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After more than 10 years in operation GRANTPIRRIE will be closing the gallery premises from Saturday 15 October 2011, this being the final open day, at 86 George Street Redfern NSW 2016.
GRANTPIRRIE will continue into the future with Directors Stephen Grant and Bridget Pirrie under the existing banner of GRANTPIRRIE | Project.
GRANTPIRRIE | Project is an institution itself beyond the confines of the white cube. The Directors will curate dynamic off-site projects in all corners of the world.
The next GRANTPIRRIE | Project will be Sam Smith Cameraman in Berlin 24 November 2011
Future GRANTPIRRIE | Project dates will be announced closer to their respective dates and the Directors look forward to revealing these further additions to the ongoing program.
DIRECTORS' STATEMENT
GRANTPIRRIE started at the Miami Art Fair in Florida (USA) 2001, 3 months after the World Trade Centre tragedy. A few months later Waterbrain, now hanging in the foyer of AGNSW, opened our first show. One painting.
Soon after that we made a public announcement at Garma Festival, Arnhem Land, under a bow shelter in the red dust with Freddy Timms. We stated that as principal policy we will represent Aboriginal artists under the same terms we do any other artist. This simple statement made Parliament hansard and we stood apart from the pack as more about artists than markets.
Today we have decided to finish the gallery, but GRANTPIRRIE will live on.
Waterbrain, our first show by the great Jirrawun artist and senior Gija Lawman Rusty Peters, was painted in the driveway of Ironwood street Kununurra; we watched him paint and sing over it. The work and its title act a narrative of the collected wisdom garnered as life passes: like water gains wisdom in a river and then flows into the sea. For us at GRANTPIRRIE we have reached the sea, much wisdom gained.
GRANTPIRRIE is about artists and their art. GRANTPIRRIE is about sharing our passion for pushing the curatorial envelope with dynamism and flair, uniting like-minded artists and audiences whom today are in all corners of the world.
GRANTPIRRIE Benefactions and support have been public and private and will remain in motion but for now the fixed dwelling of the gallery will end. Although it is sad to close the book on our premises, we are proud of the work to date, and of all the people who have been a part of this. The credits, if we rolled them would be greater in length than the feature itself; such is our gratitude to those who made GRANTPIRRIE what it is today.
Like all great teams we will go back to basics and come out again for another season. It has been fun, and we hope you will join us again soon.
Thank you. Thank you Redfern, thank you Rusty Peters, thank you to our supporters and the whole team of GRANTPIRRIE.
Bridget Pirrie, Stephen Grant
Judith Wright is currently exhibiting in a couple of group shows: Black Box<>White Cube, curated by Dr. Steven Tonkin is showing at The Art Centre, Victoria until 25 September. The exhibition looks at the role of performance and spectacle in contemporary Australian art. In Queensland, Physical Video is showing at QAG|GOMA, running until 4 September. This show focuses on the human body and gesture in international video art. Exhibited artists also include Bruce Nauman, Charwai Tsai and Pierre Bismuth.
No Room To Hide, curated by Peter Fay, looks into the studio practices of six contemporary artists: Caroline Rothwell, Sarah Contos, Christopher Hanrahan, Lou Hubbard, Charlie Sofo and Justine Varga. The exhibition opens tomorrow Thursday 16 June at Macquarie University and continues until 29 July. Alison Leeson has created a blog following the artists in their studios in the lead up to the exhibition which can be viewed here.
Grantpirrie Gallery will be closed this Saturday 11 June for the Queens Birthday long weekend.
 Sam Smith's Art Gallery of NSW Contemporary Project Cameraman marks the first work he has shot on celluloid film in addition to video, bringing a new dimension to his exploration of cinematic conventions in an era of digital production. As an adjunct to the exhibition, where Cameraman manifests as a two-channel video installation, Smith will present limited screenings of a unique single-channel version of the work, offering audiences an alternative perspective on the narrative and aesthetic experience of Cameraman, specifically edited for a cinema environment. Screenings will be held Wednesday 8 June 7:15pm, Wednesday 13 July 7:45pm, Wednesday 10 August, 6:00pm
Kuru Alala - Eyes Open is continuing its Australian tour and opening at Manly Art Gallery & Museum this Friday 3 June. The exhibition is the result of a residency that Maria Fernanda Cardoso participated in with Alison Clouston in collaboration with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers. Join Maria Fernanda Cardoso with fellow project artists and curators for a floor talk discussing the project 2-4pm Sunday 5 June. The exhibition will open until 10 July.
