Finalists of the 2017 Joondalup Invitation Art Award

© Christophe Canato - Pink Triangle n°3. 2017

Sunday 15 October – Saturday 28 October

The CIAA is a prestigious annual art prize showcasing outstanding talent by Western Australian artists working in a variety of media including painting, photography and sculpture.

Award Categories

• Overall Award $7,000 (acquisitive) 
• Runner-Up Award $2,000 
• Award for Excellence $2,000 
• Celebrating Joondalup Award $2,000 
• Popular Choice Award $2,000 

Survey 

Vote for your favourite artwork in the Popular Choice Award and go into the draw to win a $50.00 voucher from ArtsEdge.

We value your feedback, please fill out the CIAA 2017 survey available here. 

List of Artworks

Below is a list of the participating artists.  By clicking on the artist's name a document will open with their artwork details. 

• Angela Stewart
• Carla Adams
• Christophe Canato
• Jarrad Martyn
• Jess Day
• Jurek Wybraniec
• Kimberley Pace
• Lance Ward
• Lia McKnight
• Matthew McVeigh
• Mel Dare
• Paul Kaptein
• Ross Potter
• Tom Freeman
• Wade Taylor

 Public Program 

The CIAA 2017 is accompanied by a public program of events. details below.

Workshops:

There will be three artist run workshops held in the City:

• Ross Potter’s workshop will focus on drawing ‘plein air’ around Neil Hawkins Park: Join Ross Potter on a guided drawing tour through Neil Hawkins Park. Chat to the artist, and learn some of the tricks of his trade as you discover a natural specimen such as a feather, stone or leaf, immerse yourself in the process of transforming this into a special artwork of your own. For more information and to book for workshop taking place on Friday 20 October please follow link: observational drawing with Ross Potter. 
• Join Carla Adams as she teaches some basic weaving techniques and demonstrates a variety of materials and concepts: Carla is sure to ignite your imagination as she elaborates on some of her methodologies and philosophies around the ancient craft of weaving, through the lens of a 21st century woman who is at once challenging, funny and insightful. For more information and to book for workshop taking place on Saturday 21 October please follow link: weaving with Carla Adams  - Important: This workshop is now fully booked, you can however add your name to the waitlist. 
• Angela Stewart will facilitate a life drawing class at Joondalup Art Gallery: Angela Stewart is an established artist and a highly respected teacher, who brings a wealth of experience in drawing techniques, especially the human form and its place in art history. Book quickly for this extraordinary opportunity. For more information and to book for workshop taking place on Friday 27 October please follow this link: life drawing with Angela Stewart

Curator's Tour:

• Join the City’s Curator on a tour of the exhibition. The Curator will elaborate on a selection of artworks and explain some of the methodologies and ideas behind the work. Find out what the judge’s comments were and how winning artworks are decided.
  Dates: Thursday 19 October, 1.00 - 2.00pm at the Myer Court, Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City (No booking required).
  Friday 20 October,  4.00 - 5.00pm at Myer Court, Lakeside Joondalup Shopping City (No booking required). 

School Connections - Curator's Tour:

A Curator's tour of the exhibition aimed at High School Visual Art Students is also available on arrangement.  Please email for more information.

For further information on any of the above please call 9400 4924.

The Exquisite Portrait, City of South Perth Workshop by Christopher Canato - 2 August 2017 | 6PM - 9PM

© Christophe Canato from the series RICOCHET 2013

Establishing rapport, understanding and trust, as well as control of light are equally important factors when creating a photographic portrait.

In this this workshop WA photo-media artist Christophe Canato will present a variety of ways to work a portrait using available and studio lighting. Christophe will share some of his methods touching on cultural or instinctual considerations, historical references, styling and Photoshop. Participants will explore the necessary presence of gesture, and the subtle use of metaphors which can be used to add layers of meaning to portraits.

Facilitator: Christophe Canato

Date/Time & Venue: 
2 August 2017 | 6PM - 9PM
Pagoda Resort & Spa, 112 Melville Parade WA 6152

Cost:
$30 per person plus booking fee

Who should attend:
This event is suited for adults.

How to get there:
Please visit Transperth as your guide to public transport timetables, fares and accessible transport.

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BUNBURY BIENNALE 2017. 8 July - 10 September, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries.

The Bunbury Biennale is a juried exhibition which brings together works by contemporary artists from across Western Australia. Featuring some of the state’s most respected visual arts practitioners, alongside emerging and mid-career artists it is a chance for regional audiences to experience the diversity of contemporary arts practice in the west.

