JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, Vertical Alliteration #2, 2013, UV print, laser-cut plywood, MDF board, 120 x 90 x 45cm.

Congratulations to JUSTINE KHAMARA's for her inclusion in Installation Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary. Vertical Alliteration #2 will be on display in the VIP Lounge, at Track 12 of the Art Fair.

Installation Contemporary is a project by The Curators’ Department which brings together 18 innovative, site-specific and interactive works in unexpected places throughout the Fair.

For more information please click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks, Muybridge, 2015, digital pigment print, 140 x 187 cm.

'Fredericks achieves a poetic meditation on personal and universal origins'.
Dylan Rainforth reviews MURRAY FREDERICKS' current exhibition in The Age.

To read more, click here.

GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, Beach 5, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm

GUAN WEI WINS ARTHUR GUY MEMORIAL PAINTING PRIZE! 

ARC ONE are pleased to announce GUAN WEI as the winner of the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. Wei’s winning painting, Beach 5 is a three-panel acrylic on canvas work displaying an idyllic, whimsical rendering of a Sydney shore.

The open painting prize is a $50,000 acquisitive award established by Allen Guy CBE in honour of his brother Arthur Guy in 2003. For more information on the prize, please click here.

Congratulations GUAN WEI!

NIKE SAVVAS

Image by Lewis Roland

NIKE SAVVAS’ immersive art installation Reverie, in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London, has been extended to 12 September 2015. SAVVAS’ multicoloured work is suspended across the ceiling of Royal Festival Hall and continues outside onto the balcony of the building. The work “embodies a state of play; a daydream; a moment of losing oneself within an undulating field of ambient colour”.

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LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Painters’ Family, oil on linen, 2007, 185 x 185 cm

Joseph Hinchliffe writes on LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN’s entry in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in the Bendigo Advertiser. Read about their creative process and their entry entitled Song of Sorrow, which will form part of an upcoming series centred on the landscapes surrounding their home and studio.

To read the full article, click here.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Spark (3), 2014, pigment print, 111.5x112cm

NIKE SAVVAS’ work is part of a major exhibition titled Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery at the Focal Point Gallery in Essex, U.K. The show features a multi-screen installation showcasing a collection made up of hundreds of GIF animations.

The exhibition will continue until 17 October 2015.

For more information click here.

CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, Waiting (video still), 2015.

CYRUS TANG will be exhibiting his video work in a group exhibition titled It’s Subjective… as part of the Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial 2015. The exhibition will see the work of several video artists projected from Chatswood’s formidable Urban Screen. The festival runs from 5 – 26 September 2015, open Wednesday through to Sunday.

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LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN / GUAN WEI

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Song of Sorrow, 2015, oil on linen, 151 x 151 cm. 

LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN and GUAN WEI who have been named as Finalists for the 2015 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. The announcement and official opening will be held at Bendigo Art Gallery from 6pm, Friday 28 August 2015. The exhibition of all finalists' work will be on show from 29 August – 1 November 2015.

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MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still.  

The Australian Centre for Photography will be exhibiting DYE2, a video installation by MURRAY FREDERICKS and Tom Schutzinger. This video and sound piece was made in an abandoned Cold War radar station in Greenland. The piece, like Greenland itself, is at once icily cold and seductively beautiful, leading the viewer towards the sublime.

The exhibition runs from 29 August – 18 October 2015.  

MURRAY FREDERICKS / JUSTINE KHAMARA / JANET LAURENCE / DANI MARTI / ROBERT OWEN / JULIE RRAP / TRACY SARROFF / IMANTS TILLERS / GUAN WEI / JOHN YOUNG.

ARC ONE Gallery will be exhibiting at this year's Sydney Contemporary, at Carriageworks. You can find us at STAND B03 from 10 - 13 September 2015.

ARC ONE Gallery will be showcasing the works of artists including MURRAY FREDERICKS, JUSTINE KHAMARA, JANET LAURENCE, DANI MARTI, ROBERT OWEN, JULIE RRAP, TRACY SARROFF, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI and JOHN YOUNG.

For more information please contact ARC ONE Gallery on +613 9650 0589 or email mail@arc1gallery.com.au  

And, for more information regarding Sydney Contemporary, visit their website.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Sparks, installation view, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 2014. 

NIKE SAVVAS is featured in the latest issue of ARTAND magazine. The article, The Connective Experiences of Nike Savvas, discusses the artists’ ability to demonstrate the connectedness of art and the viewing experience, outside of the traditional gallery exhibition space.

The article can be found in Vol 52.2 Winter 2015 issue of ARTAND. For more information please click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks, N Stradbroke Island, 2014, Digital pigment print, 100 x 284cm

Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS who has been selected as a Finalist in the 2015 Bowness Photography Prize. 

An exhibition of Finalists' artworks for the Prize will be opened to the public from 25 September 2015 at Monash Gallery of Art. The winners will be announced on 1 October 2015.

