PETER DAVERINGTON



PETER DAVERINGTON's painting "The New Colony" is included in the upcoming exhibition "New Horizons" opening at Gippsland Art Gallery in June. The exhibition is to showcase the next phase of contemporary landscape painting in Australia- works with futuristic outlooks, presenting a world that has become synthetic, constructed, magnified, modified or otherwise manipulated.

From curator Simon Gregg:
"This is the next phase of Australian painting- at its most dynamic and dramatic"  

New Horizons will be open 1 June- 25 August 2013
http://www.wellington.vic.gov.au/page/page.asp?page_id=1682

GUAN WEI



ARC ONE are pleased to announce that GUAN WEI has been selected for the 2013 Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA (Sydney) foyer comission.

Wei's large scale mural painting in the entrance to the MCA, entitled 'The Journey to Australia', will be an important and visually vibrant piece shining a daring light on current political debate in Australia. 

From the MCA:

'Guan Wei’s new work 'The Journey to Australia' (2013) is a figurative painting that references the MCA’s location at the site where the First Fleet came ashore on Gadigal land in 1788 and the artist’s experiences as an immigrant to Australia from China in 1989.

Guan Wei comments: ‘From a historical point of view, the MCA’s location at Circular Quay is a place where, in the past, many immigrants have landed - a place which links the past with the present, you with me, and Australia with the world.’ 

The work is also inspired by current debates about immigration and refugees in Australia; in particular the heated commentary that often surrounds the arrival of people to this country by boat.

As Guan Wei says: ‘I have observed that much of our daily news is filled with stories of refugee ships arriving in Australian waters… As an Australian immigrant and as an artist, I am able to not only identify with but also to help relate and bear witness to [the refugees] solemn, stirring and tragic story…’

MCA Curator Anna Davis said: ‘Guan Wei has a highly original vision and is a significant figure in both the Australian and Chinese contemporary art scenes. For the past 25 years he has been creating work that interweaves imagery from his Chinese heritage, personal mythology and life experience. Guan Wei has a long history with the MCA. He was an artist-in-residence in 1992 and was the first artist to have a solo exhibition on Level 4 in 1999. Several of his works have been acquired for the MCA Collection, some of which are currently on display in Volume One: MCA Collection. The scale and ambition of his new mural is impressive and will be a fantastic addition to the MCA series of wall commissions.’

Image above ia a production sketch. Image source and more information from the MCA:
http://www.mca.com.au/press/2013/05/09/new-mca-foyer-commission/
 

MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS- Following the great success of his Lake Eyre ‘SALT’ series, and multi award winning documentary from 2009, Murray Fredericks new film ‘Nothing on Earth’ premieres at the Sydney film festival on 9 June 2013.

Set atop a melting glacier in the uninhabitable landscapes of Greenland, director and producer Michael Angus (Salt, Ooldea, The Fight Game) follows Fredericks as he battles the elements in his quest for original and breathtaking imagery.

Murray finds himself alone in a landscape he's never been, in a place he doesn't understand, hoping this time he hasn't taken his quest too far.

The photographic results of Fredericks Greenland project will be showing at ARC ONE in November 2013. 

See the preview of the documentary here:

http://www.nothingonearth.com/

 

ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN is featured in an extensive exhibition of Australian abstract art entitled 'Vibrant Matter' currently showing at Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville.

 From Tarrawarra:

‘Vibrant Matter includes paintings and sculptures from the past six decades which resonate with a vital materiality.

The exhibition will feature work by artists for whom both the materiality and the ‘facture’ of the work – including its line, composition, tone, colour and texture – rather than the use of narrative and figuration, is the primary means by which they express their insights, emotions and ideas.’

The exhibition is open 20 April- 16 June 2013

More information from Tarrawarra Museum of Art:
http://twma.com.au/exhibitions/event/vibrant-matter/ 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT



PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT in the permanent collection at The Art Gallery of New South Wales:

Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s 'Buddha lives', a six panel acrylic on canvas work, has been included in the permanent collection at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Suwannakudt's new 'Bhava series' is on view at ARC ONE until 11 May 2013. 

The artist who just closed a show at Sundaram Tagore in New York is also included in the group show 'ORIENTing: With or Without you', currently on view at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 4 May-13 July 2013, UWA Western Australia.

SAM SHMITH

PLATE GLASS
14 May - 15 June 2013 at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne

In Plate Glass, Sam Shmith’s seven new large-scale landscapes operate as a portrait of our own contemplative attempts to grasp that which we are existent within, yet secluded from.  Shmith’s photographic mastery elucidates the polyvalent function of plate glass; offering transparency, perspective, protection and reflection.  It is the particular function of windows to permit the interior and exterior, the inside and the outside, to be united.  Yet, in looking out a window, we also demarcate our own private, sheltered enclaves, our own contemplation.  

Depicting expansive composite landscapes, often as they are encountered in states of transit, Shmith’s photo-works take us to places unrecognizable, yet strangely familiar. Digitally layered from an image bank of over 60,000 self-harvested photographs, Shmith choreographs a hybrid of images from his personal archives into each photo-work.

Thematically, Shmith cites Flight to Arras (the Antoine de Saint-Exupery autobiography), describing the poet’s task as being ‘to erect images like ramparts round (a) thing in order to capture it.  To capture it in a snare of images.’  The poetic nature of Plate Glass oscillates around a combination of the familiar broad strokes of one’s view of the landscape, the sky, the earth, with the specific and unsettling moment of understanding oneself within it – one’s reflection in the glass.  We are taken to a bird’s eye view of a city, the ink black of night skillfully illuminated and captured from an aeroplane window as the craft slowly descends.  We are struck by the eerie stillness of a train, the landscape hustling past its passengers and the passengers gliding away, captured within a fluorescent glow.  

Currently living between Melbourne and New York, Shmith finds himself in bustling locations bursting with diversity and the potential for the expansion of experience.  Following the success of the exhibition In Spates (2011), Plate Glass is Shmith’s third solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery.  Recently, Shmith was awarded the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize in December 2012 with the work, Untitled (In Spates 7), and was a finalist in the Albury Art Prize.  In 2011 and 2010 he was shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, as well as the Hutchins Art Prize (2011).  In 2010 Shmith was awarded GQ’s Artist of the Year and was a finalist in the National Photography Prize, among many other awards and grants.

Shmith’s works appear in the collections of the Macquarie Group Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Parliament House Collection, Art Bank, the Albury Art Gallery, the collection of Patrick Corrigan and private collections throughout Australia and the United Kingdom.  

JANET LAURENCE



'Environemental Art of Loss and Wonder'-
A beautiful article in The New Scientist on JANET LAURENCE's exhibition 'The Ferment', showing at the Fine Art Society in London until 11 May 2013.

"Standing in front of Broken Hearted Wood, it is as if you are inside the owl's tree, a disconcerting ghostly apparition that won't go away. When you accidentally catch sight of yourself in the glass covering the work, it's really difficult not to feel that you are part of the picture.

That, of course, is what Laurence is about: she wants you to care about the relationship between the natural and the human worlds.

She draws you in with a powerful mixture of paintings, photographic images and installations. There are transparent images on acrylic, mounted on a background that is sometimes the wall, sometimes a mirror or just a coat of paint. And a 'layering' technique adds to the astonishing sense of being there."

To read the full article visit
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/04/janet-laurence.html

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS



As part of Federation Square's creative program, presented by dLUX Media Arts, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS' film 'Waiting for Lass' will at various times be showing on the big screen on Fed Square througout all of April 2013.
The artists in the program have been hand picked with an aim to showcase Australian video art publicly and in a large format.

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s exhibition, Bhava Series, presents the subjective state of one’s existence within “in-between” spaces.  Full of a richness of colour, a density of voices and intonations of place, this is Suwannakudt’s fourth solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, 9 April - 11 May 2013.

In Thai, the complexity of the word bhava encompasses ‘existence,’ or ‘the status of being’, which originated from a Pāli word meaning ‘to become’ or ‘a subjective becoming,’ in the sense of living, feeling and ascending within one’s continuous and cyclical worldly existence. In her devotion to her sense of self and discovery, Suwannakudt continues to create works that are contemplative, aesthetic tapestries - condensed communicative murals.

Phaptawan's recent sculptural and collaborative works further extend into the subjectivity of experience, participants writing their private thoughts on cloth made of vegetation fibre picked and woven in Thailand, the remnants of which have been incorporated into some of the works in Bhava Series. Imbued with allegorical and everyday references - like one looking from a window over a landscape rendered both familiar and foreign - these works tell stories of personal memories, dreams and experiences of perpetual movement towards understanding and belonging.

In Bhava Series, Suwannakudt's paint and cloth weave together with the density of a multimedia tapestry, in direct reference to over twenty years of foundational training as a muralist in Bhuddist temples under the master tutorship of her father, Paiboon Suwannakudt. Phaptawan Suwannakudt migrated from Thailand to Australia in 1996, her entry into Australian culture being a disorientating experience.

Suwannakudt has held solo exhibitions in Sydney, Bangkok and Melbourne. Recent shows include All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, 2012; Locution-(re)-Locations, 100Tonson, Bangkok (2011); Edge of Elsewhere, Campelltown Arts Center, as part of Sydney Festival, 2011; Women Artists Exhibition 100th year of International Women's Day, The National Gallery of Thailand, 2011; Catching the moment: Each Step is the Past, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, 2010; Three Worlds, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 2009. Suwannakudt graduated from Silpakorn University, Thailand with a degree in English and German and completed her MVA at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.

 

ARC ONE are pleased to announce that ROBERT OWEN, IMANTS TILLERS, ANNE ZAHALKA, JULIE RRAP, ROSE FARRELL and GEORGE PARKIN are all included in the exhibition 'Mixtape 1980's' at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Mix Tape 1980s 'explores a decade of dynamic change in contemporary art and culture, from appropriation and sampling in painting and music to the DIY aesthetics of post-punk music, art and fashion; and from postmodern critiques of history, authorship and originality to postcolonial revisions of Australian history and identity.'

The exhibition is open 11 April- 1 September 2013.
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/mix-tape-1980s

Imaged above: JULIE RRAP, Persona and Shadow Christ.

JANET LAURENCE



JANET LAURENCE, recent recipient of the John Glover Price, is opening her first major solo exhibition in the UK.
Presented at The Fine Art Society in London, 'The Ferment' is the product of forty years spent examining the complex relationships between natural and man-made environments, making nature at once her subject and her object. 

'The Ferment' will be on view at The Fine Art Society, London between 12 April and 11 May 2013.

Read the interview with Janet on her upcoming show and other things from blouinartinfo:

http://au.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/881129/australian-artist-janet-laurence-on-her-first-major-uk-solo
 

PETER DAVERINGTON



Opening 6 April at Linden Contemporary Art Centre, PETER DAVERINGTON is included in the show 'Innovators 1' with his animation 'ARCADIA'

'Innovators 1' presents the work of five artists who explore the human condition. They each comment on the man made versus the organic; past, present and future; concepts of reality and imagination through time-based work. 

From Linded Art Centre:
http://www.lindenarts.org/exhibitions/2013/innovators-1.aspx 

LYDIA WEGNER (GUEST ARTIST)



LYDIA WEGNER opened her new show entitled "Folded Colour" at Melbourne Centre for Contemporary Photography, CCP on 4 April. In the striking new series Lydia has used unconventinal scraps and objcets to create abstract colour field images, turning material into shape, grain and colour. 

The show is open till 19 May 2013. 

http://www.ccp.org.au/exhibitions.php?f=20130519_Gallery_4

IMANTS TILLERS



We are proud to announce that IMANTS TILLERS has been announced winner of the 2013 WYNNE Price with his extraordinary, soul searching painting 'Namatjira'. 

'Namatjira' is a hommage to painter Albert Namatjira, who through his watercolours of central Australia found a way to repair some of the psychic and spiritual damage long endured by Aboriginal Australia.

More information through the Art Gallery of NSW:
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/wynne/2013/29422/

PETER DAVERINGTON

IMANTS TILLERS



IMANTS TILLERS has been selected as a finalist in both the Archibald Prize and Wynne Prize, 2013.

Pictured above:  Tillers' Archibald finalist portrait, The emergency of being, acrylic and gouache on 25 canvas boards, 150x150cm.

The Wynne, Archibald and Sulman Prize finalists can be viewed at the Art Gallery of New South Waies from 23 March - 2 June 2013.

More information:  http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2013/29389/ 

JANET LAURENCE



Janet Laurence has won the prestigious 2013 Glover Prize for landscape with the stunning work, Plants Eye View (the Tarkine, Tasmania), 2012.

Janet is the first woman in 10 years to have been awarded the prize.

The Glover Prize:  http://www.johnglover.com.au/winners.php?award=glover+prize+winner

Photo courtesy Graham Baring

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO



MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is included as one of ten artists in the inaugural exhibition entitled 'Cantos Cuentos Columbianos' at the new grand scale initiative and exhibition space 'Casa Daros', opening on 23 March in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Casa Daros is an institution of Daros Latinamerica; one of the most comprehensive collections in the world dedicated to contemporary Latinamerican art. 

daros-latinamerica.net/

PETER DAVERINGTON



Peter Daverington features in The Age Melbourne Magazine (March ed., p. 57) in the Best of Art section, written by Penny Webb.

PETER DAVERINGTON

From the Future with Love, a vibrant exhibition of Peter Daverington’s new paintings and the Australian debut of his animation, Arcadia, will be at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne from 5 March-6 April 2013.  This will be the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery.  An opening reception will be held on Saturday March 9 from 4 – 6pm.

In From the Future with Love, Daverington presents us with a testing ground for the limits of painting.  Daverington’s simulated landscapes and multiple architectural geometries – ever so precisely represented in his earlier works – are now summoned to a Formalist deconstruction.  The breaking down of the canvas’s pictorial surface creates a fantasmic world, captured by Daverington’s fractured architectural planes.

Evolving his trademark painterly visual codes of landscape, architecture and geometries of space, Daverington continues his exploration into the collapse of traditional western symbols of landscape—inspired by the traditions of the Italian Renaissance and German Romanticism.

Daverington’s debut animation work Arcadia, (2012) (HD, single channel video 8:54 mins), propels his aesthetic into a fluid and immersive virtual world. The artist’s own musical score accompanies Arcadia’s haunting and meditative articulation of moving space. The skilfully composed melodic sounds reveal Daverington’s mastery of musical performance and composition. The exhibition will include limited edition animation stills and mixed media collages inspired by Arcadia.

This project has been assisted by the City of Port Phillip through the Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship.

ISABELLE RUDOLPH (GUEST ARTIST)

ISABELLE RUDOLPH

DESAFINADO

30 January – 16 February 2013

Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm

Desafinado is Isabelle Rudolph’s debut exhibition (as the recipient of the 2011 ARC ONE Gallery/Monash Award for High Achievement) at ARC ONE Gallery. An installation comprised of a large central sculpture and twelve illustrations, exploring foreign scenes and memory of place. Rudolph’s central sculpture, Compass (2013) is an assemblage of hard rubbish—cupboards and furniture salvaged from the streets of Melbourne. This reflects Rudolph’s exploration of the potentiality of discarded items as new and appropriated architectural forms. Positioned in the centre of the gallery, the openings and closings of the drawers and doors form a compass that map out multiple landscapes and destinations. 

According to Google Earth, each of these locations can be found at that exact axis point. For Rudolph, the installation draws on a longing for stability and a sense of worth in life; but of knowing the impossibility of such solace, thus discovering a beauty within imperfection.

Desafinado is inspired by architecture discovered on Rudolph’s travels—the extravagant domed religious and state structures contrasted with domestic dwellings such as the squats of Europe’s Roma and the favelas of Brazil. Compass reflects these two aesthetics: drawing its composition from one, material and process from the other. Rudolph’s practice engages in how the refiguring process can make the familiar appear exotic and the discarded beautiful—without denying the object’s status as refuse. 

Isabelle Rudolph would like to make the following acknowledgements: I would like to thank my ever-generous family: John, Bronwyn, Sophie and James for all their help and support. Also special thanks to  Phillip Meyer and Gregory Cairns for their cheerful persistence in helping throughout the many phases of production. I would also like to thank Julie Watkins, Fiona Waters, Tania Guidolin, Hannah Camilleri and John Gregory for their contributions.

 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT



Phaptawan Suwannakudt: Budda's Lives and his Enligtenment on loan to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Phaptawan Suwannakudt monumental work Budda's Lives and his Enligtenment (1997-98) 
will be on display in the Asian Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 31 January 2013 for three months. This is work was produced during 1997-8 and was exhibited in Australia and overseas at Museum of Contemporary Art of Castello, (D'art Contemporani De Castello) Valencia, Spain, (2000) and Cambelltown Arts Centre (2011).

Born in Thailand, Phaptawan Suwannakudt has been exhibiting nationally and internationally for over twenty years. Her style developed from bearing witness to her late father’spractice, the renowned Thai traditional mural painter Paiboon Suwannakudt. 

Visit http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/ for further information.

ROBBIE ROWLANDS

Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre garden has two new sculptural installations by ROBBIE ROWLANDS. The two works titled 'Stem' and 'Where to from here' were produced during his recent residency at Hazelhurst.

Working site specific and reclaiming found objects, Rowlands transforms everyday materials common to the public eye, to poetic gestures filled with new meaning.

In 'Stem', Rowlands presents a cluster of street poles and signs welded together form a large thorny rose-like stem.
A seemingly unlikely location to find street signs- confusing our whereabouts and displacing our expectations, collectively these street signs reveal the area’s complex and layered history. 
In the second installation titled 'Where to from here' A local boom gate scheduled for demolition finds a new place and abstracted shape, expanding thoughts on how architecture of regulations conform our pattern of moving through society. Where do we go when no where is forbidden? 
 
More information from Hazelhurst:
http://www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Arts_Entertainment/Hazelhurst/Whats_on/Robbie_Rowlands

PETER DAVERINGTON



As part of the exhibition PEEKSKILL PROJECT V - PETER DAVERINGTON's new video work Arcadia (2012) is currently on view at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York. The exhibition will be open until 13 February.

http://www.hvcca.org/

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI is included in the new extensive curatorial project and exhibition entitled "ECONOMY" opening at Stills, Edinburgh, and at CCA, Glasgow on 26 Jan 2013.

Two parallell exhibitions make the core of the project that examines why, and how, art since the 1990s has revealed the economy to be the axis of contemporary existence.

ECONOMY Features works of over 40 international artists, a website as well as the forthcoming volume from the Liverpool University Press entitled ECONOMY: Art and the Subject after Postmodernism. 

Read more from e-flux here 
http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/economy/

Project webiste: www.economyexhibition.net 

The exhibitions will be open until 21 April this year.

