GUAN WEI featured in 'Passage and Echo' exhibition at Vermilion Art

GUAN WEI is currently featured in Passage and Echo: A Dialogue Across the Century that recently opened at Vermilion Art in Sydney, alongside the works of Sidney Nolan.

In this captivating exhibition, Guan Wei reimagines Australia’s iconic Ned Kelly in a Chinese landscape—where his armour and silence merge with mountains formed by ink and cloud. The exhibition brings to life a vision that began when Guan Wei, at just 18, first encountered Nolan’s Ned Kelly and imagined this unexpected cultural fusion.

Now, decades later, that vision has become a powerful conversation across time and borders, reflecting the rich potential of cross-cultural exchange.

More information can be found here.

JANET LAURENCE Featured on My Garden Path

JANET LAURENCE was recently profiled on Gardening Australia’s "My Garden Path". In this beautiful segment, Janet invites us into her studio and garden—spaces where art and ecology entwine. Known for her immersive installations that explore the fragility of ecosystems and our connection to the natural world, Janet speaks about her practice with poetic clarity.

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JANET LAURENCE exhibition 'Burnt Sea' opens in Berlin

Janet Laurence's new evocative installation, The Burnt Sea is now on view at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung in Berlin. This site-specific work transforms Alfred Ehrhardt’s 1930s–40s coral photographs into delicate silk veils that drift like underwater relics—fragmented, translucent, and fading.

Air currents and light animate these floating fabrics, echoing the fragility of our oceans and the devastating impact of coral bleaching.

Laurence’s poetic layering of embroidery and ash-toned imagery creates a space of mourning and reflection, while a “reef hospital” of bleached coral and coloured threads offers a glimmer of hope and restoration. This exhibition is a powerful call to action in the face of ecological crisis.

For more details, visit: aestiftung.de

DANI MARTI featured in 50 Artists: 50 Years exhibition at University of Wollongong

DANI MARTI’s video work Butterflyman will be featured in 50 Artists: 50 Years, a landmark exhibition celebrating five decades of artistic legacy at the University of Wollongong, running from 4 August til 10 December 2025.

The exhibition highlights the diversity and significance of the UOW Art Collection as part of the university’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

On Butterflyman, the artist writes:

“Filmed during my OZCO residency in NYC. I met and filmed Mark in 2010. I saw him again when I got back to NYC in 2012 — he didn’t look too good, and he had lost a lot of weight due to his addiction to meth while living with HIV. We organised a filming session. Three weeks later, I ran into him in the street, and he had developed skin lesions on his face. I asked him to do a second filming session.”

Marti chose to film his friend performing one of his more joyful passions: flagging — a routine commonly performed in gay clubs, inspired by Japanese fan dancing.

Marti’s work explores the intimacy and complexity of surface — how, as seen in Butterflyman, a person’s story can be literally written on their skin.

More information can be found here.

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN featured on the cover of Performance Research

Wonderful to see LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN's work Orpheus Machine (2023) on the cover of Performance Research, a specialist performance art journal published bi-monthly.

Charles Green also co-edited this special edition with Helena Grehan. Titled, 'In Extremis' they both begin the journal with a fascinating editorial 'What to do, think and feel during times of perpetual crisis' discussing Brown/Green works breathtaking works Orpheus Machine (2023) and Evening Star (2024).

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green will be featured in this year's 2025 LEGACY exhibition. More details to come.

CYRUS TANG shortlisted for the 2025 Bowness Prize

CYRUS TANG has just been announced as a selected finalist in the 2025 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.

Her hauntingly beautiful practice—rooted in themes of memory, absence, and transformation—continues to captivate. We’re thrilled to see her photographic work recognised in one of Australia’s most prestigious photography prizes.

Hosted by the Museum of Australian Photography, its judging panel this year is Shaune Lakin, Anne Zahalka, and Anouska Phizacklea (MAPh Director) who considered over 750 entries, selecting 50 works to comprise the final field. The exhibition opens 13 September.

More information can be found here.

JANET LAURENCE wins Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize 2025

ARC ONE Gallery is thrilled to announce that Janet Laurence is this year’s winner of the 2025 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize with her beautifully striking and poignant artwork Moss Water Ice Temperature Rising (2024). This award is one of the highest valued professional artists prizes in Australia. Janet is greatly honoured to have received this award last night. As one of this country’s key creative minds with a practice that is underpinned by a deep love and concern for the overwhelming importance of the natural world, we congratulate her.

PAT BRASSINGTON featured in RISING Festival 2025

Pat Brassington has designed one of the nine playable holes in Swingers: The Art of Mini Golf—as part of RISING Festival—a playable art exhibition featuring artist-designed mini golf holes full of unexpected obstacles.

Joining Pat are works by Miranda July, Kaylene Whiskey, Nabilah Nordin, Saeborg, Natasha Tontey, Delaine Le Bas, BKTHERULA, and Soda Jerk. Swingers is open until 31 August—don’t miss your shot at Flinders Street Station.

More information can be found here.

JANET LAURENCE Features in OpenField Festival

Janet Laurence's new stunning immersive installation The Court Requiem for Nature just opened to the public as part of the arts festival OpenField at Berry Courthouse in the regional town, Berry.

