2015
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Entry 2015 Entry 2015 is coming up soon! Brunswick Arts will be holding its annual open-entry exhibition, inviting newcomers, loyal fans and seasoned alumni to exhibit their work. $15 per 50cm square unit. Drop-off day: Sunday 25th January 12-4pm Opening: Friday 30th January 6-9pm Exhibition: Saturday 31st January to Sunday 8th February First prize is a free exhibition at Brunswick Arts Second prize is a $50 Deans Art voucher People's choice prize is an organic food hamper. |
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Launch Opening night is Friday the 13th February 6-9pm Exhibition runs from 14th Feb to 1st March 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. This year features the outstanding work of: Roynae Mayes, Susannah Foster, Mig Dann, Umapron Paikhemsirimongkon, Anastaszia Ward, Jo Lane, Oliver Hutchison and Gigi Gordes Curated by Alex Clark and Felix Taylor |
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Opening Friday 20th March 6-9pm Running21st March - 5th April Gallery 1 & 2 Desire Lines companion exhibition for Anstey Village Better Block Party Linda Studena, Leah Murphy, Minela Krupic, Peter Davison, Nicola Hardy, Jo Waite, Leon Van De Graaff, Alex Clark, Jase Harper, Sarah Howell, David Blumenstein, Michael Fikaris, Teags Humm, Arran McKenna, Ele Jenkins, Gregory McKay, Jess Parker, Martin Nixon, Scott Reid. Local artists present their reminiscences of Brunswick as it has been, reflections on what it could become, and the dramatic metamorphosis in between. Our little gallery standing as a last bastion, witness to the soaring monoliths of a Brunswick in rebirth. Opening night will start the two-week large-scale collaborative exercise in mapmaking. Local residents, past and present, are invited to annotate our walls with their landmarks, anecdotes, and secret knowledge. This piece will culminate in its relocation to Nightingale Warehouse as an enormous pasteup for the Street Party. Participation is open to the public, we will not be checking artistic credentials at the door. Brunswick is changing, it cannot be forgotten. Gallery 3 CREATURE Denise Hall CREATURE explores the weakness of the flesh and technology’s penetration of the human mind and body. A projection of a dystopia where human communication gives way to short messages and empty images. |
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Anstey Village Better Block Party
Florence St, Brunswick Sunday 29th March Midday-7pm Florence and (the) m'Zines A Zine fair? On Florence St? Brunswickarts is proud to present 'Florence and (the) m'Zines' We'll be hosting a zine fair in the Nightingale Warehouse as part of Anstey Village Better Block Party . Join all your favourite Brunswick zinemakers, past and present, reminisce about the people they've seen, the cats they've touched, and the stories they've told. We'll have a workshop going to teach the basics of zinemaking to any budding up-and-comers. If you are a Brunswick zinemaker interested in joining us, email [email protected] for more info The Most Comprehensive And Democratic Map Of Brunswick Ever Constructed. A large scale map will be relocated to the street party warehouse after having spent two weeks on display at Brunswick Arts Space. Annotated according to the most important landmarks of every participant, for example: bountiful fruit trees, romantic conquests, colourful characters, etc. Materials supplied, BYO local knowledge. Collaborative Detritus Chandelier / Still Life Drawing
Brunswick Arts Space, 2a Little Bresse Street Pop into Brunswick Arts to witness a growing chandelier installation of interesting Brunswick detritus. Visitors are invited to bring their own orphaned objects to attach to the piece. Join us for a still life drawing session; drawing paper, clipboards and chairs will be supplied. |
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A Thousand Words
9 April 7pm Cartoonist/Comic-maker talk night at Brunswick Arts Space! $5 entry donation (proceeds go to Brunswick Arts) - Come on down - Sit and listen - 7 artists talk about projects Featuring: Bruce Mutard . Christopher Downes (Tassie) . Sarah Howell . David Blumenstein . Mirranda Burton . Joshua Santospirito (Tassie also) . Eri Kashima MC'd by Bernard Caleo Films by Tom O'Hern (Also Tassie!!) |
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Opening 1st May 6-9pm
