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Art as echo: Three Echoes – Western Desert Art to open at Tweed Regional Gallery
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Tweed Regional Gallery is proud to present Three Echoes – Western Desert Art, a national touring exhibition, which will open at the gallery Friday 8 December 2023.
The exhibition, an initiative of Museums & Galleries Queensland, explores the poetic notion of echoes – how metaphorically and metaphonically we can echo a thought, a sentiment or a consciousness.
Curated by celebrated curator, writer, artist and activist, Djon Mundine OAM FAHA, Three Echoes – Western Desert Art showcases works by 57 acclaimed First Nations artists from Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff), Papunya and Utopia Aboriginal communities in the Western Desert regions of the Northern Territory, Australia.
Artworks from the exhibition have been drawn from the private collection of Andrew Arnott and Karin Schack and reflect the significant artistic developments and moments in time that contributed to the meteoric rise of the Western Desert Art movement, which developed in the 1970s.
At the time, Aboriginal people from the desert began talking to the world through art, transferring their creation stories of the land and people to canvas. Now, in the 2020s, this foundational echo is going back and forth. No longer a one-sided, outward calling, it reverberates multi-dimensionally within wider Australian and global communities.
These works hold special meaning for First Nations peoples, communicating important stories of tjukurrpa (Dreaming) and Country. The relationships within families and ancestors; with flora and fauna; and the unique land formations are the foundations of this art.
Exhibition Curator Djon Mundine OAM FAHA spoke of his familial and cultural connection to the theme of Three Echoes – Western Desert Art,
“In the early 1970s, my father once told me of how, when he was a child in Bundjalung country, people coming along the river or through the woods would ‘Coo-ee’ to announce their presence at certain places where their voice would echo repeatedly, reverberating into the distance; to which the receiver would, ‘chant-like’, respond,” he said.
Executive Director at Museums & Galleries Queensland Rebekah Butler said she was honoured to be showcasing the exhibition.
“We are immensely proud to have developed this beautiful and multifaceted show of works, that includes paintings, prints and batiks – and to share these works with a national audience,” she said.
“Featured are some of Australia’s most critically acclaimed artists including Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Narputta Nangala Jugadai, Long Tom Tjapanangka, Dr George Tjapaltjarri, Gloria Petyarre and Emily Kame Kngwarreye.”
Acting Tweed Regional Gallery Director Ingrid Hedgecock said the exhibition was an incredibly exciting addition to the Tweed’s cultural repertoire.
“We invite everyone to join us in honouring our world’s oldest continuous living culture through these incredible pieces and view the tremendous selection of works by First Nations artists,” she said.
A Curator’s Floor Talk will be held prior to the exhibition opening on Friday 8 December. In this talk Djon Mundine will speak about the exhibition and touch on significant moments in the history of Western Desert Art. This is a ticketed event and bookings are essential.
Three Echoes – Western Desert Art is on display at Tweed Regional Gallery until 25 February 2024.
The exhibition will travel to 13 regional centres in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Northern Territory.
To view the itinerary and find out more information visit magsq.com.au/touring-exhibitions/three-echoes.
Public Programs:
Curator’s Floor Talk: Djon Mundine OAM FAHA
Friday 8 December | 5.15pm | $8/$10
Join celebrated curator, writer, artist and activist Djon Mundine OAM FAHA for a Curator’s Floor Talk of Three Echoes – Western Desert Art. In this talk, Djon Mundine will speak about the exhibition and touch on significant moments in the history of Western Desert Art from the early men’s paintings of Papunya Tula, to the artists of Ikuntji, through to the Utopia women’s paintings and batiks.
Bookings essential djonmundine.eventbrite.com.au
Summer Opening Celebrations
Friday 8 December | 6.00pm for 6.30 pm speeches | Free
Join us for the opening celebrations for Three Echoes – Western Desert Art curated by Djon Mundine OAM.
Bookings essential sumopen23.eventbrite.com.au
ART MAKER painting workshop with Jason King
Friday 19 January | 10.30am – 12.30pm | $25
Join Aboriginal artist Jason King at the Gallery and create a painting inspired by the exhibition Three Echoes. All materials included. Suitable for young people 9-15 years.
Booking essential JKing24.eventbrite.com.au
‘Slap in the face’: Indigenous women’s group reacts to Emmy win for Sainte-Marie film
The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, November 21, 2023 5:29PM EST
Last Updated Tuesday, November 21, 2023 5:29PM EST
A group of Indigenous women says the International Emmy Award for a documentary about folk legend Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose First Nations ancestry has been called into question, feels like a “slap in the face.”
