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Little Deities at No Vacancy

Feb 28, ’12 11:20 AM

Little Deities
Launch: 6-9pm, 8 March
Exhibition runs: 8 – 18 March
No Vacancy Gallery, QV

Freelance illustrator and lecturer Daniel Atkinson is curating a group exhibition titled Little Deities. The exhibition involves sixty Melbournebased artists, designers and illustrators.
The idea behind this exhibition is to provide each artist with a standard size baby doll. The artists are then asked to convert his or her doll into a deity. The
artists are welcome to use any medium or technique they like to convert their doll into a God.

The concept for the exhibition came to Daniel when he moved into a Brunswick flat with his partner Simone. “When we first moved in I noticed there was an arched space above the door leading to the flat. I decided to create a mock shrine in this space. I hand painted a doll I found in a $2 shop and used it as the centrepiece of the Shrine. After I built the shrine I started to wonder what others would consider worthy of worship?”
Once he made the decision to curate the show, it did not take long for Daniel to bring together a wondrously talented group of artists. Within this cluster of talent there are the likes of illustrators Ben Ashton-Bell, Sonia Kretschmar, Andrea Innocent, textile designer Sarah Strickland, fine artists Kirsten Perry and Stephen Ives.
“I think this exhibition has a great mixture of humour and thought provoking material. I hope it encourages people to reflect on their own beliefs and ask themselves what they think is worthy of worship in the 21st Century”.

Exhibition is proudly supported by Moritz Beer

More info here

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Craft Hatch, March 2012

Feb 28, ’12 11:05 AM

Craft Victoria’s quarterly market for young, student and emerging craft makers and artists is back at 1000 £ Bend this March.

11am to 4pm, Saturday 17 March
At 1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne

Craft Hatch is Craft Victoria’s quarterly ‘incubator’ market showcasing the work of student and emerging designers. The market is a unique opportunity for anyone to purchase the freshest, hand-made products direct from the designer, including home wares, jewellery, clothing, accessories, stationery and more. This event is part of the 2012 L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program.

More information here

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The Qantas Spirit Of Youth Awards – Visual Design & Communication

Feb 17, ’12 3:44 PM

The Qantas Spirit Of Youth Awards offers Visual Designers aged 18 – 30 the chance to leap to the next level with a trip of a lifetime to Cannes Lions Festival in June 2012. You’ll also be offered a professional mentorship with internationally renowned designer and founder of the award winning agency Frost, Vince Frost, as well as $5,000 cash.

To be in the running head to the SOYA website and enter your details and upload examples of your work via the Entry Form.

The prize is a trip to France with an allowance for eight nights accommodation in Cannes, a ticket to The Cannes Lions Festival, plus $5,000 cash. For twelve months you will be awarded a professional mentorship with the founder of Frost Design, Vince Frost

Entries close: 2nd March 2012
Eligibility: Australian Citizens with a portfolio of work aged 18 – 30
All styles of Visual Design & Communication welcome: Print Design; Web Design; Illustration; Collage; Printmaking; Graphic Design; Books; Magazines; Posters; Album covers; Motion graphics.

View the Terms & Conditions
More information here

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Covert Art and Morsels Exhibition By Mick Turner

Feb 13, ’12 10:58 AM

In conjunction with the DIRTY THREE ‘Toward The Low Sun’ album release and Australian Tour

To coincide with Dirty Three’s upcoming Australian tour, guitarist Mick Turner is hosting a travelling art exhibition. ’Covert Art and Morsels’ will include limited edition reproduction prints of cover art images from Dirty Three albums along with a selection of Turner’s recent work.
The Melbourne exhibition will also include the original canvas of the cover image of the new album ‘Toward the Low Sun’.

Mick Turner is an acclaimed artist who has been exhibiting his visual art publicly since 2004. His art is held in private collections worldwide.

MELBOURNE
8 – 18 March 2012
Tinning Street Gallery
Lot 5 /29 Tinning Street, Brunswick
www.tinningstreet.blogspot.com
Recent paintings , prints and sculptures

SYDNEY
20 March – 3 April 2012
Mart Gallery
156 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills
www.martgallery.com.au
Cover art and recent work

PERTH
7 – 11 March 2012
Joint exhibition with Jo Darvall
Showcase Gallery
Cnr Aberdeen & Beaufort Sts, Perth
Cover art and recent work
Showing both ‘Graceful Wings Of Travelers’ by Jo Darvall and ‘Covert Art and Morsels’ by Mick Turner

Dirty Three – ‘Toward The Low Sun’ is out 24 February 2012 via Anchor & Hope / Remote Control

Tickets for the Australian/New Zealand tour here

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Dark Horse Choice

Feb 13, ’12 10:51 AM

Artists: Helen Taylor, Ben Howe, Mary Hackett

Exhibition dates: 7 – 25 February 2012
Opening: Friday, 10.2.2012, 6pm till 9pm

The RMIT Master of Fine Art Program is one of the most prestigious postgraduate contemporary art programs in Australia. This year Dark Horse Experiment will be showcasing three handpicked graduates as part of the RMIT MFA Exhibition.

