Antipodeans: Australian Art
Sculpture by Jeremy Parnell.
A woman approaches an artwork called “Big Chook”, made of fibreglass and high gloss epoxy marine paint, on Tamarama Beach in Sydney, November 2, 2005.
George Edwards Peacock (b. England 1806, arrived Sydney 1837, d. 1890). View North from Craigend Looking Over Woolloomooloo and Port Jackson, 1845.
Oil painting.
The Australian Stencil Art Exhibition opened in Sydney on the 21st of November 2012.
Credit and details via: Everguide.
Max Dupain. 1969. Sydney Opera House (still under construction). Via National Archives of Australia:
On commission, Dupain took thousands of photographs of the Sydney Opera House, revealing its construction from beginning to end. Later he described the completed building from a photographer’s perspective: ‘As the light moves across it during the day, it changes its form and shape… it’s full of moods… and photographically speaking, its form is fantastic’ (1986).
Sydney Opera House ‘Crumbles’ In Spectacular Light Show !! More from the Vivid Sydney 2012. Some amazing light show work right on the sails of the opera house
This video art contains a collection of works by Australian artists.
Shaun Gladwell is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Gladwell is pictured below, in front of his video art, Broken Dance (Beatboxed), which will show at the Art of New South Wales in Sydney from the 23rd of August to the 21st of October. The artist will appear at the Gallery to discuss his method on the 1st of September.
Video and image via: Sydney Morning Herald. Photo by Ben Rushton.
Project Rameau. Joint project between the Australian Chamber Orchestra & Sydney Dance Company.
Runs 29 Oct to 3 Nov 2012.
Photo via Australian Dance Company.
Contemporary Women
This upcoming show by the Sydney Dance Company is exciting. They have co-commissioned four works by Australian women choreographers:
Dream Lucid by Melbournian Stephanie Lake uses form, colour and magnetism to explore the flux between chaos and control. In Fanatic, Adelaide’s Larissa McGowan uses humour and superb physical expression to investigate what happens when Alien and Predator movie fans vent via YouTube. Desire, by Brisbane-based Lisa Wilson, explores a range of responses from emotional connection to aggressive sparks, and yield, by Sydney Dance Company’s Emily Amisano, considers how we come to know people through their actions, responses and boundaries.
The show is on at the Sydney Opera House, Playhouse from 20 August to 2 September 2012.
Source: Sydney Dance Company.
Rafael Bonachela’s 360°, Sydney Dance Company.
Via: PK Theatre.
The Chooky Dancers perform in Sydney.
Source: BBC.
James McGrath, Ex Libris, 2011. (Part II; see Part I here.)
Oil paint on aluminum. Dimension range approx 320cm x 200cm.
Source: James McGrath.
Photograph of Max Dupain shooting model Noreen Hallard on Cronulla Beach, Sydney, 1937.
Photographer: Olive Cotton
Sydney Dance Company
(via quixoticmettle)
Ocean Flow by -yury- on Flickr.
Yury Prokopenko, 2011, Ocean Flow.
Maroubra Beach, Sydney, Australia, 2011.
