Dadaism In Australia | Dada Art In Australia
Dada Artists In Australia | Dada Artists Resumes Australia
It’s 1916 and the First World War is boiling over. Artists, writers and entertainers despair. The anything goes political agitation of Dada rapidly turned into a vehicle for new thoughts regarding artistry. This can be most notably seen with Marcel Duchamp and his Le Fountain urinal – a commentary about the notion of art. Max Ernst seeded his improvement as a Surrealist, and in Switzerland Tristan Tzara performed at the Cabaret Voltaire. In the Australian setting, it’s more than 60 years since Barry Humphries was served breakfast on a peak hour train as a Dadaist act. Dada and Australian sensibilities have much in common, especially when considering the way humour and absurdist art are utilised to ensnare the viewer.
What you’ll find below are Australian Dadaist artists; all using different mediums and various artistic techniques to create stunningly unique works.
Australian Artists
Stephen Benwell
Reclining female
Acrylic on paper 1988
Courtesy of Niagara Galleries
Artist Statement
… because if you have drawn it you’ve stated it. It’s a statement, you can explain it that simply. Because then that drawing exists. That is what art is. When we look at the history of art we just look at other people’s drawings of man. And they explain so much to us. You could not get a bigger task ever, that is the excitement of it all! (Interview with Joe Pascoe, Benwell& Potter Ceramics Exhibition, Shepparton Art Gallery 1989).
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Stephen Benwell has exhibited regularly since 1975 and has achieved an international reputation for his hand-built ceramics, which encompass the vessel as a form, inventive sculptures and humanistic statues in clay. This exhibition includes several works on paper, two from his childhood years and two later works, which all exhibit a dream-like imagination.
Born Melbourne, 1953.
Education:
2005 MFA Monash University
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2013 Stephen Benwell: Beauty, Anarchy, Desire – A Retrospective, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2012 Stephen Benwell, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Walking to Oracles: New Paintings and Ceramics, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2010 New Ceramics, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2007 Recent Works, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
2005 Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
The Impassioned Shepherd, The Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Recent Group Exhibitions:
2015 Dada lives! Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
2014 Australia-Korea, Invitational Exhibition, Hanyang University Museum, Seoul, Korea
The Gathering II ,Wangaratta Art Gallery, Victoria
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Diorama, Wollongong City Gallery, N.S.W.
Tenements of Wonder, Greenwood Street Project, Melbourne
2012 Subversive Clay, 2012 Australian Ceramics Triennale, Adelaide
2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria
Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Fletcher Jones Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2009 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award Finalists’ Exhibition, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
Auckland Art Fair, New Zealand
2008 Australian Ceramic Stories, Dubbo Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2006 A Secret History of Blue and White, Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi and touring
Australian Contemporary, SOFA, Navy Pier, Chicago
Australian Glass and Ceramic Artists, Galerie Ursula Rosenhauer, Goettingen, Germany
Recent Awards:
2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Gallery
2009 Inaugural Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
Australia Council Visual Arts Board New Work Grant
2008 Monash University Travel Grant
2003-2007 Monash Graduate Scholarship
Elected Bibliography, books and catalogues:
Max Delany, Fleur Watson et al., Melbourne Now , exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
David Hurlston, Melbourne Now Exhibition Guide, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013
Jason Smith, Stephen Benwell: Beauty, Anarchy, Desire – A Retrospective , exhibition catalogue, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013
Danny Lacy, Stephen Benwell: The Significance of Rubble’, 2010 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, exhibition catalogue, Shepparton Art Gallery, 2010
Stephen Benwell: New Ceramics, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2010
Dr. Julia Jones, Australian Ceramic Stories’, Australian Ceramic Stories, exhibition catalogue DubboRegional Gallery, NSW, 2008
Dr. Luke Morgan, Sighing over ruins: Stephen Benwell’, Stephen Benwell Recent Works, exhibition catalogue, Niagara Publishing, Melbourne, 2007
Articles/reviews:
Robert Nelson, ‘Lumps of clay shaped into the past’, The Age, 11 September 2013
Sonia Harford, ‘Potted history of one who broke the mould’, The Age , August 9 2013
Owen Craven, ‘Stephen Benwell – Beauty Anarchy Desire: A Retrospective’, Art Almanac, August, 2013
John McPhee, Collection: Recent Works by Stephen Benwell’, Artist Profile, Issue13, 2010
Robert Nelson, The dated and discredited brought back with a twist’, The Age, 28 March 2010
Margot Osborne, Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft’, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 227, March 2010
Courtney Kidd, A disciplined eye’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 47, January – March 2009
John McPhee, Ceramic Beekcake and other desires:The art of Stephen Benwell, Art and Australia, Volume 47. Spring, 2009
Megan Backhouse, Art around the galleries: Stephen Benwell’, The Age A2, 17 November 2007
Robert Nelson, Arcadia all on the surface’, The Age, 6 July 2005
Mark Cain
Mark Cain
Thriving On Bullshit
Museum crate, fibreglass cow pat, mixed media 2003
Collection of the Artist
Artist Statement
At the core of my work, is the need to communicate …Usually this takes the form of text, with a political and social immediacy. These messages and imagery are not always palatable, yet a sense of black humour permeates much of this oeuvre. Over the past twenty years, this work has been showcased through Galleries; an interactive Arts Website; Urban based Stencil Art and Film.
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Mark Cain has focussed on having an independent arts practice and has consistently created artworks that critique the official canon of the art world, through the use of super-craftsmanship and conceptual ingenuity. Mark Cain also makes Dada films; see Addled on utube.
Born Shepparton, Victoria, 1959.
