ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE - BLOG
PORT JACKSON PRESS GRADUATE PRINTMAKING AWARD 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
NOW IN ITS third year, the Port Jackson Press Australia Graduate Printmaking Award 2010 offers printmaking graduates the professional experience of exhibiting in a commercial gallery along with a $4000 cash prize, and a feature article in Imprint, sponsored by the Print Council of Australia. This award is acquisitive and is open to any student who majored in printmaking and completed their course of study in 2009 at any tertiary institution in Australia.The panel of three judges who will select the award recipient are Des Cowley, Rare Printed Collections Manager, State Library of Victoria; Graham Fransella, Melbourne Based Artist (AP Issue 10); and Anne Virgo, Director, Australian Print Workshop.
The award finalist's artwork will be on display at the James Makin Gallery from 4 - 27 Feb 2010 and the award will be announced on Thursday 18 Feb 2010, from 6 - 8 pm.
Image: PETER THOMSON Minnie and Me, 2009, screenprint on plywood, 112 x 117 cm
LOVE, LOSS & INTIMACY: NGV INTERNATIONAL
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
DRAWN FROM the National Gallery of Victoria Collection, Love, Loss & Intimacy will feature over sixty prints and drawings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Munch, and David Hockney amongst others—with Australian artists such as modernist Joy Hester (AP Issue 3), contemporary Indigenous artist Vernon Ah Kee (AP Issue 2) and painter Jon Cattapan.
13 Feb - 25 July 2010
NGV International—St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
Labels: Jon Cattapan, Joy Hester, NGV, Vernon Ah Kee
GEORGE BALDESSIN—TARRAWARRA MUSEUM OF ART
Saturday, December 19, 2009
GEORGE BALDESSIN WAS only 39 when he died in 1978 and is no star performer in the stiflingly ordinary Australian art auction market—in large part due to his dogged focus on printmaking and sculpture, the unloved siblings of Modernist painting. Stories of his 'bohemian' lifestyle and prickly charm, peppered with anecdotes of an ambiguous sexuality, are much of what has kept his reputation alive at all. As former National Gallery of Victoria Director Patrick McCaughey remembers, his life and art were inextricably interwoven: ‘as man and artist [he] was enigmatic and vivid, secretive and theatrical ... He was a mildly but persistently intimidating presence.’
Yet among many cognoscenti of 20th Century Australian art, particularly other artists, a deep respect for his extraordinary work lives on. TarraWarra Museum of Art is holding a survey exhibition curated by Maudie Palmer and Elizabeth Cross, GEORGE BALDESSIN, running through to 14 March 2010—prints, sculpture, watercolour, paintings and photographs of the artist have been sourced from public and private collections as well as the artist's estate. To coincide with the exhibition, Australian Galleries have teamed with author Harriet Edquist and the George Baldessin Estate to publish a 260 page monograph, GEORGE BALDESSIN: PARADOX & PERSUASION.
The works in this magical exhibition and publication are sexy, surreal, and dark—everything that we at AP like in our art. All deaths are premature, depending on your perspective, but it is tempting to consider what Baldessin's ongoing contribution to Australian Modernism might have been had we not lost him so young.
STREET ART THEFT
Thursday, December 17, 2009
WHEN WE PROFILED Skalitzers Berlin in October for Issue 9, we predicted their chic concrete exhibition space showing the best international street art would get an enthusiastic response—they got that but not in the way they had hoped. After opening with a show of work by Fernando Carlo aka Cope2—one of New York's most respected taggers—a group of thieves broke into the gallery and stole all but four works. Witnesses say four young men were later seen on the U-bahn with the works and are believed to have targeted the gallery specifically for Cope2's tags.
Police are on the case and the gallery has offered a reward for the return of the works, no questions asked.
TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON
TAKE YOUR TIME: OLAFUR ELIASSON has now opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and will continue until 11 April 2010.In our latest issue, Gillian Serisier caught up with Olafur Eliasson, one of the most recognised artists working today, and discussed his career and his trademark immersive environments in the lead up to this major survey.
For the background on this celebrated artist's career, get your copy of Artist Profile Issue 9 now and read our exclusive interview.
"Environmental issues, such as those we're experiencing today, weren't part of the world agenda when I set out to be an artist. My seeing Iceland as a source of inspiration has much more personal reasons."—Olafur Eliasson, Issue 9
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
EDITOR'S NOTE -- ISSUE 9
Sunday, November 15, 2009
WHEN WE STARTED ARTIST PROFILE magazine in 2007, our goal was to create a publication that gave readers insight into the private working lives of artists and put the best Australasian creative talent alongside their international contemporaries. Two years and eight issues later, the editorial team decided we were up for a new challenge.Collaborating with leading British art materials producer Winsor & Newton, we invited 11 artists on a 10-day painting expedition through the North Island of New Zealand. We assembled some of the most respected painters working in Australia today over three generations, each with their own perspective on how to absorb, sketch and paint the experience.
Some have devoted their careers to divining nature through an artist's vision; some rarely, if ever, paint outside their own studios; some reject the rarified notion of "landscape" painting; but each has a unique take on the promise of this stunning environment to yield material, aesthetic and philosophical challenges.
One mountain, 11 answers.
In Issue 9, we profile this extraordinary trip, the camaraderie that formed among the group and talk to each of the artists about their processes - from plein air to studio - as they head back to prepare work over the coming months for the forthcoming exhibition ON THIS ISLAND, MEETING AND PARTING - which will tour Australia, New Zealand and the UK in 2010/11.
Danish-Icelander Olafur Eliasson is the wunderkind of the public gallery experience. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, will soon be hosting the survey exhibition - TAKE YOUR TIME - giving Australians a chance to experience some of the magic that drew over 2 million people to bask in his apocalyptic sunlight at London's Tate Modern in 2003. Gillian Serisier speaks to the enigmatic Eliasson about the philosophy behind his work.
This issue also has a fresh redesign and 32 more pages to give more space to interviews and art: we talk to American performance artist and filmmaker Patty Chang; Sam Leach previews new work from an Australian graduate of the Leipzig Arts Academy, Steven Black; and Joe Frost tackles one of the most vexing quations in contemporary art - how much value should we place on originality?