▶ 'HELLO DOLLIES' INSTALLED AT PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY

Work by Will Coles, Fiona Fenech and Janet Parker-Smith installed at the Hello Dollies exhibition at Penrith Regional Gallery

▶ 'HELLO DOLLIES' AT PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY

Will Coles, 'Context', 2011, resin, 9 x 32 x 27cm

Represented artist Will Coles and exhibited artists Janet Parker-Smith and Fiona Fenech will all be featured in the upcoming show Hello Dollies at Penrith Regional Gallery. The show includes "artwork from the 1940s until today that scrutinizes the human condition via the symbolic and psychological resonance of 'the doll' - desire, hope, fear; fun, satire and critique." Hello Dollies, curated by Shirley Daborn, will be on view starting the 11th of February until the 22nd of April.

 Left: Janet Parker-Smith, 'Read Into It What You Will No.2' 2011,

deconstructed book, digital prints, wire, deconstructed doll, perspex box, 37.5 x 32 x 17cm
Right: Janet Parker-Smith, 'Read Into It What You Will' 2011, 

deconstructed book, digital prints, wire, deconstructed doll, perspex box, 36 x 36 x 17cm

▶ PETER TILLEY + JANET PARKER-SMITH, CLOSING 24 SEPTEMBER

A timely reminder to visit the shows by PETER TILLEY and JANET PARKER-SMITH before they close on Saturday 24 September.

Peter Tilley's current show embodies the clean aesthetic established by the artist throughout his expansive career. The warm tones of the reclaimed timbers, which have once again resurfaced in the work, are mirrored in the oxidised metals of the outdoor sculptures he is know so well for.



The colourful assemblages by Janet Parker-Smith feature deconstructed books and dolls as well as original printmedia. The works are playful and beautifully made, producing creatures that make the familiar unfamiliar and the know unknowable.

▶ PRESS: JANET PARKER-SMITH IN THE SUN-HERALD AND SMH WEBSITE

Left: 'Still Alive and Still Well' Sydney Morning Herald website, 3 September
Right: 'Keeping art a cut above the crowd' Andrew Taylor, The Sun-Herald, 4 September, p.28

▶ PETER TILLEY + JANET PARKER-SMITH, OPENING 3 SEPTEMBER

New work by PETER TILLEY and JANET PARKER-SMITH will be on view starting Tuesday 30 August. Please join the Artists for a drink in the Gallery to celebrate the launch of their solo exhibitions on Saturday 3 September from 4-6pm.

Peter Tilley, 'A Calm Sea' 2011, bronze, timber, 37 x 55 x 13cm

The new body of work by Peter Tilley shifts between still life tableau and compositions based around the figure. The sculptures reflect on issues of the times and the nature of society, whilst a recurring meditation on life's opposing forces of hope/despair, real/wishful, life/death and permanence/decay continues to influence this body of work.

Janet Parker-Smith, 'Delicate Souls' 2010, deconstructed book, digital print, wire, 53 x 58 x 21cm

The deconstructed books and whimsical assemblages by Janet Parker-Smith introduce images, objects, creatures and species that hover between multiple identities. Dealing with feelings of displacement, the work examines the binary nature of insiders and outsiders, inclusion and exclusion and isolation and connection.

▶ PRESS: JANET PARKER-SMITH IN ARTWHATSON

▶ PRESS: ART + HUMOUR ME IN ART MONTHLY

▶ PRESS: 'ART + HUMOUR ME' IN ART ALMANAC

▶ 'ART + HUMOUR ME' ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WEBSITE

  'Sydney's Amusing Art', Karen Carmichael, National Geographic website, 17 March 2011
Click here to view the article on the National Geographic website