NIKE SAVVAS

Nike Savvas, Sparks (installation view), 2014, Howick Place, London.

NIKE SAVVAS is currently part of a major group exhibition in London, Paradigm Store at Howick Place, a new landmark development at the heart of Victoria’s rapidly emerging cultural quarter. Spread across five floors and 80,000 sq ft of Howick Place, the exhibition looks at the interface between art and design and the latent socio-economic and political forces that underpin it through new and recent work by seventeen UK and international artists.

Paradigm Store runs from 25 September to 5 November 2014.

For more information about the exhibition, click here

PETER DAVERINGTON

Peter Daverington, ‘The Golden City Has Ceased’, 2012, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 335.3 x 243.8 cm.

PETER DAVERINGTON’s phenomenal The Golden City Has Ceased (2012) is part of the Archibald Prize 2014 touring exhibition, currently at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. This will be the only venue in Victoria presenting the exhibition in 2014. The Archibald Prize was established at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1921 to award the best Australian Portraits of its time.

The exhibition runs to 16 November. For more information click here. 

GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, The Journey to Australia, 2013, synthetic polymer paint on wall, commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art.

It’s the final week to see GUAN WEI’s extraordinary wall painting The Journey to Australia (2013) at the MCA in Sydney. Inspired by the arrival of immigrants and refugees to Australian shores, the work stems from the laden political and social commentaries surrounding the arrival of people to this country by boat.

The Journey to Australia is located at MCA’s Circular Quay entrance and is on display to 5 November.

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PETER DAVERINGTON

Peter Daverington, The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, 2014, oil on canvas, 260 x 198 cm

The Age newspaper features an article on PETER DAVERINGTON's exhibition Because Painting. The article describes the large scaled paintings as visually loaded, showcasing his masterful technique and incorporating multiple styles and motifs throughout the history of painting all at once.

To read the article click here. 

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT currently has a solo exhibition at 100 Tonson Gallery in Bangkok. Titled Days of (endless) Meaninglessness, the show explores the underlying layers of content in a set of photographs she took during her return to her hometown of Bangkok, amidst the country’s political turmoil of late 2013 to early 2014. The exhibition consists of 5 sets of acrylic on canvas triptychs, and will be on view from 16 October 2014 – 4 January 2015.

For more information, click here. 

SAM SHMITH

Sam Shmith, Untitled (In Spates 1), 2011, pigment print on archival rag, 75 x 125 cm.

The work of SAM SHMITH and ANNE SCOTT WILSON is currently featured in Seven Trumpets at Strange Neighbour in Melbourne. The exhibition brings together seven artists whose work circles around ideas of finitude, death and propositions for the end of the world. 

The exhibtion runs to 1 November 2014. For more information, click here.

TRACY SARROFF

Tracy Sarroff, The Crimson Arch, 2013, oil paint on Perspex, 56 x 83 cm 

TRACY SARROFF is a finalist in the Redland Art Awards with her painting The Crimson Arch to take place from October 12 – November 23. The Acquisitive first prize of $15,000 will be announced on the opening night by the judges Maud Page, Deputy Director of Collection and Exhibitions at the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Joe Furlonger award winning artist and Stephanie Lindquist, Director of Redland Art Gallery. 

For more information visit Redland Awards.