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.
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 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 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
ANNOUNCEMENT
Three pivotal pieces by JOHN DAVIS have recently been acquired by Heide Museum of Modern Art.
These acquisitions include 'Boxed work', 1971 (image 2). This piece represents a turning point in the artist's oeuvre, holding the documentation to Davis' first installations, which were created on the site of John and Sunday's Heide residence.
This acquisition follows another recent acquisition of a major piece by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Davis is one of this country's most significant land artists, and ARC ONE Gallery is thrilled to see these important pieces join the major collection at Heide MOMA.
JACKY REDGATE's hypnotic work 'Light Throw (Mirrors) #5 ' is currently in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection' at Hazelhurst Art Centre
The exhibition represents the strength of The University of Wollongong’s collection, with a showcase of over 100 works by leading Australian artists. The exhibition continues until 18 June.
JACKY REDGATE, Light Throw (Mirrors) #5, 2010, C-Type photographs (hand-printed from original negative), 126 x 158 cm. Collection: University of Wollongong Art Collection.
MARINA ROLFE has a solo exhibition with The City of Melbourne opening tomorrow at Gallery at City Library, which is just down Flinders Lane from ARC ONE.
'Marina Rolfe: The Encounter' is a journey into an imaginary realm, with the implied presence of nature.
See the show from 10-28 May at Gallery at City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Naarm Melbourne. Contact ARC ONE for more information about Rolfe's absorbing paintings.
HISTORY PROJECTS
These four works from our current exhibition, JOHN YOUNG: 'Spectrumfigures, Naturescapes' mark a signifiant point in the artist's ongoing History Projects.
In 2013, John Young was the recipient of the Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship to research the History of Chinese Diaspora in Australia.
The Fellowship supported work on two-year program with a team of researchers, who unearthed over 130 stories the long presence and rich contribution of the Chinese in Australia since the 1840s. The resultant History Projects are an amalgamation of historical imagery, investigative visual reports and contemporary artistic synthesis that evidence.
Now, a decade after it began, John Young's The History Projects is examined in a forthcoming monograph, edited by Olivier Krischer, published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney (2023).
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.
10 June - 10 September 2023
DANI MARTI's moving video work 'Butterflyman' is currently in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection' at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.
The exhibition represents the strength of The University of Wollongong's collection, with a showcase of over 100 works by leading Australian artists. The exhibition continues until 18 June.
BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL
Today and tomorrow (5-6 May 2023), IMANTS TILLERS is speaking at two events at the Bendigo Writers Festival.
Catch Tillers with art historian Ian McLean on the topic of 'Art and Influence', today at 1PM.
Tomorrow at 3PM, Tillers will join botanist Tim Entwisle and festival director Rosemary Sorensen as they discuss the significance of 'Influence and Inspiration' in their careers.
MaPh x ARC ONE
ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the upcoming MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks and Lydia Wegner.
Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
Sign up over at @maph_photography (🔗 click the link in their bio), for an auction with a difference! 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.
Auction details are below:
Wednesday 24 May 2023
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne 3000
Doors open 6pm for 7pm auction
Drinks and canapés will be served on arrival.
Honey LONG & Prue STENT, Venus milk, 2015, pigment ink-jet print, 106.0 x 159.0 cm, edition of 3.
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT
ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the launch of two publications for @the_power_institute tonight: Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson's long-awaited 'UnAustralian Art', and 'Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s', spectacularly edited by @pliteau and David Homewood.
Two essential new publications, shown here in front of @johnyoungstudio's gorgeous paintings from our current exhibition, SPECTRUMFIGURES, NATURESCAPES.
6.30-8PM. See you there.
HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT with Amrita Hepi are featured in 'Conflated' now open at @deakinartgallery
The exhibition is a @netsvictoria touring exhibition, curated by Zoë Bastin and Claire Watson.
When we inhale and exhale, our bodies transform through the process of inflation and deflation. Drawing on the inflatable form as both material and metaphor, ‘Conflated’ brings disparate artists together to explore bodies, environments and cultures through contemporary art. Here, the cycle of breathing serves as a framework through which a wide array of experiences, behaviours and expressions are examined.
'Conflated' continues until Friday 9 June 2023, open Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm. Admission is free.
Amrita Hepi with Honey Long and Prue Stent ‘Omphallus’ (still), 2021, digital video, 3 minutes 30 seconds.
JANET LAURENCE was interviewed by Daniel Browning on @abcradionational The Art Show this morning.
Click the link in our bio to hear Janet speak about her latest exhibition at ARC ONE, based on life-changing trips to Antarctica and Iceland, where she came face to face with melting glaciers.
'Once Were Forests' continues at ARC ONE until this Saturday 15 April.
The newest PHOTO Editions book ‘Drinking From The Eye’ by artists HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT is now available for pre-order! Link in bio.
Commissioned by Photo Australia for the PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography @photofestivalau, 'Drinking From The Eye' is the first photobook by the Australian artists and is co-published by Photo Australia and Perimeter Editions @perimeterbooks.
Dreamlike, fluid, saccharine, gritty and fleshy, Long and Stent challenge and captivate audiences with powerful imagery that is both subversive and surreal.
JANET LAURENCE's 'Breathing forest' (2022) is featured in 'Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation' at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.
This exhibition recognises the importance of trees and ecosystems to societal health.
'Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation' continues until 30 April.
Janet Laurence, 'Breathing forest', 2022, 10 silk voile dye sublimation prints and video projection, 900 x 3000 cm (overall).
ANNE ZAHALKA, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, archival pigment ink on rag paper, edition of 3, 115 x 190 cm.
ANNE ZAHALKA's absorbing image is on display on Dharawal Land, at the Wollongong Art Gallery, in the new exhibition 'REFLECTION: Works from the Collection'.
In this work "Zahalka crouches in the foreground of the Illawarra undergrowth as both observer, stranger and witness to the landscape populated by introduced species, including a group of tourists. A haze of smoke can also be seen towards the tops of the trees, referencing the ongoing bushfire smoke that covered the rainforest at the time of the making of the work." This wonderful description is courtesy of Boroondara’s Town Hall Gallery exhibition catalogue, 'You are here' from 2020.
REFLECTION is open 1 April to 20 August 2023.
Congratulations to JULIE RRAP, who is a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize 2023.
National Art School presents the Dobell prize, which celebrates contemporary drawing.
Rrap’s video work ‘DRAW OUT’ is a brilliant investigation of drawing ‘the nude’:
“The drawing is a kind of haptic expression as a naked Julie Rrap rolls back and forth over paper secured to the floor. Here she marks the parameters of her body in charcoal. She can’t actually see her body as one entity in this process, it is not an object of her gaze. What we see is the writing and erasing of a body in pieces, a fragmented body, a body that wears the erasure of the drawing on its skin.” @annemarsh56, 2022
All finalists will be on show at the NAS Gallery until 10th June 2023.
JULIE RRAP, ‘Drawn Out’, 2022, video, 12 min.
NOW REPRESENTING
We are thrilled to announce that Marina Rolfe is now represented by ARC ONE.
Rolfe straddles the line between intuition and decisiveness. Every mark, every colour in her work feels selected and deliberate, yet they impart an overwhelming feeling of spontaneity.
This powerful combination of opposites—control and improvisation—is the result of Rolfe's well-honed skills and her superb visual intelligence.
To request more information on Rolfe, including details of currently available works, see the link in our bio.
Marina Rolfe portrait, courtesy of the Design Files.
