JOHN DAVIS acquired by AGNSW

MAJOR ACQUISTION

We are thrilled to announce that JOHN DAVIS epic sculptural work ‘Nomad’ has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Nomad was a key piece in the posthumous survey, John Davis: Presence, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2010. A pinnacle of the artist’s delicate sculptural constructions, ‘Nomad’ is an enormous grid of the artist’s signature fish-forms. Each fish-form is painstakingly modelled in eucalyptus twigs, string, paper, calico and bituminous paint. An extraordinary display of Davis’ sensitivity to the architecture of the wilderness.

JOHN DAVIS, Nomad (and detail), 1998, twigs, cotton thread, calico, bituminous paint, (1-150) 163 x 1400 x 18cm (variable) (installation).

JOHN DAVIS, Nomad (and detail), 1998, twigs, cotton thread, calico, bituminous paint, (1-150) 163 x 1400 x 18cm (variable) (installation).

MURRAY FREDERICKS premieres new film 'Blaze'

Premiering at the Bondi Pavillion over the weekend MURRAY FREDERICKS new film BLAZE accompanies a soon to be launched new series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme.

The sunning observational documentary was directed and edited by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor).

PAT BRASSINGTON and ANNE ZAHALKA feature in the current exhibition 'The Cost of Living' at The Art Gallery of Western Australia

PAT BRASSINGTON, Untitled #13, from Cambridge Road, 2007, Pigment Print, Edition of 8 + 2 A/P, 45.5 x 32.5 cm.

“What is the price of living in the ways we do? What do we value, and who decides? How do we make livings and meanings that get in the way of flourishing? And who gets to define what flourishing means?

The Cost of Living floats these questions through art works on various themes such as: the lure and limits of aspirational romance, social and emotional dislocation, toxic living environments, police violence, the ravages of war and the impact of social media.”

Robert Cook - AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian Art

Exhibition continues until January 29, 2023.

JANET LAURENCE to deliver Gilbert Fellowship Lecture

Janet Laurence in her studio. Photo: Jacquie Manning.

This afternoon at 4pm, hear JANET LAURENCE deliver the Gilbert Fellowship Lecture at the Sydney College of the Arts.

Janet Laurence’s work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. Her work occupies the liminal zones or meeting places of art, science, imagination and memory. Profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms, Laurence often produces work in response to specific sites or environments using a diverse range of materials. Alchemical transformation, history and perception are underlying themes in her exhibition work. Hear the Gilbert Fellow speak to her practice and illustrious career.

JANET LAURENCE in Conversation at MGA

JANET LAURENCE joined MGA Director Anouska Phizacklea, along with other Bowness Photography Prize finalists Kiron Robinson, and Amos Gebhardt to discuss their diverse practices.

Exhibition continues until November 13.

CYRUS TANG selected for Melbourne Now 2023

ARC ONE is delighted to announce that Cyrus Tang has been selected by the National Gallery of Victoria for 'Melbourne Now' 2023. Congratulations Cyrus!

Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, 'Melbourne Now' will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.

The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the latest art, architecture, design, and cultural practice shaping Melbourne.

Bold in scale, Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career and senior practitioners as well as local collectives.

'Melbourne Now' will run from 24 March - 20 August 2023 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square

AMATHOUS - NIKE SAVVAS

ARC ONE Gallery presents Amathous, a highly anticipated exhibition from leading contemporary artist NIKE SAVVAS.

Widely celebrated for its dynamic transformations of colour, light, movement and opticality, Nike Savvas’ work transcends the material conventions of painting to embrace a broader zone of physical, perceptual and experiential immersion. Conceptually grounded, Savvas’ art practice is personally and politically charged.

In March of this year Savvas traveled to the ancient site of Amathous in Cyprus where the landscape - sun, sea, blue sky, and vivid yellow flowering Lapsana (gathered by her paternal grandparents) became visceral constants on her journey. Savvas’ research took her along the coast from Polis Chrysochous where she visited museums and archaeological sites documenting traces of the early first people of Cyprus. At Amathous earlier generations of indigenous Cypriots had maintained not only their culture but also the now extinct Eteocypriot language. This historical record, pared with Savvas’ personal genealogy embodies “a history that spans time and place, the ancient to the recent past. It speaks to family, past and present, and future generations”. The ancient ruins of Amathous are testament to this living history and left Savvas overwhelmed with its “poignancy and significance“.

