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DECEMBER 2008 UPDATE



 

Pat Brassington
Lyndell Brown/Charles Green
Peter Callas
Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Peter Daverington
John Davis
Rose Farrell/George Parkin
Sue Ford
Murray Fredericks
Julia Gorman
Adam Hill
Cherry Hood
Guo Jian
Justine Khamara
Janet Laurence
Sheena Macrae
Dani Marti
Vanila Netto
Robert Owen
Eugenia Raskopoulos
Jacky Redgate
Julie Rrap
Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Sam Shmith
Imants Tillers
Guan Wei
Anne Scott Wilson
Jason Wing
Gosia Wlodarczak
Catherine Woo
Anne Zahalka

Guest Artists:
James McAllister
Robbie Rowlands
Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Huang Xu












 

Current Exhibitions:                             JASON WING / STREET SPIRIT

                                                               DAVID RALPH / EXTENSIONS                             

                                                               25 August - 19 September 2009

 

Forthcoming exhibition:                       DANI MARTI

                                                               22 September - 17 October 2009


             

                                            

JULY / AUGUST 2009:

GOSIA WLODARCZAK
has been selected as a finalist in the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland and Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria. Her Process Capsule prints will be exhibited in Krakow from 16th September until 11th October 2009 and in Vienna from 6th May until 13th June 2010. For more information visit: http://www.triennial.cracow.pl


DANI MARTI
features in Orifices (take2) and Disclosure, a project created after a three months residency. In association with Gay Men's Health, Glasgow and commissioned by GoMA and Glasgay. At GoMA, Glasgow 8th August - 1st November 2009. Also, as part of sh[OUT]: Contemporary art and human rights is the title for the fourth social justice programme developed by GoMA to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex human rights, art and culture. 13th August (artist talk).


News of PETER DAVERINGTON'S upcoming Ney flute concert in The Basilica in Istanbul has been published in a major Turkish newspaper. Daverington is travelling throughout Turkey and the Middle East on a recording trip for his upcoming exhibition and sound installation at Arc One in December 2009.
http://www.zaman.com.tr/haber.do?haberno=873703&title=neyin-pesinde-bir-avustralyali


Dates for the screening of MURRAY FREDERICKS' award winning* documentary Salt have been announced for the Melbourne International Film Festival. These are Sunday 2nd August at 12.15pm and Saturday 8th August at 7pm. To be screened at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image), Federation Square, Melbourne. www.acmi.net.au


GOSIA WLODARCZAK
has been accepted into the 2009 Geelong acquisitive print award.

GOSIA WLODARCZAK
has been invited to be part of The Ikea Home Project to mark the 30th birthday of the iconic KLIPPAN sofa. The resulting works by more than 20 artists will be exhibited at Carriage Works from 28th July - 4 August and sold via an online auction event. Proceeds for the auction will be given as a cash donation to the Victorian Bushfire Relief Effort. For more information please visit http://www.carriageworks.com.au/whats_on.php?event=ikeahomeproject

Gosia has also been selected for an exhibition
Degrees of Density, curated by Marilyn Symmes at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA. Exhibition dates 6 June - 12 July. She is also a finalist in the 2009 Darebin La Trobe Art Prize to be held at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 26 June - 1 August.


Congratulations to
MURRAY FREDERICKS, his documentary Salt won the Best Documentary Award* at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at SILVERDOCS/AFI Discovery Festival. Salt is in the finals of the Australian Documentary Prize as part of the Sydney Film Festival. Salt is also featured as part of the Silverdocs American Film Institute and will be screened in Washington, Moscow, Montreal and Melbourne. For information on Salt the documentary you can visit: www.saltdoco.com

 

DANI MARTI has been commissioned by the Kunsthalle Winterthur for the Non-Age Exhibition in Zurich. The exhibition, curated by Paco Barragan, will run from June 7 until July 26, 2009. For more information visit: http://www.kunsthallewinterthur.ch/

 

GOSIA WLODARCZAK's print Process Capsule Ezri - Day 1 has been selected as a 2009 Print Council of Australia Print Commission. Wlodarczak is the only Victorian to be selected out of 8 Australian finalists.