 

VANILA NETTO: ONE TWO THREE OBLIVION

30 January – 2 March 2013
Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm

ARC ONE Gallery is pleased to present: 'One Two Three Oblivion'- VANILA NETTO's third solo exhibition at the gallery.

In the exhibition the artist presents fifteen photographic images and a neon sculpture. The disregarded, overlooked and transitory associations between the self, time and environmentally ruinous modes of consumption are captured within Netto’s presentation of space and form. Through Netto’s eye, these arrested objects and scenes are momentarily liberated from transience, provoking questions of consumption and obsolescence, constant themes evidenced throughout her work. 

In the work 'Once in a Lifetime' (2012), the height of Netto’s body (165cm) is traced in neon then separated into two parts to form circular shapes, metaphorically encapsulating the historic and unique eclipse of Venus over the Sun that occurred in June 2012. 
The circular motif of the eclipse repeats itself throughout One Two Three Oblivion in both its literal and symbolically powerful form, as generated by human consciousness throughout the ages. A collapse in the time-space continuum is captured, the self faced with the catalyst of the awe-inspiring eclipse and the workings of the universe, time, distance and space. This work expands on concerns initiated with The Artist as Luminous Source (2010), a single neon spiral measuring what Netto articulates as: ‘as long as I am tall.’

Netto’s practice includes photography, sculpture, drawing and video, referencing Modernist design and architecture, nature, science fiction and technology. The re-utilisation of ordinary objects is a reoccurring theme in Netto’s work; expressing personal anxieties in reaction to mass consumerism and the increasingly catastrophic exploitation of all the things we share. The shift between indoor studio scenes, cool landscapes, stark architectural forms and technological artifacts encourage the viewer to question our relationship with the environment and our lifestyles of material obsolescence. 

Born 1963, Salvador, Brazil, Vanila Netto lives and works in Amsterdam. Winner of the 2006 Australian Photographic Portrait Prize and a commended finalist for the 2005 Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, Netto has exhibited locally and internationally for over ten years. She is included in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, UBS Melbourne, and Deloitte, Sydney. Selected exhibitions include: Time and Vision, Bargerhouse Oxo Tower, Southbank, London, 2012; Open Atelier Paintings – New Works, 1800 Roeden Atelier 0.15 Hal B, Amsterdam, 2012; Project February 29th 2012, Kunsthale Hannover, Germany, 2012; In Advance, UTS Gallery, Sydney, 2010; The Isolated Object, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007; Perfect for Every Occasion: Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2007; Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art: 21st Century Modern, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2006 and 2004: Australian Culture Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2004. 

ISABELLE RUDOLPH: DESAFINADO

30 January – 16 February 2013
Opening: Thursday 31 January, 5:30-7:30pm

Desafinado is Isabelle Rudolph’s debut exhibition (as the recipient of the 2011 ARC ONE Gallery/Monash Award for High Achievement) at ARC ONE Gallery. An installation comprised of a large central sculpture and twelve paintings, exploring foreign scenes and memory of place. Rudolph’s central sculpture, Compass (2013) is an assemblage of hard rubbish—cupboards and furniture salvaged from the streets of Melbourne. This reflects Rudolph’s exploration of the potentiality of discarded items as new and appropriated architectural forms. Positioned in the centre of the gallery, the openings and closings of the draws and doors point to multiple worlds and destinations. The twelve paintings are positioned at the circumference of the sculpture and the landscapes depicted in the paintings correlate to the points of the compass. 

For Rudolph, the installation draws on a longing for stability and a sense of worth in life; but of knowing the impossibility of such solace, thus discovering a beauty within imperfection.

Desafinado is inspired by architecture discovered on Rudolph’s travels—the extravagant domed religious and state structures contrasted with domestic dwellings such as the squats of Europe’s Roma and the favelas of Brazil. Compass reflects these two aesthetics: drawing its composition from one, material and process from the other. Rudolph’s practice engages in how the refiguring process can make the familiar appear exotic and the discarded beautiful—without denying the object’s status as refuse. 

 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO



RECENT ACQUISITIONS

ARC ONE are pleased to announce the following acquisitions:

--NGV acquires Guan Wei--
The National Gallery of Victoria has just acquired two of Guan Wei’s ‘Up in the Cloud’ sculptures—'Up in the Clouds #1' (2012) and 'Up in the Clouds #2' (2012). As a continuation of Guan Wei's sell-out 'Cloud' sculptures of 2009, 'Up in the Clouds' are a series of dark bronze sculptures. The cloud, as a symbol of liberty, features prominently throughout his practice. 'Up in the Clouds' portrays gentle figures playfully interacting with their cloud. The harmony between body and form alludes to the transience and freedom of nature.

--NGA acquires Maria Fernada Cardoso and Janet Laurence--
The National Gallery of Australia have recently acquired works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso and Janet Laurence.

The works by Maria Fernanda Cardoso are a set of nine sculptures from her 'Intromitent Organs Sculptures' (2008-2009) series. These works were exhibited as part of the 'Museum of Copulatory Organs' (2012) at the Sydney Biennale 2012.

Janet Laurence’s film 'Sanctuaried from AFTER EDEN' (2012) is compiled from footage taken at an elephant sanctuary in Aceh, Indonesia, and a panda sanctuary in Chengdu, China. Lost and endangered worlds - and the creatures in them - are the subject of Laurence’s After Eden project. 

Congratulations to Maria, Guan Wei and Janet.

SAM SHMITH



SAM SHMITH WINS MACQUARIE GROUP EMERGING ART PRIZE

ARC ONE are pleased to announce SAM SHMITH as the winner of the inaugural Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize. Dr. Michael Brand selected Sam’s work 'Untitled (In Spates 7)', 2011 as the winning artwork. The prize includes $10,000 and the acquisition of the work into the Macquarie Group collection.

Congratulations Sam!

NIKE SAVVAS

PAT BRASSINGTON



PAT BRASSINGTON in LOUISE BOURGEOIS AND AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS @ HEIDE

Don't miss ARC ONE artist PAT BRASSINGTON in the current exhibition at Heide Museum of Art. After the recent survey exhibition at ACCA and inclusion in many group exhibitions, Brassington's work will be examined in light of the practice of Louise Bourgeois.

This exhibition looks at the relationships between ten Australian artists and the art of american artist Louise Bourgeois.

http://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/current/exhibition/louise-bourgeois-and-australian-artists/edate/2012-10-13/eid/290  

Curated by Linda Michael
Heide II
HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen, VIC.

Open Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm
Closed Mondays
T (03) 9850 1500
info@heide.com.au

Image: Pat Brassington, 'This is Not the Right Way Home', 2003.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

NIKE SAVVAS

ARC ONE artist Nike Savvas will be presenting her first UK solo exhibition for more than a decade: 'Liberty and Anarchy' at Leeds Art Gallery in the UK.

The exhibition includes her small scale works and a large scale vibrant installation created especially for Leeds Art Gallery. A central installation, ‘Liberty and Anarchy’ will take over the largest gallery and will involve 18 large screens which hold hundreds of individually placed, taut plastic, brightly coloured ribbons. This large-scale installation will incorporate panels fixed from the floor to the ceiling, allowing audiences to walk amongst the colourful ‘cascade’ of panelled ribbons and view the alternating, shimmering colours from all sides. Exhibition will be showing from 7 December 2012 to 24 February 2013.

Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds, UK
7 December 2012 to 24 February 2013.

Image: Nike Savvas Sliding Ladder

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI: MONOGRAPH LAUNCH

ARC ONE is pleased to announce the launch of Dani Marti's first major monograph published by Hatje Cantz. The launch will be held at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney on Saturday December 15th, 2012.

Edited by Matt Price, the monograph contains texts by Morgan Falconer, Kirsten Lloyd, Colin Perry and an interview with the artist by Octavio Zaya.

'Dani Marti is one of Australia’s most exciting artists to have recently emerged to international acclaim, both charming and challenging audiences, curators, and critics alike with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven “canvases” and video documentary. Connecting the two media is the concept of portraiture or, as Marti suggests, its inability to get beneath the surface of family, friends, lovers, and strangers. These psychological, sociological, emotional, and often graphic physical depictions push ethical boundaries, raising difficult questions about relationships, gay encounters, intimacy, and trust while questioning the role of the artist, the power of the video camera, and the cultural politics of the viewer. With his woven works, Marti’s questioning turns to wider notions of portraiture and sexuality in Modernism, Minimalism, and geometric abstraction.' - Matt Price.

This publication is avaliable at ARC ONE Gallery: please email us to place your order:
mail@arc1gallery.com or phone 03 9650 0589.

Marti's monograph will be officially launched by Simon Mordant AM, Chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Australian Commissioner for 2013 Venice Biennale.

Saturday 15 December, 2pm
Australian Centre for Photography
257 Oxford Street, Paddington.

ROBERT OWEN



Our current exhibition, Robert Owen, Fallen Light, is featured in today's Age newspaper.

ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN: FALLEN LIGHT 2012 - paintings
13 November - 15 December 2012
Opening: Saturday 17th November, 4-6pm

ARC ONE Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of a new series of paintings by Robert Owen – Fallen Light.

In Fallen Light, the vertical black fields of the portrait abstract paintings—titled Soundings—are intersected by refracted light in yellow, pink, blue, grey, green and brown. Like composed musical notes the colours dance across the canvas. As the light resonates through space, the paintings capture the transition and encounter of the two separate spheres of pure light and pure darkness. The canvas acts as a mediator for references, experiences and transitions—where sensation, colour and movement, interact and come into being. 

Owen’s artistic practice approaches the idea of abstraction as an experimentation and artistic examination of the properties and possibilities of ideas and objects. His artwork captures and illustrates distinct natural forces that may not be visible to the human eye. These connections and coexistences—between the physical and metaphysical—are formally expressed as transitions that unite and simultaneously disperse. 

As one of Australia’s most highly respected artists, Owen’s practice spans over forty years and includes sculpture, installation, painting, photography and major public commissions. 

Owen represented Australia at the 38th Venice Biennale, 1978; was awarded the Australian Council Visual Arts: Crafts Emeritus Award for lifelong service to the visual arts, 2003; and the John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition 7 UK Prize, 1969. Group exhibitions include: Photographic Abstractions, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2012; Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008; New Acquisition in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2005; A History of Happiness, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2002; Geometric Abstraction in Australia 1941-1997, University Art Museum, University of Queensland, 1997; Spirit and Place: Art in Australia 1861-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 1996-7. Solo exhibitions include: Inside and Out, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, 2007; Different Lights Cast Different Shadows, The 2nd Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2004; The Text of Light, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria, 2004; Between Shadow and Light – London Works 1966-1975 Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1999. Selected collections include: British Museum, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Olympic Sculpture Park, Korea. Selected public commissions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Harry Seidler Building, Sydney; Triptych Development, Southbank, Melbourne; and Webb Bridge, Docklands Melbourne. 

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas monograph "Full of Love Full of Wonder" has been published by Black Dog Publishing.

Nike Savvas, winner of the prestigious Australia Council Fellowship Grant for Fine Art in 2010, is an artist of both large-scale installation and small-scale works. Drawing her inspiration from a variety of sources, from Op Art through to kitsch, her work often conflates painstakingly crafted detail and complex mathematical algorithms - drawing attention to both the tangible and the abstract at once.

Her objects and installations often invite the viewer to partake in the active experience of her work, by physically shifting, repositioning and refocusing their gaze, in order to unveil ever-changing facets to the works. Her art is never quite ‘stable’, rather Savvas creates tantalising, fluctuating objects that captivate and mesmerise the eye and the mind.Full of Love Full of Wonder is the first monograph on her work.

Born in Sydney, Australia, of Greek-Cypriot parents, and moving to London in the mid-1990s to develop her arts practice, Savvas continues to work between London, Sydney and Nicosia— her artistic identity is therefore an eclectic reflection of her multiple heritages.

The book is currently available through Black Dog Publishing or Amazon.

MCA commission NIKE SAVVAS for LOUIS VUITTON
ARC ONE are pleased to announce the partnership of Louis Vuitton and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.  Nike Savvas has been commissioned by the MCA to create an installation at the Louis Vuitton George Street store in Sydney. 

ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN's installation "Silence" in the new Hamer Hall, is featured in Spanish Design Magazine Modaes:

"Swarovski fills Melbourne with the brightness of its crystals. Through its division Elements, the company has signed a partnership agreement with the sculptor Robert Owen that is reflected in the interior of the Hamer Hall in the Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia.

 
Link to the artictle:
http://www.modaes.es/look/20121018/swarovski-elements-lleva-su-brillo-a-melbourne.html
 

 

GUAN WEI

Now showing: 

GUAN WEI
THE ENCHANTMENT

09 October - 10 November 2012
Preview: 4-6pm, Saturday 13 October, 2012

Guan Wei’s artistic practice draws on his own experience as a Chinese national who migrated to Australia from China in 1990—following the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Guan Wei made many changes in the 1990’s. It became a significant time for him in Australia, where he explored cultural relationships among China and Australia, ideas of immigration, colonisation, identity and cultural tolerance, come together to create a fantasy world illustrating his own personal transition between the two cultures. In 2005, he returned to his homeland, this pilgrimage to his native soil mediated a sense of wellbeing, and finally, a sense of place.

Guan Wei is an adept storyteller who masterfully engages his audience. There is fine and gentle nature to Guan Wei and his artistic practice. The gentleness manifests in his own questioning and enquiry of his creative world. The Enchantment, a series of twelve paintings, and Up in the Clouds, a series of five bronze sculptures, retains the humour, wisdom and cross-cultural exploration that have become characteristic of his oeuvre.

In The Enchantment, the artist as magician plays his hand to the allure and power of art. In this imagined new world, the ‘Big Guy’ is the central figure in the paintings. He features as the modern day alchemist, masterfully playing out and watching over scenes of his enchanted universe. In the words of the artist: the passing of time translates the tension and strangeness experienced at the beginning, into maturity, and finally capability. The alchemist has mastered his universe.

As a continuation of his sell-out Cloud sculptures of 2009, Up in the Clouds features a series of dark bronze sculptures. The cloud, as a symbol of liberty, features prominently throughout his practice. Up in the Clouds portrays gentle figures playfully interacting with their cloud. The harmony between body and form alludes to the transience and freedom of nature.

ADAM HILL's work 'Bennelong Had a Point' is now part of the permanent collection for the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA. 

This work is a typically witty play on a cultural pun by Adam Hill.

Bennelong Point, the stretch of land where the Sydney Opera House now sits, is the site where Bennelong (a senior man of the Eora Aboriginal (Koori) people) was originally captured by Europeans in an attempt to create ties with the people of the land.

Rather than succumbing entirely to the colonial forces of the Europeans, Bennelong maintained a relationship with these figures, while trying to change the behaviour of Europeans on Aboriginal lands. 

He spent many years as an interlocutor for the Europeans, and travelled to London. But did not relinquish his ties to his people or their land. His forethought into the potentially mutual impact that Aboriginal and European peoples could have on one another is...a fair point to be considered.

ROBBIE ROWLANDS



ROBBIE ROWLANDS: Place of Assembly, Melbourne Festival

As part of this year's Melbourne Festival, Robbie Rowlands is among 11 guest artists who will create site specific works to acknowledge the closing of a vital chapter at the Abbotsford Convent's community life after 120 years.

Official opening Wednesday 10 October, 6pm
Abbotsford Convent.

http://www.melbournefestival.com.au/program/production?id=4061&idx=8&max=10 

PAT BRASSINGTON



PAT BRASSINGTON interview with ACCA

In this interview, produced by ACCA in connection with her current exhibition at the gallery, PAT BRASSINGTON speaks about beauty, colour, source material and her work in Á Rebours at ACCA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNg2BaPP-8c&feature=relmfu

 

JANET LAURENCE



JANET LAURENCE, The Memory of Living Nature, 2010-12 is currently a Featured Work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

The work utilizes the idea of natural history museums, which have always used dead specimens to explain the living. Here, the dried plants, stuffed birds, burnt bones and minerals act not only as a memorial to lost nature but also a warning regarding the fragility of our environment. While the scientific instruments recall botanical science, the see-through structures play on the idea of a glasshouse as well as museum display cases

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/galleries/australian/featured-works/laurence/

JANET LAURENCE

Current Exhibition: Opening drinks 8 September, 2012 4-6pm.

Exploring notions of art, science, imagination, memory, and loss, Janet Laurence’s practice examines the interconnection of life-forms and ecologies and observes the impact that humans have on the threatened, natural world.

With Avalanche, Laurence constructs a wild and fragile environment amidst the imminent threat of extinction. The beauty of intricate objects and luminous images is poetically nurtured in this intimate modern day wunderkammer.

As part of her research, Laurence works with biologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, and botanists, collecting data and images from remote environments, including the Tarkine Rainforest in North West Tasmania. In this series of work, the Tarkine is depicted on a micro scale; one of close concentration and proximity that denotes tenderness and intimacy. Laurence’s fondness for this pristine environment, and her concern for the threat that humans pose to it, brings a sense of pathos to the works. With a delicate tinge of malaise, notions of fragility, loss, and undoing, are presented on a scale of intimate catastrophe. If there were wounds in the fabric of nature, chlorophyll would spill from them—this notion is memorialised and honoured in Laurence’s work, and amongst layers of reference and beauty, Avalanche gives special access to relatively unknown worlds within worlds.

Throughout her career, Laurence has consistently pursued what she regards to be a continuous source of inspiration and struggle—the environment and our undoing of it. As we enter into a geological timeframe that is characterised, above all, by the impact of humans on the environment, Laurence’s art remains persistently vital in its exploration of issues that are, at once, intimate and global.

Janet Laurence lives and works in Sydney. She has exhibited in significant group exhibitions, including: 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010); Clemenger Contemporary Art Award, National Gallery of Victoria (2009); Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (2003, 2006); Australian Perspecta (1985, 1991, 1997); and the 9th Biennale of Sydney (1992). She has exhibited internationally in China, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan and United Kingdom. Commissioned works include: ‘Tarkine’ Macquarie Bank Foyer, London, (2011); Translucidus, Qantas Lounge, Sydney International Airport (2002); Central Synagogue, Sydney (1999); ‘49 Veils’ (with Jisuk Han), (1998); ‘The Edge of the Trees’ (with Fiona Foley), Museum of Sydney (1994); and ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier’, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (1993). In 2012 the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney commissioned a solo exhibition ‘After Eden’. Key collections include: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; University of New South Wales, Sydney; University of Technology, Sydney; Artbank Australia Collection; Macquarie Bank Collection, Melbourne; APA Collection, Nagoya, Japan; Itoki Collection, Tokyo, Japan, S.C.H.E.M.A. Collection, Florence, Italy.