This year, the 13th Bunbury Biennale continues to celebrate the diverse identities of WA based artists and showcases contemporary visual arts practice across a range of media, from sculpture and installation to painting, drawing and printmaking.

The Bunbury Biennale was initiated by the City of Bunbury Arty Collection Committee in 1993 – it is the second oldest Biennale event in Australia. It was created in order to expand and diversify the existing city of Bunbury Art Collection which is the largest public art collection in the state, outside of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

2017 exhibiting artists:
Amanda Alderson – Tom Blake – Christophe Canato – David Carson – Jacky Cheng – Olga Cironis – Jennifer Cochrane – Julie Cox – Mel Dare – Moira de la Hunty – Tom de Munk Kerkmeer – Donna Fortescue – Indra Geidans – Michele Grimston – Lee Harrop – Pablo Hughes – Elisa Markes-Young – Marpole – Jarrad Martyn – Tommy May – Clyde McGill – Angela McHarrie – Britt Mikkelsen – Ron Nyisztor – Pixles and Fibre – Nada Rawlins – Helen Seiver – John Prince Siddon – Sergio Tampalini – Mark Tweedie – Tony Windberg – Gera Woltjer

The artists come from a wide variety of backgrounds and the resulting works cover a diverse range of techniques and ideas. From stories of the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime), by John (prince) Siddon to explorations of the nexus between art and science by video artist David Carson and works created using 2.6 billion-year-old rock samples by Lee Harrop, the exhibition presents a slew of artworks to delight and challenge audiences.

Exhibition curator Caroline Lunel said the artwork also provokes conversation. 
“It is a privilege to be able to showcase this overview of West Australian arts practice to audiences in Bunbury,” she said.
“The Bunbury Biennale presents artists from Perth alongside a number of prominent artists working in regional and remote areas around the state and we are proud to present such a strong representation of contemporary art in in Western Australia.”

The Bunbury Biennale is a major opportunity for the City of Bunbury to acquire new works for its art collection, which already features many highly-respected WA artists.

It is also a chance to highlight the important role that the arts play in regional WA, in both building local communities and attracting tourists to the region.

The official opening of the exhibition will be held on Saturday, July 8 at 6pm with all welcome to attend to see the celebration of contemporary art for themselves.

Free artist talks will also be held on Saturday, July 8 and Saturday, July 22 at 2pm offering audiences the chance to find out firsthand more about the artworks and their makers.

© Christophe Canato 2017

The Exhibition will be on display in The Chapel Gallery and The Lower Gallery at the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, Wittenoom Street, Bunbury from Saturday 8 July, 2017 to Sunday 10 September, 2017.  The Galleries are open every day from 10am to 4pm.  Free entry.  For further information contact the Galleries on 9792 7323.

Finalist for the 2017 MIDWEST ART PRIZE - The Geralton Regional Art Gallery.

| ON SHOW 17 JUNE - 31 JULY 2017 |

The Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, with our partners, is proud to deliver one of the most prominent and valuable prizes in Western Australia. Opened on Friday the 16th of June by The Acting Director of Exhibitions and Collections at The Art Gallery of Western Australia James Davies, the fifth Mid West Art Prize showcases showcases the diversity, quality and innovation of art currently being made in the state. There are no restrictions in terms of art style, medium or size, entries simply have to fit through our Gallery door!

Winners and Judges Comments:

$20,000 City of Greater Geraldton Overall Award for Excellence
Sarah Mills - The Fantasy and The Flesh, 2017, Digital photograph

Mid West Art Prize 2017 Judges:

Lee Kinsella

Project Coordinator 
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia

Lee has curated and managed exhibitions at Australian and national public institutions, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Australian War Memorial and The National Film and Sound Archive (formerly ScreenSound Australia). She has written catalogue essays, articles and contributed to several books on Australia art, co-editing Into the Light: The Cruthers Collections of Women’s Art in 2012 and HERE&NOW13 in 2013.

Dr Ric Spencer

Curator
Fremantle Arts Centre

He has been involved in numerous art activities as a curator, writer and artist, has exhibited in Australia, Asia and the UK and had his work published in Australian, UK and American arts journals. Ric wrote art criticism for The West Australian newspaper from 2004 until 2011 and during the later years also lectured at Curtin University where he holds a Doctor of Creative Arts and is currently Adjunct Professor.