You can view a video interview of LYNDELL BROWN & CHARLES GREEN in response to their exhibition Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan at the Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne. This major exhibition of paintings and photographs produced in response to their time as Official War Artists for the Australian War Memorial will be touring nationally until December 2010. You can view the interview, touring schedule, photographs and an artist statement online: http://www.awm.gov.au/events/travelling/framing/index.asp


MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
is in a group exhibition 'Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor in Contemporary Art ' at the Katonah Museum of Art in New York from July to October 2009. For more information please visit www.katonahmuseum.org


GUO JIAN
's work features in a new exhibition at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA). The China Project comprises of three major surveys - 'Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection' ; 'Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul' & 'William Yang: Life Lines'. Exhibition dates are 28 March - 28 June, 2009.
For more information visit: www.qag.qld.gov.au/thechinaproject


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NEWS ARCHIVE: A-Z

 

PAT BRASSINGTON:

August 2008: Brassington features in a group exhibition Parallel at Hobart's Salamanca Arts Centre in August and is scheduled to give an artist talk.

June 2008: Brassington will be attending the opening of her retrospective exhibition at theLonnstrom Art Museum, Rauma, Finland on 13 June. The exhibition will comprise a selection of work ranging from the 1980's through to the present.

April 2008:
Brassington's photograph Unspecified Procedures 2006 is featured as part of an upcoming group exhibition Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. The show, curated
by Ashley Crawford and Melissa Amore will be opened on Sunday 6th April. www.jewishmuseum.com.au

February 2008:
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) have recently acquired two prints from Brassington's 2007 exhibition Heat, at Arc One Gallery.

 

 

LYNDEL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN:

A major solo show of LYNDELL BROWN/CHARLES GREEN is currently on at the Ian Potter Art Museum at the University of Melbourne. Framing Conflict: Iraq and Afghanistan is the result of the collaborative artists trip to Iraq and Afghanistant in 2007 appointed as the Australian War Memorials office artists. Until 1st February 2009.
For more information please visit: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au


March 2008:
Brown and Green
are featured in the March edition of Artlink Magazine 'Fuel for Thought: oil, energy, conflict and art'. The article focuses on the photographic documentation of their trip as official war artists in Iraq and Afghanistan. www.artlink.com.au

November 2007: Brown and Green will be giving a talk as part of the CCP (Centre for ContemporaryPhotography) 2007 Free Lecture Series entitled 'Both Sides of the Wire', Wednesday 7th November 6.15pm. For more information please visit CCP online: www.ccp.org.au

June 2007: Lyndel Brown and Charles Green, Robert Owen and David Ralph were all shortlisted for the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize held at Bendigo Art Gallery. The Prize was initiated by Mr Allen Guy C.B.E in honour of his late brother Arthur Guy, with equal assistance provided by the R.H.S. Abbott Bequest Fund. Exhibition dates: 30 June - 5 August 2007.


MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO:

September-October 2008: Cardoso will be showcasing a selection of her Emu Wear series in Miami this month at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, 13th September - 4th October. www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com
April 2008:
MARIA FERNANDA CARDOSO
, DANI MARTI and GUAN WEI have all been selected to exhibit as part of Australian, an exhibition of comissioned works by internationally respected Australian artists. The show coincides with the reopening of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas. Exhibition dates: 5 April - 7 September 2008. www.casulapowerhouse.com/temp08/australian.html

 

 

PETER DAVERINGTON:

September 2008: Daverington has won the John Coburn Award for Emerging Artists, a subsidiary of the Blake Prize for Religious and Spiritual Art with his work Mevlana - Dervish Series. For more information please visit www.blakeprize.com.au
Peter has also been awarded an artist grant from the Melbourne City Council for the developement of a soundsculpture project, due to be showcased at Arc One Gallery.

