BETT GALLERY REPRESENTING JOHN KELLYInternationally
renown John Kelly is best known in Australia for his paintings and
large sculptures of William Dobell’s cows. These papier-mâché creations
were used during WWII in an attempt to confuse enemy aircraft as to the
location of the Australian airbases. His sculptures of cows have been
exhibited on the Champs Elysées, Paris, in Les Champs de la Sculpture,
1999, Monte Carlo, in La Parade des Animaux, 2002, the MAMAC in France,
The Hague, 2007, Glastonbury (2006 and 2007)Cork city 2011, Melbourne
Docklands and MONA.
More recently, Kelly’s work has seen him tackle
contemporary issues – such as branding in contemporary culture, and
museum politics – in places such as the Guangzhou Triennale, 2008, and
the Göteborg Biennale, 2009. In 2005 Kelly’s work was commissioned by
David Walsh (Museum of Old and New Art, MONA) in Hobart to create work
for his Moo Brew beer labels. Limited edition prints of this work are
now available at Bett Gallery.
View work here.
John Kelly printing Skull at Black Church Print Studio, Dublin.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SEE JOHN KELLY AT DARK MOFOKelly
recently spent time painting outdoors in Antarctica This suite of work
can be seen as part of DARK MOFO, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art
Gallery, 12 June to the 20 September. The opening of this show
coincides with the release of the book,
Beyond Woop Woop: John Kelly in Antarctica. Limited edition prints of the Antarctic works are available at Bett Gallery
. 
John Kelly, First Berg 2014, carborundum print on paper, 60 x 81 cm, ed of 40---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IMMERSIVE MAURO-FLUDE EXHIBITIONLabyrinth marks
Mauro-Flude's strong entrance into the commercial art market. Her
previous success both nationally and internationally see her at the
forefront of the digital media movement. A feature of her exhibition is
the use of e-textiles; drapes embroidered with sequined cryptograms,
decoded only via an application on a mobile device.
"Sequins and
mirrors can be used to transport meaning to other places. Wild places
that, as yet, can only be imagined" Nancy Mauro-Flude 2015
Labyrinth is on in the Bett Gallery backspace until the 26 of June. Bring your phone and explore.
Nancy Mauro-Flude, Labyrinth of the World, drape, embroidered cryptogram& generative videoscape, 180 x 120cm,
51 sec, colour, audio.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HIGHLY ANTICIPATED RAYMOND ARNOLD EXHIBITION Elsewhere World opens on the 3rd of July and sees Arnold returning to printmaking, in particular, prints of the Tasmanian landscape.
"In
the early 1980s I developed several large prints about the landscape of
Western Tasmania. They were ’postcards’ for imaginary audiences far
over the horizon – images of wild, desolate, indifferent places just
beginning to feel the pressure of the approaching bulldozer.
The
works in this upcoming exhibition ‘bookend’ that earlier work. They
share some characteristics with those artworks from 30 years ago but
essentially they represent a big change. That shift in meaning and
context is bound up with the fact that I live and will hopefully die
within the pictured landscape and that the audience for these paintings
surrounds me in the ‘here and now’." Raymond Arnold 2015
Raymond Arnold, Elsewhere World - Transitional Image IV 2015
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BARBIE KJAR WINS Congratulations to Barbie Kjar for winning the $25,000 Bay of Fires Art Prize with the work
Floating Rock on Kunyani/Mt Wellington.