Qualifications:
1984 Graduate Diploma of Education, Hawthorn Institute, Melbourne
1977- 9 Diploma of Fine Art Caulfield Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Professional Practice:
1999 – Current Technician, Shepparton Art Museum
1996 – 98 Painting and Drawing Lecturer, Shepparton TAFE. Intern, National Gallery of Victoria
1995 Visual Arts Teacher Prison Services, Victoria
1985 – 93 Full-time Art Teacher Various Melbourne Colleges
Solo Exhibitions:
2009-2013 Street Artist
2006-2009 Shady Side Gallery, Interactive Arts Website
2006 Bullshit, Shepparton Art Gallery
Recent Paintings, Mitchelton Winery Gallery, Nagambie
Riding on the back of a pedigree horse, Shepparton Art Gallery
Australia’s narrative scenes, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Selected Group Shows:
2015 Dada lives!, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
1998 to 2007 Friends of the Shepparton Art Gallery
1996 Who 3, Shepparton Art Gallery
Ten Years After, Caulfield Student Union
Loungeroom Artists, Station Pier, Melbourne
Selected Commissions; Performances and Collections:
2014 Addled, 10 Min Film (Dir. By Mark Cain)
2014 STREET ART Melbourne, Lou Chamberlin P.198, 2013 Unknown
A Private View 4min video [Dir. By Peta Manning]
Riding on the back of a pedigree horse 6min video [Dir. By Peta Manning]
Shepparton Art Gallery Collection
Poster Commission, Shepparton Arts Festival
Anika Cook
Anika Cook
Australian Politics series
Digital print 2014
Courtesy of the Artist
Artist Statement
My work often features an underlying narrative that is sometimes amusing, sometimes a little absurd. Collage, with its elements of pre-existing meaning, seems a wonderful medium for this. This series for Dada Lives! takes a leaf out of the books of Hannah Hoch and Max Ernst, nodding to Hoch’s biting political satire while invoking Ernst’s delicate collage technique and use of dramatic narrative-driven imagery.
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Anika Cook is representative of a younger generation of artists whose style has developed alongside the unfolding of the dawn of the digital age. Seamless post post-modern, she is sticking the world back together, so that we can all understand it. Underlying much of her work is a great respect for old masters from the European canon, who are now recast into a global perspective. Anika Cook also designs clothing and ready-to-acquire artworks featuring ‘incredible’ imagery.
Exhibitions:
2015 Dada Lives! Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
VAMFF exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery
2010 – 2011 Exhibition at Design:Made: Trade, State of Design festival, Melbourne
2005 Gretel Was Getting Fatter installation, Sticky Institute, Degraves St underpass, Melbourne
2010 Playing Field exhibition, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2006 Desire exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Christmas Exhibition, Someday Gallery, Curtin House
Hardcopy exhibition, Gasworks Art Part
2005 A-Zeroexhibition, Level 2 Gallery, Curtin House
Re-appraising the Figure exhibition, George Paton Gallery
Hardcopy exhibition, Gasworks Art Park
2004 Myth and Narrative exhibition, University of Melbourne
GaleriaBezdomna exhibition, Homeless Gallery, Collingwood
Education:
2011 – Master of Design, Monash University (uncompleted)
2013 Introduction to Commercial Knitwear Development
2006 Bachelor of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne
2000 Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies), RMIT University (uncompleted)
Professional Experience:
2004 – Designer and proprietor of design business The Gently Unfurling Sneak producing printed clothing, accessories and limited edition artworks. The Gently Unfurling Sneak products are stocked in more than 30 retail outlets and galleries around Australia.
2008 – 2011 Web and Design Coordinator, Craft Victoria
Responsible for design and development of Craft Victoria’s website (including complete re-design and build in 2010) and ongoing brand development and production of printed marketing collateral.
2009 – Freelance web design
Graphic design, branding and web development for various clients, including designers, arts producers, writers and film makers.
Awards:
2009 ArtStart grant, Australia Council
2008 Skills and Arts Development Emerging Artist grant, Australia Council
2006 Hannah Barry Memorial Prize, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne
2005 Arts grant, Melbourne University Student Union
William Kelly
Nathalia – darts & dates by William Kelly OAM & Joe Pascoe
It must have been provocation of a profound kind that lead Marcel Duchamp to make such a simple artwork as Three Standard Stoppages[1].
To form the work, In Paris 1913-14, he dropped three one metre threads from a height of one metre, allowing them to partially curl where they landed. Each ‘stoppage’ was traced and then made permanent and placed together in a museum type box as the finalised artwork.
Those with an Asperger’s leaning may perhaps note the cubic element – a metre long string dropped from a metre three times. It’s an odd thing to do in that it had no precedent. Some see a humour in it, and perhaps, with a 100 years hindsight, it was a wry crack at Cubism, carried out on a conceptual level. We will never ‘know’, though John Cage certainly appreciated it, citing it as a forerunner to his music piece 4’33”.[2]
There is a sweet country town in Australia, where artists William Kelly[3] and his wife Veronica reside. Nathalia[4], as it is called, calmly crosses a generous river, framed by pepper trees and straggly eucalypts, and is seamed through its axis by 19th century buildings. Its 1,500 people are looked over by that symbol of eternity, a water tower, rising handsomely at the end of the main street. The soft side streets eek out to the fertile countryside. A town such as this gives rise to thoughts about the nature of time.
Nathalia is in many ways an example of a ‘New Town’. Its residents are fully informed by the wider digital world and are diverse in their activities, religions and art. It has a brand new library, hospital and police station. Its demographics and rural centrality have caught the eye of planners and the imagination of artists.
