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23.01.2022 Emma, Caroline and Melanie recording the Signal Creative podcast in Port Hedland last year. Signal Creative: "Every Friday we launch new episodes (season 2) of the Signal Creative podcast. This tells stories from women all over Australia. This week we have an episode called 'People of Dickson'. Having lived in and supported this local area for a long time, we knew shop and business owners that have been around for decades. We talked to four amazing women about their lives, ...work and the community ... This season's podcast has also featured pioneering make-up artist Petrina Milas. This amazing artist developed the make-up concept with our participants for ‘Neon Caves’, travelling to Wellington NSW and Canberra with Signal Creative for the shows. We dedicated an episode to an in-depth conversation with Yuin artist Natalie Bateman, featuring poetry readings from the incredible Sassi Miribi-Nuyum recorded at Jigamy Farm. The Signal Creative podcast is available free through all podcasting apps. Read more about them in the Spring issue of @artmonthly #ournamesamongstothers guest-edited by @raquelormella ‘Thinking about you, and counting the beat’ by Abigail Moncrieff with support from @creatensw in Sydney. @nats_artwork@studiopetrinamilas@two_sisters_dickson @abois_montage See more
22.01.2022 CALL FOR ENTRIES now open for The 2021 Clarence Prize for Excellence in Furniture Design Clarence Arts & Events, until 14 February 2021: www.clarenceartsandevents.net/clarence-prize/ The winner will receive an acquisitive prize of $20,000 with two additional non-acquisitive prizes of $1,500 to be awarded to a work highly commended by the judges and to an emerging designer. Entries will be shortlisted based on the quality of aesthetic and craft, ingenuity in function, purpose..., material considerations and sustainability. The Clarence Prize is a biennial exhibition celebrating innovative and accessible furniture design. Held in the historic Rosny Barn, the Prize contributes to Tasmania’s reputation as a leading cultural hub, brimming with vibrant arts experiences. This year, Claire Beale (Design Tasmania) and Dr Scott Mayson (RMIT University) will judge the prize
22.01.2022 Applications for our Indigenous Voices Program are schedule to close this Friday, 30 October - don't miss out! Follow the link below for more information and guidance on how to apply:
20.01.2022 "The Coventry Collection was recently on show again at NERAM-New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale. The new iteration, ably curated by Belinda Hungerford, revealed the great strength of the collection that Chandler Coventry (19241999) gave to the people of the region where he was born. As a gallerist and philanthropist, Channy collected paintings he liked and supported the artists he believed in. Thus, it was an exciting exhibition that combined some of Australia’s best-known names and some now almost unknown, but they all sat comfortably together and jostled for attention ..." Follow the link below to continue reading Christopher Hodges' review of ‘COVENTRY’, recently on display at NERAM from 1 August until 18 October 2020:
20.01.2022 As Catriona Moore reminds us in her essay ‘Bananarama Republic’, 1980s Australia saw artists immersed in feminism and punk DIY adopt the club-land DJ practice of mixing preexisting tracks to chase down and re-route hegemonic systems of meaning. The main thing was to keep moving, to jam ‘the culture of the image’ with its phantasmagoric exchanges of signage. The essay accompanies the current exhibition ‘Re/production: Australian art from the 1980s and 1990s’ which is showi...ng in Sydney @sixteenalbermarle until 10 October 2020 (by appointment). The exhibition draws together postmodern and postcolonial works collected by art adviser, curator and now gallerist John Cruthers over this period of time, including Eliza Campbell and Judith Lodwick’s ‘The pioneer (after McCubbin)’ (1990) pictured here in detail and 10 works documenting Tim Johnson’s early engagements with Clifford Possum and the Papunya Tula artists of the Central Desert. See more
17.01.2022 "After six months of COVID-related closure, Adelaide’s ACE Open reopened its doors this September with one of its most ambitious exhibitions to date: ‘If the future is to be worth anything: 2020 South Australian Artist Survey’ (until 12 December). Curator-in-Residence Rayleen Forester and Artistic Director Patrice Sharkey couldn’t have anticipated the waves of crises that would define 2020 amid their early imaginings of such an exhibition. And yet, its premise is prescient ..." Follow the link below to continue reading Belinda Howden's review of 'If the future is to be worthy anything' on our blog:
