Judith Blackall has written a profile on Jacky Redgate, discussing her exhibition Hyponagogia with Mirrors - old and new work, 1977- 2023, currently on display at the Wollongong Art Gallery.
JACKY REDGATE solo exhibition opens at Wollongong Art Gallery
JACKY REDGATE’S new, major solo exhibition Hypnagogia with Mirrors: Old and New Work, 1977-2023, has recently opened at the Wollongong Art Gallery.
Hypnagogia with Mirrors is an artist project that encompasses some of Jacky Redgate's best-known works along with others previously unseen, and new and archival materials. In her work, mirrors are at once means and metaphors, reflecting other times, other dimensions. This show is also site-specific, playing on the Wollongong Art Gallery’s architecture, history, and collection.
One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Redgate has a practice extending across six decades. Emerging within the contexts of late modernism, minimalism and conceptualism, and feminism, she is known for her photographic and sculptural works exploring systems and logics, impersonal and personal.
The exhibition is open 16 September-26 November 2023.
Jacky Redgate, Wedding Wishes, 1977, resin, doll head, plastic, fabric, 13.5 x 18.5 x 18.5cm.
JACKY REDGATE features in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection'
JACKY REDGATE's hypnotic work 'Light Throw (Mirrors) #5 ' is currently in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection' at Hazelhurst Art Centre
The exhibition represents the strength of The University of Wollongong’s collection, with a showcase of over 100 works by leading Australian artists. The exhibition continues until 18 June.
JACKY REDGATE, Light Throw (Mirrors) #5, 2010, C-Type photographs (hand-printed from original negative), 126 x 158 cm. Collection: University of Wollongong Art Collection.
JACKY REDGATE at HEIDE MoMA
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #7, 2009-10, silver halide Chromogenic photograph handprinted, edition of 3 + AP, 1/3,
JACKY REDGATE’s work ‘Light Throw (Mirrors) #7’, is included in the exhibition ‘Things that will not sit still’, curated by Melissa Keys.
Drawn from the Heide Museum of Modern Art collection ‘Things that will not sit still’ explores the shifting nature of perception, art and ideas. The exhibition addresses the way in which the selected artworks attend to, or, suggest movement—forward and back across time—shifts in focus, perceptual dissolution, forms of disruption and agitation.
The exhibition continues until 20 November 2022.
Artist feature in 'Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020)'
IMAGE: Anne Zahalka, The Cook (Michael Schmidt/architect) from the series Resemblance, 1986, matt Cibachrome paper, unique larger size, 100 x 100cm.
Six of our artists ANNE ZAHALKA, PAT BRASSINGTON, JULIE RRAP, JACKY REDGATE, JUSTINE KHAMARA and JOHN YOUNG feature in Daniel Palmer and Martyn Jolly's publication 'Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020)', published by Perimeter Books and designed by Public Office.
"Installation View offers a significant new account of photography in Australia, told through its most important exhibitions and models of collection and display. By looking at what lies beyond the frame the exhibition speaks not only to pictures, but to the people and places that nurture them."
Find more information about the book here
JACKY REDGATE interviewed by ART COLLECTOR
JACKY REDGATE was interviewed by Louise Martin-Chew for a mammoth profile in the recent issue of Art Collector Magazine.
In Redgate's practice, the drawing together of historical sources, narratives referring to modernist heritage, migration, convalescence, feminism, studio constructions and an aesthetic that is slick and highly resolved is united, at times, with the emotional slippage of her more personal essays. It is, inevitably, compelling viewing, as evidenced by her presence in institutional collection worldwide.
READ MORE in Art Collector’s 100th issue (April/June 2022)
Five of ARC ONE artists are featured in the newly published 'Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia'
Anne Marsh, ‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’, published on 2 November, 2021, by The Miegunyah Press.
Five of ARC ONE artists – ANNE ZAHALKA, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, PAT BRASSINGTON, JULIE RRAP and JACKY REDGATE are featured in the newly published ‘Doing Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia’.
Providing a comprehensive analysis of women’s art movements in Australia from the 1960s onward, this remarkable book by art historian Anne Marsh chronicles the struggles, contestations and achievements of women and feminism in Australian visual arts history. The book also acts as an divergent investigation into how the “doing” of feminism has shaped contemporary art and culture at home and abroad.
“…art and feminism are cyclical; they spiral in and out of time, and it’s interesting to see these younger women, very schooled in theoretical frameworks, turning back to an earlier time, and asking: why aren’t we doing that anymore?” ——Anne Marsh in conversation with Susanna Ling.
JACKY REDGATE INCLUDED IN OVER JOURNAL
Jacky Redgate, Untitled (Vase Shape #1–#5), 1989, wood, ceramic, acrylic. Installation view, Jacky Redgate: Life of the System: 1980 – 2005, 2005.