Exhibition 2nd May to 10th May Avalon Prand Peter Brandt The value in his work is more as an exercise; to him, the finished piece is incidental. Peter's daily discipline produces prolific portraiture. Vindicated by an online appetite for consistent sources of content, people all over the world volunteering their faces for his habit. And a drawing archive of thousands to match. But even a cultivated habit requires courage to break. The struggle between being too conservative with colour, but hating to waste a drawing by being too crazy. This is his careful tightrope act to extract that elusive, effective technique. |
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Diorama Automation
A single piece exhibiting alongside Avalon Prand - Peter Brandt . Mark Ogge's mechanical, musical diorama is currently in residence, preparing for an international world tour. Catch a glimpse while you still can! Opening May 1st 6-9pm Exhibition May 2nd - 24th Thu-Fri 2-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm |
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Faces of Melbourne exhibition Thursday 16th – Sunday 19th April Opening Thursday 16th of April 6:30 - 10:30pm As part of National Youth Week 2015, students from Swinburne University present the 'Faces of Melbourne' portrait exhibition to help raise funds for the National Youth Mental Health Foundation, Headspace Hawthorn centre. Presented by Swinburne’s event management students, 'Faces of Melbourne' showcases eight young up & coming Melbourne-based artists each employing different mediums in their portraits including photography, airbrush, drawings and paintings. The exhibition will be held at Brunswick Arts Space (2a Little Breese St Brunswick, just off Sydney Rd) runs for just three days from Thursday 16th to Sunday 19th April. All artwork is for sale and funds raised go to Headspace to continue their work assisting young people in crisis. We hope to create an environment with a more open discourse about mental illness while also promoting Headspace Hawthorn. Opening night on Thursday 16th April will feature speeches from Headspace’s National Youth Advisor Nick Pearce, a meet and greet with the artists, and performances by musician Maddy Herbert with her incredible voice & artistry on the guitar, and DJ Cocoa Noire featuring Françoise D’argent. Guests will also be treated to delicious mocktails and canapés all evening. This event is supported by Headspace Hawthorn - National Youth Mental Health Foundation, Victorian State Government, and National Youth Week. |
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Comfort Zone
a creative exchange with Upstairs at the Napier Alister Karl . Leon Van De Graaff . Carmen Reid . Ive Sorocuk . Alex Clark . Felix J Taylor . Jenna Corcoran . Darcy Wedd . Jacqui Dee . Jo Waite . Kerry Buckland . Robyn Cerretti . Stephanie Karavasilis . Anne-Marie Kuter . Michael Madigan . Nada Poljski . Michael Portley . Gabrielle Pouncett . Richard Rowlands . Kerry Strauss Opening Thurs 14th May 6 to 9 at Upstairs at the Napier Opening Fri 15th May 6 to 9 at Brunswick Arts Space Running 16th to 24th May 1. (Psychology) a situation or position in which a person feels secure, comfortable, or in control. 2. The temperature range (between 28 and 30 degrees Centigrade) at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating. For two weeks in May Brunswick Arts space will be participating in a creative exchange with Upstairs at the Napier. Each group will be given the other groups space to curate, exploring the theme Comfort Zones. The two shows will run consecutively with the opening happening on Thursday at the Napier and on the Friday at Brunswick Arts. The show is really about leaving your comfort zone as the two groups leave their own space and inhabit the others space. Comfort zone has meaning for every single person. Everyone has something/somewhere/someone that makes them feel at ease in this world. Everyone understands about feeling comfortable on a hot day in front of a fan, or rugged up against the cold. The word Zone conjures up images of logically divided up areas, Demilitarised zone, pedestrian zone, twilight zone. And often has negative connotations, like Tarkovsky's film Stalker as it takes us into the sentient and malicious Zone. Alister Karl |
Do you like change or prefer familiarity?
