ANNE ZAHALKA

CONGRATULATIONS to ANNE ZAHALKA! Her work, The Papapetrou Family, was highly commended by Judge and NGA Senior Curator, Dr Shaune Lakin, in the 2017 Olive Cotton Award, and was Winner of the Director’s Choice Award.

Anne’s theatrical and highly constructed portrait of celebrated photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, The Age art critic Robert Nelson, their children Solomon and Olympia and their rescue greyhounds Lexi and Mille, has been acquired for the Tweed Regional Gallery's Permanent Collection.

The exhibition is on view until Sunday 8 October 2017 at Tweed Regional Art Gallery. 

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Anne Zahalka, The Papapetrou Family, 2017, dye sublimation on chromalux metal, 80 x 80 cm.

GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, Reflection #10, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 159 cm.

Congratulations to GUAN WEI, who has been selected as a Finalist in the Wynne Prize 2017, with his painting, Reflection #10. The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists’.

"Reflection #10 is inspired by the images of 17th and 18th-century ceramics and textiles related to explorations, discovering new land and utopia. Like a mirror, these works superimpose, reflect and mix the history and reality, culture and society of the country in which I find myself, together with my personal imagination and my home country’s history through time. Beyond the narrative of history, Reflection #10 discusses the sensitive, fragile, yet deep and serene psychological world of humans: where we are from, where we are going."

Guan Wei, 2017

The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition will be on view from 29 July - 22 October 2017 at the Art Gallery of NSW. The Winners will be announced on 28 July at 12pm.

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SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

We are pleased to announce that ARC ONE will be part of this year's Sydney Contemporary with works by Peter Daverington, Murray Fredericks, Janet Laurence, Robert Owen, Nike Savvas, Cyrus Tang and John Young.

The art fair will take place from 7- 10 September at Carriageworks.

For more information, click here.

GUAN WEI

Congratulations to GUAN WEI, who received a Highly Commended Award in the inaugural Hadley's Art Prize 2017. The exhibition is now on view at Hadley's Orient Hotel in Hobart, Tasmania, until 25 August 2017. 

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Read the Art Guide article here >

Guan Wei, Reflection No.5, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 104cm.

DANI MARTI

DANI MARTI's solo exhibition, I AM, has been listed as one of the ten things to see, hear and do this weekend by The Age Newspaper. 

Read about it here. 

Dani Marti, Pointless (Salmon), 2017, customised corner cube reflectors, glass beads on aluminium frame, 90 x 90 x 28cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Drink Me, 1997, Inkjet print, 100 x 80cm. 

Excellent review of PAT BRASSINGTON's solo exhibition, The Body Electric, in the latest issue of the British Journal of Photography. Daniel Boetker-Smith writes:
"...Brassington's frequently childlike approach to the construction of images...are not acutely scientific or perfect but give the viewer the feeling of happening upon a cabinet of curios and obscure specimens."

The Body Electric opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday 19 August 2017. 

Read the full review here. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON is exhibiting works in the group exhibition, Contemporising the Modern: Photography from the 20th and 21st Century at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW. 

The exhibition showcases photographic works collected by Russell Mills and donated to the Murray Art Museum Albury, MAMA in 2015. The collection explores the development of Australian photography and its coming of age in a period when photographers were investigating and pushing the boundaries of the acceptance of photography as a pure art form. 

Opening Friday 7 July, and continuing until Sunday 27 August 2017. 

Find out more here. 

More in the press here. 

Pat Brassington, The Permissions #4, 2013, pigment print, 21 x 18cm. 

Pat Brassington, The Permissions #6, 2013, pigment print, 21 x 18cm. 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE is currently in a group exhibition titled Moving Plants, at Rønnebæks Holm, Denmark. Curated by Line Thorsen, Moving Plants is an exhibition that centres on plants as a focal point for making local and global connections between aesthetic engagements with ecological issues and practices of concern.

Laurence's work is on view along with Watanabe Koichi, Yukiki Iwatani, Yeung Lin On, Camilla Berner, Wai Yi-Lai, Åsa Sonjasdotter, and Karin Lorentzen.

Exhibition dates: 1 July to 24 September 2017.

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JULIE RRAP

Image: Julie Rrap, Vital Statistics, 1997, fibreglass, rubber, synthetic polymer paint, chromed metal, cibachrome photographs. 

JULIE RRAP has work in the exhibition Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Curated by Jane Devery and Pip Wallis, Every Brilliant Eye explores a decade in Australian art, drawn from the NGV Collection.

The exhibition continues until 1 October 2017. 

Find out more here. 

TRACY SARROFF

We are excited to announce that TRACY SARROFF's commissioned public art work Light Buoys is only a few weeks away from unveiling. 

Located at Riverside Moat, 100 Lorimer St the installation comprises 16 buoyant crystalline shards that vary in size and resemble the wallaby grasses that grew in the area before the city’s development.

The Minister for Creative Industries and local MP, Martin Foley, will officially launch the work on Tuesday 1 August 1, 6–8pm.

Read an article on the work here. 

