TONIGHT! EXHIBITION OPENING
As the saying goes, red skies can signal good or bad weather: in the morning, they are a “shepherds’ warning,” while at night, they forecast “sailors’ delight.” Continuing the artist’s fascination with sky-watching, Catherine Woo’s new paintings are vivid firmaments of billowing magentas, oranges and maroon. Her “grand, amorphous and ambiguous” works capture the brilliant red hues that slip into both “delight” and “warning”; are they beautiful sunsets or skies tainted by bushfire? Woo understands that the sublime moment often contains both awe and terror.
CATHERINE WOO
SIGNS OF PROGRESS
📅 Opening: Wednesday, 28 August, 6-8PM.
📍 ARC ONE Gallery
All welcome.
Email mail@arc1gallery.com or DM us for a catalogue of available works.
ANNE ZAHALKA 'The Artist is Present' Sessions Available
BOOK NOW: The Artist is Present
During Anne Zahalka's exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive, now running at the National Art School, Sydney, there is a special opportunity for small groups of gallery visitors (individual bookings possible) to speak with the artist directly and find out more about her work.
Zahalka will join the 15 minute sessions remotely from her studio in Newtown, Sydney, while visitors will be able to connect with her from inside her ZAHALKAWORLD kunstkammer studio at NAS. Come prepared with questions!
Bookings are essential. Head to the National Art School website to secure your session. Maximum group size of 5 people per session.
The Artist is Present: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive
📅 Thursday 29 August, Thursday 5 September, Thursday 12 September 2024
Bookings essential via the National Art School website
📍National Art School, Sydney
CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG feature in exhibition at Chau Chak Wing Museum
NOW OPEN
Cyrus Tang and John Young are featured in the exhibition 'The trace is not a presence ...' at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney.
Through the hands of five Australian artists from different Chinese diasporic communities, The trace is not a presence … highlights both the active process of making, and the experience of transcending the past towards a present that is not immediately identifiable and complete.
THE TRACE IS NOT PRESENCE...
📅 Open from 24 August 2024
📍China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney
IMAGE
CYRUS TANG
‘The Final Cast Off (Alice Lim Kee and Daisy Kwok)’, 2016-2017
2 channel video projection on Chinese paper scroll
JOHN YOUNG
‘Times Slow Passing #1’, 2023,
Etching and photolithography
44cm × 38cm (sheet)
JANET LAURENCE x AESOP
JANET LAURENCE x AESOP
If you are in Sydney, pop down to Aesop's flagship store in The Strand for a special installation of The Fragrance Laboratory, a collaboration inspired by a number of Janet Laurence’s key works that feature labware and plant materials, including the acclaimed Elixir Lab, the H20: Water Bar and the monumental 2017 mixed-media work Matter of the Masters at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Aesop stores in Sydney and Melbourne have been cleared of all products, excluding fragrance, and transformed into immersive sensorial environments in a collaboration with Janet Laurence. The partnership is born of shared interests in art, science, memory and imagination, and a common dedication to creating a more sustainable future.
It has been lovely to work with Aesop and Luke Mortimer for this inspired collaboration. More to come in Melbourne next week, when The Fragrance Laboratory is launched in Flinders Lane!
'We share a philosophy that uses aesthetics to create an experiential space that can express wonder and a relationship between nature and science,’ said Laurence. ‘The focus of my work is the beauty and complexity of the natural world and the fragility of our environment. The collaboration with Aesop is a further exploration of these ideas.’
ANNE ZAHALKA in conversation at The National Art School
IN CONVERSATION TODAY
This afternoon (Saturday, 17 August 2024, 2PM), join Anouska Phizacklea, Director of the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) in conversation with acclaimed Australian artist Anne Zahalka at the National Art School, Sydney.
Zahalka will discuss the her career spanning four decades, the survey exhibition ZAHALKAWORLD: an artist’s archive and key themes explored within her practice.
