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An irreverent homage to the traditional China cabinet Michael Keighery This exhibition explores the significance of the historical China Cabinet figurine in contemporary Western culture. Contemporary figurines can act as a tool for exploring the implications of international exchange as well as the forms and images made possible by changes in information technology, material science and industrial techniques. » more

	From the Other Side Works on paper and sculpture by James Blackwell, Toshiko Oiyama and Nicholas Uhlmann. 25 June to 10 July » more

	Graham Kuo @ Wilson Street Gallery Janet Clayton Might Have Danced: A thrilling new exhibition from this master of colour. If art were poetry, Graham Kuo is a poet. If art were choreography, Graham Kuo is a dancer. » more

	Art Month @ Wilson Street Gallery Janet Clayton Welcome to Art Month @ Wilson Street Gallery. Take time to celebrate the fascinating world of the visual arts. Wilson Street Gallery is proud to take part in this Sydney wide event in March » more

	Ben Hall - LAND FILTERS Janet Clayton Wilson Street Gallery welcomes back Newtown based artist and sculptor Ben Hall in a masterly series of work inspired by the patterns and layers of the Australian landscape. Land Filters opening on Saturday 12 February. » more

	Will Coles and Melanie Fitzmaurice Janet Clayton In 2011 we place our confidence in the future, launching two artists whose attitude and and intellect reflect the frustration and hopes of those who must live over the next few decades with the consequences of yesterday's and today's mistakes. » more

	CHRISTOPHER Gentle - TURNING POINT Wilson Street Gallery A richly evocative exhibition which steers a pre-eminently painterly course between naturalism and abstraction. Bright paint dances on pastel grounds; hints of landscape grow from the canvas. Gentle has the assured hand of a man who has held more than 40 shows. » more

	Heather Ellyard: Even for Colour Wilson Street Gallery This spring, Melbourne-based artist Heather Ellyard brings beauty to Wilson Street Gallery, Newtown, in her new exhibition, Even for Colour. Ellyard’s visual poetry moves beyond pure delight in colour, into meanings, symbols and texts that are indelible. » more

	Deborah Beck: Mirrored Janet Clayton Wilson Street Gallery Steeped in the textures of a decorative age, these intricate and tactile paintings speak of time- worn beauty and intimate memories. » more

	Bill Brown at Wilson Street Gallery Wilson Street Gallery Soliloquy - Paintings and Drawings Exhibition dates: 4 - 26 September 2010 Bill Brown is one of the enigmas of the Sydney Art Scene. In his new exhibition Soliloquy opening at Wilson Street Gallery in Sydney on Saturday 4 September, there are propositions, signposts and juxtapositions, but no questions and no answers. » more

	Nola Jones: New works - The Age of the Goddess Wilson Street Gallery In an era of women Prime Ministers, Premiers and Governor Generals, Wilson Street Gallery salutes one of Sydney’s most original sculptors, Nola Jones, in the Gallery’s first exhibition devoted to three dimensional art. » more

	Anne Judell at Wilson Street Gallery Janet Clayton In her first exhibition in Sydney for more than 10 years, Anne Judell shows why she has established herself as one of Australia's finest artists working in paper. » more

	Robyn Gordon, SYNECDOCHE Janet Clayton Gordon places art at the centre of the life-force - where colour, shape, surface and object reflect the symbiotic relationships of natural ecosystems » more

Time Bronwyn Bancroft Wilson Street Gallery Opening at Wilson Street Gallery on 15 May. Now in her early fifties, Sydney-based Aboriginal Artist Bronwyn Bancroft is approaching her art, and her responsibility as an artist with even greater intensity and urgency. In her exhibition “Time” Bronwyn places herself in the narrative of her family history with a visual story of survival and determination. » more

	Lifelines Wilson Street Gallery Wilson Street Gallery 17 April to 9 May 2010 Drawings by Muamer Cajic, Michael Esson, Chris Gentle and Li Wenmin » more

	Art: the flipside of music? Janet Clayton Vinyl Archives: A Conversation Manne Schulze and Ian Andrews reconfigure the vinyl record in sculptural wall pieces and video, as they redefine the meaning of captured sound. » more

	Dreams 2010 Janet Clayton This group of Aboriginal women artists are turning their dreams into reality in their third year exhibiting with Wilson Street Gallery » more

	Helen Geier In the Fold Janet Clayton Wilson Street Gallery Press Release In 2007 and 2008, during successive residencies and exhibitions in Alice Springs, Helen Geier produced a series of experimental works on paper conceived as folded, torn, stitched and scrolled forms in oblique reference to the weathered ranges and gorges of the Central Australian desert. » more

	George Washingmachine: Island Girls Janet Clayton Wilson Street Gallery Press Release “Mapping and tracing the female body has absorbed me for many years”, George Washingmachine said. “As an inveterate traveller to overseas jazz festivals, I have now merged the lure of travel with my desire to explore feminine curves’, he said. » more

	What would you take into the after-life? Wilson Street Gallery @ Back Street Gallery Brigid Cole-Adams at Back Street Gallery A conversation with the Etruscans Opening Saturday 30 January » more

	Michelle Collocott - Three Ponds Oberon Series C Part B Wilson Street Gallery Wilson Street Gallery opens in main season on 23 January with a proud and beautiful exhibition by Chippendale-based artist Michelle Collocott. Three Ponds Oberon Series C, Part B, a name that hints at the continuing passion and curiosity of the artist for her subject. » more

	Michelle Collocott at Wilson Street Gallery in Newtown Three Ponds Oberon Series C Part B Janet Clayton » more

