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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Steven Rendall

Steven Rendall‘s work appears in three current exhibitions and an upcoming exhibition in Melbourne. Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes at Heide Museum of Modern Art brings a selection of significant works by contemporary Latin American and Australian artists together and explores the ways that art can take our imaginations beyond the limitations of the known world. The exhibition includes work by Alexander Apóstol (Venezuela), Tatiana Blass (Brazil), Lauren Brincat (Australia), Christian Capurro (Australia), Elena Damiani (Peru), Marlon de Azambuja (Brazil), Matías Duville (Argentina), Gloria Sebastián Fierro (Colombia), Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peru), Arturo Hernández Alcázar (Mexico) Nadia Hernández (Venezuela/Australia), André Komatsu (Brazil), Liliana Porter (Argentina), Marilá Dardot, (Brazil), Nicholas Mangan (Australia), Jorge Magyaroff (Colombia), Hayley Millar-Baker, Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung (Australia) Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (Ecuador/France), Berna Reale (Brazil) and Steven Rendall (Australia).

In Clarity & Mud at Blindside artists Michael Graeve and Steven Rendall have used items extracted from a list of sub proposals to structure the exhibition – akin to an employee’s performance plan. This involves a complex combination of play and seriousness in relation to status, institution and practice.

Another collaboration between Michael Graeve and Steven Rendall entitled Mud & Clarity is now on at Five Walls, Footscray, until 16 September.

The upcoming exhibition Steven Rendall: data for future paintings, curated by Melissa Keys and Laura Lantieri features a new series of work by Rendall, prompted by, and exhibited alongside selected studies and photographs by Albert Tucker. The exhibition opens later this month in Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery at Heide Museum of Art and runs until March 2024.

Clarity & Mud: SRMG (Steven Rendall, Michael Graeve)
Blindside, Melbourne
until Saturday, 9 September 2023

Michael Graeve & Steven Rendall: Mud & Clarity
Five Walls, Footscray, Melbourne
until Saturday, 16 September 2023

Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne
until 22 October 2023

Steven Rendall: data for future paintings
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne
16 September 2023 – 17 March 2024

TELSTRA NATSIAA WINNER Brenda L. Croft

Congratulations Brenda L. Croft, winner of the Telstra Work on Paper Award at the 2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award (NATSIAA). The Telstra NATSIAA is Australia’s longest running and most prestigious Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art award. The Award showcases the very best contemporary art from around the country, from emerging and established artists.

The 2023 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards exhibition features Croft’s work (above), at Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory until February 2024. Read more about the finalists in The Guardian here and The Sydney Morning Herald here. View the virtual exhibition here.

In addition, Brenda L. Croft’s portrait, taken with the assistance of Prue Hazelgrove, blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher (Gurindji/Malngnin/Mudburra; Mara/ Nandi/Njarrindjerri/Ritharrngu), which has been shortlisted for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 is showing as part of the finalists’ exhibition at National Portrait Gallery, Canberra until 1 October. Read more about the portrait here.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
until Saturday, 1 October 2023

Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory, Darwin
until Sunday, 18 February 2024

Paul Boston: Stone Clouds at Heide Museum of Modern Art

The survey exhibition Paul Boston: Stone Clouds, featuring work from the 1980s to today will open at Heide Museum of Modern Art next week.

“Boston’s quiet, thoughtful paintings and drawings investigate space, light and materiality rather than representing figures or objects in the world, and over time his visual language has slowly transitioned from a type of hieroglyphic vocabulary, through a minimal or reductive phase, to the more complex and layered illusionistic forms of recent times. Throughout he has adhered to a sophisticated, subdued palette and a resolution that his images operate beyond logical thought and intended meaning.” courtesy of Heide Museum of Modern Art. Paul Boston: Stone Clouds is curated by Lesley Harding.

Paul Boston: Stone Clouds
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Melbourne
9 September 2023 – 10 February 2024

Paul Boston will be exhibiting new work with Niagara Galleries in November/December 2023

Artist Spotlight: Angela Brennan

Congratulations Angela Brennan, finalist in the Archibald Prize 2023. Her portrait of Erik Jensen is currently showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the finalists’ exhibition. Read more about Angela Brennan’s portrait here.The Archibald Prize finalist exhibition will tour nationally later this year, into 2024.

