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RESIST: 2010 RMIT PRINTMAKING GRADUATE EXHIBITION The 2010 RMIT Printmaking Graduate Exhibition RESIST plays with the notions of process, materiality and politics. This selection of 2010 graduate work displays a wide range of concepts and media that participate in current debates of gender, globalisation, identity and sustainability. Mari Adams Participating artists: Alanna Clarkson Anna Topalidou Brooke […]
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Gallery 3 Robin Astley’s large-scale works on paper are an intricate meditation on war, conflict and the impossible notion of victory. Harnessing the codes and visual aesthetics of a ‘military genre’, Astley’s life-sized, archetypal figures float somewhere between the surreal and the real. Her subjects are tattooed with the remains of war – military motifs […]
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Gallery 1 small things is about the beauty and meaning that can be found in the everyday. It is an exploration of household objects and familiar surrounds, and of the humour, weight and significance of ordinary things. There’s hope in a bucket, loyalty in an occasional table, and comfort in a mixing bowl. All the pieces […]
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Gallery 2 Taryn Lee-Steere’s exhibition features small-scale sculptures and relief work that engage on an intimate level with the aftermath of loss. Produced during a period of reflection on the processes of grief, these hand-carved, polished and fused sculptures are the physical materialisation of complex emotional terrain. As Lee-Steere notes, ‘While the underlying concepts of […]
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Gallery 3 Robyn Base’s new sculptural installations of glass, plastics, silicon, wood and sand are compiled of fragments of wrecked cars and vehicles collected from the sites of minor traffic accidents around her home. Illuminated from behind, the shrine-like light-boxes encourage detailed examination for clues and evidence. Every fragment is visible but the narrative remains elusive. The […]
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Gallery 1 Shapeshifting brings together a selection of sparsely utopian imaginings by Caroline Kennedy-McCracken and Fleur Summers. Summers’ elegant, tonal work often uses recycled cardboard to model real and imagined natural constructs. Her new works on paper, ingeniously made from packing tape and little else, moves between formal exercises in space, distance and expression, and narratives […]
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Gallery 2 Kate Zizys and Kim McDonald are Gippsland-based artists who have worked in proximity to each other for the past six years. Hive is their first collaborative exhibition. It features prints, installations and drawings that engage with ideas of hive-mentalities and ‘drone space’ through the shared motif of bees. Kim McDonald: ‘There is a hive in […]
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Gallery 3 In Judith Cobb’s new exhibition of small-scale oil paintings, everyday objects take on new psychological and emotional dimensions through the use of altered colour and perspective. As Cobb has noted, ‘Flight Pathimplements the perspective viewpoint of aerial reconnaissance; an approach, a descent or a view from above earth. The viewer’s aerial suspension gives a […]
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Gallery 2 This exhibition of new photographs by Phil Roubin details the traces of life left behind in abandoned homes. Worn carpet, broken blinds and fragmented windows testify to years of occupation, while scattered possessions tell something of the nature of inhabitants once present. Awash with natural light, Roubin’s images seek to energise spaces that otherwise […]
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Gallery 1 Kirsty Fletcher makes small-scale cardboard sculptures and collage relief works, often using reclaimed packaging and ephemera including met-cards, beer cartons, cardboard boxes and salvaged objects. Despite the inert and flimsy nature of her materials, Kirsty’s works often feature kinetic, moving parts. In this exhibition, cardboard mice run wild in a hall of waving ‘Lucky’ […]
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The Collective are a group of seven artists who also all work within museum environments. In this, their second collaborative exhibition, they present their responses to aspects of memory, permanence and time through a range of media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation. Museologists mange time. They are in the business of preserving the […]
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Stabbing a stick into goo and smearing it on a surface. Is that what painting is? What is a colour? How can anybody convey in words the crackle of two colours sitting together? Why is it that when you arrange abstract shapes in a collage of drawing and paint, the shapes seem to move into […]
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Gallery 3 Longs Socks is an exploration of both the similarities and differences in three codes football: Soccer, Rugby Union and Australian Rules. In each of these sports there are identifying marks linking each to the tribe and then individual teams. The types of cheers, songs, and names given to certain moves are distinguishing differences that […]
