MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is included in the group exhibition, AIR BORN, 23rd of June - 6th October 2013, at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria.
In Air Born, nineteen artists explore all things avian, inspired by the beauty, rituals and environments of birds. Various cultural and spiritual relationships are explored in Cardoso's included works, where she pulls together themes of adornment and fashion as well as ideas of place, environment, and identity.
More information on the exhibition can be found here.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON'S Archibald finalist work, The Patriot: self portrait with Albino Joey (2013), will be at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery until the 7th of July 2013 as a part of the national regional tour of the finalist works.
For more information go to:
http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Home
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON has been honored with the commission of the first government endorsed street art mural in Shanghai. Commissioned by Shanghai's Minhang District Health Bureau, the mural celebrates World Blood Donors Day, 2013 aiming to raise awareness and recognise the contribution of unpaid voluntary blood donors.
More information.
SAM MARTIN
SAM MARTIN's work Altering States, Double Blind and 3.6 Million Pounds are currently on view at Charles Nodrum Gallery, as part of the ambitious project Like Mike. Curated by Geoff Newton and spanning over five Melbourne galleries and institutions, Like Mike pays homage to artist Mike Brown's colourful and often recalcitrant practice, including artists who carry Mike's original spririt on in the contemporary art world today.
SAM MARTIN's work can be seen at Charles Nodrum Gallery from the 4-29 June, 2013.
IMANTS TILLERS
Imants Tillers
The Fleeting Self
18 June - 20 July 2013
ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Imants Tillers’ upcoming exhibition, The Fleeting Self, presents the Australian landscape as a meditation on the self. In these, his most recent works, Tillers’ subjective and emotive reaction to an esoteric world is evidenced in a grand, painterly atmosphere.
Throughout many of the works in The Fleeting Self, we travel through the names and textures of places, framing strangely familiar narratives. Whether it be trekking across outback Australia, or standing upon Mt Kosciuszko - whether through the eyes of Eugene von Guerard, Albert Namatjira or the writer and social anthropologist, Robyn Davidson - Tillers observes, quotes and re-masters landscape as we know it. We also see reference to Rosalie Gascoigne, Fred Williams and the symbolist poets that continue to inform Tillers’ works as fusions of poetry and paint. In The Fleeting Self, the conceptual rigour of repetition and appropriation in Tillers’ linguistic landscapes continues in a contemplation of our ever-transitory existence.
- Annabel Holt, June 2013
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON's painting The New Colony has been included in the upcoming exhibition New Horizons, opening at Gippsland Art Gallery in June. The exhibition is to showcase the next phase of contemporary landscape painting in Australia - works with futuristic outlooks, presenting a world that has become synthetic, constructed, magnified, modified or otherwise manipulated.
From curator Simon Gregg:
"This is the next phase of Australian painting- at its most dynamic and dramatic."
New Horizons will be open 1 June- 25 August 2013.
More information here.
DANI MARTI
DANI MARTI has been included in the exhibition From Madonna to Madonna at Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain.
The exhibition aims to (De)construct the image of femininity in contemporary society, presenting us with a more complex scenario. From Madonna to Madonna is curated by Paco Barragán and includes works by 57 national and international artists.
More info through DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca.
GUAN WEI
GUAN WEI's new work, The Journey to Australia (2013) is now complete and on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, (MCA), Sydney, as the 2013 foyer commission.
This large scale mural painting is an important and visually vibrant piece, shining a daring light on current political debate in Australia.
From the MCA:
'Guan Wei’s new work The Journey to Australia (2013) is a figurative painting that references the MCA’s location at the site where the First Fleet came ashore on Gadigal land in 1788 and the artist’s experiences as an immigrant to Australia from China in 1989'.
Guan Wei comments: ‘From a historical point of view, the MCA’s location at Circular Quay is a place where, in the past, many immigrants have landed - a place which links the past with the present, you with me, and Australia with the world.’
The work is also inspired by current debates about immigration and refugees in Australia; in particular the heated commentary that often surrounds the arrival of people to this country by boat.
As Guan Wei says: ‘I have observed that much of our daily news is filled with stories of refugee ships arriving in Australian waters… As an Australian immigrant and as an artist, I am able to not only identify with but also to help relate and bear witness to [the refugees] solemn, stirring and tragic story…’
MCA Curator Anna Davis said: ‘Guan Wei has a highly original vision and is a significant figure in both the Australian and Chinese contemporary art scenes. For the past 25 years he has been creating work that interweaves imagery from his Chinese heritage, personal mythology and life experience. Guan Wei has a long history with the MCA. He was an artist-in-residence in 1992 and was the first artist to have a solo exhibition on Level 4 in 1999. Several of his works have been acquired for the MCA Collection, some of which are currently on display in Volume One: MCA Collection. The scale and ambition of his new mural is impressive and will be a fantastic addition to the MCA series of wall commissions.’
