exhibition:
exhibition:
Time Lines
May 25 - June 22, 2024
Gallery Location:
2/565 Hay Street, PERTH, Western Australia
Opening Hours:
WED – FRI 11am – 4pm
SAT 12 – 4pm
or by appointment
Australia and Antarctica were once joined.
The story of the collision of these two continental plates is revealed within the folded and intruded rocks of the Albany coast in Western Australia.
This is a tale of a world in constant slow motion and state of flux told in time lines far greater than ours. Sea levels rise and fall, lands collide and separate.
In his upcoming exhibition, Windberg echoes metamorphic geological processes and erosion by engraving into meticulously built up layers of earth pigments.
Exposed are astonishing landscapes of stone, seemingly permanent yet geologically fleeting, revealing a world constantly on edge.
Bridge (panel 2 detail ) 2024
engraved earth pigments on 5 panels
51 x 40.5 cm each
Tony Windberg
Bridge (panel 1 detail ) 2024
engraved earth pigments on 5 panels
51 x 40.5 cm each
Tony Windberg
exhibition:
Drylands
January 28 - April 28, 2024
Gallery Location:
Vasse Felix Gallery
Address: Cnr Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd, Cowaramup WA 6284
Opening Hours:
Daily, 10am - 5pm
Drylands considers changes to the Western Australian landscape of the Wheatbelt, Southern and Great Southern regions. It features painterly observations of the land following decades of deforestation, fire regimes, the impacts of climate change, increasing salinity and loss of biodiversity. The artworks picture receding islands of trees, canola fields in full bloom and dry, lone trees and empty scarred landscapes silently mourning the loss of bio and geo-diversity.
This exhibition includes artwork from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection and invited artists.
ARTISTS
Jo Darbyshire, Elizabeth Edmonds, Clare McFarlane, Lindsay Harris, Kate Turner, Tony Windberg
Salvation, 2010 (detail above)
engraved vinyl and Marri resin on 2 convex structures
109 x 97 x 17 cm each
Tony Windberg
exhibition:
TEN
January 28 - April 28, 2024
Gallery Location:
Vasse Felix Gallery
Address: Cnr Tom Cullity Dr & Caves Rd, Cowaramup WA 6284
Opening Hours:
Daily, 10am - 5pm
In celebration of Art Collective WA’s first decade of operation, TEN showcases the achievements of its 36 member artists with a group show of entirely new works including painting, sculpture and photography. The exhibition illustrates the richness of contemporary art practice in Western Australia and features many of the state’s most significant artists.
ARTISTS
Merrick Belyea, Cathy Blanchflower, Olga Cironis, Jennifer Cochrane, Penny Coss, Rebecca Dagnall, Jo Darbyshire, Stuart Elliott, Sarah Elson, George Haynes, Giles Hohnen, Chris Hopewell, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Theo Koning, Eveline Kotai, Joanna Lamb, Andre Lipscombe, Jane Martin, Minaxi May, Antony Muia, Brad Rimmer, Kevin Robertson, Susan Roux, Vanessa Russ, Helen Smith, Alex Spremberg, Angela Stewart, Jon Tarry, Michele Theunissen, Paul Uhlmann, Trevor Vickers, Tony Windberg and Jurek Wybraniec
Wonders of the Worlds XIII, 2022
conte crayon, oil on 3 panels
40.5 x 30.5, 40.5 x 30.5, 40.5 x 30.5 cm
Tony Windberg
exhibition:
Wonders of the Worlds I, 2022
earth pigments, ash, conte crayon, oil on 24 panels
205 x 245 cm
Tony Windberg
Wonders of the Worlds
May 15 - June 16, 2023
Gallery Location:
Council House Foyer Gallery
27 St Georges Terrace,
PERTH WA
Opening Hours:
Monday to Friday, 10am - 4pm
Worlds collide as past and present merge in Wonders of the Worlds.
In partnership with Art Collective WA and the City of Perth, highlights of Tony Windberg’s epic exhibition will be on display in Perth for the first time.