This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize. Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA who was awarded first prize and PETER DAVERINGTON who won 2nd prize. This exhibition was held at 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

July 2008:
Daverington has been shortlisted for the 2008 Fletcher Jones Art Prize to be held at the Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria www.geelonggallery.org.au

April 2008:
Daverington will be creating a three panel work as part of an upcoming group exhibition Bal Tashchit: Thou Shalt Not Destroy at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. The show, curated by Ashley Crawford and Melissa Amore will be opened on Sunday 6th April. www.jewishmuseum.com.au




ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN:

September 2008: Farrell/Parkin have returned from overseas where their recent Restoration series, exhibitied at Arc One Gallery, travelled to New York's M.Y. Art Prospects. This was their third exhibition in this space, open from 4th September - 11th October 2008. For more information please visit www.myartprospects.com

A selection of Farrell/Parkin's works will also be exhibited at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Quebec in Canada as part of a group show At the Crossroads of Art and Medicine, 10 September - 13 December 2008 - Guest Curator: Marie-France Beaudoin. For more information please visit www.ubishops.ca/foreman

This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize. Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA who was awarded first prize and PETER DAVERINGTON who won 2nd prize. This exhibition was held at 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

July 2008:
Congratulations to ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and GOSIA WLODARCZAK whose works were recently acquired by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery's 2008 National Works on Paper.
For more information please visit: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/nwop

May 2008: 'Eye to "i' - The Self in Recent Art -
Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Victoria. Exhibition runs until 25 May 2008.
Process-Journey - Australia/China Touring Exhibition, 2/F, One Capital Place, Hong Kong, China. May 10 - 22 2008.


February 2008:
Farrell & Parkin feature in an exhibition 'Who Let the Dogs Out: The Dog in Contemporary Australian Art' at Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, NSW. February 8 - March 30 2008.

 

 

ADAM HILL:

March 2009: ADAM HILL has been has been selected as a finalist for this years Wynne Prize for Australian Landscape for his work Six Finger Salary. The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for the "best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists..." Exhibition dates: 7th March - 24th May 2009.

May 2008:
Hill has been selected as a finalist for the 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award
for his work K9 vs Bloodline on the Breadline. www.magnt.nt.gov.au

August 2007:
Hill has been shortlisted for the Xstrata Coal Emerging Indigenous Art Award and the 24th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Art Award in 2007. www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/natsiaa/index.html

 

 

CHERRY HOOD:
April 2009: 
Hood has been invited to hold a survey show at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery in April this year. For more information please visit: http://www.goulburn.nsw.gov.au/community/1037/1095.html

JANET LAURENCE:

October 2008:
JANET LAURENCE features in a recent curated exhibition HEAT: Art and Climate Change at Melbourne's RMIT Gallery. The show, opened by Senator Bob Brown runs until 18th October 2008. For more information and for a full list of Public Programs events please visit www.rmit.edu.au/rmitgallery

July 2008:
Congratulations to our artists JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP & GUAN WEI who have all been shortlisted for the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.  

March 2008:
Laurence features in this years Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Handle with Care at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Until 4 May 2008. www.artgallery.sa.gov.au www.adelaidefestival.com.au

September 2007: A screening of the film The Life World based on Laurence's work and career will feature onABC TV Tuesday 25th September.

July 2007: Laurence has recently returned from a research trip in Europe as part of her Churchill Fellowship and is currently exhibiting her series Greenhouse at Bild Kultur Gallery in Germany. Exhibition dates: 28 June - 10 August 2007.

Laurence's work is featured in a group exhibition System of Nature at the Laurence Wilson Gallery,University of Western Australia, Perth.

