MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso will be a speaker at the Bringing public art to life at Green Square: shaping an urban neighbourhood.  The night will include discussions with curators, artists and architects who will talk about how public art can be integrated into the urban environment.

As part of the City Art program, several public artworks are underway that will help shape the area’s character and contribute to community life. The evening discussions will include those who been instrumental in the long-term thinking and development of public art projects in Green Square. 

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 Tuesday 6 June 2017  
 6pm—9pm   
 The Commune, 901 Bourke Street, Waterloo  

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Image: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Actual Size II, 2015, pigment print on premium photo pager 300grams, 152.4 x 152.4cm. 

Image: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Actual Size II, 2015, pigment print on premium photo pager 300grams, 152.4 x 152.4cm. 

JANET LAURENCE

Image: Janet Laurence, Lost Habitats, installation view, 2017; photo: Sven Adelaide.

Image: Janet Laurence, Lost Habitats, installation view, 2017; photo: Sven Adelaide.

JANET LAURENCE is exhibiting her immersive installation Lost Habitats at the Oldenburger Schloss in Germany. Laurence is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. 

Th exhibition continues until 27 August 2017.

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ROBERT OWEN

Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN, who has been selected as a finalist for the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2017.

His painting, Flickering Light #3 (Ocean Road), 2017, will be on view at Bendigo Art Gallery from 17 June to 17 September. The winner will be announced on 16 June 2017. 

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Robert Owen, Flickering Light #3 (Ocean Road), 2017, synthetic polymer paint on Belgium linen, 198 x 198 cm

Robert Owen, Flickering Light #3 (Ocean Road), 2017, synthetic polymer paint on Belgium linen, 198 x 198 cm

JANET LAURENCE

"This is the cleansed, filtered, artificial relationship we have with our water. This is a river with amnesia; water that’s forgotten who it was." 

Liv Spiers from Art Almanac describes JANET LAURENCE's installation in her review of Troubled Waters. The exhibition presents works from five contemporary artists who have responded to UNSW’s research into human impact on water environments.   

Troubled Waters is currently showing at the Samstag Museum, South Australia until 9 June. 

You can read the review here. 

Image: Janet Laurence, River Journey, 2016, multimedia installation based on audio and visual research archive of Professor Richard Kingsford. Installation view at UNSW Galleries. Image courtesy of silversalt. 

Image: Janet Laurence, River Journey, 2016, multimedia installation based on audio and visual research archive of Professor Richard Kingsford. Installation view at UNSW Galleries. Image courtesy of silversalt. 

DANI MARTI

Image: Dani Marti, Vial Queen, 2009, medication vials used and collected by the artist 2004-2006, and linen thread. 

Image: Dani Marti, Vial Queen, 2009, medication vials used and collected by the artist 2004-2006, and linen thread. 

DANI MARTI will feature in the second iteration of Artspace's three-part exhibition series titled THE PUBLIC BODY.  

THE PUBLIC BODY .02 will delve deeper and look back to artists whose practices beget those seen here. This exhibition will highlight work across decades that is embedded in feminist, queer and anti-racist subjectivities, revisioning a certain history of representation and addressing the individual and collective agency of the public body. 

The exhibition will continue from 28 July to 2 October 2017. 

To find out more visit the Artspace website. 

DANI MARTI, NIKE SAVVAS & IMANTS TILLERS

DANI MARTI, NIKE SAVVAS and IMANTS TILLERS are included in the landmark exhibition ARTIST PROFILE: Australasian Painters 2007-2017 at Orange Regional Gallery, NSW.

This exhibition will bring together a substantial selection of work by 150 artists featured in Artist Profile magazine, over its 10 year history. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of painting in Australasia from 2007 to 2017. 

Curated by Kon Gouriotis and Lucy Stranger, the exhibition will run from 8 July - 10 September 2017. 

Visit the exhibition page here. 

Dani Marti, Shield – Study for a Portrait – Take 1, 2015, stainless steel braided hose, polyester, nylon, rubber and leather on aluminium frame, 180 x 140 x 30cm. 

Dani Marti, Shield – Study for a Portrait – Take 1, 2015, stainless steel braided hose, polyester, nylon, rubber and leather on aluminium frame, 180 x 140 x 30cm. 

Imants Tillers, Nature Speaks FU, 2017, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvasboards, 101.6 x 142.2cm 

Imants Tillers, Nature Speaks FU, 2017, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvasboards, 101.6 x 142.2cm 

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 1983, original type C print, 31.6 x 23.7cm. 

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 1983, original type C print, 31.6 x 23.7cm. 

ANNE ZAHALKA has an upcoming solo exhibition, The Landscape Revisited, at the Murray Art Museum Albury. For the exhibition, Zahalka explores the imagery of iconic Australian paintings including works by Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Jane Sutherland, Sidney Nolan and Russell Drysdale.

Her photographic images are carefully staged to reconstruct the celebrated paintings - now with a different cast, exploring ideas of belonging, displacement, discrimination, exile and home.

A series of photographs, original collages and related material will present Anne Zahalka's ongoing exploration of Australian identity and mythology that spans over 30 years. 

The exhibition runs from Friday 26 May - Sunday 5 November 2017. 

Find out more here. 

 

 

 

IMANTS TILLERS

Image: Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, The Messenger, 2014, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 64 canvas baords, 244 x 244 cm.

Image: Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, The Messenger, 2014, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 64 canvas baords, 244 x 244 cm.

‘The Messenger’ by IMANTS TILLERS and Michael Nelson Jagamara, recently purchased by The Parliament House Art Collection, forms the basis of a new exhibition opening 17 August 2017 at the Australian Parliament House.

