the art life

Monument to Something

Monday, November 05, 2007

PRESS RELEASE: PAM AITKEN

Opening Wednesday 21 Nov, 6 - 8pm.
Thursday 22 Nov to Saturday 15 Dec, 1 - 6pm
At Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville 2204

Variation on a still point 19, 2007.
pencil on paper 14.5 x 20.5 cm

Aitken is interested in expanding the inventive and formal aspects of the line and the grid through painting and installation.

Monuments of Nothingness has an uncertain vision of the structured grid. This vision has indeterminacy, ambiguity and irrationality, a combination that ultimately leads to non-structure.

Repetition is a condition of action before it is a concept of reflection. We produce something new only on condition that we repeat.

Monuments of Nothingness will expand the expectation of perception of vision, leading to a new ability to see something in the nothing.

Factory 49 Director Pam Aitken BVA(HONS), MVA
Showroom 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville, Sydney 2204
Hours Thurs - Sat, 1 - 6 pm (+61) 2 9572 9863
[email protected]

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NEON PARC
PRESENTS
Trevelyan Clay
My Megalith
13th – 17th November 2007
Opening 13th 6-8PM
Silvershot
3rd Floor, 167 Flinders Lane,

Melbourne 3000. (03) 9663-4991.
[email protected]
Tues-Sat 12.00 to 6.00

Trevelyan Clay’s unpretentious approach to painting characterizes his work which is chaotic, humorous and full of movement. Since bursting onto the Melbourne art scene late last year he has added new energy and possibilities to painting in terms of both expression and content. My Megalith is Clay’s second solo exhibition in Melbourne, and continues his dialogue with the Australian landscape and it’s relation to cultural identity. His approach is risky; appropriating the markings that relate to the cultural property of indigenous communities is not a politically correct gesture.

But through this Clay makes a bold statement: the landscape is mine to interpret too. The paintings are executed in a fierce and eye-catching manner; the colours are vibrant and applied in big strokes, giving the work a deliberately childish and chaotic quality. The conspicuous expanses of colour render the painting flat and without illusionistic depth that adds to the naïve impression, yet allude to a metaphysical space that reconciles seemingly irreconcilable epochs.

Trevelyan Clay was born in the UK in 1982 and graduated from the Canberra School of Art in 2005. Since then he has exhibited at Stark White Gallery, Auckland, Neon Parc, Melbourne and CCAS, Canberra. His work is held in various public and private collection in Australia and New Zealand including the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand; Peter Fay Collection, Sydney; Australian National University Collection, Canberra; Artbank, The Ergas Collection, Sydney, Joyce Nissan Collection, Melbourne.

For more information, interviews and print-ready images contact: Tristian Koenig +61 3 96630911 +61 415 297 037 [email protected]

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Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival.

From October 2007 to February 2008, will take place the 3rd edition of Magmart | video under volcano, international videoart festival.

The Festival is realized in partnership with CAM - Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, and with the patronage of the Province of Naples.

Magmart festival's online media sponsor is the art news portal ShaVis.com. Marmart festival's broadcast media sponsor is the tv channel insu^tv.

The Festival activity begins on October 10 with the publishing of the call for participation, and will end with final event, scheduled for February, 23/24 2008, at CAM: On February 23, for the screening of 30 videos selected by Jury, in coordination with other artistic events. On February 24, 2008, the selected videos - which become part of permanent collection of Museum - will be screened on loop for the Museum's visitors.

RULES

The Festival is open to all international video artists. Participation is free. The Festival is dedicated exclusively to video art, and don't suggest any particular theme. Between all submitted videos, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Jury composed by experts. The 30 selected artworks will become part of CAM permanent collection. All sended materials don't will be return, and will be stored in the Festival's archive like documentation.
Sending the participation form, the artist accept fully the present rules. The Jury verdict is incontestable.

The artist accept that his/her own videos will be broadcasted online and offline, on site www.magmart.it and on tv channel insu^tv; he/she accept that, if selected, the video become part of permanent collection of CAM, and should be freely screened within Museum rooms. All the videos, selected or not, can be screened in any other place or event related to Festival, online or offline, with exclusion of any commercial use. Still-frame from videos can be freely used for the Festival communication, mentioning title and author of artwork. All rights on videos remain property of author. The author assert, under his/her own liability, the complete right of use on used materials (images, sounds, videos) and that compose the artwork; the author undertake
completely the liability for any breach of copyright laws.

To participate is necessary fill out the form available online, on official website of Festival. The omission, or the incorrect filling, of one or more parts of form itself, will involve the exclusion of video by selection of Jury. Will be accepted only the videos received within midnight of December, 31 2007. The shipment bill are on the back of author. The possible selection by Jury is in any case subordinate at an essential condition for the proclaim of winners: the author of selected video must send, via ordinary mail, and within midnight of January, 15 2008, the donation act to CAM of the copy of his/her own video, downloadable from official website of Festival. This donation act don't underlie in any way a transfer of right, but certify exclusively the willingness of author so that a copy of his/her own video artwork will be permanently keeped - and, with limitations above, utilized - in the permanent collection of CAM.

Without this donation act, the videos will be rule out by group of 30 selected artworks, and replaced by those immediately subsequent in Jury's ranking. Any author can participate with max 5 videos.

TECHNICAL FEATURES OF ARTWORKS
The videos must be fully realized with digital tech.
The videos must be sent in format .mpeg or .mov (PAL); any other format will be rejected.
The max length of videos don't must surpass 10 minutes.
The videos must be accompanied by participation form fully and correctly compiled.
The videos must be accompanied by a still-frame from video itself, in format .jpg, and with dimension not less than 400 px X 300 px.
The videos must have a quality (dimension, resolution) good for a public screening, without any further shipping of an high-res copy. Suggested size is 720px X 576px; minimum size required is 640px X 480px.
If the video is a shooting of a performance, this must be fully visible within video length.

SUBMISSION WAY
Is possible to send required materials for participation (video, form, image) in two ways:
- online | Filling out the form, before midnight of December, 31 2007. In the form, must be indicate an URL http or ftp for downloading the video (i.e.: http://www.mydomain.com/myvideo.mov) and the still-frame from video (i.e.: http://www.mydomain.com/myimage.jpg); is possible to utilize a service for big files transfer. The video and the image must be effectively available at indicated URL within the deadline.
- offline | After fully filled out the form online, the image and the video must be sent via ordinary mail or carrier at the address that will be communicate via email after online submission. The files must be on digital support (CD-Rom or DVD), Mac/Win or Windows compatible.

JURY
The jury is composed by:
Giuseppe De Marco - Mediavox
Luca Magnoni - Journalist / Creative Director
Antonio Manfredi - Artistic Director of CAM
Arseny Sergeyev - Curator of Outvideo Festival
Enrico Tomaselli - Artistic Director of Festival

For informations: [email protected] www.magmart.it

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March of The Penguins

Monday, October 22, 2007

Dear Art Life,

For your information and to clarify some apparent misunderstandings appearing on the thread discussion in regard to the Shaun Gladwell project at Artspace, Sherman Galleries did not 'put up the money to stage what must have been a very expensive show...' (fred friendly). That assertion is incorrect. They did, as did Gladwell himself, loan Artspace some technical equipment. Most of the equipment was provided by Artspace and/or hired/loaned from elsewhere. This isn’t unusual for Artspace with large technology-dependent installations. The exhibition was otherwise developed and produced by Artspace.

Best regards

Helen Hyatt-Johnston
GENERAL MANAGER
ARTSPACE

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DORKBOT-SYD : OCTOBER

Tuesday the 23rd October

Usual times and places. See you at 19:00 for a 19:30 speak off at Sydney (302 Cleveland St)

Two super presentations this month! And a show+tell.

1. Stephen Jones will be demonstrating and talking about a number of video synthesizers that he built between 1978 and 1986 (see pictured below for one). Stephen used these synths when performing live with Australian electronic group Severed Heads and in other projects.

2. Nick Wishart will be presenting CeLL, a MIDI controlled pneumatic orchestra he has created in collaboration with Miles van Dorssen. They will be opening up CeLL to new composers via a new software interface that can receive compositions by email, play and record the composition then send that recording to the composer.
www.cell.org.au

3. Show + Tell is open to anyone who has something they wanna bring along. Can be something interesting you have been working on or perhaps an event you wish to share with people. Just as long as it has something to do with electricity!

Also: Taking suggestions and volunteers for presentations for November's Dorkbot which shall be the last Dorkbot of 2007. Get in while the year lasts!

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between you and me
31 October - 17 November 2007
Opening 6-8pm, Wednesday 31 October
Curated by Anneke Jaspers

Ben Denham, Paul Greedy, Sarah Jamieson, Rachel Scott, Sam Smith

Ben Denham, no strings: pre-cursive, performance/video, 2007.
Courtesy of the artist.
between you and me explores ways in which artworks propose, present and perform mediating gestures. Taking as a starting point the particularities of viewing in a gallery context, these works interrogate the apparatus of their own making from various perspectives. Ideas are revealed by way of a certain self-awareness: a consideration of process, context and reception as it relates to the work’s own operation.The exhibition considers how the reflexive mode of ‘60s conceptual practices informs current strategies in art making, particularly in relation to performance and installation. A catalogue with in situ documentation and an essay by the curator will be available following the opening. Artist talks will be held on Saturday 17 November. Part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program.press release

Ben Denham uses the concept of ‘re-writing’ to interrogate relationships between the body and the production of texts. Denham’s experimental performances use gesture, inscription, and the experience of text-as-matter as means to investigate the divide between expression and interpretation.Sam Smith investigates the relationship between the real and the virtual, using the processes of video making as visual content. In Smith’s work, the manipulation of space, time, matter and perception that is integral to video is exposed to viewers’ scrutiny and curiosity.

Paul Greedy creates environments that integrate sonic, kinetic and visual elements to reveal aspects of how we understand and relate with the physical world. Greedy’s installations render viewers conscious of their own bodily responses to different phenomena, and in turn register participatory interactions.

Sarah Jamieson uses the parameters of her body as a starting point to conduct speculative and temporal research that reflects on how we define our physical and social interactions in space, via such concepts as interior and exterior, self and other, public and private.

