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30/08/2024

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30/08/2024

SAVE THE DATE! Desert Mob 2024 returns to Mparntwe/Alice Springs
5 September to 20 October.

Celebrate desert culture with hundreds of artists from 35 Art Centres across central Australia. Desert Mob 2024 officially opens on Thursday 5 September, from 5pm, kicking off a weekend of exhibitions, symposium, marketplace, workshops, music performances, satellite events and more throughout Mparntwe.

Full program to be announced soon. Follow for details.

This year is proud to announce 35 participating Art Centres coming together in Mparntwe, on Arrernte Country, for Desert Mob 2024:
artists – Ali Curung NT
– Ampilatwatja NT
Artists of the Barkly –Tennant Creek NT mwerre.anthurre.artists – Mparntwe NT
Engawala Art Centre – Engawala NT
– Pukutja/Ernabella SA
– Ntaria/Hermannsburg NT
– Ikuntji/Haasts Bluff NT
Iltja Ntjarra – Mparntwe NT
– Iwantja/Indulkana SA
of Yuelamu – Yuelamu NT
– Kaltjiti/Fregon SA
arts – Ltyentye Apurte/Santa Teresa NT
Ltyentye Apurte - NT
– Parnpajinya/Newman WA
– Mutitjulu & Uluru NT
– Mimili SA
project – Irrunytju/Wingellina WA
– Kalka SA nyunyu Art & Culture Centre - Tennant Creek NT
– Papulankutja/Blackstone WA
Papunya – Papunya NT
– based in Mparntwe NT
project– Tjuntjuntjara WA
– Mparntwe NT
& craft - Titjikala NT
– Amata SA
– based in Mparntwe NT
& Kaltukatjara Art - Kaltukatjara & Tjukurla, WA
– Nyapari SA
– Arlparra NT
art – Mutitjulu & Uluru NT
– Warakurna/Giles WA
– Yuendumu NT
artists – Mparntwe NT

29/08/2024

NOW SHOWING
Guy Warren AM OAM 1921 – 2024
20 August - 14 September, 2024
King Street Gallery on William

“I think Guy’s legacy as an artist will take longer to become apparent. His was such a big life that it is hard right now to see it with any clarity.

Guy’s practice over the decades has been marked by its insistence of returning to the landscape. It was a never ending subject that he constantly renewed and the motif of water and the river, its constant pulsing surges, move continuously through his work.

I have a feeling Guy’s work is about immersion rather than accuracy, a general mood rather than anything specific. It is only through this kind of immersion that a tree-fern can transform into a figure and a patch of bush can be turned into a quick whiplash shorthand of marks generated from the wrist and eye. When you carry that landscape in your head it merges with all the other images you carry too and what emerges, if you let it, is something biographical and unique.”

– Glenn Barkley, 2024 [Artist, Writer & Curator]

Adapted from a eulogy delivered at the funeral of Guy Warren on Tuesday 25 June, 2024

Images:
1. Untitled [D098] 1985 pastel on paper 56x76cm
2. Icarus and the Black Cloud 1 1987 pastel on paper 56x76cm
3. Track through the Scrub 2005 ink and watercolour on paper 38x57cm
4. River and Waterholes 2007 watercolour on paper 56x76cm
5. River Series 3A 2008 watercolour on paper 56x76cm
6. Conversations with Alice from Above 2014 acrylic on canvas 92x122cm

28/08/2024

1301SW Now Representing Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick

Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick’s collaborative practice engages in strategies of artifice to consider relationships between objects and time, the organic and synthetic, past and future. Sitting alongside their individual artistic practices, they have developed a body of predominantly sculptural work, at once recognisable but also strange: artworks that disrupt our perception, yet feel familiar. For when in the company of their work, disorientating emotions and sensations are evoked, chiefly played out via this interplay of horror and humour, with abstraction, absurdity, the macabre and surreal also close by. Fidock & Petherick achieve this richness through the traditional artistic foundations of materials and techniques, they are true craftsmen, carefully considering what should be used and how it should be applied to achieve their conceptual goal. Accompanied by a detailed attention to atmosphere, the result is a practice speaking to the real world and its contained ontology, but seemingly coming from a parallel space/place.

Fidock & Petherick will participate in 1301SW/STARKWHITE's Sydney Contemporary 2024 presentation, as well as 1301SW Sydney's inaugural exhibition, opening this September.

Images:

1. Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick, Reporter, 2019
2. Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick, They are, aren’t They?, 2020-24 (installation view)
3. Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick, Sleeve I, 2017

