TRACY SARROFF is showing in a light installation group show at Off the Kerb Gallery in Collingwood. Artists and designers from around Australia have been invited to propose works responding to the theme “energy as light” and will be filling two venues with new artworks using a startling array of materials and light.
The exhibition runs from 18 August to 1 September 2016.
Tracy Sarroff, Rhizopoda Radiaria, 2008, perspex and light component, 50 x 44 x 44 cm.
John Young, Guan Liang I, 2016, oil on linen, 102 x 84cm.
JOHN YOUNG is exhibiting three series of works; Storm Resurrection, Naive and Sentimental Paintings and Veil in Shanghai. The solo exhibition, Storm Resurrection, opened at Pearl Lam Galleries on 2 July and will continue through to 21 August 2016.
For more information visit this link.
As a finalist of the 2016 Gold Award, JOHN YOUNG's work is currently on display at the Rockhampton Art Gallery. The award is designed as an invitation award to consider the best in contemporary painting in Australia. Congratulations John Young!
The exhibition continues through 4 September 2016.
Further information can be found here.
JOHN YOUNG's work is included in the international group exhibition, The Repetition of the Good. The Repetition of the Bad, at the New Synagogue in Berlin, Germany. Selected photographs and drawings from Bonhoeffer in Harlem, Safety Zone as well as a new group of works based on Oskar Schindler will be on display. The exhibition is set against the backdrop of the darkest chapter of German history, addressing the profound loss suffered by the Jewish community of Berlin under the National Socialist dictatorship.
Exhibition runs from 7 July - 4 September 2016.
Find out more here.
Image: John Young, from the Safety Zone series, 2010.
Image: Guo Jian with his works installed in Refugees. Photo: Wolter Peeters.
The Sydney Morning Herald featured an article on GUO JIAN, in relation to the group exhibition Refugees. The article celebrates Guo Jian’s series Trigger Happy and his inclusion in the politically-charged exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
Read the article here.
The exhibition continues through 11 September 2016.
Further press for the exhibition can be read here.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is an exhibiting artist in Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital, an exhibition from the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, showing as part of the Sydney Design Festival.
The exhibition explores the increasingly important role of digital manufacture in contemporary art, science, design and architecture, and will run from 3 September 2016 to 25 June 2017.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs - Love Darts (detail), 2012.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in Troubled Waters at UNSW Galleries, a suite of interdisciplinary exhibitions and projects considering the impact of human activity and climate change on natural and marine environments.
In a major new collaborative project between UNSW Science and UNSW Art & Design, multimedia artists bring the complex ecosystem of a river to life in the Gallery. This important art/science collaboration titled River Journey, addresses the impact of human activity on Australia’s marine environments from the perspective of leading scientific researchers, sound, installation and photo-based artists: Andrew Belletty, Nici Cumpston, Tamara Dean, Bonita Ely, Janet Laurence and scientists from UNSW’s Centre for Ecosystem Science led by Professor Richard Kingsford.
The exhibition runs from 19 August - 5 November 2016.
LYDIA WEGNER will be showing a new body of work in her solo exhibition, Silver Shadow, opening at Bus Projects Wednesday 10 August, 6-8pm.
In this exhibition Wegner's playful images combine striking colour backgrounds alongside warped paper, coloured lighting and angular shadows. Through play and moments of chance, these simple materials form a questionable reality, seemingly flat and weightless something looks familiar yet so far removed.
Lydia Wegner, Red Wobble, 2016, light jet print, 44 x 30 cm.
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef), 2015, installation view.
JANET LAURENCE's powerful art installation, Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) will be on view at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Exploring the effects of climate change currently facing the Great Barrier Reef, the work was first exhibited in Paris during the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in late 2015, and was critically acclaimed.
Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) at the Australian Museum opens on 28 July 2016.
Janet Laurence, Argentum, 1988 – 1989, mixed media on paper on canvas with galvanised sheet steel, 86 x 187 x 10 cm, Curtin University Art Collection, Gift of Dr Ian Bernadt through the Cultural Gifts Program, 2005.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in ASSEMBLAGE, at the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA.
The exhibition showcases sculptures, paintings, mixed media and collage from the Curtin University Art Collection that are linked by a use of found or appropriated materials and an experimental or playful approach to art-making.
The exhibition runs until Sunday 21 August, 2016.
OPENING THURSDAY 28 JULY, 6-8PM
Blue Note #2, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on canvas (two panels), 200 x 320 cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present the latest exhibition by leading senior Australian artist, Robert Owen. In this self-titled solo show, Robert Owen presents a continuation of his celebrated Music for the Eyes and Text of Light series, with a new body of paintings and prints inspired by jazz, movement and light.
Employing a staccato-like language of abstraction and geometry, Owen’s vivid Jazz Junction (2014-16) paint- ings explore the relationship between 1950s jazz and optical arrangements of form and colour. His canvases translate musical elements of time, rhythm and pitch through an idiosyncratic and intuitive exploration of the colours and patterns in sound. While long-standing influences of Constructivism and the colour theories of Wassily Kandinsky remain, here Owen has also drawn on modernist painter Piet Mondrian – in particular, his famous New York City- and jazz-inspired Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43). With Owen’s resulting Blues for Mondrian series, bold gridlines frame vibrant pixels of colour that bounce on the canvas like fingers on the keys of a piano.
