Contemporary Australia: Women

206 and romanticised, the dry humour of Klose’s works is balanced by her sensitivity to the foibles of human nature and a resilience of spirit. Selected solo exhibitions: ‘The Poverty Show’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2010; ‘i thought I was wrong, but it turns out i was wrong . . . ’, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, 2010; ‘The Happy Artist’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2009. Selected group exhibitions: ‘ACCA Pop-Up Program’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Venice, Italy, 2011; ‘Mortality’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2010; ‘TWMA Contemporary’, Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria, 2010; ‘Gestures and Procedures’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2010; ‘Feminism Never Happened’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010. Gabriella Mangano b.1972 Stanthorpe, QLD | Lives and works in Melbourne Silvana Mangano b.1972 Stanthorpe, QLD | Lives and works in Melbourne Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano each studied drawing at the Victorian College of the Arts before they began to make collaborative video works together. Drawing remains the basis for much of their work, although it often occurs in space, is recorded on video and then presented on screen. They frequently use their own bodies and selected props — pencils, paper, fabric and furniture — to explore their relationship to one another and the spaces in which they perform. Their low-fi, self-produced moving-image works have a pared-down aesthetic greatly indebted to Italian neo‑realist cinema. Selected solo exhibitions: ‘Shapes for Open Spaces’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, 2011; ‘Neon’, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2010; ‘In the stillness of shadows’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2009; ‘Gabriella and Silvana Mangano’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009; ‘If . . . so . . . then . . . ’, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, 2008; and Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2006. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Big Draw’, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2011; ‘Short Sharp Shocks’, Barbican, London, United Kingdom, 2011; ‘Slowness’, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2011; ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010–11; ‘2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & After Science’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2010; ‘Love, Loss and Intimacy’, National Gallery of Victoria, 2010; ‘The Trickster’, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea, 2010; ‘I Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2009; ‘The Wandering Line: Thinking Through Drawing’, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2008. Selected group exhibitions: ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010–11; ‘17th Biennale of Sydney — the Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age’, Sydney, 2010; ‘Uneasy: Recent South Australian Art’, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2008. Natalya Hughes b.1977 Macksville, NSW | Lives and works in Sydney Since 2002, Natalya Hughes has been making impeccable paintings and drawings that reference both Eastern and Western art history and reflect an ongoing interest in the aesthetics of decadence and the feminine. In works that hover between abstraction and figuration, Hughes’s imagery often combines an array of pop culture and art historical sources, such as ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Edo period, Japan (1603–1867), and the fragmented Art Nouveau designs of British artist Aubrey Beardsley (1872–98). Selected solo exhibitions: ‘There is Something Missing from Your Magic Realism’, Beam Contemporary, Melbourne, 2010; ‘Totem Totem’, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, 2010; ‘Floppy’, Substation Gallery, Singapore, 2010. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Ten years of Contemporary Art: The James C Sourris am , Collection’, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2012; ‘New Psychedelia’, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2011; ‘Zen to Kawaii: The Japanese Affect’ Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2010; ‘The Shilo Project’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2009; ‘Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes’, Victoria Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2009. Ruth Hutchinson b.1963 Melbourne, Vic | Lives and works in Melbourne Over the past 15 years Ruth Hutchinson has gained a reputation for a practice that spans sculpture and painting. She draws multifarious imagery from both literal and invented sources — from the realms of imagination, myth and, more literally, from the world around her. Using a combination of technical dexterity and strange subject matter, Hutchinson creates a world of imagery that lures and repels in equal measure. Selected solo exhibitions: ‘Reflections of When My Eyes Saw My World in Stone’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; ‘Mind’s Eye Lashings’, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2006. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Hysteria: Past Yet Present’, Paul Robeson Galleries, New Jersey, United States, 2009; ‘A Room Inside’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2006. Deborah Kelly b.1962 Melbourne, Vic | Lives and works in Sydney Deborah Kelly’s cross-media projects are designed to contribute to the complexities and pleasures of cultural life and public debate. From interventions in cityscapes to street-level discussion, her works are focused on topical social and political issues, and often involve a series of exchanges between artist and audience, inviting participation. More recently, Kelly has been making intricately crafted, collage-based works that move the emphasis from public to personal space. Selected solo exhibitions: ‘Deborah Kelly: Awfully Beastly’, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2011; ‘Make More Monsters’, Artspace, Sydney, 2011; ‘Tender Cuts’, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, 2010; ‘Deborah Kelly’, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 2009; ‘Big Butch Billboard’, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2009. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Burn What You Cannot Steal’, Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011; ‘Love Never Dies’, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, United States, 2010; Singapore Biennale, Singapore, 2008; ‘Multiplicity’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006; ‘Interesting Times: Focus on Australian Contemporary Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2005. Justine Khamara b.1971 Melbourne, Vic | Lives and works in Melbourne Justine Khamara’s practice is an investigation and intervention into the photographic medium, and an enterprising address to contemporary theories of photography. She dramatically extends photography into three dimensions, building objects out of multiple prints or slicing images so they can be pulled out from the wall. Focusing on portraiture, Khamara makes strange what is usually the most familiar form of photography. Selected solo exhibitions: ‘Now I Am a Radiant People’, Arc One Gallery, Melbourne, 2011; ‘Erysichthon’s Ball’, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2010; ‘How Excellently We Did-diddilly-do-do Do It’, Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2007. Selected group exhibitions: ‘Race in a Crowd: New Portraiture’, Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, 2011; ‘illusion/illusion’, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria, 2010; ‘Present Tense: An Imagined Grammar of Portraiture in the Digital Age’, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2010; ‘NEW09’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2009; ‘Primavera 07’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2007. Anastasia Klose b.1978 Melbourne, Vic | Lives and works in Melbourne Anastasia Klose is a video, performance and installation artist known for her ‘aesthetic of the pathetic’, using a low-fi style derived from YouTube videos as much as from the history of performance art. Klose draws on painful and funny moments from her own life, creating works about being single, love, sex, as well as the process of making art. Self-deprecating, melodramatic