27/08/2024

NOW SHOWING
ED BATS: WINTERCOAT ⁠
Until 7th September
Page Galleries, NZ⁠
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The paintings featured in WINTERCOAT seemingly provide small clues as to the identity of the artist known as Ed Bats – like breadcrumbs scattered throughout the exhibition. It’s something of a game really, for the most part. Yet the artist acknowledges there is comfort and protection in this additional layer; in the consciously constructed stopgap between themselves, the work, and its reception. Bats seems constantly on the verge of giving up the game entirely, throwing up his hands to reveal himself. But what would this change? How would this knowledge alter our response to these highly abstract works? ⁠
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Bats’ paintings lean so heavily toward formalism that biography seems all but redundant. While as an artist Bats might choose to work semi-anonymously under a pseudonym, there are very few secrets in these paintings. There are moments or gestures where one might suspect specific reference points: perhaps a subtle homage to Ralph Hotere’s window works; echoes of Don Driver’s use of colour, collage, and assemblage; or Richard Diebenkorn’s amalgam of aerial views and multiple angles. What you see is, mostly, what you get: a piece of fabric pulled tight across a stretcher, upon which paint has been carefully and dutifully applied. ⁠
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This exhibition sees a further confluence of Bats’ painting and graffiti practices, with the artist introducing aspects of painting directly onto the walls of the gallery, layering an additional backdrop behind the individual works. For Bats, it’s about the act of painting – and the satisfaction that comes in knowing a work is finished – and then he moves on. Such an approach arguably parallels the immediacy and temporary nature of graffiti, where no sooner than a work emerges it is already, irreconcilably, lost to the past. ⁠
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Images:
1. G's Inferno 2024, acrylic aerosol and oil stick on polycotton
2. Factory Settings 2024, acrylic aerosol and oil stick on polycotton
3. Kap N Entjie 2024, acrylic aerosol and oil stick on polycotton
4. Long in the Tooth 2024, acrylic aerosol and oil stick on polycotton
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26/08/2024

NOW SHOWING
Group Exhibition: Landscapes
Until September 21
Utopia Art Sydney

A celebration of our artists who have been in the Wynne Prize at the AGNSW. Includes Gloria Petyarre (winner 1991), David Aspden (winner 1995), Angus Nivison (winner 2002), Yukultji Napangati (winner 2018), George Ward Tjungurrayi (Winner 2004), John R Walker and George Tjungurrayi

Images courtesy of Utopia Art Sydney

25/08/2024

NOW SHOWING
Rachel Milne: Finding Light in Dark Places
August 20 - September 14
King Street Gallery on William

My work is based on careful observation from life with a strong emphasis on structure, tone and colour. I’m trying to find the fine balance between accurate structural representation and the beauty and fluidity of the oil paint itself. When painting, I am aiming for visual poetry, if this makes sense – to pare back a subject to the aspects that interest me the most. I am drawn to interiors, especially of municipal or community buildings. There is something about honouring spaces that may lack grandeur but have intrinsic power in their purpose, which I feel makes them deserving of considered representation.

- Rachel Milne, 2024

images:
Rachel Milne Breakfast 2024 oil on board 40x45cm
Rachel Milne Chicken Carcass and Mattress Pattern 2024 oil on board 40x45cm
Rachel Milne Artist’s Home 2024 oil on board 60x50cm
Rachel Milne Drawing Room Corridor 2023 oil on board 60x50cm

24/08/2024

1301SW AND NEON PARC NOW REPRESENTING DIENA GEORGETTI

Georgetti will participate in 1301SW/STARKWHITE’s Sydney Contemporary 2024 presentation, and will present a major solo exhibition at Neon Parc Brunswick in October 2024.

Since the late 1980s, Diena Georgetti has developed a distinct and conceptually rich painting practice focused on collecting and recontextualising the aesthetics and ideologies of 20th century Modernism. Utilising images, patterns, language and motifs, Georgetti creates connections via combinations; maps of mycelium threading the initial disparity of some compilations, now holistically ignited by their associations. Georgetti searches for unique gestures, be it in the form of the Italian language — as seen in her early blackboard works — to the more literal, where she questions the very mark making process, exploring different materials and techniques to develop the well-worn path of painting. Her diverse visual references explore fashion, architecture, design and advertising in collaboration with the Cannon of art, extending this coupling of conceptual and physically idiosyncratic approach of compiling, editing, exploring, questioning and rearranging to create masterfully alluring abstract paintings. But all of this is an ode to her lifelong love affair with art, Georgetti’s intuitive process of dismantling conventions is to get to the heart of art, to fall even deeper for it. Akin to Dub music, where the original is significantly manipulated in order to offer emphasis to distinct elements (the heart?), along with the application of new effects — Georgetti has echo and reverb. By acknowledging, loving and manipulating these contributions beyond her own context, Georgetti taps into universal themes that resonate across cultures and generations, fostering a sense of connection within collective aesthetic consciousness.

Georgetti is jointly represented by 1301SW, Sydney and Neon Parc, Melbourne.

Georgetti will participate in 1301SW/STARKWHITE’s Sydney Contemporary 2024 presentation, 1301SW Sydney’s inaugural exhibition, opening this September as well as a major solo exhibition at Neon Parc Brunswick in October 2024.

Image:
Diena Georgetti, Archive Standard / grotesk, 2024

Diena Georgetti, 'ARTS+CRAFTS>tambour', 2024. Acrylic on canvas, custom frame, 157.5 x 112 x 5 cm.

Diena Georgetti, 'SUPERSTUDIO', 2015-2017, exhibited in Know My Name: Australian Women Artists: 1900 to Now, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, 2021. Image courtesy National Gallery of Australia.

Diena Georgetti, The Humanity of Abstract Painting: 1999 - 2008, 2008 (installation view)
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU

Diena Georgett, Community of the People, 2023 (installation view) Exhibited in The National 4: Australian Art Now, 2023 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU (Photo: Jenni Carter)

23/08/2024

NOW SHOWING
Jo Darvall: You Yangs
1 - 31 August
Fox Galleries, Narrm/ Melbourne

"The landscape of the You Yangs that has inspired generations of artists, encapsulates the haunting blue mountains, anchored by the grassy plains of Wadawurrung country. I have been magnetically drawn back to the country that once captivated me during my days as a student at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) mentored by Alan Mittleman and Graham Fransella.

