ANNE SCOTT WILSON

ANNE SCOTT WILSON has been curated into AIRed at the Post Office Gallery at the University of Ballarat.  The exhibition showcases the work of six visual artists who have undertaken a residency at the Arts Academy, University of Ballarat during the last two years.  Opening on 12 May, the exhibition continues until 4th June.  

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TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROFF is exhibiting a drawing-based installation from March until October at The County Museum in Staffordshire/UK.  The series of drawings commissioned by the Staffordshire Arts and Museum Services were made in response to the flora found in Cannock Chase; an area of heathland and woodland near Stafford.

ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and JACKY REDGATE

ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and JACKY REDGATE'S work will be displayed at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra in an exhibition titled Constructed Worlds: photography in the 1980s.

Photography in the 1980s can perhaps be best characterised by work made in the studio. Although photographers continued to document the world by going out in to it, others manipulated and altered the image, often appropriating and reinterpreting imagery from the past. Art school-trained, many were informed by various traditions such as Conceptual Art, with French theory all the vogue. It was common that artists, coming from other media, took up the camera at this time as another way of expressing their ideas. Their work asked the viewer to think about the nature of photography itself: less a window onto the world it became instead a means to create new worlds from the artists’ own imaginings.

A half day forum titled Tableaux Vivant: 1980s Photography is being held on 21 May, at the National Gallery, discussing the themes of the decade.  The exhibition opened on 8 April and will continue until 29 August.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Stick Intimacy by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibited in the Graduate School Exhibition for THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY.  

The exhibition runs from Thursday 12 to Friday 27 May 2011.  This exhibition is curated by Dr Debra Dawes, Director of SCA Graduate School.

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VANILA NETTO

VANILA NETTO has been commissioned by ART & AUSTRALIA to collaborate with Sydney fashion designers, Romance Was Born to create a text-based art and fashion project for the June issue.  

For more information see the June issue of ART & AUSTRALIA, or click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS will be presenting a seminar STRADDLING TWO WORLDS - CONTEMPORARY ART AND COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

The seminar will take place at the National Art School, Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Sunday, 15 May, 11am, for $95.

This is part of HEAD ON SEMINAR, a series of presentations, workshops, ideas and networking by Australian and international photographers, photo-journalists, editors and producers. 

For further information please see the link.