Rachel Scott works across installation, painting, video and performance to investigate the human subject in relation to the production and reception of art. Scott explores the slippages between unconscious and contrived actions, as well as the processes of obscuring and revealing that are integral to making and exhibiting work.

firstdraft: 116-118 Chalmers St. Surry Hills NSW 2010 t: +61 (0)2 9698 3665mail(at)firstdraftgallery.com open hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12-6pm

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JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE is pleased to present

ELVIS RICHARDSON

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOSING IN THE MIND OF SOMEONE WINNING

23 October - 4 November 2007

Opening Wednesday 24 October 6-8pm

Elvis Richardson’s art practice incorporates found objects such as 35mm slides, photographs, VHS recordings and trophies as raw materials in video and sculptural installations. She chooses these discarded items to investigate ways personal and social identity are constructed and as primary evidence of material culture and history itself. Richardson's interest in undermining the heroic iconography of trophies as emblems expressing social status, success and ideals of sportsmanship to question notions of desire, failure and nostalgia.

The works in THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOSING IN THE MIND OF SOMEONE WINNING are from the artists silver trophy collection ranging from premiership cups and 21st mugs to wedding goblets, making explicit the competitive references of trophies to all facets of our lives. Richardson has then poetically transformed these items through an experimental trial by fire resulting in a variety of shocking but beautifully slumped and shattered outcomes. These fragments are then re-silvered and polished for public display.

Elvis Richardson has recently been selected as a finalist in the inaugural $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize with her sculptural work field. Sixteen contemporary artists have been chosen for the award reflecting on one of the central elements of our cultural and social life - sport (www.sellersartprize.com.au). This exhibition is reflective of the work Richardson is developing for the finalists exhibition at the Ian Potter Centre in July 2008. It is a very exciting nomination in recognition of the artists continued investigation and use of trophies and their meaning in her practice.

Please join us for the Opening on Wednesday 24 October 6 - 8 pm

JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE Suite 4 1st floor 111 Macleay St Potts Point NSW 2011 ( enter 1st door in Orwell St ) Gallery Hours Tuesday - Sunday 11am 6pm Wednesday 2pm - 8pm Ph 02 9358 2585 www.jamesdorahy.com.au

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Kraftwerk Going Bip Bip Bip Bip Bip

Monday, October 08, 2007

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
public lecture

When: Tue, 9 Oct, '07
Where: COFA UNSW

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Revolutions – Forms That Turn, explores the "biennale syndrome" which seems to have taken over the art world in the last fifteen years? Why are biennales so attractive? And to whom ? Why are they also so unattractive for some audiences?

Christov-Bakargiev will look at the rise of biennales, how they have decentralized art and created multiple art systems while at the same time allowing for new possibilities of disempowerment.

When: October 9, 6.30 Where: Main lecture theatre (EG02) COFA FREE

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SMASH HITS will be a loosely curated group show to be held at Parramatta Artists Studios during December 2007 and January 2008 (opening on the 6 th December).

As a celebration of the Studios' first year, SMASH HITS uses the genre of the much celebrated compilation album to invite all artists to recreate their Best or Worst Moment of 2007.

Artists will be provided with a 12 inch LP sized board with which to illustrate their own smash hit. Thematically, these moments may be anything real or imagined; a response to a news story, a melodramatic personal saga or an experience of extreme banality.

Works are not limited to 2D images but artists should make use of the 12 x 12 inch board.

To receive your panel, send your name, phone number & mailing address to: [email protected], [email protected] or phone: (02) 96876090 before the 16th November.

Opening Night: 6 December, 2007
Curated by Tom Polo in association with Parramatta Artists Studios

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PRESS RELEASE: ROSE ANNE McGREEVY

Opening Wednesday 10 Oct, 6 - 8pm.
Thursday 11 Oct to Saturday 20 Oct, 1 - 6pm
At Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville 2204

Rose Anne McGreevy's work is essentially form interacting with space to create a relational architecture of the mind.

This "architexture" is not a physical thing like a building but a psychological perception. The question arises "does this psychological perception aid in the creating of desire?"

Factory 49 Director Pam Aitken BVA(HONS), MVA
Showroom 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville, Sydney 2204
Hours Thurs - Sat, 1 - 6 pm (+61) 2 9572 9863
[email protected]

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Hello,

Mambo has a really cool event coming up and i am trying to get the word out.

The art-based event is being held this Saturday the 13th.

Basically the idea is in the morning of the event we will hand out a load of cryptic clues which will lead people around the city and then eventually to one of 15 final secret locations which is where we will have placed 15 one off pieces of art. Whoever gets to the art first gets the art.

The locations are all significant spots, some landmarks, some great art institutions, and all great cultural promoters within Sydney.

It is going to be great fun, widely publicized and like any cultural event the more people joining in the better it will be.

Please see attachments for all the information. It's completely free and anyone can join in as long as they register. They can register by going to our website - http://www.myspace.com/mamboaustralia.

It would be great if you could put our information/flyer (attached) on your "what's on" page and any other pages you think would spread the word.

Thanks

Matt Owens

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(a) Bird In (a) Space Project

A exhibition of new sculpture by
BENEDICT ERNST

at First Draft Gallery
116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills

Opening Wednesday 10th October 6-8pm

Running until the 27th October

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Presented as a part of The Art Life's ongoing commitment to serving the community and staying out of jail.

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Hey Ladies In The Place, We're Callin' Out To Ya...

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Dear Lino,

I am writing to inform you about the Shellywood™ project in Kevin Grove, Brisbane, Australia from October 2007 to January 2008.

Shellywood™ is a massive 45m x 9m fake movie poster, inspired by my recent residency with a group of Bollywood billboard painters in New Delhi.

Shellywood™ forms part of the Innocence series (2004-2007) in Melbourne and recent projects in India’s Bodhgaya (Enlightenment) and in New Delhi (Planet Shellywood).

A Melbourne version of Shellywood™ will be displayed outside Conical Inc. in Johnston Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne from Oct 29 – Nov 25.

I have attached some further information and images for your interest.

www.shellywood.com

www.ciprecinct.qut.com

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Raise The Bar

Do you think you have time to sign this petition in support of relaxing the liquor licensing laws in NSW? A bill is being presented this week to Parliament, so sign up now (its not too late)! As they currently stand, licenses are too expensive for small operators to set up little bars like those we love in Melbourne and other great cities in the world, where we can enjoy a quiet drink and a maybe a gig. So Sydney’s drinking venues are dominated by big boozy, sporty, pokie pubs and clubs where we all go home husky with beer on our slippers. It would be nice to end the big operator monopoly. Some resourceful individuals set up this site to provide you with more reliable information than I can provide, and to garner support from the public:

www.raisethebar.org.au

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JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE
is pleased to present

STEPHANIE MONTEITH
DIRTY SWITCH

Opening Wednesday 3 October 6 - 8pm

Exhibition Tuesday 2 October - Sunday 21 October

JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE Suite 4 1st Floor 111 Macleay St Potts Point NSW 2011
(Enter 1st door in Orwell St) Ph (02) 9358 2585 www.jamesdorahy.com.au
Gallery hours Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm Wednesday 2pm - 8pm

Image : Dirty Switch, 2007 oil on linen, 30 x 20 cm

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Multiple Personalities

Monday, September 17, 2007

Gallery 1

Multiple Personality

Mat de Moiser, Adrienne Doig, Matthew Hopkins, Robin Hungerford, Sari Kivinen, Ms & Mr, Luke Roberts, Pope Alice

Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Pope Alice, Giza circa AD 1500, from Appearances series, ongoing.
Courtesy Luke Roberts, Pope Alice Xorporation and Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane.
Multiple Personality brings together artists whose work engages with ideas of persona and the multiple. Multiple Personality is an apt way of describing much contemporary art where reflections and fragmentations of the self are expressed through the construction of artist personas. The invention of art personas is no new concept – certainly the cult of personality drives the engineering of ‘art stars’. In an age where art and entertainment become as indistinguishable as the distinction between an artist and an artwork, the art persona persistently negotiates the performance of self in new and challenging ways.

Gallery 2

Anastasia Zaravinos

“I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel”
(Hurt, original lyrics Trent Reznor)

The last resort… The actions experienced by my mind and body are desperate measures; an attempt to achieve a state of being someone my physical body cannot be. Short bouts of insanity take over and gender does not exist anymore. Influenced by Johnny Cash’s interpretation of the song Hurt, my video installation pushes my mind and my body as far as I possibly can: abjection and body mutilation, feeling pain and appreciating every single moment of it.

MOP Projects
2/27-39 Abercrombie St, Chippendale
www.mop.org.au
Dates: 20 September - 7 October 2007
Gallery Hours: Thu-Sat 1-6; Sun-Mon 1-5

Youth Art Award Closing Soon
2007 Allens Arthur Robinson Lloyd Rees Memorial Youth Art Award will be
closing for applications on 2nd October 2007.

This national youth art award is open to artists aged 18 - 28, working in mediums of drawing, painting and printmaking.

Prizes and Awards include:
Aquisitive Award $5,000
Highly Commended $1,500
Commended $800

To be judged by Mirabel Fitzgerald, Euan Macleod and Guy Warren, with winners announced on 12th October 2007. Brought to you by Lane Cove Council and Centrehouse Community Arts & Leisure Centre with exhibition of works on 13th - 19th October at the Lane Cove Civic Centre, 48 Longueville Road, Lane Cove.

For more information and application forms go to Centrehouse.org or phone 02 9428 4898, email [email protected]

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Erika Gofton,
She is...

“I am captivated by the female form, and intrigued with the subtlety between the sensual and the sexual. By exploring traditional notions of the feminine. I seek to create works depicting beauty, grace and harmony. I am celebrating the sensitivity and beauty of the female figure and traditional female art forms, experiences and iconography.”

We welcome you in joining us for drinks on opening night.

Opening night: Wednesday 26 September, 2007 6 - 8pm
Exhibition dates: September 26 – October 21, 2007
Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 - 6pm, Sunday 12 - 5pm
Dickerson Gallery 2A Waltham St Richmond Victoria 3121
www.dickersongallery.com.au

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Happy Happy

Monday, September 10, 2007

Liverpool Street Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings, prints, and sculptures by the Sydney artist Peter Sharp. Spider will be on view from 15 September – 11 October 2007.