Alex Kershaw is exhibiting in Tokyo Story, a group show organised by Tokyo Wonder Site. The exhibition stems from Kershaw's residency with Tokyo Wonder Site at their studio in Aoyama earlier in 2011. The show runs until 28 May.
Sam Smith's Cameraman is opening at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on 21 May. Filmed on location in Berlin, this new two channel video installation presents 'a curious sequence of events that take place between a film set, a cameraman’s apartment and an artist’s studio
, involving a camera lens imbued with mystical qualities'. View the trailer online here.
Congratulations to Arlo Mountford who is a finalist in the Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2011. This year the exhibition, titled Unguided Tours has been guest curated by New Zealand curator Justin Paton. Mountford's much anticipated new work will be featured in the show alongside fellow finalists Ian Burns, David Haines, Rachel Khedoori, Jae Hoon Lee and Charlie Sofo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 4 May - 10 July.
 The directors and staff of Grantpirrie Gallery congratulate Ben Quilty on being awarded the 90th Archibald Prize with his portrait of veteran artist Margaret Olley. This is Quilty's sixth time in the Archibald Prize. In 2007 he won the National Self-Portrait Prize. In 2009 he was named runner up in the Archibald and winner of the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize the same year. Quilty's painting can be viewed as part of the exhibition of finalists' work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until 26 June 2011, followed by a tour of Australia.
 Grantpirrie artists Ben Quilty, Michael Zavros and Lionel Bawden have each created works for out of the comfort zone, curated by Virginia Wilson. The show features fifteen artists who have been challenged to submit a piece that is outside of their usual practice. Their works will be sold to raise funds for Midnight Basketball and on exhibition at Customs House until 17 March.
Caroline Rothwell's work will be exhibited at Redlands Art Gallery in 'Nature Interrupted', curated by Simone Jones. The exhibition seeks to challenge and expand on what is considered 'natural' in today's world. The show runs from Sunday 13 March until Sunday 10 April.
‘Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art’ which was held at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, April 27 – October 24, 2010 will be receiving the International Art Critics Award. Curated by David Revere McFadden and Lowery Stokes Sims, the exhibition showcased the work of over 30 international artists including Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘Ruana with hat, undergarment and socks’ 2008.
Maria Fernanda has also been invited as guest speaker to discuss her practice at the 2011 Conference ‘La Experiencia Intelectual De Las Mujeres En El Siglo XXI’, which will be held in Mexico from 7 – 11 March 2011.
Artist Franck Leibovici and Grantpirrie are looking for members of the public to take part in the 7th sequence of Leibovici's mini-opera for non musicians: Memos, briefs and reports (performing a document - singing some WikiLeaks). No previous skills required in music or dance.
The mini-opera will be performed at the opening of the exhibition The Rehearsal of Repetition on 31 March 2011. Previous sequences of this performance have been produced in Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Maastricht, Copenhagen and Geneva.
To register your interest, and for information on rehearsals, contact anjaisabelschneider@gmail.com
 Sam Smith's video work Into the Void is on exhibition at 24HR Art Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin opening this Friday 11 February and running until 19 March.
 Arlo Mountford and Nick Selenitsch are presenting Movements, a collaborative installation at the RMIT Project Space/Spare Room. They will be exhibiting two separate kinetic artworks that aim to be both pointlessly simple and suggestively complex, playing on the human instinct to anthropomorphise and aggrandise basic phenomena. The show opens on 3 February 5-7pm with a floor talk on the final day, Thursday 24 February 1-1:30pm.
Kuru Alala: Eyes Open is continuing its tour around Australia and opening at Gosford Regional Gallery Friday 4 February. The project is a collaboration between Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Tjanpi Desert Weavers and Alison Clouston, running until 27 March.
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