Beached Colony in situ:
View Amy Tsilemanis’ documentary, Stories of the Sea, on the creation of Beached Colony.
An education programme accompanied the exhibition. I ran 9 workshops as part of this programme. For details see: Education Kit
Women In The Arts 2013: States Of Play
SymbioticA Luminous Night Print Restrospective
February 2013, The University Club of Western Australia, Hackett Drive, Perth, W.A.
As part of UWA’s Luminous Night centenary celebrations SymbioticA showcases work spanning the lifetime of the Centre, including new work from 2012, in print form.
Artists include: ORLAN, The Tissue Culture and Art Project, The SymbioticA research group, BioKino, Loren Kronemeyer, Donna Franklin, Abhishek Hazra, Carmel Wallace, Heley Pynor & Peta Clancy, Audrey Appudurai, Paul Vanouse, Nigel Helyer, Neurotica Collective, Verena Kaminiarz, Tarsh Bates, Guy Ben-Ary & Kirsten Hudson.
SymbioticA Luminous Night Print Restrospective
© Carmel Wallace 2013
MONTALTO Sculpture Prize finalists exhibition
33 Shoreham Road, Red Hill South, Victoria 3937 Australia www.montalto.com.au
Sculpture 2012 BRAVE NEW WORLD
27 November 2012 to 13 March 2013 Toyota Australia, 155 Bertie St., Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
the eighth annual exhibition showcasing the diversity & excellence of sculpture practice in Victoria. Download the catalogue here: www.watcharts.com.au/toyota.html
Environmental Change – A Visual Response
12 December 2012 to 1 February 2013 . Portland Arts Centre, cnr Glenelg & Bentinck Sts., Portland, Victoria, Australia
Sculptors, installation artists and printmakers from South West Victoria and New South Wales examine the impact of environmental change. ABC coverage & images here
a regional art perspective
This is a Maquette Show
MARS Gallery Melbourne 8 Aug – 2 September 2012
from the MARS Gallery website:
‐ Pablo Picasso [MARS] Gallery is in full swing of preparations for a unique show in August this year, a Maquette show featuring works by Australian sculptors. The story began a few months ago, when a letter was sent every sculptor on the database and since that day we have been inundated with hundreds of e-mails and letters from sculptors all over the country, willing to be part of the show. We are aware of the high costs associated with producing large scale works and saw this as a fantastic opportunity to not only assist with costs but also by providing a space to showcase the extraordinary ideas, talent and techniques of Australian sculptors. We encouraged sculptors to create new works, but in essence provided no guidelines or restrictions; the response has been both overwhelming and humbling. We now have a well rounded list of emerging, mid-career and renowned artists, in no particular order, Cathyann Coady, Adrian Spurr, Matthew Harding, Jane Valentine, Jud Wimhurst, Melissa Cussell, Zoe Amor, James Kenyon, Anna Griffiths, Julie Collins, John Derrick, Bill Sampson, Greer taylor, Giles Ryder, Penny Algar, Deidre Walsh, Graeme Base, Mike Nicholls, Joanne Mott, Nicholas Jones, Geoff Ricardo, Robert Hague, Anthony Vanderzweep, Brendan Taylor, Evan Demas, Christabel Wigley, Kerry Cannon, Mimi Dennett, Tsvia Shapir, Liz Walker, Frank Malerba, Nicole Loder, Joanna O’Toole, Anton Hasell, Mattt Chaumont, Christabel Wigley, Loretta Quinn, and Carmel Wallace.
SCOPE Galleries Art Award – Art Concerning Environment
Award Exhibition June 2 – July 15, 2012
scopegalleries.com : “In continued support of contemporary artists, SCOPE Galleries is pleased to launch the 2012 SCOPE Galleries Art Award – Art Concerning Environment. The Award is non-acquisitive and carries a cash prize of $5,000 to be awarded to one winning artwork. We are excited by the introduction of the Award and consider it exemplifies the serious approach SCOPE Galleries takes in its aim to promote contemporary art in a regional location. Congratulations to CARMEL WALLACE, winner of the 2012 SCOPE Galleries Art Award – Art Concerning Environment for her artwork entitled Forests to Have and to Hold Coinciding with the Award, Guy Abrahams presented a public lecture entitled ‘Sustainability and the Arts’ at the Warrnambool Art Gallery on Saturday June 2. SCOPE Galleries acknowledges the support of the Warrnambool Art Gallery in the staging of this event. The lecture was very well received by a large cross-section of the community. For more information on Sustainability and the Arts please go to www.climarte.org “
The humble utilitarian objects that make up this sculpture show evidence of repeated handling and daily use in the preparation of life-giving meals. It is our personal everyday connection to the natural world that sustains us and leads us to consider the bigger picture. Portland in southwest Victoria is skirted by the Cobboboonee and other precious native forests. Beyond these lie pine and blue-gum plantations. Australia imports about one-third of its forest products, often unsustainably harvested from Asian rainforests, whilst logs and wood chips gather on the Portland waterfront to be loaded on ships bound for the paper mills of Japan. Increasing recognition of the carbon-neutral qualities of timber is seeing a return to its use in the construction industry, particularly at a domestic level, but globally forests are still being carved up and destroyed at an incredible rate with catastrophic outcomes for the environment. Carmel Wallace 2012
SymbioticA Adaptation exhibition
INQB8 Gallery, Mandurah 6 May – 10 June 2012 http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/exhibitions/adaptation
Opening Sunday 6 May
Exploring the microbe to the macro, and everything in between, Adaptation is SymbioticA’s art and ecology research project.
The Adaptation exhibition features the projects undertaken by the Adaptation artists-in-residence embedded in Lake Clifton, south of Mandurah in Western Australia from 2008 to 2012.
Artists
- ART ORIENTÉ OBJET, Plutôt que tout (More than Everything)
- JUAN M. CASTRO, Heliotropika
- ORON CATTS, The Autotroph
- GALLIANO FARDIN, Yalgorup
- CATHERINE HIGHAM, Still Life
- GLORIA KEARING AND ROB EWING, The River Of Spirits
- PERDITA PHILLIPS, The Sixth Shore
- VYONNE WALKER, Slowest Growing Sculpture
- CARMEL WALLACE, Visualizing Adaptation: Surface And Beyond
- ANNAMARIA WELDON, Sharing The Edge