PETER DAVERINGTON is included in a group show called Under The Influence, in the LOFT, Brooklyn, New York.
The exhibition opens May 16th, 6-9pm and continues until May 20th.
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LACHLAN PETRAS
LACHLAN PETRAS was awarded the Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize at the 2012 National Graduate Show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) on Saturday 21 April.
The graduate exhibition, entitled Hatched, was a showcase of 36 emerging artists selected from art schools across Australia.
Lachlan's piece, Aggregate, which combines sculpture, drawing and video, caught the attention of the selection panel and was awarded the country's major graduate art prize - the $35,000 Dr Harold Schenberg Art Prize.
Now in its third year, The prize is recognised as career-changing for emerging Australian artists, providing the winner with an excellent spring board from which to launch a professional career.
ANNE ZAHALKA / JACKY REDGATE
ANNE ZAHALKA and JACKY REDGATE have been curated into Dissonant Visions at Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield Campus from 24 April - 7 July.
This exhibition presents works from the Monash University Collection that explore visual arts, text and politics, and critically examine structures of representation.
Opening function, Satuday 28 April, 3-5pm
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has won the prestigious 2012 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award at the Gold Coast Art Gallery with her work Vestiges #3.
Guest judge Kon Gouriotis commented;
"I kept on returning to Eugenia Raskopoulos 'Vestiges' photograph because of the poetic transformation that was occurring, especially the experimentation with texture and the sculptural potential of the materials."
March 31 - May 13, 2012
SAM SHMITH
SAM SHMITH's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.
Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world.
23 March - 16 September, NGV
HUANG XU / GUAN WEI
GUAN WEI and HUANG XU are exhibiting together in Sifting Time at the Chinese Museum, Melbourne, curated by Damian Smith.
Through painting, photography and installation each practitioner plays with ideas of cultural transformation and tradition. Through their diverse artistic practices, they reflect on the ways that culture is either preserved or discarded, remodeled in contemporary guise or forgotten with the passing of time.
2 April - 20 May, 2012
IMANTS TILLERS
IMANTS TILLERS has won the 2012 Wynne Prize for his work, Waterfall (after Williams). The painting is Imant's version of Fred William's Free copy of Eugene von Guerard's Waterfall, Strath Creek, 1862. Super-imposed over the ever-changing movement of water, Imants has quoted the sentiments of a famous Indian sutra.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will feature on ABC1 on the 24 April at 10.05pm. The program will be a unique insight into Cardoso's investigation into the copulatory organs of many small creatives.
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art is highly complimentary of Cardoso’s work. “The interesting thing about Maria is that she takes a topic like an animal penis and she teaches us something about it... I don’t think anyone has explored this topic over such a long period of time with such intensity.”
24 April, 10.05pm ABC1
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is included in an exhibition titled Light Works at the National Gallery of Victoria, curated by Isobel Crombie.
Light, and its absence, it still a source of inspiration for many contemporary photographers. In this exhibition drawn from the NGV Collection, artists use the emotive potential and scientific capacities of light in their creative explorations of the world.
23 March - 16 September, NGV
JULIA GORMAN
A new public sculpture by JULIA GORMAN will be unveiled in Kensington at 10am, 11 April, cnr of Clifford Terrace & Gower Street, Kensington.
At the core of this site-specific public sculpture is the representation of the human face across diverse civilizations and over thousands of years. It is about different communities living together and creating a unified society.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's artwork Woven Water will be included in the MCA reopening on the 29 March. Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed in
ROBERT OWEN
An instructional painting of ROBERT OWEN’s will be included in the MCA opening on the 29 March. Following a $53 million redevelopment, a bold, new and significantly expanded MCA will be unveiled and the museum will be transformed into a major cultural centre for contemporary art and creative learning.
JASON WING / ADAM HILL
JASON WING and ADAM HILL are exhibiting at the Monash Gallery of Art in an exhibition titled, Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts, curated by Djon Mundine OAM. The exhibition brings together the work of eight of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers and explores many of the stereotypes associated with Aboriginal masculinity from a range of viewpoints including documentary photography.
JULIE RRAP
JULIE RRAP’s 360 Degree Self-Portrait has been reviewed by Amelia Jones in Art and Australia, Vol 49, No. 3, Autumn 2012. This work won the 2009 University of Queensland National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize and was exhibited at the Gyeonggi Museum of Art in 2010 in an exhibition titled The Trickster, curated by Victoria Lynn. 360 Degree Self-Portrait will also be included in the MCA re-opening on the 29 March.
JULIE RRAP's work will also be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013. Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.
VANILA NETTO
VANILA NETTO's work will be included in a touring exhibition titled, Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection in 2012 and 2013.
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection is a curated selection of works that all either directly reference light or explore the concept of light in alternate forms and processes, thus relating to the exhibition’s title. Mediums included in the exhibition range from digital and photographic prints to video works, neon text and light installations.
Light Sensitive Material: Works from the Verghis Collection will tour to the following galleries in New South Wales in 2012 and 2013:
Lismore Regional Gallery 4 February 2012 - 18 March 2012
Moree Plains Gallery 26 March 2012 - 6 May 2012
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 24 May 2012 - 1 July 2012
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 13 July 2012 - 26 August 2012
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery 29 November 2012 - 20 January 2013
Tamworth Regional Gallery 1 February 2013 - 10 March 2013
Grafton Regional Gallery 27 March 2013 - 12 May 2013
Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 27 May 2013 - 14 July 2013
DANI MARTI
The first major monograph on the work of DANI MARTI's is now released.
Dani Marti (*1963 in Barcelona) is among Australia’s most exciting artists recently to have emerged to international acclaim, both charming and challenging audiences, curators, and critics with his unorthodox combination of hand-woven ‘canvases’ and video documentary.
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DANI MARTI is currently in New York on an artist residency.
Dani has also been shortlisted for the 2012 Margaret Tait Award. Please find full information on this here.
It has been confirmed that DANI will be having a solo show curated by Octavio Zaya in Harlem towards the end of the year and also another one in 2013 at CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, in Canarias. Also confirmed in 2013 DANI will be exhibiting in a group show curated by Paco Barragan at the Museum of Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Arnhem Netherlands.
KARL WIEBKE
KARL WIEBKE will be having a survey exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery, at the Australian National University, Canberra. Curated by Tony Oates, the exhibition runs 7 April - 20 May, 2012.