PAT BRASSINGTON



PAT BRASSINGTON AT ACCA

THIS SEASON'S PUBLIC PROGRAMS, ACCA

On À Rebours
Wednesday 29 August, 7pm
Through the lens of feminism, fetishism, surrealism and psychoanalysis, listen to the doyens pull at the seams of Pat Brassington: À Rebours

With Sexologist, Cyndi Darnell, writer, social commentator and co-author of The Great Feminist Denial, Monica Dux and Psychoanalyst, Milena Mirabelli.

Chaired by: Dr Anne Marsh, Professor of Art Theory (Art Design & Architecture, Monash University) and author of Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph (2006)

The gallery and bar will be open from 5pm. 
Free. Places are limited.

IMANTS TILLERS



IMANTS TILLERS, The Melbourne Recital Centre.

Saturday 11 August, 8pm.

As part of Spectrum, a solo recital of new works by Australian and British composers, IMANTS TILLERS' vast work, Tabula Rasa (detail), 2012 will be projected onto a large screen during the performance of Rosalind Page’s Being and Time II: Tabula Rasa. This composition draws inspiration from IMANTS TILLERS’ work as an Australian painter.

Spectrum is a recital of innovative contemporary works by a diverse range of Australian and British composers.  It was commissioned, and will be performed by the well renowned London-based, Australian pianist Zubin Kanga.

www.melbournerecital.com.au 

ARC ONE GALLERY AT THE MELBOURNE ART FAIR, 1-5 AUGUST

ARC ONE’s curated space at the Melbourne Art Fair brings together works that are both complex and engaging, displaying an ongoing commitment to an expanding field of abstracted visual possibilities. 

Narrow salt strips of iridescent blues; geometric grids of painted refracted light; organic contours of artificial colours: these exuberant bursts are the psychedelic exploration of futuristic wonderlands within the framework of consumer culture, technological advances and spiritual ideology.  Orbiting the imagination of seven cross-generational artists, these playful and subversive works animate the collaboration of nature and technology through minimalistic hues, abstract forms and judicious shapes. Favouring repetition and geometric pattern, these works create an immersive topography that is evocative of a science-fiction novel exploring exotic lands that are both of and out of this world. 

 

JACKY REDGATE



JACKY REDGATE will be exhibiting at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in 'CCP Declares: On the Nature of Things' from 3 August - 16 September.  Curated by Kyla McFarlane, the exhibition brings together work that is loosely connected by their relationship to things, as both subject matter and in the artist's attention to the photographic object.
 

ANNE SCOTT WILSON



ANNE SCOTT WILSON is collaborating with Alexandra Harrison at Dancehouse from July 31 - August 1 at 6.30pm.

'Forest of Gesture' is a short video work and live performance capturing people in their rapid trajectories in busy urban spaces.  'Forest of Gesture' attempts to pause and reflect on the excesses of action and create space in movement for alternative and unexpected future possibilities.  

For more information, please see: http://www.dancehouse.com.au

PAT BRASSINGTON



PAT BRASSINGTON will be having a major survey at ACCA.  This will be the first extensive gathering of her practice and will explore her enigmatic collages from the last thirty years. The exhibition will be from the 11 August - 23 September. 

JACKY REDGATE and ROBERT OWEN are included in 'Photographic Abstractions' at the Monash Gallery of Art.  The exhibition will draw on MGA's significant collection of Australian photographs who employ photography to achieve abstract effects.  The exhibition will be open from 3 August and continue until 30 September 2012.

Opening 3pm Saturday 4 August

Curated by Stella Loftus-Hills and Stephen Zagala

ROBERT OWEN



Harry’s Park which features the artwork of ROBERT OWEN recently won an Urban Design Award from the NSW Chapter, Australian Institute of Architects.

The Jury commented:

The Public Park is a fitting tribute to one of Australia’s pre-eminent modernist architects and creates a conclusion to four decades of Seidler building activity along Glen Street. The negotiation the land and the design and construction of the park were done by Penelope Seidler and the office of Harry Seidler and Associate, constituting a significant act of public philanthropy rarely seen in this country.

LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN, JASON WING, LACHLAN PETRAS and EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS are all included in the July - September issue of Art Collector.  

The work of IMANTS TILLERS 'Counting: One, Two, Three' (1988) and JANET LAURENCE's 'The Memory of Nature' (2010- 12) is currently featured in the Australian Galleries, which has been revitalised and expanded at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

PAT BRASSINGTON and JULIE RRAP works have been included in MONA's 'Theatre of the Mind', curated by Jean-Hubert Martin.

Julie Rrap's work (Horse's Tail, 1999) and Pat Brassington's (The Frog, 1997) are included in the exhibition that 'engages, and rejects, the widely held notion that ancient and contemporary works of art are inherently different, and that we must burden the past with the weight of history.'
 
MONA, Hobart
OPENING JUNE 23 2012- APRIL 8 2013

PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON will be exhibiting in The Santa Fe International New Media Festival/ June 22 - July 8, 2012.  currents 2012, the Third Annual Santa Fe international New Media Festival will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexicco, USA. The festival explores the role of technology and the diverse applications of New Media in the arts.  

http://www.currentsnewmedia.org/2012participatin.html

JACKY REDGATE

JACKY REDGATE's works will be on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 2 June to the 9 September in a major exhibition titled 'the logic of vision'. Taken from the Gallery’s collection the exhibition surveys the artist’s creative trajectory from the 1980s until now.

The exhibition is curated by Judy Annear.   

LACHLAN PETRAS (GUEST ARTIST)



LACHLAN PETRAS will be exhibiting at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts from 30 June to 29 July.  

Lachlan Petras is the 2012 recepient of the Linden Award offering a graduating Honours Student in the Department of Art & Design at Monash University an exhibition as part of the Innovators Program.

JASON WING's work is at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection, which opens a new exhibition on May 18 of contemporary Aboriginal art titled 'People of Substance'.  This exhibition includes a variety of site-specific installations by the Jason, including 'Blacktown Dreaming', a bed composed of hypodermic syringes.

Jason’s visit May 13 – 19 includes the installation of People of Substance, the presentation of an Artist Talk on May 17 at 7:00 pm, and an Opening Reception on May 18 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal art.

After leaving Charlottesville, Wing will participate in a seminar presented at New York University by the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research (INDAAR) on the future of Asian art.
 

JANET LAURENCE



JANET LAURENCE is exhibiting at the University of Queensland Art Museum from 12 May - 22 July, titled Animal/Human, curated by Michele Helmrich.  

Artists today are depicting animals in their work with remarkable frequency. The exhibition 'Animal/Human' presents a selection of works by contemporary Australian artists that explore our complex, contradictory and sometimes contentious relationship with other species. Their work variously touches on the psychological, ethical, philosophical, scientific and cultural parameters of the relationship. 

 

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)

TRACY SARROFF has been selected to exhibit a sculptural piece as part of the Melbourne Sculpture Prize 2012. The Melbourne Sculpture Prize is a $20,000 Non Acquisitive Award and will form the highlight exhibition of Art Melbourne Art Fair at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Hall in Carlton Gardens between May 24 – 27.

The winner of the $20,000 Prize will be announced at Art Melbourne on the VIP Opening Night Thursday May 24th 2012.

From this location, the Melbourne Sculpture Prize will continue its exhibition at the 530 Collins Street building from May 28 until July 6.

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)



TRACY SARROFF has been selected as a finalist in the distinguished Paul Guest Prize 2012 at the Bendigo Art Gallery from 14 July - 26 August. The Paul Guest Prize is a non-acquisitive cash prize of $12,000 which is held every two years, highlighting contemporary drawing practice in Australia.

The winner will be announced at the official opening on 13 July.

ROBBIE ROWLANDS



After the devastating floods of January 2011, Charlton’s newly renovated historic courthouse will hold an exhibition, The Trial by ROBBIE ROWLANDS.

6th - 10th June.

Artist Talk 11am Saturday 9th June. 

Charlton Courthouse

Opening Hours: 10am – 5pm
8 Camp Street
Charlton Victoria 3525
Contact: Carolyn Olive 0418 361 971
Limited disabled access

charltoncourthouse@live.com 

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS



EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has also been curated into 'Image Anxiety',  curated by Huang Du and forms part of the Official Section of PHotoEspaña that, under the artistic direction of Gerardo Mosquera, will explore the curatorial theme “From Here. Context and Internationalization”.

This exhibition will be produced by the Fundación Telefónica and hosted at the Comunidad de Madrid / Sala Alcalá 31 from June 3 to July 22, 2012, in the context of PHotoEspaña, Madrid´s International Photography and Visual Arts Festival.
 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT



PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT will be presenting her work, 'Three Worlds 1' to the Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra on the 28th May to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the bilateral relationship between Australia and Thailand.

JASON WING has been invited as an Emerging Artist to participate in the Redlands Westpac Art Prize.  

The Redlands Westpac art prize provides a unique opportunity to view an artist-selected exhibition of established and emerging contemporary artists from australia and new zealand. The structure for the selection of artists for the exhibition, of the chosen established artists individually selecting an emerging artist, contributes to the development, training and mentoring of the next generation. 

The exhibition is on at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, 3 May - 2 August, 2012.

ADAM HILL's work is featured in the May Issue of Art Monthly in an article, 'Aboriginality, Masculinity and Vanity', by Eve Sullivan.

 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO'S work will be included in a curated exhibition entitled, “Conference of the Birds” on view at Mana Contemporary located at 888 Newark Avenue in Jersey City, NJ (Manafinearts.com), opening on May 6th. The exhibition, which features artworks by thirty artists from around the world, explores our collective relationship to birdlife and the ramifications on their habitat and ours. 

For more information on the exhibition, go to:
http://conferenceofthebirds.org/Conference_of_the_Birds/About.html

If you missed MARIA FERNANDA CARODOS on the ABC talking about her wonderful sculptures of copulatory organs of many small creatures, please see:

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/series/3424236

JULIE RRAP and ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN's work will be included in a new exhibition at Glen Eira City Council Gallery titled 'Encounters'.  

Opening Wednesday 30 May, 6.30pm.

Floor talk by Curator Diane Soumilas, Wednesday 20 June at 3pm

31 May - 24 June


 

ROBBIE ROWLANDS



ROBBIE ROWLANDS has created an extraordinary site responsive sculpture 'The Utilitarian' as part of the City of Greater Dandenong's place making program.  

'The Utilitarian' alters a teal green street lamp decommissioned from service in Lonsdale Street in 2010.

Commissioned in 2011, the work rests in a compact park between the press of buildings that connects Lonsdale Street and Palm Plaza in Dandenong, Victoria.  

JAMES MCALLISTER (GUEST ARTIST)



JAMES MCALLISTER'S work will be included in 'UNEXPECTED PLEASURES: the art and design of contemporary jewellery' at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne from 21 April until 26 August, 2012.   Bringing together important works from around the world, this exhibition will begin with the radical experiments of the contemporary jewellery movement, challenging the conventional understanding of personal adornment.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/unexpected-pleasures

PETER DAVERINGTON



PETER DAVERINGTON is included in a group show called 'Under The Influence', in the LOFT, Brooklyn, New York.

The exhibition opens May 16th, 6-9pm and continues until May 20th.

For more information, please see:

http://kiangaellisprojects.com/home.html

LACHLAN PETRAS (GUEST ARTIST)



LACHLAN PETRAS was awarded the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize at the 2012 National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) on Saturday 21 April.  

The graduate exhibition, entitled Hatched, was a showcase of 36 emerging artists selected from art schools across Australia.

Lachlan's piece, 'Aggregate', which combines sculpture, drawing and video, caught the attention of the selection panel and was awarded the country's major graduate art prize - the $35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize.

Now in its third year, The prize is recognised as career-changing for emerging Australian artists, providing the winner with an excellent spring board from which to launch a professional career.

ANNE ZAHALKA and JACKY REDGATE have been curated into Dissonant Visions at Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus from 24 April - 7 July.  

This exhibition presents works from the Monash University Collection that explore visual arts, text and politics, and critically examine structures of representation.

Opening function, Satuday 28 April, 3-5pm 

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS



EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has won the prestigious 2012 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award at the Gold Coast Art Gallery with her work Vestiges #3.  

Guest judge Kon Gouriotis commented;

"I kept on returning to Eugenia Raskopoulos 'Vestiges' photograph because of the poetic transformation that was occurring, especially the experimentation with texture and the sculptural potential of the materials."

March 31 - May 13, 2012 

 

SAM SHMITH



SAM SHMITH's work is included in an exhibition titled 'Light Works' at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.  

Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world. 

23 March - 16 September, NGV

HUANG XU (GUEST ARTIST)

GUAN WEI and HUANG XU will be exhibiting together in 'Sifting Time' at the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, curated by Damian Smith.  

Through painting, photography and installation each practitioner plays with ideas of cultural transformation and tradition.  Through their diverse artistic practices, they reflect on the ways that culture is either preserved or discarded, remodeled in contemporary guise or forgotten with the passing of time.

2 April - 20 May, 2012 

IMANTS TILLERS



IMANTS TILLERS has won the 2012 Wynne Prize for his work, 'Waterfall (after Williams)'.  The painting is Imant's version of Fred William's 'Free copy of Eugene von Guerard's Waterfall, Strath Creek, 1862'.  Super-imposed over the ever-changing movement of water, Imants has quoted the sentiments of a famous Indian sutra.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO



MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will feature on ABC1 on the 24 April at 10.05pm.  The program will be a unique insight into Cardoso's investigation into the copulatory organs of many small creatives.

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art is highly complimentary of Cardoso’s work. “The interesting thing about Maria is that she takes a topic like an animal penis and she teaches us something about it... I don’t think anyone has explored this topic over such a long period of time with such intensity.”

24 April, 10.05pm  ABC1

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS



EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.  

Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world. 

23 March - 16 September, NGV

JULIA GORMAN



A new public sculpture by JULIA GORMAN will be unveiled in Kensington at 10am, 11 April,cnr of Clifford Terrace & Gower Street, Kensington.  

At the core of this site-specific public sculpture is the representation of the human face across diverse civilizations and over thousands of years. It is about different communities living together and creating a unified society.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's artwork Woven Water will be included in the MCA reopening on the 29 March.  Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed into a major cultural centre for contemporary art and creative learning. 

ROBERT OWEN

An instructional painting of ROBERT OWEN’s will be included in the MCA opening on the 29 March.  Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed into a major cultural centre for contemporary art and creative learning. 

JASON WING and ADAM HILL are exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art in an exhibition titled, Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, curated by Djon Mundine OAM.  The exhibition brings together the work of eight of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers and explores many of the stereotypes associated with Aboriginal masculinity from a range of viewpoints including documentary photography. 

 

 

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP’s 360 Degree Self-Portrait has been reviewed by Amelia Jones in Art and Australia, Vol 49, No. 3, Autumn 2012.  This work won the 2009 University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize and was exhibited at the Gyeonggi Museum of Art in 2010 in an exhibition titled The Trickster, curated by Victoria Lynn.  360 Degree Self-Portrait will also be included in the MCA re-opening on the 29 March.

JULIE RRAP's work will also be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013.  Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.

 

VANILA NETTO

VANILA NETTO's work will be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013.  

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection will tour to the following galleries in New South Wales in 2012 and 2013:

Lismore Regional Gallery 4 February 2012 - 18 March 2012

Moree Plains Gallery 26 March 2012 - 6 May 2012

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 24 May 2012 - 1 July 2012

Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 13 July 2012 - 26 August 2012

The Glasshouse Regional Gallery 29 November 2012 - 20 January 2013

Tamworth Regional Gallery 1 February 2013 - 10 March 2013

Grafton Regional Gallery 27 March 2013 - 12 May 2013

Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 27 May 2013 - 14 July 2013

DANI MARTI

The first major monograph on the work of DANI MARTI's is now released.   

Dani Marti (*1963 in Barcelona) is among Australia’s most exciting artists recently to have emerged to international acclaim, both charming and challenging audiences, curators, and critics with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven ‘canvases’ and video documentary. 

To order a copy:  http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.phpcmd=detail&titzif=00003365〈=en

DANI MARTI is currently in New York on an artist residency.   

Dani  has also been shortlisted for  the 2012 Margaret Tait Award. Please find full information on this here: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/glasgow_film_awards    

It has been confirmed that DANI will be having a solo show curated by Octavio Zaya in Harlem towards the end of the year and also another one in 2013 at CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, in Canarias.  Also confirmed in 2013 DANI will be exhibiting in a group show curated by Paco Barragan at the Museum of Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Arnhem Netherlands.

 

 

KARL WIEBKE (GUEST ARTIST)



KARL WIEBKE will be having a survey exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, at the Australian National University, Canberra. Curated by Tony Oates, the exhibition runs 7 April - 20 May, 2012.

GUAN WEI



GUAN WEI and HUANG XU will exhibiting together in Sifting Time... curated by Damian Smith at the Chinese Museum, 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne. 

Through painting, photography and installation each practitioner plays with ideas of cultural transformation and tradition.  Through their diverse artistic practices, they reflect on the ways that culture is either preserved or discarded, remodeled in contemporary guise or forgotten with the passing of time. 

The exhibition opens 2 April and continues until 20 May.  A floor talk with curator Damian Smith will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 11 April, 1-2pm. 

MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting a select group of works from his SALT project at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of Fotofreo from 17 Mar - 15 Apr, 2012.  He will also be giving exhibition tours of his exhibition.  For details and bookings see fotofreo.com.

As part of Fotofreo, MURRAY will also be available for portfolio reviews on Tuesday, March 20, at the Fremantle Arts Centre. The Reviews will be conducted between the hours of 10.00 am and 12:30 pm.

MURRAY will also be on a panel discussing The Landscape in Australian Photography Today, with Alasdair Foster (moderator) and Gael Newton at the Theatrette at the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle from Saturday, 17th March from 2.00 - 4.00 pm.

LYDIA WEGNER (GUEST ARTIST)



LYDIA WEGNER has been selected to participate in FutureGen 2012.  Opening from 17 March until 11 May at the John Curtin gallery at Curtin University (Western Australia) as part of Fotofreo 2012.  

FutureGen will profile the best emerging photo-media talent from around Australia - the best of the ‘future generation’ of Australian photographers.  
 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO



MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been selected to participate in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, 27 June until 16 September, 2012. 

Titled 'all our relations', the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works by more than 100 artists hailing from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. Nearly half the artists in the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works created specifically for this exhibition, including many substantial collaborative installations.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be also be participating in the exhibition, 'South of the Border', at the Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, 31 March - 29 April.

PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON features in this month's (March) Art Monthly. The article is written by Kirsten Rann.

PETER DAVERINGTON currently lives and works in New York.

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT has been selected to participate in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, 27 June until 16 September, 2012. 

Titled 'all our relations', the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works by more than 100 artists hailing from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. Nearly half the artists in the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works created specifically for this exhibition, including many substantial collaborative installations.