How important are your surroundings to you? Do you covet what someone else has? In May, the artists from the Artist Run Initiatives Upstairs at the Napier and Brunswick Arts Space are exiting their comfort zones and exchanging galleries. With their own unique design and audience, the galleries will host new works that will activate the space in fresh and inspiring ways. Stephanie Karavasilis. |
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Five solo shows from Dom Krapski, Rayna Fahey, Samantha Heriz, Adriane Hayward and Gabrielle Leah New. Opening Friday 29th May 6-9pm Exhibition 30th May - 7th June Sure I'll make you beautiful - Dom Krapski I'm pretty sure I'm subverting something. Dawn in a Dark Room - Samantha Heriz This HD video (12 mins) explores the idea of 'nothing much happening’. The video invites attention to a lack of visual stimulation and through that immerses our awareness in subtlety. Absurdity is added through subtitle to create a tension and to question if meaning is present or absent. Heriz’ practice seeks to express the overlooked in our fast paced society. Duration, time and juxtaposition are developed through images of subtlety in nature to highlight quiet internal states of mind. Heriz' practice is diverse, but recent works have developed through durational video and poetic, instructional text as subtitles. www.samanthajheriz.com Ulterior Ecology - Adriane Hayward Ulterior ecology is an experiment on how we might reimage our lost natural world in the future - where we might use plastic to reconstruct extinct biological forms for future generations. Waste plastics are shaped into forms reminiscent of corals and marine invertebrates and printed on textiles. The unnatural is imaged using a medium with associations of the organic domestic - man made waste materials embedded in soft fabrics. Ulterior ecology intends to alert us to the current problem of plastic, and how it's use and disposal affects our marine ecosystems. In the Space Between Shape and Chaos - Gabrielle Leah New Gabrielle New’s exhibition explores the journey of moving from the unknown, through a process of confusion and uncertainty, until things take form once more. The gallery space acts as a metaphor for the psychological self and the installation will be a reflection of the inside workings of her mind during the creative process. Surreal sculpture, video and images inhabit this dream-like world where things grow out of the void. Gabrielle’s practice is an exploration of Transformation using improvisation techniques captured through a range of mediums- Butoh, performance, costume, sculpture, installation, photography and video. gabrielleleahnew.com https://instagram.com/gabrielleleahnew/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gabrielle-Leah-New/ Propagate Rayna Fahey Rayna Fahey’s exhibition Propagate explores the metaphor of ideas as seeds. Finding political and subversive ideas in unexpected places allows a viewer to consider the idea, away from the noise and spin. Fahey’s exhibition questions our expectations and values and gives power to marginalised and discarded materials. |
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Spaces_Places
David C Mahler Opening Fri 12th June 6 to 9pm Exhibition Dates 13th - 28th June Travel is like love. They are both powerful drugs, addictions which pull you in new, exciting directions and force you to reassess everything you’ve known to be true. Humanity is shockingly diverse, and through exposing ourselves to new cultures and ideals we have the opportunity to grow. And just like love the journey may come to an end; inevitably on the other side we emerge more understanding, prepared to encounter and embrace now familiar cultures and ideals in whichever land we call home. 'Spaces_Places' collects over 160 travel sketches and drawings by David C Mahler, completed over the past eight years in eighteen countries. These drawings were the result of a desire to preserve memories no matter how grand or mundane. Each drawing is imbued with a story, and thus the artist will be present at the gallery in person for the duration of the show for those who wish to converse and share experiences. |
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Tetrad
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Form a line, please
