TULLY ARNOT // WINNER OF THE 2015 MARTEN BEQUEST TRAVELLING SCHOLARSHIP

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Congratulations to Tully Arnot who was recently announced as one of the 2015 winners of the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship! 

The Marten Bequest is awarded annually to selected young artists across a number of categories including painting and sculpture. Winners of the award are presented with a $20,000 scholarship intended to provide them with the chance to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts through travelling either overseas or interstate. 

Tully Arnot will begin his travels in Australia by creating work for an upcoming exhibition at Brisbane Powerhouse, followed by inaugural solo exhibitions in Melbourne and New Zealand. Tully will then collaborate with Chinese-Australian artist Jason Phu to establish a large studio in Chongqing, where he will develop the complexity and scale of his work. He will later take up an Australia Council residency at the Greene Street studio in New York, where he will undertake a mentorship and expand his international networks. 

Tully Arnot is a Sydney based contemporary artist whose practice develops on ‘outsider’ modes of invention, generating a non-teleological creative process with unanticipated outcomes. Inventive and alchemical explorations of material and form are used to explore the subtle changing of states within art - from everyday object to sculpture/invention/artwork, or stuck between in a state of flux. In 2014 Arnot was awarded the inaugural NAB Emerging Artist Award for his installation of kinetic based sculptures Nervous Plants. In 2013 Arnot was also selected as one of three artists to undertake a residency as part of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art's inaugural Beijing Studio Program at the studios of Chinese Australian artist Shen Shaomin in Huairou on the northern outskirts of Beijing. This residency culminated in an exhibition of new work, entitled Haze, which featured the work of Tully Arnot, Sarah Contos and Jensen Tjhung held at 4A in 2014. 

Arnot's work has also been exhibited as part of Installation Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in 2013 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of an edition of MCA Art Bar which Arnot was invited to curate. He has previously exhibited as part of the Next Wave Festival (2012), the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2011, 2014) and the Redlands Art Prize (2014). 

Tully Arnot is currently exhibiting a selection of new and recent works as part of his solo exhibition Trace Etc. at Artereal Gallery. The exhibition runs until 28 March 2015 as part of Art Month Sydney.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / IN THE MEDIA

Ken + Julia Yonetani's latest exhibition Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations opened last night. The exhibition features an installation of fifteen chandeliers made from glowing, neon green Uranium glass.

A response to the recent and disastrous Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant incident which followed a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year, the exhibition has so far received significant media coverage from the following media outlets:

The Daily Telegraph

ABC News

ABC Radio National

Das Platforms

The Art Newspaper

The Sun Herald

Time Out Magazine

The Australian
Vogue Magazine (current issue)

The Crystal Palace exhibition at Artereal takes place as the Yonetanis’ extremely well received solo exhibition, What the Birds Knew, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is extended until November 3rd - the closing date for both shows.

The artists will also be holding an Artist Talk at Artereal Gallery on Saturday 20 October at 12pm.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH DAS PLATFORMS

In the lead up to their exhibition Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations, which opens at Artereal Gallery on 3 October, Das Platforms recently interviewed Ken + Julia Yonetani aboutt their current exhibition What The Birds Knew which runs until 3 November 2012 at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney.

In this interview the artists discuss social and cultural education, the ‘green ant dreaming’ from the same region as the infamous Nabarlek Uranium mine in Australia’s Northern Territory, changing attitudes to nuclear power and the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Join us for the exhibition opening of Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations on Thursday 4 October from 6-8pm.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI IN THE MEDIA

Ken + Julia Yonetani, Crystal Palace (USA), 2012, Chandelier frame, uranium glass beads, wire, UV light bulbs, and electrical component

Ken + Julia Yonetani's current solo exhibition, What The Birds Knew at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, has been featured on various online publications, including an interview with Ken + Julia by Darryn King from Time Out Sydney, and an article by art and design culture hub designboom.

Other reviews of Ken + Julia's What The Birds Knew can also be found here, here and here.

Following on from this exhibition, Ken + Julia Yonetani will have a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery this October. Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations is a response to the recent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and the phenomenon of radiation. This exhibition will feature a new, never before exhibited installation of Uranium chandeliers.

KEN + JULIA YONETANI @ 4A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART

Ken + Julia Yonetani, What the Birds Knew, 2012, Uranium glass beads, aluminium wire, and UV lights.

Ken + Julia Yonetani, What the Birds Knew, 2012, Uranium glass beads, aluminium wire, and UV lights

Ken + Julia Yonetani are opening their solo exhibition What the Birds Knew at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 181-187 Hay St, Haymarket, on Thursday 9th August from 6-8pm. The artists will also be speaking as part of 4a's Lunchtime Talks at 12:30pm on Friday 17th August.

What the Birds Knew includes new large scale sculptural works made from radioactive uranium glass. A 6-metre long green ant will threateningly loom over visitors to the gallery, and a large scale chandelier will be visible 24 hours a day. The use of UV lights will make the uranium glow green, giving the works an ominous energy.

These new visually stunning and highly provocative works arise out of the artists’ concerns over the recent nuclear tragedy in Fukushima. The title of the exhibition refers to the alternative title for Akira Kurosawa’s 1955 post-war film I Live in Fear, in which the central character declares that the birds would flee if they knew of the impending environmental threats.

What the Birds Knew reflects shared cultural expressions of environmental anxieties within Indigenous Australian and Japanese culture, and whether these function as either warnings or premonitions.

Following on from this exhibition, Ken + Julia Yonetani will have a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery this October. Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations is a response to the recent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and the phenomenon of radiation. This exhibition will feature a new, never before exhibited installation of Uranium chandeliers.

Ken + Julia Yonetani, Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations (Japan), 2012, metal, UV lighting, Uranium Glass

KEN + JULIA YONETANI @ 4A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART

Ken + Julia Yonetani will soon open their solo exhibition What the Birds Knew at 4a Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. 

What the Birds Knew includes new large scale sculptural works made from radioactive uranium glass. A 6-metre long green ant will threateningly loom over visitors to the gallery, and a large scale chandelier will be visible 24 hours a day. The use of UV lights will make the uranium glow green, giving the works an ominous energy.

These new visually stunning and highly provocative works arise out of the artists’ concerns over the recent nuclear tragedy in Fukushima. The title of the exhibition refers to the alternative title for Akira Kurosawa’s 1955 post-war film I Live in Fear, in which the central character declares that the birds would flee if they knew of the impending environmental threats.

What the Birds Knew reflects shared cultural expressions of environmental anxieties within Indigenous Australian and Japanese culture, and whether these function as either warnings or premonitions.

The exhibition opening is 6-8pm, Thursday 9 August at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, 181-187 Hay St, Haymarket. The artists will be speaking as part of 4A’s Lunchtime talks at 12.30pm Friday 17 August 2012.

Following on from this exhibition, Ken + Julia Yonetani will have a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery this October. Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations is a response to the recent Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident and the phenomenon of radiation. This exhibition will feature a new, never before exhibited installation of Uranium chandeliers.