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Friday
16th April - Wednesday 21st April 2004
An Exhibition of works by Fashion
Photographers as featured in Oyster magazine
PeepShowNow!
Thursday April 22nd - Wednesday 12th May 2004
compelling new work by Sydney based visual artists, Arnie Arnold & Simon Lovelace.
"PeepShowNow" investigates the toxic influences of consumer culture and the effect this has on the popular psyche, in particular our cultural fixation with sexualising the physical form.
"PeepShowNow" A place where hidden narratives are uncovered, and the banal becomes exotic.
Taking as their lead consumer driven images with overtly suggestive undertones, both artists explore the possibilities of painting with inventive graphic styles in keeping with popular cultural aesthetics.
Arnie Arnold's series of work conjures up dream-like landscapes and far away places where soft gelato colours complement strong, erotic subject matter. Arnold’s interest in creating a sense of 'place', or lack thereof, ties in with his obsession with the physical surface of the canvas. Arnold moulds and layers the paint, dripping colours onto canvas to create backgrounds of bleeding lines and cross-hatching where organic, morphed naked bodies sit amidst barren landscapes.
While Arnold opens up the frame, creating space around the subject, Simon Lovelace creates a compelling juxtaposition by pulling your focus in, presenting the female form up close in bold, chromatic colours.
Lovelace's paintings appear almost photorealistic in detail yet hyper-realistic in their use of colour. His ability to capture the moment is compelling, with primary reds and blues bouncing off battle-ship greys and the depth of both field and feeling acutely present. Painted in a neo-pop vector based style, the flat tonality still has as much to do with landscape as representation of erotica. Mapping the sexuality of the model 'on show'. Private, yet voyeuristic.
"PeepShowNow" is not just about "outsiders looking in", it is about becoming implicated in the act of looking.
Thursday May 13th - Wednesday 26th May 2004
Innovative new exhibition produced by young, emerging artists Meg Giuliano
and Sophie Giuliano.
The provocatively named show reflects abstract fragments invoked by people,
places and spaces throughout the world.
The inspiration for the show came from London-based Meg and her recent
travels around the world. Sisters Meg and Sophie Giuliano have collaborated
to produce an exhibition appropriately titled "Your bits, My pieces"
as their two styles both compliment and juxtapose one another.
Both Meg and Sophie paint to the slogan once used by Avon, "Colour
is Power".
NO HARM IN LOOKING
Friday 4 june -Wednesday 23 june 2004
BLANKSPACE is pleased to present "NO HARM IN LOOKING "
a group exhibition of diverse works from Melbourne and Sydney artists and designers.
The exhibition is a freeze-frame of what is happening now in contemporary
art and design.
A multi discipline, cross-platform exploration of works including VIDEO ART, FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY, MIXED MEDIA & INDUSTRIAL DESIGN where artists explore their individual reaction to the relationship between time and space.
"No
harm in looking" is a collaboration between blank_space & Melbourne
curator Nadine AnneTalalla.
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The exhibition will feature work by eighteen contemporary artists including
Daniel Askills' ground breaking new film
"WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE"
Selected for the Sydney, Melbourne and Worldwide short film festivals,
it won an audience prize at Clermont and a bafta award.
"Ten
minutes to die for. A breathtaking, burnished triptych, it evokes a surreal,
ritualistic world whose characters appear to float free of space and time."
Susan Shineberg SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
POST NO BILLS
Thursday June 24th to Wednesday July 7th
Works from Peter Windrim's Off the Wall project
The erosion of each layer reveals new shapes, images and colours, juxtaposing statements and ideas and creating a new and unique message.
An original concept, Off The Wall stands in pleasing contrast to the manufactured, high-gloss, increasingly homogenous imagery wallpapering our urban environments. No staging, no PhotoShop - just the by-products of living, breathing cities. It’s authenticity and texture to the max.
Conceived in London in 2000 when the first photograph was taken, the project has gone on to encompass images from all around England, Ireland, Croatia, and Australia.
Its head-slapping simplicity accounts for much of its appeal. This is the stuff that surrounds us, yet recontextualised, it takes on an unusual beauty - utterly familiar, yet never the same.
Essentially about the art of observation, Off the Wall is about bringing something to the foreground that is always in the background, and presenting it in a way that is unique and culturally relevant.
Eloquence (a group thing) Friday 23rd June
A selection of new paintings by Lana Ryles, Jason Steadman, Silvia Winiarski, Rebeccah Dent, Paul Davies & Michelle Zarro with object design by Paul Harrington
In The Raw Light
Thursday 19th August - Wednesday 1st September
New Work By Michelle Agius
EXPERIENCING. VUNERABILITY. REMEMBERING. FORGIVING
The body of work IN THE RAW LIGHT is intriguing and daring.
By taking photos of her own body and using these to evoke the sentiment of vulnerability, Agius is able to draw the observer into the tension of the moment. Agius has collectively put together a body of work that is both evocative in subject matter, yet delicately sensual. The Artist places herself in abstract places symbolic to her and invites the viewer to find resonance within the work through their own experience.
