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Spotlight Kate Brown @_ratitata_, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Kate Brown is today’s spotlight speaking about her multi-channel video installation, ‘This is a ghost voice’. The title of Brown’s work comes from a concept called a ‘ghost voice’ that identifies traces of human sounds as they echo and pass through various sites. Each video depicts the artist performing a vocal score that responds directly to the site of the exhibition, connecting the...se spaces back to specific parts of the human body. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

Following last night’s incredible news, here is 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Recipient, Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding, joined by Clothilde Bullen, Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions, MCA, Sydney, discussing his work for this year’s Fellowship. Dennis’s work, Cast in cast out, stems from memories of the Victorian lacework that lined the terrace houses in his childhood suburb of Redfern and throughout th...e work’s development the artist consulted with family, community and peers to embed shared lived experience into the installation. We wish to again congratulate Dennis on receiving this year’s fellowship, and to celebrate an important recognition of Australia’s First Peoples through his success. @dennisgolding #NSWVAEF @NAIDOC2020 See more

Spotlight Tiyan Baker @___titan_baker___, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship In today’s spotlight we hear from Tiyan Baker who discusses her work ‘Juruh’, which translates to the thorn in durian, the fruit at centre of her work. Baker reflects on the menacing, alien perception of durian in Western discourse, alongside the significance of the fruit to bring wealth, nourishment and continuity for the artist and her family who continue to grow wild specie...s of durian trees in their Bidayh village in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

Congratulations Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, recipient of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, and the first Aboriginal winner of this prestigious award. Dennis’s work, Cast in cast out, stems from memories of the Victorian lacework that lined the terrace houses in his childhood suburb of Redfern and throughout the work’s development the artist consulted with family, community and peers to embed shared lived experience into the inst...allation. We’d also like to extend our congratulations to all of the finalists in this year’s Fellowship for their amazing work that they put into this exhibition despite all the challenges that this year presented. The NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace until 13 December Photo: Document See more

Join us online this Wednesday at 2pm for part two of the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSW VAEF) artist talks with finalists Kate Brown, Dennis Golding, Julia Gutman and Nadia Hernández in conversation with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch. This event will take place live online via zoom Grab your ticket through artspace.org.au/fellowship... Images: 1. Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez, ‘De donde no se ve el horizonte y la vista choca contra la montaña / from where you can’t see the horizon and sight collides with the mountain’, 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney 2. Kate Brown @_ratitata_, 'This is a ghost voice', 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW VAEF, Artspace, Sydney 3. Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, 'Cast in cast out', 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW VAEF, Artspace, Sydney 4. Julia Gutman @julia_____gutman, 'No one Told Me the Shadows Could Be so Bright', 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW VAEF, Artspace, Sydney Photos: Document See more

Spotlight | Tarik Ahlip @tarik.ahlip, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Check out today’s spotlight with Tarik Ahlip who discusses his body of work in this year’s Fellowship exhibition. Tarik’s practice engages with the intersectional space between painting and sculpture or more specifically between image and presence.... His work for this year’s exhibition speaks to the poetic associations with the properties of water: as a medium, as a lens and as a volume with its own elastic, spatial dimensions. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

Tonights the night, we’re going live at 5:45pm for the announcement of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship recipient. Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. This year's finalists are Tarik Ahlip @tarik.ahlip, Tiyan Baker, @___titan_baker___, Kate Brown @_ratitata_, Dennis Golding @dennisgold...ing, Julia Gutman @julia_____gutman, Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez and Kirtika Kain @kirtika.kain The Fellowship will be presented by The Hon. Don Harwin MLC, Minister for the Arts Join the live stream via our facebook, or tune in at artspace.org.au/fellowship Image: Document

In the first of our spotlight series on the 2020 NSW VAEF finalists we hear from Akil Ahamat who discusses his work ‘Unchained Melody’. Developed from Akil’s interest in Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and its therapeutic affects in online communities, he considers the potential of ASMR as it translates beyond the digital and into public space. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December.

Part one of our 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSW VAEF) artist talks with finalists Akil Ahamat, Tarik Ahlip, Tiyan Baker and Kirtika Kain in conversation with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch.

Part two of our 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship artist talks with finalists Kate Brown, Dennis Golding, Julia Gutman and Nadia Hernández in conversation with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch.

