Five of ANNE ZAHALKA's works featured in exhibition ‘Carbon Neutral’ at the CCAS

Five of ANNE ZAHALKA’s works from the series ‘Wild Life’ and ‘Lost Landscapes’ are included in the upcoming exhibition, ‘Carbon Neutral’, opening at 6pm on Friday 18 February at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS).

Curated by Alexander Boynes, ‘Carbon Neutral’ is an exhibition of works by contemporary Australian artists that addresses the Climate Crisis, and attempts to add to the cultural wealth of our society without adding more carbon emissions. Artists have the capacity to provoke meaningful dialogue around the existential threats of fire, drought and ecocide due to human-induced climate change through their practice. ‘Carbon Neutral’ ultimately aims to pose one question: how does an artist produce work to inspire hope and optimism to face the biggest challenge in our lifetimes, without leaving a carbon footprint?

Find out more at https://www.ccas.com.au/future-1/carbon-neutral

Anne Zahalka, ‘Koala, Yarra River at Woori Yallock on Daung Warrung land, Victoria’, 2019, Archival pigment ink on rag paper, Edition 4/6, 80 x 80 cm.

JULIE RRAP's 'Blow Back' featured in exhibition ‘We, Us, Them: CCP x Belfast Exposed’

Julie Rrap, ‘Blow Back #16’, 2018, digital print and handground glass, edition of 3 + 1 A/P, 1/3, 52 x 64 cm.

JULIE RRAP will be presenting ‘Blow Back’, in the exhibition ‘We, Us, Them: CCP x Belfast Exposed’ opening this Friday 18 February at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.

These portraits represent a collective performance act that uses breath as an action that is both gentle yet provocative. Operating as a localised form of expression for the community of women artists in Sydney that make up the subjects of the work, the performers open mouths mock the endless images of women posed in this way to suggest their receptivity; like a vessel waiting to be filled.

This exhibition is a CCP x Belfast Exchange collaboration conceived as part of the 2021—22 UK/Australia Season.

For more info: https://ccp.org.au/exhibition/we-us-them/

LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN shortlisted for the Len Fox Painting Prize 2022

LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN, 'Climate for Change', 2021, oil on linen, 100 x 100 cm.

Congratulations to LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN on being shortlisted for the Len Fox Painting Prize 2022 with their work 'Climate for Change'.

The official exhibition opening of the shortlisted artists and announcement of winners will be held on Saturday 12 March. The exhibition will be held at Castlemaine Art Museum from Saturday 12 March 2022 to 13 June 2022.

The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona Fox. The award is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox, with $50,000 awarded to the winner.

More info: https://www.castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/len-fox-painting-prize-2022

JANET LAURENCE featured in exhibition ‘Destination Sydney'

Installation view of Janet Laurence’s ‘Entangled Garden for Plant Memory’ series in exhibition ‘Destination Sydney: The natural world’ at Mosman Art Gallery.

A collection of works from the series, ‘Entangled Garden for Plant Memory’, by JANET LAURENCE, are currently on show in the exhibition, ‘Destination Sydney: The natural world’, at Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney until 20 March.

Presented as part of Sydney Festival 2022, Destination Sydney: The natural world is the third exhibition in a series of collaborations planned between three Sydney public galleries, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and the National Trust’s S. H. Ervin. Over the summer of 2015-2016 they jointly presented the unprecedented collaborative exhibition project, Destination Sydney, which became a hugely successful project for each gallery, soon followed by the equally triumphant Destination Sydney: Reimagined held in the summer 2018-2019.

Like its preceding exhibitions The natural world  showcases artworks responding to the theme of Sydney as a place of creative endeavours, with a strong focus on the work of major Australian women artists, all connected by their concern for landscape, the natural world and the environment. 

Destination Sydney: The natural world presents the work of a select group of key Australian artists whose art practice has become synonymous with the natural world. Artists at Mosman Art Gallery include Janet Laurence, Caroline Rothwell and Robyn Stacey.

GUAN WEI invited to participate in the Gold Award 2022

Image: Portrait of Guan Wei, 2006, for his mural painting at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.

Congratulations to GUAN WEI, who is one of eight artists who have been invited to participate in the Gold Award 2022, Queensland’s richest art prize. The artists invited in the Gold Award 2022 will form one of the exhibitions scheduled to coincide with the official opening of the newly constructed Rockhampton Museum of Art.

The artworks will be on public display from 25 February 2022 to 15 May 2022, with the winner announced 26 February.

The Gold Award is a joint initiative of the Rockhampton Museum of Art Philanthropy Board, Rockhampton Museum of Art and Rockhampton Regional Council.

ANNE ZAHALKA’s exhibition at the Wollongong Art Gallery

Installation view of exhibition SNAPPED! Street Photography in the Illawarra – Anne Zahalka with Sam St Jon and residents of the Illawarra.

ANNE ZAHALKA’s exhibition ‘Snapped! Street Photography in the Illawarra’ at the Wollongong Art Gallery continues until 20 February.

For this exhibition Zahalka has collected, examined and reconfigured photographic street portraits made in Wollongong in the mid decades of the 20th Century to form the imagery. Recorded originally by early commercial street photographers from 1930’s – 60’s of passers-by, these postcard sized prints captured people in a candid way. Collected through a call-out from residents, these photos have been assembled to provide a tangible trace of the city allowing visitors to reimagine how this city once looked.

For more information:
http://www.wollongongartgallery.com/exhibitions/Pages/SNAPPED-Street-Photography-in-the-Illawarra