New New New is the Inaugural Exhibition of Jacob Hoerner Galleries New Custom Designed Gallery Space on Wellington St St.Kilda featuring the work of 3 Artists recently graduated from VCA – Eli van Engelen, Henry Miles & Jasmine Skutela.
New New New runs from February 27 – April 5 2025 and is to be Officially Opened at 630pm on March the 6th by acclaimed Artist Darren Sylvester.
Alex Hamilton
How far is it if you only think it
Officially Opening 6-8pm Thursday November 21 2024
November 20 – December 15 2024
In his latest series How far is it if you only think it Alex Hamilton creates works that pose questions & at times syntactic answers in relation to the Age we are living through & the predicaments our complicated & turbulent World seems to throw at us with unrelenting force. While delving deeply into Contemporary themes & ideas Hamilton is not limited to this epoch and draws on past Decades & Centuries of Music, Art, Literature & Philosophy to create Contemporary Paintings that are aesthetically sumptuous, intellectually alluring & conceptually rewarding on a myriad of levels. Through his use of a swathe of materials including inks, paints, pens, Perspex, photocopied papers, scratching & interventions we are presented with works of Art that are complex reflections of our time & that are timeless simultaneously.
Hamilton is an Australian Artist of International repute with works in Major Collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Saatchi Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Library, Baltimore Museum of Modern Art & Denver Museum of Modern Art as well as having shown in some of the most significant Art Fairs of the World including Art Basel, TEFAF, Art Rotterdam, Drawing Now Paris, Art Chicago, Sydney Contemporary & Spring 1883.
Following on from their stand out collaboration at Sydney Contemporary in September this year Jacob Hoerner Galleries & MAGMA Galleries again co-present this New Series of Perspex Paintings in How far is it if you only think it (2024) at 5 Bedford St Collingwood from November 20 – December 15 2024.
Rebecca Agnew
STILLS & THRILLS
Afternoon Opening 4-6pm Saturday October 26 2024
October 25 – December 7 2024
Rebecca Agnew is a painter, sculptor and stop-motion animator. Her work explores the human condition in our expanding cultural economy, reflecting on these themes through referencing history, art and artefact she uses the figure and traces of human intervention as a centrepiece.
Agnew holds a Bachelor of Fine Art, University of Otago, Dunedin (2004) and a Master of Fine Arts, VCA, Melbourne (2012). In 2023 Agnew accepted a Residency in Bali, Indonesia, associated with Gertrude Contemporary (2023). In 2015 she was awarded the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship (2015) with residencies undertaken with Waaw, Saint Louis, Senegal & Theertha Red Dot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Agnew was then a Studio Resident at Gertrude Contemporary (2018-19) and was also was commissioned by Artbank to produce a Stop-motion animation for their permanent collection (2013).
Major exhibitions include Agnew’s inclusion in the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, QAGOMA (2022); Inclusion in “Nationalism in the Wake of COVID” at Macquarie University NSW (2022); Sydney Contemporary (2022, 2021, 2013); Spring 1883 (2023, 2021); NGV Design Week, National Gallery of Victoria (2020); Gertrude Studio Artists Exhibition, Gertrude Contemporary (2018, 2017); Brisbane International Animation Festival (2018); Melbourne International Animation Festival (2018, 2017); Waaw Gallery, Saint Louis, Senegal (2017); Interior 2.1 (TRAMA Centro), Guadalajara, Mexico (2015); & Video Arte Australia Nueva Zelande, M100, Santiago, Chile (2013). Agnew’s work is represented in the Collections of the University of Otago, Dunedin; Artbank and Private Collections in Australia and New Zealand.
Stills & Thrills runs October 25 – December 7 2024
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Open
12-5pm Wed-Sat
& by Appt
Pleysier Perkins
Architect Firm | First Floor Exhibition Space
89 Wellington St St Kilda
Naarm 3182
Mike Portley
CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
Afternoon Opening 4-6pm Saturday October 26 2024
October 25 – December 7 2024
Michael Portley moved to Melbourne from Brisbane in 1998 after completing his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology in 1991. During his time as a student Portley was taught by the esteemed Queensland artist William Robinson, this tuition and guidance can still be seen in his work when his artistic focus is the depiction of the Australian landscape in a more formal sense.
This New Series of sublime oil on canvas paintings focus on capturing the light and colours of the landscape of the Hepburn Shire Central Highlands.
Central Highlands run October 25 – December 7 2024
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Open
12-5pm Wed-Sat
& by Appt
Pleysier Perkins
Architect Firm | First Floor Exhibition Space
89 Wellington St St Kilda
Naarm 3182
Andrew Sibley
BERLIN (1973-1975)
Official Opening 6-8pm Thursday February 15 2024
February 15 – March 30 2024
Melbourne Art Week
Special Opening 6-8pm Saturday February 24 2024
The selection of works on exhibition as a part of BERLIN (1973-1975) are Enamel & Oil on Paper on Board paintings created between 1973-1975 directly after the Sibley returned from a Residency in Berlin in 1972. Indicative of Sibley’s avant-garde approach to art making during this period they are all rare and iconic works.
