Cyrus Tang, from the series Mememto Mori, 2012.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to announce that we are now representing CYRUS TANG. Cyrus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works reflect on ideas of nostalgia, loss and longing. Cyrus will hold her fist solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2016.
Anne, Zahalka, Untitled (road to Zagora), 2015, 100 x 150 cm, Pigment ink on rag paper
ANNE ZAHALKA's current exhibition Threshold at ARC ONE has been reviewed by Dan Rule in The AGE.
To read the review, click here.
John Young, LKM (Gold), 2015, 156 x 126 cm, Oil on linen
JOHN YOUNG is presenting at a conference in Cairns from 28 June - 7 July. The Australasian conference is on overseas Chinese history and heritage.
"The main theme of Dragon Tails 2015 will be the historical experiences and heritage of Chinese in the tropics, both in Australasia and globally. The program will also include other topics that discuss the histories and heritage of Chinese people, their descendants and their associates, in other parts of Australasia and the world."
For more information please click here.
Pat Brassington, The Secret, 2010, 62 x 80 cm, Pigment Print edition of 8
PAT BRASSINGTON'S major national touring survey Á Rebours continues... Currently being shown at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, NSW. The exhibition continues until July 17.
For more information, please click here.
Janet Laurence, Grace, 2012, Video still
JANET LAURENCE's work Grace (2012) was recently exhibited as part of the MOMENTUM Collection at LOOP, Barcelona (4-6 June). Her work can also be seen as part of the MOMENTUM Collection on IKonoTV from 3 June - 3 July 2015.
For more information about JANET LAURENCE at MOMENTUM, please click here.
Congratulations to LYDIA WEGNER for being selected as a finalist in The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize.
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Anne Scott Wilson, Twice (video still), 2015.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON will be exhibiting her work in a group exhibition titled Finitude? at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. The reception with the artists will be Friday 12 June from 3-4pm. The exhibition will continue until the 29th June.
For more information please click here.
Opening next week at ARC ONE Gallery will be a new series of works by ANNE ZAHALKA titled Threshold. Naomi Cass, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne) has written the catalogue essay:
“In this series of works photographed in Morocco, Anne Zahalka represents many thresholds—doorways, arches, a crossroad, a highway and a crumbling film set. Like Janus [god of thresholds] who embodied the value of looking both forward and backward, Zahalka invokes the slippery transition between documentary and staged photography, between ‘participant observer’ and tourist."
We are looking forward to seeing the works installed.
Image courtesty of Southbank Centre, London.
NIKE SAVVAS' work is currently in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London. The festival starts today, June 6 and continues until August 31.
Spanning across the ceiling of the Royal Festival Hall, Nike's joyous work Reverie is an installation of thousands of rainbow coloured ribbons.
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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been selected by the Green Square Public Art Program to develop an installation in the South Sydney Hospital area. The installation, called While I Live I Will Grow, is made of narrowleaf bottle trees of different ages planted among sandstone garden beds. The sandstone blocks will be sandblasted with text providing the date of birth of each tree, horticultural information and recipes for the roots, which when read from above spell out the name of the installation. While I Live I Will Grow is about the growth of Green Square as a community, as well as the personal growth of individuals, families and children in the area.
For more information, please click here.
Justine Khamara, 2015, Whether I am Asleep or Awake, laser cut UV print on plywood, 45 x 45 x 9.5 cm
JUSTINE KHAMARA is shortlisted in the first Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham Art Gallery is establishing its place among Melbourne’s leading contemporary art galleries with the new Wyndham Art Prize. A shortlist of 26 artists was chosen, with applicants from across Australia, New Zealand and Melville Island. Khamara’s sculpture ‘Whether I am Asleep or Awake #4’ is on display in the gallery until 28 June 2015.
For more information click here.
Janet Laurence, Stranded, 2012, installation view.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in an article by the International Sculpture Centre. The article, When Nature Invades the Museum, gives insight into the growing interest by artists who address ecological issues within contemporary art. Laurence’s practice is discussed in relation to her concern with using the gallery space in establishing a relationship between the environment and the viewer.
