January, 2007
Art and culture have a unique ability through empathy and identification to galvanise society.

'Voiceless: I feel therefore I am' is an exhibition in which a selection of leading emerging and established artists reflect on the connections between ourselves and other species in the light of the widespread human use of animals and the cruelty surrounding our dealings with them.

The artists are Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Peter Booth, Simon Cooper, Chayni Henry, Zhang Huan, Sam Jinks, Madeleine Kelly, The Kingpins, Cassandra Laing, Janet Laurence, James Morrison, Kate Rhode, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Louise Weaver and Guan Wei.

Associate Professor Charles Green, Reader in Contemporary International and Australian Art at The University of Melbourne, is the curator of the exhibition.

Hugo Weaving and Abbie Cornish will be present at the opening night, scheduled for 5.30–8.30 pm on Thursday, 22 February 2007.

Exhibition dates: 23 February - 10 March 2007

SUPPORTING THE VOICELESS EXHIBITION
In the lead up to the exhibition, members of the public are encouraged to pledge their support for this exhibition by marking Thursday 22 February 2007a Commitment to Animals Day. For more information and to pledge support – visit http://www.voiceless.org.au/pledge.htm

'Voiceless: I feel therefore I am' has been generously supported by Voiceless, the fund for animals, and Ondine and Brian Sherman. With thanks to Otto Ristorante and Macro Wholefoods Market for their additional support; and to Art & Australia, Pig in the House (Organic Wine), Dinosaur Designs and Dr Charles Green for their kind assistance.

July, 2005
Man's destiny resides in the Sole

This installation is about life being like a journey whose pathways are long and winding with forks and crossroads encountered along the way. There is an age-old dialectic as to whether life's choices are made of free will or whether one's destiny is already inscribed into the 'internal template' - the soul. The shoes' uppers display motifs adapted from labyrinth designs - the labyrinth being a metaphor for the journey of life and self-discovery. The shoes' soles display words which refer to the land.

July, 2007
Michael Landy - one of the notorious Goldsmiths College graduates who stepped into public view through the Damien Hirst's 1988 exhibition Freeze - will talk about his work in a panel discussion to be held at Sherman Galleries on Saturday 21 July.

The discussion focuses on Landy's current Sherman Galleries exhibtion, 'Man in Oxford Street is Auto-destructive'. It will be led by Andrea Stretton, with Tony Bond AM and Dr Peter Hill joining Landy on the panel.

Landy is best known for his mammoth artwork, 'Break Down, 2001 (and the television documentary that followed it), during which an airport-type carousel in a vacant Oxford Street shop delivered all his worldly goods (7227 objects) into the hands of a team of helpers who systematically destroyed them.

Many tons of shredded leftovers were sent for landfill, although some was reclaimed to be on-sold as art objects.

Since then, Landy has created a series of drawings of weeds and entirely rebuilt his parents’ house inside Tate Britain.

The Sherman works are part of his prolific series of drawings based on the sculptor Jean Tinguely’s self-destructing machine, Homage to New York, constructed in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art in 1960.

For almost two years, Landy has been obsessively working on a range of drawings in charcoal, ink, oilstick, glue and gouache, all of which reveal both his extraordinary draughtsmanship and his far-reaching concern with concepts of auto-destruction in art.

VENUE: Sherman Galleries, 16-20 Goodhope Street, Paddington NSW 2021

DATE: 21 July 2007

TIME: 4-6 pm

March, 2007
American curator and art historian Robert Storr has selected Shaun Gladwell to participate in the 52nd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

This follows Shaun's representation in the 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo and the Busan Biennale in 2006, and, more recently, in exhibitions in Bangkok, Rome and Oslo.

Shaun's work for Venice will be filmed at Broken Hill in New South Wales, with imagery inspired by themes of drought and apocalyptic change.

He comments: 'I’ll be doing some motorcycle riding along the white lines of the outback roads. There will be a strong impression of open highways set against the vastness of the Australian outback.'

