Past
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Angela Valamanesh
Once I was a plant 7 Nov - 15 Dec 2024 Valamanesh is one of Australia's most important artists working across ceramics and painting, with a career spanning more than four decades. 'Once I was a plant' is an impressive presentation that shares Valamanesh's deep interest in science and poetry, the rational and the irrational, the formal and symbolic through fine painting and ceramics. Read more -
Tarryn Gill
Soft 21 Sep - 3 Nov 2024 Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is delighted to present Soft, Tarryn Gill's second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Soft sees the gallery transformed into a space somewhere between a theatre and a rehearsal room. A dreamscape, where Gill creates a soft interlude that invites us to envision how we might re-world our inner and outer realities and find ways back to the body.
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Sally Smart
Flaubert's Puppets 14 Aug - 15 Sep 2024 Flaubert's Puppets Exhibition Essay by Jack Smart Coventry ‘We invented acting as a family’ - George Sand Inarticulate strings In Fantasia of the Library, Foucault speaks of an inversion in the relationship between St. Anthony and the ‘Book’ he carries with him into the desert: “Far from being a protection,... Read more -
Donna Marcus
Pallet 23 Mar - 5 May 2024 Donna Marcus’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Pallet, presents a new sculpture series of repurposed aluminium once found in the kitchen. Traversing the wall and floor, Marcus’s simple geometric shapes and colour compositions create complex sculptural harmony - referencing minimalism, modernism and feminism through her unique visual language that... Read more -
Rive Roshan
Internal Reflection 1 Feb - 17 Mar 2024 In Rive Roshan's debut Australian solo exhibition, Internal Reflection, the Amsterdam-based artists and life partners Ruben de la Rive Box (Netherlands, 1981) and Golnar Roshan (Australia, 1986) showcase a new series of mesmerising functional art objects and shifting wall pieces. Rive Roshan strive to demonstrate how the interplay between light... Read more -
OLIVE GILL-HILLE
ASYMPTOTE 21 Sep - 5 Nov 2023 Asymptote Written by Emma Pegrum If I say ‘asymptote’, what do you feel? For me, something in the word gently pierces the body, like a needle sliding through dough. I don’t harden against it, I soften around it. The word describes a mathematic phenomenon: an asymptote is a... Read more -
Marion Borgelt
Rhythms, Chords, Cadences (Revisited) 17 Aug - 17 Sep 2023 “I am fascinated by the nature of time and how it governs our lives and the universe we live in. In the natural world, the passage of time is predominantly characterised by the existence of cycles and repetition where one phase or stage of a living, dynamic entity metamorphoses into... Read more -
Edward Waring
Instinctive Travels 14 Jul - 13 Aug 2023 Edward Waring – Instinctive Travels Edward Waring is drawn to found objects. He seeks them out in auction showrooms and on the cluttered shelves of charity shops, reassembling them into new forms which explore the history of sculpture, the role of memory, and our relationship to the materials that accumulate... Read more -
Yusuke Takemura
Connectivity: New Explorations 9 Jun - 9 Jul 2023 Connectivity: New Explorations by Yusuké Takemura Are we our memories? ‘Imagine you are standing at the bottom of a mountain, and you take all your memories and put them into a basket by your feet. I am at the top of the mountain also putting all my memories... Read more -
Izabela Pluta
Image after image 4 May - 4 Jun 2023 Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is delighted to present Image after image, Izabela Pluta’s second solo exhibition with the Gallery. Image after image is anchored by seven unique, large-scale photographic works that share a singular source image: a film negative from Pluta’s personal archive. This image captures a sky view from an... Read more -
Lisa Reihana
Extracts 27 Mar - 29 Apr 2023 Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is pleased to present Extracts, our second solo exhibition with renowned international artist Lisa Reihana. Extracts brings together carefully selected scenes from a range of Reihana’s most notable video and photography series, including Pelt (2009), Tai Whetuki – House of Death (2015), in Pursuit of Venus (2017),... Read more -