Peter Sharp, Spider Web 1, 2007.
Oil and acrylic on linen, 60 x 62 cm.
Peter Sharp’s art is wholly about nature and its elements. Sharp explores a resolved combination of anomalous vocabularies in his paintings, prints and sculptures. Drawing from his surroundings, Sharp examines the micro and macrocosms of life in nature. The body of work in Spider was inspired by a journey to the desert around Lake Mungo in New South Wales. Here, Sharp has moved into new pictorial territory; incorporating spider’s webs, silhouettes of spider’s forms and ambivalent shapes as subject matter in his paintings, prints and sculpture. The sublime, transcendental qualities of nature and its creatures inspire and enthrall Sharp.

Influenced by an Indigenous approach to the landscape – nature is part of you, and you are part of nature – Sharp aims to create a sensory experience in viewing his abstractions on nature. Whether it is the darkness of night or the blinding sunlight of day, the eerie qualities of a spider, or the spider’s web that entangles its prey, Sharp effectively alludes to the immersive and diverse qualities of nature and its elements.

The layering of organic and geometric forms is an integral aspect of Sharp’s visual dichotomies; the fluid and intuitive free-flowing shapes overlap and counterbalance the constructed, geometric forms. These layers of consist of an almost glacial-like movement through space, they float but grind, push and pull against each other. There is an oscillation between surface and depth, nearness, distance and ambiguity of spatial dimensions. Each layer is a different aspect of content or form being portrayed, moving between the friction of delicate translucent washes of ink and acrylic and coarse layers of scumbled oil paint. The circular, square, organic symbols and shapes in Sharp’s paintings are not always clearly identifiable, creating ambivalence for the viewer which can lead to multiple interpretations and endless possibilities.

Sharp’s art is conceptually and aesthetically sophisticated and elegant, yet the work’s surfaces often appear raw, bleak, rough and weathered – reminiscent of the varied surfaces found in nature. Yet Sharps’ paintings, prints and sculptures are ultimately seductive and alluring.

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You are invited to our birthday celebrations!...

WHAT: Don't Look Gallery's first birthday & The Marrickville
Contemporary Art Prize

WHEN: Opening Friday September 14, 6pm
Thur September 6-23 (Thur-Sat 11-5)

WHERE: DON'T LOOK Experimental New Media Gallery
419 New Canterbury Rd (Near Marrickville Rd), Dulwich Hill

WHO: Over 30 local artists

CONTACT: Greg Shapley - Ph: 0401 152 434
EMAIL: dontlookgallery[..]gmail.com
WEB: myspace.com/dontlookgallery

The Little Gallery That Could

We've had a reality TV star move his bedroom into our window, created audio-visual monstrosities that have threatened to take over the world, and had grass growing out of our floors and walls. We've been mistaken for a Retra-Vision, a brothel, and a shady place for getting your satellite TV hooked up illegally.

In its first year the pint-sized suburban shopfront known as Don't Look Experimental New Media Gallery has covered a lot of ground. We've shown over 43 artists in 21 exhibitions, managing to catch the attention and imagination of many, including those who would not normally be seen dead looking at art.

This month, we're turning one year old, and on Friday September 14, we intend to celebrate til the sun comes up. Also the Don't Look Gallery launch of the Marrickville Art Prize, we invite all of the Inner-west (heck, the entire Southern Hemisphere) to do more than just eat cake. There'll be lucky door prizes, an armchair critic's award for the public and prizes (donated by local businesses) for artists in the current exhibition.

On Friday September 14, forget London, Paris, New York, Paddington or Newtown – Dulwich Hill is the Place to be seen!

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Quarto Non Fiction

Monday, September 03, 2007

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INTERMEDIARIES

Places, spaces, cultures and continents are the fundamental connections that bring together artists Guillermo Cardenas-Fischer (Colombia), Paola Gaviria (Columbia-Ecuador) and Rolande Souliere (Canada). Moving between countries and settling into new cultural domains, have enabled them to better comprehend their own culture whilst absorbing new insights into their artistic domain.

Guillermo Cárdenas’ work deals with the fragmentation and restructuring of time and space through painting. Influenced by personal and political aspects of his homeland, Columbia – where he was almost killed by a detonating bomb in 1989 – Cárdenas’ paintings look as if they have been blown apart while being simultaneously pulled back together. Cárdenas has a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited in the USA, Colombia, Mexico, Europe and Australia. Currently, Cardenas is a PhD candidate in Painting at the Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

Paola Gaviria’s black and white drawings appropriate the objects that surround her. In these carefully rendered images featuring everything from shoes to scissors, she addresses themes of self-portraiture, property, mass production and utility. Paola Gaviria has exhibited widely throughout Columbia , Australia and Europe in venues including Firstdraft, Miss China (Paris) and Intershop (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Galleria 1000 Eventi (Milan). In 2006 Gaviria moved to Sydney after a two-year stay in the prestigious Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.

Rolande Souliere explores the relationship forged between a North American Indigenous upbringing in Canada and her experience of living in Australia for the past decade. Her practice juxtaposes the Anishinabek (First Nation affiliation) culture and contemporary life in a global environment. Traditional Anishinabek processes such as weaving and knotting are central to her practice, as are references to performance and traditional Anishinabek mythology. In 2007 Rolande Souliere completed a Masters of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts and is a finalist in this year’s Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship. Early 2008, Souliere will have her first International solo exhibition in Canada.

Intermediaries is currently showing at MOP 27-39 Abercrombrie Street, Chippendale, 2008 from August 30-September 16th. Gallery hours are sunday to Monday from 1-5pm and Thursday to Saturday from 1-6pm
sunday to Monday from 1-5pm and Thursday to Saturday from 1-6pm.

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You are invited to a special exhibition at Chalk Horse of paintings and weavings from the Peppimenarti community in the Northern Territory, opening on Thursday 6 September 2007.

Located 250km southwest of Darwin, Peppimenarti is the most renowned weaving community in the top end, but their weavings have never before been exhibited in Sydney.

This unprecedented exhibition is curated by Harriet Fesq, coordinator of Durrmu Arts. It features work by 8 artists, ranging from emerging talents to established practitioners like Regina Wilson, winner of a General Painting prize at the 2003 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, whose work is held in major public and private collections.

Traditionally weavers, the women of Peppimenarti have transposed their inherited knowledge of fibre and textiles into intricate, abstract paintings. Some represent syaws (fish-nets) and wupun (basket-weavings). The men's art, meanwhile, has its origins in body painting and the decoration of objects including the didgeridu.

The project space will feature the work of Stuart Fleming, who produces intricate and unique abstract paintings using French Ink. In a meditative process, the artist produces small loops of ink over and over again, forming floating colourful forms on white backgrounds.

Both shows will run from the 6th to the 22nd of September.

Chalk Horse
56 Cooper St Surry Hills NSW 2010 (02) 9699 8999

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LESLEY GIOVANELLI

Opening Wednesday 12 Sept, 6 - 8pm.
Thursday 13 Sept to Saturday 22 Sept, 1 - 6pm
At Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville 2204

In the development of immersive environments, Giovanelli responds to and works with the surrounding architecture using techniques that are both painterly and sculptural. The exhibition space becomes a studio during installation.

It bring into it pre-made elements, as well as soft, highly coloured materials; wools, foams, and cotton wadding. The process to define outcomes and allow strategies such as imprecision, informality and spontaneity is part of the work. Inspiration comes from architecture, art history, Indian miniatures and Chinese gardens. The resulting environments consist of amorphous structures on the verge of disintegration - blobs, flows, floats and dissolves which play with form and anti form, order and disorder. They provide the viewer with shifts between spectatorship and inspection mode and work to reinforce the loss of a sense of self.

Factory 49 Director Pam Aitken BVA(HONS), MVA
Showroom 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville, Sydney 2204
Hours Thurs - Sat, 1 - 6 pm (+61) 2 9572 9863
[email protected]

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Neon Parc
1/53 Bourke St Melbourne
Australia 3000
wed-sat 12-6pm
+ 61 3 9663 0911
neonparc.com.au

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un. magazine
art review magazine
www.unmagazine.org

un Magazine special edition 2008 - call for submissions
due 15 September 2007

In early 2008 un Magazine will return with a special edition. The goal of this edition is to extend and explore the creative possibilities of critical and visual art-writing as a literary form. To be edited by Rosemary Forde, the edition will be a compendium of crafted approaches to art-writing, including responses to exhibitions in 2007-08, features, essays, fiction, and text-based artworks. The special edition will offer innovative ways to engage with art practice through different forms of writing, as well as creating in-depth discussion around contemporary art works.

un Magazine published seven issues from 2004-2006 and played a significant role in Melbourne’s art community. With the intention of developing a new approach to visual art discourse and publishing, un Magazine intends to support and encourage critical dialogue in the local art community.

Expressions of interest are now invited from prospective contributors.

Proposed submissions should relate to contemporary visual arts, by way of form or content. These might comprise but are not limited to: contemporary art criticism or reviews of recent contemporary art exhibitions; essays; interviews; collaborative writing projects; and other creative approaches taken by artists and writers, such as text-based artworks for magazine format, short scripts or narrative works, and any other approach that has an apparent relationship to contemporary visual art. So if you have new ideas about how art-writing can be an experimental artform, then un Magazine wants to hear about them. Writer’s fees will be paid for all contributions.

Deadline for expressions of interest: 15 Sept 2007

What you should submit:

1. A 100-word description of your submission
2. The names of the artists/writers involved
3. A half-page CV.
4. Any relevant images you can supply as Jpeg files.
5. Your contact details.

Please do not send extended or finished texts without consulting the Editor in advance.

Please email all submissions to the Editor - Rosemary Forde editor[at]unmagazine.org
General magazine enquiries: [email protected] www.unmagazine.org

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RE: Pleasure of Knowing Your Mindset

Monday, August 27, 2007

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I AM DR. RENOSI MOKATE DEPUTY GOVERNOR OF RESERVE BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA, MY OFFICE MONITORS AND CONTROLS THE AFFAIRS OF ALL BANKS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN SOUTH AFRICA CONCERNED WITH FOREIGN CONTRACT PAYMENTS.

