Double Exhibition opening on 25 January to March 2019 at Blue Mountains City Art Gallery

Join Blue Mountains Art Gallery for the opening of Blue Mountains Portraits & Australian exotica

Friday 25 January from 6 – 8pm
Exhibitions to be opened by Blue Mountains Mayor, Cr. Mark Greenhill OAM & enjoy live entertainment by the Vanessa Casperz & James Emerson Jazz Duo.

Free event. Cash Bar.
RSVP to info@bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au or 02 4780 5410 by Monday 21 January.

Blue Mountains Portraits
26 January  – 10 March 2019

Blue Mountains City Art Gallery is celebrating the Blue Mountains community with a major portrait exhibition of local personalities and community members. Over fifty artworks in a broad range of styles and media such as painting, photography, drawing, collage and mixed media are on display together with a selection of local students’ work.

Exhibiting artists:
Abigail Peralta, Adam Knott, Alison Rice, Andrew Merry, Anna Di Mezza, Anne Blair-Hickman, Anne Crestani, Anne Smith, Ben Tankard, Ben Pearse, Brigitte Grant, Camille Walsh, Cate Dudley, Charlotte Ebbings, Christian Mortensen, Damian Castaldi, David Brazil, Di Clark, Faye Wilson, Fi Kanera, Gerlinde Thomas, Greame Wienand, Jeanette Starr, Jennifer Gabbay, Judith Martinez & Craig Billingham, Julian Wrigley, Julie Paterson, Kara Cooper, Kayo Yokoyama, Kunchok Gyaltsen, Leahy & Watson, Lilianne Ivins, Lynn Godfree, Margaret Ellen Burns, Marlene Jones, Marty Walker, Mathew Lynn, Nicole Toms, Peter Adams, Rachel Hannan, Reyna Fellows, Robert Malherbe, Robin Martin, Ron Salz, Samuel Quinteros, Sean O’Keeffe, Sophie Haythornthwaite, Stella Pretty, Stephanie Simcox, Stephen MacFarlane, Tim Newman, Tony Grant, Trish Davies, Victor Peralta, Warren Hinder, Wendy Tsai and students from Katoomba High School, Blue Mountains Grammar School, Kindle Hill School and Springwood High School.

A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery exhibition.

Image: LEAHY & WATSON Neil Duncan 2018, archival print on Hahnemuehle photo rag, 67 x 86cm.

and

Australian exotica
19 January – 3 March 2019

Australian exotica draws on Monash Gallery of Art’s nationally significant collection of Australian photographs and showcases a range of photographic work that engages with the theme of the exotic antipodes.

Ever since the fifteenth century, when European cartographers began including the contour of Terra Australis Incognita (‘the unknown land of the south’) in their speculative maps of the globe, the continent of Australia has been thought of as an exotic place.

For many of the artists in this exhibition, this European vision is something that needs to be subverted and critiqued. For others, the idea of living in an eccentric environment, with surreal undertows, continues to inform a distinctively Australian sense of place.

Artists include Brook Andrew, Michael Cook, Destiny Deacon, Peter Dombrovskis, Marian Drew, Leah King-Smith, Joseph McGlennon, Tracey Moffatt, Darren Siwes, Robyn Stacey and Christian Thompson.

An MGA travelling exhibition.

Image: JOSEPH MCGLENNON Florilegium #1 2014 (detail), from the series Florilegium, pigment ink-jet print, 127 x 100 cm. Monash Gallery of Art, City of Monash Collection. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Reid (Sydney).