HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT at Fotografiska Berlin opening today in the international exhibition, NUDE.
The exhibition features the works of thirty female-identifying artists from 20 different countries challenging traditional constructs around body politics. Through a diverse range of creative approaches, the artists explore the complexities surrounding the portrayal of nudity in art – and challenging the historical constraints attached to it.
NUDE addresses the centuries-long fascination with the naked body and explores the balance between “the nude” as an idealized form versus an honest, natural, and personal artistic expression.
Curated by Johan Vikner and Thomas Schäfer, from 14 September – 21 January 2024.
MURRAY FREDERICKS AND JANET LAURENCE at Sydney Contemporary
ARC ONE Gallery has brought together two giants of contemporary Australian art. A strong visual heartbeat runs through the new work of MURRAY FREDERICKS and JANET LAURENCE, who are presenting the extremities of fire and ice at Sydney Contemporary.
Murray Fredericks’ much-anticipated series BLAZE is debuting in Australia at the fair. Using non-destructive methods, Fredericks creates phantastic images of fire and flood by conjuring dramatic fires within vast deluged river systems. Janet Laurence presents an extraordinary new body of work addressing her passionate concern for the plight of Antarctica. Both artists have the capacity to arrest audiences in their tracks and this display asks us to sit with some of the most important questions facing our planet this century.
Fredericks’ BLAZE series has bewitched audiences across the world. Undeniably intense, there is a biblical quality to Fredericks’ images. The making of BLAZE was documented in a behind-the scenes film that accompanies the display at Sydney Contemporary, giving audiences a glimpse into the epic lengths Fredericks goes to capture the perfect image.
Janet Laurence’s breath-taking series Once Were Forests creates visceral waves of intense feeling. They address Laurence’s research into ice climates; as she says, “All these glacial experiences live with me”. She has visited places such as Antarctica and Iceland, and a great gravitas lays at the very centre of these beautiful, layered works. We see our own sense of urgency reflected in her compositions. There are few who can resist the enfolding testimony that Laurence offers. We are compelled not to look away.
JANET LAURENCE wins Falling Walls Science Summit Award
Janet Laurence has been awarded one of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year for 2023.
Having recently been to the Antarctic and working with scientists there, I feel the need to make this extraordinary and fragile place comprehensible through art. Antarctica's unraveling, through catastrophic climate change, needs to be demystified and brought to a broad audience. Antarctica's future will determine our ways of being on the planet."
Laurence will be in Berlin later this year to attend the Falling Walls Science Summit, discussing the hidden complexities of Antarctic exploration and the need for fostering empathy alongside environmental consciousness.
LYNDALL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN featured on ABC Arts
Geraldine Doogue interviews Senior Curator of Art at the Australian War Memorial Dr Anthea Gunn about History painting: market, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan (2008), a work by Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, currently on display in Art in Conflict at the SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney.
You can listen to the full interview to hear more about Brown and Green's experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan here.
TILLERS, OWEN, FREDERICKS, LAURENCE, RRAP featured in 'Contemporary visions: works from the ACU Art Collection'
Contemporary visions: works from the ACU Art Collection features examples of the work of sixty esteemed artists, mainly but not solely from Australia, whose practice ranges over painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, glass, and ceramics.
Forty-five authors, largely from academic and curatorial contexts, draw on their deep knowledge of visual art to document and elucidate the assembled artworks. Writers such as Kelly Gellatly, Sue Cramer, and Anne O’Hehir have reflected on major works by Imants Tillers, Robert Owen, Murray Fredericks and Janet Laurence (in collaboration with Julie Rrap).
Head to the ACU Art Collection merchandise to order.
DANI MARTI is a finalist in Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award
Dani Marti was a finalist this year, with the rhythmic work 'Between - 'Llunyanies Fosquejades' at the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award.
This nationally acclaimed, acquisitive biennial prize celebrates the diversity and strength of textile art across Australia.
CYRUS TANG's solo exhibition opens at Hawthorn's Town Hall Gallery
Twenty years of Cyrus Tang's practice is being celebrated in The Memory Palace, an exhibition at Hawthorn's Town Hall Gallery from July 26 to 21 October 2023.
Tang is fascinated by the paradox of reconstructing ephemeral mental images and sensations in permanent materials. The result is hauntingly beautiful works that often memorialise collective experiences.
DANI MARTI in 'HIV Science as Art' at Metro Arts
Dani Marti is featureed in HIV Science as Art from 24 July through to 5 August 2023 at Metro Arts in Brisbane, Australia.
HIV Science as Art is an exhibit that highlights some of the world’s best HIV science through art in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on HIV Science. This exhibition bringis the scientific advancements in HIV to life through the work of twelve artists living with HIV from around the world. Proudly presented by IAS and NAPWHA, proceeds from the sale of artwork will go to HIV programs and services in the Asia/Pacific region.
PAT BRASSINGTON, JULIE RRAP, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT on display in 'In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism & the Surreal' at Hazelhurst Arts Centre
In the Arms of Unconsciousness: Women, Feminism & the Surreal features a selection of works including Pat Brassington, Julie Rrap, Honey Long & Prue Stent, among other significant contemporary Australian artists on display at Hazelhurst Arts Centre from 1 July 2023 to 10 September 2023.
Sitting within a renewed global interest in women artists and Surrealism, this ambitious exhibition explores ideas of feminism and the surreal, proposing an intrinsic between the two, particularly in contemporary Australian art practice over the decades.
JULIE RRAP work 'Drawn Out' acquired by the National Gallery of Australia
Drawn out (2022) is one of Julie Rrap’s most recent performative self-portraits, the latest in a performative project that began almost fifty years ago.
