"Abstracting light and reflection, Jacky Redgate plays with hand-printed analogue film to morph geometric abstraction with the genre of still life."
Artist Profile write on Jacky Regdate's current exhibition, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold.
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold, installation view.
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO and CATHERINE WOO will be exhibiting in the group exhibition Fieldwork: Artist Encounters, curated by Gary Warner, held at SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts.
The exhibition creates spatial, conceptual, sonic and material conversations between recent works and decade-long practice trajectories. Cardoso's works included in the show impose order on seedpods collected during a camping trip with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, while Woo forges an evidentiary metallic interface with the coastal geology of Tasmania’s Pirates Bay.
Fieldwork runs from 7 - 30 July 2016.
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Gumnuts (detail), 2009, Tartu seeds, metal pins, 245 x 190 x 6cm.
Catherine Woo, Interface, 2016, 20 panels of thin black coated aluminium, pressed and rubbed onto a geographic formation, 240 x 300 cm.
Pat Brassington, Untitled, 1989, Silver gelatin print 150 x 390 cm
Internationally acclaimed curator, Juliana Engberg, discusses the major winter exhibition at Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Tempest, with Michael Cathcart on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts Daily program.
PAT BRASSINGTON's work, Untitled (1989), is also discussed during the radio interview. A live streaming of the program is available on the Radio National website here.
Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA and LYDIA WEGNER, both finalists in the 2016 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award. The JUWS Photography Award is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice.
The winner will be announced during the exhibition launch, Saturday 25 June 2016.
The exhibition of finalist's work continues through to 21 August 2016, at the Gold Coast City Art Gallery, The Arts Centre Gold Coast.
Image: Anne Zahalka, Threshold (tablet, security camera), 2015, Archival pigment ink on rag paper, 102 x 137cm.
Julie Rrap, Escape Artist: Castaway, 2009, digital video.
JULIE RRAP is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Light Moves: Contemporary Australian Video Art, at RMIT Gallery.
Light Moves presents projected and screen-based works exploring the body and the possibilities of movement. The exhibition is presented jointly with the National Gallery of Australia.
The exhibition runs from 1 July - 20 August 2016.
ROBERT OWEN and ARC ONE Gallery will be part of FLAIR Melbourne. Presented by ARC ONE Gallery, Craft, fortyfivedownstairs, Arts Project Australia, Collins Place Pop-up (supported by NKN), Sofitel Melbourne on Collins and Global Art Projects, FLAIR Melbourne is an art event showcasing a series of curated exhibitions, talks and experiences at the top end of Flinders Lane.
FLAIR will run from 18 - 21 August 2016.
LIGHT THROW (MIRRORS) FOLD
EXHIBITION OPENING & BOOK LAUNCH | TUESDAY 21 JUNE, 6-8PM
Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold b, 2013-14, chromogenic photograph, 126 x 158 cm.
ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to present a new exhibition by one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, Jacky Redgate. Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold will open on Tuesday 21 June, 6-8pm, with the Melbourne Launch of the Power Publications monograph, Jacky Redgate: Mirrors. The book will be formally launched by Dr Edward Colless, Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Jacky Redgate’s Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold / Unfold is the latest instalment in her mirror-works project. It follows hard on the heels of her Mirrors exhibition at the University Art Gallery at the University of Sydney last year. Redgate’s studio still-life photography experiments continue her long-standing interests in window display and product lighting, reflections and optical illusions. In the early Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold photographs, she explores the optical interplay of mirrors and everyday objects (striped plates, rulers, dominoes) attached to a folding screen.
In Unfold (2016), Redgate attempts to escape the visual vortex of her screen and mirrors, by displaying a doll, coasters, spoons, and a child’s sewing machine on pink velvet in the fold of her screen. It has been 36 years since Redgate last played with dolls in her work. Is she giving the subject of her recent photograph Miss Pears’ Contest Photographs 1959 — herself at age 3 — toys to play with, or is something else afoot? This new work connects Redgate’s well-known interest in the mirror photographs of Florence Henri with her little-known interest in American photographer Dare Wright, author of the 1957 children’s book The Lonely Doll.
With a practice extending over 35 years, Jacky Redgate has established herself as an artist at the forefront of contemporary Australian art. Working across photographic and object-based practices, Redgate has exhibited extensively within Australia and internationally since the end of the 1970s. Selected solo exhibitions include: Jacky Redgate: Mirrors, University Art Gallery, the University of Sydney (2015); Jacky Redgate: the Logic of Vision, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2012); Visions From Her Bed, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2008); Jacky Redgate: Life of the System 1980–2005, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2005–06); and Jacky Redgate: Survey 1980–2003, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide (2004). She is a recipient of the 1st prize, Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (2011). Her work is included in major national collections and survey exhibitions including two Australian Perspecta exhibitions, three Biennales of Sydney, the Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria (2006), and the Heide Museum of Modern Art’s Cubism & Australian Art (2009). Jacky Redgate is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong, Australia.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
JACKY REDGATE: MIRRORS
This 2016 publication is an important new monograph with texts by Robert Leonard and Ann Stephen, which focuses on Redgate’s eminent work with mirrors in recent decades and will be available for purchase on the night. Jacky Redgate: Mirrors is co-published by Power Publications with the University Art Gallery, The University of Sydney, in partnership with the University of Wollongong.
Jacky Redgate: Mirrors was generously funded by the University of Wollongong, Vice Chancellor Challenge Grant and Faculty funding.
Dani Marti, POINTLESS (arrangement in Gold), 2016, corner cube reflectors and natural crystal beads on aluminium frame, 90 x 90 x 25 cm.
DANI MARTI & EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS are included in the exhibition Incandescence at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery. The exhibition explores the materiality of light and how artists use it to reflect on contemporary global culture. The exhibition will run from 1 June to 9 July 2016.
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