Group/Other Exhibitions & Media

Gregory Carosi: Dead Reckoning 360 Virtual Tour Goes Live

I'm pleased to announce that the exhibition Dead Reckoning is now available to view as a 360 degree virtual tour. If you missed the show at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, or would like to relive the experience and explore each of the works on show in further detail, I invite you to check out the virtual tour at:

https://goodsport.studio/tours/deadreckoning/

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This fully interactive site offers audiences the opportunity to move through the canyon-like spaces of Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, linger over individual artworks, explore the studies and sketches that paved the way for the paintings, and watch the timelapse film 'Dead Reckoning Works in Progress', which documents the ways in which the exhibition's three largest works took shape in the studio.

8 Doors: On the Space of Artists Collaboration @ Artstate Wagga Wagga, 2020

On the Space of Artists, a collaboration between Parramatta Artists’ Studios (PAS), Eastern Riverina Arts, Charles Sturt University and artists based in the Riverina, presents 8 Doors, a major public art installation as part of Artstate Wagga Wagga (November, 2020). Conceived in response to Covid-shaped Zoom discussions throughout 2020, these large-scale representations of each participating artist’s studio door offer insights into creative spaces across NSW, engaging with the similarities and differences in studio practice to be found in contemporary Australian artmaking.

The installation, accompanied by a public forum as part of the Artstate Wagga Wagga Speakers Program, charts the nature of studio practice across Western Sydney and the Riverina. On the Space of Artists brings together PAS artists Lill Colgan, Kirtika Kain and Gillian Kayrooz with Wagga-based artists Gregory Carosi, Alice Peacock and Pat Ronald, facilitated by Hayley Megan French (PAS) and James Farley (CSU).

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The Hero’s Journey Poster Exhibition, 2020 @ aMBUSH Canberra

A Year of Living Aimlessly, a Covid-informed contribution to aMBUSH Gallery’s poster prize. The Hero’s Journey, will be on view at aMBUSH Canberra until Sunday 15th November. Inspired by the unprecedented worldwide events of the year 2020, the show serves as a time capsule exhibition and social experiment in one. A Year of Living Aimlessly ruefully invokes the title of Peter Weir’s 1982 film, The Year of Living Dangerously, itself adapted from the Christopher Koch novel of the same name, in an attempt to register the dual sense of threat and banality that have helped to characterise the upheavals of recent times. The poster includes a key painting from the recent solo exhibition, Gregory Carosi: Dead Reckoning (Wagga Wagga Art Gallery), in an attempt to turn the restrictions of the pandemic inside out; replacing aimlessness with activity, the contraction of actual time and space with pictorial expansiveness.

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River-Tree-Plain set to open at Dubbo Hospital & Western Cancer Centre in 2021

Developed in partnership with Creative Road and NSW Health & Infrastructure as part of the Dubbo Hospital Redevelopment Stage 3 and 4 & Western Cancer Centre, this permanent public commission is set to be unveiled in 2021.

Plain 1, 2019, oil on board, 600 x 2400 (Photo: James Farley & Timothy Crutchett)

Plain 1, 2019, oil on board, 600 x 2400 (Photo: James Farley & Timothy Crutchett)

River-Tree-Plain, a series of interrelated representations of the river systems, flora and land formations of Dubbo and its catchment areas, draws on an abstracted vocabulary of wave patterns, vegetal forms and topographical details to offer patients, staff and visitors a familiar and enriching visual context to support healing throughout the local community.

Originally executed in oil on plywood, these works have been digitised and enlarged to echo and enhance the distinctive architectural and environmental character of the site.

Tree 6, 2019, oil on board, 600 x 2400 mm (Photo: James Farley & Timothy Crutchett)

Tree 6, 2019, oil on board, 600 x 2400 mm (Photo: James Farley & Timothy Crutchett)

Gregory Carosi: Dead Reckoning opens at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

25th July - 4th October, 2020

Dead Reckoning invites audiences to consider the ways in which humans and animals move through their environment in response to its physical and visual topography. Inspired by the monumental geological landmarks of the northern Flinders Ranges, the exhibition engages visitors in a dynamic interplay of scale that is echoed by the gallery’s canyon-like architecture. Alternating between grandeur and intimacy, these abstracted representations of place encourage visitors to explore the relationship between artworks and the spaces in which they are exhibited.