More information here.
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Following the great success of his Lake Eyre SALT series of photographs, and multi award winning documentary from 2009, Murray Fredericks' new film Nothing on Earth premieres at the Sydney film festival on 9 June 2013, and on ABC1 on Sunday 23rd of June at 10.25pm.
Set atop a melting glacier in the uninhabitable landscapes of Greenland,director and producer Michael Angus (Salt, Ooldea, The Fight Game)follows Fredericks as he battles the elements in his quest for original and breathtaking imagery.
Murray finds himself alone in a landscape he's never been, hoping this time he hasn't taken his quest too far.
The photographic results of Fredericks' Greenland project will be showing at ARC ONE from the 5th of November 2013.
See the preview of Nothing on Earth here.
See ABC1's review/article of Nothing on Earth here.
See Dylan Rainforth's review of Nothing on Earth for Art Guide Australia here.
ROBERT OWEN
ROBERT OWEN is featured in an extensive exhibition of Australian abstract art entitled Vibrant Matter currently showing at Tarrawarra Museum of Art, Healesville. The exhibition is open 20 April - 16 June 2013.
From Tarrawarra: 'Vibrant Matter includes paintings and sculptures from the past six decades which resonate with a vital materiality.
The exhibition features work by artists for whom both the materiality and the ‘facture’ of the work – including its line, composition, tone, colour and texture – rather than the use of narrative and figuration, is the primary means by which they express their insights, emotions and ideas.’
For more information at Tarrawarra Museum of Art.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT’s Buddha lives, a six panel acrylic on canvas work, has been included in the permanent collection at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Suwannakudt's new Bhava series is on view at ARC ONE until 11 May 2013.
Additionally, Suwannakudt is also currently in a show at Sundaram Tagore Gallery in New York and is also included in the group show ORIENTing: With or Without you, currently on view at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, 4 May-13 July 2013, U.W.A., Western Australia.
SAM SHMITH
PLATE GLASS
14 May - 15 June 2013 at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
In Plate Glass, Sam Shmith’s seven new large-scale landscapes operate as a portrait of our own contemplative attempts to grasp that which we are existent within, yet secluded from. Shmith’s photographic mastery elucidates the polyvalent function of plate glass; offering transparency, perspective, protection and reflection. It is the particular function of windows to permit the interior and exterior, the inside and the outside, to be united. Yet, in looking out a window, we also demarcate our own private, sheltered enclaves, our own contemplation.
Depicting expansive composite landscapes, often as they are encountered in states of transit, Shmith’s photo-works take us to places unrecognizable, yet strangely familiar. Digitally layered from an image bank of over 60,000 self-harvested photographs, Shmith choreographs a hybrid of images from his personal archives into each photo-work.
Thematically, Shmith cites Flight to Arras (the Antoine de Saint-Exupery autobiography), describing the poet’s task as being ‘to erect images like ramparts round (a) thing in order to capture it. To capture it in a snare of images.’ The poetic nature of Plate Glass oscillates around a combination of the familiar broad strokes of one’s view of the landscape, the sky, the earth, with the specific and unsettling moment of understanding oneself within it – one’s reflection in the glass. We are taken to a bird’s eye view of a city, the ink black of night skillfully illuminated and captured from an aeroplane window as the craft slowly descends. We are struck by the eerie stillness of a train, the landscape hustling past its passengers and the passengers gliding away, captured within a fluorescent glow.
- Annabel Holt, May 2013
Currently living between Melbourne and New York, Shmith finds himself in bustling locations bursting with diversity and the potential for the expansion of experience. Following the success of the exhibition In Spates (2011), Plate Glass is Shmith’s third solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery. Recently, Shmith was awarded the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize in December 2012 with the work, Untitled (In Spates 7), and was a finalist in the Albury Art Prize. In 2011 and 2010 he was shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, as well as the Hutchins Art Prize (2011). In 2010 Shmith was awarded GQ’s Artist of the Year and was a finalist in the National Photography Prize, among many other awards and grants.
Shmith’s works appear in the collections of the Macquarie Group Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Parliament House Collection, Art Bank, the Albury Art Gallery, the collection of Patrick Corrigan and private collections throughout Australia and the United Kingdom.
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
JANET LAURENCE
Environmental Art of Loss and Wonder
A beautiful article in The New Scientist on JANET LAURENCE's exhibition The Ferment, showing at the Fine Art Society in London until 11 May 2013.
