JAMES TYLOR IS FEATURED IN BLUE ART JOURNAL VOL II

The second volume of Blue Art Journal is now available online, featuring James Tylor’s conversation with Dominic Guerrera (Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna) on the occasion of his exhibition Turrangka…in the shadows at Art Gallery of South Australia.

Edited by Noongar women Timmah Ball and Zali Morgan, Volume Two of Blue Art Journal focuses on the theme of time, with contributions from 14 of so-called Australia’s most exciting writers, artists, curators and cultural producers.

Contributors shared both intimate and fierce reflections on how First Peoples artists and cultural workers move through time and manipulate it: how it is an inheritance we bring into everything that we do.

Click here to read.

Image: Cover of Blue Art Journal Volume II featuring James Tylor, Yaityakauwingga Second Valley 2, 2O22, Becquerel Daguerreotype, 10 x 12 cm, from the series The Darkness of Enlightenment.

Congratulations to Clare Jaque Vasquez, who is a finalist in the 2O26 John Leslie Art Prize at Gippsland Art Gallery with her work Billowing dreams and the shadows that once danced 2O25.

Inaugurated in 2OOO, the prize has emerged as one of the country’s most respected showcases for contemporary landscape printing, awarding a $3O,OOO acquisitive grand prize.

Winners will be announced O4.O9.2O26.

We extend our congratulations to the other finalists.

John Leslie Art Prize
O5.O9.2O26  — 22.11.2O26
Gippsland Art Gallery
Wellington Shire Council
7O Foster St
Sale VIC 385O

Congratulations to Nathanael Edwards, who is one of twelve finalists in the 2O26 National Photography Prize at MAMA Albury, which is announced tomorrow.

The National Photography Prize is Australia’s longest-running acquisitive photographic award.  Inaugurated in 1983, the Prize has been instrumental in building the Museum’s reputation as a committed collector of contemporary photography, and an investor in progressive, experimental photographic practice.

The National Photography Prize offers an acquisitive $4O,OOO Audray Banfield Award, the $5,OOO John and Margaret Baker Memorial Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports several artists through focused acquisitions.

We extend our congratulations to the other finalists.

National Photography Prize
O8.O8.2O26  — 22.11.2O26
MAMA Albury
546 Dean Street,
Albury NSW 264O
Australia

Image: Nathanael Edwards, Like lambs to the slaughter, 2O25, from the series Hear No, See No, Speak No, photographic print, 96 x 78 cm.

Congratulations to gallery-represented and exhibited artists Adrian Jangala Robertson, Billy Tjampitjinpa Kenda, Joe Guymala, Michelle Anderson, Semeria Wurrkidj and Walter Brooks, who are finalists in the 2O26 Telstra NATSIAA. The major and category awards will be announced next Friday 7.O8.2O26.

The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards is Australia’s longest-running and most prestigious art award dedicated to First Nations artists. Presented annually by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) in Darwin, it showcases diverse contemporary works from across the country.

The Awards have been curated, shortlisted and judged by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peers, Gail Mabo and Dean Greeno alongside 2O26 Guest Curator Dr Shannon Brett.

Telstra NATSIAA
27.O6.2O26  — 24.O1.2O27
MAGNT
19 Conacher St
The Gardens NT O82O

Image: Michelle Anderson, Ngayuku Kamiku Ngura, 2O25, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 137 x 14O cm. Provenance: Spinifex Arts Project, WA cat 25-325.

A month of community-led planting events around Naarm (Melbourne) and beyond, where you can connect with others and help regenerate local environments.

This August, put your hands in the ground and help look after our landscapes, creeks and rivers for the better, as part of Planting.

Each event will be guided and led by passionate ecological groups who are dedicated to practices like restoring grasslands, improving waterways, and increasing biodiversity.

Accompanying the act of planting, each community event will include a range of cultural activities, such as Smoking Ceremonies, cultural walks, constructing bee hotels, music, readings, botanical drawing and nature journalling.

Planting will be held in the lead-up to Planting Party – a celebration of community-led environmental action, art and connection at Fed Square held in September, and presented as part of RESET.

PLANTING
O1.O8.2O26 — 3O.O8.2O26
Various dates, times and locations
Read more here.

Image: Image courtesy of Fed Square.

Turrangka…in the shadows surveys over a decade of James Tylor’s practice and brings together the most comprehensive selection of his unique daguerreotypes, expansive digital photographic series, hand-made Kaurna cultural objects and furniture.