I AM THE FINAL SIGNATORY TO ANY TRANSFER OR REMITTANCE OF HUGE FUNDS MOVING WITHIN BANKS BOTH ON THE LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS IN LINE TO FOREIGN CONTRACT SETTLEMENT.

I HAVE BEFORE ME LISTS OF FUND, WHICH COULD NOT BE TRANSFERRED TO SOME NOMINATED ACCOUNTS AS THESE ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED EITHER AS GHOST ACCOUNTS, UNCLAIMED DEPOSITS AND OVER-INVOICED SUM ETC...

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gregory richards / daniel moynihan
august 29 - september 15 . 2007
opening wed august 29 . 6 - 8 pm

frontspace

autopilot
gregory richards

What goes up must come down. However what if that that goes up costs in the order of 40 million dollars and is an unmanned high-altitude spy plane with a sixty metre wingspan and a payload of cutting edge monitoring technology? And where does it come down? The project Autpilot considers this question with a model of the high-tech drone, the global hawk, which the Australian government has been considering for purchase to use as a front line maritime surveillance tool. Here, however, the drone finds itself wrecked and impotent as though it has plummeted out of the sky and crashed nose down, embedding itself into the wall of the gallery.

French essayist, Paul Virilio in the catalogue for the exhibition Unknown Quantity presented at the Fodation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, 2003, discusses the notion of the invention of the accident, not as an unexpected unforeseen outcome, but as an inevitable and essential condition. To invent the train is to invent the derailment, furthermore, to invent the Very Fast Train is to invent a very fast derailment – a catastrophe.

Autopilot freezes this moment. The accident becomes strangely approachable, a comic book calamity, a Lichtenstein kaboom. The surveyor becomes the surveyed exposing its other state – oversight, fault. Autopilot, through its pop sensibility, acknowledges an earlier global hysteria, the McCarthy era ‘reds under beds’. However, will our high flying xenophobic eye perform to all expectations, and even if it does what might be the outcomes?

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one small step for dan
daniel moynihan

One Small Step for Dan - a saw and a suitcase, the anticipation of amusement captured in the static moment before the punchline. Exploring notions of vulnerability behind a false bravado. A sculptural self-portrait combining elements of hand made and ready made objects. Hey everyone come and watch the arse fall out from under me yet again….oh yeah you can laugh!

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I am khalid mahmoud, A Bahrain national I have been diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer .It has defiled all forms of medical treatment, and right now I have only about a few months to live.I am very rich,but was never generous, I have given most of my assets to my immediate family members. I have decided to give alms to charity organizations.I cannot do this myself anymore because of my health.I once asked members of my family to give some money to charity organizations,they refused and kept the money.I have a huge cash deposit of Eighteen Million dollars with a finance House abroad. I will want you to help me collect this deposit and dispatch it to charity organizations.You will take out 20% of this funds for your assistance.DO REPLY ME VIA MY PRIVATE EMAIL([email protected]) TO ASSIST ME.

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DAMP
SEPTEMBER 1 - 29

OPENING SATURDAY 1 SEPTEMBER, 6 - 8 PM,
UPLANDS GALLERY
STUDIO 3
249 - 215 CHAPEL STREET PRAHRAN VIC 3181
AUSTRALIA
TELEPHONE 61-3-95102374

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Compliments,

I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA. I am writting to seek your coperation over this business deal.

In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of$15million USD(Fifteen million US dollars)only , in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya,East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United States of America but naturalised in Burkinafaso,WestAfrica and contractor with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES)...

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Dear friend

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum of($ 47.600 USD) United States Dollars from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar Senegal. I am Mr Mohammad Musa (Bsc,Msc) the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal , during the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating funds in an account opened in our bank since 1982 and till date no body has operated on the account and after going through old files in the records, I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[His/WILL], hence the floating of the funds and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing
Therefore ,with a personal conviction of trust and confidence ,I wish to contact you as a foreigner, to stand as a relative because you share thesame surname with the decease's , thus I can work out the release of the funds , No other person in the office knows about the account , please be assured of the risk free , I'm the one that will work it out , all I need is your co-operation because the account content can not be approved to an indigen here as his next of kin...

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An Evil Petting Zoo?

Monday, August 06, 2007

Invitation to help make green history in Sydney

A team of visionaries and planning experts have come together to create a high profile "City Farm" and Sustainable Living Centre in Sydney's historic, and controversial, Callan Park (in Rozelle) - all on a voluntary and pro-bono basis. Visit our holding page with photo gallery

We are looking for a film-maker who would like to document the process of creating the City Farm, which involves:

brainstorming and creative meetings,
public meetings with inspiring speakers,
heated political debate between grass roots, local and state government players,
political lobbying meetings
and eventually the nuts and bolts of turning an abandoned park land and disused buildings into a vibrant showcase of sustainable living, teeming with community involvement
modelled on the successful CERES environment centre in Melbourne

Ideally such a film-maker would join us on a pro-bono basis, and help us to create some short videos of highlights for our website and YouTube.

If we are ultimately successful, there is a high likelihood that such a documentary could be of interest to TV networks. If you're willing to take a chance with us for your chance to add another chapter to green history in Sydney, contact us by Monday August 23.

Carolin Wenzel [email protected] mo: 0417 668 957

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Jade Pegler - proscenium machinium
Exhibition 2 - 25 August 2007

Gallery 9 presents an exhibition of work by young Wollongong artist Jade Pegler.

Jade has shown work previously in a group show at Gallery 4A in 2006, however this will be her first solo exhibition in Sydney.

PROSCENIUM MACHINIUM presents itself as a theatre of forlorn and slightly comical beings crafted from textiles and paper. Books are used as raw materials in the sculptures: they are built from language, histories and fiction, appearing as a misshapen and contorted sideshow decayed and neglected.

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Seasons in the Abyss

Marita Fraser and Alex Lawler

MOP
9 – 26 August 2007
Thursday - Saturday 1 - 6, Sunday 1 - 5 pm
(02) 9699 3955

2/39 Abercrombie St Chippendale Sydney, NSW, 2008 Australia

We are pleased to announce ‘Seasons in the Abyss’ at MOP Projects, an exhibition presenting the work of Marita Fraser and Alex Lawler, two Australian artists currently living and working in Vienna, Austria.

For this exhibition, the Abyss firstly refers to the ‘over there’ of having been away and about the space that is constructed when we imagine the world that exists behind the photographs from art magazines and printed catalogues. This mental projection of the other side and the act of leaving the known to go the other side is one position from which to read the work in this exhibition.

But more importantly, the Abyss refers to conditions inherent in conceptual painting.

Alex Lawler has used the Austrian Pop singer Falco as a departure point for creating Geometric/ Industrial Abstract paintings that create a synthesis of colour and sound.

In his work a tension is exploited between the dialectical, conceptual strategies of a work on one hand and addressing a work in terms of its potential as ‘pure’ abstraction on the other. It is here that Alex posits the Abyss: the potential for ‘pure’ abstraction, the non-objective drive which looms large behind each of the works in this exhibition, it is something that is always present, often referred to but never revealed. This potential for ‘pure’ abstraction is perhaps very related to the painter’s mind, that framing up of the world into smaller chunks of abstraction that comes when one sees the world through painting.

It is also possible to consider the Abyss as a condition of conceptual painting’s reference to some other space outside the non-objective, whether it is addressing notions of reproduction and representation, or referential to the history, framing systems, materiality and means of production of painting itself.

Marita Fraser’s explores the Aybss, via a circular negation of pictorial space in painting.

Marita Fraser’s work addresses the notions of the possibilities of painting, using paint as a physical structural material as well as exploiting paintings’ other material and representational properties. She examines ideas of the tension between representation and abstraction presenting a series of works that examine painting as diagram. The Abyss is invoked through the works’ reference back to the conceptual space of painting itself. The paintings refer to the problem of what a painting might be, presenting a number of different framing systems through which images and paintings might be produced or understood.

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Terminus Last Days

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Terminus projects have curated 5 site specific projects for their 2007 programme. Visit Terminus Projects for more info, ending soon!

Yuca Ishizuka
Missing Links: Autobiography
Location: Level 4, 1-5 Hickson Road, The Rocks
When: 12-6pm, Wednesday to Sunday, nutil the end of July 2007

Japanese artist Yuca Ishizuka has installed an amazing work called 'Missing Links: Autobiography' in a historic warehouse in The Rocks. Ishizuka's project features the installation of 30,000 Swarovski crystal beads, referring to characters of NuShu, a writing system understood only by Chinese women of the Hunan Province.The exact origin of Nushu script is unknown but some believe it dates back 1000 years. Sadly now obsolete, NuShu was initially created to foster solidarity between Chinese women that endured the brutalities of feudal China. All the elements in the installation are composed to rhyme with the state of Nushu. Contemplating the effects of a global Asian diaspora, this delicate installation will elevate ancestral voices whose language is under threat of extinction.

Supporting academic documents about Nushu by prof. Orie Endo of Bunkyo University are also available on site.

Screening in conjunction with 'Missing Links: Authobiography' is Canadian based Yue-Qing's moving documentary about her travels through China in search of NuShu.

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Get Yr Hoop On

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

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Dear Friends, This is the invitation to my exhibition at the Powerhouse. Hope you can make it. Entrance is free on Saturday the 7th of July. Come at 11:30 to try out the interactive installation (Cyberworlds Gallery, Ground Floor. I'll be holding an artist's talk at 12 noon in the Education Rooms ( level 3) followed by a live jazz performance... Julia

Drawing from the work of David Rokeby, The Musicians is an early prototype, interactive artwork that utilizes cinematography and sound to engage audiences via invisible touch pads. Users are encouraged to play notes or compose music by directing the two professional musicians as they jam filmically, the audience members directly impacting the artwork via their movements.

