A project in which two artists explored the genre of Still Life: Margaret West through drawing, sculpture and installation and Catherine Rogers through photography and drawing.

Catherine Rogers, from the series
Still Life Still (Flowers of death - in memory of family and friends)
1997 - 2007 (detail) colour ultrachrome and piezo carbon inkjet on paper.
Courtesy the artist, Mori Gallery, Sydney and Helen Maxwell Gallery, Canberra.

Margaret West Mesh cup and saucer 2007 metallic mesh Courtesy the artist

Artists' talks - 23 February 2008

Margaret West

Catherine Rogers

Vivienne Binns opening the exhibition

MEADMORE and MEYER
Furniture and Musical Sculpture

Before Clement Meadmore (1929-2005) became one of Australia's most acclaimed sculptors he was a designer.  This exhibition celebrated Meadmore's furniture alongside the 1970s musical sculptures of Jack Meyer.

Clement Meadmore Thomas Record Shop (Melbourne) door handle 1957 steel
Collection Ken Neale.

MODERNIST SCULPTURE in FOCUS
Works from the Collection

This exhibition featured work by Lyndon Dadswell (1908 - 1986), Paul Hopmeier (b. 1949), Gerald Lewers (1905 - 1962), Margo Lewers (1908 - 1978) and Ron Robertson-Swann (b.1941).

Gerald Lewers Torso c. 1940 blackbean The Lewers Bequest 1979.

This exhibition was assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.