Congratulations to LYDIA WEGNER for being selected as a finalist in The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize.
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ANNE SCOTT WILSON
Anne Scott Wilson, Twice (video still), 2015.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON will be exhibiting her work in a group exhibition titled Finitude? at Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart. The reception with the artists will be Friday 12 June from 3-4pm. The exhibition will continue until the 29th June.
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ANNE ZAHALKA
Opening next week at ARC ONE Gallery will be a new series of works by ANNE ZAHALKA titled Threshold. Naomi Cass, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne) has written the catalogue essay:
“In this series of works photographed in Morocco, Anne Zahalka represents many thresholds—doorways, arches, a crossroad, a highway and a crumbling film set. Like Janus [god of thresholds] who embodied the value of looking both forward and backward, Zahalka invokes the slippery transition between documentary and staged photography, between ‘participant observer’ and tourist."
We are looking forward to seeing the works installed.
NIKE SAVVAS
Image courtesty of Southbank Centre, London.
NIKE SAVVAS' work is currently in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London. The festival starts today, June 6 and continues until August 31.
Spanning across the ceiling of the Royal Festival Hall, Nike's joyous work Reverie is an installation of thousands of rainbow coloured ribbons.
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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been selected by the Green Square Public Art Program to develop an installation in the South Sydney Hospital area. The installation, called While I Live I Will Grow, is made of narrowleaf bottle trees of different ages planted among sandstone garden beds. The sandstone blocks will be sandblasted with text providing the date of birth of each tree, horticultural information and recipes for the roots, which when read from above spell out the name of the installation. While I Live I Will Grow is about the growth of Green Square as a community, as well as the personal growth of individuals, families and children in the area.
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JUSTINE KHAMARA
Justine Khamara, 2015, Whether I am Asleep or Awake, laser cut UV print on plywood, 45 x 45 x 9.5 cm
JUSTINE KHAMARA is shortlisted in the first Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham Art Gallery is establishing its place among Melbourne’s leading contemporary art galleries with the new Wyndham Art Prize. A shortlist of 26 artists was chosen, with applicants from across Australia, New Zealand and Melville Island. Khamara’s sculpture ‘Whether I am Asleep or Awake #4’ is on display in the gallery until 28 June 2015.
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JANET LAURENCE
Janet Laurence, Stranded, 2012, installation view.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in an article by the International Sculpture Centre. The article, When Nature Invades the Museum, gives insight into the growing interest by artists who address ecological issues within contemporary art. Laurence’s practice is discussed in relation to her concern with using the gallery space in establishing a relationship between the environment and the viewer.
To read the article here.
JACKY REDGATE
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2009 – 2010, C-Type photograph (hand-printed from original negative), facemount to UV Perspex, 126 x 158cm.
An interview with JACKY REDGATE is currently featured in Photofile magazine (Vol. 96, Autumn/Winter 2015). The issue includes a recent portfolio of her contemporary work and practice in photography and sculpture.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water: Submarine Landscape, 2003, starfish, metal wire, dimensions variable.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s work Woven Water: Submarine Landscape has been selected to feature in a major exhibition titled, Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In conjunction with the 2015 Latin American Experience weekend, the exhibition presents work by renowned artists that have addressed issues regarding the social and political status of Latin America within their practice.
The exhibition opens in November 2015.
JANET LAURENCE
Janet Laurence, What a Plant Knows II (the Tarkine, Tasmania), 2012, duraclear, acrylic, dibond, mirror, oil glaze, 122 x 313 cm.
JANET LAURENCE has been invited to be the Australian representative to create a site-specific artwork as part of a curated exhibition alongside the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference/COP21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The work Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) will commence in July and creates the imaginative possibility for healing our marine world, with a focus on the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef (GBR), revealing its plight and beauty. With use of various materials, Laurence will create a site-specific installation, which will take the form of a multi-layered vitrine, much like a Wunderkammer, enclosing photos, videos, sculptural objects, natural materials and borrowed specimens.
In reference to this project, Laurence states the following:
“We are at a point where art is able to enter an essential dialogue of environmental politics and help to create and communicate an understanding of our global inter-connection and vital relationship to the natural world. Art makes visible what is otherwise invisible.”
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Image: Janet Laurence, Stranded, 2012, glass, acrylic, Duraclear, oil, pigments and video
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
TurningTime 2015, 2 channel video, 150mins.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS is going to participate in the CEMENTA 2015 Biennial in Kandos NSW. The Biennial will be held from April 9 to 12 celebrating contemporary art in Australia. The work will address the identity, history, and current social, environmental and economic context of the town and the region of Central West NSW.
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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video work re-mar(ki)ng (2010) is part of a group exhibition titled PP/VT (Performance Presence / Video Time) at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide. Video Time explores various genres in performance art through single and dual-screen video works and installations. It will include documentation of live events and performance made exclusively for screen.
The exhibition runs from 1 April - 16 May 2015.
