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‘A World Undone’ by Nicholas Mangan co-acquired by Tate and the MCA
Nicholas Mangan's film, A World Undone (2012), has been co-acquired by Tate and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA). As part of the International Joint Acquisition Program for contemporary Australian art, The MCA and Tate have announced the acquisition of...
‘Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett’ at QAGOMA, Brisbane, until 21 March 2021
Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett is the first large-scale exhibition of Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Gordon Bennett’s work and features 200 artworks ranging from installation and sculptural assemblage to painting, drawing, video and ceramics.
Louise Weaver and Stephan Bram, ‘A shining light’, Geelong Gallery, 2020 – 21 February 2021
Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Louise Weaver and Stephan Bram are included in A shining light, an exhibition of new works acquired by Geelong Gallery over the past year. The exhibition takes its title from a 1986 song The shining path by British group Shriekback, and the song’s opening lines resonate in this uncertain times: ‘We had lived a blessed time but we knew nothing’.
David Griggs, ‘The Ashtray Reader’, Station Gallery, Melbourne, 23 January – 20 February 2021
An exhibition of new paintings by Buxton Contemporary Collection artist David Griggs is currently on view at Station Gallery, Melbourne and will be open to public until 20th of February 2021 with the closing event to be confirmed. Griggs’ new phantasmagoric portraits draw on the pop cultural archive of horror and surrealist collage techniques.
Angelica Mesiti, ‘Mother Tongue’, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, until the 8th of February 2021
Commissioned by Aarhus European Capital of Culture, Mother Tongue, a video work by the Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Angelica Mesiti, takes the songs in the Danish Højskolesangbogen (The National Folk High School Songbook) as its conceptual starting point. The Højskolesangbogen is the foundational anchor of the Danish tradition of fællessang (communal singing), which originated in the socialist movements of the late 1800s as a form of protest and is today a symbol of national identity and togetherness. To adhere to fællessang is to perform the vernacular of a collective ‘mother tongue’.
The Saturday Paper: Xenogenesis
Andy Butler writes in The Saturday Age about Buxton Contemporary's current exhibition, The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis, The Otolith Group give us tools to understand our world as a phenomenon embedded in flows of history, time, politics, culture and the emotionally...
Linden Postcard Show 30th Birthday celebration
Linden New Art Gallery is celebrating the 30th Birthday of the Linden Postcard Show with an exhibition featuring recent works by some of the past winners including Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Helen Johnson and Rob Mchaffie. Presented alongside this year's...
‘The Subtle Knife’ by Daniel Crooks is screened at Times Square, New York, as a part of the Asia Society Triennial
A multichannel video work The Subtle Knife by Buxton Contemporary Collection artist Daniel Crooks is showing across multiple screens in Times Square, New York, throughout January as a part of the Asia Society Triennial ‘We Do Not Dream Alone’ program realised in...
David Noonan ‘Stagecraft’ at Art Gallery of Ballarat — open until 31 January 2021
There is still time to see the exhibition by Buxton Contemporary Collection artist David Noonan at Art Gallery of Ballarat — now extended until 31st of January 2021. Stagecraft brings together silkscreen collages on fabric, tapestries and film created by the...
The Age Review: The Otolith Group, Xenogenesis
Buxton Contemporary's current exhibition, The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis, has been featured in a round-up of 'the best of gallery offerings'. Tiarney Miekus writes in The Age article, The most captivating video, Sovereign Sisters, 2014, appears as a ghostly hologram...
Destiny Deacon, DESTINY, NGV Australia, 23 November – 14 February
DESTINY, the largest retrospective of Destiny Deacon’s work to date is currently on view at NGV Australia
Know My Name, NGA, Canberra 14 November 2020 – 4 July 2021
A Celebration, a commitment and a call to action, Know My Name is a gender equity initiative of the National Gallery of Australia. Know My Name celebrates the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia's cultural...
ABC The Mix: Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts 2020
Laresa Kosloff's short film Radical Acts was featured on ABC program 'The Mix'. The episode of the program includes an interview and discussion with the artist about the work and is available to stream now on ABC iview. Radical Acts was created as part of Buxton...
Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts – The Age REVIEW
Robert Nelson (The Age) reviews Radical Acts, a new work by Laresa Kosloff created as part of Buxton Contemporary's Light Source Commissions, 2020. Nelson writes, "Laresa Kosloff has created a thoroughly mischievous film. It begins, documentary style, with the earnest...
Nicholas Mangan, On Celestial Bodies, Arter, Istanbul, 10 Sept 2020-25 July 2021
Buxton Contemporary collection artist Nicholas Mangan has been included in On Celestial Bodies at Arter, Istanbul. Mangan has been a part of the Light Source commissions, 2020 - a new series of commissions for part of Buxton Contemporary's expanded digital artistic...
Sydney Morning Herald: Reflecting on ‘Tjala Tjukurpa/Honey Ant Story’ by Yaritji Young
Buxton Contemporary director Ryan Johnston reflects on one of his favourite local art works. "To me looking at these works is like experiencing an event of significant power; you’ve got this wild colour tearing across the canvas in multiple trajectories, some go...
John Nixon, ‘GROUPS & PAIRS 2016-2020’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 21 March – 24 April 2020
Buxton Contemporary Collection artist John Nixon will open a new exhibition GROUPS & PAIRS 2016-2020 at Anna Schwartz Gallery on the 21st of March running until the 24th of April 2020. More than 80 new works will be included in this upcoming exhibition, with...
Announcement from Buxton Contemporary
In support of initiatives to control the spread of COVID-19, Buxton Contemporary is temporarily closed to the public. This decision was made to ensure the health and safety of our staff, visitors and community. Given the evolving nature of the outbreak, we will...
Pat Brassington and David Rosetzky, ‘The Symphony of Collection 3: Departure’, Ten Cubed Gallery 10 March – 14 April 2020
Buxton Contemporary Collection artists Pat Brassington and David Rosetzky will both be included in The Symphony of Collection: Departure at Ten Cubed Gallery, opening on the 10th of March and running till the 14th April. To celebrate ten fabulous years of collecting,...
MARCO FUSINATO: SPECTRAL ARROWS LP NOW AVAILABLE
Spectral Arrows, an improvised durational solo performance for guitar and mass amplification was presented for the first time in Melbourne at Buxton Contemporary in 2018, as part of the inaugural exhibition The shape of things to come. An LP recording of this...
