JANET LAURENCE wins Falling Walls Science Summit Award

Janet Laurence has been awarded one of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year for 2023.

Having recently been to the Antarctic and working with scientists there, I feel the need to make this extraordinary and fragile place comprehensible through art. Antarctica's unraveling, through catastrophic climate change, needs to be demystified and brought to a broad audience. Antarctica's future will determine our ways of being on the planet."

Laurence will be in Berlin later this year to attend the Falling Walls Science Summit, discussing the hidden complexities of Antarctic exploration and the need for fostering empathy alongside environmental consciousness.

LYNDALL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN featured on ABC Arts

Geraldine Doogue interviews Senior Curator of Art at the Australian War Memorial Dr Anthea Gunn about History painting: market, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan (2008), a work by Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, currently on display in Art in Conflict at the SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

You can listen to the full interview to hear more about Brown and Green's experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan here.

TILLERS, OWEN, FREDERICKS, LAURENCE, RRAP featured in 'Contemporary visions: works from the ACU Art Collection'

Contemporary visions: works from the ACU Art Collection features examples of the work of sixty esteemed artists, mainly but not solely from Australia, whose practice ranges over painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, glass, and ceramics.

Forty-five authors, largely from academic and curatorial contexts, draw on their deep knowledge of visual art to document and elucidate the assembled artworks. Writers such as Kelly Gellatly, Sue Cramer, and Anne O’Hehir have reflected on major works by Imants Tillers, Robert Owen, Murray Fredericks and Janet Laurence (in collaboration with Julie Rrap).

Head to the ACU Art Collection merchandise to order.

DANI MARTI is a finalist in Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award

Dani Marti was a finalist this year, with the rhythmic work 'Between - 'Llunyanies Fosquejades' at the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award.

This nationally acclaimed, acquisitive biennial prize celebrates the diversity and strength of textile art across Australia.