News
Hi, I hope you are enjoying my website
Current and upcoming events
I am going to be in the exhibition Making it new: Focus on Contemporary Australian Art (curated by Glenn Barkley) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, which will run from September 10 to November 11 2009. It shows some early handpainted photos such as the Yooralla at 20 past 3 series and Art from the Travelogue series, as well as mid period paintings and current work including paintings, works on paper and engraved glass. The recent Space Baby II is contrasted with images from the 1980s Babies series.
Desert Night, 2009, engraved and etched glass, synthetic polymer resin, pastel, colour pencil on paper
58.5 x 69.5 cm
I am also in the Director's Cut Blake Prize, an online exhibition running from October 7 to November 7. It can be accessed from the Blake Prize website www.blakeprize.com.au.
Recent events
The recent MCA show beyond myth & messages: Australian artists and the literary world. brought back the late 70's and early 80's posters and poetry book illustrations I did at that time. It was great reconnecting with the poets and writers I knew then on opening night.
Shared Sky at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV at Federation Square (curated by Allison Holland and Stephen Gilchrist) marked the Year of Astronomy with many and varied works relating to the Southern sky, including my work Six Galaxies.
Articles, books etc.
A recent Art Monthly Australia (Issue #215, November 2008) has a fabulous article about my current work by Dr Jenny McFarlane. It's called An irregular order: (im)materialising Micky Allan.
I am also included in Contemporary Australian Photography and Photographers by Professor Anne Marsh, Monash University, Melbourne, scheduled for publication this year by Macmillan.
Travel
Later this year I will be going to Broome, Western Australia, and to nearby Cape Leveque where the red earth of the Kimberley meets the sea. I plan this to become the basis of a new body of work and am really looking forward to it.
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