Exhibition Articles

Sexed-up ceramics Tracey Clement Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald In his solo show, Neurotica, Michael Keighery has his wicked way with bits and bobs that could have been plucked from any suburgan china cabinet. The Sydney artist transforms old favourites such as floral plates, demure statuettes of ladies in big dresses and regal Oriental gents into ceramic figurines that ooze a kitschy-cool charm tempered by the naughty edge of schoolboy humour. » more

They cut discs … now he cuts theirs Louise Schwartzkoff The Sydney Morning Herald TO MANNE SCHULZE, Kamahl's 1969 vinyl LP Dreams Of Love is a thing of beauty. Not for its music as such but for its aesthetic appeal. In the name of art, Schulze took to Kamahl's records with a band saw, carved them into pieces, and reassembled them into large abstract works. An Olivia Newton-John boxed set received the same treatment, as did the Seekers' Big Hits. » more

	Art and Climate Collide Garrett Bithell SX News In a new exhibition, artist Michelle Collocott confronts the realities of climate change. In an era dominated by political discourse finally raising awareness of the risks of global warming, local artist Michelle Collocott is tracing the drama of climate change in her solo exhibition at Wilson Street Gallery – Three Ponds Series C. » more

	Anne Judell Dobell Prize Winner ABC » more

Artist Features

The Memory of Amnesia: assemblages by James Blackwell + Richard Perram Spring 08 @Wilson Street Quarterly I first saw James Blackwell’s work in 2003 shortly after he started working in paper and found materials in an exhibition at the Spirit Level gallery in Devonshire Street Surry Hills. At the time I was taken by the beauty of his assemblage/collages which in their quiet intensity provided a meditation on the apparently random processes contained within nature. » more

Brian Johns talks to Bill Brown An Interview How did the boy from Parramatta land in the famous art school in East Sydney? I think it’s a consequence of being pointed that way as a child. My early painting efforts were hung around the house and visitors seemed impressed. When I was fifteen at school we were asked to decide on our futures – going further academically or getting a job. When it came to my turn spontaneously the words spat out, “I am going to be an artist”. » more

	HABITAT Hanna Kay Essay on "Habitat" by the artist, Hanna Kay VIEW VIDEO Extracts from 'notes from the shed', (2006) written by hanna kay, and read by brendan higgins. » more

	Coastal Paradox Robyn Gordon » more

On-line Video Library

• Hanna Kay 'Undertow'    November 2010    View Video
• Chris Gentle - Video on 'Ponderings'    August 2008    View Video
• Hanna Kay - Notes from the Shed extract    February 2007    View Video

Other Articles

• More Money For Artists   Tamara Winikoff      View article
• Rod Isaacs talks to Manne Schulze         View article

Press Release Archive

• The Last Word for 2009 30 November 2009
• Suzanne Archer Shelf-Life 3 November 2009
• Fan Dongwang At Wilson Street Gallery 2 October 2009
• Hanna Kay: Waterways 4 September 2009
• Panoply: Art Jewellery @ Back Street Gallery 10 July 2008
• Neurotica 10 July 2008
• Collective Dissolve - Roni Feldman June 2009
• Marnling Press & Whaling Road Studio - Printed Image May 2009
• Kate Briscoe - Rock Faces May 2009
• Graham Kuo - New Works March 2009
• Laure Molina and Sarah Tomasetti - Liminal February 2009
• BLUE POLE DANCERS …from the doubly gifted George Washingmachine February 2009
• BEN HALL – Field Maps - Mixed Media January 2008
• Survival the key for Aboriginal Women Artists
• Exhibition program ends in a blaze of colour December 2008
• O Beata Solitude: James Blackwell at Wilson Street Gallery November 2008
• Breaking Records in the Name of Art 3 October 2008
• Books at Wilson Street Gallery: Judith Pugh's 'Unstill Life" Tuesday 24th September
• "I'll Make My Own Way Home" 6 Sep 2008
• POSSUM AND WATTLE by Bronwyn Bancroft 24th August 2008
• Wilson Street Gallery welcomes Suzanne Archer
• Sheer Beauty Dispels the Gloom August 2008
• Michelle Collocott : Art and Climate Collide July 2008
• What the Trees Have Seen June 2008
• Grey Beauty - Group Show May 2008
• Fools' Gold at Wilson Street Gallery March 2008
• Heather Ellyard Towards Carbon and Light March 2008
• Special Event at Wilson Street Gallery: The Great Australian Barbecue
  January 2008
• The Watcher - Under watchful eyes January 2008
• From Many Walks of Life Indigenous Artists come together December 2007
• Wilson Street Gallery 2008 Preview January 2008
• SCALE - Does size really matter? Three artists ponder... October 2007
• Asher Bilu: invisible artist appears in Sydney November 2007
• MICHAEL KEIGHERY October 2007
• New work by Fay Porter and James Blackwell September 2007
• Opening of PAINTED EARTH exhibition at Wilson Street Gallery July 2007
• Paper 2007 June 2007
• BEN HALL 'LAND MEASURE' AT WILSON STREET GALLERY May 2007
• Victoria Lobregat at Wilson Street Gallery April 2007
• Hanna Kay’s Habitat opens at Wilson Street Gallery March 2007
• HABITAT March 2007
• Chinese born artist, Graham Kuo, Time and Place, Recent Paintings by Graham Kuo March 2007
• Launch of Wilson Street Gallery, Newtown
  Opening of Paint 2007 Exhibition January 2007