May 24, 2023
MARLENE RUBUNJA FEATURING IN ARTBANK + ACMI COMMISSION
Arrernte and Western Arrarnta artist Marlene Rubuntja alongside Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist Sally M Nangala Mulda have developed their practice to be completely recognisable and representative of the place in which they live, Mparntwe/Alice Springs. Working from Tangentyere Artists and Yarrenyty Arltere Artists (art centres), these senior women have established themselves as two of Australia’s leading visual artists.
The third Artbank + ACMI Commission, Two Girls From Amoonguna, encompasses video, soft sculpture and paintings, with the centerpiece the animated work titled Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls.
Arrkutja Tharra, Kungka Kutjara, Two Girls delves into the reality of First Peoples’ experiences in Central Australia by chronicling the artists’ successes and struggles. The work centres Sally and Marlene’s voices, as well as the voices of their younger family members, who can be heard in the animation. It was made in collaboration with Ludo Studio, the Emmy-award winning production company behind Bluey, Robbie Hood and The Strange Chores, along with script writer Courtney Collins, Left of Elephant Sound and Tangentyere Artists producer Ellanor Webb.
Figures from Marlene’s soft sculptures and Sally’s acrylic on linen paintings star in the animation, embedded on top of Marlene’s ink on paper works of the Central Australian landscape. Bringing together both artists’ practice, Sally’s iconic cursive painted lettering produce the subtitles.
Having grown up at the Amoonguna Settlement outside of Mparntwe/Alice Springs in the early 1960s, the two friends wouldn’t reconnect until much later in life, after both of them had seen their fair amount of hardships; now having achieved so much, they are immensely proud of one another.
Two Girls from Amoonguna is an exhibition about two of Australia’s leading artists and their journey to get there.
Watch Two Girls from Amoonguna HERE
Read more HERE
February 26, 2022
MIRANDA SKOCZEK - Interview for Vault Magazine
There is more to Miranda Skoczek’s paintings than immediately meets the eye. They are built intuitively and in layers, from colours, patterns and objects that she absorbs in her immediate home environment – and all over the world. They are often abstract, sometimes with figurative elements; they focus on paint and colour, process and time, to create a space that takes us somewhere other, outside the material world. Inspiration comes from art and antiquities, folk art and contemporary design – and through obsessive consumption of images. Skoczek describes herself as “a sponge,” confessing to VAULT: “I have 95,000 photographs on my phone.”
The mystical is evident in Skoczek’s hope that her paintings work like amulets for those who acquire them. Protective elements aside, in their sensual textures and influences, so powerfully evoked, these paintings emerge as poignant and poetic visual essays written to the past and the present.
Front Cover: Miranda Skoczek, Vault Magazine
April 13, 2021
DAN KYLE AT WANGARATTA ART GALLERY
Dan Kyle's work is part of Wangaratta Art Gallery's exhibition 'Contemporary Landscape Perspectives: A Group Show' from 13 March – 30 May 2021.
This dynamic exhibition of five contemporary landscape Australian painters, Max Berry, Holly Greenwood, Dan Kyle, Bronte Leighton-Dore and Andrew Pye explores individual perspectives of elements of the Australian bush, the terrain, landscape and key symbolism of trees and flora in their immediate environment.
All five artists are emerging as contemporary painters in the Australian art scene. Berry, Greenwood, Kyle and Leighton-Dore are New South Wales based (Sydney and Blue Mountains), the four have partnered with local artist Andy Pye, the group have connections both through friendship but also their oeuvre, their painting practice and style. Each artists surrounding environments are re-interpreted in large scale paintings and works on paper.
This collection of artists and their work presents a diversity of expression and contemporary representation of the Australian Bush.
March 22, 2021
MIRANDA SKOCZEK FOR DAVID JONES MAGAZINE
Copywriter and content specialist Elle McClure was asked by the team at Medium Rare Content agency to help produce content for the autumn 2021 issue of the David Jones magazine, JONES HOME. As well as compiling trend pages and writing copy across the issue, Elle interviewed Otis Hope Carey, Louise Olsen and Miranda Skoczek as part of profiles on the artists.
You can read more HERE
March 1, 2021
YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists and Tangentyere Artists, Blak Parliament House, 2021, commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra for the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony.
Blak Parliament House is a 2021 installation of soft sculptures and paintings created collaboratively by members of Yarrenyty Altere Artists and Tangentyere Artists, Aboriginal-run art centres located in Mpwarnte/Alice Springs, Northern Territory. The structure is surrounded by people, animals, meetings and debates, as well as placards protesting the treatment of Aboriginal people.