Shaun says he is honoured to be represented in Venice: 'The idea of presenting work to such a large international audience is, for me, the great thrill of participating in this biennale.'

Shaun's new work has been made possible by his Australia Council Fellowship of $90,000, awarded in 2006.

Exhibition dates: 10 June – 21 November 2007

January, 2007
Voiceless, the not-for-profit organisation, was founded in 2004 by Brian Sherman AM and his daughter Ondine Sherman and is the inspiration behind the exhibition.

The stated mission of Voiceless is ‘to promote respect and compassion for animals, increase awareness of the conditions in which they live and take action to protect animals from suffering’. See http://www.voiceless.org.au/

Voiceless, the organisation, will announce successful recipients of its 2006 Voiceless Grants – including Animal Club school-grant awardees – at an awards presentation on Thursday, 22 February at 11.00 am.

'Voiceless: I feel therefore I am' is being mounted at a time when public awareness of environmental damage and the abuse of animals is rising exponentially, with visual arts exhibitions and publications nationally and internationally focusing on aspects of these issues.

In 2006, these exhibitions and events included:

'Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video' in New York, foregrounds concerns about natural disasters and global environmental change.

'The Idea of the Animal', a Melbourne International Arts Festival exhibition at RMIT Gallery investigates the complex relationship between humans and animals in contemporary visual culture.

A dedicated ‘Animals’ issue of Photofile magazine includes an article by Ondine Sherman on the gap between visual representation of farm animals and the miserable realities of their existence (December 2006 – March 2007).

December, 2006
Kutlug Ataman's video installation, 'De-Regulation', opens at the Herzliya Museum's Centre for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv on 2 December. The exhibition is curated by Irit Rogoff.

'De-Regulation' is part of VideoZone3, the 3rd International Video Art Biennial.

Exhibition dates 29 November – 4 December 2006

If you happen to be in Tel Aviv ... Kutlug will give talks at The Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, MFA Programme Tel Aviv, on Friday 1 December (11.00 am) and at The Center for Contemporary Art on Saturday 2 December (midday).

Continuing the good news, along with 40 artists from around the world, Kutlug has been invited to participate in the 'Grand Promenade', a series of urban interventions taking place before the inauguration of the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Athens in 2008.

The interventions will create an 'open' museum intended to unify the rich cultural heritage of Athens with its daily life and multicultural reality.

July, 2006
Sherman Galleries will be presenting fourteen artists at the Melbourne Art Fair from 2 to 6 August.

They are Jirrawun artists Paddy Bedford, Rammey Ramsay and Freddy Timms, with Kutlug Ataman, Gordon Bennett, Shane Cotton, Daniel Crooks, Shaun Gladwell, Zhang Huan, Shigeyuki Kihara, Mike Parr, Stelarc, Imants Tillers and Hossein Valamanesh.

November, 2006
Gordon Bennett, Guan Wei and John Young are represented in the S.H. Ervin Gallery's fifth annual presentation of art seen in Sydney during 2006. Also included was the exhibition 'Poor Yorick' curated by Anthony Whelan, which included works by Shaun Gladwell, Imants Tillers, Tim Storrier and Michael Lindeman.

This dynamic and popular exhibition gives viewers the chance to revisit works they enjoyed (or missed) during the year.

Exhibition dates 11 November – 17 December 2006

September, 2006
Hot on the heels of their powerful recent exhibitions at Sherman Galleries and Orange Regional Gallery, the Jirrawun chicks are opening in Rene Block's exhibition, 'Art, Life and Confusion' in Belgrade.

For Ramona, Remika, Tennielle and Vondean Nocketta, it has been a radiant, rapid-fire journey from the Kimberley to the Museum of 25th May in the Serbian capital.


Exhibition dates 29 September – 5 November 2006

January, 2007
With his lucrative Australia Council Fellowship assisting in the creation of new work, Shaun Gladwell recently particpated in the 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo and the Busan Biennale.

Now his work is to be shown in forthcoming exhibitions in Bangkok, Rome and Oslo.

