Congratulations to MARINA ROLFE, who is a finalist in the King's School Art Prize in Sydney! Her beautiful entry Feathers in Autumn Attire, 2024 is inspired by the shift between seasons, particularly the arrival of Autumn.
Established in 1994, the prestigious King’s School Art Prize features entries by invitation only from leading contemporary artists from across Australia.
Former winners include Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, John Olsen, Peter Churcher, Nicholas Harding, Pepai Jangala Carroll, Aida Tomescu and Ben Quilty.
This year's judge is Jane Watters, Director of the National Trust of Australia and the S.H. Ervin Gallery. The winner will be announced tomorrow, 1 June 2024.
GUAN WEI Shortlisted for Sulman Prize
📣 GUAN WEI has just been announced as a finalist in the Sulman Prize 2024 with his work, Off to the Space, (2024).
The artist writes, "recently, ChatGPT has received a lot of attention. The web-based platform is designed to provide human-like conversational experiences. Will this new technology change the world? This painting presents an AI robot with a face resembling a human’s. Its right eye is the sun, its left eye is the moon, while its mouth is a flying constellation made from a human body. On its cheeks, we see a bolt of lightning, the Southern Cross, traces of cosmic rays and antenna interfaces. On its forehead are the solar system and Cygnus.
This painting attempts to depict a world of artificial intelligence in which inorganic life has replaced organic life. Leaving Earth, the ark of mankind moves into space, looking for a new home."
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A big congratulations Guan Wei 🥂
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The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024 exhibition is open from 8 June to 8 September at The Art Gallery of New South Wales.
IMAGE: Guan Wei, Off to the Space, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 162 x 306 cm (12 panels).
JULIE RRAP featured in Artist Profile
Ahead of the artist's solo exhibition ‘Past Continuous’, opening in June at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, ARTIST PROFILE has devoted a cover story to the astounding 40-year career of JULIE RRAP.
"Julie Rrap was in her late teens and living in a share house in South Brisbane when she and a group of friends took magic mushrooms. An image she hallucinated while studying her reflection in a glass windowpane at night has never left her. It was the face of an older woman she understood to be her her future self..."
Read more of Lilian Cameron’s cover story, accompanied by Anna Kučera’s exclusive portraits, in Issue 67 of Artist Profile.
GUAN WEI Commission for Vivid Sydney
VIVID SYDNEY
Guan Wei has been commissioned to transform the Museum of Contemporary Art's façade during Vivid Sydney, in a nightly light projection.
Experience Sea, Sand and Stars, displayed on the Museum's façade every evening during Vivid Sydney until 11pm, beginning this Friday, 24 May.
GUAN WEI: Sea, Sand and Stars
📅 24 May - 15 June 2024, 6–11pm daily
📍Museum of Contemporary Art Australia |
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Guan Wei's Sea, Sand and Stars will feature twinkling stars, ocean waves and marvellous creatures, taking audiences from the depths of the ocean to the constellations in the night sky
Over the last 35 years, influential Chinese Australian artist Guan Wei has created artworks that consider what it means to be human, drawing on his experiences and observations of life in Australia and China. The artist has worked with Spinifex Group to create his first light projection, which follows the course of a day, beginning with the appearance of the morning star.
PETER DAVERINGTON's mural on Well Street Park, Brighton
PETER DAVERINGTON has just completed this five-metre long mural on Well Street Park, Brighton for Bayside City Council.
Daverington’s mural design creates a trompe l'oeil effect incorporating a finely detailed landscape in the Romantic tradition with a geometric framework giving the illusion of three panels.
Artist Talk with JANET LAURENCE & MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea
Last week’s online talk with artist Janet Laurence and MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea is now available to watch online here.
Learn about Tears of dust, Laurence's exhibition for PHOTO 2024 held at MAPh, discuss key moments in the artist’s remarkable career and hear about the ideas that drive her work.
CYRUS TANG is a finalist in the National Works on Paper (NWOP) award
Cyrus Tang is a finalist in the 2024 National Works on Paper award, with the tactile work 'Embrace - mother', part of her Embrace series. 2024 NWOP exhibition will be held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 31 August – 24 November 2024, with the winner announced on Saturday 31 August.
Congratulations Cyrus!
JOHN YOUNG at UTS Gallery
Manchurian Snow Walk, an early conceptual artwork by John Young is included in the exhibition A Moment in Extended Crisis, now open at UTS Gallery, Sydney curated by Andy Butler.
As Butler writes:
‘John Young’s Manchurian Snow Walk (1979) acts as an historical and conceptual touchstone for this exhibition . . . shown here as a performance documentation with instructions, [the work] was performed three years after the death of Mao. Young was sent away from Hong Kong in 1967 at 11 years old by his family, to protect him from the Cultural Revolution. As a 23-year-old art student, deeply entrenched in the Conceptualism, Minimalism, and Land Art movements of the 1970s, Young’s father bought him a train ticket to the farthest corner of mainland China for reasons still unknown, and too late to discover. Young traipsed back and forth from a single point, tracing lines in the snow, with the indication of his presence bound to disappear.’
The exhibition runs until 28 June 2024.
HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT Feature on the Cover of The Opéra
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.
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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
JANET 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