3 NEW EXHIBITIONS AT THE DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY

Bethamy Linton: Winged alates, collar 2012 Anodised titanium, sterling silver National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Purchased 2012

8 November – 7 December

Opening Friday 7 NOVEMBER, 6 pm

Bodywork, Australian Jewellery 1970–2012 a survey of works by Australian jewellers
Solitary, a DCC Permanent Collection Exhibition
Transference: Josh Foley, the emerging artist program in The Little Gallery

Bodywork Australian Jewellery 1970–2012

Curated by Dr Robert Bell Am, Arts and Design at the National Gallery of Australia, this touring exhibition includes the work of 42 Australian jewellers exploring jewellery from a number of viewpoints within six broad themes: Romanticism, Interpreting the Vernacular, Encapsulating Nature, Technics, Social Message and Sculpture for the Body. All of the works are from the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. The juxtaposition of materials, the recycling of objects and the subversion of traditions brings a new understanding to familiar forms and imbues everyday materials with a poetic presence.

The Gallery will offer a range of programs and events to coincide with the exhibition, including workshops and floor talks for primary and secondary students.

Bodywork Australian Jewellery 1970–2012 is a National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

THE LITTLE GALLERY
TRANSFERENCE: Josh Foley

Through the employment of directly painting onto the Gallery walls, Josh Foley will create a landscape painting based on an area in the north west of Tasmania. Foley will treat The Little Gallery walls as his canvas, creating a surrogate landscape around the walls and floor. Foley regards the process as a comment on how various streams of society and differing attitudes contextualise and frame the idea of landscape. ‘In some ways this can be seen as a comment on how various streams of society and differing attitudes contextualise and frame the idea of landscape in occasionally uncomfortable positions.’ (Josh Foley, 2014)

In Conversation with the Artist: Tuesday 11 November 12 pm

Solitary: A DCC Permanent Collection Exhibition
Curated by Dunja Rmandic

Mirroring the exhibition of jewellery from the National Gallery of Australia collection presented in the Main Gallery – Solitary draws from the idea of jewels as items existing alone. It poses the question of whether we can relate to the solitary works in the Permanent Collection in the same way. Items made by jewellers and ceramicists exist on their own, as their own entities. Jewellery maintains its allure whether it is on a blouse or in a drawer, for it doesn’t need a context or a story (though it may have one) to define it. The stories unravel in a non-linear way and mostly we appreciate them for their design and beauty alone. It is this individuality that the exhibition Solitary considers by asking the question: What was it about this object – for they are all objects and not a subject in a narrative – that made the artist portray it so? Why is it alone? Solitary presents works on paper and sculpture that focus on one object.
In Conversation with the Curator, Dunja Rmandic: Saturday 8 November, 12 pm
Ellie Ray, Director. Tracy Broomhall, Gallery Administration Officer