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Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2010
7 August 2010 - 5 September 2010
State Library of NSW, Galleries, Mitchell Wing

Kate Beynon has been selected as a finalist for the annual Doug Moran portraiture prize. The work, Self-portrait with Dragon Spirits, references the artist's ongoing interest of exploring cultural identity through cross cultural imagery.

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Australian Print Symposium
National Gallery of Australia
15 to 17 October

Jon Cattapan will be among the keynote speakers at this year's Australian Print Symposium.

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Stormy Weather
NGV Australia
24 September, 2010 - 20 March, 2011

The works in Stormy Weather highlight the engagement of contemporary Australian photographers with the landscape around them. "The quiet intensity of their work comes from their close and sustained relationship to particular environments. These photographers may use that lived observation to reveal the layers of history in a landscape; to provoke ecological concerns; as the place for site specific performances; or to use the specific poetics of light to reveal the beauty of a place. However for all of them, the real world is the starting point for images of particularity."

Anne Ferran will participate in a symposium to mark the opening of Stormy Weather at the NGV Australia on September 25, 10am - 1:30pm.

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Primavera 2010
MCA
19 August - 21 November 2010
Curated by Katie Dyer

Primavera is an annual exhibition for Australian artists 35 years of age and under held at Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Established in 1992 this exhibition has been a springboard for some of Australia's most known artists. Primavera 2010 is curated by Katie Dyer, Curator at the National Art School, Sydney.

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TWMA CONTEMPORARY 2010
TarraWarra Museum of Art
6 August to 24 November 2010

Sutton Gallery is pleased to announce David Rosetzky's participation in TWMA Contemporary 2010. This year's Biennial will create a fresh opportunity to explore Australian contemporary art practice and create a window for key arts figures to nominate significant new directions and acknowledge new ideas. The curatorial team is made up of Amy Barrett-Lennard, Ashley Crawford, Tony Ellwood, Bronwyn Johnson, Rachel Kent, Simeon Kronenberg, Jan Minchin and Gerard Vaughan.

Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010
6 August - 7 November 2010
Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne 

Sutton Gallery is pleased to announce David Jolly's participation in the Basil Sellers Art Prize 2010. This prestigious prize will be awarded to a single, outstanding artwork, displayed in an exhibition of shortlisted finalists at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne.

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Living Deadly: haunted surfaces in contemporary art
Monash Gallery of Art
22 July - 19 September 2010

"This exhibition has been specifically inspired by the way contemporary Indigenous artists from Arnhem Land talk about their use of finely painted cross-hatching or rarrk. The optical effects produced by these highly patterned surfaces are said to make the viewer feel the presence of the ancestors. Extending this notion across a range of contemporary art practices, Living deadly explores ways in which optical effects are used to make the viewer physically aware of things beyond their physical reality."

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Objects to Live By. The Art of John Meade
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
16 July - 29 August 2010

Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts
11 September - 24 October 2010

Orange Regional Gallery
11 March - 24 April 2011

Tamworth Art Gallery
14 May - 25 June 2011

a NETS Victoria touring exhibition
curated by Zara Stanhope

Sutton Gallery is pleased to announce that Objects to Live By. The Art of John Meade will be held at Latrobe Regional Gallery in late 2009, and tour Victoria and interstate in 2010. Curated by Zara Stanhope, the exhibition will aim to give an overview of the artist's career in detail.

"Meade's work emerges from a creative engagement with ideas and materials. Scale is a concerning feature and the sculptures presented in the exhibition will range from large to small. His willingness to experiment with materials will be conveyed in works from cast metal, polymer resin composites, concrete and fabric spanning from 1996 to present."

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THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
12 May - 1 August 2010
Opening week events: Tuesday, 11 May - Sunday, 16 May 2010

Aleks Danko and Rosslynd Piggott will have their work on view at the 17th Biennale of Sydney. The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most prestigious art exhibitions in the country, presenting works by important contemporary artists from over 82 nations. Aleks Danko will be showing his work at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, while Rosslynd Piggott will have an installation at Cockatoo Island.

David Elliott is the artistic director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney; having an extensive experience as a curator, writer and museum director, he has unveiled an exciting and dynamic program for this year's event. Having worked as the Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England from 1976-1996, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996-2001, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 2001-2006, and in 2007 the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey.

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We Call Them Pirates Out Here: MCA Collection selected by David Elliott
17 Feb - 29 Aug 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Stephen Bush and Aleks Danko are being featured in We Call Them Pirates Out Here at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. The exhibition is curated by David Elliott, Artistic Director of the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010.

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Archibald Prize 2010

Sutton Gallery is pleased to announce Kate Beynon's selection as a finalist for the Archibald Prize 2010, the most prestigious portraiture prize in Australia, with her recent work Self Portrait with Guardian Spirits. This painting incorporates Beynon's iconic style of blending traditional and contemporary imagery, combining influences from Chinese paintings, animation, film, textiles, fashion with comic-book-like graphics. Self Portrait with Guardian Spirits is a highly personal work which features motifs of protective charms and talismans that are believed to represent positive forces in both Chinese and Welsh cultures, from dragon and ‘fu dogs' to an heirloom jade pendant. Together these symbols represent the artist's own set of lucky talismans and amulets of protection.

Kate Beynon
Self Portrait with Guardian Spirits, 2009-2010
Acrylic on linen, 170 x 170cm

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Stick It! Collage in Australian Art
The Ian Potter Center: NGV Australia
19 March - 29 August 2010

Elizabeth Gower, Helen Johnson & Nick Mangan will exhibit as part of Stick It! Collage in Australia Art at The Ian Potter Center: NGV Australia. The exhibition will show collage works from the last seventy years of Australia art.