GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, Beach 5, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 130 x 162 cm

GUAN WEI WINS ARTHUR GUY MEMORIAL PAINTING PRIZE! 

ARC ONE are pleased to announce GUAN WEI as the winner of the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. Wei’s winning painting, Beach 5 is a three-panel acrylic on canvas work displaying an idyllic, whimsical rendering of a Sydney shore.

The open painting prize is a $50,000 acquisitive award established by Allen Guy CBE in honour of his brother Arthur Guy in 2003. For more information on the prize, please click here.

Congratulations GUAN WEI!

NIKE SAVVAS

Image by Lewis Roland

NIKE SAVVAS’ immersive art installation Reverie, in the Festival of Love at Southbank Centre, London, has been extended to 12 September 2015. SAVVAS’ multicoloured work is suspended across the ceiling of Royal Festival Hall and continues outside onto the balcony of the building. The work “embodies a state of play; a daydream; a moment of losing oneself within an undulating field of ambient colour”.

For more information please click here.

LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Painters’ Family, oil on linen, 2007, 185 x 185 cm

Joseph Hinchliffe writes on LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN’s entry in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in the Bendigo Advertiser. Read about their creative process and their entry entitled Song of Sorrow, which will form part of an upcoming series centred on the landscapes surrounding their home and studio.

To read the full article, click here.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Spark (3), 2014, pigment print, 111.5x112cm

NIKE SAVVAS’ work is part of a major exhibition titled Graphics Interchange Format: 25 Years of Focal Point Gallery at the Focal Point Gallery in Essex, U.K. The show features a multi-screen installation showcasing a collection made up of hundreds of GIF animations.

The exhibition will continue until 17 October 2015.

For more information click here.

CYRUS TANG

Cyrus Tang, Waiting (video still), 2015.

CYRUS TANG will be exhibiting his video work in a group exhibition titled It’s Subjective… as part of the Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial 2015. The exhibition will see the work of several video artists projected from Chatswood’s formidable Urban Screen. The festival runs from 5 – 26 September 2015, open Wednesday through to Sunday.

For more information click here.

LYNDELL BROWN CHARLES GREEN / GUAN WEI

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Song of Sorrow, 2015, oil on linen, 151 x 151 cm. 

LYNDELL BROWN and CHARLES GREEN and GUAN WEI who have been named as Finalists for the 2015 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. The announcement and official opening will be held at Bendigo Art Gallery from 6pm, Friday 28 August 2015. The exhibition of all finalists' work will be on show from 29 August – 1 November 2015.

For more information, click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still.  

The Australian Centre for Photography will be exhibiting DYE2, a video installation by MURRAY FREDERICKS and Tom Schutzinger. This video and sound piece was made in an abandoned Cold War radar station in Greenland. The piece, like Greenland itself, is at once icily cold and seductively beautiful, leading the viewer towards the sublime.

The exhibition runs from 29 August – 18 October 2015.  

MURRAY FREDERICKS / JUSTINE KHAMARA / JANET LAURENCE / DANI MARTI / ROBERT OWEN / JULIE RRAP / TRACY SARROFF / IMANTS TILLERS / GUAN WEI / JOHN YOUNG.

ARC ONE Gallery will be exhibiting at this year's Sydney Contemporary, at Carriageworks. You can find us at STAND B03 from 10 - 13 September 2015.

ARC ONE Gallery will be showcasing the works of artists including MURRAY FREDERICKS, JUSTINE KHAMARA, JANET LAURENCE, DANI MARTI, ROBERT OWEN, JULIE RRAP, TRACY SARROFF, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI and JOHN YOUNG.

For more information please contact ARC ONE Gallery on +613 9650 0589 or email mail@arc1gallery.com.au  

And, for more information regarding Sydney Contemporary, visit their website.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Sparks, installation view, ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne, 2014. 

NIKE SAVVAS is featured in the latest issue of ARTAND magazine. The article, The Connective Experiences of Nike Savvas, discusses the artists’ ability to demonstrate the connectedness of art and the viewing experience, outside of the traditional gallery exhibition space.

The article can be found in Vol 52.2 Winter 2015 issue of ARTAND. For more information please click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Murray Fredericks, N Stradbroke Island, 2014, Digital pigment print, 100 x 284cm

Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS who has been selected as a Finalist in the 2015 Bowness Photography Prize. 

An exhibition of Finalists' artworks for the Prize will be opened to the public from 25 September 2015 at Monash Gallery of Art. The winners will be announced on 1 October 2015.

More information here.

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Cole Classic, 1998, Type C Photograph, 57.5 x 72.5cm

ANNE ZAHALKA's iconic work will be exhibited at the Manly Art Gallery and Museum as part of the 2015 Manly Arts Festival. The exhibition Playground of The Pacific will be launched at 6pm on Friday 18 September 2015.

The exhibition is open from 4 September - 25 October 2015, with a corresponding artist talk on Saturday 10 October, from 2-3pm.

For more information please click here.