JANET LAURENCE speaking at the NATIONAL ART SCHOOL

JANET LAURENCE is speaking this week at The National Art School in a talk titled "What Can Art Do?"

The presentation will include an exclusive look into the artist’s three week project in Antartica at Casey research station, as the most recent Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow. As well as insights into her career focus on environmental actions and climate change.

JANET LAURENCE at HEIDE MoMA

JANET LAURENCE, Carbon Capture (From the series Landscape and Residue), 2008, Duraclear burnt wood, pigment on acrylic and mirror, 100 x 200 cm

JANET LAURENCE’S artwork Carbon Capture: From the series Landscape and Residue is included in a current exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art.

‘Listening to Music Played Backwards: Recent Acquisitions’ celebrates works in the Heide collection acquired over the past decade.

Open until July 31

CYRUS TANG at MGA fundraiser

IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, Escalator: from the series Remember me when the sun goes down, 2020, Pigment inkjet print, 93.5 x 139.0 cm

We are thrilled that CYRUS TANG’S work ‘Escalator’ is up for auction at MGA’s annual fundraiser.

All funds raised will help shape the future of photography in Australia.

Auction to be held by @smith_singer at 7pm on May 31, 2022
Address: 500 Chapel St, South Yarra, Vic, 3141

Find out more information about the auction HERE

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT artist talk at ACMI

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT feature in the conversation: ‘The Body: Personal, Political and Performative’, with artists Florian Hetz and Thandiwe Muriu, as part of PHOTO 2022, chaired by Naomi Cass the director of Castlemaine Art Museum.


”The body is our container for experiencing the world, it carries our histories, traumas and gifts. It is personal, political and performative. In this conversation we discuss how photographers are using the body as a site of expression and power.”

Image: Honey Long & Prue Stent, Salt Pool, archival pigment print, 106 x 157, edition of 3

Artist feature in 'Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020)'

IMAGE: Anne Zahalka, The Cook (Michael Schmidt/architect) from the series Resemblance, 1986, matt Cibachrome paper, unique larger size, 100 x 100cm.

Six of our artists ANNE ZAHALKA, PAT BRASSINGTON, JULIE RRAP, JACKY REDGATE, JUSTINE KHAMARA and JOHN YOUNG feature in Daniel Palmer and Martyn Jolly's publication 'Installation View: Photography Exhibitions in Australia (1848-2020)', published by Perimeter Books and designed by Public Office.

"Installation View offers a significant new account of photography in Australia, told through its most important exhibitions and models of collection and display. By looking at what lies beyond the frame the exhibition speaks not only to pictures, but to the people and places that nurture them."
Find more information about the book here

CYRUS TANG in The National Works on Paper Prize

CYRUS TANG Almost Home - 2, 2022, pigment print on cotton rag, mounted on dibond, 80 x 80 cm

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG. From 982 applicants, her photographic work Almost Home has been shortlisted for the 2022 National Works on Paper Prize to be held this August at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Almost Home was selected by a judging panel including Clothilde Bullen (Head of Indigenous Programs and Initiatives and Curator of Indigenous Art, AGWA), Max Delany (Artistic Director and CEO, ACCA) and Jenna Lee (artist, NWOP finalist 2020)

Read more about the prize here

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT in ARTIST PROFILE

IMAGE: Honey Long & Prue Stent, Oil Spill, 2022, Archival pigment print, 87 x 72 cm, edition of 5.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT have been featured online in an Artist Profile article.

“As two friends who first started taking photos together when we were sixteen years old, our artistic process sprung from a place of curiosity, impulse and desire. This sense of playfulness has become the foundational element with which we continue to work. Although precognitive at the time, we seemed to recognise a mutual desire to explore our female bodies, sexuality, and surrounding natural environment as a way of feeling connected to the space we were occupying.”

Read the article HERE

JACKY REDGATE interviewed by ART COLLECTOR

JACKY REDGATE was interviewed by Louise Martin-Chew for a mammoth profile in the recent issue of Art Collector Magazine.

In Redgate's practice, the drawing together of historical sources, narratives referring to modernist heritage, migration, convalescence, feminism, studio constructions and an aesthetic that is slick and highly resolved is united, at times, with the emotional slippage of her more personal essays. It is, inevitably, compelling viewing, as evidenced by her presence in institutional collection worldwide.

READ MORE in Art Collector’s 100th issue (April/June 2022)

CYRUS TANG in the Sovereign Asian Art Prize

IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, 'Carriage', 2021, Pigment print on dibond, 100 x 67.5cm.

CYRUS TANG has been shortlisted in The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, with her work 'Carriage'.

The prize aims to increase international exposure of artists in Asia-Pacific, will also raising funds to bring the therapeutic benefits of art to disadvantaged children in Hong Kong.

