previous Exhibitions
RUPERT BETHERAS - MY FUTURE HAS A PAST
Alcaston Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Rupert Betheras, titled My Future Has a Past.
Betheras’ paintings are marked out on found vintage chalkboards, pin-boards and chip-wood collected from his time working in Central Australia. His sculptures are formed from found organic and recycled objects washed up from the sea, and sporting trophies from his youth.
For the artist, the ritual process and adventure in finding the old boards was a kind of performative action that evoked a personal and sometimes spiritual response in his paintings. Betheras seeks to present the experience of discovery as he pushes his practice into new extremes. His paintings depict the recurring oval form of the football field or the human cell, while others feature the raw markings of graffiti, personal notations, or celestial dark matter. They offer up an open-ended space in which the viewer is invited to impart their own perspectives, assumptions, and rights of passage.
Betheras’ sculptures are comprised of metal fragments from a weather-beaten Holden wreckage that had rested on a Victorian beach for 35 years. Pounded by waves and buried for decades under sand-dunes until recently unearthed, these ‘new’ found objects now appear as part car-wreck and part ocean-rock. Welded together or stacked on top are the distorted shapes of the artist’s football and cricket trophies, many dating back more than 30 years. Rusted down and assembled in sometimes precarious arrangements, these materials appear as relics from a time past, but also propel into the future, a reminder of inevitable change and growth.
Rupert Betheras has exhibited widely throughout Australia and his work has been acquired by numerous private collections and public institutions including the University of Western Sydney and Deakin University Art Collection and Galleries. In 2012 he was honoured with a major solo exhibition, Mark Making, at the Deakin University Art Gallery and in 2014 solo exhibitions at Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne and the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curated by Maurice O’Riordan.
For more information and to preview this exhibition please contact Alcaston Gallery on 03 9418 6444 or email art@alcastongallery.com.au
Alcaston Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Rupert Betheras, titled My Future Has a Past.
Betheras’ paintings are marked out on found vintage chalkboards, pin-boards and chip-wood collected from his time working in Central Australia. His sculptures are formed from found organic and recycled objects washed up from the sea, and sporting trophies from his youth.
For the artist, the ritual process and adventure in finding the old boards was a kind of performative action that evoked a personal and sometimes spiritual response in his paintings. Betheras seeks to present the experience of discovery as he pushes his practice into new extremes. His paintings depict the recurring oval form of the football field or the human cell, while others feature the raw markings of graffiti, personal notations, or celestial dark matter. They offer up an open-ended space in which the viewer is invited to impart their own perspectives, assumptions, and rights of passage.
Betheras’ sculptures are comprised of metal fragments from a weather-beaten Holden wreckage that had rested on a Victorian beach for 35 years. Pounded by waves and buried for decades under sand-dunes until recently unearthed, these ‘new’ found objects now appear as part car-wreck and part ocean-rock. Welded together or stacked on top are the distorted shapes of the artist’s football and cricket trophies, many dating back more than 30 years. Rusted down and assembled in sometimes precarious arrangements, these materials appear as relics from a time past, but also propel into the future, a reminder of inevitable change and growth.
Rupert Betheras has exhibited widely throughout Australia and his work has been acquired by numerous private collections and public institutions including the University of Western Sydney and Deakin University Art Collection and Galleries. In 2012 he was honoured with a major solo exhibition, Mark Making, at the Deakin University Art Gallery and in 2014 solo exhibitions at Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne and the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, curated by Maurice O’Riordan.
For more information and to preview this exhibition please contact Alcaston Gallery on 03 9418 6444 or email art@alcastongallery.com.au
Pedro Wonaeamirri • Ngiya Purrungbarri – My Bark Painting
Alcaston Gallery is honoured to present Pedro Wonaeamirri's exhibition Ngiya Purrungbarri – My Bark Painting, the first exclusively bark exhibition of Wonaeamirri's career.
As one of the few Tiwi people of his generation who speaks old or classic Tiwi, Wonaeamirri’s contemporary art practice is steeped in Tiwi tradition. His commanding paintings on bark reveal a profound knowledge of heritage, meticulously depicting the Jilamara (design) with artistic confidence and an exceptional sense of ...
Nellie Ngampa Coulthard •Ngura Itjanungka – Country After Rain
Alcaston Gallery is delighted to present Nellie Ngampa Coulthard’s fifth solo exhibition Ngura Itjanungka - Country After Rain.
Coulthard’s paintings of Yankunytjatjara Country are refined in both technique and composition. Accenting bold pinks, golden browns and burnt oranges - the colours of the central and eastern deserts of Australia – her paintings are defined by the outstretched linear branches of the Acacia Murrayana Wattle that sit at the heart of her ...
Sydney Contemporary 2024
At Sydney Contemporary 2024, Alcaston Gallery is proud to present a curated selection of significant work by leading Australian contemporary artists whose practice inspires and challenges the national and international perception of the Australian landscape, Djakaŋu Yunupiŋu, Betty Kuntiwa Pumani, Dean Smith and the late Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (c.1924 - 2015) - four artists intrinsically connected to a particular landscape or skyscape ...
ALCASTON GALLERY COLLECTORS EXHIBITION•MIND MAPPING COLOUR - ALL ABOUT ARTISTS 2024
'colour is always more than colours'....
Alcaston Gallery presents Mind Mapping Colour – All About Artists, a significant collectors' exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures from some of Australia’s most influential and eminent contemporary artists.
The second instalment in Alcaston Gallery’s Counterpoint series, Mind Mapping Colour – All About Artists showcases important work by represented and exhibiting artists Karen ...
Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi •Yunala Tjukurrpa
Alcaston Gallery is proud to present Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi’s first ever solo exhibition Yunala Tjukurrpa.
Tjungurrayi is an emerging contemporary Pintupi artist, whose paintings of meandering lines and geometric forms create compositions that oscillate on the canvas with visceral energy.
