15 - 27 July

CAPPUCINO WILDERNESS SAFARI: J.D. REFORMA

Keeper Gallery

In Cappuccino Wilderness Safari, J.D. Reforma reflects upon the bourgeois tendency to "life-stylise" – re-contextualising the artificial construct of suburbia by extracting from within it specific elements for re-constitution into a fictionalised narrative of "the wild". He cites the celebrity-filled tabloid magazine, the idyllic model-home, and the branded takeaway-coffee cup as functional entities within this elusive "wilderness" safari, where the twin-concerns of celebrity and status are the designated and much sought-after "game". In elevating them to trophy-status, he proposes that through a totemistic (not simply consumeristic) dedication to such objects, the urban bourgeoisie attempt to transcend the supposed stasis of their position.

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15 - 27 July

GANG - RUDY ARDIANTO

Gallery 1

A collection of works made during Rudy's recent years living in Java-Indonesia (2006 - 2009). The works are an exploration into the realms of power with a re-occuring reference to seats: the seat of power, the devil's throne, the wheel chair, the 'Green' chair. Through this work Rudy explores the undercurrent movements, both political and cultural, flowing in contrary directions to the mainstreams of power.

GANG is an exhibition showcasing the depth of creative networking between Java and Sydney over the last decade. Gang is a celebration of the past, present and future of a wealth of collaborative exchanges that have occurred through the creative networks active in 'Gang Festival' (Sydney) and its sister festival 'Festival Mata Air', based in Central Java. This exhibition also marks the inaugural launch of 'Gang Installations', a new art installation company and the birth of the next phase in Gang Collaborations.

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15 - 27 July

GANG - CLARE PERKINS

Gallery 2

This exhibition of paintings is a collection of buildings - real, imagined and remembered: re-presented as slightly skewed likenesses in paint on canvas and board. Terraces, warehouses and other industrial spaces in the Chippendale, Redfern and Newtown areas inspire the paintings. History and the memory of life etched into the surfaces of the buildings present rich emotional and textural reference for paint application and as we witness the transformation and homogenisation of our urban landscape these paintings capture some of the character of our city's disappearing history.

GANG is an exhibition showcasing the depth of creative networking between Java and Sydney over the last decade. Gang is a celebration of the past, present and future of a wealth of collaborative exchanges that have occurred through the creative networks active in 'Gang Festival' (Sydney) and its sister festival 'Festival Mata Air', based in Central Java. This exhibition also marks the inaugural launch of 'Gang Installations', a new art installation company and the birth of the next phase in Gang Collaborations.

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15 - 27 July

GANG - GROUP

Gallery 3

Shannon Johnston, Clare Conroy, Johan Marais Piper, Deni Pancatritana - Taring Padi Collective (Java-Indonesia), TUK Collective (Java-Indonesia), Elizabeth Russ, and Installation by Marty Jay.

GANG is an exhibition showcasing the depth of creative networking between Java and Sydney over the last decade. Gang is a celebration of the past, present and future of a wealth of collaborative exchanges that have occurred through the creative networks active in 'Gang Festival' (Sydney) and its sister festival 'Festival Mata Air', based in Central Java. This exhibition also marks the inaugural launch of 'Gang Installations', a new art installation company and the birth of the next phase in Gang Collaborations.

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1 - 13 July

32DEAD FOR JEWELLERY - ORIGIN

Keeper Gallery

'Like concrete clashing concrete, so did the bus and the people on it, as they collide into the water of the river below. Like a stone being thrown into a lake the bus disappeared in the freezing unforgiving water. And quickly, just the same way as the bus had, the screams vanished! 32 had died.'

Video installation reporting the story and process behind the project 32Dead For Jewellery by Joao Vaz.

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1 - 13 July

ARE WE THERE YET? - GROUP

Gallery 1

A group contemporary object art & design exhibition showcasing artists who
work with a variety of mediums and processes.

Georgia Graham, Alexandra Darby, Eliza Mok, Corrine Snare, Kenny Son, Jane Godbold, Ilana Thorpe, Rob Stewart, Eleni Antoniou, Claudia Citton & Angela Porritt

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1 - 13 July

TRAVERSE URBANA - JUSTIN HEVEY

Gallery 2

Having traveled extensively through out Europe while living in London,
Cuba, China and across Serbia Russia Justin's photos capture places in
urban and country landscapes along with its diverse people and its
cultures.