David Doyle

Executive Director 
DADAA Ltd

David has been the instigator behind transformational change and sustained reinvention for DADAA over the past 22 years. He has led the organisation’s growth and embedded disability-led practise, through partnerships with national and international arts practitioners, CACD organisations and government departments. David has forged ground-breaking partnerships with the philanthropic, corporate and private sector, setting a national standard for diverse, strong private and public sector giving for art led social change. 

© ©hristophe ©anato 2017

ARTBANK, three RAGAMUFFINS acquisitions - 2017 Artbank Road Show

RAGAMUFFINS 2009 @ Christophe Canato

For over 35 years Artbank has been at the forefront of the Australian contemporary art sector and is the most successful program of its type in the world.

Established in 1980 as a federal government support program, Artbank’s two core objectives are to provide direct support to Australian contemporary artists through the acquisition of their work and to promote the value of Australian contemporary art to the broader public. Artbank funds its operations through the leasing of artworks from its collection.

The Artbank collection was founded in 1980 with an endowment of 600 artworks from the National Collection and has since grown to include over 10,000 works spanning media including painting, sculpture, video and photography.

More about ARTBANK here

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A bumper crop of #newacquisitions from the #Perth stop of the #artbankroadshow. Our biggest yet! Here's a sneak peek of just a selection including :
⚡️Nathan Beard, 'Rampai/Samniang/Ratana/Pornjit' 2014-17
⚡️Christophe Canato, 'RAGAMUFFINS' 2009
⚡️Ian Williams, 'Double Barrel' 2017
⚡️Jenn Garland, 'The Pits stop' 2017
⚡️Jo Darvall, 'Sugar Loaf Road' 2016
⚡️Christopher Young, 'Small Town' 2012-16
⚡️Gera Woltjer, 'Pool Drawings #4' 2015
Plus our first ever roadshow commission by the incredible Teelah George. See you next week #Canberra for the final roadshow stop. 🚘
#artbankau #artbankcollection #australianart#contemporaryart #nathanbeard#christophecanato #ianwilliams #jenngarland#jodarvall #christopheryoung #gerawoltjer#teelahgeorge

RAGAMUFFINS n°08 © christophe canato

RAGAMUFFINS n°11 © christophe canato

RAGAMUFFINS n°18 © christophe canato

Perth Centre for Photography Winter Workshops. The Exquisite Portrait by Christopher Canato - 26 May 2017

© Christophe Canato from the series RICOCHET

Establishing rapport, understanding and trust, as well as control of light are equally important factors when creating a photographic portrait.

In this this workshop WA photo-media artist Christophe Canato will present a variety of ways to work a portrait using available and studio lighting. Christophe will share some of his methods touching on cultural or instinctual considerations, historical references, styling and Photoshop. Participants will explore the necessary presence of gesture, and the subtle use of metaphors which can be used to add layers of meaning to portraits.

Facilitator: Christophe Canato

RICOCHET, highly-rated entry to the Magnum Photography Awards 2016, considering by the Exposure Awards organisation.

Hi Christophe -  We would like to remind you that your photo entry to the Magnum Photography Awards 2016 (shown below) was among the top-rated entries we've received. Nice work! During our competitions, all submissions are rated in the review process. We then look at the ratings of ALL submissions across ALL competitions and notify photographers who had highly-rated submissions. It's an impressive accomplishment considering we get thousands of submissions from 150 countries! We notify photographers of achievements like this because we believe top-rated work has a very good chance of a positive outcome in the current competition we are hosting, the LensCulture Exposure Awards. Even if you decide not to enter, we think it's important for you to know that you are creating strong work and want to encourage you to keep going! Congratulations from our entire team at LensCulture, we sincerely appreciate your participation in our community. Cheers and good luck! The LensCulture Team RICOCHET © Christophe Canato

Artist in Residency, 20th March - 15th April, Central TAFE, Perth.

Artist talk. Wednesday 26th April 11:30 to 12:30

Lecture Theatre D225. 133 Newcastle Street, Perth

French-born and Perth-based, Canato brings a background in fashion and commercial photography to his work as an artist in photomedia.

His photographs are not portraits but portrayals. It is not biography that they unfold so much as a state of being.

© christophe canato

Finalist - City of Busselton Art Award 2016 - from 16 September to 23 October 2016 - ArtGeo Cultural Complex, 7 Queen Street, Busselton Western Australia - 182 entries, 52 finalists.

Self portrait inspired by Patricia Piccinini,The Carrier, 2012

Finalist - Print Award 2016 - from 23 Septembre to 12 November - Fremantle Arts Centre - 301 entries, 49 finalists.

