STEPHEN EASTAUGH SELECTED FOR A TWO MONTH RESIDENCY AT NORDIC ARTISTS’ CENTRE DALE

Stephen Eastaugh has been selected to spend two months at the Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (NKD) in 2017. Over 1500 applications were received for the 2017 program, which is funded by the Norwegian Ministry Of Culture to support the work international artists, designers and architects. Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale is situated in the village of Dale, Fjaler, on the West Coast of Norway.

JAMES CLAYDEN LAUNCHES A NEW PUBLICATION, AN OPERETTA AND AN EXHIBITION AT LAMAMA THEATRE

James Clayden’s latest work is a creative trilogy – an operetta, an exhibition, and a book. Aphanisis: an Operetta, is playing at La Mama Theatre from 22 March. The book, Little Gods, is a publication of 51 small collaged paintings.

The exhibition opening and book launch will take place at LaMama Theatre on Wednesday 22 March from 5.50pm, with the exhibition contain on 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 March and 1 April.

To book for Aphanisis: an Operetta visit LaMama.com.au.

Little Gods is available now at Readings Carlton and via their website.

LaMama Theatre
205 Faraday St, Carlton
VIC 3053
P: (03) 9347 6948

DENISE GREEN EXHIBITS AT HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Denise Green: The Heide Collection is a retrospective spanning 40 years of painting and drawing by the Australian-born artist, who has lived in New York since 1969. The earliest works are drawn from the Whitney’s New Image Painting exhibition in 1978, which recognised a new generation of artists, whose work used the depiction of objects to respond to the pure abstraction of the 1960s.

The exhibition demonstrates Denise Green’s intuitive painting style, which gives expressive shape to ideas and emotional states that are often rooted in deeply personal experiences.

The artist will give a talk about the exhibition with curator Linda Michael at Heide on 9 April 2017, 2pm.

Denise Green: The Heide Collection runs from 8 April until 18 June 2017

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen VIC 3105
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm
Closed Good Friday

Image details:
Denise Green
Chapel Rose
2001
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
167 x 167 cm
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Gift of Robin Bade and Michael Parkin

MARC FREEMAN INCLUDED IN ‘GUIDES TO HELP YOU’ – DEGRAVES STREET SUBWAY, MELBOURNE

Blockprojects' Marc Freeman is currently exhibiting as part of the group exhibition, Guides To Help You, in Campbell Arcade, Degraves Street Subway, Melbourne. The exhibition has been curated by Tracy Sarroff.

Guides to Help You runs from 14 February till 22 April 2017, with a closing event held on Saturday 22 April from 3-5pm.

MATTHEW JOHNSON’S COLLABORATION WITH ARCHITECTS ON THE ICON BUILDING, ST KILDA.

Matthew Johnson has collaborated with renowned architects Jackson Clements Burrows in the creation of St Kilda’s The Icon.

The Icon houses 119 apartments along with restaurants, and is clad in a perforated woven mesh that changes colour as sunlight moves across the building’s sculptural form. Johnson used over 40 different colours and hues in the design of the façard. Truly now an icon of the St Kilda landscape, it’s hard to miss on the junction of St Kilda and Punt roads.

For more information on The Icon and to watch an interview with Johnson about his design of the building, visit the building’s website.
http://theiconstkilda.com.au

JULIE FRAGAR IS THE WINNER OF THE 2016 TIDAL: CITY OF DEVONPORT NATIONAL ART AWARD

Congratulations to Julie Fragar, who has won the 2016 Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award with her work, Antonio Departs Flores on the Whaling Tide, 2016. Fragar was awarded this $15,000 acquisitive prize at the opening of the Finalists Exhibition on Friday 25 November.

Tidal: City of Devonport National Art Award 2016 finalists:
Diane Allison / Louisa Bufardeci / Janet Bush / Alex Davern / Julie Fragar / Joey Gracia / Helga Groves / Katherine Hattam / Liam James / Anthony Johnson / Amber Koroluk-Stephenson / Michael Muruste / Penny Mason / Sara Manser / Tess Campbell / Troy Ruffels / David Stephenson & Martin Walch / Evelyn Vyhnal / Megan Walch / Matt Warren / Carole Wilson / Anne Zahalka

The 2016 Finalists Exhibition will run at the Devonport Regional Gallery from 26 November 2016 – 29 January 2017.

DENISE GREEN – BEYOND AND BETWEEN: A PAINTER'S JOURNEY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ART MUSEUM

Blockprojects is delighted to announce Denise Green's exhibition Beyond and Between: A painter's Journey at the UQ Art Museum, running from 25 November 2016 – 2 April 2017. Beyond and Between celebrates the major gift of works that the artist’s husband Dr Francis X. Claps MD made to UQ in 2013, and can be viewed online.

Green exhibits regularly in the USA, Europe and Australia, and in recent decades retrospectives of her work have been presented at P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art/MoMA, New York; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve. She is the author of Metonymy in Contemporary Art (2006) and Denise Green: An artist’s odyssey (2012). This exhibition offers an opportunity to reappraise her work, including her recent photo collages.

