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Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 January
2025

Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 23 March

Brian Robinson

Current / Brian Robinson

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 23 February

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Simone Haag

Fables & Folklore

Craft
Thursday 14 November – Saturday 25 January

Laura de Carteret

I Forgot My Keys, So I Climbed Through The Window

Craft
Tuesday 10 December – Saturday 18 January

Morgan Blue

Featherbed

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 13 December – Sunday 2 February

Albert Tucker

Albert Tucker's Grotesques

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 9 March

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Danielle Brustman

I could have danced all night by Danielle Brustman

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 13 August – Sunday 9 March

Group Show

A Secret Chord: Music, Rhythm & Movement in the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 31 October – Sunday 16 March

Akil Ahamat

Extinguishing Hope

West Space
Sunday 17 November – Monday 20 January

Kat Macleod

Dryads

Lamington Drive
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 November – Sunday 1 June

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

ACMI
Tuesday 17 September – Sunday 16 February

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Sunday 2 February

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Emily Dober

Rhythm in Ruby Shoes

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Tuesday 1 October – Saturday 25 January

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns

Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

Social Studies

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 9 February

Noel Counihan

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 2 November – Monday 10 March

Group Show

Linden Postcard Show 2024-25

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 2 February

Sean Mcdowell

And the World Turns

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 12 January

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 August – Saturday 31 May

Group Show

Intimate Imaginaries

Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Saturday 30 November – Monday 10 March

Ara Dolatian

At The First Flood of Daylight

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Cyrus Tang

Eclipsed Presence

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Natalie Thomas

Selling Sunset

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Group Show

Something like a dream

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Mitch Pinney

Shortcuts

Hillvale Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 31 January

Group Show

Tapestry Treasures

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 31 October – Saturday 25 January

Fulli Andrinopoulos

Ethereal Portals

Benalla Art Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Sunday 2 March

Ezz Monem

The Pyramid Postcards: Following the Policeman

Billboard Project
Friday 13 September – Sunday 19 January

Group Show

Fireworks 2024

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Laetitia Olivier-Gargano

Planting a garden in my head

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Olivia Chin

Body Field

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Group Show

Bright Sparks

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Sean Crossley

Excess/Support: Liquidity and Mediation

Futures Gallery
Thursday 28 November – Saturday 25 January

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Colloquial and humorous, unsparing and poignant, Richard Lewer’s paintings, drawings and moving image works present stories about himself and observations of others that confront human frailties and uncomfortable truths.

Drawn from a body of work the artist describes as ‘disaster narratives’, consisting of a painted inventory of personal mishaps, embarrassments and social calamities, the pictures in this exhibition tell of two awkward encounters: one that took place while Lewer was a resident artist in Aotearoa/New Zealand at McCahon House, and the other when he participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York city.

With his wry ambiguous humour Lewer addresses oddly memorable interactions with visiting curators in each location, two of whom he is closely acquainted with and the other a prospective international connection. Naturally everything goes wrong and the visits are undercut by wild assumptions, an unwelcome summoning of spirits, and a curator with an extreme aversion to the cold.

While the paintings gently allude to the intimacies, dynamics and power plays of the art world, and by extension to society more broadly, they also consider the practice of art itself as a form of calling forth and reaching out across memory and time. Taking his own experiences as points of departure, the images and accompanying stories prompt us to think about our own moments of social bewilderment, discord and misunderstanding.

Further, Lewer’s often mundane and unremarkable incidents are imbued with a sense of the spiritual, touching upon events that leave traces. His evocative vignettes reveal life as an accumulating succession of unpredictable encounters that leave indelible stains, bruises, and sometimes heartache.

Location

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

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Website

https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/richard-lewer-making-contact/

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Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 January
2025

Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Joe Colombo, Gaetano Pesce, Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 26 October – Sunday 23 March

Brian Robinson

Current / Brian Robinson

McClelland Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 23 February

Katie Ryan

A rose is a rose is a rose

Craft
Tuesday 12 November – Saturday 8 November

Simone Haag

Fables & Folklore

Craft
Thursday 14 November – Saturday 25 January

Laura de Carteret

I Forgot My Keys, So I Climbed Through The Window

Craft
Tuesday 10 December – Saturday 18 January

Morgan Blue

Featherbed

Backwoods Gallery
Friday 13 December – Sunday 2 February

Albert Tucker

Albert Tucker's Grotesques

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 9 March

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Danielle Brustman

I could have danced all night by Danielle Brustman

Jewish Museum of Australia
Tuesday 13 August – Sunday 9 March

Group Show

A Secret Chord: Music, Rhythm & Movement in the Jewish Museum of Australia Collection

