The Kingpins will be performing in Sydney for the first time in two years as part of QUICK AND DIRTY at Performance Space in Redfern. It is a one night only performance this Saturday 23 February, for tickets and more information click here.

Julian Dashper will be based in Sydney from late March working as artist in residence at the Sydney College of Fine Arts. Dashper's solo show with Kaliman Gallery opens on 23 May 2008.

Kate Rohde will have a solo exhibition entitled Flourish at Tarrawarra Museum, Victoria from 20 April - 1 July, 2008. The exhibition is based upon the theme of the four seasons, and Rohde will transform the gallery space with her lavish and highly choreographed sculpture and garden installations.

David Griggs will commence his three month residency from December 2007 at the the Australian Council for the Arts studio in Barcelona, Spain. During the three month stay Griggs will be working on paintings for his 2008 exhibition at Kaliman Gallery.

Kate Rohde has been chosen to exhibit in 'Handle with Care' the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, 29 February – 16 March 2008. Curated by Felicity Fenner, the Adelaide Biennial is a major survey of contemporary art practice in Australia. Featuring recent work by selected Australian artists, the exhibition aims to consider the fragile nature of our relationships with the cultural and natural environments in which we live.

Recent work by Nadine Christensen will feature in the upcoming group exhibition An answer for the parts only itinerant sighs can fathom at Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne. The show is curated by Storm Gold and opens 28 November 2007.

Kaliman Gallery artists: Andrew Browne, Jon Cattapan, Nadine Christensen, Brent Harris, Kate Rohde & Sally Smart have all been featured in Untitled: Portraits of Australia Artists. Sonia Payes’ beautifully illustrated 400 page book provides a sneak peak into the lives of artists at work in their studios.

We are pleased to announce that Shane Cotton has joined the gallery. As one of New Zealand’s most prominent and esteemed contemporary artists, Shane has a substantial exhibition history in both Australia and New Zealand. His work features in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, Wellington and Auckland Art Gallery.

Kaliman Gallery is pleased to announce the launch of the Kaliman Gallery Blog. Functioning as an online journal, the Kaliman Gallery Blog provides news, commentary and insights relating to the activities of the gallery and our represented artists. The blog will be regularly updated with images, videos, reviews, notifications of gallery related events, opening night photos and much more. It will also function interactively as an online forum where visitors are able to comment on and discuss the content of the site. The blog can be accessed online at: http://www.kalimangallery.blogspot.com. You can also access our blog through an RSS feed direct to your home page, RSS reader or mobile phone – or, subscribe to receive email notification of updates to the blog. All access and subscription details are on our blog homepage.

Stephen Birch (1961-2007)
It is with great sorrow that Kaliman Gallery announces that Stephen Birch passed away early Sunday morning 2 September following a prolonged private battle with cancer. A unique artist with a singular vision, Stephen created a challenging, dramatic world of misrecognition and ambiguity, and his constructed objects and installations were charged with a sense of comedy and tragedy. Stephen held a solo show 'Accumulations/Accretions' here at Kaliman Gallery in late 2006 and was the subject of a major survey exhibition on Level 4 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in March - May 2007. A funeral service will be held on Thursday 6 September at 11am at Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium Corner Delhi and Plassey Roads, Macquarie Park NSW. A memorial event will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art to celebrate Stephen's life and achievements, which will be announced in due course.

Adam Cullen will be featured this weekend as part of the Sunday Arts Program, ABC TV. Watch ABC TV on Sunday 12 August at 5pm.

Sally Smart will be exhibiting a selection of works from ‘The Exquisite Pirate’ at Ter Camer-Meert Contemporary, Belgium, 16 November – 22 December 2007. Sally will also have work included in the group exhibition ‘Float’ at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, 14 December 2007 – 3 February 2008. ‘Float’ will explore the enduring role of the boat in its various forms within contemporary Australian art practice.

