PC102). It is the first presentation for the gallery at an art fair and it is exciting to be showing work by this important mid-career Australian artist. Hastings (b. 1965) has been exhibiting for over twenty-five years with an international exhibition history of significance since the mid-1990s. She was in the inaugural Primavera exhibition of emerging art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 1992 (and curated the ten year anniversary Primavera exhibition in 2001). In her early career, she was associated with the influential Melbourne artist-run-initiative, Store 5. In 2007, Hastings had a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Level 2 Contemporary Projects space. All works from this exhibition were acquired by the AGNSW and the Daimler Contemporary Art Collection in Berlin. Hastings' work is held locally in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Cruthers Collection at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at the University of Western Australia, the Gallery of Modern Art | Queensland Art Gallery, Griffith University Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Monash University Collection, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the National Gallery of Australia. Major holdings of her work are in the Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, with further international holdings in the Citibank Collection, New York and the GAP Art Collection, Los Angeles. Recent important international exhibitions include Minimalism and Applied II, Dialogues of contemporary art with aspects of 20th century design and architecture (2010) curated by Renate Wiehager at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, which included artists such as Martin Boyce, Philippe Parreno, Charlotte Perriand, Charlotte Posenenske and Jean Prouvé.
» 27/08/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Michael Riley's series Portraits 1984-1990 have been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
» 17/08/2013: The next major installment in Andrew Liversidge's ongoing coin melt series, For the Avoidance of Doubt (Quid Pro Quo and the Golden Torpor), is being exhibited at Artspace Sydney this week in The Financial Report, an exhibition curated by Mark Feary. The Financial Report draws on questions surrounding how artists are impacted by and attempt to reveal and subvert the complex mechanisms of monetary systems, while acknowledging the impossibility of comprehensively averting the permeating influences of these systems. The exhibition includes work by Denis Beaubois, Melanie Gilligan, Matthew Griffin, Christian Jankowski, Andrew Liversidge, Dane Mitchell and Natalie Thomas. The Financial Report opens Wednesday 21 August, 6-8pm with artist/curator talks at 5pm the day of the opening. Exhibition dates 21 August - 29 September 2013
» 09/08/2013: Archie Moore's work, Snowdome, has been shortlisted in the New Media section of the 30th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award Exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. The sculpture includes an LCD display with a series of slides of nuclear weapons tests at Maralinga, Emu Fields and the Montebello Islands between 1952 and 1957. Exhibition dates 09/08/13 - 10/11/13.
» 26/07/2013: Proceeds from the sale of Jenny Christmann's work in JANIS II are being donated to Skateistan, a not for profit organisation helping young girls and working children in Afghanistan and Cambodia, as specified by Gunter Christmann, Jenny's husband.
» 26/07/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been included in the exhibition Octopus 13: On this day alone, at Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne. Curated by Glenn Barkley, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, the exhibition includes work by: Anselm Adams, Tim Burns, Kushana Bush, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Patrick Hartigan, Joanna Margaret Paul, Madeleine Preston and Luke Willis Thompson. Exhibition dates 25.07.13 – 23.08.13
» 23/07/2013: Sarah Rodigari has developed a new performance work, Act Natural, for the group exhibition, JANIS II. Rodigari’s performances reside in a continuing redefinition of the relationship between artist and audience, calling into question the limits of artistic practice. These limits enable her to explore key themes of vulnerability and absence and presence pertaining to authorship. JANIS II is a two-venue exhibition held jointly at The Commercial and MCLEMOI Gallery in Chippendale, curated by Kelly Doley and Amanda Rowell. Act Natural will be presented at the exhibition opening at MCLEMOI Gallery on Friday 26 July between 6 and 9pm. Act Natural requires only one viewer at a time. It is an editioned performance work. Viewers are invited to purchase in advance of the night one of the 18 editions of the live artwork that is Act Natural. Each edition is approximately 10 minutes in duration. While the work is editioned, each experience is unique in its one-on-one encounter. It will be distinctly memorable in the moment and in the future. Each edition is $ 250.00 (incl. GST). To purchase an edition of Act Natural, please contact The Commercial or MCLEMOI Gallery.