“Documentaries are supposed to present factual information,” the Indigenous Women’s Collective, which describes itself as mothers, grandmothers, academics and activists advocating to stop colonial violence against Indigenous women, wrote Monday on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
“Pretendianism is an act of colonial violence and should never be celebrated.”
“Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On,” a documentary made before doubts came to light about the singer’s Indigenous roots, won in the arts programming category.
Producers describe the film as a retrospective of Sainte-Marie’s life and career, including interviews with famous friends and colleagues, never-before-seen archival material and cinematic recreations.
The documentary, produced by Eagle Vision, White Pine Pictures and Paquin Entertainment, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and is available to stream on Crave, while the CBC piece is available on YouTube.
A statement by White Pine Pictures on its website expresses support for Sainte-Marie.
“We stand behind Buffy and believe it to be true that her mother told her she was adopted and of Canadian Indigenous descent.”
The Emmy Award is presented by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which has not responded to requests from The Canadian Press for comment.
The singer-songwriter’s ancestry was challenged in a CBC investigation last month that presented several identity documents and interviews with family members that suggested she was born in Stoneham, Mass., to white parents in 1941.
Sainte-Marie’s story of her birth, childhood and identity has shifted throughout her six-decade career, with her identifying as Algonquin and Mi’kmaq before saying she was Cree, adopted from a mother in Saskatchewan.
Sainte-Marie, 82, said in a statement the day before CBC’s story ran that she doesn’t know who her birth parents are or where she’s from, but called herself “a proud member of the Native community with deep roots in Canada.”
Last month, the women’s collective called for Sainte-Marie’s Juno Award for Indigenous album of the year to be rescinded.
“We invite the Juno Awards Committee to revisit this 2018 category and explore ways of righting a past wrong. All Indigenous artists in this 2018 category ΓǪ should be reconsidered for this rightful honour,” the collective said.
Some musicians have said they were disappointed to learn they may have lost career-shaping industry awards to someone who may be neither Indigenous nor Canadian. They say it amounted to lost opportunities at critical times in their careers.
Sainte-Marie has received numerous Junos, the $50,000 Polaris Music Prize in 2015 and a Polaris heritage award for her 1964 debut album “It’s My Way!,” among a slew of other honours.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Nov. 21, 2023.
118 Elliot to hold artist talk, reception
BRATTLEBORO — 118 Elliot will host an artist’s talk and reception on Nov. 25, from 3 to 5 p.m.
From Pop Icon Andy Warhol To Canadian Modernist Jean-Paul Riopelle, Check Out Some of Heffel’s Fall Auctions Most Interesting Lots
This week, Canada’s Heffel Fine Art Auction House is set to present their fall live auctions to an international audience—which is expected to bring between $13–20 million CAD ($10–15 million) overall. The two primary events making up the season’s sales are both scheduled for November 23, 2023, opening with the Post-War and Contemporary Art sale at 5 p.m. and Canadian Impressionist and Modern Art at 7 p.m.
Across the sales are examples of work by some of the most important 20th- and 21st-century artists and artworks, including Andy Warhol’s Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (1985), hailing from the “Reigning Queens, Royal Edition” series, an iconic screen print replete with diamond dust. Works by some of Canada’s most well-known artists, including the celebrated landscape painter Emily Carr, are also up for sale.
Below, we explore six intriguing lots from the forthcoming sales.
Emily Carr
Alert Bay (Indian in Yellow Blanket) (1912)
Est. $1,000,000–$1,500,000 CAD
Emily Carr, Alert Bay (Indian in Yellow Blanket) (1912). Courtesy of Heffel.
Considered one of Canada’s most important and historically significant artists, Emily Carr (1871–1945) is best known for her works depicting Indigenous peoples and cultures of the Pacific Northwest. A pioneer within the Canadian art scene, she was an early adopter of Modernist and Post-Impressionist style, and frequently employed a Fauvist-inspired color palette in her compositions. A highlight from the Canadian Impressionist and Modern Art sale, the present lot features all the hallmarks of Carr’s inimitable style.
Jean Paul Riopelle
Sans titre (Composition #2) (1951)
Est. $3,000,000–$5,000,000 CAD
Jean Paul Riopelle, Sans titre (Composition #2) (1951). Courtesy of Heffel.