Curator David Brooker's 'Streetworks: Inside Outside Yokohama', a 'two-hander' with video works by Shaun and Craig Walsh, will open on 1 February at the Art Centre, Chulalongkom University, in Bangkok.

Exhibition dates: 2 February - 6 March 2007

Soon afterwards, on 9 February, Shaun will be represented with three other young video artists in Stephen Hepworth's exhibition, 'Collezione #2', at Brancolini Grimaldi Art Contemporanea in Rome.

The artists 'share an interest in the humour, physical comedy and technical innovations of early Hollywood cinema'.

Exhibition dates 9 February - 4 March 2007

Shaun's celebrated video work, 'Storm Sequence', 2000, will open in March at Bastard, Oslo, as part of a series of exhibitions curated by Lina Selander and Marianne Zamecznik. The series, titled 'Mute', opened on 22 January.

Exhibition dates 5 - 11 March 2007

November, 2006
Currently showing with 35 other contemporary artists in Catherine Wolfhagen's 'Salon' exhibition at Bett Gallery Hobart, Peter Atkins' work is threading its way through eastern Australia in several group exhibitions – 'Strange Cargo' (touring), 'Found Out' and 'Mulitiplicity', an exhibition of small tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Wokshop made during 2006.

Atkins' small tapestries were made during his May/June 2006 residency at the workshop and exhibited under the title, 'Special Projects #2: Remnant Threads'.

In a unique twist, Atkins created 12 works from the cottons and yarns discarded by Ken Whisson, Pedro Wonaeamirri, Angela Brennan, Louise Forthun, John Young, Jon Cattapan and Rosella Namok during their 2006 residences at the workshop.

The varying palettes of these artists are reflected in Atkins' panels, the threads bound together in meticulous horizontal designs. His interest lies, he says, 'in continuing the story of these threads, documenting their inherent history, celebrating at once "what was" and "what is now".'

Exhibition venues and dates
'Multiplicity: Small Tapestry Show 2006', Victorian Tapestry Workshop, 11 November 2006 – 2 February 2007
'Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter', Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 21 October – 3 December 2006
'Found Out', Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, November – 10 December 2006
'Salon', Bett Gallery Hobart, 7 November – 5 December 2006

August, 2006
Funding for 'Crytosphere', the work to be completed by Simeon Nelson during his residency at the Royal Geographic Society, London, was provided by the Leverhulme Foundation and Arts Council England in 2006.

2006 was a good year for Nelson, with his elevation to Reader in Sculpture, School of Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire; the commissioning of a public sculpture for a site near Melbourne; and the installation of another commissioned work, 'Wahlverwandschaft', at Melbourne's Deakin University.

Nelson's permanent installation for the William Barak Bridge (linking Melbourne city with the Melbourne Cricket Ground) was commissioned to celebrate the 2006 Commowealth Games. Sound artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth collaborated on the work, producing recordings of Australian residents from 53 Commonwealth countries to create 'a sonic corridor of human voices'.

In 2005, Simeon Nelson's magnificent 'Wall Zip (for Brancusi and Barnett Newman)' was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, following its exhibition in the NGA's National Sculpture Prize.

A full-page reproduction of 'Wall Zip' is to be found in our anniversary publication, 'Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986–2006' (p. 203).

January, 2007
Mike Parr's work is represented in Michael Desmond's 'Truth and Likeness' exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House, Canberra.

Proving popular with art aficionados and the public alike, this exhibition questions the importance of likeness to contemporary portraits. In other words, does truth in portraiture necessarily imply realism?

Exhibition dates 24 November 2006 - 9 April 2007

October, 2006
'Prism: Contemporary Australian Art' – an exciting exhibition at the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo – is featuring some of Australia's top artists.

Sherman Galleries' artists Imants Tillers, Hossein Valamanesh, Clinton Nain, Freddy Timms and Gordon Bennett are among 37 Australian artists represented in this prestigious event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Ishibashi Foundation.