JACKY REDGATE’s work, Untitled – Vast Shape #1-5 (1989) has been written about in Over Journal, Issue 2. In this issue, Yvette Hamilton reflects on the paradoxical expansion of photography in her essay Beyond Ocular Vision.
“Whilst created before the widespread prevalence of the idea of non-human photography, Australian artist Jacky Redgate’s 1989 series, Untitled, Vase Shape draws attention to the complex relationship between representation and human vision within photography. Through mimicking the shape of a photographic infinity screen and placing a vase shaped sculpture within it, both of which are painted a velvety matte black, Redgate’s work speaks of photographic vision and its failure. Her actions make the objects barely visible and almost impossible to photograph, a decision that makes the work very much dependent on the human presence of the viewer in the exhibition space.”
For more information and to order a copy, see here >
PAT BRASSINGTON & JACKY REDGATE IN BOWNESS ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
PAT BRASSINGTON & JACKY REDGATE are included in the MGA Bowness Photography Prize Anniversary exhibition at Wangaratta Art Gallery, from 21 August – 14 November, 2021.
Curated by MGA Director Anouska Phizacklea, the exhibition celebrates the past winning artists (2006–20) with a selection of works drawn from the MGA Collection and showcases contemporary photography in Australia.
JACKY REDGATE won the Bowness Prize in 2011 with her work Light throw (mirrors) #4, 2011; and PAT BRASSINGTON in 2013 with her work Shadow boxer, 2013.
Jacky Redgate, Light throw (mirrors) #4, 2011, from the series Light throw (mirrors), 2009–2011, chromogenic print, 126 x 158 cm
Pat Brassington, Shadow boxer, 2013, from the series Quill, pigment ink-jet print, 72 x 50 cm
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS & JACKY REDGATE IN 'KNOW MY NAME: PART TWO' AT NGA
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #3, 2010-11, C-Type photograph face mounted on acrylic, 126 x 158cm
JACKY REDGATE & EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS are included in Part Two of Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now at the National Gallery of Australia.
Following a gradual transformation from Part One, Part Two is now open in its entirety. Know My Name tells a new story of Australian art. Looking at moments in which women created new forms of art and cultural commentary such as feminism, the exhibition highlights creative and intellectual relationships between artists across time.
Part Two continues until 26 January 2022.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2011, silver halide Chromogenic photograph handprinted, 126 x 158 cm
PAT BRASSINGTON & JACKY REDGATE IN BOWNESS ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
Pat Brassington, Shadow Boxer, pigment print, 72 x 50 cm
JACKY REDGATE & PAT BRASSINGTON have works on display at Smith & Singer on Collins Street for the next few weeks, as part of the MGA’s travelling exhibition Bowness Photography Prize Celebrates 15 Years.
In 2020 the Bowness Photography Prize marked its 15th year. To celebrate MGA has partnered with Smith & Singer to showcase the previous 15 recipients during the International Photo Festival. As the recipients of the 2011 and 2013 prizes respectively, Redgate and Brassington’s works are on view!
The Bowness Photography Prize has become an important survey of contemporary photographic practice and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. The Prize reveals artists’ continued fascination with exploring and pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium, embracing its capacity to explore a diversity of voices and perspectives.
The exhibition will continue until 7 March.
JACKY REDGATE IN UOW EXHIBITION
JACKY REDGATE has two works currently showing at University of Wollongong in the exhibition Chrysalis, jointly curated by UOW Art Collection and The School of Arts, English and Media.
These works connect Redgate’s well-known interest in the mirror photographs of Florence Henri with her little-known interest in American photographer Dare Wright, author of the 1957 children’s book The Lonely Doll.
Chrysalis continues until 14 November.
See our available works in Sydney Contemporary for one of Jacky’s 2020 HOLD ON works exploring similar themes!
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY GOES LIVE ONLINE
Sydney Contemporary is taking a different shape this year. From tomorrow, the art fair will be live online for the entire month of October!
ARC ONE Gallery will be featuring new works by PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, JACKY REDGATE and GUAN WEI.
This year’s art fair is free to browse! The SC Team have worked tirelessly to build a custom platform to connect artists & galleries with the arts community.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
VIP Preview: 1 October 10am
Public Viewing: 1 October 2pm
Visit the fair HERE!
MGA 30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CATALOGUE
'VIEW FINDING Monash Gallery of Art 1990—2020', designed by Pidgeon Ward.
The MGA recently launched a landmark 30 year anniversary publication - VIEW FINDING Monash Gallery of Art 1990—2020.
This fully illustrated catalogue features image plates by ARC ONE artists Pat Brassington, Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Robert Owen, Jacky Redgate, Julie Rrap, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka. It charts the history of the gallery, its present, and the future of photography in Australia.
