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25.01.2022 Opening this Saturday 30 January Art Gallery of New South Wales presents 'Margel Hinder: Modern in Motion', the first dedicated retrospective of one of the most important and dynamic, yet underrated, Australian sculptors of the 20th century. Initially working in woodcarving in the 1930s, Hinder shifted to an abstract sculptural language in the 1950s, creating commanding kinetic works and some of Australia’s most enduring outdoor monuments. This exhibition is supported by UBS ...Art a founding partner of the TOGETHERBAND in support of the 17 The Global Goals Goal #5: achieve gender equality. View more information here: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/margel-hinder/ Image: Margel Ina Hinder 'Revolving construction' 1957. AGNSW, purchased 1959 . #art #contemporaryart #artgalleryofnewsouthwales #margelhinder

25.01.2022 Congratulations to South Australian artist Kate Bohunnis, awarded the richest prize for Australian artists under 40 - $100,000 - with pendulum-inspired Edges of Excess - via The Guardian #ramsayartprize Art Gallery of South Australia

25.01.2022 ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Announces 'Never alone', by Kent Morris, a new billboard project, viewable until 30 August. For twenty seconds every three minutes, a digital billboard on St Kildas Grey and Fitzroy Street intersection will offer the words 'Never alone', projected across a jewel-like geometric pattern, with the recurring image of a soaring native Night Heron emblazoned against the sky. This project is the first in a series of off-site projects ...to be launched in the lead-up to ACCAs major exhibition in 202122, 'Whos Afraid of Public Space?' Read more about the project here: http://ow.ly/Gle750AWYTO Image: Kent Morris, Never alone 2020, digital billboard, installation image, intersection of Fitzroy Street, Canterbury Road and Grey Street, St Kilda, Melbourne. Commissioned by ACCA. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Andrew Curtis Photography See more

25.01.2022 Art Collector presents Patricia Piccinni in discussion of her current exhibition The Gardeners Eye at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery The Gardeners Eye brings together a number of new works by Piccinini that investigate the notions of nature and the contemporary world, revealing a deep awareness, both intellectual and sensory, of how people might reimagine our relationship with nature, and what exactly nature might be. Watch the interview here: https://artcollector.net.au/vide...o-pull-focus-with-patricia/ Image: Patricia Piccinini, Sapling (detail), 2020. Silicone, fibreglass, hair, clothing, 201 x 94 x 46cm #art #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcollectormagazine #roslynoxley9 #patriciapiccinini

24.01.2022 #Exhibition Harley Ives: 'Immaterial Ornament' Until 19 September Chalk Horse As viewers we encounter this work at a time when many of our lives are more mediated by digital technologies than ever before. Much of our communication depends on these technologies as we spend more time in our domestic spaces. Weve become familiar with the paradoxical experience of intimacy that is the Zoom call missing the bodily presence and touch of our friends while seeing inside the homes... of our colleagues; catching glimpses of housemates, family members, pets and interior design choices that we otherwise would not be privy to. It is in this strange scenario that Harley Ives offers us Immaterial Ornament, a series of works drawing from Western traditions of still-life painting and flower arrangement. Read more and view exhibition here: http://ow.ly/IuIu50BfnLr Image: Harley Ives, Immaterial Object 1, 2020, pigment print on paper, 90 x 100cm, Ed of 3 + 2 AP #art #contemporayart #chalkhorse #harryives

24.01.2022 #Exhibition 'WFH (Work From Home)' at Station Gallery Until 29 August Featuring works of Kay Abude, David Attwood, Eugenia Lim & Sven 't Jolle 'WFH (Work From Home)', curated by Laura Couttie, investigates the politics of work and how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and amplified existing structural inequalities in our society.... The exhibition features a group of artists whose practices are concerned with ideas of work, labour, productivity, how we function within contemporary neoliberal capitalism, and whether there is a viable alternative. View online here: https://stationgallery.com.au/exhibitions/wfh-group-show Image: David Attwood, 'Post New Hoover Core' 2020. Photo: Christo Crocker #art #contemporaryart #stationgallery #davidattwood

24.01.2022 #Exhibition Jahnne Pasco-White: Becoming-with (Reconfigured) at Hugo Michell Gallery until 25 July Jahnne Pasco-Whites expanded painting practice considers the intersections between materiality and temporality. Her work is characterised by the labouring of delicate supports. Specifically, she is interested in the layers of authorship that are variously evidenced and concealed by the artists mark-making, as well as their continual processes of decay and renewal. View Exhib...ition here: http://ow.ly/YGZF50AxtDb Image: Jahnne Pasco-White, Becoming-with (Reconfigured), 2020, (installation view)

23.01.2022 Congratulations to all the finalists announced in the 2020 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize and exhibition at MGA - Monash Gallery of Art! The Bowness Photography Prize, now in its 15th year, is an important survey of contemporary photographic practice and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country, providing Australian artists with the opportunity to exhibit at one of Australia's leading public galleries. The prize includes a $30,000 acquisitive award wi...th a $5,000 Peoples Choice Award, supported by Smith & Singer. Included among the finalists are Christian Thompson and Nici Cumpston, both represented by Michael Reid Sydney, Narelle Autio represented by Hugo Michell Gallery and Michael Reid, Helen Grogan represented by ReadingRoom, Amanda Williams represented by The Commercial, Amos Gebhardt represented by Tolarno Galleries Melbourne and Anne Ferran represented by Sutton Gallery. The exhibition will show from 30 October 2020 to 17 February 2021, both in gallery and online. Read more: http://ow.ly/IGmU50B47q0 #art #contemporaryart #photography #MGA #artprize #Monash #TheCommercial #ReadingRoom #Amandawilliams #HelenGrogan

23.01.2022 Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artists Kay Abude, Georgia Raebanks, Sarah Bras, Ann Debono and Mia cerasalljo have been working with Bundoora Homestead Art Centre to realise a series of limited-edition prepaid art postcards for Dear Darebin: A Mail Art Project. Dear Darebin takes its lead from the Mail Art movements of the 1960s and 1970s that encouraged artists to share their work through the post as a means of avoiding the hierarchies of the commercial gallery system. The pr...oject aims to spark interest in analogue forms of communication and share artwork as a remedy to the effects of the current social distancing measures in Melbourne. View more information and become involved here: http://ow.ly/U1TP50AKM8K Image: Georgia Banks, Id Like To Touch You Right Now 2020, acrylic on board, 40 x 30 x 3 cm. Courtesy of the artist #DearDarebin #DarebinArts #GertrudeStudoArtist #GertrudeContemporary Darebin City Council

22.01.2022 Leading curator Hetti Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman from Central Australia, has been appointed curator of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra's 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial, which will open in late 2021. Director of the National Gallery of Australia Nick Mitzevich said he was delighted Ms Perkins was joining the gallery to help lead its mission to tell an inclusive story of Australia through the presentation of art from multiple points of view. Th...e National Gallery is the custodian of the largest collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art in the world we feel privileged to have Ms Perkins join us to help share the diverse voices and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and communities with all Australians and with growing audiences across the globe, he said. Read more: http://ow.ly/vpYd50BafMy

22.01.2022 #Exhibition Yevgeniya Baras: 'Invisible Line' Until 6 February Station Gallery Inspired by touch and the transformative nature of materials that layer and decompose, Yevgeniya Baras creates paintings and sculptures that investigate bodily themes and natural phenomena such as weather, mountains, and planets. View more information and exhibition here: http://ow.ly/I9BC50DcYKZ... Image: Yevgeniya Baras, 'Untitled', 2019, oil wood and paper pulp on canvas, 63.5 x 74.3 cm. #art #contemporaryart #stationgallery #Yevgeniyabaras

22.01.2022 With ongoing uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, both in Australia and overseas, Melbourne Art Foundation has made the difficult but necessary decision to postpone Melbourne Art Fair to 17-20 February 2022. The Foundation will focus on delivering an exceptional art fair to mark the start of the Australasian cultural season, at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. We will continue our work to support living artists during the interim period and collabora...te with galleries and partners to present you with the best of contemporary art through our online channels. We look forward to welcoming you safely to Melbourne Art Fair in February 2022 for a true celebration of contemporary art and ideas. http://ow.ly/nv7E50BkftP #contemporaryart #art #melbourneartfair2022

