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c3 in June

Jun 22, ’11 10:13 AM

c3 at The Abbotsford Convent

Exhibition opens Wednesday 22 June 6 – 8pm

Wednesday 22 June – Sunday 10 July
Gallery open from Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 5pm

GALLERY 1
Foyer Space
NUMAN
ROHANI OSMAN – KATIE JACOBS – BRITTANY VEITCH
You are invited to witness the birth of a new man.
The Numan is a dependent creature designed to induce empathy, by promoting an examination of what it means to be human.

Complete with interchangeable body parts, The Numan exists as a human-shaped vessel for textile, ceramic and electronic components, crafted in an electro-gothic style.

Designed by Rohani Osman (knitting and crochet), Brittany Veitch (felt and soft sculpture) and Katie Jacobs (ceramics), The Numan is an art exhibition that allows you to play God.

How we treat our most vulnerable members of society can be seen as a measure of society as a whole. Similarly, how you choose to useThe Numan will illustrate complex questions about action and consequences, and about the inter-dependency of humanity.

Choose wisely…

Space A
UnNATURAL LIGHT
VIVIAN COOPER SMITH
UnNatural Light explores the issues around our sense of self; our identity. This exhibition asks how do we define ourselves and how much of our identity is purchased through our ‘off the shelf’ consumerist lifestyle? How do we know our true self or must we accept we are made up of multiples truths and multiple identities?

Put simply, if society is now ‘all about me’, which ‘me’ are they referring to?

Space B
DOUBT AND CLARITY
DUSTIN VOGGENREITER
Doubt and Clarity is an exploration in manipulating the photographic film negative and print to create unique, highly textured large-scale works.

The title of the project relates to both the contrasting emotions we all experience and to the nature of working within the constraints of negative film.

My current work practice involves marking and manipulating the film with bleach, ink, sand, needles and brushes, working in a manner, somewhat blind to how those marks will translate to the film as a positive image. This method exemplifies the concepts within the title.

PROJECT ROOM
LIGHT STUDIES
BRUCE ROWE
Light Studies makes visible a working process that explores the connections between space and light, both physical and eternal. Each work is the result of a process involving meditative breath work and reflective practice. The works are constructed using either a lightly drafted or imagined grid.

Within this framework, layers of transparent pigment are built up with intention, but without clear knowledge of how the combinations of colours will emerge. These works are part of an ongoing visual inquiry that commenced in 1998. This current series of paintings includes works that operate at the limits of the artist’s reflective practice and physical threshold.

Bruce Rowe is a Melbourne based artist, architect and educator.

GALLERY 2
HANGING GARDEN
CAROLINE ASKEW
I am examining the concept of collecting and recycling. I like to take an object out of it’s original context and re-ascribe its function into an artwork. This then imbues it with a different meaning creating a new narrative and a non-utilitarian significance. This project references familiar everyday domestic objects with focus on a collection of discarded handmade coat hangers and tea cosies.

I aim to create an awareness and appreciation of past traditions and overlooked domestic histories where making things by hand was a necessity and a time consuming labour of love.

GALLERY 3
MAKE DO
SIMON ATTWOOLL – OLIVER VAN DER LUGT – DAN BELL – JAY HUTCHINSON
Fluctuating volume / iterative hand / interference vs. pearlescence / change of state

A desire line is a path created by the treading of many feet, usually describing the most direct route (shortcut) between two locations where established paths may be circuitous or inconvenient.

As we traverse and commute through our shared cultural environment, desire lines emerge. The artists in this show have followed collective lines as well as carving their own, accumulating objects, images and affects en-route for adaptive reuse. Make Do presents a collection of simple gestures constructed out of each artist’s accumulations.

