5th - 22nd March
Gallery One: Amaya Iturri – Tira del Hilo / Pull the Thread
Fashion is embedded in our social and political world, implicating us all in issues of identity and ethical practice.
I take fashion's aesthetics and lexicon to comment on a range of subjects that are of my concern: fast fashion, mass production, impact of fashion on environment, ethical issues concerning human resources and animal treatment.
Presented as part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival's Arts Program
13th February - 1st March
Gallery One: Virginia Cummins & Bettina Willner-Browne
Cummins and Willner-Browne use photography and sculpture, respectively, to convey a symbiotic relationship with the natural world and to mark the passage of time. Pathways, totems and coral-like formations serve as monuments to memory and desire.
Image: Virginia Cummins
The Canning Room: Linda Studená - A Mountain of Fallen Monuments
In A Mountain of Fallen Monuments Linda Studená presents a series of works combining drawing, photography and experimental camera-less processes. The works reference and appropriate shapes of public sculpture from former communist Czechoslovakia between 1969 and 1989, loosely termed as 'normalisation' abstraction and aim to challenge the ideology of the style, opening new dialogues both personal and collective.
This series in part of an ongoing interest in monuments as cultural anchors and the implications of objects serving ideological and aesthetic functions in the community. Studená experiments with notion of femininity, materiality and form, and reimagines alternative narratives for the historical sculptures they depict; re-purposing their metaphysical potential by placing them in new contexts and in a different medium.
23rd January - 9th February
Gallery One: Hannah Fox – Città. Terra.
Meaning — “Town. Earth.”
This new body of work is a product of my recent artist residency in northern Italy and continues my exploration of documenting felt experiences.
I observed a softer light fall on the facades of historic buildings and surveyed the textures and shapes of stone walls. The warm tones of Italy’s earth featured heavily both in the transforming autumnal trees and in the township itself.
This exhibition encompasses a fusion of my aesthetic responses. The ‘still response’ — paintings; and the ‘adaptable response’ — the interactive ceramic works. Both work together in unison yet provide alternate experiences.
The Canning Room: Alejandro Casas - In-Between
The everyday is divided. It is divided amongst our distractions, our obligations, our sense of purpose and our sense of boredom. Technology has come to occupy a large piece of this division, to the extent that our perspective of the world around us is infinitely smaller. However, as the everyday becomes continually repurposed, something slips, something goes unnoticed and falls into the in-between.
This group of photos explores the boundary between connection and perspective at the limit of our daily experience. These photos view the in-between as a mode of being that goes from place to place, as a concrete fact of the everyday that might otherwise go unseen.
2019
28th November - 15 December
Gallery One: Ralph Bristow - The Cycle on Circle
In The Cycle On Circle Ralph Bristow shares a bright, sensual and wildly transporting vision, in which dimensions are subverted, spontaneity trumps tradition and colours enter into delightfully unexpected associations. A loose dancing application of paint opens boldly layered depths, and while emergent forms suggest the urgency of energy unleashed, an aggressive expressivity is deployed toward the apprehension of finely perceived and newly minted mythologies.
The Canning Room: Jordan Wood - Twofold
Twofold considers a series of dualities; the performed and private self, fragility and permanence, the familiar and the obtuse. A wall of ceramic masks and an exhausted theatre curtain, the props for a performance perhaps past, maybe yet to be played. Janus is at the threshold, looking inwards, looking out.
7th - 24th November
Gallery One: Brian Cheung - Where are we now?
Where Are We Now? is a response and commentary on the relationship between man and nature in an age of fear and uncertainty, as interpreted through a personal lens.
This new body of work represents a consolidation of past experiences as a means of understanding my own motivations, anxieties, and impulses as an artist. In a time when the concept of unspoiled nature is becoming an increasingly precious commodity, Where Are We Now? asks the open-ended question of where we are going, and at what cost.
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The Canning Room: Marion Abraham - The End, And I Saw Its Beginning Too
lush / history / cranked up / orchid / fall / action / damask / chain / violence / lost / shadow / treeline / burning bush / rot / earthly / delight / detail / chorale / birth / garden / wilde / trouble / tacki / water / crazy found / damage / told.
In quiet moments, I think about history. If I keep thinking, it starts to feel alive and I forget my time. Sometimes I can almost smell the old world, when it is rank and heavy, but also when it is soft and beautiful. Push my brain harder, fall deeper, I see into the future too. Out of my place, and beyond my day.
The End, And I Saw Its Beginning Too is a series of twelve small oil painted works on canvas, embedded with a surface of copper leaf.
17th October - 3rd November
Gallery One: Vanessa Howells, Garth Howells, Lina Buck - inACTION
In inACTION Garth Howells, Lina Buck and Vanessa Howells reflect on transitional, reassembled and misremembered states. The exhibition examines impermanence through the transformation of material, memory and artefact. The works draw attention to the importance of process and assemblage in the creation of meaning by resisting prioritised points of view or moments in time.
Image: Vanessa Howells, 'Woman In Another Landscape, A modern history of Art',
34.5 cm x 43 cm Pigment print on Cotton Rag.
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The Canning Room: JB Knibbs - Reconstructing Home
In Reconstructing Home, JB Knibbs presents a series of photographs of fabricated home interiors, challenging the veracity of both personal memory and photography. Reconstructing Home explores the domestic space as a site of tension between nostalgia, expectations, idealisation, imposed narratives, and the reality of home.
26th September - 13th October
No Exit
Chris Hamnett, Corinna Berndt, Rachel Ang, Chloe Rose Taylor, Zhonghao Chen, Gaby Montejo, Ross Vaughan,
Pip Ryan, Emily Galicek and Megan Archer.
In this group exhibition curated by Tinning Street Presents, ten artists come together to explore the absurd. From personal narratives through to piles of food, No Exit explores how the absurd can be found between humour, horror, dreams and the extreme.
Delightfully funny and erring on taboo, No Exit invites you to look, and laugh, at ourselves and the wider world.
Image: 'Desert Moon' by Megan Archer. Collage, 360 x 395mm, 2018.
5th - 22nd September
Gallery One: Carolyn Menzies - Morphogenesis
Opening Sept 5th from 6pm.
In Morphogenesis form emerges from the union of the industrial and the handmade. The title comes from the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape – a process where form is emergent rather than given in advance. Witnessing the embryonic development of the fourth industrial revolution we are seeing automation change our future in a way we can’t fully understand from our current vantage point.
If steel stands as a signifier in this relentless industrialization, Menzies’ use undermines this legacy evoking a structural order that is haptic and organic. Tenderly crafting the abrasive steel wool and mesh into sculpture, Menzies creates a more mutable manmade world.
The Canning Room: Monique Barnett - Incomprehensibility of being a (w)hole
Opening Sept 5th from 6pm.
Incomprehensibility of being a (w)hole is a series of intimate paintings depicting brass wire figures in a fictional world. These paintings consider how the body and personhood connect to space and movement and the flow of the contemporary era. This new series of paintings are the outcome of Barnett’s research on water, its loss of ontological meaning, its use in luxury marketing of consumer products and as a powerful concept that materialises the conditions in which we live.
The current time could be characterised by its constant flux and state of change, like water, nothing is stationary. Barnett is interested in the space that individuals inhabit within this constant change and the parallel between the concept of water and the human condition. Individuals, like water, are in constant flux and states of transition, always the same but always different, drifting in the never ending stream of time.
The physical elements of water, its depth, surface and reflectivity are used in the paintings as a tool to straddle tension between surface and depth in the lexicon of figurative painting.
15th August - 1st September
Gallery One: Catch
Becky Richards, Daegan Wells, Tyne Gordon, Felixe Laing, Jordan Davey-Emms, Greta van Oyen, Janie Bruce
Opening August 15th from 6pm.
A living body is more than matter. Muscles and bones, breath and heartbeat – all are animated by forces unseen. Chemical processes, the swooping rise of elation, the jagged-edged pressures of anxiety, the whine of electricity, the deep thrum of the earth.
What rhythms, what small processes might return us to our own limbs? How does one’s inner world shift, with the press of one body against another? And what uneasy content lurks beneath the polishing and modification of flesh?
Catch opens up the intangibilities of bodies; wrapping form around the invisible, the often unspoken. Featuring work from seven young New Zealand artists, covering diverse mediums, each seeking methods to catch, conquer, and celebrate that which can’t be grasped.
Image: Jordan Davey-Emms, 'Tower', hand built ceramic, 2019.
The Canning Room: Emma Hamilton - Arctic Eye
Opening August 15th from 6pm.
Emma Hamilton’s series of photographic objects ‘Arctic Eye’ was taken during daily walks while on residency in Iceland. She has captured these moments via a digital camera, shot through the viewfinder of an analogue camera. These photographs now exist as a slither of a printed image. Hamilton makes visible the space of the viewfinder, using it as a lens through which to view a winter morning. Here the blink of an eye becomes the opening and closing of the camera shutter, the light of the morning changes incrementally through the landscape.