Helen Taylor, an exciting new comer to the art industry and recently, to Blender Studios, occupies a distinctive style as a sculptor and is exceptionally skilled in the medium of drawing. Taylor’s work investigates the structural and spatial dynamics of abstract forms and picture planes, through a series of drawings and sculptures.
Ben Howe delivers a series of intricate paintings, examining the physical and psychological energy of crowds within an urban environment.
Mary Hackett works with heavy-duty materials to create carefully considered sculptures. In this series, Hackett is mindful of the mechanics of the hand when constructing her work, using copper and steel to highlight the relationship between an object and its maker.

More information at Dark Horse Experiment

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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Feb 6, ’12 4:13 PM

THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE plus EXCLUSIVE IN CONVERSATION WITH GENESIS P-ORRIDGE AND STUART GRANT (PRIMITIVE CALCULATORS)

©Marie Losier and Bernard Yenelouis

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. Celebrated by critics and art historians as the progenitor of industrial music, he founded the legendary groups COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981) and Psychic TV (1981 to present), all of which merged avant garde performance art, provocative imagery with dark and often explorations of punk music.

©Helen Robert

In 2000 Genesis re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology, beginning a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble Lady Jaye, his lover and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. It was the ultimate act of devotion. ‘He’ became a ‘she’ in a triumphant act of artistic expression. It is a project they called ‘Creating the Pandrogyne’; an attempt to deconstruct two individual identities through the creation of an indivisible third. The ultimate union.

Filming with an experimental flair that plays to the performative nature of her subject, director Marie Losier has created an intimate, affecting portrait of a ground-breaking artist. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye documents a truly new brand of romantic consciousness, one that conveys beauty, dignity and devotion from an entirely new perspective.

Stuart Grant (Primitive Calculators) will hold an extended Q&A with Genesis P-Orridge following the screening. This will be her only appearance in Melbourne after performing with Psychic TV for The Adelaide Festival on Sat 3rd March.

More info at Speakeasy Cinema

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Parallel Collisions at the Adelaide Festival 2012

Feb 2, ’12 11:33 AM

Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012
Adelaide Festival, Visual Arts Program 2 March – 29 April 2012

Top – STEPHEN BRAM
ground floor south gallery, 2008, detail
Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University
Photo courtesy Ross Bird
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney

Bottom – TIM SILVER
detail, Untitled (bust), 2011
Pine Timbermate woodfiller
Courtesy of the Artist and Breenspace, Sydney

Parallel Collisions
2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Curators Natasha Bullock and Alexie Glass-Kantor

An experiential proposition inspired by art, cinema and literature, the 2012 Adelaide Biennial explores the ways in which ideas emerge, converge and re-form through time. From a floating island of 2000 cut-glass objects to an explosive light installation that clocks in real time human births, deaths and dying stars, this Biennial considers the temporality of the present as it parallels and collides with the past.

Across four physical platforms, Parallel Collisions presents 21 commissioned works by some of Australia’s leading artists, 21 original texts, a designer, an architect, two curators and an institution, forming a connective tissue that attempts to understand our subjective experience of time.

The accompanying publication is a 344 page offering where discursive, contradictory, creative and lateral ideas converge. Contributing authors include Christos Tsiolkas, Adrian Martin and Justin Clemens.

See more here

Top – ROSEMARY LAING
Groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001, detail
C Type photography
110 x 185 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Bottom – JOHN GLOVER
A View of the artist’s house and garden, in Mills Plains,
Van Diemen’s Land, 1835, detail
oil on canvas
76.4 x 114.4 cm
Morgan Thomas Bequest Fund 1951
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Top – SHAUN GLADWELL
Pataphysical Man, 2005, detail
video still
Performer: Daniel Esteve Pomares
Videographer: Gotaro Uematsu
Courtesy of the Artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney

Bottom – MARCO FUSINATO
Mass Black Implosion (Free music No 1, Percy Grainger), 2009, detail
ink on archival facsimile of score
23 x 32 cm
Courtesy of the Artist and Private collection

See what ‘s on at the Adelaide Festival 2012

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Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012

Feb 2, ’12 11:32 AM

Adelaide Festival 2 – 18 March 2012
Adelaide Festival, Visual Arts Program 2 March – 29 April 2012