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The term ‘dead reckoning’, most commonly used to describe a vessel’s movement through space, stands as a useful metaphor for the ways in which we navigate through cultural institutions, taking our bearings from one work to the next and moving in response to its architectural contours. In drawing on the influences that natural and human landmarks exert on our walking patterns and visual reading paths, Dead Reckoning offers audiences a kinetic, neo-Cubist experience designed to provoke new ways of seeing, moving through, and thinking about the places we find ourselves in.

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Gregory Carosi: Dead Reckoning

Artist Interview with Andrew Halyday, Curator, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

June, 2020

Gregory Carosi: Rising Tide opens at Hazelhurst Arts Centre

24th August - 8th September, 2019

Gregory Carosi: Rising Tide immerses audiences in the climatic unpredictability of a world affected by accelerated climate change. This site-specific exhibition, developed as part of the Hazelhurst Artist in Residence program, comprises a series of works in oil on aluminium sheets, arranged across the flat and serried wall spaces of the Broadhurst Gallery. A 21st century response to Matisse's iconic paper cut-out, The Swimming Pool (1952), the Rising Tide paintings challenge viewers to consider what life would be like if partially submerged by rising sea levels.

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Gregory Carosi: Cut/Copy opens at Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne

27th September - 20th October, 2018

Cut/Copy engages audiences in a kinetic visual experience that explores the uncertain place of the original artwork in an image-saturated world. By subverting the primacy of the vertical picture plane and foregrounding a painting’s peripheral elements, this site-specific exhibition looks to expand the contemporary possibilities of painting through a dynamic reconsideration of a painting’s edge.

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The exhibition’s interplay between a centrally positioned artwork, and the large-format reproductions of its sides across the walls surrounding it, highlights the ways in which digital technologies have allowed for the appropriation and repurposing of images, often with little regard for their origin. In counterpoint, their painterly quality asserts their uniqueness. This tension between the claustrophobic nature of the infinitely reproducible image and the enduring emotive and subjective power of the hand-painted artwork goes to the heart of the exhibition, challenging audiences to reconsider the place that originality holds in our cultural consciousness.

Installation view, Gregory Carosi: Cut/Copy, Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, 2018.
Grindell’s Hut image courtesy of Country Arts SA

Grindell’s Hut image courtesy of Country Arts SA

Gregory Carosi - Recipient of the Grindell’s Hut Artist in Residence for 2018

Country Arts South Australia

I am pleased to announce that I am the Grindell’s Hut Artist in Residence for 2018. Run through Country Arts SA, and in partnership with the Department for Environment and Water and the Vulkathunha‐Gammon National Park’s Co-Management Board, Natural Resources SA Arid Lands, the 3 week residency will involve extended movement through and interaction with the natural and cultural topography of the Flinders Ranges.

Grindell's Hut, located on a remote hillside in the middle of the Vulkathunha‐Gammon Ranges National Park, approximately 365 kms north of Port Augusta, will serve as a base for an immersion in and exploration of landmark features such as the valleys and foothills of the Illinawortina Pound, and the majesty of the Blue Range.

The Grindell’s Hut residency offers incredible scope to extend my investigations into how people move through natural environments, providing the opportunity to record, through direct sketches and abstracted pictorial notation, the ways in which topographical features influence walking patterns and visual reading paths.

The residency will also include interactions with the traditional owners and co-managers of the Vulkathunha‐Gammon Ranges National Park, the Adnyamathanha people, who continue to have strong ties with their country, ancestors, law and culture. In addition, I will deliver artist workshops in Port Augusta on Monday 8th October, and in Copely on 12th & 19th October.

I am extremely excited to begin the Grindell's Hut Artist Residency 2018 on Monday 1st October, and would like to thank Samantha Yates and the entire team at Country Arts SA for this unique opportunity.

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365:4 - Finalist in 'The Churchie'

National Emerging Art Prize 2018

QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

I am pleased to announce that the large-format painting, 365:4 (Storm Coming), is a finalist in this year's 'The Churchie' National Emerging Art Prize. A neo-Cubist work first exhibited at Western Plains Cultural Centre (2017), 365:4 engages with the increasingly altered weather patterns of an era marked by accelerated climate change.

