PAT BRASSINGTON

"Pat Brassington, a photographer whose images seem as committed to impossibility as they are to organicism. Brassington’s images are disturbingly familiar, almost like postcards from possible futures, or memories of dreams from the distant past." 

The BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors has profiled the contemporary art collection of Australia's Ten Cubed Collection. PAT BRASSINGTON is one of the collection's ten selected artists.

Have a read of the profile here. 

Pat Brassington, Mind Game, 2013, pigment print, 60 x 46cm. Part of the Ten Cubed Collection. 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is one of three prominent South-East Asian artists included in the inaugural exhibition for Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney. Beauty and Myth of South East Asia opens Thursday, 2 March 2017 from 6–8pm. 

The exhibition continues until 28 March 2017. 

Find out more here. 

Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Reincarnation of the Butterflies 2, 2016, acrylic, silver foil and ink on board, 30 x 40cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

Image: Pat Brassington, Pair Bonding, 2015, pigment print.

PAT BRASSINGTON is included in the group show Focused: Photomedia from the Ten Cubed Collection at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre. The exhibition offers an insight into the ever-growing and evolving photomedia practice within the Ten Cubed Collection.

The exhibition continues until 23 March 2017.

Find out more here.

CYRUS TANG

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG who has been selected as a finalist for the Wyndham Art Prize with her photographic work 7403.00s. 

The exhibition of shortlisted works will be on display at the Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria from 6 April—11 June 2017.  

Image: Cyrus Tang , 7403.00s, 2016, archival Giclee print, 90 x 90cm.  

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROF, Lollipop & Lime (Detail), Orange (Detail) & Rosy Amber, Mandarin & Lime (Detail), 2017, Perspex and LED light components, dimensions variable.

TRACY SARROFF is currently curating an exhibition at the Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. Guides to Help You is an exhibition that explores different creative approaches to artworks made from light sources such as neon, fluorescent and LED lights, including works from different artists such as EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and TRACY SARROFF.

The exhibition continues through to 22 April 2017. 

Read a review from The Culture Concept Circle here. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON will be part of Versus Rodin: Bodies Across Space and Time, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The exhibition brings together sculptures by the acclaimed french artist with leading modern and contemporary artists who have similarly challenged our understanding of the human condition. 

The exhibition will run from 4 March - 17 July 2017.
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JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE has been curated into Force of Nature, an exhibition that includes work by 28 established and emerging international contemporary artists, surveying the influence of nature and its processes on their work. Curated by James Putnam, Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, Force of Nature aims to communicate an awareness of nature’s increasing fragility and some of the works are concerned with urgent issues of ecological and social sustainability.

The exhibition will be showing at the Art Pavilion in Mile End, London, from 5 March - 9 April 2017. 

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GUO JIAN

"Images of landscapes, birds and flowers are peaceful and serene from a distance, but break down upon closer inspection." 

Art Guide Australia feature GUO JIAN's The Encroachment in the January/February 2017 issue. 

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ANNE SCOTT WILSON

The group exhibition, Morbis Artis: Diseases of the Arts, will be part of the White Night 2017 program. The show features ANNE SCOTT WILSON's balloon installation and video projection titled Fluid Retention. 

Find out more here. 

CYRUS TANG

Image: Cyrus Tang in Art Collector Magazine, Issue 79. Work: CYRUS TANG, 4505.00s, 2016, Archival Giclee print, 100 x 100 cm.

Congratulations CYRUS TANG! She has been featured in the latest edition of Art Collector Magazine, called '50 things collectors need to know 2017'. CYRUS is regarded as one of the artists who are currently attracting attention in Australia and New Zealand. Peter Hill talks about her work as 'highly appealing to both contemporary art collectors and to museum curators.'

JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence and Andrew Belletty, River Journey, 2016, multimedia installation based on the audio and visual research archive of Professor Richard Kingsford. Installation view, UNSW Galleries, Sydney. Photo: silversalt

Exciting news from JANET LAURENCE this year! First, she will be part of IGA 2017 in Berlin from 13 April to 15th of October. IGA is a festival that celebrates garden design and green lifestyles in the city. LAURENCE will be presenting Inside the Flower, an experiential medicine garden that works as a living Wunderkammer, which immerses the viewer into the historical, spiritual and mythological relationship with psychotropic plants.

LAURENCE will also be showing her work in Force of Nature II, an exhibition curated by James Putman that examines the way contemporary artists have been inspired not only by nature but also its processes - evolution, birth, growth, ageing, decay, change. The show can be seen first in London from 8th of March to 9th of April at The Mile End Art Pavillion, and then it will travel to Italy to be part of the Venice Biennale from May to Nov 2017.

She will also be participating in a six-week residency at the Hanse-wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), in Delmenhorst Germany between May and June of this year. Also in Germany, LAURENCE will be participating in an exhibition called Nautilus at the Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in Oldenburg in June and July.

Her work will also be seen in Copenhagen at the Kunsthalle Rønnebæksholm as part of Moving Plants, an exhibition which seeks to explore the entanglements of nature, culture, and history through artistic practices focusing on plants.

JANET LAURENCE has also recently presented Habitat, a new sound work in Darling Harbour, Sydney. In this work, she has taken bird calls to extend and conveyed them into a song. Sydney will also have its last chance to see Deep Breathing at the Australian Museum in February since it will begin to tour nationally later this year.

Troubled Waters, the exhibition presented at the UNSW Galleries last year, will be seen at the Samstag Museum of Art in March.

In Brisbane, join JANET LAURENCE for a discussion on her practice and work, Natural History (Landscape and Residues Series), which features in the exhibition GLASS: art design architecture at the QUT Art Museum on the 18th of February. 

