Helga Groves: Helsinki residency
Helga Groves undertook a three month studio residency on Suomenlinna Island, Helsinki from August - September 2010. The Suomenlinna Island studio is part of the Helsinki International Artist Program (HIAP). 2010 was the first year the residency was available to Australian artists through the Australia Council for the Arts skills and development grant program. Following on from this residency, Helga has produced a body of work that she will exhibit at Milani Gallery later this month.
PETER KENNEDY: LIGHT YEARS
Peter Kennedy's work will be the subject of a major, upcoming solo exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Light Years 1970-1 will restage works from three solo shows the artist mounted in 1970 and 1971, which contained pioneering examples of installation, light, performance, and sound work. An exhibition of recent work by Kennedy will run concurrently at Milani Gallery in late May. Peter Kennedy: Light Years 1970-1, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 7 May - 25 June, 2011. http://www.ima.org.au/pages/exhibitions.php
Lucy Griggs @ LEVEL ARI
Lucy Griggs will exhibit new works shortly at Level ARI, Brisbane. Griggs will exhibit a series of watercolours as part of Tree Line, a group exhibition featuring work by 6 female artists. Tree Line, Level ARI, Brisbane, 8 - 29 April, 2011. For more information: http://www.artguide.com.au/exhibition/tree-line/levelari.org/residency-p...
DAMIANO BERTOLI: REASON AND RHYME
Work by Damiano Bertoli is featured in the Reason and Rhyme at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces from 18 March - 16 April 2011. Curated by Emily Cormack, Charlotte Huddleston, and Amita Kirpalani, Reason and Rhyme investigates the urge to structure and channel creative production through systems, grids and frameworks.
ROSSLYND PIGGOTT: TARRAWARRA MUSEUM OF ART
A solo exhibition by Rosslynd Piggott opens at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria in April. Dividing Infinity: A Room for Painting will feature recent and new paintings by Piggott, who has recently been awarded a prestigious residency at the British School, Rome. Piggott will have a solo exhibition with Milani Gallery in late 2011. Dividing Infinity: A Room for Painting 2 April - 19 June, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Victoria. http://twma.com.au/
TIM JOHNSON WINS PAINTING PRIZE
Tim Johnson has won the 2011 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize with his painting 'Community Base'.
Richard Bell and Emory Douglas: Mural Burnett Lane
Richard Bell and Emory Douglas have collaborated on a mural in Brisbane's CBD in Burnett Lane, adjacent to the Queen Street Mall.
Vernon Ah Kee: Tall Man
Vernon Ah Kee's Tall Man is being exhibited at The Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide from 23 February - 26 March 2011. The four-channel video installation is being shown in association with the Adelaide Film Festival.
Sandra Selig: Networks (cells & silos)
Sandra Selig has made a new site specific installation for the exhibition Networks (cells & silos) at the Monash University Museum of Art. Curated by Geraldine Barlow, Networks (cells & silos) explores connections between artistic representations of networks; patterns and structures found in nature; and the rapidly evolving field of network science, communications and human relations. Selig was commissioned to make a new thread installation for the exhibition, entitled heart of the air you can hear.
Vernon Ah Kee & Raquel Ormella: Erased
Works by Vernon Ah Kee and Raquel Ormella feature in an exhibition of contemporary Australian drawing, to open shortly at the National Art School, Sydney. Curated by Natasha Bullock, and organised by Art Gallery of New South Wales and Asia Link, Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing has already toured venues in Asia through 2009 and 2010. The presentation at the National Art School will also feature 4 new works on canvas by Vernon Ah Kee. Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, National Art School, Sydney, 23 February - 6 March, 2011.