Fiona Halse: Of Colour & Light - Women Abstract Artists

Of Colour and Light, Women Abstract Artists Biennial 2020
15 December 2020 - 28 February 2021

Opening 19 January 2021 ( 5- 8pm)
Opened by Leah Justin ( Justin Art House Museum) at 6pm

West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

This is the third abstract biennial hosted by West End Art Space, curated by Anna Prifti, that aims to provide a platform to women abstract artists from the state of Victoria. It began in 2016 with the aim to showcase and advocate that women artists have been an integral part of the Abstract movement.
This year the biennial coincides with the opening of our new gallery space in Adderley Street, West Melbourne. There will be a variety of artworks on show, with women working in a diverse range of contemporary art practices, established and well-recognised careers. Abstraction in an array of styles -lyrical, expressive, intuitive, hard-edged, reductive, minimalist – becomes unified by an ongoing conversation on colour and light.

Link to West End Art Space Exhibition page

Artists:

SamaraAdamson-Pinczewski

Veronica Caven Aldous

Jacqueline Stojanović

Research/ reference:

Link to - Catalogue essay created by DR Wendy Kelly ( Artist in the exhibition)

Link to- Catalogue

Link to - Leah Justin ( Justin Art House Museum) opening speech

Video of Speech

Video of opening (created by Katherine Stevens)

Video of exhibition

Link to:

Interview and podcast ( Anna Prifti and Fiona Halse) Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM

( Smart Arts with Dan and Steph Teitelbaum), 24 December 2020

Melbourne Art Critic review

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Fiona Halse -' Passing Tide', 91Wx 122H cm , mixed media on canvas

Fiona Halse - 'Spring Snow', 200cm W x 170cm H, mixed media on canvas (online option - on show in storeroom spaces)

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Of Colour & Light

5 - 27 October 2018

West End Art Space, Melbourne, Australia

A Biennial Show by Victorian Women Abstract Artists

Tracey Coutts

Fiona Halse

Wilma Tabacco

Terri Brooks

Eleanor Hart

Melinda Harper

Robin Kingston

Elisabeth Bodey

Samara Adamson Pinczewski

Lindy Patterson

Shelley Jardine

Anna Caione

Magda Cebokli

Louise Blyton

Cathy Muhling

Fran O'Neill

Jennifer Goodman

Rebecca Monaghan

Wendy Kelly

Roz Esplin

Linda Pickering

Suzanne Moss

Vanessa Oter

Exhibition: 5 - 27 October 2018
Opening: Saturday 6 October 2018
Guest speaker: Kate Nodrum
Hrs: Wed- Friday 11am-4pm, Saturday 10am-3pm ( open other times by appointment)
Location: West End Art Space
Address: 185 Rosslyn Street, West Melbourne, VIC, 3003, Australia
Contact: Anna Prifti - Director
Email: westendartspace@gmail.com
Phone:+61 0415 243 917

Link to Media release

Link to Catalogue Essay written by Dr Elisabeth Bodey

Link to List of Works

Link to Podcast Alex McCulloch Arts Show

Image above: Speeches - L-R : Anna Prifti ( Director and Curator), Kate Nodrum ( Guest Speaker - Charles Nodrum Gallery)

Image above: Artists in 2018 exhibition

Installation image - L- R: Tracey Coutts, Vanessa Oter, Elisabeth Bodey, Roz Esplin, Cathy Muhling, Fran O'Neill

Installation image - L-R: Fiona Halse, Jennifer Goodman, Louise Blyton, Samara Adamson-Pinczewski, Wendy Kelly

Installation image - L-R: - Louise Blyton, Melinda Harper

Installation image - L-R: Terri Brooks, Louise Blyton, Louise Blyton, Wilma Tabacco

Installation image - R- L - Suzanne Moss, Renecca Monaghan, Louise Blyton, Robin Kingston

Installation image -L-R: Louise Blyton, Robin Kingston, Shelly Jardine

Installation image - L-R: Louise Blyton, Melinda Harper, Linda Pickering

Installation image - L-R: Elisabeth Bodey, Roz Esplin, Cathy Muhling

Image above: Magda Cebokli

Image above: Eleanor Hart

Image above: Samara Adamson- Pinczewski

Image above: Anna Caione

Image above: Lindy Patterson

Image above: Fiona Halse - Loss #1, 170cm (H) x 100cm (W), mixed media on canvas

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Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria ( 2016)

Exhibition: 10 June - 18 July 2016
Opening: Saturday 11 June 2016
Guest speaker: Charles Nodrum
Location: Yarra Sculpture Space
Address: 117 Vere Street, Abbotsford, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Agneta Ekholm

Terri Brooks

Melina Schawel

Christine Healy

Vanessa Oter

Emma Langridge

Merryn Trevethan

Louise Blyton

Sue Beyer

Susie Leahy Raleigh

Kerrie Warren

Wilma Tabacco

Curated by Anna Prifti

Installation image - ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Installation image - Christine Healy ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Installation image ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Guest Speaker: Charles Nodrum

Curator; Anna Prifti

Image: artists ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Image: Wilma Tabacco( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

link to Wilma Tabacco catalogue essay

Related projects and Exhibitions

Image: Wilma Tabacco ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Other projects - Wilma Tabacco:
Archived projects (EG - Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London)

Director - Langford 120 Gallery

Abstraction 2018

Deakin University Art Gallery launches The Centre for Abstract and Non-Objective Art.

The launch coincides with the beginning of The Void. Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art, a new exhibition for 2017 that includes the work of artists Stephen Wickham, Stephen McCarthy, Andrew Christofides and Wilma Tabacco. Link

Image: Terri Brooks

Other projects - Terri Brooks:

Blog on abstraction - Art Thoughts Blog

Image: Louise Blyton ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Other projects - Louise Blyton:
2017 Chromatopia - A History of Colour (guest curator) Tacit Contemporary
Many abstract artists curated in this exhibition
http://chromatopia.org

Image: Merryn Trevethan ( from 'Of Colour & Light - Abstraction in Victoria' ( 2016) exhibition)

Other projects - Merryn Trevethan:
This Wild Song - curated exhibition in Singapore ( High Commission) - Women artists

Image: Fran O'Neill

Other Projects - Fran O'Neill:
The Other Side of Things: Women of Abstraction

Eleanor Hart Paintings from 'Unfolding Time' exhibition ( 2017)

Other Projects - Eleanor Hart:

Solo exhibition Unfolding Time at Glen Eira City Council Gallery (2017)
The paintings and drawings are part of a series that references the title. This visual research is about place and memory, dealing with ‘escaping’ from Vienna in the war years. The energy in Eleanor Hart’s work has been encapsulated by the discovery of letters written in Gothic German that were hidden and revealed decades later.

The concept of Unfolding Time resonates through the painterly abstraction that is the vibrating medium.

Other Projects - Melinda Harper:

Colour Sensation - the Works of Melinda Harper ( 2015) - Heidi Museum of Modern Art

Colour and optical vibrancy animate Melbourne artist Melinda Harper’s remarkable oeuvre of abstract works developed over three decades. While Harper is best known as a painter, this survey reveals a surprising diversity of practice in its inclusion of drawings, collages, screenprints, experimental photographs, painted objects and exquisite handmade embroideries.

https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/colour-sensation-works-melinda-harper

Know my Name

A celebration, a commitment and a call to action, know my name is a gender equity initiative of the National Gallery of Australia. Know my name celebrates the work of all women artists with an aim to enhance understanding of their contribution to Australia’s cultural life.

https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/

Exhibition of Fiona Halse and Anna Caione

White on White

link to more information