MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is an exhibiting artist in Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital, an exhibition from the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, showing as part of the Sydney Design Festival.
The exhibition explores the increasingly important role of digital manufacture in contemporary art, science, design and architecture, and will run from 3 September 2016 to 25 June 2017.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs - Love Darts (detail), 2012.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in Troubled Waters at UNSW Galleries, a suite of interdisciplinary exhibitions and projects considering the impact of human activity and climate change on natural and marine environments.
In a major new collaborative project between UNSW Science and UNSW Art & Design, multimedia artists bring the complex ecosystem of a river to life in the Gallery. This important art/science collaboration titled River Journey, addresses the impact of human activity on Australia’s marine environments from the perspective of leading scientific researchers, sound, installation and photo-based artists: Andrew Belletty, Nici Cumpston, Tamara Dean, Bonita Ely, Janet Laurence and scientists from UNSW’s Centre for Ecosystem Science led by Professor Richard Kingsford.
The exhibition runs from 19 August - 5 November 2016.
LYDIA WEGNER will be showing a new body of work in her solo exhibition, Silver Shadow, opening at Bus Projects Wednesday 10 August, 6-8pm.
In this exhibition Wegner's playful images combine striking colour backgrounds alongside warped paper, coloured lighting and angular shadows. Through play and moments of chance, these simple materials form a questionable reality, seemingly flat and weightless something looks familiar yet so far removed.
Lydia Wegner, Red Wobble, 2016, light jet print, 44 x 30 cm.
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef), 2015, installation view.
JANET LAURENCE's powerful art installation, Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) will be on view at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Exploring the effects of climate change currently facing the Great Barrier Reef, the work was first exhibited in Paris during the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in late 2015, and was critically acclaimed.
Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) at the Australian Museum opens on 28 July 2016.
Janet Laurence, Argentum, 1988 – 1989, mixed media on paper on canvas with galvanised sheet steel, 86 x 187 x 10 cm, Curtin University Art Collection, Gift of Dr Ian Bernadt through the Cultural Gifts Program, 2005.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in ASSEMBLAGE, at the John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, WA.
The exhibition showcases sculptures, paintings, mixed media and collage from the Curtin University Art Collection that are linked by a use of found or appropriated materials and an experimental or playful approach to art-making.
The exhibition runs until Sunday 21 August, 2016.
OPENING THURSDAY 28 JULY, 6-8PM
Blue Note #2, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on canvas (two panels), 200 x 320 cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present the latest exhibition by leading senior Australian artist, Robert Owen. In this self-titled solo show, Robert Owen presents a continuation of his celebrated Music for the Eyes and Text of Light series, with a new body of paintings and prints inspired by jazz, movement and light.
Employing a staccato-like language of abstraction and geometry, Owen’s vivid Jazz Junction (2014-16) paint- ings explore the relationship between 1950s jazz and optical arrangements of form and colour. His canvases translate musical elements of time, rhythm and pitch through an idiosyncratic and intuitive exploration of the colours and patterns in sound. While long-standing influences of Constructivism and the colour theories of Wassily Kandinsky remain, here Owen has also drawn on modernist painter Piet Mondrian – in particular, his famous New York City- and jazz-inspired Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-43). With Owen’s resulting Blues for Mondrian series, bold gridlines frame vibrant pixels of colour that bounce on the canvas like fingers on the keys of a piano.
A set of large prints titled Inside the Crystal extends the artist’s continuous exploration of light and art’s capacity to capture mood and emotion through pigment. In these images colours across the spectrum refract and intersect, as along the edge of cut glass.
Owen’s visually-arresting works synthesise the cerebral with the emotional and sight with sound, highlighting how we perceive as humans through interrelated senses, also known as synaesthesia. This nexus of intellect and spirituality – or physical and metaphysical – is at the core of Owen’s practice, which for more than five decades has consistently sought to reconcile the fundamental human conditions of thinking and feeling.
Robert Owen is an internationally recognised and award-winning artist, with a practice that includes sculpture, installation, painting and photography. He has received widespread acclaim for his work on major public commissions such as Webb Bridge, Docklands (in collaboration with Denton Corker Marshall), and the Craigieburn Bypass, Melbourne (in collaboration with Architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer). He represented Australia at the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978, and in 2003 he received the Australia Council Visual Arts/ Crafts Emeritus Award for a lifelong service to the visual arts. He is represented in public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.
