SAM SHMITH

Untitled (Anaheim / illumina, custodi), 2015, Dye sublimation print, aluminium, 10.5 x 8.5 cm

Congratulations to SAM SHMITH, who has been shortlisted for the 64th Blake Prize given by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. The Blake Prize aims to encourage contemporary artists to create significant works of art which engage in the wider experience of spirituality. The entries are not restricted to works related to any faith or any artistic style, but any work entered must have a recognisable religious or spiritual integrity.

For more information, please click here.

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE speaks about her installation Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) with Michael Cathcart on RN Books and Arts. The installation is currently on show at Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015 - an exhibition to coincide with the UN's Climate Change talks in Paris.

To listen to the interview, click here. 

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, installation view.

SAM SHMITH

SAM SHMITH spoke with Broadsheet Melbourne's Will Cox, untangling the individual incidents that prefaced his current exhibition Cherry Springs. See these captivating images at ARC ONE now until 5th December.

To read the article, click here.

Sam Shmith, Untitled (Kittinger, evening), 2015, Dye sublimation print on aluminium, 23.5 x 35.5 cm.

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE’s work will be featured in ArtSpeaksOut, a 24-hour global video art stream headlining prominent international artists, centring on environmental issues. It will air on ikonoTV and via web streaming from December 5th at 6PM (CET), that’s December 6th 4AM (AEST). 

Click here for further information.

JULIE RRAP

Julie Rrap, Fleshpool, 2004, digital video, 60-second duration (continuous loop).

JULIE RRAP's Fleshpool is part of PLAY, BLINDSIDE Gallery’s unique online video space dedicated to showing experimental local and international video art from emerging, mid-career and established artists. Fleshpool is a work that explores the body and its other: its shadow, its reflection. 

The videowork is also being screened in the gallery itself from 23 November 2015 – 3 January 2016.

To watch the work online, click here

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS, who has won the 2015 Crumpler People's Choice Award for the Bowness Photography Prize with the work N. Stradbroke Island (2014). 

For more information, click here.
 

Murray Fredericks, N. Stradbroke Island, 2014, digital pigment print, 100 x 284 cm. 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Thailand-born, Sydney-based contemporary artist PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT chatted to NAVA in a recent interview. She spoke about living between two cultures and how she responds to, communicates and connects to this in her work.

To view the video, click here. 

MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting a new video and sound installation, created along with Tom Schutzinger, presented by the Geelong Gallery. The installation, called Inside the dome (DYE 2), will be exhibited inside the domed architecture of the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre from 21 November 2015 to 7 February 2016.

Inside the dome (DYE 2), was filmed and recorded within the geodesic dome of an abandoned early warning missile detection facility in Greenland, and creates an immersive audio-visual experience for visitors.

For more information, please click here.

Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still. 

JANET LAURENCE

Anthropocene, Installation View

JANET LAURENCE’s new exhibition opened at The Fine Art Society in London on 17 November and it will run until 27 November. Anthropocene focuses on how humans have changed the face of the earth, moving us towards a proposed new geological era from the current Holocene epoch.

For more information, please click here.

PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, The Secret, 2010, pigment print, 80 x 62cm.

PAT BRASSINGTON’s major survey exhibition À Rebours, will be showing at UQ Art Museum from 28 November 2015 - 10 April 2016.
 
The exhibition, curated by ACCA's Juliana Engberg, brings together a selection of Brassington’s work from her over 30-year career. The images are hauntingly beautiful, deeply psychological, and sometimes disturbing.

For more information, please click here.

ANNE SCOTT WILSON

ANNE SCOTT WILSON is presenting a new video work with The Letter String Quartet for their performance at the Abbotsford Convent at 8pm on 21 & 22 November. The performance, called VideoSonicQuartet, is a collaborative project with a composer along with three other artists/composers.

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ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN's artist talk in regard to his winning piece for the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize has been recorded and is available to listen to online. Hosted by Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Committee Member Professor Ian Howard, the talk proved to be very insightful and inspiring.

Owen's winning piece, Symmetria #37 (pictured above with the artist), is now on permanent public display at the Woollahra Council Chambers.

You can listen to the recording here.