» 07/07/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in a two-person exhibition, Taking form, with New Zealand artist, Sriwhana Spong, at the Level 2 Contemporary Projects space at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. The exhibition brings together new works by Gothe-Snape and Spong, incorporating installation, sculptural objects, video and live performance. Works engage with ideas of process and transformation, as well as the dialogue between history and the present. exhibition opens: Wednesday 17 July, 6-8pm artists talks: Saturday 20 July, 2pm Gothe-Snape performance: Sunday 1 September, 4pm exhibition dates: 17 July - 1 September 2013
» 05/07/2013: Clare Milledge is included in the Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. Until 25 August, 2013.
» 05/07/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a temporal, temporary collaborative work on the facade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Commissioned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority for the exterior of the scaffolding during the Museum's facade cleaning, Gothe-Snape has developed the evolving text-based work with New Zealand artist, Mike Hewson. IT XXXXX XX (2013) is a six-story high digitial print on adhesive vinyl.
» 21/06/2013: Works by Michael Riley from the private collection of Will Owen and Harvey Wagner are currently on exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in the USA. Crossing Cultures - The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art was curated by Stephen Gilchrist and presented first at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, before travelling to Toledo. These works by Riley will form part of the permanent collection of the Hood Museum as part of the promised gift from Owen and Wagner. The exhibition in Toledo continues until 14 July, 2013. A 169 page catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition.
» 12/06/2013: It is with honour that The Commercial Gallery announces that it is representing the Estate of the Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi photographer and filmmaker Michael Riley (1960-2004) in association with the Michael Riley Foundation. An exhibition of estate prints of Riley’s important early black and white portraits is being presented, opening on Friday 28 June 2013. Proceeds from sales will enable philanthropic activities by the Michael Riley Foundation in Michael's memory as an extension of its role as custodian of his artistic legacy. The Trustees of the Michael Riley Foundation are Hetti Perkins, Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and Linda Burney MP. Michael Riley: Portraits 1984-1990 will be opened by Brenda L. Croft, curator of Michael Riley: sights unseen, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2006.
» 12/06/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith's work Apprentice Welder has been acquired by Artbank.
» 01/06/2013: Works by Archie Moore and Michael Riley are included in the exhibition My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. The exhibition is QAG|GOMA’s largest exhibition of contemporary art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to date. It examines the strengths of the Gallery’s holdings and explores three central themes — presenting Indigenous views of history (My history), responding to contemporary politics and experiences (My life), and illustrating connections to place (My country). Until 7 October, 2013.
» 22/05/2013: Mary Teague is the recipient of the 2013 New South Wales Visual Artist Residency at the Darling Foundry in Montréal, Canada. During her three month residency in Canada Mary will research the city's legacy of Brutalist architecture and the historic Expo 67 in preparation for a new body of work. The Montréal studio is a three month residency and is administered by Artspace, Sydney, in partnership with the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW and Canada Council for the Arts.
» 01/05/2013: Andrew Liversidge (nominated by Bronia Iwanczak) and Robert Pulie (invited by Julie Rrap) have been selected for the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize at the National Art School Gallery, guest curator Julie Rrap. Exhibition dates 3 May - 1 June, 2013.
» 01/05/2013: A review by Djon Mundine OAM of Archie Moore's solo exhibition, Flag, at The Commercial appears as a feature article in Issue 3 of Vault magazine. It begins, "Flags are a sign of group identity and allegiance at a base level, but they are also visual signals to others of intent, movement, or call to action, or condition (as in infectious disease or hunger or thirst)."
» 26/04/2013: Gail Hastings is exhibiting in the exhibition Direct Democracy curated by Geraldine Barlow at Monash University Museum of Art. The exhibition explores the changing nature of our engagement with the democratic tradition and looks to the emergence of new democratic models. It reflects contemporary social movements, unrest and the desire for change; modelling key social dynamics and possible futures. Artists include Laylah Ali, Hany Armanious, Natalie Bookchin, A Centre for Everything, DAMP, Destiny Deacon, Alicia Frankovich, Will French, Gail Hastings, Alex Martinis Roe, Andrew McQualter, John Miller, Alex Monteith, Raquel Ormella, Mike Parr, Simon Perry, Carl Scrase, Milica Tomic, Kostis Velonis and Jemima Wyman. MUMA, Caufield Campus. Exhibition dates 26/04/13 - 06/06/13.
