ARC ONE Partners with Jayden Ong Wines

ARC ONE Gallery is thrilled to partner with Jayden Ong Wines.

A celebrated sommelier who turned first-generation winemaker, Jayden launched his first wine label, One Block, in 2010. Since then, he has established three more: Jayden Ong, La Maison de Ong and his range of skin-contact wines, Moonlit Forest.

Using minimal agricultural chemicals and preservatives is important to Jayden: “I’ve always found it weird that you kill one thing to grow another with chemicals.” His wines give us an opportunity to “grow pure-tasting fruit.”

We’ll be serving Jayden Ong Wines at our next opening this Wednesday (6PM, 8 February), for our group exhibition NATURE KNOT. You can also visit Jayden's gorgeous Winery & Cellar Bar in Healesville.

ANNE ZAHALKA's 'Radical Reimaginings' the Subject of Curatorial Talk at Art Gallery of Ballarat

Zahalka at ‘Beating About The Bush’.

CURATOR'S TALK

ANNE ZAHALKA’S RADICAL REIMAGININGS

Anne Zahalka's work is the subject of an upcoming curator’s talk at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, for their fantastic exhibition, ‘Beating About The Bush’, with
curator KELLY GELLATLY.

Visitors will note that Zahalka’s work is central to this display, with many of her most significant photographs included. Join Gellatly at 2 pm, 4 February 2023. Details on the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s website.

Bookings essential

GUAN WEI's 'Big Mouse Kingdom' on display at Chau Chak Wing Museum

Guan Wei, 'Big Mouse Kingdom', 2005, acrylic on canvas.

GUAN WEI's major work, 'Big Mouse Kingdom', is currently on display at Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, as part of 'The Sherman Gift'. 

In 2021, the Museum received a generous gift of artworks from the collection of Dr Gene Sherman AM and the late Brian Sherman AM. The exhibition features these works and explores Gene and Brian's life of cultural engagement. 

JULIE RRAP 'Hairline Crack' Installed at AGNSW

Julie Rrap, 'Hairline crack', 1992, acrylic glass and hair, Installation dimensions variable.

It is fantastic to see JULIE RRAP'S key work 'Hairline Crack', 1992, installed among the permanent collection display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. 

Rrap first presented 'Hairline crack' in the 9th Biennale of Sydney. From a distance, the artwork resembles a black line drawn on the wall, evoking, perhaps, the work of Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner or other artists associated with minimalism. On closer inspection, however, it is quickly discovered that the line is in fact made from an unruly excess of human hair.

The work might be seen to meditate on the tension between the organic and the synthetic or between order and chaos. The perfectly straight, level line reveals itself to be disrupted by something organic and unpredictable; a part of our bodies associated with beauty that is also cut and discarded.

NEW RELEASE: IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo'

NEW RELEASE

A collection of Imants Tillers' writing, 'Credo: Selected Essays', has just been published by Giramondo Press:

"These essays express an aesthetic credo which has larger implications for both literature and art created out of the experience of migration . . . What he calls ‘the revolt of the margins’ is evident in the provocative nature of his writing too, in its wit and irony and intelligence."

Perfect Christmas gift for the art lover in your life. Available now in stores and on Giramondo Publishing’s website.

MARINA ROLFE selected for ARC ONE Artist Opportunity Award

ARC ONE Director Fran Clark and Artist Marina Rolfe.

ARC ONE Gallery teamed up with the VCA to offer an Artist Opportunity to an outstanding graduate from the 2022 VCA Masters or Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Program. We are thrilled to announce that Marina Rolfe has been awarded the ARC ONE Artist Opportunity.
 
This opportunity grants Rolfe the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE in early 2023, and receive mentorship from Director Fran Clark and Associate Director Elizabeth Errol. When Fran and Elizabeth selected Rolfe for this award, they were impressed by her attentive and sensitive landscape painting, and excited by her tactile painted surfaces.
 
The artist popped in this week to visit and set plans in motion for our group show in February, Nature Knot.

Visit Marina’s website here >

JANET LAURENCE launches Karina Dias Pires’s new book ‘Artists at Home’.

JANET LAURENCE will be launching Karina Dias Pires’s new book ‘Artists at Home’ tonight!

This fascinating publication features interviews and images with insights into the studio practice of 32 Australian women artists. Speaking on the impact of ‘home’ in her art making, Laurence will be in conversation with Dias Pires, alongside Camie Lyons and Louise Olsen.

Thursday, 1 December, 5—7PM
Olsen Gallery, Sydney.

