SAM SHMITH spoke with Broadsheet Melbourne's Will Cox, untangling the individual incidents that prefaced his current exhibition Cherry Springs. See these captivating images at ARC ONE now until 5th December.
To read the article, click here.
Sam Shmith, Untitled (Kittinger, evening), 2015, Dye sublimation print on aluminium, 23.5 x 35.5 cm.
JANET LAURENCE’s work will be featured in ArtSpeaksOut, a 24-hour global video art stream headlining prominent international artists, centring on environmental issues. It will air on ikonoTV and via web streaming from December 5th at 6PM (CET), that’s December 6th 4AM (AEST).
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Julie Rrap, Fleshpool, 2004, digital video, 60-second duration (continuous loop).
JULIE RRAP's Fleshpool is part of PLAY, BLINDSIDE Gallery’s unique online video space dedicated to showing experimental local and international video art from emerging, mid-career and established artists. Fleshpool is a work that explores the body and its other: its shadow, its reflection.
The videowork is also being screened in the gallery itself from 23 November 2015 – 3 January 2016.
To watch the work online, click here
Congratulations to MURRAY FREDERICKS, who has won the 2015 Crumpler People's Choice Award for the Bowness Photography Prize with the work N. Stradbroke Island (2014).
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Murray Fredericks, N. Stradbroke Island, 2014, digital pigment print, 100 x 284 cm.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Thailand-born, Sydney-based contemporary artist PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT chatted to NAVA in a recent interview. She spoke about living between two cultures and how she responds to, communicates and connects to this in her work.
To view the video, click here.
MURRAY FREDERICKS will be exhibiting a new video and sound installation, created along with Tom Schutzinger, presented by the Geelong Gallery. The installation, called Inside the dome (DYE 2), will be exhibited inside the domed architecture of the Geelong Library & Heritage Centre from 21 November 2015 to 7 February 2016.
Inside the dome (DYE 2), was filmed and recorded within the geodesic dome of an abandoned early warning missile detection facility in Greenland, and creates an immersive audio-visual experience for visitors.
Murray Fredericks & Tom Schutzinger, DYE 2, 2014, video still.
Anthropocene, Installation View
JANET LAURENCE’s new exhibition opened at The Fine Art Society in London on 17 November and it will run until 27 November. Anthropocene focuses on how humans have changed the face of the earth, moving us towards a proposed new geological era from the current Holocene epoch.
For more information, please click here.
Pat Brassington, The Secret, 2010, pigment print, 80 x 62cm.
PAT BRASSINGTON’s major survey exhibition À Rebours, will be showing at UQ Art Museum from 28 November 2015 - 10 April 2016.
The exhibition, curated by ACCA's Juliana Engberg, brings together a selection of Brassington’s work from her over 30-year career. The images are hauntingly beautiful, deeply psychological, and sometimes disturbing.
For more information, please click here.
ANNE SCOTT WILSON is presenting a new video work with The Letter String Quartet for their performance at the Abbotsford Convent at 8pm on 21 & 22 November. The performance, called VideoSonicQuartet, is a collaborative project with a composer along with three other artists/composers.
For more information, please click here.
ROBERT OWEN's artist talk in regard to his winning piece for the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize has been recorded and is available to listen to online. Hosted by Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Committee Member Professor Ian Howard, the talk proved to be very insightful and inspiring.
Owen's winning piece, Symmetria #37 (pictured above with the artist), is now on permanent public display at the Woollahra Council Chambers.
You can listen to the recording here.
Sam Shmith, Untitled (Cherry Springs 2), 2015, Dye sublimation print on aluminium, 23.5 x 35.5cm.
SAM SHMITH opened his solo exhibition, Cherry Springs, at ARC ONE Gallery on Thursday 5 November 2015.
You can read a fantastic review of Cherry Springs from the Daily Review here.
Australian Photography also wrote about the exhibition here.
Shmith was interviewed by Richard Watts from 3RRR's SmartArts radio progam on Thursday 5 November. The interview can be listened to here.
See also Michael Mckenzie's interview with Shmith for Radio National's Afternoons on Friday 6 November, here.