Julie Rrap, One Hand Making the Other (Instrument series), 2015, cast aluminium and steel, dimensions variable.
Congratulations to JULIE RRAP and CYRUS TANG who have been selected as finalists for the 2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Australia's pre‐eminent national award for small sculpture presented by Woollahra Council.
A free exhibition of finalist’s art works for the 16th annual Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize will be presented from 15 October until 30 October 2016 at Woollahra Council in Sydney. The winners will be announced on 14 October 2016.
Cyrus Tang, Children's Encyclopaedia Vol. 9, 2016, cremated book ashes, book cover and acrylic case, 29 x 21 x 21 cm.
Anne Zahalka, 'Untitled (Road to Zagora)', 2015, archival pigment print on rag paper, 66.6 x 100cm.
Architecture AU features ANNE ZAHALKA in their recent article on the Centre for Contemporary Photography's 30th Anniversary Fundraiser.
Written by Louisa Wright, the article interviews ANNE ZAHALKA about her experience as a photographic artist who has exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Photography.
Read the article here.
GUO JIAN and ANNE ZAHALKA are exhibiting in the group exhibition, Refugees, curated by Toni Bailey at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre. Showcasing the work of over 20 artists from refugee backgrounds, the exhibition aims to humanise the current refugee crisis.
Opening 29 July 2016. Exhibition continues until 11 September 2016.
Guo Jian, Trigger happy IX, 1999. oil on canvas, 180 x 200cm.
Imants Tillers, A Solid Mandala, 2016, acrylic, gouache on 54 canvas boards, 229 x 213cm.
IMANTS TILLERS is a finalist in the 2016 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW with his landscape painting entitled 'The Solid Mandala'.
The exhibition is opened to the public on 16 July and continues through 9 October 2016.
The winner of the Wynne is announced on Friday 15 July 2016.
Further details can be found at the AGNSW website here.
Congratulations to IMANTS TILLERS and GUAN WEI for being selected as a finalists in the 2016 Archibald Prize with their self portraits (pictured).
The Archibald winner is announced on Friday 17 July with the exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW continuing until 9 October 2016, before it goes on its regional gallery tour.
For more details visit the AGNSW website here.
Imants Tillers, Double reality (self-portrait) 2014–2016, 2016, acrylic, gouache on 64 canvas boards, 242 x 242cm.
Guan Wei, Plastic Surgery, 2016, acrylic on linen, 180 x 401cm
Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef), installation view.
JANET LAURENCE's remarkable installation Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) opens at the Australian Museum, Thursday 28 July 2016.
The critically acclaimed work was first exhibited in Paris during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in late 2015. It explores the effects of climate change currently facing the Great Barrier Reef. Laurence presents an emergency response: a hospital for the Reef in this time of ecological crisis, intended to aid survival and effect transformation.
Further details can be found here.
"Abstracting light and reflection, Jacky Redgate plays with hand-printed analogue film to morph geometric abstraction with the genre of still life."
Artist Profile write on Jacky Regdate's current exhibition, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold, installation view.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and CATHERINE WOO will be exhibiting in the group exhibition Fieldwork: Artist Encounters, curated by Gary Warner, held at SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts.
The exhibition creates spatial, conceptual, sonic and material conversations between recent works and decade-long practice trajectories. Cardoso's works included in the show impose order on seedpods collected during a camping trip with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, while Woo forges an evidentiary metallic interface with the coastal geology of Tasmania’s Pirates Bay.
Fieldwork runs from 7 - 30 July 2016.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Gumnuts (detail), 2009, Tartu seeds, metal pins, 245 x 190 x 6cm.
Catherine Woo, Interface, 2016, 20 panels of thin black coated aluminium, pressed and rubbed onto a geographic formation, 240 x 300 cm.
Pat Brassington, Untitled, 1989, Silver gelatin print 150 x 390 cm
Internationally acclaimed curator, Juliana Engberg, discusses the major winter exhibition at Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Tempest, with Michael Cathcart on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts Daily program.
PAT BRASSINGTON's work, Untitled (1989), is also discussed during the radio interview. A live streaming of the program is available on the Radio National website here.
Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA and LYDIA WEGNER, both finalists in the 2016 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award. The JUWS Photography Award is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice.
