Celebrate the RACV City Club Gallery Lounge exhibition 'Performing Nature' with an intimate three-course lunch with the artists MURRAY FREDERICKS, PRUE STENT, and Robert Ashton. Hear from each of the artists, sip outstanding wine, and delight in culinary masterpieces made in response to the artworks.
Ticket includes three-course lunch, beverages, and artist talk.
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'Performing Nature' features Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, and Robert Ashton. These artists create photographic performances of nature, using their bodies, endurance and artist intervention.
The exhibition continues until 24 May 2024 at the Gallery Lounge, RACV City Club.
Exhibition access is by appointment only. Email mail@arc1gallery.com to arrange a viewing.
MURRAY FREDERICKS Online Artist Talk at MAPh
ONLINE ARTIST'S TALK
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Wednesday 14 February
2.30pm-3.30pm
In 2003, Murray Fredericks first visited Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, one of the world’s largest salt lakes, located in the deserts of central Australia. Driven by the boundless potential of abstract space, Fredericks has returned to Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre 31 times over the past two decades.
Join Murray Fredericks with Senior Curator Angela Connor in this online artist talk for The Museum of Australian Photography's exhibition 'Murray Fredericks | The salt lake', to learn about the chapters of Fredericks’s extraordinary creative journey – the influences and ideas that underpin his work and the personal and technical knowledge he has gained from his extensive experience.
Please note, this session will take place via Zoom. Bookings via the Museum of Australian Photography’s website.
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IMAGE: Jo Armao (SMH)
MURRAY FREDERICKS AND JANET LAURENCE at Sydney Contemporary
ARC ONE Gallery has brought together two giants of contemporary Australian art. A strong visual heartbeat runs through the new work of MURRAY FREDERICKS and JANET LAURENCE, who are presenting the extremities of fire and ice at Sydney Contemporary.
Murray Fredericks’ much-anticipated series BLAZE is debuting in Australia at the fair. Using non-destructive methods, Fredericks creates phantastic images of fire and flood by conjuring dramatic fires within vast deluged river systems. Janet Laurence presents an extraordinary new body of work addressing her passionate concern for the plight of Antarctica. Both artists have the capacity to arrest audiences in their tracks and this display asks us to sit with some of the most important questions facing our planet this century.
Fredericks’ BLAZE series has bewitched audiences across the world. Undeniably intense, there is a biblical quality to Fredericks’ images. The making of BLAZE was documented in a behind-the scenes film that accompanies the display at Sydney Contemporary, giving audiences a glimpse into the epic lengths Fredericks goes to capture the perfect image.
Janet Laurence’s breath-taking series Once Were Forests creates visceral waves of intense feeling. They address Laurence’s research into ice climates; as she says, “All these glacial experiences live with me”. She has visited places such as Antarctica and Iceland, and a great gravitas lays at the very centre of these beautiful, layered works. We see our own sense of urgency reflected in her compositions. There are few who can resist the enfolding testimony that Laurence offers. We are compelled not to look away.
ARC ONE Gallery hosts MAPh's Artist Photography Auction
This week ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka.
Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.
ARC ONE hosting upcoming MAPh Artist Photography Auction
MaPh x ARC ONE
ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the upcoming MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks and Lydia Wegner.
Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
Sign up over at @maph_photography (🔗 click the link in their bio), for an auction with a difference! MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.
Auction details are below:
Wednesday 24 May 2023
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne 3000
Doors open 6pm for 7pm auction
Drinks and canapés will be served on arrival.
Honey LONG & Prue STENT, Venus milk, 2015, pigment ink-jet print, 106.0 x 159.0 cm, edition of 3.
MURRAY FREDERICKS 'Witness' Opens at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
WITNESS, a showcase of majestic, large-scale images by MURRAY FREDERICKS, opens tomorrow at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.
Featuring works from his acclaimed 'Salt', 'Icesheet' and 'Hector' series, the artist hopes that "the spaces in these images will open up to the viewers another space, a greater space, where they can insert their own meanings into the photographic moment."
Fredericks will also be in conversation on Saturday, 25 February. Bookings essential, on the @qvmag_official website.
MURRAY FREDERICKS premieres new film 'Blaze'
Premiering at the Bondi Pavillion over the weekend MURRAY FREDERICKS new film BLAZE accompanies a soon to be launched new series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme.
The sunning observational documentary was directed and edited by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor).
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022
Welcome to ARC ONE at SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
From today will be showing a selection of major artworks from some of Australia's most significant contemporary practitioners, including PAT BRASSINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN / CHARLES GREEN, PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, DANI MARTI, JULIE RRAP, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI, CATHERINE WOO, and JOHN YOUNG. We are also proud to be presenting, for the first time, the work of internationally acclaimed artist DESMOND LAZARO.