The exhibition is focused on Australia's cultural identity and is held within the context of the '2006 Australia – Japan Year of Exchange'.

Exhibition dates 7 October – 3 December 2006

October, 2004
Photographic, film and video artist DANIEL CROOKS, who was shown in 2004: Australian Art Now at Melbourne’s ACMI, in Primavera at the MCA, Sydney and at ZKM, Germany (both 2003). Crooks combines technical mastery with poetic sensibility to create works that distort time and perspective.

March, 2007
Congratulations to Philip Wolfhagen for winning the prestigious Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize for 2007 with his painting, 'Winter Nocturne IV'.

Writing about his fascination with nature, light and colour in the catalogue essay for his 2006 exhibition at Sherman Galleries, 'Night Visions', Philip said:

'I always return to the foundation stone of my art making, which is about the rendering of illusory space; about the power of the illusory mark – the exhilaration of the moment when the prerequisite factors align themselves and anything is possible. This is what keeps my desire to paint alive. The moments when the great alignment occurs are rare but the daily rituals of going to the studio and mixing colour, painting landscape, are a means to keep a hold, to maintain connections to landscape and nature.'

Exhibition dates: 3 March – 13 May 2007

August, 2006
A Craftsman House/Thames & Hudson Australia monograph on Guan Wei, with essays by Asian art specialists Dinah Dysart, Natalie King and Hou Hanru (recently appointed Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at San Francisco Art Institute), was launched at the opening of his exhibition, ‘Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fables for a Contemporary World’, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

The Guan Wei monograph was published with the generous assistance of the Sherman Foundation, the Australia Council and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne.

‘Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fables for a Contemporary World’ is a fantastic and beautiful installation which includes murals created by Guan Wei conjuring imagined histories of Australia - had early Chinese explorers settled the Great South Land.

Combined with objects chosen by Guan Wei from the Powerhouse Museum collection, the exhibition functions (in the artist's words) as a 'floating, poetic corridor in which history and memory, fact and fiction are blurred'.

Exhibition dates 18 September 2006 – 22 April 2007

‘Other Histories’ is showing simultaneously with the major Powerhouse exhibition, ‘Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors’.

Exhibition dates 28 September 2006 – 25 February 2007

Guan Wei’s Sherman Galleries exhibition, ‘Echo’, was similarly on view from 19 October – 4 November 2006.

October, 2004
Photographic artist LYNNE ROBERTS-GOODWIN, who works with international scientific research communities on projects relating to endangered species. Large-scale colour images of hunting falcons in the Arabian desert (ACP, Sydney, 2003) and red deer caught in the live trade from Australia to Korea (Contemporary Projects, AGNSW, Sydney, 1998) stand among her acclaimed exhibitions to date.

March, 2007

Works by Lauren Berkowitz, Vanila Netto and Lynne Roberts-Goodwin are currently on exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne.

Vanila and Lynne are represented with six works each in the Zara Stanhope's exhibition, 'Perfect for Every Occasion: Photography Today', while Lauren has created a beautiful new indoor installation of indigenous, native and exotic plants titled 'Demeter's Garden'.

This work complements the recently completed permanent outdoor work 'Karakarook’s Garden', 2005–06, sited near Heide I, which acknowledges Wurrundjeri understanding of local botany and complements John and Sunday Reed’s European-inspired kitchen gardens.

Exhibition dates: Perfect for Every Occasion: 17 March – 1 July 2007; Demeter's Garden: 3 March – 24 June 2007

January, 2007

Congratulations to Monika Tichacek on winning the 2006 $25,000 Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts with her powerful video installation, The Shadowers, 2004.

Shown at Sherman Galleries in 2005, The Shadowers explores the complex physical and emotional relationships between three female protagonists, one of whom is the artist. Passages of surreal beauty, intimacy and cruelty unfold in a highly theatrical interplay of submission and control. The Tango, body piercing and vampirism bind the shadowers in episodes that reference feminist performance art and contemporary horror cinema.