» 19/04/2013: Lillian O'Neil is exhibiting in a group show, Pantone 705 C, at The Mews Project in London. The exhibition uses Pantone colour 705 C as a device to physically bind the artworks together and to create a broader metaphor for a type of artistic production whose qualities derive from an interest in structure or systems. Pantone 705 C focuses on abstract art making and the construction of visual and spatial notions of form and space. The show is an exercise in exploring the immersive and sensual qualities of colour guided by the mechanics of Pantone’s colour-library. The exhibition includes work by: Marita Fraser, Axel Koschier, Alex Lawler, Lillian O'Neil, Florian & Michael Quistrebert. Exhibition dates: 20/04/13 – 18/05/13. The Mews Project Space 15c Osborn Street, London E1 6TD.
» 12/04/2013: Lillian O'Neil is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, at UTS Gallery at the University of Technology, Sydney. Curated by Adam Jasper and Holly Williams, the exhibition combines projects from New York magazine, Cabinet, with museum pieces and works by Australian and international artists. Artists in the exhibition include: Daniel Knorr, Patrick Pound, Gianni Motti, Hany Armanious, Maria Friberg, Roman Signer, Sarah Pickering, Nicholas Mangan, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Vicky Browne, the Institute of Critical Zoologists, Michael Stevenson, Jaki Middleton & David Lawrey, Nadia Wagner, Alex Gawronski, Lillian O’Neil, Matthew Shannon and Finn Marchant. Exhibition dates: 16 April - 15 May, 2013.
» 18/03/2013: Hossein Ghaemi is presenting a new choral performance on Friday 22/03/13 at Art Bar at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. This Art Bar is curated by Sydney artist, Michaela Gleave. Hossein Ghaemi's performance starts at 7.30pm at the MCA. Further information regarding Art Bar is available on the MCA website.
» 14/03/2013: DROSZKHI PERFORMANCE. On the second day of Clare Milledge's Motivated Reasoning: Strategic, Tactical, Operational, the exhibition will be auspiciously activated by a live music performance by Droszkhi, the psychedelic spectral drone project of New Zealand artist and musician, Torben Tilly. Following in the spirit of his previous electronic duo Minit (together with Jasmine Guffond) and more recent sonic explorations with the group Full Fucking Moon (Bek Coogan, Andy Wright, Steve Heather), Droszkhi pulls into its orbit layer upon spectral layer of sampled field recordings, electronics, synths, percussion & other mixed-media to produce a psychedelic sound world of mind-expanding elliptical loops, discombobulated rhythms, electric pulses, and cosmic drones. Saturday 23/03/13, 4.30 for a 5.00pm start.
» 11/03/2013: Coinciding with her first solo exhibition at The Commercial, Clare Milledge has been invited to a group exhibition called The Sleeping and The Dead at Sarah Scout Presents in Melbourne. The exhibition includes work by Sarah Crowest, Bianca Hester and Clare Milledge. Exhibition dates 14/03/12 - 13/04/13.
» 07/03/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has a solo exhibition at The Physics Room in Christchurch, New Zealand. For The Physics Room, Gothe-Snape will incorporate some first impressions of the gallery space, its situation and community, highlighting how fast meetings can generate fast feelings, new perspectives and reflections. Exhibition dates 15/03/13 - 14/04/13
» 20/02/2013: A feature article on Gunter Christmann will appear in the 50 year anniversary issue of Art & Australia, published May 2013. Written by Meredith Morse, the article situates Christmann's recent paintings in the context of his wider art practice in particular with reference to their aggregation of time, their openness to flux and their indebtedness to process.