The works presented here bear the evidence of a variety of processes -transformative, repetitious, constructive, excessive- by which familiar content and materials are conflated or gently detourned.
While the spatial and wall works are invariably specific, each artist traces a unique threshold between signification and ineffability. The pieces are offered as they are: transparent, opaque, light, laboured, inflating, diffusing, sparkling, whirring, hanging, soaking, evaporating…

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△ SUGAR MOUNTAIN △

Apr 28, ’11 3:37 PM

Saturday 30 April 2011
The Forum Theatre, The Atrium and Federation Square
Melbourne, Australia

Taking place over multiple locations in Melbourne’s city center, including
The Forum Theatre, No Vacancy Gallery at Federation Square, and
The Atrium, Sugar Mountain will celebrate the diverse creative forms of music and visual art, with a focus on the natural meeting points between.

Sugar Mountain’s visual arts program is curated by Creative Director Pete Keen, with support from No Vacancy Gallery. We are pleased to have the following selection of Australia’s finest young creatives, alongside some very special international guests, exhibiting at Sugar Mountain.

Musicians VIRGO FOUR (USA), Aa (USA), NO KIDS (Canada), YELLOW FEVER (USA), COOLIES (NZ), CANYONS, QUA with the Ritmo Giallo Ensemble, YOUNG MAGIC, COLLARBONES, RAT VS POSSUM, OSCAR + MARTIN, GALAPAGOOSE, OTOUTO with the No Lights, No Lycra Dancers, TWERPS, BROUS and NO ZU.

Visual artists AINSLIE FLETCHER, ALEX KOPPS (USA), BECI ORPIN, BEN BARRETTO, BRETT CHAN, CHARLIE CALLAHAN (USA), CLARK GOOLSBY (USA), CODY HUDSON (USA), CORNELIUS BROWN, DAVID POTES (USA), FERRIS PLOCK (USA), GEORG, JAY HOWELL (USA), JULIAN HOCKING, KATRINE HILDEBRANDT, KELSEY BROOKES (USA), KILL PIXIE, KYLE FIELD (USA), LEIF PODHAJSKY, MARK DREW, MARK TRZOPEK, MARK WARREN JACQUES (USA), MEL KADEL (USA), MIKE PERRY (USA), MONICA CANILAO (USA), NAILS, NAT RUSSELL (USA), NEIL KRUG (USA), OLIVER HUNTER, OSCAR VINCENT SLORACK THORNE, RHYS MITCHELL, RAPHAEL RIZZO, RYAN HEYWOOD, RYAN JACOB SMITH (USA), RYAN TATAR (USA), STEFAN MARX (DE), STEVEN HARRINGTON (USA), TWO ONE, EIGHTY FOUR FILMS (USA), THE AMIGO UNIT (USA), THE CREATIVE LIVES (USA) and SERPS.

Kelsey Brookes

Two One – Hiroyatsu Tsuri

Brett Chan

Plus a live painting performance by THOMAS CAMPBELL (USA), live visual and light show by KIT WEBSTER & JAMES WRIGHT, ‘Every Shape Has A Secret’ starring JANE BADLER, curated by ANITA SPOONER & DANIELLE GEPPERT, Screening of ‘Gaudy Romp’, scored by FOOTY and curated by ANITA SPOONER & DANIELLE GEPPERT; and social experimentation via TAPE PROJECTS COLLECTIVE in conjunction with guest curator LOUISE KLERKS.

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Craft Victoria: Launch of COOKBOOK north/south

Nov 12, ’10 2:19 PM

29 November, 6-8pm
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Images (L-R): Printing of COOKBOOK north/south, photography: Dave Carswell

Chefs, artists and writers interpret their favourite Melbourne suburb in hand printed cookbook.

Craft Victoria is hosting the launch of not-for-profit COOKBOOK north/south. This unique, unbound publication has been letterpress printed by hand in a limited edition of 500. It features an inquisitive exploration of ten Melbourne suburbs via recipes, original artwork and short stories. Facilitated by the designers at Wolfgang, Shlomo & Max, this collaborative project is a platform for Melbourne’s chefs, artists and writers to personally and creatively interpret their city.

