Imants Tillers' ‘Credo’ was reviewed by Sasha Grishin in The Canberra Times and Miriam Cosic in The Saturday Paper last Sat 18 Feb.
PAT BRASSINGTON Featured in Art Guide Australia
Pat Brassington, Parachute, (detail) 2005, pigment print, 82 x 62cm, Purchased 2018, 2018.035, Wollongong Art Gallery.
"PAT BRASSINGTON, in 'Parachute', 2005, deploys pink like a narcotic, using it to wash her strange scene in a dreamy and unsettling light." Jane O'Sullivan writing for ART GUIDE.
This is the last week to see Brassington, alongside Jacky Redgate, John Brack, David McDiarmid and more in THINKING THROUGH PINK at the Wollongong Art Gallery, guest curated by Sally Grey.
ANNE ZAHALKA Features in 'Recreation: Art, Sport and Leisure' at Project8 Gallery
See this dazzling ANNE ZAHALKA work on display in the exhibition RECREATION: ART, SPORT AND LEISURE opening tonight from 6PM at Project8 Gallery.
'Santa’s Kingdom Christmas Tunnel, Fox Studios, Sydney' (2003/04) depicts adults wandering mesmerised through a tunnel decorated with Christmas baubles and fairy lights. Transported to a world of make-believe, they obediently file through on their journey to Santa’s Kingdom. Thsi work was the pinnacle of Zahalka's ‘Leisureland’ series.
See you at @project8gallery Friday 24 February, Level 2, 417 Collins Street Melbourne.
MURRAY FREDERICKS 'Witness' Opens at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
WITNESS, a showcase of majestic, large-scale images by MURRAY FREDERICKS, opens tomorrow at Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery.
Featuring works from his acclaimed 'Salt', 'Icesheet' and 'Hector' series, the artist hopes that "the spaces in these images will open up to the viewers another space, a greater space, where they can insert their own meanings into the photographic moment."
Fredericks will also be in conversation on Saturday, 25 February. Bookings essential, on the @qvmag_official website.
DANI MARTI 'Orifices' Features in 'Inside/Out' at The Night Galleries
DANI MARTI'S 'Orifices' features in the exhibition 'Inside/Out' at the Night Galleries in Kuwumi Place, Newcastle, to celebrate Sydney WorldPride.
Newcastle Art Gallery has partnered with curator Jasmine Fletcher (@flowersandrice), founder of local community organisation Queer and Now, to develop 'Inside/Out', an exhibition that brings together works by local artists with those from the Gallery's collection.
'Inside/Out' speaks to the dichotomy of invisible and visible queer experience. The exhibition celebrates the central role of art in rendering visible the full spectrum of queer experience.
The exhibition opens tonight, 5-8pm.
Dani Marti, 'Orifices', 2000-2005.
'GUAN WEI: Out of The Ordinary' Opens at Vermillion Art
Guan Wei, 'Ocean 1', 2013, bronze, edition of 5, 35 x 49 x 33 cm.
'GUAN WEI: Out of the Ordinary' has just opened at Vermillion Art in Sydney.
This exhibition is a selection of Guan Wei’s work over the last 12 years. In the ancient Chinese calendar, 12 years is one Ji (一纪 ). It also refers to sufficient time for a major journey. Guan Wei has imbued his works with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. He entices us to go beyond the ordinary, with him on this brilliant odyssey.
The exhibition continues until 16 March.
CATHERINE WOO Commission at Merinda Park Station Now Open
CATHERINE WOO's stunning commission for Merinda Park Station, Cranbourne is now open.
The Merinda Park Station stands on the site of a pre-colonial marshland, and Woo's artwork 'Reflections', places the memory of water overhead. As Woo writes, the installation recalls 'patterns created by water droplets, or the undulations created around moving reeds or trees that once flourished in the wetland.'
OPENING: NATURE KNOT
OPENING TONIGHT
NATURE KNOT: what does it mean to be tied, bound, connected, tangled with nature?
An exhibition of work tethered to the natural world. Humans create knots to secure and to hold onto things tightly. But the natural world hates constraints and resists our desire to ensnare.
Featuring ARC ONE Gallery’s Cyrus Tang, Honey Long & Prue Stent, joined by Marina Rolfe, the 2022 recipient of the ARC ONE Artist Opportunity
All welcome. OPEN from 6PM, Wednesday, 8 February.
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.
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.
