The lovely Nina Oikawa at her exhibition Last Thursday evening there was a brief opportunity to view a selection of the works presented by Nina Oikawa for her doctorate (Gold and Silversmithing) examination. It was such a treat to view so many of her vibrant and very delicious jewels! Many of her resin and precious metal pieces have evolved into rings with stands which become sculptural objects. There was also a crown, large neckpieces and a bangle, but most of her pieces are rings and large in scale. There was also a long table on which sat an array of little ...
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Nina Oikawa has been represented by Pieces of Eight Gallery since 2007. The last couple of years she has been a very busy lady, working towards completing her doctorate in Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT University. She has kindly extended an invitation to our readers to view her examination exhibition and attend the opening this coming Thursday evening 5-7pm. It's a great opportunity to see the amazing work she has been developing over the course of her doctorate and to say a few words of support at the opening! A big congratulations to Nina from all of us at Pieces ...
Opening Night Thursday 17 June, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Following the success of her debut solo exhibition Where the Dry Leaves Fall at Gorker Gallery in 2008, Leah Bartholomew presents her new body of work These are the Days in her second solo exhibition. These are the Days is an intimate exploration of the small, special moments that binds us together in friendship and create a sense of place. The prints, collages and paper sculptures delicately handcrafted by Bartholomew tell the story of a protracted coming of age, anchored in the landscapes of both experience and imagination. From poetic scenes such as the group ...
As I’m holidaying in Spain – oh, I know, it’s a hard life! – my lovely friend Vetti, from Vetti Live in Northcote fame, has kindly agreed to do a guest post for me about the NMIT Jewellery Auction held on 4th May [link]; funds raised here support the graduating year students exhibition. Over to Vetti [update (12th May) photographs generously provided by the artists - thank you!!]: The NMIT Advanced Diploma Jewellery students had some very interesting work on display at Rose Street… Lots of beautiful pieces, these really got my attention: Anny Apostolidis – Ofrendas Hair Comb This sterling ...
Exhibition dates: 19th March – 18th May 2010 . Curated by Mark Feary, this is a deliciously ironic exhibition that asks the audience to question the social and political construction of the blockbuster exhibitions regularly held by large museums around Australia; to question the role of the curator in assembling such exhibitions; and to question the cultural value of permanent collections of ‘Masterpieces’. Autumn Masterpieces displays work that is anything but permanent and undermines the process whereby museums construct frameworks for social understanding. The work, displayed in a roped off space on plinths of various heights, in cheap frames and at skew-whiff ...
Lauren and Melinda on show in our window! It was such a treat to have both Melinda Young from Sydney and Lauren Simeoni from Adelaide arrive in Melbourne to install their exhibition. They stayed in town for three days to officially launch the exhibition on opening night and then run a workshop the following night. It was a busy three days! Their stunning installation and sold-out workshop were very well received, and the exhibition runs until Sat May 1st so please come along to see it for yourself. Here we share some images from the opening here in case you missed ...
- HYPEMUCH.COM has taken it’s first significant step into Superstardom with Pete’s photo from Michael Steele’s ‘Accumulating’ exhibition at Gorker Gallery in February making the cut for the Viewfinder section of the April edition of Desktop Magazine . (Props to Lauren @GorkerGallery) - [Posted By Niall]
Unnatural Naturallya littering of frippery and fakery,jewellery and objectsby Lauren Simeoni and Melinda YoungTues March 30 - Sat May 1, 2010 This March we feature our two exhibiting artists, Lauren Simeoni and Melinda Young. Their unique collaboration has seen them sharing a sketchbook, ideas and materials largely via post! Their exhibition 'Unnatural Naturally' opens at Pieces of Eight Gallery Tues 30th March and runs until Sat 1st May.They have deconstructed, composed and assembled found materials, combining them with more traditional ones to create their beautiful wearables. We sent the artists a series of questions about their exhibition and artistic practice. ...
Sydney artist Ben Frost is putting on an exhibition at Gorker Gallery in April under the title “Confessions of a Modern Citizen”, The man has exhibited all around the world, and his colourful pop inspired urbanish pieces have garnered him fans far and wide. With this exhibition he delves a bit deeper, asking the nominally [...]