LYDIA WEGNER - On Space

ARC ONE is thrilled to be staging LYDIA WEGNER’s latest solo exhibition, ‘On Space’, as our last exhibition for 2022.

This exhibition represents a pared-back approach to her characteristic theatrical abstraction. Wegner’s new series showcases the bravura balancing act that occurs within her mesmerizing images.

30 November 2022 - 4 February 2023

ANNE ZAHALKA features in Art Guide Australia preview

Featuring in The Art Gallery of Ballarat’s current exhibition ‘Beating About The Bush’ Anne Zahalka is spotlighted in the November/December issue of Art Guide Australia.

“A major inspiration for the show was Zahalka’s 1985 exhibition The Landscape Revisited. As Tegart explains, ‘Zahalka chose to recast characters within the landscape to offer a more inclusive and compassionate portrayal of the people—migrants, First Nations, women, people of non-Christian faiths—missing from Australian Impressionist narratives . . . Her work is as much a comment on society and the art world as it is about the painters themselves.’ Such comments abound in Beating about the Bush.”

View the article in-print on page 54 or online
The exhibition continues until February 19, 2023

Anne Zahalka, The Immigrants, 1983, Collage on found images.

LYDIA WEGNER features in Art Guide Australia

We are thrilled to announce that LYDIA WEGNER features in the latest issue of Art Guide Australia with an extraordinary insight into her unique practice!

Experience Lydia's illuminous work in her upcoming show 'On Space' opening at ARC ONE Gallery November 30.

DANI MARTI features in the exhibition 'Life, Still' at Maitland Regional Art Gallery

FROM THE MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY COLLECTION

For many artists, capturing a point in time is a compelling endeavour.
This exhibition brings together works of art from the Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection that land us in the beauty, stillness and rapture of the present moment.

DANI MARTI, Dust ( between White and Grey), 2020.

JOHN DAVIS acquired by AGNSW

MAJOR ACQUISTION

We are thrilled to announce that JOHN DAVIS epic sculptural work ‘Nomad’ has been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Nomad was a key piece in the posthumous survey, John Davis: Presence, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 2010. A pinnacle of the artist’s delicate sculptural constructions, ‘Nomad’ is an enormous grid of the artist’s signature fish-forms. Each fish-form is painstakingly modelled in eucalyptus twigs, string, paper, calico and bituminous paint. An extraordinary display of Davis’ sensitivity to the architecture of the wilderness.

JOHN DAVIS, Nomad (and detail), 1998, twigs, cotton thread, calico, bituminous paint, (1-150) 163 x 1400 x 18cm (variable) (installation).

JOHN DAVIS, Nomad (and detail), 1998, twigs, cotton thread, calico, bituminous paint, (1-150) 163 x 1400 x 18cm (variable) (installation).

MURRAY FREDERICKS premieres new film 'Blaze'

Premiering at the Bondi Pavillion over the weekend MURRAY FREDERICKS new film BLAZE accompanies a soon to be launched new series of large-scale landscape photographs with fire as their central theme.

The sunning observational documentary was directed and edited by Academy Award-nominated team Bentley Dean (director) and Tania Nehme (editor).

PAT BRASSINGTON and ANNE ZAHALKA feature in the current exhibition 'The Cost of Living' at The Art Gallery of Western Australia

PAT BRASSINGTON, Untitled #13, from Cambridge Road, 2007, Pigment Print, Edition of 8 + 2 A/P, 45.5 x 32.5 cm.

“What is the price of living in the ways we do? What do we value, and who decides? How do we make livings and meanings that get in the way of flourishing? And who gets to define what flourishing means?

The Cost of Living floats these questions through art works on various themes such as: the lure and limits of aspirational romance, social and emotional dislocation, toxic living environments, police violence, the ravages of war and the impact of social media.”

Robert Cook - AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian Art

Exhibition continues until January 29, 2023.

JANET LAURENCE to deliver Gilbert Fellowship Lecture

Janet Laurence in her studio. Photo: Jacquie Manning.

This afternoon at 4pm, hear JANET LAURENCE deliver the Gilbert Fellowship Lecture at the Sydney College of the Arts.

Janet Laurence’s work echoes architecture while retaining organic qualities and a sense of instability and transience. Her work occupies the liminal zones or meeting places of art, science, imagination and memory. Profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms, Laurence often produces work in response to specific sites or environments using a diverse range of materials. Alchemical transformation, history and perception are underlying themes in her exhibition work. Hear the Gilbert Fellow speak to her practice and illustrious career.

