STILLS GALLERY AT MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2010

Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne Australia
4-8 August 2010
Stills Gallery will feature at the 12th biennale Melbourne Art Fair, Australia's leading fair of contemporary art. The fair features over 80 national and international gallery exhibitions from all states and territories of Australia as well as from New Zealand, China, Japan, Germany and Canada. The program includes free public lectures, forums at the National Gallery of Victoria featuring artists, curators and international guests.

Stills Gallery will be showing the work of a selection of Stills artists including Trent Parke, Narelle Autio, Roger Ballen and Polixeni Papapetrou to name just a few.

Stills Gallery will be positioned at stand E20 in the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. www.melbourneartfoundation.com

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ROBYN STACEY: Monash Gallery of Art presents Living deadly: haunted surfaces in contemporary art

The exhibition has been specifically inspired by the way contemporary Indigenous artists from Arnhem Land talk about their use of finely painted cross-hatching or rarrk. Living deadly explores ways in which optical effects are used to make the viewer physically aware of things beyond their physical reality. Opens Saturday 24 July 3pm.

Living deadly also includes work by Brook Andrew, John Gollings, Anne Ferran, Ruark Lewis, John Mawurndjul, Rod McNicol, eX de Medici and James Morrison.

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PAT BRASSINGTON, ROBYN STACEY & BEVERLEY VEASEY: A Generosity of Spirit - Recent Australian Women’s Art

Queensland University of Technology Art Museum
2 July - 3 October 2010
A Generosity of Spirit: Recent Australian Women's Art from the QUT Art Collection exhibition presents some 30 key works acquired over the last four years including Stills artists Pat Brassington, Beverley Veasey and Robyn Stacey. Generosity of Spirit simultaneously acknowledges the generous philanthropy of former Queensland artist and QUT alumnus Betty Quelhurst (1919-2008), and the work of selected Australian women artists. The Betty Quelhurst Fund was established in the acquisitions program enabling the QUT Art Museum to purchase major works by leading Australian mid-career women practitioners. The exhibition will travel to Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide from 22 October to 17 December 2010.

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TRENT PARKE: Steidl to publish Minutes to Midnight series

World-renowned publishers, Steidl, have confirmed they will publish Trent Parke’s Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket series. Steidl Publishers have worked with some of the most renowned photographers and artists across the globe. What began as a backyard enterprise has evolved into one of the world’s most sophisticated and distinguished printing and publishing companies. The unique quality of Steidl book production has brought Steidl to the attention of acclaimed photographers, artists and designers and he works for many renowned museums and galleries.

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ROGER BALLEN: UNSETTLED

Lismore Regional Gallery
17 July - 28 August 2010
Works from Roger Ballen’s Boarding House and Shadow Chambers series will be exhibited at Lismore’s Regional Gallery. The exhibition runs from the 17th of July till the 28th August 2010. These grim but quirky images of fringe communities in rural white South Africa present an uncertain world, between documentary photography and theatre. Between animal and human, the lived and the imagined, the natural and the performed, the clean and the unclean, the animate and the inanimate. The exhibition is curated by Kezia Geddes, from Lismore Regional Gallery.

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ROBYN STACEY: CURIOUS COLONY A twenty first century Wunderkammer

Newcastle Regional Gallery
10 July - 29 August 2010
A twenty first century room of wonders where colonial curiosities jostle contemporary art. This major exhibition brings together the work of colonial inspired artists including Stills artist Robyn Stacey. The exhibition will show Stacey’s work from The Great and the good series, Mr Macleay’s Fruit and Flora.

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POLIXENI PAPAPETROU: PINGYAO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL CHINA

Pingyao, Shanxi Province, China
September 2010
Polixeni Papapetrou will be exhibited in September 2010 in Pingyao, an Ancient Town of the Shanxi Province, China. The festival has become one of the world's largest photography exhibitions presenting thousands of select works by Chinese and international artists.

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SNAPSHOT: CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE LA TROBE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION

LUMA, La Trobe University, Bundoora Campus
21 April - 11 June 2010
La Trobe University Museum of Art will be showing a selection of key contemporary photo media works from the University’s art collection including works by Petrina Hicks, Pat Brassington and Michael Riley. The collection is considered one of the most significant University collections in the country, charting the development of Australian art practice since the mid 1960s.

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PETRINA HICKS: PRESENT TENSE: AN IMAGINED GRAMMAR OF PORTRAITURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
21 May - 22 August 2010
Petrina Hick’s video work Ghost in a Shell will be exhibited in May at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra as part of Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age. This exhibition will explore how new ways of imaging reflect the individual in this digital world and the mechanisms of imaging that are used in photography.

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UP CLOSE: CAROL JERREMS WITH LARRY CLARK, NAN GOLDIN AND WILLIAM YANG

Heide Museum, Victoria
31 July - 31 October 2010
William Yang’s work will be included in the group show Up Close at the Heide Museum, alongside work by Carol Jerrems with Larry Clarke and Nan Goldin.

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ROGER BALLEN: 17TH BIENNALE OF SYDNEY

Cockatoo Island
12 May - 1 August 2010
South African-based photographer Roger Ballen has recently been announced in the 17th Biennale of Sydney line up of artists. Ballen's disquieting images that combine challenging social commentary and dream-like surrealism will be exhibited on Cockatoo Island. To coincide with the Biennale exhibition Ballen's most recent series Boarding House will be on show at Stills Gallery 21 April - 29 May.

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