28 April – 14 May 2011
Opens Thursday 28th April 6-8 pm
“Curtin”
Curated by Andie Tham and Johann Rashid.
Featuring Artists Dan Moynihan, James Eisen, Martin Bell, Andie Tham, Beci Orpin, Kate Moss, Rowan McNaught, Jarrah De Kuijer, Stephanie Hughes and Johann Rashid
Curtin is a recent survey of ten emerging artists, who all site sourced and found material as the starting point of image making and technical process. Linking themes and joining narratives through juxtaposition of high and low brow imagery, this exhibition aims to be a fun exploration of different modes in contemporary culture. Curtin is a group of friends, who’s work directly addresses their surroundings. Inspired by found and sourced imagery from the internet, magazines, old books, and film, these processes involve conscientious cropping, collaging, and re-appropriation.
The opening of Curtin will also double as a book launch, celebrating a free limited edition publication also titled Curtin, that was made in conjunction with The Toff in Town and Cookie, that showcases images from all artists in the exhibition. The book takes inspiration from The Toff and Cookie, the businesses that house these creative minds and also the building.
We would like to say thanks and acknowledge The Toff in Town, Cookie, The Ippolliti family, Lucie, Grolsch and Tim Peach for all their help and support in this exhibition and the making of the publication Curtin.
ARTISTS FEATUREDDan Moynihan – bagger-ce.blogspot.com/2011/03/dan-moynihan.html
James Eisen - www.taylorslakesupercolony.org/jameseisen
Martin Bell - www.martinbell.com.au
Andie Tham
Beci Orpin – beciorpin.com
Kate Moss – eternalsweettimes.blogspot.com/
Rowan Mcnaught - www.taylorslakesupercolony.org/hollyandrowan
Jarrah De Kuijer – jarrahdekuijer.com/
Stephanie Hughes – halftruecatfood.blogspot.com/
Johann Rashid – johannrashid.blogspot.com/Kindly sponsored by The Toff and Grolsch
28 April – 14 May 2011
Opens Thursday 28th April 6-8pm
“Without Boundaries”
Emily Taylor
‘Without boundaries’ plays with notions of reality and its ability to present temporal shifts and cycles, focusing on domestic settings. There is an element of the absurd in this work. Emily’s work has a richly detailed aesthetic, which plays a crucial role in seducing spectators into the intimate realms of her personal realities and their re-enactments.
Emily wants to take the viewer into her centre, her turning point, which is a dreamscape of memories and desires linked to reality by common visual elements. By creating narratives of containment, darkness, isolation and longing played out through lighting, theatrical elements, and the construction of the miniature spaces she can entice the viewer into a world that without her would not exist.
7 April – 23 April
Opens 6 April 6pm – 8pm
We
Jessica Kritzer
The central axis of my work is the human body. My practice considers how the body is represented and understood. We is an ‘art experiment’ in which I attempt to construct an image of the body that exists simultaneously within the realms of biology, society and history. The figures in We are arranged in the manner of an 18th century genre painting known as a ‘conversation piece’. (Society, History) A collection of urine is displayed in a glass jar near each model. (Biology)
7 April – 23 April
Opens 6 April 6pm – 8pm
The Human Remains
Alesh Macak
Macak uses a combination of handmade and digital media to accomplish a visual language within which the artist can move, construct, learn and encapsulate ideas. Through a stream of consciousness and a lo-fi framework the process of creation is achieved in an inventive and playful way.
7 April – 23 April
Opens 6 April 6pm – 8pm
“Yeah we’ve all been there”
Roberta Rich, Paul Yore, Ka-yin Kwok and Hubert Algie
Curated by Devon Ackermann
Yeah we’ve all been there is a playfully reflexive exhibition inviting artists to engage with and question notions of stability surrounding cultural understandings of text, language and identity.
