NEWS
2011
Exhibition: Exquisite Corpse
at the Fulton Street Collective, 2000 West Fulton Street, Suite F237, Chicago, IL USA,
from September 2 - 17. Curated by Jenny Lam. See her blog post and pictures here.
Recent news: I am excited to announce that I have been accepted at the Leipzig International Art Program for a six-month residency next year, from October 2012 - March 2013.
I intend to travel through the homelands of my parents beforehand, to Gdansk, Poland (which was Danzig, Germany when my father was growing up there) and Klaipeda & Vilnius in Lithuania. This pilgimmage will give me great material for new work to concerntrate on during my time in Leipzig.
And of course, there's Berlin! So there'll be plenty of time to see plenty of great art.
Australia & Korea 50 Years Friendship Anniversary Art Exhibition in Korea
at the Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Seoul, South Korea
Photos by Sydney artist Min Woo Bang
Outside the Cultural Centre, Seoul, South Korea
Foyer to the Exhibition
My painting "Feed", lower far right.
BOM Gallery:
The Gallery
My painting "The Approach", top far left, at Bom Gallery
(Photos by Sydney artist Jane Bennett)
Collingwood Arts Precinct
OPEN DAY:
On Saturday, April 30, is the Collingwood Arts Precinct Open Day. My latest and newest work "Runway" (left) will be on show at Catherine Asquith Gallery, and will be available to view over the next few months.
"Runway", oil on linen, 208.5 x 183.4 cm, 2011
EXHIBITIONS:
Australia & Korea 50 Years Friendship Anniversary Art Exhibition in Korea
at the Korea Foundation Cultural Centre, Seoul, South Korea
28 April - 17 May, 2011
also: "Awake"
at Bom Gallery, Korea
from April 28 - May 18, 2011
These group exhibitions have been organised by the Korean Women Artists in Sydney Society to celebrate 50 years of friendship between Australia and Korea. "Dish", below, and two other paintings are on show.
Dish, oil on linen, 41 x 41 cm, 2010
"Aura: The Haunted Family Image"
L17 Art Space, Victoria University, Melbourne VIC
15 March - 8 April, 2011
This group exhibition focuses on re-presentations of personal photographs, videos and objects from the lives of the artists and their families. The artists expose the ghosts hidden within the material: lingering afterlives resonant with the memory of ruptures in identities and communities.
These ruptures are historical as well as personal; they uncover the trauma within modern European history, within the rush to modernity, and within the life of individuals striving to find their place in the world. The exhibition takes as its cue Walter Benjamin's concept of Aura, the unique intensity created in visual material through the the dynamic relationship between the beholder and the artifact.
"With the close-up, space expands; with slow motion, movement is extended.
The enlargement of a snapshot does not simply render more precise what in any case was visible though unclear: it reveals entirely new structural formations of the subject." (Walter Benjamin, Illuminations 236)
Curated by Stefan Schutt.
Exchange
at Gatekers Artspace, Maryborough QLD
1 - 30th November, 2011
Over 40 Artists involved from Qld, NSW and Vic and include mixed media, painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and a whole lot more.
My work has been included in the website ArtHoles, created and curated by Syd Woom, from Woom Gallery in the UK. He has made a personal selection of artists from around the world, and I am pleased to be included in the company of many exciting artists.
This Competition has included me in their top 100 entries out of thousands from all over the world.
2010
My painting from 2009, "Parallel" (left), was selected for the St. George Art Award in Hurstville, NSW, and was exhibited at the Hurstville City Museum & Gallery from Saturday 30th October to Thursday 16th December 2010.
My painting "Constellation" (2010) was selected for the 2010 Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, and was exhibited at the Art Centre Gold Coast from Saturday 4th December 2010 to Saturday 6th February 2011.
"Trophy" (2010) is featured in What Now in The Australian Art Collector magazine (issue 54, October to December 2010, p. 118, 119), words by Ashley Crawford.
EXHIBITIONS:
"Her Fragrant Frown"
at Catherine Asquith Gallery
2nd - 20th November 2010
"Continuing on from her last three shows, Wellm's work continues to develop and explore pattern, shape and rhythm in her forms, this time with stronger contrasts that reference the technique of chiaroscuro, as well as indulging once more in a life-long love affair with the deepest shadows of Film Noir.
In this exhibition, "Her Fragrant Frown", Wellm's women have stolen the scene with a strong surface presence; but they also present an undertow of expectations, desires and sublimations. The artist seems to be opening a deeper and more private view onto lingering cultural and social projections that can embody the contemporary individual."
"Net Work - the TLF Exhibition"
at the Art Gallery of Ballarat
Saturday 11 December 2010 - Sunday 30 Janurary 2011
An exhibition of works by 38 members of The Littlest Forum (TLF), an online forum for professional contemporary visual artists.
Two of my paintings were exhibited in this group show. The artists in this exhibition are connected through a need and willingness to communicate and interact with other artists, forming in the process an "artistic community" without geographic, social or ecomic boundaries.
TRAVEL:
May 2010: study trip to Germany to see the museum show "Begleiter"- paintings by Neo Rauch, in Munich and Leipzig. What an incredible painter - very inspiring and really worth the trip!
Left: Standing in front of Rauch's painting "Vorführung" (2006), oil on canvas, 300 x 420 cm, exhibited in Munich.
2009
VIEW INTERVIEW on Art Re-Source Blog 2009
My work "In line with a resolution of sorts" selected as a finalist in the Flanagan Art Prize 2009
"Von dem Vater" (left) selected as a finalist in the Darebin LaTrobe Art Prize 2009
"Von dem Vater" also selected as a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2009