Pat Brassington, Voicing, 2001, Digitial colour print, 93.4 x 127.4 cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON, PETER DAVERINGTON and JULIE RRAP are included in the latest major exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia. Lurid Beauty considers the legacies of Surrealism in Australia and is on show from 9 Oct 2015 to 31 Jan 2016.
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Pat Brassington, Shadow Boxer, 2013, pigment print, 96 x 74cm.
As past winners of the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, PAT BRASSINGTON and JACKY REDGATE are featured in the Hall of Fame exhibition that is currently running alongside the exhibition of 2015 finalists.
Monash Gallery of Art are showcasing the winning works from each year of the prize to date in celebration of 10 years of the prize. Redgate's Light throw (mirrors) #4 (2011) and Brassington's Shadow Boxer (2013) are both included in the exhibition which will continue until 25 November 2015.
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Dani Marti, Prelude, 2015, corner cube reflectors and natural crystal beads on aluminum frame, 95 x 95 x 20cm.
DANI MARTI will be participating in Exhibit A, a group exhibition at The Lock Up in Newcastle, NSW. The exhibition intends to go beyond what might be considered ‘art and crime’, and question the ideas of crime, criminality and criminal subject through strong community engagement on a different range of approaches: historical, political, personal, and material.
The exhibition will take place from 30 October to 6 December 2015.
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Dani Marti, The Stamp Collector, 2006, still from video, 6'40min.
DANI MARTI will be part of the exhibition La Vida es esto: Narrativas de progreso, libertad y auto-realización en el capitalismo de hoy (Life is This: Narratives of Progress, freedom and self-realization in today’s capitalism), at the DA2 Contemporary Art Centre in Salamanca, Spain. The exhibition is based on a reading of works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y Leon (MUSAC) that reflect on today’s capitalist society. Some of the artists included in La Vida es esto are: Gregory Crewdson, Joan Fontcuberta, Ana Mendieta, Tracey Moffat and Santiago Sierra.
The exhibition will be open from 8 October 2015 to 31 January 2016.
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Dani Marti, The Butterfly Man, 2012, still from video, 16min.
DANI MARTI will participate in Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre’s 21st Birthday exhibition, titled 21. The Casula Powerhouse is a multi-disciplinary centre located in Liverpool, NSW. The exhibition, curated by David Capra, will feature 21 emerging and highly respected Australian artists who have exhibited at this institution.
The exhibition will run from 17 October to 29 November 2015.
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"I feel quite proud to be able to bring the Barrier Reef to Paris actually and show another way of seeing it, not the glossy tourist idea"
- JANET LAURENCE on Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) which she will present to as part of Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015 later this year.
Andrew Taylor interviews Janet in the Sydney Morning Herald about her latest artwork which will be presented to a global audience alongside international artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Barbara Kruger, Michelangelo Pistoletto and more.
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Guan Wei, To The Origin 2, 2015, porcelain, 46.5 x 27.3cm.
Art Collector interviews GUAN WEI about being shortlisted for this year's Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
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Jacky Redgate, Mirrors (transcription from Ralph Balson Painting, 1941), 2009-12, C-Type photograph.
JACKY REDGATE's photographic work Mirrors will be presented at the University of Sydney Art Gallery from 3 October until 27 November 2015. This exhibition will focus on the artist's use of mirrors and rebounding light and the relevance of these elements in her oeuvre.
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JANET LAURENCE has been chosen as the Australian representative for the Artists4ParisClimate2015 initiative. She will be creating a site-specific installation entitled Reef Resuscitation which address the threat to our natural environment and it's fragility due to climate change. This artwork will be formed through a residency with the Australian Museum Marine Science Department and their Lizard Island research station in the Barrier Reef.
The artwork will be exhibited in the Great Gallery of Evolution, situated within the Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, in Les Jardin des Plantes, Paris from October through til the end of December 2015.
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Tracy Sarroff, Confluence of Two Rivers (detail), 2011, mixed media, 155 x 52 x 123 cm.