COOKBOOK north/south’s eclectic array of contributors give life to this humble publication. From Andrew McConnell’s tales of stealing fresh figs in the back alleys of Fitzroy, to Robert Castellani‘s description of his mother’s famed Ragu, their voices fill the pages with charm and localised eloquence. Contributors were asked to find inspiration in their suburb and creatively interpret their surroundings.

Whether internationally renowned or local gems, chefs were chosen via suburb research, word of mouth and SecondBite recommendations. The result is a colourful group of chefs whose delicious recipes sit alongside artwork and short stories by established and emerging local talent.

Each of COOKBOOK north/south’s ten suburb-inspired chapters feature a lino-cut artwork, short story and three recipes. A unique collection of letterpress forms, typography and colour create the visual identity for each suburb chapter. An unbound publication, COOKBOOK north/south comprises of hand printed individual cards, first offset and then letterpress printed at the Melbourne Museum of Printing.

COOKBOOK north/south retails for $100 with all proceeds going to SecondBite, a not for profit organisation committed to the redistribution of surplus food to those experiencing hardship within the community.

More at Craft Victoria here

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Craft Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria present Places and Pieces

Nov 10, ’10 2:04 PM

6 December 2010 – 9 January 2011, enCOUNTER 24/7 window
Launching Saturday 11 December, 2-4pm
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne

Images (L-R): Meagan Parry, Bendigo Senior Secondary School (2010), Simone Hope, Bendigo Senior Secondary School (2010)

Young people work with Craft Victoria professional members to define their sense of place.

Places and Pieces is a joint Craft Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria initiative developed to engage a wide range of students and emerging community members in the craft of jewellery making. Participants included students from Bendigo Senior Secondary College, Castlemaine Secondary Collage and young members of the Karen Community, refugees from areas in and around Burma who have settled in Bendigo.

Led by Craft Victoria professional members Anna Davern, Tamara Marwood and Sarah Fowler, participants were encouraged to explore and develop their creative skills via the production of jewellery pieces constructed from nonprecious materials found within their own localities. The idea of ‘Place’ can be interpreted in many ways; as an abstract concept, a physical location, a point of view or a designated social level or situation. All interpretations are informed by the individual’s perception of their position in the world around them.

Artists and participants in Places and Pieces have been guided by this commonality, the resulting artworks providing invaluable insights into the similarities and differences between the groups. A selection of the artworks developed throughout the project will be exhibited in Craft Victoria’s window gallery enCOUNTER from December 6.

A Craft Victoria mentorship will be offered to one Places and Pieces participant to further develop their jewellery practice in 2011.

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Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010 – Highlights

Nov 3, ’10 11:34 AM

This year’s Melbourne International Arts Festival was overflowing with incredibly diverese performances, installations, exhibitions and events. We are looking forward to next year already.

Just a couple of our favourite acts were…

Tomorrow, In A Year

Tomorrow, In a Year, Photography by Claudi Thyrrestrup

The beauty of Hotel Pro Forma’s striking visuals accompanied by Scandinavian electro-pop masters The Knife’s extravagent soundtrack provided a modern exploration of what opera can be pushed to be. The use of lasers, smoke machines and video all added to the exciting and unique atmosphere of which consumed the audience throughout the performance.
Directed by Ralf Richardt Strøbech and Kirsten Dehlholm, the performance creates an experience of Charles Darwin’s travels, inspired by his perception of nature and time. We are shown “our image of the world as a place of incredible variation, similarity and unity is re-discovered in this revolutionary electronic feast for the senses”.

John Cale – Noises in My Head

To spend an evening with John Cale to hear him speak about his musical career in a youth orchestra in Wales; writing his first composition in primary school; developing a penchant for avantgarde at a London art college; being guided to New York by the hand of Aaron Copland and John Cage; honing in his signature drone palate at the feet of LaMonte Young and then begin his underground noise bending attack on rock and roll from The Velvet Underground to his current genre-bending music: we felt more than privileged. Of course, by the end we wished there was much more time sit and listen to the man who has created some of the most beautiful chaos in music.

