JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, orbital spin trick, UV print on laser-cut plywood, 50cm diameter approx.

JUSTINE KHAMARA

Reconstructure | ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 27 August - 28 September.

With calm precision, photo-sculptural artist Justine Khamara sliced up the photographic faces of   her   nearest  and dearest.  She then reconfigured them – a  psychological and physical manipulation – to create the photo-sculptural works of her  upcoming exhibition, Reconstructure.

Justine Khamara’s practice continues to focus on the material, plastic qualities of photography and to push the boundaries of photo-sculpture.  In Reconstructure, Khamara moves forward within the process of  photographic replication  and  repetition, presenting work with an increased mathematical, rational and abstracted sensibility.  

The photographic imagery of 'Reconstructure' retains a fragmented presence, central to Khamara’s practice, whilst escalating in psychological intensity.  This calm intensity, combined with  Khamara’s particular focus on colour, line, form and structure, imbues Reconstructure with a contained sense of movement – an explosion held in check. 

- Annabel Holt, August 2013 

Justine Khamara lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Solo exhibitions include: now I am a radiant people, ARC ONE Gallery (2011); Erysichthon’s Ball, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2010); How Excellently We Did-diddly-do-do Do It, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2007).  Group exhibitions include: Northern Lights, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (2013); Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Double Vision, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin (2011); Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2010); The Edge of the Universe, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria; New 09, ACCA Melbourne (2009); Primavera 07, MCA Sydney (2007).  In 2003 Khamara graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts.

JACKY REDGATE

JACKY REDGATE is featured in the artist pages of Discipline #3 (August 2013). Pages 77 to 80 present stills from her collaborative video work 'Mirror Reflex' (2013) now on view in the exhibition 'Narelle Jabelin: Vision in Motion' at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.

Information on Discipline and where to purchase the Journal here.

JACKY REDGATE

Narelle JUBELIN, BOXED. SET 28, 2005-06, cotton thread on silk mesh petit point renditions, The Box, Lissma, Suecia, architect Ralph Erskine, 1942, 4.5 x 5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. 

JACKY REDGATE is collaborating with Narelle Jubelin in a exhibition entitled Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, open until the 20th September, 2013. The collaborative work is a single channel video titled Mirror Reflex (2013). 

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PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Camouflage, 2010.

PAT BRASSINGTON is featured in the upcoming NEW 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions exhibition, at the Queensland Art Gallery, presented by The University of Queensland. This is a great opportunity for Brassington’s work to be a part of the University’s active acquisition program during 2012-2013. 

The opening for the exhibition is on Friday 16 August 2013 and the exhibition continues until December 2013.

For more information, click here.

JANET LAURENCE / PETER DAVERINGTON / GUAN WEI

ARC ONE has the pleasure in showcasing three artists in the inaugural art auction for the Art Cabriolet, a charity in association with Mossgreen & George Calombaris, Loaded Brush & Gavel.  Artists JANET LAURENCE, PETER DAVERINGTON and GUAN WEI will each have a work in the auction, contributed by ARC ONE Gallery. These artists are included in the eleven of Australia’s leading contemporary artists’ that are exhibiting works for the auction.

This event is a great opportunity to feature work by some of ARC ONE's artists and the event will also raise funds for children in trauma, through the medium of art and art therapy.  The auction will be held at Mossgreen, 310 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Victoria, 3141 on Thursday 15 August 2013.

For more information on the event click here.

SHEENA MACRAE

SHEENA MACRAE has been chosen to be one of the core artists in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013, taking part in the curated group exhibtion of exceptional Australian and International artists working in photo-media.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale core exhibition and many other peripherary events will run from 17 August to 15 September 2013.  Entry to the exhibition is free, from 10am-5pm.

