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STAGES: life in lockdown, Monash Gallery of Art www.mga.org.au/
Currently on show 1 June 2021 to 29 August 2021 Untitled, 2021 Self-portrait. Zooming can feel like a process of radical self-acceptance mixed with a creeping sense horror. Some days, dressed from the waist up, the mask can begin to crack |
Thrilled to be once again selected as a Finalist in the Martin Kantor Portrait Prize at this years Ballarat International Foto Biennale! This time with a portrait of wonderful artist Terry Williams, also an Arts Project Australia artist.
The Pool series continues into my PhD Project :
Photography: the medium of record, of measure and loss
and will culminate as a 10 year project.
To follow latest images go to
Instagram: @penelope_hunt_photos
Instagram @penelopehunt47
Over my back fence, a Lorikeet lands are part of a series of scanned images which developed in the wake of the devastating bushfires which heralded in 2020. With the overwhelming loss to wildlife and environment and the stark realisation of the fragility of life, finding a Lorikeet feather on a local footpath felt incredibly precious.
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Common thread
A group exhibition by the staff artists working at Arts Project Australia - a visual art studio supporting neuro diverse individuals with their contemporary art practices. How does intuiting the creative intentions of others affect how we intend to communicate our own? How does that influence how we make and see art? These questions bring the subject back to fundamental human expression and how our experience of the Arts Project studio shifts our understanding of perception and the joy in self-expression. Featuring work by: Alysia Rees, Anna- Maria O’Keeffe, Camille Hannah, Carolyn Hawkins, Elyss McCleary, James McDonald, Jodie Kipps, Lyn Young, Marcel Cooper, Margaret Mcintosh, Meiyin Ahnsuz, Penelope Hunt, Peter Douglas, Rob McHaffie, Suzanne Brown, Tom Pendergast, and Yoshe Gillespie. St Heliers Street Gallery Ground Floor Convent Building Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford 14 February — 4 March |
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
24 August - 20 October, 2019
Ballarat Town Hall
225 Sturt Street, Ballarat
https://ballaratfoto.org/events/martin-kantor-portrait-prize/
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
24 August - 20 October, 2019
Ballarat Town Hall
225 Sturt Street, Ballarat
https://ballaratfoto.org/events/martin-kantor-portrait-prize/
Thrilled to be announced the winner of the 2019 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize for my photograph of artist Alan Constable!
Finding Focus 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 46 x 66cm
Finding Focus 2019, Archival Pigment Print, 46 x 66cm
Alan Constable is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, painting and ceramics. He is also living with Autism and is hearing and visually impaired. He is well known for his ceramic cameras and binoculars, exploring these items out with his hands and limited sight, his large finger prints indented into the surface for eternity.
Alan Constable (born 1956) has worked in the Arts Projects Australia studio since 1991 and is held in both Public and Private collections.
Arts Projects Australia studio since 1991.
Alan Constable (born 1956) has worked in the Arts Projects Australia studio since 1991 and is held in both Public and Private collections.
Arts Projects Australia studio since 1991.
The Exhibition Project
City Recital Hall, Sydney
2nd floor lobby,
2 Angel Place, Sydney, 2000
Opening September 5th, 2019
Exhibitions rune from Sept 5th - Nov 23rd, 2019
For details and links head to:
www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/the-exhibition-project/#slide-3
I will be showing two two bodies of work, both referring to water and place, made 5 years apart.
Excited to see them shown together! Heading to Sydney for exhibition in @cityrecitalhall tilI November.
I see myself in you and The Pool Series.
City Recital Hall, Sydney
2nd floor lobby,
2 Angel Place, Sydney, 2000
Opening September 5th, 2019
Exhibitions rune from Sept 5th - Nov 23rd, 2019
For details and links head to:
www.cityrecitalhall.com/whats-on/events/the-exhibition-project/#slide-3
I will be showing two two bodies of work, both referring to water and place, made 5 years apart.
Excited to see them shown together! Heading to Sydney for exhibition in @cityrecitalhall tilI November.
I see myself in you and The Pool Series.
