Lane Cormick has a solo exhibition, Janis, at TCB art inc.
Opening: 6-8pm Wednesday 27 March, performance starts at 6pm.
Exhibition: 28 March – 13 April 2013
Address: TCB art inc. Level 1/12 Waratah Place Melbourne
27 March 2013
21 March 2013
Lane Cormick is presenting BPNM as part of Action/Response, a program of new site-specific works curated by Hannah Mathews. Cormick’s BPNM is a personal gesture reminiscing about the gambling days of the old TAB in Errol Street North Melbourne, a site where Cormick had his first big win of $300 in 1995 by backing a horse ridden by Brett Prebble. In front of the former betting agency, the artist has created a series of MDF placards with rubbed photocopy-transfers featuring portraits of Prebble, then an amateur jockey who has since gone on to become one of the stars of the racing industry, winning the Melbourne Cup in 2012.
Action/Response takes place on the 22nd and 23rd of March. The program for Friday 22nd March includes works by Natalie Abbott, Deanne Butterworth, Lane Cormick, Alicia Frankovich, Bianca Hester, Laresa Kosloff, Shelley Lasica, Jo Lloyd, Oliver Mann and Tony Yap and responds to a text written by Ramona Koval.
Lane Cormick’s BPNM will be on view for one hour only, from 6-7pm Friday 22 March.
Location: centre nature strip, Errol Street between Queensberry & Purcell Streets, North Melbourne.
>> Action/Response Dance Massive program
20 February 2013
Andrew McQualter has a new wall work, The realised gesture, currently exhibited at Shepparton Art Museum. Andrew McQualter’s work is the tenth in a series of temporary, site-specific wall projects commissioned by SAM for their Drawing Wall.
13 February 2013
Michael Needham has a sculptural installation, Journey of Articulation (Subsection), exhibited at Gear Box Gallery at Melbourne Grammar School until 15 March 2013.
5 February 2013
Kate Just will be undertaking a London-based public art project from July 15 – October 10, 2013.
As the winner of a British Council Realise Your Dream Award for 2013, Just will travel to the UK to work with artists, members of the Stitch London community, and others to produce public knitting/art works. She will also undertake research in the Victoria and Albert Museum collections, the Tate, Make Women’s Library, the Feminist Archive in Leeds and the Newhall Women’s Art collection.
Kate’s UK project Women HOPE centres on the creation of large scale knitted banners that spell HOPE. During July, August and September 2013, she will hold knitting workshops and events for the project in London and other areas of the UK. Participants will be invited to create knitted squares and help assemble banners.
Following production of the banners, Kate will invite knitters and groups of women to walk behind the banners in ‘Hope marches’ through prominent city sites and local neighbourhoods
Kate is currently looking for participants in London, for more details download the full project brief.
7 December 2012
The National Gallery of Victoria has commissioned Andrew McQualter to create a new iteration of his wall painting, A partial index. Andrew has just finished installing this work on level three of NGV St Kilda Road, where it will be exhibited temporarily. The work will become a permanent acquisition of the Gallery, which will have rights to recreate the work in future.
Image: Andrew McQualter, A partial index, 2012 (detail), acrylic paint on wall, dimensions variable
4 December 2012
Lane Cormick’s Club features on the cover of Un Magazine 6.2. Club was created for exhibition at Daine Singer in March 2012. Un Magazine 6.2 is edited by Lisa Radford, sub-edited by Liang Luscombe and designed by Brad Haylock.
Un Magazine will be holding launches in Melbourne and Sydney.
Melbourne: Thursday 13 Dec | 6-8pm | The Alderman | 134 Lygon Street, Brunswick East.
Sydney: Saturday 15 Dec | 4-6pm | Alaska Projects | Level 2 of the Kings Cross Car Park, 9A Elizabeth Bay Rd Elizabeth Bay (directly behind the Kings Cross Police station).
19 November 2012
Sean Bailey will be joining Gertrude Contemporary next year as a 2013 Studio Artist. Also announced are: Agatha Gothe-Nape, Jess Johnson, Bridie Lunney, Taree Mackenzie, Alasdair McLuckie and Charlie Sofo.
11 October 2012
Kate Just is one of ten Australian artists exhibiting in Louise Bourgeois and Australian Artists at Heide Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition features works by artists who have been inspired by Bourgeois, revealing the depth of her influence locally. The exhibition includes works by contemporary Australian artists that share Bourgeois’ compelling combination of abstraction and figuration, her psycho-sexual themes and surrealist sensibility. The exhibition also includes a number of works by Bourgeois from Australian collections. The exhibition runs 13 October 2012 – 14 April 2013.
