Exhibitions

2020 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award

Enamoured selected for the 2020 Swan Hill Print and Drawing Award.

Celebrating printmaking and drawing, this long running prize will see some of the finest contemporary works entered from across Australia.

The mission of the Swan Hill Print and Drawing Awards is to promote excellence in Australian prints and drawings, present an exhibition of contemporary works and continue to build a high-quality collection for Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery.

4th September 2020 date of exhibition launch – Swan Hill Regional Gallery.

Enamoured – detail

Charcoal, sap, ink on papper 150cm x 100cm

Lonely on a trip away from loved ones, I appreciated and became captivated with a wild magpie that came to visit me. Enamoured is drawn with burnt branched and sap, collected after the 2020 bushfires in Australia, which destroyed a vast amount of our wildlife’s habitat.

Jody Graham 19/6/20

Artist talk – ‘Trashed’ now showing in Occupied at The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

Saturday 4th July 2020, 11am

30 Parke St, Katoomba, NSW 2780

Trashed is created from cans, plastic and glass bottles thrown out on the side of The Bells Line of Road in a 30-kilometer distance from Mt Tomah a to Browns Swamp at Lithgow. NSW
Trashed – approximately 1000 objects with dimensions

Details attached.

OCCUPIED PROGRAMS 2

Jody Graham

Happy Daze 220

Discarded bits of cardboard, wood and acrylic and enamel paint.

13cm(h) x 11cm(w) x 18cm(l)

Home has been inspired by my love of architecture. I am especially fond of the make shift, old, busted, or derelict. I like looking at the evidence of activity seen in the character of old buildings. Dog scratch marks on a back door, little balcony’s protruding from windows and holes covered or walls constructed from random bits of wood. The charm I see in old buildings causes me to ruminate about previous inhabitants and the times they lived in.

I had so much fun making these little dwellings out of empty boxes and odds and ends lying about in my studio. It’s deeply satisfying creating original artwork from single use items that get thrown out. It costs me nothing but time and innovation with what I have.

Online Exhibition – 6 – 21 June 2020

M.Contemporary 37 Ocean St, Woollahra, NSW 2025

Phone: +61 2 9328 0922
Email: gallery@mcontemp.com

In January 2020, just after the mega-fires went through the Blue Mountains, I went to BigCi Artist Residency at Bilpin, NSW. I did this to be in the charred landscape and see how I could respond creatively to such a significant time in our history.

As a result I created ‘Trashed’ which is currently showing in Occupied at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

Trashed’ has been created from cans, plastic and glass bottles thrown out on the side of The Bells Line of Road in a 30 kilometre distance from Mt Tomah a to Browns Swamp at Lithgow.

The extent of how much is chucked out on a scenic drive became more evident after recent bushfires cleared away trees and shrubs hiding litter along the highway.

Occupied runs from 2 June to 5 July 2020.
Photo credit – Graeme Wienand.

Studio Tour – Trashed

In January 2020, I went to BigCi Artist Residency to create artwork about the mega-blaze that swept through the mountains in December 2019 and January 2020.

This is a studio tour of work I am preparing to show when the pandemic settles down, in an exhibition titled – Occupied at The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre.

‘Haunting’ selected as one of the finalist for the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2020.

The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is a $25,000 acquisitive art award among the most significant of its kind in the country.

Named in honour of respected painter, printmaker and draughtswoman, Miss Adelaide Elizabeth Perry (1891-1973) who taught Visual Arts at PLC Sydney from 1930 to 1962, the Prize attracts submissions from around the country.

The judge for the 2020 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing is Dr Felicity Fenner, Associate Professor, UNSW Art & Design.

The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing Exhibition of Finalists 2020 will commence on Friday 28 February and run to 27 March 2020.

Adelaide Perry Gallery – Corner Hennessy and College Streets, Croydon NSW.

Open on Weekdays from 8.30 am – 4.00 pm and Saturdays from 11 am – 4.00 pm.

At the close of the exhibition a people’s choice award of $2,000 will be awarded to the finalist’s work voted favourite by Gallery visitors. Voting slips will be available online.

For more information about the Adelaide Perry Prize

A Blue Mountains City Art Gallery Exhibition

Exhibition Opening Friday 24 January 2020 6-8pm.

Join us for the opening launch of Blue Mountains Portraits.

Trish Doyle – MP Blue Mountains

Free event: Cash bar.

RSVP to info@bluemontainsculturalcentre.com.au or 02 4780 5410

On exhibition from 25 January – 22 March 2020

Blue Mountains Portraits is the Cultural Centre’s annual celebration of the local community and its diverse members. The exhibition artistry portray the unique people that make up the cultural fabric of the Blue Mountains and tell stories behind the person. Over forty artworks in a broad range of styles and media such as printing, photography, drawing, collage and mixed media will be exhibited together with a selection of local student work.

Image: Blue Mountains Portraits People’s Choice Winner 2019 Mathew Lynn, Aunty Mary King (study) 2010, conte crayon on brown paper, 17 x 91cm