The major new works Amathous (for Chloe), Lapsana, Diamond Dusk and Diamond Light, represent a personal and revelatory journey for Savvas transforming her experience of landscape and place. With a practice often referencing Op art and hard-edge abstraction, Savvas conflates colour theory with complex mathematical algorithms to further activate the work. The azure sky and reflective rhythms in shifting ocean light invoke a zone of wonder and phenomenon, from DNA sequencing to the ephemeral ghosts of her forebears.

Nike Savvas is a senior Australian artist based in Sydney. Trained as a painter, she works across scale and materials completing numerous large-scale installations for the Toi Art Te Papa, Wellington; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Camden Arts Centre, London; Artspace, Sydney; IMA, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Leeds Art Gallery, UK; Southbank Centre, London, UK.

Nike Savvas’ work is held in many public collections including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Auckland Art Gallery; Toi Art Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Cyprus Ministry of Culture Collection (National Collection); Tate Library Collection; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; British Museum, London; Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; The Royal College of Art, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; UTS Gallery Art Collection, Sydney; RMIT University Art Collection, Melbourne; Deakin University Museum, Melbourne; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

In 2012 Savvas had a major international survey show ‘Liberty and Anarchy’ at Leeds Art Gallery, UK. In 2005 she was included in the historic exhibition Visual Music, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles representing a major development in the history of visual music, and was the recipient of a coveted Jury Prize (Gold Medal) 11th Triennale of India, Dehli, The Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, the A.C.T. Creative Arts Fellowship, and an Australia Council Fellowship.

19 October - 26 November 2022

IMANTS TILLERS features in current exhibition 'Captivate: 100 Years of the National School'

IMANTS TILLERS, Millers Point Morning, 2022, Synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 9 canvas boards.

IMANTS TILLERS painted ‘Millers Point Morning’ (2022) for the exhibition ‘Captivate: 100 Years of the National School’, which is currently on display at NAS Gallery. Imants completed two ‘Summer Schools’ at East Sydney Tech / National Art School when he was 16 and 17 years old. This nine panel painting quotes the work ‘Millers Point, Morning’ 1952 by John Passmore who was an influential painting teacher at ESTC in the late 1950s.

ANNE ZAHALKA & JANET LAURENCE feature in the upcoming exhibition 'Beating About The Bush' at The Ballarat Art Gallery

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 2017, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100 x 134 cm.

This exhibition brings Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings together with female photographers who have re-examined the Australian Impressionists and brought a new lens to the Australian landscape.  

Themes such as gender, hardship of life in the bush, immigration, urban growth, environmental concerns and the presence of Indigenous peoples are explored through the work of some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists.

OPENING NOVEMBER 5

NIKE SAVVAS at the AGNSW

Nike Savvas, Rally, 2014, Plastic bunting, wire rigging, electric fans, Dimensions variable.

The Art Gallery of NSW has recently re-opened its remodelled 20th Century Galleries. Spanning across two floors later works continue the investigation of abstract colour – including a masterwork by American Frank Stella, and a dazzling contemporary installation by Australian Nike Savvas – while pop explodes in works by Americans Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Corita Kent, and in earlier kinetic pieces by locals Frank and Margel Hinder.

JOHN YOUNG & ROBERT OWEN feature in CHROMA Exhibition at Murdoch University Art Gallery

JOHN YOUNG and ROBERT OWEN feature in the current exhibition CHROMA which opened at Murdoch University Art Gallery over the weekend.

Taking its name from the Greek word chrôma, which refers to the purity, intensity or saturation of a colour. The exhibition features a selection of vibrant contemporary artworks from the Murdoch University Art Collection, which all explore colour in very different ways.

IMAGE 1: Robert Owen, Witness, Facing East #1 (Chant from a Holy Book), 2005 - 2006, From the series Music for the Eyes, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, Seven panels, 122 x 122cm each, 122 x 855cm overall.

IMAGE 2: John Young, Spectrumfigure XIV, 2018, oil paint on Belgian linen, 190cm x 150cm.

Installation images courtesy of Murdoch University Art Gallery.
Photographed by Eva Fernandez.

JOHN YOUNG In Conversation with Dr Sean Lowry

As part of the 2022 VCA Access Program JOHN YOUNG will be in conversation with Dr Sean Lowry on Monday 24, October at ARC ONE Gallery. Speaking about four decades of making art and the possibilities of an artistic practice beyond the VCA.

