Congratulations to CATHERINE WOO and ROBBIE ROWLANDS who have both been Highly Commended in the City of Hobart Art Prize. The City of Hobart Art Prize will be open to the public from Saturday 23 July to Sunday 18 September at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting at Art Bridge Gallery, 798 ART in Beijing, China from August 21 - September 15. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas, the exhibition, Mute, will also feature the work of Beijing based sculptor Shen Shaomin. The collaboration functions as a conversation across the ideas of language, translation, mute and mutation, environment and loss.
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH has generously donated a work from his last solo exhibition at Arc one Gallery, In Spates to the 8th Annual Lighthouse Art Auction. The 2011 Annual Lighthouse Art Auction will be held on Thursday 6th October. All profits go directly to Lighthouse Foundations which provides homeless young people who come from backgrounds of long term neglect and abuse with a home, a sense of family and around-the-clock therapeutic care.
TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF has recently undertaken a funded artist residency in the historic village Hill End NSW through the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, and with the generous support of Arts NSW, the Department of Environment and Climate Change and Country Energy. The residence, Murrays Cottage, was once home to prominent Australian artist Donald Friend and Donald Murray. The residency provided the opportunity to develop new work and be inspired by the rich cultural history and environment of the region.
TRACY SARROFF has also been shortlisted for the biennial Agendo Exhibition and Award for emerging artists under the age of 35 with a non-acquisitive prize of $10,000. This year, the exhibition is held at St Heliers Street Gallery, The Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne. Exhibition runs August 3rd - 7th.
JULIE RRAP, PAT BRASSINGTON and GUAN WEI
JULIE RRAP, PAT BRASSINGTON and GUAN WEI will be exhibiting at Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art in the exhibition Journeys: through history, theory and practice. Curated by Paul Zika. Opening on 29 July and continuing until 28th August.
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GUAN WEI
Bird Island, a solo exhibition by GUAN WEI will open July 15 at Chan Hampe Galleries @ Raffles Hotel in Singapore. The dates for the exhibition are July 6 - August 6.
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LYDIA WEGNER
LYDIA WEGNER has been shortlisted for the 2011 Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
Exhibition Opening and Announcement of 2011 Fellowship Recipient: Thursday 14 July 6-8pm.
Exhibition Dates: 15-23 July 2011
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ANNE SCOTT WILSON
ANNE SCOTT WILSON is solo exhibiting at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Adelaide). Frayed opens 7 July and continues until 6 August.
'Painters are inclined to translate the everyday into patterns, chromatic fragments and form. Musicians seem to interpret through sound, rhythm and octaves. While writers convert the everyday through symbols and word associations, and video and photographic artists tend to process by combining all thought patterns. Anne Wilson combines all elemental processes, cultivating an odd space, a still psychological space, and a momentary space. Her narration distorts the ordinary, and submits a manipulation of time and space through motion, creating an interactive body-space.' M.Amore Catalogue Essay
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CHERRY HOOD
CHERRY HOOD is included in a selection of portraits from the Maroondah Art Collection titled About Face. Exhibition from 7th until 30th July, 2011.
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ADAM HILL
ADAM HILL will be exhibiting at Cross Art Projects in an exhibition titled Beauty, Vanity and Narcissus. Curator: Djon Mundine.
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ADAM HILL will also be exhibiting at the University of Sydney Art Gallery in an exhibition titled Freedom Riders: Art & Activism 1960s to Now. The exhibition opens 3 July and continues until 25 September.
'The starting point for the exhibition FREEDOM RIDERS: Art and activism 1960s to now is a major portrait, Charlie Perkins, 1986, by Aboriginal artist Robert Campbell Jnr in the University Union Art collection. Perkins was the first Aboriginal graduate at the university and a key figure in the Freedom Ride, a historic intervention initiated by Sydney University students in 1965. The Freedom Ride focused unprecedented attention on the systematic racism experienced by Aboriginal communities in regional towns across New South Wales. Campbell’s art played a pioneering role in exposing the social and political realities of NSW Aboriginal people.'
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LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN and GUAN WEI
LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN and GUAN WEI are in an exhibition, Collaborative Witness: Artists' reponses to the plight of the asylum seeker and refugee at the UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, Queensland.
