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Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart
One of the most influential artists of the twentieth and twenty first centuries Yayoi Kusama occupies a unique position within recent art history. Since her early assimilation of pop art and minimalism in the 1960s she has created a highly personal oeuvre that resonates with a global audience. Distinctly recognizable …
Treasured Spirit
Quandamooka artist Elisa Jane Carmichael is a multidisciplinary artist who honours her salt water heritage by incorporating materials collected from Country embracing traditional techniques and expressing contemporary adaptations through painting weaving and textiles. She comes from a family of artists and curators and works closely with her female kin to …
Approach
Karyn Olivier a native of Trinidad and Tobago creates sculptures installations and public art. Her most recent installation is housed at the Newark Airport in New Jersey. In Olivier's work familiar objects spaces and locations are altered in function and medium to create uncanny meditations on stagnancy division and …
Crumpled Canopy
Creating visuals of liquid gold floating through a 17m long entry space French creative agency Malherbe Paris collaborated with UAP to deliver this interior ceiling canopy for Morpheus Hotel in Macau China.The newly developed hotel ? designed by Zaha Hadid Architects ? showcases an iconic external exoskeleton and hosts dramatic internal …
Writing in the Air
Edwin Cheong is an architect trained artist best known for creating numerous monumental kinetic art sculptures in public spaces around the world. His innovative practice harmonises movement form and space in each given environment forming emotive and memorable experiences and outcomes. His work seeks to create awareness of Now Time …
Lift Off
Sophie Elizabeth Thompson a British artist living in Barcelona is not only pursuing the abstract in her art but also the minimal and stripped down. For Sophie the details matter crafting architectural structures that have little to no boundaries and are both fluid and dynamic. In December of 2022 UAP …
A Life to be Lived within this Deep Breath (I am with You as We Take This Step forward)
Theresa Chromati is a Guyanese American multimedia artist born in Baltimore Maryland. Chromati's artwork is a tribute to the remarkable power of community among black women. She believes that portraying the reality of black women's lives is more important than challenging stereotypes or making a statement with her …
BOD (2023)
Polly Borland is widely known for her portraits of prominent cultural figures and conversely underground communities. Borland's decades long photographic investigations of publicly and privately curated personas are built on the manipulation of body power sex and ego. The world renowned photographer famous for her images of models claustrophobically …
Goodjal ba Ngoonii Koomdaam
Jarni McGuire was born and raised in Noongar country; a Whadjuk Ballardong and Yuat woman living in Boorloo Perth . Her creative practice brings our traditional stories and art into the modern landscape using inspiration from her culture language and listening to Elders. The story of the Two Brothers Dreaming deeply …
Woman in Jumpsuit
Celebrated for her plaster and terracotta figures which employ a playful wit feminist theory and a critical appraisal of modern figurative sculpture Linda Marrinon’s practice spans painting watercolour and sculpture playing with the traditional canon of Western art history. The first in the Art Makers commission series Marrinon’s …
Cultural Reflections - Continuous Connections
A Barkindji artist living in Yalukit Willam Country Kent Morris explores the connections between contemporary Indigenous experiences and cultural practices in his art. Using digital photographic processes Morris highlights the ongoing presence of First Nations history knowledge and culture in the Australian landscape despite colonial interventions. By visually deconstructing and …
Chorus
Stockland has opened a new 100 metre long pedestrian bridge in its Aura community on Queensland's Sunshine Coast safely connecting Baringa to Nirimba over the Bells Creek Arterial Road and incorporating the work of local artists James and Eleanor Avery. Between fiction and documentary replicated and real James and …
Stiched Urban Skin
Born in 1982 Ningbo. Currently lives and works in Shanghai. In recent years her works are closely related to walking and collecting behavior. The artist believes that the urban skin can be the ornamental patterns carved on buildings the patterns of fabrics wrapped around the body the information of posters …
One Billion Worlds
Lindy Lee collaborated with UAP on a range of material experimentations in bronze and steel. These experiments resulted in a selection of works that were exhibited as a part of her One Billion Worlds exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney in 2012. Lindy Lee’s practice explores her Chinese heritage …
Koro
In 2021 Paterson’s 10 metre tall sculpture Guide K iarahi was unveiled outside Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. At the blessing a p moana shell trumpet was blown enacting te wheiao a period of time before the world as we know it emerged. This is a moment when …
Pay the Rent
Richard Bell is a respected member of the Indigenous communities Kamilaroi Kooma Jiman and Gurang Gurang. Being part of a generation of Aboriginal activists Bell has remained loyal in his commitment to promoting Aboriginal emancipation and self determination through politics. His practice is diverse encompassing various mediums such as painting …
Big Button
The Garment District Alliance has unveiled its new Big Button sculpture in the heart of the Garment District on Seventh Fashion Avenue at 39th Street replacing an information kiosk with a new public art installation that references the neighbourhood's history.An original kiosk structure was removed to make way …
No. 1138 Net
Rana Begum is a British Bangladeshi artist known for her abstract and minimalist artworks that explore the interplay of colour light and geometric form. Her work often draws inspiration from the architecture and design of her surroundings using repetition and symmetry to create optical illusions and dynamic visual effects. The …
NOW
Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is known for her traditional practice of miniature painting. However she works in various mediums including drawing painting printmaking animation installation performance and video. Atop the historic Appellate Division Courthouse NOW is a bronze female figure who arises from a colourful lotus a symbol of …
Stone, Barnacles, and Seeds
Yu Ji is known for her diverse material practice spanning sculpture installation performance and video. Her work is motivated by an exploration of the concept of place and how specific locations can be changed by both geographical and historical narratives. She embraces material imperfections to reflect upon instability and unanticipated …