IN CONVERSATION: ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive
📅 17 August 2024, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Bookings essential via the National Art School website
📍National Art School, Sydney
ZAHALKAWORLD opens at The National Art School
Last night we celebrated the opening of Anne Zahalka's survey exhibition at the National Art School, ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive. Swipe through to see beautiful images from the opening, which was launched by NAS CEO and Director, Steven Alderton, alongside exhibition curator Anouska Phizacklea.
First presented in Naarm/Melbourne at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) in 2023, this iteration of ZAHALKAWORLD at the National Art School will contain over 100 artworks from 15 different photographic series, including the iconic Resemblance series, Bondi: Playground of the Pacific and the more recent Wild Life series.
Also on display will be the Kunstkammer – a life-size recreation of Zahalka’s house-studio within the gallery space, for which she won the Bowness Prize in 2023. Imaginative, immersive and playful, the installation invites audiences into the artist’s working life and creative process to explore the illusionary worlds for which she is renowned.
ANNE ZAHALKA features in Age Article
Anne Zahalka was in The Age this weekend, talking to journalist Helen Pitt on the eve of ZAHALKAWORLD – An artist’s archive travelling to the National Art School in Sydney:
"At 67, as she prepares for a major survey exhibition at her alma mater, the National Art School (NAS), it is easy to see why one of Australia’s most highly regarded photo-media artists is in a reflective mood. Her work spans more than 40 years and 40 solo shows and is in major international collections. This retrospective assembles more than 100 works from 15 different photographic series, alongside collected ephemera from her studio and archive."
Read the rest of the piece here >
JANET LAURENCE artist residency talk at State Buildings in Perth
This week Janet Laurence will travel to Perth to take up an artist's residency in the iconic State Buildings in Perth.
During August, audiences will be invited to visit Laurence's studio and observe her process, from her exploration of initial concepts and materials, to how these emerge within her practice.
On 9 August, visitors can do just that, with a private viewing of Laurence's latest work where the artist will discuss her artistic journey, creative process, and the environmental themes that influence her work. This will be followed by an afternoon tea of finely curated teas and luxurious treats.
See @statebuildings website for bookings.
ANNE ZAHALKA featured at Wollongong Art Gallery
Anne Zahalka is currently featured in the exhibition 'Shifting Ground - Landscape from the Collection' from the Wollongong Art Gallery.
Shifting Ground is an exhibition of over 50 works traversing both traditional and contemporary perspectives of landscape art, including works which present First Nations stories of place, climate change and environmental impacts, the effects of colonisation, settlement and the many approaches artists take to capture different fragments, reflections and narratives within landscapes.
SHIFTING GROUND
📅 23 March - 3 November 2024
📍Wollongong Art Gallery, Corner Kembla & Burelli Sts, Wollongong
IMAGE: Anne Zahalka, You Are On Dharawal Land!, 2020, Archival pigment ink on rag paper, edition of 3 + 1 A/P, 115 x 190 cm
JACKY REDGATE at Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh)
This stellar work by Jacky Redgate is on display currently at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), in their exhibition 'Built photography'. Curated by artists Kiron Robinson and Izabela Pluta, with support from MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea, Built photography brings together 16 artists who explore photography as a physical construction.
Celina Lei wrote about Redgate's work for ArtsHub recently:
"Redgate’s explorations in both sculpture and photography are exemplified in this piece, which interrogates perception through the lens in a carefully constructed assemblage of a glass, a bottle and a bowl while paying homage to photographic predecessors."
BUILT PHOTOGRAPHY
📅 8 June – 25 August 2024
📍Museum of Australian Photography
IMAGE: Jacky Redgate, Untitled from Anonymous (probably Daguerre or Niépce de Saint-Victor), ‘table prepared for a meal’ c. 1829 1990 library buckram, cardboard, ceramic and glass, 105.0 x 55.0 x 55.0 cm (irreg.) Monash University Collection.
