TATE: 'Five Things to Know: Gordon Bennett'
TATE/MCA have produced a fact sheet on contemporary artist Gordon Bennett following their 2016 acquisition of Possession Island (Abstraction), 1991. The work is currently being displayed as part of Artist and Society: Citizens at the TATE Modern. Read the article here.
Tintin Wulia: 'If The City Could Speak' State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Tintin Wulia's multi-channel sound installation, Untold Moments - Act 3: Luxembourg, is included in 'If The City Could Speak', an exhibition curated by Emily Siddons at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. The exhibition explores interactions with architecture, public spaces, and urban environments. More information here.
Khadim Ali: 'The Invisible' UTS Gallery, Ultimo
Khadim Ali is included in 'The Invisible', an exhibion curated by Abdul Karim Hekmat at UTS Gallery, Ultimo, New South Wales. The exhibtion explores refugee stories of loss, displacement, trauma, disposession, and memory. More information here.
Luke Roberts: Panel Discussion, 'The Fashioning of Identity', Griffith University Art Museum
Artist Luke Roberts will be involved in The fashioning of identity: bodies, politics and performative strategies
with Dr Nadia Buick, Gerwyn Davies and Chantal Fraser, a panel discussion at Griffith Univeristy Art Museum on September 19 at 6pm. The panel will explore the use of costume and body adornment in contemporary art, and the practice of assuming personas and using the artist’s body. To rsvp email artmuseum@griffith.edu.au.
Gareth Sansom: 'Transformer' featured by the Guardian
Works from Gareth Sansom's major retrospective Gareth Sansom: Transformer have been featured by The Guardian.
Dale Harding: Major Commission featured in QAGOMA Blog
Dale Harding has been featured on the QAGOMA blog, focussing on his major commission for Queensland Art Gallery's new permanent hang of the Australian Art Collection. The article can be read here. The new permanent exhibition opens on Saturday 30 September. More information here.
Vernon Ah Kee, Louise Hearman, Khaled Sabsabi: 2018 Adelaide Biennial Artists Announced
Vernon Ah Kee, Louise Hearman and Khaled Sabsabi have been announced as part of the 2018 Adelaide Biennal of Australian Art: Divided Worlds at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The 2018 Biennial runs from Friday 3 March to Sunday 3 June 2018. More information here.
Eugene Carchesio, Rosslynd Piggott: 'weep for painting: seven non-occasions' MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Eugene Carchesio and Rosslynd Piggott are included in weep for painting: seven non-occasions, a group show curated by Domenico de Clario at MARS Gallery, Melbourne. The exhibition seeks to understand how the selected artists have responded to an experience of reverence for another artist's work. The exhibition runs from Thursday 31 August to Saturday 16 September.
Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Aleks Danko, Dale Harding: Australian Collection Permanent Exhibtion, QAG, Brisbane
The new permanent exhibition of QAGoMA's Australian Art collection includes major works by artists Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett and Aleks Danko, as well as a major commission from Dale Harding. The reconfigured Australian Art spaces capture major historical moments from first contact to colonisation, and exploration to immigration.
Helga Groves, Raquel Ormella, Judy Watson: 'Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective', GOMA
Limitless Horizon: Vertical Perspective draws together an array of artistic approaches that represent the landscape from a vertical perspective, including work by Helga Groves, Raquel Ormella, Judy Watson. Many of the artists in this exhibition remind us how the conceptual parameters of mapping can change our perception of place. The exhibition opens on Saturday 26 August and runs until Sunday 25 March 2018.