PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT will be presenting her work, Three Worlds 1 to the Prime Minister of Thailand, Yingluck Shinawatra on the 28th May to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the bilateral relationship between Australia and Thailand.
TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF has been selected to exhibit a sculptural piece as part of the Melbourne Sculpture Prize 2012. The Melbourne Sculpture Prize is a $20,000 Non Acquisitive Award and will form the highlight exhibition of Art Melbourne Art Fair at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Hall in Carlton Gardens between May 24 – 27.
The winner of the $20,000 Prize will be announced at Art Melbourne on the VIP Opening Night Thursday May 24th 2012.
From this location, the Melbourne Sculpture Prize will continue its exhibition at the 530 Collins Street building from May 28 until July 6.
JASON WING
JASON WING has been invited as an Emerging Artist to participate in the Redlands Westpac Art Prize.
The Redlands Westpac art prize provides a unique opportunity to view an artist-selected exhibition of established and emerging contemporary artists from Australia and New Zealand. The structure for the selection of artists for the exhibition, of the chosen established artists individually selecting an emerging artist, contributes to the development, training and mentoring of the next generation.
The exhibition is on at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, 3 May - 2 August, 2012.
JASON WING
JASON WING's work is at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection, which opens a new exhibition on May 18 of contemporary Aboriginal art titled People of Substance. This exhibition includes a variety of site-specific installations by the Jason, including Blacktown Dreaming, a bed composed of hypodermic syringes.
Jason’s visit May 13 – 19 includes the installation of People of Substance, the presentation of an Artist Talk on May 17 at 7:00 pm, and an Opening Reception on May 18 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia is the only museum in the United States dedicated to the exhibition and study of Australian Aboriginal art.
After leaving Charlottesville, Wing will participate in a seminar presented at New York University by the International Network for Diasporic Asian Art Research (INDAAR) on the future of Asian art.
ADAM HILL
ADAM HILL's work is featured in the May Issue of Art Monthly in an article, Aboriginality, Masculinity and Vanity, by Eve Sullivan.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO'S work will be included in a curated exhibition entitled, Conference of the Birds on view at Mana Contemporary located at 888 Newark Avenue in Jersey City, NJ (Manafinearts.com), opening on May 6th. The exhibition, which features artworks by thirty artists from around the world, explores our collective relationship to birdlife and the ramifications on their habitat and ours.
For more information on the exhibition, click here.
If you missed MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO on the ABC talking about her wonderful sculptures of copulatory organs of many small creatures, please click here.
JULIE RRAP, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN
JULIE RRAP and ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN's work will be included in a new exhibition at Glen Eira City Council Gallery titled Encounters.
Opening Wednesday 30 May, 6.30pm.
Floor talk by Curator Diane Soumilas, Wednesday 20 June at 3pm
31 May - 24 June
ROBBIE ROWLANDS
ROBBIE ROWLANDS has created an extraordinary site responsive sculpture The Utilitarian as part of the City of Greater Dandenong's place making program.
The Utilitarian alters a teal green street lamp decommissioned from service in Lonsdale Street in 2010.
Commissioned in 2011, the work rests in a compact park between the press of buildings that connects Lonsdale Street and Palm Plaza in Dandenong, Victoria.
JAMES MCALLISTER (GUEST ARTIST)
JAMES MCALLISTER'S work will be included in UNEXPECTED PLEASURES: the art and design of contemporary jewellery at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne from 21 April until 26 August, 2012. Bringing together important works from around the world, this exhibition will begin with the radical experiments of the contemporary jewellery movement, challenging the conventional understanding of personal adornment.
For more information, please click here.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON is included in a group show called Under The Influence, in the LOFT, Brooklyn, New York.
The exhibition opens May 16th, 6-9pm and continues until May 20th.
For more information, please click here.
LACHLAN PETRAS
LACHLAN PETRAS was awarded the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize at the 2012 National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) on Saturday 21 April.
The graduate exhibition, entitled Hatched, was a showcase of 36 emerging artists selected from art schools across Australia.
Lachlan's piece, Aggregate, which combines sculpture, drawing and video, caught the attention of the selection panel and was awarded the country's major graduate art prize - the $35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize.
Now in its third year, The prize is recognised as career-changing for emerging Australian artists, providing the winner with an excellent spring board from which to launch a professional career.
ANNE ZAHALKA / JACKY REDGATE
ANNE ZAHALKA and JACKY REDGATE have been curated into Dissonant Visions at Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus from 24 April - 7 July.
This exhibition presents works from the Monash University Collection that explore visual arts, text and politics, and critically examine structures of representation.
Opening function, Satuday 28 April, 3-5pm
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has won the prestigious 2012 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award at the Gold Coast Art Gallery with her work Vestiges #3.
Guest judge Kon Gouriotis commented;
"I kept on returning to Eugenia Raskopoulos 'Vestiges' photograph because of the poetic transformation that was occurring, especially the experimentation with texture and the sculptural potential of the materials."
March 31 - May 13, 2012
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.
Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world.
23 March - 16 September, NGV
HUANG XU / GUAN WEI
GUAN WEI and HUANG XU are exhibiting together in Sifting Time at the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, curated by Damian Smith.
Through painting, photography and installation each practitioner plays with ideas of cultural transformation and tradition. Through their diverse artistic practices, they reflect on the ways that culture is either preserved or discarded, remodeled in contemporary guise or forgotten with the passing of time.
2 April - 20 May, 2012
IMANTS TILLERS
IMANTS TILLERS has won the 2012 Wynne Prize for his work, Waterfall (after Williams). The painting is Imant's version of Fred William's Free copy of Eugene von Guerard's Waterfall, Strath Creek, 1862. Super-imposed over the ever-changing movement of water, Imants has quoted the sentiments of a famous Indian sutra.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will feature on ABC1 on the 24 April at 10.05pm. The program will be a unique insight into Cardoso's investigation into the copulatory organs of many small creatives.
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art is highly complimentary of Cardoso’s work. “The interesting thing about Maria is that she takes a topic like an animal penis and she teaches us something about it... I don’t think anyone has explored this topic over such a long period of time with such intensity.”
24 April, 10.05pm ABC1
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.
Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world.
23 March - 16 September, NGV
JULIA GORMAN
A new public sculpture by JULIA GORMAN will be unveiled in Kensington at 10am, 11 April, cnr of Clifford Terrace & Gower Street, Kensington.
At the core of this site-specific public sculpture is the representation of the human face across diverse civilizations and over thousands of years. It is about different communities living together and creating a unified society.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's artwork Woven Water will be included in the MCA reopening 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 in