The Golden Mean

01/03/2019

As part of the Perth Festival, the Art Gallery of Western Australia will present Desert River Sea - Portraits Of The Kimberly. This exhibition is the result of a six-year process, showing a rare experience of the land, artists and art of the Kimberly. It runs till 27th May 2019.
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28/02/2019

Just in time for Mardi Gras is Anna Carey’s rainbows installations. Her constructed narratives play with the perception of the audience. Here in “Pink Flamingo” (2017) the colour pink is represented and explored to create a rendition of dystopic rooms, but on closer look, you can tell they are mini replicates of the real thing. By photographing the works, the image is manipulated, with imperfections magnified through the camera lens. The mini-installations overlaps photography, model-making, film and drawing. The result rendering the mini artworks into a cross between a daydream and reality- "for rediscovering the universe that is inside ourselves."
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@ Sydney, Australia

27/02/2019

Julia Davis explores temporality and duration-based artwork with “Headspace (Lake Brown)”. Made on a residency “ISAKA” in Mukibudin WA, 2010, she used all natural lake salt harvested from Lake Brown to create a cast of her head and shoulders. Davis then placed the head in the lake where it continued to dissolve progressively documented over 9 weeks. This examination looks at bodies and landscape, considering each area as a cultural space that the psychology of place underpins our sense of self.

21/02/2019

"Things happen, all at once. Not a cacophony but a cataclysm.”
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Until 23rd March, Anna Schwartz in Melbourne will see Daniel von Sturmer present: CATARACT. This large installation sees 81 screens presented as a singular object, playing short videos of small-scale ‘events’.
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From Anna Schwartz website: “CATARACT constructs an experience where the viewer is presented with a proposition about the world as a complex, synthesised totality, through its assemblage of discrete, atomised moments... CATARACT presents a series of unfolding contradictions and juxtapositions as a dynamic field of relations in time, space and perception.”
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14/11/2018

The Golden Mean has been proud to work with Art Gallery of New South Wales for our third campaign of specially created video content to support their major exhibitions. Excited to share this video, one of a wider series of videos we’ve created for the Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage exhibition on until 3 March 2019. Thanks to our wonderful partners Chalk Company for working with us on this series.

30sec TVC

14/11/2018

The Golden Mean was commissioned by Sydney Architecture Festival to explore the theme of the 2018 festival through video, by asking leading architects the question: ‘What makes a building truly great?’ Working with the talented David Varga we share here our video with architects Phuong Le, Shaun Carter, Angela Ferguson and Ric Thorp AM shot on location at the hub for the Sydney Opera House.

This is "Sydney Architecture Festival 2018 - Long Form" by The Golden Mean on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

14/11/2018

The Golden Mean and ARTICULATE were commissioned by Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize to create a series of videos ahead of the 2018 Prize announcement on 19 October. This video explores the idea of ‘small’ in the world of art and includes interviews with artist and 2016 Prize winner Todd Robinson, Curator Elizabeth Hastings and Prize sponsors Mark Moran Vaucluse.

2min version

25/09/2018

In 2019 Kaldor Public Art Projects, a longstanding client of ARTICULATE, celebrates 50 years of groundbreaking projects. A highlight of the anniversary will be a major exhibition titled 'Half a Century in the Public Eye', created by acclaimed British artist and presented as a collaboration between Kaldor Public Art Projects and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, from 6 September 2019 until 16 February 2020.

The exhibition will explore the organisation's 32 public art projects that have shaped the Australian cultural landscape. The most recent of those projects was presented this time last year with French-Albanian artist and filmmaker Anri Sala. 'The Last Resort' was a sculpture and sound installation commissioned specifically for the Observatory Hill Rotunda in Sydney. 38 mechanised snare drums suspended from the ceiling that played a variation on Mozart’s Enlightenment-era concerto – a piece written three years after the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Cove.

The Golden Mean Agency’s Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore interviewed Anri Sala about this mesmerising installation - read the full article below:

Acclaimed French-Albanian artist Anri Sala discusses The Last Resort, his most ambitious public art project to date

17/09/2018

The Golden Mean Agency and Chalk Company were commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to create a series of short animated videos to introduce their newly opened exhibition John Russell: Australia's French Impressionist. This Sydney artist was at the heart of French impressionism, friends with Van Gogh and taught Matisse. The exhibition is on at the Gallery until 11 November.

07/05/2018

Congratulations to Chris Fox for winning the National Trust Australia (NSW)Heritage Awards 2018 ‘Judge’s Choice/ Most Outstanding Project of the Year’ for 'Interloop'! This awe-inspiring sculptural work was commissioned by Transport NSW and opened late last year at Wynard Station in Sydney’s CBD.
Watch our video of how the sculpture was made. You can also check out a Q&A with Chris Fox on our website.

14/02/2018

Great to work on the trailer for Art Gallery of New South Wales on their exhibition The Lady and The Unicorn - true masterpieces of the Middle Ages. On display until June 24. Thanks to Chalk Co. for the incredible animation