Another article on MURRAY FREDERICKS SALT project has been written for The Wall Street Journal.
To read the article by Rebecca Thurlow, please click here.
CATHERINE WOO
Congratulations to CATHERINE WOO whose work was HIGHLY COMMENDED in the
The Fleurieu Water Prize 2011.
ROBERT OWEN
ROBERT OWEN has recently finished a commission for Harry's Park at the Harry Seidler office, Sydney. The park is intended to be a publicly used facility in memory of the late Australian Architect Harry Seidler in honour of his contribution to Architecture. Locally the Park site adjoins the Seidler Office building, a Sir John Sulman Award recipient. The park forms a paved Forecourt to the Seidler Office building to the northern edge, much like a pocket plaza to an iconic building. A vibrant sculpture by Robert Owen, Tracing Light - for Harry 3D/4D, is placed in the foreground to the façade to further invigorate the Forecourt and complete the vista.
Congratulations also to ROBERT OWEN whose work has been chosen via a very competitive selection process, to create a new major work of art for the redevelopment of Hamer Hall at the Arts Centre, Melbourne. “The changes to Hamer Hall are enabling us to create one of the world’s great concert halls and a visually spectacular cultural attraction in its own right so I’m delighted that, through our Maxwell and Merle Carroll Bequest, it will house what promises to be visually impressive and eye-catching works of art," said Judith Isherwood, Chief Executive, the Arts Centre.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON has recently completed a mural at Hibernian House, Sydney.
TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF has been selected for the exhibition, Sculpture 2011 Flourish, curated by Ken Wong at The Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne, 9 November - 17 March
To be officially opened by Jason Smith, Director and CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art.
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ADAM HILL
ADAM HILL'S work has been included in the 2012 Magabala Indigenous Diary, which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, land and people.
Copies are retailing for $29.95 and can be ordered through Magabala Books on (08) 9192 1991.
JASON WING / ADAM HILL
JASON WING and ADAM HILL'S latest work will be in an exhibition curated by Djon Mundine OAM titled People We Know - Places We've Been, Goulburn Art Class 2-0-1-1, at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 3 November - 3 December, 2011.
This exhibition highlights a unique collaboration between a select group of well-known Aboriginal artists and Aboriginal inmates who live and work inside Goulburn Correctional Centre.
ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been selected to exhibit in the Lorne Sculpture prize, 2011. Lorne Sculpture 2011 is a biennale exhibition launched in 2007 in the coastal town of Lorne, one of Australia’s premiere tourist attractions.
Over 90 artists from Australia and internationally who work within the contemporary sculptural realm will be included. These projects will include a mix of object based, representational, installation, site specific, ephemeral, time based media, sound, light, kinetic, video projections, happenings and performance.
The Lorne Sculpture Award exhibition is on until November 8th
LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN / CHERRY HOOD / JUSTINE KHAMARA
LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN, CHERRY HOOD and JUSTINE KHAMARA's work will be included in Double Vision, 13 November - 5 February, 2012, at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery.
Double Vision explores contemporary art with ideas of portraiture and the body as the focus. Representing through a myriad of mediums what it is to be human, the exhibition charts its ways through encounters of the unexpected, psychological and humorous. This exhibition also looks at the captivating art of Realism and the intriquing exchanges that occur between painting, photography, digital image and sculpture.'
Opening Sunday 13 November, 3pm.
To be opened by Kelly Gellatly, Curator of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN
ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN will be exhibiting in a group exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, opening Friday 26th November and continuing until Thursday 23 December. Sumptuary presents 'the work of five leading Australian photomedia artists who will explore the fabrics, costumes, jewellery and tableware of conspicuous consumption and absolute power'.
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SUE FORD
SUE FORD's work is curated into A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985, curated by Dr Kyla McFarlane, at the Museum of Art, Monash University.
'Spanning a decade within two decades, a significant time for feminist art practice in Australia, A different Temporality presents feminist approaches to temporality in the visual arts.