Coinciding with the centenary of his birth, the Post-War and Contemporary Art sale includes seven works by Canadian Abstract Expressionist artist Jean Paul Riopelle (1923–2002). Working in parallel with the AbEx artists of New York like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Riopelle’s distinct approach to the all-over painting technique is evident in Sans titre (Composition #2) (1951). While Greenbergian theory posited that the all-over approach eradicated the traditional hierarchy of elements within the composition, Riopelle instead saw the hierarchy in the third dimension; here, the first layer is comprised of heavily impastoed pigment, and the genre’s hallmark drips are laid over top.
Alex Katz
Ada in the Sun (1976)
Est. $70,000–$90,000 CAD
Alex Katz, Ada in the Sun (1976). Courtesy of Heffel.
Recently the subject of a major career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Alex Katz (b. 1927) has continually found inspiration in his wife Ada since their meeting in 1957. Ada has been the subject of over 250 portraits appeared in some manner in hundreds more over than six decades. Her visage combined with Katz’s signature style of employing flat plates of color and simplified forms, has become one of the most recognizable depictions of the 20th century.
Henry Moore
Family Group (1944)
Est. $500,000–$700,000 CAD
Henry Moore, Family Group (1944). Courtesy of Heffel.
English artist Henry Moore (1898–1986) garnered worldwide acclaim for his pioneering—and often monumental—semi-abstract sculptures. Moore’s practice centered on the human form, and he continuously explored the compositional and abstract possibilities of the body and the boundaries of figuration. The present lot, Family Group (1944), matches the work of the same edition within the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery in London, and has a single-family provenance originating to its acquisition from Dominion Gallery in the 1950s.
Jack Hamilton Bush
Burgundy (1968)
Est. $300,000–$500,000
Jack Hamilton Bush, Burgundy (1968). Courtesy of Heffel.
A preeminent 20th-century Color Field painter, Jack Bush (1909–1977) was friends and associates with contemporaries such as Jules Olitski, Kenneth Noland, and Anthony Caro. An influential member of the artist group Painters Eleven, which formed in 1954 before disbanding in 1960, Bush was at the forefront of bringing modes of abstraction to the Canadian art scene. Like fellow Color Field painters of the time, Bush was influenced by the work of Helen Frankenthaler and subsequently Morris Louis, and much of his work employs the technique of thinning paint to achieve his distinct, physically saturated planes of color.
Paul-Émile Borduas
Miniatures empressées (1955)
Est. $900,000–$1,200,000
Paul-Émile Borduas, Miniatures empressées (1955). Courtesy of Heffel.
Paul-Émile Borduas (1905–1960) was a Quebecois artist recognized for his early experiments in abstraction. The founder of Les Automatiste—an avant-garde movement inspired by surrealism and the psychology of artmaking—his work with the group culminated with his primary contribution to the Refus Global manifesto in 1948, which rejected the prevailing norms of academic painting traditions, as well as the of the greater Quebecois society of the period. His work and legacy are considered one of the most influential within Canadian art history.
Heffel’s fall auctions will take place Thursday, November 23, 2023. Explore these lots and more here.
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Sculptures crafted by Nebraska artists placed at Gering Civic Plaza
The Gering Civic Plaza has officially become an art tourism destination with the installation of three sculptures created by world class Nebraska artists.
Photographer Greg Miles (1966 – 2023)
Photographer Greg Miles passed away suddenly in his home on Sunday, November 19, 2023 of a reported heart attack.
Gregory Scott Miles was born in Stamford, Connecticut on February 4, 1966. His parents moved to Maryland, where he grew up. Miles attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virgina, and pursued a degree in Communication Arts. He relocated to New York City in the mid-1980s and worked extensively in fashion photography. By working with renowned fashion photographer Michael Thompson, Miles assembled a portfolio, and shot for magazines Interview, Black Book and more. He met his wife Zoe, who was working to produce live events and music festivals, and they married in 2004. They moved to New Orleans in 2001, where Zoe’s mother lived at the time. The marriage produced two children: Violet, now 18, and James Ignatius “Iggy” Miles, who is now 16. The couple divorced in 2010.
When Greg moved to New Orleans, he focused on the city’s cultural epicenter—most notably its renowned music scene. He shot portraits of hundreds of musicians for both commercial and personal work. Miles took pictures for countless magazines around the world as well as dozens of commercial clients including Gibson Guitars, Island Def Jam Records, NPR, Neiman Marcus, W Hotels, Verve Records, Harrah’s Casino, Sonesta and Tasc Performance.
