MURRAY FREDERICKS IN THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

MURRAY FREDERICKS is featured in The Weekend Australian Magazine this week.

Speaking about Array 1, the final work in his award-winning, 16-year SALT Project, Murray says: "The shore disappears, the sky and water merge... there's nothing around, so you lose all reference points. And your mind just dissolves into the space."

"It felt like the crescendo at the end of a piece of classical music. After 16 years on this project I thought, that's the one to go out on."

Murray Fredericks has been drawn to Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), South Australia, over the course of 16 years, creating dazzling abstract images that bear witness to the transcendent capacity of the natural world.

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Murray Fredericks, Array 1, 2019, digital pigment print on cotton rag, 120 x 300 cm

BROWN & GREEN AWARDED 3 YEAR RESEARCH GRANT

Lyndell Brown and Charles Green have been awarded a 3-year Australian Research Council grant to collaborate with artist Jon Cattapan, Indigenous activist, film-maker, musician and playwright Richard Frankland, and eminent biomedicine researcher Gary Anderson.

“THE WAR AT HOME: ART DESCRIBES AUSTRALIA'S TURBULENT PRESENT”
This project investigates the friction between the nation’s stories of itself, and the current massive fracturing of health, of places and of peoples. Because Australia is changing beyond measure, it is appropriate to talk about the war at home. From World War 1 onwards, the Australian government decided that war artists be commissioned to make art about the nation at war. This project proposes that a team of Australian artists, with a deep experience of picturing conflict, investigates the current war at home, guided by a senior Gunditjimara elder and in collaboration with an eminent biomedical scientist.

ROBERT OWEN INTERVIEWED IN SPECTRUM

ROBERT OWEN is interviewed in The Age’s Spectrum today!

Ray Edgar speaks to Robert about some of his career highlights, including heading the sculpture department at RMIT, representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, and his recognisable architectural commissions such as the Webb Bridge at Docklands and the Craigieburn Bypass over the Hume. The two also discuss Robert's time as a ‘boho expat’ on the Greek island of Hydra in the 60s, his mentorship by Leonard Cohen and his study of Buddhism, alchemy and theoretical physics.

Edgar writes: “Witnessing a natural phenomenon in Hydra had a...profound impact: an eclipse of the sun creating a spectacular spectrum. Beguiled from that moment, Owen sought to recreate its numinous light. “I wanted the spectrum,” Owen declares. “that’s the colour I wanted to see. I was interested in this inner self, that’s the soul inside, that’s full of light”.

Edgar also looks into the breadth of the 70 works now showing in Owen’s retrospective at HEIDE and speaks to curator Sue Cramer.

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ANNE ZAHALKA AT CHINA CULTURAL CENTRE

Anne Zahalka, Flocking Flamingos, 2018, pigment ink on canvas, 100x 150cm

ANNE ZAHALKA is featured in the new exhibition at the China Cultural Centre in Sydney. ‘AIR WATER LOVE’ is now open at CCC and will continue until 29 April.
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This is the second exhibition at CCC privileging a cross-cultural women’s perspective after the successful ‘WHOSE STORY IS THIS?…anyway!’ in 2020. In this exhibition eight women artists from China and Australia have a dialogue under the same theme, calling for a rethink of crucial environmental issues. Three keywords of water, air and love were selected to present the relationship between humanity and nature.
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‘AIR WATER LOVE’ highlights the true effects of global warming and climate change – showing the impacts, offering solutions, and telling real-life accounts, this exhibition is interactive and creative.
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DANI MARTI NEW WORKS IN DUSSELDORF

DANI MARTI is currently showing in in the exhibition FARBMATERIAL at the Galerie Lausberg in Dusseldorf.

This body of work, ‘Songs of Surrender’, was made in Barcelona in 2019, where Dani had these beautifully designed ropes custom-made. He uses the lines of rope to create pictorial and sculptural surfaces strung over powder coated aluminium frames, bringing the works into an “object dimension”.

FARBMATERIAL (Colour Material) will continue until 21 March.

You can watch Dani introduce the work here.