Rather than an encyclopaedic summation of feminist practice at that time, selected works reflect specific debates and modes of practice: the dematerialisation of the art object, the role of film theory, and the adoption of diaristic and durational modes of practice, including performance, photography and film.
This durational emphasis brings together feminist approaches to history and experience, as well as conceptual investigations of cinematic time and montage, ephemerality and event, repetition and flow - forms and ideas which continue to resonate in the present.'
Opening Saturday, 15 October, 3-5pm. Exhibition opens 14 October and continues until 17 December, 2011
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JASON WING
JASON WING has been invited to contribute to STREETWARE 2 as part of Sydney's ART AND ABOUT SYDNEY, which runs from 23 September to 23 November.
For this project, selected artists and collectives were invited to install artworks in Sydney's southern laneways and temporarily transform unused spaces into creative canvases to catch the attention and imagination of passersby.
Urban Jungle by Jason Wing, based on a traditional Aboriginal cave painting reminds us to breathe and acknowledge natural intangible forces common to us all.
A walking/cycling map which details the installations can be downloaded here.
This public installations comes just after the completion a 5 x 20 metre mural commissioned by the City Council of Wagga Wagga. This project saw Jason Wing working with students from various schools in order to develop an appreciation of mural art within the community.
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JASON WING is also currently exhibiting at TANDANYA, National, Aboriginal Cultural Institute. THE OTHER, OTHER will be held between 30 September and 13 November and explores Jason's cultural and social background. The exhibition follows from his 2010 OzAsia residency at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
For more information on the exhibition, click here.
Jason will also be participating in a residency in Tibet throughout November. He will be working with members of the Eastern Tibet Training Institute , which offers education and support to underprivileged people in Tibet. More information.
ANNE SCOTT-WILSON
ANNE SCOTT-WILSON has been included in a traveling exhibition, Selectively Revealed, to tour Asia in the coming months.
This is a multi-media exhibition curated by Sarah Bond and Clare Needham in conjunction with Asia link, University of Melbourne and Experimenta. It will be showing in Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand between October 2011 and July 2012.
Selectively Revealed explores the notion of what is public and what is private in our contemporary times. While it was once universally accepted that what was internal was private, and what was external was public, in our current age of reality TV, Twitter and Facebook, confessional YouTube videos and the ubiquitous CCTV coverage of the city streets, this delineation is no longer adequate. The line between public and private is increasingly blurred and we are constantly forced to question what is appropriate (and indeed interesting) for public consumption, and what is best kept to ourselves.
Employing a variety of screen-based practices and contemporary video-making techniques, the artists in Selectively Revealed choose precisely what - or what not - to reveal about themselves and those around them.
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CATHERINE WOO
CATHERINE WOO has been shortlisted for The Fleurieu Water Prize with her work Salt Lake. The exhibition of finalists will be from 4 November - 5 December at Hardy's Winery, McLaren Vale, South Australia.
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MURRAY FREDERICKS
MURRAY FREDERICKS will be holding an exhibition of his SALT works at the Australian Centre for Photography from Friday 14 October to Saturday 19 November.
Conveying ‘essence’ over ‘place’, Murray Fredericks’s Salt series is breath-taking and awe-inspiring. Eight years in the making and comprising of sixteen separate trips, sometimes lasting up to five weeks at a time, Fredericks camped solo in the centre of Lake Eyre photographing a ‘landscape without landscape’.
Concentrating solely on colour and space, Fredericks’ work is at times reminiscent of JMW Turner as well as the colour-field painting of Rothko and celebrates the glory found in nature. Currently awash with water and wildlife, Salt depicts the lake at its most still, most meditative, most transcendental.
Also on show will be SALT, the 2009 multi award-winning documentary of the Salt project by Michael Angus and Murray Fredericks.
Murray will also be giving an artist talk at the Australian Centre for Photography from 11am -12noon on Saturday 15 October. This is an exciting opportunity to hear Murray talk about his highly acclaimed SALT project series in an informal situation.
