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I am so thrilled to be involved in this exhibition along with these wonderful artists with this incredible organisation.

If you are in Melbourne, be sure to check this one out!

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We are thrilled to let you know of the next CLIMARTE Exhibition; FIRE.

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Artists addressing the climate reality.

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Please attend on the 9th of February at 6pm where it will be officially opened by the Mayor of the City of Yarra Cr Sophie Wade.

All the artists in Fire have been selected for their work that directly addresses FIRE as a landscape, environment and climate threat. Some of the artists are making work in reaction to the unprecedented fires seen here in the last 2 decades in Australia. Some of the artists are making work from devastating personal experience.

Deeply powerful, yet sensitive works fill the 2 gallery spaces at CLIMARTE, 120 and 118 Bridge Rd, Richmond

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The artists are: Katherine Boland, John Gollings, Jody Graham, Fiona Lee and Louise Morgan. Creative Producer, Jo Lane

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FIRE is made possible with a Grant from the City of Yarra. The exhibition runs till the 19th March 2022

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Image: Katherine Boland, WHILE THE WORLD BURNS #2, 2021 acrylic, burnt timber, photomontage.

Thrilled to share that two of my 'Melt' works has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award at Gallery Lane Cove. All work in this show will be for sale.

Opening event is Friday 6 Dec 6—8pm alongside the opening of last years winner and very talented friend from NAS—Kirtika Kain.

ABOUT

The biennial Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award is a national prize established in 1981 to promote and support talented young emerging artists in Australia, initiated by the Lane Cove community in honour of its long term resident Dr Lloyd Rees. Applications are open to 18-30 year old artists Australia-wide in the mediums of painting, drawing and printmaking.

An update about an interesting group show that one of my paper skeletons is included in in Brisbane curated by Pamela See.

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ABOUT

No Waste Form is an eponymous titled series of exhibitions initiated by the Beijing-based international art collective.

An 2019 iteration will open on 29 November, International Buy Nothing Day, at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland.

Re-purposing is a common thread amongst the collective that has contributors from Europe, North America and Asia. The collective primarily responds to issues within their environment using material rendered redundant by unrelenting technological development.

The members of No Waste Form contributing to this exhibition include:

Martin Derbyshire (United Kingdom) • Doug Lewis (Canada) • Frederick Foert (Germany) • Gordon Lauren (Canada) • Ren Hui (China) • Liu Shuiyang (China) • Laurens Tan (Australia) • Alessandro Rolandi (Italy) • Yang Yongli (China) • Chen Xing Wei (China) • Li Yujuan (China) • Zhu Li Zige (China).

The guest artists include:

Franz Ehmann (Austria) • Crisia Constantine (Romania) • Louise Morgan (Australia) • Louis Pratt (Australia) • Sandra Selig (Australia) • Claire Tracy (Australia) • Li Zhouquan (China).

The exhibition will be open from 10.30am—1pm Tuesday - Friday and 12noon—3pm Saturday.

There will be a closing for the exhibition 3 —5pm on Saturday 7 December 2019.

I'm excited to announce that my work Terraformed (Earthscapes) has been selected to join the other finalists in the 2019 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.

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Since 2001 The Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award has been a significant national biennial exhibition that aims to elevate the status of works on paper while supporting and promoting artists working with this medium.

With prize money totalling $26,000, the Award showcases outstanding art created with, on or about paper. Artists compete for the $15,000 major award; the Young & Early Career Artist and the Friends of Hazelhurst Local Artist Awards ($5,000 each); and the People’s Choice Award ($1,000), plus the Hazelhurst Preparator’s choice Residency Award.

The exhibition launch and announcement of award recipients will be held on Friday 20 September from 6pm.

Congratulations to the following artists who have been selected for the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2019:

Margaret Ackland | Samara Adamson-Pinczewski | Suzanne Archer | Nicole Barakat | Lee Bethel | Patrizia Biondi | Josh Boerma | Anthea Boesenberg | M Bozzec | Matthew Bromhead | Leah Bullen | Penelope Cain | Elaine Campaner | Joshua Charadia | Louisa Chircop | Tracey Clement | Kathryn Cowen | Tori de Mestre | Matthew de Moiser | Ben Denham | Shoufay Derz | Mark Dober | Adrienne Doig | Lucy Donovan | John A Douglas | Christine Druitt-Preston | Peter Dudding | Tatjana Este | Robert Ewing | Julia Flanagan | Hayley Megan French | Todd Fuller | Yvette Hamilton | Mark Hislop | Anna Hoyle | Amber-rose Hulme | Kirrily Humphries | Amanda Izzard | Lisa Jones | Locust Jones | Roslyn Kean | Deborah Kelly | Nicole Kelly | Simon Kennedy | Martin King | Maria Kontis | Belem Lett | Michael Lindeman | Tania Maria Mastroianni | Kevin McKay | Ceara Metlikovec | Dale Miles | Stephanie Monteith | Louise Morgan | Damian Moss | Sarah Mufford | Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran | Eva Nolan | Natalie O'Connor | Lillian O'Neil | Elena Papanikolakis | Philjames | Izabela Pluta | Emily Portmann | Monica Renaud | Mollie Rice | Sarah Rodigari | Nick Santoro | Douglas Schofield | Peter Sharp | Liz Shreeve | Kim Spooner | Kylie Stillman | Sherna Teperson | Kerry Toomey | Kate Vassallo | Gary Warner | Jodie Whalen | Paul White | Cleo Wilkinson | Amanda Williams | Paul Williams | Jeffrey Wood | Heidi Yardley | Zuza Zochowski | Tianli Zu.

