Current, Future and Past Exhibition calendar at FLinders Lane Gallery

2012
		CURRENT GREATEST HITS Volume II Until 4 February 2012 Flinders Lane Gallery proudly presents new works from a diverse selection of our most sought-after artists.

		ALMA NUNGURRAYI GRANITES & FAMILY 7 - 25 February FLG in conjunction with Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu is delighted to present the art of Alma Nungurrayi Granites and members of her talented family. Alma is a Warlpiri woman known for her majestical renderings of the night sky. Her work has been successfully placed in the Holmes a Court Collection, the Burkhardt-Felder Museum of Switzerland and the ARTCOL Collection of Seattle.

		THE STUDIO SHOW II 28 February - 17 March Have you ever wondered how an artist works? Keen to get a peek at how an artwork evolves? This special exhibition offers a glimpse into the inner workings and studio practices of a selected group of very different artists all exploring different themes and concepts using varying media.

		KARLEE RAWKINS 20 March - 14 April Presenting paintings based on heirloom plants and vegetables as well as rare poultry and game birds, this will be Karlee Rawkins’ highly anticipated second solo show at FLG. Rawkins has previously been awarded the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and the Australia Council’s residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

		SUSAN O'DOHERTY Time Pieces (Guest Artist) 20 March - 14 April O’Doherty repurposes a range of found objects into striking and provoking assemblages that speak of our domestic lives and identities. These assemblages relate to time; how it is such a dominating yet invisible presence; it can be measured but never held. Individually and collectively we are always looking back into the past and forward to the future, caught helplessly in it’s slipstream leaving behind a memory trail.

		MAMI YAMANAKA 17 April - 5 May Japanese-born, Melbourne-based artist Mami Yamanaka produces distinctive unique and delicate patterns reflecting nature’s own action of creation. Through the meditative process of drawing these intricate forms, Mami’s artwork reflects the fragility of nature and the abundance of inner experience. This will be Mami’s sixth solo exhibition with FLG.

		CAROLINE RANNERSBERGER 8- 26 May Accomplished painter and printmaker Dr Caroline Rannersberger presents work intuitively responding to her surrounding Australian environment. Her layered and evocative images seek to find a sense of unity and connection with the history and mythologies of Australia’s landscape. This will be Caroline’s first solo exhibition at FLG.

		NGAIO LENZ (Guest artist) 8- 26 May With layers of vintage papers, letters, stamps and postcards, Ngaio Lenz explores rooms and their inhabitants, through restoration, excavation, and salvage.

		EXPLORATION 12 29 May - 16 June Now in its 12th year, Flinders Lane Gallery’s popular annual emerging artist exhibition series continues. Presenting the work of young artists in this curated survey of recent graduates and artists on the cusp of a bright creative future, 2012 will again feature a $5,000 acquisitive prize sponsored by Pleysier Perkins Architects.

		RICHARD BLACKWELL 19 June - 7 July Richard Blackwell continues his investigation into the nature of boundaries, inspired by architectural forms and landscapes. A 2012 recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, Richard has recently been profiled by Australian Art Review and his work acquired by Artbank.

		TIME & SPACE 10 July - 18 August A curated exhibition delving into the varied ways in which ideas of time and space are explored and depicted through art. A number of gallery artists including Dion Horstmans, Jo Davenport, Callum Arnold and Charlie Sheard will be participating in this two part exhibition series.

		CHRISTOPHE STIBIO 21 August - 8 September Chinese-trained, French-born artist Christophe Stibio’s intricate paintings explore ideas of becoming and emergence through his depiction of the Australian landscape. Stibio’s abstract interpretations of the Australian landscape demonstrate patience, control and an astute awareness of the passages of time. A recent finalist in the 2011 Fleurieu Landscape Prize with a Highly Commended Award his work will also feature in the Gold Coast Art Prize in 2012.

		MELINDA SCHAWEL 11 - 29 September After living in New York for the past few years, Melinda Schawel returns to Melbourne in preparation for her first solo at Flinders Lane Gallery since 2009. Melinda Schawel’s collages celebrate the beauty, power, and ambiguities inherent in language. The artworks are built up in dense layers mimicking the surfaces that life creates & populated with an accessible language of signs and symbols.

		SYLVIA McEWAN (Guest artist) 11 - 29 September Drawing on references as diverse as Classicism and Cubism, Sylvia McEwan explores the female figure through space, line, colour and form. Since 1996, McEwan has had 16 solo exhibitions throughout Australia as well as the UK. Her work hangs in public and private galleries in London, United States, Germany, Netherlands and Australia.

		JO DAVENPORT 2 - 20 October Master of Fine Art graduate Jo Davenport presents her first solo show with Flinders Lane Gallery. Exploring the intuitive tension between line, colour, text and the natural world, her mark-making synthesizes personal narrative with symbolic gesture, creating abstracted maps of emotion, time and place.

		WILLIAM BREEN 23 October - 10 November Presenting both his rural landscapes and distinctly Melbourne streetscapes, William Breen communicates suspended moments of beauty and stillness. Although each painting is an intuitive “moment of clarity”, there is also a sense of nostalgia, a half-remembered past. Admired for his ability to capture the essence of a place, Breen’s paintings are a testament to his skills of observation and spatial rendering.

		GARRY PUMFREY 13 November - 1 December Employing high realism, Garry Pumfrey is known for his portrayal of the urban landscapes of Australia. Commenting on the nature of both contemporary culture and consumerism, Pumfrey pays close attention to these shifting environments. Having spent the last year in an active artist collective in Barcelona, this solo exhibition will be one to watch out for.

		MISH CAHILL (Guest artist) 13 November - 1 December With a meticulous affinity for detail, Mish Cahill’s museum-quality sculptures re-imagine old inventions through a kaleidescope of colour and imagination. In this exhibition ‘The Telescope, built to see a future’, Cahill presents a series of small and large scale sculptures illustrating the seen and the unseen world, through the lens of The Telescope.