ANNE ZAHALKA / JACKY REDGATE

ANNE ZAHALKA and JACKY REDGATE have been curated into Dissonant Visions at Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus from 24 April - 7 July.  

This exhibition presents works from the Monash University Collection that explore visual arts, text and politics, and critically examine structures of representation.

Opening function, Satuday 28 April, 3-5pm

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has won the prestigious 2012 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award at the Gold Coast Art Gallery with her work Vestiges #3.  

Guest judge Kon Gouriotis commented;

"I kept on returning to Eugenia Raskopoulos 'Vestiges' photograph because of the poetic transformation that was occurring, especially the experimentation with texture and the sculptural potential of the materials."

March 31 - May 13, 2012 

SAM SHMITH

SAM SHMITH's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.  

Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world. 

23 March - 16 September, NGV

HUANG XU / GUAN WEI

GUAN WEI and HUANG XU are exhibiting together in Sifting Time at the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, curated by Damian Smith.  

Through painting, photography and installation each practitioner plays with ideas of cultural transformation and tradition.  Through their diverse artistic practices, they reflect on the ways that culture is either preserved or discarded, remodeled in contemporary guise or forgotten with the passing of time.

2 April - 20 May, 2012 

IMANTS TILLERS

IMANTS TILLERS has won the 2012 Wynne Prize for his work, Waterfall (after Williams).  The painting is Imant's version of Fred William's Free copy of Eugene von Guerard's Waterfall, Strath Creek, 1862.  Super-imposed over the ever-changing movement of water, Imants has quoted the sentiments of a famous Indian sutra.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will feature on ABC1 on the 24 April at 10.05pm.  The program will be a unique insight into Cardoso's investigation into the copulatory organs of many small creatives.

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art is highly complimentary of Cardoso’s work. “The interesting thing about Maria is that she takes a topic like an animal penis and she teaches us something about it... I don’t think anyone has explored this topic over such a long period of time with such intensity.”

24 April, 10.05pm  ABC1

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.  

Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world. 

23 March - 16 September, NGV

JULIA GORMAN

A new public sculpture by JULIA GORMAN will be unveiled in Kensington at 10am, 11 April, cnr of Clifford Terrace & Gower Street, Kensington.  

At the core of this site-specific public sculpture is the representation of the human face across diverse civilizations and over thousands of years. It is about different communities living together and creating a unified society.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's artwork Woven Water will be included in the MCA reopening on the 29 March.  Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed in

ROBERT OWEN

An instructional painting of ROBERT OWEN’s will be included in the MCA opening on the 29 March.  Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed into a major cultural centre for contemporary art and creative learning. 

JASON WING / ADAM HILL

JASON WING and ADAM HILL are exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art in an exhibition titled, Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, curated by Djon Mundine OAM.  The exhibition brings together the work of eight of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers and explores many of the stereotypes associated with Aboriginal masculinity from a range of viewpoints including documentary photography.

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP’s 360 Degree Self-Portrait has been reviewed by Amelia Jones in Art and Australia, Vol 49, No. 3, Autumn 2012.  This work won the 2009 University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize and was exhibited at the Gyeonggi Museum of Art in 2010 in an exhibition titled The Trickster, curated by Victoria Lynn.  360 Degree Self-Portrait will also be included in the MCA re-opening on the 29 March.

JULIE RRAP's work will also be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013.  Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.

VANILA NETTO

VANILA NETTO's work will be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013.  

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.

Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection will tour to the following galleries in New South Wales in 2012 and 2013:

Lismore Regional Gallery 4 February 2012 - 18 March 2012

Moree Plains Gallery 26 March 2012 - 6 May 2012

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 24 May 2012 - 1 July 2012

Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 13 July 2012 - 26 August 2012

The Glasshouse Regional Gallery 29 November 2012 - 20 January 2013

Tamworth Regional Gallery 1 February 2013 - 10 March 2013

Grafton Regional Gallery 27 March 2013 - 12 May 2013

Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 27 May 2013 - 14 July 2013

DANI MARTI

The first major monograph on the work of DANI MARTI's is now released.   

Dani Marti (*1963 in Barcelona) is among Australia’s most exciting artists recently to have emerged to international acclaim, both charming and challenging audiences, curators, and critics with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven ‘canvases’ and video documentary. 

To order a copy click here.

DANI MARTI is currently in New York on an artist residency.   

Dani  has also been shortlisted for  the 2012 Margaret Tait Award. Please find full information on this here. 

It has been confirmed that DANI will be having a solo show curated by Octavio Zaya in Harlem towards the end of the year and also another one in 2013 at CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, in Canarias.  Also confirmed in 2013 DANI will be exhibiting in a group show curated by Paco Barragan at the Museum of Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Arnhem Netherlands.

KARL WIEBKE

KARL WIEBKE will be having a survey exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, at the Australian National University, Canberra. Curated by Tony Oates, the exhibition runs 7 April - 20 May, 2012.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting a select group of works from his SALT project at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of Fotofreo from 17 Mar - 15 Apr, 2012.  He will also be giving exhibition tours of his exhibition.  For details and bookings click here.

As part of Fotofreo, MURRAY will also be available for portfolio reviews on Tuesday, March 20, at the Fremantle Arts Centre. The Reviews will be conducted between the hours of 10.00 am and 12:30 pm.

MURRAY will also be on a panel discussing The Landscape in Australian Photography Today, with Alasdair Foster (moderator) and Gael Newton at the Theatrette at the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle from Saturday, 17th March from 2.00 - 4.00 pm.

LYDIA WEGNER

LYDIA WEGNER has been selected to participate in FutureGen 2012.  Opening from 17 March until 11 May at the John Curtin gallery at Curtin University (Western Australia) as part of Fotofreo 2012.  

FutureGen will profile the best emerging photo-media talent from around Australia - the best of the ‘future generation’ of Australian photographers.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO / PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT have been selected to participate in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, 27 June until 16 September, 2012. 

Titled All our relations, the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works by more than 100 artists hailing from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. Nearly half the artists in the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works created specifically for this exhibition, including many substantial collaborative installations.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be also be participating in the exhibition, South of the Border, at the Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, 31 March - 29 April.

PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON features in this month's (March) Art Monthly. The article is written by Kirsten Rann.

PETER DAVERINGTON currently lives and works in New York.