I have had a crush on David Neale‘s pieces for some time now, so I was excited about seeing his work at Gallery Funaki. He is paired with Emma Price, whose exhibition at RMIT First Site in 2005 was the topic of my very first critical writing assignment. So my expectations were high, and happily this show was certainly a pleasure to visit. exhibition media; click on image to go through to the original source (Gallery Funaki site) Exhibition text states about David’ work: “There is a bold sense of the painterly in these works, as Neale’s powdery, textured colours become a dominant ...
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Thank goodness Guildford Lane Gallery is open on Sundays, otherwise it would be more likely I’d miss out on some exhibitions … there never seems enough time to visit all shows I want to see (for example, I am very unhappy I missed out on Open Studios at Nicholas Building – damn work!). installation view; photograph taken and used with artist permission Claire McArdle’s show at Guildford Lane Gallery is ‘Token of Place‘ – which she spoke about in the rapid fire papers at the RMIT seminar a few weeks ago. The show was on the ground floor when I visited (above), ...
Photos of the opening night of X-Field are below. X-Field are a collaborative group who work across the disciplines of art, architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism. The exhibition features work by Charles Anderson, Richard Black, Mel Dodd, Sand Helsel, Andrea Mina and SueAnne Ware. X-Field runs in the fortyfivedownstairs galleries until the 28th of August 2010. Photos by Marcus Bunyan
From the Walk to Art blog. Read this post in it’s original context here. I feel very fortunate to be given the opportunity to curate a show at fortyfivedownstairs, in Melbourne. “Unrepresented”, with artworks by Nicholas Jones, Christopher Koller, Ted McKinlay, Chloe Vallance and Ben Walsh, opens on Tuesday 3 August 2010 (5pm to 7pm). Mary Lou Jelbart, artistic director of fortyfivedownstairs, describes the show: “‘Unrepresented’ responds to the vagaries and minefields of the art world that contemporary artists encounter. Curator Bernadette Alibrando, who delves beneath the surface of Melbourne’s commercial gallery scene and spreads her network ...
Opening of the exhibition Unrepresented, presented by fortyfivedownstairs and curated by Bernadette Alibrando. Featured artists are: Ted McKinlay, Chloe Vallance, Nicholas Jones, Ben V Walsh and Christopher Koller.
A selection of images from The Unshaped World II by Judy Holding. If you haven’t had a chance to visit this beautiful exhibition you better be quick as it will finish on Saturday the 31st of July, so hurry in to fortyfivedownstairs! Photography by John Brash
Opening of The Unshaped World II by Judy Holding. Tuesday 20 July 2010
Opening of Crossing Between Cultures by Tamirat Gebremariam. 20 July 2010 Exhibition being opened by Professor Su Baker, Head of School of Art, VCAM.
Last night I attended the opening at e.g.etal of Yuko Fujita’s ‘Kodama (return to me)‘ exhibition. “Melbourne jeweller, Yuko Fujita, is transforming recycled objects of distinctly domestic and ordinary origins into bold pieces of jewellery. Discarded and all but forgotten, the wooden objects used by Fujita were retrieved from thrift shops and friends’ cupboards.“ opening night; photograph taken with gallery permission; artist on the far left The exhibition design, by Katherine Bowman, is thoughtful, subtle and quite perfect for the work. The space, bordered by hip-high cabinets and walls, was empty of people when I first walked into the gallery last night – ...
The next exhibition at e.g.etal is Yuko Fujita’s ‘Kodama (return to me)‘. Yuko was in the year above me at RMIT, and I admired the way she makes and the way she saw the place of jewellery in completing personal identity (which she was exploring at the time). The below information about the exhibition is from e.g.etal. … it brings some very interesting images to my mind: “Melbourne jeweller, Yuko Fujita, has transformed recycled objects of distinctly domestic and ordinary origins into bold pieces of jewellery. Fujita’s pieces herald a new beginning for these objects, while consciously reflecting on the many lives ...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 10th October 2010 . A huge posting – and another ‘you saw it here first’ on Art Blart! A simple, spacious hang shows off some wonderfully vibrant paintings in the new Winter Masterpieces blockbuster at the NGV. The use of strong yellow and pale grey wall colour compliments the paintings. Conversely, other rooms have a dark brown and very dark grey wall colour. Some people will like the effect but I found the dark grey a little too sombre and heavy in the room dedicated to the work of Max Beckmann. Overall a fantastic range of paintings, especially ...
Last night was the opening of the latest exhibition at Gallery Funaki, Karl Fritsch’s ‘freeling‘. opening night at Gallery Funaki When I first saw Karl’s pieces early in my degree, I can now admit (though still nervously) that I didn’t understand his work very well nor why others were attracted to it (yes, I have a history of being pretty ‘conservative’ with my jewellery tastes!). Then in 2008 I attended the floor talk he gave as part of his exhibition ‘Metrosideros Robusta‘ at RMIT Project Space / Spare Room – this was a turning point in my understanding and connection to Karl’s ...
Review of Open Water by Rebecca Jones, written by Bernadette Alibrando and published on the Walk to Art blog: I’ve decided that I am drawn to drawing and, of late, have been viewing drawing exhibitions and hanging out in drawing studios: Exhibition confirms a rebirth in drawing and works on paper In love with drawing and works on paper Maybe it’s the spontaneous mark making or the fact that it hasn’t been re-painted or re-worked over and over again. “Open Water”, an exhibition by Rebecca Jones currently on at fortyfive downstairs, in Melbourne, is a beautifully example of a well put ...
