Justine Varga – News
JUSTINE VARGA in FROM THE DARKNESS…
11 February – 16 April 2017
Horsham Regional Art Gallery, VIC
This exhibition investigates light, performance and architectural space.
Image: © Justine Varga
JUSTINE VARGA in SILVER & SALT: EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY
17 December 2016 – 5 February 2017
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
This exhibition showcases works that embrace and exploit traditional photographic techniques and mediums to produce innovative and experimental work.
Image: © Justine Varga
ACME International Residencies Programme
Justine Varga is currently on residency in London for the ACME International Residencies Programme, with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts New South Wales.
Image: © Justine Varga
JUSTINE VARGA in NEW MATTER: RECENT FORMS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
10 September 2016 – February 2017
Art Gallery of New South Wales
This exhibition features recent work by Australian and international photographers who expand the limits of photographic representation, experimenting with the abstraction of form.
Image: © Justine Varga
WINNER
JOSEPHINE ULRICK & WIN SCHUBERT PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
Until 21 August 2016 Gold Coast City Gallery, QLD
Congratulations Justine Varga, Winner of the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2016.
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JUSTINE VARGA finalist MAMA ART FOUNDATION NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2016
21 May – 7 August 2016
Murray Art Museum Albury, NSW
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga whose work Remembering #16 is a finalist in this years MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize.
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RECENT ACQUISITIONS
Stills is delighted to announce that the National Gallery of Australia have acquired three works from Accumulate – Enter, Exit (Red State) and Edge (all 2014/2015). The works are currently on display at the NGA.
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SPEAKER
NATIONAL VISUAL ART EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2016
Justine Varga is an invited speaker for the third NVAEC in January 2016. The theme of the conference New directions: practice + innovation + learning will focus discussions on a broad range of current issues in visual art education.
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JUSTINE VARGA in ‘IS/IS NOT’
12 February – 12 March 2016
Westspace, VIC
This exhibition joins the global conversation addressing the complications of photographic language in the 21st century.
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JUSTINE VARGA in ‘EMANATIONS: THE ART OF THE CAMERALESS PHOTOGRAPH’
29 April – 14 August 2016
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ
Curated by Geoffrey Batchen, this exhibition explores the art of cameraless photography from its inception in the 1820s and encompassing historical, modern and contemporary works.
Image: © Justine Varga
FINALIST
2015 BOWNESS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE
25 September – 22 November 2015
Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga whose work Enter is a finalist in this years Bowness Photography Prize.
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FINALIST
2015 NSW VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP (EMERGING)
12 November – 12 December, 2015
Artspace, NSW
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga who is a finalist in the 2015 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). This esteemed annual exhibition profiles the dynamism and breadth of emerging artistic practice in NSW and is a critical platform for developing intelligent dialogue around the work of each finalist. One finalist will be awarded the $30,000 fellowship on the 12th of November opening night.
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JUSTINE VARGA in 'AGAINST A DEGREE OF BLINDNESS'
22 July – 16 August 2015
MOP Projects, NSW
Curated by Isobel Parker Philip.
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JUSTINE VARGA in 'FOR FUTURE REFERENCE'
3 July – 6 September 2015
Centre for Contemporary Photography, VIC
Varga's entire Moving out series is included in this exhibition which features artists who have explored memory and nostalgia in photography. Curated by Pippa Milne.
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JUSTINE VARGA in 'SLOW BURN'
20 June – 26 July 2015
Delmar Gallery, NSW
This exhibition includes contemporary artists who explore fire in mythology and culture. Early still life work from Varga's 2011 Film Object series is amongst the exhibited works.
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FINALIST
THE CHURCHIE NATIONAL EMERGING ART PRIZE
31 July – 29 August 2015
Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga whose works Enter, Exit and Edge have all been selected for the finalists exhibition of 'the churchie national emerging art prize' 2015.
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FINALIST
HAZELHURST ART ON PAPER AWARD
30 May – 26 July 2015
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, NSW
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga whose work Sounding Silence #1 in a finalist in the Hazelhurst Art On Paper Award which showcased outstanding art created with, on or about paper.
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UTS PSM - PUBLIC LECTURE with JUSTINE VARGA
Monday 4 May 2015 @ 6:30pm
Level 3, Room 22
702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo
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FINALIST
JOSEPHINE ULRICK & WIN SCHUBERT PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD 2015
28 March – 31 May 2015
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga whose work 6 Months, 2 Weeks (2013) is a finalist in this years Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award.
