JG Thirlwell has a piece of artwork in a temporary exhibition called Cultural Olympiad by Paris 2024. It is on display at the Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art, from June 15 to August 11, 2024.
For this exhibition, each country will be represented by an artist, selected by a committee made up of actors from the art world according to predefined regulations. JG Thirlwell represents Australia. All works are black and white and A4 format.
UPDATE : JG Thirlwell is honored to announce that he was chosen by the Museum’s jury as the “winner” in the design category of “Apollo’s Decathlon” at Château de Montsoreau. The panel declared “Your work stood out for its originality, artistic quality and impact. The jury was unanimously impressed by your talent and your exceptional contribution to this event. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement, and thank you very much for taking part in the competition. Your work perfectly embodies the values of excellence and creativity that we wish to promote.”
Other participants include Davide Bugarin, Anne Senstad, Greig Burgoyne, Zanni Carlo, Julie De Clercq, Ahmed El Shaer, Mathew Emmett, Manuela Viera Gallo, Gladys Kalichini, Ruark Lewis, Mohammad Namazi, Alejandro Penafiel, Andreas Albrectsen, Pia Chavarria, Catalina Chervin, Mária Chilf, Kohli Diego, Negin Ehtesabian, Veronika Gabrielova, Toru Hayashi, Muller Jean Pierre, Željka Mićanović Miljković, Aleksandra Osko, Aga Ousseinov, Vargas-Suarez , Universal Raphael, Taras Sereda and many more.
Anne Katrine Senstad’s ‘Radical Light – Elements VI’ opens at the Seinäjoen Taidehalli in Seinäjoki, Finland on June 16, 2021. The installation is accompanied by a sound composition by JG Thirlwell enveloping the vast light sculptural matrices and the sensory chamber in a unifying sensation of vastness and electric impulses of spatial noise and poetic grandeur!
JG Thirlwell has created a new exclusive sound composition to accompany a light installation by Anne Katrine Senstad. The installation is titled Radical Light and is located at the new Kai Art Center in Tallinn, Estonia. Radical Light is a new monumental light environment installation on the boundless expansive experiences of perception and the potentials of space, light, and sound. It runs from Jan 26-April 26, 2020.
JG Thirlwell has been working in an ongoing series of collaborations with Anne Senstad over the last eighteen months.Her video projections are site specific installations merging and intervening with architecturally unique spaces such as St Brigid’s deconsecrated Cathedral and The Locker Plant in Marfa, Texas, and even out amongst nature as in her projections in Xilitla, Mexico.
Their first piece together was Color Kinaesthesia, where JG created a four channel audio work to accompany Senstad’s color and light video projection of the same name. A reworking of the audio, simply titled “Kinaesthesia”, appears on the Manorexia album Dinoflagellate Blooms in stereo and surround sound. For a further color and light meditation, Kinaesthesia for Saint Brigid, JG made a four channel reworking of the Manorexia classic “Chloe Don’t Know I’m Alive”. In a further iteration, The Locker Plant Projections also uses the “Chloe” soundtrack, and consists of a filmed projection of the Color Kinaesthesia piece, reprojected onto Donald Judd‘s famous building in Marfa, TX , The Locker Plant.
Senstad’s latest piece is The Sugarcane Labyrinth . This is a film document of an agricultural Land Art project in which Senstad leased some farmland in Louisiana and grew a field of sugarcane. She then chopped a maze out of the dense growth, and documented the entire process on film, including leasing a helicopter and filming it from above. Thirlwell composed an original score for this work.
The works have exhibited at Thisisnotagallery in Buenos Aires, Utsikten Kunstsenter in Norway, St Brigid’s Centre for the Arts and The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, The Museum of Modern art of Ukraine and elsewhere.
The Locker Plant Projections will travel to Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid in April.
“The exhibition The Infinity of Color represents Anne Katrine Senstad’s new body of work focused on light, color and sound. She has created a labyrinthian space of projections and sound that examine the phenomenology and the notions of sensorial aesthetics and experiences of light, color, sound, ocular perceptions, spatial relations and awareness of the process of perception through multi channel projections and the dimensional properties of surround sound. The piece is meditative, pulsating and hypnotic in its simplicity of light, color and sound environments.” – from exhibition catalog, Thisisnotagallery, Buenos Aires.