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 ...
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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 ...
I like visiting Pieces of Eight in North Fitzroy. Currently the window exhibit is new work by Meredith Turnbull ‘Some Become Strangers‘. window exhibit; photograph taken with permission of gallery There’s a great interview with Meredith on the Pieces of Eight blog, including images of some of the work. I like knowing more about the artist’s intent and vision for their own work, it adds to my understanding and enjoyment. Particularly lovely is the evolution of the name of the exhibit; in Meredith’s words: “‘Some become strangers’ is a Stevie Nick’s song that I love. It’s quite poetic, it’s about love, specifically ...
Lucy Folk’s ‘Pasta‘ collection is now on 24-hour display in the window of Pieces of Eight, until 23rd May 2009. As the Pieces of Eight blog highlights, this work has been the subject of a lot of exciting attention! photograph taken with permission of gallery Since I last saw this work at Alice Euphemia [post], I have grown even fonder of the little rigatoni necklace. Posted in Exhibition, Fitzroy_North, Jewellery, Pieces_of_Eight
Photography is one of my favourite two-dimensional visual arts. I found the listing for this exhibition, in North Fitzroy at Red Gallery, in the Art Almanac; and found myself in the area on the last day of the show (yes, again). Julie Stephenson’s photographs of bubbles are inspired by the following: “Our universe could be just one bubble floating in an ocean of other bubbles.“ Michio Kaku, physicist, City University of New York. from exhibition media; image: Julie Stephenson My favourite photograph of the series is ‘Beneath and Beyond 1 (2008)‘, with the above one running a close second. I loved these photographs and am considering ...
Dougal Haslem'The Elephant and the Umbrella', 2008Sterling silver, collected object.90 x 40 x 20mmFebruary 2009 saw an exhibition of RMIT post-graduate Gold and Silversmithing students exhibit at the prestigious Galerie Marzee in The Netherlands. There was a jewellery and also a holloware exhibition shown at the same time and organised by Prof. Robert Baines (co-ordinator of Post Grad studies, Gold and Silversmithing, RMIT Uni). To read the short essay written by Robert that accompanied the exhibition, scroll down past the images. Included were several Pieces of Eight represented artists including Dougal Haslem, Elfrun Lach and Nina Oikawa. Also Katherine Brunacci ...
The long anticipated release of Wooden Toy Quarterly Hand Made Edition is at at the printers, and to officially launch the Mag, it's kicking off with an exhibition of the featured artists. I love this publication and the creator behind it, Timba Smits. He has been a huge inspiration (and friend) to me! Not to mention, last year he was crowned Designer of the year and Wooden Toy was awarded Print Publication of the year. Oh, and did I mention he is a guest speaker at Semi Permanent this year? So do read on and if you can, make sure ...
Emma and I went through RMIT Fine Arts (Gold and Silversmithing) together a few years ago. It’s fabulous to see that she’s getting her work ‘out in the world’ and has her first solo exhibition in Fitzroy at Charles Smith Gallery [until 4th April 2009]. I couldn’t make the opening, but joined her for the ‘informal viewing’ on the following weekend. It is a great idea to have two opportunities to meet the maker/artist at exhibitions, and I hope this is a trend more will start to follow. The jewellery in this exhibition is intended to be worn, and the focal point ...
Nina Ellis has been a busy bee. Her new minna fold bowl has just been launched after several years in the making. The origin of the design evolved from a series of mild steel bowls which she produced when studying gold and silversmithing at RMIT University back in 2003.They were originally completely hand-made. Nina was inspired by the geological shifts of the earth and the fossils these movements bring to the surface. In these early pieces she employed the traditional Korean technique of inlay, Iybsa which requires a specially made chisel to be hammered into ...
New works by Nina Ellis and Katie Jacobs:Visible in the gallery window 24 hours a day until Sat 2nd August, 2008 In the window this July we launch new work by Nina Ellis and Katie Jacobs. Nina has created a series of anodised aluminium bowls ...
If you haven’t heard already (from here, here or here), a new gallery’s opened in Fitzroy and they’ve got together a great bunch of artists for their first show. The gallery is Gorker, the show is 40 Thieves, the pieces are all 15×15 inches and the artists are many and varied – see here for a full list. Be ready for some familiar names like Miso, Tai Snaith, Bec Wheeler and many more. I must be having a back-to-nature moment (year?), because my bird obsession is extending to trees and wood, and I’m having weird cravings to be surrounded by woodgrain. ...
This month, our featured artists are ALIDA CAPPELLETTA and LAURA DI FLORIO whose work is currently being exhibited at Pieces of Eight until June 23rd, entitled Through the Window.Pictured above is Alida working at her bench in her Sydney based studio. We asked her some questions about her practice and the work she created for the exhibition:What inspired this body of work? I was inspired by the idea of transforming a once functional object into a reinvented wearable object. I was very curious about how I would approach this transformation, but the inspiration evolved from being playful ...