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JUSTINE VARGA in ART COLLECTOR MAGAZINE
Issue 71, Jan-Mar 2015, pp142-143
The latest issue of Art Collector Magazine features Justine Varga in ‘50 Things Collectors Need to Know 2015: Grants & Residencies’.
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JUSTINE VARGA wins MCA PRIMAVERA VEOLIA ACQUISITIVE PRIZE 2014
Stills is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga who has been awarded this years MCA Primavera Veolia Acquisitive Prize.
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JUSTINE VARGA finalist WHERE IT'S AT: 2014 NSW VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP (EMERGING)
October 2014
Artspace, NSW
STILLS is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga who is a finalist in the 2014 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging). An exhibition of the 12 finalists work will be held at Artspace in October. One artists will be awarded the fellowship (valued at $30,000) on the opening night of the exhibition.
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JUSTINE VARGA finalist THE CHURCHIE NATIONAL EMERGING ART PRIZE
1 August – 20 September 2014
Griffith University Art Gallery, QLD
STILLS is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga, selected as a finalist in this years 'the churchie national emerging art prize'.
'The churchie' is a respected and highly prestigious competition open to all mediums including painting, works on paper, photogrpahy, new media and sculpture. The 2014 overall winner will be awarded a $15,000 non-acquisitve prize.
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JUSTINE VARGA AFTER DARK: COMPOSING ART
Thursday 1 May 2014, 6:00pm
The Arts Centre Gold Coast, QLD
After Dark: Composing Art is a night of art, music, talks and food presented at The Arts Centre Gold Coast in conjunction with the 2014 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award. Justine Varga, last year's joint winner, will return to speak about composing her sparse yet emotional images.
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PETRINA HICKS, GLENN SLOGGETT, JUSTINE VARGA & BEVERLEY VEASEY finalists 2014 JOSEPHINE ULRICK & WIN SCHUBERT PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
29 March – 25 May 2014
The Arts Centre Gold Coast, QLD
Congratulations to Petrina Hicks, Glenn Sloggett, Justine Varga and Beverley Veasey who have been selected as finalists in the 2014 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award.
Now in its 14th year, the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award is considered one of the most important annual surveys of contemporary Australian photographic practice.
Petrina Hicks will be represented by her work Venus from the series The Shadows (2013). Glenn Sloggett's The saddest plant in the world has been selected for the award as well as last years joint winner, Justine Varga, for her work Sounding Silence #4 (2014). New work from Beverley Veasey, Summertime, Botany Bay is also included in the finalists.
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JUSTINE VARGA in ‘I SPY: WINDOWS AND DOORS IN ART’
Opening 2pm Saturday 23 November
23 November 2013 – 9 February 2014
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
Justine Varga’s video work Lightform #17 (2012) is included in this exhibition of contemporary artworks that feature the motifs of windows and doors. The show explores how these otherwise everyday elements of architecture might be conceived as imaginative portals, presenting us with ideas and places that exist beyond the limitations of our literal relationship to space.
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JUSTINE VARGA in 'ON THE SURFACE OF THINGS'
16 October - 2 November 2013
Firstdraft Gallery, NSW
Justine Varga's works Still life #12 and Moving out #9 from the series Moving out (2012) is included in this group exhibition of 9 artists curated by Isobel Parker Philip. The artists featured share a preoccupation with surface, skin, screen and shroud. This collective fascination is explored in 'On the Surface of Things' in relation to the photographic medium.
Image: © Justine Varga
NARELLE AUTIO, PAT BRASSINGTON, ANNE FERRAN, PETRINA HICKS & JUSTINE VARGA finalists '2013 WILLIAM AND WINIFRED BOWNESS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE'
4 October – 3 November 2013
Monash Gallery of Art, VIC
Congratulations to Narelle Autio, Pat Brassington, Anne Ferran, Petrina Hicks and Justine Varga who have been selected as finalists in this years Bowness Photography Prize.
Established in 2006 to promote excellence in photography, this annual non-acquisitive prize is amongst Australia's more important and coveted photography awards.
This year’s eminent judging panel, artist Brook Andrew, AGNSW Senior Curator of Photographs, Judy Annear and MGA Gallery Director Shaune Lakin have selected 46 photographs from 562 entrants.
Narelle Autio will be represented by her mysterious and shadowy underwater landscape Untitled #5 from the series Water hole, 2012. Pat Brassington has been selected for her work Shadow Boxer from the series Quill, 2013. Anne Ferran's striking image of performers creating movement and energy using lengths of fabric, Pale-headed flycatcher from Box of Birds, 2013 is included in the finalists. Petrina Hicks is represented by new work Enigma, from The Shadows, 2013 combining her heightened technical skill and elegant composition with unsettling ambiguity; as well as Justine Varga's beautifully minimalist works Moving out #2 / Moving out #4 from the series Moving out, 2012.