JULIA GORMAN



JULIA GORMAN has launched a blog, titled 'side projects etc' 

http://sideprojectsetc.blogspot.com.au/2012_03_01_archive.html

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN



ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN'S works have been included at the Maroondah Art Gallery in an exhibition titled, Freeze! The directorial turn in contemporary photography.  Curated by Wendy Garden, this exhibition is a diverse selection of works by artists who pursue the narrative possibilities of the photograph as an inherently performative space.  These constructed scene offer socio-political commentary along with poignant insight into the human condition.

22 March - 5 May, 2012

JOHN DAVIS



JOHN DAVIS' prizewinning sculpture has been installed in the entrance of the University of Tasmania's school of visual and performing arts at Inveresk.  The work is a gift to the university from the rebadged Bell Bay Aluminium.  The piece was the winning entry in the Comalco Invitation Award for sculpture in aluminium in 1970.  

ROBBIE ROWLANDS



ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been selected for the 2012 McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award to be held from 18 November 2012 – 14 July 2013.

VANILA NETTO



Congratulations to VANILA NETTO for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with her work 'Process Crosses 2'.

Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012

MURRAY FREDERICKS



Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with his work 'Hector 12'.

Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012

ANNE ZAHALKA



ANNE ZAHALKA will be exhibiting at the Maroondah Art Gallery in an exhibition titled, Freeze! The directorial turn in contemporary photography.  Curated by Wendy Garden, this exhibition is a diverse selection of works by artists who pursue the narrative possibilities of the photograph as an inherently performative space.  These constructed scene offer socio-political commentary along with poignant insight into the human condition.

22 March - 5 May, 2012 

PAT BRASSINGTON



PAT BRASSINGTON has been selected for the 2012 ADELAIDE BIENNIAL OF AUSTRALIAN ART, titled 'Parallel Collisions' at the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kanter.

Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.

2 March - 29 April, 2012
 
Pat Brassington says of her work; "Too much digging into one’s motivation runs counter to free-flowing spontaneity, but I do seem to be attracted to the enigmatic. When morphing an image I baulk prior to resolution and may prefer to leave it hovering uncertain and incomplete. Our minds endlessly seek resolution and hence closure exerts magnetic attraction. My aim is to use this gravitas to spin off towards other possibilities. 
  
This work revisits strategies that I have used in the past where I have regulated the visual sense of ‘the piece’ through syntax and through the use of multiple images, instead of singular images and individual frames. I aim to pitch my images just off the verge of normality, into those dense patches where the commonplace goes awry." 

LACHLAN PETRAS (GUEST ARTIST)



LACHLAN PETRA'S work 'Aggregate' has been selected for the National Graduate Show at PICA, opening 20 April and continuing to June.

35 artists from 20 of the country's most prestigious art institutions have embraced diverse art forms, such as painting, collage, photography, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, performance, video, sound art and mechanical engineered installations to express their social concerns.

SAM MARTIN (GUEST ARTIST)



SAM MARTIN is in a group exhibition at the Faculty Gallery at Monash University titled, 'Museums in the Incident'.  The curator Steven Rendall has invited a disparate assembly of artists to take on aspects of the curatorial mantle. They have each selected a work from the Monash University Collection to be installed alongside work drawn from their own practices. 


The exhibition opens 15 February and continues until 22 March.

SAM SHMITH



SAM SHMITH has been shortlisted for the Albury Art Prize 2012.  The Albury Art Prize is one of New South Wales oldest municipal art awards, offering $20,000 for an international residency. The exhibition opens 27 January and continues until 4 March. 

JUSTINE KHAMARA



JUSTINE KHAMARA is one of the artists to be announced to exhibit in the Gallery of Modern Art’s (GOMA) upcoming ‘Contemporary Australia: Women‘ exhibition which includes 33 artists and collectives to feature as part of the large scale exhibition opening on April 21.

http://blog.qag.qld.gov.au/artists-announced-for-contemporary-australia-women/

JASON WING has spent the last 18 months painting murals, etching designs and suspending metallic 'spirits figures' in Kimber Lane in Sydney.   The work is part of the City of Sydney's $5 million revamp of three lanes in Chinatown.  

Wing said his artwork referenced symbolism from his Aboriginal and Chinese heritage and it extended to a 'universal spirituality' because people from around the world made up the Chinatown community.

For a review on the work, see the Sydney Morning Herald:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/smelly-lane-gives-way-to-serene-cloud-street-20120120-1qa7k.html

JASON WING will also be exhibiting in 'shadowplay' at dna projects|contemporary art, Sydney.
The exhibition will open Friday 9 March, and continue until 31 March.

JANET LAURENCE



JANET LAURENCE will be presenting a new commission for Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Sydney opening 16 March.

Janet Laurence’s work explores the poetics of space through the creation of works that deal with our experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world.  Profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms, Laurence often produces work in response to specific sites or environments using a diverse range of materials. 

The exhibition continues until the 19 May, 2012. 

For more information please visit:
http://www.sherman-scaf.org.au/exhibitions#/

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT



PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is currently exhibiting in the Edge of Elsewhere Exhibition, which is taking place from January 2012 as part of the Sydney Festival in Campbelltown. This is a three year long-term project which engages with the diverse cultural mix of suburban Sydney.

In its final year, Edge of Elsewhere showcases new commissions from a range of innovative and exciting contemporary artists from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific, developed in collaboration with a range of Sydney communities.

Presented across two venues, this landmark project positions a number of communities of Greater Sydney within a wider context of Asia-Pacific. Edge of Elsewhere is a bold commitment to artistic collaboration, community participation and the exploration of contemporary ideas in the suburban environment.

For more information on the Edge of Elsewhere Exhibtition, see http://edgeofelsewhere.wordpress.com/

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)



TRACY SARROFF has had a very successful art residency at the Marrickville Council, Sydney. As part of the residency, Tracy had a solo exhibition titled 'Future Nostalgia', at Chrissie Cotter Gallery (Marrickville Council), Sydney.

CATHERINE WOO



CATHERINE WOO is currently exhibiting in 'Breathe', as part of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Associated Event, at Art Atrium.  'Breathe' is a group exhibition of women artists with Chinese ancestry, exploring physical and metaphysical ideas of breath and breathing space in their interior and exterior lives.

The exhibition opens Saturday, 28 January and continues until 18 February.  
 
For more information please visit:
http://www.artatrium.com.au/

CATHERINE WOO's work has also been reviewed in a new book by Jeff Makin, published in November, 2011. 

DENISE GREEN will be launching her new publication 'An Artist's Odyssey' at the NGV Shop, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square on Saturday 11 February at 3.30pm.  

Denise will talk about the ideas in her book at 2.30pm in the NGV Australia Lecture Theatre.  

DENISE GREEN, JACKY REDGATE AND DANI MARTI feature in the current issue of Art Collector.  

Issue 59, January - March 2012 

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS



EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting a new video installation titled 'footnotes' at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.  'Footnotes' addresses ideas of sexuality, gender and communication through the performing body. The exhibition opens 6pm Wednesday, February 22 and continues until 13 May, 2012.  

"The artist has in the past used steam, salt, oil and chalk as a means to smear, score and drip words into temporary formations that emphasise the fluidity of language. In her new video installation footnotes, she turns to materials that relate more directly to ideas of sexuality and gender – from lipstick to liquids of more ambiguous origins.

Using her own limbs as instruments or surfaces for inscription, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, written in English and Greek. Through these gestures, she draws attention to translation as an awkward exchange that is shaped by the potential for loss or contamination of meaning.

The performing body is an insistent presence in footnotes, emphasising written and spoken communication as inherently bodily functions. However, in evoking the slippage between different languages and juxtaposing this with references to sexuality and the erotic, Raskopoulos also alludes to aspects of experience that are beyond words." AGNSW

Join Professor Anne Marsh and Eugenia in a discussion of the exhibition and the artist’s practice at 6.30pm Wednesday 22 February, 2012.   

For more information please visit:
 http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/eugenia-raskopoulos-conversation/

ROBBIE ROWLANDS



ROBBIE ROWLANDS has designed the set for Insomnia, a new conceptual work by Megan Washington.  His set has received a fantastic review in the Drum Mag.

"Robbie Rowlands' set design for the show, was absolutely stunning, evoking a top-floor old-world New York City apartment with touches of pre-war Berlin, featuring a larger window (which doubled as a screen where short pieces of video art were displayed) and industrial props across a warm and romantic palate of lighting. "

A multi-layered show, Insomnia incorporates art, poetry, photography and designs, all drawn from Washington's personal archives. It offers a revealing insight into an intense 12 months for the double ARIA Award-winning artist, exploring all sides of her emotional and creative life.

SAM SHMITH

SAM SHMITH has been asked by the NGV to contribute to their NGV Blog about his approach to light. His work is currently featured in Light Works at the NGV, which runs until 16 September.

http://blog.ngv.vic.gov.au/2012/08/13/on-light-in-digital-imaging/

ROBERT OWEN

The collaboration of some of Australians most distinguished design minds at Southbank's celebrated art-inspired apartment residence, 'Triptych', has won two coveted awards at the annual Urban Development Institute of Australia's Victorian Awards for Excellence.  ROBERT OWEN'S commissioned artwork, spanning the buildings entire 29-story facades and featuring a series of artworks in the entrance lobby, has been praised as being a paramount element in the success of the apartments.  

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN



LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN are currently exhibiting at the NGV in Looking at Looking: The Photographic Gaze, 30 Sep 2011 - 4 Mar 2012. 

Don't miss the opportunity to hear Lyndell and Charles speak about their work, 2pm Saturday, 3rd December at the exhibition space, Level 3, NGV.  

The act of photographing people involves a process of observation, scrutiny and looking.  At times photographers remain detached and anonymous.  Other times they are complicit, directing their subjects and encouraging specific actions and poses.  Sometimes the gaze is returned, and sometimes it is denied.  The power of the gaze can create complex relationships between the subject, the photographer and the audience. 


For more information, please visit:
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/looking-at-looking 

ROBBIE ROWLANDS



ROBBIE ROWLANDS' work has been included in the new publication Erratic: Visual Impact in Current Design.  Robbie is one of the three Australians included in the publication.

Published by Gestalten, Erratic is a collection of current, often playful work by designers, photographers, and artists who are exploring the reciprocal effects between stability and instability, symmetry and asymmetry, and pressure and counter-pressure.

PETER DAVERINGTON

Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON who is the recipient of the 2011 Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship.  

PETER'S work is current being shown at the St Kilda Town Hall in  'Recent Acquisitions, Port Phillip City Collection (2012-2011)' from 30 December to 29 December, 2011.
 
For more information, please visit:
http://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/recent-acquisitions-gallery-program.pdf 

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)



TRACY SARROFF will be undertaking an artist residency, awarded by the Marrickville Council, Sydney during December. Coinciding with this month long project, she will be exhibiting sculptural installations and drawing-based works at the council-run Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown. The exhibition ‘Future Nostalgia’ will take place from December 7 – 24. Open Hours Wed - Sun 11am - 4pm

MURRAY FREDERICKS



Another article on MURRAY FREDERICKS SALT project has been written for The Wall Street Journal.  

To read the article by Rebecca Thurlow, please visit:
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/11/14/photo-show-focuses-on-wide-open-space/tab/print/
 

CATHERINE WOO

Congratulations to CATHERINE WOO whose work was HIGHLY COMMENDED in the
The Fleurieu Water Prize 2011.  

ROBERT OWEN



ROBERT OWEN has recently finished a commission for Harry's Park at the Harry Seidler office, Sydney. The park is intended to be a publicly used facility in memory of the late Australian Architect Harry Seidler in honour of his contribution to Architecture. Locally the Park site adjoins the Seidler Office building, a Sir John Sulman Award recipient. The park forms a paved Forecourt to the Seidler Office building to the northern edge, much like a pocket plaza to an iconic building. A vibrant sculpture by Robert Owen, 'Tracing Light - for Harry 3D/4D', is placed in the foreground to the façade to further invigorate the Forecourt and complete the vista.

Congratulations also to ROBERT OWEN whose work has been chosen via a very competitive selection process, to create a new major work of art for the redevelopment of Hamer Hall at the Arts Centre, Melbourne.  “The changes to Hamer Hall are enabling us to create one of the world’s great concert halls and a visually spectacular cultural attraction in its own right so I’m delighted that, through our Maxwell and Merle Carroll Bequest, it will house what promises to be visually impressive and eye-catching works of art," said Judith Isherwood, Chief Executive, the Arts Centre.  

PETER DAVERINGTON



PETER DAVERINGTON has recently completed a mural at Hibernian House, Sydney.

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)



TRACY SARROFF has been selected for the exhibition, Sculpture 2011 'Flourish', curated by Ken Wong at The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne, 9 November - 17 March

To be officially opened by Jason Smith, Director and CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art.

For more information, please visit: URL link: http://www.watcharts.com.au/toyota.html

JASON WING talks to RADIO NATIONAL about his solo exhibition The Other Other, which is on at Tandanya in Adelaide.

To listen to the Jason Wing segment, please go to:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/awaye/

ADAM HILL'S work has been included in the 2012 Magabala Indigenous Diary, which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, land and people.

Copies are retailing for $29.95 and can be ordered through Magabala Books on (08) 9192 1991.

JASON WING and ADAM HILL'S latest work will be in an exhibition curated by Djon Mundine OAM titled People We Know - Places We've Been, Goulburn Art Class 2-0-1-1, at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 3 November - 3 December, 2011.

This exhibition highlights a unique collaboration between a select group of well-known Aboriginal artists and Aboriginal inmates who live and work inside Goulburn Correctional Centre.  

ROBBIE ROWLANDS

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been selected to exhibit in the Lorne Sculpture prize, 2011.  Lorne Sculpture 2011 is a biennale exhibition launched in 2007 in the coastal town of Lorne, one of Australia’s premiere tourist attractions.

Over 90 artists from Australia and internationally who work within the contemporary sculptural realm will be included. These projects will include a mix of object based, representational, installation, site specific, ephemeral, time based media, sound, light, kinetic, video projections, happenings and performance.

The Lorne Sculpture Award exhibition is on until November 8th.

 

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN, CHERRY HOOD and JUSTINE KHAMARA's work will be included in Double Vision, 13 November - 5 February, 2012, at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery.

'Double Vision explores contemporary art with ideas of portraiture and the body as the focus.  Representing through a myriad of mediums what it is to be human, the exhibition charts its ways through encounters of the unexpected, psychological and humorous. This exhibition also looks at the captivating art of Realism and the intriquing exchanges that occur between painting, photography, digital image and sculpture.'

Opening Sunday 13 November, 3pm.

To be opened by Kelly Gellatly, Curator of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria 

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN



ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN will be exhibiting in a group exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, opening Friday 26th November and continuing until Thursday 23 December.   Sumptuary presents 'the work of five leading Australian photomedia artists who will explore the fabrics, costumes, jewellery and tableware of conspicuous consumption and absolute power'.

For more information please visit http://tmp.acp.org.au/future/

SUE FORD's work is curated into 'A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985', curated by Dr Kyla McFarlane, at the Museum of Art, Monash University.

'Spanning a decade within two decades, a significant time for feminist art practice in Australia, A different Temporality presents feminist approaches to temporality in the visual arts.  

Rather than an encyclopaedic summation of feminist practice at that time, selected works reflect specific debates and modes of practice: the dematerialisation of the art object, the role of film theory, and the adoption of diaristic and durational modes of practice, including performance, photography and film.  

This durational emphasis brings together feminist approaches to history and experience, as well as conceptual investigations of cinematic time and montage, ephemerality and event, repetition and flow - forms and ideas which continue to resonate in the present.'   

Opening Saturday, 15 October, 3-5pm. Exhibition opens 14 October and continues until 17 December, 2011

For more information, please see:
www.monash.edu.au/muma

JASON WING has been invited to contribute to STREETWARE 2 as part of Sydney's ART AND ABOUT SYDNEY, which runs from 23 September to 23 November.  

For this project, selected artists and collectives were invited to install artworks in Sydney's southern laneways and temporarily transform unused spaces into creative canvases to catch the attention and imagination of passersby. 

'Urban Jungle' by Jason Wing, based on a traditional Aboriginal cave painting reminds us to breathe and acknowledge natural intangible forces common to us all. 

A walking/cycling map which details the installations can be downloaded at: 
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/cityart/special/Streetware.asp

This public installations comes just after the completion a 5 x 20 metre mural commissioned by the City Council of Wagga Wagga.  This project saw Jason Wing working with students from various schools in order to develop an appreciation of mural art within the community.

For more information on this, see: 
http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2011/09/the-evolution-of-a-mural.html?site=riverina&program=riverina_mornings  

JASON WING is also currently exhibiting at TANDANYA, National, Aboriginal Cultural Institute.  THE OTHER, OTHER will be held between 30 September and 13 November and explores Jason's cultural and social background.  The exhibition follows from his 2010 OzAsia residency at the Adelaide Festival Centre.  

For more information on the exhibition, see: http://www.tandanya.com.au/ed102/jason-wing-the-other-other/ 

Jason will also be participating in a residency in Tibet throughout November.  He will be working with members of the Eastern Tibet Training Institute , which offers education and support to underprivileged people in Tibet.

http://www.etti.org.cn/

JASON WING

ANNE SCOTT-WILSON has been included in a traveling exhibition, Selectively Revealed, to tour Asia in the coming months.

This is a multi-media exhibition curated by Sarah Bond and Clare Needham in conjunction with Asia link, University of Melbourne and Experimenta.  It will be showing in Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand between October 2011 and July 2012.

Selectively Revealed explores the notion of what is public and what is private in our contemporary times.  While it was once universally accepted that what was internal was private, and what was external was public, in our current age of reality TV, Twitter and Facebook, confessional YouTube videos and the ubiquitous CCTV coverage of the city streets, this delineation is no longer adequate.  The line between public and private is increasingly blurred and we are constantly forced to question what is appropriate (and indeed interesting) for public consumption, and what is best kept to ourselves.

Employing a variety of screen-based practices and contemporary video-making techniques, the artists in Selectively Revealed choose precisely what - or what not - to reveal about themselves and those around them. 

For more information see
http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/our_work/arts/Exhibitions_on_Tour/Selectively_Revealed

ANNE SCOTT-WILSON 

CATHERINE WOO



CATHERINE WOO  has been shortlisted for The Fleurieu Water Prize with her work, Salt Lake.  The exhibition of finalists will be from 4 November - 5 December at Hardy's Winery, McLaren Vale, South Australia.

For more information, please visit:  
http://www.artprize.com.au/prize.html

MURRAY FREDERICKS



MURRAY FREDERICKS will be holding an exhibition of his SALT works at the Australian Centre for Photography from Friday 14 October to Saturday 19 November.

Conveying ‘essence’ over ‘place’, Murray Fredericks’s Salt series is breath-taking and awe-inspiring. Eight years in the making and comprising of sixteen separate trips, sometimes lasting up to five weeks at a time, Fredericks camped solo in the centre of Lake Eyre photographing a ‘landscape without landscape’.