Images of antiquity - Roman ruins, Greek temples, the Pyramids and Petra - are resurrected from black and white photographs within century old volumes of Wonders of the Past. These combine with scenes of a wild terrain of sand and stone, a new frontier, the pristine landscapes of Mars.
Windberg’s innovative use of materials and techniques connects the artworks to his subject through a mix of traditional and non-conventional art materials. Iron oxides reflect the rusty hues of Mars, chalk and marble dust the limestone temples and pyramids. Surfaces and textures are methodically built up then ‘weathered’ to suggest the passage of time.
In this thought-provoking exhibition of contrasts and contradictions, the rise and fall of empires reveals our strengths and weaknesses, our achievements and vulnerabilities. Human civilisation has built great monuments and achieved extraordinary heights as we look to other worlds. Do we have the power to save our own?
Wonders of the Worlds XI (detail)
earth pigments, conte crayon, oil, 2022
Triptych: each panel 92 x 61 cm
Tony Windberg
exhibition:
Wonders of the Worlds
September 23 - October 28, 2022
Gallery Location:
Albany Town Hall
217 York Street, ALBANY WA
Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10am - 5pm
Open on public holiday Mondays and Mondays during school holidays
The Wonders of the Worlds exhibition is on the move! Following its inaugural showing at Bunbury Regional Art Gallery, the newly repurposed Albany Town Hall will host the exhibition in its dedicated Ground Floor Galleries space.
ARTIST TALK: Saturday September 24, 11 am
Wonders of the Worlds
June 11- Aug 21, 2022 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Bunbury Regional Art Gallery
64 Wittenoom Street, BUNBURY, WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 4PM Daily
Worlds collide as past and present merge in Wonders of the Worlds, Tony Windberg’s solo exhibition at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.
Images of antiquity - Roman ruins, Greek temples, the Pyramids and Petra - are resurrected from black and white photographs within century old volumes of Wonders of the Past. These combine with scenes of a wild terrain of sand and stone, a new frontier, the pristine landscapes of Mars.
Windberg’s innovative use of materials and techniques connects the artworks to his subject through a mix of traditional and non-conventional art materials. Iron oxides reflect the rusty hues of Mars, chalk and marble dust the limestone temples and pyramids. Surfaces and textures are methodically built up then ‘weathered’ to suggest the passage of time.
In this thought-provoking exhibition of contrasts and contradictions, the rise and fall of empires reveals our strengths and weaknesses, our achievements and vulnerabilities. Human civilisation has built great monuments and achieved extraordinary heights as we look to other worlds. Do we have the power to save our own?
Review: Ted Snell, Artist's Chronicle May/June 2022
Supported by the Australian Government's Regional Arts Fund:
Wonders of the Worlds IX (detail)
conte crayon, oil, 2022
Triptych: each panel 50 x 40 cm
Tony Windberg
Golden State
May 29 - June 26, 2021 (finished)
Gallery Location:
2/565 Hay Street, PERTH, Western Australia
Opening Hours:
WED – FRI 11am – 4pm
SAT 12 – 4pm
or by appointment
Golden State 2021
conte crayon, earth pigments (iron oxides) and oil on 20 wood panels, 204 x 204cm
Tony Windberg
Acquired Janet Holmes à Court Collection
exhibition:
Layers of earth pigments are methodically ‘eroded’ to unearth imagery of ancient ranges and mines in north Western Australia, in a new series of dramatic and brooding artworks that echo geological processes. The moving of mountains through the extraction of resources is also revealed to be in a perpetual state of flux; the cycles of ‘boom and bust’ attest to a tenuous reliance on the oldest landscape on Earth. SEE MORE
Golden State 8, 2021
copper, earth pigments, pencil, oil on wood panel
30 x 40cm
Tony Windberg
MAR 6 - JUN 7, 2021
Gallery Location:
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
64 Wittenoom Street, BUNBURY, WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 4PM Daily
The Bunbury Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition in Western Australia. For the first time in the history of the Biennale, artists have been invited to explore a theme.
