You can read two reviews of the recent Octopus Exhibition How We Know That The Dead Return at Gertrude Contemporary, which featured two of EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video works.
MURRAY FREDERICKS / PAT BRASSINGTON
Two of MURRAY FREDERICKS' SALT works are included in the Stormy Weather: Contemporary Landscape Photography at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. The SALT documentary will be screened on Thursday 21st and Saturday 23rd October at 2pm at the Theatre, Ground Level, NGV Australia. Cost: Free
PAT BRASSINGTON is included in Contemporary Encounters at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria. The exhibition is drawn entirely from the NGV Collection and presents a survey of recent acquisitions by contemporary Australian artists.
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH'S Untitled (Synthetics 4), Pigment Print on Archival Rag, has been acquired by the Albury Art Gallery. Sam was a finalist in the 2010 National Photography Prize, Modern Narratives: Photography as Storyteller. The Guest Judge was Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator at the National Gallery of Victoria.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO: Fashion and Mimesis at Rodman Hall Art Gallery, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada has won the highly prestigious Best Design and Installation from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG).
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JULIA GORMAN
JULIA GORMAN will be exhibiting in a group exhibition titled LET X = X at REARVIEW GALLERY, REAR 244 SMITH ST, COLLINGWOOD. Curated by Geoff Newton, the exhibition opens Friday 1st October, 7pm. Exhibitions continues until 23 October. Wed through to Sat 12-6.
JANET LAURENCE
JANET LAURENCE features in Outside In at the McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park. 3 October - 28 November 2010.
The exhibition presents a selection of photography, paintings and sculptures by an array of contemporary artists which explore the relationship between interior and exterior, the expected and the unforseen.
Within the gallery space the outside world emerges through the restrained grey tones of the works, and the profusion of approaches to surface. Janet Laurence’s Forensic Sublime: Crimes against the landscape (Styx Forest) 2008 explores the ecological devastation wrought on our natural environment, while Michael Parekowhai’s glossy Rainbow servant dreaming 2005 questions reality through referencing Rene Magritte’s hatted figures in his Surrealist painting Golconde 1953. Playing with the nuances of interior and exterior, Robert Hunter’s reductive 3 (09) 2009 requires an extended gaze to reveal the subtle shifting variations of line and tone, whilst Richard Giblett’s Light Export 2007 investigates the constructed modern world through the diminished scale of his illuminated shipping container.
Drawn primarily from McClelland’s contemporary collection, this exhibition highlights some of the Gallery’s recent acquisitions. For more information, click here.
JULIE RRAP
JULIE RRAP is exhibiting at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Korea in an exhibition titled The Trickster. Curated by Victoria Lynn and Gyeonggi MoMA the exhibition goes from September 8 - December 5, 2010.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's Emu Wear series will be touring throughout Canada in 2010 to Glenbow Museum in Calgary; definitely superior gallery, Thunder Bay and Rodman Hall Art Centre, Saint Catherines Ontario between August 2010 and March 2011. Maria's two cloaks and video work will be included in Dead or Alive at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York from April until October 2010. There will also be an on-going tour of work in Arte No Es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000, Blaffer Gallery, University of Texas, Houston, Open Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil. A solo show of Maria's new work will also be held in May 2010 - Organos Intromitentes at Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota, Colombia.
ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN
A survey exhibition of FARRELL & PARKIN, Topography of a Collaborative Mind, will be held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Diane Soumilas and opens on 22nd September at 6.30pm. Runs until 17th October, 2010. Floor talk by Curator Diane Soumilas, Sunday 26 September, 2.30pm. Floor talk by artist Rose Farrell, Saturday 2 October, 2.30pm. FREE ADMISSION.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
Congratulations to ANNE SCOTT WILSON who has been selected as a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award, 2010. Winner will be announced Tuesday, 21 September.
A review of ANNE SCOTT WILSON'S exhibition at Arc One Gallery in May, 2010 (project space) Everyday I Wait can be read in the latest issue of Photofile (August - November 90). Review written by Melissa Amore.
JOHN DAVIS
Highly respected sculptor and installation artist JOHN DAVIS has an important retrospective at the Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Level 3. A beautiful catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition with essays written by Charles Green and Robert Lindsay. John Davis: Presence continues until 24 October, 2010. Events at the NGV (Threatre, Ground Level) not to be missed are:
- Saturday 18 September & Sun 17 October, 2pm - John Davis -The evolution of a distinctive style. Speaker, Ken Scarlett, curator and writer on sculpture.
- Sunday 17 October, 2pm - The art of Installation. Speaker, Rebecca Coates, academic & freelance curator.
- Thursday 23, 1pm - In Conversation: Conservator's point of view. Speaker, David Hurlston, Curator, Australian Art, NGV and Catherine Earley, Senior Conservator, NGV.
More Information here.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS shows as part of Octopus 10: How We Know That The Dead Return, the tenth exhibition in an annual series presented by Gertrude Contemporary. This years event is curated by José Da Silva, Curator of the Australian Cinémathéque at the Queensland Art Gallery. Exhibition runs from 3 - 30 September.
JANET LAURENCE
Up Close With Janet Laurence is an interview composed as part of the recent 17th Biennale of Sydney. You can watch it here.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been shortlisted for the 59th Blake Prize 2010 and the Scottish Bank Emerging Artist Prize in Sydney.
CATHERINE WOO
CATHERINE WOO is part of Primed: Painting Tasmania at the Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania in Launceston from 26 August - 17 October.
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JANET LAURENCE
JANET LAURENCE has been curated into In The Balance: Art for a Changing World at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 21 August - 31 October 2010.
CATHERINE WOO
CATHERINE WOO is exhibiting as part of Abstract Nature at the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia from 30 July - 8 October.
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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS / SAM SHMITH
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and SAM SHMITH have been shortlisted for the 2010 National Photography Prize at the Albury City Council Art Gallery with SAM SHMITH's work Synthetics 4 having been acquired.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON has been shortlisted and acquired by the Geelong Gallery 2010 Fletcher Jones Art Prize.
HUANG XU
Arc One Gallery presents HUANG XU in Weapons of Mass Consumption, 30 June - 31 July 2010 at The Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorne, Victoria. Curated by Louisa Marks as part of The Town Hall Gallery Young Curator Project.
In conversation:
Join curators and artists as they discuss the issues surrounding the exhibition.
Saturday 10 July 20-3pm.