 

SHEENA MACRAE:
Arc One Gallery will be showcasing the works of internationally aclaimed artist SHEENA MACRAE at the 2008 Melbourne Art Fair. Please watch this space for more information or visit her website www.sheenamacrae.com

DANI MARTI:

January 2009: Marti's video work 'David' is part of a competition "Oú va la vidéo? 00 00 02, January 20th, Fronte del Porto, Porto Astra cinema. For more information please visit: www.fondazionemarch.org

Marti has also been included in 'Identidades: arte y sexos', a group exhibition at the Sala Astragal in Gijon, Spain


Arc One Gallery would like to congratulate Dani Marti on receiving an Australia Council New Work: Established Grant.

October 2008: Marti has been selected as part of the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery's New Acquisitions 2006-2007 exhibition. The show opens 18th October. For more information please visit: www.ncc.nsw.gov.au/discover_newcastle/region_art_gallery

April 2008: Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Dani Marti and Guan Wei have all been selected to exhibit as part of Australian, an exhibition of comissioned works by internationally respected Australian artists. The show coincides with the reopening of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas. Exhibition dates: 5 April - 7 September 2008. www.casulapowerhouse.com/temp08/australian.html

April 2008:
Marti has been selected to show a solo installation at the Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, with the upcoming event centering on ideas of public and private. 11th - 27th April 2008. www.glasgowinternational.org

September 2007: September sees Marti's solo show Glitering Shadows open at The Studio Gallery in Glasgow as part of the annual Glasgay Festival. 11th September - 10th October 2007. www.glasgay.co.uk/indexframes.html

July 2007: After the success of his recent show at Arc One Gallery, Closer, Marti will be presenting a second version of Off My Noodle, initially a work commissioned by the Newcastle Council and Regional Art Gallery. The new work will be included as part of an exhibition addressing changing weather patterns and global warming. To be held in Sydney in July 2007.

 

                                             

VANILA NETTO:

September / October 2008: Netto will be showcasing her work as part of The Great Reclamation, a group exhibition to be held at Pictura Gallery in Holland. The show opens 6th September. www.pictura.nl. Vanila will head to London in October for a three month Australia Council Studio Residency.

March 2008:
Melbourne's CCP (Centre for Contemporary Photography) will be showcasing a selection of Netto's work from March 2008. www.ccp.org.au

February/March 2008:
Netto's solo show Communication by Contact at the Kathleen O'Connor Gallery, Fremantle Arts Centre showcases her new photographic work triggered by found objects. Exhibition dates: 2nd February - 30th March 2008. www.fac.org.au

September 2007: Netto has been shortlisted for the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize2007 to be held at Monash Gallery of Art. Exhibition dates: 7 September - 11 November 2007. www. mga.org.au

July 2007: Netto will be Artist in Residence at Sydney's Artspace from July 2 2007.

 

ROBERT OWEN:
November 2008:
Owen has produced a 12 metre work for 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism' at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. Exhibition dates: 15 November 2008 - 22 February 2009. For more information visit: http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/optimism

April 2009: Owen in the Drawing Folio, Block Projects, Melbourne. Curated by John Nixon and Justin Andrews. Until 25th April, 2009. www.blockprojects.com

June 2008: Owen features in Shadowplay, a group exhibition at the Lake MacQuarie City Art Gallery. The opening program on Saturday 10 May features a discussion between Robert Owen, Dallas Bray and Naomi Sands on the significance of light and shadow in their work. Shadowplay runs from 9 May - 22 June. www.lakemac.com.au


Owen recently finished the installation of Interlude - Double Weave and New Constellation for the refurbishment of the MLC Centre in Sydney. The work was the winning submission to replace the tapestries of Josel Albers and Alexander Calder. The works are dedicated to Harry Seidler, 1923-2006.

 

 

DAVID RALPH:

April 2009: The Victoria University, Level 17 Artspace, Davi Ralph: Recent Works. Until 9th April 2009. See Profiles section (p. 174), Art Almanac, March 2009 for more information.

2008: This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize.