Arriving into Victoria from Western Australia, I embarked on a challenging adventure with a car, reams of paper, paints, and boards. My destination, Little River, then onward to the You Yangs National Park. I established a makeshift studio, immersing myself in the magic of the You Yangs. Over several weeks, I created numerous drawings and watercolours, crafting small works on board to transport back to my studio."

– Jo Darvall 2024

Jo Darvall ‘You Yangs’ is on view in the Gallery until the end of the month.

Images: Installation view, Jo Darrell. Courtesy of the artist and Fox Galleries

22/08/2024

Simryn Gill’s debut solo with 1301SW, ‘Over our heads’ is now entering its final week, concluding next Saturday 24 August.

Gill reinterprets the familiar idiom with a blend of philosophical depth and literal imagery. Featuring photographs of an oil refinery's fire plume “over the heads” of the townspeople of Port Dickson and ink rubbings of invasive flora like acacia and casuarina trees, Gill explores themes of environment, economy, and culture. Her layered artworks evoke both complexity and beauty, inviting viewers to reflect on contemporary concerns with nuance and calmness.

Simryn Gill
Over our heads
20 Jul – 24 Aug 2024
1301SW
4 George St, South Melbourne, 3205 VIC

Images: Simryn Gill ‘Over our heads’ (2024)
Handprinted C-type prints on Kodak "F" surface (gloss)
74.4 x 53.4 x 4.3 cm
Edition of 3 + 1AP

Simryn Gill
Over our heads, 2024 (installation view)

Simryn Gill
Fire Ring, 2024
Ink rubbing on Washi paper
31 Sheets, 249 x 970 cm (installation dimensions)

Simryn Gill
Over our heads, 2024
Handprinted C-type prints on Kodak "F" surface (gloss)
41.9 x 99.9 x 4.3 cm
Edition of 3 + 1AP

21/08/2024

THEA ANAMARA PERKINS: Dreaming
August 15 - September 7
N.Smith Gallery, Warrane/ Sydney

Thea Anamara Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist whose practice incorporates portraiture and landscape to question representations of First Nations peoples and Country. With a delicate hand, Thea answers heavy questions about what it means to be First Nations in contemporary Australia, and interrogates portrayal.

Thea’s middle name Anamara is an Arrernte word that describes a river and a Dreaming that runs north of Mparntwe (Alice Springs) – the place that keeps calling her back and has been the wellspring of art and activism for her family, and by extension, the nation. Perkins continues her family’s commitment to what she calls “strong and ready communication” and is part of an extraordinary dynasty of First Nations activists and creatives that includes activist Charles Perkins (her grandfather), Arrernte elder Hetti Perkins (her great-grandmother), curator Hetti Perkins (her mother) and acclaimed film director Rachel Perkins (her aunt).

image: Thea Anamara Perkins, Dreaming, 2024 Acrylic on board 40.5 x 30.5 cm

https://artcollector.net.au/gallery-event/thea-anamara-perkins-dreaming/

20/08/2024

GROUP EXHIBITION: EMBELLISH
August 6 - September 15
Sanderson Contemporary Art
Auckland, NZ

Sanderson presents EMBELLISH – a group exhibition of adornments and objects related to the body, curated by Jemma Giorza. The exhibition features work from Josephine Cachemaille, Arapeta Hākura exhibiting under ‘Camp Father,’ Julia Holderness, Iza Lozano, Sung Hwan Bobby Park, Hanna Shim and Lisa Walker (ONZM).

Each artist has chosen to present a series of works that respond to the wider theme of adornment. While often suggesting jewellery or clothing, adornment can extend to ornaments, accessories and objects used to embellish, decorate and convey information about the wearer. Historically, adornment and jewellery have held a powerful position within society as portable and wearable artworks that signal social and political alignments by the wearer.The works in EMBELLISH exemplify the ongoing importance of adornment within society today, and visual culture as an expression of identity.

image: Arapeta Ashton, Merket, 2024, Ceramic, plastic wire

https://artcollector.net.au/gallery-event/group-exhibition-embellish/

19/08/2024

JOSINA PUMANI is the winner of the Telstra Emerging Artist Award at the 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).

Josina Pumani is telling the Maralinga story through this pot. Maralinga was the site of British nuclear tests in the mid-1950s, which covered an area of 3,300 square kilometres across the remote north of South Australia. The effects of Maralinga were severe and have had lasting impacts on the Aṉangu people whose lives, lands and livelihoods were destroyed.
‘Maralinga hurt our lands and people and our story needs to be told ... we think about it all the time. Why did this happen to us?’

Nearly 70 years on the damage still informs the lives of Aṉangu people on the APY Lands.