To re-create in spirit Duchamp’s challenge, internationally acclaimed artist and Nathalia resident, William Kelly, agreed to be interviewed about three randomly selected days of his life. As we know, every day has 24 hours and each day is ‘dropped’ on us to make meaning of. What shapes would be revealed? The days would be arrived at by throwing darts at a dartboard at home, as witnessed by his wife Veronica.
Friday, 10 September 1949
I was six years old and there were five of us sharing a single room, in a rundown hotel in Buffalo, New York. We were there because my father was looking for work in Western New York. After a few weeks he got a job as a switcher (switchman) on the railways. They are the guys that adjust the tracks for the trains. He stayed with the job.
For breakfast I would have piece of toast and a glass of water. I remember it was hot but mostly very, very humid. I slept on the floor, probably on a sheet – no bed.
During the day we would play in the adjacent vacant lot. As all kids do, we made up games such as throwing rocks at tins or perhaps a glass bottle, if one was around. There was no school for me at that stage. Lunch was another piece of toast, this time with a glass of milk. There wasn’t a power point in our room so we had an electrical cord that plugged into the light fitting. This had to be done in secret (no ‘cooking’ was allowed).
On or around the day in question, it was like most other days, playing in the vacant lot. However, towards the end of the afternoon my sisters went inside and some tough kids came from elsewhere and trapped me. Amongst punches and pushes, I got stabbed near the ankle. My father, I think, carried me to the hospital where they washed the wound and put in several itches as it was a jagged wound.
No dinner that night.
Mostly I remember waking up happy.
Saturday 22 July 1967
I was about 24 years and an art student at Philadelphia. I was painting a large family portrait, about two metres or more square. The portrait was of my family – my wife Veronica and our baby boy Liam. The painting is lost but I remember it has Veronica looking, reclining and I’m standing nude, as seen in a mirror. Liam was in a bassinette. The painting used primary colours and flesh tones. Breakfast was now toast and poached eggs, and at least three cups of coffee. I smoked cigarettes whenever I could find them. I wore Khaki clothes, a hold over from earlier factory work as a welder – short sleeves in summer, long sleeves in winter.
My method then was to work full time for a year in the steel works and then focus on the art school for a whole year. We had a 1963 Volkswagan beetle, in a kind of cream colour. The studio was a room in the apartment.
Being a Saturday I would have gone out and helped my friend and earlier lecturer, Paul Keene[5], with a mural[6] commission he was doing for the Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was an African American and the university was celebrating its 100 year anniversary as a ‘black’ university, remember, it would have been established just after the Civil War.
I got the job of helping him with the mural as he had broken a leg and was in a wheelchair and could only reach up to a certain height. I sort of did the top half, on the scaffolding, while he did the bottom half! He had sketched out the design and I blocked it in. As his leg got better he was able to get higher. Who knows there might be some of my brushwork still showing through!
Paul was a sophisticated guy and had exhibited in Paris with Picasso and Leger and spoke French. African Americans (then in the US still called Negroes) did better in Europe – particularly in France at the time.
It was late and I drove home at about 8pm. Two blocks from my building the cops had blockaded the streets, as there was a race riot going on. This was the time of race riots and apart from the famous riots where many people would get killed, there were many smaller riots. A combination of hot nights, end of the week pay day to buy alcohol and appalling living conditions, fuelled these quite regular events. There were gunshots. I stashed the car and made my way to the apartment. Veronica and Liam were Ok. We waited for a quiet period of twenty, twenty-five minutes and made our way back to where I had stashed the car, and drove to Veronica’s mother’s house in rural Pennsylvania.
There was irony in working on a special mural depicting the founding of the black university during the day and then being in a race riot at night.
Thursday 7 November 2013
I’m now 70 years old and living in Nathalia. It’s nice and quiet and Veronica and I are having breakfast in the garden. The weather is beautiful and I am listening to the birds. There are most amazing yellow rosellas, magpies, wrens and small birds. Its poached eggs and three cups of coffee!
I go up to the studio. I’m working on a new painting called, Self-portrait in landscape: In the studio everyone is there with you (above Courtesy MARS Gallery, Melbourne). It’s a title I got through a conversation with John Cage. I had spoken with him a few times. On this day I would have looked at art books on Picasso, Duchamp, De Chirico, Goya. Sometimes I do small separate sketches of parts of their artworks, such as a part of Goya’s 3rd of May[7].
The self-portrait was a deliberate attempt to reference people.
This painting has a large blue sky and a white lower plane. I’m seated in the middle, thinking. On the back of the canvas, neatly semi-stencilled, are the many names of people and artists who have influenced me. Apart from the famous names, there are the people like the Dixie Chicks[8] who stood up to George W Bush through their songs. They are important too.
At that stage I would have been blocking in my painting. Around lunchtime Veronica often very kindly brings me a cheese and tomato sandwich and a pot of coffee. I would have kept on thinking, sometimes working on the floor, all afternoon, and mostly working until four or four-thirty in the morning, again rising at eight or eight-thirty. I have always done this. Dinner would take place sometime, with a glass of wine at say 10pm.
I work a fifteen hour day and always have.
[1] Marcel Duchamp images; https://www.google.com.au/#q=%E2%80%98Three+Stoppages%E2%80%99+by+Duchamp
[2] John Cage comment;.https://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=78990
[3] William Kelly; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kelly_(artist) (30/12/2014)
[4] Nathalia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalia,_Victoria (30/12/2014)
[5]Paul Keene; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_F._Keene_Jr. (6/2/2015)
[6] Mural image; https://library.jcsu.edu/tutorials/mural/mural2.html (6/2/2015)
[7] Francisco Goya image; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808 (6/2/2015)
[8] Dixie Chicks; https://www.dixiechicks.com/ (6/2/2015)
Nicholas Jones
Nicholas Jones
The Times Concise Atlas of the World
Carved book 2014
Courtesy of the Artist
Artist Statement
‘… as much about the process as it is about the form … these books were conceived, born, loved, stored, discarded, found anew, studied, cut, folded and reborn.’https://www.bibliopath.org/artwork/ (20/11/2014)
new, studied, cut, folded and reborn.”
