par tic i pat ing artists: Adrian Clement, Dan Stocks, Yvette Hamil ton, Tina Fiveash, Sue Storry, Peter Williamson, Lisa Mas toras, Johanna Trainor, Iso bel Philip, Ireneusz Luty, Iou lia Ter izis, Emily Win don, Andreia Da Cruz, Kurt Soren son, Alex Wisser What Things Look Like curated by Alex Wisser May 7–21...
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Killing Everyone I know by Paula Mahoney May 6 to May 21 Opening Sat May 7, 2-4 This photographic series explores violence by depicting contexts and actions of and within fabricated portrayals. Mahoney uses family and friends as models, staging fictitious crime scenes where the positioning of the figures reflects imagery associated with domestic...
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Showing in the Artereal Gallery project space in association with the 2011 Head On Photo Festival. Liam Benson uses queer identity to gently subvert social perceptions of gender, race, culture, sexuality and national identity. He deliberately mines the language and communication formats of contemporary advertising and popular media to document his performances, still photographs...
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OPENING NIGHT: WED 4 MAY 6-8pm EXHIBITION CONTINUES THU 5 – SUN 22 MAY 2011 ..ARTISTS INGRID VAN DER AA EMMA HICKS ALEX POWELL ELISA TRIFUNOSKI KATE WILLIAMS MITCHELL SPIDER ABOUT Shape is as an inescapable structure for defining and creating artwork. Working from a post-minimalist perspective, this exhibition investigates shape and the methods...
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Gary Deirmendjian’s art practice is expressive of his persistent and lifelong questioning and thirst for a truer worldview. Tearing through the layers of his own conditioning and prevailing practices and attitudes, and present day production and consumption, he has developed an acute sensitivity to hypocrisy and contradiction: “From the moment we open our eyes,...
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Decorating Loos explores the aesthetic impulse through the prism of one of its most basic forms – the desire to embellish the lavatory walls with the mark of our distracted fancy. It does this quite literally through the construction of 15 toilet cubicles in the gallery, each of which is given to an artist...
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Merlin Carpenter’s “The Opening” is in fact an art opening. Usually staged at an up-market gallery, the event takes place during the “private view” that is held prior to the public opening, and reserved for collectors likely to purchase works. The gallery walls are hung with blank canvases, the fine quality of which is...
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AT THE VANISHING POINT – CONTEMPORARY ART 565 King st. Newtown 20 May to 30 May Opening 6:00pm Thu 20 May The emergent in art is usually considered in terms of individual talent or intellectual and aesthetic trends. Emergency Display instead attempts to survey and remark upon a region of our city that seems...
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The idea for a show of photomedia that excluded the human form came out of two related frustrations I have with this medium. The first is the dominance of the human figure within the commercial and popular photographic industry and the second is the self-congratulations with which much contemporary theory and some of the...
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Since my last post was spent railing against the ineluctable, silent efficiency of that juggernaut of institutional change, Anita Taylor and her plans to turn a dinosaur into a jet airplane with no other tools than a calculator and a carving knife – I thought it only appropriate to dedicate this post to the...
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