GPG Exhibition Program
The George Paton Gallery is now located in our new space on level 1 in the Arts and Culture Building (Building 159) on Monash Road at the University of Melbourne Parkville campus.
GEORGE PATON GALLERY
Level 1, Building 159 - Arts and Cultural Building
Monash Road, Parkville campus
University of Melbourne
GALLERY HOURS: 11am-5pm Monday to Friday
FIRST SEMESTER PROGRAM 2023
30 JANUARY to 10 FEBRUARY
Gallery Event including Q & A with 2022 acquisition artists
Thursday 2 February 5-7pm
UMSU Art Collection: New acquisitions and selected works
Grace Anderson, Catherine Clover, Penelope Davis, Jemmy Gale and Kyle Stanton, Charlotte Hill, Annabelle Kingston, David McLeod, Rowan McNaught, Hannah Maskell, Tully Moore, Gervaise Netherway, Yu Okuzono, Sam Petersen, Caroline Phillips, Kenny Pittock, Jake Preval, Ben Raynor, Aaron Christopher Rees, Belinda Reid, Peter Tyndall, Marcus Volz, Clare Wilmot Griffith, Lorilee Yang, Jenny Zhe Chang
New acquisitions by: Astrid Mulder, Melissa Nguyen, Arthur Nyakuengama, Alice Tsiavos, Jessie Turner
Curated by Channon Goodwin and Sandra Bridie
Each year the UMSU Art Collection supports University of Melbourne student artists by acquiring new artworks via commissions and graduate exhibitions for display in UMSU’s public spaces. To date there are 185 works on catalogue ready to be hung around student areas in the new Student Precinct. As a taster for what you will see on the walls in the Rowden White Library, the Arts and Cultural Building and Building 168, we present our acquisitions by five VCA 2022 School of Art graduates alongside a selection from the greater collection in the brand-new George Paton Gallery.
20 FEBRUARY - 3 MARCH
GALLERY EVENT: Thursday 23 February 5-7pm:
ENTRANCE GALLERY
I must be living twice
Rosa Spring Voss
I Must Be Living Twice is a series of handprinted photographic portraits, still lives and sculptures. Through the rhythmic process of printing, cropping, framing and
installing, the body of work emerged as a way of re-staging memories from childhood with the proposition of imagining a ‘second take’ on events in my life.
IMAGE: Rosa Spring Voss, bush wee 1. Chromogenic darkroom print, 2021
MAIN GALLERY
Cherished deviances: Distraction and other romances
Bec Martin, Kurt Medenbach, Ly Nguyen, Beth Sanderson and Jessie Turner
Curated by Izzy Baker and Mia Palmer-Verevis
In deciding what deserves attention, distraction poses a threat. By paying mind to distraction, Cherished deviances: Distraction and other romances asks whether – in its obliqueness, unruliness and tangentiality – distraction can be a productive, blissful and even subversive mode of thinking.
IMAGE: Bec Martin, Chandelier shop. Chromogenic print on aluminium dibond, 2021
13 to 24 MARCH
GALLERY EVENT: Thursday 23 March 5-7pm
ENTRANCE GALLERY
shared stories
Naomi Mendoza, the Iranian community and shared stories collaborators
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MAIN GALLERY
From With(in)
Helvi Apted, Britt Salt and Shannon Slee
From With(in) presents the work of three artists whose practices are connected by a shared workspace and language of materials, using textile methodologies as a springboard for broader research. The artists invite visitors to take part in textile actions alongside them as they expand, transform and multiply artworks over the course of the exhibition.