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing
Thurs 22 Sept | 6:30pm | Free | To be opened by Michael Kempson, Senior Lecturer & Convenor of Printmaking Studies, Director of Cicada Press, UNSW

Australia’s premier showcase of prints and artists' books returns with a selection of the best works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists from across the nation. In 2016 the exhibition continues to present works that celebrate classical printmaking while simultaneously embracing cutting-edge interpretations of the medium.

Join us at the opening to see who has won this coveted award in 2016.

First Prize $16,000 | Second Prize $6,000

Exhibiting Artists
Dani Andree (VIC) | Lyn Ashby (VIC) | Hayley Bahr (WA) | Tina Barahanos (NSW) | Elaine Batton (VIC) | Nathan Beard (WA) | Rebecca Beardmore (NSW) | Sam Bloor (WA) | Dean Brown (NSW) | Leah Bullen (NSW) | Tim Burns (WA) | Bina Butcher-Monsees (WA) | Cristophe Canato (WA) | Jillian Ciemitis (WA) | Neilton Clarke (NSW) | Macky Cunningham (WA) | Clive Dickson (VIC) | Eva Fernandez (WA) | Robert Fielding (NT) | Kailum Graves (QLD) | Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison (VIC) | Judy Holding (VIC) | Emily Hornum (WA) | Lucas Ihlein (NSW) | Locust Jones (NSW) | Bruno Leti (VIC) | Neil Malone (VIC) | Shannon McCulloch (WA) | Megan McPherson (VIC) | Matthew McVeigh (WA) | Bill Moseley (NSW) | Grace Myers (SA) | David Nixon (QLD) | Holly O’Meehan (WA) | Rebecca Orchard (WA) | Jason Phu (NSW) | Ben Rak (NSW) | Kiara Rechichi (WA) | Elvis Richardson & Virginia Fraser (VIC) | Sarah Ritchie (VIC) | Brian Robinson (QLD) | Teho Ropeyarn (QLD) | Michael Rose (WA) | Neridah Stockley (NT) | Peter Ward (NSW) | Cleo Wilkinson (QLD) | Christine Willcocks (NSW) | Joel Wolter (VIC) | Hansdieter Zeh (WA)

Magnum Awards 2016 - RICOCHET, Series Category, Fine Art

REVIEWER FEEDBACK

I am very much taken with these pictures. The pull me in an create a feeling. They are self-conscious and carefully created in a very pleasing way that functions like a stage play where I can revel in the clarity and the precision knowing that this has been created for my (the viewers) visual pleasure and experience. I love how the images verge on the edge of being paintings but hover still in the photographic world. The fragments of nature (picture 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10), the seeds , the stump, the shack and the nest and the mouse all work very well together and within the context of the pictures of the kids They are I think fragments that start to point towards a possible narrative--of a kind of wildness and darkness in the woods. But also beautiful observations that reflect to my mind the way a small thing, particularly to a child can take on a greater meaning. These carefully observed and beautifully rendered objects interspersed with the children works very well for me. 

I am however really thrown off by pictures 3 and 9, with the orange peel and the black tongue. They definitely disrupt the experience for me. They feel like goofy pictures of kids that make me feel as if I'm looking at a snapshot. They take me out of the poetic experience of the rest of the pictures. 
Also while I can kind of see in some ways the Shakespearian allusions it's quite limited to me -- maybe the woods and the theatrical aspect, but I for me they resonate more strongly with the idea of fairy tales and childhood rather than Shakespeare and I'm slightly confused by that early part of the statement/review/wall text (curators comments?). I would suggest however that you reconsider some of the assertions in the statement. Its somewhat awkward to have a review as your own artist statement. I can see that perhaps it was wall text or even text for a book, but I find it keeps me away from really experiencing the work-- While I think artists should generally speaking be quite limited in how they interpret their own work, in this case I would rather hear your ideas and your words than someone else's. 
All in all I think these are quite intriguing and interesting pictures that bring together excellent technical and aesthetic skills. You clearly have a strong intuitive sense and an ability to create a world. The pictures verge on a narrative and then pull back in a way that I find quite compelling and excellent. 
This is interesting work that is exciting and you are clearly very skilled and I am very much pulled in by your work. 

Artist talk Saturday 17 July, Linton and Kay, Perth - MANDORLA Art Award 2016

Finalist - MANDORLA Art Award 2016

The Mandorla Art Award employs a thematic spiritual inspiration that changes with each exhibition. These inspirations are defined by quotations from the Bible and all participating artists are requested to interpret these in their own way. In 2016, artists will interpret the theme ‘The Resurrection’ in figurative and abstract form and through various media.

