NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas, Everlasting, 2013.
NIKE SAVVAS' latest commission, Everlasting has been unveiled at the Quays Apartments in the Docklands, Melbourne. Savvas was selected for the commission from a shortlist of three artists by the director of MUMA, Charlotte Day.
Savvas has created an installation for the atrium of The Quays apartment complex, which is a stream of shimmering, iridescent blown glass balls suspended from the roof called Everlasting. The installation creates a real feeling for space, where the artwork beautifully complements the architecture.
JUSTINE KHAMARA
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s Naked Flora will be showing at the Galeria Casas Riegner in Bogota, Colombia, from October 25 – 28.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Naked Flora, 42x28cm, 2013.
TRACY SARROFF
TRACY SARROFF has been featured in the latest issue of Art Collector Magazine (Oct – Dec 2013), in the WHAT NOW? section, p. 72-73.
Interviewed by Liang Luscombe, Sarroff discusses her approach to art making and the inspiration behind her exhibition Congruo, currently at ARC ONE Gallery until 2 November 2013.
More information.
ANNE ZAHALKA
ANNE ZAHALKA presents a collection of ‘Artist’ portraits in an exhibition at Concordia Gallery, following her residency at The Newington College (NSW).
These portraits began in 1990, exploring myths and stereotypes surrounding the figure of the artist in contemporary art.
Titled Anne Zahalka and her Amazing Artists, the exhibition, curated by Hannah Chapman, opens on 22 October 2013.
Read an interview with the artist about her upcoming exhibition here.
Anne also features in the new ABC/BBC series hosted by former Art Gallery of NSW, Edmund Capon called Art of Australia. The show airs 8.30pm Tuesday 22 October 2013 on ABC 1.
Exhibition dates: 22 October – 16 November 2013.
Address: 221-235 Stanmore Road, Stanmore NSW.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
Eugenia Raskopoulos, installation view, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA, 2010.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has been shortlisted in the National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize, presented by the University of Queensland Art Museum. The Biennial acquisitive award highlights the enduring importance of self-portraiture as an artistic subject and contributes to create a National Collection of Artists' self-portraits. The award's theme for this year is remix. post. connect., and will be judged by Blair French (Assistant Director, Curatorial & Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art). The exhibition opens on Friday 18 October 2013.
Exhibition Dates: 19 October – 16 February 2014
Public Program: Saturday 19 October 2014, artists in conversation with Samantha Littley.
More information on the exhibition click here.
MURRAY FREDERICKS / ANNE SCOTT WILSON / PETER DAVERINGTON
Murray Fredericks, Hector Thunderstorm Project, still from video, 2011
ARC ONE announces Late-Night Projections at Cumulus Up in November, screening works by artists including ANNE SCOTT WILSON, PETER DAVERINGTON and MURRAY FREDERICKS.
Projections will take place onto Collins Place from the 1st floor of the restaurant and wine bar Cumulus where you can come enjoy a specially designed late night menu.
Dates: November 2 – 30 from 9:30pm to 12am.
JOHN YOUNG
John Young, Repose (Autumn 2012), oil on linen, 190x144cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to announce our representation of respected and dynamic artist, John Young. Working from a bi-cultural viewpoint, with a focus on trans-cultural humanitarianism, Young has created many series of significant paintings over the last three decades of his practice.
Young has recently been awarded the prestigious Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship for established artists to research the history of the Chinese Diaspora in Australia. The research will inform exhibitions to be created nationally and internationally in the years to come.
Concurrently, Young is working on a large scale monument for the City of Ballarat. This public monument will be the first work in the region to acknowledge the historic contribution of the Chinese people to the area, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
ARC ONE will be showcasing John Young’s work in our Viewing Room from mid November to mid December, commencing with a celebratory reception.
For more information on John and his practice, visit his artist profile
TRACY SARROFF
Tracy Sarroff, The Crimson Arch, oil paint on perspex, 2013, 56 x 83 cm, installed with Stalagmite, wood expanding foam, paint, epoxy resin, 56x23x26cm, 2012.
We are delighted to announce TRACY SARROFF's exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Congruo, from the 1st October - 2 November 2013.
Congruo, Tracy Sarroff’s first solo exhibition at ARC ONE, creates an immersive wonderland of psychedelic forms. Fuelled by Sarroff’s interest in geological formations and the crossover between scientific fact and fiction, a fantastical vision of our natural environment emerges. Sarroff’s vividly synthetic and reality-shifted Perspex paintings distort nature’s elements alongside her suite of sculptures.
Many elements in Congruo are inspired by Sarroff’s time spent as Artist in Residence in Hill End, NSW, rich with the eroded diggings of a bygone era. The over-mined and eroded creek bed The Golden Gully, is depicted in a series of hyper-real paintings on lurid Perspex. They also hark to landscape images from science fiction film classics.
Sculptures glow ghostly in the dark with delicious surfaces and take the shape of manufactured growth-forms derived from ideas based in transgenics. Other works project electric light and radiate a stark ambience of kitsch colour and space-age design. Comprised of paintings, wall assemblages and sculptural installations that correspond, unite and coincide with one another, the various forms of 'Congruo' morph dislocated natural realities with the aesthetic of science fiction.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON
Installation view, Fly Rhythm, 2013
Anne Scott Wilson is a finalist of the 2013 Substation Contemporary Art Prize, and is currently developing a site-specific work which will expand on her recent video Glide, presented at her solo exhibition at ARC ONE Fly Rhythm this August.
