JANET LAURENCE 'EARTH CANVAS' EXHIBITION OPEN

Earth Canvas, an exhibition featuring JANET LAURENCE,  is now open at Albury City Library Museum.

This exhibition displays works by leading contemporary artists, developed in response to regenerative farming properties situated between the Murray and Murrumbidgee rivers in southern NSW.

Inspired by their immersive contact with both the farmer and the landscape, the artists reveal a mutual creativity, appreciation and understanding of the natural forces that sustain us. 

Janet says of the work she has created for the project:

“My work has been evolving slowly, moving between a performative project held onsite at Yabtree West, and a series of exhibition works that trace the complex symbiotic processes that are being nurtured by Rebecca on the farm. The great trees along the river have taken root in my memory and remain the dominant theme throughout the work. These trees for me express hope and habitat.”

The exhibition was officially launched by Patrice Newell, Phillip Adams and Gill Sanbrook, together with the exhibition curator and some of the artists and farmers involved in the project. Watch the virtual launch here.

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JANET LAURENCE EXHIBITION SHORTLISTED FOR MAGNA

Congratulations to JANET LAURENCE, whose exhibition JANET LAURENCE: THE PALM AT THE END OF THE MING (8 July - 17 September 2019) at The Johnson Collection has been shortlisted for the ‘Temporary or Travelling Exhibition’ category of the 2020 Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA).

In the exhibition Janet explored The Johnston Collection alongside her own creative practices - collecting and saving, nature and the environment - within the context of Fairhall exhibition-house.

The title of the exhibition is drawn from the poem Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens:

The palm at the end of the mind,
Beyond the last thought, rises
In the bronze decor,

A gold-feathered bird
Sings in the palm, without human meaning,
Without human feeling, a foreign song.

You know then that it is not the reason
That makes us happy or unhappy.
The bird sings. Its feathers shine.

The palm stands on the edge of space.
The wind moves slowly in the branches.
The bird's fire-fangled feathers dangle down.

JANET LAURENCE EXHIBITING IN VIENNA

JANET LAURENCE is currently exhibiting in Vienna at Galerie Ernst Hilger alongside her friends and fellow artists Danie Mellor, Linde Ivimey and Tamara Dean.

This exhibition Terra Australis - a survey of contemporary art is a representation of contemporary art practice in Australia and marks the first time these artists have shown in Vienna.

Terra Australis continues at Galerie Ernst Hilger until 20 November.

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Janet Laurence, Harvesting Dew, 2011, Duraclear on acrylic, mirror, earth and pigment in oil, 100 x 168 cm

JACKY REDGATE IN UOW EXHIBITION

JACKY REDGATE has two works currently showing at University of Wollongong in the exhibition Chrysalis, jointly curated by UOW Art Collection and The School of Arts, English and Media.

These works connect Redgate’s well-known interest in the mirror photographs of Florence Henri with her little-known interest in American photographer Dare Wright, author of the 1957 children’s book The Lonely Doll.

Chrysalis continues until 14 November.

See our available works in Sydney Contemporary for one of Jacky’s 2020 HOLD ON works exploring similar themes!

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CHARLES GREEN LECTURE ON WAR ART

Take an educational lunch break today at 1pm to hear CHARLES GREEN give a one-hour lecture on the subject Afterstorm: postnational story-telling and Australia’s wars.

Charles Green is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Melbourne in the Art History department. He will speak today about the distinction between War Art and war art: War Art, which emerged during World War 1, is art officially commissioned to commemorate a nation’s experience of war, often nationalist and self-congratulatory but also often soul-searching, for better or worse. This is a sub-set of the vaster field of war art. Made across the globe, it takes the experience of war as its subject, mostly not commissioned and often scathing about the artists’ own nations, sometimes with humanitarian intentions.

And so the argument that war art, not War Art, really requires transnational — or postnational — story-telling.

This event is hosted by the Australian Centre at University of Melbourne and will take place via Zoom.

More info and registration HERE.

Lyndell Brown & Charles Green, Turkey’, 2018, watercolour on rag paper, 81 x 97 cm (framed)

JANET LAURENCE IN KATOOMBA EXHIBITION

JANET LAURENCE is participating in the exhibition critical mass: the art of planetary health at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, opening tomorrow.

Janet Laurence, The memory of nature, 2010, mixed media installation, 180.5 x 300 x 170.3 cm overall

This exhibition is part of a multi-disciplinary project that explores new and more sustainable practices relating to environmental living, inclusive of food, energy, and resource sharing within an Australian and local context.

The participating artists, social activists and traditional owners provide reflections on eco-anxiety, yet remain hopeful for the future state of the world, as they imagine better scenarios for our planet and future generations.

The exhibition continues until 6 December. 

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