JUSTINE KHAMARA

Arc One would like to warmly welcome JUSTINE KHAMARA to the gallery. Justine Khamara lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. In 2003 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include How Excellently We Did-diddly-do-do Do It, Heide Museum of Modern Art (2007); Legion, tcb art inc., Melbourne (2005); Bugaboo!, tcb art inc., Melbourne (2004); Eye Spy..., Linden St. Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne (2003). Group exhibitions include New 09, ACCA Melbourne (2009); Primavera 07, MCA Sydney (2007); Six Orbits Around the Blue Moon, Ramp Gallery Masey University, Hamilton, NZ (2005); Figures of Question, Ord Minnett Foyer Gallery Melbourne (2005); Hatched 03, Healthway National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2003).

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GUO JIAN

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney is showcasing Cast and Crew, new paintings by GUO JIAN. The exhibition is to be opened on Thursday 11th February. The Cast and Crew is an official event of the 2010 City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival.

JASON WING

JASON WING is in a group show at Casula Power House in Sydney from Friday 5th February 2010 and is showing works in an exhibition, Coded, at Blacktown Art Centre in Sydney from January 29th to March 27th. Jason is featured in the profile section of this months Art Almanac (page 150).

JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP has recently been selected for the Docklands Art Billboard site in Melbourne. One of the works from Julie's Castaway series is to be erected on the Lorimer Street building near the Yarra's edge. The billboard has become a local landmark, featuring some of Australia's best known contemporary artists.

PETER DAVERINGTON / GOSIA WLODARCZAK

The Nefes Ensemble featuring PETER DAVERINGTON on the Turksih Ney Flute will be performing three concerts as part of the upcoming Adelaide Arts Festival in South Australia. The concerts will be a collaboration between two ensembles of sacred music. The program is a dialogue between Turkish Sufi music of and around the 17th Century and the rarely performed Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich von Biber from 17th Century Europe. All performed on Period and Ottoman instruments.

Recordings of the performances will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of March at 6.30pm. More information here.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK will fly to the US to undertake the Australia Council Studio Residency in New York in March. Gosia will be developing a drawing project during this time - Between Visit & Migration.

ROBBIE ROWLANDS

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has been invited to present a series of lectures at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit in March. He will be working with students on current projects and considering a site intervention in the Detroit landscape also.  Grace of Ruin is a survey show of Robbie's works to be held at Gippsland Regional Gallery from 24th April until 6th June 2010. This show will feature works such as Down (Electricity Pole), Collapse (Wooden Chair), Persuaded (Steel Bed) and more. Robbie will also be creating a site specific work within the gallery space. Robbie will be creating a new work using a decommissioned Wheat Silo for the upcoming McClelland Sculpture Prize from 21st November until 17th July 2011.