10 October 2012
Andrew McQualter has created a new reading room installation for the exhibition City Within the City at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne.
City Within the City examines how through activating urban spaces, we might engender them as sites for creative expression, transgression and resistance. Co-curated by Gertrude Contemporary and Artsonje Centre, Seoul, City Within the City features seventeen Australian and international artists whose works reveal the personal, fictional, composite and re-purposed narratives that arise when human subjectivity encounters the built environment.
City Within the City was first presented at Artsonje Centre (11 November 2011 –15 January 2012) as a flagship cultural project for the diplomatic Year of Australia – South Korea Friendship. This second iteration of the exhibition is a site-specific reimagining of City Within the City curated for the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2012.
The exhibition runs until 7 November 2012.
9 October 2012
Andrew McQualter’s Untitled wall painting (for Helen Johnson), 2006-7/2012 is currently installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
21 September 2012
Alice Wormald has a solo exhibition, In the Unreal Air, at Blindside ARI in Melbourne. The exhibition opens Thursday 27 September 6-8pm and runs until 13 October.
20 September 2012
Simon O’Carrigan has a solo exhibition, Grey Flags, at c3 Contemporary Art Space. The exhibition opens Wednesday 26 September 6-8pm and runs until 14 October 2012.
27 August 2012
On Wednesday 22 August, at a gala event at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Kate Just was named one of three winners of the British Council Realise Your Dream Award 2012. Chosen from over 650 creative practitioners across Australia, Just will use her time in London to work with artists, members of the Stitch London community, and others to produce a large scale knitted sculpture. She will undertake research in the Victoria and Albert museum collections, as well as Make Women’s Library and Newhall Women’s Art collection.
14 August 2012
Alice Wormald has been selected as a finalist in the John Leslie Prize, one of Australia’s most prestigious prizes for landscape painting. The winner will be announced Friday 28 September at 6pm at Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.
20 July 2012
Congratulations to Kate Just and Kate James, who have both been shortlisted for the 2012 City of Hobart Art Prize. Works will be exhibited at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 6 October – 11 November.
18 June 2012
Michael Needham has a solo exhibition, Long Shadowed Land, at La Trobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo.
In Australia, the pursuit of representing the landscape seems to be an attempt to reconcile a disconnection from it. It is an attempt to tame the wild and somehow contain the ancient through artful domestication. Yet a defaulting rhetoric is often employed for repositioning this colonial desire and couching it in quasi-spiritual terms. This is the notion of a sacred land, the re-presentation of which often belongs to the ‘noble’ and creative pursuits of the artist.
Long Shadowed Land explores contemporary uncertainty towards the ideal of the sacred in the Australian landscape. It is about recognising that amidst ideals of representation, the land, like any other that is or has been inhabited, is foreshadowed by loss – in particular – death. This means that through common tropes such as an ancient country, a romanticized wilderness, a mystical serenity, preserved beauty, or sentimentalized under the casting glow of the setting sun, ‘sacredness’ is obscured by the sublime and darkened by subtle melancholia residing over the land. In short, the land is a graveyard, where each vision of the land mirrors a finite self looking out across the open terrain.
The exhibition runs 27 June – 29 July 2012 and opens Thursday 28 June 6-8pm with Euan Heng as guest speaker.
>> La Trobe Visual Arts Centre
4 June 2012
Kate James is exhibiting in Tough Love, curated by Christine Morrow at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide.
Tough Love explores dysfunction. Works by six Australian artists variously embody: suffocating relationships, problematic behaviours, disturbing self-images, vulnerability, anxiety or suffering.
The exhibition runs from 8 June – 7 July 2012.
>> Australian Experimental Art Foundation
15 May 2012
Kate Just: The Knitted Works 2004-2011 runs from 17 May to 8 July 2012 at Ararat Regional Art Gallery, curated by Anthony Camm.
Since 2002, Just has created a body of knitted work which extends from representations of the body, text-based sculptures and abstracted installations. This survey exhibition is the first time her major knitted works have been exhibited together. The exhibition provides a context in which to present Ararat Regional Art Gallery’s newest acquisition of Just’s major sculpture, Paradise (2006). Joining Paradise in the exhibition are other major knitted works by Just: The Garden of Interior Delights (2008), on loan from the collection of the City of Port Phillip, Boundary (LOVE) (2004) and a recent piece created for exhibition in Austria, In My Skin (2011).
The exhibition opens Saturday 19 May 1-3pm at Ararat Regional Art Gallery.
>> Ararat Regionl Art Gallery
21 March 2012
Andrew McQualter is exhibiting in Volume One: MCA Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 29 March 2012 – 1 January 2013.
>> MCA