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Gallery 1 Cameron Bishop’s practice investigates how national narratives and mythologies can be disturbed. Bad Impressions features new painting and animation that ‘remake’ or ‘reconstitute’ Australian Impressionist works from the Heidelberg School era. Painted on imported Luaun pine and exhibited alongside short animated loops, Bishop’s images are populated with the remains of astromonks, historiographers and the dispossessed. The intersection of traditional […]
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Gallery 2 This exhibition features limited edition and unique state prints by each artist, as well as collaboratively produced works on paper. The title Binding Memories invokes a sense of woven time and a re-connection with the past. In some of these works, the tactile layering of patterned surfaces and tonal imprints mirrors the complex entanglements of […]
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Gallery 3 red gallery and Craft Victoria are proud to present Hide and Seek, a Craft Cubed Satellite event by Caroline Phillips and Samantha Scott. Hide and Seek references the ways in which children construct, collect, covet, form boundaries and create order through play. Scott and Phillips view these elements as crucial to the development of self and cultural […]
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Gallery 1 This exhibition of large-scale encaustic paintings continues Robyn Emerson’s explorations into the emotional and spiritual aspects of physical places. Although many of her new works are inspired by actual Australian environments, as Robyn notes, ‘these paintings are primarily a visual response to the more intangible aspects of experience, memories, reflections and realities. Although […]
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Gallery 2 Drawn to Motion features Simon Finn’s latest series of intricate charcoal on paper drawings. Many of these drawings are arranged in progressive sequences that give the effect of accumulated movement over time, like the rendition of motion in comic books or stop-motion animations. The exhibition resembles a series of highly detailed frames pulled from […]
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Constellation: A Durational Chamber Work Created by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey in collaboration with the artists Commissioned works by: Ros Bandt Carolyn Connors Rohan Drape Madeleine Flynn Robin Fox Sebastian Harris Tim Humphrey Anita Hustas Neil Kelly Graeme Leak Kate Neal Wang Zheng Ting David Young red gallery contemporary art space, new music network […]
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Gallery 2 This new series of works on paper has evolved out of Indigo O’Rourke’s investigations into the art of the everyday. Her doodles, jottings, biro portraits and accidental ink, coffee and wine-stained drawings are produced through a stream of consciousness process, and are assembled without any overriding structure.Fragments of text, signs, scenes and figures are […]
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Gallery 3 Chloe Vallance’s latest exhibition features a series of new drawings and paintings on plywood and paper. In some of these works, two images are placed side by side within the same frame. Although ostensibly of the same scene, in one image the background is removed so the figures seem to float in space and the grain […]
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Gallery 1 Sussi Ross’ new series of drawings and oils on linen are inspired by her recent investigations into the crossovers between still-life and portraiture. Natura Morta presents an unadorned exploration of an hermetic space consisting of personal objects and people, with a fascination for the atmosphere that can be created by shifts in light and colour. Ross’ […]
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Gallery 2 Amelia Lackmann’s recent paintings combine fragmented architecture and abstraction to create imagined urban sites. Intrigued by the disparate nature of urban spaces and the varying sensations of experience which may be felt from within them, Lackmann’s Boogie Street presents a revelation of ‘the concealed visceral beating, organs of the city’. She plays with the idea […]
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Gallery 3 These three artists are connected by their ongoing interest in nature, artifice, and the complex relationship between human beings and their environment. This exhibition of new paintings and photography takes a trip into a world where the natural and artificial have seductively merged. In Dena Kahan’s painting, 19th century glass models of plants and […]
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Gallery 1 New Miniatures and Curiosities For her new solo exhibition at red gallery, Sarah Gully presents her latest collection of drawings and miniature oil paintings that draw upon multiple influences. For this series, Sarah has taken inspiration from Old Master portraiture. But rather than focusing on the subject or the dark Renaissance interiors, she […]