14.01.2022 This new body of work is driven by my personal history, as a daughter of a man with five sisters, who longed for sons to carry on his name and who ended up with two daughters, writes FilipinoAustralian artist Marikit Santiago, the recent recipient of the Sulman Prize. Although my father’s yearning for a son was mostly in jest, I always aimed to fill that role, and pursued more masculine interests and attitudes. This exhibition considers this notion of longing; a desire to be something that you simply are not, and for inclusion where you don’t belong. Pictured is an install view of the artist’s recent collaboration with Nick Pedulla, ‘Legacy’ (2020), as part of her current exhibition ‘My Father’s Son’ @yavuzgallery in Sydney until 31 October. Courtesy @marikitsantiago
11.01.2022 Don't miss out on a chance to be involved in Strand Ephemera 2021, organised by Townsville City Galleries, the North’s leading outdoor sculpture festival gaining considerable media coverage and attracting local, national, and international visitors. Competitive works and curated sculptures will be on display along Townsville’s picturesque 2km beachfront, The Strand, from 17- 25 July 2021. Awards and subsidies include:... $10,000 Major Prize $1,000 People’s Choice Award $5,000 Artist fee for all successful entries DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL 5PM, FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER https://www.townsville.qld.gov.au//theatre/strand-ephemera
08.01.2022 "The Australian Design Centre’s touring exhibition ‘Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft / Prue Venables’ is the ninth in a series of major solo exhibitions celebrating the skill and innovation of significant Australian craftspeople. The exhibition presents a cohesive body of Venables’s recent work, showing both her technical accomplishments in the ceramic medium, and her commitment to pushing its boundaries into new territories ..." Follow the link below to read mor...e of current Australian National Capital Artists Inc Critic-in-Residence Saskia Scott's review of ‘Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft / Prue Venables’, previously on display at the Canberra Potters Society, Watson Arts Centre from 13 August until 11 October 2020, before continuing on to Bendigo Art Gallery (31 October 2020 7 February 2021) and seven more venues nationally. Saskia Scott is a 2020 Critic-in-Residence at ANCA, Canberra, in a special project partnership with Art Monthly Australasia supported by artsACT. See more
03.01.2022 Sitting plumb and proud on the magazine wall @mca_store_australia @mca_australia in Sydney.
01.01.2022 "Margaret Woodward (born 1938) has enjoyed a lifetime career as an artist, achieving both commercial and critical success. Her work has been awarded major prizes and is included in important public collections. But, as many of her female colleagues have found, the road to success is neither straightforward nor forgiving. She excelled as a student at the National Art School and worked with many of the big names in Sydney Douglas Dundas, Peter Laverty, Godfrey Miller and John... Passmore in the late 1950s, when women teachers were few and far between. Her early life was not easy, instilling a determination to succeed and an undaunted work ethic. She understood that art was a serious business and that to succeed, discipline and concentration on the task at hand were essentials ..." Follow the link below to continue reading Gavin Fry's review of 'Margaret Woodward: From the Studio’, which will reopen at Sydney’s Grace Cossington Smith Gallery from 14 November until 12 December 2020:
01.01.2022 "Cultural institutions dedicated to the preservation and presentation of significant collections have been irrevocably transformed by the social and economic impact of COVID-19. Yet the changes now taking place in such institutions across the world cannot be attributed solely to the pandemic. Many have been years, even decades in the making. The need to adapt to extraordinary circumstances has, however, uncovered hidden fault lines and revealed new solutions for old arguments... ... Even an institution as tied to tradition as New York’s Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) must adapt to survive in this rapidly evolving arts ecology. The ICAA has shown a readiness to embrace new avenues for communication and education with their online exhibition ‘Chromophilia’, an intervention into their historic plaster cast collection by Sydney artist and scholar Gary Carsley. Invited to respond, not to physical sculptures, but to the digital avatars of three casts gifted to the ICAA in 2004 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art The Discobolus, Sleeping Ariadne and Demeter Ludovisi, replicas of Roman statues based on earlier Greek models Carsley has created a suite of animations using image overlay techniques that mimic popular social media filters ..." Follow the link below to continue reading Publication Manager Dr Alex Burchmore's review of ‘Chromophilia’, which can be visited on the ICAA’s website through January 2021. Carsley’s concurrent exhibition ‘ARBOUR ARDOUR’ is also on display at Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery until 28 November 2020.
