Damien Minton Gallery
61-63 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern
Phone: 02 9699 7551
Email: art@damienmintongallery.com.au
Web: www.damienmintongallery.com.au
Exhibition: China De La Vega, To the Wire
China de la Vega presents her second solo exhibition at the Damien Minton Gallery, developing her mixed media assemblages.
Opening Drinks 6-8pm (until Saturday, 7th November)

Harrison Galleries
294 Glenmore Road, Paddington 2021
Phone: 02 9380 7100
Email: info@harrisongalleries.com.au
Web: www.harrisongalleries.com.au
Exhibition: Paul Haggith, Mimesis
Haggith's vision is of the eternal golden summer. In this inviting ocean world, children frolic and boogie boarders float idly.
Opening Drinks 6-8pm (until Thursday, 12th November)

Hogarth Galleries
7 Walker Lane, Paddington
Phone: 02 9360 6839
Email: info@hogarthgalleries.com
Web: www.aboriginalartcentres.com
Exhibition: Lisa Michl Ko-mangge'n and Shaun Edwards Ma Wanjibang Pukun, Carriers of Culture Wichirr Kokoberrin
Inspired by the country and culture of the Kokoberrin people, Western Cape York, QLD.
Opening Drinks 6-8pm (until Thursday, 19th November)

Colville Street Art Gallery
54 Colville Street, Battery Point 7004
Phone: 03 622 44 088
Email: Trudi@colvillestreetartgallery.com.au
Web: www.colvillestreetartgallery.com.au
Exhibition: Dr Colin Langridge and Jennifer Marshall, Concordia
Both artists have developed a separate response to their residency at British School in Rome, through sculpture and works on paper.
Opening Drinks 5.30-7.30pm (until Wednesday, 11th November)

Burnie Regional Art Gallery
Arts & Function Centre, Wilmot Street Burnie 7320
Phone: 03 6430 5875
Email: gallery@burnie.net
Web: www.burniearts.net
Exhibition: Group exhibition, Return to Sender, Julie Irvin, In Your Garden and Julian Thompson, Australia
Exhibitions explore migration, landscapes by Irvin and internet-based aerial and satellite photography is the starting point of Thompson’s work.
Opening Drinks 6-8pm (until Sunday, 6th December)

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In brief:

• Callum Morton's installation Valhalla, first shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale, is currently on view at the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the Melbourne Festival. Speaking about the new home for the work, Morton told The Age: ''I love it against the Roy Grounds (the NGV); that was a big thing for me. I'm a big fan of that block-work versus block-work. But now it's an object on a box, whereas before it was an environment that grew into its site ... Context is everything.''
  

• A series of four sculptures by Jan Brown will be unveiled in Canberra's Petrie Plaza in December. The $388,357 public commission, funded by the 2008-2009 Percent for Art budget, includes large-scale pieces up to 2.6 metres modeled on the local bird life of Canberra.
  

• An exhibition of artist's books by Robert Jacks will be opening this week at the Bendigo Art Gallery. A small selection of works in other media will also be included in the exhibiton.
  

• Geoffrey Ricardo has won the $15,000 Great Ocean Road Sculpture Award in the Lorne Sculpture Exhibition for Anno Domino, a life-size copper and stainless steel rhinoceros. Jonathon Leahey's Bullseye was acquired for public display in Lorne while Liz Walker won the emerging artist award.
  

• Artist Lindy Lee will be speaking as part of a panel discussion at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Sydney on 7 November as part of the Charwei Tsai exhibition Water, Earth and Air. Also speaking will be academics Natalie Seiz and Dr Mark Allon.
  

• A session with artist George Raftopoulos is the main prize in the The Matthew Jones Award: Children's Art Sydney, an art competition open to primary school aged children. Sydney's Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation is also supporting the event, hosting the award art exhibition, which will be a selling show to raise money for two local school's providing services to children with disabilities.
  

• An exhibition of George Baldessin's work since 1991 will be opening next month at the TarraWarra Museum of Art in Victoria. Co-curated by former TarraWarra director Maudie Palmer, the show will include paintings, drawings, etchings and sculpture, and will coincide with the launch of a book on his work authored by Harriet Edquist.
  

• Neil Haddon has won the Whyalla Art Prize from a field of over 400 entries.
  