Boredoms – BOARDRUM

Boredoms (Japan), have become known for their “noice, chaos, tribal experimentation, remixing, trance-inducing feats of rythmic intensity, line-up changes, collaborations, and doing whatever they want regardless of trends and fashion”. Since 2007, Boredoms have performed their BOARDRUM set annualy. On the 7/7/2007 they had 77 drummers play together, on the 8/8/2008 it was 88 and last year on the 9/9/2009 it was 9. Boredoms featured 10 drummers for the 10/10/10 show, plus a guitarist and Bordeoms’ ringleader EYE playing two seven-necked guitar mutations.

More information on the Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010 here

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Creamier – Contemporary Art in Culture

Sep 27, ’10 11:57 AM

The latest in the Cream series which brings together 100 of the most exciting contemporary artists emerging today, each chosen by prominent international curators. Each artist spread includes a newly commissioned text written by the curator who selected the artist, as well as full-colour images illustrating the most recent works by the artists, from exhibitions all over the world. Additionally, each curator chooses a key creative work for the Sources section. Fields of cultural activity such as cinema, literature, theory, music, design and architecture have become both subject and referent for artists, and the Sources section will reflect the heterogeneous nature of what influences contemporary art today, providing readers with a broader historical and cultural perspective and insight into the curator’s influences

Creamier, Contemporary Art in Culture: 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Sources, Phaidon

Creamier follows the award-winning Cream (1998), Fresh Cream(2000), Cream 3 (2003) and Ice Cream (2007)

Creamier can be purchased here at Phaidon

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Semi-Permanent Melbourne 2010 – Launch

Sep 13, ’10 11:01 AM

Run in conjunction with Melbourne’s GPO and Ambush Gallery, the Semi-Permanent Launch consists of a popup gallery featuring the work of Beastman & Shannon Crees, an exhibition of Semi-Permanent speaker work, and art created for the launch by the Everfresh Studio crew. There will be bands, DJ’s and plenty of drinks.

Melbourne’s GPO, 350 Bourke St, Melbourne
15 September 2010. 6pm to 10pm. Free.

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MoMa: New Photography 2010

Aug 25, ’10 11:33 AM

Alex Prager, Desiree

MoMA’s annual photography series highlights four contemporary artists with new photography in 2010
U.S. Debut of Alex Prager’s Despair (2010) and Elad Lassry’s Untitled (2009) Marks the First Time Film Has Been Included in a New Photography Installation
New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho
September 29, 2010—January 10, 2011
The Robert and Joyce Menschel Gallery, third floor

NEW YORK, August 23, 2010—For New Photography 2010, The Museum of Modern Art highlights four artists in its annual showcase of significant recent work in contemporary photography. The exhibition is on view from September 29, 2010, through January 10, 2011, and features the work of Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, all of whom engage photography as a medium with fluid borders between editorial work, film, and art. Their pictures—shot in the real world, posed in the studio, or culled from pop culture and the movie industry—constantly shift contexts, often circulating from the magazine page to the wall. New Photography 2010 is organized by Roxana Marcoci, Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

Since its inception in 1985, the New Photography series has introduced the work of over 70 artists from 16 countries. The Museum continues this tradition of highlighting significant accomplishments in contemporary photography with this year’s edition featuring four artists and 36 works of photography and film.

“These artists engage in a kind of post-appropriative practice,” explains Ms. Marcoci. “If in the 1970s Richard Prince questioned notions of originality by rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own, this younger group of artists reinvest in photographic authorship, creating pictures that often exist simultaneously as commercial assignment and artwork. They recognize photography to be a fluid medium.”

