Upcoming at Megalo Gallery

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Megalo Gallery Hire Information for 2009 Applicants

Megalo Gallery Floor Plan

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Past Shows

6 - 29 March

Weereewa Print

Opening 6pm Thursday 6 March

Megalo Members respond to the history and landscape of Lake George. In Conjunction with the 2008 Weereewa Festival.

Peter Zanetti, untitled (Lake George), Screenprint on paper.

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14 Feb - 1 March 2008

Journeying Back

Opening 2pm Saturday 16 February

Recent Paintings by Joy McDonald.

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January - November 2007

Climate
Paul Dart - works on paper + canvas


Wants and Needs 1999 oil + graphite on canvas
Oct 15 - 27

Opening Saturday 20 October at 2pm

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Megalo at Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG):

Site and Soul iii Print Folio
Exhibition Opening at CMAG at 5.30pm on Friday September 7,
by Professor Diana Davis, President of the Print Council of Australia

The exhibition celebrates heritage sites and places of public significance in the ACT. It features the work of 12 Megalo members: Peter Bitmead, GW Bot, Heather Burness, Pamela Challis, Cecile Galiazzo, Eleanor Gates-Stuart, Bernard Hardy, Mark Kobal, Basema Mahdi, Peter Van de Maele, Peter Zanetti and Barak Zelig.

C. Galiazzo, On the Lake, Etching, 2007

The exhibition continues at CMAG until November 25, and prints are available for sale from Megalo individually or in the portfolio. Ph 6241 4844 or email megaloht@cyberone.com.au Download Catalogue

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Invisible Body
Jimin Lee - photo etchings

Delicate Danger  2005, photo etching, aquatint, hardground, spit bit, pigment on kozo, chine colle
Nov 5 - 24

FREE chine colle workshop and artists talk - 2-5pm, Saturday 17 November

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Kimberly Retrospective and New Works
Jane Bradhurst - lithographs and paintings


Nigthfall, Kimberly, Jane Bradhurst
Oct 1 - 13

Awaye! (Listen Up)
Indigenous textiles and glass artists group (ITAG)

Renee Smith, screenprint 2006

Aug 20 - Sept 1

SPECIAL EVENT - Saturday September 01
12pm - 4pm Canberra Living Artist Week Screenprinting Demonstrations

The Journey of the Cardinal's Head
Gillian Mann - recent etchings 2007

Head No.1 solar plate etching 2007

August 2 - 18

Always was, always will be...
Photographs of people + place, in support of NAIDOC week
Duncan Freedman, Jenni Kemarre Martiniello, Kerry Reed-Gilbert and Beth Sometimes

Jenni Kemarre Martiniello and Kerry Reed-Gilbert. The Sacred is always there

Horse Shoe Bend, Larapinta River, Arrernte Country SA 2006, Jenni Kemarre Martiniello

Beth Sometimes and Duncan Freedman. Life a Ernabella
Dora (Amanyi) Haggie tjalaku tjawanyi 2004 Duncan Freedman - Tjala is the word for honey ants. They make very deep underground passages for the queen to lay her eggs. It is a long job to dig down to where the nectar laden worker ants might be, and the digger often gets down well below surface level.

July 16 - 28

START: Recent graduates from the ANU textiles workshop
Leonie Andrews, Sally Blake, Catherine Brownscombe, Holly Gordon, Julie Monro-Allison, Ola Robertson and Alison Smith

Left to Right (detail): O. Robertson, S.Blake, L.Andrews

July 2 - 14

Exhibition opening Saturdary July 7 at 2pm. To be officially opened by Valerie Kirk, Head of the Textiles Workshop, ANU School of Art

The Radical 80s Poster Show
An exhibition of selected screen printed posters of the 1980s from the Megalo Archive.
Curated by Ange McNeilly + Joel Smith

18 - 30 June

Whiteout
Roland Henderson - Screenprints

Mu, 2006, mixed media

4 - 16 June

Mondayitis: an incurable condition of the hand, heart, mind and soul
Prints from the Megalo Monday workgroup: Heather Burness, Ursula Frederick, Tony Oates, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax, Pippa Harbers, Sandra Voysey, Maiju Altperri-Woodhead, Peter Bailey, Jennifer Powers, Ken Gilroy, Ria Vlavianos

21 May

The World on Tour
Clint Deverson

New York Dog, 2007, ink on paper

2 May

Printmakers in Residence of 2006
Mark KOBAL, Julian LAFFAN, Flora PARROT, Jude RAE, Annie TREVILLIAN.
And Kirilly SCHELL, Arts at the Cutting Edge, Render Animation Project

clockwise from top left (detail): Rae, Laffan, Schell, Trevillian, Kobal, Parrot

28 March - 28 April

To be opened by Professor Sasha Grishin @ 5.30 pm, Saturday 31st March

Then and Now - Selected Works 2003-07
Bernard Hardy - Works on paper and canvas

Tidbinbilla, 2003, oil on canvas

I March

To be opened by Bob McMullin MP @ 2pm, Saturday 3rd March

Blue thylacine, other drawings + the decayed city constructions
Stephen Harrison - Drawings and sculptures

The decayed city 1, mixed media

10 - 24 February

Opening Saturday 10th February @ 2pm with music by Peter Hayes

December - July 2006

New Work 6
Megalo Members Exhibition 2006

reverse image: B.Hardy (detail) etching 2006

21 November

Opening Thursday 23rd November. Drinks from 6pm. Official opening and prize draw at 7pm by special guest, John Stanwell Director of ArtsACT

Suite Weereewa & Seduction
Peter Van de Maele - lithographs and etchings

Patterson's curse, etching

5 November

Opening Thurs 9th November @ 6pm by G.W.Bot

Seconds + Samples
Bella Wells - screenprints on canvas

(detail) What is freedom anyways screenprint acryilic and metallic foiling on canvas 2005

20 October, Opening Saturday 21st October at 2pm

Annie Trevillian: Handprint
Design on Fabric and Paper, selected work 1983 - 2006

(detail) catalogue bookcloth cover

3 October

Opening and catalogue launch Saturday 7th at 2.30pm by Catrina Vignando, General Manager Craft Australia

Blackprints: New Works on Paper
Indigenous Artists Textile Group Lyndy Delian, Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Judy Hammond, Jenny Kemarre Martiniello, Melanie Reed, Renee Smith, Sarah Fahey, Noelene Morrison

Screenprints on Paper

Renee Smith River linocut 2006

11 September

Opening Saturday 16th September at 2pm. To be opened by Evol McLeod, Director Tuggeranong Arts Centre

The Journey
Marie-Therese Wisniowski - screenprints

Veiled Curtains:Suu Kyi screenprint

28 August

To be opened by Professor Ellak von Nagy-Felsobuki, Saturday 2nd September @ 1.00pm

Megalo has a gallery space in which a program of exhibitions changes every two to four weeks.
The gallery is open 9.30 - 5.00 Monday to Saturday.
Artists are invited to submit exhibition proposals.
Gallery hire fees are $440 for two weeks hire, $550 for three weeks, and $660 for four weeks.
25% commission is included on any sale of work from exhibitions.

Catalogue for sale

25X25 - twenty five artists celebrate Megalo's 25th birthday

Alison Alder, Andrew Antoniou, Raymond Arnold,
Stuart Bailey, GW Bot, Meg Buchanan, Heather Burness,
Pamela Challis, Chris Denton, Henning Eichinger,
Dianne Fogwell, Annie Franklin, Basil Hall, Kirrily Hammond,
Thea Katauskas, Suzanne Knight, Basema Mahdi,
Deborah Perrow, Linda Rice, Julie Ryder, David Sequeira,
Bernie Slater, Franki Sparke, Theo Tremblay, Annie Trevillian.

Catalogue available for $20 includes p&h
Contact Megalo by email or phone 02 62414844.

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