Gertrude Contemporary in Preston, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Gertrude Contemporary

Locality: Preston, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9480 0068

Address: 21-31 High Steet 3072 Preston, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.gertrude.org.au

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25.01.2022 VCE Teachers! Gertrude is pleased to work with Fitzroy Art Spaces Tour again! This year, FAST has gone digital and produced a series of online video tours across Gertrude Contemporary and Gertrude Glasshouse, as well as Centre for Contemporary Photography, This is No Fantasy, Seventh Gallery, West Space, and public art in the City of Yarra. For this resource, Gertrude Artistic Director Mark Feary and Gertrude Studio Artist Amrita Hepi talk about our current street-facing exh...ibition, 'Hope in the Dark'. Together, this series reflects the ingenuity and innovation of the local art industry during a time affected by a world health crisis, COVID-19. You can view these video resources online at https://www.fitzroyartspacestour.org.au/ You can also view a short excerpt of 'Dance Rites', and other works in 'Hope in the Dark' online at our Missing Links portal: https://www.gertrude.org.au/missing-links Image: 1. Amrita Hepi, speaking to camera about her work Dance Rites, 2017 2. Amrita Hepi, Dance Rites, 2017, still. Courtesy of the artist. [Image description: 1. Amrita Hepi is standing facing the camera. The subtitle text reads ‘Something to look forward to that a performance will happen again.’ 2. Amrita Hepi is the subject in this work, she is facing an empty theatre with her arms up, sitting on a circular pink mat and wearing a green grass skirt.] #GertrudeContemporary #GertrudeGlasshouse #AmritaHepi #FitzroyArtSpacesTour

24.01.2022 Do you think you have what it takes? Are you searching for that special something? Well this could be the beginning! Remains To be Seen by Gertrude Studio Artist Georgia Banks is opening Thursday 22 April at Gertrude Glasshouse 6-8pm Exhibition Dates: 23 April - 22 May... Georgia Banks’ works begin with an invitation and a provocation. Sometimes they are met with an overwhelming response, sometimes no one answers at all. They do not value either of these outcomes over the other. In recent years Banks has been banned from Tinder, sued by the estate of Hannah Wilke, and awarded Miss Social Impact in a national beauty pageant. They would like to go viral, become a reality TV star, and be inaugurated into the Guinness World Records Hall of Fame. They’ve never had a filling nor broken a bone (although they have been crucified) and once was convinced they had accidentally sliced away a part of their labia during a performance (they hadn’t). XxXxX Image: courtesy of the artist [Image description: Georgia Banks holds a rose infront of a tropical landscape. Next to her reads in gold ‘Georgia Banks in remains to be seen’] #GertrudeGlasshouse #GertrudeStudioArtist #GeorgiaBanks

21.01.2022 Reminder! Our Contemporary Art on the Road Teacher Professional Development programs are now available for booking through TryBooking. Contemporary Art on the Road is a professional development program founded to bring artists, art educators and teachers together to exchange ideas, share creative experiences and explore contemporary art and culture. The program has been designed to introduce teachers to a range of hands-on, expertly designed strategies and resources for ...teaching contemporary art in their classroom. Later this year, CAOTR will journey to Horsham Regional Art Gallery Castlemaine Art Museum, Shepparton Art Museum and present two workshops at our home locations Gertrude Contemporary and Gertrude Glasshouse. Gertrude Studio Artists Kay Abude, James Nguyen, Ann Debono and Jason Phu will be joining us on the road! For more information and booking, go to: https://www.gertrude.org.au/programs/education/ Image 1. James Nguyen 2. Ann Debono, Pinhole Firmament (detail), 2019 3. Kay Abude 4. Jason Phu, Procession in the Warming Light/Procession in the Rising Darkness, Workshop/Performance, Art Assembly 2019 Commission, Antidote Festival, Sydney Opera House. All images courtesy of the artist. #ContemporaryArtOnTheRoad #ArtEducationVic #TeacherPD #GertrudeContemporary

