SHEENA MACRAE has been chosen to be one of the core artists in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013, taking part in the curated group exhibtion of exceptional Australian and International artists working in photo-media.
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale core exhibition and many other peripherary events will run from 17 August to 15 September 2013. Entry to the exhibition is free, from 10am-5pm.
For more information, visit the BIFB site here.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Hojas Secas/Dry Leafs, 2010.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is featured in the current Camouflage Cultures: Surveillance, Communities, Aesthetic, Animals, an international exhibition presented by Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening on Thursday 8 August, from 6 to 8pm.
CAMOUFLAGE CULTURES will be on display from Thursday 8 to Saturday 31 August.
The conference and exhibition address two key principles of camouflage - concealment and deception - in relation to four themes: surveillance, communities, aesthetics and animals. The theme of surveillance includes war, defense, militaries, and conflict; communities embraces society, the everyday, government and identity; aesthetics incorporates art, architecture, film and popular culture; animals includes human and non-human beings, nature, evolution, pattern and optics. The artists convey these themes through visual representation and the contemporary world.
For more information, click here
PAT BRASSINGTON
Pat Brassington, Camouflage, 2010.
The Michael Buxton Collection, which includes work by Pat Brassington, is now online.
The collection comprises acquisitions by influential Australian artists and seeks to reflect the breadth of current Australian visual art practice.
To view Pat Brassington’s work held in the collection and for information about new acquisitions, loans and exhibitions, click here.
TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF has been invited to present a talk at Deakin University as part of the inauguration of the Science Fiction seminar series. This will take place on Thursday 22nd August 4-6pm at the Phoenix Gallery, Deakin University, Burwood. She will be speaking alongside Dr Paul Thomas (Artist and Associate Professor, University of NSW, COFA).
Tracy will be discussing science fiction in relationship to her visual arts practice, the zeitgeist, ecology and the creative boundaries of what is both imaginary and real.
The seminar series are open to the public. RSVP by August 12 to lean@deakin.edu.au
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH has recently featured in the newly redesigned ARTAND (Australia) magazine.
The PLATFORM section of the new and improved ARTAND (Australia), written by Jane Sutherland, (Issue No. 51.1, 2013, pp. 154-155.) outlines Shmith's artistic process.
Shmith's photographs are interpreted as immense, dreamlike landscapes where light and dark intermingle, creating a dramatic composition. Shmith’s methods of capturing photographs occur during times of travel and take place whilst in transit such as in cars, trains or helicopters. Throughout his photographic journey Shmith scans his surroundings in order to capture the familiar everyday observations of trees, houses, clouds, people and reflections.
"My photography is a process of literally breaking the world up into objects, then putting it back together. I ceased experiencing the world as a series of places, rather as a fragmented and endless resource of ingredients."
- Sam Shmith
Whilst the initial process of creating a work is heavily reliant on the taking of photographs, Shmith's collection of over 60,000 photographs come together and transform into and can be interpreted as a painterly manifestation. Shmith describes his work as being a balanced combination of collage and montage, where he works with numerous transparent layers against a black background in Photoshop - as a result, an ominous dreamscape is created.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
Anne Scott Wilson, Homage to Turner, 2013, digital pinhole print on arches velin museum rag, edition of 5, 67 x 97 cm.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
Fly Rhythm, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 23 July - 24 August, 2013.
Anne Scott Wilson’s Fly Rhythm explores the profound analogue experience of ‘drawing with light’ in a digital world. Utilising lens-less, pin-hole photography, Scott Wilson intuitively and physically recorded movement as still images, as direct representations of light over time. In Fly Rhythm, the impact of space and time upon the body - the spatiality of movement - presents a uniquely subjective visualisation of the body as a conduit of visual experience.
- Annabel Holt, July 2013
Scott Wilson studied painting as a mature-age student following a career in dance. Her practice is informed by theatre, cinema and live performance and is realised across multiple creative disciplines including photography, video, painting, sound installation and performance.
ROBERT OWEN
ROBERT OWEN'S work, Fallen Light, has inspired a composition that is a part of the 5x5x5 project at Arts Centre Melbourne.
From this Saturday you can download 5 musical compositions, 5 minutes each, with 5 inspirations - to your own headphones (or ones provided by the Arts Centre) and experience the space of Arts Centre Melbourne through the *ears* of these fabulous young composers.
For more information, click here.
DANI MARTI
DANI MARTI has been recognised as one of the top 100 proposals received for the 2013 Artangel Open project. Based in the U.K., Artangel commissions and produces exceptional projects and public art.
Find more information at Blouin Art Info and at Artangel.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
ANNE SCOTT WILSON will be participating in a performance/film called Holst's The Planets, Neptune for The Urban Screen Productions Commission, touring both nationally and internationally.
Curated by Lubi Thomas, the commission involves seven artists in collaboration with The Concourse Urban Screen, The Chatswood Performing Arts Centre, Willoughby Council, The Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Tony Legge, Association Music Director, Opera Australia.
After the live performance event at Willoughby Performing Arts Centre in August 2013, the work will be screened at the following venues during the 18 Month tour:
The Concourse, Chatswood, Sydney;
QUT Screens, Brisbane;
Northbridge Piazza Screen, Perth;
The Big Screen, New York, USA;
New World Centre, Miami, USA;
Celebration Square, Toronto, Canada;
BBC Big Screens, UK (Various Locations);
CMoDA, Beijing, China.
