After much squabbling over how best to cut the piece of wood, with jigsaw in hand I decided to ignore Mick and get on with the job as I always do — uncomfortable with his audience but, nevertheless — when Mick made a last ditched effort and said, ‘leave the line standing’. Standing? Line? I put down the jigsaw and added ‘baffled’ to annoyed and uncomfortable. I asked what he meant. ‘You either cut the line off or leave the line standing’. Suddenly I realised there was no line standing between us, we had been saying the same thing, just differently. I had been building a wall at the time. When, months later, I came to exhibit my art in the same room, our agreement seemed the right type of line to leave standing.
Exhibition
Date:
23/Feb/2010
to 04/Mar/2010
Curated by:
At:
St Canice's Annex, Sydney
List of Works:
habit’s pattern: orange and black
habit’s pattern: red and grey
meandering space: red, grey and brown
meandering space: turquoise, dark blue and green
truth works: blue and grey
truth works: brown and black
truth works: orange and red
truth works: turquoise and green
St Canice's Annex St Canice’s Annex
28 Roslyn Street
Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011
Australia
Index:
1989 × Gail Hastings Installation 1989 / Fergus Armstrong Photograph 1989 , Store 5, Melbourne Suzannah Barta, Sandra Bridie, Lyndell Brown, Gail Hastings , Store 5, Melbourne A3 20 , Store 5, Melbourne This Performance — A Passing Thought , Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne S.W.I.M. Fund Raiser , Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne Other Photography #2 , Store 5, Melbourne 1990 × Exultate Jubilate , Store 5, Melbourne Room for Love , Store 5, Melbourne Uses of Chaos , Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 4th Australian Sculpture Triennial Forum , Melbourne Lower Town Hall, Melbourne Dis-location , RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Drawings , Store 5, Melbourne Floor Plan: Empty, except , Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Loaded , 13 Verity Street, Melbourne 1991 × Melinda Harper, Gail Hastings, Gary Wilson, Constanze Zikos , FirstDraft Gallery, Sydney Some examples of different ways , Store 5, Melbourne No, just an empty square , Store 5, Melbourne Production , Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane Australian Perspecta 1991 , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Gail Hastings & Elizabeth Newman , Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 1992 × Chairs , Store 5, Melbourne work by Gail Hastings, Mathew Jones, Anne McDonald, Scott Redford , Black, Sydney Primavera: The Belinda Jackson Exhibition of Young Artists , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Octopus , University of South Australia, Adelaide The Angelic Space: A Celebration of Piero Della Francesca , Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Above the Lake – Below the Sky , Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla 1993 1994 1995 × rule c: Remember, the aesthetic outcome of this exercise is purely due to chance and circumstance. It bears no reflection on you, personally. , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane In the Company of Women: 100 Years of Australian Women’s Art from the Cruthers Collection , Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth please nota bene the other rules on the following page , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane To make a work of thoughtful art , Ausstellungsraum Thomas Taubert, Düsseldorf 1996 × Lovers , Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996 , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne To make a work of timeless art , Artspace, Sydney Road to Love , Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996 , National Gallery of Victoria, Brisbane out of time: part two , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane Art 1996 Chicago , David Pestorius Gallery, Chicago Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996 , Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Reservoir , Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996 , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney The Pool , Centenary Pools, Brisbane To make a work of timeless art , Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide To make a work of timeless art , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane 1997 × Wall as Medium? , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane four coincidences , Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne Duality: a series of weekly exhibitions during April 1997 , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane Art 1997 Chicago , David Pestorius Gallery, Chicago two corners and a cube , Galerie Köstring/Maier, München On Dialogue , Haus am Waldsee, Berlin two and three stares , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich Statements Art 28‘97 Basel , David Pestorius Gallery, Basel forgotten encyclopaedias , 24 Church Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Art Forum Berlin 1997 , David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin To complete a work of contemporary art , Ausstellungsraum Thomas Taubert, Düsseldorf 1998 × All This And Heaven Too: 1998 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art , Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Untitled discussions , Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco art opinion no. 636 , David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998 , National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998 , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998 , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1998 , Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane The Infinite Space: Women, Minimalism and the Sculptural Object , The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne Ladies & Gentlemen , Someone else's studio, Brisbane Strolling – the art of arcades, boulevards, barricades, publicity , Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand , Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne art idea no. 8,582,048 , Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen 1999 × art idea no. 8,582,048 , Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand , Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane art idea no. 8,582,048 , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin projections , David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin apparently not , David Pestorius Gallery, Berlin I views , Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand , ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra The Space Here Is Everywhere: Art with Architecture , Villa Merkel/Bahwärterhaus, Esslingen Space Affects: the art and architecture of James Birrell and Gail Hastings , Metro Arts, Brisbane Open House , Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane Sorry, we are closed , UQ Art Museum, Brisbane Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand , Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Close Quarters: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand , Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Aukland 2000 2001 × mission: untitled (blue) , Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne Gail Hastings: multiples, books, prints, editions, etc. , Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane October 2001 / Geometrical Affairs , Daimler Contemporary, Berlin 2002 2003 × plans , Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne In Conversation , UQ Art Museum, Brisbane The Daimler Art Collection at the Museum für Neue Kunst | ZKM Karlsruhe , Museum für Neue Kunst | ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Hothouse: The flower in contemporary art , Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne Private/Corporate II , Daimler Contemporary, Berlin But is it art? , The Cross Art Projects, Sydney 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 × OUI we , The Commercial, Sydney 20/200 , Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney Exhibition: To Do , The Commercial, Sydney Missing: four sculptuations by Gail Hastings , iBooks, 51 Countries Melbourne Art Fair , The Commercial, Melbourne Taking it all away: MCA collection , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2015