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1 - 13 July

PROLIFERATION - KATH FRIES

Gallery 3

This new installation by Kath Fries fills the gallery space with hundreds
of feathers. The gallery space will appear to be bursting at the seams as
hidden stuffing spews forth and strands of feathers trail down the walls
and explode out of the cracks between floorboards. The artist will tend
the installation daily and viewers will be able to see it change and grow
over this period.

A publication titled Feather will also accompany the exhibition. For more
information please visit www.kathfries.blogspot.com

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20 May - 1 June

A POCKET FULL OF POSIES - CATHERINE STUCKINGS

Keeper Gallery

A Pocketful of Posies explores the microscopic; the unfamiliar - yet ubiquitous life-forms that surround ; invade ; reside and act upon us.

Rows of delicate handkerchiefs reveal and celebrate the complexity and aesthetic beauty of a hidden menace.

The familiar becomes unfamiliar and the unfamiliar known.

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20 May - 1 June

A POCKET FULL OF POSIES - CATHERINE STUCKINGS

Keeper Gallery

A Pocketful of Posies explores the microscopic; the unfamiliar - yet ubiquitous life-forms that surround ; invade ; reside and act upon us.

Rows of delicate handkerchiefs reveal and celebrate the complexity and aesthetic beauty of a hidden menace.

The familiar becomes unfamiliar and the unfamiliar known.

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3 - 15 June

RE: PRODUCTION - GROUP

Keeper Gallery

Adorning almost every surface of a room, re:production is an exhibition of roughly 500 images that document the practices of a diverse range of contemporary jewellery makers.
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3 - 15 June

SUPERSET - GROUP

Gallery 1

Asim Aly-Khan, Caroline Foldes, Mirjana Tann, Patrick Gilling, Philippa Margan, Andrea Klucis, Bryan Cummins, Mim Stirling

This is the SuperSet. Photographic artworks by eight Sydney photographers.

From microcosm to macrocosm – worlds through a lens.

An exhibition by The Photo Group.
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3 - 15 June

STRANGER THAN KINDNESS - BETH JOSEY

Gallery 2
CURATED BY SIX WOLVES

Six Wolves is proud to present 'Stranger Than Kindness' a new collection of works by artist Beth Josey, curated by Six Wolves.

The title 'Stranger than Kindness' is not an everyday phrase, however, kindness is no longer an everyday happening. Josey has produced a collection of works that much like the kindness of a stranger are not part of our everyday world. These paintings do not convey the everyday thoughts of the everyday person. Josey shifts us all from our familiar, safe places to a confronting, mysterious underworld.

'Stranger than Kindness documents a world of scattered thoughts, disturbing dreams, and hallucinations of fears that we usually hide from each other and even ourselves."

A sense of gothic obscurity is achieved throughout this series of work, with Josey¹s use of classic mediums of oils, acrylic and ink. With a blend of portraiture and surrealism, Beth has created a gothic aesthetic, exploring the fragmented nature of the individual and the contradictions inherent in all people.

Kristen Perich and Adam Browne have developed Six Wolves, a creative agency Six Wolves has fast become a staple part of the Sydney production and casting scene for both the fashion and art industries.

'Stranger Than Kindness' is an invitation to a collection that is admittedly strange, but no stranger than kindness.
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3 - 15 June

TELL TALES - JASMIN DESSMANN

Gallery 3

This exhibition follows the tradition of narrative construction or the way a story is told, something which has influenced how we interpret information since the spoken word, the written script, and the recognition of universal symbols.

Drawing its meaning from religious stories, classical mythologies, to urban folklore and rumours of superstitious happenings, the works in Tell Tales make use of ambiguous interplays between symbols, settings, characters and contemporary events. It presents to us stories of our own minds making.

Referencing the saying "the tell tale signs" and the act of "telling tales" this exhibition applies the inevitable potential for exaggeration and deception which comes with the process of reiterating information many times. Like film stills disenfranchised from a greater whole, each work suggests a narrative beyond what is seen in a single frame. A question of what is seen and what is not seen.

Aesthetically evoking early woodcuts and print etchings which often provided the pictorial depictions for myths and instructional manuscripts, we see gothic figures and stunned animal characters playing host to scenes both familiar yet obscure, in a masquerade of a mundane fable.

