So thrilled to see Honey Long and Prue Stent are part of 'Protest is a Creative Act', a powerful new exhibition at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) opening this afternoon from 1 to 3pm.
Curated by Kelly Gellatly and Angela Connor, this intergenerational exhibition "confirms that many of the issues addressed by women photographers in the 1970s – around the body, sexuality, race, national identity and the environment – have not been resolved."
Their work resonates with themes first raised by feminist photographers in the 1970s—bodies, sexuality, the environment—and shows how these urgencies live on today.
JOHN YOUNG Artist Talk at ARC ONE Gallery
JOHN YOUNG joined us at the gallery last week for a special talk on his new book, John Young: The History Projects, published by The Power Institute.
Launching next month at the University of Melbourne, the book offers an in-depth look at Young’s decades-long practice, which “explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past.”
Get your copy here >
JOHN YOUNG interviewed by Liminal Magazine
JOHN YOUNG has been interviewed this week by Liminal Magazine. In five succinct questions, John reflects on his evolving practice and discusses the nuances of his new book, John Young: History Projects—what Young describes as "a critical guide to his expansive body of work exploring diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an 'ethical responsibility' toward the past."
"This mode of working—the “historical” modality and its associated narratives—seems to establish a reciprocal relationship between the artist’s and audience’s learning [...] It is, perhaps, more socialist in orientation: artist and audience create and learn from the historical-art text simultaneously."
Read the article here.
PETER DAVERINGTON featured in the New York Times
Congratulation to Peter Daverington who is featured in the New York Times. The article penned by Kevin Noble Maillard captures how the artist transformed a once-crumbling Hudson Valley house into a richly layered personal sanctuary. A painter’s vision at every turn, the space balances decay and ornament, nostalgia and invention.
“This house is healing medicine to me,” he says of the 1897 three-story vernacular just steps from the Hudson River. “It is my deliverance from the darkest of nights and it’s my phoenix rising.”
Read the full article here.
IMANTS TILLERS Awarded the Order of the Three Stars
We are thrilled to share that Imants Tillers has been awarded Latvia’s highest national honour. Last Sunday, 4 May, at Riga Castle, Tillers was presented with the Three Stars Award by the President of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, and the Chapter of Orders. This award acknowledges exceptional service to the nation, including in the field of culture.
This prestigious award recognises Tillers’ outstanding contributions to contemporary art and his enduring connection to Latvia, expressed through a deeply poetic and conceptual practice that spans five decades.
With over 100 solo exhibitions since the late 1960s, Tillers has represented Australia at major international events, including the São Paulo Biennial in 1975, Documenta 7 in 1982, and the 42nd Venice Biennale in 1986. Tillers is one of Australia’s most significant and internationally recognised artists. His work weaves personal and cultural histories, with a sustained focus on themes of diaspora, displacement, memory, and belonging—narratives that profoundly resonate with the Latvian experience.
Review of ARC ONE Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair
We’re grateful to Clever Planet (@clever.planet) for their generous words on ARC ONE’s presence at this year’s Melbourne Art Fair (@melbourneartfair).
Their article, Traversing Terrains, highlights the quiet power of our presentation — where the practices of Janet Laurence, Marina Rolfe, and John Young intersected around material sensitivity, memory, and ecological care.
Writer Natalie Thomas described the ARC ONE booth as “contemplative and gentle,” a space that invited visitors to slow down and consider the shifting terrain of contemporary experience. We’re proud to have contributed this moment of stillness within the Fair’s vibrant momentum.
GUO JIAN's exhibition 'Nothing About Erotic but Playboy' at Rochfort Gallery
Nothing About Erotic but Playboy, curated by John McDonald, brings together powerful new works that revisit memories of army life, propaganda, and survival with razor-sharp wit and emotional intensity.
This exhibition also features Guo Jian’s 2009 works that marked a pivotal moment, weaving together personal memory and political critique. Drawing on his experience as a former propaganda artist, these large scape paintings expose the tension between revolutionary ideals and lived realities with sharp, layered imagery.
Read more about the exhibition here.
JOHN YOUNG - The History Projects
We are delighted to announce that 'John Young: The History Projects' is now available to order!
Published by The Power Institute.
Between 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created 11 art series which he called ‘The History Projects’. This book is a critical guide to this expansive body of artworks, which explore diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young describes as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past.
Featuring more than 400 images, and a wide variety of texts—including new essays and interviews, key republished articles, poetry, artist reflections, and diary pages—this book is a definitive reference for Young’s transformative recent practice and its urgent reckoning with history as unfinished business.
VANILA NETTO Features in 'Love, Yellow' at Artbank
Vanilla Netto is currently featured in ‘Love, Yellow,’ a selection from the Artbank Collection which explores the colour yellow across its full tonal range. The show features new acquisitions along with works acquired over the past 45 years collecting, including: painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, ceramics, textile, glass, and time-based media.
Installation view of ‘Love, Yellow’, Artbank Melbourne, 2025. Photo: Christian Capurro.
ANNE ZAHALKA & NIKE SAVVAS Feature in 'A Fictional Retrospective' at Gertrude Contemporary
Nike Savvas and Anne Zahalka are featured in the 'first decade' the exhibition 'A Fictional Retrospective' at Gertrude Contemporary.
Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of the late 80s and early 90s in Australian art, the exhibition will evoke the liveliness of the Gertrude community during these foundational years. This is the first iteration of Past is Prologue, a year-long program marking and reflecting on forty years of Gertrude.
A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude's First Decade
📅 8 February - 23 March
📍 Gertrude Contemporary
PAT BRASSINGTON Features in the exhibition 'Seeing Things' at Wollongong Art Gallery
PAT BRASSINGTON is featured in the exhibition, Seeing Things, opening today at Wollongong Art Gallery.
Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, this is an exhibition showcasing works from their collection that offer disquieting narratives of everyday life as a waking dream, a vantage point for seeing with eyes closed.
Pat’s pink work, Purr (2005) is included. "It’s not my intention to feminise the image by using pink. It's 'nastier' than that. Pink smothers,” says the artist.
Seeing Things continues until 3 August.
More information >
ANNE ZAHALKA - Finalist in Meroogal Women's Art Prize
Anne Zahalka's Forget me not (2024) is a finalist in the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, currently on display at Meroogal in Nowra, NSW.
This album, its frontispiece emblazoned with the words ‘Forget me not’, is usually stored in a sideboard at Meroogal. The pages in the album were once occupied by family photographs. These now vacant pages represent the missing people who lived in the house. Their absence now haunts our encounter, and we can only imagine the portraits this Victorian-era album once held. Displaying this ‘hidden’ collection item as an artwork draws attention to the power of objects to invoke memory and imagination.
The Meroogal Women’s Art Prize is a regional, non-acquisitive competition and exhibition. Women artists from across NSW were invited to submit works, in any medium, that respond to the historic house of Meroogal, its former occupants, and its meaning within broader historical and contemporary contexts.
Visit Forget me not at Meroogal, until the exhibition closes on 24 May 2025.
More information >
MURRAY FREDERICKS Featured in The Guardian
Murray Fredericks' magnificent 'Blaze 24' is featured in The Guardian today.
"We walked three kilometres into this Australian lake, to where the water was still only a metre deep. Then we set up the gas pipe - and waited until the air was really still." - Murray Fredericks
Read the article here.
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Photo: Murray Fredericks, Blaze #24, Muloorina, 2023, digital pigment print on cotton rag, edition of 7 + 2 A/P, 120 x 150 cm
JANET LAURENCE - Open Field Arts Festival
Here is a behind the scenes glance at the installation JANET LAURENCE is creating for the Open Field Arts Festival in Berry this June.
PETER DAVERINGTON - Recent Commission
Peter Daverington recently completed this stunning mural commission in Hudson, NY. This grand staircase provided an exquisite 3 x 10 metre canvas for the artist. What a treasure.
LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN featured in exhibition 'Art of Peace' at the AGWA
Lyndell Brown & Charles Green were recently invited to present their artworks in a symposium featuring nine acclaimed artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste—countries that have faced unimaginable horrors yet demonstrate the resilience of the human spirit through art.
At Curtin University last month they joined their peers in the ‘Art of Peace’ Symposium, in a two-day event exploring the transformative power of art in post-conflict societies. This symposium accompanies the exhibition Art of Peace: Art After War at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, which runs until 29 June 2025.
In 2007, Brown & Green were Australia’s Official War Artists, deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. Their artworks record the activities and experiences of the Australian troops. They are contemplative works that reveal new and strange configurations of landscape, culture, and technology.
CYRUS TANG - Crystaline Echoes
ARC ONE is thrilled to be presenting Crystalline Echoes, a new body of work by Cyrus Tang. In a return to sculpture, this exhibition showcases a series of metallic sculptures, folded like paper airplanes or emerging like irregular crystals. Each sculpture features a bright image, blurred so that we can no longer tell what it
represents.
CYRUS TANG: CRYSTALLINE ECHOES
📅 5 March - 12 April 2025, Wed-Sat, 11am-5pm
📍 ARC ONE Gallery
ARC ONE Gallery at Melbourne Art Fair 2025
For the first time in a decade, ARC ONE Gallery is returning to the Melbourne Art Fair. To celebrate, we are bringing a presentation of thrilling new works by Janet Laurence, Marina Rolfe and John Young.
Collectors have consistently sought out these artists for the mastery they bring to their medium. Rolfe, Young and Laurence each have a unique vision of landscape abstraction that will be on display this week at MAF.
For more information, click here.
DANI MARTI acquisition by Maitland Regional Art Gallery
We're thrilled to announce that Maitland Regional Art Gallery has acquired Dani Marti's ethereal 'Nude (after Teresa)' (2022).
This glamorous, room-spanning suspended sculpture was a highlight of Marti's exhibition Oh Canola!, a showcase of the artist's large-scale sensual abstraction held at Maitland in 2022.
NIKE SAVVAS & ANNE ZAHALKA featured in 'A Fictional Retrospective' at Gertrude Contemporary
Nike Savvas and Anne Zahalka are included in the 'first decade' the exhibition 'A Fictional Retrospective' opening tonight at Gertrude Contemporary.
Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of the late 80s and early 90s in Australian art, the exhibition will evoke the liveliness of the Gertrude community during these foundational years. This is the first iteration of Past is Prologue, a year-long program marking and reflecting on forty years of Gertrude.
The exhibition runs until 23 March.
Nike Savvas, Nice Bubbles (detail), 1994, installation view, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, iridescent blown glass, image courtesy of the artist and Arc One Gallery, Naarm Melbourne © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro
