TONIGHT! EXHIBITION OPENING
As the saying goes, red skies can signal good or bad weather: in the morning, they are a “shepherds’ warning,” while at night, they forecast “sailors’ delight.” Continuing the artist’s fascination with sky-watching, Catherine Woo’s new paintings are vivid firmaments of billowing magentas, oranges and maroon. Her “grand, amorphous and ambiguous” works capture the brilliant red hues that slip into both “delight” and “warning”; are they beautiful sunsets or skies tainted by bushfire? Woo understands that the sublime moment often contains both awe and terror.
CATHERINE WOO
SIGNS OF PROGRESS
📅 Opening: Wednesday, 28 August, 6-8PM.
📍 ARC ONE Gallery
All welcome.
Email mail@arc1gallery.com or DM us for a catalogue of available works.
ANNE ZAHALKA 'The Artist is Present' Sessions Available
BOOK NOW: The Artist is Present
During Anne Zahalka's exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive, now running at the National Art School, Sydney, there is a special opportunity for small groups of gallery visitors (individual bookings possible) to speak with the artist directly and find out more about her work.
Zahalka will join the 15 minute sessions remotely from her studio in Newtown, Sydney, while visitors will be able to connect with her from inside her ZAHALKAWORLD kunstkammer studio at NAS. Come prepared with questions!
Bookings are essential. Head to the National Art School website to secure your session. Maximum group size of 5 people per session.
The Artist is Present: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive
📅 Thursday 29 August, Thursday 5 September, Thursday 12 September 2024
Bookings essential via the National Art School website
📍National Art School, Sydney
CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG feature in exhibition at Chau Chak Wing Museum
NOW OPEN
Cyrus Tang and John Young are featured in the exhibition 'The trace is not a presence ...' at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney.
Through the hands of five Australian artists from different Chinese diasporic communities, The trace is not a presence … highlights both the active process of making, and the experience of transcending the past towards a present that is not immediately identifiable and complete.
THE TRACE IS NOT PRESENCE...
📅 Open from 24 August 2024
📍China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney
IMAGE
CYRUS TANG
‘The Final Cast Off (Alice Lim Kee and Daisy Kwok)’, 2016-2017
2 channel video projection on Chinese paper scroll
JOHN YOUNG
‘Times Slow Passing #1’, 2023,
Etching and photolithography
44cm × 38cm (sheet)
JANET LAURENCE x AESOP
JANET LAURENCE x AESOP
If you are in Sydney, pop down to Aesop's flagship store in The Strand for a special installation of The Fragrance Laboratory, a collaboration inspired by a number of Janet Laurence’s key works that feature labware and plant materials, including the acclaimed Elixir Lab, the H20: Water Bar and the monumental 2017 mixed-media work Matter of the Masters at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Aesop stores in Sydney and Melbourne have been cleared of all products, excluding fragrance, and transformed into immersive sensorial environments in a collaboration with Janet Laurence. The partnership is born of shared interests in art, science, memory and imagination, and a common dedication to creating a more sustainable future.
It has been lovely to work with Aesop and Luke Mortimer for this inspired collaboration. More to come in Melbourne next week, when The Fragrance Laboratory is launched in Flinders Lane!
'We share a philosophy that uses aesthetics to create an experiential space that can express wonder and a relationship between nature and science,’ said Laurence. ‘The focus of my work is the beauty and complexity of the natural world and the fragility of our environment. The collaboration with Aesop is a further exploration of these ideas.’
ANNE ZAHALKA in conversation at The National Art School
IN CONVERSATION TODAY
This afternoon (Saturday, 17 August 2024, 2PM), join Anouska Phizacklea, Director of the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) in conversation with acclaimed Australian artist Anne Zahalka at the National Art School, Sydney.
Zahalka will discuss the her career spanning four decades, the survey exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive and key themes explored within her practice.
IN CONVERSATION: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive
📅 17 August 2024, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Bookings essential via the National Art School website
📍National Art School, Sydney
ZAHALKAWORLD opens at The National Art School
Last night we celebrated the opening of Anne Zahalka's survey exhibition at the National Art School, ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive. Swipe through to see beautiful images from the opening, which was launched by NAS CEO and Director, Steven Alderton, alongside exhibition curator Anouska Phizacklea.
First presented in Naarm/Melbourne at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) in 2023, this iteration of ZAHALKAWORLD at the National Art School will contain over 100 artworks from 15 different photographic series, including the iconic Resemblance series, Bondi: Playground of the Pacific and the more recent Wild Life series.
Also on display will be the Kunstkammer – a life-size recreation of Zahalka’s house-studio within the gallery space, for which she won the Bowness Prize in 2023. Imaginative, immersive and playful, the installation invites audiences into the artist’s working life and creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned.
ANNE ZAHALKA features in Age Article
Anne Zahalka was in The Age this weekend, talking to journalist Helen Pitt on the eve of ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive travelling to the National Art School in Sydney:
"At 67, as she prepares for a major survey exhibition at her alma mater, the National Art School (NAS), it is easy to see why one of Australia’s most highly regarded photo-media artists is in a reflective mood. Her work spans more than 40 years and 40 solo shows and is in major international collections. This retrospective assembles more than 100 works from 15 different photographic series, alongside collected ephemera from her studio and archive."