Exhibition dates: 22nd January – 14th March, 2010 . Two solid exhibitions by Shane Hulbert and Trish Morrissey at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy. Hulbert’s series ‘Expedition’ (2009) features nine large beautifully printed and framed pigment prints with prosaic titles such as ‘Pit’, ‘Shooting Range’, ‘Spud’s Roadhouse’ and ‘LED Sign’ to name a few. The work is at it’s most successful when it challenges the conventions of colonialism and undoes the mapping of ‘rightful’ possession of the land – usurping the space and place of occupation and memory – questioning how western cannot be seen as national. This goes against the stated ...
Coming up next week in Collingwood, Gorker Gallery has the third solo show by Melbourne artist TWO ONE on display. You can also find more information, pics and graphics by TWO ONE him at his website. Via Gorker Gallery
Last thursday night HYPEMUCH attended the opening of Michael Steele‘s solo show “Accumulating”, which is being held at the always awesome exhibition space, Gorker Gallery. - Michael Steele’s latest “cluster” series is like an acid-induced-brain-explosion, where all your child hood memories flood back to your frontal lobe in an instant. Using iconic characters/stuff from video games, movies, commercials and everything in between, while all being executed using a huge variety of mediums… there’s definitely a little bit of everything in this series. The Exhibition runs until Sunday 21 February… Gorker Gallery Opening Hours: 3PM – 7PM Wednesay – Friday 11AM – 7PM Saturday & Sunday http://www.gorkergallery.com - Taken from ...
Exhibition dates: 9th October – 13th December 2009 . . . Simryn Gill ‘Forest #5′ 1998 . . Simryn Gill ‘Forest #13′ 1998 . . Simryn Gill ‘Untitled’ from the Forest series 1996 . . Simryn Gill ‘Untitled’ from the Forest series 1996 . . This is a strange survey exhibition of photographs by Malaysian-born Australian artist Simryn Gill at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne – photographs that form distinctive bodies of work that support the artist’s other conversations in art but do not form the main backbone to her practice. Perhaps this is part of the problem and part of the beauty of the work. While the work investigates the concepts of presence and absence, space, place and identity ...
Miso – Tchusse Opening Night: Thursday, 3rd December {6-9 pm}Gorker Gallery – crnr Gore & Kerr Streets, Fitzroy “‘Tchusse’ sees Miso re-create & condense her home city into a gallery.Kharkov {Ukraine} becomes a floor to ceiling installation – portraits ofstrangers in the street, of friends, folk stories and things otherwiseforgotten, turned into a city built from paper, material and decaying wood,as Miso replicates buildings, street signs and notices, ladders, emptybottles, criminal tattoos and clothesline and clothesline from memory.In this way, Tchusse becomes an extension if Miso’s widely renownedwork as a street artist, ...
Studio Ingot has been quiet on the exhibition front this year, so I was pleasantly surprised to see they have ‘The Ring‘ exhibition during most of October. I popped in on the weekend to see it and was very impressed with the exhibition design – it must have taken the curators a long time to set up the groupings, and I like the way the artist / title are displayed using small simple but so effective line-drawing maps. from exhibition media There are some lovely pieces. In fact, the Katherine Bowman onyx gorgeousness is here, which I naturally tried on; I thought I ...
After seeing her lovely work at Hatch recently [post], I popped in to see Chloe Valance‘s solo exhibition ‘A Moment at a Time‘ at the Area Contemporary Art Space in Fitzroy recently. photograph taken with artist permission Exhibition media states: “The tension between human figures and their environmental context is an underlying theme in this project, as is the simplicity of intimacy experienced by a figure, together or alone, a moment at a time.“ The drawings are variously done on paper, timber and over the top of cut/recycled materials from other works of Chloe’s. There is a mixture of scale, and I particular ...
Exhibition dates: 7th August – 27th September 2009 . All images by Clare Rae from the series ‘Climbing the Walls and Other Actions’ 2009. Many thankx to Clare for allowing me to publish them. . . . . “To withdraw into one’s corner is undoubtedly a meager expression. But despite its meagerness, it has numerous images, some, perhaps, of great antiquity, images that are psychologically primitive. At times, the simpler the image, the vaster the dreams.” Gaston Bachelard.1 . Usually I am not a great fan of ‘faceless’ photography as I call it but this series of work, ‘Climbing the Walls and Other Actions’ (2009) by the artist Clare Rae is ...
