Catalogue
2025
1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025
11 April – 8 June 2025
Gertrude Contemporary, Preston South
Authors
Helen Hughes & Spiros Panigirakis
Past is Prologue is a year-spanning program marking and reflecting on forty years of Gertrude. Across four interrelated exhibitions, contributing curators will chart the history of this organisation and its community, and commission new works by leading Australian visual artists.
On the occasion of 1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025, curated by Helen Hughes and Spiros Panigirakis, Gertrude is pleased to publish the second edition of a curatorial publication series to coincide with the year-long program.
Price: $8 (including GST)
Exhibiting Artists
Peta Clancy, Lane Cormick, Linda Erceg, Katherine Huang, Eliza Hutchison, Clinton Naina, Raquel Ormella and Masato Takasaka.
With curatorial writing by Helen Hughes and Spiros Panigirakis. Edited by Brigid Moriarty, Mark Feary and Sharon Flynn, designed by Narelle Brewer, exhibition poster (detail) by Warren Taylor, printed by Adams Print.
ISBN: 978-1-876817-09-1
1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025
Curated by Helen Hughes & Spiros Panigirakis
Exhibition Catalogue
1995-2005 saw artists, locally and globally, grappling with philosophical concepts of time, duration, and periodisation. The curatorial framework of 1964, 1969, 1977, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2025 references the practices of three artists associated with Gertrude’s exhibition and studio programs between 1995 and 2005, each of whom developed a rigorous and distinct conceptual approach to making art that hinged upon bringing together two points in time and space: Mutlu Çerkez, Damiano Bertoli, and Masato Takasaka. This exhibition does not attempt to survey the decade, nor the work of Çerkez, Bertoli, and Takasaka. Instead, it presents a small selection of artists from the 1995-2005 period at Gertrude along timelines that loop, multiply, and collapse.
