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May 31, 2010
DECORATING LOOS

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 to “decorate” according to their practice.  The result will be 15 immersive environments, each drawing on different mediums, genres, and subject matter – from video and performance to installation, painting and drawing – each a discrete world of imaginary practice, and all existing in intense proximity to one another.  The installation is intended to interrogate the value of aesthetic endeavor by superimposing advanced contemporary art practice onto the much denigrated act of public toilet vandalism, asking what is the relationship between these two activities?  Are they so different, and if so how? 

May 28, 2010
Decorating Loos 3- 20 June 2010 @ At The Vanishing Point Gallery in Newtown

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 to “decorate” according to their practice. 

May 22, 2010
Merlin Carpenter - The Opening

This was a paper I wrote at university on Merlin Carpenter.  While I never saw the show in person, having read a short review of it in Art Forum I couldn't get it out of my head until I wrote about it.  

May 18, 2010
EMERGENCY DISPLAY

This text was written for a survey exhibition of contemporary art from emerging artists in Sydney's Inner West.

An exhibition of contemporary art from emerging artist of Sydney's Inner West.

Emergency Display

May 16, 2010
NO PEOPLE CURATORIAL STATEMENT

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 art based in it reach unthinking, almost absolute conclusions on the anthropomorphic nature of photomedia.

April 20, 2010
Haft-Sin Zazen at Ghaf Art Gallery on the 25th of Apr at 7:pm

Iranian-American artist, Naz Shahrokh, is concerned with the natural environment as seen through the lens of various mediums. In her current work Shahrokh has been working on site-specific installations and using leaves as the base for her painting.

Iranian-American artist, Naz Shahrokh, is concerned with the natural environment as seen through the lens of various mediums. In her current work Shahrokh has been working on site-specific installations and using leaves as the base for her painting.

Her materials are detritus, whether natural or man-made and she strives to transform these often overlooked banal materials and inject them with a new found value.

For more info:
Tel: +9712 6655332
Fax: +9712 6655292
Email: ghafgallery@gmail.com
Website: www.ghafgallery.com

April 17, 2010
3 NEW EXHIBITIONS

ERIC BRIDGEMAN New Photographs from KoKwara trail
ARIs PRABAWA In the Service of Nature
TESSA ZETTEL & KARl KHOE Make-do garden city

OpenIng: THURSDAY 25 March
Exhibition Dates: 26 March – 8 May 2010

PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Artist Floor talk Sat 27 March 3pm

Make Do Garden City Workshops
Saturday 10 April 11am-1pm &
Saturday 8 May 11am-1pm (CLOSING EVENT)

ERIC BRIDGEMAN New Photographs from KoKwara trail
ARIs PRABAWA In the Service of Nature
TESSA ZETTEL & KARl KHOE Make-do garden city

OpenIng: THURSDAY 25 March
Exhibition Dates: 26 March – 8 May 2010

PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Artist Floor talk Sat 27 March 3pm

Make Do Garden City Workshops
Saturday 10 April 11am-1pm &
Saturday 8 May 11am-1pm (CLOSING EVENT)

April 17, 2010
Firstdraft exhibition: 14 April - 2 May

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 14 April 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 2 May 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 2 May 2010 at 4pm


Start Time:
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 6:00pm
End Time:
Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 6:00pm
Location:
Firstdraft
January 10, 2010
OLAFUR ELIASSON TOOK MY TIME

and I want it back... 

I went to see Olafur Eliasson the other day.  I'm sorry, but this is beginning to look like another fucking art blog.

December 27, 2009
PICASSO WAS CRAP

The hard task of achieving nothing. The intrinsic value of beer. Oh my god what happened to all my metaphysical certainties. 

 The other day I got together with some artist friends to discuss the possibility of putting on a show.  We met at a pub and drank beers and tossed ideas into the air where they vanished wonderfully in front of our eyes.  In the end we left the table with a few words and an image signifying the productive futility of our process.  Engineers and economists would have been unconsolable at the outcome, but as artists, we were quite encouraged to have worked so hard and ended up with nothing – it’s