29 January – 9 February |
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Gallery 1 Skin-Jobs Sarah Berners 'Skin-Job' is based on the eroticisation of an inorganic body within popular culture and refers to both the true inanimate variety, exemplified within the shop mannequin, and the aphrodisiac qualities of the airbrush in crafting our contemporary ideals within the spheres of fashion and advertising. |
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12 February – 23 February |
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| Gallery 1 Electric Paper 4 Rebecca DeLange Electric Paper is an installation based body of work in which the practice of drawing and painting are pushed beyond the parameters of the page and into three-dimensional space. The work explores ideas of contrast, difference, energy and growth. |
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Gallery 2 Desire and the Other Clare Rae This series is primarily concerned with identity construction, specifically relating to femininity. By questioning the way I represent female subjectivity and experience within the patriarchal constructions of form and expression, I am attempting to relinquish the burden of passivity that is often synonymous with femininity. |
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Gallery 1 Nukk Anna Davern This work is a result of Anna Davern's recent 4 month residency at the Estonian Academy of Art in Tallinn. Davern has taken a ubiquitous kitsch souvenir, the Matryoshka or Russian 'nesting doll', deconstructed and then reconstructed it to produce a body of work investigating foreignness and national identity. |
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Gallery 2 Narratives of the Personal, the Playful, and the Peaceful Chloe Vallance Narratives of the Personal the Playful and the Peaceful explores the simplicity of intimacy experienced by a solitary figure through small scale drawings developed from observation and photographs of family and friends. Sequencing imagery to allude to narration in the form of storyboard, family album or film still, exploring the importance of place in relation to intimate experiences of human interaction, a moment at a time . |
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Gallery 1 Square Enough Julia Theobalt Minimalism and geometric forms in space inspire Julia Theobalt's recent “paintings” to create a play with perspectives, illusion and reflection. The relationship between these elements becomes a main focus by making reflective works that create spaces within a space. |
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Gallery 2 Sleepless Bonnie Lane Sleepless is an attempt to relay the often excruciating experience of the inability to sleep, and the fear that arrises from being all alone in the dark. |
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Gallery 1 A Particular Nothing Alex Penfold Part of an on-going project exploring the relationship between space and human identity- “a particular nothing” investigates the notion of “reflective space”. |
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Gallery 1 & 2 Uneasy Ang Connor, Andy Hutson, Amy-Jo Jory, Emma Morgan In today’s political and cultural climate fear is an everyday state of affairs. Individuals, as they live their lives from work to home, survive as best they can by pushing societal pressures and fears into their subconscious. These sublimated anxieties manifest themselves in myriad form, at any time, anywhere. |
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Gallery 1 & 2 We've Got A Love Like Electric Sound* Catherine Connolly, Candice Cranmer, Stephen Palmer, Carl Scrase, Sally Tape, Fiona Williams 'We've Got A Love Like Electric Sound’ is inspired by the making of a mix tape and its symbolic place within contemporary culture, and consists of works exploring the transactions between art, music and popular culture. *Title derived from Suede's 'Electricity' |
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6May– 17 May |
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Gallery 1 Rules Bryan Spier These new abstract paintings strain against the boundary of self-imposed rules. The frenetic tangle of stripes and electric colours recall Op-art, colour field painting and modernist graphic design. |
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Gallery 2 Overload Peter Gurry This project was based around a process of limited intervention and the use of low tech materials to deal with profound ideas. The works are so loaded that they are almost vacuous when displayed as a suite of conversing objects. |
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20 May – 31 May |
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Gallery 1 Land Inspection Now Open David Short With interest rates rising, property prices booming, and land plots becoming smaller and smaller, dirt is not cheap. From 99 suburbs across Melbourne, 99 samples of land extracted, valued, individually packaged, sold, in an exhibition by David Short that questions the ever rising commodity of dirt. |
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Gallery 2 Inside Outside Inside On Kenzie McKenzie & James Brown A a new immersive animated installation work from Sydney based artists Kenzie McKenzie and James Brown. An artificial environment in which audience members can lie on a floor covered in grass and gaze up at a projection screen that simulates a shifting blue sky full of clouds. The artificial sky then morphs to create an animated wonderland of vivid images from psychedelic animals to hyper colour organic growths. |
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3 June – 14 June |
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Gallery 1 Labyrinth (curated by Rifky Effendy) Hamad Khalaf & Iswanto Hartono A collaborative installation by Hamad Khalaf and Iswanto Hartono. Both artists have been drawn to the contemporary issue of war through different means and have harnessed unique sets of arsenals to wage and engage dialog. Khalaf’s signature has been the combination of found military objects and Greek mythology. Khalaf perverts violence with decorative beauty to lay bare our fixation on war. Iswanto more straightforwardly depicts war and global political linkages through spatial arrangements and symbolic play.In their collaboration, the artists present a spatial juxtaposition of neon lights and objects. An atmosphere of twilight is created with blue throughout an entire room transformed into a labyrinth. The labyrinth created is a metaphor of spatial experience that represent a search for humane cultural values within the culture of war.(text by Rifky Effendy, Curator based in Jakarta) |
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Gallery 2 Remote Nation Cyrus, Wai-kuen Tang Human kind has always been fascinated with “another world”. Is the magical city really existed or only in fairy tale? This mixed media Installation represents an emotional place that emblematises a view of 'home' that is fabricated by fantasy and nostalgia. Cyrus Tang is a Melbourne-based artist who graduated from Victoria College of the Arts with Honours in 2004. She recently attended the artist residency in the Banff Centre in early 2008. |
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17 June – 28 June |
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Gallery 1 & 2 Welcome Leo Zylberberg, Jessica Crowe, Francisca Byrnes, Claire Best Welcome...you have been placed in a queue. Your call is important to us. Please wait for your number to be displayed. |
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