ARC ONE Gallery hosts MAPh's Artist Photography Auction

This week ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka.

Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.

MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.

ARC ONE hosting upcoming MAPh Artist Photography Auction

MaPh x ARC ONE

ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the upcoming MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks and Lydia Wegner.

Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.

Sign up over at @maph_photography (🔗 click the link in their bio), for an auction with a difference! MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.

Auction details are below:

Wednesday 24 May 2023
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne 3000
Doors open 6pm for 7pm auction
Drinks and canapés will be served on arrival.

Honey LONG & Prue STENT, Venus milk, 2015, pigment ink-jet print, 106.0 x 159.0 cm, edition of 3.

LYDIA WEGNER - On Space

ARC ONE is thrilled to be staging LYDIA WEGNER’s latest solo exhibition, ‘On Space’, as our last exhibition for 2022.

This exhibition represents a pared-back approach to her characteristic theatrical abstraction. Wegner’s new series showcases the bravura balancing act that occurs within her mesmerizing images.

30 November 2022 - 4 February 2023

LYDIA WEGNER features in Art Guide Australia

We are thrilled to announce that LYDIA WEGNER features in the latest issue of Art Guide Australia with an extraordinary insight into her unique practice!

Experience Lydia's illuminous work in her upcoming show 'On Space' opening at ARC ONE Gallery November 30.

Opening of the BOWNESS PRIZE Exhibition

JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG and LYDIA WEGNER feature in this years Bowness Prize exhibition.

Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.

Available to view at The Monash Gallery of Art until November 13.

Installation images courtesy of Monash Gallery of Art, photographed by Andrew Curtis.

Congratulations to ARC ONE Bowness Photography Prize Finalists!

CONGRATULATIONS are in order!

Janet Laurence, Cyrus Tang, Lydia Wegner, Honey Long and Prue Stent have all been shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Bowness Photography Prize.

The Bowness exhibition opens 29 September. However, if you can't wait that long, please visit ARC ONE where these fantastic artists are currently on display in our Viewing Room.

LYDIA WEGNER AT GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY

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Opening today at @gippslandgallery is Middle Ground, an exhibition celebrating the contribution of female photographers to the Gippsland Art Gallery Collection, featuring LYDIA WEGNER.

Focusing on a snapshot of seven significant artists, this exhibition showcases the diversity of the works in the Collection and highlights the way these women have impacted the creative industry.

Middle Ground will continue until 1 August.

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PETER WEGNER WINS ARCHIBALD PRIZE

Wonderful news for the Wegner family, and ARC ONE Gallery's LYDIA WEGNER. Congratulations to Peter Wegner, winner of the 100th Archibald Prize with his portrait of 100-year-old artist Guy Warren.

Left: Peter is pictured here with his daughter and fellow artist Lydia Wegner.

Right: Peter Wegner, Portrait of Guy Warren at 100, oil on canvas, 120.5 x 151.5 cm

LYDIA WEGNER FEATURED ON COVER OF ART EDIT MAGAZINE

Art Edit magazine Issue 25 with photograph by Derek Swalwell.

Art Edit magazine Issue 25 with photograph by Derek Swalwell.

LYDIA WEGNER’s work ‘Gold Angle’ is on the cover of the latest issue of Art Edit magazine.

The cover shows the Brunswick residence of an avid collector, with interior architecture and design by Lucy Bock. Loose furniture and objets d’art avoid opulence, but reference the client’s love of colour and timeless design pieces.

Contact the gallery to view a selection of Wegner’s available works!

MGA 30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY CATALOGUE

'VIEW FINDING Monash Gallery of Art 1990—2020', designed by Pidgeon Ward.

'VIEW FINDING Monash Gallery of Art 1990—2020', designed by Pidgeon Ward.

The MGA recently launched a landmark 30 year anniversary publication - VIEW FINDING Monash Gallery of Art 1990—2020. 

This fully illustrated catalogue features image plates by ARC ONE artists Pat Brassington, Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Robert Owen, Jacky Redgate, Julie Rrap, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka. It charts the history of the gallery, its present, and the future of photography in Australia. 

Over the last 30 years MGA has developed one of Australia’s most important cultural assets — the only public collection solely dedicated to Australian photography. MGA’s artistic program has explored the diversity of photographic practice in Australia, and has placed Australian photographers and photography within a global context. 'View Finding' looks at the past, present and future of photography in Australia, presenting moments that have defined MGA, its collection and exhibition history.

A selection of leading lights who specialise in photography in Australia have contributed essays to the publication. You can purchase it here.

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Lydia Wegner, Orange Push, 2019, archival inkjet print, steel frame, 120 x 80 cm.

Lydia Wegner, Orange Push, 2019, archival inkjet print, steel frame, 120 x 80 cm.

