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Detail 2 A painting’s background in Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel ‘To the Lighthouse’
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf So off they strolled down the garden in the usual direction, past the tennis lawn, past the pampas grass, to that break in the thick hedge, guarded by red hot pokers like brasiers of clear burning coal, between which the blue waters of the bay looked bluer than ever.—…
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Today’s art history of unwritten yesterdays
Call for papers deadline: Wednesday 31 July, 2024 Panel convenor: Gail Hastings Art historian Bernard Smith contends that a past of unwritten yesterdays does not become history until a historian attempts to write what happened in it. Yet, to find oneself in “apocalyptic jitters” at the thought of writing contemporary art history is to misidentify…
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Highly Commended
Chuffed to have just discovered Associate Professor Martyn Jolly and Associate Professor Robert Nelson’s commendation of Space Practising Tools, 2021, in the AAANZ 2022 Best Artist-led Publication list of prizes. The two judges write: This artist’s book wittily instantiates the formalist principles it methodically elucidates. It is meticulously complete down to every detail, and the…
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‘Citational choices’ opens 25 October
‘Citational choices’ opens 25 October . ‘Citational choices’ takes La Trobe University’s Etta Hirsh Ceramics Collection as its point of departure. The exhibition unravels the biographical stories present within the collection itself — those of Etta Hirsh, of a local art scene, of La Trobe Art Institute and now, in the case of this exhibition,…
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Brunelleschi’s Demonstration of Space
At this years AAANZ conference I am convening the panel ’Brunelleschi’s Demonstration of Space’. In hope you’ll propose a paper as part of the panel, the panel’s description is as follows: In Florence in the early fifteenth century, Filippo Brunelleschi demonstrated single-point perspective with a picture panel and mirror while he stood in the central…
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Space Practising Tools Book Launch
Space Practising Tools by Gail Hastingswith an Introduction by Jon Roffe will be launched 12:30 pm, Sat 27 March 2021Craft Victoria Book a free seat here As part of the NGV Art Book Fair ABOUT BOOK
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National Assistance Program for the Arts
Biggest thanks to the National Assistance Program for the Arts for the one-off payment I received in May. I spent lockdown writing in-depth applications for assistance from federal, state, local and subscriber arts agencies, to be continually rejected one after the other. At one stage I submitted my name, only — frustrated by the time,…
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The Power of Inclusion in Donald Judd’s Art
Art Journal, College Art Association, New York, Vol. 77, no. 3 Fall 2018 The Power of Inclusion in Donald Judd’s Art: Observations by an Artist, Gail Hastings, pp. 48-62. Artist’s Project: Space Practising Tools, Gail Hastings, pp. 63-75. Gail Hastings notes that sometimes artworks seem to be reticent teachers, “muttering a lesson,” which we have…
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Art Journal’s Fall Issue out soon
Art Journal Vol. 77, no. 3 Fall 2018 Sarah Hamill Surface Matters: Erin Shirreff ’s Videos and the Photography of Sculpture Mara Pogolvsky Ezcurra Beyond Evil: Politics, Ethics, and Religion in León Ferrari’s Illustrated Nunca más
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Thank you Kalamunda Hospital
When the night has comeAnd the land is darkAnd the moon is the only light we’ll seeNo I won’t be afraid, no I won’t be afraidJust as long as you stand, stand by meSo darlin’, darlin’, stand by me, oh stand by meOh stand by me, stand by meIf the sky that we look uponShould…
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Winner of this years Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize
Gail Hastings and Adrian McDonald awarded 2018 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize The judges for this year’s Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize – Natasha Bullock (MCA Senior Curator), Judith Blackall (NAS Gallery Curator), Mark Harpley (Visual Arts Coordinator, Redlands School) and Fabian Byrne (Visual Arts Teacher, Redlands School) – announced the award at the opening…
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2018 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize at the National Art School Gallery
The prize exhibition will be held at the National Art School Gallery in Sydney from 15 March until 12 May 2018. Nike Savvas writes, ‘I have selected artists whose practices evidence discriminating, uncompromising and highly individualist approaches to art making. In a cultural climate beset by hype, hits, corporatisation and swinging social agency, the next iteration…
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Best Artist Book – AAANZ Prize 2017
Judges of the Best Artist Book for the AAANZ Prize, 2017 — Martyn Jolly and Christopher LG Hill — write that this ‘publication pushes the format of Artist book the most, and is engaged with its format. As one of the few projects not heavily engaged with research as a format, it is important. It…
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Architecture Bulletin – The room issue
Gail Hastings‘ page 28 from ‘Encyclopaedia of Time in Art: pp. 28–30’ graces the cover of the upcoming Architecture Bulletin – The room issue, Autumn 2017, available in mid-March. Download the issue, here.
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The Missing Space Project released on iBooks
The Missing Space Project: Six Interviews was released today on iBooks. Most regard phenomenological space made popular in the 1960s as the only type of space introduced by Minimal art. Few are aware of an alternate self-determined space made by the art, itself, that is a concrete, material space. An account of this space is missing. The six interviews of…
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A Few Pieces: Taubert Contemporary, Berlin
Replica of an original space: yellow green and Replica of an original space: blue light are two wall sculptuations in the group exhibition ‘A Few Pieces’ at Taubert Contemporary in Berlin. Work by artists in the exhibition include: Lars Arrhenius, Geissler & Sann, Gail Hastings, Markus Linnenbrink, Mutter & Genth, Jan van der Ploeg, Markus Weggenmann, Beat Zoderer. The exhibition dates are 17/01/2015 to 07/03/2015. Taubert…
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Berlin/New York
Gail Hastings travels to Berlin and New York to participate in a group exhibition at Taubert Contemporary and to interview participants for a project supported by an Australia Council Grant.
