HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT DONATE TO BLM FUNDRAISER

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT donated this work to The Earth Issue Freedom Fundraiser, a print sale created to raise funds for bail contributions and to support organisations fighting for social justice. 

100% of proceeds after printing and shipping will be split amongst individual bail fees, legal fees for social justice issues, racial discrimination cases intersecting with covid-related precarity, indigenous struggles and food security for PoC.

The fundraising initiative has already raised more than £200,000 for the Black Lives Matter movement. The artists encourage you to buy a limited edition print and support the cause. 

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Honey Long & Prue Stent, Blown Tissue II, 2017, archival pigment print, 106 x 159 cm


Honey Long & Prue Stent, Blown Tissue II, 2017, archival pigment print, 106 x 159 cm

PAT BRASSINGTON AT THE NGA

PAT BRASSINGTON has a number of works on display in the NGA's exhibition The Body Electric, now open to the public.

The Body Electric presents work by women artists on the subjects of sex, pleasure and desire. Included are celebrations of woman’s erotic experience; stories of intimacy and the emotional experience of love; works that interrogate the ways that women’s sexuality has historically been represented; and pictures that deal with the pleasures and repressions of sexuality and pleasure. The images in this exhibition show how sex, love and loss are an animating part of the human experience.

The exhibition will continue until January 2021.

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Review in The Canberra Times >

JANET LAURENCE and HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT have donated works for auction in the FBi Radio Digital Art Auction 2020, an online fundraiser and silent auction raising critical funds for the station so that it can continue to champion Sydney arts and culture.

This is the fourth art auction hosted by FBi Radio and the first one held digitally. Previous auctions were held in 2009, 2010 and 2018 at the MCA, AGNSW and NAS respectively attracting a mix of collectors, investors and first time art buyers alongside FBi Radio’s loyal listeners.

Bidding closes tomorrow at 7pm - see the auction & bid here!

'JACKY REDGATE: HOLD ON' REOPENS AT GEELONG GALLERY

Good news! Geelong Gallery has reopened, which means their exhibition JACKY REDGATE: HOLD ON has resumed.

Jacky’s work in HOLD ON sees her contaminating the objective geometries of her backgrounds with toys and dolls that are redolent of childhood.

The key reference point in these new works is the 1957 book by Dare Wright, called The Lonely Doll, in which the author established scenarios and photographs of a doll and her 2 teddy bear friends in a series of unsettling narratives that speculated on friendship and loneliness.

In JACKY REDGATE: HOLD ON, the artist examines how we negotiate and construct memories through photographic images, drawing on her long-standing interest in visual storytelling.

Timed-entry tickets are required to visit the Gallery. Book in now for free!

Jacky Redgate, HOLD ON #8, 2019-20, pigment ink on fabric, 197 x 203 cm

Jacky Redgate, HOLD ON #8, 2019-20, pigment ink on fabric, 197 x 203 cm

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT IN DIGITAL EXHIBITION

Honey Long & Prue Stent, Suckle, archival pigment print, 87 x 58 cm.

Honey Long & Prue Stent, Suckle, archival pigment print, 87 x 58 cm.

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT are part of a digital remount of the exhibition Anticipation is half of the seduction.

Curated by Jonathan Homsey, this exhibition was first shown at Blindside Gallery as part of the 2018 Emerging Curator Mentor Program. It has now been reimagined with new artworks to help us negotiate touch again after months of physical distancing.

This 2020 digital exhibition has been supported by City of Melbourne COVID grants.

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JANET LAURENCE CATALOGUE NAMED IN BOOK DESIGN AWARDS

Janet Laurence: After Nature, the catalogue from last year’s survey exhibition at the MCA, has been honoured in a competition naming the best of book and cover designs in 2019.

The book was chosen for its demonstration of design excellence by esteemed jurors of the AIGA, the professional association for design. It will now become a part of the AIGA collection at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University’s Butler Library in the city of New York.

Congratulations to designer Claire Orrell, curator/author/editor Rachel Kent, and artist Janet Laurence. 

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LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN SIGN OPEN LETTER ON WORLD REFUGEE DAY

Today, on World Refugee Day, Australia’s Official War Artists have come out in condemnation of the punitive treatment of a fellow artist held in detention.

LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN are signatories on an open letter published today in support of Farhad Bandesh, a refugee whose art has helped him survive 7 years of imprisonment and whose materials are now being arbitrarily withheld.

“The scary intensity we felt in active war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan intensified our profound empathy for all those who flee their homes in times of conflict,” said Brown and Green. “Refugees deserve to be given a chance.”

The letter, published via @nava_visualarts, asks “Why withhold art materials? They are not illegal or unsafe. The threat lies, instead, in the ability of art to challenge injustice, the power of a free voice in an unfree system…A paintbrush can be a lifeline for a prisoner.”

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Inset painting detail from Lyndell Brown & Charles Green’s work The Far Country (2019) showing refugees fleeing across the high Kurdish mountains.

Inset painting detail from Lyndell Brown & Charles Green’s work The Far Country (2019) showing refugees fleeing across the high Kurdish mountains.

ANNE ZAHALKA IN #NGVPhotosFromHome

ANNE ZAHALKA is featured in #NGVPhotosFromHome, a project featuring photographers, whose work is in the NGV Collection, sharing their current lived experience, or a moment in time through images and words. 

“These pictures of my family taken during the month of May reveal the small rituals performed within daily life. They lightly draw on the language of documentary photography, genre painting and Reality TV, referencing an earlier body of work, Open House (1995), held in the collection of the NGV and shown in the exhibition Civilization: The Way We Live Now.

The scenes may be staged, but the environments are real – a readymade set against which we perform and present ourselves.

The still lives of objects lovingly arranged around my family have a special value. They are reminders of places travelled, people known and things passed down. From a collection of summer frocks suspended in time to op-shop prints by Albert Namatjira, to plants we have tended and art acquired, these anchor us to our home in uncertain times.

Surrounded by our possessions and the memories they hold, I feel fortunate to have a place filled with treasures that provide such comfort to me and those I share them with.”

— Anne Zahalka

GUAN WEI STUDIO VISIT IN LOOK MAGAZINE

Photographed by Felicity Jenkins

Photographed by Felicity Jenkins

GUAN WEI is interviewed by Miriam Cosic for the latest edition of AGNSW’s Look Magazine. 

The artist was visited in his home studio in Sydney’s south-west. He talks about dividing his time between Sydney and Beijing, where his studio is twenty times the size. Asked where he feels he belongs, he ums and ahs, chuckles, and says, “Maybe I just belong to myself. And my family.”

Guan Wei’s work Revisionary (1998) is showing in the AGNSW’s exhibition In one drop of water, and two of his new porcelain pieces are in their show Under the Stars. 

FRAN CLARK INTERVIEWED FOR ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE

Art Collector recently visited ARC ONE Director Fran Clark to see what's in our gallery stockroom.

Hear what she has to say about some key works that are currently available here.

“The key thrill of an artwork’s power is if the work makes me ask questions, questions about wanting to know why and what the connections are”, she says, invoking the diverse references in IMANTS TILLERS’ work Stillness Speaks.

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