Joe Rollela
A Sense of Place

19 August – 25 September
United Galleries, East Sydney
www.unitedgalleries.com.au
+61 2 8915 5300

Image: Bulls Hill, 2008, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm Courtesy the artist and United Galleries

Julian Hooper

Gallery 9 is a new kid on the block and is showing some of the best emerging talent in the country. This exhibition of work by New Zealander Julian Hooper is not to be missed. Hooper already has an established reputation in his native country and this show will be no doubt start a similar following here.

Gallery 9
3 - 27 September
Gallery 9, Darlinghurst
www.gallery9.com.au
+61 2 9380 9909

Image: Vlad, 2007, acrylic on paper, 51 x 43cm

Kate Benyon at AGNSW

Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon presents a new series of paintings in which she explores ideas of transcultural identity and the ‘global citizen’.

Auspicious Charms for Transcultural Living
7 August - 26 October 2008
Level 2 Contemporary Projects Space
www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au

Image: Auspicious charms, 2008 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 

Jonathan Jones

15 August – 11 October
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington
www.sherman-scaf.org.au
+61 2 9331 1112

Melbourne Art Fair

Featuring over 80 national and international galleries, the mother of all Australian art fairs only comes around every two years - it’s worth making the eff ort to get to Melbourne in July, if you’re not fortunate enough to already live there. Dianne Tanzer Gallery will be featuring these works by young painter Victoria Reichelt, paintings of bookshelves that become unconventional portraits of their owners, some known, some anonymous.

30 July - 3 August
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
www.artfair.com.au
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au

Image: Victoria Reichelt, Formless, 2008, oil on canvas, 44 x 88cm Courtesy the artist and Dianne Tanzer Gallery

Matt Coyle

In his first solo show at Melbourne’s Über Gallery, Matt Coyle exhibits sinister snap-shots of the night in an amazing series of pen and ink drawings. Coyle has produced several ‘Graphic Novels’, including Worry Doll which was published in 2007, to great critical acclaim.

Night Stills
1 – 30 August
Über Gallery, St Kilda
www.ubergallery.com
+61 3 8598 9915

Image: Back Garden, 2007, Ink on paper, 375mm x 388mm

The World in Painting

Curated by Zara Stanhope, The World in Painting brings together eight of Australia’s most distinguished artists, that collectively presents personalised worlds through painting that range from domestic interiors to dream-like landscapes.

26 July - 9 November
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen
www.heide.com.au
+61 3 9850 1500

Image: James Morrison, Elizabeth, 2004, oil on canvas, 3 panels, 100 x 300cm (overall) Private collection, Melbourne, Courtesy Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

William Yang

William Yang is an internationally celebrated photographer and performer whose work has covered a wide range of subjects, but always with an eye on issues of identity and cultural history.

William Yang: Claiming China
29 August - 12 October
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
www.mga.org.au
+61 3 9562 1569

Image: Thornborough #1, 2006, from Identity and Place series Courtesy of the artist and Stills Gallery, Sydney

Nathan Taylor at Linden

Highly realistic and cinematic paintings that examine the subtle gestures in our suburban and regional landscape, questioning Australia’s cultural identity by exploring the decay of the ‘Australian dream’. This exhibition is part of Linden’s Innovators Program 2008.

Culture made easy
15 August - 14 September
Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
www.lindenarts.org
+61 3 9209 6794

Image: Nathan Taylor, Make ends meet, 2008, Acrylic on board, 50 x 100

Stephen Haley

11 September - 4 October
Nellie Castan Gallery, South Yarra
www.nelliecastangallery.com
+61 3 9804 7366

Image: Forest, 2008, oil and acrylic on linen, 152 x 152cm

Picture Paradise

The first century of Asia-Pacific photography 1840s -1940s

10 July - 9 November
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
+61 2 6240 6411

Image: Sinhalese man c. 1920, gelatin silver photograph Collection: David Knaus, California