LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Night propellor change, Gulf, 2007-09, digital colour photograph, inkjet print on rag paper, 37.4 x 51.7.

LEGACY. Your collection. Our story. curated by Anouska Phizacklea at the Monash Gallery of Art includes important works by LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN (pictured) and ANNE ZAHALKA.

The exhibition celebrates the impact benefactors have had on the development of one of the nation’s most unique and important collections, a collection dedicated to Australian photography and its artists. LEGACY teases out the fascinating and compelling stories behind the works and their donors, and along the way showcases significant works that chart the history of MGA, from a Joseph Albers tapestry donated by Harry Seidler, the architect of MGA’s building, through to the most recent donated works.

The exhibition continues until 19 September.

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PAT BRASSINGTON

A selection of works by PAT BRASSINGTON are currently on display at the Monash Gallery of Art as part of 'LEGACY +...collecting contemporary'. This offshoot of 'LEGACY. Your collection. Our Story,' showcases the work of artists who create incredibly potent narratives within their practice, with performative, experimental and chance encounters tying these works together.

The exhibition continues until 19 August. 

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Pat Brassington, Starlight from the series  Gentle, 2001, pigment print, 65 x 43.5cm.

ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN, LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN, GUO JIAN, GUAN WEI, JOHN YOUNG

'Infinite Conversations: Asian-Australian artistic exchange', at the National Gallery of Australia, features iconic works by LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN, ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN (pictured), GUO JIAN, GUAN WEI, and JOHN YOUNG.

This exhibition considers the creative practice of artists from mainland China and Hong Kong, a number of whom settled in Australia following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Using diverse modes of production, these artists confront and recount the challenges of making a new home with shifting degrees of grief, poetry and optimism. A second gallery examines the relationships between Asian and Australian artists, revealing a rich, sometimes disquieting dialogue as concepts of race and culture are provoked and explored.

The exhibition continues until 9 September.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOLOUS | JULIE RRAP | ANNE ZAHALKA

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS, JULIE RRAP and ANNE ZAHALKA have been included in the important exhibition Dark Rooms: Women Directing the Lens 1978–98 at Griffith University Art Museum. 

Griffith University Art Museum says: "Against the backdrop of the feminist movement and activism in arts and politics, many women artists during this period made work that refused the male gaze. Acutely aware of the ways in which the lens could empower or reduce the subject, they put themselves, friends, and family in the picture, and in doing so, changed the cultural landscape of Australia. Photomedia became an important way for artists to confront racism and the objectification of peoples; disrupt and subvert sexually violent imagery; and forge a renewed interest in psychoanalytic theory."

The exhibition opens 14 July from 2pm at the Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane.

The exhibition runs until 25 August.

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Eugenia Raskopolous, Untitled No 3, 1998, Ilfachrome photograph, 77 x 99 cm.

Julie Rrap, Persona and Shadow: Madonna, 1984, cibachrome print, 194 x 105cm. 

Anne Zahalka, The Artist (Self-Portrait), Berlin, 1987, cibachrome photograph, 80 x80cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON

Pat Brassington, Heart's Blood, 2017, pigment print, 90 x 65cm. 

PAT BRASSINGTON currently has her second solo exhibition on at Ten Cubed. 

Ten Cubed first began collecting Brassington's works in 2010, acquiring two prints – 'Going' and 'By the Way' – from her self-titled exhibition here at ARC ONE held in the same year. Early on, Brassington was selected as a core artist in Ten Cubed's collection and her first solo exhibition was held in 2014.

The exhibition will continue until 8 September, 2018.

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HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT

In an extraordinarily short time HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT have achieved considerable recognition in Australia and overseas in L.A, Zurich and Mexico. Here's a list of recent international publications the collaborative duo have been included in: Sleek, Kunst Forum International, Plastik Magazine, The September Issues, ETC and Moon Man.

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Honey Long & Prue Stent, Nasturtium I, 2014, archival pigment print, 72 x 108 cm.

GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, Treasure Hunt, 2017, woven by Chris Cochius, Pamela Joyce, Jennifer Sharpe & Cheryl Thornton, wool and cotton, 86.4 x 360cm, commissioned by the Australian Tapestry Workshop.

GUAN WEI's Treasure Hunt will be cut from the loom next Tuesday 10 July. 

Commissioned for the Australian Tapestry Workshop, the woven work will then make it's way to Sydney to the Australian Design Centre for Painting with Thread, an exhibition of recent tapestries and samples from the collection of the Australian Tapestry Workshop. 

The exhibition will be from 3 August - 26 September, 2018.

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JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE's work is included in the upcoming exhibition at 45 Downstairs, All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files.  

The exhibition depicts individual interpretations of the leaked Nauru files exposed by The Guardian in 2016, illuminating the stark human cost of Australia’s policies of offshore detention. 

The Nauru Files are Australian stories. They are the consequence of Australian government policies, and they are shaping our national identity.

The exhibition opens 31 July and continues until 11 August, 2018.

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Janet Laurence, Flotsam /ˈflɒts(ə)m/noun – People or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless, 2017, Duraclear on acrylic, mirror, 60 x 60cm

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Atomic #1, 2005-2012, C-Type Photograph, 124 x156cm

NIKE SAVVAS' spectacular installation work Atomic: Full of Love Full of Wonder is included in the exhibition Spacemakers and roomshakers at the AGNSW. 

Nike will talk about her work on Thursday 26 July, at 12pm at the AGNSW. Meet at the information desk.

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JULIE RRAP

JULIE RRAP is co-curating Critical Bodies at Verge Gallery.  The body has been a vehicle for experimentation into all realms of human experience, including emotion, violent action, religious expression, political engagement, gender questions, and medical intervention. This exhibition demonstrates how ‘the body’ continues to provide a rich source of exploration for younger generations of artists.

The exhibition will run until 11 August.

Curators Julie Rrap and Cherine Fahd will give a critique of the exhibition August 11, 1-3pm.

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Julie Rrap, Remaking the World #4, 2015, pigment print on paper, 160 x 160.  

JOHN YOUNG

John Young Zerunge's video, The Burrangong Affray, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Arts, Sydney (2018). Photo: ArtsHub.

JOHN YOUNG's new body of work The Burrangong Affray has been reviewed by Arts Hub.

The Burrangong Affray, currently on view at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, is researched and produced in collaboration with artist Jason Phu, offers contemporary mediations in reflection on the nature and legacy of the largest racially motivated riots in Australia's history. 

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IMANTS TILLERS

IMANTS TILLERS' major solo exhibition Journey to Nowhere is opening tonight at the Latvian National Museum of Art.

The exhibition will continue until 30 September.

A review of the exhibition can be read here. 

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Imants Tillers, Installation, Journey to Nowhere, 2018.

ROBERT OWEN

ROBERT OWEN's upcoming exhibition Afterglow has been featured in the current edition of Art Collector, Issue 85, in the section Not to be Missed.  

Written by Ashley Crawford, the article talks about Owen's inspirations and time spent in the 1960s living on the Greek island of Hydra.

Afterglow opens Wednesday 1 August, 6-8pm and continues until 1 September, 2018.

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Robert Owen, Nocturne, 2018, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 260 x 187cm.