Storie Naturali curated by Roberto & Federica Farneti with Elena Dolcini. Critical text by Giulia Sissa

Thrilled to be a part of a compelling new show at the fantastic Galleria Marcolini. Curated around the fictional bittersweet writings of Primo Levi, Storie Naturali beings together four artists in a visual clash of functional disfunction, fact and fiction. An amazing show with a dynamic new gallery in Italy’s cultural north. More choice words here

The curatorial powerhouse of Gillian Brown, Rayleen Forester, Joanna Kitto ave added a welcome new voice to contemporary art scribbling – fine print magazine www.fineprintmagazine.com . The first issue is on TIME for which they graciously asked me to pen a piece. Take 5 and read it here. With luck and funding to be print published at the end of the year. Best of luck with the new venture Fine Printers!

Welcome to the first edition of fine print.

fine print is an independent visual arts magazine focusing on critical and experimental discussion around contemporary art. We are excited about fresh perspectives in the practice of writing about art; new forms of reporting, reviewing, debating and reciprocating contemporary art that makes an effort to actively record art as it happens.

For our inaugural issue we’ve compiled a series of articles that explore the notion of time. In an increasingly unstable climate we have seen contemporary artists engaging with process driven theories related to marking, scoring, assembling or disassembling the notion of time and space.

This month we investigate this theory and its relationship to artists today.

Issue #1 includes feature articles from Matthew Lorenzon (VIC), Riley O’Keeffe (SA) and CJ Taylor (SA) alongside responses to contemporary works by Madeline Reece (SA) and Gloria Strzelecki (SA).

Join the conversation here.

Art Central is Hong Kong’s exciting new art fair, showcasing the next generation of talent alongside some of the most established contemporary galleries and art spaces from across the globe.

Launched by the founders of ART HK, Art Central debuts 14-16 March 2015 (VIP Preview 13 March 2015) to coincide with Art Basel’s Hong Kong edition.

Art Central, Hong Kong will feature over 70 leading international galleries and will be staged in the largest ever specially commissioned, purpose-built structure to have ever been erected in Hong Kong. Located on the new Central Harbour front, the fair is conveniently located less than 2km from the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, where Art Basel takes place.

Find .M Contemporary and my work at Booth C4

Closing soon…MERE TYRANNIES

CJ Taylor’s debut show at .M Contemporary 14 Feb-15 Mar 2015

Visit the gallery here www.mcontemp.com/events/cj-taylor

.M CONTEMPORARY. 37 OCEAN STREET, WOOLLAHRA, SYDNEY, NSW AUSTRALIA 2025 | CONTACT@MCONTEMP.COM, +61 (2) 9328 0922. OPENING HOURS: TUE – SAT 10-5, SUN 10-4, MON by appointment

Roll up for the first Sydney survey show with work from two series created over the last 4 years. Michelle and Louise at .M Contemporary, Sydney’s newest contempt art gallery, have invited me to show with them to kick off the 2015 season. Alongside the incredible Simone Rosenbauer we’ll be holding two side-by-side solo extravaganza. Some come fill your boots and empty your wallets. Opening Saturday 14 February 3-5pm. Artist ‘Walkabout’ on the Sunday. Check back for times. Blurb below…

MERE TYRANNIES

2011–2015

CJ Taylor’s debut show at .M Contemporary 14 Feb-15 Mar 2015

Part survey part debut, CJ Taylor’s first show at .M Contemporary takes us on a journey through two significant series – even,still (2011-2014) and the ongoing either,either (2013 – ).

Taylor’s work collapses time, history, fact and fiction into beautiful new worlds replete with certainty and contradiction.

even,still captures the disquieting oddness and game-like artifice of 17th Century Dutch still life painting to explore the inherent beauty and ‘truthiness’ of the photographic image. Resplendent at the centre of a native floral garland, an earless fluorescent pink dingo stares mutely from the image’s liquid gloss, elsewhere a possum stalks alongside a honeyeater, a fluorescent breakfast is served. Seeming to float, bending perspective, small oddities and disruptions entice and cajole. Image and reality flex and bend, hovering between the known and unknown, the real and unreal. Strangely familiar, beautifully stilled.

As arts writer Jemima Kemp has observed, Taylor’s work is born ‘where nature meets culture, one where the fragility of the bush is threatened by rabbits, buffaloes yet one where this proliferative energy, where nature abundant, beautiful, slippery and resistant pushes back and evades culture’s force. These bright harbingers of disquiet slip into the frame dismantling its certainties, and yet always evading our grasp.’

The series either,either continues Taylor’s play with what is real and not real by exploring a peculiarly Australian experience. Time and nature are entwined together again in the Australian bush through a mix of still lifes and beautifully staged tableaus of the lives and objects from an imagined past. These nowherescapes are gentle and edgy evocations of the slipperiness of time.

In them there is a reimagining, of people, place and art. They are all linked in their own ways. They challenge notions of reality, fiction, landscape and above all, of time.

They are bright, dark, beautiful and coarse, unsure yet rock steady.

.M CONTEMPORARY. 37 OCEAN STREET, WOOLLAHRA, SYDNEY, NSW AUSTRALIA 2025 | CONTACT@MCONTEMP.COM, +61 (2) 9328 0922. OPENING HOURS: TUE – SAT 10-5, SUN 10-4, MON by appointment

Radiating loveliness shortly is Australia’s only major visual art prize for beauty. The inaugural Kennedy Prize ascends to the heavens from October 24. Delighted to have a work to sit alongside some of the most beautiful pieces Oz has to offer.

Exhibiting some new and some vintage work at Hither & Yon on my very own peninsula as part of South Australia’s only photography festival – the 2014 Shimmer Photography Biennale . Get the full program here (2.1MB) . Entitled (t)here the show comprises new work from either,either III, the colonial series Die Anderan and a new video work installed in the cellar. Originally an 1860s butcher shop built in a town carved out of rough nature in the same year that photography was born.

Time for a road trip? Time to go (t)here.