EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work, 'Untitled 99-00' 1999-2000, features in Let's Talk About Text, a new exhibition curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Miriam Kelly opening as part of Art Month Sydney.

Let's Talk About Text presents works from the Artbank collection that harness text based communication as a pictorial device. From sloganeering statements to vernacular fragments and found fonts, this exhibition focuses on how artists respond to and encourage the visual pleasure of inventive typographic forms for personal and political ends.

The exhibition opens on 16 March 2017, 6-8pm, at Artbank Gallery, 222 Young Street, Waterloo, Sydney.

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Eugenia Raskopoulos, Untitled 99-00, 1999-2000 (detail), 122 x 122 cm

PAT BRASSINGTON

"Pat Brassington, a photographer whose images seem as committed to impossibility as they are to organicism. Brassington’s images are disturbingly familiar, almost like postcards from possible futures, or memories of dreams from the distant past." 

The BMW Art Guide by Independent Collectors has profiled the contemporary art collection of Australia's Ten Cubed Collection. PAT BRASSINGTON is one of the collection's ten selected artists.

Have a read of the profile here. 

Pat Brassington, Mind Game, 2013, pigment print, 60 x 46cm. Part of the Ten Cubed Collection. 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is one of three prominent South-East Asian artists included in the inaugural exhibition for Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney. Beauty and Myth of South East Asia opens Thursday, 2 March 2017 from 6–8pm. 

The exhibition continues until 28 March 2017. 

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Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Reincarnation of the Butterflies 2, 2016, acrylic, silver foil and ink on board, 30 x 40cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

Image: Pat Brassington, Pair Bonding, 2015, pigment print.

PAT BRASSINGTON is included in the group show Focused: Photomedia from the Ten Cubed Collection at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre. The exhibition offers an insight into the ever-growing and evolving photomedia practice within the Ten Cubed Collection.

The exhibition continues until 23 March 2017.

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CYRUS TANG

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG who has been selected as a finalist for the Wyndham Art Prize with her photographic work 7403.00s. 

The exhibition of shortlisted works will be on display at the Wyndham Art Gallery, Victoria from 6 April—11 June 2017.  

Image: Cyrus Tang , 7403.00s, 2016, archival Giclee print, 90 x 90cm.  

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROF, Lollipop & Lime (Detail), Orange (Detail) & Rosy Amber, Mandarin & Lime (Detail), 2017, Perspex and LED light components, dimensions variable.

TRACY SARROFF is currently curating an exhibition at the Campbell Arcade, Melbourne. Guides to Help You is an exhibition that explores different creative approaches to artworks made from light sources such as neon, fluorescent and LED lights, including works from different artists such as EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS and TRACY SARROFF.

The exhibition continues through to 22 April 2017. 

Read a review from The Culture Concept Circle here. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

PAT BRASSINGTON will be part of Versus Rodin: Bodies Across Space and Time, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The exhibition brings together sculptures by the acclaimed french artist with leading modern and contemporary artists who have similarly challenged our understanding of the human condition. 

The exhibition will run from 4 March - 17 July 2017.
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JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE has been curated into Force of Nature, an exhibition that includes work by 28 established and emerging international contemporary artists, surveying the influence of nature and its processes on their work. Curated by James Putnam, Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, Force of Nature aims to communicate an awareness of nature’s increasing fragility and some of the works are concerned with urgent issues of ecological and social sustainability.

The exhibition will be showing at the Art Pavilion in Mile End, London, from 5 March - 9 April 2017. 

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GUO JIAN

"Images of landscapes, birds and flowers are peaceful and serene from a distance, but break down upon closer inspection." 

Art Guide Australia feature GUO JIAN's The Encroachment in the January/February 2017 issue. 

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ANNE SCOTT WILSON

The group exhibition, Morbis Artis: Diseases of the Arts, will be part of the White Night 2017 program. The show features ANNE SCOTT WILSON's balloon installation and video projection titled Fluid Retention. 

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CYRUS TANG

Image: Cyrus Tang in Art Collector Magazine, Issue 79. Work: CYRUS TANG, 4505.00s, 2016, Archival Giclee print, 100 x 100 cm.

Congratulations CYRUS TANG! She has been featured in the latest edition of Art Collector Magazine, called '50 things collectors need to know 2017'. CYRUS is regarded as one of the artists who are currently attracting attention in Australia and New Zealand. Peter Hill talks about her work as 'highly appealing to both contemporary art collectors and to museum curators.'