Adam Laerkesen: finalist for John Fries Memorial Prize, 2012

Out of 400 entries, Adam is amongst the 20 finalists for John Fries Memorial Prize this year.

For image of the work submitted, see post entry for Melbourne Sculptures Prize, 2012.

Annie Aitken: Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope # 4  (2012) Polypropylene, nylon net, poly-raffia, straw yarn, wire & 

acrylic rod 36x38 x38 cm 

Opening Drinks

Wednesday   23rd May  6 - 8pm

Exhibition Dates

22 May - 17th June

James Dorahy Project Space

111 Macleay Street

Pott Point

Adam Laerkesen: finalist at the Melbourne Sculpture Prize, 2012

The Melbourne Sculpture Prize 2012 is a $20,000 Non Acquisitive Award open to all Australian and New Zealand sculptors working in any medium. Selected finalists work will form the highlight exhibition of Art Melbourne (May 24th – 27th 2012), at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Hall in Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.


Adam Laerkesen is one of the 25 artists selected for this award with the work submitted.

Selection Panel:

James Makin - Director James Makin Gallery

Nigel Messenger - Executive Director ARTPark Australia

Tamsin Roberts - Director, ART Melbourne 2012

Judging Panel:

Andrew Rogers - Prominent Australian and International Sculptor

Sam Sangster - Chief Executive Officer Places Victoria


Adam is part of the national touring group show titled, Dreamweavers.  Curated by the Curator Simon Gregg from the Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, the show is to tour the Regional Art Galleries until 2013.

To see Adam's interview for Dreamweavers in ABC's Art Nation, click here.

Adam has also been scheduled to hold a solo show at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, in September this year.  Watch for the blog entry for this event closer to the month.

Adam Laerkesen is represented by Anita Traverso. 

In the Mirror a curated group exhibition

Barbara Licha. Glass of Red,  2011.  Oil on canvas. 167 X 152 cm.

In the Mirror
a curated group exhibition 27 March to 14 April 2012

   BRENDA MAY GALLERY

   2 Danks Street Waterloo NSW Australia

       Drinks with the Artists Saturday 31 March 4-6pm

                                                                    

Gail Kenning & Sue Pedley: Moving

Being in a place that is unfamiliar often causes a heightened sense of looking and being. How do we come to understand an unfamiliar place and reconcile often simultaneously contrasting viewpoints? In an attempt to understand an unfamiliar place we bring together information gathered from books, films, articles, conversations, with our experiences of ‘being there’, interacting with people and place, moving through spaces and experiencing a culture.

Gail Kenning and Sue Pedley present a series of photocollages, animations and monoprints developed from a project carried out during a residency at the Redgate Studio in Beijing, December 2011. The project examined how individuals come to understand or perceive spaces and places that are unfamiliar and culturally, historically and socially different to their own experiences. The starting points for the work are the shared experience and documentation of two very different journeys in Beijing.

Presented by Peloton at Sydney College of the Arts, Balmain Rd, Rozelle, NSW, Australia.

Exhibition runs from 1st March - 30th March, opening reception 6-8pm 9th March