Angela Brennan is also a finalist in The Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, an annual acquisitive prize that was launched in 2017 to advance art and opportunity for emerging and established women artists in Australia. This is the highest value professional artist prize for women in Australia. An exhibition of the finalists’ work ends this Sunday, 28 May 2023.

Angela Brennan is featured in Australian Abstract, by arts writer and curator Amber Creswell Bell, published by Thames and Hudson. This new book provides a expansive survey of contemporary Australian abstract painting. Australian Abstract is available at all good booksellers and directly via Thames & Hudson here.

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
until 3 September 2023

2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
Ravenswood School for Girls, Gordon, Sydney
until 28 May 2023

Julie Dowling in Dance Me to the End of Love at Shepparton Art Museum

A tender portrait by Julie Dowling of her own grandmother features in the exhibition Dance Me to the End of Love at Shepparton Art Museum. Works in the exhibition are selected from the SAM collection and include ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, assemblage and installation.

Dance Me to the End of Love
Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Victoria
until 11 February 2024

Art Collector: Ken Whisson

“Although he lived an unusually long and purposeful life, it is not easy to accept that the author of those unforgettable pictures has gone. There will never be another like him.” Joe Frost discusses the work of the late Ken Whisson in the latest issue of Art Collector. Read more by ordering your copy here.

Artist Spotlight: Fiona Foley

Fiona Foley‘s work features in the current exhibition Significs at Conners Conners. Significs brings together work by a number of contemporary Australian artists who explore explores text through the ideas of signs, semiotics and perception.

Featuring work by both Dianne Jones and Fiona FoleyBeating about the bush: a new lens on Australian Impressionism, at Art Gallery of Ballarat pairs work by female photographers who have re-examined the Australian landscape with works drawn from the gallery’s collection of Australian Impressionist landscape paintings.

Significs
Conners Conners, Fitzroy, Melbourne
until 4 March 2023

Beating about the bush: a new lens on Australian Impressionism
Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria
until 19 February 2023

Martin Parr’s first solo exhibition at Clementine de la Feronniere

Martin Parr‘s first solo exhibition at Clementine de la Feronniere has opened in Paris. Photographs from the 1970s to present day feature in his latest exhibition, with subjects ranging from tourism, small shops, horse races, sporting spectators and village fairs.

Martin Parr
Clementine de la Feronniere, Paris, France
until 12 May 2023

Artist Spotlight: Steven Rendall

Works by Steven Rendall are currently being shown in two artist run exhibitions in Melbourne. The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins (BOO!) in Fitzroy Gardens is open Tuesday to Saturdays 11am until 5pm and is currently exhibiting works by Steven Rendall, along with Parminder Kaur, Tobias Titz with Alum Cheedy and Bobby Bunungurr, Patrick Pound, Saffron Newey, Scotty So, Hootan Heydari, Katyan Javan, Edie Duffy, Julie Vinci and more.

Steven Rendall’s work is also showing at Brunswick Temporary. Bringing together work by six artists who explore the interplay of our digital/physical existence in contemporary life, A sky the colour of a dead channel continues until 25 February.

Origin of Images (Oi!)
The Pavilion, Fitzroy Gardens, Fitzroy, Melbourne
until 4 March 2023

A sky the colour of a dead channel
Brunswick Temporary, Brunswick, Melbourne
until 25 February 2023

Steven Rendall is exhibiting at Niagara Galleries in May 2023.

Artist Spotlight: Euan Macleod

Euan Macleod‘s work features in two current exhibitions in Queensland. Peter Kingston / Euan Macleod: Travelling North at Cairns Art Gallery, and the group exhibition entitled WrestleMANIA at Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton. WrestleMANIA brings together work by twenty contemporary sculptors, painters, cartoonists and new media artists who have all responded to the sport and theatre of wrestling. Drawn from the Cairns Art Gallery collection, Peter Kingston / Euan Macleod: Travelling North features work by the two artists that respond to the vibrancy of life in the tropics.

WrestleMANIA
Rockhampton Art Gallery, Rockhampton, QLD
until 26 February 2023

Peter Kingston / Euan Macleod: Travelling North
Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, QLD
until 5 March 2023

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