Venue Type: Museum / Public Gallery
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A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985-1995
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Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
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Citational choices
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Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize
The 2018 Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize was today awarded to Melbourne-based artist Gail Hastings and Sydney-based emerging artist Adrian McDonald. Celebrating its 22nd year, the Prize is among Australia’s best-known art awards, spanning all mediums and offering a total of $36,000 in prize money. Hastings was awarded the established artist category ($25,000) for colour…
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9 X 5 NOW Exhibition: ART150
9 X 5 NOW, at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 16–25 June, showcases generations of practicing artists who have studied or taught at the National Gallery School or VCA Art. The most experienced artist represented attended the National Gallery School in the 1940s, and the youngest completed studies at the Victorian College of the Arts…
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Direct Democracy
Exhibition curatorial by Geraldine Barlow As Individuals we are capable, but so much more so when we act together. The collective body is a complex mechanism: a layering of systems, societies, generations, inheritances and innovations. Groups of human beings have developed numerous models to identify with each other, work together, build societies and exercise power.…
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![Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia [withdrawal]](https://gailhastings.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Less-is-More-page-91.jpg)
Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia [withdrawal]
01/09/2012 withdrawal of ABC art: red cube from the exhibition upon receiving the exhibition’s catalogue and reading the curatorial premise for the work’s inclusion, where I gave reasons for the withdrawal that include: [The curatorial essay mentions] my art (with reference to Floor plan: Empty, except) within the context of Robert Morris’ essay. Not only…
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![Notes towards contemporary post-minimalism [withdrawal]](https://gailhastings.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NOTES-TOWARDS-CONTEMPORARY-POST-MINIMALISM.png)
Notes towards contemporary post-minimalism [withdrawal]
Several ideas stemming from Minimalism, though controversial in the 1960s, are now widely accepted as part of the landscape of contemporary art: for example, the artwork can be fabricated by someone other than the artist; it can comprise modules or units used singularly or repeated, and its governing concept is more important than any craft…
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Art from a Hundred Years 1909–2009: Highlights of the Daimler Art Collection
The third presentation of the Daimler Art Collection in South Germany (following the extensive survey at ZKM Karlsruhe 2003 and at the Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen 2004) at Museum Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd concentrates on Highlights from the Collection with around 100 works spanning nearly 10 decades – from Adolf Hölzel, the main teacher in the…
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To make a work of timeless art: MCA Primavera Acquisitions
The decision to acquire the work of Primavera artists began in 1993, the first purchase being a suite of works by Gail Hastings, an artist included in the inaugural Primavera exhibition. Everyone wants to be close to ‘the wheel of history’, to be remembered, to occupy a place within the wider schema of recent art…
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Sculptural Situations: Gail Hastings
Perth born Hastings is a singular artist distinguished by the extraordinary focus of her practice. … Consistently describing her work as ‘a space made for others’ Hastings creates what she calls ‘invisible architectures’ that invite the viewer to enter a dialogue with what they observe. … As ‘the artist’ Hastings eschews a central position in her…
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Overheard Conversation: Sculptural Situations by Gail Hastings
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Pitch Your Own Tent: Art Projects / Store 5 / 1st Floor
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Hothouse: The flower in contemporary art
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The Daimler Art Collection at the Museum für Neue Kunst | ZKM Karlsruhe
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In Conversation
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PLANS: a sculptural situation by Gail Hastings
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Kunst Nach Kunst / Art After Art
Simple geometric patterns with a coloration [of] clearly defined contours characterize Gail Hastings’ work. The proximity to Minimal Art is unmistakable [as] a conceptual interface of her works. … The title, “To complete a work of contemporary art” (1997), already indicates a direct reference to an apparently ‘unfinished’ contemporary art. This reference must be formally seen…
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mission: untitled (blue)
It used to be said of experimental art that it didn’t really need an audience to view it…. Experimentation for its own sake was to be sufficient … Of course this was before — or despite — some people reckoning that the value of art was actually something produced in the exchange between artists and…
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Monochromes
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Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand
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Passing Time: Moët & Chandon Exhibition 2000
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Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand
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Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand
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Sorry, we are closed
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Space Affects: the art and architecture of James Birrell and Gail Hastings
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The Space Here Is Everywhere: Art with Architecture
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Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand
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I views
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art idea no. 8,582,048
Hastings takes up artistic idioms and presentational forms of conceptual art and charges them sensually. She combines conceptual strategies with the language and aesthetics of action-related, factual texts … and stages these through the employment of a markedly material aesthetics. Her art opens up a dialogue on the origins, significance and function of ‘works’ and…
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Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand
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art idea no. 8,582,048
Hastings takes up artistic idioms and presentational forms of conceptual art and charges them sensually. She combines conceptual strategies with the language and aesthetics of action-related, factual texts … and stages these through the employment of a markedly material aesthetics. Her art opens up a dialogue on the origins, significance and function of ‘works’ and…
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Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand
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Strolling – the art of arcades, boulevards, barricades, publicity
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The Infinite Space: Women, Minimalism and the Sculptural Object
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Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998
Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation : touring exhibition 1998
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Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998
Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation : touring exhibition 1998
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Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998
Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation : touring exhibition 1998
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Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998
Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation : touring exhibition 1998
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All This And Heaven Too: 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art