Now living in Sydney, Swiss-born Monika Tichacek established her reputation with the similarly transgressive performance, video and photographic works, Lineage of the Divine (2002) and I Wanna be Loved by You (2000), dealing with transsexual relationships, celebrity and surgical body alteration.

Sherman Galleries' artist Daniel Crooks is among the other six finalists in the 2006 Anne Landa Award, now showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Judges were Edmund Capon (Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales); Linda Michael (Curator, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 2006); and Natasha Bullock (Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales).

Exhibition dates 17 November 2006 – 11 February 2007

July, 2006
Daniel Crooks has produced a new body of work for his solo exhibition at the artist-run initiative, Kings ARI in Melbourne.

Exhibition dates 14 July – 5 August

He is also represented with Shaun Gladwell in the touring exhibition, ‘Experimenta: Under the Radar’, showing at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, UK until 28 August 2006.

July, 2006
Dani Marti is among 51 artists represented in 'Goods to Declare: MFA International', an exhibition celebrating the centenary of the Academy and held at Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv.

The artists are currently graduating from 15 international MFA and Advanced Studies Programs in fine art. The exhibition is timely, aiming to create a platform for dialogue and exchange of ideas between artists of the same generation from different places and cultures.

Exhibition dates 18–30 July 2006

October, 2004
Robert Owen has been honoured as exhibiting artist for the second Balnaves Foundation sculpture project at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Robert Owen - Different Lights Cast Different Shadows
16 October – 28 November

Robert owen's work will be included in site: [unseen], an exhibition of sculpture and installation art by Sherman Galleries and invited artists at Depot Gallery, Danks Street, Waterloo
24 November – 4 December

In 2005, Owen will exhibit new works at Sherman Galleries in the gallery and sculpture court
10 February – 5 March

January, 2007

Recently represented in 'Wave Front: Australian Contemporary Art Scene', on exhibition at the Tokyo Wonder Site in Shibuya - Shaun Gladwell and Daniel Crooks continue their 'Sherman double act' in the touring exhibition, 'Experimenta: Vanishing Point', soon to open at Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland.

Exhibition dates: 31 March – 13 May 2007

September, 2006
Into Me / Out of Me

Mike Parr is enjoying a stellar year with representation in the Klaus Biesenbach-curated exhibition at PS1 at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is about the act of passing into, through and out of the human body.

Exhibition dates 25 June – 30 October 2006

Mike's work is soon to be featured in an exhibition curated by Michael Desmond at the National Potrait Gallery in Canberra titled 'Truth and Likeness'.

Exhibition dates 24 November 2006 – 9 April 2007

These exhibitions follow Mike's performance ‘Amerika’, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; the critically acclaimed exhibition, ‘Volte Face: Mike Parr Prints and Pre-prints 1970–2005’, at the Museum of Contemporary Art; his representation in the (almost concurrent) MCA exhibition, ‘Masquerade: Representation and the Self in Contemporary Art’ and the Newcastle Region Art Gallery’s groundbreaking exhibition, ‘Cut Your Throat an Inch at a Time: A Survey of the Work of Mike Parr 1970–2005’.

October, 2004
New Zealand-born SHANE COTTON, whose work explores the boundaries between the cultures of Maori and Pakeha. A major publication accompanies Cotton’s important ten-year survey exhibition at City Gallery Wellington (2003) and Auckland Art Gallery (2004).

January, 2007
A beautifully illustrated monograph on Guan Wei - with essays by Asian art specialists Dinah Dysart, Natalie King and Hou Hanru (recently appointed Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at San Francisco Art Institute) - was launched at the opening of his exhibition, ‘Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fables for a Contemporary World’, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

The Guan Wei monograph was published by Craftsman House (Thames & Hudson Australia) with the generous assistance of the Sherman Foundation and the Australia Council, with additional assistance from Arc One Gallery, Melbourne.

‘Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fables for a Contemporary World’ is a fantastic and beautiful installation which includes murals created by Guan Wei conjuring imagined histories of Australia - had early Chinese explorers settled the Great South Land.

