ARC ONE hosting upcoming MAPh Artist Photography Auction

MaPh x ARC ONE

ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the upcoming MAPh Artist photography auction, where lucky bidders can vie for gorgeous works from the likes of Honey Long & Prue Stent, Murray Fredericks and Lydia Wegner.

Tickets are strictly limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.

Sign up over at @maph_photography (🔗 click the link in their bio), for an auction with a difference! MAPh has created a unique auction, where the proceeds from sales will be shared equally with the artists, allowing buyers to impact artists and their practice directly. Funds raised through the sale of these artworks will help shape the future of photography in Australia by supporting MAPh's exhibition program, artists and their creative practices.

Auction details are below:

Wednesday 24 May 2023
ARC ONE Gallery
45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne 3000
Doors open 6pm for 7pm auction
Drinks and canapés will be served on arrival.

Honey LONG & Prue STENT, Venus milk, 2015, pigment ink-jet print, 106.0 x 159.0 cm, edition of 3.

Book Launch

BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT

ARC ONE Gallery is hosting the launch of two publications for @the_power_institute tonight: Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson's long-awaited 'UnAustralian Art', and 'Ends of Painting: Art in the 1960s and 1970s', spectacularly edited by @pliteau and David Homewood.

Two essential new publications, shown here in front of @johnyoungstudio's gorgeous paintings from our current exhibition, SPECTRUMFIGURES, NATURESCAPES.

6.30-8PM. See you there.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT feature in 'Conflated' at Deakin Art Gallery

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT with Amrita Hepi are featured in 'Conflated' now open at @deakinartgallery

The exhibition is a @netsvictoria touring exhibition, curated by Zoë Bastin and Claire Watson.

When we inhale and exhale, our bodies transform through the process of inflation and deflation. Drawing on the inflatable form as both material and metaphor, ‘Conflated’ brings disparate artists together to explore bodies, environments and cultures through contemporary art. Here, the cycle of breathing serves as a framework through which a wide array of experiences, behaviours and expressions are examined.

'Conflated' continues until Friday 9 June 2023, open Monday to Friday 11am – 5pm. Admission is free.

Amrita Hepi with Honey Long and Prue Stent ‘Omphallus’ (still), 2021, digital video, 3 minutes 30 seconds.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT PHOTO Editions Book now available for pre-order

The newest PHOTO Editions book ‘Drinking From The Eye’ by artists HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT is now available for pre-order! Link in bio.

Commissioned by Photo Australia for the PHOTO 2024 International Festival of Photography @photofestivalau, 'Drinking From The Eye' is the first photobook by the Australian artists and is co-published by Photo Australia and Perimeter Editions @perimeterbooks.

Dreamlike, fluid, saccharine, gritty and fleshy, Long and Stent challenge and captivate audiences with powerful imagery that is both subversive and surreal.

JANET LAURENCE on display at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf

JANET LAURENCE's 'Breathing forest' (2022) is featured in 'Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation' at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.

This exhibition recognises the importance of trees and ecosystems to societal health.

'Arboreal Narratives 2023: In Conversation' continues until 30 April.

Janet Laurence, 'Breathing forest', 2022, 10 silk voile dye sublimation prints and video projection, 900 x 3000 cm (overall).

ANNE ZAHALKA on display at the Wollongong Art Gallery

ANNE ZAHALKA, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, archival pigment ink on rag paper, edition of 3, 115 x 190 cm.

ANNE ZAHALKA's absorbing image is on display on Dharawal Land, at the Wollongong Art Gallery, in the new exhibition 'REFLECTION: Works from the Collection'.

In this work "Zahalka crouches in the foreground of the Illawarra undergrowth as both observer, stranger and witness to the landscape populated by introduced species, including a group of tourists. A haze of smoke can also be seen towards the tops of the trees, referencing the ongoing bushfire smoke that covered the rainforest at the time of the making of the work." This wonderful description is courtesy of Boroondara’s Town Hall Gallery exhibition catalogue, 'You are here' from 2020.

REFLECTION is open 1 April to 20 August 2023.

JULIE RRAP finalist in the 2023 Dobell Drawing Prize

Congratulations to JULIE RRAP, who is a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize 2023.

National Art School presents the Dobell prize, which celebrates contemporary drawing.

Rrap’s video work ‘DRAW OUT’ is a brilliant investigation of drawing ‘the nude’:

“The drawing is a kind of haptic expression as a naked Julie Rrap rolls back and forth over paper secured to the floor. Here she marks the parameters of her body in charcoal. She can’t actually see her body as one entity in this process, it is not an object of her gaze. What we see is the writing and erasing of a body in pieces, a fragmented body, a body that wears the erasure of the drawing on its skin.” @annemarsh56, 2022

All finalists will be on show at the NAS Gallery until 10th June 2023.

JULIE RRAP, ‘Drawn Out’, 2022, video, 12 min.

Now Representing MARINA ROLFE

NOW REPRESENTING

We are thrilled to announce that Marina Rolfe is now represented by ARC ONE.

Rolfe straddles the line between intuition and decisiveness. Every mark, every colour in her work feels selected and deliberate, yet they impart an overwhelming feeling of spontaneity.

This powerful combination of opposites—control and improvisation—is the result of Rolfe's well-honed skills and her superb visual intelligence.

To request more information on Rolfe, including details of currently available works, see the link in our bio.

Marina Rolfe portrait, courtesy of the Design Files.