IMAGE: Shannon Slee, Embroidery for Barb. Embroidery on silk, 2022
3-21 APRIL
GALLERY EVENT: Thursday 20 April 5-7pm
George Paton Gallery: Artists Bookworks #4
Curated by Channon Goodwin and Sandra Bridie
The exhibition presents an extensive collection of both contemporary and archival artists’ unique and small edition books in the George Paton Gallery. In the catalogue introduction to an earlier bookshow at the GPG, ARTIST’S BOOKS, 1982, curator Tim Guest provides a definition of the artist book:
Artists’ books can most simply be described as those books which have been conceived, designed and produced by visual artists. As distinguished from those books about artists, such as a monograph or catalogue raisonnée, or those about art, artists’ books are instead complete artworks in themselves: they are artworks that are presented in the form of books.
The exhibition will transform the GPG into a reading room. On display will be archival material from the previous Artist’s Books exhibitions in the George Paton Gallery, alongside current bookworks submitted by artists displayed on shelves and tables, available for viewers to peruse.
Workshops and presentations will be programmed through our Creative Workshops alongside the exhibition.
IMAGE: George Paton Gallery: Artist’s Books (reprised), 2014. Detail of exhibition installation
1-12 MAY
GALLERY EVENT: Thursday 11 May, 5-7pm
ENTRANCE GALLERY
Spelling Out
Daniel John Pilkington
This exhibition explores the idea that language is magical. If language can cause changes in the world, then it has both the power to heal and the power to wound. Drawing upon the tradition of magical squares and apotropaic spells, the artist has created a series of works that explore the idea of wielding this ambivalent power.
IMAGE: Daniel John Pilkington, Letter Spear (Prototype). 3D print in PLA, 2022
MAIN GALLERY
fluid condition
Harrison Mills and Madeleine Sloane
For fluid condition two artists have responded to a series of prompts examining their respective queer experiences. The concept of the ‘fluid’ forms the core of their investigation, as they draw parallels between the nature of bodies of water and inquiries surrounding identity and sexuality.
IMAGE: Madeleine Sloane, Heads. Ink on canvas, 2022. Photo credit: HILLS, 2022
22 MAY to 2 JUNE
GALLERY EVENT: Thursday 1 June, 5-7pm
ENTRANCE GALLERY
Half-Somersault in the Eternal Space
Fiona Martin
What are the symptoms of having crystals in your ear?
Attacks of vertigo, disequilibrium, unsteadiness, and disorientation. The Half-Somersault Manoeuvre treats vertigo. The therapeutic movement feels medical, yet appears choreographic, and deeply ritualistic. It reveals a tender demonstration of our intricate ancient anatomy held in precarious balance.
IMAGE: Fiona Martin, Untitled. Digital photograph, 2022
MAIN GALLERY
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Andrea Illés
why should I come home w u if u won’t kiss me in public? xx <3
McKenzie Wark writes that the cis gaze reads trans bodies on a grid: pity | envy, lust — disgust.
In a zone where the cis gaze is interrogated and disarranged, a question restates: what does it mean to be looked at like this?
And then: what about love? How is it conceived within fetishisation? A body restlessly longs at deflattening.
IMAGE: Andrea Illés, FEEL_LOVE_2. Digital image, 2022
2022
CO-ORDINATE
International web based exchange project hosted by Blindside
RAMP gallery, Hamilton and George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Naarm
Participating artists: Joslyn Hobbis and Bridget Barnett, NZ, Joseph Doggett-Williams and Tamara Tallent, AUS
Four artists, two countries, one work. Inspired by Karanga (car-rung-na), the Māori tradition of call and response, and Wominjeka (wom-in-jeka), the Wurundjeri people’s Welcome to Country, offerings from our respective nations were exchanged and drawn upon. Sharing a belief that connecting with nature inspires creativity, we left our studios to walk through country, explore our neighbourhoods, and document our findings. Sounds, photographs, videos, objects, words and traces of human presence from the real world, were offered through the virtual, and a response formed. A continuously moving work of overlapping, interconnecting, morphing of individual moments, playfully woven into one. Traversing the Tasman, into the imaginative world of the In-between.
Link to Co-ordinate program page:
https://blindside.org.au/program/co-ordinate-gpg-ramp
