Annie Laerkeson solo exhibition

Sydney artist Annie Laerkesen's new solo exhibition opens 6pm, Thursday 27th October... more details here.

MONA love...

MONA gallery featuring Sidney Nolan's Snake made up of 1620 individual images

Juz Kitson's Formations of Science: Freudian Flowers

Eriwn Wurm's Fat Car

Incredible work that creates words out of falling water by Julius Popp

Banksy works heading to Cockatoo Island

A private collection of 23 works by Banksy, the world’s most famous street artist, is headed to Sydney's Cockatoo Island this November as part of the Outpost Project street art festival.

The Banksy works are all owned by a private New Zealand collector and are part of the Oi You! Collection, never before seen in this country, that contains more than 70 rare and original pieces by the world’s leading street artists.

Presented by the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, Outpost Project, Art from the Streets runs from 4 November until 11 December 2011 and features over 100 local and international artists and artists’ collectives, making it the biggest street art festival in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Architecture, art & avant-garde film collide

CarriageWorks.. the 'canvas' for film makers, artists and architects 

Filmmakers, artists and architects will combine their creative juices for the one-night only 'Expanded Architecture' exhibition  being presented at CarriageWorks as part of this year's Sydney Architecture Festival.  

Expanded Architecture will next week announce the winning ten collaborative proposals to project moving imagery on to the floors, ceiling and walls of the CarriageWorks centre in Sydney's Eveleigh. The event, which is free entry, will be hosted on the evening of Wednesday 26 October. Details of the works will be announced on this blog and via the  Sydney Architecture Festival website.  

Celebrating Australia's art world luminaries

The foyer at the Art Gallery of NSW where the awards dinner will be held

Here is your chance to rub shoulders with some of the top names in contemporary art, both living artists and the arts philanthropists and arts sector workers who support them.

On Thursday 15th September, a gala dinner will be hosted at the Art Gallery of NSW celebrating the main award winners in the categories of 'artist' and 'artist visionary'.

Guest speakers include Cate Blanchett and Edmund Capon, with live performances by the talented Katie Noon and her band Elixir.  All guests are up to win original art works by contemporary artists Jess MaNeil and Ildiko Kovacs. Not to be missed... more details on (rapidly disappearing) tickets here.

KALIMANRAWLINS announces artist stable

Steve Carr, installation view

Renee So, installation view

New Melbourne-based contemporary gallery KALIMANRAWLINS has revealed its artist stable with an inaugural group exhibition entitled ‘First Show’ featuring 14 Australian-based artists and nine artists currently living and working internationally in Germany, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sweden, UK and USA.

The gallery's artist list, at time of launch, is: 

Daniel Boyd (Sydney)

Jon Campbell (Melbourne)

Steve Carr (Auckland, New Zealand)

Jon Cattapan (Melbourne)

Nadine Christensen (Melbourne)

Simon Denny (Frankfurt, Germany)

James Deutsher (Melbourne)

Tony Garifalakis (Melbourne)

Diena Georgetti (Brisbane)

David Griggs (Manila, Philippines)

Matt Hinkley (Melbourne)

Robert Hunter (Melbourne)

Anna Kristensen (Sydney)

Amanda Marburg (Melbourne)

Moya McKenna (Melbourne)

Tim McMonagle (Melbourne)

Manuel Ocampo (Manila, Philippines)

Séraphine Pick (Christchurch, New Zealand)

Tony Schwensen (Boston, USA)

Renee So (London, UK)

Glenn Sorenson (Stockholm, Sweden)

Michelle Ussher (London, UK)

Ronnie van Hout (Melbourne)

The current exhibition runs until 20 August and next on the KALIMANRAWLINS exhibition calendar  are solo exhibitions of work by Manila-base Manual Ocampo and Melbourne-based Amanda Marburg.

Vue de monde unveils major contemporary art commissions in new Rialto premises

Mikala Dwyer, 2011 (Installation detail)

Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne

The work of three contemporary artists will grace the new premises of Vue de monde at the Rialto in Melbourne.  

Owner and chef Shannon Bennett commissioned works by international artist Joseph Kosuth and Australian artists Mikala Dwyer and Emily Floyd.

Mikala Dwyer created an installation of transparent clouds crafted from industrial plastic that appear suspended above the Vue de monde bar to the backdrop of the city skyline. 

The installation was installed on the eve of a new solo exhibition of Dwyer's work to be opened at Anna Schwartz Gallery on Thursday 7 July. 

Dwyer describes the process of creating the sculptures as ‘sculpting emptiness’.  Her new exhibition adorns the gallery with sculptures and assemblages including ‘architectural jewellery’, a collaboratively made Ouija board, constructivist lamps and floating masses of zero-shaped balloons (pictured).