Telstra Emerging Artist Award

Josina Pumani
Pitjantjatjara language
born 1984
lives Adelaide, SA

‘Maralinga’ 2024
clay, underglaze
44.5 x 30 x 33.5 cm

Image credit:
Artwork image courtesy of the artist, NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Charlie Bliss, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT

18/08/2024

DREAMSCAPE - currently showing

‘Dreamscape’—an ambitious exhibition which turns the gallery into a container for dreams. The exhibition asks: What spectacles and thoughts linger on the other side of our consciousness? The eclectic spread of artworks—by Sundari Carmody, Cathleen Clarke, Oliver Hobday, Anna May Kirk, Rebecca Selleck, and Elle Wickens—offer up a series of replies, moving between worlds that we recognise and those that we don’t. In Selleck’s ambitious new installation, we find ourselves standing in a static domestic setting in one moment, only to realise in the next that we are surrounded by life, which stirs and breathes around us.

This motion finds expression in Clarke’s paintings, which swirl with psychically-charged visions that teeter on the edge of abstraction. Inspired by the falling form of a whale, Kirk’s glass chandelier sculpture drips down from the ceiling, cascading onto the floor—at once moving yet frozen in time. Each of the artworks in the exhibition fall into the dreamscape, calling to us and pulling us with them.

Curated by Tai Mitsuji

Dreamscape
Ames Yavuz Gallery, Warrane/ Sydney
20 July – 24 August 2024

17/08/2024

OPENING TONIGHT / VINE ST
MINERVA OPENS NEW INNER-CITY LOCATION

Sydney gallery, Minerva is set to make its debut in a new space with an exciting group exhibition titled Vine St. Opening on Saturday, August 17, the exhibition promises to bring together a diverse array of emerging and established artists, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary art in Sydney.

Located at 14 Vine St, just a stone’s throw from Redfern Station, Minerva’s inaugural exhibition features works by eleven talented artists: Abella D’Adamo, Adele Warner, Bridget Stehli, Emily Taylor, Emryn Ingram-Shute, Erin Murphy, Frances Waite, Gemma Topliss, Grace Anderson, Nicola Smith, and Taylor Steel.

Redfern, known for its rich cultural heritage and ongoing urban renewal, has seen a number of key galleries relocating to the area and nearby Chippendale over recent years including White Rabbit Gallery, Darren Knight Gallery, and Michael Reid Gallery. The addition of Minerva to the neighborhood further cements Redfern’s status as a growing hub for contemporary art in Sydney.

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Minerva
14 Vine St, Redfern NSW 2016
Open Thursdays – Saturdays, 1-5PM

Image:
Gallery exterior, courtesy of Minerva Sydney

Adele Warner, “untitled (penthouse vista)”, 2024, acrylic on aluminium, 84 x 63 cm

16/08/2024

NATALIE DAVEY is the winner of the Telstra Multimedia Award at the 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).

‘Many more extreme events are happening, so we must continue recording and telling these stories. I recorded my experiences as it was a case of moments you would not believe if not filmed. I was in disbelief as I filmed and did so to double check it was all real. Family has passed down stories reaching back to when a star fell in the desert; however, we did not have any references to guide us through this flood. Our entire community was affected; mine is one story amongst many.’

Telstra Multimedia Award

Natalie Davey
Walmajarri and Bunuba languages
born 1979
lives Fitzroy Crossing, WA

'River report’ 2024
Single channel video, watercolour and pen on paper 10:00 mins 76 x 54 cm (work on paper)
A 10 minute video depicting the flooding event at Fitzroy Crossing.

Image credit:
Artwork image courtesy of the artist, NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Charlie Bliss, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT

15/08/2024

NAP CONTEMPORARY presents the work of Bill Hawkins.
Showing until 6 September.

The Tree

I have an invisible tree
sometimes I can see it
and sometimes I can’t

I can forget it’s there
and its branches
catch on threads

I wish you could see it
sometimes it’s so pretty
it shimmers
I could never explain it all to you

~ Bill Hawkins

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Bill Hawkins, The Idiot
2 August–6 September 2024
NAP CONTEMPORARY
94 Deakin Avenue, Mildura VIC 3500
Thursday to Saturday, 11–3pm

15/08/2024

OPENING TONIGHT | Suzanne Archer

WINDS OF CHANGE AND SANDS OF TIME, is an epic, introspective, and immersive exhibition - and an opportunity for serious local and global collectors to view an institutional collection of this scale on Sydney’s front doorstep.

VIP opening on Thursday 15 August, 6 - 8pm.

“She is in virtually every significant public collection in the country. She’s won her fair share of awards and prizes. Of late, she’s received the critical acclaim and recognition she’s long deserved. She’s allowed to enjoy whatever time she has left and the satisfaction of an artistic job well done.” — Rex Butler, Art Collector: Jul - Sep, 2024.

On show until Saturday 31 August.

Featured in the current issue of Art Collector #109 (Jul - Sep 2024).

Photos: Aman Kapoor

15/08/2024

OPENING TONIGHT | Sally Smart - Flaubert’s Puppets

Flaubert’s Puppets, 2024 is inspired by the history of The Temptation of St Anthony as represented in Western philosophical thought through painting (Sidney Nolan) and writing (Gustave Flaubert).

Opening Reception: 6 - 8 pm Thursday, 15 August | The artist will be present
Exhibition Dates: 15 August – 15 September 2024

GALLERY SALLY DAN-CUTHBERT
20 MCLACHLAN AVENUE, RUSHCUTTERS BAY NSW 2011
+612 9357 6606

Image credits: Installation view. Courtesy of Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert
smart

15/08/2024

OBED NAMIRRKKI is the winner of the Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award at the 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).

