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In celebration of the Brisbane International Tennis Tournament, John Aslanidis’ Sonic no. 61 will be projected onto the William Jolly Bridge from Wednesday 2nd January to Sunday 6th January 2019.

John combines colour and pattern in precise relationships heightening the awareness of the phenomenon of perception. Looking at Aslanidis work becomes intensely physical as the composition bounces and the viewer’s gaze rebounds, reminiscent of the process when engaging with the intensity of tennis, as a player or viewer.

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The Ideal Home presents a history of the 20th century Australian home told through household objects, furniture and design classics from the MAAS Collection.

For much of the 20th century Australia enjoyed one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world. This situation emerged following the landmark ‘Harvester Judgement’ of 1907, which enshrined a ‘living wage’, and enabled ordinary workers to purchase a home and support a family.

Post war affluence, technology, mass manufacturing and the ready availability of goods, created both a consumer base and desire. In this setting, suburbs grew and homes became our castles. Australians enthusiastically adopted international trends in architecture, interior furnishings and design. Labour saving devices liberated us from domestic drudgery and increased the time available for leisure. Indoors and outdoors Australians aspired to a lifestyle centred upon the comfort, style, amenity and function of the home.

The Ideal Home presents a history of the 20th century Australian home told through household objects, furniture and design classics from the MAAS Collection. See more of The Ideal Home including modernist design and artworks at MAAS Powerhouse, Ultimo.

The Ideal Home is a partnership between the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest.

The exhibition suite features works across the site from the following Australian artists:

• Cope Street Collective: Mathew Cooper and Colin Kinchela
• Karla Dickens
• Victoria Garcia
• Richard Goodwin
• Blake Griffiths
• eX de Medici
• Catherine O’Donnell
• Eliza Gosse

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Obsession: Devil in the detail examines our fascination with the meticulous and micro, the real and the hyperreal and brings together a range of historical and contemporary works under three broad themes of still life, portraiture and landscape. Featuring artworks that seduce us with the power of their realism and intricate detail, the devil in the detail becomes the ideas and concepts that exist beneath the surface.

Featuring work by local and international artists including Natasha Bieniek, Chris Bond, Erin Coates, Audrey Flack, Juan Ford, James Gleeson, Sam Jinks, Jess Johnson, Anna Kristensen, eX de Medici, Tully Moore, Callum Morton, Jan Nelson, Sandra Selig, Vipoo Srivilasa, Ricky Swallow, teamLab, Eugene von Guerard and more.

30 November 2018 - 17 February 2019

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A move to the country has inspired a new perspective to the stunning, emotional views of the natural world that Australian landscape painter Aaron Kinnane has created for Sydney Contemporary. Here, he tells Sophie Tedmanson how working outdoors and in a forest also found him delving into sculpture for the first time.

"For previous works I would travel to different areas spending days at a time walking, looking and then I would come back to the city and make the work in the studio – artificially lit – no windows, air thick with thinners smoke and paint. Now, for the first time in my life, my studio is drenched in natural light, surrounded by windows looking out to hills and forests, birds, sky, river... clean, fresh gulps of beautiful air."

- Sophie Tedmanson, Vogue, 2017

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Aaron Kinnane in his studio, courtesy the artist

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Vipoo Srivilasa has been commissioned to design seven large sculptures for ICONSIAM, a mixed-use development on the banks of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok Thailand, opening on 9 November 2018.

ICONSIAM is the ultimate shopping destination. The all-in-one complex, located on 750,000 square metres of the land on the banks of Chao Phraya River is a wonder to behold for those passionate about retail and development. It is divided into three main sections: the main ICONSIAM, the glamorous riverside ICONLUXE, and street facing side Siam Takashimaya.

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Sally Anderson's work ‘Guy’s Painting of Wollumbin on my Wollumbin’ has been acquired by Tweed Regional Gallery. In 2017 Sally was an artist in residence at the Nancy Fairfax Artist Residency through the Tweed Regional Gallery and throughout her life, has had strong connections to the region.

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Sally Anderson

Guy's Painting of Wollumbin on my Wollumbin 2018

acrylic on linen

140 x 122 cm

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Congratulations to John Bokor who has been awarded a highly commended in the 2018 EMSLA prize.

Now in its twelfth year, the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award comes to Wollongong to coincide with the city’s signature festival, Viva La Gong. Judged annually by critic and art historian John McDonald, the EMSLA has added prestige to the festival and increased still life’s importance as a genre in art.

9 November - 1 December 2018

IMAGE:
John Bokor
Aperol and Oranges 2018
oil on canvas
61x76cm

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Chris Zanko's work is included in Hazelhurst's Regional Gallery's exhibition Life in Working Art, an exhibition presenting a diverse selection of works from the Gallery's installation team.

3 November - 13 November 2018

The William Fletcher Trust (now the William Fletcher Foundation) was established in 1985 to celebrate the life and to commemorate the work of William Fletcher whose straitened circumstances, ill health and early death cut short his developing talents. In 1988, the Trust awarded its first grants for study to tertiary students of the visual arts. The William Fletcher Trust was incorporated in 2006 as William Fletcher Foundation following a generous bequest. Since 1988, grants totalling over $400,000 have been distributed to over 500 highly talented students of the visual arts, to assist them to continue their studies.

In 2018 the grant was awarded to Eliza Gosse.

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John Aslanidis' work is included in NEW OPTICS III at the Museum Modern Art Hünfeld, Germany. The exhibition, curated by Edgar Diehl, brings seven artists together to explore the definition of non-objective art.

28 October 2018 - 27 January 2019

STIFTUNG MUSEUM MODERN ART HÜNFELD – SAMMLUNG JÜRGEN BLUM

GESCHÄFTSSTELLE: Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1 36088 Hünfeld Telefon + Fax: +49 (0)6652 180 148 E-Mail: [email protected]

MUSEUMSANSCHRIFT: Museum Modern Art Hünfeld Hersfelder Straße 25 36088 Hünfeld

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