A set of large prints titled Inside the Crystal extends the artist’s continuous exploration of light and art’s capacity to capture mood and emotion through pigment. In these images colours across the spectrum refract and intersect, as along the edge of cut glass.
Owen’s visually-arresting works synthesise the cerebral with the emotional and sight with sound, highlighting how we perceive as humans through interrelated senses, also known as synaesthesia. This nexus of intellect and spirituality – or physical and metaphysical – is at the core of Owen’s practice, which for more than five decades has consistently sought to reconcile the fundamental human conditions of thinking and feeling.
Robert Owen is an internationally recognised and award-winning artist, with a practice that includes sculpture, installation, painting and photography. He has received widespread acclaim for his work on major public commissions such as Webb Bridge, Docklands (in collaboration with Denton Corker Marshall), and the Craigieburn Bypass, Melbourne (in collaboration with Architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer). He represented Australia at the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978, and in 2003 he received the Australia Council Visual Arts/ Crafts Emeritus Award for a lifelong service to the visual arts. He is represented in public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.
Julie Rrap, One Hand Making the Other (Instrument series), 2015, cast aluminium and steel, dimensions variable.
Congratulations to JULIE RRAP and CYRUS TANG who have been selected as finalists for the 2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Australia's pre‐eminent national award for small sculpture presented by Woollahra Council.
A free exhibition of finalist’s art works for the 16th annual Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize will be presented from 15 October until 30 October 2016 at Woollahra Council in Sydney. The winners will be announced on 14 October 2016.
Cyrus Tang, Children's Encyclopaedia Vol. 9, 2016, cremated book ashes, book cover and acrylic case, 29 x 21 x 21 cm.
Anne Zahalka, 'Untitled (Road to Zagora)', 2015, archival pigment print on rag paper, 66.6 x 100cm.
Architecture AU features ANNE ZAHALKA in their recent article on the Centre for Contemporary Photography's 30th Anniversary Fundraiser.
Written by Louisa Wright, the article interviews ANNE ZAHALKA about her experience as a photographic artist who has exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Read the article here.
GUO JIAN and ANNE ZAHALKA are exhibiting in the group exhibition, Refugees, curated by Toni Bailey at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Showcasing the work of over 20 artists from refugee backgrounds, the exhibition aims to humanise the current refugee crisis.
Opening 29 July 2016. Exhibition continues until 11 September 2016.
Guo Jian, Trigger happy IX, 1999. oil on canvas, 180 x 200cm.
Imants Tillers, A Solid Mandala, 2016, acrylic, gouache on 54 canvas boards, 229 x 213cm.
IMANTS TILLERS is a finalist in the 2016 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW with his landscape painting entitled 'The Solid Mandala'.
The exhibition is opened to the public on 16 July and continues through 9 October 2016.
The winner of the Wynne is announced on Friday 15 July 2016.
Further details can be found at the AGNSW website here.
Congratulations to IMANTS TILLERS and GUAN WEI for being selected as a finalists in the 2016 Archibald Prize with their self portraits (pictured).
The Archibald winner is announced on Friday 17 July with the exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW continuing until 9 October 2016, before it goes on its regional gallery tour.
For more details visit the AGNSW website here.
Imants Tillers, Double reality (self-portrait) 2014–2016, 2016, acrylic, gouache on 64 canvas boards, 242 x 242cm.
Guan Wei, Plastic Surgery, 2016, acrylic on linen, 180 x 401cm
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef), installation view.
JANET LAURENCE's remarkable installation Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) opens at the Australian Museum, Thursday 28 July 2016.
The critically acclaimed work was first exhibited in Paris during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in late 2015. It explores the effects of climate change currently facing the Great Barrier Reef. Laurence presents an emergency response: a hospital for the Reef in this time of ecological crisis, intended to aid survival and effect transformation.
Further details can be found here.
"Abstracting light and reflection, Jacky Redgate plays with hand-printed analogue film to morph geometric abstraction with the genre of still life."
Artist Profile write on Jacky Regdate's current exhibition, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold, installation view.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and CATHERINE WOO will be exhibiting in the group exhibition Fieldwork: Artist Encounters, curated by Gary Warner, held at SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts.
The exhibition creates spatial, conceptual, sonic and material conversations between recent works and decade-long practice trajectories. Cardoso's works included in the show impose order on seedpods collected during a camping trip with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, while Woo forges an evidentiary metallic interface with the coastal geology of Tasmania’s Pirates Bay.
Fieldwork runs from 7 - 30 July 2016.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Gumnuts (detail), 2009, Tartu seeds, metal pins, 245 x 190 x 6cm.
Catherine Woo, Interface, 2016, 20 panels of thin black coated aluminium, pressed and rubbed onto a geographic formation, 240 x 300 cm.
Pat Brassington, Untitled, 1989, Silver gelatin print 150 x 390 cm
Internationally acclaimed curator, Juliana Engberg, discusses the major winter exhibition at Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Tempest, with Michael Cathcart on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts Daily program.
PAT BRASSINGTON's work, Untitled (1989), is also discussed during the radio interview. A live streaming of the program is available on the Radio National website here.