📣 GUAN WEI has just been announced as a finalist in the Sulman Prize 2024 with his work, Off to the Space, (2024).
The artist writes, "recently, ChatGPT has received a lot of attention. The web-based platform is designed to provide human-like conversational experiences. Will this new technology change the world? This painting presents an AI robot with a face resembling a human’s. Its right eye is the sun, its left eye is the moon, while its mouth is a flying constellation made from a human body. On its cheeks, we see a bolt of lightning, the Southern Cross, traces of cosmic rays and antenna interfaces. On its forehead are the solar system and Cygnus.
This painting attempts to depict a world of artificial intelligence in which inorganic life has replaced organic life. Leaving Earth, the ark of mankind moves into space, looking for a new home."
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A big congratulations Guan Wei 🥂
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The Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024 exhibition is open from 8 June to 8 September at The Art Gallery of New South Wales.
IMAGE: Guan Wei, Off to the Space, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 162 x 306 cm (12 panels).
JULIE RRAP featured in Artist Profile
Ahead of the artist's solo exhibition ‘Past Continuous’, opening in June at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, ARTIST PROFILE has devoted a cover story to the astounding 40-year career of JULIE RRAP.
"Julie Rrap was in her late teens and living in a share house in South Brisbane when she and a group of friends took magic mushrooms. An image she hallucinated while studying her reflection in a glass windowpane at night has never left her. It was the face of an older woman she understood to be her her future self..."
Read more of Lilian Cameron’s cover story, accompanied by Anna Kučera’s exclusive portraits, in Issue 67 of Artist Profile.
GUAN WEI Commission for Vivid Sydney
VIVID SYDNEY
Guan Wei has been commissioned to transform the Museum of Contemporary Art's façade during Vivid Sydney, in a nightly light projection.
Experience Sea, Sand and Stars, displayed on the Museum's façade every evening during Vivid Sydney until 11pm, beginning this Friday, 24 May.
GUAN WEI: Sea, Sand and Stars
📅 24 May - 15 June 2024, 6–11pm daily
📍Museum of Contemporary Art Australia |
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Guan Wei's Sea, Sand and Stars will feature twinkling stars, ocean waves and marvellous creatures, taking audiences from the depths of the ocean to the constellations in the night sky
Over the last 35 years, influential Chinese Australian artist Guan Wei has created artworks that consider what it means to be human, drawing on his experiences and observations of life in Australia and China. The artist has worked with Spinifex Group to create his first light projection, which follows the course of a day, beginning with the appearance of the morning star.
PETER DAVERINGTON's mural on Well Street Park, Brighton
PETER DAVERINGTON has just completed this five-metre long mural on Well Street Park, Brighton for Bayside City Council.
Daverington’s mural design creates a trompe l'oeil effect incorporating a finely detailed landscape in the Romantic tradition with a geometric framework giving the illusion of three panels.
Artist Talk with JANET LAURENCE & MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea
Last week’s online talk with artist Janet Laurence and MAPh Director Anouska Phizacklea is now available to watch online here.
Learn about Tears of dust, Laurence's exhibition for PHOTO 2024 held at MAPh, discuss key moments in the artist’s remarkable career and hear about the ideas that drive her work.
CYRUS TANG is a finalist in the National Works on Paper (NWOP) award
Cyrus Tang is a finalist in the 2024 National Works on Paper award, with the tactile work 'Embrace - mother', part of her Embrace series. 2024 NWOP exhibition will be held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 31 August – 24 November 2024, with the winner announced on Saturday 31 August.
Congratulations Cyrus!
