JULIE RRAP 'Hairline Crack' Installed at AGNSW

Julie Rrap, 'Hairline crack', 1992, acrylic glass and hair, Installation dimensions variable.

It is fantastic to see JULIE RRAP'S key work 'Hairline Crack', 1992, installed among the permanent collection display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Rrap first presented 'Hairline crack' in the 9th Biennale of Sydney. From a distance, the artwork resembles a black line drawn on the wall, evoking, perhaps, the work of Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner or other artists associated with minimalism. On closer inspection, however, it is quickly discovered that the line is in fact made from an unruly excess of human hair.

The work might be seen to meditate on the tension between the organic and the synthetic or between order and chaos. The perfectly straight, level line reveals itself to be disrupted by something organic and unpredictable; a part of our bodies associated with beauty that is also cut and discarded.

NEW RELEASE: IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo'

NEW RELEASE

A collection of Imants Tillers' writing, 'Credo: Selected Essays', has just been published by Giramondo Press:

"These essays express an aesthetic credo which has larger implications for both literature and art created out of the experience of migration . . . What he calls ‘the revolt of the margins’ is evident in the provocative nature of his writing too, in its wit and irony and intelligence."

Perfect Christmas gift for the art lover in your life. Available now in stores and on Giramondo Publishing’s website.

JANET LAURENCE launches Karina Dias Pires’s new book ‘Artists at Home’.

JANET LAURENCE will be launching Karina Dias Pires’s new book ‘Artists at Home’ tonight!

This fascinating publication features interviews and images with insights into the studio practice of 32 Australian women artists. Speaking on the impact of ‘home’ in her art making, Laurence will be in conversation with Dias Pires, alongside Camie Lyons and Louise Olsen.

Thursday, 1 December, 5—7PM
Olsen Gallery, Sydney.

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

ANNE ZAHALKA features in Art Guide Australia preview

Featuring in The Art Gallery of Ballarat’s current exhibition ‘Beating About The Bush’ Anne Zahalka is spotlighted in the November/December issue of Art Guide Australia.

“A major inspiration for the show was Zahalka’s 1985 exhibition The Landscape Revisited. As Tegart explains, ‘Zahalka chose to recast characters within the landscape to offer a more inclusive and compassionate portrayal of the people—migrants, First Nations, women, people of non-Christian faiths—missing from Australian Impressionist narratives . . . Her work is as much a comment on society and the art world as it is about the painters themselves.’ Such comments abound in Beating about the Bush.”

View the article in-print on page 54 or online
The exhibition continues until February 19, 2023

Anne Zahalka, The Immigrants, 1983, Collage on found images.

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.

JOHN DAVIS acquired by AGNSW

MAJOR ACQUISTION

We are thrilled to announce that JOHN DAVIS epic sculptural work ‘Nomad’ has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Nomad was a key piece in the posthumous survey, John Davis: Presence, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2010. A pinnacle of the artist’s delicate sculptural constructions, ‘Nomad’ is an enormous grid of the artist’s signature fish-forms. Each fish-form is painstakingly modelled in eucalyptus twigs, string, paper, calico and bituminous paint. An extraordinary display of Davis’ sensitivity to the architecture of the wilderness.

MURRAY FREDERICKS premieres new film 'Blaze'

Premiering at the Bondi Pavillion over the weekend MURRAY FREDERICKS new film BLAZE accompanies a soon to be launched new series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme.

The sunning observational documentary was directed and edited by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor).

PAT BRASSINGTON and ANNE ZAHALKA feature in the current exhibition 'The Cost of Living' at The Art Gallery of Western Australia

PAT BRASSINGTON, Untitled #13, from Cambridge Road, 2007, Pigment Print, Edition of 8 + 2 A/P, 45.5 x 32.5 cm.

“What is the price of living in the ways we do? What do we value, and who decides? How do we make livings and meanings that get in the way of flourishing? And who gets to define what flourishing means?

The Cost of Living floats these questions through art works on various themes such as: the lure and limits of aspirational romance, social and emotional dislocation, toxic living environments, police violence, the ravages of war and the impact of social media.”

Robert Cook - AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian Art

Exhibition continues until January 29, 2023.

JANET LAURENCE to deliver Gilbert Fellowship Lecture

Janet Laurence in her studio. Photo: Jacquie Manning.

