Katherine Hattam, The doctor’s dilemma 2007
KATHERINE HATTAM: DESIRE FIRST 1978–2015
Deakin University Touring Exhibition
DATE & TIME: Opening Friday 18 March 6pm. Exhibition runs until Sunday 8 May
OPENING SPEAKER: JARROD RAWLINS, CURATOR MONA (MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART)
ARTIST TALK: 4:30pm, 18 March
COST: free
Katherine Hattam: Desire First surveys the work of Melbourne based artist Katherine Hattam. The exhibition traces the development of Hattam’s practice from early charcoal drawings in the late 1970s through an evolving practice that encompasses drawing, collage, printmaking and sculpture. Katherine Hattam is renowned for explorations of domestic and family spaces that are at times joyful, dramatic and intense.
Through the use of recurring motifs, in particular the chair and other domestic objects, alongside collage drawn from deconstructed Penguin classics and modernist textbooks from her late mothers’ collection, Hattam transforms personally symbolic materials and references into an archaeology of family, feminism, education, literature, psychoanalysis and role of the unconscious in art making.
The artist will be travelling to Devonport from Melbourne to present a floor talk to College students and visitors at 4:30pm prior to the exhibition opening, and will be present at the opening. The exhibition will be opened by Guest Speaker Jarrod Rawlins, Curator at MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) and the opening will be catered for by Devonport Tafe as part of the Devonport Food and Wine Festival.
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• Jessie Pangas: TRANSform
DATE & TIME: Opening Friday 18 March 6pm. Exhibition runs until Saturday 16 April
OPENING SPEAKER: ELLIE RAY, DIRECTOR DEVONPORT REGIONAL GALLERY
COST: free
Jessie Pangas is an emerging artist based in Ulverstone, Tasmania. Her inspiration and ideas are drawn from urban spaces, in particular, the houses that hold, protect, conceal and reveal the personalities and communities that make up the urban environment.
The familiar and the new combine so that recognition and wonder are experienced through the viewing of the artist’s acrylic paintings of architectural forms. These forms are often mere façades or fragments of a whole, and in some works a strange narrative of shapes emerge so that the artist’s line of inquiry as to ‘what these works [might] say about our individual and community identity’ is posed within these ‘snatches’ of vernacular houses. There is a playful – almost whimsical nature about these paintings, yet multiple levels of meaning come into play after their initial ‘reading’. Set against a featureless background the viewer is left pondering the meaning of individual and community identity.
The artist will run a contour-drawing workshop in the final week of the exhibition.
The opening coincides with the opening of the touring exhibition Katherine Hattam: Desire First 1978 – 2015 and will be catered for by Devonport Tafe as part of the Devonport Food and Wine Festival.
RSVP to opening ESSENTIAL: (03) 6424 8296 or [email protected]
Ellie Ray, Dianne Sheehan