Kunkurra, the spiralling wind, is associated with several sites in the Kardbam clan estate. In this painting, Kunkurra also relates specifically to a site called Bilwoyinj, near Mankorlod Outstation. At this site, two of the most important Kuninjku Creation Beings, a father and son known as
na-korrkko, are believed to have hunted and eaten a goanna. They left some of the goanna fat behind at the site, which turned into the rock that still stands there today. The word Bilwoyinj, which is the name of this site, also refers to the fat of the goanna.

Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award (Sponsored by Telstra)

Obed Namirrkki
Kuninjku language
born 1987
lives Maningrida, NT

‘Kunkurra’ 2024
earth pigment and PVA fixative on stringybark
231.5 x 20 x 27.5 cm

Image credit:
Artwork image courtesy of the artist, NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Charlie Bliss, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT

14/08/2024

Sanne Mestrom: Solar Cry
August 1 - August 24
Sullivan+Strumpf, Narrm/ Melbourne

Mestrom’s sculptural works investigate the politics of the body and the elusive nature of ‘value’ in artworld ecologies, particularly the way such values are gained and lost over time. Her art practice makes particular reference to the female form as a catalyst for exploring the ways in which art history and culture continue to specify values, which in reality are fluid and always evolving.

Three years in development, this significant new exhibition speaks to what it means to embody and embrace a duality: to hold yourself with both strength and sensitivity, with fragility and fire.

image credits:

Sanné Mestrom, The Weeping Rock, 2024 Bronze sculpture with irrigation system 42 1/10 × 42 9/10 × 39 2/5 in | 107 × 109 × 100 cm. Edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs.

Sanné Mestrom, Holding up the Sky, 2024 Recycled fibreglass, plaster, steel, bronze, river stone OR bronze 90 9/10 × 57 1/10 × 35 2/5 in | 231 × 145 × 90 cm

Sanné Mestrom, The Heart Outside My Body 2, 2024 Bronze 15 7/10 × 12 1/5 × 7 9/10 in | 40 × 31 × 20 cm

Sanné Mestrom, The Heart Outside My Body 1, 2024 Bronze 24 2/5 × 21 7/10 × 8 7/10 in | 62 × 55 × 22 cm

https://artcollector.net.au/gallery-event/sanne-mestrom-solar-cry/

13/08/2024

SHANNON BRETT is the winner of the Telstra Work on Paper Award at the 2024 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA).

‘Through this artwork, I want to reframe the way that we receive racism – I want those who do these cruel things to see the pain in themselves, to learn that this is not the way. I want to share with them that my message is one of respect for all First Nations people, to show everyone that we are still here living on our own sovereign lands as the true leaders of this place, as we always will be.’

Telstra Work on Paper Award

Shannon Brett
Wakka Wakka, Butchulla and Gooreng Gooreng languages
born 1973
lives Brisbane, Qld

‘An Australian Landscape’ 2024
Pigment print on photo rag
83 x 160 cm

Image credit:
Artwork image courtesy of the artist, NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Charlie Bliss, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT
Artist Portrait: Credit Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis, courtesy of NATSIAA and Museum & Art Gallery, NT

13/08/2024

IMA Gala and Benefit Auction is here!

There's just over 24 hours left to bid in the IMA online Benefit Auction!
Don't miss the opportunity to bid on over thirty exclusive works by Australia's leading contemporary artists via the auction platform, imabids.com

Bid now to take home covetable, museum-quality works by Hoda Afshar , Mia Boe .khin.boe, Michael Cook , Bill Henson Natalya Hughes Jonny Niesche Lillian O’Neil Scott Redford Gemma Smith Michael Zavros and more.

Bid on luxury experiences from Bird in Hand and Mas & Miek Ceramic House, and purchase a raffle ticket (or ten) for the chance to win exclusive packages from Aesop Camargue, Cruise Whitsundays, Dinosaur Designs, Silk Laundry, P. Johnson, and more.

Bidding closes on Tuesday 13 August, at 10pm AEST.

13/08/2024

Group exhibition: Ceramics Now
August 7 - August 31
MARS Gallery Narrm/ Melbourne

CERAMICS NOW brings together the sculptural works of six ceramicists whose practices are a testament to the diversity and endurance of ceramic forms. Collating Angelo Ooi’s traditional techiques, Ruth Li’s botanical meditations, Zhu Ohmu’s organic vessels, Kohl Tyler’s ephemeral forms, Pip Byrne’s playful textures and Honor Freeman’s sculptural mimesis, Ceramics Now celebrates the contemporary artists who are reinventing one of the oldest, most universal mediums.

Pip Byrne is a Melbourne-based ceramicist whose ceramics capture moments of simplicity and scenes of light and play. With an interest in scale, playfulness, form and texture, Byrne uses various hand-building techniques to create pieces that aren’t limited by traditional forms and ideas.

Honor Freeman is a South Australian-based artist whose playful forms mimic the domestic and routine, using the materiality of porcelain to question ideas of fragility and preservation that are bound up in our daily lives. Freeman’s work is held in collections aroud Australia, including the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of South Australia.

A celebration of renewal, natural cycles of life and the passing of time, Ruth Li’s sculptures speak in the universal language of flowers. Li’s work is held in collections around Australia, China and Taiwan.

