Peter Alwast | e-invite and newsletter

Alwast’s practice engages the construction of ‘reality’ in both the digital and painterly worlds. His seamless stitching together of the various modes of virtual reality which won him the recent new media award is in this exhibition contrasted with his paintings, which show a fondness for what many now see as the quaint naivety of the medium, and the foibles of humanity the painted surface exudes when compared to the clinical exactitude of the virtual world.

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CONGRATULATIONS TO….

JONATHAN JONES’ whose work mark making (A View of Botany Bay), featured in Ace Bourke’s exhibition Lines in The Sand at the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery earlier this year, was recently purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

GRANT STEVENS, winner of the QANTAS Spirit of Youth Award for the Visual Arts. Elizabeth Ann Macgregor became a ‘mentor’ to Grant as she awarded him cash and flights worth $10,000 for his fresh and innovative approach to contemporary art.

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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS…..

SEAN CORDEIRO & CLAIRE HEALY exhibition Manual at Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin has been extended until 20 December 2008.

HAYDEN FOWLER is participating in The Animal Gaze, at Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University (opposite the Whitechapel Art Gallery), London until 13 December 2008.

JITISH KALLAT’s work can been seen in Berlin in the exhibition Tropics is on at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin until 5 January 2009 and Die Tropen.

Also JITISH’s exhibition Indian Highway at the Serpentine Gallery, London opens on 10 December 2008 and continues until 22 February 2009, Jitish’s work can also be seen in GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy, London until 19 January 2009

Also, JITISH along with art-duo Thukral & Tagra have work in Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo from 22 November 2008.

DEBORAH KELLY will be showing a new work in Transition, at National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow from 28 November - 22 December 2008.

DEBORAH also has work in the group show Porn 2.0 at D21 Galerie in Leipzig, Germany until 14 December.

GRANT STEVENS currently has work in Ornament is a Crime at Gallery 1927, Los Angeles,until 8 December 2008.

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DOMESTIC FLIGHTS…..

GORDON BENNETT’s travelling survey exhibition opens at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on 20 December 2008 and continues until 22 March 2009.

SEAN CORDEIRO & CLAIRE HEALY’s extraordinary new work can be seen at The Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane in the group show Contemporary Australia: Optimism until 22 February 2008. Also Sean & Claire’s White Elephant Stall is on show at the University of Queensland Art Museum as part of the galleries recent acquisitions.

JITISH KALLAT’s solo exhibition Aquasaurus at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, continues until 20 December.

DEBORAH KELLY’s new billboard work Big Butch Billboard can be seen at the Australian centre for Photography from 30 January to 7 March 2009.

FIONA LOWRY has work in the group exhibition Better Places at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in Perth, Western Australia, from 3 December. Fiona also has work on show at the University of Queensland Art Museum.

JOAN ROSS has been teamed with ‘celebrity’ M.P. Malcolm Turnbull to provide an artwork Christmas Tree for the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Trees for Children charity event. The trees will be on view at the Customs House Forecourt, Circular Quay, Sydney from 20 November.

GRANT STEVENS’ video work Really Really will be screening at the Summer Night Projection Window at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, from 15 December to 21 January 2009.