Image: the artist, Tracy Sarroff, with her installation Light Buoys, Docklands. 

JANET LAURENCE

Images: Janet Laurence, Inside the Flower (installation view), 2017; photos: Leslie Ranzoni, Michael Geßner. 

JANET LAURENCE's experiential medicinal garden, Inside the Flower, is currently on view at the International Garden Exposition (IGA) Berlin. The experiential contemporary medicinal garden immerses visitors into the historical, spiritual and mythological relationship with psychotropic plants. 

The installation is on view until 15 October 2017.

Press coverage for Inside the Flower can be found here: 

ArchitectureAU 

ArchDaily

ARQA

Inhabitat 

Archello 

AASA

DIVISARE

DArA

90 + 10 Magazine

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE is part of a forthcoming exhibition, WARNING SHOT, at TOPOGRAPHIE DE L’ART, Paris, from 4 - 27 July 2017. Curated by Barbara Polla, the exhibition includes artists Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Janet Biggs, Shaun Gladwell, Janet Laurence, Joanna Malinowska & Gianluigi Maria Masucci and centres on the theme of beauty and ecology.

Janet Laurence will also participate in a conference and conversation with Nathalie Blanc and Paul Ardenne on Friday 7 July at 6pm, titled 'Alert and care to our environment: the place of art'. 

More information (in French) can be found here.

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, installation view

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has written an insightful article on the integration of art and science in scientific modelling. The article, Making sense of artful science: the art of model making in the natural sciences, accompanies her work in the exhibition A Working Model of the World.

Currently showing at UNSW Galleries, the exhibition explores the practical, philosophical and symbolic work that models do for us, and asks how we use models to contemplate, experiment, invent and teach.

Read the article here. 

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Pollen is Male 2, 2014, nylon, glue, desert sand, 6.1 x 5.8 x 5.6cm. 

IMANTS TILLERS

IMANTS TILLERS has published an article, Metafisica Australe, in the latest issue of Art + Australia. 

To read the article visit the publication's website here.  

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will present work in this year's Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. 

The group exhibition, La Vuelta, highlights work by 28 artists, spanning several generations. From traditional genres of photography to experimental and research-based practices, the selected projects explore the changing cultural, social and political landscape of values and beliefs from perspectives in which a sixty-year armed conflict merged with illegal drug trafficking is very much at the surface.  

The exhibition continues from 3 July – 24 September 2017. 

Find out more here. 

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Electromicroscopic scan of the Thelbunus mirabilus penis (Harvestman) Opiliones, 2010, archival pigment print on 300gsm cotton rag, 31 x 24cm. 

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Morning Star, 2017, wool, cotton, 250 x 504cm. 

LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN have designed a major tapestry for the new Sir John Monash Centre (SJMC) in France.

The tapestry, woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop, will provide a lasting legacy in perpetuity commemorating the 46,000 Australian lives lostin the battles of the Western Front in World War 1 and commemorate the Centenary of ANZAC. 

According to the artists, the tapestry aims to "evoke the soldiers’ pathway from home to the Front, and emphasizes the incongruity between the Australia that they imagined as they journeyed further and further towards the Front." 

Morning Star will be will be unveiled at the opening of the SJMC on ANZAC day in 2018.

IMANTS TILLERS

IMANTS TILLERS is currently showing in Landmarks at Tamworth Regional Gallery, featuring works from the John Kaldor Family collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Curated by Anthony Bond OAM, Landmarks is a significant exhibition comprising works from some of the world’s most influential artists including Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Simryn Gill, Imants Tillers, and Andreas Gursky, as they explore and  observe their relationship with the environment.

The exhibition runs until 12 August 2017. It is presented by Blue Mountains City Art Gallery & Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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Imants Tillers, Counting: one, two, three, 1988, synthetic polymer paint, gouache, oilstick on 162 canvas boards, 251 x 639 cm

IMANTS TILLERS & GUAN WEI

Congratulations to IMANTS TILLERS and GUAN WEI, whose works have been selected for the inaugural Hadley’s Art Prize at Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart.

Winner announced and exhibition opening: Friday 14 July 2017
Exhibition dates: 15 July 2017 – 25 August 2017

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Imants Tillers, Metaphysical interior with lighthouse, 2017, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 24 canvas boards, 150 x 142.2cm

Guan Wei, Reflection #5, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 104 cm 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE's video work Deep Breathing is included in the  group exhibition Warning Shot at Topographie de l'art, Paris.

Curated by Barbara Polla, Warning Shot avoids the ecological didactic and tries to take the viewer by surprise, captivating them in the beauty of images and sounds.

The exhibition runs from 5–27 July.  

Find out more here. 

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation For The Reef (still), 2016, HD video 16:9, 11'52'. 

CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, Remote Nation (still), 2008, SD video, 13:55mins.  

CYRUS TANG is exhibiting in the group exhibition Art? Art? Art..., curated by Jane Deeth, at Rosny Barn, Tasmania. 

The exhibition runs from 14 July to 13 Aug 2017. 

Find out more here.