Angelo Ooi’s ceramic practice takes us back to traditional techniques, ceramic chemistry and process. Seeing each vessel as unique, like a human body, Ooi masterfully marries technique and organic forms to achieve a dynamic practice.

Zhu Ohmu’s practice sits at the intersection of nature, tradition and technology. Emulating the mechanized processes of machines, but by hand, Ohmu’s technique imitates nature, leaving the process to intuition. Ohmu has exhibited her work aorund Australia and is held in collections including Shepparton Art Museum and Artbank.

Aotearoa/New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based artist Kohl Tyler draws on botanical ecology and otherwordly forms in her practice. Tyler’s delicate vessels draw on future ecologies, imagined organic remnants and investigates the natural archive. Her work is held in the collection of the Gippsland Art Gallery, VIC and in private collections throughout Australia and Aotearoa.

IMAGE: Kohl Tyler, The first flower, 2024, ceramic stoneware, dolomite glaze, 206 x 112 x 125mm. Courtesy of MARS and the artist.

https://artcollector.net.au/gallery-event/group-exhibition-ceramics-now/

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🎨 Collectors, mark your calendars! 🗓️ Don’t miss these incredible exhibitions happening this weekend: Rachel Milne King St gallery on William, Sydney 20 August - 14 September Hannah Valentine Page Galleries, Wellington 15 August - 7 September Group exhibition: the Footy Show Bett Gallery, Hobart 30 August — 21 September Oliver Watts THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne 22 August -7 September Group exhibition: Landscape Utopia Art, Sydney 25 August - 21 September Which one are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments! 👇 #ArtExhibitions #SydneyArt #NewZealandArt #ContemporaryArt #GalleryHopping

SAVE THE DATE! Desert Mob 2024 returns to Mparntwe/Alice Springs 5 September to 20 October. Celebrate desert culture with hundreds of artists from 35 Art Centres across central Australia. Desert Mob 2024 officially opens on Thursday 5 September, from 5pm, kicking off a weekend of exhibitions, symposium, marketplace, workshops, music performances, satellite events and more throughout Mparntwe. Full program to be announced soon. Follow @desert_mob for details. This year @desartculturefirst is proud to announce 35 participating Art Centres coming together in Mparntwe, on Arrernte Country, for Desert Mob 2024: @arlpwe.artists – Ali Curung NT @artists_of_ampilatwatja – Ampilatwatja NT Artists of the Barkly @barklyregionalarts –Tennant Creek NT @bindi.mwerre.anthurre.artists – Mparntwe NT Engawala Art Centre – Engawala NT @ernabella_arts – Pukutja/Ernabella SA @hermannsburgpotters – Ntaria/Hermannsburg NT @ikuntjiartists – Ikuntji/Haasts Bluff NT Iltja Ntjarra @manyhandsart – Mparntwe NT @iwantja_arts – Iwantja/Indulkana SA @inkwareny_artists of Yuelamu – Yuelamu NT @kaltjitiarts – Kaltjiti/Fregon SA @keringke arts – Ltyentye Apurte/Santa Teresa NT Ltyentye Apurte @traditional_craft_centre - NT @martumiliartists – Parnpajinya/Newman WA @marukuarts – Mutitjulu & Uluru NT @mimili_maku_arts – Mimili SA @minyma_kutjara_arts project – Irrunytju/Wingellina WA @ninuku_arts – Kalka SA @nyinkka.nyunyu Art & Culture Centre - Tennant Creek NT @papulankutjaartists – Papulankutja/Blackstone WA Papunya @tjupiarts – Papunya NT @papunyatulaartists – based in Mparntwe NT @spinifexarts project– Tjuntjuntjara WA @tangentyereartists – Mparntwe NT @tapatjatjaka_art & craft - Titjikala NT @tjalaarts – Amata SA @tjanpidesertweavers – based in Mparntwe NT @tjarlirliart & Kaltukatjara Art - Kaltukatjara & Tjukurla, WA @tjungu_palya_arts – Nyapari SA @utopiaartcentre – Arlparra NT @walkatjara art – Mutitjulu & Uluru

"Desert Mob 2024: A Vibrant Celebration of Culture and Art in Mparntwe!"