The soft sculptures, created by members of Yarrenyty Altere Artists, are made from reclaimed woollen blankets, carefully dyed with pigments sourced from local plants, tea, and corroding metal, embellished with brightly coloured woollen thread and feathers. Alongside this is a series of paintings taking the form of placards created by artists from Tangentyere Artists, they bear slogans such as ‘SAFE WATER FOR EVERYONE’ and ‘OUR KIDS BELONG WITH US’.
For many First Nations peoples, especially those living in remote and regional areas, Kamberri/Canberra is seen as a distant place where decisions are made that affect their everyday lives. This interpretation of Parliament House shows Aboriginal people and others meeting, debating, and taking an active role in the political process.
LISTEN TO MARLENE RUBUNJA AND READ MORE HERE
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Yarrenyty Arltere Artists and Tangentyere Artists
Blak Parliament House 2021
National Gallery of Australia
October 14, 2020
DAN KYLE, A RECIPIENT IN THE 2020 BRETT WHITELEY SCHOLARSHIP
For the first time in its 22 year history, the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship has been awarded to five artists, one of whom is Dan Kyle.
Congratulations Charlie Ingemar Harding (Victoria), Emily Grace Imeson (NSW), Dan Kyle (NSW), Lily Platts (NSW) and Georgia Spain (Tasmania).
Art Gallery of New South Wales Director, Michael Brand, said that in one of the most challenging years the arts community has ever experienced he’s delighted that the Scholarship could be awarded, albeit in a different format.
‘That the Scholarship this year is shared between five artists instead of a single artist speaks to the moment we’re in, where we all need to work together and find new ways of thinking for the benefit of our community.
‘The Scholarship remains a prestigious, national painting award and I welcome all five recipients to the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship alumni who have, like Brett Whiteley before them, had their worlds open up as a result of being offered this opportunity to spend time creating work in a new location,’ Brand said.
November 30, 2019
MIRANDA SKOCZEK, VAULT MAGAZINE
'Artefacts', Alison Kubler, Vault Magazine, Issue 23, 104-105pp.
August 30, 2019
DAN KYLE : FINALIST IN THE MOSMAN ART PRIZE 2019
Dan Kyle's work 'Caught in a Haze' has been selected as a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize
Established in 1947, the Mosman Art Prize is Australia's oldest and most prestigious local government art award. As an acquisitive art award for painting, the winning artworks collected form a splendid collection of modern and contemporary Australian art, reflecting developments in Australian art practice since 1947. Artists who have won the Mosman Art Prize include Margaret Olley, Guy Warren, Grace Cossington Smith, Weaver Hawkins, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Michael Zavros and Natasha Walsh.
Until 27 October 2019, Mosman Art Gallery
May 6, 2019
DAN KYLE FEATURED IN ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE
In 2015 Owen Craven wrote about Dan Kyle, his studio and life in the bush near the Blue Mountains —
Soon after graduating from the National Art School, Dan Kyle set up home deep within the Australian bush at the foot of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. His paintings are translations of what he sees – the beauty, the unique forms, the colours – but also his way of reducing the density of the bush to a more approachable landscape for him to keep exploring. Back in Issue 32, 2015, Artist Profile chatted to Dan about the formal and conceptual nuances of his landscapes.
March 6, 2019
10 YEARS OF GORMAN | HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
In celebration of Gorman’s decade-long collaboration with visual artists, Heide is presenting a two-week pop-up exhibition in the iconic modernist building, Heide II.
The exhibition will feature garments from a new range by Gorman created in conjunction with ten artists who have worked with the Australian clothing label since 2009: Rachel Castle, Megan Grant, Claire Johnson, Dana Kinter, Studio Elke, Rhys Lee, Ellie Malin, Mirka Mora, Liz Payne and Miranda Skoczek. The garments will be displayed alongside the artworks which inspired them.
Rad More HERE
October 4, 2018
THE KINGS SCHOOL ART PRIZE
Miranda Skoczek, Julian Meagher and John Aslanidis are finalists in The Kings School Art Prize 2018.
The King’s Art Prize is a $20,000 acquisitive award presented to the best contemporary artwork created by an artist resident in Australia and represented by a commercial gallery, supporting both the artists and the fine arts industry. Entry is by invitation only and the finalists are selected by an appointed Art Prize panel.