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Nicholas Jones has been carving into found books for over a decade, rendering them with new life using his reverse bas-relief technique to burrow into the into the interiors of their pages, to reveal new meanings regarding the particular book – which is now a form of sculpture. Nicholas Jones is Artist-in-Residence throughout the exhibition period and is available for special commissions.
Solo Exhibitions:
2013
“To the Islands” Stockroom Gallery
“Unpacking the Library” Trinity College, Melbourne University
“Nicholas Jones”Wroclaw Book Fair, Wroclaw, Poland
2012
“Encased” Embiggen Bookshop, Melbourne
2010
“Without Bias” Craft Victoria
2009
“The Garden of Forking Paths” The Geelong Gallery
“New Work” MARS Gallery
2008
“The Tower of Learning” Pablo Fanque Gallery, Sydney
“Release the Stars” Mr Wilkinson
2007
“Nicholas Jones” Australian Art Resources
2006
“A Book is a Garden” Poliform Showroom
2005
“At the Bottom of each Word” Linden Gallery
“Slight Return” Spacement Gallery
2002
“Gestalt” Space Furniture
2001
“In Advance of the Broken Spine” RMIT Project Space Gallery
“The Merri Creek Scrolls” Experimental Art Space, Melbourne University
2000
“Word Knots” Baillieu Library Foyer
“Pages from the Ol’ Factory” Westspace Gallery
1999
“On a Roll” Meyers Place Art Wall
“Tondo” Stripp Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2015
Dada lives! Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
2013
“Inspiration Under the Dome” The State Library of Victoria
2012
“Democracy” Grahame Editions Gallery
“Unfold” 45 Downstairs
“How the Light Gets In” E.G. Et al Gallery
“Marquette” MARS Gallery
2010
“Unrepresented” 45 Downstairs
“In the Kitchen Sink” MARS Gallery
2009
“Perspective” Craft Victoria
“Paper Cuts” Pigment Gallery
“Novel Ideas” Oakville Gallery, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Visual Arts Biennale, Castlemaine State Festival
2007
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” Westspace Gallery
“So What” Third Drawer Down Gallery
2006
“Bookish” Australian Galleries
“Make the Common Precious” Centro Cultural EstachiónMapocho, Santiago, Chile
“Dervish” Imp Gallery
“Paper” Perth Institute of Contemporary Art
“Lexicon” City Library, Melbourne
“Secret Shelf Life of Us” Platform Gallery
“Poetica” Object Gallery, Sydney
2005
“A Portable Model Of…” Latrobe Regional Gallery
“Make the Common Precious” Craft Victoria
“A Portable Model Of…” Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart
2004
“Work in Progress” Next Wave Festival, Spacement Gallery
“Address Book” Bus Gallery
2003
“Museum Aesthetic” Gallery 101
“Dome Festival” State Library of Victoria
“Compendium” Platform Gallery
Spencer St
“Papier” Mezzanine at Ivy Hopes
“Compost(ion) Platform 2 Gallery, Flinders St
2002
“Little Kingdoms” Mezzanine at Ivy Hopes
“Citylights Attacks!”Citylights Art Project
“New Work” LaTrobe St Gallery
“Paper” Craft Victoria
2001
“Siemens RMIT Scholarships Show” RMIT Gallery Storey Hall
“Strata”, MFA Graduate Show, Span Gallery
“The New Collectables” First Site Gallery
“Brailling” Corporation Lane, City (Fringe Festival Show)
2000
“Wholelottalove” Citylights Gallery
14GO Bendigo Art Gallery
A4 Art Westspace Gallery
1999
“Future Remembrances” State Library of Victoria Melbourne Festival Show
Selected Awards:
2012
Creative Fellowship State Library of Victoria
Artist In Residence Melbourne Grammar School
Artist in Residence Athenaeum Library
2010
Artist in Residence Melbourne Girls Grammar School
2009
Artist in Residence Fairfield Primary School
Artist in Residence Geelong Grammar School
2003
Finalist – University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association Art Prize
2002
Artist in residence – Open Bench Craft Victoria
New Work Emerging Arts Development Grant Australia Council for the Arts
2001
Finalist – RMIT Siemens Art Prize
1999
Artist in residence Duldig Studio
Collections:
Jones’ work is represented in many public and private collections in Australia, including the State Library of Victoria, The State Library of Queensland, The University of Melbourne, Artspace Mackay and RMIT University.
Guest Lecturer at RMIT University, Monash University, Zart Art, Lyceum Club, CAE.
Anastasia Klose
Anastasia Klose
Self Portrait
Courtesy of Tolarno Galleries
Artist Statement
“Yes, my work is about my own ‘subjectivity’. But I am an artist, and it’s obviously not just a ‘dear diary here is my life’ outpouring. My work is extremely calculated. I think about it a lot before it happens. I consider my work very much from the perspective of the audience. I want them to get a certain ‘feeling’ when they see my work. I want them to feel like they’ve lived through whatever I’ve lived through themselves, whether they are man or woman. For example, ‘Film for my Nanna’, where I am the bride without a groom walking the streets, everyone could relate to that picture of loneliness. And in my live 2 month performance in Sydney last year at the MCA, ‘ The Reliving Room’, I wanted people to feel sympathy and shame for me dancing, but I also wanted them to be amazed by my physical proximity. I wanted to create a sort of appalling, yet entertaining and compelling, atmosphere. *Regarding audiences, the one thing I don’t want them to be is bored”, interview with Rachel Edgar (https://anastasiaklose.wordpress.com/category/2013/ 21/12/2014).
