PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Drink Me, 1997, Inkjet print, 100 x 80cm. 

Excellent review of PAT BRASSINGTON's solo exhibition, The Body Electric, in the latest issue of the British Journal of Photography. Daniel Boetker-Smith writes:
"...Brassington's frequently childlike approach to the construction of images...are not acutely scientific or perfect but give the viewer the feeling of happening upon a cabinet of curios and obscure specimens."

The Body Electric opens at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Saturday 19 August 2017. 

Read the full review here. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON is exhibiting works in the group exhibition, Contemporising the Modern: Photography from the 20th and 21st Century at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW. 

The exhibition showcases photographic works collected by Russell Mills and donated to the Murray Art Museum Albury, MAMA in 2015. The collection explores the development of Australian photography and its coming of age in a period when photographers were investigating and pushing the boundaries of the acceptance of photography as a pure art form. 

Opening Friday 7 July, and continuing until Sunday 27 August 2017. 

Find out more here. 

More in the press here. 

Pat Brassington, The Permissions #4, 2013, pigment print, 21 x 18cm. 

Pat Brassington, The Permissions #6, 2013, pigment print, 21 x 18cm. 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE is currently in a group exhibition titled Moving Plants, at Rønnebæks Holm, Denmark. Curated by Line Thorsen, Moving Plants is an exhibition that centres on plants as a focal point for making local and global connections between aesthetic engagements with ecological issues and practices of concern.

Laurence's work is on view along with Watanabe Koichi, Yukiki Iwatani, Yeung Lin On, Camilla Berner, Wai Yi-Lai, Åsa Sonjasdotter, and Karin Lorentzen.

Exhibition dates: 1 July to 24 September 2017.

For more information, click here.

JULIE RRAP

Image: Julie Rrap, Vital Statistics, 1997, fibreglass, rubber, synthetic polymer paint, chromed metal, cibachrome photographs. 

JULIE RRAP has work in the exhibition Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Curated by Jane Devery and Pip Wallis, Every Brilliant Eye explores a decade in Australian art, drawn from the NGV Collection.

The exhibition continues until 1 October 2017. 

Find out more here. 

TRACY SARROFF

We are excited to announce that TRACY SARROFF's commissioned public art work Light Buoys is only a few weeks away from unveiling. 

Located at Riverside Moat, 100 Lorimer St the installation comprises 16 buoyant crystalline shards that vary in size and resemble the wallaby grasses that grew in the area before the city’s development.

The Minister for Creative Industries and local MP, Martin Foley, will officially launch the work on Tuesday 1 August 1, 6–8pm.

Read an article on the work here. 

Image: the artist, Tracy Sarroff, with her installation Light Buoys, Docklands. 

JANET LAURENCE

Images: Janet Laurence, Inside the Flower (installation view), 2017; photos: Leslie Ranzoni, Michael Geßner. 

JANET LAURENCE's experiential medicinal garden, Inside the Flower, is currently on view at the International Garden Exposition (IGA) Berlin. The experiential contemporary medicinal garden immerses visitors into the historical, spiritual and mythological relationship with psychotropic plants. 

The installation is on view until 15 October 2017.

Press coverage for Inside the Flower can be found here: 

ArchitectureAU 

ArchDaily

ARQA

Inhabitat 

Archello 

AASA

DIVISARE

DArA

90 + 10 Magazine

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE is part of a forthcoming exhibition, WARNING SHOT, at TOPOGRAPHIE DE L’ART, Paris, from 4 - 27 July 2017. Curated by Barbara Polla, the exhibition includes artists Amy Balkin, Ursula Biemann, Janet Biggs, Shaun Gladwell, Janet Laurence, Joanna Malinowska & Gianluigi Maria Masucci and centres on the theme of beauty and ecology.

Janet Laurence will also participate in a conference and conversation with Nathalie Blanc and Paul Ardenne on Friday 7 July at 6pm, titled 'Alert and care to our environment: the place of art'. 

More information (in French) can be found here.

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, installation view

IMANTS TILLERS

IMANTS TILLERS has published an article, Metafisica Australe, in the latest issue of Art + Australia. 

To read the article visit the publication's website here.  

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will present work in this year's Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. 

The group exhibition, La Vuelta, highlights work by 28 artists, spanning several generations. From traditional genres of photography to experimental and research-based practices, the selected projects explore the changing cultural, social and political landscape of values and beliefs from perspectives in which a sixty-year armed conflict merged with illegal drug trafficking is very much at the surface.  

The exhibition continues from 3 July – 24 September 2017. 

Find out more here. 

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Electromicroscopic scan of the Thelbunus mirabilus penis (Harvestman) Opiliones, 2010, archival pigment print on 300gsm cotton rag, 31 x 24cm. 

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Morning Star, 2017, wool, cotton, 250 x 504cm. 

LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN have designed a major tapestry for the new Sir John Monash Centre (SJMC) in France.

The tapestry, woven by the Australian Tapestry Workshop, will provide a lasting legacy in perpetuity commemorating the 46,000 Australian lives lostin the battles of the Western Front in World War 1 and commemorate the Centenary of ANZAC. 

According to the artists, the tapestry aims to "evoke the soldiers’ pathway from home to the Front, and emphasizes the incongruity between the Australia that they imagined as they journeyed further and further towards the Front." 

Morning Star will be will be unveiled at the opening of the SJMC on ANZAC day in 2018.