Ms & Mr are interviewed in the current issue of NY Arts Magazine. Click here to view the article.

Julian Dashper is having a solo show at the Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand titled 'To the Unknown New Zealander', from 10 August - 14 October 2007.

The Kingpins have been included in the exhibition ‘Playback’ at ARC, the contemporary section of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 19 October 2007 - 6 January 2008. 'Playback' is a project focusing on incursions of visual artists in the realm of music, and will gather both music videos directed by visual artists and produced for a label, as well as works influenced by music videos. 'Playback' combines approximatively fifty videos by emerging and established artists realised between the beginning of the 1980's and today, and will include works by Rodney Graham, Olaf Breuning, Wilhelm Sasnal, Paul McCarthy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Doug Aitken, Tony Oursler/Sonic Youth, Philippe Parreno and others.

Kate Rohde will be showing in the group exhibition ‘Cultural Trackers’ at 24hr Art: Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 3 August – 8 September 2007. The exhibition follows a two-week camp that Kate and four other interstate artists were invited to attend in collaboration with Injak Arts and Crafts near Gunbalanya in Western Arnhem Land.

David Griggs is currently showing in the group exhibition ‘New Acquisitions 2007’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 27 April – 12 August. David will also be exhibiting in Victoria Lynn’s curated show ‘Regarding Fear and Hope’ at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 4 July – 25 August.

Sally Smart is having a solo show of selected works from ‘The Exquisite Pirate’ at Art House, Meat Market – Studio B, Melbourne, 25 May – 27 May 2007.

Julian Dashper is having his second solo show with Esso Gallery in New York, 24 May – 23 June 2007. Titled ‘The Abstract Office’, this exhibition will present a broad survey of his paintings and sculpture from 1992 - 2007.

Kaliman Gallery is participating in the Auckland Art Fair 07 at the Marine Events Centre, Viaduct Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand, 18 - 20 May 2007. Located at Stand 11, we will be exhibiting a selection of work by gallery artists.

Julian Dashper is having a solo show '1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7' at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 5 - 12 May 2007. Julian will also be giving an artist talk 5 May at 3pm.

David Rosetzky will be having a solo exhibition at Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne, 15 June - 7 July 2007. The show is part of 'Making Space', an artist-run event of exhibitions and forums in Victoria from April - June.

The Kingpins will be performing live at 'ILE PHENOMENALE, the opening event for the festival 'ESTUAIRE', in Nantes, France, June 1.

Julian Dashper is showing with Kyle Jenkins in the exhibition 'ONE PLUS ONE' at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, 3 - 23 May. Julian is also exhibiting '12'' Round Works' at Neon Parc, Melbourne, 4 - 28 April.

David Griggs' solo exhibition 'The Bleeding Hearts Club' will tour to the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 24 March - 6 May 2007. David will be giving an artist's talk at the gallery on Friday 23 March at 6.30pm. David is also exhibiting with 5 Indonesian artists in the group show 'No System Can Give the Masses the Proper Social Graces' at Firstdraft Gallery, 14 - 31 March.

Del Kathryn Barton and David Griggs are currently showing in the 'Archibald Prize 07' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, until 13 May 2007.

Adam Cullen 's portrait 'Liz Anne (Director MCA)' is currently showing in the '2007 Salon des Refuses: The Alternative Archibald & Wynne Prize selection' at the National Trust S.H Ervin Gallery, until 6 May. Adam has also donated a work to an art auction that will be held at the Crookwell Memorial Hall, Denison Street Crookwell on 17 March 2007. All proceeds will go towards drought proofing the Upper Lachlan Shire of the Southern Tablelands.

David Griggs's solo show 'Blood on the Streets 2006/2007' will open at Artspace, Sydney on 16 March 2007. The exhibition of painting and installation responds to recent experiences in the Philippines, particularly in San Fernando last year during the Holy Cross Crucifixion: Lenten Rites.