22.01.2022 #Exhibition Angus Jones: From a Cold World William Mora Galleries Until 14 August, by appointment and online "I believe we are in very challenging times, and artists have the opportunity to respond to these times through their work. For example, Radiated Angel was created during North Koreas missile tests and represents an angel that got caught in the blast. It was only in retrospect that I could see the connection, it didnt come from a conscious idea at the time. The p...ieces before you, do not in any way come from a pre-conceived idea no studies or sketches are undertaken beforehand. They emerge by themselves. I think they are witnesses of the world we live in (using abstraction and symbolism in human form). Giving voice to those who dont have one." ~ Angus Jones View exhibition: http://ow.ly/Lrpt50AR1Pa Image: Angus Jones, The King in Yellow, 2020, mixed media on paper, 126 x 63 cm #art #contemporaryart #angusjones #williammoragalleries

22.01.2022 #Exhibition WFH (Work From Home) at Station Gallery Until 29 August Featuring works of Kay Abude, David Attwood, Eugenia Lim & Sven t Jolle WFH (Work From Home), curated by Laura Couttie, investigates the politics of work and how the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and amplified existing structural inequalities in our society.... The exhibition features a group of artists whose practices are concerned with ideas of work, labour, productivity, how we function within contemporary neoliberal capitalism, and whether there is a viable alternative. View online here: https://stationgallery.com.au/exhibitions/wfh-group-show Image: David Attwood, Post New Hoover Core 2020. Photo: Christo Crocker #art #contemporaryart #stationgallery #davidattwood

21.01.2022 The Jewish Museum of Australia, in partnership with William Mora Galleries and supported by Heide Museum of Modern Art presents 'MIRKA' an intimate, previously unseen view into the rich and fascinating life of the late Mirka Mora (19282018). A story of survival and migration, interspersed with a generous dose of family, art, food and love, Mirka Mora’s history is a profoundly affecting post-Holocaust Australian Jewish tale which, until now, has not been presented with such... depth and scope. Launching in February 2021, MIRKA will transform the Museum into an immersive ‘Mirka-world’ that reflects the artist’s trademark mischievousness and bohemian spirit, and shares her powerful story in vivid detail as told through letters, sketchbooks and diaries, and recorded interviews from the Jewish Holocaust Centre archives. View more information here: https://www.jewishmuseum.com.au/exhibitions/mirka/ Image: Mirka Mora, 'In the Garden of Dreams', 1975-81. Photographer: Courtesy of the Jewish Museum of Australia. #art #contemporaryart #jewishmuseumofaustralia #heidimuseumofmodernart #mirkamora

21.01.2022 Join ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's Senior Curator Annika Kristensen in conversation with ACCA Open artists Archie Barry, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, and Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich to discuss their new digital commissions that respond to the unusual times and cultural conditions in which they are produced. Archie Barrys project is oriented towards the affective realms of sound and music, away from ocular-centric presence; whilst Madeleine Flynn and ...Tim Humphrey explore the endless ambience and elasticity of time; and Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich deploy language, movement and neuroscience to consider the increasing prevalence of algorithmic subjectivity. From artificial intelligence to sound, animation, video and archives, this conversation will delve into the various possibilities of working in the digital realm. Thursday 17 September at 5:00pm AEST on Zoom. Register via the link: http://ow.ly/x00G50BluGC Image: Sam Lieblich and Amrita Hepi #art #contemporaryart #coversation #acca #samlieblich #amritahepi

20.01.2022 The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra will unveil 'Skywhalepapa', the companion piece to artist Patricia Piccinini's iconic 2013 hot air balloon sculpture 'Skywhale', this Saturday 6 February 2021. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia, with the support of The Balnaves Foundation, the skywhale family will fly alongside each other for the first time at the world premiere of 'Skywhales: Every Heart Sings'. Following three flights scheduled over Canberra, Skywh...ale and Skywhalepapa will then go on tour around Australia, beginning mid-April in Albury, New South Wales. Discover what inspired Piccinini's biggest creation yet and read more about the project here: http://ow.ly/Q3Kr50DoCN2

20.01.2022 The National Gallery of Victoria has announced the opening of its inaugural Triennial this December, with 86 projects from more than 100 artists from more than 30 countries. The major exhibition looks to 'explore the pressing issues of our time and survey the world's foremost artists, designers and architects' in media ranging from ancient Indigenous practice to the cutting edge of technology. One such artist commissioned for the Triennial is New York artist Tabor Robak. His... 'Megafauna' is an immersive installation of computer-generated animations that will surround the viewer in an entire gallery. Read more: http://ow.ly/O70H50BNOvf

20.01.2022 ARTIST TALKS: Join Léuli Eshrghi in conversation with ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art's Public Programs Coordinator Bianca Winataputri and ACCA Open artists Sean Peoples and Zanny Begg to discuss their new digital commissions that respond to the unusual times and cultural conditions in which they are produced. Thursday 29 October 5pm on Zoom and Facebook Live... Register here: https://acca.melbourne/program/acca-open-artist-talks-2/ Read more and experience 'AOAULI' here: https://aoauli.acca.melbourne/ ACCA Open is a new series of contemporary art projects commissioned for the digital realm. Six new commissions by participating artists Archie Barry, Zanny Begg, Léuli Eshraghi, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich, and Sean Peoples, released from August to October 2020. Image: Léuli Eshrghi, 'AOAULI' 2020 (video still), commissioned by ACCA, courtesy the artist #art #movingimage #contemporaryart #artisttalks #acca #accaopen

20.01.2022 #Exhibition Lucienne Rickard: 'Punch' Michael Bugelli Gallery Until 20 September In March 15 this year halfway through her durational performance Extinction Studies, commenced in September 2019 at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Lucienne Rickard had to put down her pencils. She had just returned from working at the National Art School as part of the 22nd Sydney Biennale when Australia went into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, Rickar...d returns with another personal public performance, and this time she is changing her pencils for a hammer and printers ink. For two hours on nominated performance days she will commit to the repetitive, arduous and meditative aspect of her creative process: she will hammer her mark on squares of paper, working to her own rhythm. View more information here: https://www.michaelbugelligallery.com/punch/ Image: Lucienne Rickard, 'Punch', 2020. Photgraphy: Peter Whyte Photography #art #artcontemporary #michaelbugelligallery #luciennerickard

19.01.2022 Vale John Nixon (1949-2020), a seminal figure in contemporary Australian abstraction. With a career spanning over fifty years, his work has been dedicated to the on-going experimentation, analysis and development of radical modernism, minimalism, the monochrome, constructivism, non-objective art and the readymade. Our deepest condolences are extended to Johns family, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sarah Cottier Gallery and Two Rooms. ... John Nixon's current exhibition at Anna Schwartz Gallery 'Groups + Pairs 2016-2020' will remain on until the end of the year. Image: 'Groups + Pairs 2016-2020' installation view at Anna Schwartz Gallery

19.01.2022 #Exhibition Harley Ives: Immaterial Ornament Until 19 September Chalk Horse As viewers we encounter this work at a time when many of our lives are more mediated by digital technologies than ever before. Much of our communication depends on these technologies as we spend more time in our domestic spaces. Weve become familiar with the paradoxical experience of intimacy that is the Zoom call missing the bodily presence and touch of our friends while seeing inside the homes... of our colleagues; catching glimpses of housemates, family members, pets and interior design choices that we otherwise would not be privy to. It is in this strange scenario that Harley Ives offers us Immaterial Ornament, a series of works drawing from Western traditions of still-life painting and flower arrangement. Read more and view exhibition here: http://ow.ly/IuIu50BfnLr Image: Harley Ives, Immaterial Object 1, 2020, pigment print on paper, 90 x 100cm, Ed of 3 + 2 AP #art #contemporayart #chalkhorse #harryives

18.01.2022 #Exhibition Amber Wallis: 'Summoned Paintings' Nicholas Thompson Gallery Until 26 July For her solo show 'Summoned Paintings', Wallis invited ten of those she communed with during her year in and out of the studio to respond to a painting each in text. 'In the space between waking and sleeping lies a portal. It manifests as an empty space with a ringing sound and I know Im in the place where spirits can communicate. The problem is the awkwardness of the communication, like t...rying to speak a language youve never known. I speak in muted English to send messages to the dead and wonder if they can understand. Sometimes I hear static - like the sounds between tuning into the radio. When there is too much interference and dark energies descend, I call out for the spirits of light to guide me. I will never see them, but I believe that they are there. If theyre not, then believing is enough to pull me out from the murkiness of my subterranean world.' ~ Words by Heidi Yardley, Australian Artist View Exhibition here: http://ow.ly/EGgf50Axtyh Image: Amber Wallis, 'Four Guides and Presences Always Watching', 2020, oil on raw linen, 150 x 130 cm

