ROBERT OWEN's artist talk in regard to his winning piece for the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize has been recorded and is available to listen to online. Hosted by Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Committee Member Professor Ian Howard, the talk proved to be very insightful and inspiring.
Owen's winning piece, Symmetria #37 (pictured above with the artist), is now on permanent public display at the Woollahra Council Chambers.
You can listen to the recording here.
Sam Shmith, Untitled (Cherry Springs 2), 2015, Dye sublimation print on aluminium, 23.5 x 35.5cm.
SAM SHMITH opened his solo exhibition, Cherry Springs, at ARC ONE Gallery on Thursday 5 November 2015.
You can read a fantastic review of Cherry Springs from the Daily Review here.
Australian Photography also wrote about the exhibition here.
Shmith was interviewed by Richard Watts from 3RRR's SmartArts radio progam on Thursday 5 November. The interview can be listened to here.
See also Michael Mckenzie's interview with Shmith for Radio National's Afternoons on Friday 6 November, here.
Dani Marti, Midden (work in progress), Newcastle Courthouse, NSW, 2013-2015.
DANI MARTI's public commission for the new Courthouse in Newcastle is taking form.
The work in progress, entitled Midden, is a large scaled concrete formwork wall that extends over 60 square meters and is constructed from dark grey concrete. The sculptural wall is informed by abstraction and simplicity with sensual curves contrasting with the glass wall entrance and rigid angles of the building.
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Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef (installation view), 2015.
JANET LAURENCE mesmerised audiences at the opening of the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair, 20 October 2015, with her major installation Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef. The work focuses on significant climate change issues directly affecting the Great Barrier Reef and includes photos, videos and natural marine specimens in laboratory glassware.
The immersive installation representing a resuscitation unit for the Great Barrier Reef will be on display until 14 December 2015.
Read about it in the press here:
Janet Laurence, Treelines Track, Bundanon, NSW (detail views), 2014–16.
JANET LAURENCE's work has been included in the winning essay for the new award supporting critical writing from MPavilion, Art Monthly Australia and the National Association for the Visual Arts.
Dr Julia Jones is the inaugural Writing Award Winner, whose winning essay appears in the 2015 October issue of Art Monthly Australia. On the 28th of October, at the MPavillion, Dr Jones will present a reading of the essay, A growing medium: The garden in art and design’.
For more information, follow the link.
JANET LAURENCE is one of 14 artists who have been invited to participate in the initiative: Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015. She has created a site-specific installation, Deep Breathing - Resuscitation for the Reef, inspired by the crucial issues of the Paris Climate Change Conference / COP21.
From the 16 October - 25 November 2015 the installation will be presented at the entrance of Grande Galerie de l’Evolution at Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, which has loaned specimens for its realization. A video will also be projected at the Tropical Aquarium of Palais de la Porte Dorée. The Australian Museum will exhibit the work in 2016.
For more information please click here.
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing - Resuscitation for the Reef (project detail), 2015.
Julie Rrap, Re-making the world: Artists' dreaming (video still), 2015, 20-channel HD video installation.
JULIE RRAP is featured in an article by Art Collector. The article, Remaking the World with Julie Rrap, gives insight into the role of the artist and creativity in the contemporary landscape. Rrap's practice is discussed in relation to her concern with the sense of risk that exists when shifting between thought and action in the creative process.
To read the article click here.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2010-11, C-Type photograph (hand-printed from original negative) facemount to UV perspex, 126 x 158cm.
JACKY REDGATE is part of the UQ Art Museum's exhibition titled Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere. The exhibition features the work of contemporary artists who employ light and related technologies, and examines their practice in relation to artistic precedents.
The exhibition continues until 15 November 2015.
For more information and the online catalogue click here.
Robert Owen, Symmetria #37, 2015, painted stainless steel. 62.5 x 72.5 x 65.5 cm.
Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN, who has been awarded the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. The judges selected Robert's bold, painted stainless steel work, Symmetria #37, as the winning sculpture. This $15,000 acquisitive main prize will see the work enter the Woollahra Council Collection.
Follow this link for more information regarding the prize.
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize exhibition is on display at the Woollahra Council Chambers in Double Bay, Sydney, from Saturday 10 to Sunday 25 October 2015.
Pat Brassington, Voicing, 2001, Digitial colour print, 93.4 x 127.4 cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON, PETER DAVERINGTON and JULIE RRAP are included in the latest major exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia. Lurid Beauty considers the legacies of Surrealism in Australia and is on show from 9 Oct 2015 to 31 Jan 2016.
For more information please click here.
Pat Brassington, Shadow Boxer, 2013, pigment print, 96 x 74cm.
As past winners of the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, PAT BRASSINGTON and JACKY REDGATE are featured in the Hall of Fame exhibition that is currently running alongside the exhibition of 2015 finalists.
