The Guiguis New Art Prize 2015

The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP)

 

 

Sat 11 Apr - Sun 31 May 2015

 

 

The Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) is a $20.000 national, acquisitive, biennial,



contemporary Art Prize administered by Federation University Australia's Arts



Academy Initiated and generously supported by local Ballarat surgeon Mr Mark



Guirguis,this prestigious Art Prize showcases a selection of Australia's most exciting



 contemporary artists in Ballarat, Victoria.


In 2015, the major award of $20,000 will be presented to the winning artist



for the most outstanding single work of art from a pool of 15 Australian



shortlisted finalists' presented in an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat


and FedUni's Post Office Gallery, Ballarat from Saturday 11 April to Sunday


31 May 2015.


The list of GNAP15 finalists are Chris Barry (VIC), Chris Bond (VIC),


Teelah George (WA), Julie Gough (TAS), Louise Hubbard (VIC),



Susan Jacobs (VIC), Jess Johnson (VIC), Ross Manning (QLD),



Dylan Martorell (VIC), Pilar Mata-Dupont (WA), Kate Mitchell (NSW),



Dominic Redfern (VIC), Mark Shorter (NSW), Conrad Tipungwuti (NT)



and Jemima Wyman (QLD).



The Art Gallery of Ballarat and Post Office Gallery will be open from 10am



 to 5pm daily. Entry is free.


GNAP is presented in association with the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Slow Art Collective (Chaco Kato, Dylan Martorell) Edgar Hechavarria Ricardo, 



students from Castlemaine Secondary College

Loomūsica is the Castlemaine State Festival’s signature arts mentorship 



project bringing together Slow Art Collective, Cuban artist Edgar 



Hechavarria Ricardo, and students from Castlemaine Secondary College. 



Together they will create a site-specific installation that honors the 



manufacturing history of the former Castlemaine Woollen Mills.



Utilising re-purposed materials found on site and incorporating 



kinetic sculpture, robot components and basic DIY electronics, 


Loomūsica plays with the notions of loom and harp.



more information :  http://castlemainefestival.com.au/2015/event/loomusica/

the object as score - margaret lawrence gallery VCA

The Object As Score

 

 

OPENING CELEBRATION: 5 MAR, 5.30–7.30 PM



Sean Baxter, Matthew Day, Nathan Gray, Helen Grogan, Laresa Kosloff, Igor Krenz, 




Dylan Martorell, Stuart Sherman, Charlie Sofo, Torben Tilly, Danae Valenza with 




performances by Ernie Altoff, Sean Baxter, Arini Byng, Matt Day, Helen Grogan, 





Shelley Lasica and Katie Lee, Joel Stern. Curated by Nathan Gray.

Identifying a strand of thought in local and international interdisciplinary art



making, The Object as Score presents works that recognise the potential objects




might hold for action and interaction. The Fluxus artists, as students of John



 Cage, utilised the simple written score that he had developed with 4’33” –



 his silent work, which consists of the musical term ‘tacet’ (to wait) as the



 sole instruction for each movement. The Fluxus 'event score' was a direct




development of the written notation of 4’33”that used the brevity and




potentiality of language as a compact method of transmitting




ideas for performance. It was the multivalence of language that



allowed these performances to be open,indeterminate or even




impossible. Using the object as a score in sculpture, contemporary




improvised music and performance at large, this exhibition does not




explore language as a medium for the transmission of open performance




works, rather it employs the object as stand-in for the written score,




recognising it as a provocation for action.



Events and performances



Friday 6 March, 12.30 pmSean Baxter – Schmelzwerk



Torben Tilly – artist floor talk



Saturday 7 March, 2:30 pm Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)



Ernie Althoff



Helen Grogan – CONCRETE ROOM (2005-) and LIGHT (2003)




Saturday 14 March, 2:30 pm  Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)


Saturday 21 March, 2:30 pm  Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)



Arini Byng - Ready for the House



Joel Stern


Shelley Lasica and Katie Lee – Possibility of Performance


Saturday 28 March, 2:30pm   Matthew Day - Weighting (2015)

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