To read the article here.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2009 – 2010, C-Type photograph (hand-printed from original negative), facemount to UV Perspex, 126 x 158cm.
An interview with JACKY REDGATE is currently featured in Photofile magazine (Vol. 96, Autumn/Winter 2015). The issue includes a recent portfolio of her contemporary work and practice in photography and sculpture.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water: Submarine Landscape, 2003, starfish, metal wire, dimensions variable.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s work Woven Water: Submarine Landscape has been selected to feature in a major exhibition titled, Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In conjunction with the 2015 Latin American Experience weekend, the exhibition presents work by renowned artists that have addressed issues regarding the social and political status of Latin America within their practice.
The exhibition opens in November 2015.
Janet Laurence, What a Plant Knows II (the Tarkine, Tasmania), 2012, duraclear, acrylic, dibond, mirror, oil glaze, 122 x 313 cm.
JANET LAURENCE has been invited to be the Australian representative to create a site-specific artwork as part of a curated exhibition alongside the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference/COP21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The work Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) will commence in July and creates the imaginative possibility for healing our marine world, with a focus on the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef (GBR), revealing its plight and beauty. With use of various materials, Laurence will create a site-specific installation, which will take the form of a multi-layered vitrine, much like a Wunderkammer, enclosing photos, videos, sculptural objects, natural materials and borrowed specimens.
In reference to this project, Laurence states the following:
“We are at a point where art is able to enter an essential dialogue of environmental politics and help to create and communicate an understanding of our global inter-connection and vital relationship to the natural world. Art makes visible what is otherwise invisible.”
For more information click here.
Image: Janet Laurence, Stranded, 2012, glass, acrylic, Duraclear, oil, pigments and video
TurningTime 2015, 2 channel video, 150mins.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS is going to participate in the CEMENTA 2015 Biennial in Kandos NSW. The Biennial will be held from April 9 to 12 celebrating contemporary art in Australia. The work will address the identity, history, and current social, environmental and economic context of the town and the region of Central West NSW.
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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video work re-mar(ki)ng (2010) is part of a group exhibition titled PP/VT (Performance Presence / Video Time) at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide. Video Time explores various genres in performance art through single and dual-screen video works and installations. It will include documentation of live events and performance made exclusively for screen.
The exhibition runs from 1 April - 16 May 2015.
Eugenia Raskopoulos, re-mar(ki)ng, 2010, 2 channel video & sound 5:15 minutes
Anne Zahalka, Untitled (figure and pillar), 2015, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100cm x 66.6cm
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS and ANNE ZAHALKA will be part of the exhibition Lines of Force... Space + Displacement in the Sydney College of the Arts Gallery at the University of Sydney. The exhibition presents works by a selection of SCA Alumni whose practice is informed by the key considerations of space and displacement.
The exhibition will run 15 April - 2 May.
For more information, click here.
Lydia Wegner, Wobble (2015), archival inkjet print, 80 x 60cm.
LYDIA WEGNER's work Wobble (2015) has been selected in the The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award for acquisition by the Gold Coast City Gallery.
The award is considered one of the most important Australian contemporary photography surveys. Established photographers are showcased alongside emerging, resulting in a stunning reflection of contemporary practice that examines diverse themes and approaches.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has taken part in the Wollongong Central expansion. Through the showcase of eco-friendly design principles, the project gives prospect for a sustainable centre that showcases the depth of innovation within the region.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Velvet Water Public Art at Wollongong Central Shopping Centre
Velvet Water by Cardoso introduces the buildings new feature artwork that cuts through the middle of the new look Wollongong Central. Velvet Water highlights the prominent surrounds of Wollongong – a costal region with lakes and fresh water streams within proximity. Through the use of industrial materials and the large-scale site, thousands of nylon rods sprout from the wall, covering its surface and resembling various forms of water. As people move past the wall, the rods simultaneously shift, that seemingly defies gravity and echoes the notions of water and its dynamic behaviour.