TULLY ARNOT // IS ANNOUNCED AS A FINALIST TO JOHN FRIES 2015, LAUNCHES POZIBLE CAMPAIGN AND A VIDEO INTERVIEW

Congratulations to Tully Arnot, who has been announced a finalist to the John Fries Award 2015, one of Australia and New Zealand's most covetable awards for emerging contemporary artists.

Tully Arnot is, indisputably, one of Australia's busiest practicing artists. Since picking up the Inaugural NAB Private Wealth Emerging Artist Award in association with Art Month Sydney in September, he has presented numerous solo exhibitions (including Trace Etc at Artereal gallery in March 2015) and group exhibitions. In March, he was also awarded the prestigious Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, awarding the artist $20,000 over two years.  

As part of his solo exhibition, Trace Etc, at Artereal Gallery, Tully spoke In Conversation with Sydney Contemporary 15 Director, Barry Keldoulis and was also filmed providing further insight into the work in this exhibition from his studio at Redfern's 107 Projects (available to view above).

This week, Tully Arnot also launched a Pozible campaign in a bid to raise money for a project, Digital Forest, that he would like to get off the ground for Underbelly Arts 2015.

In his explanation on the crowdsourcing platform, Arnot elaborates on his intentions for the project: 

"Digital Forest is a new sculptural installation created for Underbelly Arts Festival 2015 on Cockatoo Island, Sydney. The artwork will consist of 300+ 'robotic' plants which use light sensors, servo motors and Arduino micro-controllers to create an interactive relationship between the audience and this electronic foliage.

This installation develops on a previous work Nervous Plants, winner of the 2014 NAB Private Wealth Emerging Artist Award. The new work will refine the technology that I developed in that work, as well as increase the complexity of the interactive components and greatly expand the scale of the work. "

TULLY ARNOT // Blouin Artinfo's list of Australian Artists to watch in 2015

Tully Arnot, Nervous Plant, 2014, 80 x 80 x 70cm, artificial plant, servomotors, microcontroller, light sensor, electronics, motion

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Blouin Artinfo listed their top twelve and we are thrilled to see some familiar faces, including Tully Arnot, whose solo exhibition opens at Artereal Gallery this March as part of our Art Month Sydney program.

On Tully Arnot's work, Nicholas Forrest writes; "The Sydney-based artist is best known for investigating the intangible relationships we have with objects and illuminating new, poetic ways of interacting with the world around us. 2015 was a big year for Arnot who was announed the winner of the inaugural NAB Private Wealth Emerging Artist Award for his innovative work "Nervous Plant, 2014" which consists of an artificial plant animated by motors attached to the base of each branch. Artereal Gallery will present a solo exhibition of Arnot's work as part of Art Month Sydney's March 2015 program."

Among the other twelve listed include Artereal favourites Michael Staniak, whose body of work, Slow Pictures, was exhibited at Artereal Gallery in June 2014, and Ken & Julia Yonetani, who have shown several solo exhibitions at Artereal Gallery since 2011. 

Tully Arnot's solo exhibition opens at Artereal Gallery Wednesday 4 March 2015 at 6.00PM and runs until Saturday 28 March 2015. As part of Art Month Sydney, Artereal Gallery will join forces with dLux MediaArts on 21 March 2015 to bring Sydneysiders a mini festival in the Rozelle Contemporary Art Precinct. The festivities will kick off with a public talk between Tully Arnot and Art Fair Director, Barry Keldoulis, and will be followed by a series of other talks and an outdoor film screening of IS THIS ART?.

Read more about Blouin's 2015 Aussie artist pics here.

TULLY ARNOT WINS NAB PRIVATE WEALTH EMERGING ARTIST AWARD AHEAD OF SOLO EXHIBITION AT ARTEREAL FOR ART MONTH 2015

Image: Tully Arnot, Nervous Plant, 2014, 80 x 80 x 70cm, artificial plant, servomotors, microcontroller, light sensor, electronics, motion.

Tully Arnot, who was this week announced winner of the NAB Private Wealth Emerging Artist Award, will present a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery as part of Art Month Sydney’s March 2015 programme.

Selected from over 300 emerging artists across Australia, Arnot was awarded the new, $10,000 acquisitive award on Wednesday, which seeks to recognise unrepresented artists in their first 10 years of practice.

“I’m stoked to be the winner of this year’s NAB Private Wealth Emerging Artist Award. As a young artist in Australia, it’s great to see an award recognising the many young artists working tirelessly across the country,” said Arnot.

As part of Art Month Sydney 2015, Tully Arnot’s exhibition at Artereal Gallery will showcase a new series of work that continues his exploration of the value of our relationships with non-sentient forms, and how these feed into our capacity to interact meaningfully with one another.

To bring this to life, Arnot will integrate complex technology with everyday or crass components – a merging of high and low thought that exemplifies the post-sentient nature of our increasingly connected, but ultimately disconnected world.

Arnot’s work is currently on display as part of the Finalists Exhibition at HASSELL Studio, Level 2, Pier 8/9, 23 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Creative Precinct, Sydney. The exhibition is open to the public and will continue until Friday 20 September, 2014. The finalists include Julian Day, Mike Hewson, Katie Lee, Lisa Sammut, Camille Serisier, Bridget Walker and Jason Wing.

Tully Arnot’s exhibition at Artereal Gallery will run from Wednesday 4 March and will be on display until Saturday 28 March 2015. For more information, please visit www.artereal.com.au