SALON November 2015
COVER: Melissa DAVIS (filmmaker), End Sexism Now (still), documentary. VU at Metro West, 138 Nicholson Street, Footscray (VIC), 21, 23, 27 & 28 November. Screening as part of Big West Festival, 20 – 28 November 2015 – bigwest.com.au
Lisa REIHANA (New Zealand b.1964), in Pursuit of Venus [infected] (still) 2015, Four-channel HD video, 32 minutes (looped) 5:1 sound, colour, ed. 2/5. Image courtesy: The artist, Fehily Contemporary and Artprojects. in Pursuit of Venus [infected], Queensland Art Gallery, Stanley Place, South Bank (QLD), until early 2016 – qagoma.qld.gov.au
‘The talk’ (detail) 2002, designed by David Larwill and woven by Milena Paplinska and Irja West, wool, cotton, 1.71 x 2.2m, ATW Collection. ‘Major Works from the Australian Tapestry Workshop’, Wangaratta Art Gallery, 56 Ovens Street, Wangaratta (VIC), 31 October 2015 – 24 January 2016
James Gleeson (Australian 1915–2008), ‘We inhabit the corrosive littoral of habit’ 1940, oil on canvas, 40.7 x 51.3 cm. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Anonymous gift, 1941 © Courtesy of the artist’s estate. ‘Lurid Beauty: Australian Surrealism and its Echoes’, National Gallery of Victoria, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 9 October 2015 – 31 January 2016
Rushdi Anwar, ‘Irhal (Expel); hope and sorrow of displacement’ 2014-15, burnt chairs, black pigment. Incinerator Art Award, Incinerator Gallery, 180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds (VIC), until 29 November 2015
Nicole Loyson: The Billboard, Knox Skate and BMX Park, Knoxfield. ‘Immerse’, Knox City Council, 14 November to 14 December 2015
RELEVANT SITES
– bigwest.com.au
– qagoma.qld.gov.au
– wangaratta.vic.gov.au
– ngv.vic.gov.au
– incineratorgallery.com.au
– knox.vic.gov.au/Immerse
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