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| The Melbourne Art Fair was a great success with 8 out of 9 paintings by Joanna Lamb and many more works from the stockroom sold. Artbank acquired 2 photographs by Jane Burton and the beautiful Art Deco interior by Joanna Lamb. |
| Edith Cowan University
and Murdoch University both purchased works by Jane Burton from
the last exhibition. |
| Congratulations to Jennie Nayton whose work was recently purchased by the Parliament House Art Collection in Canberra. |
| Congratulations also to Jo Darbyshire who is a finalist in the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award in Sydney and Fleurieu Landscape Prize in South Australia. |
| Emily Portmann has been announced as the winner of the Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture. The award which offers a major prize of $10,000 is a significant opportunity for both emerging and established artists. Finalist's works will be exhibited at the Tweed River Art Gallery until 21 September 2008. |
| Johnston Gallery is off to the Melbourne Art Fair from 30 July - 4 August. We will be exhibiting Joanna Lamb's Flatland: a continuing romance (figures 17-25). |
| A major survey show of Darren Sylvester runs from 25 July to 30 August at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. 'This exhibition is the first survey of the work of one of Australia's leading Gen Y artists. Spanning ten years it explores the bittersweet candour that Sylvester has made his own. Eschewing both the critical theorising of the baby-boomers and the cynicism of Gen X, he harnesses the perfected visual language of advertising, cinema and the video clip to speak with deep sincerity of the human condition in the 21st century. |
| neo goth: back in black runs from the 25 July - 21 September at The University of Queensland Art Museum. It includes works by Jane Burton and Darren Sylvester. |
| Darren Sylvester and Jane Burton are exhibiting in Décor, at Glen Eira City Council Gallery from 12 – 30 March. |
| Polixeni Papapetrou
is included in the exhibition, 'Silver-lined: Contemporary artists and the Performing Arts Collection' at the Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne. Exhibition dates: 12 April - 13 July 2008. http://www.theartscentre.com.au/what's-on/event.aspx?id=1160 |
| Emily Portmann is a finalist in the 2008 Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts Photography Award. Gold Coast City Art Gallery, 5 April – 18 May 2008 |
| Polixeni
Papapetrou's new work, 'Games of Consequence' together with 'Haunted
Country' will be exhibited at the National Arts Center, Tokyo, in the
exhibition 'Artist File 2008'. The exhibition features the work of eight
contemporary artists. Dates: 5 March - 6 May 2008 http://www.nact.jp/english/index.html |
| Polixeni Papapetrou
is also represented in the exhibition 'Presumed Innocence:
Photographic Perspectives of Children' at the at DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park in Massachusetts. This exhibition features images of
children in vintage and contemporary prints by 20th- and 21st-century
photographers. From 2 February to 27 April 2008 http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2008/Presumed%20Innocence.htm |
| Jane Burton, Mark Kimber and Conor O'Brien are all finalists in the National Photographic Portrait Prize held at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra from 6 Dec 2007 to 23 March 2008. The winner will receive $25,000. |
| Congratulations to Jennie Nayton who has won the City of South Perth Art Award. |
| Johnston Gallery has been included in international arts magazine the Contemporary 2007 annual: 50 emerging galleries from around the world. Only one other Australian gallery was mentioned. |
| Joanna Lamb has been Highly Commended at the ABN AMRO 2007 Emerging Artists Award. |
| Congratulations to Samantha Small and Polixeni Papapetrou who received an Australia Council, Visual Arts Board, new grant. |
| Polixeni Papapetrou's Haunted Country series is currently on view at Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland, New Zealand. Polixeni's work is also included in the exhibtion 'Living Elvis' at RMIT Gallery. Living Elvis commemorates the 30th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death and reflects on art responding to his impact on contemporary visual culture. Exhibition dates: 16 August - 20 October 2007 |
| Darren Sylvester, Jane Burton, Beverley Veasey, Mark Kimber and Deborah Paauwe are all finalists in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2007. The exhibitions runs from 7 September - 11 November at the Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria. |
| Joanna Lamb has a feature article in the Winter edition of Insite Magazine. |
| Congratulations to Darren Sylvester who has been awarded the 2007 Australian Capital Equity Art Prize as part of Artitude. |
| Joanna Lamb and Emily Portmann have been short listed for the ABN AMRO 2007 Emerging Artists Award. |
| Samantha Small is exhibiting Wait not want at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne from 25 May - 7 July. |
| In June - July 2007, Polixeni Papapetrou will be at the Bundanon Artists Centre in NSW as part of its Artist in Residence Program. |
| Congratulations to Emily Portmann who was awarded the John & Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship Acquisitive prize of $1,500 for an emerging artist. 2007 National Photographic Prize, Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre. |
| Beverley Veasey is a finalist in the 2007 Josephine Ulrick Photography Prize at the Gold Coast City Gallery from 12 May. Her work will also be shown at Mars Gallery, Melbourne 13 June - 8 July. |
| Polixeni Papapetrou is a finalist in the 2007 Josephine Ulrick Photography Prize and the 2007 Albury Regional Art Gallery National Photography Prize Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre which runs from 1 June to 8 July. |
| Emily Portmann is also a finalist in the 2007 Albury Regional Art Gallery National Photography Prize Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre. |
| Darren Sylvester's work is currently showing at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Raised by Wolves. The exhibition runs until 17 June. |
| Samantha Small is exhibiting The Waiting Room at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space from 23 March to 21 April 2007. |
| Jennie Nayton has been invited to participate in Off the Wall at Art Melbourne 07 in April |
| Rebecca Ann Hobbs's and Darren Sylvester's work is included in Perfect for Every Occasion: Photography Today at Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne to 1 July. Rebecca's work is also on show at The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts from 5 July to 2 September in Vertigo. |
| Polixeni Papapetrou's work is currently included in two international exhibitions: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf at the Te Tuhi Gallery, Manuka City, New Zealand until 29 April and Tell Me a Story: New Photographic Arts at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, USA until 13 May. |
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