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Alcaston Gallery is delighted to announce that the highly anticipated exhibition Collection+: Greg Semu will be officially opened on Saturday 8 October 2016 from 5-7pm by NGV Senior Curator of Indigenous Art Judith Ryan at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney.

Curated by Mark Feary, the hybrid project - a retrospective exhibition with a twist - will be on view from 7 October – 10 December 2016. Greg Semu will appear in conversation with Mark Feary about the project on Saturday 8 October 2016 at 3:45pm, bookings are essential.

Please click here to read a preview of the exhibition featured in Art Guide Australia.

Alcaston Gallery artist Angela Tiatia is currently exhibiting in Dead Centre curated by Anna Louise Richardson and Abdul-Rahman Abdullah for Edith Cowan University’s Spectrum Project Space, Perth. Dead Centre explores and celebrates marginalised identities, drawing on the experiences of artists connected to different communities including Aboriginal, Polynesian, Persian, Thai, Greek, Italian, Malay, LGBQTI and Muslim. Tiatia's seminal work Walking the Wall, 2014, is on view. The exhibition continues until 1 October 2016.

Tiatia’s Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis, 2010  is currently featured in the group exhibition Everyday Things at the Ashburton Art Gallery, New Zealand. The exhibition features six video works that highlight the strange, surprising and humorous moments of everyday life. On view until 30 October 2016.

 Angela Tiatia was recently interviewed by i-D Magazine, talking about how issues of gender, colonialism and the concept of otherness has inspired and energised her artistic practice. She is also featured in the latest issue of Art Collector, Issue 77, pp.104-105.

Congratulations to the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Victoria on the wonderful opening of Sally Gabori's retrospective Sally Gabori: Land of All last Thursday night at NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre. The wonderfully powerful large-scale collaborative paintings currently on view once adorned the walls at Alcaston Gallery in Fitzroy. 

Thank you to Bruce McLean, Curator of Indigenous Art from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art and Judith Ryan, Senior Curator of Indigenous Art from the National Gallery of Victoria for conducting an insightful joint floor talk during the unveiling of the exhibition. 

Alcaston Gallery staff feel very proud to be associated with Mrs Gabori and her family in sharing this wonderful celebration. We were delighted that members of the Gabori family were able to be present at the opening, and also thankful they were able to visit to our gallery during this trip, where Amanda Gabori was able to see her large-scale painting Dibirdibi Country, 2010, installed alongside paintings by her mother Sally Gabori. 

Sally Gabori: Land of All will be on view at NGV Australia: The Ian Potter Centre until 29 January 2017.

NAOMI HOBSONKANICHI - ON TOP PEOPLE20 SEPTEMBER - 15 OCTOBER 2016

SALLY GABORI

LAND OF ALL

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

23 SEPTEMBER 2016 - 29 JANUARY 2016

The major retrospective exhibition Sally Gabori: Land of All opens Thursday night 22 September 2016 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, with several of the late artist's family present.

Featuring over thirty works on loan from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Sally Gabori: Land of All ' traces the stylistic trajectory of Gabori’s oeuvre, encompassing her earliest small-scale canvases of 2005, iconic large-scale collaborative works with other Kaiadilt women, her singular monumental canvases of daring colour juxtapositions, through to her almost monochromatic paintings and works on bark produced at the end of her career.'