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Anastasia Klose uses her own identity as a type of art medium, to bridge the gap between art and life, allowing the energy of making the work to remain in perpetuity within the artwork. Her outstanding ascent as an internationally significant Australian artist has been ignited by the gestalt of our times, which has seen the fusing of the personal with the public, through such art media as video, photography, performance and drawing.
Born 1978, Melbourne.
Represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Education:
2012 Masters in Fine Art, Monash University
2005 Honors in Fine Art (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts
2004 Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), Victorian College of the Arts
1998
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and English double major, University of Melbourne
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2012
I Can’t Stop Living, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
I Can’t Stop Living, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Refuse to Lose, curated by David O’Halloran, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong, Victoria
ACCA Pop-Up Program, 3 day performance titled “Nanna, I am still searching…” at the Venice
Biennale Vernissage 2011, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
in Venice, Italy
2010 The Poverty Show, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
i thought I was wrong, but it turned out i was wrong…, Australian Experimental Art Foundation,
Adelaide
2009 The Happy Artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
2008 The Shortest Straw, Apartment, St Kilda Road, Melbourne
2006 Anastasia Klose – The Best of…, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2015 Dada lives!, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2012 Primavera Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Contemporary Australia: Women, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
All you need is love, curated by Bronwyn Johnson as part of Melbourne Winter Artspace,
3 Domaine Chandon winery, Coldstream, Victoria
Aiva Festival: Angelholm International Video Art Festival, curated by Rob Garrett, Angelholm,
Sweden
2011 The Kiss, performance, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, curated by Julie Collins, Lorne, Victoria
Selectively Revealed, 26 October – 11 December 2011 – Aram Art Gallery, Seoul .18 February –
13 May 2012 – National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan. 4 June – 21 July 2012
– Chulalongkorn University Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand. Organized by Asialink and
Experimenta, and curated by Sarah Bond and Clare Needham
Telepathy and Love, curated by Veronica Kent and Sean Peoples, Spanish Apartment Barcelona,
andWestspace, Melbourne
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2010 Mortality, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
TWMA Contemporary, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville
Gestures and Procedures, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
Melbourne
Art#1, curated by Juliana Engberg, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, Shepparton
Duettos, curated by Dom de Clario, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Feminism Never Happened, curated by Robert Leonard, IMA, Brisbane
2009 Why we do the things we do, curated by Jacqueline Dougherty, PICA
I’m worst at what I do best, curated by Tom Polo, Parramatta Artist Studios
2008 Flux Capacitor, curated by Pilot, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
New Millenium, curated by Steven Alderton, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
The 2008 Sydney Biennale, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, online venue
2007 New 07, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Thanks Duchamp!!, collaboration with Elizabeth Presa, Cite International Des Arts gallery, Paris
2006 Art Smash, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne
Eat My Face, curated by MerrinEirth on Artist Running Space, the human art gallery
2005 Graduate Exhibition, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Melbourne vs. New York, curated by Olivia Dowling, for Teknikunst festival, RMIT, Melbourne
24seven film night, curated by Kiron Robinson, Glitch Bar, Melbourne
Azlan and the Art stars, 2005 Honours exhibition, VCA Student Gallery, Victorian College of the
Arts, Melbourne
Superstructure, curated by Christine Morrow, West Space, Melbourne
2004 Work in Progress, curated by Hannah Matthews for Nextwave festival, Spacement, Melbourne
2003 Common Vernacular, Conical, Melbourne
Selected Awards:
2007 Winner of the $15000 Prometheus Visual Art Award
Shortlisted for Georges Mora fellowship
2005 Theodore Urbach Encouragement Award
Who wants to be a famous artist? $100 Grant Grab awarded by Gabrielle de Vietri
Proud – Best Video Artwork
Proud – Best Postgraduate Artwork
2004 Gary Grossbard Drawing Prize
2003 Proud – Best use of installation space
Collections:
Artbank
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
The Prometheus Foundation Gallery Collection
Private collections
Selected Bibliography:
Melbourne Now, (exh. cat.), National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. NGV
Publications 2013
Stephens, Andrew, Faking it – for very good reason, The Age, 12 December, 2013
Anusha Kenny, Anastasia Klose: Becoming the person I am Primavera 2012: Young Australian
Artists, pp. 32 – 33
Ashleigh Wilson, Women explore the themes of life in contemporary Australia, The Australian,
April 23
Gina McColl, Blowing Venice out of the Water, The Age, p.15, May 10
Gabriella Coslovich, Goma’s star continues to burn brightly, The Age January 4
Anne Kirker, Feminism Never Happened, Artlink, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2010
Tim Lloyd, Klose Encounters, The Advertiser, 19 July 2010
LarrissaHjorth, Photoshifting: Art Practice, Camera Phones and Social Media: The ramifications
of new media Photofile magazine, Issue 89, 2010
Alexie Glass, Extimacy: A new generation of Feminism, Art and Australia, Vol. 47, Spring, 2009
Andrew Frost, Being a success is overrated – we should strive harder to fail, Sydney Morning
Herald, 22 July 2009
Kitty Hauser, Public Works-Anastasia Klose, “Je suisune artiste Aussie!”, The Weekend
Australian, Review, 11-12 April 2009
Robert Nelson, Twin Gardens of Artistic Eden depart at bitter bight, The Age, 1 April 2009
Anastasia Klose featured on Artscapetelevision program, episode 1 ‘Starry Starry Night’,
presented by Andrew Frost, ABC 1, April 2009
Natalie King, Critics Choice, Australian Art Collector, Issue 48, April – June 2009, p. 164
Juliana Engberg, Uneasy Pieces, Art World, Issue 7, February/March 2009, p.60
Dylan Rainforth, The Age, M Magazine, 5 October 2008
Melissa Hart, Art Notes, Art Monthly Australia, Issue 201, July, 2007
Lucy Elliot, Art Matters – New 07, Melbourne Community Voice, 5 May 2007
Larissa Dubecki, Dying for your art, The Age, 3 May 2007, p.18
Robert Nelson, Pessimism is the new black as artists shrink, erase and shatter expectations – New
07, The Age, 11 April 2007, p. 17
Sebastian Smee, Come feel the disdain, The Australian, 22 March 2007
Harbent Gill, Klose encounters of the absurd kind, Herald Sun, 23 March 2007
Anastasia Klose, New 07 interviewed, Contemporary Visual Arts and Culture Broadsheet,
(Anastasia Klose is also on the front cover), Vol. 36, No. 1, March 2007, p.19
John Bailey, Nothing to Hide, The Age, M magazine, 18 March 2007, p. 31
Anne Lim, Hello, Weekend Australian Magazine, 10 – 11March 2007
2006
Simon Gregg, ”Melburnin” – Top 10 exhibitions of 2006, Trouble magazine, December 2006, pp.