18.01.2022 #Exhibition Kevin Chin: Social Distance until 1 Aug This is No Fantasy + dianne tanzer gallery When Kevin Chin started this series, he was thinking about how our purportedly globally interconnected world can at times be isolating, and how we find solace in our increasingly urban life. As the series developed, the introduction of social distancing brought new significance. Kevins signature mastery of colour conveys the cheerfulness in making the best of testing circumstanc...es. He finds a sublime stillness, to capture the complex mood of this time. Amidst the tightening of national borders, Kevin mixes cultural references from Australia, Asia and America to show how great distances can be overcome by imagination. His surprising compositions combine urban and natural landscapes, to reflect the growing awareness of how our environmental impact comes back to us in turn. The quiet optimism of these paintings is disarming. They mark this unique time in world events, a heartening reminder that distance is merely a state of mind. View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/3mo250Azy8V Images: Kevin Chin, Social Distance Exhibition, 2020, (installation view) #contemporary art #KevinChin #Thisisnofantasy #Diannetanzergallery

17.01.2022 #Exhibition Emma Finneran: blue in gravy Chalk Horse Until 15 August In this exhibition Finneran presents a series of new works that orbit around notions of symbiosis. Using water as a means to produce, the paintings are built up over time using washing, dying, bleaching and resistance techniques. "Joni Mitchell once recalled a party she had been at, as it seemed like everybody was trying so hard you know. I was thinking about her and that song as I was walking to the s...tudio one radically unpeopled day in April. I looked down to see something perfectly circumstantial a piece of dirty plastic atop the autumnal earth. It wasnt that the plastic was beautiful or that its transparency gave in to be green; it was the condensation that coupled these two elemental in-laws in symbiosis that moved me. This place, plus me, are alive in something together at the same time." ~ Emma Finneran View exhibition: http://ow.ly/7BPB50AQYuk Image: Emma Finneran, people parties, 2020, arcylic, dye, bleach and ilk on linen, 137 x 112 cm #art #contemporaryart #chalkhorse #emmafinneran

17.01.2022 Congratulations to Dean Cross represented by Yavuz Gallery who has been announced as the inaugural recipient of The Good Initiative! The Good Initiative is a new $20,000 award for a major commission presented by Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Australia. Cross solo exhibition will be presented in 2021, showing some of his new works created from and in the region where he spent the early guiding years of his practice. Image: Dean Cross, 'Ngunnawal Country (self-portr...ait)', 2020. Pure pigment on cotton rag, 87 x 65cm. Read more about The Good Initiative: https://goulburnregionalartgallery.com.au/thegoodinitiative #art #contemporaryart #deancross #yavuzgallery

17.01.2022 ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Announces Never alone, by Kent Morris, a new billboard project, viewable until 30 August. For twenty seconds every three minutes, a digital billboard on St Kildas Grey and Fitzroy Street intersection will offer the words Never alone, projected across a jewel-like geometric pattern, with the recurring image of a soaring native Night Heron emblazoned against the sky. This project is the first in a series of off-site projects ...to be launched in the lead-up to ACCAs major exhibition in 202122, Whos Afraid of Public Space? Read more about the project here: http://ow.ly/Gle750AWYTO Image: Kent Morris, Never alone 2020, digital billboard, installation image, intersection of Fitzroy Street, Canterbury Road and Grey Street, St Kilda, Melbourne. Commissioned by ACCA. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Andrew Curtis Photography See more

17.01.2022 #Exhibition Emma Finneran: 'blue in gravy' Chalk Horse Until 15 August In this exhibition Finneran presents a series of new works that orbit around notions of symbiosis. Using water as a means to produce, the paintings are built up over time using washing, dying, bleaching and resistance techniques. "Joni Mitchell once recalled a party she had been at, as it seemed like everybody was trying so hard you know. I was thinking about her and that song as I was walking to the s...tudio one radically unpeopled day in April. I looked down to see something perfectly circumstantial a piece of dirty plastic atop the autumnal earth. It wasnt that the plastic was beautiful or that its transparency gave in to be green; it was the condensation that coupled these two elemental in-laws in symbiosis that moved me. This place, plus me, are alive in something together at the same time." ~ Emma Finneran View exhibition: http://ow.ly/7BPB50AQYuk Image: Emma Finneran, 'people parties', 2020, arcylic, dye, bleach and ilk on linen, 137 x 112 cm #art #contemporaryart #chalkhorse #emmafinneran

17.01.2022 #Exhibition Guy Grabowsky: 'Symbionts' Station Gallery Until 10 October Guy Grabowsky is a Melbourne-based artist and photographer working with analogue photography. Grabowsky’s interest lies in the photographic mediumall aspects of its evolvement, its role in our shifting realities, how it ‘looks’ at us and how we perceive its usefulness. Grabowsky creates photographs with and without the camera, using unconventional and traditional analogue/digital techniques. Negatives a...re treated as found objects; the original narrative behind the moment of capture becomes irrelevant. Through intervention and grouping, each image is provided with a new narrative and conceptual framework. View online exhibition here: http://ow.ly/nDEG50ByyPB Image: Guy Grabowsky, 'Symbiotic Surface 2019', handprinted analogue C type photographic print, 155.0 x 120.0 cm, framed, Edition of 3 + 2AP #art #contemporaryart #stationgallery #guygrabowsky

17.01.2022 #Exhibition Pip Ryan: 'Flesh Creepers' at Hugo Michell Gallery Until 3 October 'Flesh Creepers' is a new series of works by Pip Ryan that began whilst on residency at Bundanon Trust in November 2019 and has continued throughout the pandemic. Both Bundanon and the lockdown are spaces that are isolated, one in the landscape and one in the domestic setting, lending themselves to a world where the things around you can morph and mutate. This body of work draws heavily from an on...going series of darkly comical beasts and playful surreal imagery. Banal objects are reconfigured and anthropomorphised, absurdly transforming the familiar into the uncanny as they slip further from their domestic space. View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/9Jnw50Bs0Qs Image: Pip Ryan, 'Snake Charmer', 2020, watercolour, gouache, pencil on paper, 28.5 x 19 cm #art #contemporaryart #hugomichellgallery #pipryan

16.01.2022 Congratulations to Sera Waters, represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, who has been announced as the 2020 Guildhouse Fellowship recipient! "The Guildhouse Fellowship, valued at over $50,000, was inaugurated in 2019 with the generous support of South Australian philanthropists, The James & Diana Ramsay Foundation, to recognise and elevate South Australian artistic ambition. The selection panel for the 2020 Guildhouse Fellowship comprised Art Gallery of South Australia Director R...hana Devenport ONZM, Guildhouse CEO Emma Fey and Sebastian Goldspink, the recently announced curator of the 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art." Read more: http://ow.ly/3qXn50AX9cC Image: Sera Waters, 'Basking', 2016-17, Linen, cotton, sequins, tablecloth & handmade, glow-in-the-dark beads, 92 x 60 cm. Photography: Grant Hancock. #art #contemporaryart #hugomichellgallery #serawaters

16.01.2022 This is the last week to see Archie Moores HouseShow in Brisbane, the largest iteration to date in a series of installations that recreate the Kamilaroi artists childhood home. "I have been self-isolating for months inside a house [in West End, Brisbane, creating] an immersive, interactive, multi-media installation about the 'home' and 'memory'." ~ Archie Moore The Cottage, 272 Montague Road, West End, Brisbane. Wednesday - Saturday, 10 - 3... Read more via The Commercial: http://ow.ly/NNId50AKSAz Image: Archie Moore, installation detail, HouseShow, 2020 (photo: Marc Pricop) #art #contemporaryart #thecommercial #thecommercialgallery #archiemoore

16.01.2022 #Exhibition Dhambit #2 Wanambi Guultja - Maternal Oceans is online now at Vivien Anderson Gallery Guultja - maternal oceans speaks to the design for this place encoded in the dance between waters of two different clans connected through kinship as mothers mother and daughters daughter. Known as märi/gutharra this connection is symbolically understood as the backbone. The hand sign for this relationship is to tap the top of ones spine. It is the supporting skeleton of al...l relationships through the endless infinite line of womens bodies. View the online exhibition: http://ow.ly/TVU350AEGYk Image: Dhambit #2 Wanambi, Installation View #contemporaryart #art #vivienandersongallery #Dhambit2Wanambi #indigenousaustralianart

