Exhibitions

Animal Studies by Monique Auricchio

Monique Auricchio has developed a reputation based on a combination of highly developed printing skills and imaginative imagery. Her work examines human perceptions of animals, often using shadow and dark tones to emphasise the threatening or foreboding elements of the relationship.

Monique Auricchio’s art is often whimsical and theatrical, creating dreamlike images in shadowy, semi-urban settings. The works are layered with allegorical and proverbial references, yet evoke a sense of the unfamiliar. Images often feature animals infused with human sensibility. Birds provide the artist with a rich and abundant source of subject matter, as she explores the fragile and peculiar pecking order of the human and animal condition with satirical warmth and gentle humour.

Shining Light: prints by leading contemporary Indigenous artists from Nomad Art Collections

Curated by Talitha Kennedy

An exhibition of limited edition prints by artists from remote Australia. Featuring works by: Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Janangoo Butcher Cherel (dec), Pedro Wonaeamirri, Elizabeth Nyumi (dec), Bardayal Nadjamerrek (dec), Dorothy Napangardi (dec), Ronnie Tjampitjinpa.

Selected from Nomad Art’s comprehensive catalogue of limited edition prints, this exhibition celebrates the strength and diversity of art from the Top End, Kimberley and Central Australia through etchings, silkscreens, linocuts and lithographs.

‘Printmaking has been the ignition for many leading Indigenous artists who headline contemporary biennales and win major art awards. Works by these artists have energised the contemporary art scene with powerful creations that roar with deep culture and gift us an experience of country. In light of recent grand scale installations and immersive media works grabbing attention in the big exhibitions and events, I want to draw attention to the intimacy of prints on paper’. Talitha Kennedy 2020

Enlighten Canberra

Projections on Parliament House by Jacqueline Gribbin.

Projections from the portfolio – Dear Gilbert…(Song for the Ichthyologist), by Jacqueline Gribbin 2017-2019. To create these works Darwin artist Jacqueline Gribbin revived a collection of old and forgotten relief printing blocks of scientific drawings by Gilbert Percy Whitley (Ichthyologist and Curator of Fishes, Australian Museum, 1922-1964).