EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

UQ Art Museum has posted an article about EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS' work in their current exhibition, The Dust Never Settles. For this exhibition, Michele Helmrich, UQ Art Museum’s Associate Director (Curatorial) selected works from their collection that relate to 'unfinished business' in terms of cultural, environmental and psychological histories that remain unresolved. In the article, the RASKOPOULOS talks about how memory and the passing of knowledge is an important part of her practice.

To read the full article, please click here.
The Dust Never Settles runs until 30 July 2017.

Eugenia Raskopoulos, re‑ma(r)king, 2010, 2 channel video, sound, 5:15 min

JOHN YOUNG

John Young, Naïve and Sentimental Painting XI, 2016, oil on linen, 203 x 270 cm

ARC ONE is delighted to present John Young’s None Living Knows, the latest instalment in the artist’s multi-project exploration of the Chinese diaspora in Australia since 1840. Highly regarded in Australia and internationally for his commitment to intellectual rigor and aesthetic finesse, in None Living Knows Young poetically captures a scarcely documented event in Australian history.

During the late nineteenth century, Chinese immigrants and miners walked from Darwin through the vast Northern Territory to Croydon, and as far as Cairns on Queensland’s east coast, in search of gold. Intermittent and often alone, the walkers trailed a perilous and unmapped two thousand kilometres that resulted in many deaths. ‘None Living Knows’ – words drawn from a W. B. Yeats poem – echo this forgotten narrative.

Young meditates on this walk with a series of abstract paintings and his signature tableau of chalkboard drawings and digital prints. Large-scale and meticulously painted canvases evoke figures dissolved in the landscape through molten veils of light and colour. Tracing the mental and spiritual passage of culturally displaced men in pursuit of a new life, Young takes inspiration from early modernists such as Hilma af Klimt, whose work explored theosophy and the mystic through abstraction. The works in this exhibition are beautiful and melancholic responses to the psychological endurance, feeling of hope, and quest for spiritual transcendence Young envisions in these men.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso will be a speaker at the Bringing public art to life at Green Square: shaping an urban neighbourhood.  The night will include discussions with curators, artists and architects who will talk about how public art can be integrated into the urban environment.

As part of the City Art program, several public artworks are underway that will help shape the area’s character and contribute to community life. The evening discussions will include those who been instrumental in the long-term thinking and development of public art projects in Green Square. 

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 Tuesday 6 June 2017  
 6pm—9pm   
 The Commune, 901 Bourke Street, Waterloo  

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Image: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Actual Size II, 2015, pigment print on premium photo pager 300grams, 152.4 x 152.4cm. 

JANET LAURENCE

Image: Janet Laurence, Lost Habitats, installation view, 2017; photo: Sven Adelaide.

JANET LAURENCE is exhibiting her immersive installation Lost Habitats at the Oldenburger Schloss in Germany. Laurence is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst. 

Th exhibition continues until 27 August 2017.

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ROBERT OWEN

Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN, who has been selected as a finalist for the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize 2017.

His painting, Flickering Light #3 (Ocean Road), 2017, will be on view at Bendigo Art Gallery from 17 June to 17 September. The winner will be announced on 16 June 2017. 

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Robert Owen, Flickering Light #3 (Ocean Road), 2017, synthetic polymer paint on Belgium linen, 198 x 198 cm

JANET LAURENCE

"This is the cleansed, filtered, artificial relationship we have with our water. This is a river with amnesia; water that’s forgotten who it was." 

Liv Spiers from Art Almanac describes JANET LAURENCE's installation in her review of Troubled Waters. The exhibition presents works from five contemporary artists who have responded to UNSW’s research into human impact on water environments.   

Troubled Waters is currently showing at the Samstag Museum, South Australia until 9 June. 

You can read the review here. 

Image: Janet Laurence, River Journey, 2016, multimedia installation based on audio and visual research archive of Professor Richard Kingsford. Installation view at UNSW Galleries. Image courtesy of silversalt. 

DANI MARTI

Image: Dani Marti, Vial Queen, 2009, medication vials used and collected by the artist 2004-2006, and linen thread. 

