2013

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2013

This years winner Guy Pascoe

"Untitled", David Pereira

"Organism" John Brooks

"Flystay", Michael Carolan

"Sway Two", Kate Carey Peters

Runner up, Ben Taranto

"Gridding", Michael Thomas

"Light Beer", Anne-Marie Kuter,

"Untitled 2012", Paul Batt

"Yawn Four" Natalie Britten

Launch 2013

Opening Friday 22nd Feb 6 to 9pm
Running 23rd Feb to 10th March

Helen Borowski | Anna Trundle | Michele Donegan | Laura Wood | Danny Digby | Felicity Why | Lauren Young | Lucinda Anderwartha | Alex Purchase | Nina Magee

Curated by Ive Sorocuk and Josephine Waite

Each year, LAUNCH brings together a group of recent graduates from universities around Melbourne. Always a highlight of the year’s exhibition calendar,LAUNCH is a survey of some of the year's most dynamic, diverse and insightful new work.

Helen Borowski

Distatched
Curated by Andrew Wear
as part of the 25th Brunswick Music Festival

Neil Sanders | Jody Lloyd | Alister Karl | Craig R Cole | Andrew Wear

Opening Friday 15th March
Running 16th to 24th March

The debate about whether or not social media and new and emerging technologies make us increasingly detached or disassociated from or increasingly engaged with each other now seems moot.

Let us instead celebrate the harmonious absurdism of our condition!

Distatched is a celebration of disengagement, disparity and detatchment...a huzzah! for the confused…a celebration of all that makes our lives, now, as real as any lives lived, or to be lived.

Sounds and sights may perplex us; but amidst all the chaos, rhythm survives and flourishes.

Off The Ladies’ Back
Sunday 7th April to Saturday 13th April
Sponsored by Moreland City council and Mrs SecondHand.

OFF THE LADIES BACK' is a Fashion/Arts Space hosted by Melbourne Designer label ELandTINO celebrating everything exciting about the Melbourne Creative Industry.

7th APRIL from 6pm
FASHION LAUNCH PARTY and POP UP SHOP LAUNCH

ELandTINO Melbourne Designer Evening Wear; Second Collection Launch Party PROPAGANDA 2013 screening of Campaign Film 7pm. Featuring PROPAGANDA collection artwork by Ellanor Robinson, film; Japanese gamma ray by Jake Harris and beautiful live performance by Olga G Medooza.

OFFICAL launch of Melbourne Designer POP UP SHOP featuring;

ELandTINO -Alternative Evening Wear and Market Collection, Stella Blanche -FASHION + ART ... POP, Accute -Polymer Clay Jewellery and Soy Woodwick Candles, Sunjit -Unique Knitting and Crochet, Wei Lan -Womenswear and Intimate Apperal, Studio 941 -Hand painted Silk Scarves, Berserk -Independent Clothing, Preap and Coutts -Making Women Awesome Since 2006.

8th APRIL from 6pm
ARTIST OPENING

Peace Bat Collective Gallery Launch; street art-indoors

Nice Cat gallery will Host a collection of local graffiti artist in a stunning in door street art exhibition. Not to be missed.

9th APRIL from 6pm
FASHION LAUNCH and ARTIST LAUNCH

Elleni Knitwear Fashion Launch

Elenii is a unique knitwear brand including ladies and men’s accessories. Each handcrafted piece details the creative use of texture, form and colour.

Helen Noulas is the knitwear designer behind elenii. Her collection is created with a Singer domestic knitting machine whilst hand manipulated to allow each pieces to tell its own story. elenii is launching it's new Autumn/Winter collection " Gypsy Love".

Showcasing her trademark statement piece jewellery, the large sculptural pieces also the small and intricate. Unisex knitted Scarfs,Ties and Bow Ties. In this collection elenii is incorporating metal and knit, a dark gem coloured palette with a mix of metallics.

