TRENT PARKE AT MAGNUM WORKSHOP FREMANTLE

19 - 23 March 2012 In partnership with FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography

Magnum Photos are delighted to announce the first Magnum Workshop of 2012, an exciting photographic experience held as part of the FotoFreo 2012: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography.

The Magnum Workshop will offer 36 international photographers with an intensive, 5 day practical photography course led by three acclaimed Magnum photographers: Antoine D’Agata, Donovan Wylie and Magnum’s only Australian photographer, Trent Parke

Applications close 6th February 2012. More Information

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MEGAN JENKINSON AND ANNE NOBLE FEATURED IN EXHIBITION AT NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA, CANBERRA

Penguins and Ice: Photographs of Antarctica 1910-2010
23 December 2011 - 25 March 2012

Antarctica has long been a region that has fascinated and captivated imaginations. First sighted in the early part of the nineteenth century, systematic examination of the mainland began around the turn of the twentieth century.

Accompanying mesmerising early twentieth-century photographs of the continent are more recent works by American Eliot Porter, Australians DavidStephenson and Peter Dombrovskis as well as New Zealanders and Stills artists Anne Noble and Megan Jenkinson.

The National Gallery of Australia has also recently acquired works by Anne Noble for their collection.

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PAT BRASSINGTON FEATURED AT THE ADELAIDE BIENNIAL 2012 IN PARALLEL COLLISIONS

2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian art
Art Gallery of South Australia
Fri 2 March to 29 April 2012
Daily 10am to 5pm

An experiential proposition inspired by art, cinema and literature, the 2012 Adelaide Biennial explores the ways in which ideas emerge, converge and re-form through time. The Biennial considers the temporality of the present as it parallels and collides with the past. Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works including that of Pat Brassington and some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.

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STEPHANIE VALENTIN AT RMIT GALLERY CONTEMPLATING THE FUTURE

2112: Imagining the Future
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2 December until 28 January 2012

A selection of works by Stephanie Valentin from her Earthbound series will be exhibited at RMIT, Victoria in 2112: Imagining the Future. Tapping into general anxieties about an uncertain future and public concern about the consequences of climate change, 2112 Imagining the Future presents a range of images revealing how contemporary artists imagine the world might look in one hundred years’ time.

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PETRINA HICKS’ WORK FEATURED IN DOUBLE VISION AT MCCLELLAND GALLERY

McClelland Drive, Langwarrin, VIC 3910
3 November 2011 until 5 February 2012

Petrina Hicks’ Ghost in the Shell 2008 plus Infinity and Emily the Strange from Beautiful Creatures, 2011 will be featured as part of a group exhibition at the McClelland Gallery in an exhibition, which exuberantly explores contemporary art with ideas of portraiture and the body as the focus. Double Vision exhibition explores the captivating art of Realism and the intriguing exchanges that occur between painting, photography, digital image and sculpture.

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ROBYN STACEY

A Verdant Heart
Hawkesbury Art Gallery, NSW
9 December 2011 until 5 February 2012

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NARELLE AUTIO THE PLACE IN BETWEEN EXHIBITED AT LAKE MACQUARIE CITY ART GALLERY, NSW

Where there is water...
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
9 December 2011 until 5 February 2012

Narelle Autio’s body of work The Place In Between from 2007 will be exhibited as part of an exhibition exploring the complex dualities of water. Where there is water, there is life but water also has the potential to take life as these artists depict. With its endless aesthetic range, the slippery nature of water remains a potent and enchanting subject for artists.

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ROBYN STACEY: HOUSE BOOK LAUNCH AND EXHIBITION AT THE MUSEUM OF SYDNEY

Robyn Stacey and Peter Timms
Book Released October 2011
Exhibition 15 October - 5 Feb 2012
Museum of Sydney, cnr Bridge & Phillip Streets, Sydney

House, a new book and an exhibition opening 15 October 2011 at the Museum of Sydney will feature the stunning still-life photography by Robyn Stacey, showcasing the extraordinary and everyday objects from the Historic Houses Trust’s collections and properties.

The exquisite photographs are the result of a four-year collaboration between the Historic Houses Trust (HHT) and Stacey who gained unprecedented access to the more than 29,000 objects held in the collections of Elizabeth Bay House, Vaucluse House, Rouse Hill House & Farm and the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection.

The exhibition will feature over 15 of Stacey’s striking images, a selection of objects from each of the properties and a slide-show revealing the intricate process behind each photograph.

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TRENT PARKE: STEIDL TO PRODUCE AND RELEASE BOOK MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE BUCKET, FEBRUARY 2012

Trent Parke’s acclaimed series Minutes to Midnight and The Christmas Tree Bucket will be published and released by world-renowned publishers, Steidl, in February 2012.

Steidl have worked with some of the most celebrated photographers and artists across the globe. What began as a backyard enterprise has evolved into one of the world’s most sophisticated and distinguished printing and publishing companies. The unique quality of Steidl book production has brought Steidl to the attention of acclaimed photographers, artists and designers and he works for many renowned museums and galleries.

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PETRINA HICKS: FEATURED IN GROUP EXHIBITION AT AGNSW

Hick’s work Shenae and Jade will be included in the exhibition What’s in a face? Aspects of portrait photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Drawn from the gallery`s collection, the exhibition will trace the evolution of photographic portraiture from the latter half of the 19th Century. Hicks will be exhibited alongside Destiny Deacon, Max Dupain, Olive Cotton, Darren Sylvester, Carol Jerrems; together with Man Ray, Manuel Alvarex, Nan Goldin, Loretta Lux, Ben Cauchi, which will provide a larger international context to the exhibition. 24 September until the 5 February 2012

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