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8/2/2005

Three exhibitions

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts PICA, Perth

The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) reopens for 2005 (Wednesday February 9, 6pm) with a major career retrospective of Sydney based artist Jacky Redgate, a major series of work from successful Perth-based (North Perth), Polish-born artist Gosia Wlodarczak and a the beautiful but melancholic large-format prints of Melbourne based photographer Paul Knight.

Jacky Redgate Survey 1980 - 2003

This is the first time Jacky Redgate's career retrospective has been shown in full (previously exhibited in Adelaide in three installments) - Following Perth the exhibition will be shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Sydney.

Startling, sophisticated, elegant and subtle are just some of the terms used to describe the work of Sydney-based, Australian artist, Jacky Redgate. This survey exhibition, initially developed as three shows by the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia will be shown in its entirety for the first time as part of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts' 2005 exhibition program.

Redgate's innovative and experimental work operates on a number of different registers and at the intersection of different fields including photography, sculpture, installation and optical art. Engaging with art history and contemporary theory, Redgate's ongoing interest in mathematical systems, logic, taxonomies and spatial relationships is explored through a rich interdisciplinary practice, preoccupied with themes of recollection and transformation. As Ross Gibson has observed, much of Redgate's work is "a sophisticated 'nervy' meditation on the intricacies of perception, intuition, cognition and communication".

This important survey exhibition includes critically acclaimed works such as her photographic series, Naar het Schilder-Boeck [1985] [trans. From the Book of Painting], a reinterpretation of the medieval proverbs illustrated by Breugel, and her more recent STRAIGHTCUT Series (2001-03) photographs that dissemble ordinary objects into complex compositions through the use of mirrors, altering our perceptions of mere functionality.

Jacky Redgate is represented by Sherman Galleries, Sydney and Arc One Gallery, Melbourne. Jacky Redgate - Survey 1980-2003 is an initiative of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia and is supported by the University of Wollongong.

Jacky Redgate has been exhibiting for 25 years. In that time she has been curated into numerous high-profile, national and international exhibitions including two Australian Perspectas and three Australian Biennales. In 1987 she was awarded an Overseas Fellowship by the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin and the Australia Council’s Visual Arts Board and took up a twelve-month residency at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In the 90s, Redgate exhibited in the 8th Biennale of Sydney: The Readymade Boomerang (1991), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney and in two major Australian photographic exhibitions, Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and What is this thing called photography?, at the Art Gallery of NSW both in 1996. In 1996-97 she showed, a la vez Narelle Jubelin at the same time, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with the Art Gallery of York University. Jacky Redgate: Survey 1980-2003, was first shown at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA), Adelaide in 2004 and at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) in 2005. Jacky Redgate: Life of the System 1980-2005, the CACSA exhibition in conversation with works from the Museum of Contemporary Art collection, is forthcoming in Spring/Summer 2005-2006. Redgate’s work is held in public, corporate and private collections in Australia and overseas. She is currently living and working in Sydney and is a lecturer at the University of Wollongong.

Jacky Redgate - Survey 1980-2003 is an initiative of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia and has received support from the University of Wollongong.

Image: Jacky Redgate, “STRAIGHTCUT#6” 2001, C-Type photograph on aluminium. 75 x 98 cm image. Private Collection. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Opening: Wednesday February 9, 6pm
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Gosia Wlodarczak - Space Active

Gosia Wlodarczak has become a very successful Perth-based artist with dealer representation in Melbourne and Canberra and (as of yesterday) has just sold a major, large-scale work of 100 panels to BHP Billiton. She was the only WA artist selected as a finalist for Dobell Drawing Prize for the last two years. Gosia draws her environment as she sees it in real time - tracing and re-tracing the visible. The video documentation of her art-making process forms and important part of this exhibition.

Space Active includes a selection of works created between 2003 and 2005 by Polish-born local artist, Gosia Wlodarczak. The artist's intricate, layered drawings are exhibited at PICA for the first time in tandem with photographic documentation and video footage that reveal her processes in creating these significant works.

Wlodarczak’s art works are made manifest through the artist’s heightened awareness of dwelling in the everyday areas of human thought, behaviour and experience. Her drawings are processed - often in the comfort and isolation of home - via the biological phenomenon of ‘being’ as detected by her sense of sight and communicated through her body. She draws her environment as she sees it in real time - tracing and re-tracing the visible - thereby finding elements often concealed by the primacy of sight.

Her work interrogates space, time and language - aligning itself to Derrida’s complex notion of diffèrance. Over time Wlodarczak has adopted various visual processes and methods to address and communicate these issues. Drawing is the basis of all her work, extending towards performance, interactive situations and installation.

Documentation photos by Longin Sarnecki.

Gosia Wlodarczak
Born in Poland in 1959, Gosia Wlodarczak was awarded a Master of Fine Arts diploma with distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland (1984).
Since settling in Perth in 1996, Gosia has established a growing national reputation as a leading practitioner in the medium of drawing. In 2003 she was the only interstate artist to be invited to participate in Art On The Rocks in Sydney, won the Joondalup Art Award, and was one of 13 leading WA artists to exhibit in mix tape at the Art Gallery of WA. In 2003 and 2004 she was the only Western Australian finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize held at the Art Gallery of NSW.

In 2004 she participated in the Fifth Drawing Biennale at the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra, was a finalist in Jacaranda Drawing Prize in Grafton, NSW, received Second Prize in Hutchins Works on Paper Prize in Tasmania and held three solo exhibitions at: Gallery East, North Fremantle, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne and Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.

In 2004 an extensive study of Gosia Wlodarczak’s work, NOW: Gosia Wlodarczak, drawing 1986-2004 was written by Dr David Bromfield. Wlodarczak was on of eight Australian artists featured by Artlink magazine’s September issue in an essay, Poetics of Agrophobia, by Dr Ian Mclean.

Gosia Wlodarczak is represented by ARC One Gallery - Melbourne, Gallery East - Perth and Helen Maxwell Gallery - Canberra.

Opening: Wednesday February 9, 6pm
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Paul Knight - photographs

Melbourne-based photographer, Paul Knight, explores sensory experience within the urban environment using medium and large-format camera equipment.

Traversing spaces such as underground carparks and abandoned offices, Knight examines architectural and interior design as well as the more personal aesthetic choices we make in our daily lives. How do these 9 - 5 spaces reflect our desires and ability to function as feeling, thinking individuals? How do they effect our experience of the every day? Knight's intensely detailed images create urban tableaux that are as melancholy as they are disturbing.

Paul Knight graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) in photography in 2001. He has since had several solo exhibitions including, like a leaf clings to a tree, oh my darling cling to me… (2004) at Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces, Melbourne and photographs (2004) at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne. Knight recently participated in the 2005 Rotterdam International Art Fair and in a group exhibition, 3 Australian Photographers (2004) at Canvas International Art, Amsterdam.

The artist would like to thank, The Besen Foundation, Fuji, Air Concrete, The Colour Factory, Jenolan Trust, Bob Knight, Baltronics and Dendy Cinemas.

http://www.paulknight.com.au

opening: Wednesday February 9, 6-8pm (free admission)
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Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
51 James St, Perth Cultural Centre
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