25th July - 11th August
Gallery One: Marina Mason - Untethered
Fragile or roughly hewn, Untethered is infused with stories from art history. This new body of work reflects an intuitive approach unfettered by rules and convention. Clay and paint come together, as do the equine and the feminine.
The Canning Room: RRAA - Storyboards
Storyboards consists of a series of hand built ceramic trays presented with small sculptures of marvels. The assemblages unlock visual play and poetry according to the viewer’s state of mind. Each of the framed spaces brings into being an activated field — a beginning of a story, a bridge for unacquainted objects, or a spot for incidental creative discovery and enquiry.
RRAA is an applied art collaboration between Runa and Raymond Kamijo whose studio is a short walk from Tinning Street.
Untethered and Storyboards are exhibiting in conjunction with the 2019 Craft Cubed Festival.
4th - 21st July
Gallery One: Tyler Payne - Kimspired
At the centre of #fitspiration advertising products is the idol-like form of Kim Kardashian. Everyday women consume #fitspo products with this idol-like form in mind. But the fetish-like presentation distracts from an important reality: the rigorous disciplines required to produce that body, the labour-time expended in the mastery of capacities.
The Kardashian-body is a ‘full-time’role'. Kardashian’s body is both idolised and consumed through social media. She is a fetish object alongside the products she sells, or, more pointedly, she is the product, her flat tummy, her shapely waist represent the value of the commodity from which she has become indistinguishable.
The interface of Instagram encourages a false analogy between the life of the celebrity and the everyday life, a comic likeness between the sacred and the profane. The inevitable failures articulate class differences, insofar as the non-celebrity bodies of everyday consumers enjoy none of the economic freedom (time) of social media celebrities.
The Canning Room: Nicki Brancatisano - In Some Way
In Some Way investigates Brancatisano's drawing practice in relation to attention, vision and perception. For her first Melbourne exhibition, Sydney-based Brancatisano brings together a take on drawing that holds the tension between the fixed and unfixed. In this, renders emerge - in some way, shape or form.
13th - 30th June
Gallery One: Rachael Edwards - Thirteen
Modern disassociation with the natural world and the rituals of our ancestors can be a point of contention in contemporary western society. These works act as talismans, or visual signifiers, attempting to reconnect us to this often forgotten way of life; whilst the kitsch nature of the work reminds us not to take ourselves too seriously in the quest for spiritual utopia.
The Canning Room: Kasia Fabijańska - Dark Ink
Dark ink, deep shadows and negative space create an ambiguous space. It is a refusal to suggest words and spoken language with its defined meanings, and to open the space to obscurity rather than clarity; the ambiguous vs. the manifest; the oscillation between the known and unknown.
This exhibition includes prints from the last 4 years and defines a current path in my practice that has been focusing more on the value of nature as an aid to introspection.
23rd May - 9th June
Gallery One: Elena Valimberti - Save the Ashtray
Valimberti investigates themes of introspection, sensibility, the corporeal, nuance and ambiguity. In Save The Ashtray, a series of paintings are inspired by a state of reminiscence. Characterised by an uncanny quality, Valimberti's paintings are displayed with a range of objects to stage dynamic compositions of the figure.
The Canning Room: Alex Sinclair - Sensitivity
Barren volcanic landscapes do not seem of this world. They can throw one into a realm devoid of comfort or familiarity, and can be the physical representation of one’s circumstances. Sensitivity investigates how journeying through these environments can unexpectedly nurture one through unsure situations.
2nd - 19th May
Gallery One: Viviana Barrero - Liminal Space
Liminal Space is a photographic exploration of shifting landscapes in Australia. Viviana documents nature around her and what lies in between, exploring the intersection of topography and sociology. The exhibition serves to meditate upon the forces of our past and the fragility of our future.
The Canning Room: Christopher Jewitt - Contents Management
Christopher Jewitt's paintings express his fixation for quotidian objects in a tempest of colour and marks. Portraying subject matter in a playful manner between abstract and figurative, his style is reminiscent of childhood notebook doodles and simple scribbles. But in the creative discord, harmony is always possible.
11th - 28th April
Gallery One: Miranda Jill Millen & Jordyn McGeachin - Scorpio Heaven
Millen and McGeachin, two artistic Scorpio women true to their zodiac. Fiery, sexual and stubborn, they create an exhibition exploring their adventures within the landscape of modern dating along with self and sexual discovery. Millen and McGeachin step into their own in this new creative work, owning their experiences, and exploring what it truly means to be Scorpio Heaven.
The Canning Room:
Christine McFetridge, Jack Cannon, Imogene Hage Nebyl & Jake Nemirovsky - Red Cross Road
With the unemployment rate in Nepal at 40%, many of its citizens are forced by necessity to seek work overseas as a means of attaining a better quality of life. Hundreds of thousands of people, predominantly men, consider labour migration to be the best way to do this despite the threat of abuse, exploitation and human-trafficking.
Our collaboration started by exploring the hospitality and insurance micro-economies that exist around Red Cross Road, Kathmandu, where the Department of Foreign Employment is situated. Throughout the project we interacted with people seeking their work permits, and participated in an exchange of waiting, serving tea and playing music with them.
Image: Christine McFetridge. Untitled (from the series Red Cross Road), 2018. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and M.33, Melbourne.
Our collaboration started by exploring the hospitality and insurance micro-economies that exist around Red Cross Road, Kathmandu, where the Department of Foreign Employment is situated. Throughout the project we interacted with people seeking their work permits, and participated in an exchange of waiting, serving tea and playing music with them.
Image: Christine McFetridge. Untitled (from the series Red Cross Road), 2018. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and M.33, Melbourne.
21st March - 7th April
Claudia Terstappen, Natalie Ryan & Laura Carthew - Something inherent to nature
Through sculpture, ceramics, photography and video three artists shows us their desire for experiencing, understanding and memorizing the phenomena of the physical world. Their visual language alludes to both the drama and celebration of life.
Image: Laura Carthew
Still from Immortal flower (무궁화), 2015
Single channel HD colour video with audio
10 minutes
Gallery One & The Canning Room
Image: Laura Carthew
Still from Immortal flower (무궁화), 2015
Single channel HD colour video with audio
10 minutes
Gallery One & The Canning Room
Frances Cannon - (Mango): 28th February - 17th March
In her debut photography exhibition, (Mango), Melbourne artist Frances Cannon explores themes of sexuality, desire and childhood shame through self-portraiture. (Mango) comprises of a series of photographs taken in the house the artist spent her adolescence and uses the act of eating a mango as a metaphor for sexual desire. The artist uses taboo imagery and symbolism as well as accompanying poetry to reclaim her repressed queer sexuality, celebrate her body and glorify sexual pleasure.
Elizabeth West - Displacement: 7th - 24th February
Displacement disrupts spatial scale while landscape images recede, exploring the experience of climate change. Meanings of displacement stretch across human and hard sciences. There is reference to movement and removal; presence and disappearance; distance, volume and measurement. Viewers are immediately displaced within the space, by the presence of an enormous sphere, inducing awareness of their own physical presence. Saturated images of natural landscapes invite closer inspection, a fragile environment to move through.
The continuous thread of our daily lives often obscures reflection on dialogues of human displacement. Displacement offers space to engage with the gravity of the present moment.
The continuous thread of our daily lives often obscures reflection on dialogues of human displacement. Displacement offers space to engage with the gravity of the present moment.
Matthew Thorne - Gaib: 17th January - 3rd February
Gaib (Javanese) meaning;
1. mysterious.
2. hidden, invisible.
3. belonging to the invisible or supernatural.
Gaib is a solo exhibition examining spirituality,
death and the presence of time in life.
Featuring analogue printed film photos, and
16mm film work made in collaboration with the local community of Batu Karas, West Java.
1. mysterious.
2. hidden, invisible.
3. belonging to the invisible or supernatural.
Gaib is a solo exhibition examining spirituality,
death and the presence of time in life.
Featuring analogue printed film photos, and
16mm film work made in collaboration with the local community of Batu Karas, West Java.
Marito Rodriguez - And the distance kept going, through the cypress trees*:
18th - 23rd December
Collage, paintings and assemblages that attempt to paste down landscapes of the artist’s distant self.
*19 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
*19 The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Felicity Gordon - Return: 29th Nov - 16th December
“The first mouthful of each tree’s fruit holds the flavor of soil, the rain, the air and all of the glorious variables of the four seasons of a particular year.”
In Return Felicity Gordon responds to seasonal adaptations caused by a warming climate and our corporeal relationship with nature. A series of paintings and a site-specific installation charts the beauty of pumpkin plants as they morph from a food source to seed depository. The plants hover dry in suspension as a kind of eternal garden neither alive nor dead. They remind us of our close relationship with and dependence on the natural world.
The installation Still draws gallery visitors close to nature as it displays organisms, plants and organic matter glazed between sheets of glass. The work is a virtuous loop of naturally occurring cycles of growth, decomposition and renewal.