16.01.2022 frieze presents 'Bow Down', a podcast about significant female artists who deserve our attention. In the latest episode, Melbourne based artist Sally Smart discusses the life and work of the Australian post-Impressionist artist Bessie Davidson. Hosted by Jennifer Higgie. View the podcast here: http://ow.ly/HQgv50BvjDI... #art #contemporaryart #freize #podcast #sallysmart #bessiedavidson #jenniferhiggie

15.01.2022 #Exhibition Amber Wallis: Summoned Paintings Nicholas Thompson Gallery Until 26 July For her solo show Summoned Paintings, Wallis invited ten of those she communed with during her year in and out of the studio to respond to a painting each in text. In the space between waking and sleeping lies a portal. It manifests as an empty space with a ringing sound and I know Im in the place where spirits can communicate. The problem is the awkwardness of the communication, like t...rying to speak a language youve never known. I speak in muted English to send messages to the dead and wonder if they can understand. Sometimes I hear static - like the sounds between tuning into the radio. When there is too much interference and dark energies descend, I call out for the spirits of light to guide me. I will never see them, but I believe that they are there. If theyre not, then believing is enough to pull me out from the murkiness of my subterranean world. ~ Words by Heidi Yardley, Australian Artist View Exhibition here: http://ow.ly/EGgf50Axtyh Image: Amber Wallis, Four Guides and Presences Always Watching, 2020, oil on raw linen, 150 x 130 cm

15.01.2022 John Youngs exhibition The Shiva Paintings finishes this Saturday 18 July at OLSEN Gallery. Young is one of Australias foremost contemporary artists, noted for his discursive and deeply scholarly approach that combines innovative painterly practice with traditional technical rigour. Deeply rooted in his own bi-cultural experience, Young incorporates elements of Western modernist philosophy, aesthetic theory and art history to consider the sociological impacts of technolog...y; the culture surrounding globalisation and migratory dislocation; as well as academic and social concepts of time, resonance and melancholia. Prior to the exhibition opening, Art Collector invited Young to chat with Michael Do about his latest body of work. Watch the interview and visit the exhibition via the links below. View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/yatB50AzCrK Watch the interview: http://ow.ly/s4bt50AzCsi Image: John Young, Shiva X 2020, oil on linen, 71.5 x 92 cm #contemporaryart #johnyoung #olsengallery

15.01.2022 #Exhibition Dean Cross: 'Monuments' 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Until 1 October Monuments is a site-responsive work by artist Dean Cross an ongoing project since 2016, intended for exhibition every two years. Handfuls of white ochre consisting Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country where the artist was born and raised and gathered on their property with permission from local elder and custodian of the land Aunty Matilda House build a grid that spreads across the gallery fl...oors. A number of the monuments are interspersed with gold leaf. With each handful representing one year of colonisation in Australia, Cross Monuments to strength, survival and custodianship challenge colonial concepts of ceramics, memorialisation and memory. A Western statue is a depiction; my monuments are the real thing ~ Dean Cross View exhibition information here: http://ow.ly/hBl050AY7aD Image: Dean Cross, 'Monuments' (2018 ongoing indefinitely, 2020 iteration), handfuls of Ngunnawal ochre & gold leaf, dimensions variable; image: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian art; courtesy the artist #art #contemporaryart #4acentreforcontemporaryasianart #deancross

14.01.2022 Arts Project Australia is connecting with the Melbourne community through a series of large-scale billboard art installations in partnership with Civic Outdoor. The billboards feature works by Julian Martin, Mark Smith, Eden Menta, Monica Lazzari, Anthony Romagnano, Samantha Ashdown, John Bates, Robin Warren, Warren O’Brien, Lachlan Turk, Boris Cipusev, Miles Howard Wilks and Jordan Dymke. The artists’ works are being rolled out across several billboards in Melbourne’s subur...bs until the end of 2020. Image credit: Monica Lazzari, ‘Black Dots’, 2018, acrylic on paper, 50 x 70 cm. Courtesy Arts Project Australia #art #contemporaryart #artsprojectaust #moincalazzari #civicoutdoor

14.01.2022 As Melbourne reopens, we highlight some of the best exhibitions to see in the city; Sophie Gannon Gallery presents new works by Nicolette Johnson in 'High Spirits', opening 4 November. ReadingRoom presents a solo show by Darcey Bella Arnold 'me say edit be', opening 7 November.... Neon Parc presents new works by Jamie O'Connell in 'Love saves the day', open at the city and Brunswick galleries until 7 November. Murray White Room presents Emma Borland's first solo show 'Polarity', open by appointment until 17 November. Vivien Anderson Gallery presents new works by Naomi Hobson in 'Payamu - To Shine', open until 14 November. Tolarno Galleries Melbourne presents new works by Judy Watson in 'memory scars, dreams and gardens', opening 14 November. Anna Schwartz Gallery presents John Nixon 'Groups + Pairs 2016-2020', open for the remainder of 2020 in celebration of the incredible work and life of the artist. Station Gallery presents new works by Reko Rennie in 'Reckoning', open until 14 November. Daine Singer presents new works by Meredith Turnbull in 'Mood Mirror', open until 14 November. Nicholas Thompson Gallery presents new works by Peter Sharp in 'Going Somewhere Else', open until 8 November.

14.01.2022 'Through my paintings you can see my Ngangkari work: watching over people and also looking after Country. My Country. This place is very important we all need to look after each other and respect our home.' Betty Muffler, Anangu / Pitjantjatjara people As part of the global September issue, all 26 editions of Vogue have united behind the theme of hope, with each producing a cover that reflects longing for a recovered future. During lockdown in early May, Vogue Australia co...llaborated with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra to commission artist Betty Muffler an Anangu/Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara woman and spiritual healer to bring hope and healing from the heart of her Country. National Gallery Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curators, Kelli Cole and Aidan Hartshorn, convey the story of her extraordinary gift and the collaboration. The September issue of Vogue Australia is on sale during September. Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)' will be on display at the National Gallery from 7 September. Read more here: http://ow.ly/gFuQ50Bj61F Images: Betty Muffler, Anangu / Pitjantjatjara people, 'Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)', 2020, commissioned by Vogue for the September 2020 issue and gifted to the National Gallery of Australia #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown #VogueHope #VogueAustralia #BettyMuffler

14.01.2022 "Their doors may have been closed but galleries around the country have been acquiring works apace in recent months, with works by women and Indigenous artists taking centre stage." The Age Amidst COVID-19, galleries intention and search for new work has undoubtedly not changed with more than 1500 pieces acquired nationally. Major Galleries such as the Art Gallery of South Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Western Australia have been main facilitators of this movement. The significance and crucial nature of benefactors and sponsors has been made even more clear during these times, the great majority of works acquired made possible responsible to those. Read more here: https://www.theage.com.au//women-and-indigenous-artists-to

13.01.2022 Art Collector presents Patricia Piccinni in discussion of her current exhibition 'The Gardeners Eye' at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 'The Gardeners Eye' brings together a number of new works by Piccinini that investigate the notions of nature and the contemporary world, revealing a deep awareness, both intellectual and sensory, of how people might reimagine our relationship with nature, and what exactly nature might be. Watch the interview here: https://artcollector.net.au/vide...o-pull-focus-with-patricia/ Image: Patricia Piccinini, 'Sapling' (detail), 2020. Silicone, fibreglass, hair, clothing, 201 x 94 x 46cm #art #contemporaryart #artcollector #artcollectormagazine #roslynoxley9 #patriciapiccinini

13.01.2022 Buxton Contemporary presents 'Creative Cosmos'- a series of conversations with artists represented in the Buxton Contemporary Collection and beyond, exploring local and global contemporary art and celebrating diversity in contemporary culture and profiling distinctive practices. The latest addition to this series, listen to artist Katie West in a conversation with Melissa Keys. View the conversation here: https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/katiewest/... Image: Kate West, Nyinyart Yinda Artist Residency, Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation, 2017. Photograph by Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation #art #contemporaryart #buxtoncontemporary #melissakeys #katewest

13.01.2022 #Exhibition: 'Maningrida Arts & Culture' at Michael Reid Sydney Until 17 October 'Maningrida Arts & Culture' is a pre-eminent site of contemporary cultural expression and art-making, abundant with highly collectable art and emerging talent. Through their homelands resource organisation, Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation, artists turned an art trade that began just over 50 years ago into an arts and cultural enterprise.... Maningrida Arts & Culture is based on Kunibídji country in Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. The area where artists live encompasses 7,000 square kilometres of land and sea, and over 100 clan estates, where people speak more than 12 distinct languages. Aboriginal people in this region are still on country, surviving and resilient because their country is the centre of their epistemology, their belief system, culture djang. View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/6U2G50BEY5x Image: Samson Bonson, 'Mimih Spirit', 2019, [catalogue ref 538-19], carved wooden sculpture, 183 x 9 x 6 cm #art #contemporaryart #michaelreidsydney #michaelreid #samsonbonson