DANI MARTI will feature in the second iteration of Artspace's three-part exhibition series titled THE PUBLIC BODY.  

THE PUBLIC BODY .02 will delve deeper and look back to artists whose practices beget those seen here. This exhibition will highlight work across decades that is embedded in feminist, queer and anti-racist subjectivities, revisioning a certain history of representation and addressing the individual and collective agency of the public body. 

The exhibition will continue from 28 July to 2 October 2017. 

To find out more visit the Artspace website. 

DANI MARTI, NIKE SAVVAS & IMANTS TILLERS

DANI MARTI, NIKE SAVVAS and IMANTS TILLERS are included in the landmark exhibition ARTIST PROFILE: Australasian Painters 2007-2017 at Orange Regional Gallery, NSW.

This exhibition will bring together a substantial selection of work by 150 artists featured in Artist Profile magazine, over its 10 year history. The exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of painting in Australasia from 2007 to 2017. 

Curated by Kon Gouriotis and Lucy Stranger, the exhibition will run from 8 July - 10 September 2017. 

Visit the exhibition page here. 

Dani Marti, Shield – Study for a Portrait – Take 1, 2015, stainless steel braided hose, polyester, nylon, rubber and leather on aluminium frame, 180 x 140 x 30cm. 

Imants Tillers, Nature Speaks FU, 2017, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 16 canvasboards, 101.6 x 142.2cm 

ANNE ZAHALKA

Anne Zahalka, Down on His Luck, 1983, original type C print, 31.6 x 23.7cm. 

ANNE ZAHALKA has an upcoming solo exhibition, The Landscape Revisited, at the Murray Art Museum Albury. For the exhibition, Zahalka explores the imagery of iconic Australian paintings including works by Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Jane Sutherland, Sidney Nolan and Russell Drysdale.

Her photographic images are carefully staged to reconstruct the celebrated paintings - now with a different cast, exploring ideas of belonging, displacement, discrimination, exile and home.

A series of photographs, original collages and related material will present Anne Zahalka's ongoing exploration of Australian identity and mythology that spans over 30 years. 

The exhibition runs from Friday 26 May - Sunday 5 November 2017. 

Find out more here. 

IMANTS TILLERS

Image: Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers, The Messenger, 2014, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 64 canvas baords, 244 x 244 cm.

‘The Messenger’ by IMANTS TILLERS and Michael Nelson Jagamara, recently purchased by The Parliament House Art Collection, forms the basis of a new exhibition opening 17 August 2017 at the Australian Parliament House.

More details to follow. 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE will be part of the symposium An Ocean Archive at the Navy Officer's Club in the Arsenale, Venice. The symposium, curated by MAP Office and presented by Venice Meeting Point, will take place on Friday, 12 May 3 - 6 pm.

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ROBERT OWEN

Robert Owen, Study for Blue Note #2, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122cm 

Congratulations to ROBERT OWEN! He has been selected as one of the 40 finalists at the Sunshine Coast Art Prize, with his work Study for Blue Note #2, 2016. The prize is a national contemporary acquisitive award presented by Sunshine Coast Council.

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MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's work can be seen now at the UNSW Galleries as part of A Working Model of the World. The exhibition, curated by Dr Lizzie Muller (UNSW Sydney) and Holly Williams (The Curators’ Department), explores the practical and philosophical role of models to experiment and illustrate. The exhibition will be open until 22 July, and then will travel to The New School, New York from September to December 2017.

You can read an essay by MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO about the role of models in her practice here.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Microfossil Pollen Found Here, 2014, nylon, sand, stone, glue, paint, 12 x 90.5 x 6 cm

MURRAY FREDERICKS

Ross Bilton of The Weekend Australian Magazine discusses Murray Fredericks' intrepid visits to Lake Eyre and his resulting body of work Vanity. 

Read the article here. 

MURRAY FREDERICKS

MURRAY FREDERICKS' Salt 101 (2009) features as the cover image for Haruki Murakami's memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, published by Penguin Random House. 

The book is available here.