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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

PETA CLANCY has been selected to exhibit in the Pingyao International Photography  festival, 18-25 September, in China with artists including Pat Brassington, Marian Drew, Petrina Hicks, Deborah Paauwe, Polixeni Papapetrou, Luke Roberts, David  Stephenson. Pingyao is an Ancient Town of the Shanxi Province in China. The festival has become one of the world's largest photography exhibitions presenting thousands of select works by Chinese and international artists.

HELEN PYNOR'S work "Milk 4 (wattle)" has been selected for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The exhibition, which includes works by such artists as Tracey Emin, Bill Viola, Yinka Shonibare and David Hockney, runs until 22 August 2010.

HELEN PYNOR has had 3 works selected for the 2010 National Photographic Prize, to be held at Albury Regional Gallery from 30 July to 26 September 2010. This year's Prize will be judged by Dr Isobel Crombie, Senior Curator of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria.

CAROLINE RANNERSBERGER'S landscape work Sublime simpicissima, 2006, is now a part of the collection of the National Gallery of Australia. This is the first of her works to be collected by the National Gallery.  It is a beautiful and delicately layered work with ochre and red colours emulating the Australian landscape.

THOMAS WEINBERGER is part of 'Dreamlands', a major exhibition at the Pomidou Centre in Paris, France, group spring show. Dates for the exhibition are 5th May - 9 August, 2010. The exhibition includes artists like Maurizio Cattelan, Salvador Dali, Andreas Gurski, Andy Warhol, Edwad Ruscha, Pablo Picasso ... just to mention a few.  The exhibition will be accompanied by an important programme of films and lectures, as well as a voluminous catalogue.

PETA CLANCY and HELEN PYNOR awarded an Australia Council for the Arts, InterArts Project Grant for their collaborative project 'The Body is a Big Place'. For this project, in collaboration with sound artist Gail Priest, they will explore questions arising from the processes & practices of organ transplantation surgery culminating in an installation for the 2011 Performance Space program curated by Bec Dean. This project will include a residency at  SymbioticA - Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, in Perth during November 2010 - January 2011.

David Elliot, curator of the Sydney Biennale 2010 has selected two of TIM JOHNSON'S works for an exhibition at the MCA, 'Call Them Pirates Out Here' which opened February 17th 2010 and runs until 29th August 2010. The works are Making Love Under Water, 1974, silver gelatin on paper and Little Big Horn, 1988, synthetic polymer paint on canvas.

Congratulations to PETA CLANCY and HELEN PYNOR for their joint application being accepted for a 3 month Artists Residency at SymbioticA in Perth.  This is a fantastic opportunity as SymbioticA is a world recognised leader in Art-Biology research.  www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/

HELEN PYNOR has been offered the Australia Council London Studio in Bethnal Green.  She says,

"In my application I proposed to undertake research that follows on from my PhD research, in the art-medicine area, at the numerous London museums of medical science/surgery and at the Wellcome Collection. More specifically, I'll be researching practices of organ transplantation surgery, and artists' explorations of the practices of organ transplantation".