LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN featured in exhibition 'Art of Peace' at the AGWA

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green were recently invited to present their artworks in a symposium featuring nine acclaimed artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste—countries that have faced unimaginable horrors yet demonstrate the resilience of the human spirit through art.

At Curtin University last month they joined their peers in the ‘Art of Peace’ Symposium, in a two-day event exploring the transformative power of art in post-conflict societies. This symposium accompanies the exhibition Art of Peace: Art After War at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, which runs until 29 June 2025.

In 2007, Brown & Green were Australia’s Official War Artists, deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. Their artworks record the activities and experiences of the Australian troops. They are contemplative works that reveal new and strange configurations of landscape, culture, and technology.

ARC ONE Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair 2025

For the first time in a decade, ARC ONE Gallery is returning to the Melbourne Art Fair. To celebrate, we are bringing a presentation of thrilling new works by Janet Laurence, Marina Rolfe and John Young.

Collectors have consistently sought out these artists for the mastery they bring to their medium. Rolfe, Young and Laurence each have a unique vision of landscape abstraction that will be on display this week at MAF.

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DANI MARTI acquisition by Maitland Regional Art Gallery

We're thrilled to announce that Maitland Regional Art Gallery has acquired Dani Marti's ethereal 'Nude (after Teresa)' (2022).

This glamorous, room-spanning suspended sculpture was a highlight of Marti's exhibition Oh Canola!, a showcase of the artist's large-scale sensual abstraction held at Maitland in 2022.

NIKE SAVVAS & ANNE ZAHALKA featured in 'A Fictional Retrospective' at Gertrude Contemporary

Nike Savvas and Anne Zahalka are included in the 'first decade' the exhibition 'A Fictional Retrospective' opening tonight at Gertrude Contemporary.

Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of the late 80s and early 90s in Australian art, the exhibition will evoke the liveliness of the Gertrude community during these foundational years. This is the first iteration of Past is Prologue, a year-long program marking and reflecting on forty years of Gertrude.

The exhibition runs until 23 March.

Nike Savvas, Nice Bubbles (detail), 1994, installation view, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, iridescent blown glass, image courtesy of the artist and Arc One Gallery, Naarm Melbourne © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro

GUO JIAN & GUAN WEI Feature in Exhibition at Gallery Lane Cove

GUO JIAN, The Beauty No.6 [detail], 2024, Inkjet pigment print, Edition of 3, 116 x 83 cm.

Celebrating Lunar New Year 🐍

Guo Jian and Guan Wei are both featured in the beautiful exhibition In the Mood for Love 良宵 at Gallery Lane Cove, guest curated by Abigail Kim and Dr. Yeqin Zuo.

The exhibition reflects the intricate tapestry of both personal and shared narratives that flourish during this festive season—a time for reflection, renewal, and connection.

In the Mood for Love 良宵
📅 Until 11 February
📍 Gallery Lane Cove, 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066

ANNE ZAHALKA - Clifton Contemporary Art Fair 2025

Anne Zahalka
Return of the Thylacine, 2024
30cm x 40cm

Clifton Contemporary Art Fair 2025

ANNE ZAHALKA features in Escarpment - Living on the Edge, an exhibition curated by Sheona White to raise much needed funds for the expansion project of the Clifton Art School.

Clifton School of Arts is a unique Victorian landmark with spectacular ocean views. Clifton School of Arts is a historic building, superbly positioned just south of the iconic Sea Cliff Bridge in Clifton New South Wales. This much-loved institution has served the local community as a cultural and events facility for over 110 years.

General public free
Open daily 10am - 4pm
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PETER DAVERINGTON - Behind the Scenes

Get a glimpse of PETER DAVERINGTON’S new work ‘Original gangsta' (2024-2025) and ‘Pimpin ain’t easy’ (2025) in an exclusive behind the scenes studio shot!

PETER DAVERINGTON
Original gangsta, 2024-2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 45cm

PETER DAVERINGTON
Pimpin ain’t easy, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 × 45cm

Congratulations - ARC ONE Artist Opportunity Award 2024

ARC ONE is delighted to present the 2024 VCA Artist Opportunity Award to Mythra Schwartz & Jarrad Martyn 🎉🎨🏆

This award is granted from the VCA Masters or Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Program and grants Schwartz & Martyn the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE in early 2025.

Mythra uses the physicality and materiality of paint – thinking through the act of making - to unravel the connections between place, memory, stories from the past, and how they connect to the present. Often using motifs of shadows, reflections and other fleeting moments in both paintings and instillations to create liminal spaces: dreamscapes embedded with the haziness of memory.

Jarrad uses painting to explore humanities shifting relationship with the natural environment and how legacy is visualised. Using photographs his father made while working in Antarctica in 1985 as the starting point, Martyn’s interest lays in the duality of the photographs - they are personally sentimental, yet draw out new political and environmental associations in the present day. The collective public memory of ‘Antarctica’ as a place and as an idea has become synonymous with current conversations around climate change and similar global concerns.

This is the third year that ARC ONE has partnered with the Victorian College of the Arts to present this award. We are proud to be supporting these outstanding graduates.

JULIE RRAP at MCA – Behind the exhibition 'Past Continuous'

Delve deeper into the making of Julie Rrap's major solo exhibition 'Past Continuous' with
this wonderful short video from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In this clip, we go behind the scenes with Rrap as she discusses her recent performance piece Drawn In (2024), and reflects on its connection to Disclosures: A Photographic Construct from 1982.

Watch the full video here. ⁠Courtesy of the artist and the MCA Australia.

Julie Rrap: Past Continuous
📅 27 July 2024, 2–2.30pm
📍Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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DANI MARTI to feature in Radical Textiles exhibition at AGSA

Dani Marti, ‘Troughman (the yellow peril)’, 2006, polypropylene, nylon and wood frame on castor wheels, 180 x 180 x 180 cm.

RADICAL TEXTILES

Dani Marti will be showing ’Troughman (yellow peril)' (2005) at Art Gallery of South Australia for the much anticipated Radical Textiles exhibition, opening this Saturday.

From William Morris to Sonia Delaunay, Radical Textiles celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.

RADICAL TEXTILES
📅 23 November 2024 – 30 March 2025
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia

GUAN WEI awarded Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024

Congratulations to Guan Wei, who has been presented the Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024. A recognition of an incredible career, this major award acknowledges the achievements of an artist who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian art.

Guan Wei has been living and working between Beijing, China and Sydney Australia since 1989. Guan Wei is an iconic figure in the Australian contemporary art scene and critically acclaimed internationally. Through his art, he reflects upon the human condition as we engage with critical contemporary issues, such as climate change, questions of identity, migration and exile. Guan Wei has held over 80 solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney to OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen China and has been included in countless group exhibitions from South Korea to Cuba.