Here the act of deciphering and interpreting through the confusion of origins, allusions, and other didactics becomes the challenge of memory, trivia, or déjà vu. Where the familiar scene becomes the unfamiliar, and where the proverbial formula for interpreting a story is recognised as obsolete.
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20 May - 1 June

A POCKET FULL OF POSIES - CATHERINE STUCKINGS

Keeper Gallery

A Pocketful of Posies explores the microscopic; the unfamiliar - yet ubiquitous life-forms that surround ; invade ; reside and act upon us.

Rows of delicate handkerchiefs reveal and celebrate the complexity and aesthetic beauty of a hidden menace.

The familiar becomes unfamiliar and the unfamiliar known.

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20 May - 1 June

ORGANIC MECHANICS - MARCUS DILLON

Galleries 1 & 2

Having had an ongoing dialogue with glass for many years I continue to remain curious about the new forms that emerge when I have spare time in the studio to play. Hands-on material manipulation is essential to my practice, its how things can be shaped and formed as I'm exploring a variety of methods of working with materials that bring out qualities that I feel attracted to. By exploring processes of manipulation, whether through artisanship, or the use of industrial processes, I delight in the discovery of innovative ways of interpreting glass in combination with a variety of other materials.

As well as being driven by the direct manipulation of materials, my work is informed by principles appropriated from such areas as engineering, physics, chemistry, cosmology, archeology and architecture. Each piece is intended to epitomize a hard-edged industrial object, all the while alluding to the biomorphic structure of a functioning entity. The commonality and focus is where form and structure becomes one, where all elements of construction are exposed and composed to create a singular sculptural form.

By working with modules and components I'm allowing for the development of relationships between these elements where old forms are able to generate new forms through processes that might suggest germination, hybridization, or absorption. These dynamic and multifarious compositions reveal fervour for mechanical geometry while suggesting a sense of organic growth and evolution. Each element is simple in its own right, yet contributes to fashion a shift towards greater complexity in the combination and collision of components. The intent - a single entity conceived as a functioning system of interdependent autonomous parts.

Constructed with a play between interior and exterior space, I am interested in exploring the tension between what is revealed and what is concealed; how windows link interior space with exterior place to create shifting sightlines; how space is compressed and movement directed; how at times something is hidden, and at times exposed. A window is a charged site, the place where interior and exterior negotiate. The circular opening is its oculus and becomes the source of surveillance.

Considering the forces within nature - its physics, mechanics and chemistry, these formations are representations of the energy, life and space both within and around us.


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20 May - 1 June

CITY WEST LINK - GROUP SHOW

Gallery 3

The city west link is a road that links the west to the city. In this photography exhibition you will see two photographic essays by two photographers. One by George Voulgaropoulos, about the Children of Auburn in West Sydney & one by Richard Payne focusing on the city of Sydney. What links the two photo essays is that they both show Sydney in an unfamiliar light.

Georgeʼs essay is a Sydney that most people will never see. This series provides a glimpse into the life of the next generation of Australians living in Auburn, peering behind the veil of this little-known side of society. Will this next generation of Australians hold onto their cultural heritage? Or will they be overwhelmed by the pressure to assimilate? The body of work parallels Georgeʼs journey as a photographer, as an observer of a culture, mirroring his own experiences as a 2nd generation Australian.

Richard's essay is of the urbane environment, a summary of stone, metal and glass that covers everything in its path leaving nature suppressed but not defeated. Once a city is erected the people come to nest.

www.fotorich.com

About George Voulgaropoulos
A freelance photographer who currently works as both a staff photojournalist locally in the western and inner-western suburbs of Sydney (Torch, Auburn Review, Cooks River Valley Times) as well as Milk & Honey Photography. The winner of the ACMP Editorial Emerging Photographer award 2009, George is establishing himself as a documentary photographer.
www.lightbound.com.au

About Richard Payne
Professional Photographer based in Sydney Australia. Running a full time commercial business "Richard Payne Photography". Also shooting personal projects, street photography, doco and fine art.


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6 - 18 May

MAKE BELIEVE - GROUP SHOW

Gallery 1

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6 - 18 May

ACCESS - GROUP SHOW

Keeper Gallery

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6 - 18 May

MAKE BELIEVE - GROUP SHOW

Gallery 1

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6 - 18 May

NOISE IN MY HOUSE - MARCELLE ROBBINS

Gallery 2

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6 - 18 May

PORTRAITS ON HOMELESSNESS + SCHIZOPHRENIA - NADIA JANIS

Gallery 3

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22 April - 4 June 2010

MATERIALISE 2 - GROUP SHOW

Keeper Gallery

Marina Antoniou
Catherine Buman
Kate Davey
Felix Gill
Sarah Hilyard
Natalie Lehrer
Kristen Nicole
Nikola Steggles
Naomi Stewart
Emily Thomas & Joao Vaz

Lead by recent graduates Naomi Stewart and Sarah Hilyard, emerging contemporary jewellery and object makers from Sydney take the stage in an exhibition showing their recent works.