'Intense media coverage of events surrounding asylum seekers creates witness of all Australians. Through multiple styles and materials, artists challenge one-dimensional portrayals and become not only witnesses, but also collaborators on the complex story of those seeking asylum'. Curators Dr Prue Ahrens and Michele Helmrich.
Exhibition dates 11 June - 7 August, 2011
JASON WING
JASON WING will be solo exhibiting at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre as part of NAIDOC week. People of Substance opens on Saturday 25 June at 2pm in the Community Gallery with special guest speaker Uncle Jack Charles.
An article on JASON WING also features in current issue of Artlink Vol. 31 No.2 Indigenous #1 - Beauty and Terror.
JUSTINE KHAMARA
JUSTINE KHAMARA'S sculptural work features on 5 pages in a new publication, Doppelganger - Images of the Human Being. Published by the Berlin based publisher, Gestaltan.
DOPPELGANGER presents current trends in capturing the visual identity of human beings. Each of its seven chapters explores a different creative approach: Embody, Dissolve, Appeal, Reshape, Perform, Deform, and Escape.
DANI MARTI
Three works of DANI MARTI'S have been included in an exhibition titled FOUND at Glen Eira City Council Gallery. Curated by Diane Soumilas. 2-26 June.
Curated by Diane Soumilas, works that address current issues relating to contemporary life and consumer culture, recycling and our relationship with the environment, history, identity and memory will be included.
From small and large scale assemblages and sculptures utilising industrial materials and suburban utensils, to dynamic installations created from synthetic and everyday materials, the selection of works will engage viewers, providing a richly layered, immersive and often playful environment to explore and interact with.
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SUE FORD
SUE FORD'S life and artworks will feature on ART NATION, Sunday 5 June at 5pm ABC1 (repeated 9.20pm, ABC2).
Along with Carol Jerrems, Melbourne photographer, Sue Ford, made a lasting impression on Australian photography before her death in 2009. She was the first woman to have a solo show of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1974. But this was only one of many firsts for feminist, filmmaker and photographer, Sue Ford. This story examines her early work through an exhibition at the Monash Gallery of Art, Time Machine: Sue Ford, and traces the life and times of one of Australia’s unsung heroines.
ANNE ZAHALKA and ANNE SCOTT WILSON
ANNE ZAHALKA and ANNE SCOTT WILSON have been curated into a group exhibition at ACU Gallery, 26 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. The exhibition opens Tuesday 14 June, 6-8pm.
Birth.art
14 -30 June 2011
'Sensationalised media portrayals of birth, from the 'real life' stories of women and families to the fictionalised accounts of birthing displayed in film or in television (often focusing on themes of emergency, of pain and suffering, of panic), can trivialise birth through a lack of depth and understanding.'
Curators Tilly Morris and Jasmine Salomon
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ANNE SCOTT WILSON
ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been curated into AIRed at the Post Office Gallery at the University of Ballarat. The exhibition showcases the work of six visual artists who have undertaken a residency at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat during the last two years. Opening on 12 May, the exhibition continues until 4th June.
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TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF is exhibiting a drawing-based installation from March until October at The County Museum in Staffordshire/UK. The series of drawings commissioned by the Staffordshire Arts and Museum Services were made in response to the flora found in Cannock Chase; an area of heathland and woodland near Stafford.
ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and JACKY REDGATE
ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and JACKY REDGATE'S work will be displayed at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in an exhibition titled Constructed Worlds: photography in the 1980s.
Photography in the 1980s can perhaps be best characterised by work made in the studio. Although photographers continued to document the world by going out in to it, others manipulated and altered the image, often appropriating and reinterpreting imagery from the past. Art school-trained, many were informed by various traditions such as Conceptual Art, with French theory all the vogue. It was common that artists, coming from other media, took up the camera at this time as another way of expressing their ideas. Their work asked the viewer to think about the nature of photography itself: less a window onto the world it became instead a means to create new worlds from the artists’ own imaginings.
A half day forum titled Tableaux Vivant: 1980s Photography is being held on 21 May, at the National Gallery, discussing the themes of the decade. The exhibition opened on 8 April and will continue until 29 August.
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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
Stick Intimacy by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibited in the Graduate School Exhibition for THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY.
The exhibition runs from Thursday 12 to Friday 27 May 2011. This exhibition is curated by Dr Debra Dawes, Director of SCA Graduate School.
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