Janet Laurence, Zylum Flow, 2022, C-Type Photograph, aluminum, 100 x 156 cm.
JANET LAURENCE features in Gippsland Art Galleries latest exhibition Fragile Earth: Extinction with her work 'Zylum Flow'.
Curated by Louisa Waters and Melanie Caple the exhibition draws together the work of 60 artists as part of a new series of biennial exhibitions that will each explore different aspects of our changing climate and its effects on life on earth.
Open until August 28.
Catherine Woo, A Moment in the Day, 2022, Mixed media on aluminium, 120 x 120cm.
We are thrilled to announce that CATHERINE WOO has won The Hadley's Art Prize packing room prize with her mixed media on aluminium work 'A Moment in the Day'.
“The work aims to evoke a particular quality of light that occurs in the landscape. Scattered sunlight – reflected and iridescent: bouncing off rippling water, moving leaves, salt lakes, shards of quartz." - Catherine Woo
Artist JULIE RRAP and Director Fran Clark feature in the current issue of Art Collector, talking about the longevity of their friendship and professional relationship.
"Artists need to believe in their own vision of the world and a gallerist needs to be able to come on for the ride, but their input can provide invaluable guidance when the ride gets a bit bumpy." - Julie Rrap
"We share a respect that is underpinned by a great care for each other's way of working. Julie has always supported me with solid counsel." - Director Fran Clark
Pat Brassington, The Long Goodbye, 2017, 90 x 72 cm, Pigment print.
Installation view of PAT BRASSINGTON’s work as viewed by ARC ONE Gallery Director Fran Clark recently at AGSA.
BRASSINGTON’S ‘The Long Goodbye’ now part of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collection, has been curated by Director Rhana Devenport, into the extraordinary exhibition 'Robert Wilson: Moving portraits'.
The exhibition presents a series of video portraits of international celebrities, artists, ordinary people and animals, created by the New York artist, designer and director.
Guan Wei, Water view no. 15 2011, synthetic polymer paint on canvas. La Trobe University, Geoff Raby Collection of Chinese Art. Image courtesy the artist and ARC ONE © the artist. Photo: Jia De
GUAN WEI and GUO JIAN are included in the forthcoming exhibition ‘In Our Time: Four decades of art from China and beyond - the Geoff Raby Collection’ curated by Latrobe Art Institute.
Opening on 20 August, the exhibition features 70 pieces from the collection of Australian economist and diplomat Dr Geoff Raby AO, with works that address a range of themes from urban life, Chinese philosophy and cultural difference to social justice, human rights and nationhood.
Janet Laurence, ‘Breath of the Forest’ from the ‘Theatre of Trees’ series, 2020, Silk Voile di-sublimation print, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist and ARC ONE Gallery.
JANET LAURENCE is included in the upcoming exhibition ‘Above the Canopy’ at Town Hall Gallery.
‘Above the Canopy’ is a major exhibition celebrating the rich and diverse beauty of the Australian natural environment.
Through hyperreal images of lush and verdant forests alongside detailed studies of insects, botany, birds and geology, the exhibition shows a deep appreciation for our majestic and awe-inspiring world.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #7, 2009-10, silver halide Chromogenic photograph handprinted, edition of 3 + AP, 1/3,
JACKY REDGATE’s work ‘Light Throw (Mirrors) #7’, is included in the exhibition ‘Things that will not sit still’, curated by Melissa Keys.
Drawn from the Heide Museum of Modern Art collection ‘Things that will not sit still’ explores the shifting nature of perception, art and ideas. The exhibition addresses the way in which the selected artworks attend to, or, suggest movement—forward and back across time—shifts in focus, perceptual dissolution, forms of disruption and agitation.
The exhibition continues until 20 November 2022.
PRUE STENT & HONEY LONG performed in Coburg at Schoolhouse Studios with dancers Harrison Ritchie-Jones and Michaela Tancheff. Occurring within a giant inflatable sculpture, which viewers were able to enter, the choreography reflected on this semi-private space, questioning the divisions between the personal and the public, and the interior and the exterior.
This program was part of ‘Evidence of Life’ - a series of temporal activations across the City of Moreland.
This Saturday June 25, JOHN YOUNG will be in casual conversation on the ‘History Projects’ and making art as an artist from a diaspora, at the Museum of Chinese Australian History from 2 – 3 pm.
This will be a wonderful talk by the highly revered John Young.
📷 Portrait of John Young by Maurice Weiss
JANET LAURENCE’s permanent site-specific installation ‘CLIFF’ is a presentation of earth itself, in the form of stones each with its geological story - of time, weather, movement and formation.
We can’t wait to see this work once its fully installed in its new home at Curtin University!
IMANTS TILLERS, Mount Analogue, 1985, oil and synthetic polymer paint, 279 x 571 cm.
IMANTS TILLERS’s momentous, postmodern icon ‘Mount Analogue’ (1985), in The National Gallery of Australia’s new collection display.
Pictured here with its forebear, Eugene von Guérard’s majestic landscape ‘North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko’ (1863).
GUAN WEI, 2002, Synthetic polymer paint on 48 canvases, 317 x 913 cm.
GUAN WEI’s beautiful painting ‘Dow: Island’ (2002) is now on display in The National Gallery of Australia’s Australian art collection.
“When people are thinking about global things they must draw a map. The map is very important to human thinking . . . The work is like a big history that includes ancient animals and human migrations and the situation of refugees in the present.” – Guan Wei
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, 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
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 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
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
GUAN WEI and GUO JIAN feature in a new exhibition 'Our Journeys| Our Stories' at Hurstville Museum and Gallery.
The exhibition explores the Chinese migration history of the Georges River area, interweaving social and cultural history with the work of contemporary Chinese-Australian artists.
Available to view until 24 July 2022
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)
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