SAVE THE DATE! Desert Mob 2024 returns to Mparntwe/Alice Springs 5 September to 20 October. Celebrate desert culture with hundreds of artists from 35 Art Centres across central Australia. Desert Mob 2024 officially opens on Thursday 5 September, from 5pm, kicking off a weekend of exhibitions, symposium, marketplace, workshops, music performances, satellite events and more throughout Mparntwe. Full program to be announced soon. Follow @desert_mob for details. This year @desartculturefirst is proud to announce 35 participating Art Centres coming together in Mparntwe, on Arrernte Country, for Desert Mob 2024: @arlpwe.artists – Ali Curung NT @artists_of_ampilatwatja – Ampilatwatja NT Artists of the Barkly @barklyregionalarts –Tennant Creek NT @bindi.mwerre.anthurre.artists – Mparntwe NT Engawala Art Centre – Engawala NT @ernabella_arts – Pukutja/Ernabella SA @hermannsburgpotters – Ntaria/Hermannsburg NT @ikuntjiartists – Ikuntji/Haasts Bluff NT Iltja Ntjarra @manyhandsart – Mparntwe NT @iwantja_arts – Iwantja/Indulkana SA @inkwareny_artists of Yuelamu – Yuelamu NT @kaltjitiarts – Kaltjiti/Fregon SA @keringke arts – Ltyentye Apurte/Santa Teresa NT Ltyentye Apurte @traditional_craft_centre - NT @martumiliartists – Parnpajinya/Newman WA @marukuarts – Mutitjulu & Uluru NT @mimili_maku_arts – Mimili SA @minyma_kutjara_arts project – Irrunytju/Wingellina WA @ninuku_arts – Kalka SA @nyinkka.nyunyu Art & Culture Centre - Tennant Creek NT @papulankutjaartists – Papulankutja/Blackstone WA Papunya @tjupiarts – Papunya NT @papunyatulaartists – based in Mparntwe NT @spinifexarts project– Tjuntjuntjara WA @tangentyereartists – Mparntwe NT @tapatjatjaka_art & craft - Titjikala NT @tjalaarts – Amata SA @tjanpidesertweavers – based in Mparntwe NT @tjarlirliart & Kaltukatjara Art - Kaltukatjara & Tjukurla, WA @tjungu_palya_arts – Nyapari SA @utopiaartcentre – Arlparra NT @walkatjara art

🎨 Collectors, mark your calendars! 🗓️ Don’t miss these incredible exhibitions happening this weekend: Sally Smart: Flaubert’s Puppets Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney 15 August - 15 September Group exhibition: Embellish Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland 6 August - 15 September Suzanne Archer Winds of Change and Sands of Time Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney 12 August — 31 August Thea Anamara Perkins: Dreaming N.Smith Gallery, Sydney 15 August - 7 September Group exhibition: Vine St Minerva, Sydney 17 August - 14 September Which one are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments! 👇 #ArtExhibitions #SydneyArt #AucklandArt #ContemporaryArt #GalleryHopping

"Unveiling 'Kamanti': Noli Rictor's Award-Winning Masterpiece Celebrates Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa at NATSIAA 2024!"

🎨 TELSTRA NATSIAA 2024 WINNER: Noli Rictor's "Kamanti" 🏆 Discover the story behind this monumental 290 x 200 cm painting that brings to life the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line). Noli Rictor Pitjantjatjara language born 1969 lives Tjuntjuntjara, WA Kamanti 2023 synthetic polymer paint on linen 290 x 200 cm Noli Rictor, a Pitjantjatjara man and artist from Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia, is the winner of the prestigious 2024 Telstra Art Award valued at $100,000 for his synthetic polymer paint on linen piece titled Kamanti. This remarkable painting depicts the significant site of Kamanti, situated in the north of traditional Spinifex Lands. This site is home to the Wati Kutjara Tjukurpa (Two Men Creation Line), an epic narrative that follows the journey of a father and son water serpent across the Spinifex Lands on ceremonial business. Interview courtesy of Museum & Art Gallery NT and the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards www.magnt.net.au www.artcollector.net.au #AboriginalArt #NATSIAA2024 #NoliRictor #AustralianArt #IndigenousCulture

"Unveiling 'Kamanti': Noli Rictor's Award-Winning Masterpiece Celebrates Indigenous Heritage at NATSIAA 2024!"

"Unveiling 'Kamanti': Noli Rictor's Award-Winning Masterpiece at NATSIAA 2024"

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Art Collector issue 109 is on sale now! Our annual Under 5K feature looks at high profile artists you might be surprised to learn have works available for less than $5,000 AUD. This issue we also look at a the three cornerstones of First Nations cultural awareness; protecting an artist’s secondary market growth; the aftermath of a commercial gallery closure; why editions are less desirable than the one off art work; and more bad news for gender parity in the artworld and what collectors can do. We explore the practices of Suzanne Archer (@suzannearcher70), Claudia Nicholson (@claudia__nicholson), Hannah Valentine (@hvalentine_), Brian Fuata, Yvette Hamilton (@yvettehamilton), Nephi Tupaea (@nephi_tupaea), James Lieutenant (@james_lieutenant), Doreen Chapman plus many more. We sit down with Charles Nodrum (@charlesnodrumgallery) to look back at his 40 years in business; explore the private collection of gallerist Philip Bacon (@philipbacongalleries); and go inside ‘Namedropping’, the blockbuster show at The Museum of Old and New Art (@monamuseum), nipaluna/Hobart. You'll also find previews of notable forthcoming exhibitions and our round up of artists to see at the premier national and international art fairs in 2024. Order your copy now via link in bio. Plus, be one of the first 10 to subscribe to Art Collector and receive a free bonus issue in your subscription! On the cover: Nephi Tupaea, Mother’s Milk, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 101.5 x 76cm. Courtesy: the artist and Tim Melville Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland (@timmelvillegallery).

Mother's day is just around the corner, and for those of you who celebrate, we know it can be hard to pick out the perfect gift. We know she loves scarves, but you got her one last year. Give the gift of art! To the mothers who taught us the value of creativity and the power of self expression. To the women in our lives who have helped raise us and inspired us. To the parents who nurtured a desire to see more and seek what excites us. To the person who told you no, you probably could not have made that, and explained why. Art Collector has your Mother's Day gifting sorted with subscription packages, single, current or back issue orders and works from our fine art print shop. A magazine subscription is the gift that keeps on giving. Click on 'Magazine Subscriptions' in the link in bio.