A big congratulations to LYDIA WEGNER, who is a finalist in this year's Bowness Photography Prize.

The Bowness Prize is an important survey of contemporary photographic practice and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.

Wegner's work Orange Push will hang in the exhibition from 5 October - 17 November. This work was shown at ARC ONE earlier this year in Wegner’s solo show, Shifting Light.

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Lydia Wegner, Sliding Yellow, 2019, archival inkjet print, 100 x 67 cm.

Lydia Wegner, Sliding Yellow, 2019, archival inkjet print, 100 x 67 cm.

LYDIA WEGNER is speaking at the MGA alongside fellow exhibiting artist Lauren Bamford and Senior Curator Pippa Milne to discuss the concept and process behind the commission Robin Boyd: Portrait of an Australian House.

The resulting new work is presented with a unique architectural intervention in the MGA gallery.

The artist talk will take place this Saturday 15 June between 2 - 3 pm. The exhibition continues until 12 July.

The event is free, but do register here.

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Lydia Wegner, ‘Kitchen Grid’, 2019, archival inkjet, 100 x 67cm

Lydia Wegner, ‘Kitchen Grid’, 2019, archival inkjet, 100 x 67cm

LYDIA WEGNER has been commissioned to produce a series of new works centred on the Wright House in Warrandyte, one of Robin Boyd's iconic family homes. Curated by Pippa Milne, the exhibition Robin Boyd, a portrait of an Australian house celebrates the architecture of Robin Boyd through the medium of photography.

"Lauren Bamford and Lydia Wegner approach the subject of a Boyd house with very different lenses, bringing an energising and intensely new way of seeing this now classic architecture – which was iconoclastic in its day. Wegner brings an eye of abstraction to elicit something unexpected from the familiar architecture, while Bamford masterfully draws out the spirit and joy of a space as a living thing. This newly commissioned work, together with a fabulous swathe of vintage prints of Boyd homes, aims to show just how many ways there are to see and occupy a Boyd house," says Milne.


The exhibition continues until 14 July at the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA).

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Lydia Wegner, Orange Push, 2019, archival inkjet print, steel frame, 120 x 80 cm.

Lydia Wegner, Orange Push, 2019, archival inkjet print, steel frame, 120 x 80 cm.

Lydia Wegner’s third solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Shifting Light, articulates a curiosity of illusion and light, shadow and form, and the unexpected dissolve of reality. An opening reception will be held on Thursday 14 March, 6-8pm.

Featuring a suite of twelve new works, Shifting Light continues Lydia Wegner’s ongoing exploration of staged photography and visual abstraction. Conjured from analogue processes that manipulate form, colour, and shape, these works stretch our perception to the limit as fixed space and familiar objects are transformed into illusionary abstraction.

Wegner’s works emerge from the tabletop of her studio as the artist carefully layers and balances found objects, coloured and transparent papers, and other visual materials to form ephemeral assemblages. White lights and coloured lighting gels cast sharp lines, bold colour, soft haze, and shadow while mirrors reflect and refract causing a distortion of scale, perspective, and space. These precarious constructions and chance moments are then photographed by Wegner and resolved as inkjet prints. For Wegner, “There’s a kind of magic which happens when I use the camera. You get an image that you may not be able to see by the eye.”

Lydia Wegner, Purple Split, 2019, archival inkjet print, steel frame, 120 x 80 cm.

Lydia Wegner, Purple Split, 2019, archival inkjet print, steel frame, 120 x 80 cm.

In these works, the viewer is confronted by a flattening of space, a colliding of weightless geometric forms, blocks of vibrant colour, shadows, sheens, and textures born from their material construction but now released from it. Recalling the history of formalism, particularly the Bauhaus geometry of László Moholy-Nagy (1895 – 1946), and the conceptual photography of Barbara Kaston (b. 1936), these sculptural studies dissolve reality into pure abstraction.

Lydia Wegner graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Swing, ARC ONE Gallery, 2017; Silver Shadow, Bus Projects, 2016; Assemble Colour, ARC ONE Gallery, 2014; and Folded Colour, Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2013. Group exhibitions include: Robin Boyd, a Portrait of an Australian House, Monash Gallery of Art, 2019 (forthcoming); Still Life Pt. II, Verge Gallery, 2019; Perceptual Abstraction, The Honeymoon Suite, 2017; In the White Square, ARC ONE Gallery, 2016; Is/Is Not, Westspace, 2016; Genteel Notions, LON Gallery, 2016; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013- 14; Das Boot, Next Wave, 2014; Fundraiser Exhibition, Centre of Contemporary Photography, 2013; Low Relief, Seventh Gallery, 2012; FotoFreo (Fremantle Festival of Photography), FutureGen12, Fremantle, 2012; and Art of the Ordinary, ARC ONE Gallery, 2011. She was a Finalist in the 2016 & 2015 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, and was a Finalist in the 2015 churchie national emerging art prize. In 2010, she was a Finalist in the Wallara Travelling Scholarship Prize, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, and in 2013 she was a Finalist in the Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Scholarship Prize. Wegner was also awarded a Hill End Artist Residency through Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in 2013. Her work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank, and PwC Collection.