This afternoon at 4pm, hear JANET LAURENCE deliver the Gilbert Fellowship Lecture at the Sydney College of the Arts.

Janet Laurence’s work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. Her work occupies the liminal zones or meeting places of art, science, imagination and memory. Profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms, Laurence often produces work in response to specific sites or environments using a diverse range of materials. Alchemical transformation, history and perception are underlying themes in her exhibition work. Hear the Gilbert Fellow speak to her practice and illustrious career.

IMANTS TILLERS features in current exhibition 'Captivate: 100 Years of the National School'

IMANTS TILLERS, Millers Point Morning, 2022, Synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 9 canvas boards.

IMANTS TILLERS painted ‘Millers Point Morning’ (2022) for the exhibition ‘Captivate: 100 Years of the National School’, which is currently on display at NAS Gallery. Imants completed two ‘Summer Schools’ at East Sydney Tech / National Art School when he was 16 and 17 years old. This nine panel painting quotes the work ‘Millers Point, Morning’ 1952 by John Passmore who was an influential painting teacher at ESTC in the late 1950s.

ANNE ZAHALKA & JANET LAURENCE feature in the upcoming exhibition 'Beating About The Bush' at The Ballarat Art Gallery

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 2017, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100 x 134 cm.

This exhibition brings Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings together with female photographers who have re-examined the Australian Impressionists and brought a new lens to the Australian landscape.  

Themes such as gender, hardship of life in the bush, immigration, urban growth, environmental concerns and the presence of Indigenous peoples are explored through the work of some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists.

OPENING NOVEMBER 5

NIKE SAVVAS at the AGNSW

Nike Savvas, Rally, 2014, Plastic bunting, wire rigging, electric fans, Dimensions variable.

The Art Gallery of NSW has recently re-opened its remodelled 20th Century Galleries. Spanning across two floors later works continue the investigation of abstract colour – including a masterwork by American Frank Stella, and a dazzling contemporary installation by Australian Nike Savvas – while pop explodes in works by Americans Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Corita Kent, and in earlier kinetic pieces by locals Frank and Margel Hinder.

JOHN YOUNG & ROBERT OWEN feature in CHROMA Exhibition at Murdoch University Art Gallery

JOHN YOUNG and ROBERT OWEN feature in the current exhibition CHROMA which opened at Murdoch University Art Gallery over the weekend.

Taking its name from the Greek word chrôma, which refers to the purity, intensity or saturation of a colour. The exhibition features a selection of vibrant contemporary artworks from the Murdoch University Art Collection, which all explore colour in very different ways.

IMAGE 1: Robert Owen, Witness, Facing East #1 (Chant from a Holy Book), 2005 - 2006, From the series Music for the Eyes, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Seven panels, 122 x 122cm each, 122 x 855cm overall.

IMAGE 2: John Young, Spectrumfigure XIV, 2018, oil paint on Belgian linen, 190cm x 150cm.

Installation images courtesy of Murdoch University Art Gallery.
Photographed by Eva Fernandez.

JOHN YOUNG In Conversation with Dr Sean Lowry

As part of the 2022 VCA Access Program JOHN YOUNG will be in conversation with Dr Sean Lowry on Monday 24, October at ARC ONE Gallery. Speaking about four decades of making art and the possibilities of an artistic practice beyond the VCA.

IMAGE: Diaspora, Psyche: John Young - A Survey, Bunjil Place Gallery, Victoria, 2021, installation view

Dani Marti's solo exhibition 'Oh Canola!' at Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Dani Marti, Oh Canola!, (detail) 2022, customised reflectors, aluminium, 280 × 1150 × 6cm.

Dani Marti will present a new body of works in his solo exhibition, 'Oh Canola!', at Maitland Regional Art Gallery from 5 March – 29 May 2022.

‘Oh Canola!’ showcases the work of Dani Marti in all its material and textural splendour. Catalan born Marti lives in the Hunter Valley working between Scotland, Spain and the Hunter. Marti surrenders to his materials transforming common industrial fixings (such as rope, nylon, reflectors) into dramatic and monumental forms to transform the gallery into an immersive, sensory experience.

For more info: https://mrag.org.au/exhibition/oh-canola/