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2010
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My Conceptual Playmate Opening Fri 17th Dec, 6 to 8pm 16 to 19th December Solo Show By T.A.L.L. Tiny Arms, Long Legs (T.A.L.L.) My Conceptual Playmate documents the interaction between a lonely, self-confessed neo-Hegelian – known only as Tiny Arms, Long Legs – and those contending for the role as his “conceptual playmate.” This is a mapping of misinformation and desperation, and the gulf between the cultural elite and the consumer of tabloid erotica. My Conceptual Playmate traces its origins as an advertisement in the personal classified section of a regional Australian tabloid newspaper, and is realised via hundreds of text messages from respondents prepared to stoop to unprecedented lows in the name of desire. T.A.L.L.’s demands that they read Hegel’s Introductory Lectures in Aesthetics before the relationship progresses feeds a subplot, populated with a cast exposing the desperation of the decrepit many and the righteousness of the privileged few. Check out the article about T.A.L.L.'s upcoming show in Trouble! |
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Gathering Intelligence
Opening Friday 3rd December 6 to 9
4th to 7th December Curated by, Serena Susnjar Gathering Intelligence is group show aimed at showcasing the recent works of a selection of emerging artists from around the Brunswick area. This show will include mediums of video, drawing, painting, sound installation, and sculpture. The purpose of this show will not only be a forum for recent ideas and expression, but it will also represent a conclusion to this years work, a way for everyone to look back on the year and select something that best shows what they were pondering or what they concluded from there ideas in 2010. Featuring works from: Adele Smith . Serena Susnjar . Rylie Thomas . Kalinda Vary . Michael Waiser . Polly Stanton . Chris Smith . Paul Mylecharane . Pascal Babare . Erin Crouch Check out the article in the Leader! |
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What’s Yours is Mine
Friday 26th November Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start What’s Yours is Mine is a new performance work-in-progress combining live performance, animation, installation and copious amounts of charisma. The show traces a series of bizarre and comic vignettes which wryly address the paradoxes of life – the beauty and the ugliness; the joy and the sorrow; the luminous and the mundane. It is about us. All of us. Come and take part. Who knows? You might just get a glimpse of yourself. The Chaotic Order is an inter-disciplinary performance ensemble which charms and challenges audiences with its unique but strangely familiar stories. Hypnotic and darkly humorous, The Chaotic Order takes a unique view on the absurdities of the human condition. The ensemble is a cheeky revolution that transcends social, ethical and cultural definitions by celebrating shared humanity. |
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Solo shows by Renee Ferris, Stuart Walsh and Nick Pledge
November 6th to 21st Opening November 5th 6 to 9pm |
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Gallery One: Renée Ferris
In the Morning Cut-Up In the Morning Cut-Up has evolved from In the Morning: a suite of five etchings of my mother’s bed, which recall the moment of her passing. The etched lines navigate subtle shifts in the creases of the sheets and pillow of an empty bed. In the Morning Cut-Up utilizes these prints for a series of circular collages. The etched paper is cut in to fragments and rearranged in an aleatory manner. This is similar to the cut-up literary technique of the Dadaists, in which text was cut up and rearranged to create a new non-linear text. In the Morning Cut-Up is a non-linear, abstracted transformation of In the Morning; now abstracted, spidery and gentle, yet jarring. |
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Gallery Two: Nick Pledge
‘The Life Within’ 'The life within' is a collection of ideas that started in my subconscious and slowly surfaced. I began making the pieces without really knowing where they would take me. On reflection, they are observations of people around me, but taken into a surreal landscape where scale is turned on its head and art, nature, technology and iconic designs merge. Childhood memories of much loved objects co-exist with others that depict a menacing human inventive genius. |
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Gallery Three: Stuart Walsh
It is a desolate, empty cityscape that creates the backdrop for this collection of wide-eyed, illustrated portraits. These are the witnesses to the encroachment of a dehumanised urban wasteland, where black crows stalk the skies and the lack of life provokes paralysis; where drawn faces point deformed fingers at their surrounds, and stare searchingly out to the viewer for a response. But this is not a series of monsters. These, often grotesque, portraits are an expression of blank remorse, of humanity already overwhelmed – one which has crossed over to someplace not so far removed. Post-apocalyptic, yes, but somehow these faces exist now. |
