PAT BRASSINGTON / JACKY REDGATE / LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN

PAT BRASSINGTON, JACKY REDGATE and LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN are featured in the NEW 13: Selected recent acquisitions exhibition at The University of Queensland Art Museum (10 August – 15 December 2013). Jacky Redgate's work is analysed in an essay by Vivien Thompson in the exhibition catalogue. 

Pat Brassington, Neck 1999, from the series Default Blue, pigment print on paper, edition of 3, 72 x 54 cm.

Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2010 – 2011, type C photograph (hand printed from original negative), facemounted to Perspex, 126 x 156 cm.

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The approaching storm, 2012, oil on linen, 155 x 155 cm.

SAM SHMITH

Sam Shmith, Untitled (Plate Glass #5), 2013, Pigment print, Baryta paper, 200 x 108 cm, Edition of 5.

Congratulations to SAM SHMITH, finalist in the 2013 Blake Prize with his work Untitled (Plate Glass #5), 2013. 

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PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, 'Marvel', 2013, pigment print, 65 x 43 cm.

PAT BRASSINGTON’s exhibition In search of the marvellous opens at Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania in Hobart on August 30, and will be on display until October 6, 2013. This exhibition invokes a dialogue between new works and images from Brassington's archives, such as the iconic A Heartbeat Away.

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DANI MARTI

Dani Marti, Beacon’s Dog, Still from video, 2 Channel, 11’30’’, 2010.

DANI MARTI has been selected to feature a video work alongside 23 other artists from around the world, in the exhibition VIDEONALE. 14 on Tour. The exhibition is in Moscow from 18th-24th September 2013, at The Central House of Artists.

This is an outstanding achievement for Dani as his work was selected from over 2000 applications received from 70 countries.

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON has been selected as a finalist in the 2013 Bowness Photography Prize (Monash Gallery of Art) with a work from her recent series, Quill, called Shadow Boxer. Brassington's work is one of 46 photographs chosen out of 562 entries.

The Bowness Photography prize exhibition, opens October 4th, 2013.

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SAM SHMITH

SAM SHMITH has been selected as a finalist in the 2013 Bowness Photography Prize (Monash Gallery of Art) with a work from his recent exhibition at ARC ONE, Untitled, Plate Glass #3. Shmith's work is one of 46 photographs chosen out of 562 entries.

The Bowness Photography prize exhibition, opens October 4th, 2013.

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JULIE RRAP

Julie Rrap, OuterSpace No. 05, 2010, Digital Print on Archival rag Paper 1/5, 
160 x 110cm

JULIE RRAP’s public commission for the Façade Project at La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre in Bendigo was unveiled on Thursday 22nd August 2013. The work, 14-metre-wide by 4-metre-high, is part of her photographic series OuterSpace (2010). “I think this is a very exciting extension of the work into real space”, says RRAP.

Read about it in the press here

JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, orbital spin trick, UV print on laser-cut plywood, 50cm diameter approx.

JUSTINE KHAMARA

Reconstructure | ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 27 August - 28 September.

With calm precision, photo-sculptural artist Justine Khamara sliced up the photographic faces of   her   nearest  and dearest.  She then reconfigured them – a  psychological and physical manipulation – to create the photo-sculptural works of her  upcoming exhibition, Reconstructure.

Justine Khamara’s practice continues to focus on the material, plastic qualities of photography and to push the boundaries of photo-sculpture.  In Reconstructure, Khamara moves forward within the process of  photographic replication  and  repetition, presenting work with an increased mathematical, rational and abstracted sensibility.  

The photographic imagery of 'Reconstructure' retains a fragmented presence, central to Khamara’s practice, whilst escalating in psychological intensity.  This calm intensity, combined with  Khamara’s particular focus on colour, line, form and structure, imbues Reconstructure with a contained sense of movement – an explosion held in check. 

- Annabel Holt, August 2013 

Justine Khamara lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. Solo exhibitions include: now I am a radiant people, ARC ONE Gallery (2011); Erysichthon’s Ball, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2010); How Excellently We Did-diddly-do-do Do It, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2007).  Group exhibitions include: Northern Lights, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre (2013); Contemporary Australia: Women, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Double Vision, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Langwarrin (2011); Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2010); The Edge of the Universe, Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria; New 09, ACCA Melbourne (2009); Primavera 07, MCA Sydney (2007).  In 2003 Khamara graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts.

JACKY REDGATE

JACKY REDGATE is featured in the artist pages of Discipline #3 (August 2013). Pages 77 to 80 present stills from her collaborative video work 'Mirror Reflex' (2013) now on view in the exhibition 'Narelle Jabelin: Vision in Motion' at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art.

Information on Discipline and where to purchase the Journal here.

