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Murmur
1 July - 23 October 2013
The Johnston Collection, East Melbourne

The Johnston Collection is delighted to welcome Rosslynd Piggott to guest-curate the annual ‘house of ideas' Fairhall tour.

It was Melbourne-born antique dealer and benefactor William Johnston's wish that his East Melbourne home, Fairhall, be regularly rearranged. In the ‘house of ideas' series of rearrangements, past guest curators have included fashion designer Akira Isogawa, architect Pascale Gomes McNabb and fashion-house Romance Was Born.

Continuing with an underlying theme of her works, Piggott will create ‘both a conciliation and acknowledgement of the spirits who have lived there'.

Fairhall house-museum has three guided tours daily Monday to Friday. Bookings are essential - see here for more details.

David Rosetzky's captivating film think of yourself as plural 2008 will be featured in Limits of Language at Nomade Gallery in Hangzhou, China.

The exhibition will open on the 24th of May, to coincide with the ART Hangzhou art fair.

Pattern
20th June - 14th July 2013
Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne

Pattern is a group show curated by Diane Soumilas that will interrogate the concept of pattern used as a vehicle to explore memory, art history, cultural identity, consumer culture, the everyday, scientific and mathematical theories.

For more information see here.

Air born
23 June - 6 October 2013
The Elisabeth Murdoch Gallery
McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria

Air born brings together a vibrant collection of contemporary artists' work who through their varying artistic disciplines are inspired by birds, either as subject or who emulate through their work aspects of avian habitats and rituals.

For more information see here.

The Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years on a dozen islands in the Seto Inland Sea (Setonaikai), the sea which separates Honshu and Shikoku, two of Japan's main islands. First held in 2010, this year's festival features over 150 artworks.

Slattery's work will be featured in the Summer cycle of the Setouchi Triennale, 20 July - 1 September 2013.

For more information see here.

Jackson Slattery will undertake a residency at The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, between June and December this year.

ISCP is a leading nonprofit, residency-based contemporary art institution for emerging to mid-career artists and curators from around the world.

For more information see here.

David Rosetzky: Selected Works
Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
26 July - 15 September 2013

One of Australia's foremost exponents of video art, David Rosetzky creates intensely beautiful videos, photo-collages and installations exploring identity, subjectivity and interpersonal relationships. Lured by high production values and beautiful subjects, the viewer becomes ensnared in Rosetzky's stiflingly stylish worlds. The artist heightens the alienation of his subjects through devices such as repetition of dialogue and action, seemingly random replacement of characters and passages of choreography. David Rosetzky: Selected Works will particularly emphasise this play of the individual and the group in his work as it develops across time, with particular focus on his video practice.

Curated by Naomi Cass, Director and Kyla McFarlane, Associate Curator at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, this is the first comprehensive survey of Rosetzky's work to date. Following the exhibition's premiere at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, the exhibition will tour nationally until 2015.

Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists
Curated by Fereshteh Daftari and Jill Baird
MOA, Vancouver
April 20, 2013 - September 15, 2013

Wrapping the globe, their diverse artworks speak to the universal theme of voyage (a translation of the Persian safar), from the external and geographical to the internal, emotional, and existential. They acknowledge the realities of political turmoil and revolution, and how politics frames both trauma and desire, whether individual or collective. Voyage is seen to take many forms.

For more information see here.

Collage: The Heide Collection
Curated by Lesley Harding
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
24 April to 20 October 2013

Heide protégé Sidney Nolan made some of Australia's earliest collages in the late 1930s. By the 1960s the technique was widespread, and in more recent years it has come to include digital and conceptual collage in works that use the principles of papier collé in more elaborate ways. This exhibition traces the history of collage in Australia through the Heide collection from the 1930s to the present time.

Fore more information see here.

BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art
Curator: Laura Castagnini
Margaret Lawrence Gallery
27 April to 25 May 2013
Featuring work by Australian and international artists, BACKFLIP: Feminism and Humour in Contemporary Art seeks to challenge the ongoing stereotype of feminism as dry, dull and humourless.The exhibition affirms laughter as an important and potent tool for feminist artists across generations, geographies and political contexts.

