NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Everlasting, 2013.

NIKE SAVVAS' latest commission, Everlasting has been unveiled at the Quays Apartments in the Docklands, Melbourne. Savvas was selected for the commission from a shortlist of three artists by the director of MUMA, Charlotte Day.

Savvas has created an installation for the atrium of The Quays apartment complex, which is a stream of shimmering, iridescent blown glass balls suspended from the roof called Everlasting. The installation creates a real feeling for space, where the artwork beautifully complements the architecture.

JUSTINE KHAMARA

Justine Khamara, Vertical Alliteration #1, UV print, laser-cut plywood, MDF board, 2013. 

JUSTINE KHAMARA’S photo sculptural works (that recently featured in her exhibition ‘Reconstructure’ at ARC ONE Gallery) have sparked an online buzz. 

To read these articles click here and here.

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO’s Naked Flora will be showing at the Galeria Casas Riegner in Bogota, Colombia, from October 25 – 28.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Naked Flora, 42x28cm, 2013.

TRACY SARROFF

TRACY SARROFF has been featured in the latest issue of Art Collector Magazine (Oct – Dec 2013), in the WHAT NOW? section, p. 72-73.  

Interviewed by Liang Luscombe, Sarroff discusses her approach to art making and the inspiration behind her exhibition Congruo, currently at ARC ONE Gallery until 2 November 2013.

More information.

ANNE ZAHALKA

ANNE ZAHALKA presents a collection of ‘Artist’ portraits in an exhibition at Concordia Gallery, following her residency at The Newington College (NSW). 

These portraits began in 1990, exploring myths and stereotypes surrounding the figure of the artist in contemporary art. 

Titled Anne Zahalka and her Amazing Artists, the exhibition, curated by Hannah Chapman, opens on 22 October 2013. 

Read an interview with the artist about her upcoming exhibition here.

Anne also features in the new ABC/BBC series hosted by former Art Gallery of NSW, Edmund Capon called Art of Australia. The show airs 8.30pm Tuesday 22 October 2013 on ABC 1.

Exhibition dates: 22 October – 16 November 2013.

Address: 221-235 Stanmore Road, Stanmore NSW.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

Eugenia Raskopoulos, installation view, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, SA, 2010.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS has been shortlisted in the National Artists' Self-Portrait Prize, presented by the University of Queensland Art Museum. The Biennial acquisitive award highlights the enduring importance of self-portraiture as an artistic subject and contributes to create a National Collection of Artists' self-portraits. The award's theme for this year is remix. post. connect., and will be judged by Blair French (Assistant Director, Curatorial & Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art). The exhibition opens on Friday 18 October 2013. 

Exhibition Dates: 19 October – 16 February 2014

Public Program: Saturday 19 October 2014, artists in conversation with Samantha Littley. 

More information on the exhibition click here.

MURRAY FREDERICKS / ANNE SCOTT WILSON / PETER DAVERINGTON

Murray Fredericks, Hector Thunderstorm Project, still from video, 2011

ARC ONE announces Late-Night Projections at Cumulus Up in November, screening works by artists including ANNE SCOTT WILSON, PETER DAVERINGTON and MURRAY FREDERICKS.

Projections will take place onto Collins Place from the 1st floor of the restaurant and wine bar Cumulus where you can come enjoy a specially designed late night menu.

Dates: November 2 – 30 from 9:30pm to 12am.

JOHN YOUNG

John Young, Repose (Autumn 2012), oil on linen, 190x144cm.

ARC ONE Gallery is delighted to announce our representation of respected and dynamic artist, John Young. Working from a bi-cultural viewpoint, with a focus on trans-cultural humanitarianism, Young has created many series of significant paintings over the last three decades of his practice.

Young has recently been awarded the prestigious Australia Council Visual Arts Fellowship for established artists to research the history of the Chinese Diaspora in Australia. The research will inform exhibitions to be created nationally and internationally in the years to come.

Concurrently, Young is working on a large scale monument for the City of Ballarat. This public monument will be the first work in the region to acknowledge the historic contribution of the Chinese people to the area, especially during the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

ARC ONE will be showcasing John Young’s work in our Viewing Room from mid November to mid December, commencing with a celebratory reception.

For more information on John and his practice, visit his artist profile

TRACY SARROFF

Tracy Sarroff, The Crimson Arch, oil paint on perspex, 2013, 56 x 83 cm, installed with Stalagmite, wood expanding foam, paint, epoxy resin, 56x23x26cm, 2012.

We are delighted to announce TRACY SARROFF's exhibition at ARC ONE Gallery, Congruo, from the 1st October - 2 November 2013.

Congruo, Tracy Sarroff’s first solo exhibition at ARC ONE, creates an immersive wonderland of psychedelic forms. Fuelled by Sarroff’s interest in geological formations and the crossover between scientific fact and fiction, a fantastical vision of our natural environment emerges. Sarroff’s vividly synthetic and reality-shifted Perspex paintings distort nature’s elements alongside her suite of sculptures.

Many elements in Congruo are inspired by Sarroff’s time spent as Artist in Residence in Hill End, NSW, rich with the eroded diggings of a bygone era. The over-mined and eroded creek bed The Golden Gully, is depicted in a series of hyper-real paintings on lurid Perspex. They also hark to landscape images from science fiction film classics.

Sculptures glow ghostly in the dark with delicious surfaces and take the shape of manufactured growth-forms derived from ideas based in transgenics. Other works project electric light and radiate a stark ambience of kitsch colour and space-age design. Comprised of paintings, wall assemblages and sculptural installations that correspond, unite and coincide with one another, the various forms of 'Congruo' morph dislocated natural realities with the aesthetic of science fiction.