August 22, 2018
CHARMAINE PIKE FINALIST IN THE PADDINGTON ART PRIZE
Now in its 15th year, the annual Paddington Art Prize is a national acquisitive award for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape – a significant contemporary genre with a long tradition in Australian painting and a key contributor to our national ethos.
The Paddington Art Prize offers $30,000 to the overall winner. Louisa Antico from Sofala Cottage will offer a selected artist a one week retreat at her historic miner’s cottage in Sofala in the Turon Valley, 40km north of Bathurst on the road to Hill End; and Defiance Gallery Directors, Campbell Robertson-Swann and Lauren Harvey will select two artists to have an exhibition with Defiance Gallery at Mary Place Gallery in Sydney. Winners of the Defiance Gallery Prize will also receive an invitation to the Nock Art Foundation Residency, Queenstown, New Zealand during 2019 including three weeks accommodation at ‘Giverny’ with studio facilities.
Charmaine Pike is a finalist in 2018.
Image: Charmaine Pike The Soft Pink Truth 2018, 120 x 150cm, acrylic on canvas
April 23, 2018
NOW REPRESENTING CHARMAINE PIKE
The Gallery is delighted to announce we now represent Charmaine Pike.
The paintings of Charmaine Pike allude to the remote landscape, its geographical features and natural formations, embedded or rather personified with human emotion. Her use of bold lines, form and colour probe deep into the human condition, dealing with psychological tensions within the self and the environment we inhabit.
Melissa Pesa, Artist Profile November 2017
Charmaine was selected as a finalist in The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing in 2010, The Mosman Art Prize 2013, The Paddington Art Prize 2015 and 2016. In 2012, her solo exhibition at Tamworth Regional Gallery was met with great acclaim. In 2014 she was selected by Angus Nivison for ‘Place and Practice’ the Regional Arts Australia National Visual Arts Showcase in Parliament House, Canberra.
April 16, 2018
YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS AT THE MCA
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists In Our Hands are soft sculptures made with bush dyed woollen blankets, embellished with wool and feathers for the 21st Biennale of Sydney.
SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2018. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from Georgie and Alastair Taylor.
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists Founded 2000 in Alice Springs, Australia Live and work in Alice Springs. Participating artists:
Cornelius Ebatarinja (Western Arrernte/Arrernte), Trudy Inkamala (Western Arrernte/Luritja), Roxanne Petrick (Alyawarre), Sonya Petrick (Eastern Arrernte/Alyawarre), Dulcie Raggett (Luritja), Marlene Rubuntja (Arrernte), Katherine Ryder (Eastern Arrernte), Rosabella Ryder (Arrernte), Dulcie Sharpe (Luritja/Arrernte), Rhonda Sharpe (Luritja)
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists is a not-for-profit Aboriginal owned and run art centre located in the Larapinta Valley Town Camp, Alice Springs, one of the oldest Town Camp communities on Arrernte country.
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists present a series of the whimsical soft sculptures that demonstrate the unique style for which they are renowned. Representing the past, present and future, the pieces reflect memory and traditional stories as well as exploring contemporary issues and challenges faced by the community. Embodying local flora and fauna, stories of family and country, or scenes from everyday life in the Town Camp, the sculptures are made from recycled woollen blankets which are dyed using local plants, tea and corroded metal. Embroidered with brightly coloured wool thread and embellished with feathers, the soft sculptures are filled with character and humour. They are emblematic of the vitality of the Town Camp and its people, and the ingenuity of the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists who, through creativity and perseverance, have reignited the confidence and spirit of their community.
April 16, 2018
YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS AT THE NGV TRIENNIAL
NGV TRIENNIAL
Victoria Amazonica 2017, was created by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana in collaboration with Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, designers Elliat Rich and James Young and the Centre for Appropriate Technology – all based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Based initially on a sketch Humberto Campana made in Alice Springs of a giant South American lily, this exuberant, large-scale soft domed structure features intricate embroidery by the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists that tells stories of rain, rivers and water.
March 6, 2018
DAN KYLE / THE PLANTHUNTER
Dan Kyle has been featured on the Planthunter, who visited Dan at his spectacular home and studio in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
The Planthunter is an online magazine devoted to celebrating plants and the varied ways humans interact with them. Plants have been inspiring, feeding, sustaining and soothing humans for aeons. The Planthunter documents and celebrates these connections.
