Drawn out (2022) is one of Julie Rrap’s most recent performative self-portraits, the latest in a performative project that began almost fifty years ago.
The work, which is in effect a life drawing, comprises a video-performance of Rrap – shot from above, naked and holding a stick of Conté crayon – drawing on a large sheet of paper, moving under instruction of an unseen supervisor. Over a 12-minute period, Rrap’s body and the sheet of paper become covered in black marks as artist, body, sheet and drawing merge in a neat riposte to the way the genre of the nude, and life drawing in particular, usually position the artist and the naked subject. Together, the drawing and the video-performance produce a compelling, feminist self-portrait that is at once poetic and full of pathos. Key to the work’s disruptive power is the fact that this is the body of a 72-year-old woman, whose body we have looked at in the process of making art and ageing since the late 1970s.
'ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist's archive' opens at MAPh
Coming to Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) this June: ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive.
Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the ANNE ZAHALKA's working life and her creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned. Accompanying the exhibition will be a major publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.
IMANTS TILLERS 'Credo' reviewed in Artist Profile
IMANTS TILLERS’ selected essays ‘Credo’ is reviewed by Brooke Boland in the newest issue of ARTIST PROFILE:
‘The recycling, mosaic-like, pieced together nature of Tillers’s practice is similar to the pieced together feeling of his new collection of essays, ‘Credo’, 2023, published by Giramondo Publishing. “Everything exists to end up in a book,” he quotes the French poet Mallarme in this essay “Journey to Nowhere,” 2018. Tillers’s various essays and contributions to journals including Art & Text, Art and Australia, and Heat, among others, art no exception.” – Brooke Boland on ‘Credo’ in Artists Profile
Pick up a copy of Credo when visiting Tillers’ new exhibition AFTER DE CHIRICO at ARC ONE Gallery.
PETER CALLAS on display at the Campbelltown Arts Centre
PETER CALLAS, If Pigs Could Fly [still], 1987, single channel video work, duration: 4:20 mins.
Pioneering video artist PETER CALLAS is on show in the programme 'SHAPESHIFTERS' screening this week at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, as part of the 'The National: Australian art now'.
ONE DAY ONLY! Saturday 3 June 2023, 11am & 2pm.
See 'If Pigs Could Fly' (1987) by Callas, alongside films by Arthur and Connie Cantrill, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, and Tracey Moffatt.
IMANTS TILLERS 'Thrown into the World' Documentary Screening
SPECIAL CINEMA EVENT
Please join Art Atlas for an exclusive screening of the feature-length documentary 'Thrown into the World', directed by Antra Cilinska of Juris Podnieks Studio , which offers unique insight into Tilers’ creative proces and cross-cultural identity.
See the documentary at Kino Cinemas in the CBD, before heading across to ARC ONE to view Tillers' current exhibition 'After de Chirico'. Bookings essential (see below for details)
DATE: Wednesday 31st May
TIME: 10am for a 10.30am start
VENUE: Kino Cinema , 45 Collins St, Melbourne BOOKING: Places are strictly limited. Please book via this link to reserve your ticket: htps:/www.trybooking.com/CIFUU
IMANTS TILLERS - After De Chirico Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk
OPENING THIS AFTERNOON
IMANTS TILLERS: AFTER DE CHIRICO opens at ARC ONE Gallery today, Saturday 27 May, 3-5pm.
In a relationship that transcends the usual definitions of homage and influence, Imants Tillers has maintained an intimacy with the work of Giorgio de Chirico over five decades.
Please join us for an artists talk with Ian McLean and Clare Fuery-Jones on Tillers, de Chirico and the nature of influence and homage in his work.
ARC ONE Gallery hosts MAPh's Artist Photography Auction
This week ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, Lydia Wegner and Anne Zahalka.
Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.
CYRUS TANG named as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize
IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, Tree Study – 5 (print only), 2022, pigment print, edition of 5, 100 x 67.5 cm
CYRUS TANG's stunning work, 'Tree Study 5', was selected as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize.
Sunday and Monday, 21-22 May are the last two days to see the Omnia. Since its beginnings in 1971, the event has grown in significance and popularity to become one of Australia’s premier art awards and exhibitions.
Book Launch - HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT
This Saturday, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT will be launching their debut book 'Drinking From The Eye' at the Melbourne Art Book Fair.
“We try to find points of connection where the outside world and our inner worlds overlap." - Honey Long & Prue Stent
Jointly published by Perimeter Editions and PHOTO Australia, the launch will be held at the National Gallery of Victoria, Saturday 20 May, 2:00pm - 2:45pm. Bookings not required. All welcome.
IMANTS TILLERS in 'Photography and the Performative'
Imants Tillers has a fascinating work comprised of 189 Polaroid images that is now on display at 'Photography and the Performative' exhibition at the Chau Chak Wing Museum in Sydney curated by Katrina Liberiou.
'If I close my eyes' (2021) is a conceptual work comprises Polaroids made between 1980 and 1982. Tillers documented those he encountered, asking his sitters to close their eyes. Interspersed with these portraits are landscape scenes depicting the view from his flat overlooking Sirius Cove.
