JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE's wondrous The Elixir Lab is installed at the Inhotim Institute, Brazil as part of Between Subjects and Collectiveness. This major performative installation encourages viewers to taste a range of plant-infused elixirs, offering knowledge of medicinal plants and an intimacy with the natural environment.

The 4th International Education Seminar in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil is focused on transformations subjects go through and their relationship with the environment in which they live. With guests from Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Chile, Colombia, India and Russia, the seminar proposes a reflection on the separation between the social and environmental dimension in contemporary life.

Janet Laurence, Installation View, The Elixir Lab, Inhotim Institute, Brazil, 2018

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Male peacock spider, whole body, Maratus speciosus, pigment print, 2018, 152 x 152 cm.

See eight different kinds of Maratus spiders singing and dancing at the world premier of MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's On the Origins of Art III–VIII. The screening will be at Bundanon Homestead from 6.30 –9.30 pm Saturday September 29 as part of MICRO: Little things mean a lot.

The Bundanon’s annual spring event brings scientists, artists and community voices together to share knowledge and ideas arising from the Bundanon sites through discussions, presentations and experiences. For more information, click here.

IMANTS TILLERS

Terry Smith’s lecture on contemporary painters focusing on IMANTS TILLERS is now online. The lecture at the Latvian National Museum of Art is part of Journey to Nowhere, a major solo exhibition of TILLERS works.

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PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON's work A's Joy has been featured on the cover of the book, 'The Mummy’s Foot and the Big Toe: Feet and Imaginative Promise'. In this book Alan Krell addresses the absurd, the abject, the banal and the romantic, as he describes the appearance of the foot in literature, photography, art and film.

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Pat Brassington, A's Joy, 2005, pigment print, 84 x 62cm.

JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence, What Colour is the Sacred? (Black) (detail), 2018, plywood, acrylic, mirror, details of Karel Dujardin ‘Self-portrait’ 1662 printed on archival cotton rag, Oil glaze on acrylic, Carbon, bone, charcoal, ink, pigment, scientific glass, Barite, Goethite, Hematite, 45 x 60 x 45cm.

JANET LAURENCE has been invited to speak at 'Between Subjects and Collectiveness' at INHOTIM Institute, Brazil on 13 September 2018. The 4th International Education Seminar at Inhotim is focused on transformations subjects go through and their relationship with the environment in which they live. With guests from Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Chile, Colombia, India and Russia, the seminar proposes a reflection on the separation between the social and environmental dimension in contemporary life.

Panel Discussion 13 September | How can art question subject –environment relations?

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JOHN YOUNG, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT

‘Oceans from here’ at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney is currently on view. Featuring the work of JOHN YOUNG and HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, the exhibition explores the aesthetics of water, and its ebb and flow as a global life force. John Young says of his work (above): "Nature is not only fragile, majestic and sublime in the old Kantian sense - but, as Virilio would have it, the ocean may well be frightful and monstrous in its answering back to the anthropocentric progressiveness of modernity’s folly".

The exhibition continues until 20 October.

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John Young, Ancient Water I, 2018, Glicee print on archival Museo Silver Rag Paper, 73 x 126.5cm.