ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN'S and ANNE ZAHALKA's works have been included at the Maroondah Art Gallery in an exhibition titled, Freeze! The directorial turn in contemporary photography. Curated by Wendy Garden, this exhibition is a diverse selection of works by artists who pursue the narrative possibilities of the photograph as an inherently performative space. These constructed scene offer socio-political commentary along with poignant insight into the human condition.
22 March - 5 May, 2012
JOHN DAVIS
JOHN DAVIS' prizewinning sculpture has been installed in the entrance of the University of Tasmania's school of visual and performing arts at Inveresk. The work is a gift to the university from the rebadged Bell Bay Aluminium. The piece was the winning entry in the Comalco Invitation Award for sculpture in aluminium in 1970.
ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been selected for the 2012 McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award to be held from 18 November 2012 – 14 July 2013.
VANILA NETTO
Congratulations to VANILA NETTO for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with her work Process Crosses 2.
Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with his work Hector 12.
Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012.
PAT BRASSINGTON
PAT BRASSINGTON has been selected for the 2012 ADELAIDE BIENNIAL OF AUSTRALIAN ART, titled Parallel Collisions at the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kanter.
Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.
2 March - 29 April, 2012
Pat Brassington says of her work; "Too much digging into one’s motivation runs counter to free-flowing spontaneity, but I do seem to be attracted to the enigmatic. When morphing an image I baulk prior to resolution and may prefer to leave it hovering uncertain and incomplete. Our minds endlessly seek resolution and hence closure exerts magnetic attraction. My aim is to use this gravitas to spin off towards other possibilities.
This work revisits strategies that I have used in the past where I have regulated the visual sense of ‘the piece’ through syntax and through the use of multiple images, instead of singular images and individual frames. I aim to pitch my images just off the verge of normality, into those dense patches where the commonplace goes awry."
LACHLAN PETRA
LACHLAN PETRA'S work Aggregate has been selected for the National Graduate Show at PICA, opening 20 April and continuing to June.
35 artists from 20 of the country's most prestigious art institutions have embraced diverse art forms, such as painting, collage, photography, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, performance, video, sound art and mechanical engineered installations to express their social concerns.
SAM MARTIN
SAM MARTIN is in a group exhibition at the Faculty Gallery at Monash University titled, Museums in the Incident. The curator Steven Rendall has invited a disparate assembly of artists to take on aspects of the curatorial mantle. They have each selected a work from the Monash University Collection to be installed alongside work drawn from their own practices.
The exhibition opens 15 February and continues until 22 March.
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH has been shortlisted for the Albury Art Prize 2012. The Albury Art Prize is one of New South Wales oldest municipal art awards, offering $20,000 for an international residency. The exhibition opens 27 January and continues until 4 March.
JUSTINE KHAMARA
JUSTINE KHAMARA is one of the artists to be announced to exhibit in the Gallery of Modern Art’s (GOMA) upcoming Contemporary Australia: Women exhibition which includes 33 artists and collectives to feature as part of the large scale exhibition opening on April 21.
JASON WING
JASON WING has spent the last 18 months painting murals, etching designs and suspending metallic 'spirits figures' in Kimber Lane in Sydney. The work is part of the City of Sydney's $5 million revamp of three lanes in Chinatown.
Wing said his artwork referenced symbolism from his Aboriginal and Chinese heritage and it extended to a 'universal spirituality' because people from around the world made up the Chinatown community.
For a review on the work, see the Sydney Morning Herald.
JASON WING will also be exhibiting in shadowplay at dna projects|contemporary art, Sydney.
The exhibition will open Friday 9 March, and continue until 31 March.
JANET LAURENCE
JANET LAURENCE will be presenting a new commission for Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), Sydney opening 16 March.
Janet Laurence’s work explores the poetics of space through the creation of works that deal with our experiential and cultural relationship with the natural world. 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.
The exhibition continues until the 19 May, 2012.
For more information please click here.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is currently exhibiting in the Edge of Elsewhere Exhibition, which is taking place from January 2012 as part of the Sydney Festival in Campbelltown. This is a three year long-term project which engages with the diverse cultural mix of suburban Sydney.
In its final year, Edge of Elsewhere showcases new commissions from a range of innovative and exciting contemporary artists from across Australia, Asia and the Pacific, developed in collaboration with a range of Sydney communities.
Presented across two venues, this landmark project positions a number of communities of Greater Sydney within a wider context of Asia-Pacific. Edge of Elsewhere is a bold commitment to artistic collaboration, community participation and the exploration of contemporary ideas in the suburban environment.
For more information on the Edge of Elsewhere Exhibtition, click here.
LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN
Congratulations to LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN on the acquisition of their work, DEEP ROCK into the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF has had a very successful art residency at the Marrickville Council, Sydney. As part of the residency, Tracy had a solo exhibition titled Future Nostalgia, at Chrissie Cotter Gallery (Marrickville Council), Sydney.
CATHERINE WOO
CATHERINE WOO is currently exhibiting in Breathe, as part of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Associated Event, at Art Atrium. Breathe is a group exhibition of women artists with Chinese ancestry, exploring physical and metaphysical ideas of breath and breathing space in their interior and exterior lives.
The exhibition opens Saturday, 28 January and continues until 18 February.
For more information please click here.
CATHERINE WOO's work has also been reviewed in a new book by Jeff Makin, published in November, 2011.
DENISE GREEN
DENISE GREEN will be launching her new publication An Artist's Odyssey at the NGV Shop, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square on Saturday 11 February at 3.30pm.
Denise will talk about the ideas in her book at 2.30pm in the NGV Australia Lecture Theatre.
DENISE GREEN / JACKY REDGATE / DANI MARTI
DENISE GREEN, JACKY REDGATE AND DANI MARTI feature in the current issue of Art Collector.
Issue 59, January - March 2012
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting a new video installation titled footnotes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Footnotes addresses ideas of sexuality, gender and communication through the performing body. The exhibition opens 6pm Wednesday, February 22 and continues until 13 May, 2012.
"The artist has in the past used steam, salt, oil and chalk as a means to smear, score and drip words into temporary formations that emphasise the fluidity of language. In her new video installation footnotes, she turns to materials that relate more directly to ideas of sexuality and gender – from lipstick to liquids of more ambiguous origins.
Using her own limbs as instruments or surfaces for inscription, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, written in English and Greek. Through these gestures, she draws attention to translation as an awkward exchange that is shaped by the potential for loss or contamination of meaning.
The performing body is an insistent presence in footnotes, emphasising written and spoken communication as inherently bodily functions. However, in evoking the slippage between different languages and juxtaposing this with references to sexuality and the erotic, Raskopoulos also alludes to aspects of experience that are beyond words." AGNSW
Join Professor Anne Marsh and Eugenia in a discussion of the exhibition and the artist’s practice at 6.30pm Wednesday 22 February, 2012.
For more information please click here.
ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS has designed the set for Insomnia, a new conceptual work by Megan Washington. His set has received a fantastic review in the Drum Mag.
"Robbie Rowlands' set design for the show, was absolutely stunning, evoking a top-floor old-world New York City apartment with touches of pre-war Berlin, featuring a larger window (which doubled as a screen where short pieces of video art were displayed) and industrial props across a warm and romantic palate of lighting. "
A multi-layered show, Insomnia incorporates art, poetry, photography and designs, all drawn from Washington's personal archives. It offers a revealing insight into an intense 12 months for the double ARIA Award-winning artist, exploring all sides of her emotional and creative life.