JANET LAURENCE

A fantastic review of Troubled Waters, including work by JANET LAURENCE, has been published by Artlink. Troubled Waters is a suite of interdisciplinary exhibitions and projects that consider the impact of human activity and climate change on natural and marine environments, currently on view at the UNSW Galleries until 5 November. 

Ann Finegan describes Laurence's work:

"Janet Laurence’s multimedia installation was the most compelling. Her trademark glass vessels, filled with drinking water, sat like flasks on a riverbank over a flowing river of semi-transparent white fabric onto which were projected the ghostly swimming skeletons of tiny fish and micro organisms. This highlighted the disconnect between town and country, between the life-supporting water of fragile inland river systems and, a world away, the sterile product of filtered city water from plentiful coastal dams."

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Janet Laurence and Andrew Belletty, River Journey, 2016, multimedia installation based on the audio and visual research archive of Professor Richard Kingsford. Installation view, UNSW Galleries, Sydney. Photo: silversalt

NIKE SAVVAS

NIKE SAVVAS is one of six distinguished artists exhibiting in Quicksilver: 25 Years of Samstag Scholarships. The exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of Gordon Samstag’s bequest, which led to establishment of the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships, and will showcase pivotal work by the participating artists. New work by Nike Savvas will be on view in the show.

Quicksilver will be on view from 14 October to 9 December 2016.

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EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

A review by Tessa Laird of the TarraWarra Biennial 2016 exhibition Endless Circulation, at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, appears as a key feature on Art Agenda. 

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's video works within the show are described within the review: 

Eugenia Raskoupolous’ Rootreroot (2016) figures a north/south divide. Above, an olive branch sweeps a perfect clockwise circle into soil; below, the same arm sweeps a native Australian wattle branch counter-clockwise. The aerial perspectives (shot with drones) turn the hermetically sealed loops into an infinity symbol. 

The exhibition continues through to 6 November 2016. 

Read the entire review here. 

JANET LAURENCE & MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO

JANET LAURENCE and MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO will be participating in the upcoming Cuenca Biennale in Ecuador, Frágil. Laurence and Cardoso are two of the four Australian artists who have been selected to represent Australia. The Cuenca Bienal is one of Latin America's longest-standing and most established Biennials and 2016 is the first year Australian artists have been invited to participate.

The exhibition will run from 22 October to 31 December 2016. 

Read the Art Almanace review here.

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Image: Janet Laurence in the studio. Photograph: Fabian Jensch.
 

JANET LAURENCE

JANET LAURENCE has been invited to participate in The 56th October Salon, The Pleasure of Love, at the Belgrade City Museum and Cultural Center of Belgrade, Serbia, curated by David Elliot (UK). 

This October Salon will pay homage to the history of the Salon - specifically the 'anti-establishment' Autumn Salon of Paris in 1903 - and show the work of approximately 60 emerging and established artists from Serbia, the Balkan region and around the world. The Salon will concentrate on what role emotion plays in contemporary art and how it may be framed in ways that are neither banal nor kitsch. 

The Pleasure of Love, 56th October Salon will take place from 23 September until 6 November 2016.

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GUAN WEI

Guan Wei, Meditation, 1986, acrylic on canvas, 133 x 50cm. 

GUAN WEI is exhibiting several works in the group exhibition The Eye of the Collector in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France. 

For The Collectors Eye: Nine Personal Collections in Strasbourg, nine collectors have agreed to make accessible to the public some of the works they have gathered over the years and treasured in the privacy of their homes.

The exhibition opens 17 September 2016 and continues through to 26 March 2017. 

DANI MARTI

The University Gallery, the University of Newcastle, is showing a solo exhibition by DANI MARTI titled Still Life in Yellow, Steel and Mandarins. The exhibition continues Marti's exploration of the physical, psychological and emotional boundaries around intimacy, sexuality, relationships and the role of the artist. 

Well-known for creating challenging portraits that delve beyond the surface of human experience, Dani Marti uses unconventional processes and materials to capture the essence of his subject and emotional estates. In this exhibition, he presents a series of 'still-life' installations that read like portraits of life. 

The exhibition runs from 5 October to 12 November 2016.

Dani Marti, Notes for Bob, 2:1, 5k video projection 20'41", funded by the australia council.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS

Left: Eugenia Raskopoulos, Rootreroot, 2016, HD digital video, single channel, colour, stereo, 8:45 min. Right: Eugenia Raskopoulos, Routereroute, 2016, murano glass neon, dimensions variable.

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS's work is currently on view in the TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation, curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes.

"Eugenia Raskoupolous has created two new works for this exhibition, a video entitled Rootreroot and a neon work entitled Routereroute. In the video we see a woman dragging an olive tree in a clockwise direction in the upper section, and in the lower section the same woman dragging a wattle tree in an anticlockwise direction. The struggle and the labour involved in the gestures are evident in the image, as we follow her slow but determined trajectory around each endless loop. Shot from above using drones, the two circles intertwine at one point, with the shadow of each figure dissolving into the other. At this fleeting intersection, we glimpse a moment of completeness.

In Routereroute, two red neon signs spell out the title of the work, one in Greek (in reference to the artist’s Greek heritage and first language) and one in English. The letters of the Greek words form a larger circle than the English, as if to emphasise the gaps of translation. The emphasis is, rather, on the route, direction or road travelled. Translation never really meets its destination; it is in continuous and endless circulation." - Victoria Lynn

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PETER DAVERINGTON

PETER DAVERINGTON is a Finalist in the 2016 John Leslie Art Prize at the Gippsland Art Gallery. According to Curator Simon Greeg, his shortlisted work, The Floating Terraces of Philistinia, "continues the plot to derail common sense. We discover a monochrome world densely populated with floating checkerboard planes, connected by hovering steps. Such fractured, 'world' landscapes were popularised by Dutch artists in the sixteenth century, and while Daverington similarly employs multiple narratives through a steeply raked panorama, he does so only to hold a mirror to the absurdity of our 'real' world."

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Peter Daverington, The Floating Terraces of Phillistinia, 2016, oil on canvas, 158 x 122cm. 

IMANTS TILLERS

Imants Tillers, Once upon a time, 2009, synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 90 canvas boards, 229 x 356 cm.

An impressive IMANTS TILLERS work is currently on view in the Art Gallery of NSW entrance court. Signs and symbols to live by is a curated exhibition in which the artists respond to the question of whether art could still offer signs and symbols to live by in the 20th Century. 

The exhibition is on view at the AGNSW through to 2017. More information >
 

CYRUS TANG

Congratulations to CYRUS TANG who has been awarded the Highly Commended Award in the 2016 Sunshine Coast Prize! Judge Jane Deeth described Cyrus's photographic work, 7403.00s, as a delicately alluring conceptual piece: 

"This piece enacts events that are befalling our contemporary world – flood, tsunami and the destruction of war ... The work is subtle, capturing time and encouraging close scrutiny, its immediate impact belying this devastation." - Read the press review here. 

The Sunshine Coast Art Prize exhibition is on display at the Caloundra Regional Gallery in Caloundra, QLD through to Sunday 2 October 2016.

Cyrus Tang, 7403.00s, 2016, archival giclee print, 90 x 90cm.