'Carriage' will be on display at Art Central in Hong Kong
from 26 - 29 May 2022. You can view the artworks online and vote for your favourite on The Sovereign Art Foundation’s website, link in their bio @sovereignasianartprize.

JOHN YOUNG mentioned in ART COLLECTOR

IMAGE: JOHN YOUNG, ‘The Forgotten Message’, 2004, Digital print and oil on linen, 272.5 x 191cm.

JOHN YOUNG’S ‘The Forgotten Message’ has been named by Andy Butler in Art Collector as one of the 10 works available in commercial gallery stockrooms that he would take home now if he could.

READ MORE in Art Collector’s 100th issue (April/June 2022)

CYRUS TANG in the Wyndham Art Prize

CYRUS TANG, 'Burning Ritual', 2021, Pigment print on cotton rag, 90 x 90cm.

Selected out of 560 artwork entries, CYRUS TANG has been named as a finalist in the 2022 Wyndham Art Prize with her work 'Burning Ritual'.

Featuring 84 shortlisted works the exhibition will run from 2 June - 7 August 2022 at Wyndham Art Gallery, with winners announced at the opening event 6:30 - 8:30pm June 2, 2022.

Press for DANI MARTI 's exhibition 'Oh Canola!'

Fabulous press for DANI MARTI’S latest exhibition ‘Oh Canola!’ at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, which was mentioned in the Newcastle Herald.

The main gallery space at Maitland Regional Art Gallery has one big, long wall and Dani Marti has created one work to fill it. It's all yellow, and stretches more than 11 metres. Made of several panels, installed by Marti to flow seamlessly, the wall sculpture titled Oh Canola! is made of almost 10,000 circular reflectors, the kind used along roads, but customised in yellow.
– JO BEVAN

EXHIBITION CLOSING – MAY 29th

JOHN McDONALD on JULIE RRAP at the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

John McDonald published a perceptive review in the Sydney Morning Herald today, writing on Sebastian Goldspink's "pioneering" curation of the current Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at AGSA, which includes a focus on JULIE RRAP. Importantly McDonald pays homage to the late, great artist Hossein Valamanesh and visionary philanthropist Neil Balnaves, who are both dearly missed by friends and colleagues in Australia and abroad.

McDonald concludes with glowing praise of JULIE RRAP's installation, writing,

Julie Rrap, now one of the elders in this group, takes a more direct approach, with a multi-channel video installation called Write Me (2021-22), which features 26 images of her own face, laid out like the letters on a keyboard ... One can only admire Rrap’s bravery in creating so many self-portraits in which she has added years and wrinkles to her own face. It’s simultaneously an embrace and a defiance of the ageing process. In the context of this Biennial, in which the older artists seem to have produced the best, most coherent work, it’s also a testament to the value of experience.

READ MORE here

TRACY SARROFF in ARTIST PROFILE

TRACY SARROFF is featured in Artist Profile, with an article written by Lee-Ann Joy.

As Joy writes,
In a micro-galaxy of luminous tentacles that move and contort with a gentle ebb and flow, Red-Green Morph, 2018-20, is an elegant beauty and insight into the mysterious and molecular world of the microscopic.

READ MORE here

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS in ‘Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now'

Eugenia Raskopoulos, Untitled no. 6, Gadigal land/Sydney, 1991 from the series Goddess/mother/daughter, gelatin silver photograph; Eugenia Raskopoulos, Untitled # 12, Gadigal land/Sydney, 1992 from the series Dangling virgins — Suicide for women in ancient Greece, gelatin silver photograph

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS is included in Part Two of ‘Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now’ at the National Gallery of Australia.

‘Know My Name’ tells a new story of Australian art. Looking at moments in which women created new forms of art and cultural commentary such as feminism, the exhibition highlights creative and intellectual relationships between artists across time.

‘Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now’ continues until 26 June 2022.

New interview with JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP recently spoke with Kerrie O’Brien from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald about her photographic series ‘Blow Back’, currently on view at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. This series continues her observations on the representation of women in art and society ——“In advertising, women often have their eyes closed and their mouths slightly open, it’s like this vacant entry point.”

“I always argue that the portrait is always more about the person looking at it than the person being photographed,” Rrap shared in the interview, “When you photograph somebody, it’s like this awkward moment when you have this existential crisis about who you are...while a portrait carries all this weight, it’s just a moment in time. Photography captures a fraction of a second of you but fixes you in time… They could be thinking about what they had for breakfast."

Read the full interview here. ‘Blow Back' is on display Centre for Contemporary Photography as part of the exhibition ‘We, Us, Them: CCP x Belfast Exposed’ until 17 April.