S.H. Ervin Gallery

ABSTRACT EARTH: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF RICHARD WOLDENDORP                                          


Richard Woldendorp

Richard Woldendorp is a well-known and respected photographer and is acknowledged as Australia’s eminent practitioner of aerial photography.  His photographs of the environment taken from the air have established a fresh visual vocabulary for the Australian landscape.  This unique perspective reveals diverse landscapes and ancient forms, and Woldendorp’s images eloquently capture the vastness and solitude of the land from above.

This exhibition acknowledges Woldendorp’s important contribution to Australian landscape photography over the past 50 years and has been selected by eminent art critic John McDonald and photographer R. Ian Lloyd.

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RICHARD WOLDENDORP – Lake Hilman, WA 2007

 
WHERE & WHEN

20 June – 3 August

 S.H. Ervin Gallery
National Trust of Australia
Watson Road, Observatory Hill,
The Rocks, NSW 2000

www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au
Tel: (02) 9258 0173


Opening Hours:
Tue-Sun 11am-5pm
(closed Monday & Public Holidays)

Admission: $6, $4 National Trust members, seniors & concessions

YIN-YANG: CHINA IN AUSTRALIA                                       

Ian Fairweather, Margaret Preston & William Hardy Wilson

This exhibition explores the significant contribution of the Chinese people in the shaping of Australia and how their culture has informed our society. The exhibition includes works of art by acknowledged Sinofiles including Ian Fairweather, Margaret Preston & William Hardy Wilson as well as objects from everyday life that demonstrate the influence that Chinese culture has played in the history of Australian society.

Curated by Dr Zeny Edwards and Joanna Capon the exhibition is a timely examination of the interaction between Chinese and Australian cultures and coincides with the Olympic Games in Beijing.
 

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Image: WILLIAM HARDY WILSON – The Temple of Heaven at Peking 		 
WHERE & WHEN

8 August – 28 September

 S.H. Ervin Gallery
National Trust of Australia
Watson Road, Observatory Hill,
The Rocks, NSW 2000

www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au
Tel: (02) 9258 0173


Opening Hours:
Tue-Sun 11am-5pm
(closed Monday & Public Holidays)

Admission: $6, $4 National Trust members, seniors & concessions

AN INDEX OF KINDNESS                                      


Ruark Lewis

Ruark Lewis is an installation artist whose work engages the community by using the placement of poetic ideas in public spaces as social cues. AN INDEX OF KINDNESS is an ongoing social and relational project that incorporates various site specific works in and around the City of Sydney. The aim is to illuminate the difficulty that Homeless People face by using poetic/political agit-prop. The project will incorporate a nightly text illumination that utilises the eastern façade of the National Trust building on Observatory Hill in what the artist describes as an "alternative surface to publish on". Throughout Millers Point a set of public sculptural interventions or “hut” structures will emerge, conveying a sense of makeshift dwellings. In addition, Lewis will install mobile poetic banners at the site utilising traffic bridges and safety fences as his framing device. The streets of Millers Point will host listening posts allowing the public to explore 'the grain of the voice’. Formed as a “kind” of oral history the conversations will examine the attitudes toward problems of public housing that locals experience. This project explores three poetic lines dealing with social issues of public housing, homelessness and temporary shelters in a form the artist calls sociotal obligato.

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WHERE & WHEN

Ongoing

 S.H. Ervin Gallery
National Trust of Australia
Watson Road, Observatory Hill,
The Rocks, NSW 2000

www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au
Tel: (02) 9258 0173


Opening Hours:
Tue-Sun 11am-5pm
(closed Monday & Public Holidays)

Admission: $6, $4 National Trust members, seniors & concessions