Nell is included in the exhibition 'us. universal stories' at the newly re-opened Museum of Art and Culture (MAC), Lake Macquarie.
The exhibition features work by significant contemporary artists whose practices tell stories about the human condition, transcending specific politics, culture, religion, gender, geographical location. It is on now until 9 February 2020.
Image: Nell 'if you could hear the sound of my violin you would know how I feel', 2015
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26th Dec 2019
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9th Dec 2019
Eugenia Lim is currently included in the exhibition 'BETWEEN TWO WORLDS' at Newcastle Regional Art Gallery.
'BETWEEN TWO WORLDS' aims to create conversations between artists and audiences while promoting the diversity of works of art being produced by Australian artists of Chinese heritage. The exhibition acknowledges the artists who have lived, worked and are connected to China and Australia through migration, major historical events and Australia’s agricultural and industrial developments. On until 16 February 2020.
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9th Dec 2019
Sam Martin is included in the group exhibition Drawing Folio 3: Abstraction at Block Projects. Curated by John Nixon and Justin Andrews, this ongoing exhibition series presents a broad range of conceptually rigorous works that are drawn by hand.
The exhibition opens Tuesday 10 December, 6–8pm and is on until 1 February 2020.
Image: Sam Martin ‘Garden of Memory’ 2019.
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8th Dec 2019
Zac Langdon-Pole is currently presenting 'Sutures of the Sky' in the BMW Lounge at Art Basel Miami. After winning the 2018 BMW Art Journey Prize, Langdon-Pole undertook extensive travel and research, exploring how people have mapped the stars throughout history. With a focus on celestial mapping, from Europe to the Pacific Islands, Langdon-Pole sought to trace how Western forms of mapping have interacted with perspectives from the Pacific region.
Throughout his travels Langdon-Pole collected small samples of sand from specified locations. Then, using an analogue photographic method in a darkroom, he used these samples to make photograms of sand from each specified location. The project also involved the publication of 'Constellations', published by Hatje Cantz, which documents Langdon-Pole’s BMW Art Journey.
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5th Dec 2019
'Eveleigh Treehouse' created by Nell, in collaboration with Cave Urban, has been selected by Artsy as one of the best public art installations of 2019.
Providing a destination and place of contemplation on Eveleigh Green, the work references the history and character of the Eveleigh railway area in its design and materials, whilst also embodying a personal connection to the site for the artist, whose great-grandfather worked as a boilermaker at Eveleigh from 1931–1952. Created in consultation with the local community, over 400 people welded individual metal gum leaves with personal inscriptions, imbuing the anthropomorphic structures with a face, spirit, and personality.
Image: Nell and Cave Urban, 'Eveleigh Treehouse', 2019, Sydney. Co-commissioned by Mirvac and Carriageworks. Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham. Photo by Nelson Cortez. -
4th Dec 2019
Michael Staniak and Jonny Niesche are currently included in the exhibition 'Flat Earth Society' at Cement Fondu, which closes this Sunday 8 December.
The exhibition features artists working at the intersection of abstraction and screen-based culture. From the flat plane of canvas to the flat-screens of daily life, the artists consider how technology has shifted the possibilities of painting and infused the way we experience and frame our realities.
(images: Michael Staniak and Jonny Niesche 'Flat Earth Society' (installation views) 2019. Photos: Jessica Maurer. -
3rd Dec 2019
Daniel Boyd and British architect David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates have been selected to design a major new public square and plaza building and artwork on George Street in Sydney’s CBD.
Boyd's contribution will be a suspended artwork sitting 20 metres above the ground. The steel canopy supported by a single column will stretch out from the building and shield the 800-square-metre open space on the site of the St George Bank tower. Made from perforated steel, the structure will filter dappled light through circular openings of varying size, animating the space with a moving pattern that reflects the night sky.
“It provides a space of contemplation and diversity, a space to extend knowledge of experience – a multiplicity of experiences and narratives, currently extending back 60,000 years through the connection of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Acknowledging that we can never fully comprehend our past or future is the first step in reconciling differences of perception.” - Daniel Boyd
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2nd Dec 2019
Eugenia Lim is featured in an article by Neha Kale, for the current issue of VAULT.
"Eugenia Lim says that she's always had a 'motley approach to creativity'. Growing up in Melbourne, the interdisciplinary artist – whose output includes video, installation, performance and publishing – was less interested in art history than she was in making zines with her best friend. The medium's DIY ethos and defiant critique of power structures set the stage for an artistic practice that playfully skewers everything from national identity and spatial politics to the way the gig economy holds workers hostage." – Neha Kale
Image: Eugenia Lim in VAULT, issue 28 -
2nd Dec 2019
Patrick Pound is giving an artist talk at QAGOMA on 7 December, from 1pm to discuss his newly commissioned work in the exhibition 'Water'.
'Water', QAGOMA's major summer exhibition, will highlight this precious resource and spark conversations about the environmental and social challenges we face today.
The exhibition is on from 7 December 2019 – 26 April 2020.
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1st Dec 2019
Zac Langdon-Pole has been interviewed by Tendai John Mutambu for Ocula, discussing the travel and research he conducted over the past year as a result of winning the BMW Art Journey Prize in 2018.
"Interpolation is inserting something of a dissimilar nature into something else. 'What belongs where?' is a question that often underpins my work and operates on multiple levels within each project I undertake. Sometimes it is literally expressed by bringing together specific objects or texts that might not usually belong together. Other times it is a more systemic question, with the work addressing how classification systems underpin how we relate to the world."
Image: Zac Langdon Pole in his Berlin studio