DANI MARTI’s current exhibition, Run, Run, Run, features in a brilliant review by Robert Nelson in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
This bold new series of work is a visual feast: bright, intriguing and sensuous.
“[Marti’s] twisted inscrutable surfaces are radiant” – Robert Nelson
Don’t miss this evocative show at ARC ONE Gallery, showing until 16 August.
To read the full article, Marti’s Garden of Distortion, click here
Julie Rrap, Self-portrait with mouche, 2013, pigment ink-jet print on cotton paper, 127 x 105 cm
JULIE RRAP has been selected as a Finalist for the 2014 Bowness Photography Prize. Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, the Bowness is one of the country's most coveted photography prizes.
JULIE RRAP’s playful photograph, Self-portrait with mouche, 2013, has been short-listed and the winner will be announced on Thursday, 4 September 2014. JULIE RRAP says of the work:
"I am interested in images that arouse our curiosity and play with our expectations. Our imaginations are what free us from the mundane and return us to the magical. ‘Self-portrait with mouche’ was created in response to a fleeting image I had seen in a documentary on immigrants arriving in Australia in the early 20th century. One image stood out of a young man with a very noticeable facial mole whose position echoed that of the artificial beauty spot made famous by Marilyn Monroe. The blowfly became my muse in the process of cross- fertilizing these two contrasting images of the natural and the contrived; the beautiful and the grotesque, to create a new hybrid. Like a metaphor for photography itself, Self-portrait with mouche suggests both the fragility of presence and the stillness of death. Serendipitously, I discovered that the word for artificial beauty spot is the French word for fly; mouche."
Joseph Kosuth, #II49. (On Color/Multi #3), 1991. neon, transformer and certificate of authenticity 14 x 400 cm. Collection Anna and Morry Schwartz
NIKE SAVVAS will be participating in a group exhibition titled Optical Mix, opening next month at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art (ACCA).
This survey exhibition brings together works by a group of local and international artists including Joseph Kosuth, Martin Creed and Bridget Riley, exploring themes of light, kinetics and visual perception.
Optical Mix will be showing from 16 August to 28 September 2014.
For more information, visit the ACCA website
Zanele Muholi, Xana Nyilenda, Los Angeles, 2013, silver gelatin print.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be part of a new exhibition, South: Contemporary Art from Australia, Mexico & South Africa, curated by David Corbet and showing at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre from 8 August to 6 October 2014.
The exhibition will include paintings, works on paper, installation, video and photomedia by thirteen contemporary artists from three countries across three southern regions: Oceania, Africa and Latin America.
For this exhibition, MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO continues to explore creating work using materials from the natural world including emu parts - an animal which has come to form a potent symbol of Australia's national identity.
For more information, visit the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre here
SAM MARTIN is part of the upcoming exhibition Depthless Flatness curated by Steven Rendall and Bryan Spier, at The Alderman, Brunswick East. This exhibition features the work of seven other artists and will commence on Tuesday 22 July 2014, as the opening exhibition for the Incidents Above a Bar project, a series of exhibitions developed by a group of artists in relation to practices and theories of painting today.
Depthless Flatness collects together the work of eight artists. The exhibition shows the result of a series of conversations between Rendall and Spier regarding aspects of range, spacing, differentiation, depth of meaning and flatness of surface in relation to what it means to paint today.
Building on a comment by Vito Acconci that there is a bias towards depth in Western culture, and that range could be just as good as depth, Rendall and Spier exchanged a series of views about painting, exhibiting and curating today. This exhibition is a partially distorted reflection of those views: a way of drawing upon the working conditions and parameters of the selected artists in relation to range and depth, flatness and the contradiction of the depthless.
For more information click here
Anne Scott Wilson, Coathanger, 2014, from the series Water, ink-jet print, 75 x 75 cm
ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been selected as a finalist for the 2014 Bowness Photography Prize. Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, the Bowness Photography Prize is one of the country's most open prizes for photography. In the past, finalists have included established and emerging photographers, art and commercial photographers, all that are competing for $25,000 first prize and $1,000 People's Choice Award.
