Dani Marti, Time, 2013, galvanised and stainless steel scourers on aluminium frame (install shot). Photo: Rhianna May.
"A reef created from the discarded tools of countless, nameless cleaning women. I don't remember the last time I felt so splayed between awe and irony."
Ruth Little has penned a beautiful review of DANI MARTI's exhibition Black Sun as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. The exhibition runs until Monday 28 March 2016.
Read the review here.
JOHN YOUNG's exhibition Modernity's End - Half the Sky, Two Australians in China narrates the remarkable histories of two Australians in China between 1920 and 1960.
This Willoughby Council curated exhibition includes invited artists CYRUS TANG and Pei Pei He and is part of Art Month Sydney and Spectrum Now.
The exhibition continues from 2 March - 3 April 2016 at Incinerator Art Space.
Janet Laurence (in collaboration with Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects), Australian War Memorial, London.
Museum of Contemporary Art Director, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, discusses JANET LAURENCE's remarkable art career and extensive work in the public sphere on ABC Sydney's 'Self Improvement Wednesday' on 17 February 2016. You can listen in here.
Janet Laurence, CORAL COLLAPSE IV - Reef Resuscitation, 2015, Duraclear, acrylic box, edition of 3, 90 x 90 x 5 cm
Congratulations to JANET LAURENCE, SAM SHMITH and IMANTS TILLERS for being shortlisted in the Fleurieu Art Prize! The Fleurieu Art prize recognises the importance of landscape as a subject for art, and it is now valued at $65,000. The winner will be announced on 2 June 2016. This year the prize's exhibition will change its traditional location in the Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia to the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide.
For more information, click here.
Lydia Wegner, Aqua Slide, 2015, Archival Inkjet Print, 84 x 60 cm
LYDIA WEGNER is now part of the exhibition Is/Is not at West Space, Melbourne. The exhibition, curated by Kiron Robinson, explores how contemporary photography challenges its condition of fidelity and can no longer be accepted as "truth".
Is/Is not is open from 12 February to 12 March.
For more information, please click here.
Janet Laurence, H2O: Water Bar
JANET LAURENCE’S new immersive installation H2O: Water Bar at the Paddington Reservoir Gardens, Sydney, is attracting a lot of press. The H2O: Water Bar serves water from different parts of Australia, highlighting how the different tastes and qualities are affected by location and environmental factors. Besides the Bar is a series of screenings, performances and discussions to extend the conversation about the protection of this natural resource.
You can read more about it via the following links:
News.com
Art Guide
9News
Buro 24/7
Cosmopolitan
EatDrinkPlay
Sydney Social 101
The H2O: Water Bar is open from February 13 – 28, Thursday to Sunday 5pm to 9pm.
Steve Dow, from Art Guide, review's JANET LAURENCE's environmentally-focused immersive art installation H20 Water Bar.
Read the review here.
Janet Laurence, H20 Water Bar (installation view), 2016. Photo credit: Nikki To.
Photo credit: Tanja Bruckner, 2016.
PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT chats to National Association for the Visual Arts about living between two cultures and how she responds to, and connects to this in her work. You can watch the video here.
In the following video, GUAN WEI discusses his four-panelled painting Plastic Surgery (2015). This work was the artist's finalist piece for the National Self-Portrait Prize.
The accompanying exhibition to the prize is currently on show, at UQ Art Museum, and will continue to 13 March 2016.
Janet Laurence at her studio in Chippendale. Image credit: Justin Lloyd
JANET LAURENCE has created an apothecary or laboratory-style installation for Sydney's H2O: Water Bar. This installation reflects on - and asks us to reflect on - our relationship with water.
H2O: Water Bar will be open from Saturday 13 February 2016 through to the end of the month in Paddington's Reservoir Gardens.
Perth International Arts Festival interviewed DANI MARTI about his solo show, Black Sun, showing at Fremantle Arts Centre, you can view the video here.
Given the personal nature of Marti's works, the conversation reveals some of the fascinating insights into the people that inspire him and his practice.
The exhibition continues from Sunday 7 February to Monday 28 March 2016.
LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN and Jon Cattapan’s Scatter (Dusk, Santa Cruz), 2014 has been acquired by The Collection of The University of Queensland.
Samantha Littley, Acting Senior Curator at UQ Art Museum, had to say this about the work:
The painting exemplifies the strength of Brown/Green and Cattapan’s collaborative partnership, and the confidence each of them has in their own work. It takes self assurance to allow others to access your creative processes. The artists’ rapport is evident in the unity of their composition. This coherency has a basis in their shared experiences. Although their terms as Official War Artists were not concurrent, these commissions have clearly given them a mutual sense of purpose.
Lyndell Brown/Charles Green and Jon Cattapan, Scatter (Dusk, Santa Cruz), 2014, oil and synthetic polymer paint on linen, 152.5 x 243.5 cm
DANI MARTI’s first solo show in Western Australia, Black Sun, opens at Fremantle Arts Centre this weekend. The exhibition features new and previously unshown hand-woven canvases, audio and video works, as Marti uniquely combines video and textiles to create portraits reflecting encounters with family, lovers and strangers.
The exhibition runs from 7 February to 28 March, as part of the 2016 Perth International Arts Festival.
This coming month PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT will be included in two prominent group exhibitions in Sydney.
In the still of an ordinary day is showing at Janet Clayton Gallery, this exhibition will run from 27 January - 20 February 2016.
Twenty Twenty opens 6 February to 20 February at the Old Rum Store, Chippendale. Curated by Chippendale Creative Precinct and Claudia Chan Shaw the exhibition features twenty world-renowned Asian artists displaying works that embody moments of clarity inspired by the precision of 20:20 vision.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Bhava 4, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 95cm.
Here is an interview with IMANTS TILLERS and the Australian Tapestry Workshop.
The artist discusses his artistic practice and how it informed the design for his project with the Australian Tapestry Workshop. His work, titled Avenue of Remembrance, is a commemorative response to the First World War centenary and is available for public viewing at the Australian War Memorial.
Imants Tillers, Avenue of Remembrance, commemorative tapestry commission work in progress. Photo by Jeremy Wehrauch.
Installation view of Inside the Dome (DYE 2) by Murray Fredericks and Tom Schutzinger, at Geelong Art Gallery. Photo: Andrew Curtis.
Robert Nelson has reviewed MURRAY FREDERICKS and Tom Schutzinger's exhibition Inside the Dome (DYE 2) in The Age. To read the full review, click here.
The show continues 7 February 2016 at Geelong Art Gallery.
The exhibition catalogue for JANET LAURENCE's show, entitled Deep Breathing, is available to view online here.
This show was exhibited as part of the 2015 Artists 4 Paris Climate Conference and FIAC 2015. Laurence created a 'reef hospital' displaying the threatened coral and other marine species of the Great Barrier Reef. The installation was exhibited at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.
TRACY SARROFF is among an array of established and emerging artists selected to exhibit at the Barn Gallery, Monstsalvat to be opened on Saturday 28th January and continuing to 14th March.
Laughing Waters Road: Art, Landscape and Memory in Eltham is an exhibition of works created by artists who have taken part in the Laughing Waters Artist Residency program over the past 15 years. This exhibition displays works produced by artists inspired by their Laughing Waters artist residency. Works on display demonstrate a connection and spirit of ‘place’ as well as a dialogue between past ideas and contemporary art practice.
Tracy Sarroff, Window II (opens and closes), 2013, Perspex wood hinges screws, 95 x 130cm.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be part of the exhibition Persona - Strangely Human, curated by Emmanuel Grimaud and Anne-Christine Taylor-Descola, at the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France. The show, which explores the unusual and intimate relationships between humans and objects, will feature The Cardoso Flea Circus.
Persona - Strangely Human will be on view as of 26 January and will run until 13 November 2016.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Cardoso Flea Circus, 1996. Acrylic and oil on cotton canvas, pigment on nylon taf feta, various fabrics, steel, brass, video, various props, and fleas, 294 x 243cm.
MURRAY FREDERICKS' current exhibition, Inside the Dome (DYE 2), has been reviewed by Penny Webb from The Age.
To read the review, click here.
Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still.