JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, 2015, Whether I am Asleep or Awake, laser cut UV print on plywood, 45 x 45 x 9.5 cm

JUSTINE KHAMARA is shortlisted in the first Wyndham Art Prize. Wyndham Art Gallery is establishing its place among Melbourne’s leading contemporary art galleries with the new Wyndham Art Prize. A shortlist of 26 artists was chosen, with applicants from across Australia, New Zealand and Melville Island. Khamara’s sculpture ‘Whether I am Asleep or Awake #4’ is on display in the gallery until 28 June 2015.

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JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence, Stranded, 2012, installation view.

JANET LAURENCE is featured in an article by the International Sculpture Centre. The article, When Nature Invades the Museum, gives insight into the growing interest by artists who address ecological issues within contemporary art. Laurence’s practice is discussed in relation to her concern with using the gallery space in establishing a relationship between the environment and the viewer.

To read the article here. 

JACKY REDGATE

Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirrors) #4, 2009 – 2010, C-Type photograph (hand-printed from original negative), facemount to UV Perspex, 126 x 158cm. 

An interview with JACKY REDGATE is currently featured in Photofile magazine (Vol. 96, Autumn/Winter 2015). The issue includes a recent portfolio of her contemporary work and practice in photography and sculpture. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water: Submarine Landscape, 2003, starfish, metal wire, dimensions variable.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s work Woven Water: Submarine Landscape has been selected to feature in a major exhibition titled, Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In conjunction with the 2015 Latin American Experience weekend, the exhibition presents work by renowned artists that have addressed issues regarding the social and political status of Latin America within their practice.

The exhibition opens in November 2015.

JANET LAURENCE

Janet Laurence, What a Plant Knows II (the Tarkine, Tasmania), 2012, duraclear, acrylic, dibond, mirror, oil glaze, 122 x 313 cm. 

JANET LAURENCE has been invited to be the Australian representative to create a site-specific artwork as part of a curated exhibition alongside the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference/COP21 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The work Deep Breathing (Resuscitation for the Reef) will commence in July and creates the imaginative possibility for healing our marine world, with a focus on the World Heritage Great Barrier Reef (GBR), revealing its plight and beauty. With use of various materials, Laurence will create a site-specific installation, which will take the form of a multi-layered vitrine, much like a Wunderkammer, enclosing photos, videos, sculptural objects, natural materials and borrowed specimens.

In reference to this project, Laurence states the following:

“We are at a point where art is able to enter an essential dialogue of environmental politics and help to create and communicate an understanding of our global inter-connection and vital relationship to the natural world. Art makes visible what is otherwise invisible.”

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Image: Janet Laurence, Stranded, 2012, glass, acrylic, Duraclear, oil, pigments and video