9, 58
Michael Ascroft, Master of my inferiority, Be Young and Shutup, Issue 1, September 2006,
(https://www.beyoungandshutup.org/article_michael_klose.html)
Edward Colless, Undiscovered – Our Rising Art Stars – Anastasia Klose, Australian Art Collector,
April 2006, p.130
Meghan Backhouse,Around The Galleries, The Age, 26 February 2006
KirLarwill
KirLarwill
The Mistress
Painted book 2011
Courtesy of the artist
Artist statement
I am a printmaker and painter living and working in Castlemaine, Victoria. I have a small studio in a shared space in the Castlemaine CBD. I do my printmaking in this studio, or at the studio of friend and colleague Diana Orinda Burns, in Sandon. My work is generally about the beauty and meaning that can be found in the everyday, in the mundane and the utilitarian, and in the unremarkable corners of home. They are an exploration of household objects and familiar surrounds, and of the humour, weight and significance of ordinary things.
Resume
KirLarwill works across several art media, with great sensitivity, to depict remembered emotions and situations, in an almost Surrealist way. Boats and birds sometimes feature as private symbols in her paintings, prints and assembled objects. The painted books in Dada Lives! connect the idea of painting with the notion of storytelling to create an imaginary object that sits on its own shelf or space, like an imagined thought that has come to life.
Solo Exhibitions:
2012 Small Pleasures, Union Studio Gallery, Castlemaine
2010 Small Things Red Gallery, Fitzroy
2006 HomeRed Gallery, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions:
2015 Dada lives!, Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
2014 lentyArtsOpen, Castlemaine
Editions II Tacit Contemporary, Melbourne
Editions [Redux] Tacit Contemporary, Melbourne
2013 Small works (5 artists) Union Studio Gallery, Castlemaine
4+1 with Robyn Gibson and Anne Tweed (Castlemaine State Festival )
use& re-use with Kathryn Davies and Tim Preston (Castlemaine State Festival)
The Tree Show Cascade Print Workshop (Castlemaine State Festival)
2012 ArtsOpen Castlemaine, Usethings exhibition with Clayton Tremlett& Tim Preston
Groundwork collaborative prints with Diana Orinda Burns and Robyn Gibson, alongside work by Belinda Fox, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne.
2011 Background: collaborative print project with Diana Orinda Burns and Robyn Gibson, La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo.
Footprints, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick (curatorial team and participant)
A Country Trail, Lauriston Press, Kyneton
2010 ‘International Print Exhibition and Exchange – Compact Prints’, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Queensland
Unique State group show with Diana Orinda Burns and Robyn Gibson, Studio Paradiso, Sandon (part of Castlemaine State Festival program).
2009 Two-person show, Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine
2008 Group show, Pocket Gallery, Newstead
2006 Group show, Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine
2005 Red Gallery Christmas Show, Melbourne
Two-person show, Red Gallery, Melbourne
2004 Convent Gallery, Daylesford
2001 Two-person show, Phil Elson Pottery Studio, Castlemaine
Two-person show, Hill End Café Gallery, Daylesford
2000 Group show, Hill End Café Gallery, Daylesford
Group show , Periapt Café, Flemington
Group show, Fitzroy Gallery
Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition
1999 Group show, Fitzroy Gallery
Awards:
2013 First prize mixed media & first prize drawing Beaufort Annual Show
2012 Annual Print Commission Print Council of Australia
2011 First prize (print) Beaufort Annual Show
2009 Second prize Best exhibit in Show, and 1st prize (print), Beaufort Annual Show
2008 Commended, printmaking, Sutton Grange Art Show
2007 First prize Mt Alexander Grief Support Program Art Exhibition
First prize (mixed media), Beaufort Annual Show
2005 Best painting in show, Beaufort Annual Show
2004 Highly commended, Beaufort Annual Show
2001 First prize (Drawing), Beaufort Annual Show
Education & Professional Development:
Initial education B.A. hons; Bachelor Social Work; Graduate Diploma Women’s Studies
1998 – 2000 Diploma of Visual Arts CAE
2004 Short course in colour and painting with Prudence Flint
2006 – ongoingWeekly printmaking classes with Diana Orinda-Burns
2009 Three day drawing workshop with Anne Tweed
2010 (2nd) Three day drawing workshop with Anne Tweed
2013 One-day Masterclass with Katherine Hattam
Collaborative Community Projects:
Project team member, Castlemaine Press Inc., project planning, community engagement and project promotion work in an arts enterprise project to establish a community access print studio.