For more information, visit the BIFB site here.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Hojas Secas/Dry Leafs, 2010.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is featured in the current Camouflage Cultures: Surveillance, Communities, Aesthetic, Animals, an international exhibition presented by Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening on Thursday 8 August, from 6 to 8pm.
CAMOUFLAGE CULTURES will be on display from Thursday 8 to Saturday 31 August.

The conference and exhibition address two key principles of camouflage - concealment and deception - in relation to four themes: surveillance, communities, aesthetics and animals. The theme of surveillance includes war, defense, militaries, and conflict; communities embraces society, the everyday, government and identity; aesthetics incorporates art, architecture, film and popular culture; animals includes human and non-human beings, nature, evolution, pattern and optics. The artists convey these themes through visual representation and the contemporary world.

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PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Camouflage, 2010. 

The Michael Buxton Collection, which includes work by Pat Brassington, is now online.

The collection comprises acquisitions by influential Australian artists and seeks to reflect the breadth of current Australian visual art practice.

To view Pat Brassington’s work held in the collection and for information about new acquisitions, loans and exhibitions, click here.

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROFF has been invited to present a talk at Deakin University as part of the inauguration of the Science Fiction seminar series. This will take place on Thursday 22nd August 4-6pm at the Phoenix Gallery, Deakin University, Burwood. She will be speaking alongside Dr Paul Thomas (Artist and Associate Professor, University of NSW, COFA).

Tracy will be discussing science fiction in relationship to her visual arts practice, the zeitgeist, ecology and the creative boundaries of what is both imaginary and real.

The seminar series are open to the public. RSVP by August 12 to lean@deakin.edu.au

SAM SHMITH

SAM SHMITH has recently featured in the newly redesigned ARTAND (Australia) magazine.

The PLATFORM section of the new and improved ARTAND (Australia), written by Jane Sutherland, (Issue No. 51.1, 2013, pp. 154-155.) outlines Shmith's artistic process.

Shmith's photographs are interpreted as immense, dreamlike landscapes where light and dark intermingle, creating a dramatic composition. Shmith’s methods of capturing photographs occur during times of travel and take place whilst in transit such as in cars, trains or helicopters. Throughout his photographic journey Shmith scans his surroundings in order to capture the familiar everyday observations of trees, houses, clouds, people and reflections.

"My photography is a process of literally breaking the world up into objects, then putting it back together. I ceased experiencing the world as a series of places, rather as a fragmented and endless resource of ingredients." 

- Sam Shmith 

Whilst the initial process of creating a work is heavily reliant on the taking of photographs, Shmith's collection of over 60,000 photographs come together and transform into and can be interpreted as a painterly manifestation. Shmith describes his work as being a balanced combination of collage and montage, where he works with numerous transparent layers against a black background in Photoshop - as a result, an ominous dreamscape is created.

ANNE SCOTT WILSON

Anne Scott Wilson, Homage to Turner, 2013, digital pinhole print on arches velin museum rag, edition of 5, 67 x 97 cm.

ANNE SCOTT WILSON 

Fly Rhythm, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 23 July - 24 August, 2013.

Anne Scott Wilson’s Fly Rhythm explores the profound analogue experience of ‘drawing with light’ in a digital world. Utilising lens-less, pin-hole photography, Scott Wilson intuitively and physically recorded movement as still images, as direct representations of light over time. In Fly Rhythm, the impact of space and time upon the body - the spatiality of movement - presents a uniquely subjective visualisation of the body as a conduit of visual experience.

- Annabel Holt, July 2013 

Scott Wilson studied painting as a mature-age student following a career in dance. Her practice is informed by theatre, cinema and live performance and is realised across multiple creative disciplines including photography, video, painting, sound installation and performance.

ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN'S work, Fallen Light, has inspired a composition that is a part of the 5x5x5 project at Arts Centre Melbourne.

From this Saturday you can download 5 musical compositions, 5 minutes each, with 5 inspirations - to your own headphones (or ones provided by the Arts Centre) and experience the space of Arts Centre Melbourne through the *ears* of these fabulous young composers.