HE | SHE | THEY is a journey into gender identity. The exhibition will explore notions of inclusion and diversity, celebrating the heterogeneity of gender within Western Australian culture and community... SEE MORE
Perception is put to the test in Windberg's response to the theme. His childhood in 1970's Australia merges with Ishihara colour blindness charts in a series of playful after-image optical games where the viewer makes the rules.
SEE POST: 'A Boy's Look' - behind the scenes
TOP: A Boy's Look 1: Brontosaurus v Allosaurus (detail)
ABOVE A Boy’s Look 5: Hurricane v Focke Wulf (detail)
BELOW: A Boy's Look, 2021
enamel on MDF
21 discs on 6 panels, each panel 19 x 60 cm
exhibition:
50fifty :2020
Terra nullius 2, 2018
engraved pegboard, rust effect paint, sealant,mdf
43.5cm h x 127cm w x 1.5cm d
Acquired for the Curtin University Collection from Instrumental, 2018, Mundaring Arts Centre
JUL 29 - OCT 16, 2020 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Building 200A, Bentley
PERTH, WA
50fifty:2020 showcases a selection of 50 artworks acquired through the 50fifty Acquisition Initiative, which was launched in 2017 with the aim of rejuvenating the Curtin University Art Collection – one of WA’s most important public art collections. The works on display include paintings, photographs, mixed media, sculpture, ceramics, video and works on paper.
Image: Gallipoli Remnants (detail)
Earth pigments, Ash, Resin, Oil on board
122 x 198 cm (triptych,)
Tony Windberg
exhibition:
Historical Remnants
AUGUST 1 - 22, 2020 (finished)
Gallery Location:
2/565 Hay Street, PERTH, Western Australia
Opening Hours:
WED – FRI 11am – 4pm
SAT 12 – 4pm
or by appointment
A group exhibition that reflects on the way landscapes, places, objects and markers can be memorialised in our collective memories.
ARTISTS: Olga Cironis, Jo Darbyshire, Kevin Robertson, Toni Wilkinson, Tony Windberg and guest exhibiting artists Sine MacPherson and Mark Tweedie.
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exhibition:
South Western Times
ART 2020
FEB 15 - APR 26 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
64 Wittenoom Street, BUNBURY, WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 4PM Daily
Artist Talk: Environment in Focus
FEB 22 (SAT) 2PM
Images: Island State (+detail)
Earth pigments, Ash, Iron oxide, Copper, Verdigris, Pencil, Conte crayon, Oil paint
Diptych, each panel 52 x 204 cm
Tony Windberg
Winner Packers Prize, Art 2020
Acquired for City of Bunbury Collection
The year 2020 is a time in which we assessing the past and consider issues affecting us now and in the future. The South Western Times Art 2020 exhibition presents a snapshot of artists currently practicing in the South West of Western Australia, providing the opportunity to reflect on our place and times. Curated by WA writer and curator Lee Kinsella
exhibition:
From Contemplative to Controversy
A selection of works from the City of Busselton Art Collection
FEB 1 - MAR 15 2020 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Art Geo Gallery, ArtGeo Cultural Complex
Queen Street Cultural Precinct
BUSSELTON WA 6280
Image: Control Point 5
(in situ at Control Lines exhibition, ArtGeo Gallery, 2017)
Earth pigments, ash, charcoal, acrylic binders on 5 doors
204 cm h, width variable
Tony Windberg
City of Busselton Collection
exhibition:
ION: In Our Nature
JAN 17 - FEB 23
(finished)
Gallery Location:
58 McLarty St, Dwellingup WA 6213
ION: IN OUR NATURE is a selection of works from leading West Australian artists whose practice is engaged with issues of place, history and nature through material as much as content.
It brings together contemporary artists from Perth and the Southwest regions who work across visual art, sculpture and a fusion of both.
‘In our Nature’ alludes to the external world around us that we respond to and our internal compulsion to create a sense of it through art.
Exhibiting artists are: Tony Windberg, Jo Darvall, Peter Usher, Tony Davis, Peter Kovacsy, Stephanie Reisch, Gregory Pryor, Geoffrey Wake, Ron Nyisztor, Mel Dare and Monique Tippett.
Image: Harvest - Gold
charcoals, resins on 2 flat mdf structures
each panel: 50 x 160 x 5
Tony Windberg
Janet Holmes à Court Collection
exhibition:
The Botanical: Beauty and Peril
JULY 21 - NOV 4 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Perth Cultural Centre
PERTH WA 6000
Opening Hours:
10am-5pm, Wednesday – Monday (closed Tuesdays)
'This major exhibition explores the abundant beauty of the botanical world and the threats that assail it. The Botanical: Beauty and Peril draws from the renowned Janet Holmes à Court Collection and the AGWA Collection to present a vivid, involving and sometimes disturbing journey through the diverse representation by Australian artists of the glorious kingdom of plants...'
Image: Harvest - Gold (detail)
charcoals, resins on 2 flat mdf structures
each panel: 50 x 160 x 5
Tony Windberg
Janet Holmes à Court Collection
Image: Lookout - Tookalup, 2019
pencil, conte crayon, oil
58 x 204 cm
Tony Windberg
solo exhibition:
Lookout
JULY 15 - AUG 10 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Manjimup Art Gallery
Corners Rose and Mount St, MANJIMUP, WA
Opening Hours:
MON TO WED, FRI: 9:30 am - 5pm
THURS: 9:30 am - 6pm
SAT: 9 am TO 12 noon
JULY 23, 11 am -12 noon
AUG 2, 11 am -12 noon
'From tourist lookouts, Tony Windberg directs a 'post-colonial' gaze back out to sea where the first European ships looked at the forbidding Australian coastline centuries earlier.'
Image: Emergence - Gallipoli (detail), 2019
Gesso, Rust effect paint, Rust Converter, Sealant on wood panel
82 x 102 cm
Purchased by Edith Cowan University
Bunbury Biennale
MAY 18 - JULY 21 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
64 Wittenoom Street, BUNBURY, WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 4PM Daily
exhibition:
exhibition:
Tony Windberg
Photo credit: Corrina Barclay
The Alternative Archive:
Nectere
JUNE 6 - JULY 3 2019 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Manjimup Art Gallery
57 - 59 Rose St (Corner Mount St, enter through Manjimup Public Library), MANJIMUP, WA
Opening Hours:
MON TO WED, FRI: 9:30AM - 5PM
THURS: 9:30AM - 6PM
SAT: 9AM TO 12PM
'Shire of Manjimup artists are responding to the theme - Nectere - what ties, or binds them to the place they live. Their responses are very personal and varied, covering many of the stories and places of this unique area.'
'The Alternative Archive is part of larger Regional Arts Partnership Program (RAPP) aimed at linking regional artists and arts organisations with key service organisations to foster arts development across the state. The project is being coordinated by Southern Forest Arts in conjunction with Lead Curator, Anna Louise Richardson.'
art award:
Images: From the Edge - Meekatharra, 2002
Iron oxides, Conte crayon on paper
56 x 77 cm each sheet (diptych, separately framed)
Winner, Drawing Prize, Inland Art Prize.
Inland Art Prize
JUNE 1 - 5 2019 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Leonora Recreation Centre, LEONORA, WA
Opening Hours:
10AM - 4PM Daily
exhibition:
The Essence of Rottnest
MAY 11, 12 + MAY 15 - 19 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Holmes á Court Gallery
10 Douglas Street, WEST PERTH, WA
Opening Hours:
10AM - 4PM
'The inaugural Rottnest Foundation Art Exhibition 2019 is being held over the period 11-19 May 2019 at the prestigious Holmes à Court Gallery @ no.10 Douglas Street, West Perth.
The unique natural and cultural values of Rottnest Island or Wadjemup have long inspired artists and this will be reflected in the exhibition theme ‘The Essence of Rottnest’.