“Heaven and Hell. It was with those two words that curator Victoria Lynn and I began our discussions surrounding the 2012 Adelaide Festival visual arts program: the polarities of heaven and hell as the twin energies pulling at, and guiding, our imaginations. As Victoria puts it, it is in the “force field” between these poles that art exists. For me, art, often created in seclusion, is by nature experiential, indeed incomplete in itself until experienced; it requires the reaction of the observer for its latency to be activated, and then it in turn becomes informed by our thoughts, dreams, our personal histories to become part of its narrative arc. “Heaven” and “hell” might be the way we imagine our best and worst selves, the outer extremes of our potential for good and evil; they mark conceptually the boundaries of the possible.”
- Paul Grabowsky, Artistic Director, 2012 Adelaide Festival

See the Adelaide Festival – Visual Arts Program for full details.

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DG Student Design Competition 2012

Jan 31, ’12 12:32 PM

Design a cover for DG magazine with the theme:
Images of the Decade

The theme of the competition is ‘Images of the Decade’. The decade you choose can be in the past or the future, but not the present. The intention is to encourage entrants to look beyond their own experience, creating a snapshot of a past or future time.

Download the Call for Entries here
Download the InDesign/Photoshop templates here

The DG Student Design Competition is open to Tertiary and Secondary School students in Australia. Entries are judged in the following divisions: Tertiary Division, Secondary Division.

The prizes will be announced here and via newsletters. You can sign up for newsletters here for notification.

THE BRIEF
Design a cover for an imaginary issue of DG magazine with the theme: ‘Images of the Decade’. Trimmed page size: 297mm x 210mm, portrait (A4).

The imaginary issue will have a series of articles on images that are representative of a particular decade. That period may be in the past or future. Not the present.

The cover should therefore include one or more images that typify a particular period. The subject allows for a variety of editorial angles; historical or futuristic.

All entries must use the templates supplied by DGi Media (Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop). Which can be downloaded from here.

The graphics may be illustrative or photographic. In the case of photographs, some third party photographs may be used (as magazines and newspapers do), but in such cases it must be clearly marked on the entry form. If third party images are used, marks will be awarded for an individual’s creative and original use of such images.

It is important that the design is the entrant’s own work. Images may be sourced from third parties but they must not be used “as found”. Entrants should use photo-imaging techniques to create unique cover images.

The results will be published online here at the DG Design Network. www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/dgdn

Closing date for entries – 30 April 2012
Competition is open to Australian Tertiary and Secondary School students only
There is no entry fee for the competition

Please see the Call for Entries for Terms & Conditions

See the 2011 DG Student Design Competition Gallery here

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Studio Tipi

Jan 20, ’12 3:38 PM

Contsructing the Impossible, “The Magical World of Escher”, Special collaboration postcards for pigeon post & art gallery of alberta

Studio Tipi are two artists: Judi and Keith. They have a little kitten named Ringo and do some fantastic illustration work for: Monocle magazine; Canadian based paper goods brand Pigeon Post; New Zealand based online store General Cucumber; and Art Gallery of Alberta.

Well Stocked Library, Monocle

DG – Your work has quite a strong style, how did you develop this?
STUDIO TIPI – For us inspirations are like the unnameable meat parts and scraps that all go into the sausage machine, what you have in the end often is a surprisingly delightful product that has hints of the ingredients but never quite resembles the appearance of the things that went in.

Our ideas are often inspired by folk and naive arts, things from time passed, nature and animals.

DG – From your collection of work, it appears you’re mostly involved in producing work for Editorial, and Holiday Cards. What is your favourite area to create designs/illustrations for?
STUDIO TIPI – Anything that allows fun and engaging ideas really, though there are projects that we would love to get our hands on like books and packagings and such… Most important is, we hope to bring happiness through our work.

DG – What is coming up for 2012?
STUDIO TIPI – At the moment we are having loads of fun working on children’s materials for the good folks at Anorak (the happy mag for kids!), as well as more stationery and paper products for Lagom Design in UK.

“Flying Machine” For New Zealand based online store General Cucumber’s 2009 Christmas campaign

Carousel, Monocle

See more of their work here

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YES! Maya Hayuk & Kyle Ranson at No Vacancy

Jan 20, ’12 2:54 PM

YES!
An exhibition of new works and installations by Maya Hayuk (Brooklyn, NY) and Kyle Ranson (San Fran, CA)
at No Vacancy, Melbourne
as part of the Sugar Mountain Festival

See more of Maya Hayuk‘s work here, and Kyle Ranson‘s here

No Vacancy
34 – 40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne, 3000
Opening Night: Friday 20th January: 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Exhibition Running: 21st January – 29th January 2011

Trading Hours:
Monday: Gallery Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00am – 5:00pm

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French – Oath of Armageddon

Jan 20, ’12 2:32 PM

Carhartt presents a solo Exhibition By

French
Oath of Armageddon

Opening Friday 10th February – 6-9pm
10th February – 25th February 2012
at Backwoods Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

The artist by the name of French takes delight in reduction. His favour is for that which is less, best exemplied by his fondness of darkness – the absence of light.