Project team member, Pop up art project, JumpleadsInc project planning, community engagement and project promotion work in an arts enterprise project to promote and sell the work of Central Victorian artists (2013/14)
Coordinator of a study of community desire & support for public arts space in Mt Alexander Shire (2011)
Member working group to develop a multi-purpose arts space in Mt Alexander Shire (2010)
Chair Castlemaine Artists’ Market establishing and managing the monthly Artists’ Market @ Theatre Royal (2008-9)
Consultant assisting local groups with funding submissions for community projects (2007-present)
Collections:
Counihan Gallery (Footprints Solander Box of 16 central Victorian printmakers)
Mount Alexander Hospital
State Library of Victoria
Canson Australia
Print Council of Australia Archive
City of Freemantle Art Collection
And numerous private collections including Julian Burnside QC
Elizabeth Liddle
Elizabeth Liddle
The Entry Mat, 1788
Rubber backed coir matting, acrylic gloss paint.
Size: within 3 x 3metres
Artist Statement
The Entry Mat, 1788 is an installation work that is presented as a modern doormat representing the island now known as Australia. Based on Norman Tindales original Aboriginal language map, the work represents Aboriginal nationhood up to 1788, the year in which New Holland became a British colony called New South Wales. Australia, as we know it today is divided and classified through our modern state borders.
The black lines are representative of diverse tribal groups who speak regionally distinct languages and also share cultural practices and customs. 1788 marked the time when masses of Britain’s free and unwanted citizens entered the country in waves of tall ship arrivals and is symbolic of the experiences of Aboriginal people thereafter.
Resume
Elizabeth Liddle is an emerging artist whose comments on contemporary, historical and cultural issues are influenced by both her immediate surroundings and her heritage. Liddle is a multi-discipline artist working in still life, installations, photography and digital art. Her works in Dada Lives! are conceptually outstanding for their breath of understanding of the Australian condition for many Indigenous people.
Exhibitions:
Dada lives! Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe 2015
Horizons, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, June 25-August 3, 2014
Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2013
The Substation – Oct/Nov – 2013
Indigenous Voices, Contemporary Strategies
26 July-15 September, 2013
Incinerator Gallery
BengeknyarrwaBengoot.ErrantherreYengeeweme (Wadawurrung/
Arrernte), I see you, I hear you
Wednesday 22 May, 2013 – Saturday 29 June, 2013
Manningham Art Gallery
https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/play/arts/
manningham_gallery_current_exhibition.html
Flora and Fauna
7 Sep 2012 – 3 Feb 2013
Koorie Heritage Trust
TRANSFERANCE-The carrying of memory (Group Show)
28 June-30 July 2011
Boscia Galleries
Pa Ring Gallery @ Toyota Community Spirit Gallery (Group show)
7 July – 15 October 2010
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
NAIDOC Week exhibition (Group show)
DESA Australia
6 – 12 July 2010
Art Melbourne (Group show)
22-25 April 2010
Koorie Heritage Trust stall
Memories and Desire’ Indigenous photographic exhibition (Group show)
11 – 18 December, 2009
Gordon Gallery, Geelong
https://www.gordontafe.edu.au/index.cfm?
action=4&secAction=4&terAction=4&pageAction=2&ID=89
‘Memories and Desire’ a fringe show as part of the Ballarat FotoBienale,
2009 (Group show)
September 2009
KirritBareet Aboriginal Art Centre
Picture This 2009 (Group show)
Brunswick St, Gallery
July 2009
Collections:
Manningham City Council – Art Gallery
Cornucopia Australis, 2011, Ed 1of 5
Silver Mounted Emu Egg with Emu Finial, 2011. Ed 1of 5
Relationships Australia
Cockatoo Feather Series, 2009,
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Feather, Digital Photograph on Metallic Paper, 2009,
Ed 2 of 7
DESA Australia
Cockatoo Feather Series, 2009, Ed 1 of 7
Digital Photographs on Metallic Paper, 2009
Awards:
FINALIST
Substation Contemporary Art Prize 2013
The Substation – Oct/Nov – 2013
WINNER
Inaugural DESA Award for Indigenous Artists 2010
DESA Australia
‘Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Feather’
Digital Photograph on Metallic Paper, 2009
Publications and Media:
Etchings Indigenous – Black and Sexy
Published by Ilura Press, Melbourne Australia, 2010
Photographs: Cockatoo Feather Series 2009 (Mature Cockatoo Feather, Baby
Cockatoo Feather, Sulphur Crested Cockatoo Feather), Posing for a Photo, 2008
and Sideshow Alley, Clowns, 2008.
John O’Neil
John O’Neil
Ironbark
Digital print 1983
Courtesy of the Artist and Bridget McDonnell Gallery
Artist Statement
I initially came to Torquay after being employed by Deakin University, Visual Art and Media Departments as Senior Photographer, subsequently l became a Teacher of Photography, Art and Media. Currently l am a Professional Photographer (John O’Neil Photography)
doing advertising photography, weddings and portraits. My education is in the visual arts and l have always maintained an interest in art and photo/art and at times l have been very actively involved producing it, l welcome this opportunity to display this work’ some old some new’. www.johnoneilphotography.com/
Resume
John O’Neil has been a photographer for several decades, capturing the Australian landscape in a very broad sense, from its primeval origins to modern markings through public commercial statuary, for example. Exhibiting periodically as an artist photographer, O’Neil morphed from the film to the digital era, whilst keeping his distinctive style intact. His bushfire series has acquired iconic status for its depiction of the soul of a burnt landscape, with its promise of eternal survival.