The work, which is in effect a life drawing, comprises a video-performance of Rrap – shot from above, naked and holding a stick of Conté crayon – drawing on a large sheet of paper, moving under instruction of an unseen supervisor. Over a 12-minute period, Rrap’s body and the sheet of paper become covered in black marks as artist, body, sheet and drawing merge in a neat riposte to the way the genre of the nude, and life drawing in particular, usually position the artist and the naked subject. Together, the drawing and the video-performance produce a compelling, feminist self-portrait that is at once poetic and full of pathos. Key to the work’s disruptive power is the fact that this is the body of a 72-year-old woman, whose body we have looked at in the process of making art and ageing since the late 1970s.
'ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist's archive' opens at MAPh
Coming to Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) this June: ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive.
Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the ANNE ZAHALKA's working life and her creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned. Accompanying the exhibition will be a major publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.
IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo' reviewed in Artist Profile
IMANTS TILLERS’ selected essays ‘Credo’ is reviewed by Brooke Boland in the newest issue of ARTIST PROFILE:
‘The recycling, mosaic-like, pieced together nature of Tillers’s practice is similar to the pieced together feeling of his new collection of essays, ‘Credo’, 2023, published by Giramondo Publishing. “Everything exists to end up in a book,” he quotes the French poet Mallarme in this essay “Journey to Nowhere,” 2018. Tillers’s various essays and contributions to journals including Art & Text, Art and Australia, and Heat, among others, art no exception.” – Brooke Boland on ‘Credo’ in Artists Profile
Pick up a copy of Credo when visiting Tillers’ new exhibition AFTER DE CHIRICO at ARC ONE Gallery.
PETER CALLAS on display at the Campbelltown Arts Centre
PETER CALLAS, If Pigs Could Fly [still], 1987, single channel video work, duration: 4:20 mins.
Pioneering video artist PETER CALLAS is on show in the programme 'SHAPESHIFTERS' screening this week at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, as part of the 'The National: Australian art now'.
ONE DAY ONLY! Saturday 3 June 2023, 11am & 2pm.
See 'If Pigs Could Fly' (1987) by Callas, alongside films by Arthur and Connie Cantrill, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, and Tracey Moffatt.
IMANTS TILLERS 'Thrown into the World' Documentary Screening
SPECIAL CINEMA EVENT
Please join Art Atlas for an exclusive screening of the feature-length documentary 'Thrown into the World', directed by Antra Cilinska of Juris Podnieks Studio , which offers unique insight into Tilers’ creative proces and cross-cultural identity.
See the documentary at Kino Cinemas in the CBD, before heading across to ARC ONE to view Tillers' current exhibition 'After de Chirico'. Bookings essential (see below for details)
DATE: Wednesday 31st May
TIME: 10am for a 10.30am start
VENUE: Kino Cinema , 45 Collins St, Melbourne BOOKING: Places are strictly limited. Please book via this link to reserve your ticket: htps:/www.trybooking.com/CIFUU
IMANTS TILLERS - After De Chirico Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk
OPENING THIS AFTERNOON
IMANTS TILLERS: AFTER DE CHIRICO opens at ARC ONE Gallery today, Saturday 27 May, 3-5pm.
In a relationship that transcends the usual definitions of homage and influence, Imants Tillers has maintained an intimacy with the work of Giorgio de Chirico over five decades.
Please join us for an artists talk with Ian McLean and Clare Fuery-Jones on Tillers, de Chirico and the nature of influence and homage in his work.
ARC ONE Gallery hosts MAPh's Artist Photography Auction
This week ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka.
Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.
CYRUS TANG named as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize
IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, Tree Study – 5 (print only), 2022, pigment print, edition of 5, 100 x 67.5 cm
CYRUS TANG's stunning work, 'Tree Study 5', was selected as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize.
Sunday and Monday, 21-22 May are the last two days to see the Omnia. Since its beginnings in 1971, the event has grown in significance and popularity to become one of Australia’s premier art awards and exhibitions.
Book Launch - HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT
This Saturday, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT will be launching their debut book 'Drinking From The Eye' at the Melbourne Art Book Fair.
“We try to find points of connection where the outside world and our inner worlds overlap." - Honey Long & Prue Stent
Jointly published by Perimeter Editions and PHOTO Australia, the launch will be held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Saturday 20 May, 2:00pm - 2:45pm. Bookings not required. All welcome.
IMANTS TILLERS in 'Photography and the Performative'
Imants Tillers has a fascinating work comprised of 189 Polaroid images that is now on display at 'Photography and the Performative' exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney curated by Katrina Liberiou.
'If I close my eyes' (2021) is a conceptual work comprises Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.
IMANTS TILLERS, [details from:] If I close my eyes, 2021, 189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161, 10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall). Collection: University of Sydney
NIKE SAVVAS on display at Pavement Gallery (Manchester, UK)
NIKE SAVVAS is exhibiting her brilliant installation 'Finale (Embrace)', 2023 in the Pavement Gallery (Manchester, UK).
Simulating a confetti-filled finale, and activated by electric fans, Finale (Embrace) adopts a celebratory tone that conjures ends and new beginnings. Referencing Abstract Expressionism, it speaks to the spirit of the moment and to open possibility, to the embrace following separation, an embrace of love and longing.
Pavement Gallery delivers an ambitious exhibition programme of international contemporary art. In the past it has featured the work of John Cage, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, Melanie Smith, Martin Creed, David Batchelor, SUPERFLEX, and others.
Until 13th July 2023
