Art Space: Exhibition Schedule
The Southern Health Art Space is a gallery space focused on exhibitions that engage our communities and offer opportunities for health promotion. Other areas of interest are exhibitions that explore the synergies between art, health, science and medicine. It is a key art in health initiative.
The Art Space is located outside Seminar Room 2 and Social Work on Level 2 at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Indigenous art from the Utopia region, Central Australia [20 April - 30 May]
Artists in this exhibition include well known and highly collectable artists Gloria Petyarre, Minnie Pwerle, Emily Pwerle, Molly Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Lizzie Pwerle, Janie Morgan, Aileen Mbitjana and Barbara Weir.
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On until Tuesday 29 May 2012
Tegan Hamilton:
Encasement and Examination: anatomical glass art and anatomical drawings.
The glass artist Tegan Hamilton's exquisite glass objects that document her fascination with the form and function of the human heart are on display in the large exhibition case at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, ( level 2, beyond Zouki’s cafe and near the D lifts) . Also on display nearby are anatomical drawings and working sketches by Tegan Hamilton.
Highlights from the Southern Health art collection: Robert Jacks & Bill Henson.
Enjoy Robert Jack's complete suite of etchings from the Paris Sketchbook of 1989. Robert Jack is a renowned Australian artist with a distinctive abstract style. View these nine exquisitely detailed etchings that capture his impressions of Paris, France. Also on display are two fine large scale colour photographs by Bill Henson from 1985-86. Henson is considered one of Australia's most important artists working in photographic media. He has an international profile, having represented Australia once at the Venice Biennale.
31 November- 1 February 2012
Selected works from the “Cheer up Children” Paintings Collection
Escape into a fantasy of fairies and witches, and childhood games of skipping and tiggy from Australian childhood in 1910.
On display in the Southern Health Art Space is a selection of rare and beautiful watercolour paintings by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Jessie Traill from the “Cheer up Children” Paintings Collection, which are part of the Southern Health art collection.
19-October - 29 November 2011
Southern Health Staff Arts 2011
This annual exhibition celebrates the talent in the visual arts of Southern Health staff. Over eighty art works, including paintings, photographs, drawings and craftwork were received this year. As with the previous staff exhibitions, in 2009 and 2010, the quality and diversity of the work was outstanding.
April 8 - June 9, 2011
Healing Childhood Trauma
This is an exhibition from the Cunningham Dax Collection of artwork by adults who suffered from childhood abuse. All the artworks were created in the clinical setting as part of therapy.
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
December 8 - February 2, 2011
Melchior Martin: land, sky and sea
This exhibition of evocative landscapes by one of our talented local artists appears to 'open up' the hospital interior over the summer months as we are invited to ponder the beauty of our environment. These often expansive works remind us of nature's transformative powers and the ever shifting elements that can be both awe inspiring and threatening. These often beautiful gestural works capture the sheer wonder of our world.
These works are for sale with a percentage of all sales coming back to the hospital.
October 1 - December 1, 2010
Staff Arts 2010: Art Makers on Staff
Our second Staff Art Exhibition was another success with the quality of submissions very high indeed. All staff that work at a Southern Health site are invited to enter. This year we will have a new condition that the artwork must have been produced/ created within the last year. Due to display constraints we will unfortunately not be able to exhibit quilts. Watch this space for further details as the time approaches.
July 28 - September 25, 2010
Desert Art from Utopia
Presented in conjunction with Dacou Gallery. This exhibition showcased a selection of contemporary artwork by Aboriginal artists from the Utopian region in the Central Desert.
This was a fundraising initiative with a significant percentage of sales coming back to Southern Health. We would like to thank Dacou for this partnership opportunity and the considerable sum raised!
April 15 to July 21, 2010
Paul Marc Joffe: INFERIOR OBLIQUE
Paul is a Doctor here at Monash Medical Centre whilst also being a talented photographer who currently exhibits with Lindberg Galleries in Melbourne's CBD.
Exhibition DetailsFebruary 10 to April 9, 2010
ON LOAN: A Collector’s Offering
An exhibition of a selection of paintings, prints and drawings that are currently on loan to Southern Health from a private collector. They form an interesting insight into the breadth of this individual’s collection. The exhibition also highlights the generosity of the collector in loaning them to us - for the enjoyment and engagement of our patients, staff and visitors.
Clustered in themes, this selection of works features the individual through portraiture on one wall, while opposite hang suburban and industrial landscapes that seem devoid of human life. Another wall shows more lighthearted and picturesque landscapes in contrast to images of iconic urban environments such as the Statue of Liberty that seem somehow slightly threatening.
The potential for the isolation and alienation of the individual is a subtle theme that carries through many works and is clearly formed in John Cullinane’s, The Spectacle. More challenging works are counterbalanced with works of whimsy – a pig, a rooster and artworks of faith and happiness such as John Coburn’s Resurrection.
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November 25 to January 28, 2010
Anne Riggs: In the shadow of ….trauma loss and grief
This exhibition is a reflection of loss. It emerges out of the shadowy world of trauma and particularly sexual abuse. Children’s clothes made fragile by their encasement in clay, is one way artist Anne Riggs expresses the vulnerability and tragedy of abuse. Painted bones speak of the distortions and ‘little deaths’ that are part of the trauma experience.
The work is a contemplation of the long term impact of trauma, the losses, the distortions and the seemingly miraculous beauty that remains within people who have been carelessly and brutally treated by others.
The work partly emerges out of a close artistic relationship Anne had with women attending the South East Centre Against Sexual Assault for counselling. Accompanying the exhibition will be a showcase of some of the mosaic and sculptural works made with SECASA participants.
Read Suzy Freeman Greene's feature in The Age on Anne's exhibition, A2 Nov 28, 2009 and see more exhibition images here.
October 1 to November 16 2009
Staff Arts: Art Makers on Staff
With 210 submissions from 90 Southern Health staff, this inaugural exhibition suprised and intrigued many the viewer. Who would of thought that so many of our staff were so creative and multi talented?! In order to incourage creative pursuits as one means of acheiveing or striving for that elusive work / life balance we have encouraged participation in this exhibition. This exhibition should inspire and delight. Onlookers and perhaps employees in particular will be impressed at the surprisingly talented individuals in our midst. Please see link following for the awards recipients.
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