Recent work and upcoming projects by Janet Laurence.
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ROBERT OWEN is exhibiting in the group show Ann Thomson & Contemporaries at the National Art School. The exhibition presents a selection of works by the artists and teachers who shared the exhilarating times at the National Art School (formerly East Sydney Technical College) in the late 1950s and early 1960s, which included ROBERT OWEN.
The exhibition runs from 27 May - 23 July 2016.
For more information, visit this site.
Wall painting: Robert Owen, First Light #2, 1990-2016, acrylic on wall, 336 x 609cm overall. Foreground: Ned Kelly, 1962, welded steel, 142 x 49 x 16cm.
Photo: Peter Morgan
DANI MARTI
Dani Marti, Llorona (arrangement in grey and black) (video still), 2007 video 4:3, 16 minutes 50 seconds.
The work of DANI MARTI will be featured in an upcoming group show at KinoKino in the Sandnes Kulturhus, Norway.
Immerse, curated by Roberto Ekholm (Museum of Contemporary Art, London), presents a group of artists exploring or using film as a medium. The international artists lift ones attention toward cinema's inherent power and its hypnotic medium.
The exhibition runs 12 June - 11 September 2016.
CYRUS TANG
CYRUS TANG's work 7403.00s (2016) has been selected as a finalist in the 2016 Sunshine Coast Art Prize.
The exhibition of finalists will be held at Caloundra Regional Gallery from 18 August - 2 October 2016.
Cyrus Tang, 7403.00s, 2016, archival giclee print, 90 x 90cm.
GUAN WEI
Guan Wei, Off - See (Installation view), Beijing 2016.
GUAN WEI's latest solo exhibition Off - See. An Ephemeral Coincidence of Past and Present Impression the Eminence is on view at Wan Shun White Netherlands Academy of Arts in Beijing.
The exhibition continues through 19 June 2016.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
Anne Scott Wilson, The sound of one foor tapping, 2015, Video still.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON is currently exhibiting at Stockroom gallery in Kyneton, Victoria. The exhibition, titled The sound of one foot tapping after one of her works, explores the intersection between dance, movement and the tension amid live performance and memory.
The exhibition is open from 14 May to 5 June.
For more information visit Stockroom's website.
JANET LAURENCE
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing - Resuscitation for the Reef - Part 2 (video still), 2015.
JANET LAURENCE's video work Deep Breathing was featured in VIDEO FOREVER 28 - OCEAN.
This latest session of VIDEO FOREVER was held at the Musèe de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, Wednesday 4 May 2016.
PETER DAVERINGTON
Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON who has been selected as a finalist in the 10th Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award.
This is one of Australia's most loved and richest portrait awards, the biennial award celebrates realistic portraiture. The winner will be announced by judge Dr. Christopher Chapman, National Portrait Gallery, on Friday 17 June at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery.
The 10th Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award exhibition will run from 17 June to 20 August.
Peter Daverington, Self Portrait of the Artist, 2015, oil and gesso on canvas, 40 x 30cm.
PETER DAVERINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN
Peter Daverington, Expedition to the Snowy Mountains, 2016, oil and enamel on linen, 122 x 91 cm
Lyndell Brown/Charles Green & Jon Cattapan, Untitled (Look II), 2016, digital print with alkyd-modified oil paint on Duraclear, mounted on perspex, 100 x 100 cm
Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON and LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN & JON CATTAPAN, who have been selected as Finalists in the 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize!
The opening event and winner announcement is Thursday 12 May, 6-8pm, at the Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Brighton. The exhibition runs to 26 June 2016.
GUAN WEI
Art Guide Australia's Sarah Werkmeister has reviewed the group show Borders, Barriers, Walls featuring work by GUAN WEI. The exhibition explores concepts around borders between states, barriers to land, information, and resources, and walls. You can read the review here.
The exhibition continues at Monash University Museum of Art until 2 July 2016.
Guan Wei, Boatman No.1, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 137 x 162cm.
SAM SHMITH, CYRUS TANG
Cyrus Tang, 4505.00s, 2016, archival giclee print, 100 x 100cm.
