2009
Narelle Jubelin
Cannibal Tours
28 February 2009 - 12 July 2009
Narelle Jubelin’s exhibition Cannibal Tours is a contemporary companion to Modern times and proposes an encounter with modernism through the artist’s own practice and the photographic archive of Albert Tucker.Modern Times
The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia
21 March 2009 - 12 July 2009
The Powerhouse Museum travelling exhibition Modern Times: The Untold Story of Modernism in Australia, presented in Melbourne by Connex, explores how modernism transformed Australian culture from 1917 to 1967, a period of great social, economic, political and technological change.1940s Melbourne
Photographs by Albert Tucker
18 July 2009 - 15 November 2009
1940s Melbourne: Photographs by Albert Tucker presents an artist’s view of Melbourne during a tumultuous decade, bringing together over 50 photographs, many that are new to the public realm, together with related paintings and archival material.Paul Yore
The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality
18 July 2009 - 15 November 2009
The Big Rainbow Funhouse of Cosmic Brutality by Melbourne artist Paul Yore is a fantastical insight into contemporary consumer culture. Paul Yore is presenting a new, site-specific version of an installation made from numerous everyday throwaway items, both natural and artificial. Glittery psychedelia, plastic objects, fake flowers and real branches are intricately organised into shrine-like arrangements and spaces for reflection, patching together a joyful and contemplative garden of delights, wherein this cheap detritus may function in a new way.Ern Malley
The Hoax and Beyond
22 July 2009 - 15 November 2009
The notorious Ern Malley Affair of 1943–44 was Australia’s greatest literary hoax and its impact on Australian cultural history has resonated for more than sixty years. This exhibition explores through a range of artworks, original documents and publications this remarkable tale of deception, which was the brainchild of two young Sydney poets Harold Stewart and James McAuley.Kathy Temin
1 August 2009 - 8 November 2009
Kathy Temin is a critically-acclaimed Melbourne-based artist who has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past twenty years. This survey of Temin’s work will consider her contribution to Australian art, achieved through an individual and biographical synthesis of materials and attachment to art, history and consumer culture.
