JACKY REDGATE at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)

This stellar work by Jacky Redgate is on display currently at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), in their exhibition 'Built photography'. Curated by artists Kiron Robinson and Izabela Pluta, with support from MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea, Built photography brings together 16 artists who explore photography as a physical construction.

Celina Lei wrote about Redgate's work for ArtsHub recently:

"Redgate’s explorations in both sculpture and photography are exemplified in this piece, which interrogates perception through the lens in a carefully constructed assemblage of a glass, a bottle and a bowl while paying homage to photographic predecessors."

BUILT PHOTOGRAPHY
📅 8 June – 25 August 2024
📍Museum of Australian Photography

IMAGE: Jacky Redgate, Untitled from Anonymous (probably Daguerre or Niépce de Saint-Victor), ‘table prepared for a meal’ c. 1829 1990 library buckram, cardboard, ceramic and glass, 105.0 x 55.0 x 55.0 cm (irreg.) Monash University Collection.

In Conversation on PAT BRASSINGTON with Rex Butler, Chelsea Hopper & Victoria Perin

Join us for a special event celebrating the current exhibition of renowned contemporary artist Pat Brassington. Rex Butler will provide a brief presentation on Brassington’s work, asking, how might we think of her work in relation to Man Ray's Le violon d'Ingres (1924), for example, which was made exactly 100 years ago? Following this, there will be a conversation with writer and curator Chelsea Hopper, moderated by art historian Victoria Perin.

CONVERSATION ON PAT BRASSINGTON
📅 Saturday, 20 July 2024, 3–4.30 PM
📍ARC ONE Gallery, 45 Flinders Ln, NAARM/MELBOURNE

IMAGE: Pat Brassington, Combed, 2020, Pigment print, 75 x 75 cm

JANET LAURENCE finalist the 2024 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize

Congratulations Janet Laurence who has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.

Janet is one of the 74 finalists that comprise this year's shortlist: one of the largest in the 19-year history of the prize. The judging panel considered close to 750 entries: Dr Peta Clancy, Brett Rogers OBE, and MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea worked through the submissions to select a diverse representation of contemporary Australian photography in this year’s Bowness Photography Prize.

IMAGE: Janet Laurence, Moss water ice temperature rising, 2024, chromogenic print, oil paint, acrylic, 150.0 x 100.0 cm

MARINA ROLFE Shortlisted for Kings School Art Prize

Congratulations to MARINA ROLFE, who is a finalist in the King's School Art Prize in Sydney! Her beautiful entry Feathers in Autumn Attire, 2024 is inspired by the shift between seasons, particularly the arrival of Autumn.

Established in 1994, the prestigious King’s School Art Prize features entries by invitation only from leading contemporary artists from across Australia.

Former winners include Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, John Olsen, Peter Churcher, Nicholas Harding, Pepai Jangala Carroll, Aida Tomescu and Ben Quilty.

This year's judge is Jane Watters, Director of the National Trust of Australia and the S.H. Ervin Gallery. The winner will be announced tomorrow, 1 June 2024.

JULIE RRAP featured in Artist Profile

Ahead of the artist's solo exhibition ‘Past Continuous’, opening in June at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, ARTIST PROFILE has devoted a cover story to the astounding 40-year career of JULIE RRAP.

"Julie Rrap was in her late teens and living in a share house in South Brisbane when she and a group of friends took magic mushrooms. An image she hallucinated while studying her reflection in a glass windowpane at night has never left her. It was the face of an older woman she understood to be her her future self..."

Read more of Lilian Cameron’s cover story, accompanied by Anna Kučera’s exclusive portraits, in Issue 67 of Artist Profile.

PETER DAVERINGTON's mural on Well Street Park, Brighton

PETER DAVERINGTON has just completed this five-metre long mural on Well Street Park, Brighton for Bayside City Council.

Daverington’s mural design creates a trompe l'oeil effect incorporating a finely detailed landscape in the Romantic tradition with a geometric framework giving the illusion of three panels.

CYRUS TANG is a finalist in the National Works on Paper (NWOP) award

Cyrus Tang is a finalist in the 2024 National Works on Paper award, with the tactile work 'Embrace - mother', part of her Embrace series. 2024 NWOP exhibition will be held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 31 August – 24 November 2024, with the winner announced on Saturday 31 August.

Congratulations Cyrus!

JOHN YOUNG at UTS Gallery

Manchurian Snow Walk, an early conceptual artwork by John Young is included in the exhibition A Moment in Extended Crisis, now open at UTS Gallery, Sydney curated by Andy Butler.

As Butler writes:

‘John Young’s Manchurian Snow Walk (1979) acts as an historical and conceptual touchstone for this exhibition . . . shown here as a performance documentation with instructions, [the work] was performed three years after the death of Mao. Young was sent away from Hong Kong in 1967 at 11 years old by his family, to protect him from the Cultural Revolution. As a 23-year-old art student, deeply entrenched in the Conceptualism, Minimalism, and Land Art movements of the 1970s, Young’s father bought him a train ticket to the farthest corner of mainland China for reasons still unknown, and too late to discover. Young traipsed back and forth from a single point, tracing lines in the snow, with the indication of his presence bound to disappear.’

The exhibition runs until 28 June 2024.