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Firstdraft: Colony Collapse; Slide ; How to draw sex, violence and death the Luke Thurgate way; Twist

Jul 7, ’10 3:43 PM

Emerging artists create a micro honey farm, reflect on the “collective hallucination of cinema”, teach visitors how to draw “the Luke Thurgate way” and test the potential of First-Person Shooter games in 4 new exhibitions at Firstdraft in July.
Exhibition opens: Wednesday 7 July 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 25 July 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 25 July 2010 at 4pm

Colony Collapse
Gallery 1
Tessa Zettel and Karl Khoe

Colony Collapse continues Zettel and Khoe’s ongoing collaborative project to micro-farm pockets of the city, setting up temporary site offices from which to launch sensible and/or absurd experiments in urban self-sufficiency. At Firstdraft the artists will be investigating the possibilities for small-scale mobile honey production, as they research and construct a hybrid beehive-food cart destined for Sydney’s Circular Quay. With food crisis, suburban sprawl and the colony’s precarious histories (and futures) on their minds, Zettel and Khoe invite audiences in to smell the flowers and talk to the bees.

As part of the Firstdraft Emerging Artists Studio Program supported by Australia Council for the Arts

Slide
Gallery 2
Bronwyn Carter

Carter began this work with a specific question; what can Painting say as distinct from other media? The artist posits that the whole process of making a painting cannot be separated from image generating technologies that began with the invention of photography and continues with digital media. The paintings reflect, as well as critique, something about the sea of images which surround us, and specifically the collective hallucination of cinema. The source imagery is film stills /photography. In the artist’s palette there is a colour heightening and saturation, a drama of light and dark, and the paint is kept present; it is sometimes visceral, sometimes controlled; which draws attention to its use.

How to draw sex, violence and death the Luke Thurgate way
Gallery 3
Luke Thurgate

How to draw sex, violence and death the Luke Thurgate way is about public collaboration, interactivity, drawing and the nature of authenticity, reproduction and the graphic signature. The work invites the viewer to physically experience the production one of Thurgate’s drawings. Over the course of the exhibition it is hoped that viewers will collaboratively fill the blank surfaces over which the filmed drawings have been projected as a guide. The images themselves explore notions of masculinity, trauma and love. The drawings form part of an ongoing series of self-portraits in which exaggerated notions of masculine expression are played out. The participant becomes the means through which these notions find a permanent physical form.

Twist
Gallery 4
Baden Pailthorpe

Twist furthers Pailthorpe’s interest in video games as a subject matter. The video work explores the aesthetic anomalies in First-Person Shooter games (FPS) that are activated through glitches and by using cheats. Resisting the narrative drive of these games (where the player is the protagonist) through inaction, Pailthorpe found that the game falls into a state of perpetual regeneration. The graphics engines endlessly repeat their cinematic loops. Through this political act of stasis, resisting the game’s violent narrative pull reveals the subtle beauty of the game’s virtual architecture. Perpetual action is activated by inaction. Whereas the insatiable desire to continue killing leaves a true gamer in a carrot and stick scenario of always wanting more, the true path to satisfaction perhaps lies in resistance. In stopping to smell the proverbial, virtual roses, the performative potential of these virtual spaces emerges.

Firstdraft is a non-profit gallery run on a voluntary basis by a group of practicing artists. It is one of the longest running and most successful artist-run initiatives in Australia. Firstdraft asserts the importance of contemporary art production, dissemination and discussion in society, providing a stimulating exhibition space that is professional and accessible for a diverse range of artistic practices and projects.

Firstdraft
116-118 Chalmers St.
Surry Hills NSW 2010
t: +61 (0)2 9698 3665
mail@firstdraftgallery.com
www.firstdraftgallery.com
open: Wed to Sun, 12-6pm

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Taint

Jun 11, ’10 12:13 PM

Curated by Clare Lewis – as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program supported by Arts NSW

Laresa Kosloff, Spirit & Muscle, 2006, digital video, 4:39 minutes. Image courtesy and © the artist and Neon Parc.