(Elenii has received acclaim at Rose street Markets, and other Melbourne artisan markets

Tripitaka aka Chris Le – Artist/Illustrator

Melbourne based artist and illustrator will be show casing whats new to the illustration and arts scene in melbourne.

10th APRIL from 6pm
ARTIST OPENING

Dirty Feminist Gallery Launch; Naked Rave

After showcasing their first exhibition, Dirty Feminist, Payne and Howells are continuing their collaboration with the exhibition of new works at Brunswick Arts Gallery. Their works continue to explore how and why being sexual for a female has become synonymous with not being a feminist? Susan Brownmiller has said ‘you think you’re being brave, you think you’re being sexy, you think you’re transcending feminism…but that’s bullshit’. – what place does female sexuality have in contemporary feminism? In Payne and Howells latest exhibition, the artists have experimented with the practices of popular media, using their own bodies to ask questions of the popular perceptions of female sexuality

11th APRIL starting 6.30pm
LIVE CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Hallow Cellist by Jess Keeffe

Hallows is the solo project of cellist and composer Jess Keeffe. Armed with a loop pedal and a microphone, her misty sounds will soothe and warm your soul.

Sponsored by

12th APRIL 10am-Late
FUN-draiser Red Cross Family Day

The Red Cross: One-Day Market!

The Red Cross will be hosting a day and night fundraiser sale.

13th APRIL 10am-Late
POP UP SHOP Closing Sale

VIP Pop Up Shop Sale (Invite Only)

ELandTINO -Alternative Evening Wear and Market Collection, Stella Blanche -FASHION + ART ... POP, Accute -Polymer Clay Jewellery and Soy Woodwick Candles, Sunjit -Unique Knitting and Crochet, Wei Lan -Womenswear and Intimate Apperal, Studio 941 -Hand painted Silk Scarves, Berserk -Independent Clothing, Preap and Coutts -Making Women Awesome Since 2006.

Receive 10-20% off with ticket, inquiries for tickets at [email protected]

The End Or
Pissing out the Window

Friday 26th April,
Doors at 7pm

It’s the end of the world. Who are you bringing to dinner?

A live art experiment from performance artist Justin Nott.

So sit down and shut up. Or don’t.

Scarborough
May 2nd – 18th, 2013

Thurs – Sat
8pm Thurs, 7pm and 9pm Fri and Sat
Tickets $27 Full, $19 Concession

by The Honeytrap

A dirty weekend by the sea and a brand new PS3!
We’ll screw, we’ll laugh, we’ll drink every alco-pop in town.
We’ll just stay here, we’ll not go out at all.
This is our time. By ourselves. Just us.
…We need to talk.

Love affairs are complex. Often doomed. Most would be tested when confined to one small room for 72 hours straight.
Especially when the affair is between a mouthy sixteen year old and a hot Phys Ed teacher…

Directed by Loren de Jong and Celeste Markwell.
Designed by Casey-Scott Corless
With Libby Brockman, Matthew Connell, Doug Lyons and Joanne Redfearn

In the Heart of Autumn
May 25th & 26th, 2013
7pm

Tickets $15 Full, $10 Concession

Presented by The Stain

Watch hearts break & fluids fly, in the first signature work by The Stain. In the Heart of Autumn is a cabaret meets burlesque show, dowsed in rock, strip, and song, interpreted and reinterpreted for your viewing pleasure. Add some opera, a harp, and a peculiarly seductive host and In the Heart of Autumn will surely capture your senses.

Featuring music & performance by The Stain, with special guests, your host Lady Kate Boston Smith (Kitty Bang, Real Hot Bitches), harp player Genevieve Fry (Four Larks Theatre Company, Grand Salvo), & direction by Anni Davey (Circus Oz, Yana Alana, Crying in Public Places). We invite you to share this intimate evening with us.