I went to the opening of Clemens Habicht's 100 Kites exhibition at Lamington Drive last night. It was a fantastic evening. As soon as we walked into the gallery we were greeted with a video showing the bird kites freewheeling gleefully in the sky. The birds, which were affixed to a clear backing on a light aerodynamic wooden frame, were constructed from cut-outs of pictures from the pages of old books. The images used ranged from RAF personnel photos, to astronauts, globes, airmail envelopes, old illustrations and goldfish. There was something both liberating about the airborne nature of the ...
The latest exhibition in the window of Pieces of Eight is ‘Fabrication‘ by Tessa Blazey. photograph taken with gallery permission The display is like a little world of its own, with small men adrift in a landscape of enormous crystalline structures. Most of the rings are square and either black or gold. The necklace elements are triangular or circular. There is a clear geometric theme! The rings below have a focal point that looks to have been cast from mineral samples, some of which are exhibited alongside. It’s an interesting concept actually, and I particularly like the gold tourmaline crystal ring (pictured in the ...
I'm a bit late with this one... exhibition opening is starting right this INSTANT, but it will be on at Lamington Drive until the 12th of September so you have plenty of time and no excuse not to make it there!Rik Lee is a Melbourne illustrator who has the quirkiest most lovely drawings I have seen in a long while. He has the ability to make the everyday normal things seem beautiful and colourful and leave you wanting more. I can't wait to get down to Lamington Drive to check it outHis blog is definitely worth a browse (but ...
It's so funny how, when you're so busy because you have so much stuff to get done, you can think of a million things you would like to be doing with your time once you own it again. Here's one of mine:This is an exhibition by artist Rik Lee showing at Lamington Drive in Fitzroy. Here's the description from the gallery's site:ONE LAST LATE NIGHTEarlier this year Rik Lee was diagnosed with chronic insomnia. He tried reading and late night television, but they failed. So he gave in and spent his nights listening to bad music and drawing pictures. The ...
It’s taken me a number of weeks before finding the time to visit Pieces of Eight to see the new work by Katie Jacobs ‘Raining in my Heart‘. The Pieces of Eight blog has a great interview with the artist. image courtesy of the gallery; photographer Andrew Bachram The window display is quiet and pensive, still, and maybe a little forlorn and lonely (not in a bad way though, if you know what I mean). It’s worth going into the gallery as there are also unique brooches as part of the collection (with backings made by David Parker). For scale, the one ...
Katie Jacobs in her Collingwood studio, MelbourneKatie Jacobs ‘Raining In My Heart’ July 21 – Aug 15, 2009 Melbourne ceramicist Katie Jacobs has created a beautiful frozen landscape of snow capped mountains, planes and clouds, in the latest exhibition in the Pieces of Eight Gallery window, Raining In My Heart. The poetic beauty in this Buddy Holly song title is illustrated so evocatively as a metaphor by Jacobs who uses porcelain to create this body of work. For her, the icy appearance and cold surface represents “hidden and fragile emotions”.The scene she creates was inspired by a regional ...
I am a big fan of the Brunswick Street Gallery (BSG) and I’m sad that I couldn’t visit the ‘Small Works 09‘ exhibition until its second-last day – which meant limited opportunity for revisits. Walking into the top-floor gallery room is an amazing experience! The walls are filled with art… photograph taken with gallery permission The first thing I noticed, aside from every square of space being filled, was the increase in three-dimensional works and that there were also some jewellery pieces. Yay! photograph taken with gallery permission Jewellery or metal sculptural pieces included: necklaces by Natalia Milosz-Piekarska (images on her blog) framed neckpieces by Kane ...
I have admired Laura di Florio’s work at Pieces of Eight for a while now, perhaps even a number of years! The softness and colouring of the images she uses is almost nostalgic to me. Her most recent work ‘The View (Melbourne)‘ in the window of Pieces of Eight (so you can see it 24 hours a day), is a panoramic skyline of Melbourne – and it is beautiful. Sadly though, I feel my photographs do not do it justice. photograph taken with gallery permission The interaction of the images changes and the feel of the piece depends on what side you’re viewing ...