Concentrating solely on colour and space, Fredericks’ work is at times reminiscent of JMW Turner as well as the colour-field painting of Rothko and celebrates the glory found in nature. Currently awash with water and wildlife, Salt depicts the lake at its most still, most meditative, most transcendental.

Also on show will be SALT, the 2009 multi award-winning documentary of the Salt project by Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks.

Murray will also be giving an artist talk at the Australian Centre for Photography from 11am -12noon on Saturday 15 October.  This is an exciting opportunity to hear Murray talk about his highly acclaimed SALT project series in an informal situation. 

For more information, please visit:
http://tmp.acp.org.au/future/ 

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN



Dr Charles Green, Associate Professor of  Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne will be presenting The Mayne Centre Lecture 2011 on the topic of Biennalisation.

Since the late 1980s the art world has seen a huge proliferation in the exhibition of contemporary art.  Art production has predominantly focused around spectacular and expensive forms of art, with a correlating demand that venues are able to accommodate the scale and public prominence required by such works.  In this lecture, Green will discuss the ways in which Biennales, Triennals and Documentas have met these demands by offering newcomers to the global scene a stage on which to participate in the contemporary art industry, while enabling a dramatically expanded audience the chance to see recent art.  

Through his extensive research into the emergence and expansion of Biennales and mega-exhibitions, Green is well qualified to be presenting such a lecture, and the presentation will, no doubt, be of an exceptional standard.

The University of Queensland Art Museum
Wednesday 12 October, 6pm.

Bookings essential.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au/2011-mayne-lecture 

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI will be exhibiting his work at the Newcastle Art Gallery from 17 September – 13 November, 2011.

"The notion of portraiture gets redefined in TOUCH The portraiture of Dani Marti, the first major survey of artist Dani Marti - to be opened by Louise Doyle, Director of the National Portrait Gallery at Newcastle Art Gallery.

Marti’s work explores the idea of the ‘impossibility of portraiture’. Can a portrait ever really capture the truth about a person?  Marti attempts to investigate this question through multiple means: video and large scale woven wall panels and sculptural pieces, each technique an attempt to capture something meaningful and essential about the subject.

Marti’s practice is also driven by what he calls his “obsession of trying to get close to someone.” It is an obsession that sees Marti reaching out to family and friends to be subjects, as well as strangers who live outside the mainstream that he meets on the internet. These encounters provide the catalyst for Marti’s ‘portraiture’

In the Internet age, identity is easily masked. It is a way of communicating but not connecting, it is a way to feel part of a community and yet remain isolated. Marti’s works reach through these carefully constructed identities and the new dynamics of digital relationships.

The connections made in these meetings and videoed are always intimate and at times Marti uses his sexuality to get even closer to his subject. From the initial engagement, and with the subjects consent, the camera is always rolling, becoming a part of the relationship, absorbing everything that takes place within its field of view.

While video is an important aspect of his work, Marti is perhaps best known for his large scale sculptural weavings, which utilise traditional Spanish techniques and carefully selected materials – often rope, wire, beads, leather, latex – to build a portrait that is more a textural memory of the person. 

These very physical and vibrant works offer a counterpoint to the video portraits, and another dimension to how Marti can render his subject. His work is held in private and public collections in Australia and internationally, and has been included in significant art exhibitions around the world. This exhibition, the first survey of Marti’s work in Australia, includes two major from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection - and Looking for Felix 2000 and George 2001 and brings together nineteen video and weaving works from across Marti’s eleven year career."

Don't miss the opportunity to hear Dani Marti speak about his work on 14 October, 6pm.  

For more information please visit:
http://www.nag.org.au/exhibitions/future/artist/dani_marti_george_2001

ANNE ZAHALKA



ANNE ZAHALKA's work is currently on display at the Lake MacQuarie Art Gallery in (re) vision, curated by Meryl Ryan. The cultural past is acknowledged in this exhibition by contemporary Australian visual artists who reference traditional genres and techniques, often appropriating directly from earlier masters.  

The exhibition goes from 16 September until 23 October, 2011. 

For more information please visit:
http://www.lakemac.com.au/page.aspx?pid=706&vid=13#revision

 

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP will be exhibiting recent video installations at the Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW from 10 September to 23 October in an exhibition titled, Off Balance.

JULIE RRAP will talk about her work before the opening of the exhibition on the 9th September at 5.30pm.  This will be a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of Australia's leading artists.  

For more information please visit:  http://www.lismoregallery.org

ADAM HILL has been selected as a finalist in the Cricket Art Prize, 2011.  The winner will be announced on the opening night event, Thursday 6th October at the Members Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground.  

The exhibition tour will be approximately 5 months in duration, travelling from Sydney to Melbourne then residing in Bowral.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.cricketartprize.org/

JACKY REDGATE

JACKY REDGATE wins $25,000 Bowness Photography Prize

Sydney photographer Jacky Redgate has won Australia’s most prestigious photography prize, the $25 000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize. 

Redgate’s winning photograph Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2010-2011 from the series Light throw (mirrors) is a beautiful, ambiguous picture. Redgate has described the photograph, a large still life arrangement created by throwing light from silver, bronze and grey mirrors onto brightly coloured modular plastic food containers from the 1960s and ‘70s, as “a cosmos or cosmology of objects”.

Judge and MGA Gallery Director Shaune Lakin said: “In the end the judging process came down to two photographs, both amazing pictures. We gave the $25 000 first prize to Jacky Redgate’s picture because it is virtually flawless as a photograph. At the same time the picture challenges many of the expectations we have about what a photograph is. It’s a highly ambitious photograph, and an extremely worthy winner of the country’s most significant photography prize.”

ARC ONE will be featuring the work of JUSTINE KHAMARA, ROBERT OWEN, CATHERINE WOO, VANILA NETTO, DANI MARTI, IMANTS TILLERS, PETER DAVERINGTON and JASON WING at the 2011 Korea International Art Fair.  The fair will go for four days from 22 - 26 September. ARC ONE will be at Stand No. A48.  

For more information please visit:

http://www.kiaf.org/

DANI MARTI, JANET LAURENCE and ROBERT OWEN have all donated significant works to the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.   

Arc One Gallery is proud to support Art for Science, a unique contemporary art auction held in support of the life saving research discoveries of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. 60 established and early career Australian contemporary artists - have donated significant artworks, to raise funds for research into conditions like allergies, diabetes, premature birth, genetic disorders and cancer. To find out more visit www.artforscience.com.au. 

The exhibition will open on 11 October and the auction will occur on the 15 October at Nellie Castan Gallery. 

JANET LAURENCE



JANET LAURENCE will be exhibiting at the Glasshouse Regional Gallery from 11 August - 9 October.  This sculptural installation of delicate plants hot housed within a Gallery space heightens the short lived and transient elements of her art.

For more information please visit:
http://www.glasshouse.org.au/event/in-memory-of-nature

Congratulations also to JANET LAURENCE for recently receiving an Australia Council Grant.

JACKY REDGATE

JACKY REDGATE has been selected for the 2011 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art.  Thirty-seven images by some of Australia's best photographers are in the running for the $25,000 prize.  

The finalist's works were selected from approximately 2000 photographs submitted by 432 entrants.  

For more information, please visit:
http://www.mga.org.au

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS



EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting at Art Bridge Gallery, 798 ART in Beijing, China from August 21 - September 15. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, the exhibition, Mute, will also feature the work of Beijing based sculptor Shen Shaomin. The collaboration functions as a conversation across the ideas of language, translation, mute and mutation, environment and loss.

A wonderful article on JASON WING has been written by Larissa Behrendt in the September Issue of Artlink.  

For more information please visit:
http://www.artlink.com.au/articles/3606/jason-wing-in-flight/

JASON WING will be exhibiting in Blending Boundaries at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, NSW.  The exhibits will run from September 1 - 1 October.

For more information please visit:
http://www.goulburn.nsw.gov.au

MURRAY FREDERICKS Salt series from Lake Eyre is featured in the September issue of National Geographic.  

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)

TRACY SARROFF has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Substation Contemporary Art Prize, Newport, Victoria.  The exhibition runs from 3 September - 25 September and the winner is announced on Friday 2 September 2011.  

For more information please visit:
http://www.thesubstation.org.au/

JUSTINE KHAMARA

JUSTINE KHAMARA has been invited to exhibit with the IPSWICH ART GALLERY in a group exhibition entitled 'Face in the Crowd: New Portraiture'.  The exhibition (10 September until 13 November 2011) explores the concept of individuality within a globalized context. 

http://www.ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/2011/09/10/face-crowd-new-portraiture

ANNE SCOTT WILSON



ANNE SCOTT-WILSON's work, exhibited at the Melbourne Art Centre in the exhibition Black Box <> White Cube, has been featured on the Behind Ballet blog of The Australian Ballet.  
http://www.behindballet.com/catch-the-show-before-the-show/

The exhibition explores the creative intersections between art and performance in contemporary Australian art.  Starting with performance art of the 1970s, this exhibition shows how music and dance, staged photography and film, theatricality and the spectacle of performance infuse vitality into contemporary Australian art.

The exhibition runs at the Arts Centre from 11 June - 25 September.


 

MURRAY FREDERICKS



MURRAY FREDERICKS has been shortlisted for the 60TH Blake Prize with his work Hector 9. The exhibition runs from 16th September - 15 October and is held at the National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney. Announcements are made on September 15.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.blakeprize.com.au

ROBERT OWEN



Visitors of Adelaide will enjoy ROBERT OWEN'S new commission titled 'Snake in the Grass' in collaboration with Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Landscapes Architects and commissioned by the Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, S.A. 

Photo courtesy by John Gollings.

JASON WING was selected by Shen Shaomin for a three week international residency in Hesun County, Shanxi Province.   Jason also participated in Heshun County International Art Festival, 2011, China, 'Where the West meets the East'.  He will be exhibiting works from his residency in a solo exhibition next year at Arc One Gallery.  

JULIE RRAP



JULIE RRAP has been shortlisted for the Monash Gallery of Art 2011 Bowness Photography Prize with Outerspace No 7, 2010.  

Thirty-seven finalist's works were selected from approximately 2 000 photographs submitted by 432 entrants.  

EXHIBITION OPENING AND ANNOUNCEMENT: Thursday 15 September

For more information please visit:
http://www.mga.org.au/bowness-prize/info-finalists-2011

Congratulations to CATHERINE WOO and ROBBIE ROWLANDS who have both been Highly Commended in the City of Hobart Art Prize.  The City of Hobart Art Prize will be open to the public from Saturday 23 July to Sunday 18 September at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.

For more information please visit:


http://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Arts_and_Culture/2011_City_of_Hobart_Art_Prize 

SAM SHMITH



SAM SHMITH has generously donated a work from his last solo exhibition at Arc one Gallery, In Spates to the 8th Annual Lighthouse Art Auction.  The 2011 Annual Lighthouse Art Auction will be held on Thursday 6th October.  All profits go directly to Lighthouse Foundations which provides homeless young people who come from backgrounds of long term neglect and abuse with a home, a sense of family and around-the-clock therapeutic care.  

TRACY SARROFF (GUEST ARTIST)



TRACY SARROFF has recently undertaken a funded artist residency in the historic village Hill End NSW through the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, and with the generous support of Arts NSW, the Department of Environment and Climate Change and Country Energy.  The residence 'Murrays Cottage' was once home to prominent Australian artist Donald Friend and Donald Murray.  The residency provided the opportunity to develop new work and be inspired by the rich cultural hisotry and environment of the region.

TRACY SARROFF has also been shortlisted for the biennial Agendo Exhibition and Award for emerging artists under the age of 35 with a non-acquisitive prize of $10,000.  This year, the exhibition is held at St Heliers Street Gallery, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne.  Exhibition runs August 3rd - 7th.

JULIE RRAP, PAT BRASSINGTON and GUAN WEI will be exhibiting at Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art in the exhibition Journeys: through history, theory and practice. Curated by Paul Zika.  Opening on 29 July and continuing until 28th August.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.utas.edu.au/tasmanian-school-of-art/events/events-2011/events/july/journeys5 

GUAN WEI

Bird Island, a solo exhibition by GUAN WEI will open July 15 at Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotel in Singapore.  The dates for the exhibition are July 6 - August 6.  

For more information, please visit: 

http://chanhampegalleries.com

LYDIA WEGNER (GUEST ARTIST)



LYDIA WEGNER has been shortlisted for the 2011 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.   

Exhibition Opening and Announcement of 2011 Fellowship Recipient: Thursday 14 July 6-8pm.

Exhibition Dates:  15-23 July 2011

For more information, please visit www.vcam.unimelb.edu.au/gallery

ANNE SCOTT WILSON

ANNE SCOTT WILSON is solo exhibiting at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide). Frayed opens 7 July and continues until 6 August.

'Painters are inclined to translate the everyday into patterns, chromatic fragments and form. Musicians seem to interpret through sound, rhythm and octaves. While writers convert the everyday through symbols and word associations, and video and photographic artists tend to process by combining all thought patterns. Anne Wilson combines all elemental processes, cultivating an odd space, a still psychological space, and a momentary space. Her narration distorts the ordinary, and submits a manipulation of time and space through motion, creating an interactive body-space.'  M.Amore Catalogue Essay

For more information:
http://aeaf.org.au/exhibitions/11_scott_wilson.html

 

CHERRY HOOD

CHERRY HOOD is included in a selection of portraits from the Maroondah Art Collection titled About Face.  Exhibition from 7th until 30th July, 2011.

For more information please visit:
www.artsinmaroondah.com.au 

ADAM HILL will be exhibiting at Cross Art Projects in an exhibition titled Beauty, Vanity and Narcissus.  Curator: Djon Mundine.

For more information please visit:
 
http://www.crossart.com.au/

ADAM HILL  will also be exhibiting at the University of Sydney Art Gallery in an exhibition titled Freedom Riders: Art & Activism 1960s to Now.  The exhibition opens 3 July and continues until 25 September.  

'The starting point for the exhibition FREEDOM RIDERS: Art and activism 1960s to now is a major portrait, Charlie Perkins, 1986, by Aboriginal artist Robert Campbell Jnr in the University Union Art collection. Perkins was the first Aboriginal graduate at the university and a key figure in the Freedom Ride, a historic intervention initiated by Sydney University students in 1965. The Freedom Ride focused unprecedented attention on the systematic racism experienced by Aboriginal communities in regional towns across New South Wales. Campbell’s art played a pioneering role in exposing the social and political realities of NSW Aboriginal people.' 

For more information please visit:

http://sydney.edu.au/museums/events_exhibitions/art_gallery_future_exhibitions.shtml 

LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN and GUAN WEI are in an exhibition, Collaborative Witness: Artists' reponses to the plight of the asylum seeker and refugee at the UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland.  

'Intense media coverage of events surrounding asylum seekers creates witness of all Australians.  Through multiple styles and materials, artists challenge one-dimensional portrayals and become not only witnesses, but also collaborators on the complex story of those seeking asylum'.   Curators Dr Prue Ahrens and Michele Helmrich.

Exhibition dates 11 June - 7 August, 2011

 

JASON WING will be solo exhibiting at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre as part of NAIDOC week.  People of Substance opens on Saturday 25 June at 2pm in the Community Gallery with special guest speaker Uncle Jack Charles. 

An article on JASON WING also features in current issue of Artlink Vol. 31 No.2 Indigenous #1 - Beauty and Terror.

JUSTINE KHAMARA'S sculptural work features on 5 pages in a new publication, Doppelganger - Images of the Human Being.  Published by the Berlin based publisher, Gestaltan.

DOPPELGANGER presents current trends in capturing the visual identity of human beings. Each of its seven chapters explores a different creative approach: Embody, Dissolve, Appeal, Reshape, Perform, Deform, and Escape.

Three works of DANI MARTI'S have been included in an exhibition titled FOUND at Glen Eira City Council Gallery.  Curated by Diane Soumilas.  2-26 June.  

Curated by Diane Soumilas, works that address current issues relating to contemporary life and consumer culture, recycling and our relationship with the environment, history, identity and memory will be included.

From small and large scale assemblages and sculptures utilising industrial materials and suburban utensils, to dynamic installations created from synthetic and everyday materials, the selection of works will engage viewers, providing a richly layered, immersive and often playful environment to explore and interact with.

For more information, please visit www.gleneira.vic.gov.au

SUE FORD'S life and artworks will feature on ART NATION, Sunday 5 June at 5pm ABC1 (repeated 9.20pm, ABC2).

Along with Carol Jerrems, Melbourne photographer, Sue Ford , made a lasting impression on Australian photography before her death in 2009.  She was the first woman to have a solo show of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1974. But this was only one of many firsts for feminist, filmmaker and photographer, Sue Ford.  This story examines her early work through an exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art, Time Machine: Sue Ford, and traces the life and times of one of Australia’s unsung heroines.  



 

ANNE ZAHALKA and ANNE SCOTT WILSON have been curated into a group exhibition at ACU Gallery, 26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy.  The exhibition opens Tuesday 14 June, 6-8pm.

Birth.art 
14 -30 June 2011

'Sensationalised media portrayals of birth, from the 'real life' stories of women and families to the fictionalised accounts of birthing displayed in film or in television (often focusing on themes of emergency, of pain and suffering, of panic), can trivialise birth through a lack of depth and understanding.'

Curators Tilly Morris and Jasmine Salomon 

For more information please visit:
http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/news_events/acu_events/melbourne/birth.art_exhibition

ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been curated into AIRed at the Post Office Gallery at the University of Ballarat.  The exhibition showcases the work of six visual artists who have undertaken a residency at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat during the last two years.  Opening on 12 May, the exhibition continues until 4th June.  

For more information please visit:

http://www.ballarat.edu.au/events/aired-6-artists-in-residence

TRACY SARROFF is exhibiting a drawing-based installation from March until October at The County Museum in Staffordshire/UK.  The series of drawings commissioned by the Staffordshire Arts and Museum Services were made in response to the flora found in Cannock Chase; an area of heathland and woodland near Stafford.

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN



ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and JACKY REDGATE'S work will be displayed at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in an exhibition titled Constructed Worlds: photography in the 1980s.

Photography in the 1980s can perhaps be best characterised by work made in the studio. Although photographers continued to document the world by going out in to it, others manipulated and altered the image, often appropriating and reinterpreting imagery from the past.Art school-trained, many were informed by various traditions such as Conceptual Art, with French theory all the vogue. It was common that artists, coming from other media, took up the camera at this time as another way of expressing their ideas. Their work asked the viewer to think about the nature of photography itself: less a window onto the world it became instead a means to create new worlds from the artists’ own imaginings.

A half day forum titled Tableaux Vivant: 1980s Photography is being held on 21 May, at the National Gallery, discussing the themes of the decade.  The exhibition opened on 8 April and will continue until 29 August.