Opening Wednesday 22 July, 6-9pm Exhibition Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 July Thu-Fri 2-6 Sat-Sun 12-5 Kin Collaborative Inc. is pleased to present the works of nine Melbourne-based artists in the group exhibition ‘Form a line, please’. An exploration of line and form in artistic expression, the artists have experimented with the most basic structures that arrange our world. From floristry to illustration, photography to installation, ‘Form a line, please’ is an eclectic culmination of a range of artistic practices and styles. With works by: - Alice Stephens - Astrid V Mulder - Elise Di Sipio - Laura Fowler - Madeline Simm - Max Lawrence White - Nicola Mitchell - Phoebe Beard - Sasha Di Sipio You will also have the chance to win some of the wonderful artwork on display in The Ministry Lottery. All funds raised will go towards 'The Ministry' - our upcoming co-collaboration with Monash Uni Student Theatre (MSA) in this years Melbourne Fringe Festival. A fusion of site-specific installation and performance, 'The Ministry' is an immersive theatrical experience inspired by George Orwell’s ‘1984’. On the opening night of 'Form a line, please', visitors will be given the opportunity to step foot into an interactive installation designed by 'The Ministry' creators, Anna Nalpantidis and Sasha Di Sipio. For more information see www.kincollaborative.com ~ Event image designed by Nicola Mitchell ~ |
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ENTER:EXILE
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Through The Peep Hole
- Paul Eves Madeleine Lacey Kit Scott Virginia Stobart Kathryn Whitely - Through the Peep Hole, is a collaboration between five Melbourne- based artists. This collection of work explores the themes of identity and how this leads into traces of memory through the print making process. This exhibition entails an eclectic culmination of artistic expression that creates a dialogue between the artist and the viewer. |
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Lost In My Place
Natalie Tirant Harriet Negus Opening : Friday 14th August 6-9pm Exhibition : 15th-30th August Thu-Fri 2-6pm Sat-Sun 12-5pm - Lost In My Place is a photographic and sculptural collaboration between Harriet Negus and Natalie Tirant exploring the relationships between craft, the female form and natural environments. Touched with undertones of ecofeminism and lined with a sense of absurdity, this series uses a traditional craft technique of crochet to create a combination of bulbous forms that adorn the naked female. Lost In My Place aims to create a dialogue between the domestic female, craft and her tacit links to nature. |
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OCCULTA
Emily N3ver Helena Babic Pia Mitchell Marcela Olea Opening : Friday 14th August 6-9pm Exhibition : 15th-30th August Thu-Fri 2-6pm Sat-Sun 12-5pm - Occulta, is the work of contemporary Melbourne Artists of varying media, exploring the themes of Darkness, Rebellion, Taboo, Sensuality, and the rejection of Religious authority. From Graphic Arts and Tattoo Design to the cherished Art of Portraiture , the veil shall be lifted. |
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Not Dead Yet
Jo Waite - Opening : Friday 4th Sept 6-9pm Exhibition: 5th-13th Sept Thu-Fri 2-6pm Sat-Sun-12-5pm - On the occasion of her fifty-first birthday, Ms Waite takes the opportunity to present before the discerning Public a selection of previous werks; comic art, illustration, paintings, sketches, collage, objets trouves and small sculpture. |
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The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
Tickets available via Melbourne Fringe Jennifer Marcus is a modern-day genius, designing rockets for the US government. And, as it happens, an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic. Stuck in her bedroom, she builds a robot replica of herself to do the one thing she can’t: travel across the world in search of her biological parents. The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow is one brilliant woman's quest to discover her heritage and face her fears with the help of a Mormon missionary, a pizza delivery guy, and the astounding android she names Jenny Chow. Boutique Theatre presents the Australian premiere of Rolin Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-shortlisted Off-Broadway smash hit comedy. 'A fresh, loopy and ultimately crushing play that tickles us under the chin and in the ribs, only to rip out our vulnerable hearts…explodes with vitality and charm…blessed with Jones' uncanny ear for spoken dialogue, the characters leap off the stage as if propelled by rocket fuel' — New Haven Register 'Harvests many laughs and finally a few tears' — LA Times http://www.boutiquetheatre.com.au |
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HEADSHOTS
A project by Sarah Catherine Firth
Opening 9th October
Exhibition 10th-25th October
Headshots is an experimental video-art and photography project that explores the tenuous and ever shifting line between the erotic and the repulsive, the acceptable and the taboo, what is empowering and what is degrading, the serious and the absurd.
