In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 situation, MAY SPACE is taking precautionary measures to keep everyone safe which at this time includes cancelling Gallery events and openings.The well-being of our artists, staff and clients is a priority and we will continue to monitor the situation on a day by day basis and respond accordingly.The Gallery will remain open at this point but with reduced hours, (now closed Sundays {and maybe Tuesdays?} ) and we respectfully request that everyone who visits abides by social distancing recommendations.On a positive note, we will continue to welcome small groups to the Gallery and instigating new online showings and walk throughs of the upcoming exhibitions, presented by the artists. Please follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date.We are sorry for the inconvenience and hope we can still look forward to welcoming you to the Gallery in the near future. Stay safe, we are all in this together, BM.
29 February – 10 May 2020
14 days from now
10am to 5pm Tuesday to Sunday, 7 days during school holidays
STOPPING TIME: Material Prints 3000 BCE to Now expands on the definition of printmaking by bringing works of art together in thematic clusters, regardless of their period or place of production, collapsing the temporal distances between them and emphasising the dual power of material prints to embed or carry time and to stop time as we engage with them.
The exhibition extends well beyond the usual point of origin for printmaking in the fifteenth century when Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) invented the movable type printing press, to the perceived decline of printed imagery with the development of digital photography at the end of the twentieth century.
From ancient Mesopotamian images pressed in clay from cylinder seals to contemporary 3-D printing this exhibition positions traditional prints as part of a much larger constellation of printmaking. The timeless encounter with material prints can be described as “aesthetic time” (Keith Moxey Visual Time: The Image in History) but when artists attempt the synthetic transfer of ideas into matter and image it is more a process of collective cultural imagining and technological revelation rather than aestheticism.
Featuring key works of art from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection, STOPPING TIME also includes works of art from the Griffith University Art Museum along with several private collections and recent works of art by contemporary artists including Ali Bezer, Blair Coffey, Ryan Presley and Pamela See.
John COBURN
The 6th Day: God created Man 1977
screenprint on paper, edition 34/50
52.0 x 72.0cm
Purchased with assistance from the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council 1978
Newcastle Art Gallery collection
Courtesy the artist’s estate
Supported by