Inga Simpson, Mr Wigg, Hachette Australia, 2013
In Return Felicity Gordon responds to seasonal adaptations caused by a warming climate and our corporeal relationship with nature. A series of paintings and a site-specific installation charts the beauty of pumpkin plants as they morph from a food source to seed depository. The plants hover dry in suspension as a kind of eternal garden neither alive nor dead. They remind us of our close relationship with and dependence on the natural world.
The installation Still draws gallery visitors close to nature as it displays organisms, plants and organic matter glazed between sheets of glass. The work is a virtuous loop of naturally occurring cycles of growth, decomposition and renewal.
Inga Simpson, Mr Wigg, Hachette Australia, 2013
Katie Eraser and Emma Lipscombe - Tough Luck: 15 - 25th November
Tough Luck is the latest exhibition from two contemporary artists, Melbourne based Katie Eraser and Perth based Emma Lipscombe. Consisting of a series of all new paintings, plus a collection of striking textiles created in partnership by the pair. This exhibition is an exploration of communication that crosses state lines, synergy and energy formed between distant creative forces and the confluence of work making when produced in collaboration, from afar. The connection needed to create a new show between two artists with 3400kms separating them, could be construed as ‘tough’ but the emphasis here instead focuses on the strength to withstand these adverse conditions. Here the artists find inspiration in the difficulty and rest heavy on the ‘luck’ inherent in the situation, which propels them to rally
in the confidence that the partnership will ultimately be triumphant in bringing about great things.
in the confidence that the partnership will ultimately be triumphant in bringing about great things.
Tom Civil - Tangled Love: 25 Oct - 11th November
In this new body of work Tom’s Stick Folk monikers are used as bold paintings representing everyday moments of life and community. The paintings contain stories within stories; small occurrences, intimate moments, group discussions, playing and dancing, moving together and sitting alone and feelings of outrage, grief, boredom, happiness, indifference, love, exhilaration and more.
Placed alongside these paintings are a series of new large linocut and woodcut prints featuring everyday animals and plants, representations of a broader connection to the land and the city.
Placed alongside these paintings are a series of new large linocut and woodcut prints featuring everyday animals and plants, representations of a broader connection to the land and the city.
Lily Holmes - Halo: 11 - 21st October
Lily Holmes is a painter and storyteller.
For her first solo exhibition, aloof feminine figures and their companions are adorned with religious iconography and arranged in scenes of quiet domesticity. Vibrant layers of painterly brush strokes are gradually worked into each sheet of canvas to create a voyeuristic, cinematic window into the recumbent folds of the artist’s own memory and fantasy.
Halo was born out of Holmes’ ongoing need to pictorialize her own desires, fears and insecurities. Within each work is a private narrative that unpacks and re-brands feelings of helplessness, anguish, and abandonment as she takes a vague stab at what it might be like to lead a holier life.
Chris Humphries - Drawn In: 21 Sept - 7th October
Drawing is at forefront of my Visual Arts practice. It is the underpinning for everything that I currently create. The unassuming act of making marks on a piece of paper to create an image, this simple act creates the complexity within the work I create. The instantaneous results from drawing excite me as well as, the natural inclination to experiment when I draw. My work conveys my passion and dedication towards worthy draughtsmanship.
My core theme is based around the concept of landscape as; a memory and perception. I present my imagery as an emotive response rather than a precise rendering of the landscape. The backdrop for this work is locales such as Hanging Rock in Central Victoria, Bruny Island in Tasmania and fragments of Melbourne’s rivers and waterways. My fascination with the landscape has lead me to create drawings that explore the ideas formulated from the landscape as well as associated concepts such as identity, historical context, fictional narratives and environmental issues.
My core theme is based around the concept of landscape as; a memory and perception. I present my imagery as an emotive response rather than a precise rendering of the landscape. The backdrop for this work is locales such as Hanging Rock in Central Victoria, Bruny Island in Tasmania and fragments of Melbourne’s rivers and waterways. My fascination with the landscape has lead me to create drawings that explore the ideas formulated from the landscape as well as associated concepts such as identity, historical context, fictional narratives and environmental issues.
Felix Atkinson - The House Ov Saint Dymphna: 6 - 16th September
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The House Ov Saint Dymphna is a new body of work by Felix Atkinson which explores psychological spaces and the indefinable aspects of identity and human emotion. Conceptually, this work aims to capture human experience and feeling as something beautiful and recognisable, but also unsettling and un-narrated. The bodies represented in the paintings experience relationships with those around them, to the physical space they inhabit, to their own awareness and those in the context of a hypnagogic nature. It is from these relationships that there is a realised universality in the expression of human emotion, generating empathy. The visual manifestation of these relationships moves beyond concrete depictions of race, gender and intimate interactions between people.
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Ode to a Suburban Songbird: 16 Aug - 2nd September
Ode to a Suburban Songbird is a tribute to one of Australia’s favourite birds. Almost everybody has a story about magpies, or someone in their life having to do with magpies. Jess McCaughey loves magpies and set about creating a group exhibition celebrating all things “pie”s, where magpies are explored from different viewpoints and in various mediums. The show includes soft sculpture, illustration, textile, music, painting, jewellery and leatherwork.
Artists:
Emma Greenwood emmagreenwoodmakes.com
Jess McCaughey jessmccaughey.com
Cat Rabbit http://catrabbit.com.au/
Evie Barrow https://www.eviebarrow.com/
Anna Walker http://www.annawalker.com.au
Bec Smith www.becsmith.net
Victoria Mason http://victoriamason.com/
Edwina Atkins https://www.instagram.com/eddicut/
Eveline Tarunadjaja http://www.lovexevol.com/
Nicholas Jones http://www.bibliopath.org/
Carly Altree Williams https://www.carlyaltreewilliams.com/
Last Leaves https://www.facebook.com/Last-Leaves-1129428497078191
Artists:
Emma Greenwood emmagreenwoodmakes.com
Jess McCaughey jessmccaughey.com
Cat Rabbit http://catrabbit.com.au/
Evie Barrow https://www.eviebarrow.com/
Anna Walker http://www.annawalker.com.au
Bec Smith www.becsmith.net
Victoria Mason http://victoriamason.com/
Edwina Atkins https://www.instagram.com/eddicut/
Eveline Tarunadjaja http://www.lovexevol.com/
Nicholas Jones http://www.bibliopath.org/
Carly Altree Williams https://www.carlyaltreewilliams.com/
Last Leaves https://www.facebook.com/Last-Leaves-1129428497078191
Lauren Nicholson - A Scattered Shield: 2 - 12th August
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A Scattered Shield is a collection of photographic collages created from time spent wandering in Japan, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia. These works came together from a re-acquaintance with film photography while traveling, born from a fascination with image making and rearranging pictures.
Printed on silk, photographs and found images of the natural and constructed world are assembled to assimilate a reflection on memory and place. A Scattered Shield is a journal of images taken over the course of two years, taken from time to wander and simply look. Lauren Nicholson is a Melbourne based artist working with drawing, photography and collage. |
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Jason Hazle - Rites of Passage: 19 - 29th July
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Jason Hazle's pictorial language is naturally and effortlessly intertwined by his adaptation of sensuous linear shapes and patterns. He uses colour harmoniously as an evocation of mood and atmosphere. His figures are rendered simplistically to provide a stark contrast to the mysterious, animalistic, mask like faces, revealing his subjects in their entirety, body and soul.
The viewer’s attention is drawn into the psychological embodiment of Hazle's work, insinuated by the re-occurring expressive subjects and constructed environments of man, woman, fertile earth and abstraction, suggestive of ancient archetypes. Born in Torquay - Hazle was a professional Body Boarder for over ten years where he traveled the world full time, he relocated to QLD where he graduated with a Diploma of Visual Arts and Graphic design Southbank institute of Tafe. He has since moved back to Melbourne and has held regular solo exhibitions in Melbourne and group exhibitions across Australia. Hazle's main influences are Egyptian and African Primitive art, the works of Picasso, Paul Gauguin plus Artist such as Adam Lee, Justin Lee Williams and Scott Anderson. |
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Rebecca McCauley and Aaron Claringbold - Speaking to the Surface of a Lake: 5 - 15th July
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Speaking to the surface of a lake considers Australian landscape as a narrative of human impact on the environment, focusing on impact post colonisation. Shot across Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia since 2015 the works record transient and seasonal formations of salt in ancient river systems and lakes, and various direct and indirect interventions of human activity. Aaron Claringbold and Rebecca McCauley are emerging interdisciplinary artists currently based in Melbourne. Creating works that are predominantly photo-based the pair bring together shared interests to explore land, land use, ecology and human presence within modern day Australia.
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Elise Hurst: 28th June - 1st July
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Girl on Wire exhibition and all-ages launch event of the new picture book by CBCA shortlisted Lucy Estela and internationally acclaimed artist Elise Hurst. Sweeping oil paintings tell the beautifully uplifting story of a girl overcoming her anxiety and facing her fears. She walks the tightrope as a storm closes in but with the support of those she loves, she breaks through the clouds and carries on. Exhibition, live studio installation, book readings and more beneath a swirling cloudy sky. Book Launch event Saturday 30 June at 1pm. Exhibition runs, Thursday 28 June - Sunday 1 July only.