Join us live online this Thursday 12 November, 5:45pm for the announcement of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSW VAEF) recipient. Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. This year's finalists are Akil Ahamat, Tarik Ahlip, Tiyan Baker, Kate Brown, Dennis Golding, Julia Gutman, Nadia Hernández and Kirtika Kain.... The Fellowship will be presented by The Hon. Don Harwin MLC, Minister for the Arts. See more

Artspace today welcomed the NSW Government’s commitment of over $5 million that will see The Gunnery in Woolloomooloo Artspace’s home since 1993 transformed into a state-of-the-art facility with expanded exhibition spaces, increased artist-in-residence studios and a greater connection to the local neighbourhood and Sydney Harbour Foreshore. This significant investment in The Gunnery will ensure the legacy of the landmark building as the destination for visual arts in N...SW and highlights the important role of the arts in fuelling NSW’s cultural and economic recovery following the impact of COVID-19. The transformation of The Gunnery will feature these key elements: - Reorientation of the gallery entrance to Forbes Street plaza to provide greater connection with the neighbourhood and harbour foreshore and create a cultural corridor and sightline with Art Gallery New South Wales/Sydney Modern Project and the Domain parklands; - Expanded exhibition space on the ground floor; - The first floor will be upgraded into an education, outreach, digital broadcast, performance, production and public program space; - Increasing the number of artist studios offered rent-free to NSW-based artists from 7 to 10; and - Creating equity access for audiences across all levels The early 20th Century federation warehouse building is an important heritage listed site, which through its history has been a bulk store for the Sydney Morning Herald and a World War II gunnery instructional centre from which the building derived its name. In the 1970s, it became a famed artist squat, leading to its transformation as an artistic hub. This project will also allow Artspace to build on their growing strategic partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which supports expanded programs across education and outreach, curatorial, digital learning and capacity-building. _ Full article available through link in bio Image: Dunn & Hillam Architects @dunnhillam, Architect’s render of The Gunnery featuring artwork by Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, 'Cast in cast out', 2020, detail, courtesy the artist. See more

Highlights from last weeks @52artists52actions feature artist Ivy Wawn @iwawn _ For my action, I spent a week working on site at Artspace, engaging each day in a practice of Mourning Dancing. At its base level, this exercise involves dancing with one's attention on the past. With each new action the dancer keeps their mind on their previous movement and on the histories attached to it. As they perform, they attempt to remember and hold on to their own relationship to e...ach move; recalling memories of people, places and things that are stirred up in the sensations produced. The dancer makes for themselves a historical context in these conjured points of connection between themselves in the current moment and the remembrances of people, places and things connected to the movement. When the dancer returns to the practice, they lament the dance before, creating a new loop that is extended upon and modulated each time. For 52 ACTIONS I am presenting seven moves that were reiterated throughout the week _ @iwawn See more

It’s that time of year again, our two most anticipated yearly exhibitions - The 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSWVAEF) and the Parramatta Artists Studio Exhibition - are now open! This year’s NSWVAEF features work by Akil Ahamat @premiumsweats, Tarik Ahlip @tarik.ahlip, Tiyan Baker, @___titan_baker___, Kate Brown @katebrown, Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, Julia Gutman @julia_____gutman, Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez and Kirtika Kain @kirtika.kain. The exhibitio...n will be open everyday until 13 December, and for the first time (and hopefully the only time) the announcement of this year’s recipient will be taking place online, 12 November, 5:45pm via Facebook Live. The 2020 Parammata Artists’ Studios Exhibition ‘How to measure the body against the earth’ features work by artists Liam Benson @liam_benson, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen @cindy_yz_chen and Sofiyah Ruqayah @sofiyahruqayah and will be open in the Ideas Platform everyday until 13 December. 1. 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, installation view, Artspace Sydney 2. Sofiyah Ruqayah, Cascading Failures, detail, How to measure the body against the earth, 2020 Parramatta Artists’ Studio Exhibition, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney See more

Final day to apply for Artspace's 2021 One Year Studio Program offering one year rent-free studios for artists. Since 2015, Artspace has provided year-long, rent-free studios that support artists across generations from emerging to established, working across all media to embrace risk and experimentation in their practice. Don't miss out on your chance to be part of this incredible program that allows artists to create new work in an open, critically-engaged, and... supportive environment. Get your applications in today at artspace.org.au/studiocallout Applications due Mon 26 Oct, 11:5pm Image: Rochelle Haley @rochellehaley in her Artspace Studio, 2020. Photo: Zan Wimberley @zanwimberley See more