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Group Therapy
Curated by Renuka Rajiv Opening 9th October Exhibition 10th-25th October Kylie Blackley Jill Bolitho Paul Compton Shaun Duggan Elizabeth Hickey Renuka Rajiv Disclaimer: We're not promising anything! |
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Alex Clark feat. Ive Sorocuk present:
HalloZeen Twennyfiteen
HalloZeen is a comic launch / Another competitive challenge to determine who is The Best Artist (we'll make a trophy). The theme is scary things, not specifically Hammer Horror or anything, so by all means make stuff about public speaking or taxes, the infinite void of space, facing death or Australia's political climate. If you don't consider yourself primarily a comic artist, we've already got music, sculpture and game design planned so if you make it, we will do our gosh darn best to incorporate it.
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30th Oct
Halloween'een Friday night 6-9pm: Got a few bands that were interested, party night, spooky art on the walls. Good ol' exhibition opening.
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31st Oct
HalloZeen Saturday: Exhibition will be open from 12-5pm, then 6-9pm we'll have The Comic Launch, costume prizes, readings, performance pieces, showbags with a copy of everyone's comic for indecisive punters.
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1st Nov
Hallow Sunday: 12-5pm Art on the walls and all the trestle tables out for a zine market/swap/secondhand comics. Bring your things, and some change.
HalloZeen Twennyfiteen
HalloZeen is a comic launch / Another competitive challenge to determine who is The Best Artist (we'll make a trophy). The theme is scary things, not specifically Hammer Horror or anything, so by all means make stuff about public speaking or taxes, the infinite void of space, facing death or Australia's political climate. If you don't consider yourself primarily a comic artist, we've already got music, sculpture and game design planned so if you make it, we will do our gosh darn best to incorporate it.
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30th Oct
Halloween'een Friday night 6-9pm: Got a few bands that were interested, party night, spooky art on the walls. Good ol' exhibition opening.
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31st Oct
HalloZeen Saturday: Exhibition will be open from 12-5pm, then 6-9pm we'll have The Comic Launch, costume prizes, readings, performance pieces, showbags with a copy of everyone's comic for indecisive punters.
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1st Nov
Hallow Sunday: 12-5pm Art on the walls and all the trestle tables out for a zine market/swap/secondhand comics. Bring your things, and some change.
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Two Dozen
Penny Darling Oct 29 - Nov 1 Penny’s art practice examines what makes us uncomfortable, what might be buried in our unconscious, and how that might relate to the psychological boundary between humans and their environment. Using sculpture she explores an absurd monstrous, intending to create artwork that is repulsive yet compelling, abject yet pathetic. Materially Two Dozen includes stockings, hair, soft fill, and latex. The sculptures are deformed, obscene and carelessly hung upside down, like discarded bodies. |
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As your shadow shouts echo's that shake you from the womb
Travers Nash November 6th to 22nd Open by appointment Thursday-Friday Open Sat-Sun 12 to 5 Closing event and live performance Sunday 22nd from 5 to 7pm As Echo's from the Past Shake you From The Womb, will examine feedback loops in the process of self-realisation; exploring the roles of repetition, ritual, expectation and nostalgia, contextualised within our contemporary technolgoically mediated consumerist based society. |
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“Love is a dangerous Thing”
THE MEDEA PROJECT Pieced together from fragments of memory, three women recount their shared tragedy. A multi disciplined performance piece redefining the story of Medea and using filmed interviews of local women, in all walks of life, to create a modern “Greek” chorus. Performed by Kristina Benton, Sally McLean and Hannah Gott Directed by Perri Cummings The Medea Project Wed - Sat November 25-28 7.30pm Bookings: The Medea Project |
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