For more information please visit:
http://nga.gov.au/artonline/146/default.cfm

Stick Intimacy by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibited in the Graduate School Exhibition for THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY.  

The exhibition runs from Thursday 12 to Friday 27 May 2011.  This exhibition is curated by Dr Debra Dawes, Director of SCA Graduate School.

For more information on the show, see the following website.

 http://sydney.edu.au/sca/

VANILA NETTO has been commissioned by ART & AUSTRALIA to collaborate with Sydney fashion designers, Romance Was Born to create a text-based art and fashion project for the June issue.  

For more information  see the June issue of ART & AUSTRALIA, or visit http://www.artaustralia.com/newsviews.asp?news_id=65

 

MURRAY FREDERICKS will be presenting a seminar "STRADDLING TWO WORLDS - CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY".

The seminar will take place at the National Art School, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Sunday, 15 May, 11am, for $95.

This is part of HEAD ON SEMINAR, a series of presentations, workshops, ideas and networking by Australian and international photographers, photo-journalists, editors and producers. 

For further information please see the link below.

http://headon.com.au/product/head-seminar-day-2-15-may-2011



 

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN



ANNE SCOTT WILSON and the collaborative duo ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN will be involved in the forthcoming exhibition BLACK BOX <> WHITE CUBE: ASPECTS OF PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN ART at the Arts Centre, Melbourne from 4 June to 18 September 2011.

JASON WING has been part of an exhibition REAL ESTATE: MINI GRAFF AND JASON WING in association with Cross Arts of Kings Cross, Sydney, an exhibition exploring the politics involved with public spaces. 

JASON WING will be exhibiting with Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in September 2011.  Tadanya is a cultural centre delivering an insight into Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, culture, history and heritage, more information on the centre can be found on the following website.

http://www.tandanya.com.au/ 

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been featured in a number of online magazines and forums, most notably "BOOOOOOOM", where reaction to his work has been extremely positive.  

http://www.booooooom.com/2011/04/18/sculptures-installations-by-artist-robbie-rowlands/

JOURNAL DU DESIGN, an online French design journal has also taken note of ROBBIE ROWLANDS' recent work.  This art and design review for April focused specifically on the conceptual and formal aspects of ROBBIE'S work. 

http://www.journal-du-design.fr/index.php/art/the-segmented-sculpture-par-robbie-rowlands-16683/  

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has a group show opening at The Library Art Space, an artist run initiative. The show, entitled "Google me this", is a series of self portraits by artists based on the results of a google search of their name.  This show opens Wednesday 11 May.

http://thelibraryartspace.blogspot.com/

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been selected as a candidate for the City of Hobart Art Prize for 2011.  Winners of this award will be announced Friday 22 July 2011, followed by an exhibition of the works from 23 July to 18 September 2011.
 

PETER DAVERINGTON, ROBBIE ROWLANDS and SAM SHMITH have been included in Australian Scholarly Publishing's latest publication, New Romantics, a lavishly illustrated survey of contemporary Australian Romanticism (2000-2010).  

Curator of Gippsland Art Gallery, Simon Gregg presents this book in conjunction with the exhibition New Romantics at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.

More information can be found by emailing aspic@ozemail.com.au.

Congratulations to GUAN WEI and ANNE ZAHALKA  who have both had works purchased by the Banyule City Council.  To celebrate the new acquisitions, Banyule City Council is coordinating an exhibition titled 21 New at Banyule Arts Space, Ivanhoe.

21 New opens Wednesday 20 April.  For further information, please see www.banyule.vic.gov.au/arts.

GUAN WEI and ANNE ZAHALKA will be exhibiting in Twelve Degrees of Latitude at Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland.  Exhibition opens 15th April and continues until 12 June.  

For more information please visit -
http://www.magsq.com.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=455

ROBBIE ROWLANDS

ROBBIE ROWLANDS will be speaking this Thursday, 14 April from 6.30-8.30pm in a panel on New Directions - Public Art in the 21st Century.  This panel discussion will look at how the nature of public art is changing under the influence of new technologies, changing interpretations of what constitutes 'public art,' and new artistic approaches to placing work in the public domain.  

The Substation|1 Market Street| Newport

To book please contact arts@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au. 

A major exhibition of Sue Ford's work will open on the 7 April and continue until 19 June at the Monash Gallery of Art.  'Time Machine: Sue Ford' will be exhibiting works from her Time series (1960s-70s), one of the key moments in late modernist Australian photography.

'Ford passed away late last year. Before her death, she was working with MGA on an exhibition of her work which would include photographs of women from 1960s-70s and her Time series. The highlight of the exhibition is Ford's as yet unexhibited long-term project, Self-portrait with camera, an extraordinary series of 47 self-portraits taken between 1960 and 2006. Material will be drawn from Ford's archive, MGA's collection and the collection of the National Gallery of Australia." 

For more information, please visit http://www.mga.org.au/exhibition/view/exhibition/86 

JULIE RRAP

DANI MARTI



Congratulations to DANI MARTI who has just received a grant from Creative Scotland towards professional development.

DANI MARTI will also be exhibiting in Let the Healing Begin (5 March - 30 April) at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane.  

The idea that art makes us better people, that it heals our souls, is an anathema. In the art world, ‘art therapy’ is the butt of endless jokes. Nevertheless, contemporary art is riddled with therapeutic subtexts and strategies. Let the Healing Begin features works that address therapy. Some of the works endorse therapeutic imperatives, some satirise them, others are undecided. The line-up is a mix of local and international artists.
 
For more information please visit:
http://www.ima.org.au/pages/exhibitions.php

DANI MARTI will also be exhibiting at in Highly Strung Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington Scotland. Curated by Arabella Harvey, with Angus Mcphee and LIsa Bach.  

For more information please visit:
http://www.peterpottergallery.org/PETER_POTTER_GALLERY/home.html

JULIA GORMAN



JULIA GORMAN is included in Colour Bizarre: Nine Contemporary Works at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Victoria. 

This exhibition brings together nine paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists to create a colourful, eclectic and texturally diverse display.The idea of the bazaar is loosely invoked to suggest a place of richness and variety, where visual ideas are exchanged.  

12 February - 19 June, 2011 

Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art which featured the work of MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO (April 27 - October 24, 2010) at the MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN, NEW YORK has won the International Art Critics Association award. Curated by David McFadden.  The exhibition featured two of MARIA'S feather cloaks and the Emu Wear Video in collaboration with Ross Rudesch Harley.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is also exhibiting at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Western Australia.  The exhibition is titled Masters of Disguise and is an exhibition of video and photography that continues the observations of nature (29 January - 20 March, 2011).

PAT BRASSINGTON will be included in Silent Feathers, a group exhibition at Maroondah Art Gallery from 28 January to 5 March.  The exhibition is centred around artists who employ representations of birds in contemporary art.  

For more information please visit: www.artsinmaroondah.com.au

DANI MARTI will feature in the next issue of ART & AUSTRALIA (Autumn), with an article on his video portraiture, written by Craig Judd. 

A monograph of Dani Marti work will be launched in Spring 2012.  The publication with Hatje Cantz , monograph , to be launch in Spring 2012. The three works which currently feature in Art of the Ordinary at Arc One will appear in the publication. 

Curated by Robert Lennard, Dani will be exhibiting at the IMA (Brisbane) in a show opening 5 March and continuing until 30 April titled Let the Healing Begin.

JULIE RRAP will be speaking at the National Gallery of Victoria (Ian Potter), Melbourne on Feb 19th at 1.30-4.30pm in a Symposium: The Naked Face - Art, Emotion and Identity.

What can self-portraits tell us about the human mind, body and identity? One of the liveliest current debates concerns the nature of human consciousness. How do we acquire and maintain individual identity? How is art subject to memory, emotion, historical and cultural circumstance? Does art expand the mind and can our neurological structures change?

Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International

JULIE RRAP is exhibiting three major works (from her Persona and Shadow, Soft Targets and Fleshstones series) in the National Gallery of Victoria's The Naked Face: Self Portraits.

The exhibition continues until 27 February, 2011. Entry is free to the exhibition.

For further information and tickets to the symposium, please contact the NGV.

Tracy Sarroff is participating in a group exhibition thoughout December in the UK, titled
Crypt Mas.  Crypt Mas is an alternative Christmas experience by torchlight, created inside an underground crypt, originally designed and used for coffin burials during the 19th century.  This subterranean, atmospheric venue with alcoves and arched ceilings will present a showcase of illuminated artworks including sculptural installations, projections and film from an array of selected artists.

The Crypt, St Pancras Church Euston Rd/ Duke's Rd, London, NW1 2BA
2nd December– 22nd December 2010
Open daily 11am-7pm

ROBBIE ROWLANDS is participating in the exhibition Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? Bristol Building 1970-2010. The opening is on Wednesday 15th December at 4.30pm. Daily viewing hours - Thursday & Friday 11am - 3.30pm (December 16-17). Corner of Scotia Street & Oakover Rd, Preston.

Robbie Rowlands have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Councils Arts Funding and Advisory Body for this project.

ADAM HILLhas donated a major work for an online auction to help raise money for the Anti-Nuclear and Clean Energy campaign (Friends of the Earth, Melbourne).

The work is:
(A)US Forces give the nod
2009
Synthetic Polymer on Australian made cotton canvas
140 x 240cm

The auction closes on the 23 December, 2010.

For more information please visit:
http://www.acecollective.org/art-auction.php

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN



JULIE RRAP, ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN are in a group exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (Federation Square) titled The Naked Face: Self Portraits.

'This unique exhibition reveals how self-portraits have shaped our perceptions of art and the artist's life.' NGV

The exhibition opens December 3 and continues until 27 February, 2011.

For more information please visit - http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/the-naked-face

SAM SHMITH has been awarded GQ's Artist of the Year.  
For more information please visit http://gq.com.au

On Sunday, 5th December, Warwick Heywood will be giving a floortalk on the work of LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN at the Flinders University City Gallery, State Library of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide. This talk will conclude the Australian War Memorial Travelling Exhibition (23 October - 5 December, 2010) Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan.

For more information please see http://www.flinders.edu.au/artmuseum

DANI MARTI is currently in Edinburgh undertaking an artist residency with Stills (Scotlands Centre for Photography), to develop new work within the frame of their exhibition program. Dani will be participating in the residency from October 2010 - March 2011.

Part II of Social Documents: The Ethics of Encounter will open Friday December 10, 2010. The exhibition will continue until the 6th March, 2011. "I don't create entertainment for the mass public. Seeing to the well-being and comfort of viewers isn't my intention. I don't care if someone gets a headache after watching this film. The world isn't a safe place...," Artur Zmijewski.

Walid Raad (Lebanon / USA), Francois Bucher (Columbia/USA), Dani Marti (Scotland), Artur Zmijewski (Poland)
Focus Space: Daniel Rutter (Scotland)

Part of Stills’ Social Documents series The Ethics of Encounter continues to explore particular facets of the marked rise in the documentation of social processes in contemporary lens-based art together with the associated turn towards documentary tropes. The exhibition will be accompanied by an additional film screening programme, a short course on the philosophy of ethics and artist talks. Monthly reading groups will examine texts related to the theme by the philosopher Jacques Rancier, the critic Claire Bishop and the artist Artur Zmijewski.

For more information, pelase visit:

http://www.stills.org/exhibition/current-exhibition/social-documents-ethics-encounter-part-2

DANI MARTI will also be participating in Hands On, 3 December, 2010 - 14 January, 2011 at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Cash Brown, for more information please visit http://www.hazelhurst.com.au

TRACY SARROFF is currently Artist In Residence at the Lock-Up Cultural Centre. November 23 - December 16. Supported through The Newcastle Historic Reserve Trust/ Lock-Up Cultural Centre and their partners Newcastle City Council, ArtsNSW, University of Newcastle and Hunter Tafe.  A solo exhibition at the centre will coincide with the residency. The show 'Rhizopoda Radiaria' will run from November 25 - December 14. 

Tracy has also just been selected to undertake the Marrickville Artist in Residence, Sydney in December 2011. During this time, she will be exhibiting a body of work at the Marrickville Council's Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown between December 3 - 31

ROBERT OWEN



ROBERT OWEN has been commissioned to design a multi-coloured facade and podium for RI Real Estate and Stable Group at the Triptych development on Kavanagh Street in Southbank. 'Titled Digital Showers, the Owen facade projects a prism of colours which cascade down the side of the building, providing the effect of sun-lit raindrops'. The Australian Financial Review. This project was developed with the assistance of architects Nettleton Tribe.

Image by Erin Jonasson, The Australian Financial Review, 22 November 2010
http://www.afr.com

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has been curated into The Ghost Show, an exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre. Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham the exhibition opens 4 December 2010  and 30 January 2011.  

For more information please see http://www.hazelhurst.com.au 

MURRAY FREDERICKS



MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting SALT 304 at PARIS PHOTO, the world's leading Photography Fair at the prestigious Louvre in Paris.  Paris Photo is an annual photography exhibition which showcases artists from over 100 galleries and publishers from November 18th to November 21st, 2010.

For more information please visit:
http://www.parisphoto.fr/files/pdf_file_en_96.pdf

JUSTINE KHAMARA has been invited to participate in The Edge of the Universe, an exhibition curated by Danny Lacy at the Shepparton Art Gallery.  

Opening on 3 December.

Part I: 27 November 2010 to 6 February 2011
Part II: 13 January to 6 February 2011

For more information please visit:
http://www.sheppartonartgallery.com.au/

 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibiting at Lake MacQuarie City Art Gallery in Carnival. Opening on 19 November and continuing until 16 January. Carnival was curated by Meryl Ryan and Rob Cleworth.

For more information visit www.lakemac.com.au

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT and JULIE RRAP have been invited to participate in the 2010 Redlands Westpac Art Prize.  The exhibition runs from the 19th November until 6th December at the Mosman Art Gallery. 

For more information please visit http://www.redlands.nsw.edu.au/go/redlands-community/redlands-westpac-art-prize

GUAN WEI will be exhibiting 30 years of work in a solo exhibition at the Shuimu Art Space, Beijing titled Cloud in the sky, water in the bottle - 1980-2010 Guan Wei Works. Curated by Guo Xiaoli, the exhibition began on 6th November and was opened by Dr Geoff Raby the Australian Ambassador to China.

For more information please visit http://www.artinasia.com/galleryDetail.php?catID=2&galleryID=1565

GUAN WEI has also been invited to participate in the 8th Shanghai Biennale titled Rehearsal. The exhibition opened on 24 October, 2010 and continues until 23 January, 2011. The 2010 Shanghai Biennale raises the following question: How can we get out of the dilemma of artistic creation in the current milieu of an artistic system seamlessly and endlessly constituted by international discourse, mega exhibitions, art fairs and transnational capital?

For more information please visit
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8721

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibiting at Galeria Casas Riegner in Bogata, Columbia from the 23 October until 20 November.  For more information on Maria's Jardin de Insectos (A Garden of Insects) visit http://www.casasriegner.com/2010/exhibitions/maria-fernanda-cardoso-jardin-de-insectos/

JULIE RRAP has been honoured by being invited to participate in the Elizabeth Sacklet Feminist Archive at the Brooklyn Museum, New York. Julie is in fantastic company and sits alongside Lynda Benglis, Judy Chicago, Catherine Opie, Hannah Wilke and many other great artists. For more information visit: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/julie_rrap.php

JULIA GORMAN has been invited to participate in a group exhibition at Shepparton Art Gallery. Curated by Danny Lacy and titled Abstract Now (9 Oct - 7 Nov), the exhibition captures a snapshot of abstract painting from within the Shapparton Art Gallery collection paired with recent examples of abstract painting practice.

For more information please contact http://www.sheppartonartgallery.com.au

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting at Performance Space at Carriage Works, 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh as part of an exhibition titled Nightshifters. The exhibition opens Thursday 4th November and continues until Saturday, 13 November.

For more information please visit: http://www.performancespace.com.au

For a review of EUGENIA'S work:
http://www.neoskosmos.com/news/en/Eugenia-Raskopoulos-visual-artist-carriageworks-performance-space-sydney-nightshifters%20

ROBBIE ROWLANDS is a finalist in the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award 2010. Displayed throughout 16 hectares of bush and landscaped gardens, the McClelland Sculpture Survey is intended to provide sculptors the opportunity to present their works in an outdoor exhibition context. The exhibition is accompanied by a major comprehensive catalogue.

For more information please visit: http://www.mcclellandgallery.com/index.php?prfPageId=McClelland-Sculpture-Survey-Award

Kent Wilson has written a powerful review on the vivacious painting practice of emerging artist Sam Martin. You can read the full article online:

http://www.artinfo.com.au/opinions/read/sam-martin-overloaded-man

Madeleine O'Dea has written a review on the recent KOREAN INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2010 for Art Info online, making keen mention of ARC ONE GALLERY's participation.

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35786/kiaf-packs-in-big-crowds-but-few-collectors/

You can read two reviews of the recent Octopus Exhibition How We Know That The Dead Return at Gertrude Contemporary, which featured two of EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video works.

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/how-we-know-that-the-dead-will-return-20100921-15lfi.html
http://notquitecritics.com/2010/09/20/how-we-know-that-the-dead-return/

Two of MURRAY FREDERICKS SALT works are included in the Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The SALT documentary will be screened on Thursday 21st and Saturday 23rd October at 2pm at the Theatre, Ground Level, NGV Australia. Cost: Free

PAT BRASSINGTON is included in Contemporary Encounters at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the NGV Collection and presents a survey of recent acquisitions by contemporary Australian artists.

SAM SHMITH'S Untitled (Synthetics 4), Pigment Print on Archical Rag, has been acquired by the Albury Art Gallery. Sam was a finalist in the 2010 National Photography Prize, Modern Narratives: Photography as Storyteller. The Guest Judge was Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO:Fashion and Mimesis at Rodman Hall Art Gallery, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada has won the highly prestigious Best Design and Installation from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG). www.oaag.org/awards/2010winners.html

JULIA GORMAN will be exhibiting in a group exhibition titled LET X = X at REARVIEW GALLERY, REAR 244 SMITH ST, COLLINGWOOD. Curated by Geoff Newton, the exhibition opens Friday 1st October, 7pm. Exhibitions continues until 23 October. Wed through to Sat 12-6.

JANET LAURENCE features in Outside In at the McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park. 3 October - 28 November 2010.

The exhibition presents a selection of photography, paintings and sculptures by an array of contemporary artists which explore the relationship between interior and exterior, the expected and the unforseen.