Our booth is showcasing brand new artworks, alongside some of the most iconic works from ARC ONE Gallery, in celebration of these artists and their significant contribution to contemporary art in this country.
New interview with MURRAY FREDERICKS
Murray Fredericks, Mirror 16, 2017, digital pigment print on cotton rag, edition of 7/7, 120 x 155 cm.
MURRAY FREDERICKS was recently interviewed by 71 Magazine with two of his significant bodies of work: 'Array’ and ‘Vanity’.
In the article, Fredericks talked about his new creative direction: “Australia’s landscape is at the forefront of our changing world. Our droughts and floods are becoming extreme and more frequent. From having the worst fires on record in 2020-21, to this year seeing usually dry, ephemeral rivers throughout the inland flowing at capacity. I’m searching for a way to make imagery out of this that moves from pure documentation to something more long-lasting.”
Access the e-magazine
& read the full interview here
MURRAY FREDERICKS & ROBERT OWEN IN BELLE MAGAZINE SHOOT
Artworks: Murray Fredericks, Salt 154, 2009, pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 150cm, edition of 7; Robert Owen, Model for Silence #4, 2019, painted steel, 68.5 x 60 x 48.5 cm, edition of 3
MURRAY FREDERICKS & ROBERT OWEN have works featured in this magnificent shoot in the October issue of Belle Magazine.
Architecture & interiors of this Toorak residence were designed by ADDARC, with art curation & styling by Swee Design, and photography by @shannonmcgrath7.
Pick up the latest edition of Belle Magazine to see more.
MURRAY FREDERICKS IN THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN
MURRAY FREDERICKS is featured in The Weekend Australian Magazine this week.
Speaking about Array 1, the final work in his award-winning, 16-year SALT Project, Murray says: "The shore disappears, the sky and water merge... there's nothing around, so you lose all reference points. And your mind just dissolves into the space."
"It felt like the crescendo at the end of a piece of classical music. After 16 years on this project I thought, that's the one to go out on."
Murray Fredericks has been drawn to Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), South Australia, over the course of 16 years, creating dazzling abstract images that bear witness to the transcendent capacity of the natural world.
Murray Fredericks, Array 1, 2019, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 300 cm
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY GOES LIVE ONLINE
Sydney Contemporary is taking a different shape this year. From tomorrow, the art fair will be live online for the entire month of October!
ARC ONE Gallery will be featuring new works by PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, JACKY REDGATE and GUAN WEI.
This year’s art fair is free to browse! The SC Team have worked tirelessly to build a custom platform to connect artists & galleries with the arts community.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
VIP Preview: 1 October 10am
Public Viewing: 1 October 2pm
Visit the fair HERE!
MURRAY FREDERICKS AT ANU - VIRTUAL TOUR
MURRAY FREDERICKS’ striking cube in the outdoor gallery at ANU looks great from every angle! These impressive steel cubes are a new permanent fixture on University Avenue in Canberra, providing a year-round, free and public ‘walk of art’.
Four of Murray’s photos are displayed on this cube in the inaugural exhibition ‘Where I Stand’ - a stirring collection of photographs from six iconic Australian photographers. The installations can be taken singularly, or read end to end, with themes such as rejuvenation and connection to country linking the works.
Where I Stand is produced by AMBUSH Gallery and curated in partnership with Head On Photo Fest, and will be showing at Exhibition Avenue, Kambri at ANU until 31 October.
If you’re unable to get there in person, you can now enjoy the works in a 4-minute online video that guides viewers through the outdoor exhibition. Watch it here!
Images: Install photography of Where I Stand by Martin Ollman
MURRAY FREDERICKS IN OUTDOOR EXHIBITION AT ANU
MURRAY FREDERICKS is featured in a new photographic exhibition, situated outdoors on Exhibition Avenue - the new year-round, free and public exhibition space along the length of University Avenue in the new Kambri precinct at ANU in Canberra.
Where I Stand is a stirring exhibition of 24 photographs from six iconic Australian artists, curated in partnership with Ambush Gallery and Head On Photo Fest. The installation has been curated to create a narrative about rebirth and rejuvenation that can be read end to end, or taken singularly. Identity, connection to country and nature weave the images together.
Exhibition Avenue is a series of substantial cubes, each buttressed internally with water tanks and constructed from steel. These serve as a canvas for the photographs, which are lit by solar energy for 24-hour viewing.
The exhibition runs until October 31.
Install shot by Martin Ollman.