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JUSTINE VARGA in '2013 NSW VISUAL ARTS FELLOWSHIP for EMERGING ARTISTS'
4 – 20 October 2013
Artspace, NSW
Congratulations to Justine Varga who is a Finalist in the '2013 NSW Visual Arts Fellowship for Emerging Artists'. Hosted by Artspace, the finalist exhibition represents an exciting showcase and significant career milestone for the 12 selected emerging artists. Supporting the professional development of exceptional early career artists, the Fellowship has helped launch the international careers of its past recipients including art duo Soda_Jerk (2011), Lauren Brincat (2009) and Sam Smith (2007).
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JUSTNE VARGA awarded AUSTRALIA COUNCIL LONDON STUDIO RESIDENCY
29 August – 21 November 2014
Stills Gallery is delighted to congratulate Justine Varga who is the successful recipient of the Australia Council London Studio Residency.
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JUSTINE VARGA WINS PACKERS PRIZE, 'ART ON PAPER: HAZELHURST ART AWARD 2013'
6 July – 25 August 2013
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
Congratulations to Justine Varga who has taken home the inaugural Packers Prize as part of this years Art on Paper: Hazelhurst Art Award. Justine was awarded a month long residency at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.
The annual Art On Paper award is a competition of outstanding art created with, on, or about paper. A diverse range of paper media is presented in the exhibition including pencil drawings, charcoal, ink, oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolour, three dimensional works, photography, printmaking and paper animation. 96 finalists were selected for the exhibition, including 29 emerging artists and 14 local artists. The award selection panellists included Jane Cush, Director of Goulburn Regional Gallery, and Liam Benson (winner of the 2011 Hazelhurst Art Award) with the final selected entries judged by art critic, writer and broadcaster Andrew Frost. The exhibition of finalists will be on display at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre until 25 August 2013.
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JUSTINE VARGA WINS the 2013 JOSEPHINE ULRICK AND WIN SHUBERT PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
6 April – 19 May 2013
Gold Coast City Gallery, The Arts Centre Gold Coast
Stills Gallery would like to congratulate Justine Varga on winning the 2013 Josephine Ulrick and Win Shubert Photography Award.
The prestigious $20,000 award was announced on Saturday evening at the Gold Coast City Gallery and was jointly awarded to Liam Benson and Justine Varga. This highly anticipated award is a highlight of Gold Coast City Gallery’s exhibition program. From close to 300 entries, this year’s guest judge acclaimed New Zealand photographer Anne Noble selected 65 finalists and both winners.
On judging Varga's work, Noble commented "This photograph was made by someone who clearly loves the medium of photography. I was impressed by its simplicity, beauty and its evocation of experiences that exist beyond the frame of the image. Justine Varga brings a contemporary conceptual rigour to a complex observational project. Drawing with light, surfaces and a simple line she binds the surfaces of an empty room to the space of interior memory."
Image: © Justine Varga
PAT BRASSINGTON & JUSTINE VARGA in FLATLANDS
15 September 2012 - 3 February 2013
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Flatlands: photography and everyday space is a selection of works drawn from the AGNSW’s permanent collection of 20th century and contemporary photography. It will feature Pat Brassington’s In marble halls #1-#5 and Justine Varga's Empty studio #1 & #7 alongside photographs by Australian and international artists including Simryn Gill and Fiona Hall.
Justine Varga's first exhibition at Stills Moving Out opens on Saturday 13 October 3-5pm
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JUSTINE VARGA in THE LOOKOUT
13 August - 13 October 2012
National Art School Gallery, Sydney
Justine Varga is one of four artists featured in the National Art School’s exhibition The Lookout, which considers the social role of the artist as aproducer of critical visions. Varga’s delicate hand-printed photographs are shown alongside cinematic collage, diaristic drawings and home-video style works by artists Locust Jones, AnriSala, and Rania Stephan.
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JUSTINE VARGA in PRIMAVERA 2012
4 October to 2 December 2012
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has announced Justine Varga as one of the seven artists selected for the 21st edition of Primavera. Celebrating the work of Australian artists aged 35 years and under, curator Anna Davis has focused the 2012 exhibition on themes of “imagined territories, spiritual landscapes and private interior realms”.
Varga’s inclusion in Primavera will coincide with an exhibition at Stills featuring her new photographic and video works from the series Moving Out. Justine Varga at Stills opens on Saturday 13 October 3-5pm, and runs to 10 November 2012.
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