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23.01.2022 SUNDAY READING SESSIONS// 'She Persists: Perspectives on Women in Art & Design' ‘Can a woman who is an artist ever just be an artist? Can a woman however virtuosic and talented, however disciplined ever attain a fundamental freedom from the fact of her own womanhood?’ This question posed by award-winning novelist Rachel Cusk unfurls ‘She Persists’, a collection of perspectives on pivotal moments in and key considerations to the field of art and design by women, all drawn from the National Gallery of Victoria Collection.
21.01.2022 LOOKING AHEAD// "I feel like I’ve won the lotto. The internal dialogue has opened up and sketch books are scrawled in and no piece of scrap paper is safe from being painted or doodled on. I even painted the exterior of my Toyota van with oil paint and acrylics. It was white and now is a large abstract landscape. I parked it at the shops and a woman approached me and said, ‘Why did you paint your van?’ I could have snapped back a smart comment like I ran out of canvas, but I told the truth. "It was white and needed some colour." - Laurie Franklin, Artist For more responses from the arts community about 2020 www.art-almanac.com.au/reader-reflections-looking-ahead-2/
21.01.2022 CALL FOR ENTRIES // The $30,000 Dobell Drawing Prize explores the enduring importance of drawing within contemporary art practice and has always inspired the question, ‘What is a drawing?’ Justine Varga (pictured) considers photography as drawing with light and her 2019 Dobell Drawing Prize winning print is an example of a drawing practice that is at once physical and chemical, autobiographical and contingent, painterly and photographic. Are you the next Dobell Drawing Prize... winner? Find out how to submit your work on our website www.art-almanac.com.au/awards/ Image: Dobell Drawing Prize 2019 winner, Justine Varga with Photogenic Drawing 2018, chromogenic photograph, 151.5 x 120cm, 154.5 x 123 9cm (framed). Photograph: Peter Morgan
20.01.2022 LOOKING AHEAD// "The lockdown in Melbourne ultimately become a period of deep focus. Over time, I turned this attention away from the pulsating news media and towards my art practice to draw inspiration from the monotonous routine of quarantine. What resulted was a suite of moving image works born from innocuous clips of ordinary household spaces and sounds that reflect the zeitgeist of the pandemic. This process, most importantly, has been a reminder that there is plenty of ...juicy material at hand if you simply pause and allow it to find you. Moving forward, I’d like to see less paperwork and more sunlight." - Jen Valender, Artist Visit our website for more responses from the arts community about 2020 www.art-almanac.com.au/reader-reflections-looking-ahead-2/ Image: Jen Valender, Of Alkaline, Death Rattle, 2020, video still detail See more
20.01.2022 WHAT'S ON NEAR ME // Enjoy our curated selection of must-see exhibitions in Sydney, NSW, Melbourne, Victoria and ACT right now. www.art-almanac.com.au/whats-on-near-me-18112020/ Melbourne 'Darcey Bella Arnold: me say edit be at ReadingRoom until 12 December 2020 VIC 'Thirdspace' at Geelong Gallery until 31 January 2021... Sydney 'Lux Eterna: Our non-human psyche' at Stanley Street Gallery from 19 November ti 12 December 2020 NSW 'Just Not Australian' at Wollongong Art Gallery from 21 November to 7 February 2021 Image 4: Liam Benson, Red Flag, 2017, glass beads, seed beads, sequins, cotton, 30 x 59cm. Photograph: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy the artist and Artereal Gallery, Sydney ACT 'Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now' at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra until 4 July 2021 Stay tuned for our top picks for Queensland, NT, WA, SA and Tasmania! What's on in your area? SIGN UP to our weekly newsletter to find out www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ See more
19.01.2022 Enjoy our curated selection of must-see exhibitions in Queensland, NT, WA, SA and Tasmania right now. www.art-almanac.com.au/whats-on-near-me-03102020/ Queensland 'Mavis Ngallametta: Show Me The Way to Go Home' at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art NT 'Neridah Stockley: Hermannsburg and Paint' at Araluen Arts Centre... WA 'Drew Pettifer: A sorrowful act, the wreck of the Zeewijk' at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery SA 'Cynthia Schwertsik: Take Up Residence 2020' at FELTspace Image: Cynthia Schwertsik, Take Up Residence 2020. Photograph: Jennifer Hofmann Tasmania 'Graham Lang: In the Clear Night of Day' at Despard Gallery Stay tuned for our top picks for Sydney, NSW, Melbourne, VIC and ACT! What's on in your area? SIGN UP to our weekly newsletter to find out: www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ See more