Over 100 professional artists have accepted an invitation to interpret the exhibition theme and create artworks on 50x50cm canvases, sponsored by Oxlades Art Supplies. Funds raised from the sale of artwork will contribute to the Foundation’s role in delivering environmental and heritage conservation projects on Rottnest Island.'
Curated by Sandra Murray
Images: Departure Point, 2019,
engraved acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 cm
Tony Windberg
'I have chosen to focus on the link between the Nyoongar name for WA’s Rottnest Island, Wadjemup ( ‘place across the water where the spirits are’) and the German painter Caspar David Friedrich, who dealt with the theme of souls departing this world in his 1835 allegorical painting The Stages of Life.
I built up layers of acrylic paint echoing the colours in Friedrich’s painting, working from light to dark. By varying the depth of cut and pressure when engraving into these layers, I could achieve the required colours and tones. The viewpoint for Departure Point is the first vision of the island from Eric Street, Cottesloe.'
Minnawarra Art Awards
MAY 4 - 19 2019 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Armadale District Hall
Perth, WA
Opening Hours:
10 am - 4pm daily
exhibition:
Images: Counterpoint - Gallipoli, 2018
ink under 2 layers of glass, earth, ash, marri resin , acrylic binders
54 h x 130 w cm
'In the artwork Counterpoint - Gallipoli, dots are drawn in rows, varying in size and spacing to achieve tonal gradations. The methodical and emotionally detached technique deliberately counters its subject, the geological formation Sari Bair, which overshadows the site of the 1915 Anzac landing in Turkey. Like layers of entwined human history, the marks form dual layers of vertical and horizontal lines that hover over the foundation of earth and ash, depicting geography oblivious to its human significance. The veil of marri resin not only provides a blood red base, but its use as a healing substance becomes deeply symbolic.'
exhibition:
2019 City of Rockingham Art Awards
MAY 5 - 19 2019 (finished)
Gallery Locations:
19 Kent Street, ROCKINGHAM WA
19 Kent Street, ROCKINGHAM WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 3PM Daily
Curated by Jude Van der Merwe, 'The City of Rockingham's annual Art Awards showcases selected two and three dimensional artworks from emerging and professional artists alike. In 2019, artists were invited to respond to the theme 'Space' to inspire and inform artworks.'
Image: Enclosure, 2019 (detail)
oil on canvas and linen, 60 x 75 cm, Tony Windberg
Sketching the South West
JANUARY 26 - APRIL 28 2019 (finished)
Gallery Location:
Bunbury Regional Art Galleries
64 Wittenoom Street, BUNBURY, WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 4PM Daily
exhibition:
Image: ’Pemberton - Summer 1, 2018
charcoal on paper
21cm h x 29cm w
Tony Windberg
'Sketching the South West celebrates the power of the sketch in capturing the ecology of this region through the lens of an artist.
This exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists who use life sketches to explore unique ways of seeing the landscape, people and culture of the South West. Whether working with paint, pastel, pen, charcoal, wood, recycled materials, printmaking, fabric or ceramics each work began with a form of mark making, capturing an encounter between artist and subject in its purest form. The inclusion of preliminary sketches alongside finished works in this exhibition presents a unique opportunity to observe the power of the sketch and a glance into the artistic process...'
exhibition:
Landscape // Group Exhibition
MARCH 9 - APRIL 6 2019 (finished)
Gallery Location:
2/565 Hay Street, PERTH, Western Australia
Opening Hours:
WED – FRI 11am – 4pm
SAT 12 – 4pm
or by appointment
Nigel Hewitt, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Antony Muia, Jane Martin, Tony Windberg, Kevin Robertson and Merrick Belyea.
