PHILIP WOLFHAGEN
MELBOURNE ART FAIR 2014

Bett Gallery is thrilled to announce that it will feature the work of Philip Wolfhagen at the Melbourne Art Fair 2014, 13 - 17 August.  Tickets now available here.
                                       
Philip Wolfhagen, Skullbone invention 2014, oil on board 30 x 30 cm


LUCIENNE RICKARD JOINS BETT GALLERY

We welcome Lucienne Rickard to the Bett Gallery stable and congratulate her on her selection into the highly prestigious Primavera 2014, 23 September to 30 November 2014, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.  Lucienne's first solo show with Bett Gallery is scheduled for June 2015.


Lucienne Rickard, Just a shot away (detail) 2013, graphite on drafting film,  170 x 148 cm


PAT BRASSINGTON: Á REBOURS

This major survey of work by acclaimed Tasmanian photo-based artist Pat Brassington is now on at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.  This Australian Centre for Contemporary Art touring exhibition is the first extensive tour of Brassington's 30 years of practice and explores her ongoing aesthetic language derived from surrealism and cinema reinterpreted through photography.




THE SKULLBONE EXPERIMENT

A wilderness residency at Skullbone Plains engaged a diverse group of Australian artists in an ancient, remote landscape. Initiated by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, a not-for-profit organisation protecting private land for conservation in Tasmania, this project fostered the link between contemporary art practice and the natural world.
Participating artists: Tim Burns, Joel Crosswell, Julie Gough, Philip Hunter, Janet Laurence, Vera Moller, Imants Tillers, Megan Walch, Richard Wastell, Philip Wolfhagen and John Wolseley.  Curated by Philip and Catherine Wolfhagen.
The resulting exhibition opened at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, and will now travel to Galleries UNSW, COFA. 18 July - 30 August.   

View the exhibition here.


Sundowners, Skullbone Plains 2013


MAJOR ACQUISITIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Tim Burns' painting Skullbone Plains, Lake Ina to Kenneth Lagoon 2013 was recently acquired by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.  View work.

The RACV Art Collection, Melbourne, recently acquired Kuluntjarra: Kurrkapi Tjurratja (Desert Oak sugar) 2008, by Jonathan Kimberley, Ngipi Ward, Pulpurru Davies, Nancy Carnegie, Manupa Butler & Norma Giles. View work.

David Stephenson is currently in Lost in Landscape, a major exhibition dedicated to contemporary landscape and its many meanings: space, environment, territory, the place in which one lives and which one leaves. The natural landscape and the urban landscape. Showing now at Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy. View work.

If you are in Canberra, pop into the National Gallery of Australia to view the work of
of Anne MacDonald, currently on display.


Installation at NGA. Anne MacDonald, hand printed photographs, from the series Silk 2006.

Congratulations Imants Tillers

Winner of the 2012 Wynne Prize with his work Waterfall (after Williams).   Imants says of the work:

This painting is my version of Fred Williams’s Free copy of Eugene von Guerard’s Waterfall, Strath Creek, 1862. Von Guerard’s celebrated painting hangs in the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Williams’s work was a gouache executed in 1970. However, he went on to paint several significant original oils of this iconic subject. In my work, the waterfall somehow embodies the fleeting and mysterious nature of life. The waters of Strath Creek, after all, come from the catchments around Mount Disappointment [in Victoria].

Super-imposed over the ever-changing movement of water, I have quoted the sentiments of a famous Indian sutra:

The fleeting self
Like a beam
Like a vision
Like a bubble
Like a shadow
Like dew
Like lightening   

Wynne Prize Finalists

Congratulations Neil Haddon, Imants Tillers & Philip Wolfhagen, all finalists in the 2012 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Imants Tillers acquired by Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery

In These Latitudes 2011
acrylic & gouache on 72 canvas boards
No. 90304 - 90375
226.5h x 284.5 cm (approx installation area)

Bett Gallery is thrilled to announce the acquisition of this significant Imants Tillers, from his recent exhibition The Journey South,   by the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.