More details to follow. 

 

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Ross Bilton of The Weekend Australian Magazine discusses Murray Fredericks' intrepid visits to Lake Eyre and his resulting body of work Vanity. 

Read the article here. 

 

MURRAY FREDERICKS

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MURRAY FREDERICKS' Salt 101 (2009) features as the cover image for Haruki Murakami's memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, published by Penguin Random House. 

The book is available here. 

NIKE SAVVAS

NIKE SAVVAS' practice involving large-scale three dimensional installations (as pictured) is celebrated in a recent article from Disclaimer magazine. 

Read the article here. 

Nike Savvas, Atomic #2, 2005, C-type photograph, 124 x 156cm. 

Nike Savvas, Atomic #2, 2005, C-type photograph, 124 x 156cm. 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE will be included in the exhibition, Ocean Imaginaries at RMIT Gallery. The exhibition is part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2017, and has been curated by Linda Williams.

Ocean Imaginaries focuses on some of the contradictions and conflicted feelings raised by how the ocean is imagined in an age of environmental risk.

The exhibition will run from 5 May to 8 July 2017.

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Janet Laurence, CORAL COLLAPSE II - Reef Resuscitation, 2015, duraclear, acrylic box, 90 x 90 x 5 cm.

Janet Laurence, CORAL COLLAPSE II - Reef Resuscitation, 2015, duraclear, acrylic box, 90 x 90 x 5 cm.

PAT BRASSINGTON

Image: Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print, 86 x 64cm.

Image: Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print, 86 x 64cm.

“Pat doesn’t like to give a lot away. She likes to leave it open to the imagination and to your interpretation. There are lots of ways it can be interpreted, and that is the beauty of her work.”

Museum of Contemporary Art's Senior Curator, Natasha Bullock, talks to The Australian about PAT BRASSINGTON's photo-based practice.

A suite of Pat Brassington's works are currently exhibited at the MCA, in the group show Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday. The exhibition continues through to 22 May.

You can read the entire article here.

 

GUAN WEI & CYRUS TANG

"Guan Wei’s A Mysterious Land, No. 10 (2007) and Land of the Dreaming, No. 4 and No. 5 (2014), ask possibly the most difficult questions of the Chinese diaspora and other Australian migrant communities in the exhibition, and make best use of the unique gallery space of the Homestead. ... In a space that is such a symbol of White colonisation, the works highlight the relationships between Cultural minority groups that exist within a hierarchy where Whiteness is firmly cemented at the top."

Art + Australia Online has published an in-depth review of the exhibition Closing the Distance, currently on display at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. 

Author, Andy Butler, discusses in detail the works of GUAN WEI and CYRUS TANG featured in the exhibition. 

Read the entire article here. 

Guan Wei, A Mysterious Land No. 10, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm (3 x panels).

Guan Wei, A Mysterious Land No. 10, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm (3 x panels).

IMANTS TILLERS & PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print, 86 x 64cm. 

Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print, 86 x 64cm. 

Imants Tillers, Victory over death (for Paul Taylor), 1999, gouache, oil stick, synthetic polymer paint on 66 canvas boards, nos.31929 – 31994, 228.6 × 279.4cm

Imants Tillers, Victory over death (for Paul Taylor), 1999, gouache, oil stick, synthetic polymer paint on 66 canvas boards, nos.31929 – 31994, 228.6 × 279.4cm

IMANTS TILLERS and PAT BRASSINGTON have work in the group exhibition, Today Tomorrow Yesterday, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s Collection, the exhibition considers the impact of the past and the influence of history on artistic practice today. 

The exhibition, curated by MCA Senior curator Natasha Bullock, continues until 31 December 2017. 

Find out more here. 

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, 2016 (installation detail), 2016. Photo: Sam Noonan. 

Nike Savvas, 2016 (installation detail), 2016. Photo: Sam Noonan. 

NIKE SAVVAS' fascinating practice is detailed in a recent article from The Australian.

You can read the article by Bronywn Watson here. 

 

JOHN DAVIS & ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Saturday, 2:48pm, 1995, duratran and lightbox, 173 x 125 x 25 cm

Anne Zahalka, Saturday, 2:48pm, 1995, duratran and lightbox, 173 x 125 x 25 cm

Image: John Davis, Lean to, 1977, wood, twigs, paper, twine, cotton, underfelt and cloth, 142.8 x 106.4 x 9.7 cm

Image: John Davis, Lean to, 1977, wood, twigs, paper, twine, cotton, underfelt and cloth, 142.8 x 106.4 x 9.7 cm

MUMA’s new writing project, Fifty artworks from the Monash University Collection, presents a suite of specially commissioned texts by art historians, curators and artists. 

JOHN DAVIS' work Lean to is one of the fifty selected works, with text by Charles Green, Professor of Contemporary Art in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. 

ANNE ZAHALKA's photographic work Saturday 2:48pm has been examined by Isobel Parker Philip, Assistant Curator, Photographs at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Find out more about the project here. 

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP will join the panel for the Biennale of Sydney's Biennale Archive Stories #2. This will be the second chapter in the Biennale's investigation into its Archive bringing together four witnesses and protagonists to tell stories spanning 1979 to 2014. 

The event will be held on 6 April 2017 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The panel also includes Vivienne Binns OAM, Deborah Kelly and Ann Stephen. 

Register your interest here. 

Julie Rrap, Castaway #4, 2009, digital print on archival rag, 120 x 120cm. 

Julie Rrap, Castaway #4, 2009, digital print on archival rag, 120 x 120cm.