Sarah Rayner
distance of a whisper 24 Feb - 26 Mar 2023 The exhibition distance of a whisper by Sarah Rayner is a series of unfolding stories...a significant and exquisite body of work that honours the resilience of Australian native plants and the slow methodical resistance of the process of the handmade. Rayner’s enduring and distinctive sculptural vocabulary introduces the viewer to... Read more -
JACKY REDGATE
UNFOLDING SOLIDS 19 Nov - 18 Dec 2022 Jacky Redgate’s debut, solo exhibition with Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert presents a captivating installation of geometric sculptures. UNFOLDING SOLIDS , 2022 comprises beguiling artworks that reflect Redgate’s abiding interest in mathematics and its influence on modernist abstraction in the context of minimalism and conceptual art. UNFOLDING SOLIDS , 2022 is based... Read more -
DON CAMERON
Translations 3 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 “CAMERON HAS WORKED TO TRANSLATE THE ATMOSPHERE HIS IMAGES HAVE CAPTURED FROM ONE MEDIUM INTO ANOTHER, HE LOOKS FOR WAYS TO ACHIEVE THE EFFECTS OF SURFACE PATINA AND FORM THAT HE FOUND IN HIS PHOTOGRAPHS, FROM ONE CATEGORY TO ANOTHER. A BUILDING IS TRANSLATED INTO A PHOTOGRAPH, WHICH IN TURN BECOMES AN OBJECT. DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE MERGE IMPERCEPTIBLY ONE INTO ANOTHER.”
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Jordan Gogos
Un/Constrained 29 Jul - 30 Aug 2022 Un/constrained Based in Sydney on Gadigal land, multidiciplinary artist Jordan Gogos’s practice encompasses functional art and compression wall textiles, as well as his eponymous fashion label, Iordanes Spyridon Gogos. Sharing a cross-disciplinary interest in the arts that unites seemingly disparate ideas, Gogos works tirelessly, traversing materials, shape and form. Upon... Read more -
Fernando do Campo
Billy Goat Swamp 25 Jun - 24 Jul 2022 Fernando do Campo Billy Goat Swamp Exhibition Essay Relishing in history - between the archive and the field Originating in New Zealand in the 19th century, acclimatisation societies were voluntary associations that encouraged the introduction of non-native species to colonised countries around the world.1 In Australia, these societies were the... Read more -
Sabine Marcelis
Shadow Light 24 May - 19 Jun 2022 Born in The Netherlands and raised in New Zealand, Sabine Marcelis is a designer who graduated from the Design Academy of Eindhoven in 2011 and now lives and works in the harbour city of Rotterdam. Earning international recognition for her bold experimentation which pushes the limits of both material and... Read more -
IVANA TAYLOR
REFRAME 25 Nov - 19 Dec 2021 Reframe by Ivana Taylor brings together, for the first time, a selection of sculpture, lighting and furniture by the artist - an exhibition which explores a fascination for textile wrapping and invites the viewer to explore the world through new frames and layers. Taylor responds with an incredibly unique visual... Read more -
OLIVE GILL-HILLE
TRUNK 21 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 The embodied objects of Olive Gill-Hille’s “Trunk” By Emma Pegrum The complex capacities of material objects both quotidian and artistic have long occupied modern thinking. Objects often stem from us, and even in their physical separatism continue to relate to us, or us to them; they become part... Read more -
ANGELA VALAMANESH
THE MORTICIAN'S GARDEN 16 Sep - 17 Oct 2021 Morticia: Think of Romeo and Juliet. Gomez: They died. Morticia: Oh, but what fun they had those last three days… The mid-1960s television series The Addams Family serves as the unlikely starting point for South Australian artist Angela Valamanesh’s new body of work The Mortician’s Garden. The exhibition’s title references... Read more -
Tarryn Gill
DREAM STATE 7 Aug - 12 Sep 2021 There is a process in Jungian analysis of visualising a complex in order to begin a conversation with it. A ‘complex’ is a pattern of emotions or beliefs organised around a theme. ‘Visualisation’ creates a physical form for those emotions, a character or persona. Perhaps a marauding sea-witch of self-doubt... Read more -
Marion Borgelt