ABOUT THE STAIN:

The Stain are Erica Pringle, Helen Tuton, Jo Franklin & Francesca Sculli, an eclectic mob of musicians and performers (Women’s Circus, Hissy Fit, Rock Strip, Purring Furmaids & more amongst them). Melbourne-based and electrified, they cross cover elements from rock to gaga with a dash of cabaret. Interested in the culmination of music, story, costume and song, their show In the Heart of Autumn, is their first signature work in a series. Their performance may leave you with many more questions than answers, but they are The Stain. They are hard to remove.

Music and Performance by The Stain, Genevieve Fry, Kate Boston Smith
Directed by Anni Davey
Photography by Ruth Cunningham
Production/Sound by Alison Currie

Info & contact: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Stain-present

Group show curated by Squishface Studio and a solo show by Guy Pascoe
Opening Friday 31st May 6 to 9pm
Running 1st to 16th June

Gallery One and Two:
Exhibitchin' II
Curated by Squishface Studio

Ben Hutchings | David Blumenstein | Sarah Howell | Ive Sorocuk | Patrick Alexander | Scarlette Baccini | Arran McKenna | Marta Tesoro | Jase Harper | Andrew Fulton | Erin Hunting | Alex Clark | Sarah Badcock | Rob Macfarlane | David Pereira

Rad local cartoonists drawing the things they find to be the most bitchin' in what promises to be the dangerously explosive balls-out guitar solo of art shows.

Gallery Three:
The Uncertainty of Naming
by Guy Pascoe

Within the architecture of the gallery, the frame re-enacts itself and encapsulates the way our values and institutions structure how we operate in the world. The world frames our experience and the earth becomes an amorphous mass out of which we create our world. But the earth never reveals itself, always illusive it remains in the background as ground and without earth or ground we could not see the world. A materially suggestive composition is set up in the gallery space with an intention to reveal this framing paradigm.

Border Crossers
group show by Coalesce collective

Opening Friday 21st June
Running 22nd June to 7th July

Elina Gault – Layla Hackman,
Erin Carew - Laura Bailey - Freyja Ronngard,
Jessica Donelan – Joshua Gurtler,
Jessica Ledwich – Felicity Dessewffy,
Marianne Diaz – George Chang,
Mike Hawkins - Liam Gomez-Kervin,
Phil Soliman- Matt Radin,
Samantha Heriz – Alice Lewis

‘Border Crossers’, a collaboration experiment between 17 paired artists and non-artists, investigates the physical and metaphorical borders that exist between the constraints of their respective disciplines. These cross-disciplinary collaborations offer participants the opportunity to share and learn skills, processes and concepts and develop networks.

Coalesce is a multidisciplinary collective that seeks to actively engage the RMIT and wider community through visual, performance and public art.

Solo shows by Jesse Dyer, Danny Cisco and Cameron Hibbs
Opening Friday 12th July
Running 13th to 28th July

Gallery one:
Novella
by Jesse Dyer

Novella is photographic story. A translation of Kurt Tucholsky’s Schloß Gripsholm, not a translation from German to English but rather a translation from one visual code to another. Linguistic signs are replaced by photographic signs. Through this process the narrative is freed from the linear constraints of written language and becomes image and object. A book-object which installed is no longer an individual book or story but a signifier of the Paperback Novel.

Gallery two:
It's a Prototype
by Danny Cisco

Cisco explores various inventions, from the hyper-mundane to the unnecessarily fanciful.

It's a Prototype includes (but may not be limited to):

Prototype 1: a Self Practicing-Golf-Machine
You know the scenario well, you have many golf putting machines, but no time for golf practice. Can the machines practice for you?

Prototype 2: The Super-Trophy
How many achievements can you hold in one object? Are you the world's greatest success?

Prototype 3: Traffic Life
"Hey Green Man, what have you been up to?"
"Not much Red Man, You?"
"Nah, not much, just working."