» 20/02/2013: As part of Art Month Sydney, there will be a special, one-off screening of rare Gunter Christmann slide carousels. During the 1970s and early 1980s, Gunter Christmann produced a number of photographic series in the form of slide carousels. Each carousel contains 80 slides on a specific theme (e.g. garbage/found slides, East Sydney, New York, split images). Mostly unseen, these atmospheric works encapsulate the artist's broader interests in image making and abstraction. A selection of carousels will be projected in the gallery. Saturday 09/03/13, from 3pm.
» 08/02/2013: Emily Hunt is exhibiting in a three-person exhibition with Matthew P Hopkins and Vicki Papageorgopoulous at Tin Sheds Gallery, The University of Sydney. The exhibition, Two Dollar Pareidolia, is a collaborative installation where the phenomenon of pareidolia (the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features) is explored through a range of absurdist forms. As a psychological phenomenon, pareidolia transfers randomness into something we want to see and, largely associated with divine and religious imagery, is often a result of what we want to believe. This human desire to read something meaningful into inanimate objects is challenged by the artists through a grotesque compulsion to put a face on everything. Two Dollar Pareidolia opens Thursday 14/02/13, 6-8pm and continues until 04/03/13. Tin Sheds Gallery 148 City Road Faculty of Architecture Design and Planning Wilkinson Building, The University of Sydney
» 08/02/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape has been awarded a two-year studio at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. She will take up the studio in February 2013.
» 10/01/2013: Emily Hunt is undertaking a residency from July - September 2013 at the Zentrum für Keramik (Center for Ceramics) in Berlin where she will work with ceramics master, Thomas Hirschler. The Berlin residency builds upon her 2011 exchange scholarship working in ceramics at Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst in Ghent.
» 07/01/2013: 2013 begins, at The Commercial, with a profile in The New York Times in a story about Redfern.
» 20/12/2012: The Commercial will be open until Saturday 22/12/12 and then will reopen for the new year on 23/01/13. The Hossein Ghaemi exhibition will still be up for the first week back in the new year 23/01/13 - 25/01/13, prior to installing Lillian O'Neil's show which opens 01/02/13. For further information about the forthcoming exhibition schedule at The Commercial for 2013, please consult The Program section of the website. We are excited about the year ahead. Thank you to everyone for your interest and support in 2012. PEACE.
» 20/12/2012: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's works Aboriginal Anarchy, Aboriginal Left and Aboriginal Right have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
» 03/12/2012: Due to the opening of the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, the opening drinks for the Hossein Ghaemi exhibition are being delayed one week. The exhibition will be open to the public from Friday 07/12/12 until Saturday 22/12/12 and then again after the Christmas break from 23/01/13 until 25/01/13. The opening event for the artist and exhibition and end of year drinks is on Friday 14/12/12, from 6-8pm
» 26/11/2012: Carrie Miller has reviewed Archie Moore's exhibition, Flag, on The Art Life.
» 23/11/2012: Agatha Gothe-Snape is exhibiting in Amsterdam in INexactly THIS - Kunstvlaai: Festival of Independents as part of the presentation by (Sydney's) Society (aka Susan Gibb). KFI is a multi-disciplinary arts festival. Since its inception in 1997, it has been the largest non-commercial exhibition of visual arts in the Netherlands, a platform for independent art institutions, art schools and artist-run initiatives. Approximately 70 institutions participate annually, exhibiting the work of over 350 international artists. The 2012 edition of KFI is curated by Natasha Ginwala (IND) and Fleur van Muiswinkel (NL). Exhibition dates 23/11/12 - 02/12/12.
» 22/11/2012: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's works Aboriginal Deadly and Aboriginal Peace have been acquired by UTS Jumbunna, The University of Technology, Sydney.
» 21/11/2012: It is a pleasure to announce that Archie Moore's work Aboriginal Heart has been acquired by The University of Technology, Sydney.
» 12/11/2012: Agatha Gothe-Snape recently completed a Drawing Wall project at Shepparton Art Museum. Curated by Elise Routledge, the Drawing Wall is an ongoing series of temporary, commissioned, site-specific works for the foyer space of the Eastbank Centre, directly outside SAM. Four artists are commissioned each year. Nine artists have been commissioned for Drawing Wall projects to date including: Anna Kristensen, Richard Lewer, Viv Miller, Caroline Rothwell, Justin Andrews and Agatha Gothe-Snape.