JACKY REDGATE

Narelle JUBELIN, BOXED. SET 28, 2005-06, cotton thread on silk mesh petit point renditions, The Box, Lissma, Suecia, architect Ralph Erskine, 1942, 4.5 x 5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. 

JACKY REDGATE is collaborating with Narelle Jubelin in a exhibition entitled Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, open until the 20th September, 2013. The collaborative work is a single channel video titled Mirror Reflex (2013). 

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PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Camouflage, 2010.

PAT BRASSINGTON is featured in the upcoming NEW 2013: Selected Recent Acquisitions exhibition, at the Queensland Art Gallery, presented by The University of Queensland. This is a great opportunity for Brassington’s work to be a part of the University’s active acquisition program during 2012-2013. 

The opening for the exhibition is on Friday 16 August 2013 and the exhibition continues until December 2013.

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JANET LAURENCE / PETER DAVERINGTON / GUAN WEI

ARC ONE has the pleasure in showcasing three artists in the inaugural art auction for the Art Cabriolet, a charity in association with Mossgreen & George Calombaris, Loaded Brush & Gavel.  Artists JANET LAURENCE, PETER DAVERINGTON and GUAN WEI will each have a work in the auction, contributed by ARC ONE Gallery. These artists are included in the eleven of Australia’s leading contemporary artists’ that are exhibiting works for the auction.

This event is a great opportunity to feature work by some of ARC ONE's artists and the event will also raise funds for children in trauma, through the medium of art and art therapy.  The auction will be held at Mossgreen, 310 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Victoria, 3141 on Thursday 15 August 2013.

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SHEENA MACRAE

SHEENA MACRAE has been chosen to be one of the core artists in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2013, taking part in the curated group exhibtion of exceptional Australian and International artists working in photo-media.

The Ballarat International Foto Biennale core exhibition and many other peripherary events will run from 17 August to 15 September 2013.  Entry to the exhibition is free, from 10am-5pm.

For more information, visit the BIFB site here.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Hojas Secas/Dry Leafs, 2010.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is featured in the current Camouflage Cultures: Surveillance, Communities, Aesthetic, Animals, an international exhibition presented by Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening on Thursday 8 August, from 6 to 8pm.
CAMOUFLAGE CULTURES will be on display from Thursday 8 to Saturday 31 August.

The conference and exhibition address two key principles of camouflage - concealment and deception - in relation to four themes: surveillance, communities, aesthetics and animals. The theme of surveillance includes war, defense, militaries, and conflict; communities embraces society, the everyday, government and identity; aesthetics incorporates art, architecture, film and popular culture; animals includes human and non-human beings, nature, evolution, pattern and optics. The artists convey these themes through visual representation and the contemporary world.

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PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Camouflage, 2010. 

The Michael Buxton Collection, which includes work by Pat Brassington, is now online.

The collection comprises acquisitions by influential Australian artists and seeks to reflect the breadth of current Australian visual art practice.

To view Pat Brassington’s work held in the collection and for information about new acquisitions, loans and exhibitions, click here.

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROFF has been invited to present a talk at Deakin University as part of the inauguration of the Science Fiction seminar series. This will take place on Thursday 22nd August 4-6pm at the Phoenix Gallery, Deakin University, Burwood. She will be speaking alongside Dr Paul Thomas (Artist and Associate Professor, University of NSW, COFA).

Tracy will be discussing science fiction in relationship to her visual arts practice, the zeitgeist, ecology and the creative boundaries of what is both imaginary and real.

The seminar series are open to the public. RSVP by August 12 to lean@deakin.edu.au

SAM SHMITH

SAM SHMITH has recently featured in the newly redesigned ARTAND (Australia) magazine.

The PLATFORM section of the new and improved ARTAND (Australia), written by Jane Sutherland, (Issue No. 51.1, 2013, pp. 154-155.) outlines Shmith's artistic process.

Shmith's photographs are interpreted as immense, dreamlike landscapes where light and dark intermingle, creating a dramatic composition. Shmith’s methods of capturing photographs occur during times of travel and take place whilst in transit such as in cars, trains or helicopters. Throughout his photographic journey Shmith scans his surroundings in order to capture the familiar everyday observations of trees, houses, clouds, people and reflections.

"My photography is a process of literally breaking the world up into objects, then putting it back together. I ceased experiencing the world as a series of places, rather as a fragmented and endless resource of ingredients." 

- Sam Shmith 

Whilst the initial process of creating a work is heavily reliant on the taking of photographs, Shmith's collection of over 60,000 photographs come together and transform into and can be interpreted as a painterly manifestation. Shmith describes his work as being a balanced combination of collage and montage, where he works with numerous transparent layers against a black background in Photoshop - as a result, an ominous dreamscape is created.