We're thrilled to announce that Maitland Regional Art Gallery has acquired Dani Marti's ethereal 'Nude (after Teresa)' (2022).
This glamorous, room-spanning suspended sculpture was a highlight of Marti's exhibition Oh Canola!, a showcase of the artist's large-scale sensual abstraction held at Maitland in 2022.
NIKE SAVVAS & ANNE ZAHALKA featured in 'A Fictional Retrospective' at Gertrude Contemporary
Nike Savvas and Anne Zahalka are included in the 'first decade' the exhibition 'A Fictional Retrospective' opening tonight at Gertrude Contemporary.
Curated by Sue Cramer and Emma Nixon, shaping a fresh and vital interpretation of the late 80s and early 90s in Australian art, the exhibition will evoke the liveliness of the Gertrude community during these foundational years. This is the first iteration of Past is Prologue, a year-long program marking and reflecting on forty years of Gertrude.
The exhibition runs until 23 March.
Nike Savvas, Nice Bubbles (detail), 1994, installation view, A Fictional Retrospective: Gertrude’s First Decade 1985–1995, Gertrude Contemporary, Naarm Melbourne, 2025, iridescent blown glass, image courtesy of the artist and Arc One Gallery, Naarm Melbourne © the artist, photograph: Christian Capurro
GUO JIAN & GUAN WEI Feature in Exhibition at Gallery Lane Cove
GUO JIAN, The Beauty No.6 [detail], 2024, Inkjet pigment print, Edition of 3, 116 x 83 cm.
Celebrating Lunar New Year 🐍
Guo Jian and Guan Wei are both featured in the beautiful exhibition In the Mood for Love 良宵 at Gallery Lane Cove, guest curated by Abigail Kim and Dr. Yeqin Zuo.
The exhibition reflects the intricate tapestry of both personal and shared narratives that flourish during this festive season—a time for reflection, renewal, and connection.
In the Mood for Love 良宵
📅 Until 11 February
📍 Gallery Lane Cove, 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066
ANNE ZAHALKA - Clifton Contemporary Art Fair 2025
Anne Zahalka
Return of the Thylacine, 2024
30cm x 40cm
Clifton Contemporary Art Fair 2025
ANNE ZAHALKA features in Escarpment - Living on the Edge, an exhibition curated by Sheona White to raise much needed funds for the expansion project of the Clifton Art School.
Clifton School of Arts is a unique Victorian landmark with spectacular ocean views. Clifton School of Arts is a historic building, superbly positioned just south of the iconic Sea Cliff Bridge in Clifton New South Wales. This much-loved institution has served the local community as a cultural and events facility for over 110 years.
General public free
Open daily 10am - 4pm
More information >
PETER DAVERINGTON - Behind the Scenes
Get a glimpse of PETER DAVERINGTON’S new work ‘Original gangsta' (2024-2025) and ‘Pimpin ain’t easy’ (2025) in an exclusive behind the scenes studio shot!
PETER DAVERINGTON
Original gangsta, 2024-2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 45cm
PETER DAVERINGTON
Pimpin ain’t easy, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 × 45cm
Congratulations - ARC ONE Artist Opportunity Award 2024
ARC ONE is delighted to present the 2024 VCA Artist Opportunity Award to Mythra Schwartz & Jarrad Martyn 🎉🎨🏆
This award is granted from the VCA Masters or Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) Program and grants Schwartz & Martyn the chance to exhibit at ARC ONE in early 2025.
Mythra uses the physicality and materiality of paint – thinking through the act of making - to unravel the connections between place, memory, stories from the past, and how they connect to the present. Often using motifs of shadows, reflections and other fleeting moments in both paintings and instillations to create liminal spaces: dreamscapes embedded with the haziness of memory.
Jarrad uses painting to explore humanities shifting relationship with the natural environment and how legacy is visualised. Using photographs his father made while working in Antarctica in 1985 as the starting point, Martyn’s interest lays in the duality of the photographs - they are personally sentimental, yet draw out new political and environmental associations in the present day. The collective public memory of ‘Antarctica’ as a place and as an idea has become synonymous with current conversations around climate change and similar global concerns.
This is the third year that ARC ONE has partnered with the Victorian College of the Arts to present this award. We are proud to be supporting these outstanding graduates.
