Anna Schwartz Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works entitled Icelandic Puffins by Emily Floyd from 8 April until 13 May 2017. The exhibition marks the artist’s tenth solo show with the gallery.

With Icelandic Puffins Floyd creates a landscape populated by hand-carved bird sculptures, each unique, and crafted in the artist’s distinct sculptural vernacular. Icelandic text is paired alongside each of the puffins, listing corporate protagonists prosecuted by the State of Iceland following the collapse of all three of the country’s major banks: Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing.  Icelandic Puffins creates a dialogue between the seductive power of design, here in typical Scandinavian style, with the dark veneer of global financial and political crisis.

Following two successful editions in Sydney, Australia’s leading art fair for emerging artists, The Other Art Fair, will launch in Melbourne for a four-day presentation from Thursday 4 May until Sunday 7 May 2017, connecting art lovers directly with unrepresented and emerging artists selling their works.

Presented by Saatchi Art, the inaugural Melbourne 2017 edition of The Other Art Fair is set to build momentum following the highly successful events held in Sydney in 2015 and 2016, each of which attracted more than 10,000 visitors over four days. Led by Australian Fair Director Zoe Paulsen, The Other Art Fair will present over 100 of Australia’s most talented emerging artists, each chosen by a high profile selection committee of contemporary art experts: Patricia Piccinini (Artist), Lisa Fehily (Director of Mossgreen Gallery), Kathy Temin (Artist), Dr Terry Wu (Plastic Surgeon & Art Patron) and Annika Kristensen (Senior Curator at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art).

The Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize 2017 has announced the full list of participating artists comprising 20 emerging and 20 established Australian contemporary artists, including five artist collectives and one artist duo. Each artist presents a single work in the 21st annual prize exhibition presented at Sydney’s National Art School Gallery from 28 March until 20 May 2017.

2017 guest curator of the Prize, respected contemporary artist Callum Morton and former winner of the Prize in 2013, noted: “The 2017 Redlands Art Prize has the largest and perhaps most diverse range of participants in its history.”

Morton’s selection of 20 established artists included Australian representative at the 2007 Venice Biennale Daniel von Sturmer, acclaimed London-based Aboriginal artist Christian Thompson, and recipient of the 2016 Biennale of Sydney Legacy artwork Agatha Gothe-Snape.

The Australian Centre for Photography (ACP) presents Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker, a large scale exhibition of new works commissioned from 15 artists responding to Australian photographer Max Dupain’s iconic Sunbaker image.

Presented from 18 February until 17 April at the State Library of NSW, Under The Sun explores views of our culture, our identity and our nationhood through works that surprise, challenge and enthuse audiences. The artists reflect Australia’s multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-faith nature, enabling a creative and often very personal exploration of the question ‘is there something new under the sun?’ These artists contemplate, and interpret Max Dupain’s photograph – a symbol of a particular time and vision of Australian culture – while offering unique perspectives on what it could possibly signify in our current society.

Anna Schwartz Gallery presents an exhibition of new works entitled Parabolic by Daniel Crooks from 11 February until 1 April 2017. In the artist’s fifth solo show with the gallery, Crooks will exhibit new works highlighting his interest in the physical properties of time exemplified through mathematical and digital studies of sine waves and parabolas.

A leading figure in video art since the 1990’s, Crooks has long been fascinated with expanding the conventions of the linear perception of time in the moving image. He has explored the means by which an image may be stretched across time and space, slicing it into pixels and layering these into complex collages.