13.01.2022 Through my paintings you can see my Ngangkari work: watching over people and also looking after Country. My Country. This place is very important we all need to look after each other and respect our home. Betty Muffler, Anangu / Pitjantjatjara people As part of the global September issue, all 26 editions of Vogue have united behind the theme of hope, with each producing a cover that reflects longing for a recovered future. During lockdown in early May, Vogue Australia co...llaborated with the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra to commission artist Betty Muffler an Anangu/Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara woman and spiritual healer to bring hope and healing from the heart of her Country. National Gallery Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curators, Kelli Cole and Aidan Hartshorn, convey the story of her extraordinary gift and the collaboration. The September issue of Vogue Australia is on sale during September. Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country) will be on display at the National Gallery from 7 September. Read more here: http://ow.ly/gFuQ50Bj61F Images: Betty Muffler, Anangu / Pitjantjatjara people, Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country), 2020, commissioned by Vogue for the September 2020 issue and gifted to the National Gallery of Australia #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #MuseumFromHome #NationalGalleryAus #BowDown #VogueHope #VogueAustralia #BettyMuffler

13.01.2022 #Exhibition This is the final weekend to see Alex Hamilton's 'I built a road which had no purpose' at Jacob Hoerner Galleries Through his measured use of colour and line Alex Hamiltons lyrical yet structured drawings pulse. Aesthetically intriguing and riddled with subtext, Hamilton allows us to see subliminal tones and rhythms literally streaming through the more staid and static constructed urban environments he depicts. Hamiltons unique visual language, selection of sub...ject, and the cues he layers one upon another, invite the viewer to delve deeper into his complex drawings in search of coded syntax, hidden persuaders or just an alternate vision of an underlying reality always present that is now in full sight via the super-real architectural maze he creates. The intersecting lines and free shapes Hamilton places no longer abide by standard rules such as this is up that is down, standard associations are irrelevant, we are in a different place, harmonious yet hyper-attuned, a sense that this perspective may hold more truths than a more banal one, futuristic yet very much from now. View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/1q1Z50BahUK Image: Alex Hamilton, 'Carbon Monoxide Scape Apple HQ Federation Square Melbourne 3', 2020, pen, ink, pit pen, gouache, charcoal pencil, airbrush, photocopy, watercolour paper, 89.5 x 123cm

12.01.2022 Buxton Contemporary presents Creative Cosmos- a series of conversations with artists represented in the Buxton Contemporary Collection and beyond, exploring local and global contemporary art and celebrating diversity in contemporary culture and profiling distinctive practices. The latest addition to this series, listen to artist Katie West in a conversation with Melissa Keys. View the conversation here: https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/katiewest/... Image: Kate West, Nyinyart Yinda Artist Residency, Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation, 2017. Photograph by Juluwarlu Aboriginal Corporation #art #contemporaryart #buxtoncontemporary #melissakeys #katewest

12.01.2022 National Gallery of Victoria has announced a design competition for its new purpose-built gallery, NGV Contemporary, dedicated to displaying local, national and internationally significant contemporary art and design. The NGV Contemporary Design Competition seeks visionary, sustainable and dynamic design approaches from a multidisciplinary Australian design team, offering an unparalleled platform to showcase Australia’s world-leading design and architecture industries. Registration are now open for Australian Architects, Architectural Companies and Architectural Partnerships. View link below for more information.

11.01.2022 After over five years working as Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, congratulations to Mikala Tai on her new role as Head of Visual Arts at Australia Council for the Arts.

11.01.2022 #Exhibition Sydney Ball: '1963 - 1973 Works from The Estate' Sullivan + Strumpf Until 15 August 'Sydney Ball: 1963-1973 Works from the Estate' presents paintings, drawings and a laminated plywood sculpture that are indicative of Balls six consecutive series of powerful and stylistically diverse colour abstraction, fuelled by two formative periods living in New York at the epicentre of the post-World War II art world. In the early 1960s, while studying painting and lithogra...phy at the renowned Art Students League, Ball immersed himself in the exhibitions of first and second-generation American abstractionists memorably Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Mark Rothko. [T]he whole scene was one of complete energy it was all there, all happening on the spot not only painting, but writing, theatre, dance, music sets by Rauschenberg, music by John Cage. Central to this period is the charismatic figure of abstract expressionist artist Theodoros Stamos lecturer, friend and mentor who introduced Ball to artists of the New York School such as Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell and Rothko. View Exhibition: http://ow.ly/GLWU50AT59K Images: Sydney Ball, '1963 - 1973 Works from The Estate' (installation view) #art #contemporaryart #sullivan+strumpf #sydneyball

10.01.2022 #Exhibition Lucienne Rickard: Punch Michael Bugelli Gallery Until 20 September In March 15 this year halfway through her durational performance Extinction Studies, commenced in September 2019 at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Lucienne Rickard had to put down her pencils. She had just returned from working at the National Art School as part of the 22nd Sydney Biennale when Australia went into lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, Rickar...d returns with another personal public performance, and this time she is changing her pencils for a hammer and printers ink. For two hours on nominated performance days she will commit to the repetitive, arduous and meditative aspect of her creative process: she will hammer her mark on squares of paper, working to her own rhythm. View more information here: https://www.michaelbugelligallery.com/punch/ Image: Lucienne Rickard, Punch, 2020. Photgraphy: Peter Whyte Photography #art #artcontemporary #michaelbugelligallery #luciennerickard

10.01.2022 #Exhibition Sydney Ball: 1963 - 1973 Works from The Estate Sullivan + Strumpf Until 15 August Sydney Ball: 1963-1973 Works from the Estate presents paintings, drawings and a laminated plywood sculpture that are indicative of Balls six consecutive series of powerful and stylistically diverse colour abstraction, fuelled by two formative periods living in New York at the epicentre of the post-World War II art world. In the early 1960s, while studying painting and lithogra...phy at the renowned Art Students League, Ball immersed himself in the exhibitions of first and second-generation American abstractionists memorably Hans Hofmann, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Mark Rothko. [T]he whole scene was one of complete energy it was all there, all happening on the spot not only painting, but writing, theatre, dance, music sets by Rauschenberg, music by John Cage. Central to this period is the charismatic figure of abstract expressionist artist Theodoros Stamos lecturer, friend and mentor who introduced Ball to artists of the New York School such as Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell and Rothko. View Exhibition: http://ow.ly/GLWU50AT59K Images: Sydney Ball, 1963 - 1973 Works from The Estate (installation view) #art #contemporaryart #sullivan+strumpf #sydneyball

10.01.2022 Australian artist Patricia Piccinini - best known for her hyperrealistic human-animal sculptures is taking over the mysterious, abandoned Flinders Street Station ballroom (and 15 attached rooms) for what’s being billed as her first major Melbourne project in nearly two decades during the inaugural Rising festival. ‘A Miracle Constantly Repeated’ will combine sculpture, video, light and sound, bringing the French Renaissance-style ballroom, which has been hidden for decades..., to life like never before. Read more via Broadsheet Melbourne #rising #risingfestival #patriciapiccinini #contemporaryart #installationart

09.01.2022 #Exhibition Gerardo Tan: 'Decoy and Other Constructions' The Drawing Room (Contemporary Art) Until 8 August View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/ikOb50ALNjs "Collaging to me involves shifting and gluing disparate fragments from high and low" culture from different histories and geographies into a cohesive picture. I compose the elements in a non-hierarchical manner and all-over pattern to give equal importance to all the elements. Unlike creating a picture from imaginati...on, my process has more to do with combining pre-existing images and constructing them into layered wholes." ~ Gerardo Tan Images: Gerardo Tan, 'Decoy and Other Constructions' (installation view), 2020 #art #contemporaryart #tdrgmanila #thedrawingroomcontemporaryart #gerardotan

