JASON WING

JASON WING is a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award 09 in Sydney.

ANNE ZAHALKA

ANNE ZAHALKA is a finalist in this years William Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne.

Exhibition dates: 9 Nov - 13 Dec 2009.
Announcement of winner and people's choice award: 26 Nov 2009. 

More information here.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

Congratulations to EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS who has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2009 Hazelhurst Art Award with her work Diglossia #1.

PETER DAVERINGTON

News of PETER DAVERINGTON'S upcoming Ney flute concert in The Basilica in Istanbul has been published in a major Turkish newspaper. Daverington is travelling throughout Turkey and the Middle East on a recording trip for his upcoming exhibition and sound installation at Arc One in December 2009. You can read the article here.

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI features in Orifices (take2) and Disclosure, a project created after a three months residency. In association with Gay Men's Health, Glasgow and commissioned by GoMA and Glasgay. At GoMA, Glasgow 8th August - 1st November 2009. Also, as part of shout: Contemporary art and human rights is the title for the fourth social justice programme developed by GoMA to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex human rights, art and culture. 13th August (artist talk).

GOSIA WLODARCZAK

GOSIA WLODARCZAK has been selected as a finalist in the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. Her Process Capsule prints will be exhibited in Krakow from 16th September until 11th October 2009 and in Vienna from 6th May until 13th June 2010. For more information click here.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is in a group exhibition Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor in Contemporary Art at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York from July to October 2009. For more information please click here.

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN

You can view a video interview of LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN in response to their exhibition Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan at the Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne. This major exhibition of paintings and photographs produced in response to their time as Official War Artists for the Australian War Memorial will be touring nationally until December 2010. You can view the interview, touring schedule, photographs and an artist statement here.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK

GOSIA WLODARCZAK's print Process Capsule Ezri - Day 1 has been selected as a 2009 Print Council of Australia Print Commission. Wlodarczak is the only Victorian to be selected out of 8 Australian finalists.

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI has been commissioned by the Kunsthalle Winterthur for the Non-Age Exhibition in Zurich. The exhibition, curated by Paco Barragan, will run from June 7 until July 26, 2009. For more information click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS, his documentary Salt won the Best Documentary Award* at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at SILVERDOCS/AFI Discovery Festival. Salt is in the finals of the Australian Documentary Prize as part of the Sydney Film Festival. Salt is also featured as part of the Silverdocs American Film Institute and will be screened in Washington, Moscow, Montreal and Melbourne. For information on Salt the documentary you can click here.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK

Wlodarczak has been invited to screen her film trilogy Desire 1, 2 & 3 at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF). The event will run from 29th April - 2nd May 2009. The festival has been organised by the Western University, Bellingham, Washington state, USA. For more information click here.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK

Gosia has also been selected for an exhibition Degrees of Density, curated by Marilyn Symmes at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Exhibition dates 6 June - 12 July. She is also a finalist in the 2009 Darebin La Trobe Art Prize to be held at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 26 June - 1 August.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK

GOSIA WLODARCZAK has been invited to be part of The Ikea Home Project to mark the 30th birthday of the iconic KLIPPAN sofa. The resulting works by more than 20 artists will be exhibited at Carriage Works from 28th July - 4 August and sold via an online auction event. Proceeds for the auction will be given as a cash donation to the Victorian Bushfire Relief Effort. For more information please click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Dates for the screening of MURRAY FREDERICKS' award winning* documentary Salt have been announced for the Melbourne International Film Festival. These are Sunday 2nd August at 12.15pm and Saturday 8th August at 7pm. To be screened at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Federation Square, Melbourne. 

GUAN WEI

In April Guan Wei will be a part of a travelling group show in both China and Australia with a solo show being held in Beijing in May. Guan Wei is also a finalist in the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. In November Guan Wei will travel to Singapore for an artist in residency program.

DAVID RALPH

The Victoria University, Level 17 Artspace, David Ralph: Recent Works. Until 9th April 2009. See Profiles section (p. 174), Art Almanac, March 2009 for more information.