Exhibition dates: 16th October – 28th February 2009 . “Curiosity is a vice that has been stigmatized in turn by Christianity, by philosophy and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity, futility. I like the word however. To me it suggests something all together different: it evokes concern; it evokes the care one takes for what exists or could exist; an acute sense of the real which, however, never becomes fixed; a readiness to find our surroundings strange and singular; a certain restlessness in ridding ourselves of our familiarities and looking at things otherwise; a passion for seizing what is happening ...
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Exhibition dates: 17th December 2009 – 28th February 2010 . “I draw from everything – from the National Security Archives collection to old material from the FBI’s website to postings by the ACLU. I concentrate on the content. It tends to be very rough material about what’s happened to soldiers in the field, about the good and bad choices they’ve been forced to make, and what has happened to detainees and civilians. I also go to material that’s almost completely gone, either whited out or blacked out, because that represents the issue. You don’t have to spill words when the page is ...
Large studio (40 sq m) in warehouse in North Melbourne available now for professional artist. First floor. Great natural light (skylight and windows) and ventilation. Concrete floor. Trussed roof. Shared warehouse space with 6 other professional artists. All studios private. Secure building. Bathroom and kitchen facilities. Wireless internet. 24 hour access.
. Here’s my pick of the twelve best exhibitions in Melbourne for 2009 that featured on the Art Blart blog (in no particular order) – and a few honorable mentions that very nearly made the list! . . 1/ ‘The Water Hole’ by Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger at ACCA (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art) . . Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger ‘The Water Hole’ 2009 . “The most effective bed has a small meteorite suspended in a net bag above it. The viewer slides underneath the ‘rock’ placing the meteorite about a foot or so above your face. The meteorite is brown, dark and heavy, swinging slightly above your ‘third ...
BROOD BOX Gallery is available to hire for events and exhibitions, shows and installations. The gallery has a liquor license and can arrange catering if required. Whilst BROOD BOX Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of emerging Australian artists alongside established artists, we also provide advice to corporations and individuals who are keen to build a collection of art that will appreciate in value over time.
Artist: Marika Borlase Content: Painting Price Range: Most works from $1100 to $8000 Exhibition: Flinders Lane Gallery - 137 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000 Dates: October 20 - November 7 2009 Marika Borlase "Mclaren Roadster" Flinders Lane Gallery presents a show of hyper-real, bright, painterly works whose sleek surfaces belie sophisticated patterns of colour and tone. Borlase embellishes the brush strokes creating a dazzling effect of a glamorous and artificial environment that calls attention to our hyperactive consumer-driven culture.The works present the world as an object of desire shiny, bright and all about surface. Even the larger than life Eusocial Bees become enticing, high-contrast consumable objects. Within the ...
There’s a hidden artist in everyone – have fun with your individual creativity! Who says you can’t paint? We say you can – everyone can! You’d be amazed at what people can create with the right tools, materials, ambient space and a little help if required. Think of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles – worth millions – you could do that, right? Or perhaps real life’s more your style; come along and have fun finding out while you create something to hang on your walls. How does it work? It’s simple, you book into a session, come along with an image of what you ...
Exhibition dates: 16th October – 28th February 2009 . Hot off the press straight to you here at Art Blart! Photographs of the exhibition ‘Ricky Swallow: The Bricoleur’ at the National Gallery of Victoria Australia, Federation Square. The photographs are in the chronological order that I took them, walking through the three spaces of the exhibition. A spare, visually minimalist aesthetic to the show, where every vanitas, every mark (in)forms the work as transcendent momenti mori. Review to follow. Many thankx to Sue, Alison, Jemma and the team for the usual excellent job and for allowing me to document the exhibition. . “I’ve always been interested ...
Artist: Terri Brooks Content: Painting Price Range: Most works from $1100 to $9000 Exhibition: Flinders Lane Gallery - 137 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000 Dates: August 18 - September 5 2009 Terri Brooks "Brown and Yellow Composition" Flinders Lane Gallery in the city presents a show of nine large abstract paintings by artist Terri Brooks. The works are heavily textured, built up in layers of marks and scratches and the paint is not simply a means to add colour but is integral to the construction of the work. Influenced by the physical environment rather than a traditional “plein air” concept of landscape, the works are satisfying in terms ...