Is an exhibition by Adam Cruickshank which opens this week at West Space. Though there's never a good time to do your back, some times are more not good, he is in pain, and it's not just art pain. Anyway, I am on call to help with any lifting and picking things up off the floor. I have somehow managed to kill my keyboard this week, so it is nice to be able to type on this other computer (at the studio) which has a full keypad of letters and no penchant for excessive dddddddd.........oooooooooottttttttttttttttsssssssssss...................... Thursday night at West Space. ...
The below review of A Shrine for Orpheus is from Art Blart, written by Marcus Bunyan: Bees, books, bones… and biding (one’s) time, attaining the receptive state of being needed to contemplate this work. This is a strong, beautiful installation by Pip Stokes at fortyfivedownstairs that rewards such a process. What is memorable about the work is the physicality, the textures: the sound of the bees; the Beuy-esque yellowness and presence of the beeswax blocks; the liquidness of the honey in the bowl atop the beehives; the incinerated bones, books and personal photographs; the tain-less mirrors, the books dipped in beeswax; the ...
A last day dash down to Kings to see A quarter turn on every screw. It was well worth the dash, as I had suspected awhile ago when I read about it via Lauren Brown. It's a good show (or was, it's over) and I loved more than a few of the works. I laughed out loud again and again at Making Changes, a video work by Lee Walton. Laughter is so pleasing in a gallery and his hilariously mundane documented changes made me feel a little like adjusting some things, just a little. Here he is succesfully moving forward, ...
Sir Andrew Grimwade opens the exhibition. Gerard Vaughan, director of the NGV; Nora Wompi, artist; Sir Andrew Grimwade, Chairman, The Felton Bequest. Nora Wompi and Suzanne O’Connell Nora Wompi’s exhibition in the fortyfivedownstairs gallery. Furniture by Schiavello.
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 ...
Another exhibition held as part of the Drawing Out festival is ‘Contemporary Australian Drawings 1‘ at RMIT Gallery (alongside the ‘Constellation‘ exhibition I’ve already written about). This collection pushes the traditional expectations of what can be defined as ‘drawing’ – with neon and video works included. photograph taken with gallery permission I saw this exhibition after being stunned by the ‘Constellation’ exhibition, so perhaps I had a kind of visual overload by this point as I didn’t connect with many of the pieces here. However, the one below by Godwin Bradbeer hit me in the chest – it’s incredible! The lighting is ...
When I popped in to Hand Held Gallery to collect to super-gorgeous ‘Stilt Cup‘ I bought from Katherine Wheeler’s exhibition recently, I took the opportunity to check out the latest exhibition ‘One Cup‘. photograph taken with gallery permission All pieces refer to teaspoons, as the concept is that it takes 48 teaspoons to fill one cup – kind of cute idea! Katherine Wheeler has two pieces here, which she shows beautiful images of on her blog. And Melissa Cameron has collaborated with Chloe Vallance on a piece, and also has two of her own here; she has images of all pieces on her ...
Curator Vanessa Gerrans has brought together a “large number of small drawings“, as the exhibition title indicates, at the RMIT Gallery – and I’m very happy she did! This is a great exhibition. photograph taken with gallery permission I’ve mentioned before that drawing is one my favourite two-dimensional art media, and this collective of works is interesting in its diversity and enjoyable in it quality (it must have taken a long time to sift and gather). I also like the title – Constellation is a pretty good description of the dizzying wealth of images peppering the walls of the gallery. photograph taken with ...
It was a lovely sunny day when I wandered past Craft Victoria to see Vikki Kassioras’s work ‘Three Muses‘ in the window (the space is officially known as ‘enCounter’). photograph taken with gallery permission I’ve admired Vikki’s work since seeing it at e.g.etal and on her blog. A necklace of hers at e.g.etal, with a large roughly faceted aquamarine, caught my eye a few months ago now… I went back recently to find that it had sold less than a week beforehand… it was lovely and I still sigh when I think about it! installation As I looked at the concrete necklaces I wondered ...
Oops – this exhibition has now finished (I visited it on one of the last days)! ‘Flock‘ was at RMIT First Site gallery, and was part of LMFF. photograph taken with permission The necklace below is lovely and by Sunjit Bhatt. photograph taken with permission RMIT alumni Roxanne Watts had one of her brooches in this show too – unfortunately I couldn’t take a good image of it; so see her website, the piece was ‘rouge blanc noir‘. ‘Flock‘ was at RMIT First Site Gallery from 17th – 27th March 2010. Filed under: City_CBD, Exhibition, First_Site_Gallery, Jewellery, Visual_Art
I was honoured to be invited by Nicole Polentas (see my previous artist profile) to the formal opening of the ‘XAOS‘ exhibition at the Hellenic Museum a few weeks ago now. Unfortunately, I have been so incredibly busy that I haven’t been able to write about it before now, and it is only on until 9th April – so get your skates on (hours are limited: Tue-Thur 10am-3pm, or by appointment). This was the most formal exhibition opening I’ve attended. It was invitation only, there were a few speeches (which all started with lengthy acknowledgements of distinguished attendees, including a number ...