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Taking It All Away: MCA Collection
To make a work of timeless art, 1996, is in the MCA collection exhibition ‘Taking It All Away‘ curated by Natasha Bullock. ‘Diverse in form and character, the works in Taking it all away set the dynamics of space and time against the complexities of modern existence. Together, these works speak to the importance of art history…
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Upcoming exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Upcoming exhibition ‘Taking It All Away’ curated by Natasha Bullock at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) will include a work of mine from the collection.
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Review of Exhibition: To Do in Art Monthly
In the August 2014 edition of Art Monthly Australia there is a review of Exhibition: To Do (2014) and Missing: four sculptuations by Gail Hastings (2014), by Judith Blackall. The Library now holds the article, Gail Hastings: Sculptuations.
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Announcement: Gail Hastings’ Exhibition: To Do performed as a score | at The Commercial | Saturday 4-6pm
Image: Gail Hastings, Exhibition: To Do, 2014, acrylic on plywood, plywood, watercolour and lead pencil on paper, 185.4 x 225 x 225cm (photo: Sofia Freeman) Exhibition: To Do Closing Launch: Saturday 3 May, 4-6pm with the work’s spatial score performed by clarinetist Megan Clune starting 4:45pm open Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm 148 Abercrombie Street, Redfern, NSW, Australia, +61 2 8096 3292…
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Review of Missing by Isobel Philip in The Art Life: The pure potential of a page
A review of Gail Hastings’ ebook Missing by Isobel Parker Philip entitled The pure potential of a page is published, today, on The Art Life. Hastings uses the term ‘sculptuation’ to define her practice. This is a term that marries ‘sculpture’ with ‘situation’ so as to shift focus away from the individuated sculptural object and towards the…
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Review of ‘Exhibition: To Do’ by Chloé Wolifson
A review of Exhibition: To Do by Chloé Wolifson can be found on the Arts Hub, Saturday 19 April 2014. Delicately rendered in watercolour with ruled pencil lines emerging from the edges of the translucent wash, these pieces depict the To Do list in question. One such reminder, the instruction: ‘Build racks in which to store the…
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‘Corner caretakers’ and ‘Space of a five page plot’ now on view at The Commercial
Corner caretakers, 2014, and Space of a five page plot, 2014, are two of four sculptuations that comprise the ebook Missing: four sculptuations by Gail Hastings, 2014 available at iBooks. Both are now on view at The Commercial Gallery, Redfern, along with the sculptuation Exhibition: To Do, 2014.
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Announcement: Exhibition: To Do
The Commercial Images 1-4 Gail Hastings, Exhibition: To Do, 2014, acrylic on plywood, plywood, watercolour and lead pencil on paper, 185.5 x 225 x 225cm; image 5 exhibition installation view; images 6-7 Gail Hastings,Corner caretakers, 2014, watercolour and lead pencil on paper in plywood frames, 12 components, each 55 x 46.5 x 1.8cm (Corner caretakers is a sculptuation…
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Exhibition: To Do
Gail Hastings’ forthcoming exhibition is entitled Exhibition: To Do and will open at The Commercial on Friday, 11 April 2014, 6-8pm. An excerpt from the exhibition record reads: Space is generally thought of in its ideal form — as empty. Notions, such as needing space to breath, space to move, space to be free and outer…
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Sculptuation by Gail Hastings in 20/200 at Sarah Cottier Gallery opening next Thursday, 13 March
20/200 is group exhibition at Sarah Cottier Gallery that marks 20 years and over 200 exhibitions for the gallery. Gail Hastings is delighted to contribute a sculptuation to the exhibition for having participated in the 1996 exhibition ‘Road to Love’ (20.03.1996–30.03.1996) curated by Mikala Dwyer. The gallery, then, was located at 36 Lennox Street, Newtown, Sydney. The two…
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Press release | The Commercial: Missing
The Commercial Gail Hastings Missing an eBook comprising four new sculptuations by Gail Hastings Foreword by Richard Shiff pre-release now available on iBooks Download on iBooks
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Missing pre-release available now on iBooks
Missing: Four sculptuations by Gail Hastings has just been pre-released on iBooks. With a foreword by art historian Richard Shiff—widely known for his writing on certain Impressionists while lesser known, yet just as profound, for his writing on the art of Donald Judd—Missing‘s 52 pages include watercolour moments from the Encyclopaedia of Taking Care in Art, Encyclopaedia…
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Becky Sparks and James Roland—’Art frame: red’
‘Art frame: red’, 2011, by Gail Hastings will be on view in James Roland and Becky Spark’s contribution to Art Month’s Collectors’ Space.. Art Month Presents Collector’s Space A hidden urban space filled with museum quality artworks never seen together in public before… or ever again. Curated by Natalia Bradshaw, the Collector’s Space is a…
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Artists Talk at The Commercial
At 4pm, 07/02/014 I will be at The Commercial gallery to speak with people as they look at sides: red versus blue, 2009, currently on view in the group exhibition OUI we at The Commercial. GH From the press release: Gail Hastings will speak about her exhibited work, the sculptuation ‘sides: red versus blue’ and the creation of…
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Upcoming exhibition: Direct Democracy
Happy to announce that space holder for a yellow, white and red space will be in the upcoming exhibition at MUMA—Direct Democracy—opening 26/04/2013 https://gailhastings.au/event/direct-democracy/ …
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Art, bare feet, love:
An interview with Stephen SinnLet me first describe how I met you. One of the homeless at St. Canice’s had taken up daily station outside my window where I sat to write my PhD, smoking while watching from just a couple of metres as though I were a TV. Unable to work, I one day asked if he might sit…