EXHIBITION PROGRAM: CURRENT

Here and There: Sheila White
Foyer Gallery: 14 January to 12 February 2012
Sheila White is a painter who uses expressive colour and gestural mark making to depict the character of a place.

Her extensive worldwide travel and love of the natural environment influence her vibrant depictions of nature and culture.

This collection of recent landscape paintings is inspired by visits to Scotland, Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria and local areas.

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MAYS: May Lane Street Art Project.
Gallery One: 4 February to 25 March 2012
This groundbreaking exhibition of street art by leading Australian and international graff artists features a selection of 25 works from the May’s collection and is the first comprehensive exhibition of street art to tour nationally. MAY’S: The May Lane Street Art Project is a survey of the artworks created at May Lane in the inner city suburb of St Peters, Sydney, between 2005 and 2010. Tugi Balog, Director of the May Lane Arts Association Inc., has been documenting the May Lane project since 2005 when he turned the walls of his business into an outdoor gallery space for street artists. As a result, May’s has a collection of over 100 panels by celebrated Australian and international street
artists spanning the life of the project and incorporating all the artists who have created work in May Lane.

A partnership project between Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and the May Lane Arts Association Inc., the exhibition explores the history and evolution of the Australian street art movement with particular reference to the May Lane project and provides an opportunity to enter into a dialogue with audiences about street artists, street art, and itsposition in contemporary culture.

Curated by Tugi Balog, Director of the May Lane Arts Association Inc., the exhibition includes work by: Adam Hill, B.U.G.A.U.P., Chor Boogie (USA), Deb, Die Laughing Collective, Dlux!, Dmote, Cultural Urge, Jumbo, Kenji Nakayama (USA/Japan), Kamion (UK), Luna, Mare, Mini Graff, Nails, Numskull, Otis, Peque (Mexico), Peru, Peter Burgess, Phibs, Scram, Spice, Taring Padi Collective (Indonesia), Zap and Zombe.

This exhibition is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions.

Image credits from top:DIE LAUGHING COLLECTIVE, Sic Semper Tyrannus, 2009, 235 x 160cm, aerosol on primed board. © the artists. Photo: Sharon Hickey. MINI GRAFF, Suburban Roadhouse no. 5, 2010, 235 x 160cm, acrylic, stenciled aerosol on primed board. © the artist. Photo: Sharon Hickey. B.U.G.A.U.P., Write of Reply, 2007, 360 x 276cm, aerosol and acrylic on primed board. © the artists. Photo: Sharon Hickey

Free Artist Talk
Sat 4 Feb 11-12pm
Join exhibition Curator Tugi Balong, the Director of Bathhurst Regional Gallery Richard Perram and artist Mini Graff for a free floor talk.

Workshop & Demonstration
Sat 10 March 10am-4pm
The team from Response Art and Design (RAD) will print designs inspired by the MAY’S: The May Lane Street Art Project exhibition. Simply bring your digital design (JPEG format) and RAD will help create and scan the artwork on the day.

Free Artist Talk
Sat 10 March 11am-12pm Free Talk & Tour
You are invited to a free guided Tour of May’s Lane exhibition by one of our experienced Gosford Regional Gallery Guides followed by a free talk from Response art & Design Coordinator Jamie Conroy on their business and training opportunities they provide for young people. Venue: Main Gallery

Workshop & Demonstration
Sun 11 March 10am-4pm
The team from Response Art and Design (RAD) will print your designs inspired by the MAY’S: The May Lane Street Art Project exhibition. Simply bring your digital design (JPEG format) and RAD will help create and scan your artwork. Venue: Studio Gallery

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Hidden Gems
Foyer Gallery: 4 February to 18 March
An initiative of the Gosford City Council Status of Women Committee celebrates International Women’s Day (8 March 2012). The exhibition brings together six accomplished female artists from the Central Coast: Jane Barrow, Margaret Finney, Margaret Fortey, Janet Hoyer Cobb, Jennifer Munday, Ana Pollak.

