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4/4/2006

Three exhibitions

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney

Jacky Redgate
Straightcut II

Jacky Redgate immigrated with her family to Adelaide in 1967. She studied at the South Australian School of Art (1976-80), completing postgraduate studies at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, in 1998. She currently lives and works in Sydney and lectures at the University of Wollongong.

Redgate’s work operates on a number of different registers and between different fields. Her longstanding interest in geometric systems, logic, spatial relationships, optics and codes of representation is explored through a rich interdisciplinary practice, preoccupied with themes of memory and recollection.

Redgate has a 25-year exhibition history, with representation in numerous prestigious national and international exhibitions, including Australian Perspecta (1985, 1987-89) and the Biennale of Sydney (1986, 1988, 1990). During the 1990s, Redgate also exhibited in two major Australian photographic exhibitions in Sydney: ‘Photography is Dead! Long Live Photography!’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1996, and ‘What is this thing called photography?’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1999). In 1993-94, she participated in ‘Looking at Seeing and Reading’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and in 1996-97, ‘a la vez Narelle Jubelin at the same time’, Art Gallery of Ontario, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of York University, Canada.

The major exhibition, ‘Jacky Redgate: Survey 1980-2003’, was exhibited in Adelaide at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA) in 2004; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2005; and (together with new work) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2005-06.

Jacky Redgate’s many awards include a twelve-month Overseas Fellowship Residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (1987), where she lived and worked for two years, and a six-month residency at the Power Studio, Cite' Internationale des Arts, Paris (1996-97). She is represented in Australia’s major public galleries, as well as private and corporate collections nationally and internationally. A monograph on her work was published by CACSA in 2005.


Michael Lindeman
Streetscape

Michael Lindeman attained his Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (First Class) and Master of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Lindeman’s paintings, sculptures and readymades respond to global consumerism, planned obsolescence and a fabricated popular culture of indulgence. Residencies at the Los Angeles Studio (2001) and the School of Visual Arts, New York (2002) focused Lindeman’s attention on the ubiquity of discarded objects and a moral order dominated by plasticised cartoon characters that promote childish notions of good and evil. His approach combines serious intent with ironic playfulness.

Donald Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer and Head of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology, refers to anxiety and muted nostalgia in Lindeman’s work, where ‘objects are used … the way a hip-hop sound artist might use a piece of existing music but manipulated into a different circumstance’. He goes on to say: ‘Michael Lindeman seems like many artists of his generation to use editing as a political means to deal with/cope/make a space in the plethora of images generated by the industrialisation of culture. Here editing allows for some type of disjuncture, even dysfunction, to occur in the production of the works and our reading of them.’

Michael Lindeman’s work was exhibited in Sherman Artbox (1999, 2002) before his first solo exhibition at the gallery in 2004. His Australian residencies include the Gunnery Studio, Artspace, Sydney (2000), the Bundanon Artist in Residence Program, NSW (2003) and Ascham School, Sydney (2004).


Anne Graham
The Art of Conviviality

Born 1949, Buxton, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Anne Graham is an artist and Head of School of Fine Arts, Faculty of Arts and Education, at the University of Newcastle. Known principally for her public artworks and sculptural installations, a continuing theme in Graham’s work has been performance and interaction with the community. Her tent series, begun as a response to the Artspace project, ‘Working in Public with Walla Mulla’ (1992), often involves sustained interaction with communities, including displaced and marginal dwellers.

One aspect of Graham’s interactions has been collaboration with the subjects of her portraiture. In these works she collects possessions, photographs personal spaces and interviews the ‘sitters’ to develop a complex assemblage of material that provides a portrait of their life rather than their appearance.

In addition to this research-based performance and installation, Graham creates objects that function aesthetically and have a life of their own but carry with them the intensity of experience arising from the other activities. On occasion these are residues and by-products of the performance, experienced not as reliquaries but as unique and self-sufficient artworks.

Graham has held over 23 solo exhibitions, with representation in many prestigious national and international exhibitions, including the 2003 Echigo-Tsumari Necklace project, organised by Art Front Gallery, Tokyo; ‘Construction and Process’, an exhibition featuring artists from 25 countries held in Poland in 2000; and the 6th Biennale of Sydney: ‘Origins, Originality + Beyond’ (1986). In 1995, she held a solo exhibition at Tokyo’s Hinode-Machi Gallery as part of the residency exhibition programme.

Anne Graham is the recipient of many grants and awards, including the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) Merit Award for Passage, 2000, located in Martin Place as part of the City of Sydney Sculpture Walk.


Image: JACKY REDGATE STRAIGHTCUT #23

Openings 05/04/2006

SHERMAN GALLERIES
16-20 Goodhope St
Paddington Sydney 2021 Australia
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday 10-6 pm
Saturday 11-6 pm

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