Exhibition - Meredith Cooper
Meredith Coopers exhibition.
Exhibition - Jos Van Hulsen - Sarah Watt - Jacqueline Flitcroft
An exhibition at Brightspace for Jos van Hulsen - Sarah Watt and Jacqueline Flitcrofts work.
Exhibition: 26 August - 5 September 2010
Once upon a time the extraordinary polymath and talented artist Leonardo da Vinci – a true ‘Renaissance man’ – was fascinated by the possibilities of human flight and spent many an hour researching, drawing and experimenting with ways to make it happen.
Hundreds of years later, with the notion of flight taken for granted by many in today’s world, and using various means – from aeroplane, helicopter, micro-light, glider and hang-glider to sky-diving and the more recent form of base-jumping in wingsuits – the three artists in this exhibition were, in a strangely synchronous way, and before any discussions of a having a group exhibition, each producing works derived from their own interests, concerns and/or interpretations regarding the same topic.
Though they found themselves sharing certain ideas about flight – such as metamorphosis, travel, adventure, freedom, the simultaneous experience of isolation and connectedness – as themes they are somewhat subdued in the works and in the exhibition as a whole. The highlight of the exhibition is, rather, the contrast in their individual responses to the notion of flight and the ideas each of them explore in their works, which differ quite substantially. This is not only reflected in the wide range of mediums they deploy but in their processes of production – from small scale, poetic and almost intimate works on paper to large, direct and sometimes daunting sculptures. Overall it makes for an interestingly diverse exhibition that presents a rich variety of perspectives of or relating to flight…
From the ground looking up, some of Watt’s hybrid photo-paintings depict ethereal birds flying elegantly across the vast, open and occasionally dramatic skies of Footscray or the quietude of a house sitting in the street in the half-light of dusk which is only experienced at certain times of the year.
From the sky looking down, Flitcroft’s works - made by binding and wrapping 3D-forms in Japanese hand-made paper that fit inside a frame like a delicate, poetic jigsaw puzzle - refer to the patterns of the acres of farm-land she sees when flying overhead in her micro-light near Bendigo.
And Van Hulsen’s sculptural forms and photo-collages present flight as an exploration of a variety of complex concepts as ‘forms that fly’ - for example, his camouflage insect-aeroplanes explore the idea that the transportation of some bacteria and viruses across the planet can be more deadly than a WWII bomb.
Not only is the widely interpreted notion of ‘flight’ a richly interesting topic to think about today, but the works, the ideas being explored, and those they elicit, will surely form the basis of some very interesting discussion.
Exhibition - Michelle Lee
Michelle Lee - Opening Thursday 2 September 6-8pm
Michelle Lee creates work with concepts that resemble her own intuitions towards the subjects in her life. Her images are considerably feminine, where female protagonists act as primarily manifestations of the self.
Frustrations, conformity, eccentricity, dreams and ideals are concepts Michelle often turns to in the creation of her allegorical narratives. She expresses that emotions and thoughts are fundamental to everyday life, where at times they are all consuming and temporarily blind the conscious state of mind. Like reading a diary out loud, her work imbues the sense of both vulnerability and pride.
Michelle keeps every aspect of her subjects in a highly controlled environment. She rarely works with wide angle lenses, as the designer in her finds it difficult to deal with distortion. She shies away from ambient light, preferring the effect of the flash. In addition to light, Michelle controls her characters in their environment, often building her own sets or miniature dollhouse rooms.
Michelle was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she completed a diploma in Multimedia Design. She began work as an Interactive Designer, which led her to become a producer in a commercial photography studio. In this role she stumbled across her own passion for photography and experimented with an old light box as her main source of light. She then traveled to Melbourne to complete a BA in Photography at RMIT. Her interests lay in portraiture, fine art and fashion photography. Upon graduation in 2009, she was awarded the Kallman Feital’s High Achievement in a Professional Sphere award for outstanding work.
Exhibition - xue mo
Interpreting Mona Lisa
Xue Mo
EXHIBITION: 31ST AUGUST TO 18TH SEPTEMBER 2010
“SERENE and deliberate, the sitters in the portraits of Xue Mo have monumental presence, which is also strange and unnerving. The works are technically brilliant and imitate the Renaissance portrait, with mysterious desert landscapes echoing the ambiguities of the smile.” (Robert Nelson, “The Age”, 18 November 2009).
Xue has been working as a full-time practicing artist since 1998. Interpreting Mona Lisa continues Xue’s unique approach to the genre of portraiture, situating Asian subjects in a highly stylised manner that is reminiscent, both technically and compositionally, of the portraits of early Renaissance artists of the quattrocento period such as Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico and Andrea Mantegna.