Anne Scott Wilson’s stunning photograph, titled Coathanger has been entered into the prize and the winner will be announced on Thursday 4th of September 2014. Anne Scott Wilson describes her photographic approach in the following statement:
“In the attempt to understand how the camera works I built a camera obscura and discovered that photography exists without us. That nature produces pinholes of light that form images came as a revelation. This spawned a new way of exploring the body in motion through photography. Guided by instinctual body memory of light and space I impose rules on how and when I shoot.
In this series I ‘performed’ states of motion by combining elements together - a pas de trois of gravity, water and body mass caught in a flash, the action commonly known as ‘bombing’. I continue to ‘choreograph’ the moment in Photoshop just like dance notation as if it could be read and repeated.”
Imants Tillers, 'Epiphany', 2014, acrylic and gouache on 25 canvas boards, 127 x 178 cm
IMANTS TILLERS is announced as the winner of the Gold Award 2014. As Queensland’s richest painting prize, Tillers is awarded $50,000 and his winning painting, Ephiphany, will be part of the Rockhampton Art Gallery collection. Gallery Director Tracy Cooper-Lavery said, “Imants Tillers is one of Australia’s most important artists and this work is a significant addition to the Gallery’s growing collection of contemporary Australian art. The painting pays homage to one of Australia’s great artists, Ian Fairweather. Tillers explains his “attraction to the layering of Fairweather’s enigmatic and spiritual paintings which are neither fully abstract nor figurative” and makes reference to Fairweather’s painterly approach by “capturing and perhaps amplify the distinctive and transcendental ‘blue’ colour which frequently appears in his work.” The exhibition runs from 5 July – 31 August 2014.
Peter Daverington, The Golden City Has Ceased, 2012, oil on canvas, 335.3 x 243.8 cm
PETER DAVERINGTON’s spectacularly large painting, The Golden City Has Ceased, has been selected as a finalist for the Archibald Prize 2014. Renowned for being Australia’s favourite and most prestigious art award, the prize is awarded to the best portrait painting of Australian culture including, but not limited to, portraits of politicians, celebrities, sporting heroes and artists. Daverington describes the painting as ‘a self-portrait of my imagination, where my signature geometric and spatial elements appear among figurative compositions drawn from various painting traditions.’ The painting has been approached with spontaneity over 18 months, where Daverington has drawn inspiration from socialist propaganda posters, Renaissance art, Romantic landscape painting, medieval European heraldry and religious iconography. The winner will be announced on Friday 18 July and the exhibition will run between 19 July – 28 September 2014.
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Imants Tillers and Michael Nelson Jagamara, Fatherland, 2008.
IMANTS TILLERS is part of an exhibition held at the Museo Carlo Bilotti, Roma, Italia: Dreamings: The Australian Aboriginal Art meets de Chirico, curated by Ian McLean and Erica Izett. The exhibition is on until 2nd November 2014, and presents a wide selection of works representing the acrylic painting movement of Australian indigenous art. The exhibition will include a section devoted to Imants Tillers alongside works created in the last decade in the most remote communities in the western and central deserts of Australia. Tillers works provide correspondence between the two distinct, yet parallel experiences associated with the idea of ‘dreaming’ – as depicted in Aboriginal art and the metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico.
Ahmet Erdogdular (left); Peter Daverington (right). Erdogdular photo by Ali Osman Erdogdular; Daverington photo courtesy of the artist.
In the month of July, PETER DAVERINGTON will showcase his extraordinary talent for the ney flute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, performing a series of Moroccan Court Music - the makam musical traditions of Turkey, the Balkans and the Levant.
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Pat Brassington, By the Way, 2010, pigment print, 90 x 72cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON’s survey exhibition À Rebour', is currently showing at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) as part of DARK MOFO.
The exhibition, curated by Juliana Engberg, brings together a selection of Brassington’s work from her over 30-year career and has been described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "Mofo's most striking, sinister and thrilling offering".
To read the full article and other media coverage visit:
'Dark Mofo: Hobart salutes the solstice'
'Quietly unsettling: Pat Brassington returns to her roots at Dark Mofo in Hobart'
The exhibition runs to 14 September 2014. More information