JANET LAURENCE

The Australian Tapestry Workshop is working with JANET LAURENCE on a new tapestry commission, Listen, to the Sound of Plants. The original artwork is comprised of images from Laurence's extensive archive of images of plants. 

In Listen, to the Sound of Plants, the weavers are aiming to capture the layers and use of transparencies and glass that are the hallmarks of Laurence's work. 

Find out more here.

GUAN WEI & CYRUS TANG

CYRUS TANG and GUAN WEI will have work in the group exhibition Closing the Distance, curated by Sophia Cai, at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre.

The exhibition brings together twelve Australian and international artists to explore contemporary issues of migration, place and the Chinese diaspora within Australia and beyond. 

Exhibition dates are 11 February to 30 April 2017. 

Guan Wei, Land of the Dreaming No. 5, 2014, ceramic, 41 x 30cm. 

GUAN WEI

Virgin Australia Voyeur, December 2016, No. 185, p 109.

Guan Wei is featured in the latest issue of Virgin Australia's in-flight magazine Voyeur.

The magazine asked four influential creatives to talk about the destinations that have shaped their work. GUAN WEI's destination of choice was Coastal Australia. 

"My work often looks at land borders and themes of migration, so I have found three elements of the Australian landscape — the sea, beach and islands — very meaningful. I'm drawn to the power of the Australian landscape and its borders in ancient terms as well as in terms of Indigenous and contemporary issues. There's an extraordinary paradox between freedom and closed borders." 

You can download issue No.185, featuring the article here. 

SUMMER CLOSURE

Dani Marti, DOT (Lime green - take 1) [detail], 2016, corner cube reflectors and glass beads on galvanised steel frame, 60 x 60 x 15 cm.

The Gallery will be closed from 18 December 2016 and will reopen on 24 January 2017.

Our current exhibition In the White Square will continue until 4 February, followed by Guo Jian's The Encroachment, 7 February - 11 March 2017.

Thank you to all our friends and supporters for a wonderful year. We wish you a very bright, safe and fun-filled festive season.

ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN APPOINTED CURATORIAL ADVISOR FOR UNIVERSITY SQUARE

PUBLIC ART MELBOURNE

Congratulations to Robert Owen who has been appointed to lead the City of Melbourne's reimagining of University Square in Carlton.

Following a national open call, Owen was appointed as the Public Art Curatorial Adviser for the $8.8 million redevelopment, which commences in 2017. His creative vision for the project references the site’s rich and diverse associations, the process of change and the transformative journey of education.

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Webb Bridge, 2003. Artist: Robert Owen, in collaboration with architects Denton Corker Marshall Pty Ltd. For the Docklands Authority, Melbourne, Australia, Photography: John Gollings.

PETER DAVERINGTON

Peter Daverington, Arcadia (still), 2012, high definition single channel blue-ray video, 9mins.

PETER DAVERINGTON is presenting a solo exhibition at the Minhang Mass Art Centre in Shanghai. 

Before the Apocalypse opens 7 December 2017. 

IN THE WHITE SQUARE

Robert Owen, Pink & Grey Wall, 1978, drymounted inkjet print, 72 x 47 cm.

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present In the White Square, a group exhibition exploring themes of new abstraction curated by Laura Lantieri. An opening reception will be held on Saturday 10 December, 4-6pm. 

Showcasing the work of five Australian contemporary artists well-known for their use of abstraction as a primary visual language, In the White Square features Robert Owen, Jacky Redgate and Lydia Wegner, alongside invited artists Caleb Shea and Gemma Smith. Across a dynamic mix of sculpture and photo- based media, the artists in this exhibition are drawn together by a shared emphasis on formal concerns such as colour, form, space, light, optics and geometry. 

The exhibition draws its title from two of the 20th century’s great pioneers of abstract art – Vasily Kandinsky’s In the Black Square (1923), and Kasimir Malevich’s White on White (1918) – while referring obliquely to the ‘white cube’ exhibition space that came to rise in the last century. Situated in the formerly industrial, oblong ‘white cube’ of ARC ONE Gallery, In the White Square also considers the ways in which these artists employ abstraction in the context of a broader historical trajectory.

Variously touching on constructivism, minimalism, and hard-edge painting among other influences, the works blend a pared minimal aesthetic with a more idiosyncratic and playful touch. They invite the viewer to decipher lines, contours, surface textures and reflections in an almost puzzle-solving process, while blocks of colour activate spaces and pulse, oscillating between real and inferred depths of field. Challenging our understanding of what we see and what we know through an eye-popping agenda of geometry, colour and form, the artists of In the White Square collectively interrogate the very act of viewing. 

Please note ARC ONE Gallery will be closed from 18 December 2016 and reopen 24 January 2017.

Gemma Smith is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney, & Milani Gallery, Brisbane. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

The Art Gallery of New South Wales recently announced their 2017 program. This includes a major exhibition showcasing the work of PAT BRASSINGTON. 

Australian photo-media artist Pat Brassington has an incisive ability to infuse the familiar with the fantastic. Her work explores the domestic uncanny, psychoanalysis and bodily distortion, using a surrealist aesthetic charged with a feminist edge.

This exhibition from the Gallery’s collection traces her interest in the body as a fluid and flexible form. Featuring work from the 1990s alongside more recent work, it considers the haunting presence of the body in Brassington’s photographs and her particular use of visceral and allegorical imagery.

The exhibition, the body electric, will run from 19 August 2017 – 11 February 2018. 

Find out more here. 

Pat Brassington, Candie, 2013, pigment print, 60 x 44cm. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Stick Insect's Most Intimate Moments, 2008-2011, single channel HD video, colour, 37min. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibiting her video work Stick Insect's Most Intimate Moments during Art Basel Miami. 

Art Basel runs from 1 - 4 December 2016. 

Watch the video here.