Most significantly and most directly influenced by artists such as Beckman, Dubuffet, Klee, Bacon and the like, Sibley’s affinity with German and European Art was based on more than just his exhibiting there, the impact of his connection to Europe – and understanding of the ideas that were explored by the major artists of the 20th century he followed and those that he was a contemporary of – remained a key part of on his work throughout illustrious career.
Berlin runs February 15 – March 30 2024
Jacob Hoerner Galleries
I Sutton Place Carlton
Naarm Melbourne
Australia 3053
Jacob Hoerner Galleries + Pleysier Perkins
ANDREW GRITSCHER
ALEX HAMILTON
SEAN HOGAN
February 12 – Now Extended until May 4 2024
Pleysier Perkins Art Space
89 Wellington St St.Kilda
Naarm Melbourne
Australia 3182
Jacob Hoerner Galleries, in collaboration with Architect Firm Pleysier Perkins, is thrilled to be able to present the work of Andrew Gritscher, Alex Hamilton & Sean Hogan at the Pleysier Perkins Art Space at 89 Wellington St St.Kilda from February 12 – May 4 2024.
Each of the Artists included in this presentation have consistently shown in Australia & Internationally, they have all been a part of Major Art Fairs, Museum Exhibitions & Solo presentations throughout their careers & in recent years have all been represented by Jacob Hoerner Galleries finding linkages & contrasts with each others practice. Now to be shown at the PP Art Space their particular perspectives & output as Artists will be on show to Melbourne audiences that are keen to see Contemporary Art in various site-specific spaces & contexts.
For further information pls contact
Jacob Hoerner Galleries
info@jacobhoernergalleries.com
Sean Hogan
Data Fields
Official Opening 6-8pm Thursday October 5 2023
October 5 – 28 2023
“The ‘Data Fields’ series of works continue Hogan’s interest in systems theory and complexity science, the core concepts which underpin his artistic practice. The new ‘Data Fields’ express ideas of unpredictability, repetition, connectedness and ncertainty. By imposing a simple self-initiated system ordered by grid structures, a refined colour palette and bespoke stamping tools, a continuous patterned field is generated – an exercise of fusing process and concept to reflect the data driven landscape we now exist with.”
Sean Hogan
October 2023
Data Fields runs November 2 – 25 2023
Jacob Hoerner Galleries
1 Sutton Place Carlton
Melbourne Australia 3053
Open
12-5 Wed-Sat
(& by Appt)
Alex Hamilton
Faint recollections we lived there
Official Opening 6-8pm Thursday October 5 2023
October 5 – 28 2023
“Faint recollections we lived there” is centred around a pianola roll I have written and illustrated, an opera about the new digital feudalism philosophy of “Longtermism” also known as “Effective Altruism”, enthusiastically embraced by billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, Mercer, Zuckerberg, etc. The show might or might not, lead some viewers to speculate on humanity’s drive for progress in directions which seem to be as much in favour of life as they are about destruction of ourselves as a species. “Faint recollections we lived there” transforms seemingly disastrous scenarios into landscapes of myriad entangled points and vectors through conflicting and parallel nuanced spaces, illusions, and surfaces. Paintings and text construct ways with and around meeting places such as Federation Square with its designed but never built Apple shop, and all screens on devices throughout the world, which I also see as meeting places. Paintings in this show are around, behind and in front of strips of recycled acrylic sheets, reminiscent of the surface of screens, which, however featureless, are membranes or textures with optical qualities, 3-dimensional material surfaces of imagination and creativity. Screens are also one of many portals availing lives we lead to the surveillance economy.
Alex Hamilton
October 2023
Faint Recollections we lived there runs October 5 – 28 2023
Jacob Hoerner Galleries
1 Sutton Place Carlton
Melbourne Australia 3053
Open
12-5 Wed-Sat
(& by Appt)
Rebecca Agnew
Spooky Action
Official Opening 6-8pm Thursday August 3 2023
August 3 – 26 2023
So deep. Light dwindles and ‘Spooky Action’ rifles the mysterious beliefs we hold about the deep sea. This new series of paintings and works on paper by Rebecca Agnew at Jacob Hoerner Galleries goes into the trenches of the underworld, igniting the laws of wonderland in the deep sea. Colourful, abstract and maximalist, Agnew’s wonderland is at the elbow of the imaginary and the symbolic; perception and culture.
Rebecca Agnew
June 2023
Spooky Action runs August 3 – 26 2023
Spring 1883 Preview
REBECCA AGNEW
ANDREW GRITSCHER
SEAN HOGAN
ALEX HAMILTON
PETRA KLEINHERNE
ANDREW SIBLEY
Afternoon Opening
4-6pm Saturday July 15 2023
July 13 – 29 2023
Jacob Hoerner Galleries
I Sutton Place Carlton
Naarm 3053
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Concurrent to Jacob Hoerner Galleries + Radar on 15/06/23 to be held at
Radar
Mid-Century Showroom
430 George St Fitzroy
Naarm 3065
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