Janet was also part of an artists' panel discussion 'RE:Place' moderated by Bundanon's CEO Rachel Kent with fellow artists Joan Ross, June Golland, and Kenneth Lambert.

OpenField is from 13 - 15 June 2025.

More information >

Image: Installation view of Janet Laurence, The Court Requiem for Nature, The Court Requiem for Nature, New South Wales.

LONG & STENT feature in online exhibition 'Phanta Firma'

Honey Long and Prue Stent’s online exhibition Phanta Firma, currently on view via the Fotografisk Centre’s digital platform, presents a series of constructed encounters between the body and the Australian landscape.

Working collaboratively, Long and Stent mobilise the figure of the siren as a mode of critical intervention, disrupting the visual conventions of the female nude and its entanglement with representations of nature. Through strategies of artifice, disidentification, and performative excess, Phanta Firma negotiates the thresholds between subject and environment, femininity and myth, visibility and opacity. 🌀

The exhibition can be viewed here.

JOHN YOUNG Book Launch - The History Projects

Join us to celebrate the much-anticipated Naarm/Melbourne launch of John Young Zerunge’s new major publication "John Young: The History Projects, edited by Olivier Krischer.”

On the night, artist John Young Zerunge will be joined by scholar-curators Lisa Slade, Genevieve Trail, and Olivier Krischer for a panel discussion on how artists and curators are confronting history as an ethical project in contemporary practice.

🗓️ Tuesday 10 June 2025
🕕 6–7:30PM
📍 University of Melbourne
Singapore Theatre, Room B120
Glyn Davis Building (MSD), Building No. 123

LONG & STENT Feature in Exhibition 'Protest is a Creative Act' at MAPh

So thrilled to see Honey Long and Prue Stent are part of 'Protest is a Creative Act', a powerful new exhibition at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) opening this afternoon from 1 to 3pm.

Curated by Kelly Gellatly and Angela Connor, this intergenerational exhibition "confirms that many of the issues addressed by women photographers in the 1970s – around the body, sexuality, race, national identity and the environment – have not been resolved."

Their work resonates with themes first raised by feminist photographers in the 1970s—bodies, sexuality, the environment—and shows how these urgencies live on today.

JOHN YOUNG Artist Talk at ARC ONE Gallery

JOHN YOUNG joined us at the gallery last week for a special talk on his new book, John Young: The History Projects, published by The Power Institute.

Launching next month at the University of Melbourne, the book offers an in-depth look at Young’s decades-long practice, which “explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past.”

Get your copy here >

JOHN YOUNG interviewed by Liminal Magazine

JOHN YOUNG has been interviewed this week by Liminal Magazine. In five succinct questions, John reflects on his evolving practice and discusses the nuances of his new book, John Young: History Projects—what Young describes as "a critical guide to his expansive body of work exploring diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an 'ethical responsibility' toward the past."

"This mode of working—the “historical” modality and its associated narratives—seems to establish a reciprocal relationship between the artist’s and audience’s learning [...] It is, perhaps, more socialist in orientation: artist and audience create and learn from the historical-art text simultaneously."

Read the article here.

PETER DAVERINGTON featured in the New York Times

Congratulation to Peter Daverington who is featured in the New York Times. The article penned by Kevin Noble Maillard captures how the artist transformed a once-crumbling Hudson Valley house into a richly layered personal sanctuary. A painter’s vision at every turn, the space balances decay and ornament, nostalgia and invention.

“This house is healing medicine to me,” he says of the 1897 three-story vernacular just steps from the Hudson River. “It is my deliverance from the darkest of nights and it’s my phoenix rising.”

Read the full article here.

IMANTS TILLERS Awarded the Order of the Three Stars

We are thrilled to share that Imants Tillers has been awarded Latvia’s highest national honour. Last Sunday, 4 May, at Riga Castle, Tillers was presented with the Three Stars Award by the President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, and the Chapter of Orders. This award acknowledges exceptional service to the nation, including in the field of culture. 

This prestigious award recognises Tillers’ outstanding contributions to contemporary art and his enduring connection to Latvia, expressed through a deeply poetic and conceptual practice that spans five decades.

With over 100 solo exhibitions since the late 1960s, Tillers has represented Australia at major international events, including the São Paulo Biennial in 1975, Documenta 7 in 1982, and the 42nd Venice Biennale in 1986. Tillers is one of Australia’s most significant and internationally recognised artists. His work weaves personal and cultural histories, with a sustained focus on themes of diaspora, displacement, memory, and belonging—narratives that profoundly resonate with the Latvian experience.

Review of ARC ONE Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair

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.

Read the full article here.

GUO JIAN's exhibition 'Nothing About Erotic but Playboy' at Rochfort Gallery

Nothing About Erotic but Playboy, curated by John McDonald, brings together powerful new works that revisit memories of army life, propaganda, and survival with razor-sharp wit and emotional intensity.

This exhibition also features Guo Jian’s 2009 works that marked a pivotal moment, weaving together personal memory and political critique. Drawing on his experience as a former propaganda artist, these large scape paintings expose the tension between revolutionary ideals and lived realities with sharp, layered imagery.

Read more about the exhibition here.

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.

Order here >

VANILA NETTO Features in 'Love, Yellow' at Artbank

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.