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Ann Debono at CAVES
Ann Debono has curated the exhibition Gardener’s Ellipse at CAVES in Naarm/Melbourne, featuring new paintings by Debono, Annika Koops and Daichi Tagaki. The exhibition employs the gardener’s method of tracing an ellipse in the soil to demarcate and plot unformed earth as a conceptual point of departure that elucidates and characterises three painter’s practices, as that which oscillates between poles of reality and idealism, figuration and abstraction.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a zine and essay by Debono which touches on gardens, geometry, movies and painting.
Gardener’s Ellipse CAVES, Naarm/Melbourne 30 March – 20 April, 2024
Raafat Ishak in conversation at the National Museum of Australia
Raafat Ishak will feature in the panel conversation Living Egypt: Exploring Contemporary Expressions of Culture, Creativity & Identity at the National Museum of Australia in Ngambri/Canberra.
A collateral event for the ongoing exhibition Discovering Ancient Egypt, the discussion (which additionally includes actor and artist Helen Sawires and academic Dr Lucia Sorbera) will consider contemporary Egyptian cultural expressions, encompassing art, film, literature and more. The panelists will engage in and scrutinise the manifold ways in which contemporary life in Egypt and the Egyptian diaspora continues to be shaped by and has subsequently revisited the traditions of ancient civilisations.
Living Egypt (Artist talk) National Museum of Australia, Ngambri/Canberra Thursday, 4 April 2024, 18:00 – 19:30 AEDT
Please note that this event is ticketed and booking is required.
Anne Ferran in ‘Australian Female Photographers’ at the Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Anne Ferran’s seminal diptych Scenes on the Death of Nature (Scene I & II), 1986, is currently featured in a group exhibition Australian Female Photographers: From the Collection. The exhibition highlights forerunning women artists who have experimented and made decisive contributions to develop and further the rich tradition of photography in Australia throughout the past century.
Australian Female Photographers: From the Collection Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, VIC 17 February – 16 June 2024
Congratulations to Gian Manik, whose painting Self belief, insanity, literature and human culture (2023) has been selected for the Bayside Painting Prize 2024.
A celebration of contemporary Australian painting, the Bayside Painting Prize brings together a broad range of artists whose varied approaches to the painted medium conveys the breadth and diversity of painting today. The finalist exhibition at the Bayside Gallery in Brighton, VIC, will showcase the selected painting from each shortlisted artist.
Bayside Painting Prize 2024 Bayside Gallery, Brighton, VIC 3 May – 23 June 2024