Sponsored by principal partner Tradies.

Rain II. 2019, graphite and rain on paper, 174 x 250 cm

I'm very excited to share the news that one of my recent 'Rain' compositions has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Banyule Award for Works on Paper. This years theme is 'Threshold'. It will also be my first time exhibiting in Victoria (this feels very overdue and I look forward to catching up with some of my Melbourne peers!).

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The Banyule Award for Works on Paper is awarded biennially to an outstanding contemporary work on paper. It is open to all Australian artists. The award is an acquisitive prize, with the winning artwork entered into the Banyule Art Collection.THEME: THRESHOLD

The world stands at the threshold of change: for better or worse, it's up to us. The theme for the award this year calls on artists to submit artworks that express, explore, advocate, or address current social, cultural, political or environmental issues.

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Julianne Ross Allcorn • Avan Anwar • Rosalind Atkins • Lee Bethel • Wendy Black • Lynne Boyd • Honor Bradbeer • Georgina Campbell • Jazmina Cininas • Carley Cornelissen • Shelley Cowper • Chelle Destefano • Mark Dober • Lesley Duxbury • Liss Fenwick • Robert Fielding • Louise Foletta • David Frazer • Stefan Gevers • Siri Hayes • Anna Hoyle • Alun Rhys Jones • Paul Kalemba • Penelope Le Petit • Tania Mason • Louise Morgan • Harry Nankin • Catherine O’donnell • Chris Orr • Glenda Orr • Alison Robinson • Annika Romeyn • Jo Scicluna • Valerie Sparks • Anne Starling • Cyrus Tang • Mary-jane Walker • Yandell Walton • Paul White • Maria Zeiss

I'm thrilled to have been included in this years HIDDEN sculpture walk at Rookwood Cemetery curated by Kath Fries.

I'll be expanding on my previous work In some other countries rivers have rights .

About HIDDEN

HIDDEN is an outdoor sculpture exhibition that takes place amongst the gardens and graves in one of the oldest sections of the Cemetery. The exhibition invites artists to ponder the notion of history, culture, remembrance and love and allows audiences to witness creative expression hidden throughout Australia's largest and most historic cemetery.

Open from sunrise to sunset, ENTRY IS FREE!

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Photos of this project can be found here

It's that special time of year again where Articulate throws it's progressive rotating exhibition series—this time as FERMENT. I'll be in 4th and 5th group with the beginnings of my latest project* focusing on water resources. Group 4 & 5 will be opening on January 25th and Feburary 3rd, 2019. You can find more information about the exhibition, space and artists here.

From the APS blog:

FERMENT 4 is the fourth of FERMENT's five exhibitions that together show the work of 50 artists over 5 weeks. FERMENT is a project designed to present the exhibition as a changing site by re-contextualising each artwork with new works installed in the gaps left by the departure of works that were installed earlier. This weekly going and coming of artworks is like a slow and progressive dance, each step of which is seen by coming to its 5 openings—on Fridays 6-8pm on 4, 11, 18 and 15 January & 1 February.

By the time it finishes at 5pm on Sunday 3 February, it will have shown the work of Lisa Andrew & Rachel Buckeridge, Susan Andrews, Karen Banks, Liz Bradshaw, Corinne Brittain, Mandy Burgess, Sue Callanan, Angus Callander, Curtis Ceapa , Stella Chen, Lucinda Clutterbuck and Lewis, Paul Cooper, der_melicious, Dominique Madeleine Devadason, Jacquelene Drinkall, Michele Elliot, Merilyn Fairskye, Nola Farman, Beata Geyer, Claire Gibbon, Allan Giddy, Adrian Hall, Barbara Halnan, Annelies Jahn, Fiona Kemp, Harry Klein, Michelle Le Dain, Joyce Lubotzky, Wendy Miller, Louise Morgan, Nadia Odlum, Renay Pepita, Anya Pesce, Nina Raven, Margaret Roberts, Tamsin Salehian, Andrew Simms, Eva Simmons, Anke Stäcker, Helen M Sturgess, Jessica Thallmaier, Rosie Thomas, Mark Titmarsh, Nina Walton, Elke Wohlfahrt and Sarah Woodward.

*Latest project: In some other countries rivers have rights