21.01.2022 Now you have an extra hour's exercise time, why not set Gertrude as your destination? We invite those who share a 5km bubble with us to come and see our street-facing exhibition 'Hope in the Dark'. Presented across Gertrude Contemporary and Gertrude Glasshouse, 'Hope in the Dark' explores ideas of confusion, resignation and anxiety offset with humour, hope and resilience, these gestures offer an opportunity for a bit of aesthetic and comic relief while we collectively #stayho...me. Image: Kiron Robinson, Don’t Forget Me, 2008, installation view at Gertrude Contemporary. Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne. Photo by Tracy Burgess [Image: Neon multi coloured sign spells out DON’T FORGET ME installed on a wooden wall.] #GertrudeContemporary #GertrudeGlasshouse #HopeInTheDark #KironRobinson

17.01.2022 COME AND GET IT! What's 'IT'? Watch to find out. You come, you get, get it, you come and get it. ‘Sous Chef’, 2020 is the fourth work in Matthew Griffin’s newly commissioned series ‘Ballads' and features an exclusive cameo by PM Scotty. In the evolving series Ballads, Matthew explores the realities of living in and through the pandemic and the imposition, lifting and, in Melbourne’s case, reinstatement of restrictive lockdowns. Over the next phase of this present lockdown, Ge...rtrude will slowly release the series of musings and meanderings on solitude, existentialism, mindfulness and madness. Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/B-zBJzqZkyM Courtesy of the artist. Matthew Griffin was a Gertrude Studio Artist from 2007 - 2008. #GertrudeContemporary #MatthewGriffin #Ballads #GertrudeStudioArtistAlumni

14.01.2022 Life is like a box of chocolates, a roll of the dice, a flip of the coin, a game of chance ‘Chances’, 2020 the third work in Matthew Griffin’s newly commissioned series 'Ballads' holds a mirror to the uncontrollable monotony of our everyday lives. In the evolving series Ballads, Matthew explores the realities of living in and through the pandemic and the imposition, lifting and, in Melbourne’s case, reinstatement of restrictive lockdowns. Over the next phase of this present ...lockdown, Gertrude will slowly release the series of musings and meanderings on solitude, existentialism, mindfulness and madness. https://youtu.be/MFhwTGu4uaw Courtesy of the artist. Matthew Griffin was a Gertrude Studio Artist from 2007 - 2008. #GertrudeContemporary #MatthewGriffin #Ballads #GertrudeStudioArtistAlumni

14.01.2022 Gertrude Contemporary and Gertrude Glasshouse will be closed over the Easter weekend this Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd April. Gertrude Glasshouse will resume regular opening hours next Thursday 8 April. Gertrude Contemporary will remain closed until 9 April, 6-8pm for the opening of our next exhibition ‘Late Summer’ by Todd McMillan and Sarah Mosca ... Image: Andrew Atchison, Evacuated Figure in the Round (shaped by a vision that is always structured through his own multiple horizons of experience), 2019-ongoing. Christian Capurro [Image description: a collection of coloured circular glass objects, varying in shape and size, are suspended in Gertrude Glasshouse.] #GertrudeContemporary #GertrudeGlasshouse

12.01.2022 Lara Chamas, a forthcoming exhibiting artist at Gertrude Contemporary, has written an Ode to the performance ‘Take this, for it is my body’ by SJ Norman Here’s to that lonely, blood-laced scone sitting in my studio, and to all it represents. I miss artworks like this performance with its endless layers; trans-generational trauma and memory, story, blood, body, racism, colonisation, history, food, family I miss being part of art, I miss works like this that implicate you ...in such a poetic way, that confront you, generate discussion and reflection. I miss art that connects us in a constellation of stories, and makes us feel so big, and yet, so very little. You can read Lara’s full Ode, as well as many others, online now on the Missing Links page on our website. Image: SJ Norman, ‘Take this, for it is my body’, 2010 - (on-going), performance in Dark Paths as part of Dark Mofo 2019, Hobart. Photo: Lara Chamas [Image description: SJ Norman pours a small vile of blood into a bowl. They are standing in an industrial kitchen behind a steel table with baking equipment on it.] #GertrudeContemporary #OdestotheAbsent #MissingLinks #LaraChamas

