HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT IN 'PINK' EXHIBITION

Honey Long & Prue Stent, Venus Milk, 2015, archival pigment print, 106 x 159cm.

Honey Long & Prue Stent, Venus Milk, 2015, archival pigment print, 106 x 159cm.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT are featured in Wyndham Art Gallery’s first show of 2021, ‘PINK’. 

Intended as a platform for dialogue, this exhibition explores where the combination of second wave feminism and neo-liberal feminism has brought women artists today. Covering a range of mediums and styles, the pieces present a variety of creative practices and approaches to feminist narratives, each using pink as an element to strengthen their work, not minimise it. 

‘PINK’ is a digital exhibition curated by Caroline Esbenshade. The online virtual tour will be available until 8 March.

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Listen to Honey & Prue interviewed here >

Read the catalogue essay here >

ROBERT OWEN – A BOOK OF ENCOUNTERS

Introducing Robert Owen – A Book of Encounters – the first major monograph on one of Australia’s most eminent artists. Made in close collaboration with Owen and his studio, this extensive volume assumes at once poetic, critical, historical and biographical modes in its unpacking of six decades of the artist’s archives, offering a comprehensive insight into a figure who has stood at the forefront of contemporary art since the 1960s.

Robert Owen – A Book of Encounters is published to coincide with the survey exhibition Blue Over Time: Robert Owen – A Survey at Heide from February 27 to May 23, 2021.

The book not only examines Owen’s nomadic practice – spanning sculpture, painting, photography and installation – but traces through-lines from his early life in the regional Australian town of Wagga Wagga to Sydney, the Greek island of Hydra, London and Melbourne. In doing so, A Book of Encounters expands into Owen’s wider interests in philosophy, psychology, science, mathematics, music and literature.

The book features essays and texts from some of Australia’s leading writers, curators and artists, including Carolyn Barnes, Sue Cramer, Victoria Lynn, Pippa Milne, Robert Nelson, Alex Selenitsch, Mike Parr, Leslie and Miriam Stein, and Angela Connor.

Published by Perimeter Books and designed by Public Office, the book is available for pre-order here!


Images: ‘Robert Owen - A Book of Encounters’, designed by Stuart Geddes, Paul Mylecharane and Kim Mumm Hansen of public.office. 400 pages, 23.7 x 16.9 cm, leather softcover with OTA bind, Perimeter Editions (Melbourne).

JANET LAURENCE CURATES WEEK-LONG PROGRAM AT SYDNEY FESTIVAL

JANET LAURENCE curated a fantastic programme of events for REQUIEM at the Sydney Festival 2021. Within the ethereal inner chamber of the Paddington Reservoir Gardens on Gadigal land, Janet has curated a stellar line-up of artists and talks exploring how we can mourn and remember the inestimable loss - of animals, of flora, of ecological worlds - wrought by the black summer fires of 2019-2020.

REQUIEM wove together visual art, music, poetry, performance, literature, science, philosophy and environmental advocacy to craft a time-space for us to lament and be present to the reality of loss. Janet also created a new work for the event – ‘Water Bar’ was glistening installation of waters from bushfire-affected regions is an ode to lost aquatic ecosystems.

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NIKE SAVVAS COMPLETE PUBLIC COMMISSION IN NORTH SYDNEY

NIKE SAVVAS has recently completed Chroma Haze, a beautifully-executed art commission for 1 Denison, North Sydney.
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Nike says of the work: "I am actively conscious of the colours around me, both in the real world and also in art and science. I collect, observe and record these colours constantly. I believe in the egalitarian power of colour, this is very important to me. ‘Chroma Haze’ can be compared to an ‘open analogue wave signal’ in that it embraces ephemerality and variation through personal encounter.”

JANET LAURENCE CREATES MASK FOR ANNIVERSARY OF PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT

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To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, JANET LAURENCE was invited to make a mask for the Art for Change Maskbook campaign.
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Maskbook is an international, collective work of art which raises awareness about the link between health, air pollution and climate change, using the mask as a symbol. Originally created for the COP21 in 2015, Maskbook has been featured at every Climate COP since.
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Janet fashioned a beautiful ginkgo leaf creation for the face of the campaign, Layne Beachley.

Check out the other masks here!

BOWNESS FINALIST EXHIBITION NOW ON

Screenshot from the virtual tour of the exhibition, featuring Cyrus Tang’s work.

Screenshot from the virtual tour of the exhibition, featuring Cyrus Tang’s work.

The Bowness Photography Prize exhibition is in full swing and open to the public Thursday - Sunday at the MGA!
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The Bowness is an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country. The prize continues to showcase excellence in photography. ARC ONE artists Honey Long & Prue Stent, Cyrus Tang and Anne Zahalka are finalists in this year’s pool and their works are on display in the exhibition.
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The gallery has also just launched the virtual exhibition if you’re unable to attend in person. Take a tour here.

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ARC ONE'S SUMMER SHOW, 'MINUTIAE'

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present Minutiae, a group exhibition for the summer of 2020-21.

“If you look for the minutiae in an artist’s work, particularly a master’s work, then you become part of them, closer to them, locked in their presence.”
– Fran Clark, Director, ARC ONE Gallery

Featuring works by Pat Brassington, Peter Daverington, Janet Laurence, Honey Long & Prue Stent, Vanila Netto, Robert Owen, Jacky Redgate, Julie Rrap, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Cyrus Tang, Catherine Woo, John Young and Anne Zahalka, this exhibition asks you to stop, slow down, and take in the ne details. Celebrating the beauty and ecstasy in lingering over the minutiae, allowing it to unfold as you pause and lean in, the artists’ work across painting, photo-media, and sculpture is layered, intricate and complex. Confounding, subtle and delightful, Minutiae presents places in which we can roam, explore and become intimate. Venture through immersive worlds of deep observation and thought.

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