Gordon Bennett and Stuart Ringholt: ArtAsiaPacific Contemporary Visual Culture Issue 78
Issue 78 of ArtAsiaPacific Contemporary Visual Cultures features an article on Gordon Bennett's practice and a profile on Stuart Ringholt. Fields of Disturbance by Olivier Krischer discusses the question of indigenous history and colonial myths, and is a feature article in the May/June issue. Stuart Ringholt' profile A Naked Truth by Michael Young focuses on the themes of fear and humiliation that run through the artist' practice.
For more information: http://artasiapacific.com/
An Awfully Beautiful Place: The Antarctic Art of Stephen Eastaugh at Carnegie Gallery, Tasmania
Spanning ten years of the Eastaugh's practice, An Awfully Beautiful Place: The Antarctic Art of Stephen Eastaugh is a survey exhibition documenting the artist's commitment to working in Antarctica. Having spent more time on the ice than any other contemporary Australia artist, the exhibition will includes large wall hangings, pattern works, and 'travailogue' works creates on journeys accross the Southern Ocean.
An Awfully Beautiful Place: The Antarctic Art of Stephen Eastaugh, Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania. June 7 - July 1 2012.
Stuart Ringholt: New York Times Review
Stuart Ringholt' Naturist Tours have been featured in the New York Times Arts & Design pages. Mark Whittaker reviews Ringholt' performance work 'Preceded by a tour of the show by artist Stuart Ringholt, 6-8pm (the artist will be naked. Those who wish to join the tour must also be naked. Adults only)' at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/australian-museum-offers-t...
Damiano Bertoli: Post-planning at The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Damiano Bertoli' work was is included in Post-planning at the Ian Potter Museum of Art. 'Post-planning’ refers to the unplannable, to doing away with preconceived ideas and starting something before you know where it finishes. The exhibition Post-planning allows us to follow artists who adapt methods in a similar way; making work by searching the mid-ground, applying ideas from one context or discipline to another.
Post-planning, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne. 31 March - 22 June 2012.
Jon Cattapan: Perspectives at the QUT Art Museum
Jon Cattapan will show in Perspectives at QUT Art Museum, 21 April - 24 June 2012.
More information: http://www.artmuseum.qut.edu.au/exhibit/2012/perspectives.jsp
Christian Capurro, Elizabeth Gower and Stuart Ringholt: Cut with the Kitchen Knife
Christian Capurro, Elizabeth Gower and Stuart Ringholt' work all feature in Cut with the Kitchen Knife. Current touring with Nets Victoria, Cut with the kitchen knife surveys the current manifestations of collage in contemporary art; a movement which takes as its starting point the absurdist collages arising from the highly influential Dadaist movement of the early twentieth century.
Volume One: MCA Collection
Currently showing at the MCA, Volume One: MCA Collection reflects upon the breadth of Australian contemporary art over the past 20 years and includes work by Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Gordon Bennett, Ian Burn, Aleks Danko, Bonita Ely, Lousie Hearman, Tim Johnson, Gareth Sansom and Gemma Smith. For more information: http://www.mca.com.au/mca-collection/volume-one-mca-collection/
Vernon Ah Kee, Luke Roberts, Kate Beynon: Finalists in the Archibald Prize 2012
Vernon Ah Kee's portrait of Lex Wotton, Luke Roberts' portrait of Richard Bell, and Kate Beynon's portrait of Lindy Lee are finalists in this year's Archibald prize.
Archibald Prize 2012: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 31 March - 3 June 2012.
For more information: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2012/
Stuart Ringholt and Raquel Ormella: Social Networking at the Gallery of Modern Art
Stuart Ringholt and Raquel Ormella's work features in Social Networking at the Gallery of Modern Art. The exhibition explores how contemporary artists broach social contact with their subjects and audiences.
Social Networking: Gallery of Modern Art, 3 March - 1 July 2012.
For more information: http://qagoma.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/social_networking
Eugene Carchesio and Gemma Smith: Lightness and Gravity at Queensland Art Gallery
Eugene Carchesio and Gemma Smith's work is featured in Lightness and Gravity at the Gallery of Modern Art. Lightness & Gravity showcases the Gallery’s contemporary collection in a series of thematic constellations. The title points to a longstanding philosophical discussion of the fundamental character of life (and by extension art making) as weighty, meaningful and constrained by history, or as playful and arbitrary — and thereby free.
Ligthness and Gravity: Gallery of Modern Art, 3 March - 5 November 2012.