18.01.2022 Abandoned and collected objects are combined with felt, beeswax, honey and lead offering themselves up as intimate poetry of love, longing and loss | 'Anita Larkin: Come to me without a word' at Wollongong Art Gallery until 11 October 2020. Full interview with the artist and Chloe Mandryk www.art-almanac.com.au/anita-larkin-come-to-me-without-a-w/ SIGN UP to our newsletter to receive similar exhibitions in your inbox www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
18.01.2022 SUNDAY READING SESSIONS // 'Mel O’Callaghan: Centre of the Centre' examines the artist’s studies into the application of breathing as well as human psychology and behaviours in relation to perseverance and endurance. Full review available on our website. SIGN UP to our newsletter for more art books, news and exhibitions www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
18.01.2022 A Moment of Weakness... is the title of this beautiful painting by Dylan Jones. Part of 'Together.Alone.', a series of works that continue Jones' preoccupation with the figure; using the human body as a vehicle to explore the collective and the individual response to times of adversity and offering a sense of hope and expectation for what is to come. Showing at Jan Manton Art until 4 October 2020 SIGN UP to our newsletter to receive similar exhibitions in your inbox www.a...rt-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ Image: @dylanjonesart, A Moment of Weakness, 2020, oil on board, 40 x 40cm See more
14.01.2022 LOOKING BACK // Leila Jeffreys' flock of budgerigars on our October 2019 cover. 'I’ve been drawn to birds for a long time now because many are such social beings with extremely complicated societies. Each of them is an individual character. I think that for humans this makes them quite relatable; we can see a bit of ourselves in them. There are parallels in how they live their lives and how human beings exist: social structures and the roles they play in relation to the environment.' Leila Jeffreys. Full interview www.art-almanac.com.au/leila-jeffreys-high-society/
14.01.2022 'If you must leave your home for supplies, please be courteous and wear an eccentric outfit... - @jennyenicholson' In this exhibition, Joanne Richardson celebrates an enjoyment of how eccentric outfits can be integrated into practices of everyday life, maintaining that now, more than ever, it seems important to find ways to take ownership of simple pleasures | Cool Change Contemporary from 3 to 24 October 2020 What's on in your area?... SIGN UP to our weekly newsletter to find out www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ See more
14.01.2022 'TIWI' celebrates the unique art and culture of the Tiwi people of Melville and Bathurst Islands and explores the dynamic trajectory of Tiwi art across time and media, from 1911 to now | National Gallery of Victoria until 8 March 2021
14.01.2022 At the heart of Deborah Williams' bold and sensitive work is her deep connection to, and respect for, the unique nature of the canine | 'Looking back' presents a selection of prints featuring key pieces from several eras and bodies of work; Australian Galleries online until 11 Oct 2020 SIGN UP to our newsletter to receive similar exhibitions in your inbox www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ Image: Deborah Williams, Almost human? Exactly dog, 2014, etching, engraving, aquatint and roulette intaglio, edition 20, 58 x 87cm
14.01.2022 ARTIST SPOTLIGHT // Meet Sherry Paddon, Fremantle Arts Centre artist in residence. Paddon creates works inspired by memory, the landscape, cultural heritage and overconsumption. Representing fragments of memories from family DIY home-decorating as well as 70s and 80s advertising, Paddon has been working on a series of photos that explore her heritage as a Filipino/Australian and her time spent working in Manila. SIGN UP to our newsletter for more artist highlights and exhibit...ions www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ Image: Sherry Paddon, More Than Words Can Say, 2020
