Wednesday, 30 January 2019

'Edition 2019' at Tacit Art Galleries


EDITIONS
13 to 24 February 2019

Tacit presents Editions 2019, an annual celebration of print and Victorian-based printmaking.

Over the last seven years Editions has become the go-to event for Victorian printmakers. The exhibition celebrates tradition while embracing contemporary innovations within the printed form. This exhibition provides a platform for artists from emerging to more established to explore print processes and approaches to image-making. It also provides the opportunity for artists to exhibit multiple works, providing audiences a greater understanding and insight of the print medium.

Editions juxtaposes traditional techniques alongside more innovative approaches. It  pushes the hand-constructed multiple in a digitally saturated world, celebrating the manual, the labour, the craft. Editions celebrates the artist and the art.

2019 featured artist is Lisa Sewards. Others artists include Helene Athanasiadis, Jessie Balletta, TJ Bateson, Nellie Brown, Peter Brown, Fleur Brett, Jennifer Buntine, Loris Button, Louise Donovan, Kasia Fabijanska, Silvi Glattauer, Jackie Gorring, Gina Grant, Sue Grossman, Robert Hague, Jodi Heffernan, Bridget Hillebrand, Alex Hotchin, Kate Hudson, Callum Jackson, Lana De Jager, Hyun Ju Kim, Damon Kowarsky, Chris Lawry, Jan Liesfield, Robyn Mackay, Malini Maunsell, Paula Mcloughlin, Robert Mihajlovski, Karen Neal , Laura Osborne, Amanda Page, James Pasakos, Gaye Paterson, Jim Pavlidis, Cat Poljski, Bronwyn Rees, John RYRIE, Gwen Scott, Beata Slifierz, Lisa Stebbing, Annemarie Szeleczky Stephen Tester, Susan Wald, Peter Ward, Andrew Weatherill, Michael Wedd, and Takur O Yoko O.

Tuesday, 29 January 2019

'IMPRESS' at No Vacancy Gallery


No Vacancy Gallery is pleased to invite you to

IMPRESS
A group exhibition celebrating printmakers

Opening Thursday 7 February from 6 to 8pm

Featuring works by Georgia Steele, Elizabeth Banfield, Jessie Balletta, Damon Kowarsky, Ruth Stanton, Cat Lawrance, Matthew Broughton, Emily Eliades, Liam Haley, Hyun Ju Kim, Alexis Winter, Joanna Kambourian, Mia Sabec, and many others.

Exhibition continues 6 to 17 February 2019

No Vacancy Gallery
34 to 40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne

RSVP here

Wednesday, 16 January 2019

'Laird, Kings and Queens' at Tacit Art Galleries



The Laird is proud to feature in Tacit Galleries Midsumma program ‘PINK’ with 'Laird Kings & Queens' – featuring select winners from the last 10 years of The Laird's 'Men on Men' art competition.

Artists Jimmy Twin, Andrew Li, Ross Spirou, Michael Elliot, and Damon Kowarsky cover a broad range of imagery through painting, digital illustration, photography and etching. Works explore the varied and often debated concept of masculinity from the fragile to the unapologetically bold.

With its 11 exhibition spaces, Tacit Galleries is a new and inspiring curated venue empowering artists in the heart of Collingwood's thriving art precinct.

Other artists featured in Tacit Galleries' Midsumma program PINK include: TJ Bateson, Dave Behrens, Ray Cook, Tim Craker, Ren Gregorcic, Aymen Kaake, Ben Mercer & Tom Pender, David Lee Pereira, Kim Leutwyler, Tony Longo, Nathan Milner, Tricia Page, Pansy Ass Ceramics, Julia Sant Mire, Rod Spark, Steve Sumpton and Aaron Walker.

23 January to 3 February 2019
Opening 630 to 8 Wednesday 23 January

Tacit Galleries
123a Gipps Street, Collingwood

Gallery hours 11 to 5 Wednesday to Sunday

Sunday, 23 December 2018

Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop and Artsy

https://www.artsy.net/artist/damon-kowarsky

Queenscliff Gallery & Workshop has partnered with Artsy to bring their artists to the world.

My work is now online via Artsy here

Thursday, 20 December 2018

Interview with Jeremy Lee on ABC Southwest


Interview with Jeremy Lee, ABC Southwest

Part of 'Sans Frontières' at Warrnambool Art Gallery until May 2019

Friday, 30 November 2018

'Sans Frontières' at Warrnambool Art Gallery


Warrnambool Art Gallery is pleased to present

Sans Frontières

Saturday 8 December 2018 to Sunday 5 May 2019
Curator Ren Gregoric

Soft Launch Friday 7 December 6 to 8 pm

Contained within the many structures that man has built across the earth for habitation, ritual and gathering, is an inherent power. Each tower of stone or brick, steel, concrete or plaster is an embodiment of social, political, individual or collective decisions that describe narratives of culture, power and agency. These narratives are generally considered to resonate outwards, originating from an internal place and with an individual voice. In ‘Sans Frontières’ Damon Kowarsky presents an alternative to this way of seeing and understanding structure and the relationships that structures have with place.

Through depictions of diverse urban locations including Pakistan, India, Melbourne, New York, views of rural France, renderings of contemplative figures, and views through forests, Kowarsky applies his archaeological-eye. He offers us views beyond and between structures to reveal their relational narrative - one that is global, interconnected and ever-emerging. At its heart, ‘Sans Frontières’ examines how ways of looking, orientation, and perspective can uncover narratives of culture, power and agency through the structures and spaces they create. Spaces that are constrained by the human psyche that has constructed the labyrinth.

Warrnambool Art Gallery

26 Liebig St, Warrnambool 3280
+61 (03) 5559 4949
gallery@warrnambool.vic.gov.au

Free entry
Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm
Weekends and Public Holidays 10am to 3pm
Closed Christmas Day, Good Friday

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Thursday, 29 November 2018

Collins Place Gallery Summer Salon


1 December 2018 to 31 January 2019

Exhibition Launch and Prize Announcements
Friday 7 December from 6 to 8pm

Light refreshments will be served

In the tradition of the great salon exhibitions of Paris and London the Collins Place Gallery Summer Salon promises to be a vibrant and diverse celebration of contemporary art.

From 170 entries received from around Australia 65 finalists have been selected in a range of media, styles and themes.

Independent judges will select three winners; Dr Jacqueline Healy, Curator of the University of Melbourne Medical History Museum; Deborah Klein, a highly regarded artist well known for her prints and artist books and Shane Jones, a leading visual artist.

Visitors to the gallery can vote for their favourite entry. The most popular artwork will receive the People’s Choice award at the end of the exhibition.

For more information please contact Polly Dymond, Collins Place Marketing Coordinator.