(Additional venues to be announced)
For more information, click here
Watch the short film here on Vimeo.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is transforming the MCA into her Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCO) on Friday 26th July. Themed and titled: Sex Everywhere, Cardoso's installation celebrates the diversity and complexity of genitallic structures within the animal kingdom.
This exciting event also features Isabella Rosselini, Gary Warner, Scientist Jurgen Otto, the QLD Museum's Geoff Thompson, Vert Design, Clare Grant and Nikki Hayward; and Ruark Lewis along with tropical Latin beats.
For more information, click here.
MURRAY FREDERICKS
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON has been shortlisted in a world-wide competition to find the top 100 Painters of Tomorrow.
The project, developed by London gallerist Kurt Beers from Beer.Lambert Contemporary, in collaboration with publishers Thames and Hudson, will ultimately result in a book featuring the 100 selected artists, and a major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. From 4,300 entries, Daverington is one of 427 artists shortlisted, who hail from 47 countries in total, with only 10 other Australians being included.
Kurt Beers was inspired to begin the project due to what he felt was a 'marked trend in which many talented artists – in this particular case, painters – were growing increasingly frustrated due to what they felt was an overwhelming lack of opportunities directed toward them,' - find the interview here.
Judges of the final list of 100 painters include: Cecily Brown, Sir Norman Rosenthal, Yuko Hasegawa, Gregor Muir, Suzanne Cotter, Suzanne Hudson, Philip Tinari, and Barry Schwabsky.
More information.
JUSTINE KHAMARA
JUSTINE KHAMARA is featured in the latest issue AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR magazine in the What Now? section, July - Sept issue, p. 89.
Khamara talks about her work Orbital Spin Trick (pictured above), her forthcoming show at ARC ONE starting at the end of August, her influences and inspirations.
Find more information in this issue or online.
JANET LAURENCE
JANET LAURENCE is included in the group show, Animate/Inanimate, a part of TarraWarra International 2013, at the stunning TarraWarra Museum of Art (TWMA). Curated by Victoria Lynn, Animate/Inanimate showcases the work of artists who approach the environment and fragile animal species in the context of global change - economic, climatic, human change. With the increasing destruction of our animate environments and creatures, can a 'spirit' be brought forth from the inanimate?
Laurence joins acclaimed international and local artists Allora and Calzadilla (USA), Lin Tianmiao (China), Louise Weaver (Australia) and Amar Kanwar (India).
29 June - 6 October 2013
For more information on Animate/Inanimate, click here.
JANET LAURENCE
Congratulations to JANET LAURENCE, who has been selected as as finalist for the 2013 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize with the work Chlorophyll Collapse A, (the Tarkine, Tasmania), 2012.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is included in the group exhibition, AIR BORN, 23rd of June - 6th October 2013, at the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria.
In Air Born, nineteen artists explore all things avian, inspired by the beauty, rituals and environments of birds. Various cultural and spiritual relationships are explored in Cardoso's included works, where she pulls together themes of adornment and fashion as well as ideas of place, environment, and identity.
More information on the exhibition can be found here.
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON'S Archibald finalist work, The Patriot: self portrait with Albino Joey (2013), will be at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery until the 7th of July 2013 as a part of the national regional tour of the finalist works.
For more information go to:
http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Home
PETER DAVERINGTON
PETER DAVERINGTON has been honored with the commission of the first government endorsed street art mural in Shanghai. Commissioned by Shanghai's Minhang District Health Bureau, the mural celebrates World Blood Donors Day, 2013 aiming to raise awareness and recognise the contribution of unpaid voluntary blood donors.
More information.
SAM MARTIN
SAM MARTIN's work Altering States, Double Blind and 3.6 Million Pounds are currently on view at Charles Nodrum Gallery, as part of the ambitious project Like Mike. Curated by Geoff Newton and spanning over five Melbourne galleries and institutions, Like Mike pays homage to artist Mike Brown's colourful and often recalcitrant practice, including artists who carry Mike's original spririt on in the contemporary art world today.
SAM MARTIN's work can be seen at Charles Nodrum Gallery from the 4-29 June, 2013.
IMANTS TILLERS
Imants Tillers
The Fleeting Self
18 June - 20 July 2013
ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Imants Tillers’ upcoming exhibition, The Fleeting Self, presents the Australian landscape as a meditation on the self. In these, his most recent works, Tillers’ subjective and emotive reaction to an esoteric world is evidenced in a grand, painterly atmosphere.
Throughout many of the works in The Fleeting Self, we travel through the names and textures of places, framing strangely familiar narratives. Whether it be trekking across outback Australia, or standing upon Mt Kosciuszko - whether through the eyes of Eugene von Guerard, Albert Namatjira or the writer and social anthropologist, Robyn Davidson - Tillers observes, quotes and re-masters landscape as we know it. We also see reference to Rosalie Gascoigne, Fred Williams and the symbolist poets that continue to inform Tillers’ works as fusions of poetry and paint. In The Fleeting Self, the conceptual rigour of repetition and appropriation in Tillers’ linguistic landscapes continues in a contemplation of our ever-transitory existence.
- Annabel Holt, June 2013
For all enquiries, please contact Annabel Holt at mail@arc1gallery.com