I snuck into the last days of the John Brack show at NGV. I love his later paintings of pencils and cards. Incredible composition and surface detail. Obviously my sneaky photo is not going to come close to doing it justice.The Hunt, detail.Anyway, these little splinter legs in Mum's shoes just kill me.The Chase, detail.Sorry, again for posting about things that are over. I am about to go to the last day of the show at C3. I may also write about that, tomorrow.I didn't take photos of my favourites, (Yes and No, Us and Them, Now and Then and ...
Artist: Kathryn Ryan Content: Painting Price Range: Most works from $950 to $12000 Exhibition: Flinders Lane Gallery - 137 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000 Dates: July 21 - August 15 2009 Kathryn Ryan "Fence Line" The latest show at Flinders Lane Gallery presents a exhibition of around twenty nine works in which the landscape acts as the painter’s muse, the vehicle that unlocks the artist’s experiences within a particular space. The works are realistic in approach, however through the use of light and depth they move beyond simple representations of trees and dissolving horizon lines and become about the artist’s personal and intimate response to a location. ...
Avant-garde artists may push the boundaries of art in one direction and often people will remark: “That’s not art”. But what about the other direction, when does that cease to be art? I don’t mean popular arts, lowbrow or folk arts as these have life and fun in them. They aren’t dead. The stuff that I’m considering is too safe, too stale, too dead to be art. This is a brief entry on the atrophied appendix of Melbourne’s art world; enter the realm of the living dead, the art zombies. What I mean by too safe and too stale to be ...
Exhibition dates: 24th April – 9th August, 2009 . . John Brack ‘The chase’ 1959 . . John Brack ‘Two typists’ 1955 . . John Brack ‘Collins St, 5 p.m.’ 1955 . . John Brack ‘The bar’ 1954 . . John Brack ‘The conference’ 1956 . . John Brack ‘The block’ 1954 . . John Brack ‘The fish shop’ 1955 . . “One either has a subject, or one has not.” John Brack . This is a solid retrospective of the work of the Australian artist John Brack (1920 – 1999) presented by the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. John Brack is, quintessentially, an Australian and more specifically a Melbourne artist. Melbournians have a love hate relationship with his work – loving the earlier paintings that view the working classes of 1950s Melbourne through a nostalgic, humorous, sardonic lens (when originally ...
Exhibition dates: 30th June – 25th July, 2009 . . Guo Jian ‘No.c’ 2009 . . Guo Jian ‘No.d’ 2009 . . This exhibition of eight new paintings and one older work by Chinese artist Guo Jian presented at Arc One Gallery in Melbourne is, with the exception of one outstanding painting, a disappointment. The new work addresses, variously, themes of consumerism, stardom, sex appeal, the military and Chinese culture. Using old photographs as reference and inserting the body and face of the artist into the canvases, Jian examines the paradoxes that exist between Western/American and Chinese culture to limited effect. Using a restricted colour palette in each painting Jian’s ‘mis en scene’ places ...
This space has been used for medical professionals including naturopaths, osteopaths and massage therapists. Your art would be displayed in areas highly visible to a steady stream of clients. Building is at the charming Paris end of Collins St. Circa 1920. There is a hallway and 2 rooms with high ceilings that would be suitable for smaller paintings / similar.
FamousWhenDead Gallery is a new contemporary art space in Melbourne, which officially opened in March 2008. It is located on the fringe of the CBD downtown area and only a 2-mins walk away from the Queen Victoria Markets. It is a space for art and thinking, and for art and meeting. The gallery’s focus is on street art and urban art by local and international artists. It acknowledges Street Art as a global phenomenon and new art movement, which includes aerosol based stencil and freehand art, as well as paste-ups and sticker art (work on paper), illustration (drawing), installation (sculpture) and ...
Exhibition dates: 13th June – 4th October 2009 . You saw it first on Art Blart! Installation photographs from the latest Winter Masterpieces blockbuster from the media preview on the day the exhibition opened at NGV International, Melbourne. Thank you to Jemma Altmeier, Media and Public Affairs Administrator at the NGV for the invitation. Photographs were taken using a digital camera, tripod and available light. There is a posting on the Melbourne Jeweller blog about this exhibition, complete with interesting drawings of the jewellery – well worth a look. Fantastic to see my friend and curator of the exhibition, Dr Ted Gott, at ...
