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Counihan Gallery in Brunswick

Locality: Brunswick, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9389 8622

Address: Brunswick Civic Centre, 233 Sydney Rd 3056 Brunswick, VIC, Australia

Website: www.moreland.vic.gov.au/counihan-gallery

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25.01.2022 This is an intimate and thoughtful show of mostly emerging artists who mine one topic: stereotypical representations of Asian women, writes Tiarney Miekus for the The Sydney Morning Herald. Disobedient Daughters is a top pick for what to see around Melbourne this week, so drop in and say hi! Exhibition runs until 5pm, Sun 21 Mar, 2021. https://www.smh.com.au//around-the-galleries-our-pick-of-e... Image: Janelle Low. At Your Surface, 2018 (detail). Pigment inkjet print and gold leaf, porcelain and gold lustre. 23 x 15 cm. Courtesy of the artist See more

23.01.2022 We are delighted to congratulate Dianna Wells who is the recipient of the 4th Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award for her work Looking Closer. You can see Wells’ work, and the work of 79 other incredible artists from the Moreland Summer Show 2020, in the Counihan Virtual Gallery: https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/ Dianna Wells... Looking Closer, 2020 Lumen prints on fibre based paper 100 x 100 x 5 cm Looking Closer is an archive of photographic lumen prints created from endangered indigenous grassland specimens grown in my backyard in Brunswick. During the pandemic my practice has transferred from site-based work to working with prints, made by directly exposing plants onto photo sensitive material with sunlight and fixing them in my darkroom. I have found solace working with indigenous plants, working in solitude I have gained a reverence and respect for the grasslands as it once existed. A human landscape controlled by fire, rejuvenating annually over the cooler winter months, grasslands provided a habitat for native fauna and a food source for Victoria’s indigenous population. There is grief associated with the loss of an ecosystem and with the lockdown itself. I believe that understanding resilience and recovery is the pathway forward in these times of change caused by bushfires, climate change and pandemic. #lumen #nativeflowers #solitude #solace #CounihanVirtualGallery #NoelCounihanCommemorativeArtAward #Victoria #indigenousplants #landscape #local #ecosystem #resilience #recovery #climatechange #climatecrisis #climateactivism

18.01.2022 We're very happy to have some new signage on Sydney Road which we hope will make us a bit easier to find for first time visitors and for the explorers discovering the many things Brunswick has to offer. We're open again too! 11am - 5pm Wed - Sat.

18.01.2022 Our first ever virtual #MorelandSummerShow is now live . Head to https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/ to explore the work of 80 local artists who contributed to this year’s exhibition by responding to the theme #Solitude and #Solace. Tune into the official #exhibition opening on our Facebook page at 2pm to celebrate the artists and find out who will be the recipient of the 4th #NoelCounihanCommemorativeArtAward . The event will be Auslan interpreted. The Award... recognises an outstanding contemporary artwork by a #Moreland artist and the 2020 prize is a tailored Professional Development Package to the value of $3,000 sponsored by the @MorelandCityCouncil. Judges this year are Mandy Nicholson (Wurundjeri Artist), Linda Short (Moreland Arts Advisory Committee) and Victor Griss (Counihan Gallery Curator). Voting has now also opened for the People’s Choice Award vote for your favourite artist and they might just win $1,000, courtesy of the @MorelandCityCouncil. Vote here: https://morelandcitycouncil.snapforms.com.au//moreland-sum

18.01.2022 "Islands" by local author Peggy Frew is another wonderful title in our Moreland Summer Show Peers Choice Award book pack generously sponsored by Brunswick Bound. The Peers Choice is voted for by Moreland Summer Show exhibitors and recognises the achievement of other artists who have responded to the theme Solitude & Solace. You can visit the exhibition online here and also vote in People's Choice Award https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/. Thanks again Brunswick Bound! You can visit Brunswick Bound here https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickBound.

16.01.2022 We'd like to thank Brunswick Bound, our local independent bookstore for generously sponsoring the Moreland Summer Show's Peers' Choice Award. In this award exhibiting artists recognise the achievement of other artists who have responded to the exhibition theme Solitude & Solace. This year's sponsored prize pack of books include great titles by local authors which also relate to the exhibition theme. You can visit the exhibition online here https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/. Thanks again Brunswick Bound! You can visit Brunswick Bound here http://www.brunswickbound.com.au/

14.01.2022 A new visionary community project in the City of Moreland waiting for your input! Head on over to the website to check it out!

