Special edition prints
Celebrating 20 years of un Magazine
We asked some of our beloved past un Magazine cover artists from the last decade to contribute a work for our 20th anniversary fundraiser! Below are available special edition prints from eight of these past cover artists. These artworks and more will be available for viewing in person at our 20th unniversary event. These special edition prints will be available here and at the event until sold out. By purchasing a special edition artist print below you are directly helping to keep arts writing and publishing alive!
Part of celebrating un Magazine’s 20th birthday means helping to keep it going for many more years!
un Projects is an artist-led organisation that exists to generate and promote critical dialogue around independent Australian contemporary art — un Magazine is our flagship publication. We’re celebrating the 20th anniversary since un’s humble beginnings in Naarm/Melbourne 2004.
As one of Australia’s longest running and most respected contemporary independent arts magazine, supporting un Magazine directly supports the longevity of Australia’s arts community, directly supporting artists, writers, editors, curators, academics, collectors.
Purchasing one of our limited edition prints is a great way to support artists and art writing in Australia. un Projects is a not-for- profit organisation that primarily relies on government funding support. By purchasing an artist print you’re enabling us to pay writer and artist fees in the upcoming year.
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Thank you so much for choosing to support un Magazine and the Australian arts community!
These artworks will be available for viewing at our 20th unniversary & fundraiser celebrations on the 6th & 7th of December at the Stables: Meat Market in Naarm/Melbourne. Artworks will be available from past cover artists, board and committee members: Elyas Alavi, Corinna Berndt, Lauren Burrow, Julie Gough, Lily Hibberd, Jade Irvine, Raafat Ishaak, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Shivanjani Lal, Raf Macdonald, Haneen Mahmood Martin, Phuong Ngo, Beth Sometimes, Katie West, and Azza Zein.
Special Edition Prints are printed thanks to Image Science Fine Arts Printing, and are editions of 20 and A2 size.
19 of these prints come unframed, and 1 framed edition each is available (as displayed at the 20th unniversary) with the frame added at cost price. Framed editions thanks to Frames Readymade are thin wooden black frames and will be made available at the unniversary event. Special Edition Prints will be available for pick up from the un Projects office at Collingwood Yards.
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Elyas Alavi, Cheshme-e Jaan/چشمه ِجان (The Spirit Spring), 2023, neon, red gum rehal (book rest).
Elyas Alavi is a poet and visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, moving image, poetry and performance. His practice often examines the complex intersections of race, displacement, gender, religion, and sexuality accounting for hyper invisibilities and troubling received notions of culture and belonging. More specifically, my work complicates histories in the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region and thinks through the links between the globalised condition, settler colonialism and who is implicated in mobility and displacement of Black and Brown bodies.
Julie Gough, SKELETON, 2024.
Julie Gough is an artist, writer and curator, First People’s Art and Culture, at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Australia. Gough’s multi-media art works reveal and re-present conflicting and subsumed histories, legacies and impacts of colonisation, sometimes referring to her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Gough has exhibited in more than 200 exhibitions in Australia since 1994, including Shadow Spirit (2023), Biennale of Sydney (2022, 2006), Tarnanthi (2021, 2017), Adelaide Biennial (2018, 1998), Eucalyptusdom, Tense Past, Defying Empire, The National, With Secrecy and Despatch, Undisclosed, Clemenger Award, Liverpool Biennial, UK (2001), Perspecta (1995).
Lauren Burrow, A FERAL ALPHABET, 2024.
Lauren Burrow is a recent Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship recipient (2023-24) and current candidate in the PhD program at Monash University. Through sculpture and installation, Burrow uses discarded materials such as glass, plastic and water to investigate the flow between the urban and the rural, the individual and the collective and the human and the ecological. She has held solo exhibitions at Pli, Munich (2022); Holden Garage, Berlin (2021) and TCB Art Inc., Melbourne (2019) and her work has been included in group exhibitions at LaTrobe Art Institute, Bendigo (2024), Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2023), Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2021) and Hessel Museum of Art, New York (2021).
Raafat Ishak, Pulpit Point Eviction, 2017, Type-C Photograph.
Working across painting, sculpture and installation, Raafat Ishak is highly regarded as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. His multidisciplinary and often collaborative practice utilises abstraction and seriality to critically examine how the organisational principles of architecture and the cultural politics of statehood shape communal experience. Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1967, Ishak migrated to Australia in 1982. After graduating from the Victorian College of Arts with a BFA (Painting) in 1990, Ishak held his first major solo exhibition And Government at the Melbourne exhibition space ‘200 Gertrude Street’ in 1995. Ishak has exhibited regularly throughout Australia and overseas for over two decades. His work is included across prominent international, public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Raf McDonald, Crystalline 2 (froth froth, hubbub hubbub), 2024.
Rafaella McDonald (b. Awabakal/Newcastle) is an artist based in Naarm whose painting and sculptural practice enacts queer approaches to making through attending to colours, textures, improvisations and hand-made materials. In their practice these processes lead them to imagine and propose different ways of relating; to each other and our environments.
Rafaella has participated in solo and collaborative exhibitions in Los Angeles, Jogjakarta and Naarm, Australia. Recent exhibitions include Melbourne Now at NGV Australia, Churchie Prize at IMA Brisbane, Figuring Ground at Grafton Regional Gallery and the Darebin Art Prize. Rafaella’s public artwork commissions include Melbourne Metro, Arts House, Moonee Valley City Council and City of Stonnington. They completed Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts (2015) and hold a Bachelor of Creative Arts from Melbourne University (2009).
Shivanjani Lal with hand model Shakuntala Lal, Girls (Hear no evil, see no evil,speak no evil), part of the photo series Kabhi Kabhi (sometimes sometimes), 2024.
Shivanjani Lal is a Fijian-Australian artist and curator, her research focuses on stories of Girmitiya (Indentured Labourers) from a feminist perspective, centring the stories of the women in her family whilst considering the impact of these narratives on communities across Fiji, Australia and South Asia.
Katie West, Honeymoon cove, 2024.
Katie West an artist and Yindjibarndi woman based in Noongar Ballardong boodja. Her practice is defined by experiments in a ‘custodial ethic’, as termed by Murri academic Mary Graham, grounded in the understanding that the health of human society and Country mirror one another. Katie’s installations, textile pieces, and happenings invite attention to the ways we weave our histories, places, and more-than-human kinships.
Katie studied visual art at Edith Cowan University (2009) and Sociology at Murdoch University (2013). In 2017 Katie completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, graduating as the recipient of the Dominik Mersch Gallery Award and the Falls Creek Resort Indigenous Award.
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