The Candystripers Stripe Again!The Candystripers is a collaboration between two Melbourne artists: pop-artist Gemma Jones and installation artist Lauren Brown. Their latest project is in the entrance to Bus Gallery, an artist-run space in the heart of Melbourne, and is the third in a series of projects based in Melbourne.Seeking to create hyper-real spaces that walk the line between exterior and interior experiences, The Candystripers project at Bus transforms the foyer into a cross between Victorian wallpaper, an over sized minimalist painting and a helicopter landing pad.What : A Candystripers Project: Bus GalleryWhere: Bus Gallery, MelbourneWhen: 9 June - ...
I saw several exhibitions in galleries along Flinders Lane yesterday; there were a lot of paintings. So this entry is a brief survey of paintings currently on exhibition in Flinders Lane. The best of these was Kate Bergin’s “Table Top Variations” at 45 Downstairs. I’ve seen Kate Bergin’s beautiful oil paintings before but this was the first time that I’ve seen a whole exhibition of her work. These are fun paintings as well as beautiful paintings that combine neo-baroque manner elements in still life and animal paintings. Bergin plays with the images: an angry penguin with a pistol tied around its ...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 30th May, 2009 Review by Marcus Bunyan for the Art Blart blog Anne Marie Graham ‘Jungle with Cassowary’ 2008 “Anne Marie Graham’s painting career now spans more than six decades. Observed with a penetrating and affectionate gaze, her images are beautiful records of Australia’s vast landscape. Each work is an engagingly optimistic view, evoking the mystery and fragility of Australia’s rich environment. This survey of recent paintings concentrates on the tropical Queensland landscapes around Noosa and the Cairns Botanic Gardens. As she casts he vision over mountains, rain forests and panoramic vistas or as she leads us into an intimate world ...
Exhibition dates: 18th March – 4th April 2009 Peter James Smith links the culture of science and of human experience, bringing together mathematics and the power of nature in realist imagery that is balanced by strong mark making and text. Redolent still life and landscape images juxtapose with astronomical, poetic and historical observations in the painted images. Handwritten citations, notes, jottings, diagrams and erasures float on the loosely painted surfaces of stretched linen, paper collage and found pieces which bring a Beuysian sense of the charismatic object. A sunset, a violin, a book of verse, an installation of old bells or ...
Artist: Junko Go Content: Painting, works on canvas Price Range: Most works from $500 to $4,200 Exhibition: Gallery 101 - 101Collins Street Melbourne 3000 Dates: February 24 - March 14 2009 Junko Go "Red Hot Poker" 2009 All about… blooming is a large and well put together exhibition of mixed media works on canvas. The show uses botanical motifs to explore some enormous concepts surrounding our values, our sense of self and what we derive from our existence on this planet. I am familiar with Go’s work, having attended the same university and shared tutorials with her. These works continue her intense approach to the surface of ...
Exhibition dates: 25th February – 14th March 2009 “We live in a world where high achievers are congratulated, yet true achievements are not related to what we can get done, but to how deeply we aware of how wonderful it is to be alive. In this exhibition, flowers are not only a predominant source of visual inspiration, looking at them also engenders a kind of appreciation and wonder. The fragile and ephemeral flower provokes in me an awareness of the human condition that reveals the true nature of our existence. My goal is to create images which are strong and soft, bold and ...
Artists warehouse space available again for $70 PER WEEK The warehouse is in North Melbourne really close to the Vic markets and basically in the CBD. One space is currently available for $70 per week each, about 22m2 in size. This studio is really raw and perfect for people who need a space to be messy and creative, ideal for designers, architects, painters, sculptors, photographers, fashion designers, anything really, so long as you are a relaxed and chilled type of person, then all is well. The space has toilets, loads of power points, running water and kitchen. The space is subdivided at the ...
Artists:Molly Pwerle, Emily Pwerle, Galya Pwerle, Gloria Petyarre, Hunter Sisters, Lizzie Pwerle, Violet Petyarre, Abie Loy and Jack Dale Content: Painting Price Range: Most works from $275 to $15,400 Exhibition: Flinders Lane Gallery - 137 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000 Dates: January 6 - February 21 2009 "Bush Hen Dreaming" Abie Loy Kemarre This stunning group show displays twenty four works by contemporary artist from Utopia and Kimberly. I have mentioned in previous reviews my ignorance when it comes to contemporary Indigenous painting, so I cannot offer any true insight into what I saw when I visited the show, other than I was struck by ...