12.01.2022 Join us tonight for the opening of ‘Late Summer’ a collaboratively produced exhibition by Todd McMIllan and Sarah Mosca. 5-6pm Artist Talk 6-8pm Opening... No bookings required, capacity limits apply. Image courtesy of and the artists and Sarah Cottier Gallery. #latesummer #toddmcmillan #sarahmosca #gertrudecontemporary #sarahcottiergallery

12.01.2022 It looks like we’ll be away from what we love a little longer, and so we continue reminiscing with two new Odes to the Absent on Missing Links My faint and fatigued state had disappeared. I was finally brought back into my usual state of art adoration and out of my state of give-me-a-panadol-a-double-shot-of-coffee-asap. Head to our Missing Links page on our website to read Gertrude Gallery and Administration Assistant Kathy Pappas’ full Ode to Swinguerra.... We also have an Ode from Gertrude Volunteer Jessica Dunn, who has written her Ode to 'Holden with hair rollers' by Margaret Dodd. Image credits: 1. Barbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, Swinguerra, 2019. Film Still. For the Brazil Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Courtesy of Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo 2. Margaret Dodd, Holden with hair curlers, 1977, earthenware, 20.5 x 40.0 x 18.0 cm. Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Photo: Saul Steed [image description: 1. Seven dancers wearing red and black outfits stand in a ‘V’ formation facing the camera on a beach. 3 stand with their arms straight and 4 with their hands on their hips. 2. A ceramic sculpture in the shape of a 1970’s Holden. The car and wheel detailing is pale pink, the windows grey-blue. On the top of the car there are hair rollers with red hair, as if they were on a head.] #GertrudeContemporary #MissingLinks #OdestotheAbsent

11.01.2022 Gertrude Glasshouse opens Thursday at midday with the 2020 Gertrude Emerging Curator Program exhibition . Featuring work by Ciaran Begley & James Nguyen, Francis Carmody, Simon Denny, Sophie Hyde, Elizabeth McInnes and Erwin Wurm. Curated by Siobhan Sloper.... Remedy for the Doldrums will be open 12-5pm, Thursday - Sunday until 19 December. Image I Simon Denny, ‘Centralized vs Decentralized Conway’s Game of Life Box Lid Overprint: Inspired by TripAdvisor (Facebook Big Basin v2 AI/ML Hardware vs DIY GPU Bitcoin PoW Miner)’ 2019, UV print on ‘Game of Life: Trip Advisor’ box lid. Courtesy of the artist and Fine Arts Sydney [Image description: This image is of a flattened out board game lid box of ‘the Game of Life’. Images of computer servers are superimposed onto the image. You can read ‘The Game of LIFE’ on the top left of the image, and 'SPIN TO WIN!’ on the right side.] #GertrudeContemporary #EmergingCurator2020 #GertrudeGlasshouse #RemedyfortheDoldrums

10.01.2022 Weekend reading Previous to the unfolding events of 2020, the term lockdown was principally used in relation to prison protocols to restrict movement in a heightened environment of potential breach or disorder. Now it is our shared global reality. Mark Feary’s essay ‘Under Fatigue’, a response to the exhibition Foster & Berean’s ‘Fatigue’, presented at Gertrude Contemporary at the start of the year, reflects on the architecture of incarceration in a time of mass confinem...ent. https://www.gertrude.org.au/docs/essay_fatigue.pdf Thanks to the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund for supporting the commission of this exhibition. Image | Foster & Berean, Fatigue, installation view at Gertrude Contemporary. Photo: Christian Capurro [Image Description: Two silver artworks, that look similar to window security bars, hang on the walls of Gertrude Contemporary] #GertrudeContemporary #MarkFeary #CopyrightAgencyCulturalFund #FosterAndBerean