Images: Harvest - Gold (details)
charcoals, resins on 2 flat mdf structures
each panel: 50 x 160 x 5
Tony Windberg
Acquired for the Janet Holmes á Court collection.
exhibition:
INSTRUMENTAL
The distinct pleasures of tools
SEPTEMBER 21 - NOVEMBER 4 2018
(finished)
Gallery Location:
Mundaring Arts Centre
7190 Great Eastern Highway, Mundaring, WA
Opening Hours:
TUE TO FRI 10AM - 5PM
SAT TO SUN 11AM - 3PM
CLOSED MON AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Curated by Jude van der Merwe
Instrumental: The distinct pleasures of tools invites twelve, successful mid-career artists to examine their relationship with the tools they use on a daily basis as they create artworks, and the imagined tools that provide the answers to life, the universe and everything.
Image: Terra nullius 1 (detail), 2018
pegboard, sanded rust effect paint, sealant, mdf
43.5cm h x 127cm w x 1.5cm d
Below: Terra nullius 2 (progress, detail), 2018
engraved pegboard, rust effect paint, sealant,mdf
43.5cm h x 127cm w x 1.5cm d
Acquired for the Curtin University Collection
'The contrast of the crude axe versus the sophisticated sextant was instrumental in deeming a continent uninhabited. My reinterpretations of published English depictions of a ‘vacant’ Australian coastline seen by Matthew Flinders echo the original copperplate engraving process. However, the plate is now utilitarian pegboard and it is power tools over crude hand tools. The blank island shapes, akin to missing tools from their toolshed pegboard homes, reveal the impending imposition of alignment and control.' - Tony Windberg, 2018
'In the artwork Counterpoint - Gallipoli, dots are drawn in rows, varying in size and spacing to achieve tonal gradations. The methodical and emotionally detached technique deliberately counters its subject, the geological formation Sari Bair, which overshadows the site of the 1915 Anzac landing in Turkey. Like layers of entwined human history, the marks form dual layers of vertical and horizontal lines that hover over the foundation of earth and ash, depicting geography oblivious to its human significance. The veil of marri resin not only provides a blood red base, but its use as a healing substance becomes deeply symbolic.' - Tony Windberg, 2018
exhibition:
HOMELAND
GALLIANO FARDIN + TONY WINDBERG
AUGUST 10 - SEPTEMBER 16 2018
(finished)
Gallery Location:
ArtGeo Gallery,
7 Queen St, Busselton, WA
Opening Hours:
11am – 4pm Wednesday to Friday
Saturday 12 – 4pm
Abstraction and realism merge in Homeland, an exhibition of artworks by WA artists Galliano Fardin and Tony Windberg. Their divergent approaches are linked by methodical mark-making, environmental concerns and grounding in the landscape they call home.
Above: Tony Windberg Foveal (detail), 2017
engraved satellite dish, marri and karri ash, rust effect paint, sealant.
139 (h) x 122 (w) x 25 (d) (wall mounted)
exhibition:
HOME TURF
MAY 26 - JUNE 23 2018
(finished)
Gallery Location:
Cathedral Square,
2/565 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia
In Tony Windberg's exhibition exploring the human desire to colonise and establish 'new turf', parallels are drawn between the first European depictions of Australia and images transmitted from Mars less than 2 centuries later.
Rust and copper meet glass and grass, yet all is not what it appears...
Top: Investigator series, 2018
ink under glass, synthetic turf, copper paint on wood, each 28 x 28 x 6 cm
Right (detail)+ Below: Home Turf # 4 , 2018
ink under glass. synthetic turf, calcium carbonate and rust effect paint on wood, 59 x 172 cm
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about:
Multi award winning Australian artist Tony Windberg started his career as a painter after completing his Bachelor of Arts degree (Fine Arts) from Curtin University, Western Australia in 1986. His ongoing investigation of the landscape has seen a broadening of artistic approaches: painting, drawing, print-making and sculptural techniques are frequently combined using materials that are both conventional and non-conventional. The inherent symbolism of these materials reflects environmental concerns and touches of wry humour in what he terms "the nature of illusion, and the illusion of nature."
His artworks are represented in numerous private, public and corporate collections.
Tony is represented by Art Collective WA