Honey Long & Prue Stent are on the cover of The Opéra's latest issue.
Published in Berlin, THE OPÉRA showcases work at the forefront of international, artistic nude photography. The Opéra's committed to presenting a predominantly female perspective on the human body in on show in The Phoenix Issue, featuring the work and accompanying statements by numerous female photographic artists.
JANET LAURENCE at Curtin University
Watch this magnificent behind-the-scenes film documenting Janet Laurence’s permanent site-specific installation CLIFF, installed at The School of Design and the Built Environment Building, at Curtin University, Perth.
“Imagine you are climbing a cliff, as you ascend the viewing staircase. CLIFF brings you the earth, not as a representation but as presentation of Earth itself, in the form of rocks each with its own story - of time, weather, movement, and formation." - Janet Laurence
This project was commissioned by Curtin University and completed with support from Event Engineering and Apparatus. The recently completed The School of Design building was designed by John Wardle Architects.
ART OF LUNCH
Celebrate the RACV City Club Gallery Lounge exhibition 'Performing Nature' with an intimate three-course lunch with the artists MURRAY FREDERICKS, PRUE STENT, and Robert Ashton. Hear from each of the artists, sip outstanding wine, and delight in culinary masterpieces made in response to the artworks.
Ticket includes three-course lunch, beverages, and artist talk.
https://events.racv.com.au/pub/pubType/EO/pubID/zzzz65f136d378569066/interface.html
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'Performing Nature' features Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks, and Robert Ashton. These artists create photographic performances of nature, using their bodies, endurance and artist intervention.
The exhibition continues until 24 May 2024 at the Gallery Lounge, RACV City Club.
Exhibition access is by appointment only. Email mail@arc1gallery.com to arrange a viewing.
PETER DAVERINGTON - PALIMPSEST
PETER DAVERINGTON, The Messenger, Oil, spraypaint and gold and copper metal leaf on canvas, 198 x152 cm.
PETER DAVERINGTON: PALIMPSEST
10 April - 11 May 2024
Opening: Wednesday, 10 April, 6PM, ARC ONE Gallery
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Using canvases that have been painted, painted again, abandoned (even destroyed), before being rescued, Daverington’s delicate surfaces are composed out of crumbling images, oxidisation, and entrancing lacunas. With each artwork containing traces of countless other paintings, this exhibition acts as a visual diary, even a retrospective.
Daverington’s intentional pentimenti reveal both problems and solutions that he has discovered. As the artist notes, “These paintings are an aggregate of imperfections. The scar tissue left after a fight between hope and despair. The beauty of painting is that you can always paint over it. Nothing’s irredeemable.”
Janet Laurence's Tears of Dust at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)
Janet Laurence's immersive installation Tears of Dust at the Museum of Australian Photography creates encounters with our changing planet. Her intensely seductive and haunting work evoke breathing forests, extreme weather events and dying glaciers. When encountering these otherworldly environments we become profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms and the alchemical regeneration of plants.
Janet’s installation is on display until 26 May 2024. For more information, click here.
ROBERT OWEN Features in 'Systems and Structures' at TarraWarra Museum of Art
Three beautiful compositions from Robert Owen's series 'Soundings' will be on display in Systems and Structures, TarraWarra's latest exhibition, which opens tomorrow.
Systems and Structures features Owen alongside Robert Hunter, Clement Meadmore, Howard Arkley, Lesley Dumbrell, Mark Galea, Robert Jacks, Callum Morton, John Nixon, to showcase artists who employ patterns, geometry, modules and repetition as key elements in their creative process.
Systems and Structures
📅 23 March - 14 July 2024
📍TarraWarra Museum of Art
GUO JIAN & GUAN WEI Feature in Upcoming Panel Discussion at Nation Art School
Tides of Change: In Our Time Artists' Panel Discussion
Join us for an engaging conversation with artists Guan Wei and Guo Jian, both renowned Chinese-born artists living in Australia, as they discuss their significant bodies of work featured in the exhibition "IN OUR TIME."
They'll be joined by Dr. Luise Guest, a writer, curator, and education specialist, and Professor Jing Han, Director of the Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts & Culture at the University of Western Sydney.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
12 - 1 PM
JANET LAURENCE - Tears of Dust
NEW PUBLICATION
Artist Janet Laurence created this captivating volume that encapsulates the many strands of her creative process and advocacy for the natural world that inform her exhibition 'Tears of dust', curated by MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea.
Designed by Pidgeon Ward, this publication distills the essence of Laurence's practice into an artefact that marks not only this exhibition, but many years of inquiry, research and care. You can hear Laurence speak at the PHOTO 2024 Ideas Summit this Friday, where she'll be addressing 'Photography as activism' in 'The Alchemical Life: new ways of living on our fragile planet'.
'Tears of dust' is available in the MAPh shop via the link in our bio, where you can also find a link to purchase tickets for the Ideas Summit.