Julian Dashper is currently showing in the group show 'Minimalpop' at Maatschappij Arti en Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Rokin, until 10 March 2007. The exhibition has been organized by the CCNOA Center for Contemporary non-objective Art, Brussels, Belgium. Julian also has work in the international group show 'Oh! Let me see your beauty when witnesses are gone!' at Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, until 16 March 2007.

Kate Rohe's recent exhibition 'Some kind of empire' at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne can now be viewed online. Click here.

Sally Smart will exhibit 'The Exquisite Pirate' at 24HR Art, Darwin, 30 March - 5 May 2007.

Sean Meilak is currently showing in ' Screenings: International and Australian New Media Works' at the UBS Contemporary Art Gallery, NGV International, 16 December 2006 - 1 April 2007.

David Rosetzky is having a solo show ' Summer Blend' at Le Case D'Arte Vetrina, Milan, Italy, 3 February - 17 March 2007. The exhibition is part of 'Too Near Too Far: An Introduction to the Australian Independent Art Scene', curated by Chiara Agnello and Roberta Tenconi.

Stephen Birch's recent exhibition 'No Man's Land' at the Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney (13 October - 4 December 2006) can now be viewed online. Click here.

David Griggs' installation in this year's Primavera at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (13 September - 19 November 2006) can now be viewed online. Click here.

Stephen Birch will be showing in the group exhibition '40 Degrees' at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2 - 24 February 2007. Curated by Alexie Glass, the show will include Stephen's work 'Accumulations/ Accretions' which was shown at Kaliman Gallery during July 2006.

Adam Cullen has been selected as a finalist in The Kilgour Prize, a bi-annual acquisitive figurative painting prize. The exhibition of finalist's work will be held at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 9 December 2006 - 28 January 2007.

Del Kathryn Barton is showing in 'Girl Band', a Deloitte Foundation art exhibition, Sydney, 26 October 2006 - 2 March 2007.

David Griggs will be showing in the group exhibition 'Winners are Grinners' at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 16 November - 17 December 2006.

The Kingpins have have been selected for inclusion in the exhibition 'O.V.L. by REC: Open Video Library by Recommendations' at the Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art (MIACA), Tokyo, 15 - 24 November 2006. They were
recommended by Akiko Miki, Chief Curator at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Tim McMonagle's recent solo exhibition in Kaliman Gallery's stand at the Melbourne Art Fair 2006 (2 August - 6 August) can now be viewed online. Click here.

Jon Cattapan is having a solo exhibition at the Grafton Regional Gallery, 27 October - 3 December 2006. Titled 'Journal Forms + Carbon Groups', this survey show will include work from 1990 - 2006.

Sally Smart will have a solo show 'The Exquisite Pirate: Coral Sea' at Jacob Karpio Galeria in Costa Rica, 28 November - December 2006 . From 7 - 10 December she will show in Miami with both Jacob Karpio Galeria at Art Basel Miami Beach, and with Postmasters Gallery at the Pulse Contemporary Art Fair. Sally has also been curated into the exhibition 'New History' at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College in New York, 30 January - 10 March 2007.

We are pleased to announce that Stephen Birch has joined the gallery. Stephen had a solo exhibition at Kaliman Gallery in July this year, and has a forthcoming solo show at Macquarie University Art Gallery, 13 October - 24 November 2006. Titled 'Stephen Birch: No man's land', this new installation uses a video and sculptural presence to draw a connection between the physiological and the psychological. In March 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney will also host a survey exhibition of Stephen Birch's work.

David Rosetzky has been curated into the group show 'Raised by Wolves' at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 9 February - 17 June 2007. The exhibition is part of the Perth Festival and will comprise of an extensive body of Rosetzky's work including 'Justine', 'Weekender' and 'Commune'.

Andrew Browne has been selected as a finalist in the inaugural 'William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize'. The exhibition of finalist's work will be held at the Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria, 24 August - 12 November 2006.

