News
Farrell and Parkin at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Posted: 29 August 2008 -
At the Crossroads of Art and Medicine
September 10 to December 13, 2008
Artists: Philippe Bazin (France), Bioteknica (Canada),
Geneviève Cadieux (Quebec, Canada), Farrell & Parkin
(Australia), Betty Goodwin (Quebec, Canada), Nathalie
Grimard (Canada), Nicole Jolicoeur (Quebec, Canada), Lyne
Lapointe (Quebec, Canada), François Morelli (Queb...
Full Details
Farrell and Parkin at M.Y. Art Prospects, New York
Posted: 29 August 2008 - M.Y. ART PROSPECTS is pleased to announce Restoration, our third exhibition by the Melbourne based
artist duo, Rose Farrell and George Parkin.
Farrell and Parkin, the leading contemporary photography artists in Australia, are widely known for
their unique collaborative projects exploring the history of medicine through the application of complex
the...
Full Details
Dennis Del Favero
Posted: 20 August 2008 - Dennis Del Favero has been awarded a Visual Arts and Crafts Board New Work grant for a multi-media project exploring the ambivalent relationship between the human and natural world, using as its centrepiece the original etching by Francisco Goya Que hai que hacer mas? from his 1820 Disasters of War series specially lent to the project. The project will ...
Full Details
Claudia Chaseling, Murray Fredericks, Pamela Mei-Leng See and Teo Trelor selected to participate in the ABN Emerging Artist Award 2008
Posted: 4 August 2008 - The ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award is a unique initiative designed to bring business and the arts closer together. Launched in 2004, this award is recognised as one of the largest corporate exhibitions of emerging art in Australia. The award presents an opportunity for emerging artists, practicing in a range of mediums, to have their works presented to c...
Full Details
eX de Medici, Deidre But-Husaim, David Stephenson / neo-goth
Posted: 13 May 2008 -
neo-goth: back in black - The Art Museum at The University of Queensland
eX de Medici, Deidre But-Husaim, David Stephenson -
goth/ emo/ surf/ indie/ punk: something decidedly dark is permeating all aspects of contemporary culture. From its subcultural origins in eighteenth century literature, through to the movement's dedicated tribes of black-...
Full Details
Jinks, Chaseling, Daverington, Kleinert / Melbourne Art Fair 2008
Posted: 20 May 2008 -
Boutwell Draper Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery will present Sam Jinks, Claudia Chaseling, Peter Daverington and Ingo Kleinert at the 2008 Melbourne Art Fair.
For more information about the Melbourne Art Fair: http://www.melbourneartfair.com/...
Full Details
Gosia Wlodarczak / Cinderella II - The Dreamer
Posted: 19 May 2008 -
Gosia Wlodarczak -
'Cinderella II - The Dreamer' is a hybrid of drawing with interaction and performance, installation, video and sound. It represents a further investigation of issues addressed in the installations: 'Living Edge' (2006) and 'Skin of The Wall' (2006). The work explores perceptions of the home and domestic space as a site of dreamin...
Full Details
Farrell and Parkin / Who Let the Dogs Out: The Dog in Contemporary Art
Posted: 17 May 2008 -
Farrell and Parkin -
"Australia has one of the highest rates of dog ownership in the world and since artists reflect our world back to us, it's no surprise that we often find the familiar features of the dog in their work. This exhibition celebrates the canine form in all manner of media and reveals a contemporary Australian take on this traditiona...
Full Details
Deidre But-Husaim / Art prize boycott
Posted: 16 May 2008 -
Diedre But-Husaim - Art prize boycott over school's same-sex ban -
An Adelaide artist has withdrawn her painting from a national art prize over a ban on boys attending a school formal with their same-sex partners.
Deirdre But-Husaim said yesterday that she was not aware of the ban when she entered the $10,000 Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibi...
Full Details
Ken Unsworth / Stick it to them
Posted: 15 May 2008 -
Ken Unsworth -
A group of Sydney artists have dumped a load at Melbourne's Federation Square. An almost life-sized replica of Ken Unsworth's notorious Stones Against The Sky sculpture, better known as "poo on sticks", has been erected as part of the Next Wave Festival in the Victorian capital.
The original sculpture, at the top of William Street...
Full Details
Farrell and Parkin / Process-Journey: Art Celebrates Australia-China Connection
Posted: 13 May 2008 -
Farrell and Parkin -
Process-Journey is an exhibition that brings together artists from Australia and China to display works that reflect upon the journeys that inspire them and to develop an understanding of the reasons why artists form enduring relations between cultures.
It is a commemoration of friendly ties through the arts and has been pu...
Full Details
Richard Woldendorp / Abstract Earth
Posted: 13 May 2008 -
Abstract Earth: The Photography of Richard Woldendorp.
Richard Woldendorp is a well-known and respected photographer and is acknowledged as Australia's eminent praactitioner of aerial photography. His photographs of the environment taken from the air have established a fresh vocabulary for the Australian landscape. This unique perspective reveals d...
Full Details
Richard Woldendorp / ABC Sunday Arts
Posted: 13 May 2008 -
Richard Woldendorp is an award winning photographer who has spent more than half a century capturing Australia’s vast terrain.
Richard was born in 1927 in the Netherlands and migrated to Western Australia in 1951. He bought his first camera in 1955, went professional in 1961, and was made an Honorary Life Member of the Institute of Professional Phot...
Full Details
Peter Daverington, Anne Morrison / When Mars Met Venus
Posted: 18 April 2008 -
Peter Daverington, Anne Morrison -
Stereotypes are handy but often ridiculously simplistic. Take the classic description of the sexes: men as cold, hard and rational, women as warm, soft and nuturing. A visit to Anne Morrison and Peter Daverington's solo show illuminates how the pesky definitions got to be so popular in the first place.
At fir...
Full Details
Sam Jinks / Benalla Art Gallery
Posted: 1 April 2008 -
Sam Jinks -
“… it is the imagination of the (viewer), mystified by a gross resemblance, which lends movement, warmth and life, to the eternal collapse of matter. So one must begin again from scratch. After three thousand years, the task of… contemporary sculptors, is not to enrich the galleries with new works, but to prove that sculpture itself is...
Full Details
Deidre But-Husaim / Adelaide Ink
Posted: 29 March 2008 -
Deidre But-Husaim - Adelaide Ink - Nexus Multicultural Art Centre - Until Fri 4 April -
'Adelaide Ink' is a multimedia exhibition that presents an interesting dialogue on the social and cultural aspects surrounding body art. It attempts to challenge perceived ideas about body art, in particular tattoo, by exploring the many different ways this ar...
Full Details
Gosia Wlodarczak / Shared Space New York
Posted: 28 March 2008 -
Gosia Wlodarczak - solo exhibition 'Shared Space New York' at Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY.
'In Shared Space Gosia Wlodarczak explores the boundaries of personal space, safety and security through a series of performative interactive drawings. The parameters of this examination are set by the actual size of her body....
Full Details
Ken Unsworth / Honorary Doctorates
Posted: 14 March 2008 -
Ken Unsworth has recently been recognised with honorary doctorates from the University of NSW in 2007, and the University of Sydney in 2008:
"The degree of Doctor of Visual Arts (honoris causa) was conferred upon Kenneth Lowell Unsworth at the Sydney College of the Arts graduation ceremony held at 2.00pm on 14 March 2008.
Chancellor, I have the...
Full Details
Deidre But-Husaim / Body of work
Posted: 7 March 2008 -
Deidre But-Husaim - It's not every exhibit that can just get up and walk out the door -
'Adelaide Ink' is the biggest exhibition in the history of Adelaide, declares Nexus gallery artistic director Noris Ioannou. He jests, of course.
But with a serious edge, 'Adelaide Ink' is a display of body art, most particularly tattoos. Only a few can be s...
Full Details
Catherine Woo / Modern Alchemy
Posted: 1 March 2008 -
2008 Adelaide Festival of Contemporary Art, 1 March - 4 May 2008 -
Catherine Woo -
There’s a lot of weather in Hobart. On a clear, sunny day, clouds can sweep without warning over the mountain, changing the city’s entire complexion within minutes.
Weather is the perfect subject for Catherine Woo: immaterial, evanescent, ungraspable, unpredi...
Full Details
Farrell and Parkin / Selected Photographs from the Daryl Hewson Collection
Posted: 4 February 2008 -
Farrell and Parkin -
Images from the state's leading contemporary photographers will be on show this month with avid collector Dr Daryl Hewson sharing his renowned private archive for the first time.
Part of the Queensland Festival of Photography taking place in April, the exhibition features more than 80 photographs by prominent Queenslande...
Full Details
eX de Medici, Farrell and Parkin / Theatricality so extreme it's believable
Posted: 30 January 2008 -
eX de Medici, Farrell and Parkin - Role Play: Portrait Photography, NGV International until April 6 - Chaos and Revelry: Neo Baroque and Camp Aesthetics, Counihan Gallery, until December 10.
Picasso was right: art is a lie that tells the truth. Photographers are the greatest liars, because you expect that they're fundamentally faithful, like the...
Full Details
Murray Fredericks / A 2007 space odyssey
Posted: 10 November 2007 -
Murray Fredericks has photographed some unforgettable natural vistas, from the jagged Himalayas to Tasmania's comparatively welcoming Cradle Mountain wilderness....
Full Details
Farrell and Parkin / Role Play: Portrait Photography at NGV
Posted: 25 October 2007 -
Farrell and Parkin -
Portrait photography is a complex and fascinating area of photographic practice that, at its heart, has a dynamic process of collaboration between the sitter, the viewer and the camera operator. In this exhibition, a provocative interchange between historical and contemporary photography has been created to suggest how phot...
Full Details
Farrell and Parkin / Fremantle Print Award
Posted: 21 October 2007 -
Farrell and Parkin - winner of the $3000 Non-Acquisitive Prize.
Winners Announced! Fremantle Print Award
Australia’s leading award and exhibition for prints and artists’ books in any print medium, celebrating the vitality of contemporary printmaking
Two works which speculate about humanity’s interrelationship with the natural world were j...
Full Details
eX de Medici / The devil's in the finest detail
Posted: 20 October 2007 -
Artist eX de Medici doesn't want her photo taken. I beg, I plead. I even offer to name my children after her. She won't budge. "I don't want the focus on me," she says modestly. But there are other, darker reasons for the 48-year-old artist.
As a young woman growing up in Canberra, her sole ambition was to be creative and one outlet for that cre...
Full Details
David Stephenson / Artforum
Posted: 27 September 2007 -
David Stephenson at Julia Saul Gallery -
From 1993 to 2003, David Stephenson, an American photographer based in Australia, documented the recondite geometry of the interiors of cupolas at religious buildings and palaces throughout Europe....
Full Details
eX de Medici / Tiny wings help a vision take flight
Posted: 27 September 2007 -
eX de Medici -
The jumble of skulls and bullets is striking and confronting. But it's the delicate patterns adorning the bones that catch the eye. The elaborate designs are from the wings of tiny Australian moths, painstakingly reproduced by Ex de Medici after hours at the microscope....
Full Details
Richard Woldendorp / Topside view of nature's canvas
Posted: 29 August 2007 -
At 80, Richard Woldendorp is the unquestioned master of photographing the Australian landscape from the air, in colour. Like the great New Zealand Magnum photographer, the late Brian Brake, Richard Woldendorp uses a light aircraft as if it were a high-flying tripod - chartering a small, single-engine, high-wing Cessna to fly over his beloved Western...
Full Details
Gavin Hurley / Auckland's brand of art flourishing
Posted: 26 July 2007 -
[Gavin Hurley] takes faces, simplifies them, and makes witty icons. At the same time he plays fashionable ironic games with questions of style and technique.
The wittiest is 'Pirate and Pussycat', in which an 18th-century seaman, quite handsome with bristling moustaches, is matched with a cat, small and sweet with bristling whiskers.
Games are p...
Full Details
Pamela Mei-Leng See / Echoes of Home
Posted: 26 July 2007 -
Pamela Mei-Leng See - Echoes of Home: Memory and mobility in recent Austral-Asian art
Although she was born in Australia, Brisbane artist Pamela Mei-Leng See is drawn to the paper-cut craft techniques of her Chinese ancestors. See uses this traditional technique to interrogate the roots of her heritage and comment on the situation she finds herself...
Full Details
Gavin Hurley / Art Editor's Pick
Posted: 12 July 2007 -
Gavin Hurley -
Aristocratic gents, pirates, pussycats and "a boy's best friend". Auckland artist Gavin Hurley's latest show, Fancy Portraits, evolves the Elam-trained painter's experimentation with collage. Using textures and papers from old books and junk shops, his portraits are described as having "a genteel decorum and childlike naivety". His ...
Full Details
Sam Jinks / Daily Telegraph
Posted: 09 May 2007 -
When Sam Jink's baby boy was born two-and-a-half years ago, the young sculptor found himself marvelling at "the incredible strangeness" of new life. Looking into the unfocused eyes of the newborn Leo, Jinks wondered when the little fellow would really "arrive".
Leo is now a feisty toddler whose presence rarely goes unnoticed. But witnessing Leo's ...
Full Details
Sam Jinks / These sculptures seem to breathe
Posted: 9 May 2007 -
Sam Jinks -
A naked, emaciated man hangs from two pegs in a wall as if crucified, his elongated limbs insectlike, his ribs stark against his chest. Nearby, an oversized newborn sits with head bowed, as if about to deliver a sermon. Opposite him, a grey-haired woman pulls back her garment to expose her tattooed torso.