IMANTS TILLERS, [details from:] If I close my eyes, 2021, 189 Polaroids 1980–1982, nos. 112966–113161, 10.7 x 8.9 cm (each); 75 x 239 cm (overall). Collection: University of Sydney
NIKE SAVVAS on display at Pavement Gallery (Manchester, UK)
NIKE SAVVAS is exhibiting her brilliant installation 'Finale (Embrace)', 2023 in the Pavement Gallery (Manchester, UK).
Simulating a confetti-filled finale, and activated by electric fans, Finale (Embrace) adopts a celebratory tone that conjures ends and new beginnings. Referencing Abstract Expressionism, it speaks to the spirit of the moment and to open possibility, to the embrace following separation, an embrace of love and longing.
Pavement Gallery delivers an ambitious exhibition programme of international contemporary art. In the past it has featured the work of John Cage, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, Melanie Smith, Martin Creed, David Batchelor, SUPERFLEX, and others.
Until 13th July 2023
JOHN DAVIS Acquired by Heide Museum of Modern Art
ANNOUNCEMENT
Three pivotal pieces by JOHN DAVIS have recently been acquired by Heide Museum of Modern Art.
These acquisitions include 'Boxed work', 1971 (image 2). This piece represents a turning point in the artist's oeuvre, holding the documentation to Davis' first installations, which were created on the site of John and Sunday's Heide residence.
This acquisition follows another recent acquisition of a major piece by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Davis is one of this country's most significant land artists, and ARC ONE Gallery is thrilled to see these important pieces join the major collection at Heide MOMA.
JACKY REDGATE features in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection'
JACKY REDGATE's hypnotic work 'Light Throw (Mirrors) #5 ' is currently in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection' at Hazelhurst Art Centre
The exhibition represents the strength of The University of Wollongong’s collection, with a showcase of over 100 works by leading Australian artists. The exhibition continues until 18 June.
JACKY REDGATE, Light Throw (Mirrors) #5, 2010, C-Type photographs (hand-printed from original negative), 126 x 158 cm. Collection: University of Wollongong Art Collection.
MARINA ROLFE - Solo Exhibition at City Library
MARINA ROLFE has a solo exhibition with The City of Melbourne opening tomorrow at Gallery at City Library, which is just down Flinders Lane from ARC ONE.
'Marina Rolfe: The Encounter' is a journey into an imaginary realm, with the implied presence of nature.
See the show from 10-28 May at Gallery at City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Naarm Melbourne. Contact ARC ONE for more information about Rolfe's absorbing paintings.
JOHN YOUNG Forthcoming Monologue
HISTORY PROJECTS
These four works from our current exhibition, JOHN YOUNG: 'Spectrumfigures, Naturescapes' mark a signifiant point in the artist's ongoing History Projects.
In 2013, John Young was the recipient of the Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship to research the History of Chinese Diaspora in Australia.
The Fellowship supported work on two-year program with a team of researchers, who unearthed over 130 stories the long presence and rich contribution of the Chinese in Australia since the 1840s. The resultant History Projects are an amalgamation of historical imagery, investigative visual reports and contemporary artistic synthesis that evidence.
Now, a decade after it began, John Young's The History Projects is examined in a forthcoming monograph, edited by Olivier Krischer, published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney (2023).
ANNE ZAHALKA Upcoming Solo Exhibition: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive
Coming to Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) this June: ZAHALKAWORLD – an artist’s archive.
Imaginative, immersive and playful, the exhibition invites audiences into the ANNE ZAHALKA's working life and her creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned. Accompanying the exhibition will be a major publication proudly supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation.
10 June - 10 September 2023
DANI MARTI in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection'
DANI MARTI's moving video work 'Butterflyman' is currently in 'Vision Splendid: Highlights from the University of Wollongong Art Collection' at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.
The exhibition represents the strength of The University of Wollongong's collection, with a showcase of over 100 works by leading Australian artists. The exhibition continues until 18 June.
IMANTS TILLERS presenting at The Bendigo Writers Festival
BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL
Today and tomorrow (5-6 May 2023), IMANTS TILLERS is speaking at two events at the Bendigo Writers Festival.
Catch Tillers with art historian Ian McLean on the topic of 'Art and Influence', today at 1PM.
Tomorrow at 3PM, Tillers will join botanist Tim Entwisle and festival director Rosemary Sorensen as they discuss the significance of 'Influence and Inspiration' in their careers.
ARC ONE hosting upcoming MAPh Artist Photography Auction
MaPh x ARC ONE
ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the upcoming MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks and Lydia Wegner.
Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
Sign up over at @maph_photography (🔗 click the link in their bio), for an auction with a difference! MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.
Auction details are below:
Wednesday 24 May 2023
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne 3000
Doors open 6pm for 7pm auction
Drinks and canapés will be served on arrival.
Honey LONG & Prue STENT, Venus milk, 2015, pigment ink-jet print, 106.0 x 159.0 cm, edition of 3.
Book Launch
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT
ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the launch of two publications for @the_power_institute tonight: Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson's long-awaited 'UnAustralian Art', and 'Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s', spectacularly edited by @pliteau and David Homewood.
Two essential new publications, shown here in front of @johnyoungstudio's gorgeous paintings from our current exhibition, SPECTRUMFIGURES, NATURESCAPES.
6.30-8PM. See you there.
