Image: Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, The Messenger, 2014, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 64 canvas baords, 244 x 244 cm.
‘The Messenger’ by IMANTS TILLERS and Michael Nelson Jagamara, recently purchased by The Parliament House Art Collection, forms the basis of a new exhibition opening 17 August 2017 at the Australian Parliament House.
More details to follow.
JANET LAURENCE will be part of the symposium An Ocean Archive at the Navy Officer's Club in the Arsenale, Venice. The symposium, curated by MAP Office and presented by Venice Meeting Point, will take place on Friday, 12 May 3 - 6 pm.
For more information, please click here.
Robert Owen, Study for Blue Note #2, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122cm
Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN! He has been selected as one of the 40 finalists at the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, with his work Study for Blue Note #2, 2016. The prize is a national contemporary acquisitive award presented by Sunshine Coast Council.
For more information, click here.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's work can be seen now at the UNSW Galleries as part of A Working Model of the World. The exhibition, curated by Dr Lizzie Muller (UNSW Sydney) and Holly Williams (The Curators’ Department), explores the practical and philosophical role of models to experiment and illustrate. The exhibition will be open until 22 July, and then will travel to The New School, New York from September to December 2017.
You can read an essay by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO about the role of models in her practice here.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Microfossil Pollen Found Here, 2014, nylon, sand, stone, glue, paint, 12 x 90.5 x 6 cm
Ross Bilton of The Weekend Australian Magazine discusses Murray Fredericks' intrepid visits to Lake Eyre and his resulting body of work Vanity.
Read the article here.
MURRAY FREDERICKS' Salt 101 (2009) features as the cover image for Haruki Murakami's memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, published by Penguin Random House.
The book is available here.
A big congratulations to PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT who has been awarded a twelve month residency at Carriageworks Clothing Store Artists Studios.
The seven selected artists represent an extraordinary group of Sydney artists working at the forefront of contemporary practice across a range of disciplines.
Read the media release here.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist in New York next month! They will be presenting Conversations in Colombia, a series of interviews by the Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries that began in 2010 and which draw a comprehensive map of the country's artistic landscape.
The event will take place at the Americas Society in New York on 5 May.
For more information, please click here.
TRACY SARROF, Lollipop & Lime (Detail), Orange (Detail) & Rosy Amber, Mandarin & Lime (Detail), 2017, Perspex and LED light components, dimensions variable.
Guides to help you, the exhibition curated by TRACY SARROFF is coming to an end. This exhibition features works by EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, SARROFF and other artists exploring light sources as creative mediums. Guides to help you will end with a closing event this Saturday 22 April, from 3-5pm at the Campbell Arcade, Melbourne.
You can read a review of the exhibition from The Culture Concept Circle here
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Seahorse Circle, 2003
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be participating in the Phillips Latin America auction in New York. The artist has donated her work Seahorse Circle, 2003, to support FLORA ars+natura, a non-profit foundation in Bogota, Colombia that explores the relationship between nature and art. FLORA's programs have had important implications for both artistic and non-artistic circles; its team works closely with local communities, considering social, environmental and political issues through contemporary art projects. For more information, please click here.
CARDOSO will also be part of A Working Model of the World, an exhibition at UNSW Galleries. This exhibition, co-curated by Lizzie Muller and Holly Williams will be open from 5 May – 22 July 2017.
JANET LAURENCE will be included in the exhibition, Ocean Imaginaries at RMIT Gallery. The exhibition is part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017, and has been curated by Linda Williams.
Ocean Imaginaries focuses on some of the contradictions and conflicted feelings raised by how the ocean is imagined in an age of environmental risk.
The exhibition will run from 5 May to 8 July 2017.
Janet Laurence, CORAL COLLAPSE II - Reef Resuscitation, 2015, duraclear, acrylic box, 90 x 90 x 5 cm.
Image: Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print, 86 x 64cm.
“Pat doesn’t like to give a lot away. She likes to leave it open to the imagination and to your interpretation. There are lots of ways it can be interpreted, and that is the beauty of her work.”
Museum of Contemporary Art's Senior Curator, Natasha Bullock, talks to The Australian about PAT BRASSINGTON's photo-based practice.
A suite of Pat Brassington's works are currently exhibited at the MCA, in the group show Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday. The exhibition continues through to 22 May.
You can read the entire article here.
"Guan Wei’s A Mysterious Land, No. 10 (2007) and Land of the Dreaming, No. 4 and No. 5 (2014), ask possibly the most difficult questions of the Chinese diaspora and other Australian migrant communities in the exhibition, and make best use of the unique gallery space of the Homestead. ... In a space that is such a symbol of White colonisation, the works highlight the relationships between Cultural minority groups that exist within a hierarchy where Whiteness is firmly cemented at the top."
Art + Australia Online has published an in-depth review of the exhibition Closing the Distance, currently on display at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.
Author, Andy Butler, discusses in detail the works of GUAN WEI and CYRUS TANG featured in the exhibition.
Read the entire article here.
Guan Wei, A Mysterious Land No. 10, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm (3 x panels).
Janet Laurence, Persistence of Nature (still), 2016, 1080p HD digital video, 06:35 min
The exhibition Force of Nature, featuring work by JANET LAURENCE and curated by James Putnam is in its last days. The exhibition closes on 9 April.
The video works presented in this exhibition have been selected to be part of Carte Blanche, a program of ikonoTV. IkonoTV is the world's first HD Art streaming service.
For more information, see here.
Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print, 86 x 64cm.
Imants Tillers, Victory over death (for Paul Taylor), 1999, gouache, oil stick, synthetic polymer paint on 66 canvas boards, nos.31929 – 31994, 228.6 × 279.4cm
IMANTS TILLERS and PAT BRASSINGTON have work in the group exhibition, Today Tomorrow Yesterday, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s Collection, the exhibition considers the impact of the past and the influence of history on artistic practice today.
The exhibition, curated by MCA Senior curator Natasha Bullock, continues until 31 December 2017.
Find out more here.
Nike Savvas, 2016 (installation detail), 2016. Photo: Sam Noonan.
NIKE SAVVAS' fascinating practice is detailed in a recent article from The Australian.
You can read the article by Bronywn Watson here.
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 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 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.
