Arts space: autumn
Bill Henson, Untitled, 2003-21 (CB-JPC SH258 N20C). Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.
Bill Henson
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery
8 Soudan Ln
March 5 to April 3
Since his first solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria when he was only 19, Bill Henson has become one of Australia’s most prolific and celebrated contemporary art photographers. This month, 46 years later, Henson will exhibit new works at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Be absorbed into Henson’s deeply arresting, haunting and sublime images, which he captures through the use of chiaroscuro and his unique perspective.
roslynoxley9.com.au
40/40 Project, Continuum
Wagner Contemporary
2 Hampden St
March 6-28; March 31-April 28
Diverting from large-scale hero works, 40/40 Project is a curated exhibition that evens the playing field by asking the selected artists to embrace a uniform format of a 40x40cm canvas. As they channel their creativity into the diminutive artworks, size proves no barrier to beauty and we are invited to engage with the merits of each on an equal footing. Following this group show is Continuum, the solo exhibition of Bec Juniper. Running from March 31, Continuum is inspired by the topography and geology of Western Australia’s landforms and urges us to interrogate the reality of increasingly prevalent climatic events.
wagnercontemporary.com.au
Monet & Friends: Life, Light & Colour
Royal Hall of Industries, Moore Park
From March 12
Connect with the work of the Impressionists in a new way with this multi-sensory, digital show from Grande Experiences, the team behind the popular Van Gogh Alive. Watch and listen as the paintings of Monet and his contemporaries, such as Pissarro, Cezanne and Renoir, leap towards you in a riot of light, colour and even scent.
grande-experiences.com/monet/
Tuppy Goodwin
Olsen Gallery
63 Jersey Rd
March 3-20
Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is a senior Pitjantjatjara woman from Mimili in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands in the remote north-west of South Australia. Although she only took up painting in 2010, her exquisite paintings have become a staple of Australian and international galleries for their unique energy, vibrancy and distinct application of paint and colour. This exhibition includes fresh pieces painted in 2020.
olsengallery.com
MAKE A NOTE
Barry Keldoulis, director of Sydney Contemporary at Wagner Contemporary, will give a free talk for young collectors on March 20, 4pm-5.30pm, sponsored by Kings Cross Distillery.
Until March 27, get along to Darlinghurst’s Coma Gallery to absorb new work by multi-disciplinary artist Jack Lanagan Dunbar from his solo exhibition, Signal. comagallery.com/exhibition/signal
For 2021, the 68th Sydney Film Festival is being pushed back to later in the year and will take place on August 18-29.