JOHN DAVIS & ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Saturday, 2:48pm, 1995, duratran and lightbox, 173 x 125 x 25 cm

Image: John Davis, Lean to, 1977, wood, twigs, paper, twine, cotton, underfelt and cloth, 142.8 x 106.4 x 9.7 cm

MUMA’s new writing project, Fifty artworks from the Monash University Collection, presents a suite of specially commissioned texts by art historians, curators and artists. 

JOHN DAVIS' work Lean to is one of the fifty selected works, with text by Charles Green, Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. 

ANNE ZAHALKA's photographic work Saturday 2:48pm has been examined by Isobel Parker Philip, Assistant Curator, Photographs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Find out more about the project here. 

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP will join the panel for the Biennale of Sydney's Biennale Archive Stories #2. This will be the second chapter in the Biennale's investigation into its Archive bringing together four witnesses and protagonists to tell stories spanning 1979 to 2014. 

The event will be held on 6 April 2017 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The panel also includes Vivienne Binns OAM, Deborah Kelly and Ann Stephen. 

Register your interest here. 

Julie Rrap, Castaway #4, 2009, digital print on archival rag, 120 x 120cm. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO features in Hong Kong's Neptune Gallery's second instalment of their Sailor Neptune exhibition series exploring relations between fantasy and gender. 

Sailor Neptune - Part II continues through to 22 May 2017.

Find out more here.

PETER CALLAS, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS & ANNE SCOTT WILSON

Peter Callas, Night's High Noon: An Anti-Terrain, 1988 (video still)

Anne Scott Wilson, Conversation, 2008 (video still)

PETER CALLAS, EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and ANNE SCOTT WILSON are included in Red Green Blue: A History of Australian Video Art at the Griffith University Art Gallery. 

Curated by Matthew Perkins, the exhibition features over 60 works from the 1970s through to the present day. This major survey takes the viewer on a historical journey, while at the same time celebrating the ongoing dynamism and depth of video art practice in Australia.

Eugenia Raskopoulos, rootreroot & routreroute, 2016. installation view Tarrawarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation. Photo: Andrew Curtis

The exhibition will run from 30 March - 8 July 2017.

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JANET LAURENCE

Parliament: An island in an island is a proposition for a major new public artwork at GASP, by JANET LAURENCE and Tega Brain.

As part of the GASP Swimmable: Reading the River program (2015-17), the artists have proposed a work that takes the form of a small island, to be located just off-shore, in the shallows of the Derwent River.

The artists will present their proposition at GASP on 26 March 2017, as part of the Ten Days on the Island Festival. 

Find out more here. 

Janet Laurence and Tega Brain, Parliament: An island in an island, 2017. 

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Untitled (Atlas Studios, Quarzazate), 2015, pigment ink on rag paper, 100 x 74.5cm. 

ANNE ZAHALKA is part of the Centre for Contemporary Photography's 2017 Masterclass Program.

Zahalka's Travel Photography Unpacked: developing a critical eye course will deliver in-depth and intimate knowledge of the artist's practice with a focus on travel photography. The class will be held at CCP, Fitzroy on the Saturday 14 October 2017.

Find out more here. 

GUO JIAN

‘I remember the blood stain on my aboriginal T-shirt’: Artist recalls the horror of Tiananmen Square

The Daily Telegraph details GUO JIAN's experiences in China as a pro-democracy demonstrator who survived the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989.

Read the full article and the artist's fascinating history here >

Guo Jian, as a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army in 1980 or 1981.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks, Salt 272, 2011, pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 150cm. 

MURRAY FREDERICKS is exhibiting in the group exhibition, From the Darkness..., at Horsham Regional Art Gallery. The exhibition presents seven iconic works from the gallery's Photography Collection which investigate light, performance, and architectural space. 

The exhibition continues until 16 April 2017. 

Here's a short article from Art Guide Australia regarding the exhibition. 

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP's work is featured in Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker at The State Library of New South Wales from 18 February - 17 April 2017. Organised by the Australian Centre for Photography, Rrap was invited to create new work in response to the iconic 'Sunbaker' by revered Australian photographer Max Dupain.

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Julie Rrap, Speechless 2, 2017, bronze and steel.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work, 'Untitled 99-00' 1999-2000, features in Let's Talk About Text, a new exhibition curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Miriam Kelly opening as part of Art Month Sydney.

