Souter’s Bondi is an exhibition featuring iconic murals by David Henry Souter which were historically displayed in the clubhouse of the Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club, alongside contemporary art commissions, to explore Souter's legacy, impact and art deco's connection to Bondi.
Souter’s Bondi returns a beloved local artifact to Bondi Beach, for contemporary viewing. The project celebrates Souter as a pivotal figure of the Art Deco style in Australian illustration. Featuring four of his iconic murals, the exhibition will explore social changes and themes of leisure, gender, local identity, and mythology. Souter’s renowned murals offer audiences a glimpse into Bondi’s history, originally adorning Australia’s first Surf Life Saving Club clubhouse, generously loaned from the National Maritime Museum.
Coinciding with celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Art Deco, the project will highlight Souter’s key role in the Art Deco Movement. His work articulated Bondi’s identity during pivotal moments in the rapid increase in popularity of beach-going after restrictions on surf bathing were eased in the early 20th century.
The exhibition features artwork commissions from contemporary practitioners funded through the Dobell Exhibition Grant Program. Presented at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery.
Crime to Freedom was one of the original exhibitions commissioned for the opening of QTOPIA, Sydney, Australia’s first LGBTIQ museum. The exhibition looked at recent LGBTQIA+ history from the 1970s, through decriminalisation to the current day across law, legislation, protest and culture and how that has shaped individual Queer lives.
It is a collection of stories, milestones and artefacts showing the recent history of the path from being criminals to freedom and the pursuit of equality by LGBTQIA+ communities.
Covering topics including adoption, documentation, the non-binding postal plebiscite, advancements for the trans community and the legislative changes that have taken place in recent times, the exhibition traces the activism from the early gay liberation movement in the 1970s, to the conditions which forced the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1984, as well as the subsequent political, legal, social and cultural shifts for the community.
The exhibition took place in a former gaol cell of the Darlinghurst Police Station.
Clifford Chance and Glamazon 2022 Pride Art Exhibition was an exhibition of Contemporary Australian Artists including practitioners who identify as LGBTIQA+. Brought together under the theme of Mighty Real by curator Todd Fuller, the exhibition was a reflection of contemporary camp while exploring underlying tensions resulting from the hard truths of the queer lived experience.
Featuring Kim Leutwyler, Simon Welsh, Katie Eraser, Blake Lawrence, Murat Urlali, Easton Dunne, Luke Thurgate, Jeremy Smith, Kirthana Selvaraj, Kimberley Pace, Samuel Luke Beatty, Dan Gladden, Matthew Van Roden, Koulla Roussos and Tarzan Jungle Queen.
Storylines is an exhibition of contemporary Australian Artists who use drawing to dissect the Historical timeline of our country. Drawing, by its very nature, comprises erasure and correction. Storylines features artists who use these actions to challenge the way we understand Australian History. These artists expand an historical narratives to suggest new understandings of our past.
Curated by Todd Fuller and Lisa Woolfe
Artists: Robert Andrew, Tim Andrew, Richard Lewer, Anna Louise Richardson, Lucienne Rickard, Gria Shead
Just Draw celebrates drawing and its many possibilities, performance, multimedia, installation, sculpture, kinetics and robotics. Exhibition curators Todd Fuller and Lisa Woolfe present Australian artists who leverage the possibilities of this deceptively simple medium at Newcastle Art Gallery and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
Artist:
Matilda Michell, Connie Anthes, Jeremy Smith, Todd Fuller, Hannah Quinliven, Jane Theau, Kellio O’Dempsey, Carl Sciberras, Catherine O’Donnell, John Boker, Lisa Woolfe, Paul White, Jack Stahel
Todd worked with the team at dLux Media Arts to present Scanlines, a major national survey exhibition. Scanlines is the first of its kind: a comprehensive group exhibition with an education focus that surveys the heritage of new media art in Australia since the 1980’s. A groundbreaking interactive exhibition design puts history at your fingertips: access video interviews with the artists and studio tours from the comfort of the gallery. The Scanlines exhibition was an exciting journey through time and included rare early works and well-known favourites by our best-known Australian contemporary artists.
Artists:
Kurt Bereton, Leon Cmielewski, Daniel Crooks, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Stephen Fearnley, Stephen Harrop, Sue Healey, SODA_JERK, Janet Merewether, Kate Richards, Kathy Smith, Josephine Starrs, Mark Titmarsh, & John Tonkin.
Tour dates:
13 Feb - 5 Apr 2015 - Artspace McKay
6 Jun - 18 Jul 2015 - Tamworth Regional Gallery
27 July - 12 Sep 2015 - Western Plains Cultural Centre
21 Sep - 31 Oct 2015 - Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
16 Nov 2015 - 25 Jan 2016 - Riddoch Gallery
26 Feb - 2 Apr 2016 - Logan Art Gallery
29 Apr - 26 Jun 2016 - Burnie Regional Gallery
12 Jul - 21 Aug 2016 - Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
14 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 - Deakin University Art Gallery
7 Nov 2016 - 1 Jan 2017 - Orange Regional Art Gallery
3 Feb - 5 Mar 2017 - Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery
http://www.scanlines.net/
BLACK – a coal case
Cessnock Regional Art Gallery
11 August – 18 September 2011
Coal: in a place like Cessnock it is underfoot, in the blood and even on the lungs.
Black – a coal case at Cessnock Regional Art gallery is a fluid weaving of our local heritage, told through the unique interpretations of contemporary artists. Within their distinct and diverse imaginings are the revelations of a past driven by mineral explorations, technological advancements and a rare sense of brotherhood.
While the ‘Valley of the Hunter’ was once intersected by rich coal veins, that wealth and the means of production have shifted. Sir Edgeworth David may have predicted the use and value of the Greta coal seam, but his foresight draws short as to what comes next?
A weaving of past, present and future, BLACK – a coal case acknowledges a rich history while critiquing and considering the future.
Artists:
Angelica Mesiti, Stephen James, David Hampton, Harrie Fasher, Liam Power, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy
This exhibition was made possible through the Sidney Myer Curatorial Mentorship initiative administered by NAVA (National Association of Visual Arts).
As well as:
ArtsNSW, Cessnock City Council, The State Library of New South Wales, Maunsell and Wicks at Barry Stern Gallery, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Gallery Barry Kedoulis, Pooles Rock Wines, Richmond Vale Rale Museum, Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Uniter Mineworker’s Federation of Australia- Northern District.