Selected Exhibitions:
2011 Stormy Weather, Contemporary Landscape Photography, National Gallery of Victoria
1989 Moet and Chandon Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
1989 Thousand Mile Stare Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
1989 Austausch Melbourne/Berlin Photography Exchange Exhibition.
1987 Regional Artist’s Review, Artery Gallery, Geelong
1986 The YouYangs, Geelong Art Gallery
1988 Big Things, Christine Abrahams Gallery
1986 Australian Landscape Photographed, Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, Ballarat Art Gallery.
1985 Victoria Vision – 1834 Onwards, National Gallery of Victoria
1985 Survey Surveyed, Geelong Art Gallery
1984 Survey Show, Geelong Art Gallery
1984 Ash Wednesday, Australian Centre for Photography
1983 Landscapes, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
Collections:
National Gallery of Victoria
Geelong Art Gallery
Deakin University Collection
Melbourne City Council Collection
Moet and Chandon Collection
Private Collections
Stefan Szonyi
Stefan Szonyi
Studio 1
Ceramic 1994
Courtesy of the Artist
Artist Statement
Two of these works are from the from an “In The Studio” series while the other work is from a “Big” series. They are all simply observations and reflections on recalled and selected events, combined with an element of autobiography and social commentary.
The work incorporates a natural fascination with miniatures and is an attempt to come to terms with the challenges involved in construction using clay combined with other materials.
The earthenware clay and underglazes used in this work seemed to be the ideal materials to challenge my need to engage in modelling and attempting to make well crafted, colourful objects. My training in painting imbued me with a love of colour and I have primarily been motivated by the joy and pleasure derived from viewing and handling brightly coloured ceramic objects.
Resume
Stefan Szonyi captures a universe in the palm of your hand through his miniature world of ceramics, which explore such themes as family love, chance and some of the constructs in the art world. His is an unusual oeuvre in that probably more than half of his ceramics now reside in public collections, where they provide an entrée into the unique philosophical qualities of Australian humour.
1945 Born Germany
1949 Arrived Australia
1964-66 Trained Secondary Teacher´s Certificate, Melbourne Teacher´s College
1967 Studied Painting Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1979-81 Studied art at Preston Institute of Technology
Currently living in Daylesford, Victoria.
Solo Exhibitions:
1977 Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1990 Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1992-93 Stefan Szonyi Surveyed, Touring Exhibition – Ballarat, Bendigo, Benalla, Shepparton and ,
Geelong Regional Galleries, and Roy Morgan Research Centre, Melbourne. Curated by Joe Pascoe.
1994 Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Group exhibitions:
1976 Craft Centre, Melbourne
1979 37th International Exhibition of Ceramic Art, Faenza, Italy
1980 Mayfair Ceramics Award Exhibition / Meat Market Centenary Celebration,North Melbourne
1980-82 Recent Ceramics from Australia, Australia Council Exhibition Touring Europe
1982-84 Contemporary Australian Ceramics, Australia Council Exhibition Touring New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A.
1982 National Craft Aquisition Award, Darwin / Mayfair Ceramics Award Exhibition
1984 First Annual Ceramics Exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery / Fremantle Arts Centre
1985 Clothes and Clay Orange Festival of Art, Orange Regional Gallery / Australian Motif, Craft Council Gallery, Sydney / Caltex North Queensland Ceramic Award, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Darling Downs Ceramic Award, Toowoomba, Queensland / Australian Crafts Survey Exhibition, Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne / International Ceramics Festival, Mino, Japan
1987 Mayfair Ceramics Award / Mornington Peninsula Craft Event
1988 Mornington Peninsula Craft Event / Bicentennial National Exhibition, Melbourne Showgrounds / Australian Crafts, Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne
1990 Tea for Two, Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne
1991 Shepparton Art Gallery – Sidney Myer Fund Australia Day Ceramics Award
1994 Colin and Cecily Rigg Craft Award, National Gallery of Victoria
1995 Shepparton Art Gallery – Sidney Myer Fund Australia Day Ceramics Award / Nillumbik Art
1996 Shepparton Art Gallery – Sidney Myer Fund Australia Day Ceramics Award
1996-97 Delinquent Angel-Australian ceramics touring Faeza-Italy, Asia, Australia
1997 Then and Now, Meat Market Craft Centre, North Melbourne / Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award – Shepparton Art Gallery / Newcastle Region Art Gallery National Ceramic Purchase Award
1998 Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramic Award – Shepparton Art Gallery / The Great Australian Teapot Show – Distelfink Gallery/ Australian Crafts for Tea – Tokyo/ Celebrating Ceramics – Castlemaine Art Gallery
1999 Teawares Towards 2000 – Distelfink Galley/ Qdos Gallery, Lorne
2002 Gold Coast Ceramic Art Award
2003 Hypercrafting – Monash University, Caulfield
2004 Celebrating the Master – Skepsi on Swanston
2004 Open Air Sculpture Show -Qdos, Lorne
2005 Gold Coast Ceramic Art AwardAA
2006 Hungarofest – Melbourne 2015
2015 Dada Lives! Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Ivanhoe
Collections:
Ararat Gallery
Art Gallery of South Australia
Australasian Meat Workers Union Collection, Victoria
Australian National Gallery, Canberra
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
Caltex Collection, Queensland
City of Footscray Collection
Comune Di Faenza Collection, Italy
Diamond Valley Collection, Victoria
Geelong Art Gallery
La Trobe Regional Gallery
Mayfair Ceramic Collection, Shepparton Art Gallery
National Gallery of Victoria
Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Nillumbik Shire Art Collection
Orange Civic Centre Collection
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
Queensland University of Technology
Shepparton Art Gallery
Toowoomba City Council Collection
University of Tasmania Collection
Victorian State Craft Collection, Meat Market Craft Centre
Various Private Collections