For more information see here.

Artcycle Sculpture Award
Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds
24 May - 15 July 2013
Catherine Bell has been selected for this year's Artcycle award.

For more information see here.

Mythopoetic: women artists from Australia and India
10 April-18 May 2013

Presented by GUAG and QCA Galleries as part of Encounters: India Festival
Venues: Griffith University Art Gallery | QCA Project Gallery | QCA Webb Gallery, all at Griffith University's South Bank campus, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey Street, South Bank, Brisbane QLD 4101

Mythopoetic: women artists from Australia and India surveys the way in which women are re-picturing, re-contextualising and re-imaging the feminine.

For more information see here.

The Gathering
The Substation
2 May - 2 June 2013

Bell presents us with a body of work created during her year-long studio residency within St Vincent's Hospital. These works function as evidence that renders daily melancholic rituals visible and documents ceremonies of death and mourning.

For more information see here.

Terms & Conditions
28 June - 8 September 2013
Singapore Art Museum

Terms & Conditions presents an open-ended debate into how history and social realities are represented, with an emphasis on the Arab world. These artists examine the divide between those who control the discourse and those who are silenced or forgotten.

For more information see here.

Like Mike
Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, St Kilda
18 May 2013 - 7 July 2013

The artists assembled for this exhibition have in some way been influenced by the energy and restlessness of Mike Brown's art, his use of materials and intuitive processes which continue to be a source for inspiration.

From periods of pornographic collage, political satire and commentary, Mike Brown has challenged art audiences with his anything goes approach to art making and exhibition. Often using collage as a basis for exploration, his works from 1960 - 1990 are infused with a sense of compulsion to make and to see an idea come to life. Mike's legacy is reverberated in the works of younger generations who have been directly and indirectly influenced and are working in a similar mode to this undervalued Australian artist who was ahead of his time.

Artists: Fergus Binns, Trevelyan Clay & Kate Smith, Jan Lucas, Simon Pericich, Nick Selenitsch & Alex Selenitsch, and Paul Yore

For more information see here.

If you were to live here...
The 5th Auckland Triennial
Curated by Hou Hanru
10 May - 11 August 2013

The 5th Auckland Triennial opens in May at Auckland Art Gallery and seven additional sites, extending the Triennial's reach across Auckland. Led by renowned curator Hou Hanru, If you were to live here... includes work by more than 35 New Zealand and international artists, collectives and architects.

For more information see here.

Third/Fourth: Melbourne artist facilitated Biennial
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
31 May - 23 June 2013

"This upcoming, artist-facilitated biennial will engage an amorphous construction: tying up loose ends, reinvestigating and continuing various overlaps, collaborations, conversations and relationships."

Co-ordinated by Christopher LG Hill, the Biennial will include work by Helen Johnson, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Nick Mangan, Dan Arps, Jon Campbell, Alex Vivian, Fiona Connor, Tahi Moore, Masato Takasaka, Alicia Frankovich, Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, Kate Newby, Lou Hubbard, Elizabeth Newman, Marco Fusinato and Gian Manik, plus many more.

For more information see here.

Simon Terrill: Crowd Theory Adelaide

Crowd Theory is an ongoing series of international photographic performance events which explore ideas of community and the nature of crowds. For each event, a time and place is specified and people are invited to respond to the site, but their specific actions on-site are left undirected and uncontrolled. For details of how to participate in the 2013 Crowd Theory Adelaide event see here.

From 3 May to 5 July 2013, Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, will play host to a selection of Simon Terrill's spectacularly immersive images from the Crowd Theory Adelaide performance.

For more information on the exhibition see here.

Vivid Memories
Musee d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
October 2013 - March 2014

Vivid Memories will address the question of interculturality in Australian art. Alongside Gordon Bennett, the exhibition will include works by Paul Klee, Sydney Nolan, Richard Long and Zhou Xiaoping, amongst others.

For more information see here. 

Chapter House Lane is a public contemporary art gallery in a walk-by window space situated alongside Melbourne's St Paul's Cathedral. In the heart of the city, the monthly exhibitions are seen by locals, international visitors, the art industry, and the curious (or even un-suspecting) passer-by.