May 2nd, 2019
Had a chat to Richard Watts from SmartArts on 3RRR today about the upcoming show The world around us
(1 hr:3mins into show time)
www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts/episodes/7235-smartarts-2-may-2019#episode
102.7FM, 3RRR Digital in Melbourne
& worldwide via RRR Apps
Had a chat to Richard Watts from SmartArts on 3RRR today about the upcoming show The world around us
(1 hr:3mins into show time)
www.rrr.org.au/explore/programs/smartarts/episodes/7235-smartarts-2-may-2019#episode
102.7FM, 3RRR Digital in Melbourne
& worldwide via RRR Apps
Will Murray, Rivers of Gold, 2018
THE WORLD AROUND US @ ARTS PROJECT AUSTRALIA
Curated by Penelope Hunt for CLIMARTE
Opening 3pm, 4th May, 2019
4 May - 8 June
The exhibition charts the process of walking the same paths around Northcote’s Merri Creek for a year-long period, and presents images by artists working digitally.
As part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival, The world around us literally refers to a five-block radius around the Arts Project Australia studio. Each week as the seasons change and the weather alters, so changes the landscape and our perceptions of it. Through the process of walking the same paths over a year, Arts Project studio artists will present work that focuses on and truly examines the fluctuations of their local environment, articulating their interests and concerns.
Featuring works by: Miles Howard-Wilks, Danny Lyons, James MacSporran, Eden Menta, Will Murray, Anthony Romagnano, Aidan Sefo, Georgia Szmerling and Lachlan Turk.
The exhibition will be opened by Bronwyn Johnson, Executive Director, CLIMARTE.
www.artsproject.org.au/event/world-around-us/?fbclid=IwAR3Gh133Z47FxLAq4se4RNKOCZcGzqlxm5eP7_rfa2m68fgcyrHrds13W8k
Curated by Penelope Hunt for CLIMARTE
Opening 3pm, 4th May, 2019
4 May - 8 June
The exhibition charts the process of walking the same paths around Northcote’s Merri Creek for a year-long period, and presents images by artists working digitally.
As part of CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE 2019 festival, The world around us literally refers to a five-block radius around the Arts Project Australia studio. Each week as the seasons change and the weather alters, so changes the landscape and our perceptions of it. Through the process of walking the same paths over a year, Arts Project studio artists will present work that focuses on and truly examines the fluctuations of their local environment, articulating their interests and concerns.
Featuring works by: Miles Howard-Wilks, Danny Lyons, James MacSporran, Eden Menta, Will Murray, Anthony Romagnano, Aidan Sefo, Georgia Szmerling and Lachlan Turk.
The exhibition will be opened by Bronwyn Johnson, Executive Director, CLIMARTE.
www.artsproject.org.au/event/world-around-us/?fbclid=IwAR3Gh133Z47FxLAq4se4RNKOCZcGzqlxm5eP7_rfa2m68fgcyrHrds13W8k
Finalist
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I see myself in you
Penelope Hunt’s series, I see myself in you focuses on how connection to the environment can psychologically mirror the relationship we have with ourselves and the world around us.
Taken of the Merri Creek, which weaves behind her home in Melbourne’s Northern suburbs, the images are all seen from a particular vantage point. Near to where an historic meeting took place between John Batman and prominent members of the Wurundjeri-willam and other clans in 1835, Elders concluded with Batman the only treaty to be ever struck between the invaders and the indigenous people of Australia.
Through the process of waking and noticing how the reflection changed over the seasons, a relationship and connection to place became more evident and simultaneously more complex.
Notions of beauty, yearning and connection to the landscape are referenced against the colonial landscape painter John Glover’s artwork, Swilker Oak, as shadows of our Colonial past are evoked within the landscape.
Penelope Hunt’s series, I see myself in you focuses on how connection to the environment can psychologically mirror the relationship we have with ourselves and the world around us.
Taken of the Merri Creek, which weaves behind her home in Melbourne’s Northern suburbs, the images are all seen from a particular vantage point. Near to where an historic meeting took place between John Batman and prominent members of the Wurundjeri-willam and other clans in 1835, Elders concluded with Batman the only treaty to be ever struck between the invaders and the indigenous people of Australia.
Through the process of waking and noticing how the reflection changed over the seasons, a relationship and connection to place became more evident and simultaneously more complex.
Notions of beauty, yearning and connection to the landscape are referenced against the colonial landscape painter John Glover’s artwork, Swilker Oak, as shadows of our Colonial past are evoked within the landscape.