March 2008:
Ralph's 2004 artwork Reality Checkout features in an exhibition of recent acquisitions by the City of Port Phillip. To be opened at the St Kilda Town Hall 27th March 2008.

August 2007: The Warrnambool Regional Gallery is hosting a solo show of David Ralph as part of their 121 year celebrations. Until 26th August.

 

 

EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS:
July 2009:
Congratulations to EUGENIA RASKOPOULOS who has been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2009 Hazelhurst Art Award with her work Diglossia #1.

October 2008: Raskopoulos
has been selected for the Redlands Westpack Art Prize and Artspace 24/25, 24 artists selected to mark 25 years of Artspace.

August 2008:
Raskopoulos has been selected to exhibit a selection of her video works as part of a new exhibition Video Logic, to be opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney on Monday 18th August. Curated by Russell Storer the exhibition will run from 19th August until 2nd November. For more information please visit: www.mca.com.au

August 2008: Raskopoulos features in a group exhibition Parallel at Hobart's Salamanca Arts Centre.


July 2008:
Raskopoulos has been shortlisted for the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2008 to be held at the Monash Gallery of Art in Victoria. Raskopoulos is one of 34 finalists out of an unprecendented 362 entries for this years prize.
For more information please visit: www.mga.org.au


Arc One Gallery would like to congratulate Eugenia Raskopouls on receiving an Australia Council New Work: Established Grant, awarded through the Visual Art and Craft Strategy.

April 2008: Raskopoulos  will fly to Shanghai, China this month to participate in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary art project Intrude: Art & Life 366 at the Zendai Museum of Modern Art. The event, which aims to intervene in people's daily lives and further draw their attention to art will run for a period of 366 days throughout 2008. Curated by the director of the Zendai MoMA Mr Shen Qibin. Eugenia's project opens April 23rd 2008. www.zendaiart.com

September 2007: September sees Raskopoulos traveling to Instanbul where her video work In A Word: Untitled #5 will be featured in the Nightcomers Project: 10th International Istanbul Biennale. This particular event will showcase a selection of video art, projecting them onto various cultural sights around the city. www.iksv.org/bienal/nightcomers/nightcomers.asp

June 2007: Raskopoulos has been shortlisted for the Albury Regional Art Gallery Photographic Prize, Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre. Exhibition dates: 1 June - 8 July 2007. www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au

 

 

JACKY REDGATE:
December 2008:

Redgate's work is currently featured in Primary Views at The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA). The exhibition, opened in December, will recommence from 3 February until 28 March. For more information please visit: http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/

Also featuring Redgate's work is the 30th Anniversay Exhibition at the Wollongong City Gallery. Until 15 March 2009. For more information please visit: http://www.wollongongcitygallery.com/


Arc One Gallery would like to congratulate Jacky on receiving an Australia Council Fellowship Grant. During the Fellowship period Jacky will be creating paintings, sculptures, photographic and video work for a solo exhibition to be held
at the Institude of Modern Art (IMA) in Brisbane in 2008.

March 2008: Redgate's solo show at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art: Visions From Her Bed combines key works from across her career, including an unseen early work, the Super-8 film Mother England, produced as an art student in Adelaide and new work. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Exhibition dates: 15 March - 26 April 2008. www.ima.org.au

 

 

JULIE RRAP:
Congratulations to JULIE RRAP on winning the Selected Artist category of the 2008 Redlands Westpac Art Prize at Mosman Art Gallery in NSW. Her winning piece Stassis Symbol is a new work which forms part of a larger series Not-A-Muse.

Please click here to view the full Media Release or visit http://www.redlands.nsw.edu.au/go/redlands-community/redlands-westpac-art-prize

July 2008: Congratulations to our artists JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP & GUAN WEI who have all been shortlisted for the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.