Monash Gallery of Art are showcasing the winning works from each year of the prize to date in celebration of 10 years of the prize. Redgate's Light throw (mirrors) #4 (2011) and Brassington's Shadow Boxer (2013) are both included in the exhibition which will continue until 25 November 2015.
For more information, please click here.
Dani Marti, Prelude, 2015, corner cube reflectors and natural crystal beads on aluminum frame, 95 x 95 x 20cm.
DANI MARTI will be participating in Exhibit A, a group exhibition at The Lock Up in Newcastle, NSW. The exhibition intends to go beyond what might be considered ‘art and crime’, and question the ideas of crime, criminality and criminal subject through strong community engagement on a different range of approaches: historical, political, personal, and material.
The exhibition will take place from 30 October to 6 December 2015.
For more information click here.
Dani Marti, The Stamp Collector, 2006, still from video, 6'40min.
DANI MARTI will be part of the exhibition La Vida es esto: Narrativas de progreso, libertad y auto-realización en el capitalismo de hoy (Life is This: Narratives of Progress, freedom and self-realization in today’s capitalism), at the DA2 Contemporary Art Centre in Salamanca, Spain. The exhibition is based on a reading of works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y Leon (MUSAC) that reflect on today’s capitalist society. Some of the artists included in La Vida es esto are: Gregory Crewdson, Joan Fontcuberta, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Moffat and Santiago Sierra.
The exhibition will be open from 8 October 2015 to 31 January 2016.
For more information click here.
Dani Marti, The Butterfly Man, 2012, still from video, 16min.
DANI MARTI will participate in Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre’s 21st Birthday exhibition, titled 21. The Casula Powerhouse is a multi-disciplinary centre located in Liverpool, NSW. The exhibition, curated by David Capra, will feature 21 emerging and highly respected Australian artists who have exhibited at this institution.
The exhibition will run from 17 October to 29 November 2015.
For more information, click here.
"I feel quite proud to be able to bring the Barrier Reef to Paris actually and show another way of seeing it, not the glossy tourist idea"
- JANET LAURENCE on Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) which she will present to as part of Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015 later this year.
Andrew Taylor interviews Janet in the Sydney Morning Herald about her latest artwork which will be presented to a global audience alongside international artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Barbara Kruger, Michelangelo Pistoletto and more.
To read the full article click here.
Guan Wei, To The Origin 2, 2015, porcelain, 46.5 x 27.3cm.
Art Collector interviews GUAN WEI about being shortlisted for this year's Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
To read the interview, please click here.
Jacky Redgate, Mirrors (transcription from Ralph Balson Painting, 1941), 2009-12, C-Type photograph.
JACKY REDGATE's photographic work Mirrors will be presented at the University of Sydney Art Gallery from 3 October until 27 November 2015. This exhibition will focus on the artist's use of mirrors and rebounding light and the relevance of these elements in her oeuvre.
For more information, please click here.
JANET LAURENCE has been chosen as the Australian representative for the Artists4ParisClimate2015 initiative. She will be creating a site-specific installation entitled Reef Resuscitation which address the threat to our natural environment and it's fragility due to climate change. This artwork will be formed through a residency with the Australian Museum Marine Science Department and their Lizard Island research station in the Barrier Reef.
The artwork will be exhibited in the Great Gallery of Evolution, situated within the Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, in Les Jardin des Plantes, Paris from October through til the end of December 2015.
For more information, click here.
Tracy Sarroff, Confluence of Two Rivers (detail), 2011, mixed media, 155 x 52 x 123 cm.
TRACY SARROFF will be exhibiting a sculptural light installation at Seventh Gallery, Melbourne from 10 - 25 September. The exhibition, Dragon’s Backbone, is inspired by the ever-evolving relationships with the natural world across territories both real and imagined. It incorporates references to terrace farming, climate change and the genetic engineering of food crops. Allied to ideas sourced from science fiction and science fact, her works look like illuminated and glowing hybrid plant-life and mountainous, glacial forms. The separate sculptures take on titles from Southern China’s vast region of spectacular rice terraces, The Dragon’s Backbone of Longshen that stretches layer upon layer, coiling around from the base of Longji Mountain to its summit.
For gallery information click here.
Peter Daverington, Learn From the Classic - But Please Don't Destroy Them, 2015, oil, enamel and gesso on canvas, 183 x 154cm
The Lodge Gallery, NYC, will open an exhibition of new paintings by PETER DAVERINGTON on 9 September 2015. The exhibition, Iconophilia, is an adventure through the historical cannons of western art. From the invention of oil paint right up into the graffiti tags and throw ups of old school New York street artists, Daverington plunders and appropriates from a vast archive of visual imagery.
The exhibition will run through to 11 October 2015.
For more information click here.