13.01.2022 Heather Hesterman retraced Charles Sturt’s search for an inland sea, with a trolley of exotic plants in tow. The results are startling, writes Megan Backhouse for The Age Hesterman’s exhibition prompts viewers to consider how plants are brought in to colonise landscapes. It was absurd and a bit wacky. I was pushing something into the landscape that didn’t suit, Hesterman says [of her work ‘Mobile Garden’]. These plants wouldn’t survive in those locations. To me they repr...esented nostalgia for something that’s not Australian and also ideas about the taming of the landscape. Check out the article featuring Heather Hesterman, whose solo show ‘Garden’ is on display at the Counihan Gallery until Sun 21 Mar, 5pm. https://www.theage.com.au//it-was-absurd-artist-takes-an-e The Gallery is open from Thu 18 Feb, 11am with COVID-safe measures in place. These include: digital contact tracing, density caps, hand sanitiser, masks and social distancing. If you are experiencing symptoms, please get tested then stay home. Images: Heather Hesterman, photographed by Jason South, courtesy of The Age Mobile garden, 2019. Heather Hesterman. Digital print. Courtesy of the artist

08.01.2022 Hello! We're back and we're going live via Facebook this Saturday with launch of virtual Moreland Summer Show and the announcement of the 4th Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award! **IMPORTANT - The gallery is still closed to the public so this event and exhibition is only online! ** To be opened by Victor Griss, Gallery Curator... Award to be announced by Mick Counihan Noel Counihan Estate This event will be Auslan Interpreted On Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/counihangalleryinbrunswick 2pm 2:20pm The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick is proud to present the 4th Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award as part of the annual Moreland Summer Show. The award recognises an outstanding contemporary artwork by a Moreland artist. This year’s exhibition theme is SOLITUDE & SOLACE. More information via the event link below!

05.01.2022 "The Sea and Us" by local author Catherine De Saint Phalle is one of the many thematic titles in our Moreland Summer Show Peers Choice Award book pack generously sponsored by Brunswick Bound. The Peers Choice is voted for by Moreland Summer Show exhibitors and recognises the achievement of other artists who have responded to the theme Solitude & Solace. You can visit the exhibition online here and also vote in People's Choice Award https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/. Thanks again Brunswick Bound! You can visit Brunswick Bound here https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickBound

03.01.2022 In ‘This Apology’, Son demonstrates a significant part of her art practice by scratching onto a cellophane sheet. During this abrasive process, Son also shares a personal anecdote related to her work ‘Please accept this apology, ’ featuring in the exhibition Disobedient Daughters. 'This Apology' will be available on Facebook and Instagram TV from 2 pm, Sat 20 Feb until Sun 21 Mar, 5 pm. This online demonstration is suitable for ages 15 and over. It contains some co...ntent which may not be suitable for younger viewers. About Ellen YG Son: Having lived in Korea, Singapore and Australia, Son occupies a complex cultural position. She is interested in culture, the limitations of language and racial barriers; by picking these apart, Son investigates how these factors shape identity. Son uses cellophane as a metaphorical lens; our cultural values shape the way we see the world just as looking through cellophane does. By scratching and sewing onto the surface of cellophane, Son erases, inscribes, layers and censors. As a result, Son creates installations of delicate cellophane banners that illustrate neither a definite nor indefinite sense of belonging to each culture.

03.01.2022 Annual Art Exhibition and Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award announcement

02.01.2022 "Just Give Me The Pills " by local author and poet Koraly Dimitriadis is one of the many thematic titles in our Moreland Summer Show Peers Choice Award book pack generously sponsored by Brunswick Bound. The Peers Choice is voted for by Moreland Summer Show exhibitors and recognises the achievement of other artists who have responded to the theme Solitude & Solace. You can visit the exhibition online here and also vote in People's Choice Award https://morelandsummershow2020.netlify.app/. Thanks again Brunswick Bound! You can visit Brunswick Bound here https://www.facebook.com/BrunswickBound