CHARLES GREEN / LYNDELL BROWN feature in 'Art in Conflict' at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

ART IN CONFLICT

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green are featured in ART IN CONFLICT, which opens today at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville. These images are of last year's display at the Shepparton Art Museum. Be sure to catch this leg of the tour in Townsville!

This is a travelling exhibition organised by the Australian War Memorial. As curator Dr Anthea Gunn writes, "Contemporary artists’ responses to conflict bring to light untold stories, reveal neglected histories and deepen our understanding of Australia’s experience of conflict, both past and present."

Multiple works by Brown and Green are included in this display, highlighting their significant role as researchers in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project that inspired the exhibition.

IMAGES: 'Art and Conflict' installation view, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 2023. Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. Slide two shows a collaborative work with @joncattapan

JANET LAURENCE Artist Talk 'Artists on the Ice: Interpreting the Poetics of Antartica'

ARTISTS' TALK

Across an evening of storytelling, performance and conversation, JANET LAURENCE will join a panel of four exceptional artists who have documented the power and beauty of Antarctica.

Moderated by the wonderful JULIE RRAP, in her role as Director of Sydney College of the Arts, this talk at the University of Sydney is not to be missed! Other panellists include Alice Giles AM, Professor Jean McNeil, and Dr Diana Chester.

Thursday, 20 April 2023, 6PM. This is a free event, but registration is essential, and seats are going fast! Register on the @sydney_uni website.

CYRUS TANG Artist Talk NGV Melbourne Now

ARTIST'S TALK

For the opening weekend of Melbourne Now, CYRUS TANG will be in conversation with Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Join Tang as she discusses her recent body of work 'Tree Studies'.

FREE TALK. All welcome: Sun 26 Mar, 11.45am – 12.15 pm, Exhibition Space, Level 2. See the @ngvmelbourne website for more details.

JULIE RRAP features in Harper's Bazaar Australia

"[There] is this invisibility around the ageing female body, and it almost sends the message that a post-reproduction body doesn’t have any purpose.”

Early in 2022, Rrap exhibited her new video series DRAWN OUT at ARC ONE for the first time. This significant body of work halted audiences in their tracks:

“I think it’s the first show I’ve done where people, both male and female, were just completely absorbed by watching these videos,” she says. “It was almost like they were hungry to see this footage of an older woman drawing herself naked.”

Visit ARC ONE Gallery today to see this powerful piece in our Viewing Rooms.

JANET LAURENCE presenting at 'Transhemispheric Dialogues' conference

JANET LAURENCE is presenting at the conference 'Transhemispheric Dialogues' at Loughborough University this Friday 17 March.

The conference brings together scholars, artists, curators and activists across four ‘long-clock’ roundtables, to explore the transformative potential of planetary feminisms for decolonial, ecological thinking and creative praxis in many and more-than-human worlds.

Janet will speak alongside Michelle Antoinette (Monash University), Deborah Hart (National Gallery of Australia), Anna Arabindan (Princeton University), Lisa Reihana (visual artist, Aotearoa, New Zealand), and Lize van Robbroeck (University of Stellenbosch).

You can watch the panel online via https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/events/2023/march/planetaryfeminisms/

IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo' Reviewed in the Canberra Times & Saturday Paper

Imants Tillers' ‘Credo’ was reviewed by Sasha Grishin in The Canberra Times and Miriam Cosic in The Saturday Paper last Sat 18 Feb.

“Now aged in his early 70s, there is a distilled wisdom in his late pronouncements, where he makes no attempt to dazzle or impress the reader and admits that, as a university graduate, he had never heard of Duchamp and that many of the breaks and changes in his career came about by chance. He frequently happened to be at the right time at the right place and encountered people who were to have a profound impact on his art.” - Sasha Grishin

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PAT BRASSINGTON Featured in Art Guide Australia

Pat Brassington, Parachute, (detail) 2005, pigment print, 82 x 62cm, Purchased 2018, 2018.035, Wollongong Art Gallery.

"PAT BRASSINGTON, in 'Parachute', 2005, deploys pink like a narcotic, using it to wash her strange scene in a dreamy and unsettling light." Jane O'Sullivan writing for ART GUIDE.

This is the last week to see Brassington, alongside Jacky Redgate, John Brack, David McDiarmid and more in THINKING THROUGH PINK at the Wollongong Art Gallery, guest curated by Sally Grey.

ANNE ZAHALKA Features in 'Recreation: Art, Sport and Leisure' at Project8 Gallery

See this dazzling ANNE ZAHALKA work on display in the exhibition RECREATION: ART, SPORT AND LEISURE opening tonight from 6PM at Project8 Gallery.

'Santa’s Kingdom Christmas Tunnel, Fox Studios, Sydney' (2003/04) depicts adults wandering mesmerised through a tunnel decorated with Christmas baubles and fairy lights. Transported to a world of make-believe, they obediently file through on their journey to Santa’s Kingdom. Thsi work was the pinnacle of Zahalka's ‘Leisureland’ series.

See you at @project8gallery Friday 24 February, Level 2, 417 Collins Street Melbourne.

MURRAY FREDERICKS 'Witness' Opens at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery

WITNESS, a showcase of majestic, large-scale images by MURRAY FREDERICKS, opens tomorrow at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.

Featuring works from his acclaimed 'Salt', 'Icesheet' and 'Hector' series, the artist hopes that "the spaces in these images will open up to the viewers another space, a greater space, where they can insert their own meanings into the photographic moment."