Over the last 30 years MGA has developed one of Australia’s most important cultural assets — the only public collection solely dedicated to Australian photography. MGA’s artistic program has explored the diversity of photographic practice in Australia, and has placed Australian photographers and photography within a global context. 'View Finding' looks at the past, present and future of photography in Australia, presenting moments that have defined MGA, its collection and exhibition history.
A selection of leading lights who specialise in photography in Australia have contributed essays to the publication. You can purchase it here.
'SHADOW CATCHERS' REOPENS AT AGNSW
Shadow Catchers at Art Gallery of New South Wales is open once again!
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, JACKY REDGATE & JULIE RRAP all have works in the this exhibition, which draws on the AGNSW collection to investigate the way shadows, body doubles and mirrors haunt our understanding of photography and the moving image.
There is a fantastic video guide of the exhibition narrated by senior curator of contemporary Australian art Isobel Parker Philip. This was filmed as part of the AGNSW’s Together in Art initiative, which seeks to create meaningful art encounters online.
Eugenia Raskopoulos, installation view of Diglossia seriees in Shadow Catchers at AGNSW, 2020
'JACKY REDGATE: HOLD ON' REOPENS AT GEELONG GALLERY
Good news! Geelong Gallery has reopened, which means their exhibition JACKY REDGATE: HOLD ON has resumed.
Jacky’s work in HOLD ON sees her contaminating the objective geometries of her backgrounds with toys and dolls that are redolent of childhood.
The key reference point in these new works is the 1957 book by Dare Wright, called The Lonely Doll, in which the author established scenarios and photographs of a doll and her 2 teddy bear friends in a series of unsettling narratives that speculated on friendship and loneliness.
In JACKY REDGATE: HOLD ON, the artist examines how we negotiate and construct memories through photographic images, drawing on her long-standing interest in visual storytelling.
Timed-entry tickets are required to visit the Gallery. Book in now for free!
Jacky Redgate, HOLD ON #8, 2019-20, pigment ink on fabric, 197 x 203 cm
CURATOR INSIGHTS: 'JACKY REDGATE - HOLD ON'
Join Geelong Gallery Director and CEO, Jason Smith, as he shares Curator insights on a tour of Jacky Redgate—HOLD ON. This exhibition will continue when government and health authorities deem it safe to re-open the Gallery.
Jacky Redgate has a 40-year practice and is critically acclaimed as one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Redgate’s career began in the context of late 1970s feminism, minimalism and conceptual art. Redgate is well known for her sculptural and photographic works using systems and logic, and particularly for her sustained series of ‘mirror’ works over the past two decades that have engaged with optical phenomena, ‘perceptual dislocations’ and slippages between representation and abstraction.
JACKY REDGATE AT GEELONG GALLERY
Jacky Redgate, HOLD ON #4, 2019-20, pigment ink on fabric, 197 x 203 cm
JACKY REDGATE - HOLD ON opens this Saturday 7 March at Geelong Gallery. This major solo exhibition coincides with PHOTO2020, the International Festival of Photography.
Jacky Redgate—HOLD ON will present the most recent iteration of Redgate's mirror work in its entirety that reflects how, while continuing to make her experimental ‘hybrid' mirror works over the past ten years, Redgate has been recalling and introducing into her work the autobiographical images and subjects of her juvenilia. Embodying a cathexis on emotionally laden subjects, these photographs tease with a combination of abstraction and autobiographical mirroring that seemingly contradicts the Cartesian sobriety of her well known ‘impersonal’ works.
The exhibition runs until 17 May.
JACKY REDGATE
Jacky Redgate with her work, Buxton Contemporary, 2019.
JACKY REDGATE is featured in Bauhaus Now! at Buxton Contemporary.
Bauhaus experiments with photography have been reprised by Redgate, particularly those of Florence Henri, who used prisms and mirrors in order to exploit, as her Bauhaus teacher Moholy-Nagy explained, 'the ambiguities of present-day optical creations'. Redgate's images are created through repetitive flashes across variously sized circular mirrors. These four new works in her decade-long series are like a secular alter to light, recalling the intensity of Henri's photography.
These works were included in Redgate's solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery earlier this year. .
Bauhaus Now! continues until 20 October.
JACKY REDGATE
Jacky Redgate, Untitled, 1991, cardboard, paper, 27 x 27 x 27 cm
JACKY REDGATE is showing work in the exhibition 'IN-Formalism' at the @casulapowerhouse
'IN-Formalism' witnesses the evolution of abstract non-objective art in Australia from 1968. The exhibition surveys the key generation of artists who have contributed to the ongoing language of abstract art. It presents these works alongside a wide range of artefacts in design, textiles, advertising, urban design, film and performance and reveals the influence this art-form had in our times.
The exhibition opens today and continues until 30 June.