JANET LAURENCE in Conversation at MGA

JANET LAURENCE joined MGA Director Anouska Phizacklea, along with other Bowness Photography Prize finalists Kiron Robinson, and Amos Gebhardt to discuss their diverse practices.

Exhibition continues until November 13.

CYRUS TANG selected for Melbourne Now 2023

ARC ONE is delighted to announce that Cyrus Tang has been selected by the National Gallery of Victoria for 'Melbourne Now' 2023. Congratulations Cyrus!

Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, 'Melbourne Now' will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.

The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the latest art, architecture, design, and cultural practice shaping Melbourne.

Bold in scale, Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career and senior practitioners as well as local collectives.

'Melbourne Now' will run from 24 March - 20 August 2023 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square

AMATHOUS - NIKE SAVVAS

ARC ONE Gallery presents Amathous, a highly anticipated exhibition from leading contemporary artist NIKE SAVVAS.

Widely celebrated for its dynamic transformations of colour, light, movement and opticality, Nike Savvas’ work transcends the material conventions of painting to embrace a broader zone of physical, perceptual and experiential immersion. Conceptually grounded, Savvas’ art practice is personally and politically charged.

In March of this year Savvas traveled to the ancient site of Amathous in Cyprus where the landscape - sun, sea, blue sky, and vivid yellow flowering Lapsana (gathered by her paternal grandparents) became visceral constants on her journey. Savvas’ research took her along the coast from Polis Chrysochous where she visited museums and archaeological sites documenting traces of the early first people of Cyprus. At Amathous earlier generations of indigenous Cypriots had maintained not only their culture but also the now extinct Eteocypriot language. This historical record, pared with Savvas’ personal genealogy embodies “a history that spans time and place, the ancient to the recent past. It speaks to family, past and present, and future generations”. The ancient ruins of Amathous are testament to this living history and left Savvas overwhelmed with its “poignancy and significance“.

The major new works Amathous (for Chloe), Lapsana, Diamond Dusk and Diamond Light, represent a personal and revelatory journey for Savvas transforming her experience of landscape and place. With a practice often referencing Op art and hard-edge abstraction, Savvas conflates colour theory with complex mathematical algorithms to further activate the work. The azure sky and reflective rhythms in shifting ocean light invoke a zone of wonder and phenomenon, from DNA sequencing to the ephemeral ghosts of her forebears.

Nike Savvas is a senior Australian artist based in Sydney. Trained as a painter, she works across scale and materials completing numerous large-scale installations for the Toi Art Te Papa, Wellington; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Camden Arts Centre, London; Artspace, Sydney; IMA, Brisbane; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Leeds Art Gallery, UK; Southbank Centre, London, UK.

Nike Savvas’ work is held in many public collections including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Auckland Art Gallery; Toi Art Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Cyprus Ministry of Culture Collection (National Collection); Tate Library Collection; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; British Museum, London; Chelsea College of Art and Design, London; The Royal College of Art, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; UTS Gallery Art Collection, Sydney; RMIT University Art Collection, Melbourne; Deakin University Museum, Melbourne; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

In 2012 Savvas had a major international survey show ‘Liberty and Anarchy’ at Leeds Art Gallery, UK. In 2005 she was included in the historic exhibition Visual Music, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles representing a major development in the history of visual music, and was the recipient of a coveted Jury Prize (Gold Medal) 11th Triennale of India, Dehli, The Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, the A.C.T. Creative Arts Fellowship, and an Australia Council Fellowship.

19 October - 26 November 2022

IMANTS TILLERS features in current exhibition 'Captivate: 100 Years of the National School'

IMANTS TILLERS, Millers Point Morning, 2022, Synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 9 canvas boards.

IMANTS TILLERS painted ‘Millers Point Morning’ (2022) for the exhibition ‘Captivate: 100 Years of the National School’, which is currently on display at NAS Gallery. Imants completed two ‘Summer Schools’ at East Sydney Tech / National Art School when he was 16 and 17 years old. This nine panel painting quotes the work ‘Millers Point, Morning’ 1952 by John Passmore who was an influential painting teacher at ESTC in the late 1950s.

ANNE ZAHALKA & JANET LAURENCE feature in the upcoming exhibition 'Beating About The Bush' at The Ballarat Art Gallery

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 2017, Pigment ink on rag paper, 100 x 134 cm.

This exhibition brings Art Gallery of Ballarat’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings together with female photographers who have re-examined the Australian Impressionists and brought a new lens to the Australian landscape.  

Themes such as gender, hardship of life in the bush, immigration, urban growth, environmental concerns and the presence of Indigenous peoples are explored through the work of some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary artists.

OPENING NOVEMBER 5