Past
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Ngurra
An exhibition of paintings & sculptures by 14 First Nations Australian artists. 6 Dec 2023 - 17 Feb 2024 JGM Gallery presents Ngurra, an exhibition of paintings by 14 First Nations Australian artists. Ngurra, meaning Country, is a term that appears in many Indigenous Australian dialects. The word refers to their traditional lands, waterways and seas, and carries more nuanced and spiritual connotations than its Western equivalent. Contained within... Read more -
Tangram
An exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Dominic Beattie & Olly Fathers. 25 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 JGM Gallery presents Tangram, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Dominic Beattie and Olly Fathers. The aesthetic tools of both artists are pattern, shape and colour. Their conceptual approaches, however, are almost exact inversions of each other. Using an overtly organic medium - timber - Fathers meticulously arranges... Read more -
On The Road Again
An exhibition of new paintings by Juan Bolivar 13 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 JGM Gallery presents On The Road Again, an exhibition of new paintings by the Venezuelan-born British artist, Juan Bolivar. A central theme of this exhibition is the idea of the 'long-haul', used by Bolivar as a metaphor for the creative journey and the isolation of the studio. He establishes this... Read more -
Aak Keenkanam: From The Beginning
An exhibition of paintings & sculptures from the Wik & Kugu Arts Centre 5 Jul - 8 Sep 2023 JGM Gallery presents Aak Keenkanam: From The Beginning. Located in Aurukun on the west coast of Queensland's Cape York Peninsula, the Wik & Kugu Arts Centre is renowned for its sculptural tradition and its artists' striking representations of Country. Included in the exhibition are paintings and sculptures by Alair Pambegan,... Read more -
Also Rises
An exhibition of ceramics, paintings & works on paper by Tom Norris. 31 May - 1 Jul 2023 LONDON, 31 May, 2023 - JGM Gallery presents Also Rises, an exhibition of ceramic works and paintings on canvas by Tom Norris. For his first solo exhibition, Norris borrows, in part, the title of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (1926), an epigraph which the author himself borrowed from The... Read more -
Ömie
A group exhibition of 17 artists working on nioge (barkcloth). 19 Apr - 27 May 2023 LONDON, 19 April, 2023 - JGM Gallery presents Ömie, a group exhibition of 17 artists working on nioge (barkcloth), in association with Ömie Artists. The Ömie reside in the remote inland mountains of Oro Province in Papua New Guinea. It is here that they create and decorate nioge (barkcloth) in... Read more -
The Water In The Well
An exhibition of works on canvas & paper by Tim Allen 9 Mar - 15 Apr 2023 LONDON, 9 March, 2023 - JGM Gallery presents The Water In The Well, an exhibition of works on canvas and paper by Tim Allen. These are archetypal works by Allen in that they are vast and mesmeric, straddling the border between abstraction and representation. What signifies a novel approach by... Read more -
Gurrutu: The Art Of Mulkun Wirrpanda
An exhibition of works on Larrakitj, bark, board & paper by the late Mulkun Wirrpanda 25 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 'The seeds of this exhibition were sown in August of 2022 when I visited Will Stubbs and Dave Wickens at the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Art Centre in Yirrkala (northeastern Arnhem Land). Situated on a coastline overlooking the Arafura Sea, Buku-Larrnggay Mulka is the quintessential Art Centre and one of my favourite... Read more -
Creature Comforts
An exhibition of daring contemporary textiles, featuring 14 artists 9 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 JGM Gallery presents Creature Comforts, a group show of 14 artists working with a variety of textile mediums
Textile art today struggles to shake off its associations with being ‘twee’, ‘domestic’ and ‘feminine’. These cosy connotations, however, enable the artist to confront the viewer with difficult and unusual subject matter. Creature Comforts presents works by artists who subvert the assumptions about textiles, imbuing their work with strangeness, energy and intensity.
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