Mar 10, 2013 | Exhibitions
My work Pay With Me (2011) will be featuring in a new show opening this Friday the 15th in Canberra’s Nishi Gallery! RED is a contemporary art exhibition focusing on physical, emotional and spatial binaries associated with the colour red. We connect this provocative colour to renewal and oppositional forces, for example birth, living with gusto, cycles and death. Opening 15 March, 8pm with performance art and an open bar. The featured artists are from Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne: Sabrina Baker, Hannah Beasley, Rowena Boyd, Alexander Boynes, Bill Brown & Caryn Griffin, Kieran Bryant, Shannon Cranko, EARS, Alexandra Frasersmith, Sacha Jeffrey, Elizabeth Kenway, Pamela Leung, Viola Nazario, Alexandra Orme, Adam Veikkanen and myself. 11 out of 17 artists exhibiting are creating new work which will be shown for the first time at RED! RED or ‘Rise Exist Demise’ will launch the day before Art, Not Apart – a major community arts festival throughout NewActon. Launch: 15 March, 8pm Open: 3 – 6pm daily until 29 March Nishi Gallery, NewActon Curated by Chloe Mandryk www.newacton.com.au Or for regular updates, join the Facebook event here....
Sep 4, 2012 | Art, Exhibitions
This year Bryce McErlain, Susan Newman and Alicia Nagle have taken up the Laos Water Cycle challenge. They are raising $24 000 for ChildFund Australia to provide remote communities in northern Laos with improved access to clean water and better sanitation. In November 2012, they will be cycling over 464km through Laos and Cambodia to visit some of the communities these funds will assist. On Friday 7th of September, Bryce McErlain and my friends at Galleryeight will host the ChildFund Australia Art Auction. Bidding starts at 7 pm and finishes at 9pm. Myself and 16 other artists have donated works for this fantastic cause. The artworks donated will be displayed as a group exhibition from Tuesday 4th September at Galleryeight. To view the artworks and more information about the cause, please visit: http://teamlaos2012.tumblr.com/ The auction will feature work by: Savanhdary Vongpoothorn Monika Behrens Giles Ryder Thomas C. Chung Kath Fries Marcus Callum Ken Done Joshua Parry Julia Davis Celine Roberts Eleanor McDonald Rosemary Jackson Fiona McFadyen Jessica Tse Vanessa Ashcroft & Jana Hunt Bryce McErlain Alicia Nagle Come along, mingle with the artists, have a few drinks and support this noble...
Aug 25, 2012 | Art, Exhibitions
Last Wednesday night (23/8/12) I swung past Global Gallery in Paddington for the Sidewayz Art Exhibition, a show featuring works on used and recycled skateboards and snow boards. The set up of the space is amazing (parts of the gallery has skate ramps built into it) and the works are vibrantly diverse. You can also bid online for your favorite board, all of the proceeds go to Voice.org. Sidewayz closes on the 1st of September, so don’t miss it! For more details visit their website...
Mar 30, 2012 | Art, Exhibitions
I swung by Kudos Gallery last Tuesday where I had the pleasure of experiencing Mad Object, another awesome show featuring the works of COFA SPI (Sculpture, Performance and Installation) students. Go check out this awesome show before it closes tomorrow! If you were too late, here are some shots of what you missed. Artists Included in the Show: Olivia Louella Lizzie Thomson James McDonald Jess Stewart Miren Zarate Harriet Robey Spider Redgold Madeleine Lesjak-Atton Zachariah Fenn Tamara Muzikants Joy Long Jaqueline Terrett Sophie Harvey Beth Dillon Samara Shehata Nick Fox Kyle Morgan Patrick Power Alexandra Ossington Claudia Bagnall Rosanna Davies...
Mar 20, 2012 | Art, Exhibitions
Recently on a trip to New Zealand I was taken to the Estuary Artworks an exhibition hosted annually by the Uxbridge Creative Centre, focused on conservation and environmental awareness. I was pleasantly suprised to see that the works were not only conceptually interesting but the quality of the pieces was a lot higher than I expected out of a small regional gallery in NZ. Though conservation is a theme done to death, the participating artists and curators had obviously made a conscious effort to showcase contemporary pieces with a range of different approaches and ideas. Here are some shots of the pieces I found interesting, a list of the artists involved follows. The artists included: Penny Lin (Winner) James Lawrence (Runner up) Aaron McConchie Emma Topping Ronald Andreassend Helen Holmes Bendon John Sellar Chris Dennis Bernie Harfleet John Ecuyer Beverly Rhodes Belinda Griffiths Jana Wood Kate Sellar Melody Brook Wendy Hannah Sarah Brill Lb Yap Donna Turtle Sarten Anna T McLeod Rosanne Elizabeth Croucher Katherine Kovacs Don Guy Sharen Watson Bev Goodwin Pamela Plummer Michelle Wilkinson Evelyn Dustan Mark O’Donnell and Daphne Simons Amber Brook Eleanor Glenton Ramon...
Dec 23, 2011 | Art, Exhibitions
So I’ve been hitting up the Graduation Shows at NAS, COFA and SCA with friends and fellow art workers to have a look at what the current students/future artists are doing of late. Each show was very different with defining features that come with each School. This post focuses mainly on the College of Fine Arts. About five months ago I heard through Facebook that the COFA Graduation exhibition would be held at the Roundhouse, a music venue at UNSW’s main campus in Kensington, Sydney. The responses from students, current and past was not happy. The Roundhouse is a venue that not only smells like yeast but has been the site of many toga and piss-up parties over the years. So one could imagine why students were so disappointed in having their major works squashed into this tiny smelly space for their graduation show. Let me just make clear that I don’t know the reasoning behind why the school decided on this venue (you could try asking them) I’m simply going to tell you what I thought. Overall the works themselves were of the quality you’d expect for a grad show. There were a lot of really interesting installations, a wide range of video and sculptural works, lots of photography and some interesting design pieces. However, for a show that consisted of so many large installations I have no fucking idea why the Roundhouse was even a logical consideration, let alone their final choice! The works were encroaching on each other, pushed right into corners and walls just to make enough room for there to be a pathway (yeah “pathway”) between the works. During my walk-through I even found...