Image: Janet Hoyer Cobb, Treads of Time

Free Artist Talk
Audrey McDonald
Audrey is a community representative on the Gosford Council Status of Women Committee and is here to speak about the international and national origins and history of International Women's Day which had its 100th anniversary last year 2011. Audrey has had a long involvement in the women's movement and with the celebration of International Women's Day going back to the 1950s when she was Secretary of the Sydney IWD Committee. Venue: Main Gallery

Free Artist Talk
Sat 25 Feb 2-3pm -Margaret Fortey
We are very pleased to announce that popular local artist Margaret Fortey will be here to give a public talk on her selected paintings.
Venue: Main Gallery

Free Artist Talk
Sat 3 March 2-3pm - Janet Cobb & Margaret Finney
As Part of ‘Hidden Gems’ International Women’s Day Exhibition, artist Janet Cobb will be at the Gallery to talk about her selected artworks. Margaret Finney will talk about the conceptual ideas behind her prints. She will also explain why printmaking is such a great medium for artists to explore.

Free Artist Talk
Sat 17 March 1-2pm - Jenni Munday
Artist Jenni Munday will be at the Gallery to give a public talk on her selected textiles on show in the exhibition and her working practice in general.

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EXHIBITION PROGRAM: FORTHCOMING

A Central Vision
Foyer Gallery: 16 February to 14 March 2012
A Central Vision celebrates the achievements of Central Coast Secondary Public Schools within the Visual Arts arena.

In 2011 around 80 students were selected from over 300 entries from the 14 participating high schools from all over the Central Coast.

Free Artist Talk
Sat 18 Feb 2-3pm
A selection of students from this exhibition will talk about their selected artworks. Venue: Foyer Gallery

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Shadow Play: Barrie Flakelar
Foyer Gallery: 17 March to 11 April 2012
Barrie Flakelar is a professional photographer based in Orange, NSW. Throughout his international career he worked with various high profile magazines and television projects.

Shadow Play is an exhibition of recent photographs that depict the mystery and intrigue of shadows. He explores the playful movement of shadows as they adapt to different qualities of light, from sharply defined presence in the noonday sun to long and thin in the late afternoon light.

Free Artist Talk
Sat 24 March 2-3pm
Artist Barrie Flakelar will talk about his photography exhibition. Venue: Main Gallery

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Dadang Christanto: Survivor
Gallery One: 1 April to 20 May 2012
Survivor is a major performance by Brisbane-based Dadang Christanto, a significant contemporary Indonesian-Australian artist.
 
Survivor illustrates the disaster of May 2006 when a botched drilling operation in the Sidoarjo region of East Java blew out into a mud volcano. The toxic mud so far has drowned more than 11 villages and some 50,000 people have fled their homes. Factories have closed, at least 90 hectares of paddy fields ruined and fish farms destroyed. Every day, more than 20 Olympic swimming pools of stinking mud are produced, slowly consuming more villages.

Survivor is a single 3 hour performance; local volunteers silently occupy the gallery space, covered in mud from the neck down and holding a photographic portrait of missing persons. Over the course of three hours participants maintain a silent vigil, memorialising this catastrophe and its ongoing consequences. The work contemplates loss and history, politics and shared humanity.

After the performance, the exhibition space will contain the detritus from the performance alongside video and photographic documentation of the performance.

Image: Dadang Christanto, Survivor, 2009, performance at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Image courtesy of the artist and 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

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Rod Milgate
Gallery Two: 24 March to 20 May 2012
Rod Milgate has had a long and rewarding career as a prominent Australian painter, he is also a highly regarded and published poet, writer and playwright. His style is reflective and philosophical, and his art often explores themes of spirituality.

Rod has held more than 40 solo exhibitions not only in Australia but in London, New York, Los Angeles and Kyoto. He has won many awards including the Blake Prize on three occasions. He is represented in most major public collections in Australia and international private collections. He lives on the Central Coast.

This exhibition will consist of 26 paintings that relate to each line of an acrostic poem of the alphabet.

