2023 Programme
Digital Newsletter 24/02/23
The Sidney Nolan Trust is excited to announce the details of our 2023 programme and we look forward to welcoming friends new and old back to The Rodd from Thursday 30 March.
Images: Philp Hughes, Fire Kangeroo Island, 2020 & Jony Easterby
We are delighted to open this year’s programme with a survey exhibition titled Thirty Years of Landscape by artist Philip Hughes. The exhibition unites landscapes from Scotland, from Ireland’s Atlantic fringe and from the England Wales border, with vast landscapes from Australia and Antarctica. United in this way they reveal the reoccurring themes - geology, ecology and archaeology – that are central to his understanding the land.
In tandem, 2022 resident artist Jony Easterby presents new work alongside Pippa Taylor in a culmination of his year with the Trust. The exhibition celebrates their love of darkness and light with the title for the exhibition In Praise of Shadows borrowed directly from the classic essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author and novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
Images: Kate Harvey, Inside Out I, 2022. Rick Greswell, The Buzzer, 2022
Outdoors we present a new semi-permanent installation by Jony Easterby. Dead Standing draws on Australian bushfire narratives, drought resistant planting and the processes of regeneration. Also outdoors, we present sculpture and installations by artists Rick Greswell and Kate Harvey, both recent graduates of the HCA MA Fine Art Programme.
In May we will present an exhibition of work by Dean Cross as the Trust further develops its work with contemporary Australian artists. Cross was born and raised on Ngunnawal / Ngambri Country and a Worimi man through his paternal bloodline. Works will include his recent twin-channel video work, SOMETIMES I MISS THE APPLAUSE, commissioned by Heide Museum of Modern Art in tandem with the Museum’s 2022 exhibition Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise.
Image: Dean Cross, SOMETIMES I MISS THE APPLAUSE, 2022
This year the Trust is a new partner in the international photography and moving image competition Earth Photo. Prize-winners and shortlisted entries will be presented in beautiful large format outdoors at The Rodd during the summer. Earth Photo is now open for entries.
Finally, we are happy to be working with curator Patricia Brien to tour her exhibition Plant Communitas, which was first shown at Museum in the Park, Stroud, last year. The exhibition features a community of artists from diverse practices, places and different times. Together the artworks in the exhibition highlight the aliveness and presence of the plant kingdom and acknowledges that Western societies are increasingly focusing on the capacity of plants to nourish, nurture, heal and medicate.
For further details, related events and workshops visit our WHAT'S ON page.