IMAGE: Diaspora, Psyche: John Young - A Survey, Bunjil Place Gallery, Victoria, 2021, installation view

Opening of the BOWNESS PRIZE Exhibition

JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG and LYDIA WEGNER feature in this years Bowness Prize exhibition.

Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.

Available to view at The Monash Gallery of Art until November 13.

Installation images courtesy of Monash Gallery of Art, photographed by Andrew Curtis.

DESMOND LAZARO In Conversation

Join us tonight from 6pm for 'DESMOND LAZARO In Conversation'.

An enthralling speaker, the artist will be present at the gallery for an intimate, in-depth discussion with artist and Professor of Contemporary Art, CHARLES GREEN.

In this talk between close peers, they will explore Lazaro's practice and the fascinating inspiration behind his new body of work on display in the group exhibition, THE EDGE OF THE SPHERE, currently showing at ARC ONE Gallery.

Tuesday 27 September, 6pm.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT in The Carlton Library Light Boxes

Inspired by the touching pool often found at aquariums and the sensorial connections with nature they elicit, this series speaks to the interconnectedness of bodies and environments as well as the conflicted and estranged relationship we have with the more-than-human world. Using a pared down visual language of colour, texture, and form, Touching Pool captures performative encounters between the artists' own bodies and the natural environment. In these works, synthetic materials blend and merge the body and landscape. Up close and abstracted, animals and riverbeds contain a sense of fluidity and vibrancy which can be felt throughout the series, revealing sights/sites of commonality and connection.

The public art light boxes are located on the exterior wall of the library on Newry Street, near the corner of Rathdowne Street.

Until 20 March 2023

JANET LAURENCE interviewed by Radio Adelaide

JANET LAURENCE features in a fantastic interview with Radio Adelaide about her time at Casey Research Station as the 2021 Antarctic Arts Fellow.

Explaining the process of creating her new series "Ice has a memory and the colour is blue" Laurence remarks,

“I had a studio in the science building, and one of the glaciologists came in which a huge chunk of ice for me to make artwork with. I suddenly went oh god I can actually use Antarctic glacial ice to make works. So, I made a series about ice melting which I thought was a fantastic metaphor about climate change.”

JANET LAURENCE, Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue, from the ‘Ice has a memory, and the memory is blue’ series, Antartica, 2022, Chromogenic print, Edition of 3 + 1 A/P, 120 x 180 cm.

ANNE ZAHALKA features in HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022

ANNE ZAHALKA features in HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures annual exhibition with her work 'May Their Memory Be a Blessing' (2022)

"May their memory be a blessing is a traditional Jewish expression said for the dead, to comfort the bereaved and to honour the memory of those they mourn. I have used this honorific as the title of the work to speak of Jewish families lost in the Holocaust." - Anne Zahalka

Available to view for free at The Rookwood Cemetery until October 9.

THE EDGE OF THE SPHERE

THE EDGE: OF THE SPHERE
NOW ON AT ARC ONE GALLERY

The cooled and hardened outer layer of planet Earth, the crust, is anywhere between 5 and 70 kilometres thick. The topsoil that sustains human life can be measured in centimetres. The edge holds everything. We look up to the stars, out to the ocean, into the core, and these things provoke awe and wonder in us.

In this exhibition ARC ONE presents three artists intimate with the mysteries of the sphere and its limit, the edge.

Featuring the work of DANI MARTI, JANET LAURENCE and, for the first time at ARC ONE, DESMOND LAZARO

Exhibition open until 8 October.

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022

Welcome to ARC ONE at SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

From today will be showing a selection of major artworks from some of Australia's most significant contemporary practitioners, including PAT BRASSINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN / CHARLES GREEN, PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, DANI MARTI, JULIE RRAP, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI, CATHERINE WOO, and JOHN YOUNG. We are also proud to be presenting, for the first time, the work of internationally acclaimed artist DESMOND LAZARO.

Our booth is showcasing brand new artworks, alongside some of the most iconic works from ARC ONE Gallery, in celebration of these artists and their significant contribution to contemporary art in this country.

DANI MARTI features in upcoming exhibition 52 ACTIONS

DANI MARTI features in the upcoming exhibition '52 ACTIONS' with his series 'Visual diary part 1 - 3' opening at Penrith Regional Gallery today!

Curated by Artspace and premiering at Penrith Regional Gallery, 52 ACTIONS commences its national tour on Saturday 27 August.

IMAGES: Courtesy of the artist.