Free Artist Talk
Sat 31 March 2-3pm
Rod Milgate is one of Australia’s most prominent and respected painters. Today’s guest speaker will discuss the current exhibition. Venue: Main Gallery

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Elissa Ramsay
Foyer Gallery: 14 April to 9 May 2012
Elissa Ramsay is a Central Coast based artist who creates mixed media landscapes and cityscapes with multiple layers of paint, printed images, rusty nails, bees, electrical wires and found objects, with each layer encased in resin.

Counting Zig Zags Backwards is an exhibition inspired by children’s book illustrations. Each piece will depict the pivotal moment in a story - an explosion in a desert, a spy left alone in a tiny boat in the middle of the ocean – leaving the viewer with questions and challenging them to complete the narrative in their minds.

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Sculpture by the Bay
Outside: 4 May to 28 May 2012
Sculpture by the Bay is an outdoor exhibition of sculptures by local high school students. It is held annually at the Gosford Regional Gallery.

Eight Central Coast High Schools will be selected for the exhibition, which will be staged in the Caroline Bay surrounds of the Gosford Regional Gallery. Year Ten art students selected from these schools will produce sculptures for the exhibition with the guidance of their art teachers, the Gallery and an invited professional sculptor. As part of the development of the exhibition the students will participate in a visit to the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Bondi.

In 2012 Sculpture by the Bay will be in its ninth year.

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Operation Art
Foyer Gallery: 12 May to 12 June
Operation Art encourages NSW school students to create artworks for children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. School students submit art works, contributing to an environment which helps relieve anxiety for children in hospital. Fifty selected artworks will be shown at The Art Gallery of New South Wales before touring NSW regional galleries. Following the tour they will become part of the permanent art collection of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

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Tracey Moffatt: Narratives
A Monash Gallery of Art Travelling Exhibition
Gallery Two: 26 May - 15 July
Tracey Moffatt: Narratives features three important photographic series by the internationally-recognised Australian photographer Tracey Moffatt that each engage in story telling.

Scarred for life presents nine captioned photographs based on true stories about traumatic childhood experiences. The photographs resemble snapshots from a family album, emphasising the everyday nature of the incidents and their ongoing significance as memories.

Up in the sky is one of Moffatt’s largest photographic series. The 25 photographs that make up the series suggest a narrative of epic proportions that draws on the neorealist cinema of 1960s Italy and myths of the Australian outback, in a compelling commentary on race and religion.

In Invocations, images from one of Moffatt’s dreams are restaged as three disjointed stories. These highly staged photographs draw on the psychological landscapes of Francisco Goya, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney, in a dream-scape that is at once marvellous and ominous. Together, the three series provide a coherent and visually striking sense of Moffatt’s work.

Image: Tracey Moffatt Invocations 5 2000. Photo-silkscreen 61 x 76 cm. Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection donated by
Daniel Isakow through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 2008 courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

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Reconciliation
Gallery One: 26 May to 15 July
This annual event provides an opportunity for the local Aboriginal community to showcase work and continues to work towards reconciliation within the community. Entry is open to all amateur and professional Aboriginal artists on the Central Coast. Non-Indigenous artists are also invited to participate. Artwork may be submitted in any medium of art or craft.

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Nicole de Mestre
Foyer Gallery: 15 June to 10 July
Nicole de Mestre is a Central Coast that creates assemblages from found materials.

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Gosford Regional Gallery welcomes exhibition
proposals from artists of diverse practice and experience:
The Foyer Gallery
An exhibition space for emerging and established regional and national artists. Exhibitions generally run for four to five weeks and they are curated, installed and deinstalled by gallery staff. A panel reviews Foyer Gallery proposals twice a year. They are selected according to the strategic objectives of the Gallery.
Download a proposal guide and cover sheet for the Foyer Gallery, Gosford Regional Gallery

The Studio Gallery
An exhibition space for regionally based artists and community orientated practice, which is hired for a fee. Exhibitions range from 2-day weekend exhibitions to three-week exhibitions. Applications for exhibitions at the Studio Gallery are assessed as they are received.
Download an application form to exhibit at the Studio Gallery here.

Please submit completed proposals to:
The Assistant Curator
Gosford Regional Gallery
36 Webb Street
East Gosford NSW 2260
or email gallery@gosford.nsw.gov.au