June 2008:
Rrap has been selected for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. Exhibition dates 18th June - 7th September 2008. More information coming soon...or visit www.bos2008.com

August 2007: Julie Rrap: Body Double
is
a major survey exhibition to be held at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney curated by Victoria Lynn. The show will feature a selection of key photographic series as well as video, sculpture and installation works spanning her twenty-five year artistic career. The show will be opened on August 30 with the official launch of Rrap's book Body Double - written by Victoria Lynn, to be launched by Linda Jaivin, Author. Exhibition dates: 30 August 2007 - 28 January 2008. www.mca.com.au

August 2007: A small survey show of Rrap's work Embodied will be opened at the Newcastle Regional Art Gallery on the 24th of August 2007. Exhibition dates: 25 August - 14 October 2007.

 

 

SAM SHMITH:

Congratulations to SAM SHMITH on receiving the Pattrick Corrigan AM Acquisitive Award at the CCP's Kodak Salon. You can view Sam's winning work View from the Dayvan at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Fitzroy. www.ccp.org.au

 

IMANTS TILLERS:
February 2009: Imants Tillers: The Lost Poem
opens at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. The show opens on February 12th until April 19th. For more information please visit: http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/



NICOLE VOEVODIN-CASH:

2008: Voevodin-Cash is currently working on a project for the Brisbane Festival, Brisbane City Council and the Museum of Brisbane INHABIT: Ideas for Better Living and has recently completed a public art commission for Skilled Park, Gold Coast Stadium. The work titled Crowning Glory was made from perforated metal and led.

July 2008:
Voevodin-Cash is also working on a turf work titled Escapespace to be exhibited across various venues in the Brisbane CBD, an event for which she is on the curatorial board alongside Rodney Glick (WA), Christopher Langton (VIC) and Inkahoots (QLD). Exhibition dates 18 July - 3 August 2008.


GUAN WEI:

March 2009:
Guan Wei travels to Cuba in March where his work features in the upcoming Havana Biennial. The theme for 2009 is 'Integration and Resistance in the Global Age'.
For more information please visit: www.universes-in-universe.de/car/habana/eng/2009/index.htm

In April Guan Wei will be a part of a travelling group show in both China and Australia with a solo show being held in Beijing in May. Guan Wei is also a finalist in the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. In November Guan Wei will travel to Singapore for an artist in residency program.


July 2008:
Congratulations to our artists JANET LAURENCE, JULIE RRAP & GUAN WEI who have all been shortlisted for the 2009 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award.

June 2008:
Guan Wei's forthcoming exhibition opens on the 6th June at the Beijing YongHe Museum as part of the 2008 Beijing Olympics art festival program.

April 2008:
Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Dani Marti and Guan Wei have all been selected to exhibit as part of Australian, an exhibition of comissioned works by internationally respected Australian artists. The show coincides with the reopening of the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney. Curated by Nicholas Tsoutas. Exhibition dates: 5 April - 7 September 2008. www.casulapowerhouse.com/temp08/australian.html

March 2008:
Guan Wei features in this years Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Handle With Care at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Until 4 May 2008. www.artgallery.sa.gov.au www.adelaidefestival.com.au

February 2008:
Guan Wei
has recently returned from a two month artist residence in Paris and one month in Beijing where he has set up his new studio.

                  

 

GOSIA WLODARCZAK:

April 2009: Wlodarczak has been invited to screen her film trilogy Desire 1, 2 & 3 at the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF). The event will run from 29th April - 2nd May 2009. The festival has been organised by the Western University, Bellingham, Washington state, USA. For more information visit: http://www.bellinghamelectronicartsfestival.com/

March 2009:
Wlodarczak has been curated into a major drawing show 'Walk the Line: New Australian Drawing' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. The show opens to the public March 17th 2009. For more information please visit: www.mca.com.au

2009:
Wlodarczak is the proud recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Skills and Arts Development Studio Residency Grant at Greene Street Studio in New York. The residency will be from March - July 2010. Her performative drawing project is titled Between Visit & Migration.