Let's Talk About Text presents works from the Artbank collection that harness text based communication as a pictorial device. From sloganeering statements to vernacular fragments and found fonts, this exhibition focuses on how artists respond to and encourage the visual pleasure of inventive typographic forms for personal and political ends.

The exhibition opens on 16 March 2017, 6-8pm, at Artbank Gallery, 222 Young Street, Waterloo, Sydney.

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Eugenia Raskopoulos, Untitled 99-00, 1999-2000 (detail), 122 x 122 cm

PAT BRASSINGTON

"Pat Brassington, a photographer whose images seem as committed to impossibility as they are to organicism. Brassington’s images are disturbingly familiar, almost like postcards from possible futures, or memories of dreams from the distant past." 

The BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors has profiled the contemporary art collection of Australia's Ten Cubed Collection. PAT BRASSINGTON is one of the collection's ten selected artists.

Have a read of the profile here. 

Pat Brassington, Mind Game, 2013, pigment print, 60 x 46cm. Part of the Ten Cubed Collection. 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is one of three prominent South-East Asian artists included in the inaugural exhibition for Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney. Beauty and Myth of South East Asia opens Thursday, 2 March 2017 from 6–8pm. 

The exhibition continues until 28 March 2017. 

Find out more here. 

Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Reincarnation of the Butterflies 2, 2016, acrylic, silver foil and ink on board, 30 x 40cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

Image: Pat Brassington, Pair Bonding, 2015, pigment print.

PAT BRASSINGTON is included in the group show Focused: Photomedia from the Ten Cubed Collection at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre. The exhibition offers an insight into the ever-growing and evolving photomedia practice within the Ten Cubed Collection.

The exhibition continues until 23 March 2017.

Find out more here.

CYRUS TANG

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG who has been selected as a finalist for the Wyndham Art Prize with her photographic work 7403.00s. 

The exhibition of shortlisted works will be on display at the Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria from 6 April—11 June 2017.  

Image: Cyrus Tang , 7403.00s, 2016, archival Giclee print, 90 x 90cm.  

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROF, Lollipop & Lime (Detail), Orange (Detail) & Rosy Amber, Mandarin & Lime (Detail), 2017, Perspex and LED light components, dimensions variable.

TRACY SARROFF is currently curating an exhibition at the Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. Guides to Help You is an exhibition that explores different creative approaches to artworks made from light sources such as neon, fluorescent and LED lights, including works from different artists such as EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and TRACY SARROFF.

The exhibition continues through to 22 April 2017. 

Read a review from The Culture Concept Circle here. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON will be part of Versus Rodin: Bodies Across Space and Time, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The exhibition brings together sculptures by the acclaimed french artist with leading modern and contemporary artists who have similarly challenged our understanding of the human condition. 

The exhibition will run from 4 March - 17 July 2017.
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JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE has been curated into Force of Nature, an exhibition that includes work by 28 established and emerging international contemporary artists, surveying the influence of nature and its processes on their work. Curated by James Putnam, Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, Force of Nature aims to communicate an awareness of nature’s increasing fragility and some of the works are concerned with urgent issues of ecological and social sustainability.

The exhibition will be showing at the Art Pavilion in Mile End, London, from 5 March - 9 April 2017. 

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GUO JIAN

"Images of landscapes, birds and flowers are peaceful and serene from a distance, but break down upon closer inspection." 

Art Guide Australia feature GUO JIAN's The Encroachment in the January/February 2017 issue. 

To read the full article, click here >

ANNE SCOTT WILSON

The group exhibition, Morbis Artis: Diseases of the Arts, will be part of the White Night 2017 program. The show features ANNE SCOTT WILSON's balloon installation and video projection titled Fluid Retention. 

Find out more here. 

CYRUS TANG

Image: Cyrus Tang in Art Collector Magazine, Issue 79. Work: CYRUS TANG, 4505.00s, 2016, Archival Giclee print, 100 x 100 cm.

Congratulations CYRUS TANG! She has been featured in the latest edition of Art Collector Magazine, called '50 things collectors need to know 2017'. CYRUS is regarded as one of the artists who are currently attracting attention in Australia and New Zealand. Peter Hill talks about her work as 'highly appealing to both contemporary art collectors and to museum curators.'