‘a do ocean’ featuring Gian Manik, George Egerton-Warburton, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch
‘a do ocean’ curated Christopher L G Hill at Kings Artist-Run, featuring Sutton artists: Gian Manik, George Egerton-Warburton, Raafat Ishak and Nick Selenitsch
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Also with Cameron Allan McKean, Ricarda Bigolin, Hugo Blomley, Nicola Blumenthal, Holly Childs, Stacey Collee, Renee Cosgrave, Gabriella D’Costa, Debris Facility, Endless Lonely Planet 11, Sam George, Luke Gerrard, Aurellia Guo, Chloe Hagger, Christopher L G Hill, Jesse Hogan, Lou Hubbard, Helen Hughes, Eleanor Laver, Alice McIntosh, Sean McMorrow, Kate Meakin, Virginia Overell, Ashley Perry, Lisa Radford, Yuval Rosinger, Amy May Stuart, Savanna Szelski, Christopher Theofanous, Yundi Wang, and more.
Nicholas Mangan has been commissioned to produce a new large-scale installation to be premiered at the NGV in the exhibition Melbourne Now. With the working title Core-Coralations, Mangan’s project incorporates both film and sculpture. It examines the material evidence of climate change’s effects on this vast organism, The Great Barrier Reef, and how this correlates with human activity in a warming world.
Core-Coralations is supported by the Blue Assembly program at the University of Queensland Art Museum; Ian Potter Moving Image Commission; Copyright Agency; and Australia Council.
Congratulations Nicholas on this significant achievement.
Walkthrough ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’
Jane Trengrove along with Katie Ryan has curated ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’. Includig artists: Dion Beasley, Jane Trengove, Lara Chamas, Ruark Lewis, Sam Petersen, Sophie Cassar.
Lindy Lee brings her installation ‘The Spheres’ aboard Brisbane’s Art Boat for a truly immersive, celestial art, light and sound experience during the Brisbane Festival, 2 – 24 September, 2022.
Jane Trengrove along with Katie Ryan has curated ‘Other Body Knowledge: Contending with the mythic norm’. Includig artists: Dion Beasley, Jane Trengove, Lara Chamas, Ruark Lewis, Sam Petersen, Sophie Cassar.
15 September – 8 October 2022 69 Capel Street, West Melbourne
Catherine Bell in the Deakin Small Sculpture Award
Congratulations to Catherine Bell on her inclusion in this years Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award with her work ‘Bouquet #1 (Lily) & Bouquet #2 (Pansy)’
The exhibition of the finalists’ work will be on display at Deakin University Art Gallery from Thursday 8 September 2022–Friday 21 October 2022.
Ann Debono presents a solo exhibition Sieve See at Gertrude Glasshouse. 5 August – 3 September, 2022, Gertrude Glasshouse, 44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood.
Sara Hughes has created an immersive new artwork for the Willow St bus shelter in Tauranga, New Zealand. Comprising 96 individual panels of glass together creating a total of 260sq m, the artwork is suspended above the former Willow St bus shelter and wraps around the wall and front of Tauranga Art Gallery to Wharf St creating a beautiful corridor of coloured light for central city-dwellers. It is the largest integrated public artwork in New Zealand.
Monash University Museum of Art presents Judy Watson &Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends, the work of two leading Australian artists which explores complex and varied perspectives on colonisation, with an emphasis on the experience of women.
Dates: 10 September – 12 November 2022
Curators: Jaklyn Babington, formerly Senior Curator, Contemporary Art; Tina Baum, Gulumirrgin (Larrakia)/Wardaman/Karajarri peoples, Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art; and Elspeth Pitt, Senior Curator, Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia with Hannah Mathews, Senior Curator, MUMA.
‘Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface’ now open at the MCA
A partnership between the MCA and Monash University Museum of Art, ‘Vivienne Binns: On and through the Surface’ brings together over 100 artworks spanning six decades alongside a rich selection of archival materials. Curated by Anneke Jaspers, Senior Curator, Collection, MCA and Hannah Mathews, Senior Curator, MUMA.
Raafat Ishak and Sean Loughrey present ‘Box Hill’. A collaborative project where Abstraction is held accountable to representational devices, namely photographic representation in a dialogue with a black box.
Anne Ferran is currently included in Return to nature, Monash Gallery of Art, 8 July -18 September 2022, and Robert Wilson: Moving portraits, Art Gallery of South Australia, 9 Jul – 3 Oct 2022.
Nicholas Mangan’s ‘Termite Economies: Phase 2 #1’, 2019, is on view in Buxton Contemporary’s current exhibition ‘Still Life’, 03 June – 06 November 2022. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Curated by Jacqueline Doughty.
Congratulations to Ann Debono as a finalist in this years Geelong Contemporary Art Prize.
The exhibition runs from 25 June—11 September 2022 with the official opening and announcement of the winner on 15 July.
The Prize is judged by Lisa Sullivan, Senior Curator, Geelong Gallery; Kyla McFarlane, Senior Academic Programs Curator, Museums & Collections, The University of Melbourne; and Lisa Byrne, Director McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery.
Vivienne Binns is included in 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘌𝘙: 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘎𝘝 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 𝘘𝘜𝘌𝘌𝘙 shines a light on the NGV Collection to examine and reveal the queer stories works of art can tell. This exhibition of works from the NGV Collection spans historical eras and diverse media including painting, drawing, photography, decorative arts, fashion, video, sculpture, and design and explores queerness as an expression of sexuality and gender, a political movement, a sensibility, and as an attitude that defies fixed definition. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ On at the National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Road, 10 March 22 – 21 August, 2022.
Nicholas Mangan finalist in the 2022 MPRG National Works on Paper
Mangan’s ‘Termite Economies (Trophallaxis V/ White-anting III)’ will be on view in the 2022 exhibition held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 13 August to 27 November 2022.
Congratulations to artists Brett Colquhoun, Ann Debono and Helga Groves as finalists in this years Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize.
Established in 2015, the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting in Australia today. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Exhibition 6 May – 26 June 2022.
Gian Manik’s is included in ACCA’s ‘Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions’, the third edition of a multi-year partnership that supports the commissioning of ambitious new projects by contemporary emerging to mid-career artists.
Exhibition dates: 2 July – 4 September 2022. Curated by Max Delany and Annika Kristensen.
Arlo Mountford at the Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo NSW
‘THE FOLLY, THE TRIUMPH & THE LAMENT’ 4th – 26th June 2022 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ From 2009-2011, Mountford produced animations based on paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c1525-1569) and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), in which he meticulously reproduced the original works with the addition of sound and movement. These works reinvigorate these iconic paintings, becoming new works that explore the act of making, the history of western art and its relationship to contemporary art practice, and how we engage with the past, narrative and myth. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ‘The Folly’ 2009, ‘The Triumph’ 2010, and ‘The Lament’ 2011, are presented together for the very first time. Curated by Kent Buchanan.