For more information, click here.

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI has been recognised as one of the top 100 proposals received for the 2013 Artangel Open project.  Based in the U.K., Artangel commissions and produces exceptional projects and public art.

Find more information at Blouin Art Info and at Artangel.

ANNE SCOTT WILSON

ANNE SCOTT WILSON will be participating in a performance/film called Holst's The Planets, Neptune for The Urban Screen Productions Commission, touring both nationally and internationally. 

Curated by Lubi Thomas, the commission involves seven artists in collaboration with The Concourse Urban Screen, The Chatswood Performing Arts Centre, Willoughby Council, The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Tony Legge, Association Music Director, Opera Australia.

After the live performance event at Willoughby Performing Arts Centre in August 2013, the work will be screened at the following venues during the 18 Month tour: 

The Concourse, Chatswood, Sydney; 
QUT Screens, Brisbane; 
Northbridge Piazza Screen, Perth; 
The Big Screen, New York, USA;
New World Centre, Miami, USA;
Celebration Square, Toronto, Canada;
BBC Big Screens, UK (Various Locations);
CMoDA, Beijing, China.

(Additional venues to be announced)

For more information, click here

Watch the short film here on Vimeo.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is transforming the MCA into her Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCO) on Friday 26th July. Themed and titled: Sex Everywhere, Cardoso's installation celebrates the diversity and complexity of genitallic structures within the animal kingdom. 

This exciting event also features Isabella Rosselini, Gary Warner, Scientist Jurgen Otto, the QLD Museum's Geoff Thompson, Vert Design, Clare Grant and Nikki Hayward; and Ruark Lewis along with tropical Latin beats. 

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MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS has outdone himself again with his work as Time-lapse Specialist on the ABC's four part documentary, First Footprints, recently released to air.

View a short video of the time-lapses here.

And read more about the amazing documentary here.

PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON has been shortlisted in a world-wide competition to find the top 100 Painters of Tomorrow.

The project, developed by London gallerist Kurt Beers from Beer.Lambert Contemporary, in collaboration with publishers Thames and Hudson, will ultimately result in a book featuring the 100 selected artists, and a major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. From 4,300 entries, Daverington is one of 427 artists shortlisted, who hail from 47 countries in total, with only 10 other Australians being included.

Kurt Beers was inspired to begin the project due to what he felt was a 'marked trend in which many talented artists – in this particular case, painters – were growing increasingly frustrated due to what they felt was an overwhelming lack of opportunities directed toward them,' - find the interview here.

Judges of the final list of 100 painters include: Cecily Brown, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Yuko Hasegawa, Gregor Muir, Suzanne Cotter, Suzanne Hudson, Philip Tinari, and Barry Schwabsky. 

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JUSTINE KHAMARA

JUSTINE KHAMARA is featured in the latest issue AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR magazine in the What Now? section, July - Sept issue, p. 89.

Khamara talks about her work Orbital Spin Trick (pictured above), her forthcoming show at ARC ONE starting at the end of August, her influences and inspirations. 

Find more information in this issue or online.

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE is included in the group show, Animate/Inanimate, a part of TarraWarra International 2013, at the stunning TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA).  Curated by Victoria Lynn, Animate/Inanimate showcases the work of artists who approach the environment and fragile animal species in the context of global change - economic, climatic, human change.  With the increasing destruction of our animate environments and creatures, can a 'spirit' be brought forth from the inanimate?  

Laurence joins acclaimed international and local artists Allora and Calzadilla (USA), Lin Tianmiao (China), Louise Weaver (Australia) and Amar Kanwar (India).

29 June - 6 October 2013

For more information on Animate/Inanimate, click here.

JANET LAURENCE

Congratulations to JANET LAURENCE, who has been selected as as finalist for the 2013 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize with the work Chlorophyll Collapse A, (the Tarkine, Tasmania), 2012.
 

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