'The rusted metal entrance gate rolls open revealing a four-meter-tall man with a gas mask staring at us from amongst the trees. A collection of huge sculptures lay scattered around him – the scene creates quite an entry statement, heightening my curiosity about the man we’ve headed up to the mountains to meet, artist Dan Kyle.'
March 6, 2018
DAN KYLE IN ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE
The Gallery is delighted to now represent Dan Kyle.
Owen Craven profiled Dan and his practice in a recent online article for Artist Profile magazine.
'Soon after graduating from the National Art School, Dan Kyle set up home deep in the Australian bush at the foot of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. His paintings are translations of what he sees - the beauty, the unique forms, the colours - but also his way of reducing the density of the bush to a more approachable landscape for him to keep exploring.'
November 21, 2017
CHARMAINE PIKE FEATURED IN ARTIST PROFILE MAGAZINE
Melissa Pesa interviews Charmaine Pike in the November edition of Artist profile magazine. She writes:
The paintings of Charmaine Pike allude to the remote landscape, its geographical features and natural formations, embedded or rather personified with human emotion. Her use of bold lines, form and colour probe deep into the human condition, dealing with psychological tensions within the self and the environment we inhabit.
November 10, 2017
MIRANDA SKOCZEK IN ART GUIDE MAGAZINE
Miranda Skoczek's exhibition 'Rag Rugs and Lion Heads' is featured on the Art Guide website. Miranda spoke with Louise Martin-Chew about her latest exhibition 'Rag Rugs and Lion Heads', her inspiration and the shift in her practice to looser, more expressive works:
Miranda Skoczek’s abstract paintings evoke old walls with layers of forms and shapes that emerge over time. In her studio, she might work simultaneously on nine canvases. Transferring from one to the other, she allows each oil layer to dry before repeatedly painting over it until jewel-like colours resonate and a spatial sensibility has been established within which the viewer may dwell. Skoczek told Art Guide Australia, “I don’t paint about social concerns. I create wholly immersive, beautiful pictures. They are places for escape and restoration: harmonious, calming pictures.”
Miranda's exhibition is at the gallery from 14 November until 5 December 2017.
October 13, 2017
MIRANDA SKOCZEK AT CARLSBERG BYENS GALLERI & KUNSTSALON, DENMARK
Miranda Skoczek was a featured artist in the international group exhibition, The human experience, we are the ones doing works on canvas/Paintings XXXX at the Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Denmark. The exhibition was curated by Galina Munroe (Great Britain), Simon Ganshorn (Denmark) and Jordan Kerwick (Australia). The show featured 116 artists each working with abstraction through painting in their own distinct manner to promote diversity and highlight the possibility of medium and painting theory.
Read more on this exhibition here.
March 21, 2017
MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'DESHILADO'
Miranda Skoczek presents her first collection of jewelled works at Pieces of Eight Gallery in Melbourne as part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2017.
In DESHILADO, Miranda pays homage to the samplers created by stitchers in the early 16th Century. The collection is a three dimensional gathering of a myriad of interests and influences remixing materials and techniques, blurring the boundaries between objects, jewellery and art.
With a desire to connect ancient traditions with fashion, while acknowledging the archaeological importance of jewellery as artefact, Skoczek takes the opportunity to bring permanency to ornaments that have up to this point existed as abstract fragments in her paintings.
The exhibition is current until 25 March 2017. View more here
February 6, 2017
MIRANDA SKOCZEK ON THE DESIGN FILES
Miranda Skoczek is featured on The Design Files blog with a look at her move from an inner city two bedroom apartment, to a bucolic retreat set amongst the verdant landscape of the Dandenong Ranges. Miranda and her seven year old son Harper speak about the influence of nature on their lives and the impact a move to the country will have on her painting practice.
November 30, 2016
MIRANDA SKOCZEK FOR COUNTRY ROAD
Miranda Skoczek is renowned for her engaging, energetic works and her spectacular use of colour. A fixture on the Australian art scene, her work is instantly recognisable for its layers of intuitive colour, pattern and motifs. Iconic Australian label Country Road thought her work was perfect for a collaboration with charity RedKite. Miranda has designed two tote bags and a t-shirt, with all proceeds from each sale going towards providing essential support to children and their families who are facing cancer.
Read the interview with Miranda here.
December 2, 2015
Mark Whalen at The Standard, Los Angeles
Mark Whalen recently painted the 6th St Mural at The Standard Hotel in Los Angeles. Each month, the Standard invites an artist to paint a mural, often to comment on urban development and contemporary culture. The mural is a twelve by twenty-four meter public art space, located on a major public thoroughfare adjacent to the Standard. Photographer Bobby Alderman captured Mark in action.
