CYRUS TANG has been profiled in NAVA's The Artist Files.
In her video interview with NAVA, Tang chats about becoming an artist, developing her career and exploring her identity through her practice.
ROBERT OWEN
Robert Owen, Double Seed #2, 2016-2018, from the 'Text of Light' series, Synthetic polymer paint on linen, 122 x 122cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present, Afterglow, the latest body of paintings by leading Australian artist, ROBERT OWEN. These visually-arresting works continue the artist’s exploration of the perceptual and emotional effects of light, colour, and space.
Guided by curiosity and wonder, Robert Owen’s knowledge of colour is profound. In colour he nds harmony and melody, using chromatic combinations to achieve sensations that pulsate from the walls like sound waves or musical nuances. Afterglow at ARC ONE Gallery stems from one of Owen’s diary drawings executed while living on the Greek island of Hydra in the early 1960s. On the island, Owen witnessed an eclipse of the sun: an experience that has informed the artist’s enduring interest in the transcendent capacity of space, light, and colour.
Owen’s formative research and experiences of Constructivism and De Stijl are apparent in Afterglow where succinct geometric forms, vertical stripes, and squares of strong colour evoke the physical and metaphysical. Owen’s diary drawing from 1964, vibrant with its rework composition, perfectly encapsulates a synthetic moment and the relationship between time and progress. Describing the image, Owen draws on the paradox articulated by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in his book, Intuition of the Instant, which posits life as an enduring string of moments that are in nite. It is this ash of illumination, combined with his poetic experiences on Hydra, from which Owen’s continued interest in the perceptual and emotional effects of space, light, and colour has materialised.
Robert Owen is an internationally recognised and award-winning artist with a sustained practice of more than ve decades. Working in painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, he has received widespread acclaim for his work, including major public commissions such as such as Webb Bridge, Docklands (in collaboration with Denton Corker Marshall), and the Craigieburn Bypass, Melbourne (in collaboration with Architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer). He represented Australia at the 38th Venice Biennale in 1978, and in 2003 he received the Australia Council Visual Arts/ Crafts Emeritus Award for a lifelong service to the visual arts. He is represented in public and private collections throughout Australia and internationally.
CYRUS TANG
Cyrus Tang, Golden Hour – 16.43.12.2001, 2018, archival pigment print, 120 x 70cm.
CYRUS TANG is included in the exhibition This Wild Song at Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre.
The exhibition celebrates strong female leaders in the arts community and their creative vision.
The opening is 1 September, 2 - 4pm and continues until 21 October.
EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS
Eugenia Raskopoulos, Diglossia #4, 2009, pure pigment print on archival paper, 140 x 93.5 cm.
Congratulations to EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS! Announced as one of the artists selected for The National: New Australian Art 2019 at Carriageworks.
The exhibition presents the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art, curated across three of Sydney's premier cultural institutions: the Art Gallery of NSW, Carriageworks and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
IMANTS TILLERS
IMANTS TILLERS is included in the exhibition '20/20 Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions' at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. '20/20' showcases the dynamic suite of new portraits commissioned to celebrate the National Portrait Gallery’s 20th year.
Imants Tillers has painted a portrait of one of Australia’s most prolific playwrights Louis Nowra.
The exhibition opens 20 October and continues until 10 February 2019.
Imants Tillers, 'Study of Louis Nowra', 2018, synthetic polymer paint and gouache on 64 canvas boards. Commissioned 2018.
ROBERT OWEN, JULIE RRAP & ANNE ZAHALKA
Robert Owen, 'Feeling Form (Blind Carving)', 1958, plaster of paris, 7.5 x 18 x 9.5cm.
ROBERT OWEN, JULIE RRAP and ANNE ZAHALKA are included in the exhibition 'National Art: Part One' at the National Art School Gallery'.
A review of the exhibition, with a photograph of Anne Zahalka standing in front of her work 'Outlawed!' was published in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday.
Pictured is one of Robert Owen's blind carving sculptures he did at the National Art School from 1958.
The exhibition continues until October 27.
GUAN WEI
GUAN WEI is included in Painting with Thread, an exhibition of recent tapestries and samples from the collection of the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (ATW).
Painting with Thread will offer Sydney viewers a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes process of tapestry creation by ATW weavers from design, sampling, to weaving and completion. The selection of tapestries and samples on display emphasise the experimental and innovative approaches to contemporary tapestry design, as well as the diversity of recent projects and collaborations at ATW.
Reviewed in Art Guide, the exhibition continues until 26 September.
Portrait of Guan Wei at The Australian Tapestry Workshop
JULIE RRAP, CYRUS TANG & ANNE ZAHALKA
Julie Rrap, Breath Stream, 2018, pigment ink-jet print, hand-ground glass, 66.0 x 116.0 cm
Cyrus Tang, A Simple Life (118 minutes), 2018, archival pigment print, 65 x 65cm.
Anne Zahalka, Krazy Kashmiris in Stagland, 2018, pigment ink-jet print on canvas, 100 x 136 cm
Congratulations to JULIE RRAP, CYRUS TANG and ANNE ZAHALKA, who have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2018 Bowness Photography Prize.
The judging panel, Dr Michael Brand, Director of AGNSW, artist Dr David Rosetzky and Anouska Phizacklea, Director of MGA, made the selection from an incredibly strong field of entrants that reflected the diversity and depth of photographic practice in Australia.
The winner will be announced 11 October.
The exhibition is open from 29 September – 18 November 2018.
HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT
HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT are featured in The Herald Sun today, as part of an article titled, 'Rising stars'.
Stent is quoted: "We just evolved from hanging out and making things, playing, and it slowly evolved into an art practice." Long adds, "It's really nice making art in a way where it's just as much about the relationship as it is the end product."
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Naked Flora #6: One Wife, five husbands, digital print, acrylic face, 45 x 30cm.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is included in the exhibition Human Non Human at the Powerhouse Museum.
Human Non Human asks the questions: What makes us human? How might humans adapt in the future? The immersive installations combine architecture, design, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, film and performance, offering space in which to consider the past, present and possible futures of human and non-human relationships.
The exhibition opens 7 August 2018 and continues until 27 January 2019.
ROBERT OWEN, JULIE RRAP & ANNE ZAHALKA
ROBERT OWEN, JULIE RRAP & ANNE ZAHALKA are included in the exhibition National Art – Part One at the National Art School, Sydney.
The exhibition will include over fifty artists with works spanning seven decades.
Julie Rrap, Outerspace, 2010, Digital Video, 1.33min loop, edition of 5.