Eugenia Raskopoulos, re-mar(ki)ng, 2010, 2 channel video & sound 5:15 minutes
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS, ANNE ZAHALKA
Anne Zahalka, Untitled (figure and pillar), 2015, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100cm x 66.6cm
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, NIKE SAAVAS and ANNE ZAHALKA will be part of the exhibition Lines of Force... Space + Displacement in the Sydney College of the Arts Gallery at the University of Sydney. The exhibition presents works by a selection of SCA Alumni whose practice is informed by the key considerations of space and displacement.
The exhibition will run 15 April - 2 May.
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LYDIA WEGNER
Lydia Wegner, Wobble (2015), archival inkjet print, 80 x 60cm.
LYDIA WEGNER's work Wobble (2015) has been selected in the The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award for acquisition by the Gold Coast City Gallery.
The award is considered one of the most important Australian contemporary photography surveys. Established photographers are showcased alongside emerging, resulting in a stunning reflection of contemporary practice that examines diverse themes and approaches.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has taken part in the Wollongong Central expansion. Through the showcase of eco-friendly design principles, the project gives prospect for a sustainable centre that showcases the depth of innovation within the region.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Velvet Water Public Art at Wollongong Central Shopping Centre
Velvet Water by Cardoso introduces the buildings new feature artwork that cuts through the middle of the new look Wollongong Central. Velvet Water highlights the prominent surrounds of Wollongong – a costal region with lakes and fresh water streams within proximity. Through the use of industrial materials and the large-scale site, thousands of nylon rods sprout from the wall, covering its surface and resembling various forms of water. As people move past the wall, the rods simultaneously shift, that seemingly defies gravity and echoes the notions of water and its dynamic behaviour.
JOHN YOUNG
John Young, LKM (Blue), 2015, oil on linen, 156 x 126 cm
Art Guide Australia features a review on JOHN YOUNG’s exhibition 1866: The Worlds of Lowe Kong Meng and Jong Ah Siug at ARC ONE. Through the display of paintings, tapestries and chalk drawings, the exhibition reflects the stories of the dissimilar lives of two Chinese men, Lowe Kong Meng and Jong Ah Suig, who flocked to Australia in the mid 1800’s to seek their fortunes. Young became interested in these two men’s lives through his research in the unique histories of Chinese diaspora in Australia. Lowe Kong Meng was a wealthy merchant and Jong Ah Siug an illiterate miner who was committed to an asylum for 33 years until his death. The research of this history was carried out over a two-year project from Young’s Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship received in 2012.
Read the article here
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be speaking at a symposium on Saturday 21 March, held by the VCA and University of Melbourne. The Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) symposium is over a three-day period and is titled 'The Outstanding Field: Artistic Research Emerging from the Academy’. The symposium highlights practice-led methods used to obtain research throughout PhD projects in Australia and New Zealand. With Cardoso having undertaken a PhD from Sydney University in Art and Science in 2013, her discussion ‘The Marriage of Art and Science’ held at Sydney College of the Arts, will offer an insight into her artistic processes and methods of practice-led research.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Pollen is Male, 2012-14, nylon, glue, desert sand, 40 x 10 x 10 cm
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been selected to participate in this year’s Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize in partnership with the National Art School in Sydney. Cardoso’s new photograph of a tiny jumping spider will be exhibited in the Art Prize, alongside 21 other works by leading Australian contemporary artists. Each leading artist has selected an emerging artist to also participate in the show, allowing for a dynamic exhibition with a Major Prize of $25,000 sponsored by Konica Minolta and an Emerging Artist Prize of $10,000. The two winning artworks will be acquired in the Redlands teaching collection.
The exhibition runs from 26 March – 23 May at the NAS Gallery and opens on Wednesday 25 March at 6pm.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Male and Female Maratus Splendens – Unrecognised Artists, 2015, inkjet print, 90 x 100 cm.
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Murray Fredericks, Borealis (video still), 2013, Blu-Ray video, 12'16 min,
MURRAY FREDERICKS' work will feature in ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’, an immersive and sensory event held at the Art Gallery of NSW, directed by Shannon Murphy. The event brings together photographs by Fredericks, combined with opera and singing by Silvia Colloca, the work of florist, artist and academic Dr Lisa Cooper and food by chef Matt Moran.
‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ is on various dates in March 2015. More information.
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Murray Fredericks, Icesheet #4724, 22˚& 46˚ halo, tangent arc, parry arc, cza and parhelic circle, 2013, digital pigment print, edition of 7, 120 x 160cm.
On Sunday 1 March MURRAY FREDERICKS joined Richard Aedy on ABC Radio National, discussing his expeditions to Greenland. Having made six travels within a three-year period Fredericks captured the remote icescapes of Greenland, despite the extreme conditons. The photographs taken during these trips to Greenland were exhibited at ARC ONE Gallery in Frederick's 2013 solo exhibition Topophilia.