High-flyers show off successes

STEPHEN BEVIS, The West Australian Updated September 8, 2010, 11:30 am
High-flyers show off successes

High-flyers show off successes

Fresh from their success in the Basil Sellers Art Prize, new-media artists Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont are participating in a group show of some of WA's most significant artists this month.

New Works at Goddard de Fiddes features works from Gill and Mata Dupont's photographic series Lament of the Argentine Military as well as images from Stadium, the project that gave rise to their four-minute video, Gymnasium, of athletes in a stylised, choreographed workout in the vein of old fascist propaganda films.

Gymnasium, evoking the musicals of Busby Berkeley, the Ziegfeld Follies and the films of Leni Riefenstahl, won the prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize for works about sport at the University of Melbourne's Ian Potter Museum last month.

Among other WA award winners showing are Rodney Glick - who, with Gill and Mata Dupont, was among the biggest contingent of WA artists to be invited to exhibit at the Sydney Biennale 2010 - and the duo behind the Ascalon sculpture outside St George's Cathedral, Marcus Canning and Christian de Vietri.

Jon Tarry, who has just won a large public art commission in Canberra, street artist and Romance Was Born collaborator Patrick Doherty and leading photographer Justin Smith also are featured in the show.

Gill says the Basil Sellers win has certainly helped lift the commercial profile of her eight-year collaboration with Mata Dupont and they are planning a new photographic series and a major solo show in Perth next year.

"We have been away so much this year that it was great to catch up with people and celebrate our win and enjoy the exhibition," she says.

All the featured artists are achieving success well beyond Perth, says gallery director Glenda de Fiddes.

"These artists are achieving really substantial moves in their careers in different ways." De Vietri has won a major public art commission in New York and is the subject of a solo show currently running in Stockholm.

New Works is at Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, until September 25.


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