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FREEDMAN FOUNDATION TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
THE FREEDMAN Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists provides assistance towards travel for educational purposes for young people building a career in the visual arts in the areas of painting, photography or sculpture. Overseas travel, preferably for the first time, to undertake formal study, a residency or a planned program with a professional artist or […]
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Steve Lopes @ Dwyer Fine Art, Melbourne
Steve Lopes, has an exhibition of new work at Dwyer Fine Art, Melbourne.
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AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS COOKING UP A STORM @ ART HK10
Today Artist Profile continued their tour of the 2010 Hong Kong International Art Fair. In its third year and with an increased participation from international galleries, the fair hosts a large and varying array of artists on exhibition. On the floor, works by Damien Hirst sit alongside pieces by collaborative artist duo Gilbert & George. […]
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ARTIST PROFILE @ ART HK10
The 2010 Honk Kong International Art Fair kicked off last night to much fanfare and a throng of crowds – artists, curators, collectors and galleriest amongst everyday art lovers – from around the world. The fair, in its third year, has grabbed the attention of the international art world as it plays host to some […]
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PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT OPENING TONIGHT @ 4A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART
4A PRESENTS Catching the Moment; Each Step is the Past, an exhibition of major new work by Thai-Australian artist Phaptawan Suwannakudt. Catching the Moment; Each Step is the Past is an ephemeral and poignant installation using silk and hand-woven fabric, layered with delicate drawings and Thai texts. This exhibition includes a major new interactive work, […]
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MAGMONDAY
So this is cool—blogging about a mag blog blogging about our mag. Thanks to the zine aficionados at magmonday who had some nice things to say about our cover art direction: “Keep an eye out for some nice stuff being done on the cover of Next Media‘s Artist Profile using hand shaped typography. The last […]
ARTHK10 – HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, 27-30 MAY.
[youtube Cu-KmON8DUw] FOR AUSTRALIAN galleries and collectors, the growing popularity of the Hong Kong Art Fair can only be good news—a sign that the art world’s eyes and purchasing power are increasingly focused on our region. This year a slew of top Australian galleries are making the trip—including BREENSPACE, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, gbk, Sullivan+Strumpf, Tolarno, […]
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DAVID SERISIER @ LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY
David Serisier’s latest body of abstract paintings further explores his interest into the perception of colour and light; issues of materiality and immateriality; and his passion for the geometry of the square. The exhibition is made up of five large paintings of varying monochromatic colours, four smaller monochromatic paints, and a series of prints made […]
Issue 10
Featuring Nike Savvas Ken Whisson Also Inside Tanya Chaitow Adrian Ghenie Graham Fransella Pieter Hugo Sally Gabori Philip Guston Fiona Hall Plus Essays, Reviews, News Sebastian Smee on Kandinsky Steve Lopes on Failure
ROBERT ROONEY @ TOLARNO GALLERIES, MELBOURNE
THE FIVE PAINTINGS in Robert Rooney’s latest exhibition are based on images by cartoonists who signed themselves Picq, Vire and GOD. These cartoons were sourced from copies of Le Rire, a French satirical magazine that Robert Rooney found in a second-hand bookshop in 1999. Le Rire (Laughter) was founded by Felix Juven in October 1894, in a […]
On This Island at Hazelhurst
An artist forum with Euan McDonald, Ann Thomson, Peter Simpson and Steve Lopes.
WHAT @ GALLERY 9, SYDNEY
THE ARTIST known as what is one of the most enigmatic art identities in Sydney. MCA curator Glenn Barkley profiled what for us in 2008 and since then what‘s work has been acquired by several major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. For this latest exhibition at Gallery 9, provocatively entitled Satanism, the artist is […]
KILL PIXIE @ EDWINA CORLETTE, BRISBANE
ONE OF OUR favourite young artists – LA-based Australian, Kill Pixie (aka Mark Whalen) – is having an exhibition of new works at Edwina Corlette Gallery in Brisbane—and you only have one more week to see it. We profiled Kill Pixie in Issue 7. Not only were we really taken by his work, which betrays […]
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Tagged Art, Brisbane, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Graffiti, Kill Pixie, Mark Whalen, painting, street art
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PIETER HUGO @ GREENAWAY, ADELAIDE
ONE OF THE most celebrated African photographers of his generation, Pieter Hugo will soon be showing work from his Nollywood series at Greenaway Art Gallery in Adelaide. Read more about the artist and his fascinating subject matter from the Nigerian film industry in our 8-page feature article in AP Issue 10, where Hugo speaks with […]
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KAOS IN KING STREET
LUKE CAVALAN (aka Lc Beats) is a Sydney young aerosol artist, beat-boxer, claymation filmmaker and graduate of AFTRS (Australian Film, Television and Radio School). Thanks to sponsorship from 567 King graffiti art supply store in Newtown and Australian aerosol paint company Ironlak, he’s produced his second claymation, single frame stop-animation feature film KAOS IN KING […]
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Tagged film, Graffiti, Luke Cavalan, Newtown, street art, Sydney
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KATE SHAW @ RYAN RENSHAW, BRISBANE
“AT FIRST glance, artist Kate Shaw (FEAT. AP ISSUE 6) is dabbling with a subject painted by artists throughout art history. But Shaw’s landscapes, although recognizable as such, are not mere pictorial representations of polar ice caps and interior Australia. Her spectacularly hallucinogenic paintings remind us of the threat of global warming and environmental degradation […]
PORT JACKSON PRESS GRADUATE PRINTMAKING AWARD 2010
NOW IN ITS third year, the Port Jackson Press Australia Graduate Printmaking Award 2010 offers printmaking graduates the professional experience of exhibiting in a commercial gallery along with a $4000 cash prize, and a feature article in Imprint, sponsored by the Print Council of Australia. This award is acquisitive and is open to any student […]
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LOVE, LOSS & INTIMACY: NGV INTERNATIONAL
DRAWN FROM the National Gallery of Victoria Collection, Love, Loss & Intimacy will feature over sixty prints and drawings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Munch, and David Hockney amongst others—with Australian artists such as modernist Joy Hester (AP Issue 3), contemporary Indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee (AP Issue […]
GEORGE BALDESSIN—TARRAWARRA MUSEUM OF ART
GEORGE BALDESSIN WAS only 39 when he died in 1978 and is no star performer in the stiflingly ordinary Australian art auction market—in large part due to his dogged focus on printmaking and sculpture, the unloved siblings of Modernist painting. Stories of his ‘bohemian’ lifestyle and prickly charm, peppered with anecdotes of an ambiguous sexuality, […]
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STREET ART THEFT
WHEN WE PROFILED Skalitzers Berlin in October for Issue 9, we predicted their chic concrete exhibition space showing the best international street art would get an enthusiastic response—they got that but not in the way they had hoped. After opening with a show of work by Fernando Carlo aka Cope2—one of New York’s most respected […]
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TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON
TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON has now opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and will continue until 11 April 2010. In our latest issue, Gillian Serisier caught up with Olafur Eliasson, one of the most recognised artists working today, and discussed his career and his trademark immersive environments in the lead up to […]
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