Colours are the Country by Nike Savvas, Macquarie Group Sydney, 2015, UAP.
The making of NIKE SAVVAS's site-specific project, Colours are the Country, at 50 Martin Place for Macquarie Group has been featured in Episode 1 of the new SBS program, Big Art.
Big Art is a six part series on SBS, which follows Urban Art Projects (UAP) across six challenging public art commissions and edition art projects.
The episode may be streamed, via SBS On Demand, until 7 February 2016.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is featured in Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America, a major group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The exhibition continues until 28 February 2016 and features a selection of major works by 21 established artists from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela. The exhibition highlights contemporary artists who use seductive and engaging materials to convey their social, political, and environmental concerns.
María Fernanda Cardoso, 'Woven Water: Submarine Landscape', 1994, dried starfish with metal wire.
Photo by Tanja Bruckner, 2016
NAVA interviewed DANI MARTI about the the simultaneous isolation, challenges, and joy that is found in the life of a full-time artist. You can watch the video here.
MARTI’s first solo show in Western Australia, 'Black Sun' is set to take over Fremantle Arts Centre's galleries from 7 February - 28 March, as part of the 2016 Perth International Arts Festival.
JUSTINE KHAMARA’s sculptural works are a part of the group exhibition Cutting edge: 21st-century photography, currently showing at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. This exhibition features the work of contemporary artists who disrupt the seamless uniformity of screen-based photography by cutting, pining, folding and puncturing photographic prints. The exhibition is on from 26 November 2015 - 21 February 2016.
For more information visit the MGA website
Justine Khamara, Orbital Spin Trick #2, 2013, UV print on laser-cut plywood sculpture, 50 x 50 x 50cm.
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 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 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’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, 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
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
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 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.
Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still.
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, 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 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.
For more information, please click here.
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, 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, 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.
For further images, click here.
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:
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.