The exhibition, held at Brisbane's QUT Art Museum, features work from 35 emerging artists from across Australia (including Rebecca Selleck and Kelly Austin, also pictured), whose practice spans a diverse and exciting range of contemporary subject matter and media. 'The Churchie' National Emerging Art Prize runs from 8th September - 4th November. 

 

 
 

Gregory Carosi: Expanse Exhibition Launch

@ Gallery 43

Thank you to all who attended the opening of Gregory Carosi: Expanse at Gallery 43 on Wednesday 23rd May, 2018. The exhibition, opened by Mr Stephen Payne (manager, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery), brings together a selection of large-format abstract paintings inspired by the landscapes and weather patterns of the Riverina.

The paintings, drawn from two recent bodies of work -  365 and Axis - engage audiences in a consideration of the complex relationships between humans and the places they inhabit. Expanse runs until Friday 8th June.

 
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Solo Exhibition, Dead Reckoning, Confirmed

@ Wagga Wagga Art Gallery

The main space at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery will play host to a major solo exhibition in 2020. Gregory Carosi: Dead Reckoning will respond to the site-specific qualities of the building to examine the relationship between pictorial and architectural space. The exhibition will explore the ways in which visitors move through a gallery in response to the nature of the works on display. 

Informed by the power and beauty of the gallery itself, Dead Reckoning will take up the challenge of harmonising the variations in scale defined by its high- and low-ceilinged interiors, doing so in visually dynamic ways that will foreground the power of art and art galleries to offer local and national audiences an all-encompassing experience that oscillates between intimacy and grandeur.

 
Above: 'Axis 13', Oil and crayon on hardboard, 2017Opposite: Installation view, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 2017.

Above: 'Axis 13', Oil and crayon on hardboard, 2017

Opposite: Installation view, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 2017.

 

'Axis 13' - Finalist, Calleen Art Award 2017

'Axis 13' has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 Calleen Art Award, at Cowra Reginal Art Gallery. Judged by Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Mr Angus Trumble, the winner receives $20, 000.

'Axis 13' and other finalists will be on display at Cowra Regional Art Gallery from 7th May - 18th June, 2017. Official opening and announcement of award winners, Saturday 6th May.

 

 

Installation view - 621, as featured in New Acquisitions, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, February - March 2017

 

Group Exhibition - New Acquisitions

621 appears in Wagga Wagga Art Gallery's New Acquisitions exhibition after the gallery purchased the work for their permanant collection in 2016. The exhibition runs through February and March 2017. The painting (oil on wood panel, 1200 mm diameter) sits alongside works by artists including

621 appears in Wagga Wagga Art Gallery's New Acquisitions exhibition after the gallery purchased the work for their permanant collection in 2016. The exhibition runs through February and March 2017. The painting (oil on wood panel, 1200 mm diameter) sits alongside works by artists including Lin Onus and G.W. Bot.

 

Installation view - Untitled (2015), Window Gallery exhibition, Eastern Riverina Arts, February 2016

 

Window Gallery Exhibition - Eastern Riverina Arts

During February 2016, Untitled (oil on linen, 1000mm x 1000 mm) was exhibited in the Window Gallery at Eastern Riverina Arts. The work, completed in Sydney before the artist's relocation to Wagga Wagga, marked the thematic and formal starting point for the exhibition From There to Here at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery in April-June, 2016.

 
 

Articles, Media Releases and Profiles

Grindell’s Hut Artist in Residence, 2018

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Gregory Carosi: Cut/Copy

@ Alternating Current Art Space, October 2018

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Gregory Carosi Artist Profile - VisArtCBR

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Gregory Carosi: Expanse, at Gallery 43, 2018

Karen Walsh, Gallery 43, and Stephen Payne, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, opening the exhibition, 23rd May 2018

Karen Walsh, Gallery 43, and Stephen Payne, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, opening the exhibition, 23rd May 2018

 

Gregory Carosi: 365, at Western Plains Cultural Centre, 2017

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Gregory Carosi: Axis, at Griffith Regional Art Gallery, 2017

 

 

From There to Here, at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, 2016

 

 

Window Gallery Exhibition, Eastern Riverina Arts, Feb 2016

February: Gregory Carosi, Jan 2016