The Board of 4A invites you and your guests
to the 4A Members' Party to celebrate the 4A Annual Members' exhibition

Wander

2010
20mm acrylic, duratran, lights
All rights Shoufay Derz

SHELF LIFE – DELMAR GALLERY’

CURATOR: CATHERINE BENZ

My current and ongoing project Depart without Return is a personal reflection on death and the meaning of emptiness; it is both a lament on the transience of life and a celebration of its mystery.

I’m interested in how the artist depicts the invisible—the latent within the actual—just as the writer uses words to express the ineffable. From this seeming contradiction arises the premise of this work: an exploration of how humans conceive of the Divine through language, the body & landscape.

The combination of silk and the colour indigo is intrinsically linked to my theme. The properties and processes that form the Indigo dye make it a unique signifier of mystery and transformation.

Delmar Gallery
An Insight

Curator: Catherine Benz. Collected over the past 30 years primarily from exhibitions held at the Delmar Gallery, the Trinity Grammar School Art Collection includes works by Australian artists such as Lloyd Rees, Judy Cassab, Desiderius Orban, Lyndon Dadswell, Earle Backen and Guy Warren.

Exhibition Dates: 4th July - 1st August 2010
Gallery Hours: 12.00 - 5.00pm Wednesday - Sunday

The Spirit Within: Australian Contemporary Art

Parliament of World Religions, Melbourne Convention Centre
4-9 December 2009.

This important exhibition brings together key Australian works which explore the inner life of the artists, their deepest concerns and their search for meaning. Its fifteen works bring together some of the traditions of multifaith Australia. For inspiration, they turn to a variety of traditions and sacred writings, including Aboriginal, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Judaism.

Represented:

Aboriginal elders Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, Eubena Nampitjin and Michael Riley as well as Arthur Boyd, Marianne Baillieu, Shoufay Derz, Phillip George, Fatima Killeen, Euan Macleod, Victor Majzner, James Powditch, Louise Rippert, Claudia Terstappen and Kim Hoa Tram.