Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Detail of Sparrow Man, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on papier-mâché, digital print on cotton fabric, steel pins, foam core backing, 51.5 x 36 x 10 cm.
Robert Nelson writes on ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN's wonderful exhibition, A Curious Evolution, in The Age - the exhibition is on view at Deakin University Art Gallery until 28 August 2015.
To read the review, click here.
Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN and GUAN WEI who have been selected as Finalists in the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
A free exhibition of Finalists' artworks for the Prize will be presented from 10 - 25 October 2015 at Woollahra Council Chambers in Sydney. The winners will be announced on 9 October 2015.
For more information, click here.
Lyndell Brown/Charles Green, Atlas, 2005, Lightjet print on duraclear film, 104 x 107cm.
LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN and ANNE ZAHALKA are exhibiting as part of Mornington Peninsula Regional Art Gallery's group show Storm in a Teacup, which explores Australia's relationship with tea.
For more information click here.
Julie Rrap, Remaking the World #1, 2015, digital print, 150 x 450 cm.
JULIE RRAP's major solo show, Remaking the World, a remarkable exhibition presented as part of the Vizard Foundation Contemporary Artist Project series at the Ian Potter Museum of Art is now on view until 15 November 2015.
IN THE NEWS:
Sonia Harford interviews Julie in The Age about her new body of work created especially for Remaking the World:
"Playful ... Peeping and unruly" - read the full article here.
JULIE RRAP talks to Michael Cathcart on ABC's Radio National - to listen, click here.
Julie Rrap: Remaking the World is at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, from 23 July to 15 November 2015.
Cyrus Tang, Remote Nation (still), 2007-2008, Video DVD, 13.09 mins
CYRUS TANG's work will be presented at the Australian Centre for Photography's after hours Street Screen projection from 17 July - 16 August. Titled, Remote Nation, the work deals with the idea of reconstructing ephemeral sensations and capturing the disappearance towards the notion of home.
CYRUS TANG has also been selected as a finalist in the Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award with her work Sui Ming and as a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award with her work Matthew.
Catherine Woo, Heat (Detail), 2015, mixed media on aluminium, 120 x 120 cm.
CATHERINE WOO
INCENDIE
OPENING WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2015, 6-8PM
Catherine Woo’s latest exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery continues her visually stunning oeuvre of ‘painting with weather’. The title, Incendie, is drawn from the French term for fire, which Woo has used as the axis for exploring themes of fire and heat. Concerned with the inter-relationship between humans, the body and their natural surrounds, Woo’s abstract, topographic and luminescent surfaces are underpinned by a consideration of how our ideologies and senses are shifting in response to climate change and anthropogenic processes on the environment.
At the core of Woo’s practice is her collaboration and experimentation with natural forces. By manipulating the immediate environment around her (namely, redirecting the gutters to allow rainwater seepages and wind into the studio), Woo orchestrates naturally occurring forms onto the aluminium canvas. The resulting works journal this space of negotiation between artist and weather, and as Woo describes, they depict a ‘trace of their alliance’.
The delicate imprints on Woo’s paintings are instantly recognisable as tactile weathered surfaces that form patterns akin to aerial views of landscapes. Substances such as iron, silica, calcium carbonate, mica, pigments and black sand are combined with vibration and evaporation to create a painting system whereby the works self-propagate. For Woo, partly relinquishing control and respecting the agency of materials and the power of their interaction is central to her practice.
Incendie will run from 21 July to 22 August 2015 at ARC ONE Gallery.
Rose Farrell and George Parkin, Detail of Sparrow Man, 2008-2011, digital print on archival rag paper, 80 x 204 cm.
Deakin University Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of the work of ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN, titled A Curious Evolution, opening 22 July.
In A Curious Evolution artists Rose Farrell and George Parkin consider the fanciful imaginings of early personality profiling. In the sixteenth century a desire to fix difference was expressed in studies of the physiognomic similarities observed between animals and humans. This led to comparisons that made a case for the animal logic in human nature. In their last body of work together, Farrell and Parkin push the boundaries of photographic portraiture to investigate this history and the absurdist claims that stood for knowledge. Their evocative images and sculptures reflect upon the intangible elements of character and the camera’s role in codifying difference.
Curated by Wendy Garden.
The exhibition runs from 22 July to 28 August 2015.
Cyrus Tang, from the series Mememto Mori, 2012.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to announce that we are now representing CYRUS TANG. Cyrus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose works reflect on ideas of nostalgia, loss and longing. Cyrus will hold her fist solo exhibition with the gallery in February 2016.
