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

Once Was Re(a)d : UP Studios Artists in Art Month Sydney

The Studios' artists will be exhibiting at the UP Space Gallery for the Art Month Sydney 2012

Therese Kenyon. Screen, 2012. Mixed Media, 60 x 60 cm

Exhibition Opens on Thursday, 8th March, 6-8 pm


Gallery opens to the public on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th and 18th

At UP Space Gallery,
Bldg 24, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville

In conjunction with the exhibition, there will also be open studio days held on the Saturdays, 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th of March.  This was very well attended last year.

Yarns between Bubbles : a collaborative drawing exhibition

Rubik No. 1, 2012, mixed media on paper, 171 x 302 cm

Opens on the 9th of February 2012, 6-8 pm

Tin Sheds Gallery
148 City Road
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney

Exhibition continues to the 10th of March, 2012