The exhibition title is drawn from a Kaurna word, highlighting a significant ongoing aspect of Tylor’s practice: the learning and sharing of his Indigenous language. As well as shadow, turra also translates to reflection, image and mirror.

At the core of Tylor’s practice is a continuously innovative program of photographic intervention, disrupting the image to redact or highlight visual information. He systematically alters the reading of Country by excising information from the photographic print or inscribing language and place-names onto the surface of his daguerreotypes.

These photographs provide a glimpse into Tylor’s broader practice of recreating Kaurna cultural artefacts, architecture and ephemera. Antiquated analogue photographic processes including Becquerel daguerreotypes and hand-tinting are also used to generate a new archive of pseudo-historical images. Tylor’s recreations point to the absence of these images from the hegemonic depiction of colonial Australia’s visual history.

A UNSW Galleries, Sydney exhibition, presented in partnership with Art Gallery of South Australia. Presented during SALA Festival.

James Tylor: Turrangka…in the shadows
31.O7.2O26 — O1.11.2O26
Art Gallery of South Australia
49O North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5OOO

Image: James Tylor, Turrangka…in the shadows, John Curtain Gallery, 2O25. Image courtesy of Ezra Alcantra.

Congratulations to gallery-represented artists Maree Clarke, Nathanael Edwards, Kent Morris and James Tylor, who have been selected as finalists in the 2O26 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh).

Over the last 21 years, the Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country, awarding a grand prize of $5O,OOO and $2,5OO to two honourable mentions.

Winners will be announced on Thursday 17.O9.2O26.

This year’s judges are Natasha Bullock, Petrina Hicks and Anouska Phizacklea.

We extend our congratulations to the other finalists.

William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
12.O9.2O26 — O8.11.2O26
Museum of Australian Photography
86O Ferntree Gully Rd
Wheelers Hill VIC 315O

This after-hours event at Town Hall Gallery offers a rare chance to meet artists Maree Clarke and megan evans before their exhibition The Uncomfortable Truth opens. Guests will gain insight into the concepts behind the show and hear from the artists and curators in a relaxed setting. Enjoy a three-course dinner featuring First Nations Australian ingredients as dialogue unfolds between Clarke and evans, exploring contrasting experiences and legacies of colonisation.

Ticket price ($1OO) includes 3 courses and a drink on arrival.

Book here.

The Uncomfortable Truth
Dinner: O6.11.2O26, 6 — 8 pm
O4.11.2O26 — 3O.O1.2O26
Town Hall Gallery
36O Burwood Road
Hawthorn VIC 3122

Image: megan evans, PARLOUR – Maree, 2O19, digital print on rag, 15O x 2OO cm. Image courtesy of the artist.

The Hunter River has shaped one of the most important regions in Australia and along its mighty length, there is a community of artists connected geographically and creatively.
Building on the 2O23 iteration of Upriver Downriver, Maitland Regional Art Gallery will embark on a major exhibition energising each of its gallery spaces to celebrate the expansive range of art and ideas resonating throughout our region.
The included works trace sites in the Upper Hunter down through to Maitland, across many tributaries and into the Port of Newcastle and celebrate the diversity of practice and ideas in the region.

Upriver Downriver
11.O7.2O26 — 11.1O.2O26
Maitland Regional Art Gallery
23O High Street
Maitland NSW 232O

Image: Mitch Mahoney, Gurnbak (Goodoo, Mulloway, Long tail), installation view. Melbourne Art Fair 2O25. Photograph courtesy of Cristina Ulloa Sobarzo.

Drawn from the permanent collection of Moonee Valley City Council (MVCC), Views and Vistas of the Valley presents a compelling visual dialogue between place, history, community and perceptions.

This collection exhibition explores how a public collection reflects the narrative of the area’s development. It examines this evolution through the lenses of architecture, landscape, people and still life, alongside some of Moonee Valley’s iconic public art installations.

Audiences are invited to consider the ways art can amplify a place’s histories, transformations and everyday resonance, and recognise the many ways in which a community can be seen-and can see itself-through art.

Views and Vistas of the Valley
18.O7.2O26 — 21.1O.2O26
Incinerator Gallery
18O Holmes Rd
Aberfeldie VIC 3O4O

Image: Maree Clarke, Shields: Boonerwrung, 2OO4; Mutti Mutti, 2OO4; Family, 2OO6, synthetic polymer paint and natural pigments on board, Perspex, resin, 180 x 45.5 cm (irregular) (each), Views and Vistas of the Valley, Incinerator Gallery, 2O26.