» 12/11/2012: We like seeing writers from this corner of the globe contributing to international art journals. Charlotte Day's recent Year in Review in Frieze singles out Agatha Gothe-Snape's monumental text mural in Contemporary Australia: Women at QAG | GOMA earlier this year (curated by Julie Ewington et al). The Commercial also rates a mention.
» 09/11/2012: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Reality Considerations (for the sake of), at 55 Sydenham Rd. The exhibition is curated by Eleonor Ivory Weber and includes work by Filipa César, Bea Fremderman, Georgia Kaw, Asta, Meldal Lynge and Yasmin Smith. It opens Friday 09/11/12, 6pm until late. The exhibition includes a performance program and publication: Performances by Brian Fuata (17.11.12) and Matte Rochford (1.12.12). The publication has been designed by Richard Houguez and includes written contributions from : Catherine Borra, Tom Clark, Amelia Groom, João Laia, JD Reforma, David Smail and Eleonor Ivory Weber. Further ... Amelia Groom and Eleonor Ivory Weber will have "a counter-productive conversation on fashion (24.11.12), and each Saturday at 3pm (or by request) they will screen the documentary 'Hidden Depths' (1989) directed by the late Nina Burr for Thames TV and featuring psychologist David Smail." exhibition dates: 09/11/12 - 02/12/12 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville
» 28/10/2012: Archie Moore's work, Dermis, exhibited in ONE/THREE, the inaugural exhibition at The Commercial, and acquired by the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane (Moore is QUT alumnus), is being included in the exhibition Ex Post Triennial, the first of an ongoing series of triennial exhibitions that showcases QUT alumni. The artists in Ex Post are: Lucy Griggs, Simone Hine, Judith Kentish, Archie Moore, Sandra Selig and Shaun O'Connor. Exhibition dates 3 November - 23 December, 2012.
» 25/10/2012: Lillian O'Neil was awarded the Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artist Exchange Scholarship at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. O'Neil will use the scholarship to undertake a period of research at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel in 2013 as part of her Masters of Fine Arts.
» 23/10/2012: Natalya Hughes is exhibiting in SEXES at Performance Space, Sydney opening Thursday 25 October, 6-8pm. The exhibition runs until 1 December and is curated by Bec Dean, Deborah Kelly and Jeff Kahn.
» 09/10/2012: Archie Moore is performing as part of Eggvein (a musical collaboration with David M Thomas and co.) at Peloton, Sydney on Saturday November 3 at 8pm. Eggvein's performance is part of Performance Month, a four-week long event curated by Francesca Heinz which showcases performance and performance based-work from Australian and international artists. Eggvein, featuring David Eggveinian, Rand M Strange, D'White Yokem and Magnus O'Pus.
» 28/09/2012: Heide Museum of Modern Art is presenting a retrospective of Gunter Christmann's work in 2014, curated by Lesley Harding. It will be the first museum survey of this kind for Christmann who has featured in important historical exhibitions such as The Field, National Gallery of Victoria (1968), the XI Biennale of Sao Paolo (1971) and the 1st and 4th Biennales of Sydney (1973 and 1982).
» 21/09/2012: To coincide with his exhibition, Blood Red Make-up Under the Armpits, Tim Schultz will be in conversation with fellow artist, Matthys Gerber and writer/lecturer, Adam Jasper. Saturday 22/09/12, from 4pm at The Commercial.
» 21/09/2012: Natalya Hughes has a solo exhibition, If the Curtains Match the Carpet, at Sydney Guild, opening Friday 21 September, 6-8pm. Suite seven, level one, 66 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. This is a two-day exhibition, continuing Saturday 22 September, 11am - 2pm.
» 18/09/2012: Gunter Christmann has a solo exhibition, Eyes and Mind, curated by George Hubbard and Robert Lake at East Sydney Doctors, Sydney. 102 Burton Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney. Exhibition dates: 18/09/12 - 27/10/12.