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Noah Spivak - Vestigial Bodies: 14th - 24th June
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Born and raised in Vancouver, Noah Spivak is a graduate of Emily Carr University for Art and Design, where he majored in photography and sculpture. As his recent work reflects, these specialties are now applied in installation and curatorial practices. The material which surrounds you has been two years in the gathering. Since moving into his Brunswick studio space, the artist has ceaselessly harvested objects from the area that surrounds Tinning St. Here, they share a new life. Each bares the scars of its bygone function, of its designated utility. But together, these artefacts now converse in a different spatial conversation.
Everything from the organic to the artificial exists as part of something bigger than itself. VESTIGIAL BODIES is comprised solely of these loosened cogs, adapted to misfit concepts that Spivak has wrestled with over his time in Melbourne. The artist’s compulsive urge to collect – objects, relationships, meaning – had reached the point of cumbersome. This exhibition became a necessary purge in the form of construction- and material-based intervention. What the artist and viewer are left with is a belated coalescence of myriad ideas and objects, made one. |
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Georgia Smedley - Flood Daughters: 24 May - 10th June
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Flood Daughters explores familial grief and absence. This series looks at the complexities of grief and the ways it can be understood through cartography. My mothers mother was as maternal as she was secretive and carried the shame of illegitimate pregnancy and adoption with her to the grave. Flood Daughters maps out the weight that familial grief and secrecy can carry in the years after death, when shame has come to pass.
During the second world war my mothers mother fell pregnant to a soldier from New Zealand. After carrying the child to full term, a private adoption was arranged, as was custom for unmarried catholic women during the time. Flood Daughters seeks to understand and explore grief within the feminine narrative by understanding memory as evidence of absence. I would like to acknowledge the complexities of grief and landscape, specifically the Australian landscape and it’s barbaric history. I recognise that immense grief and disparity already exists within the locations that I’ve been working on, and would like to pay my respects to the traditional custodians of Wathaurong country. I would like to pay my respects to elders past and present who may view this work. |
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Pink Frost: 3 - 20th May
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Rebecca Agnew
Hamish Coleman Alan Ibell Christine McFetridge Tim Middleton Sophie Scott Talia Smith Francis van Hout Shannon Williamson Pink Frost is a group exhibition informed by the New Zealand Gothic genre in contemporary art. Taking its name and inspiration from The Chill’s 1984 hit song, Pink Frost delves into the dark and disturbed, exploring the themes of isolation and unease and their influence on how we relate to the world around us. Pink Frost includes nine New Zealand born artists working across various mediums spanning drawing, painting, film and photography. By examining both psychological and geographical landscapes, Pink Frost asks: is there something about growing up on the edge of the world? |
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Ralph Bristow - Paintervore: 12 - 29th April
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ralphbristow.com.au/ Paintervore is a blazing collection of recent works spanning the last two years. “The world is awash with visual clichés and fakery. To discover luscious paintings borne of an urgent creative purpose is rare and exhilarating, and this describes the impact Ralph Bristow’s paintings have on me. They are portals into atmospheric spaces where spirited abstraction dances. Bristow’s is a language of looseness, spontaneity, angst, struggle, contradiction and resolution rendered in colour so well judged it’s addictive. This is the alchemy of good art”. Ingrid Hoffman, Art Consultant |
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Kayleigh Heydon - Counter-part: 22 March - 8th April
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www.kayleigh-heydon.com/
When we see or hear something we never really know how someone else may understand or respond that same stimulus. In our everyday life the way we receive information is so incredibly unique. I explore this idea starting with a painting and responding to that with a completely different thought process. I was interested in making multi-layered artworks with different mediums, creating the same message in a completely different way. How one person may respond to the painting, another may respond to the installation. It was really about creating a playground of aural, kinesthetic and spatial artworks. Counter-part is an exhibition about perspective and form. This body of work is inspired by Isamu Noguchi and his 2-D playground designs and their transformation in to tactile experiences. |
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Natalie Tirant - Blushed: 1 - 18th March
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Blushed is an exhibition of photographs that examine and celebrate the human body. within the works are landscapes of line, curves and folds of flesh that strip the figures of identity and explore the human body as a sculptural form. These photographs have a strong focus on flesh depicted through tone, texture and shape, and the use of various techniques in order to abstract the body. The incorporation of additional materials that simulate bodily matter combine with human subjects to create a space that consumes the figures within each frame. These interferences of space and framing offer a peculiar stillness, emphasising the absence of both sound and movement. |
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Lotte Alexis Smith - Weight of Love: 8 - 25th February
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lottealexissmith.com Weight of Love weaves reality, fantasy and paranoia into traditional notions of romance. Reminiscent of film stills, the vignettes create a story arc exploring the fetishization of misconstrued feelings of entitlement, dependency and jealousy. The scale of the work perpetuates a sense of grandeur and drama, though ultimately the works capture Smith’s process of unlearning and reclaiming the nuance in love and intimacy. |
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Cameron Potts - Realms of Devotion: 18th Jan- 4th Feb
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www.cameronpottsartist.com/ Inspired by a series of dreams in Egypt some years ago, Realms of Devotion delves into the mystical and metaphysical realms, this series of intricate paintings by Potts explores some of the possible worlds inhabiting the same time and space as our own. A collection of snapshots and vistas, of the beings occupying the distant past or an other worldly present. It is also a study of the natural order. From the hairs on an insects leg to the vast fields of a supernova explosion. Two different realms of beauty, the micro and macro worlds are one interconnected phenomenon in this series of works. Join us on the 18th for the opening celebration which will feature a special listening element. Daylight and evening symphonies of insect songs set to electronic compositions will create a layered ambient access to the work. |
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2017
Rolando Garay-Matziaris - TRUΣ ΒΛUΣ: 7th - 17th December
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‘TRUΣ ΒΛUΣ’ incorporates digital collage, commercial printing techniques and drawings in order to explore cultural identities, hybridity, received and perceived values; found within the context of multicultural Australia. Using humour and absurd juxtapositions, the work intends to give the viewer an insight into the attitudes and defence mechanisms adopted by many migrants and their children.
By weaving and fusing elements of Greek and Australian identities together, the work is able to connect and contextualise the imagery; to show that cultural identities are not fixed, but function in a relational way and are always changing. Rolando Garay-Matziaris is a Greek-Chilean-Australian visual artist based in Melbourne, his work is informed by his cross-cultural identity and experiences. He completed a Masters of Fine Art at RMIT University in 2016, and has since been working within education, and exhibiting within Melbourne. |
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FeMaterialists: 30th Nov - 3rd December
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Alanah Brand
Melissa Scott Pie Rankine FeMaterialists, brings together three Masters candidates from La Trobe University’s Visual Arts Program who are exploring various related themes around femininity, gender, social media, representation and habitat. Alanah Brand works in painting using images sourced from social media and reconfigures these through the painting process. Pie Rankine works across sculptural, painting, drawing and installation based practices,investigating the complex and interwoven nature of relationships between selves and space. Melissa Scott works in photomedia and photography, and investigates the ongoing development of relationships between genders through the material of photo-collage and photomontage. The exhibition seeks to engage with the multiple debates related to feminist art practice in a contemporary visual environment. This work was supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. |
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Shaun Tan: Radius, 9th - 26th November
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Radius presents over 100 small oil paintings of objects and scenes found within a short walking distance of the gallery in which they are exhibited, radiating out from a small laneway in Brunswick, Melbourne: dumpsters, tram passengers, kitchen sinks, boom gates and so on. The most ordinary and quotidian things, and the weather and light that describe them, are beautiful and mysterious, but it is hard to realise this unless we are compelled to stop and study them beyond a passing glance. Visitors are invited to look at the paintings, then take a short walk to consider again the wonder of their immediate radius.
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Annette Chang: Money Matters, 19th October - 5th November
http://www.annettechangartist.com/
This series of work is a satirical comment on consumer culture. It aims to critique the materialism, advertisement and the role goods play in the construction of our identities.
The browsing, selecting and purchasing of goods has become an incredibly important activity in contemporary culture. As an artist I am fascinated by the array, complexity, and seduction of consumerism. I am equally aware of how insubstantial this façade is and I evaluate these concepts through my art practise.
This series of work is a satirical comment on consumer culture. It aims to critique the materialism, advertisement and the role goods play in the construction of our identities.
The browsing, selecting and purchasing of goods has become an incredibly important activity in contemporary culture. As an artist I am fascinated by the array, complexity, and seduction of consumerism. I am equally aware of how insubstantial this façade is and I evaluate these concepts through my art practise.