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LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN
Dr Charles Green, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne will be presenting The Mayne Centre Lecture 2011 on the topic of Biennalisation.
Since the late 1980s the art world has seen a huge proliferation in the exhibition of contemporary art. Art production has predominantly focused around spectacular and expensive forms of art, with a correlating demand that venues are able to accommodate the scale and public prominence required by such works. In this lecture, Green will discuss the ways in which Biennales, Triennals and Documentas have met these demands by offering newcomers to the global scene a stage on which to participate in the contemporary art industry, while enabling a dramatically expanded audience the chance to see recent art.
Through his extensive research into the emergence and expansion of Biennales and mega-exhibitions, Green is well qualified to be presenting such a lecture, and the presentation will, no doubt, be of an exceptional standard.
The University of Queensland Art Museum
Wednesday 12 October, 6pm.
Bookings essential.
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DANI MARTI
DANI MARTI will be exhibiting his work at the Newcastle Art Gallery from 17 September – 13 November, 2011.
"The notion of portraiture gets redefined in TOUCH The portraiture of Dani Marti, the first major survey of artist Dani Marti - to be opened by Louise Doyle, Director of the National Portrait Gallery at Newcastle Art Gallery.
Marti’s work explores the idea of the ‘impossibility of portraiture’. Can a portrait ever really capture the truth about a person? Marti attempts to investigate this question through multiple means: video and large scale woven wall panels and sculptural pieces, each technique an attempt to capture something meaningful and essential about the subject.
Marti’s practice is also driven by what he calls his “obsession of trying to get close to someone.” It is an obsession that sees Marti reaching out to family and friends to be subjects, as well as strangers who live outside the mainstream that he meets on the internet. These encounters provide the catalyst for Marti’s ‘portraiture’
In the Internet age, identity is easily masked. It is a way of communicating but not connecting, it is a way to feel part of a community and yet remain isolated. Marti’s works reach through these carefully constructed identities and the new dynamics of digital relationships.
The connections made in these meetings and videoed are always intimate and at times Marti uses his sexuality to get even closer to his subject. From the initial engagement, and with the subjects consent, the camera is always rolling, becoming a part of the relationship, absorbing everything that takes place within its field of view.
While video is an important aspect of his work, Marti is perhaps best known for his large scale sculptural weavings, which utilise traditional Spanish techniques and carefully selected materials – often rope, wire, beads, leather, latex – to build a portrait that is more a textural memory of the person.
These very physical and vibrant works offer a counterpoint to the video portraits, and another dimension to how Marti can render his subject. His work is held in private and public collections in Australia and internationally, and has been included in significant art exhibitions around the world. This exhibition, the first survey of Marti’s work in Australia, includes two major from the Newcastle Art Gallery collection - and Looking for Felix 2000 and George 2001 and brings together nineteen video and weaving works from across Marti’s eleven year career."
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Dani Marti speak about his work on 14 October, 6pm.
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ANNE ZAHALKA
ANNE ZAHALKA's work is currently on display at the Lake MacQuarie Art Gallery in (re) vision, curated by Meryl Ryan. The cultural past is acknowledged in this exhibition by contemporary Australian visual artists who reference traditional genres and techniques, often appropriating directly from earlier masters.
The exhibition goes from 16 September until 23 October, 2011.
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JULIE RRAP
JULIE RRAP will be exhibiting recent video installations at the Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW from 10 September to 23 October in an exhibition titled, Off Balance.
JULIE RRAP will talk about her work before the opening of the exhibition on the 9th September at 5.30pm. This will be a rare opportunity to hear directly from one of Australia's leading artists.
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ADAM HILL
ADAM HILL has been selected as a finalist in the Cricket Art Prize, 2011. The winner will be announced on the opening night event, Thursday 6th October at the Members Pavilion, Sydney Cricket Ground.
The exhibition tour will be approximately 5 months in duration, travelling from Sydney to Melbourne then residing in Bowral.
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