ArtInfo.com.au's To-See List gives you a quick glimpse at exciting shows and exhibitions that are on. http://www.artinfo.com.au/ Copyright 2006 TDDC.org  Aug 26 to Aug 29, 2010, The Lasallian Foundation Fine Art Charity Auction in conjunction with Menzies is a charity auction of outstanding contemporary fine art. The catalogue is valued at more than $250,000. All works have been generously donated by some of Australia's leading artists and galleries. The auction offers collectors of contemporary art an opportunity to purchase while at the same time a chance to help a worthwhile cause, without paying any of the usual commissions. All proceeds from the auction will go towards the objects of the Foundation. The 80-lot auction includes works by 75 donors including work by John Olsen, Judy Watson, John Wolseley, Matthew Johnson, Roger Kemp, Robert Jacks, David Larwill, Sam Leach, Philip Hunter, Les Kossatz, Mark Schaller, Geoff Bartlett, Andrew Sibley, Sally Smart, Vera Möller, Richard Lewer, Melinda Harper, Jan Senbergs, Robert Grieve and Stewart MacFarlane. The catalogue has been put together by Lasallian Foundation Director, retired family court judge, keen art collector and former Olympian, The Honourable Paul Guest QC.   All proceeds will be directed to a variety of projects including: - Clean water and sanitation for preschool students from the Colombo slums in Sri Lanka. - Agricultural development programs in India and Sri Lanka to teach young people lifelong skills and generate income leading to self-sustainability. - Literacy programs for poor and disadvantaged children and youth  in Pakistan. - Construction of teacher housing in Papua New Guinea - essential for the mployment of quality teachers. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/239 Jul 11 to Sep 19, 2010, illusion/illusion is a group exhibition developed around the theme of visual perception and deception. Through the work of four young contemporary artists, Briele Hansen, Justine Khamara, Dorota Mytych and Kit Webster, the exhibition exploits a full range of multi-media disciplines, ranging from photography and drawing, to video display systems and digital video projections. The exhibition explores contemporary themes ranging from social commentary to the enjoyment of pure abstraction. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/234 Jun 29 to Jul 16, 2010, This exhibition portrays a variety of approaches to the use of digital media in the works of seven of Australia’s most interesting contemporary artists. Though all arrived at the digital realm after having used more traditional methodologies - from oil painting to drawing – they were selected because the various ways they use new media is informed, and often complemented, by their knowledge of and experience in the traditional or fine arts disciplines while searching for ways to arrive at these unique and extraordinary results. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/233 May 25 to Jun 18, 2010, Early morning, on the way from Melbourne Airport into the city, I encountered the strangest feeling of disorientation. It took me a while to figure out what had triggered this sensation. Everything was in some way familiar, the billboards, the cars, the suburban sprawl. But not the plants and trees that appeared along the 8 lane highway. The other end of the world revealed itself to me in a very subtle way. When you examine the details of the bigger picture, it makes you realise that the story has a different beginning. In our photographic practice we started to get interested in a similar strategy. To work with the largest available film format, 8 x 10 inch, you accept that the camera has a better eye than the photographer. More visual information is stored in a single image than what the brain is capable of processing. We started to explore a new world with this tool. The 8 x10 inch negative is about 50 times bigger than the average 35mm negative and is still unbeaten by any digital process. The richness of tone and detail is not comparable to any other photographic capture process. The procedure is very slow and needs a great deal of concentration. It was used in early days of advertising, architecture and technical photography, and in aerial surveillance. We often try to adapt the 'dinosaur'-techniques into a more contemporary practice. That's why we built our own handheld-snapshot 8x10 inch camera out of a plastic bin and custom wood plates to use as a quicker point-and-shoot version. Our way of working and approaching new worlds is very intuitive, a trial-and-error process, giving curiosity and chance the space to develop a concept, that builds itself up. We started to combine techniques and ideas, to find a language for what we encountered. It is like when you look at a tree, you can see its overall growth and form, but it is with every step that you approach it that you see more details. And at the closest possible physical distance, you realise there are more patterns within the patterns of a single leaf. Niko Krebs, 2010 Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, both born in Switzerland 1979, have worked together since 2003. They studied Photography in Zurich and have since then created a diverse body of work, combining Photography with other media such as Sculpture and Installation. Their work was shown in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including Solo Shows at PS1 MoMA - New York, EX3 Centre for Contemporary Art – Florence, and the Swiss Institute - NYC. Their first Artist Book 'The Great Unreal' was published in 2009 and was voted as one of the 10 best Photobooks of 2009 by Photo-Eye Magazine. "The Secret Life of Plants" is their first Show in Australia. The exhibition is supported by PROHELVETIA Swiss Arts Council. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/232 Aug 05 to Aug 08, 2010, NOTFAIR Satellite art fair. No gallery stands, just Art. NOTFAIR is a not for profit organisation. Our statement of purpose is to provide opportunities for undervalued artists to further develop their careers. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/228 Apr 08 to May 08, 2010, Rooney is the pop of Australian pop. The works in this show are quotes from cartons sourced from a well known French satirical magazine La Rire. The images are charged with stereotypes. The images are all selected from the year of the artist's birth - 1937. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/226 Apr 07 to Apr 24, 2010, Sun streams into third storey windows in 49 and illuminates a stretch of corridor. The rectangle allows light through its transparency. The built environment greets the natural. What was cool is now warmed. Movement of distant sun asserts again a cycle of which we are part. As there are thirteen ways to look at a blackbird, and thirteen ways in the manner of addressing clouds, here are contents and complexities that can continue to fold out in such a grouping as this. In our work can be found the common concerns of monumental statement, colour as a feeling and code, an exploration of marks on the land and body. We arrive at our destinations having come from China, Taiwan, Kurdistan, Colombia and Australia, speaking in English, Spanish, Kurdish, Taiwanese and Mandarin. Our differences are important like our similarities: a haircut, what we learned in school, what colours meant and change to mean. How we blew stuff up. How we made things small. What was left after process. One thing we found was that if word language ever failed us, we had other language. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/225 Mar 31 to Apr 19, 2010, Vital Statistics is a playful post-modern exhibition where classic pin-up style colour photographs of contemporary Australian women are projected onto a screen in a lo-fi 50's 'slide night' domestic setting. Artist Bernadette Keys explores and contrasts representations of contemporary 'digital' pin-ups with the classic genre through humour, colour, concept, irony, performance, fantasy and imperfection. Use of a slide projector to view images communicates the power of technology to shape and influence perception - as Marshall McLuhan foretold, 'the medium is the message.' The title Vital Statistics refers to traditional techniques of measuring the female body based on individual proportions (eg.36-24-36) rather than standardised dress sizes (eg. 8,10) or body weight. In Australia during wartime it was a great honour to represent one's country by being a pin-up girl and freely proclaim one's Vital Statistics. Mass-reproductive print technology and world war supported the ubiquity and display-worthy modesty that defined the golden pin-up era of the 40's and 50's. Sexualization of advertising post-world war, the rise of more explicit, violent and freely available pornography post-vietnam and subsequent information technology explosion through the internet alongside changing social mores has reconfigured the classic pin-up genre and indeed mediated and propagated reductive ideas of femininity. The women viewed in Vital Statistics (some of Australia's well-known actresses from Underbelly, Rescue Special Ops and contemporary artists and it-girls ) subvert 21st century trends for homogenous features, perfectly enhanced curves and bone-thin bodies for their own means. They are of varying ages and proportions yet all convey femininity, individuality,strength and sexuality. They enjoy the spotlight, safety, expression and freedom the classic pin-up genre offers. First-wave feminism viewed pin-ups as active disempowerment of women. Vital Statistics posits a post-feminist stance where women are the inventors of their own mythologies through whichever vehicle they choose. Vital Statistics promises to be a lot of fun with its easy glamour and innovative recontextualisation of discourses around femininity and mass media. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/224 Mar 02 to Mar 27, 2010, Camilla Tadich’s paintings take you on a dark and solitary journey through the endless space of the Australian continent. The same journey she undertook armed with her camera, her paints and her eye for haunted imagery. Tadich’s nocturnal visions and stark landscapes reveal to us the fragmented glimpses of human activity she found along the way. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/223 Mar 04 to Mar 27, 2010, The techno Op Art paintings of John Aslanidis shimmer and pulsate with a chromatic dissonance transposed from electronic music into paint. Concentric loops of vibrant colour quiver and distort with optical interference. Aslandis states "My intention is to create imagery with a sonic resonance where there is no starting or ending point; capturing a fragment of infinity. There are no two times when a painting will look the same, as it appears to be perpetually shifting. The paintings occupy an ambiguous zone, existing between sound and vision, and resonating with optimistic idealism." SONIC NETWORK NO.S 4-7 is on at Block Projects until March 27 http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/222 Mar 03 to Mar 27, 2010, Rose Farrell and George Parkin are unique figures in Australian art. They have created a body of work over 30 years that examines the history of the technologies of healing. Their photographs are often cleverly and traditionally created in home made sets. In recent years they have also made some engaging and personal video works. Their aesthetic is all their own. Check out the show. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/220 Mar 18 to May 23, 2010, This exhibition started out as an annual one that brought the latest bright young things out of the artist run spaces and introduced them to a larger and broader audience. That may no longer be the case after the exhibition has at times shown artists who have already emerged, nonetheless the show can make careers by getting artists a dealer and the show generates plenty of art world patter and gossip. The show has become an annual must see. This year the show features Fiona Connor, Alicia Frankovich, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Lou Hubbard, Raafat Ishak, Susan Jacobs, Arlo Mountford http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/218 Feb 12 to Mar 06, 2010, Kings is an artist run space, so you sometimes see great new work from young artists or half formed and half thought through work by young artists. The press release for these shows makes Nimmervoll and Alpha & Omega shows sound interesting. So before heading off to the strip club Kings Gallery might be worth checking out. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/217 Feb 03 to Feb 27, 2010, A show full of art, some of the bright young things and some of the old hands like Stephen Bush and Mike Brown.The show is a drug induced psychedelic kaleidoscope.. I like the King Pins video the best. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/215 Feb 24 to Mar 27, 2010, Hobart painter David Keeling has really carved out his own style of painting as he investigate man's intervention and cultivation of nature. This show will be well worth a look. Rare and intelligent landscape painting http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/216 Oct 16 to Feb 28, 2010, Ex patriot Australian artist Ricky Swallow is given a comprehensive exhibition of his finely judged works. Handcarved from wood or plaster or cast in bronze, his humble objects are transformed into memorials and the passage of time. $10 entry fee. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/213 Dec 02 to Dec 22, 2009, John Brack created tabletops as stages for armies of pencils, here Nadine Christensen using the influence of Brack paints table tops as if they are stages for several dinners for two. This exhibition is quietly and exotically theatrical. The works blend the private and the public with lyrical fantastic dreams http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/212 Nov 09 to Dec 02, 2009, Helen Wright is a highly experienced and unique printmaker. This latest body of work continues Wright's interest in nature, our indigenous and imported European flora and fauna and the stories and mythology we create from them. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/210 Nov 12 to Dec 19, 2009, Stephen Bram emerged in the 1980s with his project looking at 2 and 3 point perspective. Bram's work looks like hard edge geometric abstraction but the work does have reference to the real. The work acts like a pointer to something real outside the picture. Check it out. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/209 Nov 13 to Jan 09, 2010, What is Mr Redford up to this time? Naughty boy Scott Redford produces work with a conceptual edge and a wicked humour. Molly Meldrum has told Artinfo that Redford might be doing a Darren Sylvester and launching a CD. A punk album by Redford's 'band' Reinhardt Dammn. It could be a great rock n roll swindle. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/208 Nov 04 to Nov 28, 2009, Fergus Binns Jon Campbell Ronnie van Hout Amanda Marburg Manuel Ocampo Seraphine Pick Kain Picken & Rob McKenzie Michelle Ussher http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/207 Oct 08 to Nov 07, 2009, Callum Morton's Valhalla was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and will be seen soon in Melbourne as part of the Melbourne Festival. Valhalla a near full scale replica of his childhood home in post apocalyptic ruin. Smokescreen is the title of his forthcoming show that presumably continues the artist's interest in architecture and ideology. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/204 Sep 24 to Oct 18, 2009, A 20 year survey of the photography of Jane Burton. Burton's work is redolent of ghosts, spirits and dark desires. This show contains work from the artists art school work and other work not previously seen in Melbourne through to her latest Ivy series works. Filmic and aesthetic this show is not to be missed http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/203 Sep 18 to Oct 17, 2009, Andrew Browne's superb paintings are mysterious and dramatic and yet they have a formal elegance based on a sophisticated understanding of the interplay between perception and photography. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/201 Sep 19 to Nov 08, 2009, For over a decade Tony Lloyd has been fathoming surreal twilight worlds from spaces we routinely inhabit. He is a visionary painter for whom the road as both image and metaphor is central. His dramatic scenes of nocturnal disturbance, tinged with cinematic film-noir, are perpetually poised between pre and post-climax. Lost Highways spans Lloyd's career from desolate urban nightscapes to his spectacular post-Romantic panoramas. SPECIAL EVENT: Saturday 19 September 2.00pm. Tony Lloyd in converstation with arts writer and critic Ashley Crawford. All welcome http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/200 Sep 02 to Oct 03, 2009, Fantasy worlds and outsider art such as heavy and death metal graphics are of great interest to Irene Hanenbergh. The work in this show seems to be shifting to other places. Oil on canvas and pencil and ink drawings this show rather than her more familiar material of print on aluminium. Looks very interesting - go check it out. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/199 Sep 05 to Sep 20, 2009, The 2009 Silk Cut Award exhibition of finalists in the Open and Student section will be held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery from 5-20 September 2009. This annual award exhibition showcases the talent of contemporary linocut printmaking in Australia. The Silk Cut Award was introduced in 1995 to encourage the making and appreciation of linocut prints. A vital part of the award is its special category for primary and secondary school students, the only national print award to do so. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/198 Sep 02 to Sep 26, 2009, Princess of goth and noir Jane Burton launches a new body of work titled Ivy. Burton's art has slowly moved away from the sexy nudes she first became known for towards a more spooky filmic sensibility. Expect this show to continue down that path. This show is a precursor to her major survey exhibition at Glen Eira City Council Gallery that opens later in September. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/196 Sep 01 to Sep 06, 2009, Artist for Kids is a hip St Kilda group of artists who raise money for disadvantaged kids. The exhibition opening is usually a very big piss up and a traditional old fashioned St Kilda opening. The exhibition has a diverse range of great art which is sold at an auction. The auction this year will be at the St Kilda Town Hall on Tuesday 8 September from 6pm. the auctioneer is friend of artinfo Andrew Gaynor. Buy! http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/195 Aug 12 to Oct 28, 2009, More shows about climate change, this time it it is not one but a series of three that Latrobe University want us to go and see. The first in the series is Ken and Julia Yonetani and features sculpture, video, photography and performance. Second up is sculpture stalwart Lauren Berkowitz in September, while the young and groovy Ash Keating gets his turn in October. Go burn some fossil fuel and head on out to Bundoora http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/194 Jul 31 to Aug 21, 2009, Always loved a bit of sound art, and it seems there is a bit of a resurgence going on in Melbourne town at the moment. Perhaps all that cheap digital technology is enabling a whole lot of new artists to explore sound art. Always on the very edge of visual art practice - but always engaging. Give yourself plenty of time and go listen. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/193 Aug 08 to Sep 20, 2009, 3 curators might be a bit top heavy for a show with only 5 artists in the tight confines of Linden. And the show's concept is 'tricksy' too, "Each curator will develop a theme and share the same five artists to work with them in developing and presenting their exhibitions. The Curators will not correspond with each other about the exhibition nor will the artists discuss the comparative approaches and themes that each curator is exploring." But with three of the five from interstate the show might be worth looking at, simply for the fact that it introduces Melbourne audience to some new names. If the art is good, the exhibition concept and the curators do not matter. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/192 Jul 16 to Aug 01, 2009, To whom it may concern is another exhibition in that venerable history of shows that explore artists working with texts.The invite card lists the artists as Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Del Kathryn Barton, Lily Hibberd, Locust Jones, Nell, Derek O'Connor, Sanja Pahoki. Text is always interesting for what is omitted as well as what is included. I say this because I believe Elizabeth Newman is also in this show although her name is not on the invite. Her work is enough to get me to see the show. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/191 Jul 02 to Aug 01, 2009, It is the Wizard of Schlock, Adam Cullen with another great show of mangy dogs, boars and other kinds of people. Don't miss it, or you will be sorry. Very fucken sorry. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/190 Jun 27 to Jul 18, 2009, Hell Gallery was founded by artists Jess Johnson and Jordan Marani, who both work installing other peoples art for money. Hell was built on the ground floor of their house using salvaged materials from larger art institutions. Hell is open for exhibitions, launches, screenings, performances and cooking demonstrations. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/189 Jun 26 to Jul 18, 2009, GCAS is pleased to present a new performance installation work by internationally acclaimed Philippine painter Manuel Ocampo. In this new work created especially for GCAS entitled “She has a Hot Ass: The Demystification of Art and its Incorporation Into the Practice of Everyday Life Could only be Achieved Through the Deliberate Lowering of Standards” Ocampo has invited a local tattoo artist to transform his sketches into permanent tattoos. Typically Ocampo’s work presents a pictorial collision of socio-political positions. In his paintings devotional symbols often jostle beside commercial or corporate icons, pointedly deflating the efficacy of emblematic systems of power. Incorporating references as diverse as Jesus, Swastikas, cockroaches and even Snoopy, Ocampo’s paintings offer a crowded, cynical and heavily ironic slant oncontemporary post-colonial culture. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/188 Jun 27 to , This exhibition takes the viewer through (s)p(l)ace and time; from the colonial to the post-colonial, or post-modern, to the ‘altermodern’. Unusually, however, the basis of this journey is reliant on strategies one normally associates with the production and viewing of the ‘pictorial’ than those deployed in the environmental/experiential practices one is more likely to see at Conical. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/187 Jun 18 to Jul 11, 2009, Sharon Goodwin's fine graphic works in gouache and ink depict a hybrid world of chaotic architecture and medieval madness. Check out what happens when Albrecht Durer, Frank Miller and Alfred E. Neuman walk into a bar. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/186 Jul 07 to Aug 01, 2009, "The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end, the man they commemorate is the builder." J. Bronowski - The Ascent of Man. This is an apt quote for paintings that depict chapels and cathedrals. The paintings unpack the desire for the sublime that the architecture of the cathedral tries to evoke. Art was once in the service of God, but today this artist is not convinced. The cathedral is revealed as a structure of bricks and mortar. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/185 Jun 17 to Jul 04, 2009, Gareth Sansom, cult hero and one of Melbourne's painters painter. Death, sex, religion, erections, UFOs, graffiti, alchemy, the Crucifix, time, S&M, ghosts, skulls, nuns, vampires and the apocalypse are just some of the themes touched upon in this latest show. Apparently he has left cross dressing alone this time. Check it out. Should be fun. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/184 Jun 05 to Jun 27, 2009, Paintings have often been affiliated with windows, a frame by which we can see things new, or perhaps for the first time. Leach’s paintings however operate more like a door, or better yet a portal to another realm, a realm that is void of horizon lines by which to judge distance and space. Theses works operate as a conceptual space. One where the artist can explore ideas. Here leach has left the door wide open, like a time machine, a porthole that allows things to enter from eras in which it has visited. Inspired by the lifestyle and painting tradition of the Dutch Renaissance, Sam Leach Pushes further forward in the new exhibition The Margin, drawing on the history of painting to re-interpret issues inherent to today’s Corporate culture. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/183 May 22 to Jun 21, 2009, Natalie Ryan, Michael Vale, Mila Faranov, Gabrielle Baker, and Antonia Goodfellow all present new work. Best sounding projects are Michael Vales invention of an artist from the past for us to discover, Antonia Goodfellow who presented some good mathematical drawing at Gertrude Street a little while back and the project that has teenagers as a pack of animals by Gabriel Baker also sounds like it might be worth the trip to St Kilda. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/182 May 23 to Jul 19, 2009, Victoria's regional galleries can offer some great shows. This one touring from the CCP gives a glimpse at contemporary photography and the use of scanners. Artists from Poland, Japan and Australia. The show features black and white work so expect it to buy into the notion of digital imaging and ghosts. There is a great resurgence of spirit photography at hand. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/181 Jun 11 to Jul 05, 2009, This thematic exhibition will investigate how contemporary artists engage with and portray the natural world. Our thinking about nature — or the natural world — is political and cultural. Ideas of nature and natural are deeply embedded in our memories, histories and mythologies. The human impact or intervention on the landscape and natural environment, our complex and fragile relationship with the landscape, as well as the appreciation and celebration of the beauty of nature are explored in the exhibition through diverse practices spanning photography, painting, video, installation, sculpture, jewellery and objects. Established and emerging contemporary Australian artists are featured in the exhibition including Marian Drew, Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Juan Ford, Marian Hosking, Ash Keating, David Keeling, Janet Laurence, David Stephenson and Anne Zahalka. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/180 May 28 to Jun 27, 2009, A new show from Zikos whose work is known for its exploration of Australian taste, particularly that derived from his Greek/Australian heritage. Abstraction, decoration and laminex are signature interests from this artist. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/179 May 22 to Jul 12, 2009, This exhibition offers somewhat of an antidote to the grand theories and gestures of the cultural statement. It is about something personal; squinting at the world to discover how one sees it, digging those bits of your own garden and finding glimpses of light, joy, revelation and beauty out of the minutiae. This is a show about the small things. It is a theme that has been done many times before but this show includes Noel McKenna who is an artist of experience and quiet intelligence so the show could be worth a look if you find yourself north of the Murray. Other artists are Amanda Davies, Patrick Hartigan, Tim Moore, Frank Nowlan, Shonah Trescott. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/178 Apr 23 to May 23, 2009, The show has a title that suggests the show invitation depicts a a woman grieving, equally however she could be in the throws of orgasm. Laing is a major Australian artist, he work interrogates beauty and society in large high resolution scale photographic works. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/177 Apr 03 to May 02, 2009, Small scale digital and screen print with their accompanying abstract sculptures. These works have a sense of home made abstraction and when they work they are are charming. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/175 Mar 31 to May 02, 2009, All of us have written in the mirror. Eugenia Raskopoulos takes the idea of the disappearing message written in the mirror to make some compelling but simple photographs http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/174 Apr 04 to May 17, 2009, Plants is the theme of this show with a diverse range of artists including Jane Burton and Starlie Geikie. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/173 Mar 27 to Apr 19, 2009, The Gulag is a famous long standing artists studio. Many a good party and many a great conversation has been had at the Gulag studio in addition to all the cutting edge and engaged art that came out of there. Celebrate it with this exhibition that includes works by Karen Casey, David Harley, Tyra Hutchens, Samaan Fieck, sam Fisher, Martin King, Anthony Pelchen, David Ralph, Damian Smith, John Waller, Gary Willis. The show is curated by Sheridan Palmer. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/172 Mar 17 to May 17, 2009, New has become a firm ritual in the Melbourne exhibition scene. Any exhibition that proclaims to show the latest of the new or now generation of artists is as interesting for who it leaves out as to who it includes. New09 features Benjamin Armstrong, Brodie Ellis, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Marco Fusinato, Mathew Griffin, Justine Khamara and Simon Yates. Not all of them young, new or good but you should check it out to join in the conversation. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/171 Dec 23 to Mar 01, 2009, Steiner and Lenzlinger's exhibition takes now common trope of ecological disaster counterpointed against a beautiful fantasy land of hybridised pretty trippy colours. This installation farts and burps (and like Fiona Hall makes reference to plumbing and waste) and a to the nera desert state of much of Australia. However this installationis all too much like a night club to provide a stern warning of climate change and impending disaster. It is pretty and it is worth the visit. Let's all keep on dancing the blues away... to create a large scale mutimedia installation. the work deals with the ecological damage to the plot and co http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/170 Feb 11 to Mar 07, 2009, Del Barton is one of the present darlings of the Melbourne art scene with her hard to pin down fetishistic and obsessive artworks. It is a good time honoured formula that works. Jonathon Nichols is also included. His work came to prominence with his paintings of anonymous sometimes semi-clad images of people found on the web - his work a kind of updating of the tradition of portraiture. Qureshi lives in Melbourne but trained in Pakistan, and Edwards is a Sydney based artist. Artinfo has yet to see their work. This exhibition could be a good show counterpoint if you saw the recent abstraction show at Stephen McLaughlin Gallery. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/169 Feb 06 to Feb 27, 2009, From the catalogue send to artinfo, this exhibition looks like 70s art viewed through the haze of quaaludes. Masato Takasaka wrote the catalogue essay and it is no help at all. Thanks Masato - we love you! Could be great or terrible. Go check it out and write a review for artinfo! http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/168 Feb 18 to Mar 07, 2009, Given that this exhibition is titled Texticles and is described by the gallery as "therapeutic text-pieces by men in the community" it is a fair bet this exhibition takes a very masculine look at the world. The show includes some of Melbourne's naughtiest boys too! http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/167 Feb 12 to Mar 14, 2009, Master of the object based joke and great satirist of mainstram Australia, Aleks Danko stages a new exhibition of works. This show looks at his continuing humorosu examination of the artist and the games they play. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/166 Feb 19 to Mar 21, 2009, An exhibition of new work from Geoff Parr. The exhibition draws on the idea that images can create suggestions of unspoken story lines. Ambigous image conjuctions create a dynamic space for the viewer to create and imagine stories that say as much about their desires as those of the artist. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/165 Dec 03 to Dec 20, 2008, Tasmanian artist Paul Zika has explored geometric patterns and their meanings for many years now. His work explores pattern across time and cultures. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/161 Nov 13 to Dec 06, 2008, Much of the work shown at James Makin Gallery is far too concerned with the craft of painting and not the art of it. However if the invite to the latest show is any indication Dagmar Cyrulla's exhibition might be worth a look. The images are voyeuristic, with a 21st century feel of the internet, the images banal and with unfulfilled promises of unexpected encounters. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/160 Nov 12 to Dec 06, 2008, Op Art was arguably arrived at a dead end when it was continually seen as eye candy disconnected from 'content'. In some ways, Blanchflower updates and refigures Op Art bringing to it a feminine intelligence redolent with a diverse suite of readings. And it looks pretty too. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/159 Nov 20 to Feb 22, 2009, One of the giants of contemporary photography, Andreas Gursky shows at the NGV. Known for his photos of spectacles, empty theatres as well as grand vistas, Gursky has had a strong influence on the practice of contemporary photography. Scale and detail are important in his giant prints, as is the insignificance of the individual or 'man' in the globalised constructed world we inhabit. Admission charges apply. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/158 Oct 16 to Nov 15, 2008, Bush's career has been built on a series of works, each created through a different aesthetic approach but linked by their surreal sensibility. Beekeepers, rubbish bins, alpine scenes, Babar the elephant, men on horse, his chosen subjects are diverse and atypical. Bush's painterly range is as varied and free flowing as his subject matter. Moving from lurid abstraction to figuration realism, he creates guttural juxtapositions of the visceral and the sublime. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/154 Oct 08 to Nov 02, 2008, Gothic paintings from an original 80s goth Louise Hearman. This show is a survey of 20 years of paintings of the dark, uncanny and inexplicable side of life. Pigs, teeth, disembodies children and rather unhappy blonde girls feature among the motifs. It is a big show with about 80 works given a theatrical presentation. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/152 Oct 01 to Nov 04, 2008, South Australian artist, Julia Robinson has made some appropriately dark and menacing goat figures for her forthcoming show at Uber. The work is mysterious, paranoid and compelling. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/150 Sep 03 to Sep 28, 2008, A group show featuring young Melbourne artists, Catherine Connolly, Candice Cranmer, Peter Fifer, Carl Scrase, Sally Tape, Fiona Williams http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/149 Sep 10 to Sep 28, 2008, I saw a rather cool show by this painter at Dickerson a couple of years ago. There is a quiet sense of a beautiful banal in the work of this artist. Some are almost existential in their feel. In his 2006 show paintings such as "Xiao and Her Son II", or "Kitchen" stood out (see Dickerson website) The invite features a good painting on the front titled "Girl in the room". Other paintings such as "The Boy" do not look quite so interesting. The realist painting purists will like this artist but there might be just enough in this work for those who live in the 21st century too. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/148 Sep 06 to Sep 28, 2008, Flower Theory features the art of two New Zealand artists Monique Redmond and Andy Thomson. Thomson concerned with space and context, Redmond with celebratory moments. The show has been curated by Melbourne artist Laresa Kosloff http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/147 Sep 06 to Sep 21, 2008, The winners of the 2008 Silk Cut Award for Linocut Prints will be announced on Friday 5 September. Prizes are awarded to in professional artists and school students categories. This is the most prestigious prize for linocut prints in the country. This is a great show. Sponsored by Duraloid http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/146 Aug 06 to Aug 30, 2008, Exhibition features the work of Cate Considine, Lou Hubbard, Simon Zoric, Brad Haylock, Fiona Mcdonald, Amy Marjoram, Tamsin Green and Kieran Stewart http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/144 Aug 19 to Sep 06, 2008, Judging by the invitation card, Mami Yamanaka's drawings are typically Japanese, cute, detailed and well crafted. So what is wrong with that? Nothing. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/143 Aug 06 to Aug 30, 2008, Ex-pat Australian now resident in Connecticut USA, Andrew Cooks presents a suite of paintings that feature the seasons. Curiously these paintings have a little of a Jon Cattapan about them. Overpainting, transparency, splotches and stains. Could be worth a look. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/142 Jul 22 to Aug 16, 2008, Rose Farrell and George Parkin are concerned with staging and the theatrical space of the photograph. They make their own sets and props and photograph the old fashioned way. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/141 Aug 01 to Aug 24, 2008, Nude and rude has caused a bit of a stir in the Australian art world. Curator Stuart Bailey has gathered some naughty bits for a show by some of Melbourne's emerging artists. It is rude. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/140 Aug 01 to Sep 21, 2008, Rosslynd Piggott often stages beautiful and ethereal installations. Artinfo is yet to see this show, but we are sure that it will be worth seeing. According to ACCA, this new work by Piggott is a major new work employing film, painting and sculpture across three galleries, and sees Piggott continue her ongoing exploration of the micro-world of nature, the elements and life itself. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/139 Aug 01 to Nov 09, 2008, Charlotte Day curates the 2008 Tarrawarra Biennial with the the theme, 'the archeology of the present'. Recycling, reconsidering and reworking of history will form major themes. The exhibition includes the work of 21 contemporary Australian and New Zealand artists. The line up looks interesting and the show looks to be worth the trek to Healesville. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/137 Jul 16 to Jul 26, 2008, Two artists from two generations. The show is curated by Rebecca Coates http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/135 Jun 03 to , A solo exhibition by one of Melbourne's most engaging and witty artists at Mirka restaurant Tolarno hotel. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/134 May 24 to Jul 13, 2008, Over recent years Obarzanek has gained a significant reputation in the art world for his conceptually driven photographic series, which explore the expressive potential of isolated human forms. His early work was primarily concerned with portraiture, but he countered the traditional conventions of that genre by privileging anonymity and the formal qualities of the visage over a psychological interest in the sitter's personality. In his more recent series, Obarzanek withdraws from the facial close-up to work with the human figure in space. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/133 May 28 to Jul 06, 2008, The great thing about this little exhibition is the diverse nature of the work from artists around the country. The established names and the competent and under-rated compete for the prize. Drawing printmaking and other paper based mediums http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/132 May 14 to Jun 01, 2008, Recycling, transformation, the environment, growth and waste. It is a close observation of and dialogue between the artist and her space, and the process of connecting the past, present and future. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/130 Apr 30 to May 17, 2008, The artist Paul Batt is a voyeur here, shooting unaware subjects with his telescopic lens at Service Stations, a perhaps under-explored transition site. Could be interesting. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/129 May 01 to May 15, 2008, Art of the Cameroon and their Neighbours will be Sidewalk Tribal Gallery’s twelfth exhibition at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Always a much anticipated event, this year’s exhibition promises to be one of their most varied and expressive shows yet. People represented will include the Bamileke, Bamun, Tikar, various chiefdoms of the Western Grassfields and the Mambila and Namji from the North as well as the Ekoi in the West of the country and the Fang from the South. Because of its geographical position and isolation cultures in Cameroon have evolved differently from much of Africa and as a result the style of their art is unique.The exhibition will feature a wonderful collection of traditional art from Cameroon and the neighbouring areas as well as a new collection of hand loomed textiles from West Africa and printed cotton from Cameroon. Sculpture is bold in execution and vital in expression. Wood carvings include large house posts, masks and other ritual objects. Unusually large and rare examples of masks, embellished traditionally with intricate beadwork, add to the strength and drama of this exhibition. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/128 Apr 29 to May 24, 2008, Born and studied in the UK, sculptor Hilarie Mais moved to Sydney from New York in the early eighties. Mais’ minimalist, colour washed grid formations, lean with the nearest hint of weight against walls. Whilst her works are often substantial in size they are created with extreme poise and symmetry. Restrained, alluring, cool installations in timber and canvas. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/127 Apr 20 to Jul 20, 2008, Kate Rohde, is set to bring her mad cap interpretation of the elaborate landscape traditions of European gardens to the TarraWarra Museum of Art. Rohde will transform the gallery space with curlicue hedges, elaborate dioramic vitrines and haunting paper mâché sculptures. Adapting a variety of natural and man-made products Rohde will also twist and poke at her preoccupation with nature verses design. The natural and native setting of the TarraWarra Museum of Art will provide an interesting contrast to the Rohde’s interpretation of the highly manipulated gardening traditions of Europe." So says the museum's website, I say this show could be a real fucking hoot. Rohde is fun and an eccentric artist and in the wonderful setting of this Museum, the show could be one not to be missed. So pack up the Range Rover, put on your pith helmet and head to the Yarra Ranges. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/124 May 03 to Jul 20, 2008, This exhibition will be the first survey of this mid-career artist’s work at an Australian art museum. Vivienne Shark LeWitt has a unique presence in Australian art. She makes intimately scaled paintings, prints and drawings in a deceptively winsome style where the size and delicacy of the work belies its emotional and poetic impact. Shark LeWitt presents vignettes of emotional vulnerability, many of which speak of the subtle gender politics and power plays of everyday life. Shark LeWitt is cool. Way cool. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/123 Feb 13 to Apr 27, 2008, Dale Hickey is one of Australia's most highly regarded painters. As a teacher and educator, Hickey has influenced generations of Australian artists. This survey comprises thirty-six key works and focuses on the immediate confines of the artist's studio and the objects within it, synthesizing the flat and the painterly. The majority of selected works are large paintings made post-1982, which present familiar mundane objects in ever-changing configurations within a shallow stage-like space. The exhibition also includes large abstract works from the late 1960s and a group of Hickey's small still-life paintings from the 1970s that highlight his lifelong exploration of pictorial space. Curated by Paul Zika http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/122 Apr 01 to Apr 26, 2008, 12 jewellers have on show several new pieces each in this high quality exhibition of Australian jewellery. Melbourne continues to provide some great galleries for jewellery, Gallery Funaki, Egetal and now Pieces of Eight. The earrings exhibited in 'Twice Bitten' take various forms. Yuko Fujita uses tinted silicone and whitened silver to create very tactile series. Fujita's works are great and worth the trip to North Fitzroy on their own. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/121 Mar 27 to Apr 19, 2008, It is dangerous to mimic the kawaii aesthetic of Hello Kitty ne? Well these three have done it successfully, straws, colanders, and all manner of plastics and foams are used to create a beautiful and fun fantasy. It is well crafted and is accompnaied by an appropriate sound track written by John Kassab. It is all very kirei. Go see it! http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/120 Mar 14 to May 18, 2008, China is hot at the moment. It may pay off in the future for Australia to take an interest in the emerging super-power that is China. This exhibition features the work of several contemporary Chinese photographers - many of whom have a performative quality about them and all are concerned about the body. This show is much more sophisticated than the contemporary Chinese show at the V&A in London a few years ago, but this one is also much smaller. Worth a look, although the NGV bought some of this work so if you miss this show there will be other opportunities. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/119 Mar 12 to May 11, 2008, New08 is ACCA's annual salute to the new and promising. It is a bit of a sport to attack this highly funded top dog, I know, but I can't help it... This show is bad. Jonathon Jones formal installation is a highlight as is Daniel Argyles islamic patterns and cut outs, but the rest disappoints. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/118 Feb 07 to Mar 08, 2008, I am a fan of David Jolly's art, particularly his paintings on glass. He picks such apposite subjects for his paintings on glass. This time it looks like sunsets which was hinted at in his last exhibition at Sutton in 2006. Check this show out, could be a goody. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/116 Jan 29 to Feb 16, 2008, Beijing-based artist Xue Mo, is presenting her exhibition of oil paintings which continue the artist’s contemplation of, and reverence for, the nobility of the Mongolian peasant. Using the formal approaches from Renaissance portraits gives these Mongolian peasants a grace and nobility that maybe a long way removed from their reality of hard everyday toil. A little cute perhaps but worth a look http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/115 Feb 05 to Mar 01, 2008, Kendall had a great piece down at little Heide - the McClelland Gallery down near Frankston in the 2005 Contemporary Sculpture competition. The invite to the Kendall's nee exhibition shows a wrapped tortoise work. Portable protective home, perhaps? The show could have some interest. If you dont gell with Kendall's work then check out Jennifer Joseph's paintings. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/114 Oct 25 to Apr 06, 2008, Portrait photography is a complex and fascinating area of photographic practice that, at its heart, has a process of collaboration between the sitter, the viewer and the camera operator. In this exhibition, a provocative interchange between historical and contemporary photography has been created to suggest how photographers work to construct, question or reflect the notion of ‘role playing’. Role Play contains three broad thematic groupings, allegorical portraiture - H.P Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cindy Sherman, William Wegman, Rose Farrell and George Parkin; portraits that either typecast or question social roles - August Sander, Edweard Muybridge, Anne Ferran; and theatrical photographs in which the sitter acts a role, including G.B Poletto’s wardrobe photographs of Ava Gardner in On the Beach. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/113 Dec 20 to Feb 24, 2008, A major survey of work by British artist Richard Billingham, whose real-life photos of his family became a notorious part of the 1997 Saatchi exhibition Sensation. Billingham was a short listed artist for the 2001 Turner Prize. This exhibition includes a selection of previously unexhibited early photographs of father Ray, as well as known key works, early video works including Fishtank and Billingham’s most recent series of videos and photographs of animals in captivity, ZOO. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/112 Oct 27 to Feb 24, 2008, If you are not from Camberwell, some contemporary art at Heide might be more your fare. The exhibition title COMBINE derives from American artist Robert Rauschenberg's use of this term to describe his radical assemblages of painted images, found objects and other artists’ works in the 1950s. This concept provided the loose framework for Janet Burchill, Jennifer McCamley and Melinda Harper’s self-curated project in Heide II. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/111 Nov 17 to Mar 10, 2008, Indigenous art is strong in country and law: it is concerned with the politics of identity and place, and the beauty of truth. The works in Power and beauty, Indigenous art now respond to the current pressures of living in Australia: from Cairns to Warakurna, Brunswick to Brisbane. Paintings and sculptures, installations and photographs and a program of public events, including performances. If you don't like the show you can have a coffee or walk the park http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/110 Nov 25 to Apr 06, 2008, Kerry Stokes owner of the 7 TV network is an avid and committed art collector. Much of this collection has been put together by John Stringer, Stoke's curator. Stringer an old fashioned curator, 'with a good eye' sadly passed away very recently. John was a much respected figure in the Australian arts scene. John had a great knowledge of international minimalism and South American art in addition to his vast knowledge of Australian art. John Stringer will be sorely missed and this exhibition, not originally intended as a memorial to John, will it is hoped serve as a fitting tribute to his work. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/109 Nov 01 to Dec 01, 2007, Mary Scott here presents paintings that leave much of the story and the context out of the frame. Dramatic paintings with a sexual frisson. Rich and dark. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/108 Nov 01 to Nov 24, 2007, Invite for this show looks cool. Pretty tatts on pretty faces. Paintings of people with extravagent tattoos. Not sure there is much content here, but if your in Prahran it might be worth a perve. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/107 Oct 11 to Nov 10, 2007, Mistress of the spooky and melodramatic, Louise Hearman presents her latest suite of paintings. The baby/doll heads paintings provide appropriate menace and work. Dark, beautifully painted, well judged, but perhaps it is all a little too precious. All very much on formula to, which the titles like "Untitled 1245" underscore. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/106 Sep 26 to Oct 14, 2007, Large, colour photographs, part fashion, part sci-fi film. They are not quite sure where they are going or what they are doing.... Worth a look if your in Armadale http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/105 Oct 16 to Nov 10, 2007, Eubena Nampitjin was born on the Canning Stock Route between 1920 and 1925. As a young woman she was taught healer/witchdoctor skills by her mother. The first exhibition noted on her CV is 'Art from the Sandy Desert' at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 1986. Last year her paintings toured internationally when she was included in 'Prism - Contemporary Australian Art' at the Bridgestone Museum in Tokyo, Japan and also 'Dreaming Their Way' at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, USA. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/104 Oct 16 to Nov 10, 2007, Jitendra Mudgral is an Indian painter of miniatures. In this exhibition she depicts intimate love scenes between a Rajput king and his concubines. Indian miniature painters work within a preconceived set of rules and conventions and Mudgral does it with great skill. Yeah we know this is a weird one for us to put on artinfo, but with so much sex we couldn't resist http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/103 Sep 28 to Nov 11, 2007, Its 25 years for this local contemporary art organisation. It has had an important role in the development of many contemporary artists in the past. Some of them have returned for this show, Works by Elizabeth Gower, Elizabeth Presa, Rob McHaffie, Christian Thompson, Micahel Vale, Megan Keating as well as Neil Taylor & Six Degrees. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/102 Oct 07 to Nov 04, 2007, Laresa Kosloff presents sculpture. What is sculpture? Another quirky video piece from this intelligent and engaging artist. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/101 to , Albert Street Richmond has become a diverse and lively gallery precinct over the last few years. This co-operative project organised by the 6 galleries of Albert Street sees a day of art talks, exhibitions and probably a glass of wine or two. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/99 Oct 13 to Nov 10, 2007, Signs of Life is the latest exhibition from Australian pop artist, Jon Campbell. Jon paints the stuff from his own life, Cd covers, signs he comes across etc. A comprehensive video interview with Jon can be found elsewhere on this website. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/100 Sep 08 to Oct 07, 2007, Well regarded photographer Jane Burton presents a collaborative video work with Fabrice Bigot. Burton is known for her film noir photographs with a sense of abandonment and sexual desire. The title, "Tarraleah" is the name of an old mining town in Tasmania. Burton was born, raised and educated in Tasmania and knows the ghosts and spirits of that place well. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/98 Sep 13 to Oct 07, 2007, Wolfgang Sievers help changed the imaging of Australia from the iconography of shearing to a modern industrial country. During the planning of this exhibition, Wolfgang Sievers died aged 93 years. The exhibition has thus become a memorial to the artists life and work. The exhibition includes images Wolfgang Sievers shot in Germany in 1933 prior to fleeing the Nazis and also features his iconic industrial photographs. Curated by Stuart Bailey. A quality exhibition catalogue with an essay by Martyn Jolyy accompanies the show. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/97 Jul 31 to Sep 01, 2007, Mid career Tasmanian artist David Keeling presents a body of new painting. Keeling developed his substantial reputation based on themes of the impact of civilization on the natural environment. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/96 Aug 02 to Aug 26, 2007, Illustration in texta colour as if fuelled by teenage desire. Deliberately bad drawing with a loaded fun spirit http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/95 Aug 02 to Aug 26, 2007, Outback and masculine dreaming feature in the images of this Sydney artist. Outdoor dunnies, abandoned cars, hot cars and old trucks. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/94 Aug 07 to Aug 25, 2007, Sarah Amos is a New York based Australian printmaker currently practicing in the United States. In this new series of work, she employs a process of richly layered printmaking punctuated by over painting with vibrant and dynamic pattern. Amos’ interest in traditional Japanese wood cut printmaking can be seen in the translucent veils of low-key colour, the articulated graphic line and in the use of series and cropping to create a narrative tension. Amos’ visual vocabulary demonstrates a consistent interest in the juncture of both man and landscape, and in the ramifications of the overabundance of data in this information age. Or at least that is what the press release says. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/93 Jul 31 to Aug 17, 2007, Stuart Bailey makes rubbish sculpture from rubbish. These polystyrene and plastic bottles engage in a in a dialogue about the lost and discarded with photographs by Rozalind Drummond. Low Level Week has been accurately described as like "having a hangover on an overcast day". Recommended!! http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/92 Jun 29 to Jul 28, 2007, Bufardeci makes artworks of intelligence with a political set of concerns. This new show will see her present needlepoint work, that so very private medium which she employs to talk about a range of issues including speech, rumours, communications and surveillance. Publicity images of this show suggest it will be well worth having a look. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/91 Jun 20 to Jul 28, 2007, Loretta Quinn has been making great sculpture for 25 years. This exhibition will cover the last 10. Quinn's work often has an element of childhood tales and games mixed with a hint of horror. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/90 May 23 to Jun 10, 2007, Slowing Down is an exhibition that presents art produced from artists who have stopped and reconsidered, artists who have given pause and taken stock. Ten artists Dan Arps, Eugene Carchesio, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Matt Hinkley, Ka-Yin Kwok, Justin Trendall. Highlights are Hinkley's obsessive hand drawn works, and Ka-Yin Kwoks translation of the nightly news for her mother. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/89 May 29 to Jun 09, 2007, Michelle Elliot's work in this exhibitions questions the relation between inside and outside using forms that suggest the human body and organic forms. Sensual and conceptual. Go see it. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/88 Jun 08 to Jul 01, 2007, One of Australia's best known art writers and critics stages a rare solo exhibition. Colless is smart and sassy. Expect anything http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/87 May 30 to Jun 23, 2007, Jane Burton is known for her film noir, gothic images of females often sans clothing in dark, uncared for spaces. The printed invite for this show suggests there might be some new elements to the work of this engaging photographer http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/86 Mar 27 to Apr 29, 2007, Works by Marc Alperstein and Amelie Scalerio, Ruth Carroll, Marian Crawford, Luke Doyle, Storm Gold, Jennifer Gray, Stephanie Hicks, Karyn Lindner, Naomi Pitts, Yael Rayman, Georgia Szmerling. Video, painting and sculpture works. Curated by Stuart Bailey. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/84 Apr 20 to May 19, 2007, The elder statesman of Australian pop art continues his work looking at the characters from obscure children's stories. Rooney became well known for his paintings in the 1970s in which he painted images drawn from cereal packets. Flat and illustrative, Rooney has had a big influence on subsequent generationsof Australian artists interested in pop, including Jon Campbell and Howard Arkley. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/83 Apr 12 to Apr 28, 2007, McQualters previous works have invoked quasi scientific and technological process as a metaphor for art practice. His work sometimes has the look of instructional manuals and diagrammatic representations of people and actions. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/82 Apr 20 to Apr 20, 2007, A one night stand by Melbourne artist Louise Paramor on court at the Rod Laver Arena. Wear your tennis shoes. Recommended, good artist, unique venue. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/81 Apr 02 to Apr 30, 2007, To me this exhibition was very much a step back in time to the 1980s - which is fine by me... I love the 80s, it is my generation. Why, because this is an exhibition that is all about the language that create meaning in the exhibition space. It is the kind of art that we all made back then after reading and absorbing structuralist and post structuralist theory. Are paintings windows or doors, are they flat 2D things or are they 3D objects, what is it about the space and the position of the viewer that 'constructs' the meaning of the artwork (a meaning endlessly deferred). The work is beautifully executed, and if this is your bag, go see it. The exhibition is also reviewed by Sam Leach in our article section. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/77 Mar 24 to Mar 24, 2007, Part title fight, part sideshow alley, 180 seconds in "Heaven or Hell" brings artists and art-forms together through one massive live art experience; like a speeding burlesque show, art forms collide in turbulent three minute episodes, over three stages and three hours. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/75 Feb 08 to Mar 12, 2007, Cool and sick drawing show from the new bright young things. Get down and check it out before it closes. Jensen Tjhung creates a very tired guy out of newspaper - it is great - a show stealer. At the cooler more refined intellectual end of the show Vin Ryan also creates work worth looking at more than once. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/74 Mar 13 to Apr 07, 2007, Sue Ford toys with the most popular manifestation of the sublime - the sunset photo. Everybody is an artist with a camera in their hand and in these witty photos it is the photographers we see photographed trying to capture that special moment. These works critique the romance of the sunset cliche, and are ironic and humorous. Sue Ford has staged exhibitions of photography since 1974 and is a photographer who has achieved great critical acclaim in the history of Australian photography. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/73 Mar 07 to Mar 31, 2007, Painter Jonathon Nichols revitalises realist painting and the portrait by painting subjects found on the internet. What does a portrait reveal about the sitter? Perhaps not much, the question might be better put, as what does a portrait reveal of the artist? Here the subjects are not known to the artist, but people hidden behind pseudonyms and fantasies. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/72 Nov 26 to Mar 25, 2007, Five Decades a selection of paintings demonstrating prevailing themes and innovations from the TarraWarra Museum of Art collection. For the first time a selection of works from 1950 til the year 2000 will be hung chronologically and will feature artists such as Fred Williams, Peter Booth, Ralph Balson, Jeffery Smart, John Brack, Brett Whiteley and Rosalie Gascoigne. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/67 Nov 26 to Mar 25, 2007, A quietly poetic show in the wonderful setting of the Tarrawarra Museum of Art. Tables is a special exhibition of works by Swiss artist Silvia Bächli. Bächli works with ink on paper creating and grouping what she describes as 'families'. Images created over numerous years are bought together in this new work and are being displayed for the first time in Australia. http://www.artinfo.com.au/galleries/details/66