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ACU Art Collection: Contemporary Visions

ACU’s latest publication ACU Art Collection: Contemporary Visions focuses on modern and contemporary works from the collection ACU Art Collection. Contemporary Visions features artworks by Angela Brennan, Fiona Foley, Euan Heng and Sangeeta Sandrasegar.

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Martin Parr: Beside the sea

The recently opened exhibition Beside the sea – Tenby through the lens of Martin Parr features photographs by Martin Parr taken around the seaside town of Tenby between 2008 and 2020.

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Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame at Campbelltown Arts Centre has now closed, but a number of journalists have written about the well-received exhibition. Savanhdary Vongpoothorn: Aflame was previewed by Nikita Holcombe for Artist Profile and reviewed by Gina Fairley for Artshub.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Fiona Foley

Fiona Foley’s work features in the upcoming exhibition Loose Knot Chorus, presented by independent arts platform Suite7a. Loose Knot Chorus includes emerging and established contemporary artists from Australia, Aotearoa, Palestine & the US. In addition, Fiona Foley was shortlisted for the Kate Challis RAKA/Ruth Adeney Koori Award. Since 1991, the Kate Challis RAKA Award has shown recognition and support for First Peoples creatives and artists across prose, poetry, script writing, drama and visual arts and has amplified the practices of emerging and established artists, who have made a significant impact and contribution to the arts within the past five years.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Euan Heng

A solo exhibition of recent painting and collages by Euan Heng opens in Edinburgh next week. Regarding the exhibition, entitled Archipelago, Euan Heng states “at the moment of assembly, paper-cut collages give shape to and advance the corresponding paintings and small sculptures.”

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Steven Rendall: data for future paintings

Curated by Melissa Keys and Laura Lantieri, Steven Rendall and Albert Tucker: data for future paintings at Heide Museum of Modern Art features a new series of work by Steven Rendall, prompted by, and exhibited alongside selected studies and photographs by Albert Tucker.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Julie Dowling

Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia, at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the largest overview of art by First People of Australia artists to be presented in Aotearoa and features work by Julie Dowling. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Ever Present highlights the diverse peoples and artistic practices across Australia. The artworks included in the exhibition address Australia’s complex histories and challenge stereotypes about First People of Australia.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Angela Brennan

Angela Brennan‘s Portrait of Erik Jensen is currently on display at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, the first stop on the Archibald Prize 2023 regional tour and the only Victorian venue for the exhibition. Brennan’s work also features in BLAZE: people made known at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, which features portraits drawn from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. In addition, We wanna be free: Paintings from the 1980s and 1990s in the VCA Collection at Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, includes work by Angela Brennan, as well as Dale Hickey.

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Dale Hickey: Weaving Together

Artbank and the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) have partnered to present the group exhibition Weaving Together – Tapestries from the Artbank Collection. The exhibition celebrates the initiative of founding Directors Sue Walker (Victorian Tapestry Workshop) and Graeme Sturgeon (Artbank), which resulted in the acquisition of a number of tapestries by emerging and established Australian artists from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, now known as the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW). The exhibition features a major collaboration between Dale Hickey and the ATW.

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