SILENT SYMPHONY 27 May - 27 Jun 2021 At a time of quotidian angst, this suite of work offers escape and lends perspective. Silent Symphony alludes to nature's exquisite designs by referencing fundamental archetypal patterns and forms. The artist’s selection of different materials considers how their innate properties are best elevated to result in expressions of orbital motions... Read more -
SALLY SMART
CHOREOGRAPHIES (THE ARTIST’S BALLET) 15 Apr - 23 May 2021 Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert is delighted to present Sally Smart's solo exhibition Choreographies (The Artist's Ballet). Sally Smart’s work for Choreographies (The Artist’s Ballet) at Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert consists of new collage paintings and sculpture. Smart represents the body fragmented and abstracted, conceptually tracing dance references through collage methodologies. The works... Read more -
ABDULLAH M. I. SYED
COMMON THREADS RUN DEEP 11 Mar - 11 Apr 2021 Common Threads Run Deep presents a cross-section of recent and previous work by Pakistani-Australian artist Abdullah M.I. Syed. Syed’s art practice is a cerebral but also deeply personal and visually sophisticated one that draws on the traditional art and craft skills and heritage of Pakistan as well as global 21st... Read more -
FUTURE RUINS
MICHAEL GITTINGS 11 Feb - 7 Mar 2021 Future Ruins is set in a dystopian world where human control over nature has been reversed, where we no longer have the power or means to pot or prune or poison our surroundings into easily manageable and commodifiable lots. Industrial structures that once stood and dominated the environment have been... Read more -
Sarah Rayner & Sophie Carnell
Anthologia 28 Oct - 22 Nov 2020 Anthologia is a Greek word that literally means ‘flower gathering’; its English translation, ‘anthology’ denotes a collection of literary works such as poems, short stories or plays. Both definitions are meaningful in considering the work of artists Sarah Rayner and Sophie Carnell. Over the past two decades both artists have... Read more -
IZABELA PLUTA
MEASURES OF REFRACTION 3 - 27 Sep 2020 Measures of Refraction represents the development of Pluta’s work following her underwater research in Yonaguni, Japan in 2018. The exhibition brings together 26 unique cyanotypes and two mural photographs to consider the form, function and legibility of the photographic image. Pluta offers a way of subverting the exactness of photographic... Read more -
DON CAMERON
COMMUNION 5 - 30 Aug 2020 Concrete Landscapes Steven Humblet Bunkers, churches, memorials. These are the buildings that are the subject of a photographic series made by the Austra- lian artist Don Cameron (1975). One could find the combination of these subjects a bit strange. At first glance, they are seemingly unrelated: a bunker is a... Read more -
Lisa Reihana
Nomads of the Sea 5 Mar - 10 May 2020 GALLERY SALLY DAN-CUTHBERT is thrilled to present the premiere of photographic works derived from Nomads of the Sea by internationally acclaimed artist, Lisa Reihana . Nomads of the Sea weaves historical fact with fiction to explore the social tension between cultural leadership, spiritual custom and egotistical desire in the face... Read more -
GROUP EXHIBITION
Summer 12 Dec 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 GROUP EXHIBITION: SUMMER December 12, 2019 - March 1, 2020 Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert in the Summer Group Exhibition will exhibit a unique collection of limited edition or one-off collectable design pieces, alongside emerging through to established visual artists from Australia and New Zealand. The exhibition will place a particular focus... Read more -
MARION BORGELT
LUMINOUS VOID 27 Sep - 3 Nov 2019 MARION BORGELT LUMINOUS VOID, Sep 27 - Nov 3, 2019 Planet earth is surrounded by the most theatrical of backdrops-a magical display of infinitude in whose darkness the lights of dying stars reach us millions of light years from their original source. Such drama of exploding stars and gaseous infernos... Read more -
Opening Exhibition: Group Show
A taste of what's to come 9 Aug - 22 Sep 2019 Opening Exhibition Group Show, Aug 9 - Sep 22, 2019 The gallery’s first exhibition, starting the 9th of August 2019 – is a group show representing the work of the gallery's 29 artists, including works by designers such as Trent Jansen, Michael Gittings and Darren Fry, and visual artists such... Read more