13.01.2022 ONLINE VIEWING // An assortment of people, animals, vehicles, boats, furniture, crockery and cutlery, Ken Whisson’s paintings are a lively description of our inner and external worlds | Niagara Galleries until 24 October 2020 www.art-almanac.com.au/ken-whisson/ SIGN UP to our newsletter to get similar exhibitions sent directly to your inbox www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/... Image: Ken Whisson, (3) People, Places and Vehicles, completed 29/11/19, drawing in paint (oil on canvas), 75 x 100cm
12.01.2022 CALL FOR ENTRIES// Muswellbrook Art Prize. A suite of prizes are available for painting, works on paper and ceramics with a total cash pool of $71,000 to be won. Entries close 11:59pm (AEST) Sunday 31 January 2021 For more art prizes and artist opportunities, visit www.art-almanac.com.au/awards/... Image: Ceramics 2019 Winner - Zoe Tjanavaras, Parched Abundance, reclaimed stoneware, underglaze and silica glaze, high temperature kiln fired, 32 x 26 x 26cm See more
11.01.2022 ONLINE// 'A Family Album' Artists Donna Bailey, Julie Dowling, Hannah Gartside, Pia Johnson, Hoang Tran Nguyen and Selina Ou illustrate the myriad experiences that bring families together and pull them apart | Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, until 13 December 2020
11.01.2022 'Shireen Taweel: Switching Codes' questions the evolution of code-switching in a multilingual society, unpacking the ongoing Arab, French and English cultural practices in Lebanon, and its influence on the shared Lebanese cultural identity in Australia and Lebanon | Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, Sydney, until 13 February 2021
11.01.2022 CALL FOR ENTRIES// The $10,000 Footscray Art Prize is a biennial visual art prize for contemporary artworks across multiple platforms and disciplines. There are five categories with a total prize pool of $28,500. Entries close Monday 8 February 2021 www.art-almanac.com.au/artist-opportunities/... Image: 2019 Footscray Art Prize winner - Megan Evans, PARLOUR, 2018, digital photograph
10.01.2022 ACCA Open's projects are ‘united by a sense of possibility for both art and technology to spark curiosity and create connection in new and original ways,' Annika Kristensen, ACCA’s senior curator, tells Alice Dingle for Art Almanac. Full interview: www.art-almanac.com.au/acca-open/ ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art until 1 November 2020
09.01.2022 CONTINUING// 'David Noonan: Stagecraft' reopens at @artgalleryofballarat, showing until 31 January 2021 'Stagecraft' brings together silkscreen collages on fabric, tapestries and film which David Noonan has made between 2015 and 2020. Repurposing found photographic images from his extensive personal image archive, Noonan creates images which are ambiguous, often with a focus on a solitary haunting figure. www.art-almanac.com.au/david-noonan-stagecraft/
09.01.2022 ICYMI. Emily Parsons-Lord won ‘the churchie’ emerging art prize 2020 | Her 'gripping performances and interventions revel in the ability to invoke a feeling of wondrous possibility while gesturing toward an impending sense of loss.' judge Tarun Nagesh To have the latest art news delivered straight to your inbox every Wednesday arvo, SIGN UP to our newsletter www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
08.01.2022 ICYMI 'I am painting my country; this is Irrunytju or Wingellina in Western Australia. It's the story of Minyma Kutjara two women who are travelling to Docker River. This is the story my mother has given me' 2020 #NATSIAA People’s Choice Award winner Nyunmiti Burton
07.01.2022 LOOKING BACK// The '90s. Art Almanac goes from b/w to colour printing #artalmanac #lookingback #flashbackfriday #1990s #artmagazine #artpublication #artguide #australianart #australianartists #archive #fromthevault #arthistory #colour #blackandwhite
07.01.2022 Three artists and their expression of colour Kate Hopkinson-Pointer, Sally Stokes and Simon Palmer in 'Ode to Colour' at Project Gallery 90, Sydney, until 14 October 2020 SIGN UP to our newsletter to get similar exhibitions sent directly to your inbox www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/ Images L-R: Kate Hopkinson-Pointer, Pink blossoms with green, oil on board, 140 x 120cm; Simon Palmer, Shades of grey, acrylic on board, 140 x 120cm; and Sally Stokes, Sifting through a dream, oil on canvas, 61 x 61cm
07.01.2022 SUNDAY READING SESSIONS // The lack of commemoration of women in civic statues has raised concern; and in 2018, Sydney-based art collective Make or Break sought to reverse this imbalance. Their efforts are the result of this publication, ‘To all the Women of Kyneton’. SIGN UP to our newsletter and receive book reviews, exhibitions and art news directly to your inbox www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
