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Ari Athans was featured recently in the Qantas In-Flight magazine in an article written by Noelle Faulkner.

Heide Modern has unveiled 'Sense of Direction', a vivid and immersive collaboration between artist Brendan Huntley and fashion label Alpha60. The exhibition transforms the historic modernist home with an installation spanning paintings, sculptures, monotypes, rugs and clocks, all probing the fleeting nature of personal transformation.

A 32-metre carpet runner which was custom-designed to wind through both floors of Heide Modern anchors the show. Its bright motifs of faces, celestial forms and watchful eyes echo through a series of accompanying clocks and new sculptural works. The exhibition marks a significant moment in Huntley’s practice, which has long balanced raw emotional expression with playful symbolism. Known for works that navigate identity, intuition and inner shifts, his presentation at Heide Modern expands these concerns into an architectural scale, engaging directly with the building’s legacy of experimentation. Developed over a long creative partnership, the project expands a single rug concept into a full-scale intervention that heightens the building’s blend of domestic intimacy and museum context.

The exhibition is open at Heide Modern 11 March - 10 April 2023.

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Installation view of Brendan Huntley x Alpha 60 exhibition 'Sense of Direction' at Heide Modern, Melbourne, courtesy Christian Capurro.

Vipoo Srivilasa's work 'Happy Australian' will form part of the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition 'Portrait23: Identity'.

'Portrait23: Identity' is a major exhibition of new work from multi-award-winning contemporary Australian artists and collectives working across every state and territory. Street art, textiles, performance, photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, soft sculpture and bronze challenge the boundaries of portraiture. Many of the works move eloquently between installation, video, and animation, inviting you, the viewer, inside the portrait.

Twenty-three artists and collectives present dramatic, ambitious and thrilling work about who they are and what it means to represent themselves, their communities, their histories and contemporary society. They break open the genre with deeply personal evocations of themes that resonate collectively, such as cultural knowledge, feminism, visibility/invisibility, activism and journeys of migration.

10 March – 18 June 2023.

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Four works from Happy Australian, 2022 Vipoo Srivilasa. © Vipoo Srivilasa. Photograph by Simon Strong

Miranda Skoczek is featured in ‘Artists at Home’ a new book about Australian female artists by Karina Dias Pires, published by Thames and Hudson, out now.

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Miranda Skoczek, courtesy Karina Dias Pires

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Congratulations to Sally Anderson who is a finalist in this year's Muswellbrook Art Prize with her work ‘Lismore Island Roof Song with a Screenshot of Nat Silk’s Seatown’.

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Sally Anderson
Lismore Island Roof Song with a Screenshot of Nat Silk’s Seatown 2022
acrylic on polycotton

Ari Athan's work 'Strata Sample One' is featured in the current issue of Belle Magazine inside Anna Spiro's home.

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Ari Athans

Strata Sample One 2022

ceramic, wood and acrylic paint

57 x 20 x 20 cm

Noelle Faulkner from QANTAS Travel Insider Magazine spoke with Vipoo Srivilasa about his art practice. "With a playful approach that marries European-Australian and Thai motifs, this Bangkok-born artist’s figurines are full of charm."

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Pieces from Vipoo Srivilasa’s Always Better Together series (2022)

Belem Lett's bold artwork 'Move Me' (2022) is featured on the recent cover of Belle Magazine. Belem's piece celebrates the power of colour and is shown in an exclusive look inside interiors star Anna Spiro's home.

BELEM LETT
Move Me 2022
Oil, gesso, marble dust on aluminium composite panel
122 x 94cm

Ross Laurie is in an exhibition at New England Regional Art Museum titled 'Gorge Country'. His paintings 'Gorge I' and 'Gorge II' are on display alongside works by Angus Nivison and Stuart Boggs.

'Gorge Country' is open at New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, New South Wales 5 November - 30 January 2022

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Ross Laurie

'Gorge II' 2021

oil on canvas

Marisa Purcell is a finalist in the 2022 Fisher's Ghost Art Award with her work 'Yesterday's Song' (image below).

The Award is an annual art prize inviting artists to submit works in a variety of artistic categories and mediums. Now in its 60th year, there is $72,000 in prize money to be won. The Open Award is acquisitive to the Campbelltown City Council collection and in 2022, in celebration of the 60th Anniversary; the award is valued at $60,000.

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