
Chess sets by contemporary Australian artists
Art Press Release from Australia. Published by Rebecca Gabrielle Cannon on Saturday 26 February 2011.










Inspired by the international exhibition The Art of Chess, Bendigo Art Gallery commissioned thirteen of Australia’s leading contemporary artists make a work in response to the game of chess.
Artists involved were Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, Kate Rohde, Michael Doolan, Sebastian Di Mauro, Benjamin Armstrong, Lionel Bawden, Emily Floyd, Robert Jacks, Danie Mellor, Caroline Rothwell, Sally Smart and Ken Yonetani.
The exhibition is now touring and will open today at UQ Art Museum, until April 24 2011 before touring to McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria and the Samstag Museum, South Australia.
The Art of Chess from RS&A Ltd, London, is an ongoing project featuring chess sets designed by some of the world’s leading contemporary artists in a celebration of the game of chess and its continued relevance to the creative arts.
The project includes the following artists: Maurizio Cattelan (Italy), Jake and Dinos Chapman (UK), Oliver Clegg (UK), Tracey Emin (UK), Tom Friedman (USA), Paul Fryer (UK), Damien Hirst (UK), Barbara Kruger (USA), Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Paul McCarthy (USA), Alistair Mackie (UK), Mathew Ronay (USA), Tunga (Brazil), Gavin Turk (UK), Rachel Whiteread (UK).
Via Karen Woodbury Gallery Blog