Claire Macrae Drylie: Abandoned, 28th September - 15 October
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The work in this exhibition 'Abandoned' is inspired by my interest in photography, and also my fascination with the macabre. I grew up in the Box Brownie era, the photos were tiny, the images grainy and one had to look really closely to get a sense of what was actually going on. My piano teacher subscribed to the 'Illustrated London Times' while waiting for my lesson, I devoured these magazines, for they often contained thrilling grainy images of dead people. Images not found in my mother's favoured magazine, 'The Women's Weekly'. I still remember seeing and trying to make sense of an image of Mussolini and his mistress, hanging upside down from a crude scaffold, surrounded by smiling villagers. A single shoe lying on the ground underneath. And now, many decades later, I photograph and make work about dark, abandoned and unusual people and places. These photographs are then reconstructed to give the works a narrative of their own. |
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Aaron Billings - Off Cuts: 7 - 24th September
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Off Cuts is a show of collated scraps from my commercial art practice, re-worked into an exploration of what it means to be an emerging artist in a brand-driven world. As a subject, I loathe capitalism and the murderous global power structures which keep so many in the world in a suspended state of real and illusory debt. But, like everybody else, I have to make money to survive. I do this in part by printing merch and selling it directly. By using second-hand fabric and ethically sourced stock, I try to cause the least harm I can. It was this ethic of minimal harm and minimal waste which first prompted me to start making quilts out of the printing samples I had lying around my studio. Using my limited knowledge of sewing and whatever I had available, I joined piece after piece together, not aiming for straight edges or clean lines. Eventually, I started collecting cut off materials from workshops I ran (which is another way I make money as an artist) to use in my compositions. So they became more deliberate as they went on. This work for me is about being honest about being a working artist and trying to make something beautiful out of waste. |
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Time:Form - 24th Aug - 3rd Sept
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http://www.radiantpavilion.com.au/timeform.html
Christopher Earl Milbourne Anastasia Kandaraki Poly Nikolopoulou Demitra Ryan-Thomloudis Khyran Randall-Demllo Ruby Aitchison Rigid structures climb, crumble, erode and reform; organic material is warped, engineered onto skeletal scaffolding; and others sit steadfast, defiant. Through the eyes of the maker, the conditioning of the surfaces of objects and substrates in the built environment can symbolise the marks and interventions made by time and atmospheric conditions. The fragmentation and manipulation of elements, aesthetics and forms, can be identified and materialised into both wearable and non-wearable objects. Employing these principles, six distinct artists use such objects to explore notions of the geometry, architecture, and a range of conditions that are inherent to and also affect the constructed form. |
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Hannah Gatland - ‘Á Víð Og Dreif / Scattered’ : 3rd - 20th August
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Hannah Gatland’s practice derives direction from its environment almost by osmosis. While the hand is predominantly guided by process and repetition, ambient light, relative silence and airborne emotional currency cure the subconscious, tempering the mood and attitude of each piece.
Allowing the awe-inspiring landscapes of Reykjavik, Iceland and the natural surrounds to inform her practice, ‘Á Víð Og Dreif / Scattered’ is a body of work reflecting the scenery and atmosphere in which she was immersed. The vast North Atlantic Ocean, severe young mountains, and mossy lava fields were photographed and brought to the studio to be digested and reimagined with Indian ink and lush watercolour pigments on pages from reclaimed Icelandic legal reference books. |
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Luke Duncan King - Open Circuit. with Inhabit zine #3 launch: 13th - 30th July
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Luke Duncan King’s practice continually considers the virtues of the biro drawing on paper. Obsessive repetition of line work expresses the tension between what is dangerous and exciting in black ink permanency on papers surface. Open Circuit explores how portraiture can be used to expose an essential internal presence which exists seemingly at odds with the external facade of subjects when disconnected from the contextual reassurances of the everyday. http://inhabitzine.bigcartel.com/
Inhabit 3rd edition Zine and launch (Launch celebration, 3-5pm Sat 29th July) Inhabit is a publication dedicated to the ekphrastic poetry and prose of writers in Australia. Our aim is to encourage relationships between writers and visual artists within the context of art exhibition. This, the third issue will see ten writers producing work informed and inspired by the artworks of Luke Duncan King. |
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Wendy Korol - Present Tense: 29th June - 9th July
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The heroes of my making are overlooked, commonplace objects such as handles and knobs. We habitually handle them, interact with them visually, and are subtly influenced by their form, their arrangement and their colour. By reinterpreting these objects into abstracted forms I aim to draw the hidden, unnoticed qualities of these simple familiar objects into the viewer's consciousness, to pique his or her curiosity and to reappraise the familiar. Malleable materials such as clay, soft metal foil and mesh are well suited to my quick, intuitive and spontaneous making process. The work comes alive with my impetuous approach to the application of vitreous enamel and paint.
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Noah Spivak - eigengrau: 8th - 25th June
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Born and raised in Vancouver, Spivak’s works offer no personal autobiography. They do not reference photography’s most commercially embraced and socially trusted function: to preserve moments, to invest in memories. Noah’s current processes isolate, break and reconstitute the materials that compose photographs, producing versions of the photographic that present audiences with the distance that can exist between a physical object and a study of visual re-presentation. The objects to be created for eigengrau exist as a series of stress tests applied to the chemistry and materials that produce pictures - photographic processes made into objects that seem threatened by their own physicality.
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Frances Cannon - Niceties: 18th May - 4th June
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ni·ce·ty
noun plural noun: niceties a fine detail or distinction, especially one regarded as intricate and fussy. accuracy or precision. a minor aspect of polite social behaviour; a detail of etiquette. This exhibition centres around themes of the body, sexuality, the mind and anxiety, and the pressures placed on contemporary women to act or look a certain way that is socially acceptable. Cannon's work depicts the human condition and aims to draw an emotional response from the viewer by depicting personal and intimate images. Through the lens of personal experience she explores the pressures placed on contemporary women to live up to an unrealistic and outdated standard. Using a variety of aqueous media to create drawings, incorporating figuration, abstraction and text. Cannon uses playful and intuitive imagery, often with a sense of chaos, and approached each drawing with honesty and vulnerability. |
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Freedom/Uncertainty: 27th April - 14th May
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Freedom/Uncertainty is a photo-based group exhibition which features eight artists who apply differing techniques with camera, printing and image manipulation. Each explore complex narratives in contemporary culture around diaspora/absence, body/identity and the self/personal histories. Artists: Adrian Carmody (instagram.com/adriancarmody) Cammi Louisa (isolateddissonance.tumblr.com) Phoebe Veldhuizen (bratwuurst.com) Jaclyn Paterson (jclynp.tumblr.com) Joe Blair (www.joe-s-blair.com) Sam Biddle (instagram.com/biddle.biddle) Tristan Price (instagram.com/tristos_q_usedcars) Alex Dabi Zhevi (moodwar.com |
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Belinda Wiltshire - Daydream believer: 6 - 23rd April
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“Maybe it’s a rose in the suburbs at night, or fingertips lit up by the sun, glowing against the sky, but these little snapshots of a life, my life, they lure me in. And while I’m there, staring, entranced, I am utterly gripped by my own mortality.” In Daydream Believer, her second major solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Belinda Wiltshire presents a body of darkly evocative and cinematic oil paintings. The small-scale works are instilled with a clear sense of place and time, but it’s the information that is withheld that pushes these lucid moments to the fringe of reality and invites the projection of a personal narrative. |
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Ross Vaughan - Atom Smasher: 23rd March - 2nd April
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Ross Vaughan makes paintings informed by his interests in paradoxes, parallel realities and infinite loops, as they occur in physics, technology, philosophy and the arts. "I’m interested in paradoxes, parallel realities and infinite loops, as they occur in physics, technology, philosophy and the arts, but especially in relation to visual culture and art history. In my paintings I often use impossible geometric shapes or juxtapose intentionally mismatched perspectives to simplify (or flesh out) parts of these complex ideas in a visual shorthand. I embed my own made-up symbolic language into conventional portraits, often painted from found photographs, to obscure their original meaning and momentarily disorientate the viewer. My intention is to make paintings that are generous, with a strong attention to technical craftsmanship, that are engaging, and require a level of participation and ‘figuring out’ from the viewer". |
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Kate V M Sylvester - Wear Me: 2nd - 19th March
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www.katevmsylvester.com
Kate V M Sylvester’s contemporary textile work was included in the 2016 VAMFF Cultural Program as a part of Fabrik; conceptual, minimalist and performative approaches to textiles. This year, during the 2017 Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, Sylvester's latest collection of de-threaded garments will be exhibited at Tinning Street Presents in a solo exhibition; 'Wear Me.' A new collection of de-threaded garments, suspended as a reverse catwalk. Using recycled t-shirts as a ready-made art object, Sylvester creates a new textile by meticulously unravelling the web of bonds between warp and weft within the weave of the tee, to reveal the mass of fabric used in each garment. This new textile is malleable and transferable to various forms of contemporary art practise. For this exhibition, Sylvester has selected tees from two friends; Pete Rowett & artist, Lily Vonk. Their individual style and online personas epitomise the fetishisation of fashion as identity. ‘Wear Me’ celebrates the power of the clothes we choose to wear and their ability to embody our fetishised persona, helping to transform our demeanour, our acceptance of ourselves and how we present our identity to the world. vamff.com.au/event/wear-me/ |