Within the gallery space the outside world emerges through the restrained grey tones of the works, and the profusion of approaches to surface. Janet Laurence’s Forensic Sublime: Crimes against the landscape (Styx Forest)2008 explores the ecological devastation wrought on our natural environment, while Michael Parekowhai’s glossy Rainbow servant dreaming 2005 questions reality through referencing Rene Magritte’s hatted figures in his Surrealist painting Golconde 1953. Playing with the nuances of interior and exterior, Robert Hunter’s reductive 3 (09) 2009 requires an extended gaze to reveal the subtle shifting variations of line and tone, whilst Richard Giblett’s Light Export 2007 investigates the constructed modern world through the diminished scale of his illuminated shipping container.

Drawn primarily from McClelland’s contemporary collection, this exhibition highlights some of the Gallery’s recent acquisitions.

www.mcclellandgallery.com

JULIE RRAP is exhibiting at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea in an exhibition titled The Trickster. Curated by Victoria Lynn and Gyeonggi MoMA the exhibition goes from September 8 - December 5, 2010.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's Emu Wear series will be touring throughout Canada in 2010 to Glenbow Museum in Calgary; definitely superior gallery, Thunder Bay and Rodman Hall Art Centre, Saint Catherines Ontario between August 2010 and March 2011. Maria's two cloaks and video work will be included in Dead or Alive at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York from April until October 2010. There will also be an on-going tour of work in Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston Open Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil. A solo show of Maria's new work will also be held in May 2010 - Organos Intromitentes at Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota, Colombia.

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN



A survey exhibition of FARRELL & PARKIN, Topography of a Collaborative Mind will be held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Diane Soumilas and opens on 22nd September at 6.30pm. Runs until 17th October, 2010. FLoor talk by Curator Diane Soumilas, Sunday 26 September, 2.30pm. Floor talk by artist Rose Farrell, Saturday 2 October, 2.30pm. FREE ADMISSION.

Congratulations to ANNE SCOTT WILSON who has been selected as a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award, 2010. Winner will be announced Tuesday, 21 September.
A review of ANNE SCOTT WILSON'S exhibition at Arc One Gallery in May, 2010 (project space) Everyday I Wait can be read in the latest issue of Photofile (August - November 90). Review written by Melissa Amore.

Highly respected sculptor and installation artist JOHN DAVIS has an important retrospective at the Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Level 3. A beautiful catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition with essays written by Charles Green and Robert Lindsay. John Davis: Presence continues until 24 October, 2010. Events at the NGV (Threatre, Ground Level) not to be missed are:
Saturday 18 September & Sun 17 October, 2pm - John Davis -The evolution of a distinctive style. Speaker, Ken Scarlett, curator and writer on sculpture.
Sunday 17 October, 2pm - The art of Installation. Speaker, Rebecca Coates, academic & freelance curator.
Thursday 23, 1pm - In Conversation: Conservator's point of view. Speaker, David Hurlston, Curator, Australian Art, NGV and Catherine Earley, Senior Conservator, NGV.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/john-davis

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS shows as part of Octopus 10: How We Know That The Dead Return, the tenth exhibition in an annual series presented by Gertrude Contemporary. This years event is curated by José Da Silva, Curator of the Australian Cinémathéque at the Queensland Art Gallery. Exhibition runs from 3 - 30 September.
http://www.gertrude.org.au/

Up Close With Janet Laurence is an interview composed as part of the recent 17th Biennale of Sydney. You can watch it here: http://bos17.sitesuite.net.au/page/janet_laurence_artist_interview.html

ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been shortlisted for the 59th Blake Prize 2010 and the Scottish Bank Emerging Artist Prize in Sydney.

CATHERINE WOO is part of Primed: Painting Tasmania at the Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania in Launceston from 26 August - 17 October.
http://www.acadarts.utas.edu.au/?q=node/213

JANET LAURENCE has been curated into In The Balance: Art for a Changing World at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 21 August - 31 October 2010.
http://www.mca.com.au

CATHERINE WOO is exhibiting as part of Abstract Nature at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia from 30 July - 8 October.
http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum http://www.unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum/abstractnature/index.html

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and SAM SHMITH have been shortlisted for the 2010 National Photography Prize at the Albury City Council Art Gallery with SAM SHMITH's work Synthetics 4 having been acquired.
http://alburycity.nsw.gov.au

PETER DAVERINGTON has been shortlisted and acquired by the Geelong Gallery 2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize.
http://www.geelonggallery.org.au

Arc One Gallery presents HUANG XU in Weapons of Mass Consumption, 30 June - 31 July 2010 at The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorne, Victoria. Curated by Louisa Marks as part of The Town Hall Gallery Young Curator Project.
In conversation:
Join curators and artists as they discuss the issues surrounding the exhibition. Saturday 10 July 20-3pm.

Illusion/Illusion is a group exhibition featuring the works of Justine Khamara. Exhibition dates 11 July - 19 September 2010. McClelland Galery+Sculpture Park, Victoria.
http://www.mcclellandgallery.com

The Wire: photographs by Lyndell Brown and Charles Green now on at the Monash Gallery of Art, Focus Gallery from 26 May – 11 July 2010. BROWN and GREEN will be in conversation with Shaune Lakin 11am Thursday 3 June 2010. Bookings essential. http://www.mga.org.au

The Wire: photographs by LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN now on at the Monash Gallery of Art, Focus Gallery from 26 May - 11 July 2010. BROWN and GREEN will be in conversation with Shaune Lakin 11am Thursday 3 June 2010. Bookings essential. http://www.mga.org.au

An audio documentary of The Offering: Sculptural Site Intervention, a recent project by ROBBIE ROWLANDS will be presented on ABC Radio National 360 Saturday 29th May at 2pm. A repeat will be played on Wednesday 2nd June at 1pm. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/

SAM SHMITH's work Synthetics 4 has been shortlisted for the 2010 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photographic Award at the Gold Coast City Gallery. www.gcac.com.au/art_gallery_csoon.php

Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON who has been shortlisted for the 2010 Sulman Prize. http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/finalists/sulman/

Arc One Gallery's most recent represented artist JUSTINE KHAMARA will be showing new work at Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP). Erysichthon's Ball is proudly supported by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust. From 19 March - 16 May 2010. www.ccp.org.au

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has been curated into an exhibition at the University Art Gallery, Verge Gallery and Tin Sheds Gallery in Sydney from 25 March until 16 July 2010.

Between the Lines: The initiation of Adam Hill, a film by Esther Lozano and Monica Garriga will be screened as part of the West End Film Festival in Brisbane on 28th March. This film gives an intimate glimpse into Australia's identity through the critical eyes of an aboriginal urban artist. http://www.westendfilmfestival.com.au/

Salt, a documentary film by Michael Angus and MURRAY FREDERICKS will be screened on Tuesday 23rd March, 10.05 pm on ABC1 and Sunday 28th March, 6.30 pm on ABC2. http://www.saltdoco.com

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN

ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN feature in Brave New World, the Queensland Centre for Photography's contribution to the Queensland Festival of Photography 3 (QFP3). The exhibition focuses upon the ways artists are examining photography not only as medium for critical discourse but as a medium for proposals. April 3 - 2 May 2010.-http://www.qcp.org.au

GOSIA WLODARCZAK will be showing her work Tablecloth for 10 + documentation: a performance from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Melbourne from April 8 - 26 June. This work is part of Contemporary Australian Drawings, an exhibition to be held at RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston Street. The exhibition is in association with the International Drawing Conference Drawing Out held at RMIT University.  http://www.drawingout.com.au/

PETER DAVERINGTON and CHERRY HOOD are showing as part of Constellations: A Large number of Small drawings, a group exhibition featuring works from diverse disciplines such as Art, Architecture, Cartography, Design, Fashion, Film, Photography, Science and Music. The exhibition is part of Drawing Out 2010: Festival and Conference of Drawing at Melbourne's RMIT University. The show is curated by Vanessa Gerrans. From 8th April - 26th July 2010. http://www.drawingout.com.au/

CHERRY HOOD is guest speaker alongside Gene Sherman and Paul Newton as part of Archibald, image and identity: a portraiture forum at the Domain Theatre, Lower Level 3, Sydney, Saturday 10th April @ 2.50pm.

DANI MARTI shows as part of Cinema X: I Like to Watch at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. The exhibition showcases the works of a series of international artists whose work explores the relationship between visual arts and sex, sexuality and eroticism. April 2 -11 2010. http://www.mocca.ca Dani is also a part of 100 YEARS: Highlights from the University of Queensland Art Collection at the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 16 April - 4 July 2010. http://www.artmuseum.uq.edu.au

JUSTINE KHAMARA is part of ART#1 ACCA Regional Tour 1 at the Shepparton Art Gallery, 17 April - 30 May 2010. http://www.sheppartongallery.com.au

Arc One would like to warmly welcome JUSTINE KHAMARA to the gallery. Justine Khamara lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include How Excellently We Did-diddly-do-do Do It, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2007); Legion, tcb art inc., Melbourne (2005); Bugaboo!, tcb art inc., Melbourne (2004); Eye Spy...Linden St. Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (2003). Group exhibitions include New 09, ACCA Melbourne (2009); Primavera 07, MCA Sydney (2007); Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon, Ramp Gallery Masey University, Hamilton, NZ (2005); Figures of Question, Ord Minnett Foyer Gallery Melbourne (2005); Hatched 03, Healthway National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2003). www.justinekhamara.com

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney is showcasing Cast and Crew, new paintings by GUO JIAN. The exhibition is to be opened on Thursday 11th February. The Cast and Crew is an official event of the 2010 City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival. www.sydneychinesenewyear.com.au | www.4a.com.au

JASON WING is in a group show at Casula Power House in Sydney from Friday 5th February 2010 and is showing works in an exhibition Coded at Blacktown Art Centre in Sydney from January 29th to March 27th. Jason is featured in the profile section of this months Art Almanac (page 150). www.casulapowerhouse.com.au

JULIE RRAP has recently been selected for the Docklands Art Billboard site in Melbourne. One of the works from Julie's Castaway series is to be erected on the Lorimer Street building near the Yarra's edge. The billboard has become a local landmark, featuring some of Australia's best known contemporary artists.

The Nefes Ensemble featuring PETER DAVERINGTON on the Turksih Ney Flute will be performing three concerts as part of the upcoming Adelaide Arts Festival in South Australia. The concerts will be a collaboration between two ensembles of sacred music. The program is a dialogue between Turkish Sufi music of and around the 17th Century and the rarely performed Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich von Biber from 17th Century Europe. All performed on Period and Ottoman instruments. Recordings of the performances will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of March at 6.30pm. www.adelaide.edu.au/elderhall/concerts/dualities/twilight GOSIA WLODARCZAK will fly to the US to undertake the Australia Council Studio Residency in New York in March. Gosia will be developing a drawing project during this time - Between Visit & Migration.

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been invited to present a series of lectures at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit in March. He will be working with students on current projects and considering a site intervention in the Detroit landscape also. www.collegeforcreativestudies.edu Grace of Ruin is a survey show of Robbie's works to be held at Gippsland Regional Gallery from 24th April until 6th June 2010. This show will feature works such as Down (Electricity Pole), Collapse (Wooden Chair), Persuaded (Steel Bed) and more. Robbie will also be creating a site specific work within the gallery space. www.wellington.vic.gov.au/Files/Exhibition_Program_January_June_2010.pdf Robbie will be creating a new work using a decommissioned Wheat Silo for the upcoming McClelland Sculpture Prize from 21st November until 17th July 2011.

ANNE SCOTT WILSON has received $10,000 for the development of Fields of Glory, a new multi-media work using a lithograph printing process together with video to explore the relationship between stillness and movement. Anne has also been awarded an Australia Council Skills and Arts Development, Liverpool Studio grant.

MURRAY FREDERICKS' SALT documentary has won the Grand Prix of Short Documentary Films Competition - Golden Frog award and the IDA (International Documentary Association) Best Documentary Short in Los Angeles.

JULIE RRAP has won the University of Queensland National Artists' Self Portrait Prize. Judge Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, said that her entry, 360 self portrait, was the outstanding work in a strong field of 34 entrants.

MURRAY FREDERICKS' SALT, in collaboration with Michael Angus and the ABC, has been nominated for an AFI Award for best Documentary Under an Hour.

You can read a fantastic review on ROBERT OWEN's exhibition AURA here - Article by Robert Nelson of The Age Newspaper, Melbourne.

On Monday 16th November a memorial gathering will be held to celebrate the life of Sue Ford. To be held at Tara House, Buddhist Institute, 3 Mavis Avenue, East Brighton at 10am. Sue's family extend their warm invitation to all who knew this amazing and spirited woman

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's Flea Circus is in the Pioneering Works Homage: The Historic Cut

ANNE ZAHALKA is part of an exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Australia, Women in the Bible: Tricksters, Victors and (M)others. Exhibition dates 15 October - 14 March 2009. http://jewishmuseum.com.au

LYNDELL BROWN + CHARLES GREEN and PETER DAVERINGTON are all part of an exhibition Turbulent Terrain: Manifestations of the Sublime in Contemporary Art, at Latrobe Regional Gallery. Exhibition dates 5 September - 1 November 2009 and touring 2010. http://www.latroberegionalgallery.com/exhibitions-turbulent-terrain.php

ANNE SCOTT WILSON's video work Conversation, which was acquired by Artbank, features in their Video Art Collection showcase in Sydney. The collection is to be launched by The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP on Friday 23 October 2009.

The NGV are currently showing JULIA GORMAN's work The Future in Every Direction as part of their Recent Acquisitions program.

Arc One Gallery would like to welcome JULIA GORMAN to the stable and ROBBIE ROWLANDS as Guest Artist. Please watch this space for more information about these artists. JULIA GORMAN will be showing at Arc One Gallery in 2010.

Congratulations to JASON WING who has won the Indigenous Award at this years Campbelltown Fisher's Ghost Art Prize. Jason also received a highly commended award at this years Parliament of New South Wales Indigenous Art Prize.

JACKY REDGATE features in three major group exhibitions from September through until April 2010. Photographer Unknown - curated by Kyla McFarlane at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne. 16th September - 28th November 2009. http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/?Mirror/Mirror - curated by Ann Stephen at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane and touring. 25th October - 12th December 2009. http://www.ima.org.au Cubism in Australia - curated by Lesley Harding and Sue Cramer, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne. 21st November 2009 - 8th April 2010. http://www.heide.com.au/

Arc One Gallery is pleased to welcome ANGELA CONNOR as the new Senior Gallery Assistant. Angela recently completed her Masters of Fine Arts and brings with her the experience of having run Seventh Gallery, a successful artist run space in Melbourne.

Arc One Gallery is pleased to announce it will be attending the 2009 Korea International Art Fair together with Alcaston Gallery, Niagara Gallery and Utopia Art with the assistance of the Australia Council for the Arts and Austrade. From September 18 - 22, 2009. http://www.kiaf.org

2009 CLEMENGER CONTEMPORARY ART AWARD Congratulations to JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP and GUAN WEI who have been shortlisted for the final Clemenger Contemporary Art Award to be held at the National Gallery of Victoria. http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/clemenger2009/

ADAM HILL's work U.R...an'Iummm...we AFAILING LAND from 2008 will feature is the opening of the City of Sydney's Art & About 2009 - Exhibition of Original Open Gallery Artworks at Sydney's Circular Quay.

JASON WING features in Speakeasy, an exhibition curated by Vernon Ah Kee and Aaron Seeto at Gallery 4A in Sydney. http://www.4a.com.au/

DAVID RALPH's painting Bohemien Rocket Science has been selected for showing in the upcoming Frieze Art Fair. http://www.friezeartfair.com/

JASON WING is a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award 09 in Sydney.

ANNE ZAHALKA is a finalist in this years William Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne. Exhibition dates: 9 Nov - 13 Dec 2009. Announcement of winner and people's choice award: 26 Nov 2009. http://www.mga.org.au/exhibfolder/Bowness%20Prize/2009/wwbpp_2009.htm

Congratulations to EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS who has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2009 Hazelhurst Art Award with her work Diglossia #1.

GUO JIAN's work features in a new exhibition at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). The China Project comprises of three major surveys - 'Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection' ; 'Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul' & 'William Yang: Life Lines'. Exhibition dates are 28 March - 28 June, 2009. For more information visit: www.qag.qld.gov.au/thechinaproject

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is in a group exhibition 'Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor in Contemporary Art ' at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York from July to October 2009. For more information please visit www.katonahmuseum.org

You can view a video interview of LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN in response to their exhibition Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan at the Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne. This major exhibition of paintings and photographs produced in response to their time as Official War Artists for the Australian War Memorial will be touring nationally until December 2010. You can view the interview, touring schedule, photographs and an artist statement online: http://www.awm.gov.au/events/travelling/framing/index.asp

GOSIA WLODARCZAK's print Process Capsule Ezri - Day 1 has been selected as a 2009 Print Council of Australia Print Commission. Wlodarczak is the only Victorian to be selected out of 8 Australian finalists.

DANI MARTI has been commissioned by the Kunsthalle Winterthur for the Non-Age Exhibition in Zurich. The exhibition, curated by Paco Barragan, will run from June 7 until July 26, 2009. For more information visit: http://www.kunsthallewinterthur.ch/

Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS, his documentary Salt won the Best Documentary Award* at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at SILVERDOCS/AFI Discovery Festival. Salt is in the finals of the Australian Documentary Prize as part of the Sydney Film Festival. Salt is also featured as part of the Silverdocs American Film Institute and will be screened in Washington, Moscow, Montreal and Melbourne. For information on Salt the documentary you can visit: www.saltdoco.com

Gosia has also been selected for an exhibition Degrees of Density, curated by Marilyn Symmes at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Exhibition dates 6 June - 12 July. She is also a finalist in the 2009 Darebin La Trobe Art Prize to be held at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 26 June - 1 August.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK has been invited to be part of The Ikea Home Project to mark the 30th birthday of the iconic KLIPPAN sofa. The resulting works by more than 20 artists will be exhibited at Carriage Works from 28th July - 4 August and sold via an online auction event. Proceeds for the auction will be given as a cash donation to the Victorian Bushfire Relief Effort. For more information please visit http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on.php?event=ikeahomeproject

GOSIA WLODARCZAK has been accepted into the 2009 Geelong acquisitive print award.

Dates for the screening of MURRAY FREDERICKS' award winning* documentary Salt have been announced for the Melbourne International Film Festival. These are Sunday 2nd August at 12.15pm and Saturday 8th August at 7pm. To be screened at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Federation Square, Melbourne. www.acmi.net.au

News of PETER DAVERINGTON'S upcoming Ney flute concert in The Basilica in Istanbul has been published in a major Turkish newspaper. Daverington is travelling throughout Turkey and the Middle East on a recording trip for his upcoming exhibition and sound installation at Arc One in December 2009.  http://www.zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=873703&title=neyin-pesinde-bir-avustralyali

DANI MARTI features in Orifices (take2) and Disclosure, a project created after a three months residency. In association with Gay Men's Health, Glasgow and commissioned by GoMA and Glasgay. At GoMA, Glasgow 8th August - 1st November 2009. Also, as part of shout: Contemporary art and human rights is the title for the fourth social justice programme developed by GoMA to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex human rights, art and culture. 13th August (artist talk).

