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.

New publication featuring MARTI, ZAHALKA, LAURENCE, YOUNG

Celebrating the launch of Mordant Collection Highlights, a publication devoted to the collection of Simon and Catriona Mordant.

"We never set out to build a collection. What has driven us is a passion to be surrounded by creative people, whether in the visual or performing arts. We have only purchased a work when it evoked a reaction in us ... We have never bought a work for a particular wall or because someone told us the artist was important. We have loved this journey together."—Simon and Catriona Mordant

Featured in the highlights are these pieces by Dani Marti, Anne Zahalka, Janet Laurence and John Young.

JOHN YOUNG Artist Talk at TarraWarra Museum of Art

On Saturday, ‘Portrait of a Collection: TarraWarra Museum of Art’ was launched at TarraWarra Museum of Art.

In conversation with Victoria Lynn and Claire Roberts, JOHN YOUNG discussed Claire’s chapter ‘Visual Thinking: Ian Fairweather and John Young' which draws on the affinities between Fairweather and Young's artistic practices.

“For both men, art is a transcultural practice and part of a larger process of becoming.” - Professor Claire Roberts

You can purchase a copy of this important overview of TarraWarra Museum of Art’s collection of 20th- and 21st-century Australian art via the link below.

Purchase a copy here >

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT - Upcoming Workshop @ Golburn Regional Gallery

⭐ Photograph the body with Honey Long and Prue Stent ⭐

Meet the artists at the Gallery and make your own surreal images.

With a live model on hand and a range of materials, participants will have the opportunity to capture their own images, experimenting with angles, light, objects, lenses and materials to create unique visual narratives.

Bring your own camera and get creative with these extraordinary artists.

Honey Long and Prue Stent are a collaborative duo who construct surreal scenes where the body serves as both raw material and haunting apparition. Dreamy, fluid and fleshy, their distinctive and highly sensual practice has garnered worldwide recognition, spanning the realms of photography, performance, installation, and sculpture.

When: 11:30 - 2:30pm Saturday 2 November
Who: Adults and teens 16+
Where: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Cost: $45.00 + booking fee

Book here >

JULIE RRAP: Past Continuous @ MCA

"At the beginning, my work was critiqued through self-conscious feminism. Now, I don’t know how it will be received. And when I have used a body it’s been my own, but you don’t find out much about me in that personal sense. You just see a body moving through time. I also think that this show is as much about time as it is about a body. I show a body through time."

Head to Art Guide to read a fantastic interview with Julie Rrap by Lauren Carroll Harris. In a conversation Rrap discusses her current survey ‘Past Continuous’ at the MCA, which exhibits ‘Disclosures’ with newer works that consider the cultural invisibility of the ageing female body.
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Read the full interview here >


Julie Rrap: Past Continuous
📅 28 June 2024 – 16 February 2025
📍Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

IMANTS TILLERS Artist Talk @ Bundanon Trust

ARTIST TALK SUNDAY

In NSW this weekend, Imants Tillers is giving an artist talk at Bundanon.

Tillers will be in conversation with Sophie O’Brien (Head of Curatorial & Learning, Bundanon), exploring the cultural landscape for young Australian artists in the 1980s, both here and internationally.

In 1984, Tillers was one of three young artists in the exhibition An Australian Accent, presented at MoMA PS1, New York. Also including the work of Mike Parr and Ken Unsworth, the exhibition was one of several to articulate new Australian art to an international audience.

Tillers’ incredible painting ‘Pataphysical man’ (1984), from the collection of the AGNSW, is currently on display at Bundanon Art Museum as part of the group exhibition ‘Wilder Times: Arthur Boyd and the mid-1980s landscape’. ⁠

Tickets available here >

Imants Tillers: In Conversation
📅 Sunday, 6 October, 11am-12pm
📍 Bundanon, 170 Riversdale Road, Illaroo

PAT BRASSINGTON Photo Essay in VAULT Magazine

Vault explores Pat Brassington's gutsy work in this photo essay.

"Mundane activities take on unsettling overtones and domestic environs are rendered strangely ominous as disembodied protagonists engage in sometimes confronting or irrational scenarios."

Grab issue 47 here >

CHARLES GREEN New publication 'When Modern Became Contemporary Art'

Congratulations to Charles Green and his co-author Heather Barker, who have published a new book with Routledge on the history of Australian art from 1962 to 1988.

This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and artists in Australia argued over the idea of a distinctively Australian modern and then postmodern art. The book reflects on why the embrace of Aboriginal art was so late in art museums and in histories of Australian art, arguing that this was because it was not part of a national story dominated by colonial, then neo-colonial dependency.

"When Modern Became Contemporary Art begins with the excellent point that the study of art history has lagged behind artistic practice in contemplating Indigenous art. The book corrects that in the most welcoming way, by bringing hundreds—perhaps thousands—of points of reference, from anthropology, art history, journalism, curating, and the art market, into productive dialogue.”
– Professor James Elkins, E.C. Chadbourne Chair of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago