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Catherine O'Donnell at Penrith Regional Gallery
Posted 10 April 2010 - Catherine O'Donnell is one of the 14 participating artists in No Right Turn - Drawing from Western Sydney at the Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
The fourteen contemporary artists featured in this exhibition were selected because they all use drawing as an important element of their artistic practice and they all share a western Sydney connection. All of...
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Farrell and Parkin at the AEAF in Adelaide
Posted 18 May 2010 - Farrell and Parkin have been invited to participate in DUETTO at the AEAF (Australian Experimental Art Foundation) in Adelaide.
On show at the Queens Theatre Venue will be Physiology of Spite and Manga Securities from Mangamorphosis.
A multi-venue project that includes performance, installation, photography, painting, video and exhibition ephemera, du...
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David Ralph - Finalist Sulman Prize 2010
Posted 17 March 2010 - Congratulations to David Ralph. Along with another gallery artist Peter Daverington, he has been selected as a finalist in this year's Sulman Prize.
The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting or genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.
The work of all finalists are on view from 27 March - 30 May 2010 at the A...
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Peter Daverington - Finalist Sulman Prize 2010
Posted 17 March 2010 - Congratulations to Peter Daverington. Along with another gallery artist David Ralph, he has been selected as a finalist in this year's Sulman Prize.
The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting or genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist.
The work of all finalists are on view from 27 March - 30 May 2010 at the ...
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Paul Jackson - Artist Talk at Boutwell Draper Gallery
Posted March 2010 - As part of Art Month Sydney 2010, Paul Jackson will talk about his new series of paintings at Boutwell Draper Gallery on Saturday, 27 March at 2 pm.
Many Australians will be familiar with Paul's work through the annual Archibald Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has been a finalist on many occasions and was awarded the People...
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Richard Woldendorp at the Art Gallery of Western Australia
Posted March 2010 - Richard Woldendorp's exhibition
Abstract Earth: The Photography of Richard Woldendorp
at the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 1 August - 9 November 2009 had a record crowd of 69,000 visitors.
Sydneysiders had the opportunity to see the same exhibition at S.H. Ervin Gallery last year from 20 June - 3 August 2009.
For the last 50 years, Richar...
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Louise Forthun at Lyons Architects, Melbourne
Posted January 2010 - Louise Forthun has completed a large commission for the offices of Lyons Architects in Melbourne.
A fantastic addition to the collection of Corbett Lyons....
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Catherine O'Donnell at the New Zealand International Art Festival
Posted February 2010 - Catherine O'Donnell has been invited to participate with her exhibition 'Light and Shadows' in the New Zealand International Art Festival.
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Catherine O'Donnell at Casula Powerhouse
Posted February 2010 - From 6 February - 11 April 2010 Catherine O'Donnel is exhibiting a selection of her work as part of
'Living Liverpool', an exhibition which brings to life the unique characters, places and the history of Liverpool City.
Eight artists, who have worked, lived or are connected to the region have been commissioned to envision Liverpool as they see it....
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Farrell and Parkin
Posted 17 September 2009 - We are very happy to announce the purchase of 3 photographs and 1 video of the Chinese Self Portraits of Farrell and Parkin by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
We wish Rose and George a lot of fun and inspiration on their next adventure. They will head of to South Korea next week....
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Dennis Del Favero
Posted 10 September 2009 - We like to congratulate Dennis Del Favero on the latest success of iCinema
Joint Finalist for the EUREKA Prize, 2009 and
Joint Winner of the GOLD International Design Excellence Award (USA), 2009 with
iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
Merging Engineering and New Media for the Future of Interactive Digital Technology
Presented an...
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Sam Jinks - MEFIC, Museo de Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporanea, Murcia, Spain
Posted: 1 February 2009 - Sam Jinks' sculpture 'Pieta' (version 2) 2008, edition number 2/2 has been purchased from Boutwell Draper Gallery by Antonio Lopez Gimenez for the MEFIC, Museo de Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporánea. The MEFIC is an initiative by the gallery owner and private collector Antonio Lopez Gimenez who opened his gallery Galeria de arte, Clave, i...
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Ingo Kleinert - The Asbestos Diseases Research Foundation
Posted: 21 January 2009 - The Asbestos Diseases Research Foundation, Sydney, has purchased 3 assemblages by Ingo Kleinert for their entry hall.
"It is hoped Sydney's brand new Asbestos Disease Research Centre will lead the world in finding better treatments and even cures for fatal dust diseases.
For years Bernie Banton fought hard for victims of asbestos related diseases...
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Dennis Del Favero - "eLandscapes" New Media Art Exhibition, Shanghai
Posted: 9 October 2008 - Dennis Del Favero will be presenting the AVIE and T_Visionarium projects.
"eLandscapes" New Media Art Exhibition, Shanghai
Venues:
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art
Curator: Richard Castelli (France)
eLANDSCAPES not only perpetuate the tradition of panoramas with the added value of stereosco...
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Dennis Del Favero - 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Spain)
Posted: 2 October 2008 - Dennis Del Favero together with Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel will be presenting their T_Visionarium project at the Palacio Carlos V. Alhambra, Granada as part of the third Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3).
The third Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3), to be held from 2 October 2008 to 11 January 2009, invite...
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Megastructure Reloaded
Megastructure Reloaded
Visionary architecture and urban design of the sixties reflected by contemporary artists.
Architects + Artists
Archigram, Archizoom, Alan Boutwell, Constant, Gunther Domenig/Eilfried Huth, Yona Friedman, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Superstudio
Jose Davila, Simon Dybbroe Moller, Ryan Gander, Erik Gongrich, Franka Hornschemeyer, Gordon Matta-Clar...
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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...
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Peter Daverington - 57th Blake Prize - John Coburn Award for Emerging Professional Artists
Posted: 4 September 2008 - Peter Daverington has won the John Coburn Award for Emerging Artists for his work Mevlana - The Dervish Series, a category introduced in 2007. And
"When I lived in Instanbul I became involved with the Mevlevi (Whirling Dervishes), and my work started to become infused with the mystical ideas contained within Sufism. In 2007 this led to a large inst...
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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...
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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 ...
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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/...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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