09.01.2022 Gertrude is deeply saddened to hear of the news of the passing of artist Kate Daw. Kate has been a seminal arts figure in Melbourne for many decades, as an artist, educator and advocate, but most substantially, as a friend to all who made her acquaintance. Kate's contribution to Gertrude and the cultural life in Melbourne has been significant and longstanding. As an artist committed to exploring narratives of intimacy, nostalgia, vulnerability and care, she evolved a practice... attuned to and in symphony with the verve with which she lived her fulsome life. As an educator, Kate has influenced, inspired, and supported generations of artists through her extraordinary commitment to and tenure at the Victorian College of the Arts. Most recently, Kate served on the Gertrude board during a period of dramatic transformation for the organisation, but her involvement as an artist traces back to the early 1990s. Her intelligence, warmth, emotional insight, creative sensitivity and tireless advocacy will be sorely missed, but never forgotten. Our sincerest of sympathies go out to Kate’s family and friends at this most difficult time.

08.01.2022 Stage Fright by Natalie Thomas is opening at midday on Thursday 26 November. Come say hi and see some contemporary art IRL Stage Fright is the second River Capital Commission at Gertrude Contemporary, an annual commissioning initiative developed in partnership with and through the generous support of River Capital. This exhibition will be the first solo artist project presented across all of the gallery spaces at Gertrude since the organisation relocated to Preston South i...n 2017. Exhibition Dates: 26 November 2020 - 24 January 2021. Summer opening hours: Thursday - Sunday, 12-5pm or by appointment (except 21 December 2020 - 6 January 2021). Image: Natalie Thomas, Disaster Tourism, 2020, steel and enamel paint, 54.5 x 40 x 15.5 cm. Fabrication by Simone Tops. Courtesy of the artist. [Image Description: A small steel sign is sitting on a plinth. It says ‘Failed State Motel’ in the style of a classic retro Motel sign and has an arrow pointing to the left above the writing. The sign is grey and white with black text and a black arrow.] #GertrudeContemporary #RiverCapitalCommission #NatalieThomas #StageFright

07.01.2022 Gertrude Editions at Home As we prepare to announce the release of the 2020 Gertrude Edition, we are casting light on some of the past Editions and the habitats in which they live. Presented here are works in the collection of Lisa Sullivan, Senior Curator at Geelong Gallery, including the 2012 Gertrude Edition ‘Tarot Card Series’ by Richard Lewer... I love acquiring and living with works by artists I’ve worked with, and in 2008 I got to know Richard through his inclusion in the exhibition True crimemurder and misdemeanour in Australian art at Geelong Gallery. I loved the scope and ambition of Richard’s edition, and the way that works were assigned according to the drawing of a tarot deck. Ten of Pentacles represents ‘the good life, wealth, security’ which feels like a pretty good card to have drawn! - Lisa Sullivan Instigated in 2002, the Gertrude Editions is an annual series of specially commissioned limited-edition works of art. The Gertrude Editions have been developed to raise funds in support of the artistic program of Gertrude and to animate connections between current studio artists and previous generations of leading Australian artists who have participated in Gertrude’s 2-year Studio Program. You can view and purchase available Editions from our archive online. Details of the 2020 Gertrude Edition will be announced shortly. Image: Brent Harris [left]. 2012 Gertrude Edition by Richard Lewer [center]. Sculptures by Meredith Turnbull [right]. Image courtesy of Lisa Sullivan. [Image Description: A Richard Lewer work is in the center of the image with a print by Brent Harris to the left. Sculptures by Meredith Turnbull sit on a cabinet on the left beside a lamp.] #GertrudeContemporary #GertrudeEditions #RichardLewer

06.01.2022 VCE Art + Studio Art Students and Teachers! We have new video interviews with Gertrude Studio Artists Mia Salsjö and Darcey Bella Arnold to align with the VCE curriculum. These are available online via the Education page on our website. Siobhan, Gertrude Gallery Coordinator spoke with Gertrude Studio Artists Mia Salsjö and Darcey Bella Arnold about their practices in line with the Structural and Personal frameworks. Keep your eyes peeled for our next resources where we ...will be exploring the Cultural and Contemporary frameworks For VCE Studio Arts, these videos discuss artists' inspiration and techniques, exploration and concepts, and studio process. These video resources were produced as part of Gertrude Contemporary’s core education program ARTNOW. Images: Mia Salsjo, The Quietude: ‘The Towers’, 2020, pencil and colour ink on paper. Photo: Christian Capurro. 2. Darcey Bella Arnold, ‘we be ed-it!’, 2019, acrylic on canvas board, 125 x 95 cm. Photo: Christo Crocker. [Image description: 1. Mia Saljo talking about her work ‘The Quietude: The Towers’ which is displayed on the right of the image. 2. Darcey Bella Arnold talking about her work ‘we be ed-it’ which is displayed on the right of the image.] #GertrudeContemporary #EducationResource #VCEArt #ArtNow #DarceyBellaArnold #MiaSalsjo

06.01.2022 Gertrude’s friendly local MP, the Federal Labour Member for Cooper Ged Kearney, has contributed to Odes to the Absent. "Each time I visit our capital I try to visit the National Gallery. And each time I do, I stop to pay homage to you, to your grandeur, to your story, to your purchase by the great Gough. And even though you are so lofty and float so far above me in every way, I feel like you look back at me, without haughtiness, but rather just to say Hi, welcome back Ged, n...ice to see you again." You can read all of Ged’s Ode and many others from Gertrude Studio Artist, staff, alumni artists and volunteers on Missing Links. Image: Gough Whitlam with Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles, 1952. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. The Australian [Image Description: Gough Whitlam stands in front of Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles, the Courtesy of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra] #GertrudeContemporary #MissingLinks #OdestotheAbsent #GedKearney #BluePoles #MemberforCooper

04.01.2022 We have 3 new Odes to the Absent up on our Missing Links page by some of our wonderful Volunteers Just before succumbing to fatigue, I found myself entering the creaky, dated elevators of The Nicholas Building. I ended up at ReadingRoom, where Clare Longley’s exhibition Garden series with boundaries, was showing. This was the last exhibition I saw in person before COVID-19 took hold of Melbourne. - Excerpt from Sebastian Kainey’s Ode to navigating paths. Read Sebastian’...s full Ode on our Missing Links page. You can also read Odes by Andre Franco and Isobel Lake. Link in bio Images: 1. Clare Longley, By/from C.H.L x, 2019 - 2020, oil on canvas, 177 x 155 cm. Courtesy of Clare Longley and Reading Room, Naarm/Melbourne 2. Installation view of Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus garden 1966/2017, QAGOMA Watermall. Photo: Isobel Lake 3. Installation view of Bruce Nauman’s Square Depression, 1977/2007, skulptur projekte munster 07. Cast concrete sculpture with white rendering, length/width 25 x 25 m, depth 2.3 m. Photo: Hubertus Huvermann taken in 2016. [Image description: 1. An abstract oil painting by Clare Longley where a large geometric shape takes up most of the frame. Dark Green and brown earthy hues are used, and organic lines run inside the shape in swirls. The background is Cream. 2. A photograph of inside QAGOMA, where a shallow indoor pool is filled with reflective spheres which are all the same size and float in the water. 3. A photograph of Nauman’s installation; Square depression is made up of four concrete slabs, triangles that make up a square. They descend into a depression in the centre of the square.] #GertrudeContemporary #MissingLinks #OdestotheAbsent