Gallery Three:
Tunes from the External Hard Drive
Cameron Hibbs

‘Tunes from the External Hard Drive’ works in conjunction with the release of debut album of contemporary Australian Irish band, Tolka. Each drawing relates to a specific track on the album and is based on a series of circular graphs involving combinations of time, note, fret numbers and flute fingerings. The shape, line distribution and occasionally the colour are determined by different elements found in the music. The lightly drawn graphs, still visible in the finished pieces, are tailored for each individual drawing depending on the range of pitches. Thus, each drawing is specific to the instrument playing in each correlating piece of music. The power of these pieces lies in the strong juxtaposition of the mathematical and geometric against the fluid and organic, resulting in an engaging and rhythmic arrangement where the circular form creates a strong sense of motion.

Solo shows by Alice Alva, Jess Kelly and Andy Robertson

Opening Friday 2nd August
Running 3rd to 18th August

Gallery one:
I need a life, where can I download one?
by Alice Alva

I need a life, where can I download one? focuses on creating a distance between the internet and the seemingly “lost art” of drawing or illustration. By using a traditional approach to art-making, Alva recontextualises images, symbols and subcultures that exist on the internet as a means of disconnecting or disengaging from cyberspace and its various online communities.

Gallery Two:
Photosynthesis
by Jess Kelly

This body of work by local-artist-not-scientist Jess Kelly examines the phenomena of photosynthesis.

She illustrates her findings in large-as-life paper cutouts of a light’s slow metamorphosis into a tree.

Gallery three:
Works 2012
by Andy Robertson

A survey of ideas for films and installations conceived over the course of 2012 by Melbourne artist Andy Robertson.

Mostly unrealised at the time, each piece is now presented as a photographic mock-up or replica, which, to some extent at least, does justice to their subject matter of fleeting observations collected during time spent ‘doing other things.’

Gallery one, two and three
Wild Fermentation!

Opening 23rd August 6 to 9pm
Running 24th August to 8th September

scrap princess | Elizabeth Hickey | Gonzalo Ceballos | Renuka

Wild Fermentation is a group of solo efforts by 4 artists. Scrap Princess describes her work as totems of an automated machine blindly aping sorcery. Elizabeth Hickey is a printmaker whose sophisticated etchings will lend our whole show a touch of maturity. Gonzalo will come up with an installation that will be vibrant for sure, mediums combining to express his monologue. Renuka is making a bunch of books for this show that have their moments of depressive humour and hand-on joy.

Icons to Idols:
A Cosmological Odyssey

Polaris Arts Initiative | Mark Clough | Pauline Kennedy | Emmal Naiun | Jef Rudolf

Opens Friday 13 September 2013 6pm-9pm
Exhibition 14 - 22 September

Four artists come together on an odyssey between the Icon and the Idol. They look beyond the Icon to the mystery it represents. When the Icon becomes the Idol, the gazes no longer penetrates to discern meaning, but focuses instead on the symbol. Finally the gaze turns back on itself into the 'selfie' and a new Idol is born.

Gallery one, two and three
Bond Song
curated by Alister Karl

Opening 27th September 6 to 9pm
Running 28th September to 6th October

Genevieve Piko | The Chaotic Order | Alister Karl | Max Piantoni | Monique Barnett | Ive Sorocuk | The Dark Carnival Dolls and Jenna Corcoran | Jamie Rawls

Every Bond movie has a Bond song..... We all know it. Sometimes we wonder if the movie or the song came first. From Russia with Love, Live and Let Die, Diamonds are Forever - most of the songs sharing a title with the movie, but not always. What about all those songs out there that sound like they should be Bond Songs but aren’t, or have the title that sounds like it should be a Bond Movie?

Artists are invited to find their own Bond Song and in turn create their own Bond film, playing with the Bond conventions and formulas that have been around for half a century. Taking this as a starting point, the artists make work about their fiction, seeping not just into the Bond canon, but into the Hollywood film industry as well.