October 2008:
Wlodarczak is a finalist for the Grafton Regional Gallery's 2008 Jacaranda Aquisitive Drawing Award and subsequent tour. For a full list of gallerys showcasing the works please visit www.graftongallery.nsw.gov.au

September 2008:
Wlodarczak has been invited to contribute to the next drawing conference at COFA in Sydney in September/October 2008. The conference is organised by Michael Esson and the International Drawing Research Institute (IDRI). The conference will have a range of activities with an emphasis on the performative aspects of drawing. www. cofa.unsw.edu.au

August 2008: Wlodarczak has been shortlisted for the Fremantle Print Award 2008 to be held at the Fremantle Art Centre, Western Australia in August (www.fac.org.au), one of 26 finalists for the New Social Commentary 2008 Art Prize, Warrnambool Art Gallery (www.warrnambool.vic.gov.au) and finalist in the 2008 Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (www.bendigoartgallery.com.au).

July 2008:
Congratulations to ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN and GOSIA WLODARCZAK whose works were recently acquired by the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery's 2008 National Works on Paper.
For more information please visit: http://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/nwop

March 2008:
Wlodarczak has been selected to exhibit at the Kentler International Drawing Space in Red Hook, Brooklyn in 2008. The show entitled Sharing Space will incorporate performance and drawing practices. Exhibition dates: 28th March - 4th May 2008. www.kentlergallery.org

Wlodarczak has recently been included in The Drawing Centre of New York's Viewing Program and Artist Registry. Wlodarczak has been chosen to be a part of the initial group to set up the first online portfolios viewable to the public. The Drawing Centre will be donating their collection of artist files to the Museum of Modern Art's Artist Files Archive. Wlodarczak's file will be one of many to be donated. www.drawingcenter.org/viewingprogram

                                             

 

ANNE WILSON:
January 2009: Wilson
has curated a photomedia show On the Line at Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Photograph(CCP). The show looks at the notion of risk and the immediate environment as it pertains to each artists individual practice. Exhibition dates 23 January - 21st March 2009. For more information please visit: http://www.ccp.org.au

July 2008:
Can Serrat Residency - Barcelona, Spain.
May 2008: Australia Council Residency - Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada.
April 2008: Wilson showcases a single channel video projection as part of a group exhibition Vernacular Terrain at Monash Faculty Gallery in Caulfield, Victoria. Until April 19. www.artdes.monash.edu.au/gallery


ANNE ZAHALKA:

This year four Arc artists: PETER DAVERINGTON, ROSE FARRELL/GEORGE PARKIN, DAVID RALPH and ANNE ZAHALKA were selected for the McArthur Cook Art Prize. Congratulations to ANNE ZAHALKA who was awarded first prize and PETER DAVERINGTON who won 2nd prize. This exhibition was held at 45 Downstairs, Flinders Lane Melbourne.

July 2008:
Zahalka has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 Basil Sellers Art Prize to be held at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne in July. www.sellersartprize.com.au
Anne's Hotel Suite series opened at Sofi's Lounge, Sofitel Melbourne, Tuesday 1st July. The works were produced  during her residency at Sofitel Melbourne in April 2008 and forms part of the Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Project Room Program. For more information please visit www.sofitelmelbourne.com.au or www.gap.net.au

April 2008:
Zahalka will
be in Melbourne for an artist residency at the Sofitel Hotel from the 9th - 30th April. The works produced during the period will be exhibited at the Sofitel during the 2008 Melbourne Art Fair in July.

March 2008: Zahalka's Wild Life series from 2006/2007, to be exhibited at Arc One Gallery in April 2008, is on display alongside the Leisureland series in the OIKOS exhibition at SBS Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada. The exhibition is curated by Sylvain Campeau. Exhibition dates: 13th March - 24th May 2008.

June 2007: Zahalka was awarded first prize in the Albury Regional Art Gallery's Photographic Prize, Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre. for her work Dead Whale, Grove Creek from 2006. Exhibition dates: 1st June - 8th July 2007.

                                               

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