CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, Remote Nation (still), 2007-2008, Video DVD, 13.09 mins

CYRUS TANG's work will be presented at the Australian Centre for Photography's after hours Street Screen projection from 17 July - 16 August. Titled, Remote Nation, the work deals with the idea of reconstructing ephemeral sensations and capturing the disappearance towards the notion of home. 

CYRUS TANG has also been selected as a finalist in the Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award with her work Sui Ming and as a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award with her work Matthew. 
 

CATHERINE WOO

Catherine Woo, Heat (Detail), 2015, mixed media on aluminium, 120 x 120 cm.

CATHERINE WOO
INCENDIE

OPENING WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015, 6-8PM

Catherine Woo’s latest exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery continues her visually stunning oeuvre of ‘painting with weather’. The title, Incendie, is drawn from the French term for fire, which Woo has used as the axis for exploring themes of fire and heat. Concerned with the inter-relationship between humans, the body and their natural surrounds, Woo’s abstract, topographic and luminescent surfaces are underpinned by a consideration of how our ideologies and senses are shifting in response to climate change and anthropogenic processes on the environment.

At the core of Woo’s practice is her collaboration and experimentation with natural forces. By manipulating the immediate environment around her (namely, redirecting the gutters to allow rainwater seepages and wind into the studio), Woo orchestrates naturally occurring forms onto the aluminium canvas. The resulting works journal this space of negotiation between artist and weather, and as Woo describes, they depict a ‘trace of their alliance’.

The delicate imprints on Woo’s paintings are instantly recognisable as tactile weathered surfaces that form patterns akin to aerial views of landscapes. Substances such as iron, silica, calcium carbonate, mica, pigments and black sand are combined with vibration and evaporation to create a painting system whereby the works self-propagate. For Woo, partly relinquishing control and respecting the agency of materials and the power of their interaction is central to her practice.

Incendie will run from 21 July to 22 August 2015 at ARC ONE Gallery.

ROSE FARRELL GEORGE PARKIN

Rose Farrell and George Parkin, Detail of Sparrow Man, 2008-2011, digital print on archival rag paper, 80 x 204 cm.

Deakin University Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of the work of ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN, titled A Curious Evolution, opening 22 July. 

In A Curious Evolution artists Rose Farrell and George Parkin consider the fanciful imaginings of early personality profiling. In the sixteenth century a desire to fix difference was expressed in studies of the physiognomic similarities observed between animals and humans. This led to comparisons that made a case for the animal logic in human nature. In their last body of work together, Farrell and Parkin push the boundaries of photographic portraiture to investigate this history and the absurdist claims that stood for knowledge. Their evocative images and sculptures reflect upon the intangible elements of character and the camera’s role in codifying difference.

Curated by Wendy Garden.

The exhibition runs from 22 July to 28 August 2015.

CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, from the series Mememto Mori, 2012. 

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to announce that we are now representing CYRUS TANG. Cyrus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works reflect on ideas of nostalgia, loss and longing. Cyrus will hold her fist solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2016.

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne, Zahalka, Untitled (road to Zagora), 2015, 100 x 150 cm, Pigment ink on rag paper

ANNE ZAHALKA's current exhibition Threshold at ARC ONE has been reviewed by Dan Rule in The AGE.

To read the review, click here.

JOHN YOUNG

John Young, LKM (Gold), 2015, 156 x 126 cm, Oil on linen

JOHN YOUNG is presenting at a conference in Cairns from 28 June - 7 July. The Australasian conference is on overseas Chinese history and heritage.  

"The main theme of Dragon Tails 2015 will be the historical experiences and heritage of Chinese in the tropics, both in Australasia and globally. The program will also include other topics that discuss the histories and heritage of Chinese people, their descendants and their associates, in other parts of Australasia and the world."

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PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, The Secret, 2010, 62 x 80 cm, Pigment Print edition of 8

PAT BRASSINGTON'S major national touring survey Á Rebours continues... Currently being shown at the Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo, NSW. The exhibition continues until July 17.  

For more information, please click here.

JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence, Grace, 2012, Video still

JANET LAURENCE's work Grace (2012) was recently exhibited as part of the MOMENTUM Collection at LOOP, Barcelona (4-6 June).  Her work can also be seen as part of the MOMENTUM Collection on IKonoTV from 3 June - 3 July 2015.   

For more information about JANET LAURENCE at MOMENTUM, please click here.
 

LYDIA WEGNER

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.”

For more information click here.

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