PAT BRASSINGTON

The Art Gallery of New South Wales recently announced their 2017 program. This includes a major exhibition showcasing the work of PAT BRASSINGTON. 

Australian photo-media artist Pat Brassington has an incisive ability to infuse the familiar with the fantastic. Her work explores the domestic uncanny, psychoanalysis and bodily distortion, using a surrealist aesthetic charged with a feminist edge.

This exhibition from the Gallery’s collection traces her interest in the body as a fluid and flexible form. Featuring work from the 1990s alongside more recent work, it considers the haunting presence of the body in Brassington’s photographs and her particular use of visceral and allegorical imagery.

The exhibition, the body electric, will run from 19 August 2017 – 11 February 2018. 

Find out more here. 

Pat Brassington, Candie, 2013, pigment print, 60 x 44cm. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Stick Insect's Most Intimate Moments, 2008-2011, single channel HD video, colour, 37min. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be exhibiting her video work Stick Insect's Most Intimate Moments during Art Basel Miami. 

Art Basel runs from 1 - 4 December 2016. 

Watch the video here. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

We are pleased to announce that MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO has been included in the book L’ABC…Z des Héroïnes Figures féminines du monde by Marilyn Degrenne. The book brings together outstanding women’s profiles from around the world.

For more information visit this link. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Museum of Copulatory Organs.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso is presenting one of her vitrines of the Museum of Copulatory Organs (MoCO) in the latest group show at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.  

MoCO’s collection consists of dozens of anatomically accurate models of what is dubbed by scientists as ‘genitalic extravagance’ among invertebrates. MoCO Museum is part an ongoing research project by Cardoso. 

The exhibition Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital continues through to 25 June 2017. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO's public commission, Sandstone Pollen, has been unveiled in the new Darling Harbour precinct.

This major public artwork – a series of unique sandstone pollen sculptures – was inspired by the diversity of pollen microfossils that were found in Darling Harbour, and were later identified by palynionologist Mike Macphail. 

Her ‘pollen morphologies’, combining scientific research and beautiful, complex forms, can be found along the Boulevard Walk, invoking conversation about the story of evolution, of sexual reproduction and the generation of formal beauty.

Cardoso’s work synthesises thought about the story of place and life as it was and as it is at Darling Harbour and Cockle Bay.

Read the artist proposal here. 

PETER DAVERINGTON

Peter Daverington, Learn From the Classics – But Please Don’t Destroy Them, 2015, oil, enamel and gesso on canvas, 198 x 152cm.

Peter Daverington has been listed as the 5th most exciting street artist working today by artnet News.  

An Australian-born artist now based in Beacon, New York, Peter Daverington took up street art at the tender age of 11. As an adult, he’s developed a style all his own, juxtaposing stylized graffiti lettering with superbly-modeled figures that appear to have stepped out of a Renaissance-era canvas. 

Read the entire article here. 

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO is showing two new works at the latest MONA blockbuster exhibition On the Origin of Art. These works show us the court dance of the male Maratus jumping spiders, also known as 'peacock spiders'. It intends to show us how this beautiful insects are as talented as any human visual or performance artist. The exhibition is open from 5 November to 17 April 2017.

For more information, please click here.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, On the Origins of Art I & II, 2016, Single channel HD video, hyper realistic sound with tactile dimension, 6:54min

PETER DAVERINGTON

Andrew Frost talks to PETER DAVERINGTON about his latest exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Weltlandschaft, in a fantastic interview published today on The Art Life. 

Read the interview here >

Peter Daverington, Akkadian Landscape, 2016, oil on canvas, 158 x 122 cm.

TRACY SARROFF

We are very excited with the advances of TRACY SARROFF's commission in Docklands, to be completed next year. Birrarung Moat, commissioned by Mirvac for the City of Melbourne, will be made of 16 buoys that will hold LED-lit acrylic shards of different sizes, which will respond in intensity and colour to the public and the rise of tides.