Murray Fredericks, Muybridge, 2015, digital pigments print, 140 x 187 cm
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Array #1, 2019, type C photograph, 92 x 230 cm.
ARC ONE is thrilled to present, Array, the final ‘cycle’ in award-winning Australian artist Murray Fredericks’ 16-year SALT Project. These visually arresting abstract landscapes continue the artist’s emotional engagement with Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), South Australia.
“Stay there long enough, and the landscape forces you to a place beyond the rational mind, beyond your sense of self. It’s a part of the human condition we experience when confronted by concepts of infinity, absorbed in meditation, or when confronted by our own mortality. The images are responses to that experience”. - Murray Fredericks, 2019
Murray Fredericks has been drawn again and again to the extraordinary location of Lake Eyre in his pursuit to understand the overwhelming emptiness and powerful emotional resonance of remote land and sky. Camping alone for weeks at a time, Fredericks’ spiritual and mental experience of this environment is encapsulated in his immersive abstract landscapes that bear witness to the transcendent capacity of the natural world.
Array #15, 2019, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 160 cm.
Array is the final cycle in Murray Fredericks’ acclaimed SALT Project. In these new works the artist intersects endless space through the ethereal reflective quality of mirrors. Rather than employing the mirror as a symbol of self-reflection, Fredericks redirects our gaze away from ourselves and into the immense environment. His translations of the language of landscape verge on otherworldly; reflections hover together as geometric forms, apertures or portals, offering a dual experience of looking both into another realm and out, as the lake’s glass-like surface mirrors an infinite space above. In one moment, an ensemble of sky and surface meld into a symphony of stars under Fredericks’ powerful control. These works plunge the viewer into a mesmerising spatial gestalt as Fredericks dissolves the contours of the landscape into a limitless optical deception. Place is defined by boundless empty space, as his own reflections on landscape mediate and expand what we see. Offering the viewer an emotional engagement with the environment, we see evidence of greater forces at work. There is a sense of release as the self dissolves into the light and infinity. The residue is a signature of an artist who finds the deep layers of his work by revealing the inexhaustible depth of what is already there.
Murray Fredericks is an internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Fredericks has exhibited widely, including Fotográfica Bogotá, Museum of Photography, Bogota, Colombia, 2017; Inside the Dome (DYE2) (with Tom Schutzinger), Geelong Gallery, 2015-16; SALT, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 2016; a major Australian landscape survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, 2012; and two solo shows at the Australian Centre for Photography, 2010 and 2015 respectively. His work has been acquired by prestigious public and private collections internationally, including the National Gallery of Victoria; Australian Parliament House; Australian National Portrait Gallery; Artbank; The Sir Elton John Collection; Macquarie Bank; Commonwealth Bank; The Myer Collection; The Valentino Collection; and a number of regional galleries across Australia. Fredericks has been the recipient of numerous awards and is a regular finalist in Australia’s top photography prizes. In 2015, he received the People’s Choice Award for the Bowness Photography Prize, was runner up in the Head-On Festival Landscape Prize and a finalist in the JUWS Photography Award. His first documentary film, Salt, for which he was cinematographer and co-director, won twelve major international awards, played over 50 festivals and was screened on the ABC and PBS in the USA.
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Murray Fredericks, Array 8, 2018, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 170 cm
MURRAY FREDERICKS has a large feature in the latest edition of Artist Profile magazine. Fredericks touches on his formal influences, his process, and his ongoing relationship with Lake Eyre.
"The geometry goes back to the Bechers, and Donald Judd in minimalism. One of the criticisms of that minimalism is that it's detached and cold. I look at this as minimalist work but overlaying it with emotion and re-overlaying with a political message...What I am looking at is anything in the landscape that is used to quantify the viewer's experience. Out there it is about setting up where perspective and scale are denied. That is where I am trying to find abstraction," says Fredericks.
Issue 47 of Artist Profile is in stores now and the profile will be online in the weeks to come.
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Murray Fredericks, ‘Array 11’, 2018, Digital pigment print on cotton rag, ed/7, 120 x 165 cm
MURRAY FREDERICKS is interviewed in this month’s edition of Inside Out Magazine.
“Being isolated for extended periods of time, where your whole world becomes the day and night sky, takes you away from the trivial stresses of daily existence - it's an absolute joy," says Fredericks.
The leading image of the article is his photograph Array 11, which will be on view in our upcoming exhibition of Fredericks works opening 25 June 2019.
LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN | MURRAY FREDERICKS | ROBERT OWEN | SAM SHMITH
Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, 'Transmigration', 2007, oil on linen, 152 x 152 cm.
Four ARC ONE artists, LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN, MURRAY FREDERICKS, ROBERT OWEN and SAM SHMITH, are featured in the new issue of Vogue Living.