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Meanwhile @ Brunswickarts
Vivadi Music and Brunswick Arts Space presents a night of improvised music featuring some of Australia's finest musicians. Friday 19th November Doors 7pm The evening will feature a solo improvisation by Scott Tinkler. Scott Tinkler is an innovator and one of Australia's improvised music legends. Having performed with the Australian Art Orchestra, Mark Simmonds Freeboppers and The Paul Grabowsky Quintet plus leading many of his own groups. Scott endeavors to span the sonic spectrum through his extension knowledge of the trumpet. This set will be followed by the Phil Noy Trio. Phil Noy is one of Australia's most respected saxophonist. Phil will be performing music from such composers as Tristano, Monk, Ornette, Cannonball and Miles. His trio will featuring the infamous Allan Browne (recipient of the Don Banks Award and the Bell Hall of Fame) and the young Sam Zerna. This is sure to be a great night. |
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A DIRTY SHAME by John Waters
Thursday, October 28th, 7.30pm Come along Thursday, October 28th, for a screening of A DIRTY SHAME by John Waters - the second film in the BA Suggestable Cinemaplex series. Doors open around 7pm, and the shame starts from 7.30pm. PIzzas are available from Sahara up the road, and booze from the BA bar. See y'all there! |
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A Moment Longer than Time
Adam Taylor Sat 23rd October 6 to 8pm One night event The first solo photography exhibition by Adam Taylor In this exhibition, Adam aims to explore the differences between how our own perceptions, and those of a camera perceive moments as they proceed through time. We're all familiar with motion in our every day lives, but the results captured by the camera, which can condense motion and events into a single frame, can truly defy the senses. With the pieces exhibited in this show, Adam has aimed to take everyday (and not so everyday) scenes, familiar in ways to the viewer, and present them as seen in another world, where stars leave trails across the night sky, and flames coil like serpents through long forgotten places. The pieces will range from those exploring the quiet beauty of Australia’s nocturnal landscapes, to the more sinister, of Melbourne’s abandoned places, with a fair amount in between, and will all be available for sale, limited to 10 per photo, as either a print, block mount of framed. |
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The tententen show
Mimmo Cozzolino, Ness Flett, The Ten Buck Collective, John Hall, Luke Warm, Grace Tan, Ahmarnya Price, Jess Booth, Hannah Vellacott, Jessica Neath.
Curated by Ness Flett. The last night of the Melbourne Fringe Festival sees the Opening of the Ten ten ten show; On the 10th of October 2010, a collective show of 10 artists will fill the space with their work. Given the date and theme, the show will be entitled tententen, and will involve the artists responding as loosely as they see fit to the theme of 10 - 10 - 10. A number or date may initially seem an unusual theme respond to, but the present time may serve as a vantage point for retrospection, or perhaps it’s the progress we’ve made as an individual, a society or a species as well as the skills, evolutions and changes that have occurred up until now. Time as a package, and container, a list and a measurement. Ten as a unit, a decimal, a weight and a score. Ten as a collection. Live performance on the night by May Bluebell.See the website for more details: www.the-tententen-show.com |
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Marking Time
24th September - 3rd October Opening night: Sunday 26th September 3-6pm We live in a world structured by time. Our daily commitments are directed by the mechanics of time that in turn shape the progress of our lives: past, present and future. Art history defines time in “periods” and “isms”, and philosophy considers it in relation to space. Nature measures time in seasons, eons, metamorphoses, life and death. There is a time for all things under the sun, we call “time gentlemen”, and remark on how time flies. Inundated with words and measures, we yearn for time out. Each of the five participating artists will create a work of art that responds to their relationship with time: Rushdi Anwar addresses the role chance plays in his art practice. He works with natural materials that are transformed over time, and directly records this change process on paper. Rushdi Anwar addresses the role chance plays in