To Xue, these great ‘masters’ epitomize painting in its purest form. Xue draws her subjects from her homeland of Mongolia and is singularly focused on the female subject, impressed by the ‘noble simplicity, natural beauty, and serene dispositions’ of the young fieldworkers. Well documented in the Australian press, Xue’s last exhibition in November 2009 was highly praised by The Age’s critic, Robert Nelson. As he noted:
What gives the works their monumental appearance is the visual clout of the forms inside them. It’s a function of composition and volume, and these formal qualities are reinforced by the statuesque body language of the figure.
More especially, Nelson was particularly impressed with Xue’s facility of line: It’s unusual in Australia to find this knowledge, which is the art of drawing classically defined. And concluded: the figures have a marvellous sense of composure, in which their place in the world is reinforced by the settled gaze that they return to it.
Xue lives and works in Beijing, China, and has had solo exhibitions in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA and Canada.
Exhibition - Connie Noyes
Exhibition - Rosie Leventon
flooded tunnelsthe muse at 269269 Portobello Road London W11 (just south of the Westway) Tube: Ladbroke Grove Bus: 52, 23, 7, 70Wednesdays to Saturdays 12 – 10pm or by appointment. Tel: 0207 792 8588 www.themuseat269.comShow continues until 4 September.
drawings by rosie leventonBest known for her large installations that have been made for museums, sculpture parks and galleries in many countries, Rosie Leventon is now showing her drawings for the first time in London.“Leventon’s drawings combine expressive energy with a sculptor’s instinct for ground and depth. Surfaces are tactile, often evoking organic sculptural materials, or referencing the elemental aspects of landscape. Some of the drawings also contain Middle Eastern hand writing and calligraphy.” Tom FlynnHer work has recently been bought by the Henry Moore Institute, and recent shows include: The Workshop of Hereafter, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, Unfold, Nettie Horn Gallery, Concrete & Glass, Shoreditch Town Hall, Prospects & Interiors, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.Video interview and four artworks on www.channel4.com/bigart
Exhibition opportunity - Brain art exhibition and unconference
From Silvia Damiano…
Dear Readers,
I want to share with you a venture I am undertaking with my daughter Relmi (photographer and graphic designer), who is 21 years of age.
We are putting together the “First Annual Brain Art Exhibition & Unconference” at Global Gallery in Paddington march 2011. There will be a Brain Art Competition for 15 - 19 and 20 - 30 year olds. Take a look at the website and see what you think.
http://www.aboutmybrain.com/whats-on/brain-art-exhibition
I am currently searching for more ways to connect with lots of people who want to get involved in a project like this so feel free to let people have the link.
Regards Silvia
Exhibition - The Collective
Red Gallery
157 St. Georges Road,
Fitzroy North, Melbourne,
Exhibition - Cairns and Wolter
OPENING SOON - Mark Cairns + Joel Wolter: SCAPE-ISM: Recent paintings and etchings by two of the Geelong region’s most respected artists.
So escape the election and join us on Opening Night 5 -7 pm 21 August.
Exhibition - Printmaking at Jenny Port Gallery
Jenny Port Gallery is very pleased to invite you to
PRESSING MATTERS - Melbourne Printmaking 2010
Featuring works by Jazmina Cininas, Gary (Spook) James, Ruth Johnstone, Tim Jones, Jules, Damon Kowarsky, Peter Lancaster, Simon Perry, Cat Poljski, Sophia Szilagyi, Andy Tetzlaff and Kim Wall.
Opening drinks Wednesday 11 August 6 to 8pm.
The exhibition continues until 4 September.
Jenny Port Gallery
Level 1, 7 Albert Street
Richmond VIC 3121
Exhibition - Not Fair
A segment about NOTFAIR will be screened on Art Nation this Sunday 1st August: 5.30pm on ABC1 and 7pm on ABC2, the exhibition is open to the public from the 5th August to the 8th August .
Affordable Art? Where…
If your walls could talk they’d say, ‘I don’t care if there is a recession, I’m sick of being bare’.
Cover your white space, dispose of tattered college posters (puppies are not art, people) and spruce up your home with affordable art from our favourite places.
Textile designer Anna Hill uses nature as inspiration for her digitally printed wallpapers, which feature brightly coloured birds, tigers, cherry blossoms and other plants and animals. Her designs are intended to fit an entire wall with no repetitive patterns, so each piece is made to order (£40-£120/meter square).
For a more personal touch, turn your favourite photos into art with a Catkin Collection family tree. Add images of your family or friends to the branches to make art imitate life (£42).
Born from the owners’ love of typography and screen-printing, the quirky limited-edition prints at Keep Calm Gallery have amusing messages (‘The first mistake of art is to assume it’s serious’) and emoticons like <3 spelled out (‘less than three’). The recently launched original artwork section features a series of whimsical collages by up-and-comer Matthew Rose (£170).
Can’t afford a Banksy? Little Art Book offers the next best thing: a limited-edition collection of work by the freshest new names from the streets. If you haven’t heard of Oh Death or The Krah, you will soon. Watch this space (£60-£450).