Fredericks will also be in conversation on Saturday, 25 February. Bookings essential, on the @qvmag_official website.

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Murray Fredericks photographed by Michael Angus

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MURRAY FREDERICKS, 'Salt 112', 2006, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 150cm.

DANI MARTI 'Orifices' Features in 'Inside/Out' at The Night Galleries

DANI MARTI'S 'Orifices' features in the exhibition 'Inside/Out' at the Night Galleries in Kuwumi Place, Newcastle, to celebrate Sydney WorldPride.

Newcastle Art Gallery has partnered with curator Jasmine Fletcher (@flowersandrice), founder of local community organisation Queer and Now, to develop 'Inside/Out', an exhibition that brings together works by local artists with those from the Gallery's collection.

'Inside/Out' speaks to the dichotomy of invisible and visible queer experience. The exhibition celebrates the central role of art in rendering visible the full spectrum of queer experience.

The exhibition opens tonight, 5-8pm.

Dani Marti, 'Orifices', 2000-2005.

'GUAN WEI: Out of The Ordinary' Opens at Vermillion Art

Guan Wei, 'Ocean 1', 2013, bronze, edition of 5, 35 x 49 x 33 cm.

'GUAN WEI: Out of the Ordinary' has just opened at Vermillion Art in Sydney.

This exhibition is a selection of Guan Wei’s work over the last 12 years. In the ancient Chinese calendar, 12 years is one Ji (一纪 ). It also refers to sufficient time for a major journey. Guan Wei has imbued his works with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. He entices us to go beyond the ordinary, with him on this brilliant odyssey.

The exhibition continues until 16 March.

CATHERINE WOO Commission at Merinda Park Station Now Open

CATHERINE WOO's stunning commission for Merinda Park Station, Cranbourne is now open.

The Merinda Park Station stands on the site of a pre-colonial marshland, and Woo's artwork 'Reflections', places the memory of water overhead. As Woo writes, the installation recalls 'patterns created by water droplets, or the undulations created around moving reeds or trees that once flourished in the wetland.'

OPENING: NATURE KNOT

OPENING TONIGHT

NATURE KNOT: what does it mean to be tied, bound, connected, tangled with nature?

An exhibition of work tethered to the natural world. Humans create knots to secure and to hold onto things tightly. But the natural world hates constraints and resists our desire to ensnare.

Featuring ARC ONE Gallery’s Cyrus Tang, Honey Long & Prue Stent, joined by Marina Rolfe, the 2022 recipient of the ARC ONE Artist Opportunity

All welcome. OPEN from 6PM, Wednesday, 8 February.

ARC ONE Partners with Jayden Ong Wines

ARC ONE Gallery is thrilled to partner with Jayden Ong Wines.

A celebrated sommelier who turned first-generation winemaker, Jayden launched his first wine label, One Block, in 2010. Since then, he has established three more: Jayden Ong, La Maison de Ong and his range of skin-contact wines, Moonlit Forest.

Using minimal agricultural chemicals and preservatives is important to Jayden: “I’ve always found it weird that you kill one thing to grow another with chemicals.” His wines give us an opportunity to “grow pure-tasting fruit.”

We’ll be serving Jayden Ong Wines at our next opening this Wednesday (6PM, 8 February), for our group exhibition NATURE KNOT. You can also visit Jayden's gorgeous Winery & Cellar Bar in Healesville.

ANNE ZAHALKA's 'Radical Reimaginings' the Subject of Curatorial Talk at Art Gallery of Ballarat

Zahalka at ‘Beating About The Bush’.

CURATOR'S TALK

ANNE ZAHALKA’S RADICAL REIMAGININGS

Anne Zahalka's work is the subject of an upcoming curator’s talk at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, for their fantastic exhibition, ‘Beating About The Bush’, with
curator KELLY GELLATLY.

Visitors will note that Zahalka’s work is central to this display, with many of her most significant photographs included. Join Gellatly at 2 pm, 4 February 2023. Details on the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s website.

Bookings essential

GUAN WEI's 'Big Mouse Kingdom' on display at Chau Chak Wing Museum

Guan Wei, 'Big Mouse Kingdom', 2005, acrylic on canvas.

GUAN WEI's major work, 'Big Mouse Kingdom', is currently on display at Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, as part of 'The Sherman Gift'. 

In 2021, the Museum received a generous gift of artworks from the collection of Dr Gene Sherman AM and the late Brian Sherman AM. The exhibition features these works and explores Gene and Brian's life of cultural engagement. 

MARINA ROLFE selected for ARC ONE Artist Opportunity Award

ARC ONE Director Fran Clark and Artist Marina Rolfe.

ARC ONE Gallery teamed up with the VCA to offer an Artist Opportunity to an outstanding graduate from the 2022 VCA Masters or Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Program. We are thrilled to announce that Marina Rolfe has been awarded the ARC ONE Artist Opportunity.
 
This opportunity grants Rolfe the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE in early 2023, and receive mentorship from Director Fran Clark and Associate Director Elizabeth Errol. When Fran and Elizabeth selected Rolfe for this award, they were impressed by her attentive and sensitive landscape painting, and excited by her tactile painted surfaces.
 
The artist popped in this week to visit and set plans in motion for our group show in February, Nature Knot.

Visit Marina’s website here >