his art practice. He works with natural materials that are transformed over time, and directly records this change process on paper. Sarah Edwards responds to the nature of time. She constructs experiences that are both timely and timeless using temporary and technology-based mediums. Melanie Jayne Taylor responds to the camera’s role in capturing and transcending time. Melanie considers that photographs are a collection of “dead moments”, and manipulates time to create images that are both of this world and unworldly. Trudy Moore creates vast large-scale drawings. Time becomes a tool with which she is able to access a channel of intuitive thought and process. Fernando Garcia Vasquez investigates notions of “evidence” and its role in our understanding of past, present and future. He addresses how the past is brought into the present through processes of recycling, replacement and appropriation. Sarah Edwards responds to the nature of time. She constructs experiences that are both timely and timeless using temporary and technology-based mediums. Special Event Floor Talk - Sunday 26 September, 3pm – 6pm Two prominent academics will respond to the exhibition content: • Associate Professor David Thomas, RMIT University • Dr Muammad Kamal, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne  |
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Shutter Speed Luminosity
August 13 to 29, 2010 Opening night: August 13 6-8 pm Elyss McCleary Oil on canvas, works on paper (water colours, sketches), light projections. An angle of light creates a mood of unease. It’s to do with the setting, the time of day, a light wind. There’s familiarity in it, the feeling that you’ve known it before, but also the sense that something’s out of place. You can’t put your finger on it, but it unsettles what was otherwise an uneventful afternoon. In ‘Shutter Speed Luminosity’, Elyss McCleary captures these moments in uncertain scenes, underpinned by a cinematic construction. Figures are blurred, details merge with their surroundings, images are smudged. The locations – supermarkets, conference centers, park lands – are at once identifiable and anonymous. Light and colour are amplified and distorted, at times verging on the lurid – green-tinged yellows, salmon pinks, vivid oranges – while elsewhere, the desaturation is haunting. These works are not without nostalgia, a feeling that’s reinforced by their cinematic framing. Each painting is banded by a black strip across the top and bottom, transforming the still lifes into film stills. Each set then becomes an undefined plot sequence, grouped together by location, evoking an unexplained narrative. Even the range of colour and hue seems to occur by adjusting aperture and contrast more than changing palette.There’s a degree of parody here, too. Awareness and choice. The use of yellow, for example, is based on a survey of anxiety-inducing colours. It’s deliberately used to provoke, while the moments are deliberately constructed to unsettle, and deliberately staged to appear as if through a lens. We discover within the choice of location as well. While most of the settings are banal and suburban, the series around a country house sits somewhere between the romantic and the gaudy, with pinks and greens threatening to capsize the would-be earnest images. The scenes play out as a calmly disturbing narrative of paranoia, underpinned by a sardonic sense of humour. Paranoia and anxiety thus occur in ‘Shutter Speed Luminosity’ less as themes and more as emotional responses. In particular, as a reaction to the play of light in place. McCleary’s work is about acknowledging these responses as at once serious, unsettling, embarrassing and funny. Looking at the paintings, you can’t pick what’s been added or removed to create the sense of unease. But you can appreciate that at certain times, in certain places, where the light angles a certain way, there’s a system that brings on that particular disquiet and foreboding. |
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little memories
Opening 9th July, until the 25th Group show curated by Lenni Morkel-Kingsbury Marion Piper – Sarah Edwards - Ria Green - Colleen Jones - Rene Ferris - Tanya Mc Cracken - Bettina Hamilton - Lucy Farmer - Ann Brennan - Alister Karl little memories is an exhibition about those seemingly inconsequential, unarchived everyday thoughts and things that trigger our remembrances , our actions and quietly confirm our identity. little memories pass through our consciousness as we (re)collect and construct our understanding of present moments of existence. little memories are those otherwise disregarded, non- monumentalised details of our own personal (hi)stories which threaten to slip away until we utter… …I remember… |
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Three Solo Shows - Heidi Tatchell, Jessie Willow Tucker and Leon van de Graaff.