Read the rest of the piece here >
JANET LAURENCE artist residency talk at State Buildings in Perth
This week Janet Laurence will travel to Perth to take up an artist's residency in the iconic State Buildings in Perth.
During August, audiences will be invited to visit Laurence's studio and observe her process, from her exploration of initial concepts and materials, to how these emerge within her practice.
On 9 August, visitors can do just that, with a private viewing of Laurence's latest work where the artist will discuss her artistic journey, creative process, and the environmental themes that influence her work. This will be followed by an afternoon tea of finely curated teas and luxurious treats.
See @statebuildings website for bookings.
ANNE ZAHALKA featured at Wollongong Art Gallery
Anne Zahalka is currently featured in the exhibition 'Shifting Ground - Landscape from the Collection' from the Wollongong Art Gallery.
Shifting Ground is an exhibition of over 50 works traversing both traditional and contemporary perspectives of landscape art, including works which present First Nations stories of place, climate change and environmental impacts, the effects of colonisation, settlement and the many approaches artists take to capture different fragments, reflections and narratives within landscapes.
SHIFTING GROUND
📅 23 March - 3 November 2024
📍Wollongong Art Gallery, Corner Kembla & Burelli Sts, Wollongong
IMAGE: Anne Zahalka, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, Archival pigment ink on rag paper, edition of 3 + 1 A/P, 115 x 190 cm
JACKY REDGATE at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)
This stellar work by Jacky Redgate is on display currently at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), in their exhibition 'Built photography'. Curated by artists Kiron Robinson and Izabela Pluta, with support from MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea, Built photography brings together 16 artists who explore photography as a physical construction.
Celina Lei wrote about Redgate's work for ArtsHub recently:
"Redgate’s explorations in both sculpture and photography are exemplified in this piece, which interrogates perception through the lens in a carefully constructed assemblage of a glass, a bottle and a bowl while paying homage to photographic predecessors."
BUILT PHOTOGRAPHY
📅 8 June – 25 August 2024
📍Museum of Australian Photography
IMAGE: Jacky Redgate, Untitled from Anonymous (probably Daguerre or Niépce de Saint-Victor), ‘table prepared for a meal’ c. 1829 1990 library buckram, cardboard, ceramic and glass, 105.0 x 55.0 x 55.0 cm (irreg.) Monash University Collection.
In Conversation on PAT BRASSINGTON with Rex Butler, Chelsea Hopper & Victoria Perin
Join us for a special event celebrating the current exhibition of renowned contemporary artist Pat Brassington. Rex Butler will provide a brief presentation on Brassington’s work, asking, how might we think of her work in relation to Man Ray's Le violon d'Ingres (1924), for example, which was made exactly 100 years ago? Following this, there will be a conversation with writer and curator Chelsea Hopper, moderated by art historian Victoria Perin.
CONVERSATION ON PAT BRASSINGTON
📅 Saturday, 20 July 2024, 3–4.30 PM
📍ARC ONE Gallery, 45 Flinders Ln, NAARM/MELBOURNE
IMAGE: Pat Brassington, Combed, 2020, Pigment print, 75 x 75 cm
JANET LAURENCE finalist the 2024 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Congratulations Janet Laurence who has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Janet is one of the 74 finalists that comprise this year's shortlist: one of the largest in the 19-year history of the prize. The judging panel considered close to 750 entries: Dr Peta Clancy, Brett Rogers OBE, and MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea worked through the submissions to select a diverse representation of contemporary Australian photography in this year’s Bowness Photography Prize.
IMAGE: Janet Laurence, Moss water ice temperature rising, 2024, chromogenic print, oil paint, acrylic, 150.0 x 100.0 cm
IMANTS TILLERS featured in 'A Bigger View' at HOTA, Gold Coast
IMANTS TILLERS' iconic 1985 painting Mount Analogue is on display in A Bigger View at HOTA on the Gold Coast. Made possible through the Australian Government’s Sharing the National Collection initiative, this exhibition brings monumental works of art from the National Gallery of Australia to Queensland, where it will be on display for two years.
Mount Analogue has travelled with David Hockney's piece, A Bigger Grand Canyon (1998). These two works will be on display with major works from Bridget Riley, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori and William Robinson from HOTA's Collection.
PRUE STENT & HONEY LONG solo exhibition now on display in Sliema, Malta
HYGRO, the latest solo exhibition from PRUE STENT & HONEY LONG is currently on display in Sliema, Malta.
”In ancient Greece the female body was defined by excessive moisture and deemed less articulated than it’s idealised male counterpart. To participate in wetness was to be more porous to the world and the processes of life at the cost of form. But liquidity is inescapable and in its very nature uncontainable, it eventually seeps and penetrates even the most polished and disciplined of structures.”