Project space:
Posted From Nowhere
(Or, What Have You Done For Me Philately?)
curated by Josephine Waite

Opening 27th September 6 to 9pm
Running 28th September to 6th October

'Writers and artists persist in the self sustaining vice of creating the locked garden to which they alone have the key. In this exhibition, each comix artist will present a series of stamps issued by the postal system of their utopia/dystopia/parallel universe.'

Bond Song list
1. The Sun Ain't Shining No More by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour
(Genevieve Piko)
2. Diamond Dancer by Bill Callahan
(Alister Karl)
3. Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by David Bowie
(Max Piantoni)
4. Jump by Van Halen
(Jamie Rawls)
5. Sledge Hammer by Peter Gabriel
(The Chaotic Order)
6. Looking down the Barrel of a Gun by The Beastie Boys
(Ive Sorocuk)
7. Can't be Tamed by Miley Cyrus
(Monique Barnett)
8. If I Survive by Hybrid
(The Dark Carnival Dolls and Jenna Corcoran)

Gallery one, two and three
Ready, Steady, STOP!
Group Show by Helvi Apted, Ryan McDade, Sarah Rudledge

Opening Friday 11th October
Running 12th to 27th October

Ready, Steady, STOP! shows the work of three artists who examine ordinary activities, objects and relationships with the intention of revealing conflict, unease or awkwardness, with humorous and sobering results.

Ryan McDade’s installation and sculpture-based works use ready-made materials in unexpected and reimagined settings. Helvi Apted’s totemic sculptures feature human and animal qualities and explore psychological states related to key life events. The projected works of Sarah Rudledge will add to this melee – exploring gatherings of family members and activities associated with maternity.

Project Space
Things you should know
solo show by Patrick Topitschnig

In “Things you should know” Topitschnig presents videos that revolve around the absurd: A mockumentary of a machine that produces energy trough sound, an alternative way to tenderize an escalope and a lesson in determination.

http://www.patricktopitschnig.com/

TEN horror themed comics all launching in the same place on the same scary FRIGHT-day night!

Frank Candiloro: Mail Order Mutants
Josh Santospirito: Sleuth
Ash Luscombe: Blackbirds
David Blumenstein: Scare Campaign
Matthew H T Emery: Paul Bedford Does Backstroke in Paddling Pool of Cum
Bernard Caleo and son Joesph: Mask
Matthew Dunn: Grandpa Versus The Third Reich's Juggernaut Of Doom And Despair
Andrew Fulton/Ive Sorocuk/Azza McKazza: D.R.A.X.
Anthony Woodward: Monster Calendar Zine
Alex Clark: Legend of the White Stag

PLUS: The late great Mijo Biscan will be debuting a song called "Halloween, what does it mean?" and it's all about Halloween.

Come in costume! Buy some local comics!

Feminine Space
Curated by Josephine Mead

Opening Friday 8th November 6 to 9pm
Running 9th to 24th November

Tricia Page | Genevieve Pikó | Chafia Brooks | Josephine Mead | Kaitlyn Gibson

Feminine Space can be seen as a collaborative, gender-based investigation into the materiality of space, form and matter in relation to the body. The work presented shall deconstruct and reconstruct the physicality and emotionality of the human experience from a feminine viewpoint.

We are being Surrounded
curated by Linda Studená and Alister Karl

Opening Friday 29th November 6 to 9pm
Running 30th November to 8th December

Luke Perillo | Alister Karl | Linda Studená | Rob Ball | Peter Davison | Leah Murphy | Carmen Reid | Minela Krupic

The word Manhattanization has been bandied around a lot as of late, as old Brunswick and the rest of Melbourne drowns in the proliferation of new high rise developments.

Inspired by graffiti in the alley outside Brunswick Arts Space, We are being Surrounded explores the current urban landscape of inner-city Melbourne. Exploring the struggle between the old Melbourne and the rolling tide of the new, gentrified, high-density, doomed-to-date-badly new Melbourne.

WE ARE BEING SURROUNDED

Read the Essay by Kim Anderson