The aesthetic aim of The Musicians is to visualize the emotional influence the audience members have over the characters onscreen. Amidst witty commentary and pre-programmed repertoires, the musicians play to draw audience members into the museum space and then attempt to hold their attention by empowering the user with the ability to direct their activities. These ‘behaviours’ suggest a more human exchange is possible in the relationship between viewers and technological art. This is technically accomplished by first filming the actors, then implementing state of the art editing and interface systems to create a smooth junction between the art system and the end user."

Deborah Turnbull, Curator for beta_space

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out of the closets and into the streets come create a raucous! The atmosphere was truly magikal last saturday. There's even podiums to shimmy on - not to mention a crankin soundsystem!

HI everyone! Due to the success of last Saturday's Taylor Square hoopdown to promote World Hoop Day 070707 we have decided to do it all over again next Saturday 30th June 4.30-530pm.

Out of the closets and into the streets come create a raucous! The atmosphere was truly magikal last saturday. There's even podiums to shimmy on - not to mention a crankin soundsystem!

Who's up for it?????
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GET YR TWEAK ON HOOPSTYLE!
tim x
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be there or be...

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You are invited to the dual opening of two great new shows, Julian Meagher and Sam Smith, on this Thursday 28 June at Chalk Horse, 56 Cooper St, Surry Hills from 6pm to 8pm.

The main gallery space will feature Julian Meagher, whose work challenges the notion of personality by addressing the relationship between the internal and external workings of the body. Julian draws on the field of medical imaging to explore the ways that the body is depicted. Trained both as a doctor and in classical oil-on-canvas portraiture in Australia and Italy, his work has evolved to include oil paintings on X-Rays and Bone Scans.

The project space will feature Sam Smith, an audio and video artist who exploits the conventions of video, sculpture, photography and sound (both live and recorded). He takes electronic, physical and bodily exchanges and forms looping structures, time jumps, and technological distortions. Smith's live sound explores the intersection of treated or untreated
improvisational piano with electronics, moving from melody to aggressively processed sound.

Both shows will be running until the 22nd July.

Chalk Horse
56 Cooper St
Surry Hills 2010

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Opening night

Tuesday 3rd July, 6 – 8pm

Sculpture 19
19th annual sculpture survey

Peter Baka - Richard Byrnes - Sam Deal - Marguerite Derricourt - Lex Dickson - Erwin Fabian - Geoff Harvey - Cassandra Hard Lawrie - Sergio Hernandez - Les Kossatz - Patricia Lawrence - Diablo Mode - Marilyn McGrath - Frank Malerba - Clement Meadmore - Chico Monks - Phillip Piperides - Paul Procee - Qian Jian Hua (Justin) - Hui Selwood - Randall Sinnamon - Terry Stringer - Anne Wienholt

June 30 – July 25, 2007

R O B I N G I B S O N G A L L E R Y
278 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst
Tues to Sat 11am to 6pm

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Jump Around

Monday, June 18, 2007

ceci n'est pas... (this is not...)
Sara Meltzer Gallery
525 - 531 West 26th Street New York, NY
Wednesday, June 27 - Friday, August 17
Opening reception June 27, 6 - 8pm

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runway
ISSUE 9 CHANGE

SYDNEY LAUNCH
Wednesday 20 June, 6-8pm
Firstdraft Gallery
116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills

Featuring performances by Agatha Gothe-Snape, Pete Volich & Brian Fuata. Also launching THE INVISIBLE ART PODCAST

FEATURING: James Avery & Eleanor Avery, Elizabeth Reidy, Zanny Begg, Dougal Phillips & Sam Smith, Karen D’Amico, Jess Johnson, Alex Lawler, Helena Leslie, Andrew Frost, Mimi Tong, Jason de Haan, Paul Donald, Amanda Rowell, Jesse Stein, Kuba Dorabialski, Kathryn Gray, Emily Hunt & Raquel Welch, Marita Fraser, Clare Lewis, Michael Lloyd, Anneke Jaspers, Squatspace, Elise Routledge, Mark Brown, MOP.

AVAILABLE: From June 20 at all good galleries and bookstores and online at www.runway.org

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Just letting you know I’ve got an exhibition coming up very soon. It’s at the brand new MOP Projects space which is at Shop 2, 27-39 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale. The opening night is the 28th of June and the show runs till the 15th of July. I am very pleased to be the first artist to show in the lovely new Gallery 1 space and hope you can come and enjoy what should be a great opening night. Otherwise I hope you can come and see the work during the run of the show. I’ve really enjoyed making these works and hope you enjoy them too - Halinka

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RICK AMOR
SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS 2007
23 June – 19 July 2007

Liverpool Street Gallery is pleased to announce Rick Amor’s forthcoming exhibition Drawings & Sculpture 2007 to be held 23 June – 19 July 2007. The exhibition will consist of a selection of eight charcoal drawings and a new bronze sculpture Figure in a landscape, measuring 3 metres high. These works depict subjects as diverse as quiet coastal townships with wind-whipped cypress trees, solitary figures in space, sunlit ruins at evening, claustrophobic streetscapes and an arresting self portrait.

Resolute in his depiction of urban landscapes and suburban coastal fringes as places of poignant isolation, Rick Amor’s paintings, drawings and sculptures resonate with a brooding disquiet. Like shards of memory or fragments of dreams, the images with their solitary human inhabitants and decaying urban structures, draw the viewer in leave one feeling strangely detached; disturbed by the searing loneliness of his vast open spaces.

Born in Frankston, Victoria in 1948, Amor completed a Certificate of Art at the Caulfield Institute of Art in 1965 and from 1966 to 1968 studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne where he received an Associate Diploma of Painting. He has been the recipient of several Australia Council studio residencies which have allowed him to work in London, New York and Barcelona. In 1999 he was appointed as the official war artist to East Timor by the Australian War Memorial. Rick Amor has held over 40 solo exhibitions of his work since first exhibiting at Joseph Brown Gallery in 1974. A major survey exhibition of his paintings was curated by McClelland Gallery, Melbourne, in 1990 and toured various regional galleries in Victoria and South Australia throughout 1990 and 1991. In 1993 another exhibition mounted by Bendigo Art Gallery toured Victoria and Tasmania, celebrating his work as a printmaker and graphic artist. An important exhibition of Amor’s bronze sculpture was undertaken by Benalla Art Gallery in 2002, including many maquettes never previously exhibited. In 2001 The Miegunyah Press published his biography The Solitary Watcher: Rick Amor and his Art, written by Gary Catalano, and in 2005 Amor’s work was again the subject of a major survey exhibition at McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park. Rick Amor is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, and numerous State Gallery, Regional Gallery and University collections throughout Australia.

LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY is located at 243A Liverpool Street, East Sydney NSW 2010

Image (above): Rick Amor Maquette for sculpture, Figure in a landscape, 2004-2006 bronze, edition of 6, 51.5 cm high, installation variable (see attached image of the large Figure in a landscape 2007 in progress at Perrin Foundry, Melbourne)

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You are invited to the opening of the exhibition

A COUPLE OF HOURS OUT OF SYDNEY

featuring GABRIELLE COLLINS, ISABEL GOMEZ, MICHELLE HUNGERFORD AND LEO ROBBA
on Saturday afternoon 23 June 2007 from 2 to 4pm

with a special performance by the choir Another Roadside Attraction

image: Leo Robba, ‘flametrees’, oil on canvas, 900mm x 1020mm, 2007

at the DAMIEN MINTON GALLERY
JUNE 20 TO JULY 7, 2007

Drive, in any direction, a couple of hours out of Sydney and you will be engulfed by unique landscapes. What you will also find are contemporary artists who live away from the centre of the Sydney art industry, creating their own sense of place. This exhibition acknowledges the growing number of artists who turn their back on the stereotypic notions of regional isolation.

Gabrielle Collins lives in Tamworth and creates her own world of urban landscapes that evoke but are not specific to any location.

Isabel Gomez lives in Newcastle and paints in the field a few hours at a time recording the Newcastle Harbour and immediate landscape.

Michelle Hungerford lives in Tamworth and evokes the countryside of that region.

Leo Robba lives in Springwood and spends time drawing and painting numerous regional locations including Dungog in the Lower Hunter area.

DAMIEN MINTON GALLERY
61-63 GREAT BUCKINGHAM STREET
REFERN
open wed to sat 11 to 6

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Hip Hop Don't Stop

Sunday, June 03, 2007

1 June 2007 MEDIA RELEASE

FreshRedEarth conducts hip hop workshops throughout region for ArtStart 2007

Hip hop workshop facilitators FreshRedEarth in conjunction with The Songroom will hit the road from 2-8 July 2007 across the region including Narromine, Dubbo, Gilgandra, Mendooran, Coonabarabran and Baradine as part of the ArtStart program for 2007.

A joint project between Orana Arts and Arts OutWest, ArtStart is a youth arts and skills program funded by TAFE NSW for young people aged between 12-24. ArtStart’s emphasis is on cultivating the skills of young people who find it hard to access education and training in the arts.

Workshops will cover “The Rap Clinic” (Freestyle rapping / written verse), “Hip Hop Dance Shop” (Dance), “The Drum Clinic” (Percussion and drum kit) and a final jamming session where workshop participants have a chance to combine their newly learned skills.

Facilitators are Paul Mcintyre (Musician), Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore (Visual Artist/Dancer), James Grantham (Performer), Sam ‘The Muel’ Howell (Musician - Drummer) and Mars Tsolakis Aka Mc Mars ‘E-Pan’ (Female Mc).

With prior experience in youth development and services in Melbourne plus training in sound production, coordinator Paul McIntyre is looking forward to this experience in the Orana Arts region, developing solid links with rural communities.

“It is my solid belief that music, art and dance are tools that offer young people a means of expression and an outlet for their experiences that can ultimately result in their positive evolution and contribution to the community of which they are a part.”

Regional Arts Project and Promotions Officer Merryn Spencer is pleased Orana Arts is able to host the program in conjunction with Arts OutWest.

“Hip hop in all its forms is an invaluable means of expression for young people. The variety of the day is excellent with drumming to dance to rhyming verse which is a great chance for skills development. The chance to access facilitators of this calibre is a unique opportunity in our region.”

