Richard Dunn | e-invite and newsletter
Through abstraction and figuration, the work engages with the Fibonacci sequence, which appears throughout nature - in the branching of trees, the uncurling of ferns, the arrangement of a pine cone and the spiral in shells. In the relationship of mathematics to the physical world, abstraction can provide a parallel visual experience in mediating the affects of nature.
In other news…
Congratulations to …..
Deborah Kelly has won the inaugural Screengrab International New Media Art Award for the Tiananmen Memorial, Tank Man Tango.
Deborah’s work Tank Man Tango has also been shortlisted, from a field of 175, for the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest. You can show your support for Deborah at www.globaldancecontest.com . Public voting opens 1 September and closes 13 November.
Newcastle Region Art Gallery has acquired a selection sculptural works from Sarah Smuts-Kennedy’s recent exhibitions at the John Paynter Gallery, Newcastle, and the gbk project space.
Grant Stevens has won the John Coburn Award for Emerging Artists at the 58th Blake Prize with his video work In The Beyond.
International flights….
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro are part of AAFB | Australian Art for Berlin at Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin, until 7 November.
Jonathan Jones features in Erased: Contemporary Australian Drawing, curated by Natasha Bullock, in partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Asialink. The touring exhibition was recently on show at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Singapore and will be touring to Bangkok and Indonesia in the coming months.
Domestic flights…
Peter Alwast and Jonathan Jones are both finalists in the 2009 Fremantle Print Award at the Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia, from 26 September to 22 November.
Jonathan is also a finalist in this year’s Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, with a work from his untitled (domestic heads or tails) series.
Fiona Lowry features in I Have Forgotten More Than You Know at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney until 8 September.
Joan Ross has donated a work to the SAVE FIRSTDRAFT fundraiser art auction. The auction will take place at FIRSTDRAFT on Thursday 3 September 6 – 9 pm and will be hosted by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art.
Joan Ross and Grant Stevens are both finalists in the 58th Blake Prize. The exhibition runs 4 September to 3 October at National Art School, Sydney.
Grant Stevens also features in Total Nowhere Emotion Expansion, as part of the Brisbane Festival from 13 September to 2 October. The exhibition can be viewed online via the Brisbane Festival 2009 website or via a mobile media art gallery touring Brisbane and South-East Queensland.