Selected Projects

Colour rhythms

Installation view Colour Rhythms featuring Justine Varga, ‘Desklamp’; Justine Varga, 'Toothpaste', 2011-2012; Lorraine Daylight, 'Birnoo Country', 2023; Emma Beer, 'The luxury of not having it written in stone', 2021;  Teelah George, 'A hard capture', 2019; Kenan Namunjdja, 'Kunkurra 'the spiralling wind’, 2019; Gemma Smith, 'Lossy Lag', 2024; Mary Barton, 'Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt', 2017-2019; James Lieutenant, 'Summer Veil', 2020; Cindy Morton Petyarre, ‘Bush Plum Dreaming’, 1998 and Ildiko Kovacs, 'Hooked Up', 2021. Courtesy of the artists. Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Permanent Collection. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

moving

Installation view Moving featuring Jodie Whalen, 'We already know how to build a time machine', 2023, video still, HD video, with sound, 16:9, 4:58 min, courtesy the artist. Silversalt Photography.

Horizons

Installation View 'Horizons' featuring Gemma Brown and Marian Drew.  Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

dionisia salas of mouth and mind 

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Installation View Dionisia Salas Of Mouth and Mind Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring Night Jar, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist; Dream Fruit, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist and to swim inside, 2024, oil on canvas, collection of the artist.  Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

sammy hawker conversations with bees

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Installation view Sammy Hawker Conversations with bees Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring Sammy Hawker, Conversations with bees, single channel video and Chromatogram of Dead Bees, fijitran print framed in custom-built lightbox. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

ECHOES

Installation view Echoes Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring Hannah Gartside, The Sleepover (detail), 2018-19, found nighties and slips, found synthetic fabric and cotton ribbon, milliners wire, thread. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

collection in focus

Installation view Collection in Focus Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring Keith Looby, Ourselves – The blessed are the half made, 1968; Arthur McIntyre, Life Force, 1994; Anyupa Stevens, Nguru-Country, 2021; Warwick Keen, Aboroptical #4 (detail), 2011; Arlo Mountford, for the people of Reichstag (detail), 2011; John Coburn, Surf Rider Wollongong Beach, 1994; Reg Mombassa, Goulburn Gloaming, 2012; James Lieutenant, Summer Veil, 2020; Jasper Knight, Wallpaper, 2015 and Zoe Young, Winter Soundtrack/99 Luftballons (detail), 2018. Goulburn Regional Art Gallery Permanent Collection.  Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

lisa sammut radial sign

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Installation view Lisa Sammut Radial Sign Goulburn Regional Art Gallery. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

highlights from the permanent collection

Installation view Highlights from the Permanent Collection featuring Sharon Adamson, Wanampi Tjukurpa, 2019, acrylic on linen, purchased 2019; Dionisia Salas, To Fall in Spring, 2022, oil on Canvas; Anyupa Stevens, Ngura - Country, 2021, acrylic on Belgian Linen, purchased 2021; Janet Laurence, What Happens in Glass 1, 2008, Duraclear on mirror; Janet Laurence, What Happens in Glass 2, 2008, Duraclear on mirror; Serena Bonson, Warraburnburn, Cottonwood (Bombas Ceiba) with Ochre Pigment and PVA glue, purchased 2021. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

soft power

Installation view Soft Power Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring Kate Just, Anonymous was a woman’, 2019 – 2021: Nadia Hernández, De lo que somos (Of what we are), 2021 and Julia Gutman, Once more with feeling, 2022.  Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

bright

Installation view Bright Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring Emma Beer, #bossyapp, 2018 and Emma Beer, #communication, 2022; Gemma Smith, Thrown open, 2022, Gemma Smith, Collage painting, 2022 and Gemma Smith, Haptic bounty, 2022. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

all light, all air, all space

Installation view All light, all air, all space Goulburn Regional Art Gallery featuring D Harding, Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, As I remember it, 2018 and D Harding, Bidjara, Ghungalu and Garingbal peoples, Moonda and the shame fella, 2018. Photograph: Silversalt Photography.

know my name: australian women artists 1900 to now part 1

Curators: Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt

Assistant Curator: Yvette Dal Pozzo

Contributing Curators: Kelli Cole and Rebecca Edwards

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Installation view, Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia. Image: National Gallery of Australia

know my name: australian women artists 1900 to now part 2

Curators: Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt

Assistant Curator: Yvette Dal Pozzo

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Installation view, Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now, featuring works by Margel Hinder and Dienna Georgetti, National Gallery of Australia. Image: National Gallery of Australia

Selected Publications

dionisia salas        of mouth and mind 

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jenny bell life forms 

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printed: Images by Australian artists 1942-2020 

Author: Roger Butler AM

Role: Coordinating Editor and Curatorial Research

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know my name

Edited by Natasha Bullock, Kelli Cole, Deborah Hart and Elspeth Pitt

Coordinating Editor: Meredith McKendry

Role: Editorial Assistance, Research Index, Coordination Assistance, Contributing Author

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