'Imants Tillers: The Mosman Years' has been reviewed by John McDonald in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Imants Tillers: The Mosman Years looks at the works produced from 1981-89, when the artist and his family lived on Sydney's North Shore. Tillers started to experiment with small, store-bought canvas boards that could be laid side-by-side, like tiles, to create wall-sized compositions.
The survey exhibition continues until Sunday 4 Feb at Mosman Art Gallery
Photo: Jacquie Manning
PETER DAVERINGTON has just completed an epic large-scale mural at the Lofts in Beacon, New York. Executed entirely in spray paint, Daverington's mural depicts an idealised landscape, like the Hudson River School artists before him. To capture the essence of the valley, he amalgamated features of the region, including Bannerman Island and the Catskill Mountains, all tied together by the Hudson River.
"The romantic tradition of landscape painting really came on the back of the Industrial Revolution, of which this valley was a key player," explains Daverington. "The impact the revolution was having on the environment led the Hudson River School painters to focus on the beauty of nature. When I started incorporating the school into my work, I didn't even know what the Hudson River was. But it's really an essential piece of America." - Peter Daverington
ARC ONE has once again teamed up with the VCA to offer an Artist Opportunity to an outstanding graduate from the VCA Masters or Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Program. We are thrilled to announce that Grace Stevenson has been awarded the 2024 ARC ONE Artist Opportunity.
Grace's exquisitely painted uncanny portraits explore the anonymity of identity through portraiture and the found image. We look forward to showcasing Grace's work in a group exhibition at the gallery next year.
This is the second year that ARC ONE has partnered with the Victorian College of the Arts to present this award. We are proud to be supporting this outstanding graduate.
Edited by Charles Green and Ian McLean, designed by Beaziyt Worcou, and conceived as part of a colloquium of art historians convened at the Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre – the Yolgnu art centre in Yirrkala, situated in north-east Arnhem Land, in Australia’s Top End – this book aims to tease out and better understand the transnational resonances and connections between artists across cultures and borders that increasingly shape the emerging post-Western world.
During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain steadfast. In posing the question ‘What is postnational art history?’ this publication aims not for definitive answers, but rather to broach the broader concept of postnationalism and how it might function to disrupt, rethink and complicate established discourses around national art.
A collection of essays, reflections and conversations, this new book features contributions from ARC ONE Gallery artists CHARLES GREEN and DESMOND LAZARO, alongside authors including Anna Arabindah-Kesson, Rex Butler, Wulan Dirgantoro, A.D.S. Donaldson, James Elkins, Helen Hughes, Nicholas Jose, Susan Lowish, Carol Yinghua Lu, Margaret MacNamidhe, Ian McLean, Nina Miall, Nikos Papastergiadis, Nur Shkembi, Terry Smith, and Mr Wanambi.