09.01.2022 #Exhibition This is the final weekend to see Alex Hamiltons I built a road which had no purpose at Jacob Hoerner Galleries Through his measured use of colour and line Alex Hamiltons lyrical yet structured drawings pulse. Aesthetically intriguing and riddled with subtext, Hamilton allows us to see subliminal tones and rhythms literally streaming through the more staid and static constructed urban environments he depicts. Hamiltons unique visual language, selection of sub...ject, and the cues he layers one upon another, invite the viewer to delve deeper into his complex drawings in search of coded syntax, hidden persuaders or just an alternate vision of an underlying reality always present that is now in full sight via the super-real architectural maze he creates. The intersecting lines and free shapes Hamilton places no longer abide by standard rules such as this is up that is down, standard associations are irrelevant, we are in a different place, harmonious yet hyper-attuned, a sense that this perspective may hold more truths than a more banal one, futuristic yet very much from now. View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/1q1Z50BahUK Image: Alex Hamilton, Carbon Monoxide Scape Apple HQ Federation Square Melbourne 3, 2020, pen, ink, pit pen, gouache, charcoal pencil, airbrush, photocopy, watercolour paper, 89.5 x 123cm

09.01.2022 #Exhibition Jon Campbell: Gone to see a man about a dog Sutton Gallery online Viewing Room, 17 July - 20 August Sutton Gallery Online is pleased to present Gone to see a man about a dog, a new body of work by Jon Campbell featuring individual paintings, alongside a series of works made in collaboration with Stephen Bush. This exhibition forms part of an artist swap held in conjunction with Darren Knight Gallery, who will host an exhibition by Bush later this year. While ...access to the gallery is temporarily suspended, Sutton Gallery has launched an online Viewing Room to showcase the exhibition, including a short video walk-through. The online presentation also features a new essay by curator Lisa Sullivan, originally conceived as a print publication to accompany the artist swap. In Gone Dead, Sullivan charts the formation of Campbell and Bushs friendship alongside the concurrent Melbourne independent music scene. The text reveals how each artists shared connection to music cemented their friendship, moulded their careers, and eventually led to their creative collaboration. Discover the Viewing Room: https://suttongallery.com.au//gone-to-see-a-man-about-a-d/ Image: John Campbell, Its a world full of lying bastards, 2020, Enamel on plywood., 246 x 432cm

09.01.2022 #Exhibition Ben Quilty: 'Still life after the virus' Jan Murphy Gallery Until 21 November 'Quilty makes no fuss in selecting his objects, leaving the studio in search of ‘beauty’ was neither responsible, or, as it turns out, necessary. Multi-vitamins, disinfectant, clamps, wine glasses and pumpkins are gathered to create disjointed clusters. These commonplace markers connect his experience of isolation with many of our own. Quilty... creates amusing rhythms in these undulating compositions, with characteristic blocks of colour.' - Milena Stojanovska 2020 View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/JgEd50CaOSL Image: Ben Quilty, 'The Virus', 2020, oil on linen, 180.0 x 202.0 cm, framed #art #contemporaryart #janmurphygallery #benquilty Ben Quilty

06.01.2022 "The common thread in all of my work", she has said "is just this really simple question: what is this? What does it mean? The art flows out of my Zen practice. In Buddishm, eternity isn't in some other place- it is right here." Lindy Lee, The Age Represented by Sutton Gallery Lindy Lee's major survey exhibition 'Moon in a Dew Drop' is now open at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. View more information here: http://ow.ly/etLT50BEVOX... Image: Lindy Lee with her work ‘Birth and Death’, 2003. Photo: Rob Scott-Mitchell. #art #contemporaryart #lindylee #suttongallery #mca

06.01.2022 Vale Kate Daw (1965-2020), an enormous contributor to contemporary art, teaching, mentoring and artistic collaboration in Australia. Head of Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne - VCA & Conservatorium and represented by Sarah Scout Presents, Daw's practice explored issues of authorship, narrative and creative process, and continually moved between the spheres of domesticity and the workplace, the everyday and the imagined. Her work engaged personal memory, nostalgic recollection... and female experience, spanning these subjective and emotional registers through a range of media including painting, sculpture and text. Our deepest condolences are extended to Kate's Family, Sarah Scout Presents Gallery, and VCA at the University of Melbourne. Image: Kate Daw, 'Voice (G. Greene, 1969)', 2009, typed ink on canvas, three parts (detail)

06.01.2022 Venice Biennale Australian Pavilion featuring artist Marco Fusinato, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, listed in top 10 highly anticipated by Artsy. Since his inclusion in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first Museum of Modern Art exhibition dedicated to sound art, Melbourne-based artist Marco Fusinato has become known for blurring the lines between music, noise, and art. La Biennale di Venezia #venicebiennale #alexieglasskantor #marcofusinato #photography #installation #video #music #performance Artspace Sydney Anna Schwartz Gallery

06.01.2022 #Exhibition Dean Cross: Monuments 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Until 1 October Monuments is a site-responsive work by artist Dean Cross an ongoing project since 2016, intended for exhibition every two years. Handfuls of white ochre consisting Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country where the artist was born and raised and gathered on their property with permission from local elder and custodian of the land Aunty Matilda House build a grid that spreads across the gallery fl...oors. A number of the monuments are interspersed with gold leaf. With each handful representing one year of colonisation in Australia, Cross Monuments to strength, survival and custodianship challenge colonial concepts of ceramics, memorialisation and memory. A Western statue is a depiction; my monuments are the real thing ~ Dean Cross View exhibition information here: http://ow.ly/hBl050AY7aD Image: Dean Cross, Monuments (2018 ongoing indefinitely, 2020 iteration), handfuls of Ngunnawal ochre & gold leaf, dimensions variable; image: Kai Wasikowski for 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian art; courtesy the artist #art #contemporaryart #4acentreforcontemporaryasianart #deancross

06.01.2022 #Exhibition Jahnne Pasco-White: 'Becoming-with (Reconfigured)' at Hugo Michell Gallery until 25 July Jahnne Pasco-Whites expanded painting practice considers the intersections between materiality and temporality. Her work is characterised by the labouring of delicate supports. Specifically, she is interested in the layers of authorship that are variously evidenced and concealed by the artists mark-making, as well as their continual processes of decay and renewal. View Exhib...ition here: http://ow.ly/YGZF50AxtDb Image: Jahnne Pasco-White, 'Becoming-with (Reconfigured)', 2020, (installation view)

06.01.2022 #Exhibition Luke Shadbolt: Spirling at Michael Reid Sydney Until 18 August "The ocean has always been a constant in my life, for as long as I can remember now. There have been subtle changes in how Ive interacted with it over the years, but the framework has mostly been the same. Its a place of mental and physical escape, release, reset. Daily rituals, camaraderie, wonder." ~ Luke Shadbolt View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/rUgk50AMWRx... Image: Luke Shadbolt, Spirling 1, 2020, 100 x 150 cm #art #contemporaryart #michaelreidsydney #michaelreid #lukeshadbolt

06.01.2022 Vincent Namatjira has won the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture with his painting of footballer Adam Goodes, 'Stand strong for who you are'. Namatjira’s win marks a milestone in the Archibald. As the artist said via video link, I am proud to be the first Indigenous winner of the Archibald Prize. It only took 99 years. In addition, Hubert Pareroultja was awarded the Wynne Prize for his landscape painting, 'Tjoritja', and Marikit Santiago was awarded the Sulman Prize for h...er painting 'The divine'. Read more via Art Guide Australia https://artguide.com.au/vincent-namatjira-wins-archibald-pr Images: Archibald Winner: Vincent Namatjira, 'Stand strong for who you are', 2020, acrylic on linen, 152cm x 198cm. Sulman Winner: Marikit Santiago, 'The divine', acrylic, oil, pen, pyrography and 18ct gold leaf on ply, 179.5 x 120.5 cm. Wynne Winner: Hubert Pareroultja, 'Tjoritja (West MacDonnell Ranges, NT)', acrylic on canvas, 183 x 244 cm.

