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JANET LAURENCE & JUDITH WRIGHT @ QUT ART Museum.
2 July - 3 October 2010
A Generosity of Spirit: Recent Australian Women's Art from the Queensland Univerisity of Technology Art Collection exhibition presents some 30 key works acquired over the last four years including Janet Laurence & Judith Wright. Generosity of Spiritsimultaneously acknowledges the generous philanthropy of former Queensland artist and QUT alumnus Betty Quelhurst (1919-2008), and the work of selected Australian women artists. The Betty Quelhurst Fund was established in the acquisitions program enabling the QUT Art Museum to purchase major works by leading Australian mid-career women practitioners. The exhibition will travel to Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide from 22 October to 17 December 2010. |
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DADANG CHRISTANTO @ Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Caloundra.
On 2 October 2009 UNESCO recognised Javanese batik as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. To celebrate this the Caloundra Regional Gallery brings together two batik collections: one of batiks from the north coast of Java and the other now held as memory and represented in the recent paintings by contemporary Indonesian artist Dadang Christanto (now resident in Brisbane). For more information visit the Caloundra Regional Gallery website.
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ALFREDO + ISABEL AQUILIZAN @ 4A Gallery, Sydney.
Split over two exhibition periods and featuring artists from Australia and the Asia region, LAST WORDS is a group exhibition that explores language, knowledge and communication in an age of cultural diversity and globalisation. LAST WORDS opens on Thursday 15th July and continues until 28th August 2010. For more info visit the 4ACCCA website.
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JUDITH WRIGTH @ the NGV, Melbourne.
'Conversations with the mother' (2004) a video by Judith Wright is currently showing at the NGV alongside luminary artists such as Rembrant, Munch and Hockney. Curated by Alsion Holland, 'Love Loss and Intimacy' explores how the human emotions of desire, grief and affection tie the observer to the observed. The exhibition continues until 25th July 2010.
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KEN and JULIA YONETANI + Sunrise 21 + The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre (Mildura, Australia)
Ken and Julia Yonetani will use this residency to further their practice of collaborating with scientists to produce outstanding works engaging with the fragility of the environment. Their recent collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science resulted in the work Sweet Barrier Reef, which represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The Water Memory project focuses on water as life-force and carrier of the 'memory' of all living entities -past, present and future. Sunrise 21's expertise in advanced digital mapping and the Freshwater Research Centre's work on water quality and ecology will enable a research engagement ranging from the microscopic to the macroscopic 'big picture'.
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| JUAN FORD is currently showing in 'Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age' running until 22nd August, 'Understory' curated by Dr Troy Ruffles at the Devonport Regional Gallery until 20th June and 'The Outsider' curated by Michael Brennan at the Trocadero, Melbourne. Juan has just completed a commission work for the Westin Hotel in Sydney, and as part of the Children's program at the Nation Gallery of Victoria, he has curated 'Light Play' - a dynamic exhibition featuring mirrors, reflective surfaces and lights, all of which interact with elements of the NGV collection - running from 2nd June until 7th November 2010. |
JUDE RAE in ART COLLECTOR
In the current issue of Australian Art Collector Magazine, painter Jude Rae reveals her growing interest in sculpture. She also talks about her fascination with fire extinguishers and just why she finds portraiture so daunting. |
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DADANG CHRISTANTO at MCA In the Balance: Art for a Changing World
As part of Sydney's MCA summer exhibition program Dadang Christanto will perform Survivor a powerful visual enactment of the impact of the man made mud catastrophe in the Sidoarjo Region of East Java on Saturday 21st August on the front lawn at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Key, Sydney. For times and further details visit www.mca.com.au (Image courtesy 4A Gallery - Survivor performance September 2009). |
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KEN YONETANI in ONCE REMOVED
Campbelltown Arts Centre is launching the group exhibition 'Once Removed' on Friday 28th May @ 7pm. The exhibition will feature the Ken Yonetani's major installation 'Sweet Barrier Reef' that showcased in the 2009 Venice Biennale. Once Removed also includes works by Vernon Ah Kee, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro. For more information visit the Campbelltown Arts Centre website. |
TONY ALBERT in Artlink - SPECIAL FORUM
Artlink Magazine together with AAMU are holding a special aunch and forum - The View of Self: Bak on Blak - to celebrate Artlink's latest issue Blak on Blak. The forum will be held at the AAMU Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht, the Netherlands on Sunday May 30th 2010 from 2-4pm. Guest speakers include Professor Dr Gloria Wekker (University of Utrecht), Marianne Riphagen (University of Nijmegen), Dr Margo Neale, Daniel Browning, Gordon Hookey, Tess Allas, and Wakaman participating artists Gillion Grantsaan and Marcel Pinas. For more information please visit www.artlink.com.au |
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JOACHIM FROESE on Radio National
You may be interested to hear photographer Joachim Forese's interview from Radio National's program 'The Book Show'. A big reader since childhood, he shared that passion with his mother, Brigitte. There was always lively discussion about writing and ideas in the family home, often with reference to Brigitte's well stocked bookshelves. But in 2006, events forced him to start thinking very differently about his mother's books. When Brigitte Froese was diagnosed with cancer, he began to photograph her library as a way of preserving her memory.
Click to download the interview. |
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