More information here.

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Cole Classic, 1998, Type C Photograph, 57.5 x 72.5cm

ANNE ZAHALKA's iconic work will be exhibited at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum as part of the 2015 Manly Arts Festival. The exhibition Playground of The Pacific will be launched at 6pm on Friday 18 September 2015.

The exhibition is open from 4 September - 25 October 2015, with a corresponding artist talk on Saturday 10 October, from 2-3pm.

For more information please click here.

ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN

Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Detail of Sparrow Man, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on papier-mâché, digital print on cotton fabric, steel pins, foam core backing, 51.5 x 36 x 10 cm.

Robert Nelson writes on ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN's wonderful exhibition, A Curious Evolution, in The Age - the exhibition is on view at Deakin University Art Gallery until 28 August 2015.

To read the review, click here.

ROBERT OWEN / GUAN WEI

Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN and GUAN WEI who have been selected as Finalists in the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. 

A free exhibition of Finalists' artworks for the Prize will be presented from 10 - 25 October 2015 at Woollahra Council Chambers in Sydney. The winners will be announced on 9 October 2015.

For more information, click here.

LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN / ANNE ZAHALKA

Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Atlas, 2005, Lightjet print on duraclear film, 104 x 107cm.

LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN and ANNE ZAHALKA are exhibiting as part of Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery's group show Storm in a Teacup, which explores Australia's relationship with tea.

For more information click here.

JULIE RRAP

Julie Rrap, Remaking the World #1, 2015, digital print, 150 x 450 cm.

JULIE RRAP's major solo show, Remaking the World, a remarkable exhibition presented as part of the Vizard Foundation Contemporary Artist Project series at the Ian Potter Museum of Art is now on view until 15 November 2015.  

IN THE NEWS:
Sonia Harford interviews Julie in The Age about her new body of work created especially for Remaking the World:

"Playful ... Peeping and unruly" - read the full article here.

JULIE RRAP talks to Michael Cathcart on ABC's Radio National - to listen, click here.

Julie Rrap: Remaking the World is at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, from 23 July to 15 November 2015.

CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, Remote Nation (still), 2007-2008, Video DVD, 13.09 mins

CYRUS TANG's work will be presented at the Australian Centre for Photography's after hours Street Screen projection from 17 July - 16 August. Titled, Remote Nation, the work deals with the idea of reconstructing ephemeral sensations and capturing the disappearance towards the notion of home. 

CYRUS TANG has also been selected as a finalist in the Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award with her work Sui Ming and as a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award with her work Matthew. 
 

CATHERINE WOO

Catherine Woo, Heat (Detail), 2015, mixed media on aluminium, 120 x 120 cm.

CATHERINE WOO
INCENDIE

OPENING WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015, 6-8PM

Catherine Woo’s latest exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery continues her visually stunning oeuvre of ‘painting with weather’. The title, Incendie, is drawn from the French term for fire, which Woo has used as the axis for exploring themes of fire and heat. Concerned with the inter-relationship between humans, the body and their natural surrounds, Woo’s abstract, topographic and luminescent surfaces are underpinned by a consideration of how our ideologies and senses are shifting in response to climate change and anthropogenic processes on the environment.

At the core of Woo’s practice is her collaboration and experimentation with natural forces. By manipulating the immediate environment around her (namely, redirecting the gutters to allow rainwater seepages and wind into the studio), Woo orchestrates naturally occurring forms onto the aluminium canvas. The resulting works journal this space of negotiation between artist and weather, and as Woo describes, they depict a ‘trace of their alliance’.

The delicate imprints on Woo’s paintings are instantly recognisable as tactile weathered surfaces that form patterns akin to aerial views of landscapes. Substances such as iron, silica, calcium carbonate, mica, pigments and black sand are combined with vibration and evaporation to create a painting system whereby the works self-propagate. For Woo, partly relinquishing control and respecting the agency of materials and the power of their interaction is central to her practice.

Incendie will run from 21 July to 22 August 2015 at ARC ONE Gallery.

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN

Rose Farrell and George Parkin, Detail of Sparrow Man, 2008-2011, digital print on archival rag paper, 80 x 204 cm.

Deakin University Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of the work of ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN, titled A Curious Evolution, opening 22 July. 

In A Curious Evolution artists Rose Farrell and George Parkin consider the fanciful imaginings of early personality profiling. In the sixteenth century a desire to fix difference was expressed in studies of the physiognomic similarities observed between animals and humans. This led to comparisons that made a case for the animal logic in human nature. In their last body of work together, Farrell and Parkin push the boundaries of photographic portraiture to investigate this history and the absurdist claims that stood for knowledge. Their evocative images and sculptures reflect upon the intangible elements of character and the camera’s role in codifying difference.

Curated by Wendy Garden.

The exhibition runs from 22 July to 28 August 2015.