All workshops are free of charge and will run from 10.00am-4.00pm. Workshop participants must be aged between 12-24. Classes are limited to 20 students. To register your interest for the workshop please contact Orana Arts or the hosting facilities as outlined below.

The tour schedule is as follows:

Monday 2 July 2007: Narromine United Services Memorial Club

Tuesday 3 July 2007: PCYC Dubbo

Wednesday 4 July 2007: Gilgandra Youth Centre

Thursday 5 July 2007: Mendooran Hall

Friday 6 July 2007: Coonabarabran High School

Saturday 7 July 2007: Baradine CWA Hall

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MSSR is pleased to announce the exhibition of new video work by Marian Drew.

Exhibition opens Friday 8th June from 6pm to 9pm. MSSR is located at 105 Moreton Street, New Farm. Please walk under the house to the back stairs to gain entry to the exhibition space.

After the opening Marian's work can be viewed by making an appointment with MSSR by calling 0422695064 or emailing christopherandthejets[at]yahoo.com

Exhibition runs till Sunday 24 June.

This is the final exhibition for the MSSR project. To all who have supported the project previously, and to all who plan to see it off in style with Marian's work next week, MSSR would like to thank you.

While MSSR does its best to make you feel comfortable it encourages a BYO policy for that to truly take effect.

Beth Jackson has written the accompanying text fro Marians show. It can be downloaded here

MSSR looks forward to seeing you one last time to celebrate Marians three channel video projection.

'I'm the sort of person that projects voices onto dogs, which is ok, except that recently my bordercollie seems to be developing a rather severe lisp. This personification although dangerous I admit, in its simplification and human centric perspective of animals, is for the same reasons a joyous activity. Projecting of one idea over another, I have continued since Bush Projections 1984, when I projected images of urban colours and environments onto ghost gum trees. Home, garden, and travel, has provided rich material for my art practice that shifts between drawing, installation, photography and video, setting up dialogues between media. Drawing a playful and thoughtful engagement between media and sight, forms the basis of my art practice.'

Drew, M. 2006, Projecting Voices, in 'Marian Drew: photographs + video works', Queensland Centre of Photography, Australia, p.87.

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firstdraft

CONDUCTOR - Template
Teo Treloar - On The Multiplicity of Wolves
Nick Strike - Drunk In The Sunk Cinema

Exhibition open: Wednesday June 6 to Saturday June 23, 2007

Opening night drinks: Wednesday June, 2007 6-8pm

Artist Talks (with performance by CONDUCTOR): Saturday June 16 @ 4:00pm

Firstdraft opening hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-6pm

CONDUCTOR - Template

CONDUCTOR is a performance based collaboration between Michael Robinson and Cy Norman.

Gestural drawing is transposed into an audio signal using graphite pencils to conduct an electrical current. Wired pencils initiate the pitch, timing and duration of sounds which are processed via customised analog electronics in realtime. Through an integration of action (drawn tone), reaction (processed sound) and interaction (new action) a symbiosis is constructed where the sound event and its notation occur simultaneously.

CONDUCTOR are Firstdraft’s fourth studio residents for 2007. Firstdraft’s Emerging Artist Studio Program is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Teo Treloar, The Deluge, 2007.
Pencil, Watercolour and Acrylic on Paper.

Teo Treloar - On The Multiplicity of Wolves

On the Multiplicity of Wolves is the latest show by Sydney based contemporary artist Teo Treloar. The show is a critique of the notion that we are culturally under the influence of the image. The work on how is an installation containing over 40 drawings, paintings and a neon text piece, the subjects in the drawings and paintings are all engaged in viewing, reacting or wading through the thick cultural sludge of popular culture while the neon text is a representation of the absurdity engendered in the art work itself. The drawings evoke feelings of isolation, paranoia and melancholy that seemingly fit into current social states of fear and mistrust. The show also represents the personal search the artist has undertaken into some psychological aspects of his own approach into the reading of images. Treloar has taken both historical and contemporary imagery from eclectic sources that range from contemporary news media to Saturday Journals that were printed in the early 1900s. The works are small, detailed and very intimate; Antique ornamental papers and board is often used as the base for the work, the drawings and paintings look old and worn, conversely; underneath the subtlety there is a direct and critical approach aimed towards both the social and personal relationships that we (culturally) share with the image.

Nick Strike, Untitled, 2007. Unspecified materials.

Nick Strike - Drunk In The Sunk Cinema

Strike presents sculptures from 'the realm of the sunken cinema' to explore the carnal density of vision.

An image whereby cinema and diving are conflated so that the dense space of the realm of diving acts, imaginatively, to compress light into a matter.

Given that the end of the brown coal (and cardigan) era is at hand, the resultant press of this space is the common object given a novel turn; a new fuel for thought.

Recall the first atomic fission reactor built in a squash court in 1942. I hope to show how an active, sculptural engagement with matter can result in a chain reaction of associations, a ‘projection’ of ‘historical’ energy
that liberates the participant from the rote response.

Via an active engagement with the work, it is absorbed under pressure and inebriates.

A drunk in the sunk cinema.

Firstdraft
116-118 Chalmers St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
t: +61 (0)2 9698 3665 e: [email protected]
http: //www.firstdraftgallery.com
Firstdraft opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday 12-6pm

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EXPERIMENTA PLAYGROUND
INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF MEDIA ARTS
Melbourne Premiere

Saturday 25 August – Sunday 23 September 2007

The Arts Centre BlackBox
100 St Kilda Rd (River Terrace, rear of Hamer Hall)
FREE:: Open daily: 12noon- 8pm
Launch & opening night party: Friday 24 August, 7pm

Escape into Experimenta Playground, an exhibition of the best, new,
innovative and playful artworks and videos by Australian and international
artists. This is art that makes the first move, begs to be touched and invites
your interaction. Immerse yourself in an underwater world and play with sea
creatures, interrupt the inhabitants of a table-top city, discover how your
shadow can take on monstrous characteristics or prepare to witness the
extremes artists will go to in the name of art.

Shu Lea Cheang, Baby Love, 2005.
Installation image of interactive artwork.
Photo courtesy Florian Kleinefenn

More information: www.experimenta.org

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One Door Closes...

Monday, May 14, 2007

Some people enjoying Loose opening nite April 5 2006

As Loose projects approaches it's closing exhibition in June, our friendly neighbour & landlord dLux Media Arts is seeking a new tenant for the room Loose has occupied.

The space can be used as a studio/workshop or gallery, with an internet connection included in the rent. rent: $220/wk plus gst Lease ends: 26 March 2008 but can be possibly extended. Lease: duration negotiable.

If interested please contact Solange Kershaw at dLux Media Arts

[email protected]
t/ 02 0267 4777

meanwhile stay posted for Loose's climactic closing!

Loose projects

level 2
168 Day St
Darling Harbour, Sydney

gallery hours.
thursday and friday 12-5pm
saturday 1-6pm

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Portraits of Seminal Significance to the Aboriginal Movement
Juno Gemes Exhibits at Gosford Regional Gallery from 25 May

On the Eve of the 40th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum Proof- Portraits from the Movement - by Juno Gemes will be opened at Gosford Regional Gallery by Indigenous Historian John Maynard and Founder of Link Up Oomera Edwards.

Photographer Juno Gemes will exhibit her unique collection of black and white photographs of Aboriginal people, documenting events and people over the past 30 years that have been of seminal significance to their empowerment. They will be exhibited at Gosford Regional Art Gallery from 25 May until 22nd July 2007.

A highly successful international and local touring exhibition, Juno Gemes website contains photographs on display along with catalogue essays pointing out the significance of her work.

Juno’s work is motivated by the desire to foster cultural respect for Aboriginal people, and promote Aboriginal culture and ideas that are of value to mainstream Australia. Her work is proof that a Aboriginal Movement for cultural respect existed. It is a visual history of this from her perspective.

Juno covered events in Northern Territory (e.g. the handing back of Uluru 1985); Alice Springs (a huge gathering of traditional people for ceremony in 2000 when a smoking ceremony by Uncle Max Stewart was performed to welcome back all those who had been stolen from their families); Central Australia (travel with aboriginal artists e.g. early Papunya painters); Mornington Island (working for 2 years with famous touring islander dancers); Brisbane (first national land rights action in 2000 on the eve of the Commonwealth Games); country NSW (significant community/political events e.g. debate about the Green Paper draft of Aboriginal Land Rights Legislation and documenting the famous Les Coe Memorial Football Match at Cowra); Sydney, (Redfern 1978 - the NADOC Day of Settlement- celebrated in a street fair in Redfern). There are also many portraits of inspirational figures from Aboriginal culture and politics e.g. Mum Shirl (Mrs Shirley Smith), Professor Marcia Langton, Gary Foley, Charles ( Kumajay) Perkins, Wandjuk Marika, Ernie Dingo.

Juno has wonderful support from members of the Aboriginal community throughout Australia and is highly regarded by historians and art historians for the work she has done photographically to document key events in their history.

“In Gemes images of protest and survival can be found an important part of the visual history of Aboriginal Australia in the late twentieth century.” David Hansen - Art - Australia.

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On behalf of WINNER PROJECTS i would like to invite you to make a short video for THE DAY JOB FILM FESTIVAL..(will be shown for one night in August 2007 at PACT theatre as part of quarterbred) I'm interested with what creatives do to pay their bills. So cut loose!

DETAILS: You must save the video as a Quicktime (.mov) file

THEME: Anything related to your dayjob.

STYLE: Any style you like... cynical, funny, serious, animation, interview, made up etc etc..whatever you do i am sure it will be rad...

DURATION: No more than 4 minutes

DUE DATE: 17 JULY 2007 all videos to be sent to me by the above date to give us ample time to put them all onto one disc..

SEND TO: Vicki Papageorgopoulos, Winner projects, 77 beaconsfield st, Revesby NSW 2212

MY EMAIL: vickipapa[at]gmail.com

DONT' FORGET: to send me a paragraph about your work when you send it to me...

Thank you
Vicki
[Winner projects]

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Community Service

Monday, April 30, 2007

POSITIONS VACANT: GALLERY ASSISTANT

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is one of Australia’s leading commercial contemporary art galleries. It is a busy and dynamic work environment with a strong involvement with the international art world.