Miles began making a name for himself as a music photographer not long after he moved to the city. He began shooting photos of local musicians (see Miles’ music photos here and a portfolio of all of his work here. OffBeat Magazine recognized Miles’ immense talent and worked with him to produce several of OffBeat‘s covers and photos for cover stories over the years.
Greg Miles OffBeat covers.
In addition to his commercial work, Miles’s photos have been included in several group shows nationally as well one-man shows in New York and New Orleans. Most notably, in October 2005 his work was featured in a one-man show at Gibson’s studios in New York City. One of the highlights of the opening was Allan Toussaint’s impromptu performance. All of the proceeds from the show went to benefit New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Miles is survived by his children, Violet and Iggy; his family in New Jersey, Florida and Maryland; and his fiancée Julie O’Connell.
At press time funeral arrangements were pending.
Columbus art exhibition features unique takes on negative space
Working in different mediums, Columbus-area artists Zanardelli and Meg Beech shape negative space in ways that give their work its distinctive flavor, in abstract forms and representational forms inspired by nature. Their work is on display in Beauty in the Negative, in the Columbus Cultural Arts Center’s Loft Gallery, through Dec. 30.
Moss, Pine Bark, and Roots Camouflage Tiny Refuges Among the Wild Swedish Forests and Farmland
“Moss Hut.” All images © Ulf Mejergren, shared with permission
Artist and architect Ulf Mejergren (previously) continues his interest in cozy, outdoor constructions with a new series titled Farm Art. Collaborating with farmer Robert Pettersson, Mejergren built several site-specific structures from materials found around Pettersson’s property in Grödinge, Sweden.
For “Pine Bark Hut,” the pair layered thick, gnarly wood into a slender cabin camouflaged between two trees, a space first used for hunting and then storing tools. Similarly, “Root Hut” entwines gathered branches with the existing roots to create a small, sand pit enclosure nestled beneath the forest, while the circular “Moss Hut” stands 4.5 meters tall among the trees. The latter work “stems from the farmers’ hunting interest,” Mejergren writes. “For many years, he has put food at certain points in the forests so wild boars come to feed there. The problem is they are like bulldozers in the forests, looking for insects and roots in the soil, so they have dug up moss from the forest floor and left them scattered in big droves.” Cloaked in the remaining lichen, the structure is a disguised refuge among the wild landscape.
Other works in Farm Art are more aesthetically driven, like the vivid “Sunset.” Made of dandelion heads at full bloom, the spherical form appears to glow in a field of weeds and wildflowers. Find the full series on Mejergren’s site and Instagram.
“Pine Bark Hut”
“Sunset”
Detail of “Moss Hut”
“Sunset”
“Root Hut”
“Hay House”
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One of the Most Common Mistakes Photographers Make With Artificial
When it comes to artificial lighting, while technical skills are critical, even more important is learning to light scenes in service of the narrative rather than conspicuous lighting for its own sake. This great video demonstrates that concept and offers five useful steps to put you on the path to success.
Coming to you from Scott Choucino of Tin House Studio, this excellent video tutorial discusses approaches to artificial lighting. The first and foremost priority should be deciding on the story and mood you want to convey. Whether it’s a party scene or a hot summer day, nail down the narrative before picking up any lighting gear. This narrative guides your subsequent choices around lighting quality, directionality, and adjustments through subtracting or adding light.
Too often, amateur photographers get distracted by flashy but impractical lighting setups because they seem inherently interesting. As Choucino notes, you can always spot amateur lighting because it draws excessive attention to itself rather than blending seamlessly into the scene. The mark of pro lighting is that it looks realistic rather than conspicuous. While he doesn’t dismiss technical virtuosity outright, he wants to dispel the notion that professional photographers always rely on complex, multi-light setups. In reality, most shots require only one primary light. The complexity arises from all the subtraction and addition of light through flags, reflectors, and other modifiers to sculpt that primary light source.
So, if you find yourself obsessing over tricky three-point lighting setups or meticulously calibrated gradient effects, take a step back. Remember that serving the narrative and mood should be the primary goal. Let dramatic lighting serve this purpose rather than lighting for attention-grabbing flair alone, and the results will speak for themselves. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Choucino.