This national award is open to artists working in all media and artists are invited to submit an application to be considered for this award. A selection panel will choose the finalists for the exhibition and an independent judging panel will award the prizes.

The award features a $25,000 Main Prize, two $5,000 Highly Commended Prizes and a $2,000 People’s Choice Award. 

The Mandorla Art Award 2016 finalists will be showcased in an exhibition held at Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth from 15-24 July 2016. Artworks will be available for purchase.

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Turner Galleries has extended the Ricochet exhibition to the 28th of May 2016 - Turner Galleries - 470 William Street, North Bridge WA

RICOCHET, Turner Galleries, April 2016 © christophe canato

RICOCHET, Turner Galleries, April 2016 © christophe canato

RICOCHET, Turner Galleries, April 2016 © christophe canato

RICOCHET, Turner Galleries, April 2016 © christophe canato

RICOCHET, Turner Galleries, April 2016 © christophe canato

RICOCHET, Turner Galleries, April 2016 © christophe canato

THE PERTH VOICE n°929, April 23,2016 - article by Jenny D'Anger

RICOCHET at Turner Galleries - 1 to 30 April 2016 - 470 William Street, North Bridge WA

TURNER GALLERIES

"I find Christophe Canato's images immediately arresting for their deep beauty and mystery. The strange yet familiar portraits are as pure and innocent as they are menacing, bestial and childlike, yet always composed with great elegance."

^{Sean Tobin, 2016}

French-Australian Christophe Canato lives and works in Perth, Western Australia. Born in France, he grew up in an artistic family environment where his father was a painter. As an early drawer and painter himself, he successfully entered the Beaux-Arts school at seventeen years of age and studied Visual Arts.  Christophe received his DNSEP in 1989 (comparable to a Master degree in Fine Arts) and in 1993 a Diploma of Fashion from the prestigious Institut Français de la Mode (French Fashion Institute) in Paris. After working freelance in the Paris fashion industry, photography became his favoured tool to express himself as an artist.

In 1997 Christophe won first prize in the Paris Salon de la Jeune Création, and began his career as an artist in earnest. In 2005 he moved to Perth and quickly established himself as an artist to watch, winning a Town of Vincent Art Award that year. Since then he has continued to exhibit extensively in Australia and overseas.

Ricochet is a photographic series that he completed in 2013, exhibiting it in Anna Pappas Gallery in Melbourne and the Queensland Centre for Photography in 2014, and in the Singapore Fringe Festival in 2016. It is now Perth’s turn to view these hauntingly beautiful images.  Ricochet is comprised of images of children and still life objects. Each is beautifully lit in against an inky background.  Accompanying these are two dark landscapes, each with a foreground habitat; an anthill and a hideout. A video work from this series will also be on display.

The lack of background detail, the unadorned black clothing, and Christophe’s choice of subject matter, all combine to create timeless images. This is perhaps an unrealistic portrayal of contemporary youth, with today’s clutter of toys and technology. These are wistful, poetic memories of that time in childhood where you have newfound freedoms, days filled with curiosity and adventure, and the angst of adolescence is still some time away. Individually, these photographs attempt to capture those fleeting moments from childhoods past, the mesmerising time the ocean is first heard in a seashell, or the simplicity of placing a thorn on a nose to conjure a dragon or perhaps a rhino.

As Alasdair Foster noted, “It is an age of becoming. A voyage already begun; the maternal haven to stern and the churn of adolescence still to come. It is a time when the brain is plastic; knowledge is sketchy but tacked together with the rich embroidery of the imagination. These are the dog days before puberty.”

Like the ricochet of a bullet, or the skipping of a stone over water, these images bounce between different childhood experiences. From finding the treasures of a mother of pearl button, the skeletal remains of a frog, or the brilliant feathers on a dead parrot bejewelled in droplets of water, to watching a pair of snails mating, or building a hideout from branches and leaves, these are the experiences that open our eyes to the wonder of the world, the start of comprehending life and death, finding beauty in small places, and delighting in boundless imagination. This is the preparation for adulthood, where sadly the wonder and enchantment found in the everyday diminishes.  I do not see these as portraits, or even descriptions of the artist’s own childhood memories, but rather, a set of keys to open the past for all viewers. 

Please contact Turner Galleries for further information or images from the exhibition; email info@turnergalleries.com.au or phone 08 9227 1077. This exhibition can be viewed on our website www.turnergalleries.com.au from 1 April.