05.01.2022 Biennale of Sydney has today announced the title of its 2022 exhibition 'rvus', curated by José Roca, along with the first 59 participants in the 23rd Biennale of Sydney. Situated along the waterways of the Gadigal and Burramattagal people, the Biennale of Sydney in 2022 will be articulated through a series of conceptual wetlands and imagined ecosystems populated by artworks, public programs, experiments, research and activisms, following the currents of meandering tributari...es that expand into a delta of interrelated ideas. Those invited to take part in the Biennale will be known as ‘participants’ rather than ‘artists’, reflecting their diverse talents, skills, practices and modes of being that extend beyond the realm of the visual arts. The participants announced today live across six continents and 33 countries such as Cameroon, Cuba, Venezuela, Slovenia, Taiwan, Tonga and the Netherlands. Read more and discover 2022 participants: https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/

05.01.2022 Join ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Arts Senior Curator Annika Kristensen in conversation with ACCA Open artists Archie Barry, Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, and Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich to discuss their new digital commissions that respond to the unusual times and cultural conditions in which they are produced. Archie Barrys project is oriented towards the affective realms of sound and music, away from ocular-centric presence; whilst Madeleine Flynn and ...Tim Humphrey explore the endless ambience and elasticity of time; and Amrita Hepi and Sam Lieblich deploy language, movement and neuroscience to consider the increasing prevalence of algorithmic subjectivity. From artificial intelligence to sound, animation, video and archives, this conversation will delve into the various possibilities of working in the digital realm. Thursday 17 September at 5:00pm AEST on Zoom. Register via the link: http://ow.ly/x00G50BluGC Image: Sam Lieblich and Amrita Hepi #art #contemporaryart #coversation #acca #samlieblich #amritahepi

05.01.2022 Buxton Contemporary presents 'Light Source Commission' : A series of six projects commissioned by @buxton_contemporary that have a digital presence or dimension. Online now 'Radical Acts' is a darkly humorous and critical short film made entirely from commercial stock footage purchased online. Kosloff uses this footage to build a fictional tale about a group of frustrated climate scientists who develop a mind altering pathogen in order to disrupt corporate productivity. The ...film explores contemporary concerns such as the climate crisis, fake news, corrupt politicians, corporate greed and non-violent civil disobedience. View here: http://ow.ly/Ero850BEVyP Image: Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts 2020 (detail), 4K video (stock footage), 7:29 duration, Voice actress: Jenny Seedsman, Singing: Violet CoCo from Extinction Rebellion, Sound design: Final Sound, Music: Secession Studios, the artist, Light Source commission, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 202 #art #videoart #contemporaryart #digitalart #laresakosloff Sutton Gallery

04.01.2022 #Exhibition Gerardo Tan: Decoy and Other Constructions The Drawing Room (Contemporary Art) Until 8 August View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/ikOb50ALNjs "Collaging to me involves shifting and gluing disparate fragments from high and low" culture from different histories and geographies into a cohesive picture. I compose the elements in a non-hierarchical manner and all-over pattern to give equal importance to all the elements. Unlike creating a picture from imaginati...on, my process has more to do with combining pre-existing images and constructing them into layered wholes." ~ Gerardo Tan Images: Gerardo Tan, Decoy and Other Constructions (installation view), 2020 #art #contemporaryart #tdrgmanila #thedrawingroomcontemporaryart #gerardotan

04.01.2022 Gertrude Contemporary Presents Odes to an Absent in their Missing Links that forms Gertrude Contemporarys evolving response to and reflection upon an upended world now experienced in isolation. Odes to the Absent forms as an expanding collection of reflections upon and tributes to artworks that we miss and long to be connected with physically and experientially at some point in a future still yet uncertain. Individually contributed by Gertrude Studio artists, exhibitin...g artists, staff and friends. Read more: http://ow.ly/lO3s50AZ8JZ Image: Improvements and Reproductions, West Space. Credit: Photography by Aaron Christopher Rees #art #contemporaryart #westspace

04.01.2022 #Exhibition Luke Shadbolt: 'Spéirling' at Michael Reid Sydney Until 18 August "The ocean has always been a constant in my life, for as long as I can remember now. There have been subtle changes in how Ive interacted with it over the years, but the framework has mostly been the same. Its a place of mental and physical escape, release, reset. Daily rituals, camaraderie, wonder." ~ Luke Shadbolt View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/rUgk50AMWRx... Image: Luke Shadbolt, 'Spéirling 1', 2020, 100 x 150 cm #art #contemporaryart #michaelreidsydney #michaelreid #lukeshadbolt

04.01.2022 #Exhibition Naomi Hobson: 'Payamu To Shine' Vivien Anderson Gallery Until 14 November 'Among the most important aspects of her work, is her understanding of the emotional response between the landscape and the canvas. Hobson uses colour and line to convey how she is feeling, and to provide audiences with a strong emotional response to her work.' - Shonae Hobson, inaugural First Nations Curator at Bendigo Art Gallery. View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/x40Y50CaQ7C... Image: Naomi Hobson, 'June Sky', 2020, synthetic polymer paint on canvas 210.0 x 210.0 cm #art #contemporaryart #naomihobson #vivienandersongallery

04.01.2022 #Exhibition Joshua Yeldham: 'Providence' Arthouse Gallery Until 21 November 'Providence, one meaning of the word is good fortune. Another is nature’s ability to yield an abundance of spiritual solace. In Joshua Yeldham’s garden there is a tree. It’s hanging roots and trunk are like a carved curtain. It’s fronds loop and dance into the light. The tree looks archaic and yet it is only sixteen winters old. Steeped in shadow, the tree provides. Some might see this wild planting... as an arbour for nests. Others will wish for enough wood to build an Ark. But for this artist the tree is being harvested both within and without. It is planted in the soil outside his window and upon the thirsty paper quenched by ink. It bends sideways and enters his house, uprooting symmetry, curling around mountains and probing the mangrove mud. Incarnated on canvas the tree is swollen, a growing blessing. It is also intricate and unpredictable. Insects tattoo its branches and claws scratch its skin. The oblique geometry of the tree curves like a river. Its’ nocturnal life is secret. Like the paintings that whisper to one another in the artist’s studio at night; the tree does not sleep.' Anna Johnson, 2020 View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/6ADG50Cia7s Image: Joshua Yeldham, 'Providence' (exhibition view), 2020 #art #contemporaryart #arthousegallery #joshuayeldham

03.01.2022 Two of Sydneys inner-city contemporary art galleries, Nanda\Hobbs and Galerie pompom, have announced a collaborative initiative, 'Chippendale Contemporary', to celebrate and promote contemporary art. Reinvigorating the cultural sector, Chippendale Contemporary is a vibrant four-day art event planned for the Chippendale precinct opening tomorrow, Thursday 10th September to Sunday 13th September 2020. Both galleries will hosting a series of events and exhibition showcases, in...viting visitors to view new art collections and talk with high-profile art figures. Discover Chippendale Contemporary and book now: https://www.chippendalecontemporary.com/home #contemporaryart #art #chippendalecontemporary

03.01.2022 Gertrude Contemporary Presents 'Odes to an Absent' in their 'Missing Links' that forms Gertrude Contemporary's evolving response to and reflection upon an upended world now experienced in isolation. 'Odes to the Absent' forms as an expanding collection of reflections upon and tributes to artworks that we miss and long to be connected with physically and experientially at some point in a future still yet uncertain. Individually contributed by Gertrude Studio artists, exhibitin...g artists, staff and friends. Read more: http://ow.ly/lO3s50AZ8JZ Image: 'Improvements and Reproductions', West Space. Credit: Photography by Aaron Christopher Rees #art #contemporaryart #westspace

03.01.2022 Join STATION as they host an online artist talk with Jacobus Capone tonight, to accompany his current exhibition '7 Cuts to the Landscape' at STATION Sydney. Jacobus will be in conversation with Annika Kristensen, Senior Curator of Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, speaking about this project and its relation to his broader practice. Wednesday 18 November, 5.00pm AEST via Zoom. ... RSVP via [email protected] Zoom link will be emailed 30 mins prior to the event. Image: Jacob Capone, '7 Cuts to the Landscape' (video still), 2020 #art #contemporaryart #stationgallery #jacobcapone

03.01.2022 #Exhibition Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri, Janice Murray and Chris Black: 'Jurrukukini, Maymampi, Jarranga, Muputi, Yirikapaye (Owl, Magpie Goose, Buffalo, Fish, Crocodile)' at MARS Gallery Until 16 November This exhibition brings together the work of three artists Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri, Janice Murray and Chris Black from Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association on Melville Island. 'Jurrukukini, Maymampi, Jarranga, Muputi, Yirikapaye' features contemporary Tiwi works celebr...ating jilamara (body paint design) and ancestral animal totems that inform Tiwi cultural and familial identities. In Tiwi creation stories parlingarri (olden times) often refers to an era before mortality came to Tiwi people when distinctions between humans, animals and the landscape were more fluid. Individuals in these narratives sculpt the landscape with their bodies and sometimes take on animal form. Ningani (today) there remains a strong practice of acknowledging people’s totems; animal groups such as Jilarti (Brolga), Jurrukuni (Owl), Yirikapaye (crocodile) and Jarranga (buffalo) that are given to children based on complex family and tribe (skin group) relations. View exhibition here: http://ow.ly/qDLY50C4yfZ Image: Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri, 'Tjurukukuni (Owl)', 2020, Natural ochres on ironwood, 44 cm #art #contemporaryart #marsgallery #PatrickFreddyPuruntatameri