NEW ISSUE ON SALE TODAY! Our highly anticipated 50 Things Collectors Should Know issue looks back at the year that was with features on artists and standout shows from 2023, before presenting the art world players and ideas setting the tone for the year ahead. Artists include Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran (@ramesh__mario), Polly Borland (@polly_borland), David Noonan (@davidnoonan), Djakaŋu Yunupiŋu, Tom Polo (@tompolo), Priscilla Rose Howe (@priscillarosehowe), Julie Fragar (@juliefragar_studio), Christopher Bassi (@christopher_bassi), Julie Rrap (@julierrap), Tarryn Gill (@tarryngill)and many more. Pick up your copy today from all good newsagencies and specialty stores including MCA Store, GOMA Store, Glebe Books, IMA Institute of Modern Art, NGV Design Store, National Gallery of Australia and more. Or order your copy online now via link in bio. On the cover: J Davies (@jdavies.studio), 'S & T', 2023. 35mm film on Canson semi gloss, dimensions variable. Courtesy: the artist and James Makin Gallery, Melbourne.

Issue 104 has hit the stands: our annual Undiscovered feature looks at those currently unrepresented artists making waves across the region. We also present those exceptional long practicing artists our writers feel deserve more attention. In this issue we explore the practices of Linda Marrinon, Nasim Nasr, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin, Prudence Flint, Laura Williams, David Attwood, Yhonnie Scarce, Elizabeth Thomson and many more. We sit down with Larissa McMillan, director of the first public art gallery in the world dedicated to Māori Indigenous art; go inside the 2023 TarraWarra Biennial; and ask artworld cognoscenti where they find emerging/undiscovered talent. We examine artworld topics of interest to collectors now and you'll also find previews of notable forthcoming exhibitions and our round up of artists to see at the upcoming premier national and international art fairs. Pick up your copy of issue 104 in stores or online today: https://artcollector.net.au/product/art-collector-single-issue/ On the cover: Nasim Nasr, ‘Impulse’, 2023. Digital print, performer John Fabry. Read about Nasim Nasr’s practice on p172. Courtesy: the artist and MARS Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne.

Art Collector's first issue of the year, the highly anticipated '50 Things Collectors Should Know' issue is available for sale online today. This issue looks back at the year that was with features on artists and standout shows from 2022, before presenting the art world players and ideas setting the tone for the year ahead. Purchase a copy today online: https://artcollector.net.au/product/art-collector-single-issue/ or in stores from Monday 23 January.

The National Indigenous Art Fair returns to Gadigal Country/Sydney this weekend, 2-3 July! Celebrate the start of NAIDOC Week 2022 by immersing yourself in Indigenous art, design, food, and culture this weekend at the Overseas Passenger Terminal, The Rocks.

SAVE THE DATE: Cairns Indigenous Art Fair returns in less than a month, taking place from from Wednesday 6–Sunday 10 July 2022 at the Cairns Convention Centre. This year featuring the work of approximately 300 visual artists with another 150 live performers, the Fair represents an exciting opportunity for collectors to purchase art by a diverse range of Indigenous practitioners from Far North Queensland Art Centres. Tickets now on sale via www.eventbrite.com.au and www.ticketlink.com.au. See the 2022 program at www.ciaf.com.au.

“To separate the colour from the pencil shavings required a process of sifting and sieving through different course and fine sieves… After this lengthy process I had a whole lot of different parts of colours”. Hear more about the remarkable processes involved in the creation of Heidi Melamed’s work ‘Untitled’, from the conversation between the artist @heidimelamed and writer Briony Downes @beedownes. The work features in Melamed’s forthcoming exhibition ‘Remnants’, opening on 14 April at @gallerysallydancuthbert, Gadigal land Sydney. Artwork: Heidi Melamed, ‘Untitled’, 2022. Sharpened pencil lead on plywood, glue on plywood, 60cm at the widest points. Courtesy: the artist and @gallerysallydancuthbert, Gadigal land Sydney.

“In a lot of my work there’s this duality; there’s a calmness within an agitation,” explains Emily Ferretti @emilyferretti of her painting ‘Falling Tree’. ”Of course, there’s death involved with this painting, but at the same time I also think of it as a very optimistic painting about the idea that you can get back up again.” Watch Ferretti in conversation with Louise Martin-Chew about 'Falling Tree' ahead of her exhibition 'Bent Elbow', which runs at @sophiegannongallery, Naarm/Melbourne, from 5-23 April. The artwork: Emily Ferretti, ‘Falling Tree’, 2022. Oil on linen, 200 x 184cm.

🎥 NEW VIDEO: “I don’t light the books, I don’t touch them, I don’t manipulate them. I actually really like the concept that these books, especially bound periodicals and journals, have been left on the shelves by someone who has needed the reference for them,” says artist Mickey Smith @mickeysmithstudio of the process behind her work. “’For me personally LIFE (redux) is a really important piece. I have been looking at libraries at a metaphor for grief… Really life is not what I thought it was going to be, but you do get a second chance.” Watch the artist in conversation with Maddy Matheson about her work ’LIFE (redux)’ (link in bio), ahead of the opening of her exhibition ‘NEW OUTLOOK’ on 15 March at @sandersoncontemporaryart.

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