SAM SHMITH and CYRUS TANG have been selected as finalists in the 2016 MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize. The Prize tackles the themes of Narrative, Object, Landscape, Portrait, Documentary and Construct.
The National Photography Prize finalists can be viewed at the Murray Art Museum Albury from 21 May - 27 August 2016.
GUAN WEI
GUAN WEI features in a group exhibition, We Are Here, at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Organised by The Contemporary Collective, and curated by Dr Helen Light, the exhibition honours post-war refugees who journeyed across the globe in order to establish new lives and families.
The exhibition continues through 29 May 2016.
Guan Wei, Up in the Clouds No.5, 2012, bronze sculpture, 52 x 32 x 24cm.
GUAN WEI
Guan Wei, Boatman No.1, 2005, acrylic on canvas, 137 x 162cm.
Chinese artist GUAN WEI will be exhibited in a group show, curated by Francis E. Parker, at the Monash Univeristy Museum of Art.
Borders, Barriers, Walls features 25 artworks from both Australian and international artists. Many of the works in the show address the subsequent shift in geopolitics and political unrest that has resulted in the displacement of peoples and the dramatic increase of refugees world-wide.
The exhibition continues 30 April - 2 July 2016.
PAT BRASSINGTON
Pat Brassington, Untitled VI, 1980-2002, inkjet print, 36.5 x 23.5cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON is included in the major group exhibition Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self Photography at the Art Gallery of South Australia.
This exhibition highlights the often close connections between the photographer and subject, whether they be friends, family members or the photographers themselves.
It continues through 3 July 2013.
IMANTS TILLERS
IMANTS TILLERS is included in the major exhibition of Aboriginal and Oceanic art Taba Naba - Australia, Oceania, Arts by People of the Sea at the Musée Océanographique de Monaco.
Tillers' work is included within the exhibition, Living Waters, which features the works of Australian contemporary artists invited to illustrate the intercultural themes of the exhibition and their relationship to water.
The international exhibition continues through 24 March - 30 September 2016.
Image: Imants Tillers, The Porous Vessel, 2015, acrylic, gouache on 54 canvas boards, 228 x 212cm.
DANI MARTI
Dani Marti, Black Sun, installation view, Fremantle Art Centre. Photo: Rhianna Nelson
Gemma Weston has written a fantastic review of DANI MARTI's exhibition Black Sun, for Artlink. The text analyses the show, acknowledging the honesty and sensitivity innate to Marti's works.
Black Sun was on display at the Fremantle Arts Centre, for the 2016 Perth International Arts Festival, from 7 February to 28 March.
To read the full review click here.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON's work will feature in Divine Abstraction, the inaugural show at Justin Art House Museum in Prahan, Victoria.
Curated by Rachael Kohn, presenter and producer of ‘The Spirit of Things’ on ABC Radio National, the exhibition explores how ‘abstract art’, using examples drawn from the Justin Collection, can represent the various manifestations of the ‘abstract divine’.
Divine Abstraction will run March - May, 2016.
Peter Daverington, An Imbricated Universe, 2006, oil and enamel on linen, 122 x 153cm.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been selected to participate in the inaugural show for Melbourne Central Art Loop. Curated by Andy Dinan of MARS Gallery, this will be Australia's largest installation of video art on display outside of an institution.
Watch the exhibition trailer here.
ANNE ZAHALKA
ANNE ZAHALKA has been listed, by Blouin Artinfo, as one of the 10 photographers not to miss at Dubai Photo Exhibition 2016. Zahalka's inclusion in the international exhibition features four spectacular works from her 1987 series 'Resemblance'.
Dubai Photo Exhibition continues from 16 - 19 March 2016.
You can read the article here.
Anne Zahalka, The Cook (Michael Schmidt/architect, cook), 1987, cibachrome photograph, 80 x 80cm.
MURRAY FREDERICKS
"Fredericks and Schutzinger have done a wonderful job of creating an affecting and atmospheric piece that quite literally resonates with history's voices."
The March/April 2016 issue of ArtGuide features Dylan Rainforth's review of MURRAY FREDERICKS and Tom Schutzinger's Inside the Dome (DYE2) exhibition.
Read the entire review here.
Murray Fredericks and Tom Schutzinger, installation view. Photograph by Reg Ryan.