An instructional painting of ROBERT OWEN’s will be included in the MCA opening on the 29 March. Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed into a major cultural centre for contemporary art and creative learning.
JASON WING / ADAM HILL
JASON WING and ADAM HILL are exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art in an exhibition titled, Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, curated by Djon Mundine OAM. The exhibition brings together the work of eight of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers and explores many of the stereotypes associated with Aboriginal masculinity from a range of viewpoints including documentary photography.
JULIE RRAP
JULIE RRAP’s 360 Degree Self-Portrait has been reviewed by Amelia Jones in Art and Australia, Vol 49, No. 3, Autumn 2012. This work won the 2009 University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize and was exhibited at the Gyeonggi Museum of Art in 2010 in an exhibition titled The Trickster, curated by Victoria Lynn. 360 Degree Self-Portrait will also be included in the MCA re-opening on the 29 March.
JULIE RRAP's work will also be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013. Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.
VANILA NETTO
VANILA NETTO's work will be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013.
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection will tour to the following galleries in New South Wales in 2012 and 2013:
Lismore Regional Gallery 4 February 2012 - 18 March 2012
Moree Plains Gallery 26 March 2012 - 6 May 2012
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 24 May 2012 - 1 July 2012
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 13 July 2012 - 26 August 2012
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery 29 November 2012 - 20 January 2013
Tamworth Regional Gallery 1 February 2013 - 10 March 2013
Grafton Regional Gallery 27 March 2013 - 12 May 2013
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 27 May 2013 - 14 July 2013
DANI MARTI
The first major monograph on the work of DANI MARTI's is now released.
Dani Marti (*1963 in Barcelona) is among Australia’s most exciting artists recently to have emerged to international acclaim, both charming and challenging audiences, curators, and critics with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven ‘canvases’ and video documentary.
To order a copy click here.
DANI MARTI is currently in New York on an artist residency.
Dani has also been shortlisted for the 2012 Margaret Tait Award. Please find full information on this here.
It has been confirmed that DANI will be having a solo show curated by Octavio Zaya in Harlem towards the end of the year and also another one in 2013 at CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, in Canarias. Also confirmed in 2013 DANI will be exhibiting in a group show curated by Paco Barragan at the Museum of Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Arnhem Netherlands.
KARL WIEBKE
KARL WIEBKE will be having a survey exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, at the Australian National University, Canberra. Curated by Tony Oates, the exhibition runs 7 April - 20 May, 2012.
MURRAY FREDERICKS
MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting a select group of works from his SALT project at the Fremantle Arts Centre as part of Fotofreo from 17 Mar - 15 Apr, 2012. He will also be giving exhibition tours of his exhibition. For details and bookings click here.
As part of Fotofreo, MURRAY will also be available for portfolio reviews on Tuesday, March 20, at the Fremantle Arts Centre. The Reviews will be conducted between the hours of 10.00 am and 12:30 pm.
MURRAY will also be on a panel discussing The Landscape in Australian Photography Today, with Alasdair Foster (moderator) and Gael Newton at the Theatrette at the Western Australian Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay, Fremantle from Saturday, 17th March from 2.00 - 4.00 pm.
LYDIA WEGNER
LYDIA WEGNER has been selected to participate in FutureGen 2012. Opening from 17 March until 11 May at the John Curtin gallery at Curtin University (Western Australia) as part of Fotofreo 2012.
FutureGen will profile the best emerging photo-media talent from around Australia - the best of the ‘future generation’ of Australian photographers.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO / PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT have been selected to participate in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, 27 June until 16 September, 2012.
Titled All our relations, the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works by more than 100 artists hailing from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. Nearly half the artists in the 18th Biennale of Sydney will present works created specifically for this exhibition, including many substantial collaborative installations.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be also be participating in the exhibition, South of the Border, at the Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, 31 March - 29 April.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON features in this month's (March) Art Monthly. The article is written by Kirsten Rann.
PETER DAVERINGTON currently lives and works in New York.
JULIA GORMAN
JULIA GORMAN has launched a blog, titled side projects etc.
Click here to see the blog.
ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN / ANNE ZAHALKA
ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN'S and ANNE ZAHALKA's works have been included at the Maroondah Art Gallery in an exhibition titled, Freeze! The directorial turn in contemporary photography. Curated by Wendy Garden, this exhibition is a diverse selection of works by artists who pursue the narrative possibilities of the photograph as an inherently performative space. These constructed scene offer socio-political commentary along with poignant insight into the human condition.
22 March - 5 May, 2012
JOHN DAVIS
JOHN DAVIS' prizewinning sculpture has been installed in the entrance of the University of Tasmania's school of visual and performing arts at Inveresk. The work is a gift to the university from the rebadged Bell Bay Aluminium. The piece was the winning entry in the Comalco Invitation Award for sculpture in aluminium in 1970.
ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been selected for the 2012 McClelland Sculpture Survey & Award to be held from 18 November 2012 – 14 July 2013.
VANILA NETTO
Congratulations to VANILA NETTO for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with her work Process Crosses 2.
Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS for being shortlisted for the 2012 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award with his work Hector 12.
Held at The Gold Coast City Art Gallery from March 31 - May 13, 2012.
PAT BRASSINGTON
PAT BRASSINGTON has been selected for the 2012 ADELAIDE BIENNIAL OF AUSTRALIAN ART, titled Parallel Collisions at the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kanter.
Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.
2 March - 29 April, 2012
Pat Brassington says of her work; "Too much digging into one’s motivation runs counter to free-flowing spontaneity, but I do seem to be attracted to the enigmatic. When morphing an image I baulk prior to resolution and may prefer to leave it hovering uncertain and incomplete. Our minds endlessly seek resolution and hence closure exerts magnetic attraction. My aim is to use this gravitas to spin off towards other possibilities.
This work revisits strategies that I have used in the past where I have regulated the visual sense of ‘the piece’ through syntax and through the use of multiple images, instead of singular images and individual frames. I aim to pitch my images just off the verge of normality, into those dense patches where the commonplace goes awry."
LACHLAN PETRA
LACHLAN PETRA'S work Aggregate has been selected for the National Graduate Show at PICA, opening 20 April and continuing to June.
35 artists from 20 of the country's most prestigious art institutions have embraced diverse art forms, such as painting, collage, photography, ceramics, printmaking, textiles, performance, video, sound art and mechanical engineered installations to express their social concerns.
SAM MARTIN
SAM MARTIN is in a group exhibition at the Faculty Gallery at Monash University titled, Museums in the Incident. The curator Steven Rendall has invited a disparate assembly of artists to take on aspects of the curatorial mantle. They have each selected a work from the Monash University Collection to be installed alongside work drawn from their own practices.
The exhibition opens 15 February and continues until 22 March.
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH has been shortlisted for the Albury Art Prize 2012. The Albury Art Prize is one of New South Wales oldest municipal art awards, offering $20,000 for an international residency. The exhibition opens 27 January and continues until 4 March.