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New location: hawthorn
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Blockprojects has relocated to 759 Glenferrie Road, Hawrhorn, VIC 3122.
The Paul Guest Prize 2022 winner
James Clayden
Artist statement
“This work represents a flight of fancy: where a man in a hat with four legs sees the world anew, and a woman flies past below.”
James Clayden Man in hat with woman flying past below, 2022. Pastel, charcoal and ink on paper 102 x 65 cm
jarryd cooper publication: hyper-absent by stray pages
Hyper Absent is a collection of digital works made over the last 12 months, all of which were created on an iPad during periods of varying absentmindedness.
Available for purchase at Perimeter Books and Spray Pages
Regular price $25.00
Jarryd Cooper: Hyper Absent 36 pages, 24 x 18 cm, softcover, Stray Pages (Melbourne)
ZAI Kuang: finalists of the 2021 SBS Portrait Prize.
Zai Kuang has been selected as a finalist in the 2021 SBS Portrait Prize.
“My paintings are about daily life. I want to explore the relationships between figures and their surroundings. I also want to show the inner part of the figure and the objects. From this point, I hope to involve more psychological elements.”
Zai Kuang, Sarah oil on canvas 60 x 60 cm
ZAI Kuang: Wyndham Art Prize 2021
Zai Kuang has been selected as a finalist in the Wyndham Art Prize 2021 .
“My aim is to explore spaces in a domestic environment. I want to create a tranquil atmosphere in my painting. I like to draw and paint figures and objects that I know well because they are familiar to me and I have a range of feelings for them.”
Zai Kuang School holiday 2020, oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm
Peter westwood: Finalist in the 2021 Geelong Contemporary art prize
Peter Westwood has been selected as a finalist in the 2021 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, an acquisitive prize for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian painting.
Peter’s painting, Field of Sorrow (Untethered) 2021, depicts a peculiar and arcane central plant form, derived from the European thistle. The areas surrounding this dominant form depict a visceral, almost bloody red soil, infused with other emerging and strange plant forms. The central plant is reminiscent of an incarnate otherworldly persona affecting a turbulent and changing landscape. The painting contains seven blue, loosely hung threads, that represent the untethering of this unbridled struggle.
Familiar and unfamiliar forms populate Field of Sorrow (Untethered) evoking a clash of worlds, and of times, where conflict and dominance conjure an ever-changing, and chaotic epoch.
Selectors for the 2021 prize exhibition were Grazia Gunn, art historian and curator; Jenepher Duncan, art historian and curator; and Jason Smith, CEO & Director, Geelong Gallery.
We would like to congratulate Peter for his commanding painting and being selected for this very notable Australian painting prize.
Peter Westwood, Field of sorrow (Untethered) 2021, oil on linen, cotton threads 166 x 125 cm.
David Thomas: MOVING TIMES ARTIST BOOK NOW AVAILABLE.
David Thomas’ artist book for his recent exhibition; Moving Times, is now available to purchase online.
Tom Vincent: INTROSPECTION & JO WILSON: FORM WORK - OPENING POSTPONED.
25.05.2021 - 17.06.2021 - Blockprojects Gallery. | Image: Installation, Tom Vincent & Jo Wilson.
Due to upgraded COVID regulations the opening event for Tom Vincent & Jo Wilson’s exhibition has been postponed. The opening will now take place on Saturday the 5th of June. Sign up to our mailing list to get updates on the opening, more info to come as the situation develops.
VIEW EXHIBITION
David Thomas: Moving Times - now showing.
03.03.2021 - 03.05.2021 - Blockprojects Gallery. | Image: Installation, David Thomas: Moving Times. Photo: Christo Crocker
David Thomas’ solo exhibition; “Moving Times” is now showing. Please book your appointment to visit the gallery online, alternatively view more here.
Neil Keith Baker’s “A Course Correspondance” now Open.
03.02.2021 - 20.02.2021 - Blockprojects Gallery. | Artwork: Neil Keith Baker, The Development of a Strategy, oil on panel, 40 x 32cm.
Neil Keith Baker’s solo exhibition; “A Course Correspondance” is now showing. Please book your appointment to visit the gallery online, alternatively view more here.
Jordan grant winner of the 2019 LIA.
SITUATE / 1 March to 24 May 2019 at Leipzig International Artist Residency Program (LIA), Leipzig, Germany
Jordan Grant is the recipient of the 2019 studio residency award and will be travelling to the Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), located in the historic and thriving Spinnerei art complex in Leipzig, Germany. Jordan’s residency will conclude with a solo exhibition at the Australian Embassy in Berlin.
