JULIE RRAP at MCA – Behind the exhibition 'Past Continuous'

Delve deeper into the making of Julie Rrap's major solo exhibition 'Past Continuous' with
this wonderful short video from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. In this clip, we go behind the scenes with Rrap as she discusses her recent performance piece Drawn In (2024), and reflects on its connection to Disclosures: A Photographic Construct from 1982.

Watch the full video here. ⁠Courtesy of the artist and the MCA Australia.

Julie Rrap: Past Continuous
📅 27 July 2024, 2–2.30pm
📍Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
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DANI MARTI features in Beyond Textiles exhibition at the RACV City Club

BEYOND TEXTILES

Dani Marti is featured in a new exhibition that celebrates textiles as material, subject and process. Marti's work in Beyond Textiles at the RACV City Club Gallery blurs the boundaries between sculpture and textiles.

Marti's work is included alongside Tia Ansell, Tim Gresham, Rubaba Haider, and Casey Jeffery.

Please note, access to the exhibition is by appointment only – please email art@racv.com.au to arrange a viewing.

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BCN'97, 2023
polyester, polypropylene, leather, aluminium
185 x 125 x 7 cm

DANI MARTI to feature in Radical Textiles exhibition at AGSA

Dani Marti, ‘Troughman (the yellow peril)’, 2006, polypropylene, nylon and wood frame on castor wheels, 180 x 180 x 180 cm.

RADICAL TEXTILES

Dani Marti will be showing ’Troughman (yellow peril)' (2005) at Art Gallery of South Australia for the much anticipated Radical Textiles exhibition, opening this Saturday.

From William Morris to Sonia Delaunay, Radical Textiles celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.

RADICAL TEXTILES
📅 23 November 2024 – 30 March 2025
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia

SAM SHMITH Features on FORFREEDOM billboard in Atlanta, USA

river / uncomplicate the world

Sam Shmith's work '(river / uncomplicate the world)', was recently featured on For Freedoms' billboard project 'Where Do We Go From Here?' in Atlanta, USA.

Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is an artist-led organisation that uses art as a catalyst for creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action.

This most recent of 'Where Do We Go From Here?' is an epic billboard campaign published ahead of the 2024 American presidential election, that seeks to model how art can urge communities into greater action and participation.

GUAN WEI awarded Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024

Congratulations to Guan Wei, who has been presented the Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024. A recognition of an incredible career, this major award acknowledges the achievements of an artist who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian art.

Guan Wei has been living and working between Beijing, China and Sydney Australia since 1989. Guan Wei is an iconic figure in the Australian contemporary art scene and critically acclaimed internationally. Through his art, he reflects upon the human condition as we engage with critical contemporary issues, such as climate change, questions of identity, migration and exile. Guan Wei has held over 80 solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney to OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen China and has been included in countless group exhibitions from South Korea to Cuba.

JANET LAURENCE Features in the Lyrebird Festival

LYREBIRD FESTIVAL

This weekend Janet Laurence has been a part of the Lyrebird Festival in Megalong Valley, NSW. In a rustic barn (last slide), Laurence has presented three video works: The Other Side of Nature (2014), Requiem (2021); and Vanishing (2009).

The Lyrebird Festival returns in 2024, celebrating the spectacular Megalong Valley with music, art, food and wine, talks and nature walks. The festival continues until Sunday, 17 November.

New publication featuring MARTI, ZAHALKA, LAURENCE, YOUNG

Celebrating the launch of Mordant Collection Highlights, a publication devoted to the collection of Simon and Catriona Mordant.

"We never set out to build a collection. What has driven us is a passion to be surrounded by creative people, whether in the visual or performing arts. We have only purchased a work when it evoked a reaction in us ... We have never bought a work for a particular wall or because someone told us the artist was important. We have loved this journey together."—Simon and Catriona Mordant

Featured in the highlights are these pieces by Dani Marti, Anne Zahalka, Janet Laurence and John Young.