PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

Phaptawan Suwannakudt, studio image of work in progress for Broken the Spell component of the exhibition Retold-untold Stories.

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT is having a solo exhibition at Chiang Mai University Art Centre, titled Retold-untold Stories. Part of her Asialink Arts Residency Program in Thailand, the exhibition explores personal experiences and the Lanna culture and dialect.  Particularly, the work connects with Suwannakudt’s mother who was born in Chiang Mai and became a nun after giving birth to her last child, the same age as Phaptawan when she gave birth to her first.

There are three components to the exhibition including Let me tell you, Child which consists of a floor installation poem in Lanna dialect, There, there is a mask Suwannakudt made from locally sourced fabric that forms the bust sculpted of her mother in an earlier work completed in Sydney. The sculpture made prior to her Thailand residency, was made from memory of the artists’ mother. In addition, the Lanna dialect is connected with this component of the exhibition, where Suwannakudt’s mother lost her memory and spoke in Lanna dialect. The third group of work, titled Broken the Spell references tattooing and magic spells in which only men of the Lanna community would take part. Phaptawan created a piece where she performed a rhythmic piercing routine onto piece of paper with Lanna poems, written from spilt tea and coffee.

The exhibition is on from 9 – 28 December 2014.

DANI MARTI

Dani Marti, Disclosure (video still), 2009/2014, HD Video, Colour, Stereo, 35mins, commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.

Dani Marti is part of the program 'Your Nostalgia is Killing Me!' at GOMA’s Australian Cinemathèque, in Brisbane, from 26 November to 1 December. The program reflects on artistic responses to HIV/AIDS in the last three decades, emphasising the intersection between art and activism in film and video. Marti’s included video works are ‘Grey’, screening on 26 November, and ‘Disclosure’ (2009), screening on 29 November. For more information, click here
 

GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, Archaeology (Installation view), ARC ONE Gallery, 2014

Robert Nelson has reviewed GUAN WEI's exhibition Archaeology in The Age. To read the full review, click here

PETER DAVERINGTON

Peter Daverington's Bald Eagle on the front page of The New York Times.

PETER DAVERINGTON has made the front page of The New York Times for his participation in a mural project by the National Audubon Society. Across Manhattan, the project aims to promote the National Audubon Society's campaign to raise awareness of North American birds threatened by climate change. This street art project takes inspiration from John James Audubon's watercolour works The Birds of America and includes 314 roll-down gates which are all painted as bird themed murals.

To read the article and view a video on the project click here.

DANI MARTI

Dani Marti, Midden (concept drawing/work in progress), Newcastle Courthouse, NSW, 2014.

Dani Marti is currently working on a commission for the new Courthouse in Newcastle. Titled Midden, the large scaled concrete formwork wall extents over 60 square meters constructed from dark grey concrete, the sculptural wall is informed by abstraction and simplicity with sensual curves contrasting with the glass wall entrance and rigid angles of the building.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Colours are the Country, 1 Martin Place Sydney.

NIKE SAVVAS has recently completed a major public art piece for the Macquarie Group in Sydney. This kaleidoscopic artwork consists of thousands of vibrant kinetic suspended, dual coloured discs that immerse the viewer in a continuous shifting mass of colours, intimating the subtle movement and changing colours that unfold during the spectacular Australian sunrise. The artwork is installed in a partially external 26 metre long lightwell, through the core of an iconic heritage building in Sydney.

JACKY REDGATE

Jacky Redgate, Light Throw (Mirror) #8, 2011, C-type photographs (hand-printed from original negative) Facemount to UV Perspex, 126 x 158cm

Jacky Redgate is part of the exhibition SNO 109: Abstract Photography at the SNO Contempoary in Sydney from 8 – 30 November 2014. Curated by Ruark Lewis, the exhibition includes artists Václav Krůček, Karin Lettau, Carl Plate, Rik Rue, Vsevolod Vlaskine and sound artist Thomas McConville.

Image courtesy of SNO Contemporary Art Projects.

NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Sliding Ladders (detail view), 2014, wool, wood and stainless steel, 61 x 61 x 74 cm each.
 

NIKE SAVVAS' work is included in a curated group show titled Pattern, at Glen Eira City Council Gallery from 6 to 23 November 2014. The exhibition explores the use of geometric and abstract patterning in contemporary practice through the work of six artists, across a variety of mediums. 

More information here