TRACY SARROFF will be exhibiting a sculptural light installation at Seventh Gallery, Melbourne from 10 - 25 September. The exhibition, Dragon’s Backbone, is inspired by the ever-evolving relationships with the natural world across territories both real and imagined. It incorporates references to terrace farming, climate change and the genetic engineering of food crops. Allied to ideas sourced from science fiction and science fact, her works look like illuminated and glowing hybrid plant-life and mountainous, glacial forms. The separate sculptures take on titles from Southern China’s vast region of spectacular rice terraces, The Dragon’s Backbone of Longshen that stretches layer upon layer, coiling around from the base of Longji Mountain to its summit.
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Peter Daverington, Learn From the Classic - But Please Don't Destroy Them, 2015, oil, enamel and gesso on canvas, 183 x 154cm
The Lodge Gallery, NYC, will open an exhibition of new paintings by PETER DAVERINGTON on 9 September 2015. The exhibition, Iconophilia, is an adventure through the historical cannons of western art. From the invention of oil paint right up into the graffiti tags and throw ups of old school New York street artists, Daverington plunders and appropriates from a vast archive of visual imagery.
The exhibition will run through to 11 October 2015.
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Justine Khamara, Vertical Alliteration #2, 2013, UV print, laser-cut plywood, MDF board, 120 x 90 x 45cm.
Congratulations to JUSTINE KHAMARA's for her inclusion in Installation Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary. Vertical Alliteration #2 will be on display in the VIP Lounge, at Track 12 of the Art Fair.
Installation Contemporary is a project by The Curators’ Department which brings together 18 innovative, site-specific and interactive works in unexpected places throughout the Fair.
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Murray Fredericks, Muybridge, 2015, digital pigment print, 140 x 187 cm.
'Fredericks achieves a poetic meditation on personal and universal origins'.
Dylan Rainforth reviews MURRAY FREDERICKS' current exhibition in The Age.
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Guan Wei, Beach 5, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm
GUAN WEI WINS ARTHUR GUY MEMORIAL PAINTING PRIZE!
ARC ONE are pleased to announce GUAN WEI as the winner of the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. Wei’s winning painting, Beach 5 is a three-panel acrylic on canvas work displaying an idyllic, whimsical rendering of a Sydney shore.
The open painting prize is a $50,000 acquisitive award established by Allen Guy CBE in honour of his brother Arthur Guy in 2003. For more information on the prize, please click here.
Congratulations GUAN WEI!
Image by Lewis Roland
NIKE SAVVAS’ immersive art installation Reverie, in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London, has been extended to 12 September 2015. SAVVAS’ multicoloured work is suspended across the ceiling of Royal Festival Hall and continues outside onto the balcony of the building. The work “embodies a state of play; a daydream; a moment of losing oneself within an undulating field of ambient colour”.
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Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Painters’ Family, oil on linen, 2007, 185 x 185 cm
Joseph Hinchliffe writes on LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN’s entry in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in the Bendigo Advertiser. Read about their creative process and their entry entitled Song of Sorrow, which will form part of an upcoming series centred on the landscapes surrounding their home and studio.
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Nike Savvas, Spark (3), 2014, pigment print, 111.5x112cm
NIKE SAVVAS’ work is part of a major exhibition titled Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery at the Focal Point Gallery in Essex, U.K. The show features a multi-screen installation showcasing a collection made up of hundreds of GIF animations.
The exhibition will continue until 17 October 2015.
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Cyrus Tang, Waiting (video still), 2015.
CYRUS TANG will be exhibiting his video work in a group exhibition titled It’s Subjective… as part of the Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial 2015. The exhibition will see the work of several video artists projected from Chatswood’s formidable Urban Screen. The festival runs from 5 – 26 September 2015, open Wednesday through to Sunday.
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Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Song of Sorrow, 2015, oil on linen, 151 x 151 cm.
LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN and GUAN WEI who have been named as Finalists for the 2015 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. The announcement and official opening will be held at Bendigo Art Gallery from 6pm, Friday 28 August 2015. The exhibition of all finalists' work will be on show from 29 August – 1 November 2015.
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Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still.
The Australian Centre for Photography will be exhibiting DYE2, a video installation by MURRAY FREDERICKS and Tom Schutzinger. This video and sound piece was made in an abandoned Cold War radar station in Greenland. The piece, like Greenland itself, is at once icily cold and seductively beautiful, leading the viewer towards the sublime.
The exhibition runs from 29 August – 18 October 2015.