DENISE GREEN, JACKY REDGATE AND DANI MARTI feature in the current issue of Art Collector.
Issue 59, January - March 2012
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting a new video installation titled footnotes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Footnotes addresses ideas of sexuality, gender and communication through the performing body. The exhibition opens 6pm Wednesday, February 22 and continues until 13 May, 2012.
"The artist has in the past used steam, salt, oil and chalk as a means to smear, score and drip words into temporary formations that emphasise the fluidity of language. In her new video installation footnotes, she turns to materials that relate more directly to ideas of sexuality and gender – from lipstick to liquids of more ambiguous origins.
Using her own limbs as instruments or surfaces for inscription, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, written in English and Greek. Through these gestures, she draws attention to translation as an awkward exchange that is shaped by the potential for loss or contamination of meaning.
The performing body is an insistent presence in footnotes, emphasising written and spoken communication as inherently bodily functions. However, in evoking the slippage between different languages and juxtaposing this with references to sexuality and the erotic, Raskopoulos also alludes to aspects of experience that are beyond words." AGNSW
Join Professor Anne Marsh and Eugenia in a discussion of the exhibition and the artist’s practice at 6.30pm Wednesday 22 February, 2012.
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ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS has designed the set for Insomnia, a new conceptual work by Megan Washington. His set has received a fantastic review in the Drum Mag.
"Robbie Rowlands' set design for the show, was absolutely stunning, evoking a top-floor old-world New York City apartment with touches of pre-war Berlin, featuring a larger window (which doubled as a screen where short pieces of video art were displayed) and industrial props across a warm and romantic palate of lighting. "
A multi-layered show, Insomnia incorporates art, poetry, photography and designs, all drawn from Washington's personal archives. It offers a revealing insight into an intense 12 months for the double ARIA Award-winning artist, exploring all sides of her emotional and creative life.
ROBERT OWEN
The collaboration of some of Australians most distinguished design minds at Southbank's celebrated art-inspired apartment residence, Triptych, has won two coveted awards at the annual Urban Development Institute of Australia's Victorian Awards for Excellence. ROBERT OWEN'S commissioned artwork, spanning the buildings entire 29-story facades and featuring a series of artworks in the entrance lobby, has been praised as being a paramount element in the success of the apartments.
LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN
LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN are currently exhibiting at the NGV in Looking at Looking: The Photographic Gaze, 30 Sep 2011 - 4 Mar 2012.
Don't miss the opportunity to hear Lyndell and Charles speak about their work, 2pm Saturday, 3rd December at the exhibition space, Level 3, NGV.
The act of photographing people involves a process of observation, scrutiny and looking. At times photographers remain detached and anonymous. Other times they are complicit, directing their subjects and encouraging specific actions and poses. Sometimes the gaze is returned, and sometimes it is denied. The power of the gaze can create complex relationships between the subject, the photographer and the audience.
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ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS' work has been included in the new publication Erratic: Visual Impact in Current Design. Robbie is one of the three Australians included in the publication.
Published by Gestalten, Erratic is a collection of current, often playful work by designers, photographers, and artists who are exploring the reciprocal effects between stability and instability, symmetry and asymmetry, and pressure and counter-pressure.
PETER DAVERINGTON
Congratulations to PETER DAVERINGTON who is the recipient of the 2011 Rupert Bunny Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship.
PETER'S work is current being shown at the St Kilda Town Hall in Recent Acquisitions, Port Phillip City Collection (2012-2011) from 30 November to 29 December, 2011.
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TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF will be undertaking an artist residency, awarded by the Marrickville Council, Sydney during December. Coinciding with this month long project, she will be exhibiting sculptural installations and drawing-based works at the council-run Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown. The exhibition Future Nostalgia will take place from December 7 – 24. Open Hours Wed - Sun 11am - 4pm
MURRAY FREDERICKS
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.