SAM SHMITH

Sam Shmith, Untitled (Cherry Springs 2), 2015, Dye sublimation print on aluminium, 23.5 x 35.5cm.

SAM SHMITH opened his solo exhibition, Cherry Springs, at ARC ONE Gallery on Thursday 5 November 2015.

You can read a fantastic review of Cherry Springs from the Daily Review here.

Australian Photography also wrote about the exhibition here.

Shmith was interviewed by Richard Watts from 3RRR's SmartArts radio progam on Thursday 5 November. The interview can be listened to here.

See also Michael Mckenzie's interview with Shmith for Radio National's Afternoons on Friday 6 November, here.

DANI MARTI

Dani Marti, Midden (work in progress), Newcastle Courthouse, NSW, 2013-2015.

DANI MARTI's public commission for the new Courthouse in Newcastle is taking form.

The work in progress, entitled Midden, is a large scaled concrete formwork wall that extends over 60 square meters and is constructed from dark grey concrete. The sculptural wall is informed by abstraction and simplicity with sensual curves contrasting with the glass wall entrance and rigid angles of the building.

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JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef (installation view), 2015.

JANET LAURENCE mesmerised audiences at the opening of the Paris International Contemporary Art Fair, 20 October 2015, with her major installation Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef. The work focuses on significant climate change issues directly affecting the Great Barrier Reef and includes photos, videos and natural marine specimens in laboratory glassware.

The immersive installation representing a resuscitation unit for the Great Barrier Reef will be on display until 14 December 2015.

Read about it in the press here:

Sydney Morning Herald

A Magazine

Kulture

JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence, Treelines Track, Bundanon, NSW (detail views), 2014–16.

JANET LAURENCE's work has been included in the winning essay for the new award supporting critical writing from MPavilion, Art Monthly Australia and the National Association for the Visual Arts.

Dr Julia Jones is the inaugural Writing Award Winner, whose winning essay appears in the 2015 October issue of Art Monthly Australia. On the 28th of October, at the MPavillion, Dr Jones will present a reading of the essay, A growing medium: The garden in art and design’.

For more information, follow the link.

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE is one of 14 artists who have been invited to participate in the initiative: Artists 4 Paris Climate 2015. She has created a site-specific installation, Deep Breathing - Resuscitation for the Reef, inspired by the crucial issues of the Paris Climate Change Conference / COP21.

From the 16 October - 25 November 2015 the installation will be presented at the entrance of Grande Galerie de l’Evolution at Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris, which has loaned specimens for its realization. A video will also be projected at the Tropical Aquarium of Palais de la Porte Dorée. The Australian Museum will exhibit the work in 2016.

For more information please click here.

Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing - Resuscitation for the Reef (project detail), 2015.

JULIE RRAP

Julie Rrap, Re-making the world: Artists' dreaming (video still), 2015, 20-channel HD video installation.

JULIE RRAP is featured in an article by Art Collector. The article, Remaking the World with Julie Rrap, gives insight into the role of the artist and creativity in the contemporary landscape. Rrap's practice is discussed in relation to her concern with the sense of risk that exists when shifting between thought and action in the creative process. 

To read the article click here.

JACKY REDGATE

Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2010-11, C-Type photograph (hand-printed from original negative) facemount to UV perspex, 126 x 158cm.

JACKY REDGATE is part of the UQ Art Museum's exhibition titled Light Play: Ideas, Optics, Atmosphere. The exhibition features the work of contemporary artists who employ light and related technologies, and examines their practice in relation to artistic precedents.

The exhibition continues until 15 November 2015.

For more information and the online catalogue click here.

ROBERT OWEN

Robert Owen, Symmetria #37, 2015, painted stainless steel. 62.5 x 72.5 x 65.5 cm.

Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN, who has been awarded the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. The judges selected Robert's bold, painted stainless steel work, Symmetria #37, as the winning sculpture. This $15,000 acquisitive main prize will see the work enter the Woollahra Council Collection.

Follow this link for more information regarding the prize.

The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize exhibition is on display at the Woollahra Council Chambers in Double Bay, Sydney, from Saturday 10 to Sunday 25 October 2015.