CYRUS TANG - Exhibition at Bundoora Homestead
CYRUS TANG | EXHIBITION at BUNDOORA HOMESTEAD
ECLIPSED PRESENCE
📅 30 Nov 2024 - 22 Feb 2025
📍Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre
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Eclipsed Presence has evolved from a residency that the artist recently undertook in Morocco. During her time there, she was inspired by the Amazigh people and their unwavering commitment to handmade crafts. They continue to spin, dye wool and knit sweaters by hand, not merely as a nostalgic gesture, but as a living tradition that embodies their cultural identity and resilience. Their approach challenges us to reconsider the worth of the handmade in a world increasingly dominated by the digital and the disposable.
This new video installation explores these themes, bridging the gap between what has been lost and what can be reclaimed, illuminating the enduring relevance of traditional crafts in a contemporary context.
JANET LAURENCE - Exhibition Progress Sneak Peek
SNEAK PEEK
JANET LAURENCE is working towards an upcoming exhibition in Berlin at the Alfred Erhardt Foundation. Using Erhardts incredible images of corals she has been exploring how magnification reveals their extraordinary patterns.
Artbank Acquires MARINA ROLFE
We're thrilled to announce that Artbank has acquired Marina Rolfe's major painting ‘The Ceremony’ (2024).
This work was featured in Rolfe's exhibition Looking Back to See if They Still Look at Me, at ARC ONE Gallery earlier this year, which was the artist's first solo exhibition at a commercial gallery.
JULIE RRAP at MCA – Behind the exhibition 'Past Continuous'
Delve deeper into the making of Julie Rrap's major solo exhibition 'Past Continuous' with
this wonderful short video from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In this clip, we go behind the scenes with Rrap as she discusses her recent performance piece Drawn In (2024), and reflects on its connection to Disclosures: A Photographic Construct from 1982.
Watch the full video here. Courtesy of the artist and the MCA Australia.
Julie Rrap: Past Continuous
📅 27 July 2024, 2–2.30pm
📍Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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DANI MARTI features in Beyond Textiles exhibition at the RACV City Club
BEYOND TEXTILES
Dani Marti is featured in a new exhibition that celebrates textiles as material, subject and process. Marti's work in Beyond Textiles at the RACV City Club Gallery blurs the boundaries between sculpture and textiles.
Marti's work is included alongside Tia Ansell, Tim Gresham, Rubaba Haider, and Casey Jeffery.
Please note, access to the exhibition is by appointment only – please email art@racv.com.au to arrange a viewing.
BCN'97, 2023
polyester, polypropylene, leather, aluminium
185 x 125 x 7 cm
DANI MARTI to feature in Radical Textiles exhibition at AGSA
Dani Marti, ‘Troughman (the yellow peril)’, 2006, polypropylene, nylon and wood frame on castor wheels, 180 x 180 x 180 cm.
RADICAL TEXTILES
Dani Marti will be showing ’Troughman (yellow peril)' (2005) at Art Gallery of South Australia for the much anticipated Radical Textiles exhibition, opening this Saturday.
From William Morris to Sonia Delaunay, Radical Textiles celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.
RADICAL TEXTILES
📅 23 November 2024 – 30 March 2025
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia
SAM SHMITH Features on FORFREEDOM billboard in Atlanta, USA
river / uncomplicate the world
Sam Shmith's work '(river / uncomplicate the world)', was recently featured on For Freedoms' billboard project 'Where Do We Go From Here?' in Atlanta, USA.
Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is an artist-led organisation that uses art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action.
This most recent of 'Where Do We Go From Here?' is an epic billboard campaign published ahead of the 2024 American presidential election, that seeks to model how art can urge communities into greater action and participation.
GUAN WEI awarded Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024
Congratulations to Guan Wei, who has been presented the Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024. A recognition of an incredible career, this major award acknowledges the achievements of an artist who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian art.
Guan Wei has been living and working between Beijing, China and Sydney Australia since 1989. Guan Wei is an iconic figure in the Australian contemporary art scene and critically acclaimed internationally. Through his art, he reflects upon the human condition as we engage with critical contemporary issues, such as climate change, questions of identity, migration and exile. Guan Wei has held over 80 solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney to OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen China and has been included in countless group exhibitions from South Korea to Cuba.