We are seeking a full-time Gallery Assistant five days a week for our Paddington gallery.

The position has an emphasis on client relations, sales and general gallery administration. A proven commitment to and knowledge of Australian and international contemporary art, a high level of discretion, ability to handle a wide variety of tasks under pressure, strong communication skills and subtle letter writing and art writing ability are essential prerequisites. Applicants must be able to work as part of a busy team. Prior gallery experience and an undergraduate degree in fine arts are also essential.

Please write in the first instance to Tony Oxley by letter, fax or email enclosing a resume of educational qualifications and relevant work experience. Immediate start.

Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

8 Soudan Lane (off Hampden Street)

Paddington, NSW 2021

Australia

tel: +61 2 9331 1919

fax: +61 2 9331 5609

[email protected]

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21 Days of Art and Performance throughout Alice Springs.

Local, Interstate and International artists come together to challenge perceptions on local and global issues affecting communities living in Arid Land environments.

Shifting Ground is a 21 day event from 4–25th May featuring a program of art and performance by 40 local, interstate and international artists in public spaces all over Alice Springs.

Artworks that link people to nature, art and ideas; tell stories of places and explore the concept of sustainability will be on display. Most importantly the artworks are responsive to unique Arid Lands environs on a physical, social and cultural level.

Kieren Sanderson, Producer of Shifting Ground, says she “hopes the event will affect people’s perceptions of art, nature and culture in Alice Springs and focus on invigorating public spaces using art as a tool.”

Featured in the program is International artist Daphna Yalon from Israel, who with photographer Elad Rabinovich is creating a performance/installation which explores connection to place through actual engagement with the earth. Daphna is working with local Traditional owners focussing on exchange of understandings between the cultures and a performative act created from this exchange will take place at the Program Launch on May 5th at the Claypans, just outside of Alice Springs.

Yalon’s has worked on art projects and exhibitions throughout Israel and North America.

The program also features interstate artist and producer Richard Thomas, who recently selected 12 of Australia’s most exciting and respected emerging and established artists to travel to Shanghai to participate in the independent art project Satellite. This project was one of the largest and most significant representations of Australian contemporary art in China to date.

Interstate artist Alexandra Gillespie will collaborate with local artist Dani Powell, who has been making performances in response to the land, climate and socio-cultural disposition of Alice Springs since 1999. Gillespie lectures in Video Art and is a PhD Candidate in the School of Art at the Australian National University. Together Gillespie and Powell are producing a site specific performance installation that will focus on the stories of one street in Alice Springs.

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MSSR is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Sydney based artist Giles Ryder.

Exhibition opens Friday 4 May 2007 from 6pm to late.

Giles’ practice involves furthering the concepts of reduction (of form; space; line and material), the effect of colour (visual; as signature; and psychological effects) and the experiential qualities of painting.

Part of Giles practice explores the idea of the readymade, in his choice of materials and utilizing industrial spray painting techniques to mixing his own Auto Lacquers. In contrast to the ‘readymade’ these techniques give an effect of the ‘Custom Paint Job’. Giles use of pearlescent paint creates a perceptive challenge, as the appearance of the painting changes with the fall of light, the position of the viewer and the amount of clear pearlescent coats built up on the surface.

The surface of Giles’ work produces an illusionary field that shimmers and glows with light through the flat, reflective plane of colour. Recently work with neon lighting further exploits the reflective surface of the painting; the readymade neon light working in contrast to the painted monochromatic plane. This merges the concerns of painting and site: increasing the experiential and experimental processes that expand the site of painting. This can be seen with the shaping of Aluminium ‘canvases’ and mirror works that clash and clang revealing and distorting the space and the spectators’ involvement within the space producing a synaesthetic and psychological experience.

Opening night celebrations will include music, barbeque and the usual civility of tea and cake. MSSR hopes to make you feel welcome and encourages a b.y.o policy.

Kris Carlon's essay 'The Neo(n) - Modernist' is available to download

After the official opening night celebration Giles exhibition can be viewed during selected days or by appointment - please phone 0422695064 or email [email protected] to arrange a suitable time.

MSSR is proudly supported by the Queensland Government, through Arts Queensland.

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Funeral Songs: call for contributions

What song do you want played at your funeral? I am asking artists and curators to nominate a song they might want played if they could organise such an event in advance. I will be using all the nominated songs for an art project called Funeral Songs that will be exhibited at MOP Projects in December 2007 and maybe earlier in Melbourne. Funeral Songs will be some kind of curated archive installation readymade.

Funeral Songs: Some of us already have one picked out – discussing them among friends can make for great dinner party repartee. We may have been to lots of funerals - like I have - and feel there's some importance in how a person is remembered by a song. If you are interested in participating, you can approach it in either a real or imagined, serious or playful way. Perhaps you prefer choosing a song for only one of your lives – a suitable option if you're feline, a performance artist or into reincarnation. You can tell me the truth about your funeral song or you can lie. Pick a song that makes deliberately tugs at the heartstrings, making people cry or erupt into religious worship. Maybe select a tune that will induce paranoia, nausea or an outbreak of pestilence. Or pick one that makes everyone rush out of the church to buy the soundtrack.

Please contact Daniel Mudie Cunningham by email (daniel[at]danielmcunningham.com) to be involved. ALL songs will be used and credited as the contributor's nominated song. Please let me know your song by June 30 and do forward this call for songs to others who may be interested.

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Press Release

Sydney photo media artist, Tallulah Brown’s latest work, Telling Time, explores the region between our socially constructed reality and the realms of the unconscious. In its non-linear narrative, a female child protagonist (Brown’s five-year-old daughter) negotiates thelandscape within and without, combining elements of childhood fantasy with the anxiety of the modern and the fearsome vastness of the natural world.

Shot over a dozen locations, she faces the raw power of the ocean dressed for the opera; stands her ground distinct and alone in the shadow of a monstrous chemical treatment plant; lies on a Persian rug, glassy-eyed and listless, a murdered beauty pageant queen; and her delicate youth is emphasized against the parched ground of an abandoned farm. The images exist at once between portrait and caricature – the exact distinction between the models own person and the character she is playing is continuously elusive.

The surreal dreamscape of Alice in Wonderland, the gloss of a fashion magazine, and the sublime of German Romanticism (in the vein of Casper David Friedrich) are combined to create a body of work that is both timeless and distinctly of our time.

Telling Time poses the question: What parts of ourselves are uniquely us? And what is simply our adaptation to societal expectations?

The show opens 2nd May until 23rd May at Trocadero
Artspace, Level 1, 119 Hopkins St Footscray,
Melbourne.

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Labels: announcements, Melbourne, press releases

The Horses Are On The Track

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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FRIDAY 13 APRIL

Big Audio Dynamight On Ice!

Admittedly long overdue, SYDNEY presents their SECOND challenging music appreciation night this Friday.

Whadda line-up!

The New Inspirationals Set!
The It's All Good Set!
The Earful o' Jism Set!
The Wild Turkey Women Set!
The Big Romantic Rooters Set!

And everyone's worst kept secret favourite wicked indulgence- "SHUFFLE!"

And much, much MORE!!

Come and do all those feelings in one tidy night with us... AGAIN! Roll around in them with us- Come and remember and then try to forget, and try to remember and then forget with us.

SYDNEY opens its doors to you all ($7 entry fee) at 8:30pm and, at 9:00 pm#, we'll be kickin' off with the first set of B.A.D On Ice!

PLEASE see the attached power-flyer for more explicit details of this exciting event!

Entry via the back lane.
302 Cleveland Street
SOUTH WEST SURRY HILLS

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MOP
26th April - 13th May.2007
opening Thursday 26 04 07 6 - 8 pm

GALLERY

The heaviness of something + other cartographic lines

Maro Alwan

Todd Robinson

This exhibition examines the notion of the border as a point of separation. A point of calibrated equilibrium represented as a border or demarcation line is both abstract and meaningless, yet at the same time a profoundly lived reality impacting on those it means to organise and separate. The problem remains for us: how to determine this border in our own terms?

Borders tend to be imposed, rationalised as a necessity, often determined arbitrarily – ‘drawing a line in the sand’. They can exist on an individual or collective level. What gives the border its sometimes terrifying and silencing ability to divide is its ability to confuse or totally obscure the view from the other side. But what about the view if we take up a position on the border itself? This collaboration takes this as its vantage point. We seek to inhabit the border, take it apart and put it back together; to see it differently – to disavow the border as a line of separation.

Todd Robinson approaches the border via a technics of suspense, orchestrating a material performance, which employs everyday artefacts of containment, transport, communication and play. This strategy explores the nature of making as a set of technical experiments which inhabit a line of separation; unifying two opposing forces or elements – lightness and weight, ground and air, open and closed, empty and full.

Maro Alwan reflects on the physical borders themselves, in as much as they are represented in maps. Posing the question: what is a border when it no longer separates anything? Coastlines without shores; roads without destinations; borders without countries. All these are presented as if viewing the border itself, and in doing so removing the line of separation so that identity is not altogether effaced but has to be renegotiated.

In this project we have been attentive to a tension that runs through these lines and actively utilize this tension to chart an alternative series of lines. These lines traverse a space that recognizes a vulnerability inherent when one is positioned on the other side.

PROJECT ROOM

Dissolution

Holly Willams

Dissolution as a sound coming through the floor delves into the sounds of a building. In this installation in the project space, the sounds emanating from behind closed doors (of relentless economic activity) merge with the delicate sounds of leisure time and folly.

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A Comedy of Errors
Spartacus Chetwynd, Craig Fisher, Debra Swann
Curator: Tara D'cruz-Noble

20 April - 19 May 2007
Opening night: Thursday 19 April 6 - 8pm
Spartacus Chetwynd will present a one-night only performance for the opening event

Artspace
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
www.artspsace.org.au

In the world of theatre, comedy and tragedy often share the same space. Shakespeare brought the two together inviting us to laugh at events underpinned with macabre darkness. In the manner of a Shakespearean play or Burlesque theatre, these two elements entwine through the exhibition A Comedy of Errors. Drawing on the black humour typical of the British, three artists present new bodies of work through varied explorations that share tragicomic threads. Using the gallery like a stage or film-set, the artists' present sculptural installation and performance that blend Shakespearean antics with a touch of Tarantino.