• Painter Emily Ferretti has been awarded a one-month residency by the Art Gallery of New South Wales at the Moya Dyring Memorial Studio in Paris.
  

• Brendan Van Hek has won the City of Joondalup's $12,500 Acquisitive Award for Yellow Composition#1. Theo Costantino's Nation Building won the $1,000 Award for Excellence.
  

• Painter Kevin Oxley has won the Kogyn $10,000 Hugh Sawry Inaugural Art Award for Western Light.
  

• Fiona Pardington, Michael Hight, Haru Sameshima, Warwick Freeman, Judy Darragh, Mark Adam, Michael Smither, Alan Preston and Martin Beaver are supporting an artist-initiated charity auction which will be held tonight in Newmarket, Auckland. The auction will raise money for tsunami affected areas in the Pacific, and is supported by Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust and auction house Webb's, which has waived buyer's premium and commission for the event.
  

• Painter Trisha Lambi has won the $5000 Acquisitive Warwick Art Prize 2009 for her work The Ballet Roche.

Compiled by Jane O'Sullivan. Please send your news to josullivan@artcollector.net.au

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NAS director to exhibit drawings
Anita Taylor, director of the National Art School in Sydney, is holding her first solo exhibition in Australia since her recent appointment. Drawings on the nature of desire, which explores themes including the representation of female identities, notions of pleasure and sensuality, and questions of openness and privacy, will be staged at Peter Pinson Gallery in Sydney from 28 October.

Philanthropy award for Brisbane gallerist
Brisbane gallery director Philip Bacon has been recognised for his leadership in art philanthropy. The gallerist was named one of the national winners in the Australian Business Arts Foundations annual philanthropy awards last week. Read more

Compiled by Jane O'Sullivan. Please send your news to josullivan@artcollector.net.au

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AbaF names national philanthropy award winners
Brisbane gallerist Philip Bacon has been awarded the Goldman Sachs JBWere Philanthropy Leadership Award, presented annually by the Australian Business Arts Foundation to a leader who has encouraged increased giving to Australian cultural life. From the funds Bacon donated to the Queensland Art Gallery in 2008, the gallery has acquired its first Eugene Von Guerard, and more recently George Lambert's Self Portrait with Ambrose Patterson, Amy Lambert and Hugh Ramsay. Major gifts of works of art to the gallery's collection include Matthew Smith's Tulips, and the major 1966 Brett Whiteley Calcutta. He has also supported cultural organisations outside of the visual arts including the Brisbane Powerhouse, the Queensland Theatre Company, the Brisbane Festival and Opera Queensland.
''I truly believe art matters,'' Bacon said, ''and I am privileged that I can help in ways both big and small to encourage and develop the companies and the people that make it happen.''
Also winning a national award was National Gallery of Australia benefactor and council member Kerry Stokes, who was awarded the Richard Pratt Business Arts Leadership Award. Stokes was also recognized for generously loaning artworks from his collection of over 8,000 items to institutions such as the Museum of Sydney, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Heide Museum of Modern Art and TarraWarra Museum of Art.

Compiled by Jane O'Sullivan. Please send your news to josullivan@artcollector.net.au

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Art Sydney, 22-25 October 2009
Opening this Thursday, this year's Art Sydney includes a new section dedicated solely to unrepresented artists. The Studio will include work by 24 artists including Heather Dinas, Steve Hazael, Mesha Sendy and Elaine Baton. The Studio is in addition to the Art Sydney's regular section for emerging unrepresented artists Off the Wall, coordinated by artist Cash Brown. This year's artists have been selected by a panel including critic Andrew Frost and private collector Toby Blyth, and include Erin Flannery, Alex Lawler and Steve Coy. Participating galleries in the main section of Art Sydney include Brunswick Street Gallery, Frances Keevil Gallery, Dacou and Urban Uprising.

Coming up:

• International Istanbul Biennial, 12 September - 8 November 2009
• Fiac, Paris, 22 - 25 October 2009
• Paris Photo, 19 - 22 November 2009
• Art Basel Miami, Miami, 3 - 6 December 2009
• Verge Art Fair Miami, Miami, 3 - 6 December 2009
• ARCO Madrid, 17 - 21 February 2010
  

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