JANET LAURENCE Features in the Lyrebird Festival
LYREBIRD FESTIVAL
This weekend Janet Laurence has been a part of the Lyrebird Festival in Megalong Valley, NSW. In a rustic barn (last slide), Laurence has presented three video works: The Other Side of Nature (2014), Requiem (2021); and Vanishing (2009).
The Lyrebird Festival returns in 2024, celebrating the spectacular Megalong Valley with music, art, food and wine, talks and nature walks. The festival continues until Sunday, 17 November.
New publication featuring MARTI, ZAHALKA, LAURENCE, YOUNG
Celebrating the launch of Mordant Collection Highlights, a publication devoted to the collection of Simon and Catriona Mordant.
"We never set out to build a collection. What has driven us is a passion to be surrounded by creative people, whether in the visual or performing arts. We have only purchased a work when it evoked a reaction in us ... We have never bought a work for a particular wall or because someone told us the artist was important. We have loved this journey together."—Simon and Catriona Mordant
Featured in the highlights are these pieces by Dani Marti, Anne Zahalka, Janet Laurence and John Young.
JOHN YOUNG Artist Talk at TarraWarra Museum of Art
On Saturday, ‘Portrait of a Collection: TarraWarra Museum of Art’ was launched at TarraWarra Museum of Art.
In conversation with Victoria Lynn and Claire Roberts, JOHN YOUNG discussed Claire’s chapter ‘Visual Thinking: Ian Fairweather and John Young' which draws on the affinities between Fairweather and Young's artistic practices.
“For both men, art is a transcultural practice and part of a larger process of becoming.” - Professor Claire Roberts
You can purchase a copy of this important overview of TarraWarra Museum of Art’s collection of 20th- and 21st-century Australian art via the link below.
HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT - Upcoming Workshop @ Golburn Regional Gallery
⭐ Photograph the body with Honey Long and Prue Stent ⭐
Meet the artists at the Gallery and make your own surreal images.
With a live model on hand and a range of materials, participants will have the opportunity to capture their own images, experimenting with angles, light, objects, lenses and materials to create unique visual narratives.
Bring your own camera and get creative with these extraordinary artists.
Honey Long and Prue Stent are a collaborative duo who construct surreal scenes where the body serves as both raw material and haunting apparition. Dreamy, fluid and fleshy, their distinctive and highly sensual practice has garnered worldwide recognition, spanning the realms of photography, performance, installation, and sculpture.
When: 11:30 - 2:30pm Saturday 2 November
Who: Adults and teens 16+
Where: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Cost: $45.00 + booking fee
Book here >
JULIE RRAP: Past Continuous @ MCA
"At the beginning, my work was critiqued through self-conscious feminism. Now, I don’t know how it will be received. And when I have used a body it’s been my own, but you don’t find out much about me in that personal sense. You just see a body moving through time. I also think that this show is as much about time as it is about a body. I show a body through time."
Head to Art Guide to read a fantastic interview with Julie Rrap by Lauren Carroll Harris. In a conversation Rrap discusses her current survey ‘Past Continuous’ at the MCA, which exhibits ‘Disclosures’ with newer works that consider the cultural invisibility of the ageing female body.
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Read the full interview here >
Julie Rrap: Past Continuous
📅 28 June 2024 – 16 February 2025
📍Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
IMANTS TILLERS Artist Talk @ Bundanon Trust
ARTIST TALK SUNDAY
In NSW this weekend, Imants Tillers is giving an artist talk at Bundanon.
Tillers will be in conversation with Sophie O’Brien (Head of Curatorial & Learning, Bundanon), exploring the cultural landscape for young Australian artists in the 1980s, both here and internationally.
In 1984, Tillers was one of three young artists in the exhibition An Australian Accent, presented at MoMA PS1, New York. Also including the work of Mike Parr and Ken Unsworth, the exhibition was one of several to articulate new Australian art to an international audience.
Tillers’ incredible painting ‘Pataphysical man’ (1984), from the collection of the AGNSW, is currently on display at Bundanon Art Museum as part of the group exhibition ‘Wilder Times: Arthur Boyd and the mid-1980s landscape’.
Tickets available here >
Imants Tillers: In Conversation
📅 Sunday, 6 October, 11am-12pm
📍 Bundanon, 170 Riversdale Road, Illaroo