The seriously playful work of making art

Rebecca Baumann's Automated Colour Field (Variation IV) is currently showing in Burster Flipper Wobbler Dripper Spinner Stacker Shaker Maker at the Christchurch Art Gallery's ArtBox. Curated by Justin Paton, the exhibition explores the shape-shifting, experimental and seriously playful work of making art, You can see Baumann's work in action here.
Image: Detail from one of Rebecca Baumann's automated colour fields

Justin Paton on art as the ultimate conversation piece

You can read a Sydney Morning Herald Q & A with Justin Paton here.
Image: Kaldor Family Room at the AGNSW

Justin Paton picks up the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship

Justin Paton has been awarded the 2012 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, which offers a residency of at least 6 months in Menton, France and $75,000. Currently senior curator at Christchurch Art Gallery, he is also well known as the author of How to Look at a Painting and presenter of the accompanying television series seen this year on TV1.

Jae Hoon Lee and Justin Paton in conversation

Artist Jae Hoon Lee and curator Justin Paton discuss his works in Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2011 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Play video

Image: detail from Jae Hoon Lee's installation in Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, to 12 July 2011

Curator finds his art in the slow, contemplative lane

This link takes you to a short article in the Sydney Morning Herald on Justin Paton's UNGUIDED TOURS exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Image: Justin Paton, curator of the UNGUIDED TOURS exhibition, in front of Ian Burns' From orbit

Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts

The Anne Landa Award exhibition opened last night at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Selected by Christchurch-based curator and author Justin Paton, the artists in the Unguided Tours exhibition lineup (and contenders for the video and new media award of AUD25,000) include Auckland-based artist Jae Hoon Lee.

Here is a short introduction to the show from the AGNSW website:

'Where to'? From a plane halfway round the globe, to a poetic walk through suburban backstreets, to a virtual voyage through a digitally constricted world, the 2011 Anne Landa Award offers a series of 'unguided tours' through some rich imaginative territory. Using video, computer animation, kinetic sculpture and even an immersive game environment, the seven contemporary artists in Unguided Tours explore the lure of other places, the anxieties and pleasures of travel, and the unexpected rewards of getting lost.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Becoming (2002), archival pigment ink on Ilford paper

Jae Hoon Lee in the lineup for the Anne Landa Award for video and new media arts 2011

The fourth in the series of biennial Anne Landa Award exhibitions that began at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2004, this year's edition is guest curated by Christchurch-based curator and author Justin Paton and features the artists Rachel Khedoori (Australia/USA), David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (Australia), Jae Hoon Lee (Korea/New Zealand), Charlie Sofo (Australia) and Ian Burns (Australia/USA). 

All artists re eligible for the the acquisitive award of AUD$25,000, which sees the winning work enter the Gallery's collection.

Image: Jae Hoon Lee, Hadjodae (2010), digitally collaged photograph, 1500 x 2000mm