JANET LAURENCE x PHOTO 2024 Ideas Summit
ANET LAURENCE x PHOTO 2024 Ideas Summit
Janet Laurence is speaking in Melbourne at the PHOTO 2024 Ideas Summit. Her session is titled, 'Photography as Activism'.
Get tickets for this world first global forum, explore the future of photography.
Tickets are on sale now. Head to the offical PHOTO 2024 website for more details.
15 March
The Edge, Fed Square
Other speakers include:
Ryan McGinley (US)
Sunil Gupta (CA/UK)
Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis (Pitta Pitta)
Carmen Winant (US)
Boris Eldagsen (DE)
Sophia (SA)
Serwah Attafuah (AU, Ashanti/Akan)
Michael Najjar (DE)
Mark Andrejevic (AU)
Jo Duck (AU)
filip custic (ES/HR)
Kirsten Lyttle (Māori)
Janet Laurence (AU)
Isadora Romero (EC)
Daniel Jack Lyons (US)
Katrina Sluis (AU/UK)
Lauren Dunn (AU)
Dr Kirsten Garner Lyttle (Māori)
ANNE ZAHALKA part of the La Gacilly Photo Festival in regional France
Anne Zahalka joins photographers Bobbi Lockyer, Matthew Abbott, Adam Ferguson, Narelle Autio, Trent Park and Tamara Dean in the La Gacilly Photo Festival opening 1 June 2024.
Festival photo of La Gacilly is a festival in an authentic village in France, with big pictures in open air, with free entrance for the visitors during summer from june to september. Every year, 320 000 people come to visit the exhibits, and we are very honored to have exhibited some prestigious photographers like Josef Koudelka, Seydou Keïta, Nick Brandt, Claudia Andujar, Steeve Mc Curry, Raymond Depardon, Sebastiao Salgado, Brent Stirton, Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, Sarah Moon, Mario Giacomelli, Edouard Boubat, Michael Kenna, Paolo Pellegrin, Pascal Maitre, Gohar Dashti, Pentti Sammallahti. Their editorial goal concerns the link between Human and Earth. This year (in 2024) we make a focus on the Australian photography with artists who document our planet, and make story about biodiversity, the beauty of nature, the senses, the human being in their social environment.
CYRUS TANG Awarded Nawat Fes Residency in Morocco
From March to May this year, Cyrus Tang will be undertaking the Nawat Fes Residency in Morocco. The program seeks to cultivate understanding across cultures through the exchange of ideas, and allows artists from around the world.
Cyrus notes, "I am honoured to be one of eight awardees from among 133 applicants from 41 countries. Nawat Fes is the fully funded residency program of the American Language Center Fes / Arabic Language Institute in Fez, a member of the American Cultural Association (ACA). I would also like to thank City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grants, who also contributed funding to this residency."
JANET LAURENCE solo exhibition 'Tears of Dust' opens at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)
Janet Laurence’s immersive, multisensory installation Tears of dust reflects upon the fragility and power of the natural environment. Her intensely seductive and yet haunting evocations of the natural environment create encounters with our changing planet.
In this world premiere show, these wunderkammers (cabinets of curiosity) provide windows into our fragile ecosystem—of breathing forests, extreme weather events and dying glaciers—and offer a sense of connection with, and mourning of, our vanishing life world.
When encountering these familiar and yet otherworldly environments, we become profoundly aware of the interconnection of all life forms and the alchemical wonder of plants' ability to regenerate.
Janet Laurence, EDEN 11, Dye sublimation Photographs printed silk veils, video. Photo: Jackie Manning
ANNE ZAHALKA - Future Past Present Tense
ANNE ZAHALKA | NEW EXHIBITION
FUTURE PAST PRESENT TENSE
1 March – 6 April 2024
📍Opening: Friday, 1 March, 5.30PM, ARC ONE Gallery
All welcome
This exhibition is presented as part of PHOTO 2024.
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Artificial truths are Anne Zahalka’s preoccupation. Drawn to the constructed aspect of dioramas, Zahalka has spent many years working with the airless logic of museum displays.
In her new exhibition FUTURE PAST PRESENT TENSE, Zahalka inserts the original diorama-makers—scientists, assistants, and illustrators—into the scenes themselves. This meta-narrative gives the dioramas a recursive effect, akin to ‘embalming the embalmer’, like a waxwork of Madame Tussauds.
With a career spanning 40 years, Anne Zahalka is a landmark artist in Australian contemporary art. Her work explores cultural and environmental points of tension, interrogating them with humour and a critical perspective. Appreciated by audiences and curators alike, her work starts conversations.
GUO JIAN and GUAN WEI featured in "In Our Time" at the National Art School, Sydney
GUO JIAN and GUAN WEI shine bright in "IN OUR TIME: FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM CHINA AND BEYOND THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION" at the National Art School in partnership with La Trobe Art Institute. This exhibition is on display until March 30th.
Over a 35-year period beginning in the mid-1980s, Australian economist and diplomat Dr Geoff Raby AO assembled an outstanding art collection of artworks by more than 75 artists working in both China and in Australia, as members of the Chinese diaspora. "In Our Time" presents a selection of works from this special collection, now part of the La Trobe University Art Collection.