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Hilary Dodd - Anomalous: 9th - 26th February
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Anomalous, a new exhibition by Hilary Dodd, consists of paintings which utilise unconventional substances. Through Dodd's unique approach to using industrial mediums she seeks to illustrate the curious pleasures to be found in discomfort. This series sees the manipulation of various materials and mixed media techniques. The abstracted surfaces and unfamiliar textures create canvases in various states of aesthetic decay. |
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The Distance Between Things: 19th January - 5th FebruaryCurated by Emma Michaelis An exciting group exhibition to start off 2017! Featuring the works of Jessica Curry, Charlotte Dayman, Bambi Johnson, Zoë Bastin, Zamara Lea Robison and Jess Gall. The distance between things draws together six multidisciplinary artists, applying sculpture and feminist discourse as its underpinnings to create conversations about the spatial qualities of bodiness and materiality in both subconscious and physical states. The six artists will be working together and individually in a range of sculptural, performative, photographic and untraditional installation techniques to create an expansive, textural experience. This exhibition is an exploration into the functions of materiality and the viewers place in reading an artwork spatially. |
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2016
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01 December to 18 December
Carla Fletcher Butterflies Of Metatron In her third solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Melbourne artist Carla Fletcher will be presenting a new body of work engaged in colour and pattern. Butterflies of Metatron are paintings of vibrant cosmic origin. |
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17 November to 20 November
Shaun Tan Every Place Is The Same Place As a follow up to Tan’s Little Brunswick exhibited with Tinning Street in 2015, this exhibition will feature close to 100 small landscapes painted between 2010 and 2016, featuring various places Tan has visited during that time: Switzerland, Japan, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, North America and of course the cultural epicentre of the world where he’s been living and working for the past ten years: Brunswick. |
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03 November to 13 November
Rosie Did It & Tegan Iversen Party Time Party Time is an exhibition of illustrative treats by Rosie Did It (aka Stephanie Rose) and Tegan Iversen. The show promises to be an explosion of playful colour, pattern, and fun. Think fairy bread, cupcakes, balloons, confetti, party hats, and much more! |
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20 October to 30 October
Indigo O'Rourke Every Ten Minutes “It’s scary how many people think they want to die, when actually all they want to do is to start living.” Indigo O’Rourke’s drawing practice investigates the complex social and cultural issues of our time. The carefully rendered biro drawings in the exhibition Every Ten Minutes document suicide locations within Australia. Her slow and methodical rendering of water from ink is a lonely pursuit that allows her to recall the depth and the layers of human suffering. |
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06 October to 16 October
Georgia Harvey and Dawn Vachon Jam Every Other Day For 6 months, ceramicists Georgia Harvey and Dawn Vachon have jammed every other day. Through a process of exchange, each has provided the other with material to work with, be influenced by, rebuff or outright poach – all the while pondering the nature of influence and the pervasive artistic drive for originality. This exhibition, bringing together the collated results of this playful exploration, tells a story greater - or stranger - than its parts. This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria. |
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22 September to 03 October
The Seven Seas I Guess I Just Wasn't Made For These Times As the third solo exhibition by Melbourne based mixed media artist and sculptor The Seven Seas (his second with Tinning Street), I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times moves into an area of abstraction with large-scale graphic works experimenting with optical illusion and colour. This exhibition marks a distinct shift away from previous work, exploring new techniques inspired by ever changing environments. |
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08 September to 18 September
Amy Woodward Honest Honest is a varied body of photographic work that interprets mundane, domestic situations in a hyper-observant manner, uniting them with diffusions of tepid light and colour. A form of inanimate-object-voyeurism, the images link together through their common curiosity of the unremarkable. |
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25 August to 04 September
Soma Emma Michaelis In her third solo exhibition with Tinning Street, Emma Michaelis' Soma is a body of large-scale coloured pencil on paper drawings which seek to uncover the human relationship to parameters of physicality and the conscious/unconscious link between self and body. With a focus on female subjectivity, Michaelis' work asks the viewer to redefine their ideas of the location of being(ness), using surface as a definitive juncture which exists between the viewer and the image. Constructing the works life sized is important to the process, questioning individual and shared experiences of being through repeated reconstruction of the figure. This opens up the possibility to discuss the wider human connection to images of corporeality neurologically as well as bodily, and is a theme Michaelis continually finds engaging, encompassing kinetic empathy and sincere responses to representational works within the wider sphere of feminist body theory. |
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11 August to 21 August
A Block Of Flats & Other Places J. Wilson Made over the last few years, J. Wilson's A Block Of Flats And Other Places is a watercolour and gouache series of views encountered by the artist around his block of flats. These densely detailed works on paper pay tribute to the beauty of the everyday, amongst other things. "Josh Wilson’s work starts with “i” (an imaginary number), its focus is 360o, its location is (0,0) i.e. Thornbury, and its conclusion saturated with emotion. To see the world from the perspective of a clothesline, or at street level, or thru a window is to look at the world afresh and new. The past is here, ditto the present, and the future seems to bear down on all these scenes with an unforgiving cruelty." TT.O |
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28 July to 07 August
Kept In Mind Cat Rabbit Kept in Mind is a new solo exhibition from Melbourne textile artist Cat Rabbit. The show incorporates a series of installations drawing from memories, both precious and incidental, brought to life using soft sculpture and hand embroidery techniques. Cat employs her old faithful materials of felt and linen, along with new forays into hand quilting and printmaking to explore the idea of what is kept in mind, and how it is remembered over time. |
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14 July to 24 July
Wonky Curated by Sophia Cai and Caitlin Shearer Wonky is a group show inspired by the principles of wabi-sabi – a Japanese aesthetic that celebrates the imperfect and the transient. Taking this idea as a starting point, Wonky is an exhibition that celebrates unpredictability and impermanence, both in art and in life. Artists: John Brooks , Tara Burke , Rachael McCallum , Belinda Evans , Luke Maninov Hammond , Niamh Minogue , Zhu Ohmu , Yoko Ozawa , Robyn Phelan , Elise Sheehan , Cassandra Smith , Charlotte Watson , Gina Rockenwagner |
Zhu Ohmu
"Reclining vessel"
Ceramic with Aeonium arboreum, 2016
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30 June to 10 July
Akiko Nagino Japanese paper-cut artist Akiko Nagino will be exhibiting a select few of her large-scale hand cut paper pieces, which she has produced in her Brunswick studio over the last year. The body of work is based on Nagino’s longstanding interest in patterns found in the everyday; the sky, walls, roads, leaves, vegetables, and insects (especially those which scare her, such as patterns found in butterfly wings). In her art practice, she muses on what a pattern is - beautiful, intimidating, absolute, and distorted. The power of a pattern can draw the observer in, captivate and fascinate them. Nagino’s love of Japanese culture and training in Japanese lacquer work are evident in her highly traditional and disciplined style. |
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16 to 26 June
Minor Handling Bess Davey Minor Handling is an installation of textile and video elements by Melbourne based artist Bess Davey. The work documents attempts to recreate a connection to tactile making processes in a post-industrial context. Part craft, part online DIY, part homewares display, the installation reflects on a naïve desire to regain a lost sense of intimacy with materials. Mimicking everyday objects, the works suggest a connection to principles of utilitarian design, however are ultimately impractical and somehow absurd. The end result is a questioning of how tactile processes of making, based on knowledge acquired through touch, can inhabit a culture in which objects in our everyday surroundings appear to us as enigmatically prefabricated entities. |
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02 June to 12 June
Naomi Nicholls and Linda Loh Deliria Two artists bonded by their background in painting and interest in abstraction, present gigantic paint-like forms that ignore the constraints of the frame, erupting colour and light all over the gallery walls, floor and ceiling. |
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19 May to 29 May
Takahiko Sugawara Repetitive Nature Japanese sculptor Takahiko Sugawara has been based in Melbourne since 2012. For Repetitive Nature, his second exhibition with Tinning Street, he will be presenting a major work taking up almost the entire length of the gallery, and wholly made from matchsticks. Sugawara makes use of simple geometric forms, which he repeats en masse to form intricate large-scale sculptures. The organic hand-building of individual structural layers brings an entrancing tactile quality to the otherwise austere sculptures. These ideas of repetition, form, and discipline are rooted in Sugawara’s teenage years where he was in Japan’s number one high school marching band. The band practised for six hours a day, every day, walking in formation, making lines and shapes whilst playing their instruments . A gap, an empty space, made by a band member's absence, combined with repetition and the shapes they made, have directly influenced Sugawara's ideas of form, layering, overlap and repetition. |
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05 May to 15 May
Design & Other and Darren Song Biota Biota, by Design & Other (Cameron Lofthouse and Monica Placella) in collaboration with Darren Song is a series of works on paper exploring form, colour and shape. The merging of D&O’s pixelated silkscreen prints and Song’s intricate thread atop paper result in vivid tactile landscapes. Deconstructed elements of flora and their surrounds are interlaced with hand stitched zoomorphic designs. |
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21 April to 01 May
