Exhibitions and Events – Sheila Foundation

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Sheila is delighted to welcome two new directors w

Sheila is delighted to welcome two new directors who both bring an extraordinary range of skills and a passion for Sheila’s purpose to our strong and dedicated volunteer board.

CHARLOTTE GALLEGUILLOS
Charlotte Galleguillos is Deputy Director of the Biennale of Sydney, where she develops partnership and engagement strategies that extend across the arts and cultural industries.

Charlotte has spent her career championing inclusive programming at leading arts organisations throughout NSW, including the Australian Museum, where she was the inaugural Chair of the Australian Museum’s Reconciliation Action Plan and Carriageworks, where she led the Solid Ground Initiative providing arts education, training, and employment pathways for Indigenous Australian youth. Charlotte is a member of the National Art School’s First People’s Advisory Group.

MICHAEL BOHN
Michael Bohn is a Chartered Accountant with 15 years of audit and risk assurance experience across Australia and Norway with KPMG. Working predominantly with ASX and internationally listed clients, he specialises in complex accounting, risk assessments and financial statements related advice.

Michael is a current Board member of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and chairs the Audit and Risk Management Committee. His previous voluntary commitments include supporting the Chamber of Arts and Culture WA and the Young Chartered Accountants Panel WA.

NEW WORLDS: WOMEN TO WATCH 2024 - International Sp

NEW WORLDS: WOMEN TO WATCH 2024 - International Spotlight

Step into the visionary realm of female creativity at "New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024" exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Explore how 28 artists reinterpret ideas through shifting geographies, cultural lenses, and time periods. Showcasing the largest installment yet of the "Women to Watch" exhibition series, this dynamic collaboration between NMWA and its outreach committees promises an enriching journey. Committees from around the globe collaborated with curators to spotlight talented artists, resulting in a diverse selection of works for you to experience. Don't miss this vibrant celebration of creativity and diversity!

On show from April 14–August 11, 2024. Washington D.C.

Images:
1. Meryl McMaster, Lead Me to Places I Could Never Find on My Own I, from the series “As Immense as the Sky,” 2019; Digital C-print, 40 x 60 in.; Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery, and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
2. Saskia Jordá, Raíces (Roots) (detail), 2019, felt, thread, cotton yarn, plaster, and wooden spools, 78 x 64 x 16 inches, Courtesy of the artist © Saskia Jordá, Photo by Claire A. Warden
3. Alexis McGrigg, The Waiting Room, 2022; Procion dye & acrylic on canvas, 68 x 158 in.; Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech Gallery; Photo by Austin Robinson, ASVP Photos

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INTO THE LIGHT: Elma Roach (1897-1942) Little kn

INTO THE LIGHT: Elma Roach (1897-1942)

Little known Melbourne modernist Elma Roach was one of 12 artists researched for Sheila's Into the Light 2021 Project. From a prominent family of writers and artists, Elma studied at the National Gallery School in Melbourne from 1917 under Bernard Hall, a teacher and artist known for his cosmopolitan approach. Two years after art school she left for Europe, where she lived and worked on and off until 1936, much of the time in the company of friend, companion and fellow artist Madge Freeman.

From 1931 Elma and Madge painted and studied with Polish artist Adolphe Milich, who inspired Elma to return to oil painting. By 1934 Milich, who was Jewish, suggested they live in Sanary on the Mediterranean, known as a safe haven for Jews. Elma's ITL painting Sanary south of France, was made that year. It captures the natural beauty and charming architecture of the Cote d'Azur in a sharply defined and striking composition reflecting a classical interpretation of modernism. Over this period Elma also sent works back to Australia and showed in the Paris Salons.

In 1936 Roach returned to Melbourne, but shortly after was diagnosed with cancer, dying prematurely in 1942. Her friends and fellow artists organised a memorial exhibition the following year. Unmarried and with no family to care for her legacy, her work gradually disappeared from view. Fast forward to 1982, when the Jim Alexander Gallery, Melbourne, formerly Important Women Artists, mounted a joint exhibition of three artist friends, Dora Wilson, Eirene Mort and Elma Roach. Sanary, south of France was cat 6 in the exhibition.

The painting reappeared at a Melbourne auction in 2021, where it was purchased by Sheila. And then two years later, in another auction including artworks from the estate of Jim Alexander, a painting appeared by Adolphe Milich, Sanary 1934. Clearly the same location and painted in the same year, we now have an unexpected opportunity to compare master and student and understand the links that existed between Australian women artists and the Europeans they studied and worked with.

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Past EVENTS

The Sheila Network Inaugural Event

25 July 2019

Sheila meets Nora

19 November 2019

Trying to find comfort in an uncomfortable chair

26 July – 6 October 2019