It's impossible to resist t...
Full Details
Sam Jinks / Jinks heads out of the shadows
Posted: 3 May 2007 -
Many art collectors will know Sam Jinks' work without knowing Sam Jinks.
The Melbourne based sculptor has for many years been one of the main collaborators for Patricia Piccinini, Australia's representative at the 2003 Venice Biennale. Jinks has crafted many silicon creatures for Piccinini, including the half-human, half-sow and sucklings that she ex...
Full Details
Peter Hill / The Myth of the Frame
Posted: 2 March 2007 -
Peter Hill - The Myth of the Frame - Selected Superfictions 1988 - 2007
"Don't I Know You?" Metro art editor Tracey Clements reviews a show by former Metro art editor Peter Hill.
Plato's Cave basement bar in New York city has niche marketing totally nailed. The catchy slogan, "Linking Drinking with Thinking," is perfected pitched to bring in the...
Full Details
Pamela Mei-Leng See / Homage to her Chinese heritage
Posted: 22 November 2006 -
Pamela Mei Leng See - "Chinese Takeaway", The Window Space, QPAC -
It's hard to imagine the absence of Chinese food in Australian society. Brisbane has its own bustling Chinatown packed with eating places and even in the smallest outback towns you will find a Chinese restaurant, such is our love of the country's food.
It was this fact that ...
Full Details
Ken Unsworth / Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Commission
Posted: 15 November 2006 -
Ken Unsworth -
Commissioned by the Elisabeth Murdoch Sculpture Foundation in memory of Ann Miller, a new 6 metre high outdoor sculpture by Ken Unsworth opened on Sunday 18 November 2007 at McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park.
McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, 390 McClelland Drive, Langwarrin, VIC 3910
For more information:
htt...
Full Details
Gavin Hurley / Plastic Myth
Posted: 3 October 2006 -
Gavin Hurley tackles the ominous guilt of colonialism in Australia and New Zealand with haunting imagery recovered from the era of Victorian formal realism. The contemporary investigation of those seemingly historical references suggests a desire to recreate or revise historical doctrine.
Hurley's Leger-esque portraits reveal a false masquerade a...
Full Details
Deidre But-Husaim / Critic's choice
Posted: 20 August 2006 -
Deidre But-Husaim's use of mixed media (painting and digital manipulation) is particularly suited to the hybrid subjects of her series Pollymorphs and Strangelove. My personal favourite bears the iconic face of a Marilyn Monroe-type 1950s pin-up, but Pollymorph 8 is as bemusing as she is beguiling....
Full Details
Gavin Hurley / Salty Yarns Of The Sea
Posted: 1 June 2006 -
GENERALS AND PARTICULARS by James Robertson -
Gavin Hurley paints portraits, yet no body ever sits for him. A portrait painter once removed, he sources his sitters from existing images taken from art history, history books and old school yearbooks. Hurley develops his compositions using collage and a cut-and-paste look carries over into the finishe...
Full Details
Deidre But-Husaim / Body Politics
Posted: 29 April 2006 -
Deirdre But-Husaim paints giant, candy-coloured women, who sprout flowers, grow two heads and like to pout suggestively. She uses digital imaging, and is inspired by an interest in body modification and the saucy pin-up art of the 1950s......
Full Details
Halinka Orszulok / Australian Art Collector
Posted: 1 April 2006 -
Undiscovered Artists - Halinka Orszulok
Working from photographs she often takes in urban park settings, always around three in the morning when natural and man-made illumination and darkness are both at their height, Halinka Orszulok then undertakes the labour intensive process of painting these stills onto canvas.
At first glance these works m...
Full Details
Pamela Mei-Leng See / Animals as Allegory
Posted: 28 February 2006 -
Pamela Mei-Leng See -
Several artists explore issues of consumption and human impact on animal environments. Marion Drew's work presents disturbing juxtapositions of food with animals killed on the roads. The consequences of human actions via introduced species also confront us in Pamela Mei-Leng See's 'Inside every toad' (2005) which succinct...
Full Details
Deidre But-Husaim / Fifth annual smart art survey
Posted: 30 July 2004 -
Deidre But-Husaim -
In our fifth annual smart art survey, Australian Art Collector's art writers and critics recommend to you 20 artists, some emerging and some established, whose work can be purchased for under $ 3,000.
...
The reconsidered pop image, in this case, the 1950s pin-up, frequently appears in contemporary art but not always as oil...
Full Details