'Standing in front of Broken Hearted Wood, it is as if you are inside the owl's tree, a disconcerting ghostly apparition that won't go away. When you accidentally catch sight of yourself in the glass covering the work, it's really difficult not to feel that you are part of the picture.
That, of course, is what Laurence is about: she wants you to care about the relationship between the natural and the human worlds.
She draws you in with a powerful mixture of paintings, photographic images and installations. There are transparent images on acrylic, mounted on a background that is sometimes the wall, sometimes a mirror or just a coat of paint. And a 'layering' technique adds to the astonishing sense of being there.'
To read the full article click here.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
As part of Federation Square's creative program, presented by dLUX Media Arts, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS' film Waiting for Lass will at various times be showing on the big screen on Fed Square througout all of April 2013.
The artists in the program have been hand picked with an aim to showcase Australian video art publicly and in a large format.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT
Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s exhibition, Bhava Series, presents the subjective state of one’s existence within in-between spaces. Full of a richness of colour, a density of voices and intonations of place, this is Suwannakudt’s fourth solo exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, 9 April - 11 May 2013.
In Thai, the complexity of the word 'bhava' encompasses ‘existence,’ or ‘the status of being’, which originated from a Pāli word meaning ‘to become’ or ‘a subjective becoming,’ in the sense of living, feeling and ascending within one’s continuous and cyclical worldly existence. In her devotion to her sense of self and discovery, Suwannakudt continues to create works that are contemplative, aesthetic tapestries - condensed communicative murals.
Phaptawan's recent sculptural and collaborative works further extend into the subjectivity of experience, participants writing their private thoughts on cloth made of vegetation fibre picked and woven in Thailand, the remnants of which have been incorporated into some of the works in 'Bhava Series'. Imbued with allegorical and everyday references - like one looking from a window over a landscape rendered both familiar and foreign - these works tell stories of personal memories, dreams and experiences of perpetual movement towards understanding and belonging.
- Annabel Holt, April 2013
In Bhava Series, Suwannakudt's paint and cloth weave together with the density of a multimedia tapestry, in direct reference to over twenty years of foundational training as a muralist in Bhuddist temples under the master tutorship of her father, Paiboon Suwannakudt. Phaptawan Suwannakudt migrated from Thailand to Australia in 1996, her entry into Australian culture being a disorientating experience.
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com
ROBERT OWEN / IMANTS TILLERS / ANNE ZAHALKA / JULIE RRAP / ROSE FARRELL and GEORGE PARKIN
JULIE RRAP, Persona and Shadow Christ.
ARC ONE are pleased to announce that ROBERT OWEN, IMANTS TILLERS, ANNE ZAHALKA, JULIE RRAP, ROSE FARRELL and GEORGE PARKIN are all included in the exhibition Mixtape 1980's at the National Gallery of Victoria.
Mix Tape 1980s 'explores a decade of dynamic change in contemporary art and culture, from appropriation and sampling in painting and music to the DIY aesthetics of post-punk music, art and fashion; and from postmodern critiques of history, authorship and originality to postcolonial revisions of Australian history and identity.'
The exhibition is open 11 April- 1 September 2013. for more information, click here.
JANET LAURENCE
JANET LAURENCE, recent recipient of the John Glover Price, is opening her first major solo exhibition in the UK. Presented at The Fine Art Society in London, The Ferment is the product of forty years spent examining the complex relationships between natural and man-made environments, making nature at once her subject and her object.
The Ferment will be on view at The Fine Art Society, London between 12 April and 11 May 2013.
Read the interview with Janet on her upcoming show and other things from blouinartinfo.
PETER DAVERINGTON
Opening 6 April at Linden Contemporary Art Centre, PETER DAVERINGTON is included in the show Innovators 1 with his animation ARCADIA
Innovators 1 presents the work of five artists who explore the human condition. They each comment on the man made versus the organic; past, present and future; concepts of reality and imagination through time-based work.
From Linded Art Centre.
LYDIA WEGNER
LYDIA WEGNER opened her new show entitled Folded Colour at Melbourne Centre for Contemporary Photography, CCP on 4 April. In the striking new series Lydia has used unconventinal scraps and objets to create abstract colour field images, turning material into shape, grain and colour.
The show is open till 19 May 2013. For more information, click here.
IMANTS TILLERS
We are proud to announce that IMANTS TILLERS has been announced winner of the 2013 WYNNE Price with his extraordinary, soul searching painting Namatjira.
Namatjira is a hommage to painter Albert Namatjira, who through his watercolours of central Australia found a way to repair some of the psychic and spiritual damage long endured by Aboriginal Australia.
More information through the Art Gallery of NSW