Julian Dashper is having a survey exhibition 'Painting problems: The work of Julian Dashper 1990-2006' at the Whangarei Art Museum, New Zealand, 14 August – 8 October 2006.

Kate Rohde will show in the group exhibition 'Shelf Life' at MOP Projects, Sydney, 31 August - 17 September 2006.

Lara Merrett will exhibit in the group show 'Against the Amnesiac’s Lifestyle Showroom' at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 25 August – 23 September.

Kaliman Gallery will host a solo show of new paintings by Tim McMonagle at the Melbourne Art Fair 2006. we will be located at Stand E21, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, 2 - 6 August.

The Kingpins will perform at the Melbourne Art Fair 2006 on Friday 4 August. The performance will begin at 8pm under the central dome of the Royal Exhibition Building, following Jon Campbell and his band Gloss Enamel.

David Griggs, Kate Rohde and The Kingpins have been curated into the exhibition 'Flaming Youth' at Orange Regional
Gallery, 11 August - 17 September 2006.

Adam Cullen is showing in the group exhibition 'A Man's World' at the Museum of Brisbane, 14 July - 19 November 2006.

David Griggs will be exhibiting in Primavera 2006 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 16 September - 19 November 2006. He will also have a solo show 'Blood on the Streets' at Artspace, Sydney in April 2007 and will exhibit in the group exhibition 'Eye to “I” - Conceptions of Self in Recent Art' at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, May - July 2007.

Kate Rohde has work in the exhibition 'Home Goal: Diversity in Australian Contemporary Art from the Collection of Dr Dick Quan' at the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 30 June - 20 August 2006.

Jonathan Nichols and Sean Meilak will show in the group exhibition 'Reflections in the Golden Eye' at Linden St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, 8 July - 13 August, 2006. Also showing are James Lynch, Viv Miller, Lisa Radford and Michelle Ussher.

Kate Rohde will hold a solo show at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 27 October - 17 November 2006.

Jon Cattapan, Nadine Christensen, David Griggs and Brent Harris have been included in the TarraWarra Museum of Art Biennial, 4 August - 12 November. Curated by Victoria Lynn and titled 'Parallel Lives: Australian Art Today', the inaugural Biennial will focus on contemporary painting.

Kate Rohde will exhibit in the group show 'Beckon' at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), 17 August - 24 September 2006. Curated by Kate Just and Kate Stones, the exhibition showcases work by Australian artists who work primarily in large-scale installation and sculpture. The line-up of artists also includes Mikala Dwyer (NSW), Natasha Johns Messenger (VIC), Kate Just (VIC), Horst Kiechle (NSW), Geoff Robinson (VIC), Kate Stones (VIC) and Josh Webb (WA).

Julian Dashper is having a survey show 'Dashper again and again: the multiple works of Julian Dashper 1986 - 2006' at the Aratoi - Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, 28 April - 14 June 2006. Curated by Mark Kirby, the exhibition surveys Dashper's artwork in multiple form over the past two decades. It is comprised of over 50 individual works including Dashper's paintings, ceramics, drumheads and wristwatches. Julian Dashper and Mark Kirby will present a lecture about the exhibition at the museum on Friday 28 April at 5.30pm.

Jonathan Nichols will exhibit alongside Moya McKenna and Michael Zavros in the exhibition 'New Objectivity' at the Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne. The show will run from late March to April 2006 and will be accompanied by a catalogue with
an essay by Rex Butler.

David Rosetzky is showing in the group exhibition 'Crowds/Conversations/Confessions' at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. The exhibition runs from March 11 - June 10 and brings together the work of seven international artists who explore the dynamics of human interaction, articulated by the use of technology.

Andrew Browne is currently showing in 'Recent Acquisitions: Photographs from the MGA Collection' at the Monash Gallery of Art until the end of March 2006. His work is a full suite of photographs that were recently acquired by the gallery.