Winner of the Major Prize of $10,000, to be announced on Thursday 18th October, 6pm, followed by an after party and live music until late.
IMANTS TILLERS / JANET LAURENCE / EUGENIA RASKOPUOLOS /JULIE RRAP / GUAN WEI / JOHN YOUNG / ANNE ZAHALKA
Imants Tillers, The White Tree, 203 x 177.8 cm, Acrylic, gouache on 40 canvas boards
Janet Laurence, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Julie Rrap, Imants Tillers, Guan Wei, John Young and Anne Zahalka are featured in an impressive exhibition called Collective Identity(IeS): This is That Time at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (NSW)
The exhibition, curated by Lisa Corsi, examines how we define our interests as a society through the practice of art-collecting and particularly looking at the role played by private collectors in shaping notions of an Australian collective cultural identity.
The exhibition will be open until 17 November 2013
More information here.
DANI MARTI
Dani Marti, Snow White, becoming animal, 130cm diameter by 30cm depth, 2006.
If in London, visit this must-see exhibition opening at Siegfried contemporary on October 15th. The group exhibition centres on the theme of 'weight and measure', featuring Dani Marti’s work, Snow White, becoming animal together with works by Pedro Cabrita Reis, Martin Creed, Jose Davila, Richard Long, Jeff Wall and Fredrik Vaerslev.
Exhibition details here.
Weight and measure
Siegfried Contemporary, London
Oct 15th - Dec 15th
Dani Marti, Butterflyman, video still, 16 min, 2012.
DANI MARTI
Dani Marti’s video work will be part of VIDEO PINTA, a selection of new video art curated by Octavio Zaya as part of PINTA NY 2013, International Art Fair, New York, November 14 – November 17, 2013; with artists Carlos Aires, Richard Garet, Dani Marti, José Luis Martinat, Carlos Motta, Lucía Pizzani, Zoé T. Vizcaino.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT
Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Bhava 11, acrylic and vegetation fiber collage on canvas, 120 x 100cm, 2013.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is a finalist in the Albany Art Prize, presented by The City of Albany. The exhibition showcases a selection of contemporary Australian painting, and the breadth and depth of the enduring medium. The major acquisitive prize includes a four week studio residency along with $2,500 for associated expenses.
The exhibition runs from 29 September until 27 October 2013.
For more information click here.
JANET LAURENCE
Janet Laurence, Photosynthesis and Memory, 63 x 103 cm, Duraclear on acrylic, mirror, earth and pigment in oil.
JANET LAURENCE opens her exhibition Plants Eye View at The Cat Street Gallery in Hong Kong on 26 September 2013. The exhibition showcases Laurence’s latest body of work, combining scientific research and environmental imperative in poetic installations that simultaneously invoke the beauty and the tragedy of the natural world. Her artistic enquiries result in a spectrum of paintings, sculpture, photography and site-specific installations.
More information here.
ANNE ZAHALKA
Mosman Art Gallery presents Middle Head: 33º 50' S, 151º 14' E.
ANNE ZAHALKA is among fifteen established and emerging artists who explore the active and disused military sites at Middle Head, drawing on the past and contemporary heritage of the area.
The exhibition is open until 17 November 2013.
For more information click here.
NIKE SAVVAS
Nike Savvas, Epic 8000, glass and steel wire, approximately 336 cm wide x 600 cm long x 900 cm deep, 2013.
NIKE SAVVAS’ installation of glass, Epic 8000 has recently been unveiled in Nike Town, San Francisco. The stunning installation was inspired by the marathon and its world record. The current record for the marathon stands at 2 hours and 3 minutes, which is equivalent to 7380 seconds. Savvas has applied this data to her creation of Epic 8000, which consists of 7380, 4cm glass balls suspended from one another to form a prism. The exact positioning of the glass balls allows vector lines to be visually traced through the work, intimating movement and speed.
SAM SHMITH
Sam Shmith, Untitled (plate glass 3) from the series Plate Glass, pigment ink-jet print, 97.2 x 180.0cm, 2013.
SAM SHMITH has been selected as a finalist of the 2013 Bowness Photography Prize, presented by the Monash Gallery of Art. Together with 45 other finalists, Shmith's work was selected from 562 entries, resulting in the largest number of entries received in the history of Australia’s most coveted photography prize.
The winner will be announced on Thursday 3 October and the exhibition continues until 3 November 2013.
For more information click here.
DANI MARTI
Dani Marti, Lost In Desire (detail) nylon, polyester and rubber on wood. 200 x 200 x 10.
DANI MARTI will feature in the upcoming 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Dark Heart, alongside over 25 of the country’s leading contemporary artists.
The show explores political, psychological and personal thoughts of the hearts and minds of Australian society, through an array of mediums including photography, painting, sculpture, installation and the moving image.
The 2014 Adelaide Biennial is on 1 March until 11 May 2014.
For more information, click here.