A new exhibition opening at Firstdraft this month explores six contemporary Australian artists’ post-minimalist tendencies.
Artists: Peter Adsett, Gail Hastings, Laressa Kosloff, Pat Macan, Elizabeth Newman, Patricia Todarello.
Exhibition opens: Wednesday 16 June 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 4 July 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 4 July 2010 at 4pm

Taint observes the continued currency of the minimalist project through the disparate approaches of six contemporary Australian artists. The artists explore what could loosely be termed a post-minimalist tendency. Their works borrow from the now historical principles of minimalism, but interrupt and compromise the austere surfaces associated with the movement, subverting what was once a puritanical exercise in form, space, colour and composition.

These artists infuse works with pollutants; humour, domestic reference or emotive content and yet the strength of the works’ aesthetic presence could be said to be indebted to their Minimalist forebears. By enlivening and extending the post-minimalism debate, these works force the principles of the movement into a conversation with the present day, and therefore into the amorphous terrain of the postmodern.

The exhibition seeks to question the affect of revisiting the formal aesthetics of this period; of mimicry, re-enactment and a continued interest in reduction to essential form, to the audience and to their relation to the work.

Firstdraft is assisted by the NSW Government through Arts NSW and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body. Firstdraft is also supported by Jed Wines and Porter’s Paints.
Firstdraft Depot is supported by City of Sydney.

Firstdraft
116-118 Chalmers St.
Surry Hills NSW 2010
t: +61 (0)2 9698 3665
mail@firstdraftgallery.com
www.firstdraftgallery.com
open: Wed to Sun, 12-6pm

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17th Biennale of Sydney

May 24, ’10 2:33 PM

17th Biennale of Sydney

Daniel Crooks
Born 1973 in Hastings, New Zealand
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Static No.12 (seek stillness in movement)
2009-10 (video still), HD video (RED transferred to Blu-ray), dimensions variable
Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery
Copyright © Daniel Crooks 2009

Sydney, Australia: David Elliott, Artistic Director, today unveiled one of the most ambitious exhibitions ever staged by the Biennale of Sydney, which is presented free to the public from 12 May until 1 August 2010 at seven venues across the heart of the city. Based on the curatorial premise of The Beauty of Distance : Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, the exhibition presents more than 440 works by 166 artists and collaborators from 36 countries, making it the largest exhibition ever staged by the Biennale of Sydney in its 37-year history.

Lara Baladi
Born 1969 in Beirut, Lebanon
Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt
Perfumes & Bazaar, the Garden of Allah
2006, visual montage; print and light box, 248 x 560 cm
Technical production and printing, Factum Arte, Madrid
Copyright © Lara Baladi

70 artists will premiere new works made specifically for the Biennale of Sydney, with 22 of these being created by Australian artists. In the largest Australian representation than ever before, 65 local artists present works alongside their international peers.
Describing the exhibition as beautiful, challenging and memorable, Elliott said: ‘The 17th Biennale of Sydney aims to present diverse cultures on the equal playing field of contemporary art, where no culture can assume superiority over any other.
‘This exhibition has been designed with Sydney’s position as an iconic modern city in mind. Whilst it would stand up equally well in any international city, I believe many cities would not have the courage to show an exhibition of this scale. The Beauty of Distance contains contemporary art of many origins, looking towards the future, but inevitably formed by different experiences of the past. It asks the question: How much have things really changed in our world of transformation? How does this art reflect the actual world? The exhibition explores connections between the visual arts and other art forms and presents artists’ works alongside the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, commentators and musicians. There is a large performative element and while some projects will be displayed at venues for the duration of the exhibition, others will be one-off events and performances.’

