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.

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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.