Jewish Museum of Australia
Thursday 31 October – Sunday 16 March

Akil Ahamat

Extinguishing Hope

West Space
Sunday 17 November – Monday 20 January

Kat Macleod

Dryads

Lamington Drive
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 25 January

Group Show

The Charge That Binds

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 16 March

Tony Clark

Unsculpted

Buxton Contemporary
Friday 1 November – Sunday 1 June

Group Show

The Future & Other Fictions

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

ACMI
Tuesday 17 September – Sunday 16 February

Group Show

The Story of the Moving Image

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Adam Elliot

Making Memoir of a Snail

ACMI
Thursday 8 August – Sunday 1 November

Ayoung Kim

Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver

ACMI
Thursday 22 August – Sunday 2 February

Jordan Prosser & Nathan Harrison

INT. SPACESHIP – NIGHT

ACMI
Thursday 28 November – Sunday 27 April

Group Show

Art + Film

ACMI
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Emily Dober

Rhythm in Ruby Shoes

Footscray Community Arts Centre
Tuesday 1 October – Saturday 25 January

Nusra Latif Qureshi

Reaching Out

Sutton Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 15 June

Robert Rauschenberg & Jasper Johns

Rauschenberg & Johns—Significant Others

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

The Sweet Spot—Between Art & Design

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 16 November – Sunday 9 February

Group Show

Social Studies

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 9 November – Sunday 9 February

Noel Counihan

A People’s Press—Noel Counihan

Geelong Gallery
Saturday 2 November – Monday 10 March

Group Show

Linden Postcard Show 2024-25

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 2 February

Sean Mcdowell

And the World Turns

Linden New Art
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 12 January

Group Show

SCI-FI: Mythologies Transformed

Science Gallery
Saturday 3 August – Saturday 31 May

Group Show

Intimate Imaginaries

Tarrawarra Museum of Art
Saturday 30 November – Monday 10 March

Ara Dolatian

At The First Flood of Daylight

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Cyrus Tang

Eclipsed Presence

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Natalie Thomas

Selling Sunset

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Group Show

Something like a dream

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
Saturday 30 November – Saturday 22 February

Mitch Pinney

Shortcuts

Hillvale Gallery
Friday 6 December – Friday 31 January

Group Show

Tapestry Treasures

Australian Tapestry Workshop
Thursday 31 October – Saturday 25 January

Fulli Andrinopoulos

Ethereal Portals

Benalla Art Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Sunday 2 March

Ezz Monem

The Pyramid Postcards: Following the Policeman

Billboard Project
Friday 13 September – Sunday 19 January

Group Show

Fireworks 2024

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Laetitia Olivier-Gargano

Planting a garden in my head

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Olivia Chin

Body Field

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Group Show

Bright Sparks

Incinerator Gallery
Saturday 7 December – Sunday 19 January

Sean Crossley

Excess/Support: Liquidity and Mediation

Futures Gallery
Thursday 28 November – Saturday 25 January

Group Show (Kaltjiti Arts)

Paintings from the Sand Dune Country

APY Gallery
Sunday 1 December – Monday 1 December

Richard Lewer

Making Contact

Heide Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Colloquial and humorous, unsparing and poignant, Richard Lewer’s paintings, drawings and moving image works present stories about himself and observations of others that confront human frailties and uncomfortable truths.

Drawn from a body of work the artist describes as ‘disaster narratives’, consisting of a painted inventory of personal mishaps, embarrassments and social calamities, the pictures in this exhibition tell of two awkward encounters: one that took place while Lewer was a resident artist in Aotearoa/New Zealand at McCahon House, and the other when he participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York city.

With his wry ambiguous humour Lewer addresses oddly memorable interactions with visiting curators in each location, two of whom he is closely acquainted with and the other a prospective international connection. Naturally everything goes wrong and the visits are undercut by wild assumptions, an unwelcome summoning of spirits, and a curator with an extreme aversion to the cold.

While the paintings gently allude to the intimacies, dynamics and power plays of the art world, and by extension to society more broadly, they also consider the practice of art itself as a form of calling forth and reaching out across memory and time. Taking his own experiences as points of departure, the images and accompanying stories prompt us to think about our own moments of social bewilderment, discord and misunderstanding.

Further, Lewer’s often mundane and unremarkable incidents are imbued with a sense of the spiritual, touching upon events that leave traces. His evocative vignettes reveal life as an accumulating succession of unpredictable encounters that leave indelible stains, bruises, and sometimes heartache.

Location

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen VIC, Australia

Date

Saturday 12 October – Sunday 30 March

Save to Calendar

Website

https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/richard-lewer-making-contact/

All exhibition content on this website has been sourced from the exhibiting gallery’s website or provided by other art enthusiasts. We do not own or seek to own any of this material. If you are concerned about any misuse of your content, please let us know here.

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