Installation view of “IN OUR TIME: FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM CHINA AND BEYOND THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION"
CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG Feature in 'Assembly' at ANU
Opening tonight! 🥂 CYRUS TANG and JOHN YOUNG are part of a must-see group exhibition called 'Assembly' at The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at ANU from 5:30–7:15pm.
Curated by Dr Olivier Krischer, 'Assembly' brings together eight Hong Kong-born artists from different generations of the diaspora. Amid the current wave of migration, this exhibition explores the act of ‘making sense’ of layers and fragments, of memories and stories, told or untold. 'Assembly' embraces the resonance and dissonance between the diverse creative practices of these artists, questioning readymade notions of diasporic identity.
IMAGE: Cyrus Tang, In memory’s eye, we travel…, 2016, 3 channel HD video, 8.38 min loop
JULIE RRAP Interviewed by Jennifer Higgie
Julie Rrap interviewed in Ocular by Jennifer Higgie. In the interview Rrap discusses the evolution of her latest commission - a double cast of her body in bronze - and evaluates its place amongst four decades of feminist practice.
Rrap is the recipient of the 2024 Melbourne Art Foundation Commission. Her work, titled 'SOMOS (Standing On My Own Shoulders)', is a life-sized bronze sculpture that will be unveiled at Melbourne Art Fair next week, before travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) where it will be included in Rrap's solo show, 'Past Continuous', opening in June 2024, and later to its permanent home in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
DESMOND LAZARO Interviewed by Sophia Cai
"It is at this point that I realise maybe there are no such thing as coincidences. Lazaro has been using labyrinth motifs in his work for a number of years prior to moving next door to one." - Sophia Cai on visiting Desmond Lazaro at his studio in Kyneton, Victoria.
Read more in the Art Gallery of New South Wales' magazine 'Look'.
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IMAGES: Kristoffer Paulsen and the Art Gallery of NSW.
MURRAY FREDERICKS Online Artist Talk at MAPh
ONLINE ARTIST'S TALK
MURRAY FREDERICKS
Wednesday 14 February
2.30pm-3.30pm
In 2003, Murray Fredericks first visited Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, one of the world’s largest salt lakes, located in the deserts of central Australia. Driven by the boundless potential of abstract space, Fredericks has returned to Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre 31 times over the past two decades.
Join Murray Fredericks with Senior Curator Angela Connor in this online artist talk for The Museum of Australian Photography's exhibition 'Murray Fredericks | The salt lake', to learn about the chapters of Fredericks’s extraordinary creative journey – the influences and ideas that underpin his work and the personal and technical knowledge he has gained from his extensive experience.
Please note, this session will take place via Zoom. Bookings via the Museum of Australian Photography’s website.
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IMAGE: Jo Armao (SMH)
JULIE RRAP & JANET LAURENCE Feature in Artists' Artists Podcast
JULIE RRAP & JANET LAURENCE were interviewed by Jennifer Higgie for the National Gallery of Australia's podcast 'Artists’ Artists', a five-part series connecting audiences with works of art from the national collection through the lens of contemporary artists.
The podcast invites audiences to learn more about some of the treasures and lesser-known works in the national collection, as well as gain insight into the personal life experiences and stories of Australian and international artists.
Episode 1: Julie Rrap
Julie Rrap is an Australian artist who was born in 1950 and lives in Warrang/Sydney. She has 15 works in the national collection, including multiple works from her monumental Persona and shadow series 1984. In this episode, she speaks about works of art by Sol Wiener, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Moffatt and Yukultji Napangati.
Episode 4: Janet Laurence
Janet Laurence is an Australian artist who was born in 1947 and lives in Warrang/Sydney. In 2020-21, her work was included in National Gallery exhibition Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now: Part One. Laurence has nine works in the national collection, including the large-scale installation Requiem 2020. In this episode, she speaks about works of art by Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, Rosalie Gascoigne and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu.
JULIE RRAP in 'Suppose You Are Not' at Arter in Istanbul, Turkey
JULIE RRAP is part of 'Suppose You Are Not' a group exhibition at Arter in Istanbul, Turkey. The exhibition, drawn from the Ömer Koç Collection is curated by Selen Ansen, will be on view at Arter between 19 January–29 December 2024.
Suppose You Are Not, the first private collection exhibition held at Arter, spans a wide and deep territory not only in terms of the artworks and objects it encompasses but also the diverse mediums and themes that these artefacts are concerned with. Titled with inspiration from a line in Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat [Quatrains], the exhibition which brings together over 600 works, functional objects, rarities, furniture, and books produced in different periods explores the relations that emerge through the juxtapositions formed by a collection.
Suppose You Are Not delves into the passionate striving to collect and preserve the traces of humanity, the good and the evil, the ephemeral gestures, states, allusions and movements ranging from the most sublime to the most mundane, from the most permanent to the most ephemeral, which manage to persist by being conveyed from the dead to the living.
