Exhibition – Page 3 – Gail Hastings’ studio

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Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996

Established by Moët & Chandon in 1987, the Foundation comprises three elements, the Fellowship, the Touring Exhibition and the Art Acquisition Fund which have provided developing young artists in Australia with an innovative programme of support of real significance. Moët & Chandon’s long term commitment to the future of the visual arts in Australia is unique and …

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Art 1996 Chicago

To find the time in this work of art …

out of time: part two

Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996

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Road to Love

To make a work of timeless art

Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition 1996

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Lovers

To make a work of thoughtful art

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In the Company of Women: 100 Years of Australian Women’s Art from the Cruthers Collection

rule c: Remember, the aesthetic outcome of this exercise is purely due to chance and circumstance. It bears no reflection on you, personally.

rule b: Upon the conclusion of your endeavour, title and date this form appropriately: not without, however, the promise that whilst the outcome might be baffling, that the process was — at least — truthful to, and trustful of, the moment. … rule c: Remember, the aesthetic outcome of this exercise is purely due to …

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Drawn Lines

Room 32

well actually

Belles-lettres

Belles-lettre is a project consisting of separate installations by three artists, Maureen Burns, Gail Hastings and Virginia Ward. Based in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth respectively, each has devised a site-specific work for ACCA which explores new definitions of sculpture and the relationships between object, text and space. The ephemeral nature of the communications — both …

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spatial probabilities 1993: Watercolours by Gail Hastings

Temporal

Above the Lake – Below the Sky

Octopus

The Angelic Space: A Celebration of Piero Della Francesca

Primavera: The Belinda Jackson Exhibition of Young Artists

The combination of a circle, square and a connecting / dividing passage take on different configurations in Gail Hastings’ [sculptuations*]: the circle and square may connote rooms in a floor plan, objects in a room, or props on a stage; the passage may refer to a connecting room in a plan, an actual passageway, or a text through which …

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work by Gail Hastings, Mathew Jones, Anne McDonald, Scott Redford

Chairs

Store 5 exhibition No. 115

Gail Hastings & Elizabeth Newman

Australian Perspecta 1991

In Hastings’ work we are asked to reconcile two positions: that of having the privileged point of view over the site or plan of the work, and that of being made to feel over-sized and external to the three-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world before us.

Production

No, just an empty square

Some examples of different ways

Melinda Harper, Gail Hastings, Gary Wilson, Constanze Zikos

Exsultate, Jubilate

Loaded

Floor plan: Empty, except

Floor Plan: Empty, except

Drawings

Dis-location

A different example of such temporal-spatial puzzles is found in Room for love 1990, which contains a conversational or ‘tête-à-tête’ chair, an S-shaped two-seater sofa, sometimes called a ‘love chair’. In such a chair, two people sit in close proximity facing in opposite directions, although they can also converse face-to-face. For Hastings, the analogy alludes …

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