Wang Qingsong
Born 1966 in Heilongjiang Province, China
Lives and works in Beijing, China
Competition
2004, c-type print, 170 x 300 cm
Courtesy the artist

The 17th Biennale is presented at seven venues across Sydney, taking in high-profile museum and gallery spaces as well as non-traditional art environments. Visitors will be able to experience artworks at Cockatoo Island, Pier 2/3, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney Opera House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Artspace and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Grand Court).

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Top Arts: VCE 2009

Apr 8, ’10 2:35 PM

Top Arts: VCE 2009

Eleanor Milentis
Conversations
calico, silk, polyester, cotton, silver and glass beads, metal
153.0 x 120.0 x 65.0 cm (variable) (installation)
Eltham College of Education, Research

Opening at in April, the National Gallery of Victoria will present the highly anticipated Top Arts: VCE 2009, an exhibition showcasing the artistic talents of young Victorians. Now in its sixteenth year, Top Arts will display over 80 works by 57 students from government, Catholic and independent schools from across Victoria. Students’ ideas are represented through a range of media, including drawing, film, painting, inkjet prints, textiles, and sculpture.

This year’s works have been inspired by a wide range of themes, including contemporary culture, the nature of relationships, life’s challenges and concern for the environment. Students have also been influenced by the works of illustrators, established artists, authors and filmmakers.

Alexandra Higgins
Love, charity and freedom
colour inkjet print
80.0 x 80.0 cm
Loreto Mandeville Hall, Toorak

Top Arts: VCE 2009 will be on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square from 1 April – 20 June 2010.
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia is open from 10am – 5pm, closed Mondays.
Admission is free.

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NGV: Rupert Bunny – Artist in Paris

Mar 16, ’10 3:18 PM

NGV: Rupert Bunny – Artist in Paris

Rupert Bunny, Australia 1864–1947, lived in Europe 1884–1933, Le bel après-midi (Royan) (c. 1908), oil on canvas, 114.3 x 152.0 cm, Private collection, Melbourne

On 26thMarch 2010, the National Gallery of Victoria will open a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Rupert Bunny (1864– 1947). Melbourne‐born Bunny was one of the most successful artists of his generation. Living most of his life in France, no other Australian artist achieved the accolades Bunny received in Paris in the 1890s and early 1900s.
This will be the first major exhibition of Bunny’s work since 1991. Organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales and curated by Deborah Edwards, the exhibition includes over 100 works – from his late nineteenth century symbolist inspired mythologies to his elegant Belle Époque paintings of fashionable Parisian leisure. Several of the works in the exhibition have never been seen in Australia, including paintings from the Musée d’Orsay and private collections in Europe.

Rupert Bunny, Australia 1864–1947, lived in Europe 1884–1933, A summer morning (c. 1897), oil on canvas, 97.9 x 129.5 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, M.J.M. Carter AO Collection through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2009. Given in memory of Jean A. Sutcliffe (1921- 2004)

Gerard Vaughan, NGV Director, said this visually stunning exhibition would provide a chance for visitors to enjoy and understand all the phases of the career of this important Australian artist. “Bunny was the first living Australian artist to have a retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1946. It is nearly 20 years since the last exhibition of Bunny’s work, so it is certainly time for audiences to re‐engage with his elegant, often sumptuous paintings.”
The National Gallery of Victoria is itself a major lender to the exhibition, with 18 works from the NGV Collection on display, highlights include Endormies c.1904, Courtesans in the countryside c.1920 (pictured), and Shrimp
fishers at Saint Georges c.1910. “The NGV has an outstanding collection of works by Rupert Bunny and we are thrilled to present them together with works from other Australian and international collections; this is a very important retrospective,” said
Dr Vaughan.

Rupert Bunny: Artist in Paris will be on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Federation Square from 26 March to 4 July 2010. A range of public and education programs will coincide with the exhibition.
Admission fees apply: Adult $15 / Concession $12 / Child $7.50 / Family $42
Principal Sponsor: Macquarie Group
Support Sponsors: Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, Dulux, JCDecaux, Melbourne Airport

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Engraving by Twoone

Feb 22, ’10 10:36 AM

Engraving by Twoone

At the Gorker Gallery: 25 february – 14 March, 2010
Twoone is an artist who’s work commands a certain kind of intrigue from it’s audience. His craftsmanship, patience and instantly recognizable decorative style resonates a flowing narrative, portraying a world of spiritual tranquility that you can’t help but wish to be a part of. He is an artist who’s quiet voice and kind nature are conflicting to his success, his artwork speaking for itself, with features in some of Australia’s premier art and design magazines and exhibiting with the likes of Graham Base in February this year. We see this as a promising beginning to 2010, with ‘Engraving’ set to be another exciting showcase of his work.

Engraving by Twoone

Opening Night Thursday 25 February, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Show runs until Sunday 14 March
Gorker Gallery opening hours:
3pm – 7:00pm Wednesday – Friday
11am – 7:00pm Saturday & Sunday
Wine Tasting Wednesday 10 Mach 6:00pm – 7:00pm
(Brought to you by Austin Wines)

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See more of Twoone’s work here

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Michael Steele, at Gorker Gallery, Melbourne, 4-21 February

Feb 8, ’10 2:22 PM

Michael Steele, at Gorker Gallery

Phone Home, Michael Steele

Gorker Gallery is proud to present ‘Accumulating’ by Michael Steele, Michael’s work has been making serious waves in the USA leading up to the end of last year with features on Juxtapoze.com and NotCot.org, his work in the HE-MAN show at gallery 1988 in LA flew off the wall and with some new T-designs on the popular Tank Theory website.

Steam Ball, Michael Steele

Michael Steele’s mixed media pop surrealist cluster paintings convey personal and culturally based themes. These themes are explored by sourcing and combining visual icons from the artist’s generation, referencing the development of computer game culture, the internet phenomenon, the evolution of a multicultural consumer society, advertising and the emergence of graffiti art.
By fusing recognizable visual elements together in random composition, the works engage the viewer to respond to each combination. The works are rich in communication, obvious and hidden messages lie within each explosion of visual stimulus to interpret.

Invaders, Michael Steele

As an artist based out of Melbourne Australia, Steele has always had a keen interest in anything creative from a very young age. Over the years Michael has explored different mediums such as illustration, oil paintings and digital media, fine tuning his artistic abilities in each. Over the past year Michael has created works as a part of the ‘Cluster’ series, exploring various styles techniques and mediums. “A Cluster to me resembles images or objects grouped together to form something larger. I feel this give images or objects a stronger presence, rather than being displayed by themselves, creating a much more dynamic experience for the viewer.” – Michael Steele

Nature’s Return, Michael Steele

Show runs until Sunday 21 February
Gorker Gallery opening hours:
3pm – 7:00pm Wednesday – Friday
11am – 7:00pm Saturday & Sunday
Wine Tasting Wednesday 17 february 6:00pm – 7:00pm
(Brought to you by Austins wine)

See Michael Steele’s here & Gorker’s website

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Craft Victoria: Launch of COOKBOOK north/south

Craft Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria present Places and Pieces

Melbourne International Arts Festival 2010 – Highlights

Creamier – Contemporary Art in Culture

Semi-Permanent Melbourne 2010 – Launch

MoMa: New Photography 2010

Firstdraft: Colony Collapse; Slide ; How to draw sex, violence and death the Luke Thurgate way; Twist

Taint

17th Biennale of Sydney

17th Biennale of Sydney

Top Arts: VCE 2009

Top Arts: VCE 2009

NGV: Rupert Bunny – Artist in Paris

NGV: Rupert Bunny – Artist in Paris

Engraving by Twoone

Engraving by Twoone

Michael Steele, at Gorker Gallery, Melbourne, 4-21 February

Michael Steele, at Gorker Gallery

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