Click here for a full tour of the private residence they hang in.
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ARC ONE in Sydney is delighted to present, WITNESS, the latest ‘cycle’ in award-winning Australian artist Murray Fredericks’ 16-year SALT Project. These visually-arresting abstract landscapes continue from the artist’s emotional engagement with Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), South Australia.
Murray Fredericks, Mirror 17, 2017, digital pigment print on cotton, edition of 7, 120 x 155 cm.
WITNESS will be exhibited at ARC ONE in Sydney, 36 – 40 Queen St, Woollahra, from 4 - 13 April, 11am – 6pm. An opening reception will be held on 4 April, 6pm – 8pm.
“Standing in the silken water, surrounded only by a boundless horizon, I sense a release, a surrendering as the self dissolves into the light and space.”
- Murray Fredericks
WITNESS continues Murray Fredericks’ deep relationship with Lake Eyre and his intrepid pursuit to understand the overwhelming emptiness and powerful emotional resonance of remote land and sky. Camping alone for weeks at a time, Fredericks’ spiritual and mental experience of this environment is encapsulated in his immersive abstract landscapes that bear WITNESS to the transcendent capacity of light, colour, and space.
Murray Fredericks, Array #11 (Venus Jupiter), 2018, digital pigment print on cotton, edition of 7, 120 x 165 cm.
Comprised of two significant bodies of work, Vanity (2017) and Array (2018), WITNESS sees the artist intersect endless space through the ethereal reflective quality of mirrors. Rather than employing the mirror as a symbol of self-reflection, Fredericks redirects our gaze away from ourselves and into the immense environment. His translations of the landscape verge on otherworldly; reflections hover together as geometric forms, apertures or portals, offering a dual experience of looking both into another realm and out, as the lake’s glass-like surface mirrors an infinite space above. These works plunge the viewer into a mesmerising spatial gestalt as Fredericks dissolves the contours of the landscape into a limitless optical deception. Place is defined by boundless empty space.
By removing his/ our reflection from the picture entirely, we are not the projected centre of the world. Fredericks subtly questions the narcissistic qualities of the human condition in the age of the Anthropocene, wherein human activity has become the overriding force on climate and the natural world. He casts our self/image adrift, so that we might be consumed by the sensory phenomena of light, colour and space on a visceral level, engaging another stratum of consciousness that echoes the artist’s own experience of living in solitude on the lake.
These works offer a release from the ever-present vanity, anxiety, and doomed search for perfection inherent in human nature as we confront the pure potentiality of the natural world itself. In this exhibition, Fredericks’ meditations on the immeasurable and unknown void that encompasses us offer a space in which to escape ourselves and WITNESS a moment of transcendence.
Murray Fredericks, Array 12, 2019, digital pigment print on cotton, edition of 7, 120 x 160 cm.
Both Vanity and Array are cycles of a much larger SALT Project which, to date, comprises 23 trips to Lake Eyre since 2003. SALT has unintentionally become a truly epic project in time and scale as Fredericks is drawn again and again to the desolate, empty and infinite salt pan that is Lake Eyre.
Murray Fredericks is an internationally acclaimed and multi-award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Fredericks has exhibited widely, including Fotográfica Bogotá, Museum of Photography, Bogota, Colombia, 2017; Inside the Dome (DYE2) (with Tom Schutzinger), Geelong Gallery, 2015-16; SALT, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 2016; a major Australian landscape survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, 2012; and two solo shows at the Australian Centre for Photography, 2010 and 2015 respectively. His work has been acquired by prestigious public and private collections internationally, including the National Gallery of Victoria; Australian Parliament House; Australian National Portrait Gallery; Artbank; The Sir Elton John Collection; Macquarie Bank; Commonwealth Bank; The Myer Collection; The Valentino Collection; and a number of regional galleries across Australia. Fredericks has been the recipient of numerous awards and is a regular finalist in Australia’s top photography prizes. In 2015, he received the People’s Choice Award for the Bowness Photography Prize, was runner up in the Head-On Festival Landscape Prize and a finalist in the JUWS Photography Award. His first documentary film, Salt, for which he was cinematographer and co-director, won twelve major international awards, played over 50 festivals and was screened on the ABC and PBS in the USA.
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Murray Fredericks, Mirror 16, 2017, digital pigment print on cotton rag, edition of 7,120 x 155 cm.
MURRAY FREDERICKS is on the judging panel for Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers 2019. . Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers recognises, encourages, and promotes talented photographers in the early stages of their careers. Winners and runners up will be showcased in the May/June issue of Capture Magazine.