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STEFAN THIEL is having an exhibition in the public institution KUNSTSAMMLUNG NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany from January, 15th, to March, 18th, 20212 www.kunstsammlung-neubrandenburg.de/news.html

DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY is pleased to invite you to ‘The Body is a Big Place’, a new media installation commissioned by Performance Space, Sydney, opening on Thurs 3 Nov, 6-8pm.
www.performancespace.com.au/2011/body-is-a-big-place/

‘The Body is a Big Place’ is the result of a 2-year collaboration between artists Peta Clancy and Helen Pynor, with sound by Gail Priest and curation by Bec Dean. The exhibition explores organ transplantation with a particular focus on questions of personal identity and the blurred border between life and death in transplantation processes.

The installation includes a 5-channel video projection shot in the underwater environment of a swimming pool, performed by individuals who have had experiences of organ transplantation. In conjunction will be a heart perfusion system, where fresh pig hearts obtained from an abattoir will be reanimated in 2 special performances.

MARIANA VASSILEVA has been invited to participate at the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art later this year. She will show these two new works ('Selfmade' and 'In betwen'): http://dominikmerschgallery.com/Artist.aspx?id=68

HELEN PYNOR'S 'Liquid Ground 5' (http://dominikmerschgallery.com/Artist.aspx?id=41&img=957) has been short-listed for the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photographic Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, judged this year by Shaun Lakin. The opening and announcement of the Award winner is on April, 9, 2011, the exhibition is on from April, 10 to May, 22, 2011.

Congratulations to TIM JOHNSON fo. He's been awarded the $50,000 Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, a biennal open painting prize awarded by BENDIGO ART GALLERY. The work 'Communiy Base', will be now acquired by the gallery. Please have a look at the work: http://dominikmerschgallery.com/artist.aspx?id=54&img=796

HELEN PYNOR's work 'Headache' is part of the 'Brainstorm' exhibition in London, UK. Please do read the article in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/14/brainstorm-exhibition-brain-gv-art

TIM JOHNSON is involved in the roundaboutº exhibition which will showcase major new works by 108 artists, both established and emerging, from around the world. roundabout, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, 25 September 2010 - 16 January 2011. http://www.citygallery.org.nz/roundabout/

From China, India, Japan, Thailand, Bhutan and Tibet to New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Israel, Russia and the UK, the extensive geography that separates these artists finds common ground in roundaboutº.

roundaboutº is committed to facilitating creative dialogue and exchange between artists and cultures, particularly those that might not otherwise enjoy such altruistic freedoms. As such, it is a vehicle designed to celebrate our differences as well as our similarities in acknowledgement of the diversity of our planet and the rich and vital discourse that emanates as a result of its cross-currents.

Congratulations to CATHERINE NELSON who has been awarded the Royal Bank of Scotland Emerging Artist, 2010, Client Choice Award with her work 'Balina'. To view her work go to: http://dominikmerschgallery.com/Guest.aspx?id=70

Congratulations to ANTHONY TERRENCE O'CARROLL. He has been awarded residence for July - August 2011 for the Moya Dyring Studio in the Cite Internationale des arts, Paris.

HELEN PYNOR and PETA CLANCY awarded a New Work grant from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts for their collaborative project 'The Body is a Big Place'. For this project they will explore questions arising from the processes & practices of organ transplantation. They will develop the project during a series of residencies at the Alfred Hospital (Melbourne), Monash University (Melbourne), SymbioticA - Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts (Perth) and Performance Space (Sydney). The project will culminate in an installation at Performance Space in November 2011.

PETA CLANCY has been awarded a New Work Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. She will create two series of photographic/wax works 'Skin as Shifting Surface' and 'The Aurelian Project'.

For 'Skin as Shifting Surface' Clancy will continue exploring the paradoxical qualities of skin in photographic portraits by embedding the prints in wax to reflect translucent and opaque qualities of skin, both visually and metaphorically. For 'The Aurelian Project' (the title refers to the transformation of a chrysalis) she will explore the impact of human habitation on the lifecycle of butterflies in Australia by photographing specimens of the 26 species listed as threatened in the Action Plan for Australian Butterflies at Museum Victoria, Melbourne and Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra. These works will symbolise the fragile state of survival of each of the species and evoke a sense of renewal.

LOCUST JONES  has been selected for the Waikato Museum Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Award 2010 - a showcase of the best contemporary art from New Zealand.
Rachel Kent, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in  Sydney is the judge for this year's prize.
The exhibition will run from 7 August 2010 - 9 January 2011