TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROFF has had a very successful art residency at the Marrickville Council, Sydney. As part of the residency, Tracy had a solo exhibition titled Future Nostalgia, at Chrissie Cotter Gallery (Marrickville Council), Sydney.

CATHERINE WOO

CATHERINE WOO is currently exhibiting in Breathe, as part of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Associated Event, at Art Atrium. Breathe is a group exhibition of women artists with Chinese ancestry, exploring physical and metaphysical ideas of breath and breathing space in their interior and exterior lives.

The exhibition opens Saturday, 28 January and continues until 18 February.  
 
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CATHERINE WOO's work has also been reviewed in a new book by Jeff Makin, published in November, 2011. 

DENISE GREEN

DENISE GREEN will be launching her new publication An Artist's Odyssey at the NGV Shop, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square on Saturday 11 February at 3.30pm.  

Denise will talk about the ideas in her book at 2.30pm in the NGV Australia Lecture Theatre.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS will be exhibiting a new video installation titled footnotes at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.  Footnotes addresses ideas of sexuality, gender and communication through the performing body. The exhibition opens 6pm Wednesday, February 22 and continues until 13 May, 2012.  

"The artist has in the past used steam, salt, oil and chalk as a means to smear, score and drip words into temporary formations that emphasise the fluidity of language. In her new video installation footnotes, she turns to materials that relate more directly to ideas of sexuality and gender – from lipstick to liquids of more ambiguous origins.

Using her own limbs as instruments or surfaces for inscription, Raskopoulos performs a series of actions that accumulate letters into words, written in English and Greek. Through these gestures, she draws attention to translation as an awkward exchange that is shaped by the potential for loss or contamination of meaning.

The performing body is an insistent presence in footnotes, emphasising written and spoken communication as inherently bodily functions. However, in evoking the slippage between different languages and juxtaposing this with references to sexuality and the erotic, Raskopoulos also alludes to aspects of experience that are beyond words." AGNSW


Join Professor Anne Marsh and Eugenia in a discussion of the exhibition and the artist’s practice at 6.30pm Wednesday 22 February, 2012.   

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ROBBIE ROWLANDS

ROBBIE ROWLANDS has designed the set for Insomnia, a new conceptual work by Megan Washington.  His set has received a fantastic review in the Drum Mag.

"Robbie Rowlands' set design for the show, was absolutely stunning, evoking a top-floor old-world New York City apartment with touches of pre-war Berlin, featuring a larger window (which doubled as a screen where short pieces of video art were displayed) and industrial props across a warm and romantic palate of lighting. "

A multi-layered show, Insomnia incorporates art, poetry, photography and designs, all drawn from Washington's personal archives. It offers a revealing insight into an intense 12 months for the double ARIA Award-winning artist, exploring all sides of her emotional and creative life.