Combined with objects chosen by Guan Wei from the Powerhouse Museum collection, the exhibition functions (in the artist's words) as a 'floating, poetic corridor in which history and memory, fact and fiction are blurred'.

Exhibition dates 18 September 2006 – 22 April 2007

January, 2007
Picking up the threads is exactly what Peter Atkins did during his residency at Melbourne's Victorian tapestry Workshop in May-June 2006.

Rather than consigning them to the rubbish bin, Atkins created 12 works from the cottons and yarns discarded by fellow workshop residents Ken Whisson, Pedro Wonaeamirri, Angela Brennan, Louise Forthun, John Young, Jon Cattapan and Rosella Namok.

Atkins's panels reflect the varying palettes of these artists, the threads bound together in meticulous horizontal designs. His interest lies, he says, 'in continuing the story of these threads, documenting their inherent history, celebrating at once "what was" and "what is now".

Atkins's tapestries are currently on exhibition as part of 'Multiplicity: Small Tapestry Show 2006' at the Victorian Tapestry Workshop.

Exhibition dates: Until 2 February 2007

September, 2006

Audiences will enjoy new works by Daniel Crooks and Shaun Gladwell in the exhibition, 'Experimenta: Vanishing Point', currently showing at The Bakery in Perth, Western Australia.

The exhibition is being held in association with the Awesome Youth Arts Festival.

Exhibition dates 11 November – 3 December 2006

July, 2006

one world many visions

Imants Tillers’s major survey exhibition has opened at the National Gallery of Australia. Curated by Dr Deborah Hart, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, the exhibition focuses on the artist’s vast and ongoing canvasboard project, with displays of key works from the 1986 Biennale of Venice, the Diaspora series, 1990s, the Nature Speaks series, 2002–06 and Terra Incognita, 2005.

Imants will discuss his survey exhibition in an interview on Sunday Arts, ABC TV, on 6 August 2006.

Exhibition dates 14 July – 22 October 2006

May, 2007
Michael Lindeman has been enjoying his New York ISCP (international studio & curatorial program) residency, along with particpants from 20 countries, whose artworks and projects will feature at the bi-annual Open Studio Weekend (4-7 May).

The ultimate goal of ISCP is to promote awareness of the diversity of global artistic expression.

This will be the last Open Studio Weekend to be held at ISCP's premises at 323 West 39th Street before they move to a larger, more flexible city space.

Michael's 20 paintings – taking a wry look at the art market through advertisements for artworks in local newspapers – will open soon afterwards at Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, in a group exhibition titled 'Ceci n'est pas ...'

Exhibition dates 27 June – 17 August 2007

April, 2007
April 2007
Into Me /Out of Me

Into Me/Out of Me, the PS1/MOMA touring exhibition curated by Klaus Biesenbach, has opened in Italy at Rome's Museo D’Arte Contemporanea. Including signature works by Mike Parr, the exhibition is about the act of passing into, through and out of the human body.

Exhibition dates 20 April – 30 September 2007

September, 2006
Much admired for the strength and subtlety of his art,
Hossein Valamanesh will show works in two exhibitions at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales – 'Strange Cargo: Contemporary Art as a State of Encounter' and, this time next year, 'Material World'.

Exhibition dates 21 October – 3 December 2006 and
20 October – 9 December 2007

He is also represented in 'Found Out' at Lake Macquarie Regional Gallery, New South Wales.

Exhibition dates 3 November – 10 December 2006

September, 2006
Janet Laurence is represented among leading Sydney-based architects in the 'Supermodels' exhibition – part of the St Margarets Design and Architecture Festival in Surry Hills, Sydney.

Known for her collaborative work with Australian and international architects, this exhibition will give the public an opportunity to view architectural models on display at the trendy St Margarets urban village complex.

Exhibition dates 2 – 24 September 2006

This is a timely honour for Janet Laurence, who recently was awarded a 2006 Churchill Fellowship.