IMANTS TILLERS

IMANTS TILLERS is currently showing in Landmarks at Tamworth Regional Gallery, featuring works from the John Kaldor Family collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Curated by Anthony Bond OAM, Landmarks is a significant exhibition comprising works from some of the world’s most influential artists including Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long, Simryn Gill, Imants Tillers, and Andreas Gursky, as they explore and  observe their relationship with the environment.

The exhibition runs until 12 August 2017. It is presented by Blue Mountains City Art Gallery & Art Gallery of New South Wales.

More information > 

Imants Tillers, Counting: one, two, three, 1988, synthetic polymer paint, gouache, oilstick on 162 canvas boards, 251 x 639 cm

IMANTS TILLERS & GUAN WEI

Congratulations to IMANTS TILLERS and GUAN WEI, whose works have been selected for the inaugural Hadley’s Art Prize at Hadley’s Orient Hotel in Hobart.

Winner announced and exhibition opening: Friday 14 July 2017
Exhibition dates: 15 July 2017 – 25 August 2017

More information >

Imants Tillers, Metaphysical interior with lighthouse, 2017, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 24 canvas boards, 150 x 142.2cm

Guan Wei, Reflection #5, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 127 x 104 cm 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE's video work Deep Breathing is included in the  group exhibition Warning Shot at Topographie de l'art, Paris.

Curated by Barbara Polla, Warning Shot avoids the ecological didactic and tries to take the viewer by surprise, captivating them in the beauty of images and sounds.

The exhibition runs from 5–27 July.  

Find out more here. 

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation For The Reef (still), 2016, HD video 16:9, 11'52'. 

CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, Remote Nation (still), 2008, SD video, 13:55mins.  

CYRUS TANG is exhibiting in the group exhibition Art? Art? Art..., curated by Jane Deeth, at Rosny Barn, Tasmania. 

The exhibition runs from 14 July to 13 Aug 2017. 

Find out more here. 

JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, There was an inside and an outside, 2016, pigment ink pen, pencil and collage on paper, 76 x 56cm.

JUSTINE KHAMARA's work will be included in a group exhibition to mark the launch of This Wild Song.

This Wild Song is a series of conceptual photographic portraits and interviews with Australian women visual artists, created to celebrate the wealth of talent here in Australia.

The exhibition opens Saturday 24 June, 1pm at The Art Room, Melbourne. 

Find out more here. 

ROBERT OWEN & NIKE SAVVAS

ROBERT OWEN and NIKE SAVVAS have works in the exhibition Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art at the Heide Museum of Modern Art. 

Opening 5 July, Call of the Avant-Garde is the first exhibition to examine the influence of the modernist art movement Constructivism on Australian art, presented in this centenary year of the Russian revolution.

Exhibition dates 5 July – 8 October. 

Find out more here. 

Robert Owen, Third Movement #1 (from the series Thought Forms), 2015, painted stainless steel, 64 x 74 x 58,83 x 57 x 46cm. 

Nike Savvas, Sliding Ladder – Black with White Pentagon 1, 2012, wood, wool and steel, 155 x 260 x 250cm

LYDIA WEGNER

Lydia Wegner, Perceptual Abstraction installation view, 2017; photography: André Piguet.

LYDIA WEGNER is included in the group show Perceptual Abstraction at The Honeymoon Suite, Brunswick. Charlotte Cornish describes her work in the accompanying essay: 

"A viewer does not see the material for what it is, rather we are only given a certain amount of information in the final image from which we can decipher what it is we are looking at. The materials are very present, but the resulting photographic works are also representations of what was there that no longer exists after the image is taken."

Read the entire exhibition essay here. 

Perceptual Abstraction continues until 1 July 2017.

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON is exhibiting as part of mad love — a group exhibition at Arndt Art Agency (A3), Berlin.

mad love is part of the cultural initiative Australia now a year-long program celebrating Australian arts, culture, science and innovation across Germany.

The exhibition continues until 29 September.

Find out more here.

Listen to the ABC Radio National episode discuss the Australia Now cultural program here. 

Pat Brassington, Topography in Pink, 2005, pigment print. 

PETER DAVERINGTON, JUSTINE KHAMARA, CYRUS TANG and LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN

Justine Khamara, When this face is no longer yours, acrylic, inkjet on rag paper, hoop, pine, ply. 

Peter Daverington, WTF, oil on ply. 

VCA's 9 X 5 NOW exhibition features works from 350 VCA artists and alumni including our very own PETER DAVERINGTON, JUSTINE KHAMARA, CYRUS TANG and LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN.

Curated by Elizabeth Gower, 9 X 5 NOW is inspired by the famous 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition held in Melbourne in 1889. The exhibition is comprised entirely of 9 x 5 inch (23 x 13cm) plywood boards from each contributing artist.

The exhibition continues until 25 June 2017 at Melbourne's Margaret Lawrence Gallery. 

Find out more here

View the catalogue here

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Insecurity (Mount Sinjar 2014), oil on ply. 

Cyrus Tang, Lacrimae Rerum- 7403.00S,
Archival giclée print on ply. 

CYRUS TANG

Image: Cyrus Tang, Memento Mori, (video still) 2010, 2 channel video in loop. 

CYRUS TANG will have works in the exhibition Fictitious Realities at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre. Curated by Robert Lindsay, the exhibition explores the unusual and captivating realities which play with scale.

Fictitious Realities is on display from 1 July — 3 September 2017. 

Find out more here.