HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT feature in 'Conflated' at Deakin Art Gallery

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT with Amrita Hepi are featured in 'Conflated' now open at @deakinartgallery

The exhibition is a @netsvictoria touring exhibition, curated by Zoë Bastin and Claire Watson.

When we inhale and exhale, our bodies transform through the process of inflation and deflation. Drawing on the inflatable form as both material and metaphor, ‘Conflated’ brings disparate artists together to explore bodies, environments and cultures through contemporary art. Here, the cycle of breathing serves as a framework through which a wide array of experiences, behaviours and expressions are examined.

'Conflated' continues until Friday 9 June 2023, open Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm. Admission is free.

Amrita Hepi with Honey Long and Prue Stent ‘Omphallus’ (still), 2021, digital video, 3 minutes 30 seconds.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT PHOTO Editions Book now available for pre-order

The newest PHOTO Editions book ‘Drinking From The Eye’ by artists HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT is now available for pre-order! Link in bio.

Commissioned by Photo Australia for the PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography @photofestivalau, 'Drinking From The Eye' is the first photobook by the Australian artists and is co-published by Photo Australia and Perimeter Editions @perimeterbooks.

Dreamlike, fluid, saccharine, gritty and fleshy, Long and Stent challenge and captivate audiences with powerful imagery that is both subversive and surreal.

JANET LAURENCE on display at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf

JANET LAURENCE's 'Breathing forest' (2022) is featured in 'Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation' at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.

This exhibition recognises the importance of trees and ecosystems to societal health.

'Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation' continues until 30 April.

Janet Laurence, 'Breathing forest', 2022, 10 silk voile dye sublimation prints and video projection, 900 x 3000 cm (overall).

ANNE ZAHALKA on display at the Wollongong Art Gallery

ANNE ZAHALKA, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, archival pigment ink on rag paper, edition of 3, 115 x 190 cm.

ANNE ZAHALKA's absorbing image is on display on Dharawal Land, at the Wollongong Art Gallery, in the new exhibition 'REFLECTION: Works from the Collection'.

In this work "Zahalka crouches in the foreground of the Illawarra undergrowth as both observer, stranger and witness to the landscape populated by introduced species, including a group of tourists. A haze of smoke can also be seen towards the tops of the trees, referencing the ongoing bushfire smoke that covered the rainforest at the time of the making of the work." This wonderful description is courtesy of Boroondara’s Town Hall Gallery exhibition catalogue, 'You are here' from 2020.

REFLECTION is open 1 April to 20 August 2023.

JULIE RRAP finalist in the 2023 Dobell Drawing Prize

Congratulations to JULIE RRAP, who is a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize 2023.

National Art School presents the Dobell prize, which celebrates contemporary drawing.

Rrap’s video work ‘DRAW OUT’ is a brilliant investigation of drawing ‘the nude’:

“The drawing is a kind of haptic expression as a naked Julie Rrap rolls back and forth over paper secured to the floor. Here she marks the parameters of her body in charcoal. She can’t actually see her body as one entity in this process, it is not an object of her gaze. What we see is the writing and erasing of a body in pieces, a fragmented body, a body that wears the erasure of the drawing on its skin.” @annemarsh56, 2022

All finalists will be on show at the NAS Gallery until 10th June 2023.

JULIE RRAP, ‘Drawn Out’, 2022, video, 12 min.

Now Representing MARINA ROLFE

NOW REPRESENTING

We are thrilled to announce that Marina Rolfe is now represented by ARC ONE.

Rolfe straddles the line between intuition and decisiveness. Every mark, every colour in her work feels selected and deliberate, yet they impart an overwhelming feeling of spontaneity.

This powerful combination of opposites—control and improvisation—is the result of Rolfe's well-honed skills and her superb visual intelligence.

To request more information on Rolfe, including details of currently available works, see the link in our bio.

Marina Rolfe portrait, courtesy of the Design Files.

CHARLES GREEN / LYNDELL BROWN feature in 'Art in Conflict' at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery

ART IN CONFLICT

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green are featured in ART IN CONFLICT, which opens today at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville. These images are of last year's display at the Shepparton Art Museum. Be sure to catch this leg of the tour in Townsville!

This is a travelling exhibition organised by the Australian War Memorial. As curator Dr Anthea Gunn writes, "Contemporary artists’ responses to conflict bring to light untold stories, reveal neglected histories and deepen our understanding of Australia’s experience of conflict, both past and present."

Multiple works by Brown and Green are included in this display, highlighting their significant role as researchers in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project that inspired the exhibition.

IMAGES: 'Art and Conflict' installation view, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, 2023. Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. Slide two shows a collaborative work with @joncattapan

JANET LAURENCE Artist Talk 'Artists on the Ice: Interpreting the Poetics of Antartica'

ARTISTS' TALK

Across an evening of storytelling, performance and conversation, JANET LAURENCE will join a panel of four exceptional artists who have documented the power and beauty of Antarctica.

Moderated by the wonderful JULIE RRAP, in her role as Director of Sydney College of the Arts, this talk at the University of Sydney is not to be missed! Other panellists include Alice Giles AM, Professor Jean McNeil, and Dr Diana Chester.

Thursday, 20 April 2023, 6PM. This is a free event, but registration is essential, and seats are going fast! Register on the @sydney_uni website.

CYRUS TANG Artist Talk NGV Melbourne Now

ARTIST'S TALK

For the opening weekend of Melbourne Now, CYRUS TANG will be in conversation with Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Join Tang as she discusses her recent body of work 'Tree Studies'.

FREE TALK. All welcome: Sun 26 Mar, 11.45am – 12.15 pm, Exhibition Space, Level 2. See the @ngvmelbourne website for more details.

JULIE RRAP features in Harper's Bazaar Australia

"[There] is this invisibility around the ageing female body, and it almost sends the message that a post-reproduction body doesn’t have any purpose.”

Early in 2022, Rrap exhibited her new video series DRAWN OUT at ARC ONE for the first time. This significant body of work halted audiences in their tracks:

“I think it’s the first show I’ve done where people, both male and female, were just completely absorbed by watching these videos,” she says. “It was almost like they were hungry to see this footage of an older woman drawing herself naked.”

Visit ARC ONE Gallery today to see this powerful piece in our Viewing Rooms.

JANET LAURENCE presenting at 'Transhemispheric Dialogues' conference

JANET LAURENCE is presenting at the conference 'Transhemispheric Dialogues' at Loughborough University this Friday 17 March.

The conference brings together scholars, artists, curators and activists across four ‘long-clock’ roundtables, to explore the transformative potential of planetary feminisms for decolonial, ecological thinking and creative praxis in many and more-than-human worlds.

Janet will speak alongside Michelle Antoinette (Monash University), Deborah Hart (National Gallery of Australia), Anna Arabindan (Princeton University), Lisa Reihana (visual artist, Aotearoa, New Zealand), and Lize van Robbroeck (University of Stellenbosch).

You can watch the panel online via https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/events/2023/march/planetaryfeminisms/

IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo' Reviewed in the Canberra Times & Saturday Paper

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.