GOSIA WLODARCZAK has been selected as a finalist in the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. Her Process Capsule prints will be exhibited in Krakow from 16th September until 11th October 2009 and in Vienna from 6th May until 13th June 2010.For more information visit: http://www.triennial.cracow.pl

Wlodarczak has been invited to screen her film trilogy Desire 1, 2 & 3 at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF). The event will run from 29th April - 2nd May 2009. The festival has been organised by the Western University, Bellingham, Washington state, USA. For more information visit: http://www.bellinghamelectronicartsfestival.com/

In April Guan Wei will be a part of a travelling group show in both China and Australia with a solo show being held in Beijing in May. Guan Wei is also a finalist in the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. In November Guan Wei will travel to Singapore for an artist in residency program.

The Victoria University, Level 17 Artspace, Davi Ralph: Recent Works. Until 9th April 2009. See Profiles section (p. 174), Art Almanac, March 2009 for more information.

Owen in the Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne. Curated by John Nixon and Justin Andrews. Until 25th April, 2009. www.blockprojects.com

Hood has been invited to hold a survey show at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery in April this year. For more information please visit: http://www.goulburn.nsw.gov.au/community/1037/1095.html

Wlodarczak has been curated into a major drawing show 'Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The show opens to the public March 17th 2009. For more information please visit: www.mca.com.au 2009: Wlodarczak is the proud recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Arts Development Studio Residency Grant at Greene Street Studio in New York. The residency will be from March - July 2010. Her performative drawing project is titled Between Visit & Migration.

Guan Wei travels to Cuba in March where his work features in the upcoming Havana Biennial. The theme for 2009 is 'Integration and Resistance in the Global Age'.For more information please visit: www.universes-in-universe.de/car/habana/eng/2009/index.htm

ADAM HILL has been has been selected as a finalist for this years Wynne Prize for Australian Landscape for his work Six Finger Salary. The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for the "best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists..." Exhibition dates: 7th March - 24th May 2009.

Imants Tillers: The Lost Poem opens at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. The show opens on February 12th until April 19th. For more information please visit: http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/

A major solo show of LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN is currently on at the Ian Potter Art Museum at the University of Melbourne. Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan is the result of the collaborative artist trip to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 appointed as the Australian War Memorials office artists. Until 1st February 2009.For more information please visit: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au

Wilson has curated a photomedia show On the Line at Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Photograph(CCP). The show looks at the notion of risk and the immediate environment as it pertains to each artist individual practice. Exhibition dates 23 January - 21st March 2009. For more information please visit: http://www.ccp.org.au

Marti's video work 'David' is part of a competition "Ou va la video? 00 00 02, January 20th, Fronte del Porto, Porto Astra cinema. For more information please visit: www.fondazionemarch.org Marti has also been included in 'Identidades: arte y sexos', a group exhibition at the Sala Astragal in Gijon, Spain Arc One Gallery would like to congratulate Dani Marti on receiving an Australia Council New Work: Established Grant.

Redgate's work is currently featured in Primary Views at The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). The exhibition, opened in December, will recommence from 3 February until 28 March. For more information please visit: http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/ Also featuring Redgate's work is the 30th Anniversary Exhibition at the Wollongong City Gallery. Until 15 March 2009. For more information please visit: http://www.wollongongcitygallery.com/ Arc One Gallery would like to congratulate Jacky on receiving an Australia Council Fellowship Grant. During the Fellowship period Jacky will be creating paintings, sculptures, photographic and video work for a solo exhibition to be held at the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) in Brisbane in 2008.

Owen has produced a 12 metre work for 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism' at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. Exhibition dates: 15 November 2008 - 22 February 2009. For more information visit: http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/optimism

Wlodarczak is a finalist for the Grafton Regional Gallery's 2008 Jacaranda Aquisitive Drawing Award and subsequent tour. For a full list of galleries showcasing the works please visit www.graftongallery.nsw.gov.au

Raskopoulos has been selected for the Redlands Westpack Art Prize and Artspace 24/25, 24 artists selected to mark 25 years of Artspace.

Marti has been selected as part of the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery's New Acquisitions 2006-2007 exhibition. The show opens 18th October. For more information please visit: www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/discover_newcastle/region_art_gallery

JANET LAURENCE features in a recent curated exhibition HEAT: Art and Climate Change at Melbourne's RMIT Gallery. The show, opened by Senator Bob Brown runs until 18th October 2008. For more information and for a full list of Public Programs events please visit www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery

Wlodarczak has been invited to contribute to the next drawing conference at COFA in Sydney in September/October 2008. The conference is organised by Michael Esson and the International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI). The conference will have a range of activities with an emphasis on the performative aspects of drawing. www. cofa.unsw.edu.au

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This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize. Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA who was awarded first prize and PETER DAVERINGTON who won 2nd prize. This exhibition was held at 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

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A selection of Farrell/Parkin's works will also be exhibited at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec in Canada as part of a group show At the Crossroads of Art and Medicine, 10 September - 13 December 2008 - Guest Curator: Marie-France Beaudoin. For more information please visit www.ubishops.ca/foreman

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Farrell/Parkin have returned from overseas where their recent Restoration series, exhibited at Arc One Gallery, travelled to New York's M.Y. Art Prospects. This was their third exhibition in this space, open from 4th September - 11th October 2008. For more information please visit www.myartprospects.com

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Daverington has won the John Coburn Award for Emerging Artists, a subsidiary of the Blake Prize for Religious and Spiritual Art with his work Mevlana - Dervish Series. For more information please visit www.blakeprize.com.au Peter has also been awarded an artist grant from the Melbourne City Council for the development of a sound sculpture project, due to be showcased at Arc One Gallery. This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize. Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA who was awarded first prize and PETER DAVERINGTON who won 2nd prize. This exhibition was held at 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

Wlodarczak has been shortlisted for the Fremantle Print Award 2008 to be held at the Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia in August (www.fac.org.au), one of 26 finalists for the New Social Commentary 2008 Art Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery (www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au) and finalist in the 2008 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (www.bendigoartgallery.com.au).

Raskopoulos features in a group exhibition Parallel at Hobart's Salamanca Arts Centre.

Raskopoulos has been selected to exhibit a selection of her video works as part of a new exhibition Video Logic, to be opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Monday 18th August. Curated by Russell Storer the exhibition will run from 19th August until 2nd November. For more information please visit: www.mca.com.au

Brassington features in a group exhibition Parallel at Hobart's Salamanca Arts Centre in August and is scheduled to give an artist talk.

Zahalka has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 Basil Sellers Art Prize to be held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne in July. www.sellersartprize.com.au  Anne's Hotel Suite series opened at Sofi's Lounge, Sofitel Melbourne, Tuesday 1st July. The works were produced during her residency at Sofitel Melbourne in April 2008 and forms part of the Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Project Room Program. For more information please visit www.sofitelmelbourne.com.au or www.gap.net.au

Can Serrat Residency - Barcelona, Spain.  May 2008: Australia Council Residency - Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. April 2008: Wilson showcases a single channel video projection as part of a group exhibition Vernacular Terrain at Monash Faculty Gallery in Caulfield, Victoria. Until April 19. www.artdes.monash.edu.au/gallery

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Congratulations to ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and GOSIA WLODARCZAK whose works were recently acquired by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery's 2008 National Works on Paper. For more information please visit: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/nwop

July 2008: Congratulations to our artists JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP & GUAN WEI who have all been shortlisted for the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.

Voevodin-Cash is also working on a turf work titled Escapespace to be exhibited across various venues in the Brisbane CBD, an event for which she is on the curatorial board alongside Rodney Glick (WA), Christopher Langton (VIC) and Inkahoots (QLD). Exhibition dates 18 July - 3 August 2008.

June 2008: Rrap has been selected for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. Exhibition dates 18th June - 7th September 2008. More information coming soon...or visit www.bos2008.com

Congratulations to our artists JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP & GUAN WEI who have all been shortlisted for the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.

Raskopoulos has been shortlisted for the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2008 to be held at the Monash Gallery of Art in Victoria. Raskopoulos is one of 34 finalists out of an unprecedented 362 entries for this years prize. For more information please visit: www.mga.org.au Arc One Gallery would like to congratulate Eugenia Raskopouls on receiving an Australia Council New Work: Established Grant, awarded through the Visual Art and Craft Strategy.

Congratulations to our artists JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP & GUAN WEI who have all been shortlisted for the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.

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Congratulations to ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and GOSIA WLODARCZAK whose works were recently acquired by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery's 2008 National Works on Paper. For more information please visit: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/nwop

Daverington has been shortlisted for the 2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize to be held at the Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria www.geelonggallery.org.au

Guan Wei's forthcoming exhibition opens on the 6th June at the Beijing YongHe Museum as part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics art festival program.

Owen features in Shadowplay, a group exhibition at the Lake MacQuarie City Art Gallery. The opening program on Saturday 10 May features a discussion between Robert Owen, Dallas Bray and Naomi Sands on the significance of light and shadow in their work. Shadowplay runs from 9 May - 22 June. www.lakemac.com.au Owen recently finished the installation of Interlude - Double Weave and New Constellation for the refurbishment of the MLC Centre in Sydney. The work was the winning submission to replace the tapestries of Josel Albers and Alexander Calder. The works are dedicated to Harry Seidler, 1923-2006.

Brassington will be attending the opening of her retrospective exhibition at the Lonnstrom Art Museum, Rauma, Finland on 13 June. The exhibition will comprise a selection of work ranging from the 1980's through to the present.

Hill has been selected as a finalist for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award for his work K9 vs Bloodline on the Breadline. www.magnt.nt.gov.au

'Eye to "i' - The Self in Recent Art - Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Victoria. Exhibition runs until 25 May 2008.Process-Journey - Australia/China Touring Exhibition, 2/F, One Capital Place, Hong Kong, China. May 10 - 22 2008.

Zahalka will be in Melbourne for an artist residency at the Sofitel Hotel from the 9th - 30th April. The works produced during the period will be exhibited at the Sofitel during the 2008 Melbourne Art Fair in July.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Dani Marti and Guan Wei have all been selected to exhibit as part of Australian, an exhibition of commissioned works by internationally respected Australian artists. The show coincides with the reopening of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas. Exhibition dates: 5 April - 7 September 2008. www.casulapowerhouse.com/temp08/australian.html

Raskopoulos will fly to Shanghai, China this month to participate in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary art project Intrude: Art & Life 366 at the Zendai Museum of Modern Art. The event, which aims to intervene in people's daily lives and further draw their attention to art will run for a period of 366 days throughout 2008. Curated by the director of the Zendai MoMA Mr Shen Qibin. Eugenia's project opens April 23rd 2008. www.zendaiart.com

Marti has been selected to show a solo installation at the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, with the upcoming event centering on ideas of public and private. 11th - 27th April 2008. www.glasgowinternational.org

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Dani Marti and Guan Wei have all been selected to exhibit as part of Australian, an exhibition of commissioned works by internationally respected Australian artists. The show coincides with the reopening of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas. Exhibition dates: 5 April - 7 September 2008. www.casulapowerhouse.com/temp08/australian.html

Daverington will be creating a three panel work as part of an upcoming group exhibition Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. The show, curated by Ashley Crawford and Melissa Amore will be opened on Sunday 6th April. www.jewishmuseum.com.au

Brassington's photograph Unspecified Procedures 2006 is featured as part of an upcoming group exhibition Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. The show, curated by Ashley Crawford and Melissa Amore will be opened on Sunday 6th April. www.jewishmuseum.com.au February 2008: The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) have recently acquired two prints from Brassington's 2007 exhibition Heat, at Arc One Gallery.

Zahalka's Wild Life series from 2006/2007, to be exhibited at Arc One Gallery in April 2008, is on display alongside the Leisureland series in the OIKOS exhibition at SBS Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada. The exhibition is curated by Sylvain Campeau. Exhibition dates: 13th March - 24th May 2008.

Wlodarczak has been selected to exhibit at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2008. The show entitled Sharing Space will incorporate performance and drawing practices. Exhibition dates: 28th March - 4th May 2008. www.kentlergallery.org Wlodarczak has recently been included in The Drawing Centre of New York's Viewing Program and Artist Registry. Wlodarczak has been chosen to be a part of the initial group to set up the first online portfolios viewable to the public. The Drawing Centre will be donating their collection of artist files to the Museum of Modern Art's Artist Files Archive. Wlodarczak's file will be one of many to be donated. www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram

Guan Wei features in this years Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Handle With Care at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Until 4 May 2008. www.artgallery.sa.gov.au www.adelaidefestival.com.au

Redgate's solo show at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art: Visions From Her Bed combines key works from across her career, including an unseen early work, the Super-8 film Mother England, produced as an art student in Adelaide and new work. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Exhibition dates: 15 March - 26 April 2008. www.ima.org.au

Ralph's 2004 artwork Reality Checkout features in an exhibition of recent acquisitions by the City of Port Phillip. To be opened at the St Kilda Town Hall 27th March 2008.

Melbourne's CCP (Centre for Contemporary Photography) will be showcasing a selection of Netto's work from March 2008. www.ccp.org.au

Laurence features in this years Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Handle with Care at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Until 4 May 2008. www.artgallery.sa.gov.au www.adelaidefestival.com.au

Brown and Green are featured in the March edition of Artlink Magazine 'Fuel for Thought: oil, energy, conflict and art'. The article focuses on the photographic documentation of their trip as official war artists in Iraq and Afghanistan. www.artlink.com.au

Guan Wei has recently returned from a two month artist residence in Paris and one month in Beijing where he has set up his new studio.

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Farrell & Parkin feature in an exhibition 'Who Let the Dogs Out: The Dog in Contemporary Australian Art' at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW. February 8 - March 30 2008.

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This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize. Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA who was awarded first prize and PETER DAVERINGTON who won 2nd prize. This exhibition was held at 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

Voevodin-Cash is currently working on a project for the Brisbane Festival, Brisbane City Council and the Museum of Brisbane INHABIT: Ideas for Better Living and has recently completed a public art commission for Skilled Park, Gold Coast Stadium. The work titled Crowning Glory was made from perforated metal and led.

Congratulations to JULIE RRAP on winning the Selected Artist category of the 2008 Redlands Westpac Art Prize at Mosman Art Gallery in NSW. Her winning piece Stassis Symbol is a new work which forms part of a larger series Not-A-Muse. Please click here to view the full Media Release or visit http://www.redlands.nsw.edu.au/go/redlands-community/redlands-westpac-art-prize

This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize.

Netto's solo show Communication by Contact at the Kathleen O'Connor Gallery, Fremantle Arts Centre showcases her new photographic work triggered by found objects. Exhibition dates: 2nd February - 30th March 2008. www.fac.org.au

Netto will be showcasing her work as part of The Great Reclamation, a group exhibition to be held at Pictura Gallery in Holland. The show opens 6th September. www.pictura.nl. Vanila will head to London in October for a three month Australia Council Studio Residency.

Arc One Gallery will be showcasing the works of internationally acclaimed artist SHEENA MACRAE at the 2008 Melbourne Art Fair. Please watch this space for more information or visit her website www.sheenamacrae.com

Cardoso will be showcasing a selection of her Emu Wear series in Miami this month at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 13th September - 4th October. www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com April 2008: MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO, DANI MARTI and GUAN WEI have all been selected to exhibit as part of Australian, an exhibition of commissioned works by internationally respected Australian artists. The show coincides with the reopening of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas. Exhibition dates: 5 April - 7 September 2008. www.casulapowerhouse.com/temp08/australian.html

Brown and Green will be giving a talk as part of the CCP (Centre for Contemporary Photography) 2007 Free Lecture Series entitled 'Both Sides of the Wire', Wednesday 7th November 6.15pm. For more information please visit CCP online: www.ccp.org.au

September sees Raskopoulos traveling to Instanbul where her video work In A Word: Untitled #5 will be featured in the Nightcomers Project: 10th International Istanbul Biennale. This particular event will showcase a selection of video art, projecting them onto various cultural sights around the city. www.iksv.org/bienal/nightcomers/nightcomers.asp

Netto has been shortlisted for the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize2007 to be held at Monash Gallery of Art. Exhibition dates: 7 September - 11 November 2007. www. mga.org.au

September sees Marti's solo show Glitering Shadows open at The Studio Gallery in Glasgow as part of the annual Glasgay Festival. 11th September - 10th October 2007. www.glasgay.co.uk/indexframes.html

A screening of the film The Life World based on Laurence's work and career will feature on ABC TV Tuesday 25th September.

A small survey show of Rrap's work Embodied will be opened at the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery on the 24th of August 2007. Exhibition dates: 25 August - 14 October 2007.

Julie Rrap: Body Double is a major survey exhibition to be held at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney curated by Victoria Lynn. The show will feature a selection of key photographic series as well as video, sculpture and installation works spanning her twenty-five year artistic career. The show will be opened on August 30 with the official launch of Rrap's book Body Double - written by Victoria Lynn, to be launched by Linda Jaivin, Author. Exhibition dates: 30 August 2007 - 28 January 2008. www.mca.com.au

The Warrnambool Regional Gallery is hosting a solo show of David Ralph as part of their 121 year celebrations. Until 26th August.

Hill has been shortlisted for the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award and the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award in 2007. www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/natsiaa/index.html

Netto will be Artist in Residence at Sydney's Artspace from July 2 2007.

After the success of his recent show at Arc One Gallery, Closer, Marti will be presenting a second version of Off My Noodle, initially a work commissioned by the Newcastle Council and Regional Art Gallery. The new work will be included as part of an exhibition addressing changing weather patterns and global warming. To be held in Sydney in July 2007.

Laurence's work is featured in a group exhibition System of Nature at the Laurence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth.

Laurence has recently returned from a research trip in Europe as part of her Churchill Fellowship and is currently exhibiting her series Greenhouse at Bild Kultur Gallery in Germany. Exhibition dates: 28 June - 10 August 2007.

Zahalka was awarded first prize in the Albury Regional Art Gallery's Photographic Prize, Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre. for her work Dead Whale, Grove Creek from 2006. Exhibition dates: 1st June - 8th July 2007.

Raskopoulos has been shortlisted for the Albury Regional Art Gallery Photographic Prize, Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre. Exhibition dates: 1 June - 8 July 2007. www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au

Lyndel Brown and Charles Green, Robert Owen and David Ralph were all shortlisted for the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize held at Bendigo Art Gallery. The Prize was initiated by Mr Allen Guy C.B.E in honour of his late brother Arthur Guy, with equal assistance provided by the R.H.S. Abbott Bequest Fund. Exhibition dates: 30 June - 5 August 2007.