Art thoughts

Franz Erhard Walther

Franz Erhard Walther born 1939 Germany

Reina Sofia ‘A Place for the Body’ installation image

‘The work of Franz Erhard Walther ... spans a period from the late 1950s to the present day. It anticipates many issues that came to the fore in later art history, such as the condition of the artistic object (sculpture, its materials, techniques and uses) and the nature of the viewer as receiver and participant.’ Excerpt Reina Sofia website, Madrid.

Shifting Of Proportion (Wall Formation series), 1981. Cotton, wood, 275 × 310 × 30 cm.

Object for Musical Processes, 1968. Cotton fabric and rope.

Wall Formation series, 1982. Dyed cotton, wood, 305 × 200 × 40 cm.

Franz Erhard Walther, ‘A Place for the Body’ Reina Sofie, Madrid 2017.
Two minutes: https://youtu.be/4YEkgk6td64

Jennifer Joseph

For the next 300 years
To June 29

Niagara Galleries
245 Punt Road
Melbourne

Are You Lonesome Tonight? 2016, mixed media, 137 x 305 cm polyptych.

Untitled, c. 1989-92, acrylic, gesso and mixed media on cotton duck, 71 x 61 cm

For the next 300 years, 2017, mixed media, 146 x 183 cm.

Moody Blues 8, 2019, mixed media, 29 x 25.5 cm.

'Jenifer Joseph is motivated by an overwhelming need to make art and the experience of doing so is as important as the self-expression the finished work allows. For her it is a distinctly personal undertaking and one that doesn't require validation form external sources, but rather the knowledge that it worked and the satisfaction and creative liberation that comes with it. Joseph is not driven to exhibit her art publicly, but on the occasions she does, we are always presented with a body of work that is both beautiful and absolutely authentic.' Excerpt Kirsty Grant, 'The Art of Jennifer Joseph', catalogue essay, Jennifer Joseph: for the next 300 years.

Angelina Pwerle

Bush Plum Paintings 2016 - 2019
To June 29
Niagara Galleries
245 Punt Road
Melbourne

Angelina Pwerle installation image.

Angelina Ngal Pwerle, Utopia artist b.1947, paints Bush Plum Dreaming from her grandfather’s country, using fine dotting textures.

Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray

Complex Life
To June 15
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne

Installation photo Catherine Hearse.

Installation photo Glenn Murray.

‘Complex Life brings together the work of two friends and artists, Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray. Both artists use their artistic processes to explore the idea of interdependence and their positions in the world, in a physical, environmental and emotional sense.’ fortyfivedownstairs website.

Heather Shimmen

The Ladies of the Pleiades
1 June – 14 July
survey exhibition
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Opening speaker Stuart Purves AM, Director, Australian Galleries

Installation photo Kari Henriksen

Shimmen’s linocut prints are layered images; featuring prints, fabrics and felts, that draw on the rich history of local and ancient mythology including ‘The Lady of the Swamp’; ‘The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades’; and Shimmen’s own creation ‘Matilda Waltzing’.

Asta Gröting

Berlin Facades (2016-) consists of a series of negative imprints made out of silicone that are monumental in size. They track the traces of the bullet holes made during war in facades that have not yet been renovated.