Search The Few Gallery for prints by graphic artists and illustrators from around the world. We love Brit artist Sean Freeman’s striking peacock and Spaniard Gary Fernandez’s surreal portrayal of an ordinary day in the park (£176).
The team at New Blood Art scour art school shows to find undiscovered talent. There are thousands of paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and prints to choose from, all sorted into price categories so you can easily find something for less than £50 or more than £3,000.
Can’t decide which to buy? Check out our ten favourite pieces of affordable art.
© Matthew Rose 2010
Exhibition - Kathryn Ryan
Kathryn Ryan’s exhibition… Read her interview with me, here.
Kathryn Ryan, New Paintings July 28- August 15 2010
Tim Olsen Gallery
www.timolsengallery.com
Exhibition - Lethbridge Gallery
Lethbridge Gallery ia holding an exhibition of Ai Shah’s work.
Exhibition - Kerrie Warren
Kerrie has an exhibition of works on at Jinks Gallery in July.
Exhibition - Sharon & Klaire Anderson
A show from a Mother and Daughter Team, should be an interesting combination! Well done to both, hope it goes really well for them!
Cnr Main St & Mc Donald St Foster Victoria Australia
www.stockyardgallery.org.au
Exhibition - John Alcock
Exhibition - Anthony Lister
Anthony Lister has been busy! Here’s some of what he’s up to.
- In 1 week I have an exhibition of all new paintings opening at Show and Tell Gallery in Toronto CANADA -July 9th -August 8th - www.showandtellgallery.com
Exhibition - Obscura Gallery
Obscura Gallery presents…
Exhibition - Kona Howlett
A Photographer Chasing the Dream, This one’s in Geelong Victoria.
Exhibition
The students from Gipps tafe would love you to join them in celebrating the work they have done in their Art studies.
Exhibition
Including the wonderful abstract work of Paul Lorenz we interviewed him here…
Exhibition - Art is Studio
 12 June to 25 July 2010Geelong Regional Gallery - Lt Malop St Geelong Nature and beyond - art is…Glenys Bryant, Patsy Bush, Andrea Clifford, Debra Jackson, Jan Synot and Ann Webbart IS…Studio and Gallery is a group of artists who share a studio in the Geelong city centre. The six artists draw on their diverse backgrounds in visual arts, science and education to create a diverse variety of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture. The exhibition, Nature and beyond, includes works in which the artists interpret and transform our urban landscape and natural environment. The works explore the colour and form of flowers; the humorous interaction between animals and man; the relationship of man to his built environment; and the nature of space within the picture plane and the wider universe. Debra Jackson |
Exhibition - Paul Lorenz
Paul featured in one of our interviews recently, now you can see his work in a show.
Exhibition - Di Mauro & Hawley
Exhibition
An exhibition featuring one of our interviewees, Margaret Zox Brown.
Exhibition - Fields of View
This is the third showing of this touring exhibition and the ONLY one in or near a major city. I suggest you do what you can to get to it, as it features some amazing works focussed around environmental themes.
Steve G
Exhibition - City of the Damned
June 3rd till july 3rd - easy dates to remember but put them in your diary as well, just so you don’t miss the fantastic new exhibition at gallery e55 which is at 55 elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Victoria.
Entry is free and on show will be a number of photographs showing the making of the much anticipated new Aussie feature film “City of the Damned” starring Wilbur Wilde, Marty Rhone, Scott O’Halloran and Sarah Ranken.
The exhibition runs for a whole month starting at 6 pm on Jun 3rd and limited edition prints and posters will be available for sale as well as screening of the very first ‘teaser’ trailer for the movie which is due in cinemas later this year.
The on set photographer in question is the fabulously talented Tegan Ringin, whose work is sure to be in high demand in the future both by movie makers and also other areas of photographic excellence. At only 20 years old she has already made a big splash on the Melbourne film making scene with her work so it is very appropriate that she is now working with renowned UK born film director, Jonty Reason of Pittot Films, the company behind “City of the Damned”.
The movie tells the story of Andy Dunkin, a young man for whom the pressures of life just get too much and eventually he cracks, with devastating results. It was shot entirely in and around melbourne, both on locations and also at the new Seaford Film Studio facility near Frankston.
The filmmakers themselves have also made a little bit of history with this film because it is the very first full length feature film to be shot on a stills camera. That’s right the producers took a stock Canon EOS7D and used its much hyped HD movie mode to shoot a feature film. “The results are absolutely stunning as it gave us so much flexinility” the producer said recently.
For more info email: pittotfilms@me.com
Italian Exhibition - Kerrie Warren
KW Abstract Art
www.kerriewarren.com.au
to Hell and back
Amazing what you come across on the net, Hell Gallery is a great insight into the alternative art scene in Melbourne.
The video on their site gives a great insight into how they do things.
And an interview to give you more info…