Queensland Photographer in From the Cold!

JUDY PARROTT, Moulting Elephant seals in their wallow beside Davis Station., 2006, silver gelatin photograph from Antarctica - A Place in the Wilderness

Having spent several months on an Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellowship, Brisbane artist Judy Parrott’s exhibition of photographic works Antarctica - A Place in the Wilderness presents a rare and exhilarating glimpse of life on Australia’s most remote research stations. With the support of Museum and Gallery Services Queensland the exhibition is touring to venues throughout Queensland and interstate.

Malihom Artist-in-Residence- Call for Artists

ABN AMRO – Malihom Artist-in-Residence (“AiR”) Program of the Wawasan Open University Penang, Malaysia Call for Artists Session 1, 2009 (5th January to 30th June 2009)

Application deadline: 30th June 2008

At Balik Pulau, Penang, Malaysia.

The art in ABN AMRO-Malihom Artist in Residence Program (“AiR” Program) is intended to bring new inspiration, perception and understanding to the artists by providing uninterrupted time for work, deliberation, and collegial interaction with the environment and the communities within. We invite visual artists to explore the natural world in varicolored ways.

Residencies are awarded without prejudice, at no cost, to national and international artists in the disciplines of visual arts. Those selected are offered a preparatory allowance, monthly stipend, living and studio space for up to six months with an organized exhibition hosted by AMB AMRO Bank Berhad, Malihom Sdn Bhd and Wawasan Open University at the end of the Program to showcase the Artists’ works.

We seek applications from professional visual artists with national and/or international distinction, to create artwork and/or installation that can augment medium to large-scale thematically-based exhibitions.

For more information please visit :www.malihom-air.org

John Mateer Book Launch

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Nonsites/Image Worlds at TCB

Nonsites/Image Worlds

Kate Woods

Curated by Andrea Bell

12 March - 29 March 2008                                                                                                                              

What do you get when you cross 1970s Land art with kitsch pastel-hued landscapes? One artist’s fragmented fantasy of the crystalline sublime. Kate Woods’ works are made up of two elements. The first is a kitsch second-hand landscape, the second, a geometric cardboard model based on the photographic documentation of Land Art. Paying tribute to Land Art pioneers Carl Andre and Robert Smithson (among others), these models are then placed over the found landscapes and photographed, to create floating multifaceted and refracted forms in the context of sites than will never exist.

Whirlpool (Oppenheim, White's Aviation), 2007, image courtesy of the artist

TCB art inc. artist run space

Level 1/12 Waratah Place Melbourne VIC 3000 AUSTRALIA
Phone +613 96638233 Email info@tcbartinc.org.au
Web www.tcbartinc.org.au Gallery hours wed - sat 12-6pm

The Dead Revolutionaries Club, in association with Claudia Shneider and the Afrika Cultural Centre presents:

Esikhaleni - Spatial Practice

Amos Letsoalo - Beverly Price - Claudia Shneider - Dinkies Sithole - Johan Thom - Kemang wa Lehulere - Lonwabo Kilani - Nicoleen Naidoo - Senzo Nhlapo - Sharlene Khan - Thabang Lehobye

The exhibition Esikhaleni – Spatial Practices uses the concept of ‘space’ as its springboard for creative and artistic expression and intervention. Using the expansive space available at the Afrika Cultural Centre (ACC), a historic site of struggle, teaching and interdisciplinary arts collaborations, a group of artists have been challenged to engage creatively with the warehouse-like space at the ACC. The exhibition interrogates the privileging of spaces within the city and the inner city in particular. Why does one area receive funding while others remain in obscurity? How do physical spaces catalyze the making of artworks? Why are spaces deployed for which purpose in the city? These are some of the issues that are evoked in the curatorial process of selection of artists and in the planning for this exhibition.

Galleries and art collectives from around South Africa have also been invited to showcase some of the artists that they work with, also in an attempt to engage with the ACC. These include Blank Projects (Cape Town), Outlet (Pretoria), Spaza Art Gallery (Johannesburg) and Worldart Gallery (Cape Town/Johannesburg).

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:

Exhibition opening: Friday, 14 March, 6pm,

Performance night: Saturday, 15 March, 6 pm

Exhibition closes: Sunday, 16^th March, 5pm

Venue: Afrika Cultural Centre, Henry Nxumalo Street, Newtown (behind Museum Africa)