Claire Lefebvre Luminous Numinous Luminous (adj): "bright or glowing" Numinous (adj): "having a mysterious or spiritual quality". Colour, light and wonderment inform Melbourne painter, Claire Lefebvre's latest solo exhibition ‘Luminous Numinous’. Through the use of poured paint, meticulous lines and delicate pointillism, Claire's works invoke personal moments of discovery. Each pool of layered pigment is an invitation for wonderment, contemplation and meditation. These mysterious, pulsating fields of colour and multiplicity explore a trait that unites us as humans: inherent curiosity. |
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07 April to 17 April
Josh Fartch Lacuna Recent paintings by Josh Fartch explore movement and stillness in daily life, and the relationship between painting and temporality. Objects forgotten, moments left behind, swept away by the forces of change. |
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24 March to 03 April
Roxanne Colk and Lauren Nicholson Strange Holiday Strange Holiday brings together the work of Melbourne based artists Lauren Nicholson and Roxanne Colk in their first exhibition together. Both artists make a return to painting around bonds to childhood, memory and place. Lauren’s work aims to convey emotion through visions of other times and places and a desire for new perspectives. Figurative and abstract forms mix and meet feelings of escapism and connection. Roxanne’s work revisits childhood memories and back yard tomfooleries of her hometown of the Gold Coast with a collection of works featuring bright landscapes, surreal natural oddities and animated attractions of the Sunshine State. |
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10 March to 20 March
Eileen Braybrook and John Brooks Beast Cult Beast Cult is a garment collection by collaborators Eileen Braybrook and John Brooks. Knitted and woven garments will be presented alongside printed garments using rudimentary techniques such as finger painting, potato stamping and collage. Inspired by Lovecraftian beast worship, teenage obsessions with séances and the bubble-gum flavour of 90's nostalgia. Soft sculptural objects and occult themed garments with a Goosebumps vibe will come together to form a ritualistic environment well equipped to raise the beast of your dreams to do your bidding. |
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25 February to 06 March
Clare Longley Nut Ice. Nut Ice, a new body of work and debut solo exhibition by Clare Longley explores the seductive differences, as well as similarities between inside and outside, modesty and glamour. With a timidity of touch, the silk and multimedia works reflect upon the relationship between the every day and the intimate, arousing a sense of romance amongst the familiar and the unknown. Clare Longley is an emerging artist based in Melbourne, with recent exhibitions including the Victorian College of the Arts Graduate Exhibition (2014), The Ladies Exhibition, aMBUSH (2015) and a commission work for Sugar Mountain Festival (2016) in collaboration with Prue Stent and Honey Long. |
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11 February to 21 February Joanna Mortreux and Dominik Frassmann The Overarching Self. A collection of paintings, drawings, and etchings from the two Berlin based artists Joanna Mortreux (AU) and Dominik Frassmann (DE). Acutely observant, somewhat introverted and part fantastical; two artists working in print and paint try to get at the meaning of subjectivity from two completely different vantage points. Joanna Mortreux is a Melbourne and Berlin based artist whose works reflect the ancient and otherworldly. Painting in oil on the smooth unforgiving surfaces of Aludibond (signwriters metal) allows every mark, hesitation and all the energy in the brush to be visible to the viewer. In this way the works are able to convey confidence and strength as well as their fragility of feeling. Mortreux also works in photo-etching, a print process using multiple steps including photo image transfer, collage and hand drawn elements, which are layered using acid resist and are etched onto a metal print plate. |
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14 January to 31 January
Hillvale in collaboration with Michael Thomas Night Works Melbourne based photographer Michael Thomas in association with Hillvale presents Thomas’ first solo exhibition from his extensive series Night Works. Showcasing a selection of Thomas' works in a collection of large scale lightboxes and the release of his first publication with an essay by Daniel Boetker-Smith of Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive / Photobook Melbourne. 'Night Works' is a series shot by Michael Thomas between 2012-2015. This is the second instalment of 'We Saw It Before You' and the first showcasing a solo body of work. |
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2015
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03 December to 13 December
Little Brunswick Shaun Tan Little Brunswick is an exhibition of over 50 small scale oil paintings, depicting Brunswick's everyday inner-suburban scenes painted by Tan over the past few years. "I've been painting little oil sketches of local environments since the age of thirteen, when I saw a show of Arthur Streeton's 9x5 landscapes painted on cigar box lids. These unassuming miniatures seemed to capture entire worlds, and I've always aspired to do the same. I rarely exhibit my own sketches, regarding them only as painting exercises, somewhat removed from my other work as an illustrator, writer and film-maker. Ironically, this actually makes them very good subjects for an exhibition! There is a freshness and honesty about them, and kind of loose purpose that is often hard to emulate in larger projects. Since moving to Melbourne in 2006, this work has also helped me build a personal connection with a new landscape, particularly Brunswick, which has its own kind of light and time-worn, cobbled-together personality. Most of the paintings in this show depict places within a few kilometers of my home, noticed incidentally while walking, driving, shopping, toddler-wrangling and every other kind of non-artistic day-to-day activity. I hope you enjoy them!" - ST |
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19 November to 29 November
Reconstituting The Reclining Female Stephanie Leigh Reconstituting the Reclining Female is an exhibition that critiques the historical practice of painting the female nude. The overlapping of lines and re-construction of the female form suggest a type of rebuilding quality to the female body, informing a feminist analysis into the damages that occur from women being represented by others for thousands of years. Whilst the artwork references a kind of traditional art movement, the flat bold colours within this exhibition speak of the now, therefore allowing us to discuss how the historical female reclining nudes function today and their role in creating the “ideal female” of the 21st century. Leigh directly references traditional female figures throughout art history and brings them in to the now within her de/re-constructed forms and flat bold colours. |
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05 November to 15 November
I Knew This Would Happen Mick Turner Known for his use of form and colour, in this body of recent paintings Turner has set out to boldly express the present utilizing themes on life, death, landscape and psychedelia. Turner spends much of his time on Philip Island and is endlessly fascinated by coastal life, from the minutae to the mega view of it. He has possibly even been in the fantastic world he depicts in his paintings. The universal idea of a natural world that embraces us and holds us are here in his works, the imaginarium of the real. - Text by Caroline Kennedy |
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22 October to 01 November
As it is Roz Avent In As It Is, artist Roz Avent explores her relationship to the landscape near her home in Central Victoria. "My aim is to create an image that gives the viewer a sense of place. Through the use of marks and tone I want the viewer to experience the particular sensations theses places elicit in me. The dry grass underfoot, the surface of rocks, bark and water, the weight of the rock formations and the time of day. Visually I am drawn to contrasts: in light and shade, texture and form. The underlying theme of my work is struggle. Whether it is the struggle to find the image, the struggle of displaced people as in my previous work or the struggle to negotiate a difficult and sometimes hostile environment as in these landscape drawings. " |
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15 October to 20 October
Camera Obscura Tinning Street Presents For four days Tinning Street will transform the entire gallery into a walk in Camera Obscura. |
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24 September to 05 October
Cloth Lucy Selleck An exploration of Melbourne’s criminal faces, drawn on to handkerchiefs as an interpretation of Hispanic prison artworks called 'Paño Art.' Paño, which translates to ‘cloth,’ started as a way for prisoners to communicate with each other and the outside world. They used prison issued handkerchiefs that were less likely to be confiscated and would draw pictures on to them, mailing the home to loved ones. In ‘cloth,’ Crimestoppers identikit portraits are cut out from newspapers and drawn on to found handkerchiefs to create portraits; simple line drawings to heavy shading, no mouth, no eyes, depending on what the victim recalled. |
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10 September to 20 September
Ritual Failure Nadia Toukhsati Created over the past two years, Ritual Failure is a body of recent illustrative paintings threaded together under the tangible themes of love, sex, loss and grief. The themes are reduced and stylised into simple pictorial devises that are perhaps explicit in manner, but certainly ambiguous in meaning. Woven amongst detailed geometric designs, Toukhsati utilises symbolic hands and eyes to serve as the emotional 'heavy-lifters' of the series. She lets her sharp sense of humour shine as she explores the irrational language of metaphoric symbolism. |
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27 August to 06 September
Launches Andrew Hustwaite Success, Failure & the long road out.. Launches is a manifest of Hustwaite’s recent expedition into the Martian landscape of the Sturt Stony Desert, launching artifacts into the driest region of Australia. The exhibition will feature photographic works taken during the expedition and select sculptures. A geological zone so utterly ancient that regular parameters of time, its supply and demands, cease to exist. Into this boundless present are offered sculptures derived from the fundamental structures of our physical world; forms that exist as a product of innate elemental forces. A presentation of the concept through photographs, sculptures and topography, and an acknowledgment of the trials and tribulations inherent to its Quixotic nature. |
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13 August to 23 August
Opening reception Thursday 13 Aug, 6-9pm Found Emah Fox An exploration of the uncertain environment through light, sound, and sculpture. Patterns found within chaos, creating synthetic skin and shelter. Through a series of multimedia installation works, Found examines the space between the synthetic and organic, the material and immaterial, the corporeal and non-corporeal, the porous and the impermeable, the sheathed and the vulnerable. Themes of disconnectedness, vulnerability to the environment, and lack of foundation are played against the way overwhelming sensorial experience is processed into order through perception of pattern, repetition, comfort. |
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30 July to 09 August