Julian Dashper's first solo exhibition in New York will be held at Esso Gallery from 10 March - 15 April 2006. He will be presenting two works; 'Future Call' 1994-2006 and 'Untitled (C.V)' 1979-2006.

David Griggs will be showing in the exhibition 'Winners are Grinners' at The Meat Market, Melbourne, curated by Hannah Matthews. The exhibition runs from 18 March - April 2, 2006, as part of the Next Wave Festival.

Kate Rohde has been announced as a Finalist in the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. Her work, 'Vicious Precious' will be on show at Werribee Park in Victoria from 1 March - 8 May, 2006. Kate is also having a solo exhibition at the Latrobe Regional Gallery in Morwell from 4 June - July 11, 2006. Kate has been invited to participate in a residency that brings together six interstate contemporary artists and six Indigenous artists in the Northern Territory. In May 2006, they will give artist talks at 24HR Art in Darwin, followed by a two-week artist camp in Gunbalanya (Oenpelli) in Western Arnhem Land.

David Rosetzky is included in The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art 2006: 21st Century Modern, 4 March - 7 May 2006 at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

Jon Cattapan's work is to be the subject of a major survey at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne in May, 2006. The exhibition is to be curated by one of Australia's foremost critics and Director of the Museum, Dr. Christopher McAuliffe. 'Jon Cattapan - The Drowned World' is the first comprehensive survey of Jon's work and will chart the artist's many-faceted urban oeuvre from 1980 to the present. A feature of the exhibition will be a specifically re-created and installed 'City Submerged' suite and an unveiling of new works made as part of the artist's current 'Possible Histories' suite. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. The exhibition will be followed in early 2007 with the publication of a major, fully illustrated monograph on Cattapan's work also written by Dr. Christopher McAuliffe.

Brent Harris is holding a major survey exhibition at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne in early 2006. 'Just a Feeling: Brent Harris selected works 1987-2005', 11 February to 7 May 2006.

David Griggs is currently holding a solo exhibition at the Level 2 Project Space at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 11 February - 2 April 2006.

The Kingpins have been included in the 2006 Liverpool Biennial that will be held from September 16 - November 26. The Kingpins have also been included in the exhibition 'High Tide: New Currents in Art from Australia and New Zealand' which will tour to Poland and Lithuania. The show will open at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw on February 13 and at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius on June 2, where they will perform at the opening. The Kingpins will also perform at the opening of the Adelaide Arts Festival on March 5, 2006, and recently performed at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris on January 20 as part of the performance program for the exhibition 'Notré Histoir'. The Kingpins will hold a solo show at Gertrude Conteporary Art Spaces, Melbourne in April, 2006.

Julian Dashper’s 25 year American touring retrospective will open to the public on the 13th January at the prestigious Sheldon Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Regarded as a Philip Johnson architectural masterpiece, Dashper’s show of 40 + works is housed over two floors of the museum. This is the first ever career retrospective of a resident New Zealand artist in America. Exhibition co- curators Christopher Cook (curator, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa) and Dr David Raskin (Associate Professor, School of The Art Institute of Chicago) will deliver papers on Dashper’s work at the forum this Friday, followed by a lecture by Sheldon curator Dr Daniel. A Siedell on Sunday 15th. Following its exhibition at the Sheldon, the show will reopen at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas in August 2006. The 90 page fully illustrated catalog being launched this week will be available at Kaliman Galleryin March. Dashper’s work will also open in a solo show in New York on the 26th January at Esso Gallery and in a group show, entitled `Minimalisms’, opening the same night in New York, at Gallery W52.

Sally Smart will be holding her first solo exhibition in New York in early 2006. 'Sally Smart: The Exquisite Pirate', at Postmasters Gallery, 459 W 19 Street New York, NY 10011, from 28 January - 25 February 2006.

Sean Meilak has been awarded the Australia Council Studio at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, July - September 2006.