Prudence Gibson has written a fantastic review of JANET LAURENCE's Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef at the Australian Museum. In this installation, Gibson writes, Janet Laurence "reminds us of the gift of life and to be more aware of how we live and function on the planet."
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Janet Laurence, Deep Breathing: Resuscitation for the Reef, Australian Museum, installation view.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON is taking part in a pop-up exhibition titled Threshold, at the Carlton Hotel, fourth floor, 193 Bourke Street Melbourne.
Threshold opens 31 August as part of the Deakin @ Carlton Festival. A diverse group of art practices will represent a kind of threshold where free association will be encouraged.
Rooms will be occupied by artist’s work created through live performance in response to site, visual art, photography, performance inspired installation.
The exhibition runs till Saturday 3 September.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in Auftrag Landschaft / (com)mission Landscape, on view from 9 September 2016 to 2 April 2017, at the Schloss Biesdorf in Berlin. On 9 September Schloss Biesdorf will celebrate its re-opening as a recently restored cultural heritage site and new major destination for art and public space in the eastern part of Berlin.
The exhibition looks at humans' relationship to landscape and questions its role in artistic production, while deliberately touching on the conflict and ambivalent reputation of commissioned art. Nine contemporary artists, who developed (commissioned) projects for the upcoming International Garden Exhibition (IGA) taking place in Berlin in 2017, have been curated into the show: Erik Göngrich, Jeppe Hein, Martin Kaltwasser, Janet Laurence, Seraphina Lenz, Anna Rispoli, Michael Sailstorfer, Jeanne van Heeswijk and the studio for landscape architecture, Atelier le Balto. Their projects reflect their way of looking at and working with different aspects of landscape.
Lydia Wegner, Yellow Cut, 2016, light jet print, painted frame, 46 x 32 cm.
LYDIA WEGNER's work is currently included in a group show, Genteel Notions, at LON Gallery, Collingwood. The exhibition builds upon the gallery’s established structure of showing a mix of conceptually curated exhibitions as well as shows that favour process and intuition as a framework for curating. Genteel Notions brings together a group of emerging and established photgraphers.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in Your Collection: Off the Wall at the Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery. The exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Gallery's sculpture park. The exhibition includes drawings, photographs and other archival documentation that provide an insight into the history and development of the park and a window into the working processes of the artists.
An official celebration will take place on saturday 21 August with performances and talks from 11:30am to 3:30pm.
The exhibition is open until 25 September.
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TRACY SARROFF is showing in a light installation group show at Off the Kerb Gallery in Collingwood. Artists and designers from around Australia have been invited to propose works responding to the theme “energy as light” and will be filling two venues with new artworks using a startling array of materials and light.
The exhibition runs from 18 August to 1 September 2016.
Tracy Sarroff, Rhizopoda Radiaria, 2008, perspex and light component, 50 x 44 x 44 cm.
John Young, Guan Liang I, 2016, oil on linen, 102 x 84cm.
JOHN YOUNG is exhibiting three series of works; Storm Resurrection, Naive and Sentimental Paintings and Veil in Shanghai. The solo exhibition, Storm Resurrection, opened at Pearl Lam Galleries on 2 July and will continue through to 21 August 2016.
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As a finalist of the 2016 Gold Award, JOHN YOUNG's work is currently on display at the Rockhampton Art Gallery. The award is designed as an invitation award to consider the best in contemporary painting in Australia. Congratulations John Young!
The exhibition continues through 4 September 2016.
Further information can be found here.
JOHN YOUNG's work is included in the international group exhibition, The Repetition of the Good. The Repetition of the Bad, at the New Synagogue in Berlin, Germany. Selected photographs and drawings from Bonhoeffer in Harlem, Safety Zone as well as a new group of works based on Oskar Schindler will be on display. The exhibition is set against the backdrop of the darkest chapter of German history, addressing the profound loss suffered by the Jewish community of Berlin under the National Socialist dictatorship.
Exhibition runs from 7 July - 4 September 2016.
Find out more here.
Image: John Young, from the Safety Zone series, 2010.
Image: Guo Jian with his works installed in Refugees. Photo: Wolter Peeters.
The Sydney Morning Herald featured an article on GUO JIAN, in relation to the group exhibition Refugees. The article celebrates Guo Jian’s series Trigger Happy and his inclusion in the politically-charged exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
Read the article here.
The exhibition continues through 11 September 2016.
Further press for the exhibition can be read here.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is an exhibiting artist in Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital, an exhibition from the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, showing as part of the Sydney Design Festival.
The exhibition explores the increasingly important role of digital manufacture in contemporary art, science, design and architecture, and will run from 3 September 2016 to 25 June 2017.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs - Love Darts (detail), 2012.
JANET LAURENCE is featured in Troubled Waters at UNSW Galleries, a suite of interdisciplinary exhibitions and projects considering the impact of human activity and climate change on natural and marine environments.
In a major new collaborative project between UNSW Science and UNSW Art & Design, multimedia artists bring the complex ecosystem of a river to life in the Gallery. This important art/science collaboration titled River Journey, addresses the impact of human activity on Australia’s marine environments from the perspective of leading scientific researchers, sound, installation and photo-based artists: Andrew Belletty, Nici Cumpston, Tamara Dean, Bonita Ely, Janet Laurence and scientists from UNSW’s Centre for Ecosystem Science led by Professor Richard Kingsford.
The exhibition runs from 19 August - 5 November 2016.
LYDIA WEGNER will be showing a new body of work in her solo exhibition, Silver Shadow, opening at Bus Projects Wednesday 10 August, 6-8pm.
In this exhibition Wegner's playful images combine striking colour backgrounds alongside warped paper, coloured lighting and angular shadows. Through play and moments of chance, these simple materials form a questionable reality, seemingly flat and weightless something looks familiar yet so far removed.
Lydia Wegner, Red Wobble, 2016, light jet print, 44 x 30 cm.