Public Program:
Thursday 24 November 5.00pm
Join artist Denise Green and curator Michele Helmrich for a preview of the exhibition
RSVP by Friday 18 November 2016

Image details:
Poetry, 1972
oil on canvas
The Denise Green / Francis X. Claps Collection gifted through The University of Queensland in America, Inc. Foundation. The University of Queensland, 2013

PETER WESTWOOD – RESIDENCY AT LEIPZIG INTERNATIONAL ART PROGRAM

Peter Westwood recently completed a residency at LIA – the Leipzig International Art Program, Germany. LIA is located in the Spinnerei, an old cotton factory which now houses numerous artist studios, theatre companies, dance ensembles, designers, galleries and more.
LIA is a non-profit residency program that supports national and international artists by providing them with spacious studio, critical feedback on their residency work, as well as opportunities to exhibit at the Spinnerei.

PETER WESTWOOD IS THE 2016 BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE WINNER

Blockprojects congratulates Peter Westwood who has won the 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize at The Gallery @ BACC and Bayside City Council at the opening celebration. The Major Prize of $15,000 was awarded to Peter Westwood for his work Passivity: after ‘an episode from a fight' 2015, oil on linen mounted on dibond, 149 x 79cm.

The judges stated that, “Westwood’s painting combines elements of abstraction and realism in an image that offers as many interpretations as there are viewers.”

“This work speaks with delicacy and restraint, creating layered pictorial references and evoking complex and powerful emotions. But underlying all is a strong sense of humankind’s unavoidable enmeshment in the natural and psychological worlds.”

JUDGES
Kirsty Grant, CEO and Director Heide Museum of Modern Art, Guy Abrahams, CEO and Co-Founder of CLIMARTE, and Julie Skate, Gallery Supervisor at The Gallery @ BACC together with Bayside Mayor, James Long, Cr Felicity Frederico and Cr Heather Stewart who undertook the final judging of the Local Art Prize.

LOUISE FORTHUN IS A FINALIST IN THE 2016 GLOVER PRIZE

Congratulations to Louise Forthun and Stewart Russell, whose collaborative work Magenta Mist, Rock Island Bend, 2016 has been selected as part of the 2016 Glover Prize finalist exhibition. The Glover prize is one of Australia’s most significant awards for landscape painting.

The Glover Prize winner will be announced on 11 March 2016

The Glover Prize Exhibition 2016 is open to the public for two weekends at Falls Park Pavilion in Evendale, Tasmania – Saturday 12 to Tuesday 15 March and Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 March.
Opening hours: Saturday, Monday and Tuesday – 10am to 4pm, Sunday – 9am to 4pm.

TOM VINCENT SELECTED AS A FINALIST FOR MELBOURNE ART TRAMS 2015

Tom Vincent has been selected as one of 8 finalists for 2015 Melbourne Art Trams – a partnership between the Melbourne Festival, Creative Victoria and Yarra Trams – each artist is commissioned to turn their tram into a moving artwork. The winning artists were selected from more than 145 proposals from across Victoria.

Vincent’s tram is operating now on the City Circle line and will be running until April 2016.

LOUISE FORTHUN’S DESIGN SELECTED FOR MELBOURNE ART TRAMS 2015

Louise Forthun’s design Electrifying has been selected as one of 8 finalists for 2015 Melbourne Art Trams. As part of the Melbourne Festival (in partnership with Creative Victoria and Yarra Trams), each selected artist is invited to turn a working tram into a canvas for their own design. The winning artists were selected from more than 145 proposals from across Victoria.

Forthun’s tram will be operating on the 55 West Coburg line and will be running until April 2016.

DISTILLATION: THE ART OF BRETT MCMAHON – NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY

Blockprojects artist Brett McMahon is currently exhibiting a major solo exhibition at the Newcastle Art Gallery entitled; Distillation: The Art of Brett McMahon. The exhibition includes a far reaching selection of his work from the past 15 years of his practice, including paintings, works on paper and sculptural installations.

Distillation: The Art of Brett McMahon runs from 13 June to 30 August 2015.

Join Brett McMahon on a walkthrough and artist talk about the exhibition on Saturday 18 July at 2:00pm.
This is a free even however bookings are required – call 4974 5100 or email artgallerybookings@ncc.nsw.gov.au to reserve your place.

Newcastle Art Gallery
1 Laman Street
Newcastle, NSW, 2300
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am- 5pm.

MARC FREEMAN – FINALIST IN THE 2015 BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE

Blockprojects is pleased to announce that Marc Freeman has been selected as a finalist in the 2015 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize. The major prize of $15,000 is awarded to a painting and enables the acquisition of new artwork for the Bayside City Council Art & Heritage Collection.

The finalist exhibition will be held at The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Brighton Town Hall from 6 May to 18 June.

The award announcement and opening event on Thursday 11 May from 6-8pm.

The Gallery at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre
Brighton Town Hall, cnr Carpenter & Wilson Sts, Brighton VIC 3186
Opening hours: Wednesday – Friday 11am to 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 1pm to 5pm

MARC FREEMAN - 100 PAINTERS OF TOMORROW.

Marc Freeman has been included in the recent Thames & Hudson publication 100 Painters of Tomorrow by Kurt Beers. The beautiful book contains over 300 colour illustrations and an impressive array of new painting talent from around the globe.

The book will be launched in London at Christie’s Ryder Street Gallery on Thursday 30 October from 6-9pm. Freeman will be exhibiting work at the launch of the book and also at a future exhibition of works from the publication at Beers Contemporary, in November of this year.

Launch:
Thursday 30 October from 6-9pm
Christie’s Ryder Street Gallery
8 King Street, St. James, London, SW1Y 6QT

Exhibition:
Beers Contemporary
1 Baldwin Street, London, EC1V 9NU
Preview: Thursday 27 November from 6-9pm
Exhibition: 28 November 2014 – 17 January 2015