06.01.2022 IN THE STUDIO // Euan Macleod on pairing humans and the landscape: "I try to keep it as open as possible, probably exploring that relationship and letting it happen. Almost like letting the human element find its place in the painting. It’s something that I love I want to explore and I want to keep it fresh, so in a way, the figure has to find out what they’re doing. Even if they’re doing nothing they’re doing something." excerpt from an interview for Living With Art, presented by @333artprojects. Find out more about Macleod's practice and his time spent in his studio during lockdown via the link below. SIGN UP to our newsletter to receive more Living With Art interviews www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
06.01.2022 (RE)OPENING SOON// 'Joy Hester: Remember Me' - 140+ significant works including seldom-seen impromptu studies that shed light on Hester’s unique style and creative process | Heide Museum of Modern Art from 28 November to 14 February 2021 www.art-almanac.com.au/joy-hester-remember-me/
04.01.2022 Enjoy our curated selection of must-see exhibitions in Sydney, NSW, Melbourne, Victoria and ACT right now. www.art-almanac.com.au/whats-on-near-me-30092020/ Sydney 'Khaled Sabsabi: A Promise' at Art Gallery of New South Wales NSW 'Kilgour Prize 2020' at Newcastle Art Gallery... Image: Lori Pensini, The Calling, 2020, oil on linen. Collection of the artist Melbourne 'Ken Whisson' at Niagara Galleries (Online) VIC 'Barry John: War toys' at The Old Auction House ACT 'Kim Shannon: A Stilled World' at Strathnairn Arts Stay tuned for our top picks for Queensland, NT, WA, SA and Tasmania! What's on in your area? SIGN UP to our weekly newsletter to find out: www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
04.01.2022 MARCH 2021 ISSUE OUT NOW! This issue explores identity, politics, and community. Gerwyn Davies, defies classification through photography and costume; George Gittoes visualises history and the terror of now in new paintings, and shared experiences are revealed as an important ingredient in collecting art. SUBSCRIBE TODAY!... subscribe.art-almanac.com.au Cover: Gerwyn Davies, Float, 2020, archival inkjet print. Courtesy the artist, Jan Murphy Gallery Protege, Brisbane, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney and UNSW Galleries, Sydney
04.01.2022 At the bottom of the garden, Nicola Gower-Wallis discovers 'that every patch of grass is holding a secret, hidden world of its own, if only you look closely enough' | 'Nicola Gower-Wallis: At the bottom of the garden' at Bett Gallery Hobart until 17 October 2020. Image: Nicola Gower-Wallis, The Collection, 2020, gouache on paper, 61 x 78cm (image size), 81 x 97cm (framed size)
04.01.2022 ‘Australian Love Stories’ brings a unique and timely digital experience for visitors to explore the universal theme of love. Delve into an enticing array of tales of the heart, featuring famous figures from Australia’s National Portrait Gallery | Online now and launching in the gallery from March 2021
02.01.2022 Congratulations to Yasmin Smith and Kalanjay Dhir; recipients of the 2020 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarships for the $30,000 mid-career/established artist and $10,000 emerging artist, respectively | Finalists' exhibition on show at Sydney College of the Arts until 13 November 2020.
01.01.2022 Get tangled in the dualities of fibre art, from associations with gender and domesticity to arguments of its legitimacy as an art form, and its politicisation as an agent for change | ‘By a thread’ is on at May Space until 17 October 2020. SIGN UP to our newsletter to receive similar exhibitions in your inbox: www.art-almanac.com.au/newsletter-signup/
01.01.2022 CALL FOR ENTRIES Hindsight is 20/20, so we're asking artists and people working in the arts how this year has fractured or evolved your approach to creative life? What would you like to see change for the better in the arts? Visit www.art-almanac.com.au/looking-ahead/ for your chance to be FEATURED IN PRINT for Art Almanac's last issue of the year.... Entries close 5pm, Wednesday 7 October 2020.
01.01.2022 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2021 ISSUE OUT NOW! In this issue, explore the fragility and resilience of ecosystems in Laura Jones’ ‘The Garden’; learn about Arthur Streeton’s ‘great sensitivity to our natural world’, and look to the past to appreciate the present in select exhibitions across the country. Cover image: Laura Jones, Boronia, 2020, oil on linen, 137 x 112cm