Kate Smith and Helen Johnson will both present a solo body of work at Chapter House Lane, in August and November-December respectively.

For more information see here.

Art of Sound
Holmes à Court Gallery
Margaret River, Western Australia
9 June - 22 September 2013

Art of Sound is a new collaborative project between the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) and selected regional art galleries, which examines the intersections between sound and the visual arts. NFSA curators compiled a ‘sound palette' for the project - a package of 50 Australian recordings that represent the breadth and diversity of the NFSA sound collection. The palette includes songs, speeches, experimental works, spoken word, orchestral compositions and environmental recordings. The palette is then shared with the partner galleries, whose curators explore both the sounds of the palette and the galleries' own collections to create unique exhibitions, linking sound recordings to selected artworks that they feel complement each other.

For more information see here.

(What's so Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding...?
Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, Sandringham, Victoria
22 June - 25 August 2013

As Nick Lowe so poignantly questions in the lyrics of this much loved song what is so funny about peace love and understanding and why do these concepts no longer appear capable of generating meaning that will appeal and apply to the community?

Social commentary is a major theme in modern and contemporary art and is a means to resist ‘politics-as-usual'. At stake is the artist's desire to uncover how society works, how it can be understood and ultimately to critique what threatens the future for a better society.

Mix Tape 1980s: Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Federation Square, Melbourne
11 April - 1 September 2013

Mix Tape will explore Australian art of the 1980s; a decade of dynamic social change and fiercely contested viewpoints on contemporary art and culture. Curated by Max Delany and featuring over 120 works, the exhibition brings together creative approaches ranging from appropriation and sampling to the DIY aesthetics of post-punk; and from postmodern critiques of authorship and originality to postcolonial revisions of Australian history.

In promotion of this exhibition, Rosslynd Piggott will also participate in Radio National's Weekend Arts panel interview on Saturday 23rd March, discussing memories and reflections of the Australian/Melbourne art scene in the 1980s.

Gower worked with Architects E.A.T, creating glass balustrades, foyer artworks, mirror eaves and a large wall work that extends ideas and forms relating to her Prismatics series, for the Pulse Apartments, Inkerman Street, St Kilda.

Trams: Moving Pictures
The Old Treasury Building, Melbourne

17 December 2012 - 16 August 2013

Trams: Moving Pictures provides a fascinating insight into Melbourne's tram history dating back to the 1880s, including images from ‘Transporting Art Project'.

For more informaiton follow this link. 

Following a series of workshops in the lead up to the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall's recent visit to the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Nusra Latif Qureshi has been invited by the Australian Tapestry Workshop to design a tapestry in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. This tapestry will be woven over the coming months by ATW artist-weavers.

For more information, see here.

For the first time in its history, the City of Sydney has sought an artist to provide the overarching artistic vision for the development of a new public space, the ‘New Century Garden' in the heart of Chinatown.

Lindy Lee will draw on the principles of Taoist and Buddhist philosophy to create a major new artistic space providing a contemporary interpretation of traditional Chinese gardens.

For more information, see here.

Cut with the kitchen knife

8 December - 27 January, 2013

East Gippsland Art Gallery
5 February - 6 March, 2013

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
3 May - 9 June, 2013

Central Goldfields Art Gallery
20 July - 25 August, 2013

A new NETS Victoria touring exhibition, curated by Emily Jones, was launched at Counihan Gallery in April.
Cut with the kitchen knife surveys the current manifestations of collage in contemporary art; the arranging and reordering of collected material as a means of interacting with, and thus shaping, the physical world.

The exhibition is supported by Arts Victoria and the Gordon Darling Foundation.

For more information see here.

A monograph of Simon Terrill’s photographs titled Proscenium, with an essay by Edward Colless, will be launched at CCP on March 7th, in conjunction with an exhibition of his recent works at the Sutton Gallery Project Space.

Published by M33 

Book launch on Wed March 7, 6-8pm

Centre for Contemporary Photography, 404 George Street Fitzroy Victoria. The series will be launched by Charlotte Day, Associate Curator, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

69 pages, 
$55