We’re grateful to Clever Planet (@clever.planet) for their generous words on ARC ONE’s presence at this year’s Melbourne Art Fair (@melbourneartfair).
Their article, Traversing Terrains, highlights the quiet power of our presentation — where the practices of Janet Laurence, Marina Rolfe, and John Young intersected around material sensitivity, memory, and ecological care.
Writer Natalie Thomas described the ARC ONE booth as “contemplative and gentle,” a space that invited visitors to slow down and consider the shifting terrain of contemporary experience. We’re proud to have contributed this moment of stillness within the Fair’s vibrant momentum.
GUO JIAN: Nothing About Erotic but Playboy @ Rochfort Gallery
Step into a world where propaganda meets performance and seduction meets satire. A magnifying glass examines periods of political upheaval and violence in China’s history.
This breathtaking exhibition transforms the classical elegance of Rochfort Gallery - with its chandeliers, timber floors, and grand white walls - into a provocative stage of surreal, sensual, and subversive imagery.
Guo Jian is a Chinese Australian artist whose work reflects on the influence of China’s political ideology, particularly during the Cultural Revolution. Emerging from the Cynical Realism movement of the 1990s in Beijing, his art explores how propaganda and performance were used to stir patriotism and manipulate emotion.
Guo Jian’s insights draw from his time as a People’s Liberation Army propaganda painter and his later role as a student protester during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising.
To view more of Guo Jian’s artwork, understand more about his experiences, and to register for our exhibition, visit the link in our bio or scan the QR code.
NOW SHOWING at Rochfort Gallery
Guo Jian: Nothing About Erotic but Playboy
🗓️ 16 April – 7 June 2025
Curated by: John McDonald
JOHN YOUNG - The History Projects
We are delighted to announce that 'John Young: The History Projects' is now available to order!
Published by The Power Institute.
Between 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created 11 art series which he called ‘The History Projects’. This book is a critical guide to this expansive body of artworks, which explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past.
Featuring more than 400 images, and a wide variety of texts—including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist reflections, and diary pages—this book is a definitive reference for Young’s transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.
IMANTS TILLERS Awarded the Order of the Three Stars
Congratulations to Imants Tillers 🇱🇻🎖
We’re thrilled to share that renowned artist Imants Tillers (@imants_tillers_studio) has been awarded the Order of the Three Stars, Latvia’s highest civilian honour.
This prestigious award recognises Tillers’ outstanding contributions to art and culture, and his enduring connection to Latvia through his deeply poetic, conceptual practice.
An incredibly well-deserved recognition for a truly visionary artist.
📸 Imants Tillers in front of 'Kangaroo Blank' 1988. Photo: Janie Barrett
VANILA NETTO Features in 'Love, Yellow' at Artbank
VANILA NETTO 💛
Vanilla Netto is currently featured in ‘Love, Yellow,’ a selection from the Artbank Collection which explores the colour yellow across its full tonal range. The show features new acquisitions along with works acquired over the past 45 years collecting, including: painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, ceramics, textile, glass, and time-based media.
Installation view of ‘Love, Yellow’, Artbank Melbourne, 2025. Photo: Christian Capurro.
ANNE ZAHALKA & NIKE SAVVAS Feature in 'A Fictional Retrospective' at Gertrude Contemporary
CLOSING THIS WEEK: Nike Savvas and Anne Zahalka are featured in the 'first decade' the exhibition 'A Fictional Retrospective' 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.
A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude's First Decade
📅 8 February - 23 March
📍 Gertrude Contemporary
PAT BRASSINGTON Features in the exhibition 'Seeing Things' at Wollongong Art Gallery
PAT BRASSINGTON is featured in the exhibition, Seeing Things, opening today at Wollongong Art Gallery.
Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, this is an exhibition showcasing works from their collection that offer disquieting narratives of everyday life as a waking dream, a vantage point for seeing with eyes closed.
Pat’s pink work, Purr (2005) is included. "It’s not my intention to feminise the image by using pink. It's 'nastier' than that. Pink smothers,” says the artist.
Seeing Things continues until 3 August.
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ANNE ZAHALKA - Finalist in Meroogal Women's Art Prize
Anne Zahalka's Forget me not (2024) is a finalist in the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, currently on display at Meroogal in Nowra, NSW.
This album, its frontispiece emblazoned with the words ‘Forget me not’, is usually stored in a sideboard at Meroogal. The pages in the album were once occupied by family photographs. These now vacant pages represent the missing people who lived in the house. Their absence now haunts our encounter, and we can only imagine the portraits this Victorian-era album once held. Displaying this ‘hidden’ collection item as an artwork draws attention to the power of objects to invoke memory and imagination.
The Meroogal Women’s Art Prize is a regional, non-acquisitive competition and exhibition. Women artists from across NSW were invited to submit works, in any medium, that respond to the historic house of Meroogal, its former occupants, and its meaning within broader historical and contemporary contexts.
Visit Forget me not at Meroogal, until the exhibition closes on 24 May 2025.
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MURRAY FREDERICKS Featured in The Guardian
A sculpture made of fire: Murray Fredericks’ best photograph'
Murray Fredericks' magnificent 'Blaze 24' is featured in The Guardian today
Read the article >
"We walked three kilometres into this Australian lake, to where the water was still only a metre deep. Then we set up the gas pipe - and waited until the air was really still." - Murray Fredericks
Email mail@arc1gallery.com or DM us for more information about this work.
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MURRAY FREDERICKS
Blaze #24, Muloorina, 2023
digital pigment print on cotton rag
edition of 7 + 2 A/P
120 x 150 cm
JANET LAURENCE - Open Field Arts Festival
Here is a behind the scenes glance at the installation JANET LAURENCE is creating for the Open Field Arts Festival in Berry this June.
PETER DAVERINGTON - Recent Commission
Peter Daverington recently completed this stunning mural commission in Hudson, NY. This grand staircase provided an exquisite 3 x 10 metre canvas for the artist. What a treasure. 🧡
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.
CYRUS TANG - Crystaline Echoes
ARC ONE is thrilled to be presenting Crystalline Echoes, a new body of work by Cyrus Tang. In a return to sculpture, this exhibition showcases a series of metallic sculptures, folded like paper airplanes or emerging like irregular crystals. Each sculpture features a bright image, blurred so that we can no longer tell what it
represents.
CYRUS TANG: CRYSTALLINE ECHOES
📅 5 March - 12 April 2025, Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm
📍 ARC ONE Gallery
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.
For more information, click here.
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.