Counihan Gallery

Media Release: Exhibitions Opening - Backdrop | A Tree's Worth, 27 April - 26 May

DOWNLOAD MEDIA RELEASE The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick  hosts 2 exhibitions in conjunction with  ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 and presented by CLIMARTE BACKDROP | A TREE'S WORTH 27 April – 26 May Opening: Saturday 27 April 2019, 2 – 4 pm To be officially opened by Moreland City Council With special remarks from: David Hugh Thomas, Artist; Museum Officer, Monash University Museum of Art & Timmah Ball, Urban Planner, Writer & Community Arts Worker Free Public Programs: Artists' Floor Talks 2:30 – 4 pm, Saturday 4 May Auslan Interpreted event Public Symposium 11am – 4 pm, Saturday 18 May Details to be announced. See website or Facebook or details  The exhibitions run until 5 pm, Sunday 26 May 2019 GALLERY 1 BACKDROP Laura Delaney | Alanna Lorenzon | Lisa Stewart An exhibition featuring a collaborative installation of audio, video and works on paper that explores the relationships between mind, body and landscape. Image: Lisa Stewart. Shifting Point, 2019. Image still from HD video. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist GALLERY 2 A TREE'S WORTH Selena De Carvalho | Office of Other Spaces | Aviva Reed Briony Barr | Sofia Sabbagh | Damien Wright Earth rights, the commodification of nature and the challenge of climate change are addressed through various responses to how trees are valued in society. Image: Sofia Sabbagh. Kookaburra Sits on an Old Powerline, 2018 (detail). Eucalyptus leaves, ink, paint on paper. 19 x 68 cm. Courtesy of the artist   Gallery Curator, Victor Griss says: “In conjunction with CLIMARTE’s 2019 program ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019, The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick hosts two exhibitions exploring the complex relationship between humans and the natural environment. Working with the outer world to reveal the inner, the artists in BACKDROP invert the tradition of Western landscape painting to study its objectification and respond to the landscapes that have shaped them, while in A TREE’S WORTH the five artists look at the ways language frames the ways we see the world – questioning paradoxes of language and exploring the role data may play in the human journey of listening to trees while simultaneously celebrating their ‘worth’ in society.” BACKDROP and A TREES WORTH open at 2 pm on Saturday 27th April at the Counihan Gallery In Brunswick. The exhibitions run until Sunday 26th May. MEDIA ENQUIRIES: Victor Griss 03 9389 8623  vgriss@moreland.vic.org.au