The fellowship will allow Janet access to and dialogue with international institutions and contacts in the fields of art, architecture and the environment. This, in turn, will create possibilities for her work to reach an international audience – importantly, providing an Australian voice within this international dialogue.

August, 2006

Shaun Gladwell is one of five outstanding young visual artists whose significant achievements have been richly rewarded with a 2006 Australia Council Fellowship of $90,000.

Such generous assistance will allow the artists to reach 'new creative heights'.

According to Australia Council Director Anna Waldmann: ‘These fellowships recognise a very high level of achievement in visual arts and are only granted once in an artist's lifetime ... the fellowships ... will help build their already significant international and national reputations, and assist the artists to create exciting new works'.

Lauren Berkowitz, Marion Borgelt, Mel O'Callaghan and Jennifer Turpin were also successful in the recent round of Visual Arts Board Grants.

Lauren, Marion and Jennifer received New Work Grants to assist in the creation of sculptural installations, taking Marion to Murano, Italy, to work with master glassblowers, while Mel will produce a new video work and exhibition catalogue.

January, 2007
TWENTY: SHERMAN GALLERIES 1986–2006
Published by Craftsman House, Melbourne, 2006

This 304-page publication, edited by Laura Murray Cree, with a preface by Edmund Capon AM OBE, includes essays by Dr Gene Sherman, Simeon Kronenberg, Michael Desmond and Leon Paroissien AM, with William Wright AM in conversation with Tony Bond.

TWENTY covers the genesis and history of the gallery, placing Sherman Galleries’ artists within a broader national and international context. Combining research, comment and personal anecdote, TWENTY is illustrated with archival photographs and features a substantial colour section of iconic works by gallery artists and their portrait photographs by Hari Ho.

September, 2006
Shaun Gladwell continues his dream run in 2006 with representation in international biennales in Busan and Sao Paulo – and other international representation.

Following the ‘Busan Biennale 2006: Everywhere’, curated by Manu Park at the Busan Museum of Modern Art in Busan, South Korea, Shaun travelled to Brazil for the opening of the 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo, ‘How to Live Together’, curated by Lisette Lagnado.

Exhibition dates 7 October – December 2006

Other international exhibitions representing work by Shaun have included 'Art ConneXions' at ifa Gallery in Berlin.

Shaun is now undertaking a residency at the Tokyo Wonder Site in Shibuya, Tokyo until January 2007.

And both Shaun and Daniel Crooks will show works in the Experimenta touring exhibition, ‘Under the Radar’, which opens in November at the Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London. For more details, see http://www.experimenta.org

Exhibition dates 18 November – 2 December 2006

July, 2006
‘Ten[d]ancy' features site-specific installations by eight local and international contemporary artists, who were invited to ‘engage critically’ with the architecture and colonial ethos of the former Macleay family home at Elizabeth Bay. Shaun Gladwell is included in this exhibition/intervention, curated by Sally Breen and Tania Doropoulos.

Exhibition dates 7 July – 22 October 2006

November, 2006
Daniel Crooks, already represented in important group exhibitions – 'Wave Front: Australian Contemporary Art Scene' (Japan); 'Experimenta: Under the Radar'(UK); and 'Experimenta: Vanishing Point' (Australia) – is soon to mount a solo exhibition at remo in Osaka, Japan.

Titled 'Exchange of Viewpoints', Daniel will also be speaking at the symposium, 'The Photography and Moving Images of Today', Osaka Electro-Communication University (Shijonawate Campus).

Exhibition dates 23 November – 17 December 2006

July, 2006
Jacky Redgate, Imants Tillers and Hossein Valamanesh are finalists in the 2006 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, curated by Kelly Gellatly and Jason Smith.

Exhibition dates 24 August – 22 October

July, 2006
Goji Hamada, the director and architect of the new Art Centre in Aomori, Japan, has invited Hossein Valamanesh and three other international artists to participate in a residency on the theme of ephemeral art.

Aomori is a town on the main island in the far north, by the sea.The summer residency will conclude with an exhibition of works.