The winner will be announced during the exhibition launch, Saturday 25 June 2016.
The exhibition of finalist's work continues through to 21 August 2016, at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery, The Arts Centre Gold Coast.
Image: Anne Zahalka, Threshold (tablet, security camera), 2015, Archival pigment ink on rag paper, 102 x 137cm.
Julie Rrap, Escape Artist: Castaway, 2009, digital video.
JULIE RRAP is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video Art, at RMIT Gallery.
Light Moves presents projected and screen-based works exploring the body and the possibilities of movement. The exhibition is presented jointly with the National Gallery of Australia.
The exhibition runs from 1 July - 20 August 2016.
ROBERT OWEN and ARC ONE Gallery will be part of FLAIR Melbourne. Presented by ARC ONE Gallery, Craft, fortyfivedownstairs, Arts Project Australia, Collins Place Pop-up (supported by NKN), Sofitel Melbourne on Collins and Global Art Projects, FLAIR Melbourne is an art event showcasing a series of curated exhibitions, talks and experiences at the top end of Flinders Lane.
FLAIR will run from 18 - 21 August 2016.
LIGHT THROW (MIRRORS) FOLD
EXHIBITION OPENING & BOOK LAUNCH | TUESDAY 21 JUNE, 6-8PM
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold b, 2013-14, chromogenic photograph, 126 x 158 cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present a new exhibition by one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, Jacky Redgate. Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold will open on Tuesday 21 June, 6-8pm, with the Melbourne Launch of the Power Publications monograph, Jacky Redgate: Mirrors. The book will be formally launched by Dr Edward Colless, Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Jacky Redgate’s Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold / Unfold is the latest instalment in her mirror-works project. It follows hard on the heels of her Mirrors exhibition at the University Art Gallery at the University of Sydney last year. Redgate’s studio still-life photography experiments continue her long-standing interests in window display and product lighting, reflections and optical illusions. In the early Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold photographs, she explores the optical interplay of mirrors and everyday objects (striped plates, rulers, dominoes) attached to a folding screen.
In Unfold (2016), Redgate attempts to escape the visual vortex of her screen and mirrors, by displaying a doll, coasters, spoons, and a child’s sewing machine on pink velvet in the fold of her screen. It has been 36 years since Redgate last played with dolls in her work. Is she giving the subject of her recent photograph Miss Pears’ Contest Photographs 1959 — herself at age 3 — toys to play with, or is something else afoot? This new work connects Redgate’s well-known interest in the mirror photographs of Florence Henri with her little-known interest in American photographer Dare Wright, author of the 1957 children’s book The Lonely Doll.
With a practice extending over 35 years, Jacky Redgate has established herself as an artist at the forefront of contemporary Australian art. Working across photographic and object-based practices, Redgate has exhibited extensively within Australia and internationally since the end of the 1970s. Selected solo exhibitions include: Jacky Redgate: Mirrors, University Art Gallery, the University of Sydney (2015); Jacky Redgate: the Logic of Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2012); Visions From Her Bed, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); Jacky Redgate: Life of the System 1980–2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2005–06); and Jacky Redgate: Survey 1980–2003, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide (2004). She is a recipient of the 1st prize, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (2011). Her work is included in major national collections and survey exhibitions including two Australian Perspecta exhibitions, three Biennales of Sydney, the Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria (2006), and the Heide Museum of Modern Art’s Cubism & Australian Art (2009). Jacky Redgate is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong, Australia.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
JACKY REDGATE: MIRRORS
This 2016 publication is an important new monograph with texts by Robert Leonard and Ann Stephen, which focuses on Redgate’s eminent work with mirrors in recent decades and will be available for purchase on the night. Jacky Redgate: Mirrors is co-published by Power Publications with the University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, in partnership with the University of Wollongong.
Jacky Redgate: Mirrors was generously funded by the University of Wollongong, Vice Chancellor Challenge Grant and Faculty funding.
Dani Marti, POINTLESS (arrangement in Gold), 2016, corner cube reflectors and natural crystal beads on aluminium frame, 90 x 90 x 25 cm.
DANI MARTI & EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS are included in the exhibition Incandescence at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery. The exhibition explores the materiality of light and how artists use it to reflect on contemporary global culture. The exhibition will run from 1 June to 9 July 2016.
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