May 14 - April 23 Heidi Tatchell Form and Formless Presents images of Powelltown saw mill focusing on architecture and raw materials and pattern, exploring precise repetition and the organic pattern’s of nature. Jessie Willow Tucker Avis Rara Wall mounted busts/portraits of strange and exotic, imaginary bird species, reminiscent of Mexican folk art, playing with the relationship between 2D and 3Drepresentation. Tucker explores humanities fascination withthe exotic, and the consequent death of beauty in its display. Her work is bright and outrageous as well as complex and considered. Leon van de Graaff. The illusion of permanence A small collection of works from the recent past and the near future. Leon creates very small (or some times very large) immersive worlds filled with tricky gadgetry and romantic notions |
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re·volt
[ri-vohlt]
-verb 1. To break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government. 2. To turn away in mental rebellion, utter disgust, or abhorrence. 3. To rebel in feeling: (to revolt against parental authority). 4. To feel horror or aversion: (to revolt at the sight of blood). You are invited to the opening of 'Revolt', New works by Benjamin Webb in his first Solo show. |
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Launch 2010
LAUNCH 2010 is a unique, considered, and multifaceted collection of works that respond to the fundamental themes facing the emerging artists who created them—themes of change, development, tradition and identity.
In the 1950s, novelist Kurt Vonnegut was fresh out of university. Wondering where his career was headed, he took a job at Sports Illustrated magazine, where his first assignment was to write an article about a horse that had jumped a fence during a race in an attempt to escape. The story goes that after staring at the blank piece of paper in his typewriter all morning, Vonnegut wrote, “the horse jumped over the fucking fence” and then left the building. Disillusioned, and on the verge of abandoning his art altogether, Vonnegut took a teaching job at a writers’ workshop. During his time there, his thesis became a bestseller, and he began the novel Slaughterhouse Five, which would go on to become one of the most popular novels of all time. Vonnegut’s story is dramatic, but not terribly unique. Many artists leaving university find themselves questioning their practice, their industry, their peers, and their professional identity. Each year, LAUNCH brings together a group of recent graduates whose work in part forms a response to these questions. Always a highlight of the year’s exhibition calendar, LAUNCH consistently features a dynamic, diverse and insightful group of artists. And LAUNCH 2010 is no exception. The artists exhibiting in LAUNCH 2010 occupy a unique, sometimes coveted and often terrifying position between two places. Their work invites the viewer to ponder the reflection, expectation, transition and change that such a time brings. |
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Entry 20.10
Opening Fri 5th Feb 6 to 9pm
This year we have almost 50 artists all working to a high caliber so come along to see our biggest show for the year! First prize, a free show at Brunswick arts in one of its 3 spaces. Second prize, $100 gift voucher from Senior art supplies Prize to be announced at 8.30 on the opening night 2010 Winner: Meagan Owers David Ramm . Matthew McGrath . Bec James . Meagan Owers . Marina Alamo Bryan . Fabián Gutiérrez Bahena . Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman . Paul Ikin . Leon van de Graaff . Nicola Merinda Ries . Yuria Okamura . Pierre Lloga . Marissa Antolino .Melanie Jayne . Rebecca Barkley . Benjamin Dendle . Bernadette Boundy . Leah Muddle . Isabelle Stoner . Rebecca Rowe . Cheryl Conway . Alexander Dathe . Anna Steele . Jane Korman . Aubrey Rhodes . Kaye Roberts-Palmer.Rena Litteson . Leith Walton . Simon Nham . Renee Ferris . Kaitlin Beckett . Juan Martorana . Nicole Davis . Karen Melzack . Karis Sim . Elyss McCleary . Andrew Follows . Nick Ilton . Sherry Paddon . Telia Nevile . Stuart walsh . Fabien . Marina . Bea Bayes . Rachel Hiskins . Andrew brown . Claire Gallagher . Sue Lock . Adele Smith . Monika Poray Entry is Brunswick Art’s annual fundraiser and introduction to the New Year. We would like to thank Senior Art Supplies for its kind donation. |
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