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Lydia Wegner, Purple Split, 2018, Archival Inkjet print.

Lydia Wegner, Purple Split, 2018, Archival Inkjet print.

LYDIA WEGNER is featured in Still Life Pt. II, an exhibition curated by Adam Stone at Verge Gallery.
Still Life Pt. II investigates the historically significant genre of still life through a contemporary lens. The exhibition brings together an otherwise disparate group of artists working from ‘life’ or ‘fiction’ to meditate on the notion of what a still life is in our current times.

The exhibition runs from 28 Feb - 6 April.

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Lydia Wegner, Perceptual Abstraction installation view, 2017; photography: André Piguet.

Lydia Wegner, Perceptual Abstraction installation view, 2017; photography: André Piguet.

LYDIA WEGNER is included in the group show Perceptual Abstraction at The Honeymoon Suite, Brunswick. Charlotte Cornish describes her work in the accompanying essay: 

"A viewer does not see the material for what it is, rather we are only given a certain amount of information in the final image from which we can decipher what it is we are looking at. The materials are very present, but the resulting photographic works are also representations of what was there that no longer exists after the image is taken."

Read the entire exhibition essay here. 

Perceptual Abstraction continues until 1 July 2017.

IN THE WHITE SQUARE

Robert Owen, Pink & Grey Wall, 1978, drymounted inkjet print, 72 x 47 cm.

Robert Owen, Pink & Grey Wall, 1978, drymounted inkjet print, 72 x 47 cm.

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present In the White Square, a group exhibition exploring themes of new abstraction curated by Laura Lantieri. An opening reception will be held on Saturday 10 December, 4-6pm. 

Showcasing the work of five Australian contemporary artists well-known for their use of abstraction as a primary visual language, In the White Square features Robert Owen, Jacky Redgate and Lydia Wegner, alongside invited artists Caleb Shea and Gemma Smith. Across a dynamic mix of sculpture and photo- based media, the artists in this exhibition are drawn together by a shared emphasis on formal concerns such as colour, form, space, light, optics and geometry. 

The exhibition draws its title from two of the 20th century’s great pioneers of abstract art – Vasily Kandinsky’s In the Black Square (1923), and Kasimir Malevich’s White on White (1918) – while referring obliquely to the ‘white cube’ exhibition space that came to rise in the last century. Situated in the formerly industrial, oblong ‘white cube’ of ARC ONE Gallery, In the White Square also considers the ways in which these artists employ abstraction in the context of a broader historical trajectory.

Variously touching on constructivism, minimalism, and hard-edge painting among other influences, the works blend a pared minimal aesthetic with a more idiosyncratic and playful touch. They invite the viewer to decipher lines, contours, surface textures and reflections in an almost puzzle-solving process, while blocks of colour activate spaces and pulse, oscillating between real and inferred depths of field. Challenging our understanding of what we see and what we know through an eye-popping agenda of geometry, colour and form, the artists of In the White Square collectively interrogate the very act of viewing. 

Please note ARC ONE Gallery will be closed from 18 December 2016 and reopen 24 January 2017.

Gemma Smith is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, & Milani Gallery, Brisbane. 

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Lydia Wegner, Yellow Cut, 2016, light jet print, painted frame, 46 x 32 cm.

Lydia Wegner, Yellow Cut, 2016, light jet print, painted frame, 46 x 32 cm.

LYDIA WEGNER's work is currently included in a group show, Genteel Notions, at LON Gallery, Collingwood. The exhibition builds upon the gallery’s established structure of showing a mix of conceptually curated exhibitions as well as shows that favour process and intuition as a framework for curating. Genteel Notions brings together a group of emerging and established photgraphers. 

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LYDIA WEGNER will be showing a new body of work in her solo exhibition, Silver Shadow, opening at Bus Projects Wednesday 10 August, 6-8pm. 

In this exhibition Wegner's playful images combine striking colour backgrounds alongside warped paper, coloured lighting and angular shadows. Through play and moments of chance, these simple materials form a questionable reality, seemingly flat and weightless something looks familiar yet so far removed.

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Lydia Wegner, Red Wobble, 2016, light jet print, 44 x 30 cm.

Lydia Wegner, Red Wobble, 2016, light jet print, 44 x 30 cm.