Pat Brassington, Blush, 2014, pigment print, 80 x 72cm
PAT BRASSINGTON has been featured in the visual arts section of The Age. Robert Nelson's fantastic overview of ARC ONE's current exhibtion offers some insight into Brassington's overarching themes. In this selected exhibition, Brassington's unique surrealist aesthetic is eminent, as are the charming and disquieting undertones that induce a sense of beauty and morbidity.
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Guan Wei, The Enchantment No. 11, 2012, acrylic on linen, 180x100cm.
Congratulation to GUAN WEI, who has been shortlisted for the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, curated by Tim Johnson.
The exhibition, which will be held at the National Art School, Sydney, runs from 11 April - 15 May 2014.
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JULIA GORMAN's commission at the Geelong Art Gallery has been unveiled at the Douglass and Hitchcock galleries. Gorman's vinyl wall drawing Growth habits takes its inspiration from the free-flowing forms of garden succulents.
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Justine Khamara, Orbital spin trick #4, 2013, UV print on hoop pine, 50x50x50cm.
Pat Brassington, Quiescent, 2014, pigment print, 106x96cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON
8 APRIL - 10 MAY 2014
ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
Pat Brassington is one of Australia’s most highly respected and influential artists working in photo-media. Through her ongoing practice, informed by Surrealism, Brassington’s work delves into the uncanny and the curious effect ambiguity has on interpretation.
Seemingly innocent, her images open up like a flower, gorgeous and dream-like, then morph into a psychological Rorschach. Here, the endless possibilities of our complex inner states - narratives of sex, memory and identity - run quietly rampant.
Pat has said of her most recent works: ‘I aim to pitch my images just off the verge of normality, into those dense patches where the commonplace goes awry.’
This selection of works is classically provocative and ambiguous in nature; striking, beautiful and superbly loaded.
In 2013 Brassington won the prestigious Monash Gallery of Art Bowness Photography Prize. In 2012 she was honored with a major nationally touring survey of her work, A Rebours, by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA). Brassington’s work has also featured extensively in major exhibitions, including the Adelaide Biennale Parallel Colisions (2012); Feminism Never Happened at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2010); the Biennale of Sydney (2004); a major solo retrospective at the Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne (2002); World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2000) and Fotokunst Aus Australien, Berlin (2000), curated by Bernice Murphy.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include Pat Brassington at Ten Cubed, Melbourne (2014); In search of the marvellous at CAST Gallery, Hobart (2013); a survey exhibition at the Lönnstrom Art Museum, Finland (2008).
Pat Brassington’s work is held in many public collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Tarrawarra Musuem of Art and ArtBank.
For all enquiries please contact Annabel Holt at ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne.
Chinese Australian artist GUO JIAN will be appearing on Q&A's debut show in Shanghai on Monday April 7 2014 . The live broadcast will feature a panel including Dr. Geoff Ruby, former Australian Ambassador to China, and will cover a range of current political and cultural relations between the two countries.
Broadcast: 6:30-8:30 pm Monday April 7 2014 on ABC 1
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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's latest commission, Sandstone Pollen, will soon be unveiled at the new Darling Harbour precinct in 2016.
This major public artwork – a series of unique sandstone pollen sculptures – was inspired by the diversity of pollen microfossils that were found in Darling Harbour, and were later identified by palynionologist Mike Macphail.
Her ‘pollen morphologies’, combining scientific research and beautiful, complex forms, will be placed under and near a variety of tall trees along the Boulevard Walk, invoking conversation about the story of evolution, of sexual reproduction and the generation of formal beauty.
In collaboration with two local stone masonries, each pollen grain will be 3-D modelled using the latest digital software, then carved in sandstone using a computerized milling robotic arm.
Cardoso’s works will synthesise thought about the story of place and life as it was and as it is at Darling Harbour and Cockle Bay.