The exhibition will include works on paper, paintings, photography and the relatively new gclee print on to canvas. Agius’s use of mixed media is both experimental yet well developed. She has created multilevel imagery reminiscent of the unearthly element of our consciousness.
Digital compositings by CBL; Christoph Balzar & Birgit Lothmann, Aix-La-Chappelle, Germany
As such it represents the greatest unknown factor man tries to fathom out in his equations,
as it were the definition of the divine.
The pictures in A&O are our attempt to combine the discipline of Greco-Romanesque,
oil-painted classicism with modern photorealism,
be it with regard to content or to style.
All the works in this series developed according to the principle that the combination of nature photographs which differ, and yet at the same time, fit together well, results in new kinds of forms, structures and colours, and thus in completely new contexts.
Photorealism melts into surrealism.
Apparently nothing is more complicated than perception.
Except perhaps steering it.
blank_space presents "Visage" a group portrait exhibition
Featuring work by Keith Kearney, Christie Torrington, Jan Allsopp, Gina Ermer, Camilla Palmer, Brendan Gaule, Simon Lovelace & Paul Hutchinson
Curated by Julie Martin
Fiona
White’s artwork
is a derivative of the people she encounters and photographs on the
city streets of New York, Chicago and Sydney. Their life stories and
her interactions with them serve as the inspiration for the subject
matter. Due to this, the work often has a specific narrative, but may
also be interpreted generically as a depiction of the human condition.
The pieces are mixed-media; figures are drawn in compressed charcoal, while the
remainder of the artistic process is applied in thick layers of acrylic to which
several layers of lacquer are added for a high gloss finish that is rich in texture.
Born in Australia, Fiona divides her time between Sydney and North America.
Her art is held in both public and private collections, and has been published
in Harper’s magazine.
The Drawing Room - A back In Five Project
Thursday 23rd September - Wednesday 20th October 2004
An exhibition of recent drawings by: Danny Armstrong, Michael Armstrong, Emily Chan, Richard Crampton, Ben Deloitte Davis, Piers Greville, Laura Gulbin, Clemens Habicht, James Hancock, Rosie Handley, Robert Howe, Francois Limondin, James McCready, Jo Meares, Tony Mighell, Alejandro Nam, The Pretty Gang, Addy Sevenong, Sumugan Sivanesan, Three Of The Possessed, Mathew Tumbers, Gotaro Uematsu & Deborah West
Tea Garden - Morgan Veness And Horuka Kokubu
Thursday 26th October - Wednesday 10th November 2004
STOP THINKING ABOUT SEX Thursday 11th - Wednesday 17th November
CURIOUS THINGS 18th-24th Nov 2004
A two-woman show of contemporary
photography (Jane Dowton) and mixed media paintings
(Bianca Calandra) at blank_space gallery in Surry
Hills.
Dowton and Calandra are both graduates of The College
of Fine Arts - UNSW (Fine arts, and Design
respectively). The show explored the use of found
objects with both artists exploring their ability to
recontextualise and bring new meaning to these objects
via their own unique visual language.
JANE DOWTON's photographic works include found objects
in a starring role. The major work is a series of
close-ups of rock piles, filling the frame and
providing no point of reference except through the
titles. The rocks are unattended except for random
signposts explaining their presence in terms that are
logical to the owner but mythical to the artist. They
are classifications of some kind, imposed by the
people who work there, with no explanations needed in
their day-to-day workings. Instead of researching the
classifications Dowton has instead imposed her own,
which exist according to her own needs. The works are
large and the colour desaturated, inviting the viewer
to examine the content of each picture and to invent
their own method of sorting, overlaying the two
methods already constructed.
BIANCA CALANDRA's mixed media paintings subtly
integrate and elevate old found objects beyond their
original context. Whilst never entirely divorcing the
objects from their original functions, these become
almost incidental at times when they are explored as
visually interesting entities.
Leaning towards abstract, Calandra creates colourful,
long, thin panels (the format which is becoming a
signature of her work), which capture slivers of time
(real, imagined or idealised) and are always
emotionally evocative pieces.
Jan Latta: Calligraphy of the Body; Helen Roberts Hill: Fibre Works; Sue Girdwood, Jewellery.
Tijuana Sunset explores unlikely stories and unsaid truths. Using Familiar objects with unfamiliar stories and playful objects to reveal ugliness or truth.
David McMillan - Seeing is Being - Video installation.
Seeing is Being occupies the blurry space between the promised land of our cultural lives and the numbness it creates.
Zoe Sernack "MOMENT TO MOMENT" THURSDAY 16TH DEC 6-8PM
(please note this is a one-night show only)
Taiki Daniel TeHuia & Margaret Burns "Something from Nothing"
Friday 17th Dec - Mon 1st Jan 2005
Stencil Hall Of Fame...Calling all stencil punkz!
An ongoing opportunity for inclusion in “The Stencil Hall Of Fame”
An urban project to archive progressive street ART at blank_space gallery.