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Recent News
Gian Manik in the Bayside Painting Prize
Congratulations to Gian Manik, whose painting Self belief, insanity, literature and human culture (2023) has been selected for the Bayside Painting Prize 2024.
A celebration of contemporary Australian painting, the Bayside Painting Prize brings together a broad range of artists whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting today. The finalist exhibition at the Bayside Gallery in Brighton, VIC, will showcase the selected painting from each shortlisted artist.
Bayside Painting Prize 2024 Bayside Gallery, Brighton, VIC 3 May – 23 June 2024
Arlo Mountford’s installation Revolutions is currently on show at the vitrine space Assembly Point in Southbank, Naarm/Melbourne, in the centre of the city’s Arts Precinct.
Situated firmly within a busy public thoroughfare, this installation comprises a series of mechanical thaumatropes mounted onto wooden trestles. A nineteenth century toy, the thaumatrope presents a paper disk that spins rapidly, creating an optical illusion through which a total image emerges. In Mountford’s work Revolutions, the phrases “It’s time.” and “Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!” arise through this accelerated motion, instating a familiar, verbalised text in this unfamiliarised public setting. In this regard, the phrases emerge through an absence of authorship; blurred directives in a busy section of the city which emanate out of a dark vitrine, the works circumvent further context, instead presenting as sinister affirmations that question the present, future and past.
Arlo Mountford Revolutions Assembly Point, Southbank, VIC 28 February – 31 March 2024
Metro Arts in Brisbane will present a solo exhibition of new works by Ann Debono that respond to the construction site of the Westgate Bypass Flyover, entitled Bypass Blue Abyss.
Composing the paintings from photographs taken of the site over the course of two years, this exhibition considers how Modernist values of velocity, progress, efficiency, and growth are materialised in the built environment.
On the theme behind the exhibition’s subject matter, Debono has explained her understanding of the Westgate Bridge construction project as “as a massive, spectacular sculpture: intensely synthetic and ahuman, animated by vehicles and machinery; trains, lorries, cars, loading cranes, construction machinery and container ships.”
Ann Debono Bypass Blue Abyss Metro Arts, Meanjin/Brisbane 4 May – 1 June 2024
Rosslynd Piggott in ‘A Space Between’ at Heide Museum of Modern Art
Rosslynd Piggott painting Divided Bridge (1997) is featured in the group exhibition Heide Modern: A Space Between currently on show at the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Heide Modern: A Space Between explores the concept of home as a site where conversations, recreation, labour, intimate relationships and closely held values and beliefs cohabitate. The exhibition centres around the profound consideration of how architecture fundamentally shapes lived experience. The original furniture from David McGlashan is displayed alongside a selection of artworks from the John and Sunday Reeds personal collection, together with the museum’s wider holdings which have continued to develop in the decades since Heide opened to the public in 1981. The show reflects on ideas of memory and domesticity, and the intersection of private and public life in the context of a former residence turned public art museum.
Heide Modern: A Space Between Heide Museum of Modern Art, Naarm/Melbourne 20 February – 14 July 2024