Kalopsia Monique Barnett Barnett's painting's traverses through the tactile images of the luscious fashion and gossip magazine. Models and celebrities that are deemed to hold marketable value by the the paparazzi and press are framed, captioned, and airbrushed. These magazines create and disseminate celebrity beauty and popular culture. In Barnett's paintings these figures are homogenised, no longer identifiable cultural stars, simply well known body's and faces inhabiting place beyond the ordinary. They come-together occupying a vibrant hyper-coloured sphere where delusion and beauty contend. |
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16 July to 26 July
Mesh Alison Bennett Mesh is a playful investigation into the presence of surface in digital images by Alison Bennett. The exhibition is the culmination of Bennett's research project at the Deakin Motion.Lab. The work intertwines Bennett's personal history with emergent trajectories in digital imaging technologies. From a meditation on the digitality of her grandmother's floral carpet, through augmented reality tattoos, to an immersive head mounted display, the presence of surface shimmers, emerges and breaks apart. |
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02 July to 12 July
SRS ART, OK Daisy Lewis-Toakley SRS ART, OK, is a satirical dialogue commenting on contemporary art culture and trend. It uses paint-based installation to explore conceptual art and its effect on the audience. SRS ART is a response to audience isolation as a result of esoteric concepts, it inverts conceptual art to an obvious, statement driven, accessible experience. Through absurdity and irony, it opens the floor to allow the audience to engage in a commentary on their own art experiences. SRS ART was born out of a cheeky rebellion against conceptual art. The playful result centers around the question, is conceptual art isolating to a non-art audience? |
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18 June to 28 June
WELT Andy Wear "In 1985, I serendipitously discovered art. As punishment for a round of fisticuffs on the school bus, I was consigned to the seat next to the driver for six months. My disappointed mother suggested I use this time in constructive contemplation, and handed me a copy of E.H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art. As I leafed my way through the tome I decided that that was what I would do, and an artist is what I would be. Now, I appreciate that during the course of my practice I have made many errors of judgment. This body of work is a dutiful reflection on those errors of judgment, how they have come to shape my aesthetic, and an attempt to right some wrongs. " AW. |
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04 June to 14 June
Time and Stillness Josh Fartch As conquering time and distance have become important to modern society, our environment has come to be interpreted by degrees of immobility and movement, acceleration and deceleration. Working alongside a team of contemporary dance choreographers led Josh Fartch to consider movement and stillness in daily life - and how this can be perceived through the relatively still two-dimensional surface of painting. This series of abstract works draws on the surrounding space. The dynamic, physical process of painting is laid bare, reflecting cycles of change seen elsewhere: growth and decay, and entropy and emergence. Each painting breaks from the previous and new forms emerge creating an organic, living feeling. This connects the viewer to the passing of time and sense of continual change that permeates the everyday. |
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21 May to 31 May
Alien Artefacts Vittoria Di Stefano Alien Artefacts continues an investigation into the poetic relationships between materiality and the self, and the implications of the material encounter. Employing liminal studio processes that are temporal, conjectural and provisional, and using a materiality that is mutable and sometimes unstable, the artist engages in an intimate archaeology to unearth the vestige of a personal, interior terrain. The emergent objects represent markers in a fragmented landscape, an environment that is in a state of becoming. The resulting installation reflects the self as intrinsically malleable - in a state of coming into being-ness. |
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07 May to 17 May
RGB No One Special - Grace Blake, Kat Martin, Emilia Pike, Danny Wild, Julian Hocking, Ben Joan, and Jason Galea. As the first curated show by Coburg indi publishing house No One Special; RGB is an exhibition of works responding to the theme of RGB (Red, Green, Blue). This theme acts as a self imposed constraint and over-arching aesthetic that each of the 6 artists take and apply to paint, print, 3d, sculpture, video and installation works. As part of opening night X in O (Kat Martin) and Low Flung (Danny Wild) will be performing live. |
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23 April to 03 May
Nosebleed Ross Vaughan Showcased in this recent series of oil paintings is Vaughan's traditional portraiture background and Pop Art sensibility. Nosebleed is about seizing/ relinquishing control of the painting medium and the weirdly intimate experience of transforming pigment and oils into flesh and blood. |
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09 April to 19 April
Potential Objects Chris Henschke Inspired by Henschke’s art residencies at the Large Hadron Collider and Australian Synchrotron, Potential Objects is a collection of mixed media artworks which play with energy, materiality, and our relationships with technology, through charged and unexpected combinations of everyday objects with new and obsolete scientific and technical devices. |
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26 March to 05 April
Tateru Takahiko Sugawara & Paul Gorman Tateru (to build) explores ways in which two artists Sugawara (Japan) and Gorman (Melbourne) culturally interpret notions of building, fabrication and adaption, through sculpture, photography and installation. Sugawara’s broad wall reliefs and freestanding structures deploy an entourage of recycled timber shapes and forms, which repeat, layer and overlap, creating waves of intricate rhythmic patterns. Gorman juxtaposes iconic domestic objects with various photo-based images. Fixed and moving, Gorman comments on the building blocks and residues of places that mark, move and renew our connection with locality. |
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12 March to 22 March
Object Without The Matter The Seven Seas Object Without The Matter is the second major solo show by Melbourne based artist The Seven Seas. He draws and sculpts characters imbued with a deep sense of sleepy serenity. In this body of work, The Seven Seas explores larger sculptures and installations, turning 2D work into three dimensional objects that explore consciousness, perception, emotion and observation. |
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26 February to 8 March
Rough & Cut Abigail Varney Rough & Cut presents a series of photographic works that capture the beauty of Coober Pedy and it’s unique outback surroundings. A desert town that stands alone under the scorching sun, once thrived solely on opal mining but has now tired of the resource and formed an all-new layer of intrigue. The pivotal characters that once lived, their presence lies underground in spacious dugouts opened for the dwindling tourist trade. |
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12 February to 22 February
The Black Witch of Maatsuyker Island Nicole O’Loughlin The Black Witch of Maatsuyker Island is an exhibition of amulet and talisman paintings fabricated from flora and fauna of Maatsuyker Island, Tasmania. O’Loughlin manifests the natural protective spirit of the island through the fictitious character of the Black Witch. Historically, sailors and fishermen identified the island as Black Witch Island, perhaps believing in some dark magical force present in the area. The works are inspired by the artist’s time on the island during a three-month Wilderness Arts Residency. |
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29 January to 8 February
Paint & Clay Esther Olsson & Steve Drew Artist and designer Esther Olsson has teamed up with ceramicist Steve Drew. The duo will bring together their works to form an exhibition of spatial relationships. Olsson through line and colour, and Drew using shape and surface. Paint & Clay; harmony and contrast; abstract and figurative; in the two and three-dimensional realm. |
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22 to 25 January
35ppm Lloyd Stubber & Bloom Publishing Bloom Publishing is proud to present their first submission-based exhibition, 35ppm, a print on demand experiment showcasing photographic work from around the globe, produced on site by Bloom's mono laser printer. The exhibition will feature a single A3 print by 30 artists; with each work sold to be printed on-the-spot throughout the entirety of the show. Following the show will be a publication featuring the work and exhibition process. |
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4th - 14th December
The Flat Earth Society. Keith Deverell The Flat Earth Society, by Keith Deverell is an installation of video and mixed media works. Represented as a chaotic deliverance of lost horizons and disappearance, encounters with the separation and subjugation of landscape, dystopian expositions, riot, revolution, disassociation, darkness and dromology. |
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Kallie Turner & Joel Ritchie
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Emma Michaelis
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Matt Siwerski
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Jessie Scott & Lorraine Heller-Nicholas
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Joanne Sisson
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We Saw It Before You.
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Nicholas Blackmore & Marito Rodriguez.
Husband and Wife team, Nick Blackmore and Marito Rodriguez collaborate in a show of installation, sculpture, lighting design and collage.
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Sam Leach
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Cat Stuff
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Stephen Baker
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Trace
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Magic Happens
19 - 29 June Patrick Hamilton Catherine Tipping Lucas Golding Anita Spooner Murray Barker Fred Mora Jessica Honey Digital production has bestowed us with speed and accuracy which in the recent past effaced the personal details of non-computer enhanced work. The re-emergence of the hand made has been a response to the presence of technology in everyday life.
The group show ‘Magic Happens’ is interested in taking traditional processes and re-contextualising them into the culture of now. How do we experience art in terms of its processes as a spectator? |
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Grace Crawshaw-McLean
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FIGURE ONE, FIGURE TWO.
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DOMESTOS
April 24 - May 4. Christopher Jewitt Becky Richards Josh Simpson Charlotte Watson Four artists from Leslie street studio '2 three A' in Brunswick, have pulled together to explore the nature of 'Domestos' as they know it. Through a variety of mediums, they each attempt to illuminate moments of poetry, humour and aesthetic beauty that can be found in one's everyday home environment. The collective has worked together to create an immersive, gallery wide installation, offering abstract echos of the special breed of ambiance found in a home. |
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