JULIE RRAP

Julie Rrap, 2009, Castaway (video still), DVD 5 minutes, edition of 5.

JULIE RRAP’S video work Castaway is part of a group exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), Sydney. Titled Dear Sylvia, the exhibition is curated by ACP Curator Claire Monneraye.

The exhibition is an elusive response to the deepest concerns intensely depicted by Sylvia Plath. The female photomedia artists in Dear Sylvia explore some of the many ways of representing the female body, whether they show their own body, recreate those of others or document the political or social realities of bodies that suffer and fight.

Alongside Rrap, artists include Alma Haser, Dina Litovsky, Polly Penrose, Dana Popa, Michelle Sank, Flore-Aël Surun, Jessica Tremp and Marlous Van der Sloot.

The exhibition runs from 31 January - 22 March 2015.

TRACY SARROFF

Tracy Sarroff, Docklands commission, 2015

TRACY SARROFF has been chosen by Mirvac, The City of Melbourne and Places Victoria to complete an ambitious public art commission in Melbourne’s Docklands, Yarra Edge precinct.

The commission includes individual tendrils that will incorporate LED light with colours and tones that are activated by passing pedestrians via sensors. Cobalt blues and icy greens will be dominant, but soft red and pink glows will be activated to warm up and intensify the closer people move towards the work. This colour change resembles a life-form recognising or responding to another life-form. When people aren’t there to activate the work, it will simply pulse in a calm way as if breathing and resting.

The inspiration for this work includes the historic marshland area of the Docklands and what was once the West Melbourne Swamp, reeds, wallaby grass, 2001 Space Odyssey, Tron, Avatar, phosphorescent gene splicing/engineering, Glowing Plant, synthetic biology, genome compiling and sci-fi ‘alien’ plants that possess animalistic traits.

This ambitious project that encourages interaction and interplay at the water's edge is expected to take place in August 2015.

LYDIA WEGNER

Lydia Wegner, Light Foil, 2014, archival inkjet print, 84 x 65 cm.

LYDIA WEGNER's exhibition at ARC ONE, Assemble Colour, has received a glowing review by Dan Rule in The Age. 

Read the review online here.

 Assemble Colour runs until 31 January 2015.