Laresa Kosloff in conversation at Buxton Contemporary

Laresa Kosloff will be in conversation with curator and writer Tristen Harwood and fellow artists Hayley Millar Baker and Tina Stefanou at Buxton Contemporary. Held on the occasion of the exhibition The Same Crowd Never Gathers Twice (on view until 13 October 2024) in which five of Kosloff’s early Super-8 films are included, the symposium ‘View from a Body’ will explore conceptions of the filmic gaze that reflect upon the personal and collective, cultural, political and constructed landscapes inhabited and experienced through engagements with haptic visuality.

VIEW FROM A BODY: Symposium on Moving Image Culture and Embodied Affect
Thursday 8th August 2024
12.15pm – 5.30pm

Admission is free; RSVP required.

Kate Beynon in TudoFAM projections at Collingwood Yards

Animated paintings and illustrations by Kate Beynon’s family collective TudoFAM form a collaborative presentation Shapeshifting at Collingwood Yards this month.

The display merges the two disciplines of painting and animation in a dreamscape of kaleidoscopic visions. Exploring storytelling, kindred spirits, shapeshifting & hybrid identities through guardian figures and talismanic imagery, the work hopes to evoke an otherworldly space to counteract earthly anxieties & troubled times, brought together and enlivened on the occasion of the Bla(c)k Together Month festival in Naarm/Melbourne.

On show nightly at Collingwood Yards through the month of July, the presentation culminates at the BTMfest Block Party on 28 July at the Yards.

Brett Colquhoun at the Mornington Regional Peninsula Gallery

Brett Colquhoun’s work The Mirror (2010) is currently on show in the collection group exhibition Both Body and Not held at the Mornington Regional Peninsula Gallery (MPRG).

Showcasing works from the museum’s collection, the exhibition aims to think beyond the self through artworks that situate themselves as markers of the communities and universe we inhabit. Thinking about a shared philosophical venture of humanity and art, the show takes it’s departure point from the Austrian architect, philosopher and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s theory of the five ‘skins’: bodily skin, clothing, community, ecologies and universe. These layers provide a useful reference point for how an individual connects to the various layers of their environment, as the show highlights works in the collection that reference ideas of body, community and universe as ‘layers of being’.

Both Body and Not
Mornington Regional Peninsula Gallery
22 June – 18 August 2024

Peter Robinson and Sara Hughes at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand

Peter Robinson’s sculpture Universe (2001) and and Sara Hughes painting RAM (2004) are included in the forthcoming landmark exhibition Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection. Organised by the City Gallery Wellington | Te Whare Toi, the exhibition will be presented at Te Papa as a part of the Chartwell 50th Anniversary special programming.

Described as a “big noisy group show featuring contemporary art made by Gen X artists”, the exhibition draws from one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant contemporary art collections, the Chartwell Collection, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Featuring a diverse range of national and international artworks, made during the 90s and early 2000s, the exhibition spans painting, sculpture, installation, sound and video. The artists included address concerns ranging from globalisation, capitalism and the culture wars to identity politics, third-wave feminism, and the commodification of art schools.

Generation X: 50 Artworks from the Chartwell Collection
Te Papa Tongarewa | Museum of New Zealand
27 July – 20 October 2024

Nick Selenitsch Pool Noodle

Rosslynd Piggott and Rudi Williams Mirror, mirror

Marlee McMahon Shadow Crossed The Sky

Matt Hinkley