Reduction is constant in his art with an almost entirely rejecting colour and working unfalteringly on a at surface. By withholding the innumerable options we have available, French opts for focus and intensity in one place. Darkness is constant in his artworks, and that relates to both the density of the line and the subject matter it depicts.
French is a forefather for the new blood line in a tradition of subcultural aesthetics.

With an upbringing of obsessive attention to the grotesque of metal record sleeves and the immoral graphics on skateboardx it is worth noting that the artist grew up in a garrison town. Familiar with military machismo, termination machinery and the displays of death, it is no small wonder that French’s morbid tendencies and medically precise depictions of human entrails recur frequently. In recent years he has added to his artillery of imagery (skulls, corpses, executioners, decaying beasts and Black Metal musicians) the regularity of medieval knights, wizards and occult rituals.

Compasses and sea-going vessels, hand-forged tools and armour bring us back to a Europe of old, dark ages and discovery, the dawn of science and religions that stood in its way. Wickedness reigns in the absence of illumination. Science prescribes that black is the absorption of all light frequencies. Similarly French’s work consumes much.

Excrutiating amounts of detail and time are applied to a single idea or an image to arrive at the intricate depiction he has conjured. A dark intensity and singularity dene the work of French with his priority of the solitary line and, contrastingly, it’s myriad of possibilities.

– Joseph Allen Shea, Sydney, 2012

Backwoods Gallery
25 Easey Street, Collingwood
Victoria 3066
GALLERY HOURS. 3pm – 6pm THURS – FRI. 12PM – 6PM SAT – SUN
www.backwoodsgallery.com

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Leonardo Live

Jan 18, ’12 2:31 PM

Strictly limited season – Only in cinemas Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February
For participating cinemas and tickets visit LeonardoLiveHD.com

Experience the U.K. National Gallery’s sold-out, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition ‘Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan’ captured live in high definition only at your local cinema in limited screenings on Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 February, 2012.

In a first for movie audiences, the big-screen presentation of ‘Leonardo Live’ gives art lovers the world over the opportunity to share in the excitement of viewing the unprecedented and historic exhibition, in the comfort of their local cinema. The exhibition brings together the largest ever number of da Vinci’s paintings, including a new, never-before-seen Leonardo painting.

‘Leonardo Live’ is presented by art historian Tim Marlow and Mariella Frostrup, who will explore the exhibition and feature detailed examinations of the paintings and interviews with special guests and experts.

See the paintings revealed in astonishing detail through close-up footage on the big screen.

More info at Sharmill Films and here

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Arietty

Jan 18, ’12 1:20 PM

Studio Ghibli presents
ARIETTY
A film by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Based on Mary Norton’s ‘The Borrowers’

Discover a secret world within our own

This is a story of a family of little people. Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14-year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. The house is occupied by two old ladies, who are absolutely unaware of the existence of their miniature tenants. Arrietty and her family live by borrowing. Everything they have, they borrow or make from the things they have borrowed. Essentials like gas, water and food. Tables, chairs, cooking utensils. And treats – a sugar cube here, a scrap of material there. But only a little each time, so the ladies do not notice. A 12-year-old boy, Sho, moves into the mansion while he waits for urgent medical treatment in the city. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you.” Once seen, little people always have to move on. But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and Sho discovers her. The two begin to confide in each other and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom…

In cinemas 12 January 2012
See the trailer here

More info at Madman

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WASHINGTON by Benjamin Portas

Jan 18, ’12 12:11 PM

To celebrate her involvement in the Sydney Festival, via Festival First Night and ‘Insomnia’ live at the Sydney Opera House, Megan Washington’s long time artistic collaborator Benjamin Portas will exhibit his artwork in Sydney for the first time. The exhibit will open on Thursday 19th January, for one exclusive week, at MART Gallery in Surry Hills.

Portas has worked closely with Washington on the artistic direction for her two major releases, the Platinum-selling ‘I Believe You Liar’ and it’s companion piece ‘Insomnia’ as well as the many EP’s, tour posters, digital and graphic elements that have provided the visual backdrop to Washington’s much-loved music and video performances.

The exhibit will feature Portas’ artwork from all of Washington’s various releases, alongside rare international prints and the recent ‘Insomnia’ work which has been influential in inspiring the set-design for the upcoming Sydney Opera House show.

For more info head to www.martgallery.com.au

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