Group Exhibitions

Wilma Tabacco

Group Exhibitions

Pulp Addiction

Gallerysmith, August 14 - September 6, 2025

Zaffiro 3, 2011, pigment on paper. 76 x 56cm

Zaffiro 4, 2011, pigment on paper. 76 x 56cm

Zaffiro 5, 2011, pigment on paper. 76 x 56cm

Living Connections: Reflections on care, kinship, and Country

Bendigo Art Gallery

26 Oct 24 - 26 Oct 25

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Installation view ‘Living Connections: Reflections on care, kinship, and Country’,
Bendigo Art Gallery, 2024. Photo: Bendigo Art Gallery

Harvest Time # 1-5, 2001, oil on linen
183 x 45.8cm each panel

Fresh, installation view. © Wilma Tabacco 2024

Astute, installation view. © Wilma Tabacco 2024

Wilma Tabacco - "Text - Re read". [ Youtube talk, 2023, 5:23 mins ]

Text - Re read, 2023 Installation

Lariat, 2022, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

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Co-curated by Stephen Wickham and Leanne Willis, this exhibition is a celebration of thoughtful engagement with ideas. Text – Re read acknowledges the importance of words, texts, articles and books, from illuminated manuscripts to la poésie concrete, words and the ideas therein that remain central to art-making and its reception.

Much has been said about the inspirational muses and the ‘Eureka moment’ – the flash of insight where sources and origins are revealed and then manifested. This exhibition highlights a slow consideration of the complex relationships between artists, artworks and the ideas embodied in books and many other material sources. Text – Re read is the second exhibition of the Deakin University Centre for Abstract+Non-Objective Art, The Void: Visible. Abstraction & Non-Objective Art being the inaugural in November 2017.

Participating artists include: Andrew Christofides, Tracey Coutts, Janet Dawson, Lesley Dumbrell, Suzie Idiens, Raafat Ishak, Simon Klose, Sean Loughrey, Andrew Rogers, Wilma Tabacco and Stephen Wickham.

Rampart, acrylic, pigment, linen on wood. © Wilma Tabacco 2019

Curly Andra, 2006 oil on linen 122 x 154 cm

ABSTRACTION 22

Charles Nodrum, Melbourne
November, 2022

[Read the Essay]

WOMEN IN ABSTRACTION

ANZ Gallery, Melbourne
September 2 - October 28
2022

Installation view. Vice Versa

August, 2022

Parallel Visions

Townhall Gallery, Hawthorn
5 July – 13 August, 2022

Installation view. Goldmine (for Gio Pomodoro 2022)

5@5

Five Walls, Melbourne
July 20 – August 6, 2022

Mure 1- 8, 2020, gouache on paper, 40 x 30 cm

Because you said so

Commitment to ideas, actions, events and even results, may well change through the passages of time. This is a given.

Making artworks for decades is not reliant on having fun, making money, enjoying prestige, exercising power or increasing one’s hand holds in history. These are by-products of ‘a snout to tail’ approach to projects that are bigger than a life of practice.

No doubt the absence of some of the above may be cause for pause of thought, and it may well be a very long pause.
The five artists in this exhibition continue to make works of considered interest and value. They have been doing so because they said they would. No doubt each artist’s life events and circumstances have shaped and reset expectations and trajectories.

Evidently the artists in this exhibition have enjoyed privileges and have been supported by the tangential circumstances of their individual commitment.

I note many others with greater professional credentials than I have, have made this claim before me, and will continue to do so after me.

My thanks to you, my fellow exhibitors for making work that I respect and continue to enjoy.

Stephen Wickham 2022