HYGRO
📅 10 July - 31 August 2024
📍R Gallery, Tigne Street 26, Sliema, Malta
IMANTS TILLERS' Pataphysical man (1984) on display Bundanon Trust
IMANTS TILLERS' magnificent Pataphysical man (1984) is currently featured in Wilder Times: Arthur Boyd and the Mid-1980s Landscape at Bundanon Trust.
Responding to fourteen powerful paintings by Arthur Boyd, WILDER TIMES brings together over 60 works by seminal Australian artists from the same time Boyd created this momentous body of work. The exhibition provides a window into a period of cultural dynamism in Australia, when ideas of landscape, land ownership and environmental protection were actively interrogated.
The exhibition continues until 13 October 2024.
IMAGE: Wilder Times: Arthur Boyd and the Mid-1980s Landscape. Installation view. Bundanon, 2024. Photography: Courtesy of Bundanon / Zan Wimberley
DANI MARTI featured in Duty of Care exhibition at IMA Brisbane
Dani Marti's powerful work 'Notes for Bob' (2013) is featured in in the upcoming exhibition Duty of Care. Split across the Institute of Modern Art and the Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane, this exhibition has been curated by Stephanie Berlangieri, Angela Goddard, and Robert Leonard.
"In curatorial practice—and in culture more broadly—‘care’ has become a buzzword, and is being used to reset policy and practice. However, too often, the complexity and troublesomeness of care are smoothed over by liberal good intentions."
DUTY OF CARE
📅 29 June–22 September 2024
📍Institute of Modern Art + Griffith University Art Museum
'Julie Rrap: Past Continuous' opens at MCA Australia
On Friday the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney will open 'Julie Rrap: Past Continuous'. Curated by Lucy Latella, 'Past Continuous' centres on Rrap’s first ever artwork, the photographic installation 'Disclosures: A Photographic Construct' (1982). This exhibition will examine how Rrap has used her own body to interrogate the politics of representation.
To illustrate the consistency of Rrap’s vision, the exhibition will also showcase SOMOS (Standing On My Own Shoulders) (2024) and Drawn out (2022), which capture Rrap’s preoccupation with body doubles, aging flesh, and the history of the female nude.
Julie Rrap: Past Continuous
📅 28 June 2024 – 16 February 2025
📍Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Anne Zahalka featured in the La Gacilly Photo Festival, France
Anne Zahalka is currently featured in the La Gacilly Photo Festival in France. Her Wild Life Australia series used the artificial space of museum dioramas to explore the constructed quality of the past (and the future).
Since 2004, the La Gacilly Photo Festival has been defined by its unique geographical setting at the heart of the rural environment in Brittany, and by its commitment to the great environmental challenges facing society. Zahalka's work is included alongside Louise Johns, Bobbi Lockyer, Matthew Abbott, Adam Ferguson, Narelle Autio, Trent Parke, Tamara Dean and more.
LA GACILLY PHOTO FESTIVAL
📅 21 June - 3 November
📍La Gacilly, La Chapelle-Gaceline, France
PAT BRASSINGTON interviewed by Tiarney Miekus in Art Guide Australia
Skewed body parts; allusions to genitalia, sex and violence; tinges of the fleshiest pink; a girl with a lightbulb for a head. Since the 1980s Pat Brassington’s images have entranced the psyche of contemporary Australian art. The photo-media artist’s staged, crafted scenes evoke something complicated, quietened, even repressed, in human nature, with her works often linked to psychoanalysis, feminism and surrealism.
Pat Brassington talks with Art Guide editor-in-chief Tiarney Miekus about first studying art in her thirties, and her early encounters with feminist texts through a wives’ book club. She also talks about her feelings on living and working in Hobart, the role of psychoanalysis in explaining her work, and what it means to mine the unconscious.
You can read the full interview with Tiarney Miekus here.
IMAGE: Pat Brassington, 'Pearl' (detail), 2016, pigment print, 80 x 68cm, Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs.
MURRAY FREDERICKS, JANET LAURENCE & ANNE ZAHALKA Feature in the 2024 MAPh X Artist photography auction
MAPh X Artist photography auction
Book tickets now for your chance to bid on these three magnificent works by Murray Fredericks, Anne Zahalka and Janet Laurence.
MAPh has joined forces with artists to create a unique auction where we will share equally in the sale proceeds of their work, giving buyers the opportunity to have a direct impact on artists and their practice. MAPH is also offering absentee and telephone bidding.
MAPh X Artist photography auction
📅 Thursday 6 June 2024, 6pm for 7pm auction. Drinks and canapés on arrival
📍James Makin Gallery, 89 Islington St, Collingwood VIC 3066
Full catalogue including estimates and booking details via @maph_photography
IMAGES:
1. Murray FREDERICKS
BLAZE #28 2023
from the series BLAZE
pigment ink-jet print
120.0 x 150.0 cm
2. Anne ZAHALKA
You Are On Bondi Bidjigal Land! 2020
pigment ink-jet print on cotton rag
115.0 x 190.0 cm
3 - 5. Janet LAURENCE
In your verdant view 2020
Duraclear print on Shinkolite acrylic
4 panels, 30 x 28 cm each