View Jordan Grant’s artworks:
what - winner of 2019 doug moran portrait prize.
The artist what has won the 2019 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for his painting of Robert Forster from The Go-Betweens.
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is Australia’s richest art prize, with the winner receiving $150,000.
For more information on the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2019, please visit the following website:
CASPAR FAIRHALL’S UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AT THE CHINA ACADEMY OF ART, HANGZHOU
Caspar Fairhall has been invited by the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou (CAA) to run a four week workshop, alongside Professors Tian jin, Wang Zhi peng and Fan li. The workshop is entitled, Expanding the Visual Field, and will focus on the representation of space and time in visual art, and the productively paradoxical nature of visual representation. Open to postgraduate students across the academy, the project will encourage collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to exploring the topic.
For more information on Caspar’s workshop in China, please visit his website.
Caspar is presenting a solo exhibition with Blockprojects in April 2019.
STEPHEN EASTAUGH’S UNANCHORED WORLD PREVIEW
It all begins with an idea.
Malcolm McKinnon and Stephen Eastaugh have completed a short documentary about Stephen’s extraordinary self initiated maritime art residency.
The preview of UNANCHORED WORLD has now been released with release details of the full documentary to follow soon.
Stephen Eastaugh will present a solo with Blockprojects in March 2019.
STEPHEN EASTAUGH SELECTED FOR the 18TH STREET ART CENTER RESIDENCY
It all begins with an idea.
Congratulations to Blockprojects artist Stephen Eastaugh who has been selected for a residency throughout August and September 2019 at 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California.
18th Street Arts Center’s visiting artist residency program has hosted more than 500 artists from dozens of countries around the world since it first began in 1992. Over the past 29 years, more than 8,000 diverse visual and performing artists have participated in programs at 18th Street Arts Center ranging from group and individual exhibitions to special events and presentations.
18th Street Art Center
1639 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA
90404
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 11am - 5pm
18thstreet.org/residency/
CASPAR FAIRHALL'S SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE, WA
Caspar Fairhall's solo exhibition Nine times the space that measures day and night has opened at Fremantle Arts Centre, WA. The exhibition runs from 26 May to 15 July 2018.
Caspar has an upcoming solo exhibition with Blockprojects in November 2018.
Fremantle Arts Centre
1 Finnerty Street
Fremantle
Western Australia
Gallery hours: Monday to Sunday, 10am – 5pm
MARC FREEMAN RECEIVES A MARTEN BEQUEST TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP
Marc Freeman has been awarded one of the 2015 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships for Painting.
Freeman will use the scholarship funds to attend art institutions, museums and archives in order to research culturally significant and reoccurring iconography. He hopes to introduce these influences into his current practice, which is deeply engaged in the western cannon of Abstraction. Marc will also spend three months completing a residency at Red Gate Residency in Beijing.
STEPHEN EASTAUGH CURRENTLY AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT RIMBUN DAHAN, MALAYSIA
Blockprojects artist Stephen Eastaugh is currently undertaking a residency at Rimbun Dahan on the outskirts of Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia. Travel is integral to Eastaugh’s practice, and he will spend the next three months developing new work during his stay.
More information about Eastaugh’s time at Rimbun Dahan can be found here:
http://rimbundahan.org/stephen-eastaugh/
Eastaugh will be exhibiting at NKN Gallery in September 2017.
STEVEN ASQUITH FINALISTS IN THE 2017 ARTHUR GUY MEMORIAL PAINTING PRIZE
Blockprojects congratulates Steven Asquith on his selection as a finalists in this years Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, held annually at the Bendigo Art Gallery.
The finalists' exhibition runs from 17 June - 17 September 2017, and has free entry.
Bendigo Art Gallery
42 View Street, Bendigo, VIC 3550
Open: Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm
Above:
Steven Asquith
3 Heads, 2017
acrylic on tarpaulin
152 x 213cm
LOUISE FORTHUN SELECTED AS A FINALIST IN THE 2017 BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE
We are pleased to announce that Louise Forthum has been selected as a finalist in the 2017 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre
Fortune has collaborated with Stewart Russell to produce the work included in the finalist exhibition.
The exhibition runs from Saturday 6 May, to Sunday 18 June, with the award announcement and opening event on Thursday 11 May from 6 - 8pm.
Artwork details:
Louise Forthun and Stewart Russell
Blue Zinc Painting, 2016
synthetic polymer paint and water-based ink on linen
103.5 x 199.5cm