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Gallery 3 When I was a child, my mother and her friends would sit and sew while painting their nails, smoking and talking. There were no patterns, things were just made. There was very little money so the women were resourceful: a curtain one day became a ball gown the next weekend. There was no […]
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Gallery 2 This exhibition of new photographs and sculptural works was created during Dawn Whitehand’s residency in France earlier this year. The work continues her interest in the communicative properties of clay and the value and aesthetic of totemic objects. Whitehand’s studio practice is strongly informed by her relationship to the rural settings in which […]
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Gallery 1 Monumental dogs wander through groups of children playing hopscotch. A polar bear gently cradles a sleeping infant. The animals and children in Siobhan McMahon’s watercolours are plucked from their natural environments and placed into fields of open space. Flecks of glitter occasionally sparkle across the image, recalling the flurried enchantment of a snow-dome […]
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Gallery 3 How have ideas about landscape changed in recent years? And how does the photographic imaginary influence our perceptions of the world around us? This exhibition brings together the work of three young, emerging artists whose works engage with contemporary notions of landscape and its photographic representations. Featuring a diverse range of technical and […]
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Gallery 2 Stripes that project outwards into the third-dimension, that bend and curve or are tangled or distorted ― these are the devices used by Susanne Pearce to draw attention to painting as surface. This new series of acrylics on canvas presents a contemporary update of modernist abstraction through the re-invention of optical effects, including the physical manipulation and folding of […]
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Gallery 1 Exuberant and full of life, Christopher Gray’s paintings strive to bring opposite states of being into harmony.Happiness Is … continues on from Gray’s large-scale retrospective at Latrobe Regional Art Gallery in 2007, and further develops his famous ‘Sqound’ (half square, half round) form. As Gray says, ‘In this present series, the shaped canvases of […]
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Gallery 3 Darkroom is the premiere of Hoang Tran Nguyen’s new single-channel video work, October (After Đặng Nhật Minh). The installation features an edited and processed version of a feature film Nguyen recently discovered from Vietnam. As Nguyen remarks, ‘Post 1975, the country was reunited but living in poverty, leaving limited resources for film-making. Furthermore, cultural production became […]
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Gallery 2 ‘The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees.’ Marcel Proust ‘The Captive’ Catherine Pilgrim’s latest body […]
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Gallery 1 This series of photographic works was captured in Ba Ria-Vung Tau (formally Phuc Tuy) province in Vietnam over the course of the past two years. The portraits use as a backdrop an actual event that occurred in Vietnam in 1966: the laying of an 11 kilometre minefield in this area by the Australian Army. Horvat’s images feature […]
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Gallery 3 In these recent works, small figurines are placed on an indeterminate surface, their forms revealed but also kept partially transparent. A Figurative Relationship continues Treloar’s exploration of space and displacement in painted and drawn compositions. However, where previously there were only one or two figures inhabiting each mysterious space, new players now intrude; their incongruities […]
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Gallery 1 ‘The Human subject is a figure drawn in sand’ Foucault If the canvas is already teaming with possibilities, how do you censor these things to produce a painting that is more than the sum of your preconceptions or pre-existing ideas? Camille Hannah suggests that you must have contact with something outside of your subjectivity. […]
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Gallery 2 Between the Pages is a celebration of the beauty and physicality of books in an age of immaterial information. Ryan Ponsford produces black and white pigment ink prints of aged books and manuscripts found in archives, libraries and private collections. His images are captured on a nearly obsolete format of Polaroid type film using […]
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TransMasculinities Curated by Jesslyn Moss This major Midsumma Visual Arts exhibition features photography, painting, drawing and video by nine artists from around Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States whose works focus on female-to-male transitioning. Curated by artist Jesslyn Moss, the exhibition explores new models of masculinity and offers rare insights into the physical and psychological aspects of transgender […]
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