» 15/09/2012: Hossein Ghaemi is performing at St Stephen's Church and Graveyard, Newtown, as part of Performance Space's NightTime: Twilight, curated by Bec Dean. St Stephen's Church & Graveyard 189 Church Street, Newtown, from 5pm. $ 10 entry.
» 14/09/2012: Archie Moore is presenting a new video work developed from footage from a recent trip to Tokyo in Experimenta - Speak to Me: 5th International Biennale of Media Art, RMIT, Melbourne. Exhibition dates: 14/09/12 - 17/11/12.
» 13/09/2012: An artist publication has been produced to accompany Tim Schultz's solo exhibition at The Commercial, Blood Red Make-up Under the Armpits. It is 16 pages long, includes full colour reproductions of all the works in the exhibition and a long essay by the artist. It is available from the gallery for $ 5.00 (incl. GST)
» 01/09/2012: Monash University Museum of Art has acquired a recent painting, Human Progression and Other Modernist Myths, by Clare Milledge. The work was included in the exhibition Un-Acclimatised, curated by Catherine Bennetts-Cash, at MUMA in early 2012. It relates to two other paintings, Spiritually Dangerous (2010) (private collection, Sydney) and About (2012).
» 01/09/2012: Yasmin Smith and fellow artist, Alex Pye, have initiated an open-format artist residency called Dark tea time of the soul in Cumnock in rural New South Wales, near the regional centre of Orange. Inquire through Dark tea time of the soul’s Facebook page for information about the residency.
» 01/09/2012: Two Stephen Ralph sculptures have been acquired by Artbank, Artemis of Ephesus and Altar of Adonis. Both sculptures are 24 carat gold leaf on cast concrete and carved wood. These are the first works of Ralph's to be placed in a public collection.
» 02/08/2012: Emily Hunt has been included in the group exhibition, Feminage - the logic of feminist collage, at Cross Art, Sydney, curated by Jo Holder with assistant curator Sofia Freeman. Feminage frames collage as one aspect of the diverse legacy of feminist art practice. Hunt has produced two collaged watercolour portraits for the exhibition: Germaine Greer and Richard Neville. Artists in the exhibition include: Karla Dickens, Elizabeth Gower, Emily Hunt, Mehwish Iqbal, Deborah Kelly, Fiona MacDonald, Paula do Prado, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Sally Smart, Tai Snaith, Nancy Spero, Jemima Wyman. Exhibition dates: 02/08/12 - 15/09/12.
» 01/08/2012: An interview with The Commercial by Amber McCulloch is featured in the inaugural issue of Vault - New Art & Culture Preview (edited by Ashley Crawford & Dan Rule).
» 01/08/2012: Queensland University of Technology has acquired Archie Moore's work Dermis exhibited in ONE/THREE, the inaugural exhibition at The Commercial.
» 10/07/2012: Heide Museum of Modern Art have acquired Agatha Gothe-Snape's The surface of the moon (2012) exhibited in ONE/THREE, the inaugural exhibition at The Commercial.
» 20/06/2012: Andrew Liversidge's video, NEW ECONOMY (if I had a dollar for every time I picked up a dollar i'd have a dollar and i'd throw it down again), is included in the exhibition Or Either Silver Lining at TCB art Inc., Melbourne. Curated by Lisa Radford, the exhibition includes work by Greatest Hits, DAMP, Ronnie van Hout and Andrew Liversidge. Or Either Silver Lining is an exhibition of video works that use play and performance, boredom and repetition to explore boundaries of control, production, value and activity. Exhibition dates: 20/06/12 - 07/07/12.
» 20/06/2012: Robert Pulie's major sculpture in ONE/THREE, W (version 3) (2012), was acquired by Artbank. The sculpture comprises four sheets of mirror set at right angles to each other so that the viewer has their image returned to them as a true image not a mirror reversal as with a regular mirror. The work also features copper, brass and cedar detailing. This was the first sale for the gallery in its inaugural exhibition. The Commercial would like to thank Artbank for its interest and support.