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Martin Parr: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Martin Parr has been given the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo’s Life Time Achievement Award. An open air retrospective of 45 Parr images are currently being displayed at the Kaiserhaus-Garten in honour of this award. A number of solo exhibitions of Parr’s work are being held currently including Tynwald Week – Photos by Martin Parr and his work is showing in Communion, London’s Bold Tendencies’ 2024 program.

Communion
Bold Tendencies, London, UK
until 14 Sep 24

Tynwald Week – Photos by Martin Parr
Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man
until 6 Oct 24

Life Time Achievement Award, Festival La Gacilly-Baden
Kaiserhaus-Garten, Baden, Austria
until 13 Oct 24

Dale Hickey: RMIT Gallery

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Dale Hickey‘s work appears alongside Steven Rendall‘s in the current exhibition Working Title: Studio Practice in the RMIT Art Collection at RMIT Gallery. Curated by Lisa Linton, the exhibition draws from the RMIT Art Collection to reveal notable academics, alumni, methods and collaborations and the rich history of studio practice at RMIT.

Working Title: Studio Practice in the RMIT Art Collection
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
until 27 July 2024

Travis MacDonald: Geelong Contemporary Art Prize

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Congratulations Travis MacDonald on being shortlisted, alongside Ebony Truscott, Euan Heng & Steven Rendall for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The official recipient announcement will be made on Friday 9 August. and an exhibition of the finalists’ works will open at Geelong Gallery on Saturday, 10 August.

2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Vic
10 August – 3 November 2024

Sangeeta Sandrasegar: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Sangeeta Sandrasegar‘s newly commissioned work Yellow deep that drew your eyes is currently showing at RACV ArtHouse, located on site at RACV Goldfields Resort. Sandrasegar’s latest work utilises botanical materials from the Creswick region, reflecting region’s history.

Sangeeta Sandrasegar is currently undertaking a residency at DESA in Indonesia and has been awarded the 2024 visual residency at Monash University Prato Centre in Italy.

Sangeeta Sandrasegar
RACV Goldfields Resort, Creswick, VIC
until 6 October 2024

Ebony Truscott: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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An in-depth article about Ebony Truscott features in the current issue of Artist Profile. Roslyn Orlando met with Truscott earlier in the year and writes that “Ironically, the process of rendering emotive qualities in her work involves a measured, careful objectivity”. Pick up a copy here.

In addition, Ebony Truscott has been shortlisted for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The official recipient announcement will be made on Friday 9 August. and an exhibition of the finalists’ works will open at Geelong Gallery on Saturday, 10 August.

2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Vic
10 August – 3 November 2024

Noel McKenna: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Noel McKenna is the winner of The Darling Portrait Prize and a finalist in the Sir John Sulman Prize and The Wynne Prize. His painting William Nuttall with horses in field is now showing in The Darling Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and his paintings Nun at piano, Brisbane 1966 and Cape Pillar, Tasman Sea, are showing in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2024
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
until 8 September 2024

The Darling Portrait Prize
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
until 22 September 2024

Helen Wright: Heide Museum of Modern Art

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Curated by Melissa Keys, Hair Pieces at Heide Musem of Modern Art explores the complex significance of hair in contemporary culture through work by international and Australian Artists. Helen Wright‘s work features alongside Polly Borland (US), Jim Dine (US), Lou Hubbard (AUS), Patricia Piccinini (AUS), Christian Thompson (AUS), Ai Yamaguchi (JPN) and Louise Weaver (AUS) and more.

Read more about the exhibition in The Guardian, Memo Review, Broadsheet and Time Out Melbourne.

Hair Pieces
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
until 6 October 2024

Euan Heng: ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Euan Heng has been shortlisted for the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize. The official recipient announcement will be made on Friday 9 August. and an exhibition of the finalists’ works will open at Geelong Gallery on Saturday, 10 August.

In addition, Euan Heng’s work is currently showing in the group exhibition The End of History at Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia. The End of History explores artists’ relationship to history, as it’s made. At its centre is a group of works from the University of Western Australia Art Collection made between 1985 and 1995, united by mood and motif.

2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize
Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Vic
10 August – 3 November 2024

The End of History
Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth
until 17 August 2024

Deborah Halpern: AUSTRALIAN ARTS REVIEW

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Deborah Halpern is the subject of a recent article by Rhonda Dredge for Australian Arts Review. Read about her recent exhibition at Niagara and upcoming exhibitions here.

Bradd Westmoreland: ART EDIT

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Bradd Westmoreland‘s work features in a recent ‘Living with art’ article in Art Edit. The article, which discusses the courtship collection of Mandy Hall and Nick Edwards, focusing on the couple’s early collecing and their ongoing support of emerging Australian artists. Read the article in full here.

Photography by Brian Doherty, courtesy of Art Edit, Mandy Hall and Nick Edwards.

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