02.01.2022 The first Indigenous winner in the Archibald Prize's 99-year history has been announced. Wongutha-Yamatji man Meyne Wyatt has been awarded the 2020 Archibald Packing Room Prize for his self-portrait. He tells SBS News he hopes the historic win will open the door for other Indigenous artists. The Packing Room Prize a cash prize of $1,500 is awarded to the best entry in the Archibald Prize as judged by the Art Gallery of New South Wales staff who receive, unpack and hang ...the entries. View more information here: http://ow.ly/yyX250BvjUI Image: Meyne Wyatt with his self-portrait Meyne. Source: SBS News #art #indigenousart #packingroomprize #galleryofnewsouthwales #archibaldprize #wongutha-yamatji #meynewyatt

02.01.2022 #Exhibition Fred Williams: 'Guthega' at OLSEN Gallery Until 10 October Fred Williams was an admirer of the 19th-century artist Eugene von Guerard and in particular, the monumentality of his painting of Mt Kosciusko. The motif for this exhibition is a gully (ravine) at the junction of the Perisher and Snowy Rivers in Kosciusko National Par. On two occasions Williams painted gouaches there, two are included in the exhibition, two others from the group are in the collections o...f the NGA. The format of the six studio oils from 1976 are based on various of the gouaches. Rather than the local colour of the gouaches he has used the palette he had been exploring. These relate closely to the large Guthega oil in the collection of TarraWarra Museum of Art he had begun in August of the previous year. After further work on it in February, he decided to paint this group as a suite. View exhibition here: https://www.olsengallery.com/ex-works.php?exhibition_id=741 Image: Fred Williams, Guthega Landscape', 1975, oil on canvas, 153 x 122cm, #26972 #art #contemporaryart #olsengallery #fredwilliams

01.01.2022 A profound loss. A tribute to John Nixon by Linda Morris at The Sydney Morning Herald. Vale John

01.01.2022 Yirramboi, Melbourne's premier First Nations arts festival, has officially launched with more than 150 free and low-cost events across the city, including music, dance, theatre, film, exhibitions, markets, family-friendly events, talks and more. In the shared local languages of the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung peoples, Yirramboi means 'tomorrow'. The Festival presents a future-focused celebration of the sophistication, diversity and continuous evolution of the longest living c...ulture in the world. For the opening weekend a city-wide 'Blak-out' will takeover Melbourne, with more than 40 pop-up acts spanning art, music, dance and theatre across iconic public spaces and laneways on Saturday 8th May. The 2021 YIRRAMBOI Festival marks the second program from Creative Director Caroline Martin, a proud Boonwurrung and Wemba Wemba woman. Discover the full Yirramboi program: https://yirramboi.com.au/

01.01.2022 Station Gallery in partnership with oOh!media presents The 'propaganda paintings' series; sharing artworks by STATION gallery artists in bus shelters and train station posters across Melbourne. "The 'propaganda paintings' series were made during the first wave of COVID-19. With a bombardment of news smashing into our minds, second by second I was left feeling confused. One day I felt hope, and the next was fear. These works are innately personal and painting them enabled me... to externalise a range of internal dialogues in a therapeutic manner as I navigated what our world was and is still going through. " David Griggs Image: David Griggs, 'Propaganda paintings (number seven)' 2020. Photography: Kate Collingwood Photography #stationgallery #oohmedia #davidgriggs #art #contemporaryart

01.01.2022 Colombian curator Jose Roca has been appointed Artistic Director of the 2022 Biennale of Sydney, and promises it will be a 'biennale of our times'. "This biennale will deal with issues like sustainability, rights of nature, the knowledge of Indigenous people that inhabit different territories, waterways as means of subsistence but also the enablers of colonial enterprise And it won't be limited to art. We will actually be speaking about participants and not artists. There may be projects that come from design, material culture, activism and so on." - Jose Roca Read more: http://ow.ly/OnS650Blpsc

01.01.2022 Natalie King, enterprise professor at the Victorian College of the Arts, has chosen a favourite local artwork for The Age's occasional series. "I chose Garden Islands because its Kathy Temins first public artwork and I was intrigued by how someone who works with soft sculpture would render something for outdoors in the public domain, with the requirements of being sturdy, hardy and permanent." Natalie King Read more: http://ow.ly/kvQH50BhChE... Image: Kathy Temins, 'Gardens Islands', 2010. Photography by Fred Koh Fine Arts and Music at Melbourne - VCA & Conservatorium The Age

01.01.2022 #Exhibition Kevin Chin: 'Social Distance' until 1 Aug This is No Fantasy + dianne tanzer gallery When Kevin Chin started this series, he was thinking about how our purportedly globally interconnected world can at times be isolating, and how we find solace in our increasingly urban life. As the series developed, the introduction of social distancing brought new significance. Kevins signature mastery of colour conveys the cheerfulness in making the best of testing circumstanc...es. He finds a sublime stillness, to capture the complex mood of this time. Amidst the tightening of national borders, Kevin mixes cultural references from Australia, Asia and America to show how great distances can be overcome by imagination. His surprising compositions combine urban and natural landscapes, to reflect the growing awareness of how our environmental impact comes back to us in turn. The quiet optimism of these paintings is disarming. They mark this unique time in world events, a heartening reminder that distance is merely a state of mind. View the exhibition: http://ow.ly/3mo250Azy8V Images: Kevin Chin, 'Social Distance' Exhibition, 2020, (installation view) #contemporary art #KevinChin #Thisisnofantasy #Diannetanzergallery

01.01.2022 #Exhibition Angus Jones: 'From a Cold World' William Mora Galleries Until 14 August, by appointment and online "I believe we are in very challenging times, and artists have the opportunity to respond to these times through their work. For example, Radiated Angel was created during North Koreas missile tests and represents an angel that got caught in the blast. It was only in retrospect that I could see the connection, it didnt come from a conscious idea at the time. The p...ieces before you, do not in any way come from a pre-conceived idea no studies or sketches are undertaken beforehand. They emerge by themselves. I think they are witnesses of the world we live in (using abstraction and symbolism in human form). Giving voice to those who dont have one." ~ Angus Jones View exhibition: http://ow.ly/Lrpt50AR1Pa Image: Angus Jones, 'The King in Yellow', 2020, mixed media on paper, 126 x 63 cm #art #contemporaryart #angusjones #williammoragalleries

01.01.2022 #Exhibition Jon Campbell: 'Gone to see a man about a dog' Sutton Gallery online Viewing Room, 17 July - 20 August Sutton Gallery Online is pleased to present 'Gone to see a man about a dog', a new body of work by Jon Campbell featuring individual paintings, alongside a series of works made in collaboration with Stephen Bush. This exhibition forms part of an artist swap held in conjunction with Darren Knight Gallery, who will host an exhibition by Bush later this year. While ...access to the gallery is temporarily suspended, Sutton Gallery has launched an online Viewing Room to showcase the exhibition, including a short video walk-through. The online presentation also features a new essay by curator Lisa Sullivan, originally conceived as a print publication to accompany the artist swap. In 'Gone Dead', Sullivan charts the formation of Campbell and Bushs friendship alongside the concurrent Melbourne independent music scene. The text reveals how each artists shared connection to music cemented their friendship, moulded their careers, and eventually led to their creative collaboration. Discover the Viewing Room: https://suttongallery.com.au//gone-to-see-a-man-about-a-d/ Image: John Campbell, 'Its a world full of lying bastards', 2020, Enamel on plywood., 246 x 432cm

01.01.2022 The Melbourne Art Foundation Commission in partnership with HOTA Home of the Arts, and supported by Artwork Transport, has been unveiled ahead of HOTA gallery's opening next month. Created by Sri-Lankan born, Warrang/Sydney based artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, the monumental, six-metre high sculpture will welcome visitors at the entry to the new gallery space. Nithiyendran is known for his rough-edged, vibrant, new-age idols, experimenting with form and scale in the contex...t of figurative sculpture to explore politics of sex, the monument, gender and religion. Melbourne Art Fair spoke with Nithiyendran about the inspiration and process in developing this site specific work - watch the full video interview. https://vimeo.com/538540702 Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is represented by Sullivan + Strumpf