HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT IN TOURING 'VIDEO NOW' EXHIBITION

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT’s video work Drinking from the Screen is included in the NETS touring exhibition Video Now now open at Swan Hill Regional Gallery. 

Video Now presents a wide array of video-based practices, from explorations of bodily experience and reflections on the fleeting nature of time, to symbolic acts of endurance and social relations. The exhibition posits that contemporary video can be captivating, provocative and confounding. Be enthralled by an overview of video art today and its generative nature as an art form of our times.

Video Now continues at Swan Hill Art Gallery until 3 October.

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Honey Long & Prue Stent, Drinking from the screen, 2020, single-channel video, stereo sound, 4 min. 0 sec.

VENICE BIENNALE BOOK FEATURES ARC ONE ARTISTS

Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art by Kerry Gardner, hardcover 311mm x 251mm

Australia at the Venice Biennale: A Century of Contemporary Art is a new book by Kerry Gardner AM, published by MUP.

This splendidly produced book is the first comprehensive account of Australia’s history at the Venice Biennale, with an invaluable appendix that lists and illustrates many of this country's exhibits.

ARC ONE artists ROBERT OWEN & JOHN DAVIS are featured in the book, having both represented Australia at the pavilion in 1978, and CHARLES GREEN has contributed an exemplary essay among other significant Australian writers.

This richly illustrated publication illuminates the untold stories and origins of the most important event of the art world through one hundred years of Australian modern art.

Australia at the Venice Biennale is available to purchase online here >

SAM SHMITH WORK CENTREPIECE OF NEW CHAMBERS DESIGN

SAM SHMITH’s work Untitled (Plate Glass #2) forms the centrepiece of this new architecturally designed fitout of QC Chambers in Melbourne CBD.

“The Chambers pivot around an artwork, Plate Glass 2, by Melbourne artist Sam Shmith. The urban train scene expressed, reinterprets the views out to the skyline beyond. Black tones throughout the space and lighting by Christopher Boots continue the dialogue with the artwork, offering shifting perspectives of the art, the chambers, and the city itself and a space which provides ongoing contemplation and inspiration.”

– FMD Architects.

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ANNE ZAHALKA AT GEELONG GALLERY

Anne Zahalka, The Pioneer, 1992 (printed 2021), pigment ink on rag paper mounted onto gatorboard

ANNE ZAHALKA is included in Geelong Gallery’s new exhibition Exhume the grave—McCubbin and contemporary art, opening tomorrow.

Exhume the grave includes works by contemporary Australian artists in response to Frederick McCubbin’s enduringly popular paintings. The sentiments and emotive subjects of McCubbin’s works have helped develop for them a popular visual literacy: they are images that have impressed themselves powerfully on public consciousness over time. Not surprisingly, their significant public profile has also led to these paintings being the subject of re-evaluation and reinterpretation by contemporary Australian artists, through the lens of gender, cultural diversity and inclusion.

In The Pioneer, for example, Anne Zahalka reworks the central panel of McCubbin’s triptych, removing the seated bushman to emphasise the role of women in settling the land, and to rewrite the dominant narrative of the role of men in nation-building.

This exhibition continues until 28 November and coincides with the complementary exhibition Frederick McCubbin—Whisperings in wattle boughs.

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