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P25
Cut "N" Paste

Howard Arkley, James Avery, Steven Asquith, Chris Bennie, Drew Collett, David Burrows, Peter Barnes, Matt Hinkley, Max Holdaway, Stephen Hodge, Jess Johnson,
Jeremy Kibel, Melissa Laing, Glenn Maltby, Rob Mchaffie, Travis Mcmicking, Viv Miller, Luis Nobre, Shaun O'Connor, Louise Palmer, Ross Sinclair, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Justin Stephens, Masato Takasaka, Emma White, Jenny Watson, Oscar Yanez, Michele Zarro.

Curated by Giles Ryder.

P19
Bonita Bub

18 April - 12 May

19 & 25 Meagher Street, Chippendale 2008
Gallery hours
Thursday to Saturday 1-6pm
Tel +612 9690 2601

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Kings ARI is proud to introduce the genius, wit and sex of Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley to Melbourne. This will be the first major solo exhibition (with over 292 works exhibited) of Shrigley’s work in Australia. Shrigley has a prolifi practice that spans various media from painting and photography to sculpture although he is primarily known for his scribbly drawings. David Shrigley has published numerous books, animated music videos
for Blur and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and recently released a spoken word album through the Late Night Tales series. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world.

For the Making Space – Artist Initiative event, Kings ARI will exhibit Shrigley’s entire Poster Project—all 292 of the individually designed posters refl ecting that slightly warped, darkly humorous and unmistakably Shrigley-esque perspective on the world. The Poster Project is the culmination of an announcement by Shrigley on his website that he would design posters ‘for free’. People from all over the world contacted Shrigley, with varied (and sometimes very odd) requests that included invitations to weddings, ads for dance parties and even a letter of resignation.

Also being exhibited is Shrigley’s award-winning short film Who I Am And What I Want, which was co-directed with Chris Shepherd. The film is based on a Shrigley book of the same title. The main character lives alone in the woods and is called Pete. In the booklet accompanying the DVD release of the fi lm Shrigley writes: "This film is about who I am and what I want. It’s not
about who you are and what you want. You always think everything I make is about you but it’s not. It’s all about me..."

Space for Rent

Two studio spaces available in well loved and well established Surry Hills renovated ware house - ideal for for artists, designers, writer, architects, etc.

Each space is only $50 / week or $100 for the whole space.

Plenty of natural light, timber floor boards, in door plants, toilets, kitchen, meeting room - work spaces approximately 25 sq meters each. Entire studio 150sq meters

Limited weekend and after hours access, no oil painting or other making/ fabrication with toxic materials - architectural model making ok.

Call Mat on 0415326716

Labels: announcements, international exhibitions, press releases

Justified & Ancient

Monday, April 02, 2007

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HANNAH BUCK
A SENSE OF LUXURY
7TH-28TH APRIL OPENING SATURDAY 14TH 5-7PM
SHEFFER GALLERY 38 LANDER STREET DARLINGTON 2008 SYDNEY

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A SENSE OF LUXURY EXPLORES THE CONFLICTING IDEAS OF REALITY AND MEMORY, LUXURY AND SUCCESS, AND THE NARROW LINE BETWEEN ATTAINABLE AND DISTANT DREAMS. PAINT, VIDEO AND SOUND ARE AMONG THE VARIOUS MEDIUMS USED TO CREAT A SHIFT IN THE VIEWERS SENSORY EXPERIENCE OF THE WORK. TOGETHER WITH OTHER OBJECTS IN THE GALLERY, THEY FUNCTION WITH BOTH SUBTLETY AND ABRUPTNESS, BRINGING TO THE FOREGROUND THE PERIPHERAL ELEMENTS CONTRIBUTING TO EACH WORKS THEMATIC AND AESTHETIC POTENCY.

CLICK FOR GALLERY WEBSITE

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PAUL OGIER
the not-yet place

3 April - 15 April 2007 Opening drinks Wed 4 April 6 - 8pm

Please note that the Gallery will be closed on Good Friday, but open 11 - 6pm Easter Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th

JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE Suite 4, 1st Floor, 111 Macleay St, Potts Point NSW 2011 Ph 0433 300 725 (enter via door in Orwell St ) [email protected] www.jamesdorahy.com.au
Gallery hours Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm Wednesday 2pm - 8pm

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Space Junk

Friday, March 16, 2007

JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE
is pleased to present

MARY TEAGUE Space Junk

20 March - 1 April 2007 Opening drinks Wed 21 March 6 - 8pm

JAMES DORAHY PROJECT SPACE Suite 4, 1st floor, 111 Macleay St Potts Point NSW 2011 - enter 1st door in Orwell St. ph 0433 300 725 www.jamesdorahy.com.au [email protected] Gallery hours : Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm Wednesday 2pm - 8pm. IMAGE : Space Junk (detail) 2007 oil on canvas, plaster, glass, expandable foam, nylon, silicone, plywood

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MAY’S PROUDLY PRESENTS

AN HISTORIC MAY LANE DOUBLE FEATURE

SYDNEY OLD SCHOOL GRAFFITI PIONEER
KADE
VS
BAYU WIDODO
JOGJAKARTA COMMUNITY-BASED POLITICAL ARTIST

FRIDAY MARCH 16, 2007

OPENING DRINKS / 6PM – 8PM

MAY LANE ST PETERS

(next to St Peters train station)

Autumn in May Lane kicks off this month with major productions from two creative heavy hitters in what will prove to be a street art master class. For the first time ever we’re launching multiple panels and in dramatically different styles.

First up we have Waterloo original Kade, who began his graffiti journey two decades ago where his natural ability set him apart from his peers. Influenced by old school New York, his “big, fat, public style” was a leading principle for what Sydney graffiti could be.

Matching Kade’s artistic street credentials is Bayu Widodo, visiting briefly from Indonesia where he plies his craft as part of community-based political arts collective Taring Padi. Internationally renowned for their stirring brand of cultural activism, Taring Padi’s images of striking workers and industrial nightmares and message of democratisation though art is a stark contrast to much on display in Sydney’s streets.

Join us this Friday as we celebrate the latest additions to the May Lane Street Art Project in true MAY'S style with Blonde beers, a bbq and beats.

mays.org.au / (02) 9550 4232 / [email protected]

MAY’S acknowledges the traditional owners of St Peters, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.

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There Is No God

Friday, March 02, 2007

Got any fennel?

Sydney artist John Beard has won the 2007 Archibald Prize for his painting of Janet Laurence. The Archibald Prize is now in its 86th year. John receives a prize of $35,000

Janet Laurence is an installation artist whose work extends from the gallery into urban spaces. A former AGNSW trustee, she has undertaken numerous public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and internationally.

It has been said that Laurence’s work echoes architecture and yet retains a sense of the instability and transience found in nature; John Beard’s monochromatic portraits of fellow artists share similar qualities. While painting the structure, or architecture, of his friends’ heads and faces, he also aims to capture the sense of fleeting, ever-changing expression.

From this collaboration of artist and artist-as-subject, a kind of double portraiture emerges. If a viewer knows the work of the artist portrayed, another visual layer resonates. Without the use of colour – that might highlight the differences or similarities between his subjects – Beard focuses the viewer's attention not just on the individual sitter but on the structure of the painting itself. Light plays an important role in the visual dynamic of the image as we literally move around these sculptural works to fully appreciate their form and making.

Born in Wales in 1943, John Beard has been represented in group and solo shows at galleries including the National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery in Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, and in London at the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Academy, Science Museum and National Portrait Gallery. Most recently Beard held a solo exhibition at The Gulbenkian's Centro De Art Moderna in Lisbon.

Labels: Archibald, art prize, painting, press releases

We [Heart] Libraries

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Hi,

For something different for your blog this week .... it's Library Lovers Day
on Wednesday 14th February.

Why not mention why you love libraries!

The interactive chocolate box trivia competition will be live on the website from Monday to midnight Wednesday

Thanks for helping us to celebrate!

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International Noise presents Copy Cats II
and a
CALL FOR ENTRIES

Show opens 6pm Friday 9th March @ Barcom St under Burton St Bridge, Darlinghurst.
After the raging success of the inaugural event of International Noise’s life 12 months ago, the beauty and simplicity of photocopied street art is calling again.
Entries are being called for now to be part of this exciting event.

Continuing the tradition of challenging the creative process and the very nature of the white walled gallery, the event will be held in the streets, literally pasted up in Barcom St under the Burton St tunnel in Darlinghurst.

The show, COPY CATS II is an opportunity to work beyond your established boundaries and explore the potential of the PHOTOCOPY medium. Thematically, you can complete the statement: “I wish I had ……..”, reflecting your current artistic practice.
Opening on Friday the 9th of March, the show aims to continue to foster an international dialogue, stimulate new work and gauge interest in collective arts collaborations.

At 2pm on the day of the opening you will be asked to bring along your finished artwork ready for pasting (flour and water) to the walls of the tunnel.
All work must be produced in some shape or form via photocopier/electrostatic process. The format is A3 on 80gsm paper in either B/W or colour. Further treatments (i.e. hand colouring, cutting, varnish, collage etc) are OK as long as it will stick to the wall.

You are asked to invite an artist living overseas to exhibit alongside your work. You must take responsibility for contacting the artist and facilitating them to email you the work with any further output instructions.

The work must be ready for “hanging” on FRIDAY 9th March at 2pm, with another version available for potential sale. Each artist must hang their own work (and their OS artist) on the day of the show, or organise with another artist to do it for them. Please provide 5 copies of your work for sales (@$15 per piece) and future travelling shows.

We don’t have permission to do this, so strictly speaking we may be breaking a couple of council ordinances …….. again……..

Checklist
1 – some form of photocopy/electrostatic process
2 – A3 80 gsm paper
3 – “I wish I had ……. “, reflecting your current artistic practice
4– Your entry to be accompanied by an entry from an overseas artist
5– Hanging @ 2pm 9th March, opening 6pm
6– All exhibitors to bring refreshments for opening
7 – RSVP appreciated to [email protected]
8 – Provide 5 copies for sale and further exhibition.

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