View more work by Mark Whalen here.
April 8, 2015
Miranda Skoczek and Gorman
Miranda Skoczek has collaborated with Gorman Clothing for their 2015 winter collection. In sync with the label’s aesthetic, Miranda’s artwork blends seamlessly into signature Gorman textures and styles. Her work is featured across all 53 pieces in the collection, with every print originating from five of her artworks.
March 3, 2015
Mark Whalen Exhibiting at the Town Hall Gallery in Hawthorn
Mark Whalen features in the group exhibition ‘Data Flow: Digital Influence’ at the Town Hall Gallery in Hawthorn, Victoria. The exhibition will run from 3 March – 12 April, 2015 and features a wide range of artists and artworks investigating how data flows through the productions of art in an increasingly digital world.
3 – 24 September 2024
THE SPRING SHOW
19 December 2023 – 30 January 2024
THE SUMMER SHOW
7 – 21 December 2023
SMALL WORKS - Click and Collection
16 November 2023 – 2 December 2023
Miranda Skoczek ‘Flowers Look Back at Me’
5 – 25 July 2023
Dan Kyle ‘To become one with the ocean, that is what she wants’
8 – 11 September 2022
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
8 – 11 September 2022
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY — MIRANDA SKOCZEK
28 June 2022 – 16 July 2022
‘Common Ground’ featuring Candy Nelson Nakamarra, Dan Kyle, Miranda Skoczek
11 – 21 November 2021
MIRANDA SKOCZEK — SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
9 – 27 November 2021
Dan Kyle ‘Garden on the Edge’
8 – 21 December 2020
Miranda Skoczek ‘Spirit and Matter’
26 November 2019 – 14 December 2019
MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'Better Get It In Your Soul'
8 – 23 November 2019
DAN KYLE 'Caught In A Haze'
12 – 15 September 2019
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR - JOHN BOKOR, ELIZA GOSSE, TARA MARYNOWSKY, SALLY M NANGALA MULDA, YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS
27 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS
26 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
THE NEW GALLERY SHOW — A Group Exhibition
11 – 31 October 2018
MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'Permission To Play'
12 – 16 September 2018
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR - DAN KYLE, MIRANDA SKOCZEK, MARK WHALEN, YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS
29 August 2018 – 15 September 2018
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
3 – 19 July 2018
'The Platform 10' — TIM ALLEN, LIAM AMBROSE, JOHN BOKOR, BRIDIE GILLMAN, JANE GUTHLEBEN, DAN KYLE, CHARMAINE PIKE, VANESSA STOCKARD, CHRISTOPHER ZANKO
18 – 30 June 2018
Mark Whalen ‘Squeeze’
10 – 28 April 2018
YARRENYTY ARLTERE ARTISTS
14 November 2017 – 5 December 2017
MIRANDA SKOCZEK 'Rag Rugs and Lion Heads'
7 – 10 September 2017
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR — CLARA ADOLPHS, SALLY ANDERSON, JULIAN MEAGHER, BUNDIT PUANGTHONG, PAUL RYAN, MIRANDA SKOCZEK
18 October 2016 – 5 November 2016
Miranda Skoczek ‘Crazy Patchwork’
9 – 13 September 2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
12 – 30 May 2015
Mark Whalen ‘Between The Cracks’
11 – 29 November 2014
Miranda Skoczek ‘Constructed Reality’
5 – 26 July 2014
featuring Bundit Puangthong, Miranda Skoczek, Vipoo Srivilasa, Marisa Purcell, Stefan Dunlop
8 – 30 November 2013
Miranda Skoczek ‘Historical Panorama’
20 – 22 September 2013
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
10 September 2013 – 12 October 2013
5th Anniversary Exhibition
16 October 2012 – 3 November 2012
Miranda Skoczek ‘Spirit Garden’
4 – 22 September 2012
Mark Whalen ‘Hallucination’ (Gallery 2)
26 September 2011 – 15 October 2011
Miranda Skoczek ‘Animal Fantastical’ (Gallery 1)
4 – 30 April 2011
The Super Heroes
4 – 8 August 2010
Melbourne Art Fair
22 March 2010 – 10 April 2010
Mark Whalen ‘Observatory’
30 October 2009 – 21 November 2009
Miranda Skoczek ‘Patterns of Knowledge’
10 – 28 March 2009
Vexta, Kill Pixie & Ari Athans