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22 April - 4 May 2010

FOOD&COMPANY - GROUP SHOW

Galleries 1 & 2

Samantha Denmark
Jacqueline Chan
Lauren Esdaile
Lucy Hall
Katherine Heise
Jefferton James
Anna Kalloudis
Sarah Long
Charmaine Ng
Gemma O'Brien
Clare O'Flynn
Rochelle Pauw
Elizabeth Reed
Naomi Taplin
Harriet Watts
Hayden Youlley

Co-ordinating curator: Anna Lise De Lorenzo
Creative curator: Anne-Louise Dadak
Exhibition assistant: Sarah Long

Design Laboratory installation by Anne-Louise Dadak

Food&Company presents works by 15 emerging designers and artists responding to food&company. The show is an investigation into the shared experience and storytelling imbued in the objects we eat from, cook with, the places we dine, the company we keep and the ephemera that's left behind.

The installation of this exhibition is interested in providing an insight into the processes and ideas that feed into the designs and artworks on display. Think of it as a shared meal made from home-grown vegetables, based on a passed-down recipe. This meal engages the diners in a richer experience than the flavours of the meal itself.

Works include ceramics, furniture, illustration, photography, tableware, textiles and more in installations that aim to trigger ideas, interactions and discussions.

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22 April - 4 May 2010

FACES OF THE MIDDLE EAST - A SOLO BY HERMOINE MACURA

Gallery 2

This exhibition features photographic snapshots of various ethnic and religious minorities that call one of the most controversial parts of the world home. From the Bedul of Petra to the Shiaa pilgrims of Iran, Faces of the Middle East documents how some ancient groups continue to survive amidst adversity and a globalizing culture.

Based in the Middle East for the past 7 years, Faces of the Middle East is Hermoine Macura's first photographic exhibition. A prelude to her book on minority groups in the Middle East, to be released later this year, the exhibition is a culmination of almost 5 years of work across the Arab world.

Born and bred in Sydney Australia, Hermoine has directed and produced several documentaries on the Middle East. Her passion to document the "common thread of humanity that unites us all", has led her to some of the Middle East's most dangerous countries, including Iraq and Palestine.

A graduate from the University of Wollongong, Hermoine is currently based in Dubai as a News Anchor and Reporter for Emirates News on Dubai One TV.

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8 April - 20 April 2010

MATERIALISE 1 - GROUP SHOW

Keeper Gallery

Catherine Buman
Carol Faulkner
Angie Lou
Jasmine Matus
Mark McClelland
Mitsuru Soeda
Phillip Srhoj
Jacquie Starr
Minh Tran

Lead by recent graduates Naomi Stewart and Sarah Hilyard, emerging contemporary jewellery and object makers from Sydney take the stage in an exhibition showing their recent works.

Image: Catherine Buman, Íllumine, 2009
Stainless steel, house paint, 550mm (maximum height)

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8 April - 20 April

FIVE EIGHT FIVE: VOLUME 2 - GROUP SHOW

Gallery 1

Elizabeth Ciantar
Erin Cuthbert
Rhonda Dwyer
Alex Greene
Emily Harris
Momoko Hatano
Kirsten Hillman
Ashleigh Hopkins
Sinead Kelly
Alison Moore
Jyoti Peart
Sian Edwards
Elizabeth Reed
James Robertson
Adam Roche
Philippa Thomas

Curated by Momoko Hatano

This is the second group exhibition by a diverse selection of emerging artists and designers.

Their day job is the common thread that connects these artists and provide a space for their creative interactions.

The exhibition showcases their recent drawings, sculptures, paintings, textiles, jewellery and objects.

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8 April - 20 April

OCEAN DIALOGUES - ANNA ZARASYAN

Gallery 2

Having lived in Australia for the last sixteen years, I position myself as an artist, whose expression has translated into a multifaceted mixture of representational and non-representational works. The variety of subjects and technical approaches in my work reflects the way in which I relate to the complexity of the contemporary art practice and the society that generates it.

The theme of the 'Ocean Dialogues' series presented at this exhibition is hardly original. This fact in itself presents a conceptual challenge. What could I add to the numerous voices of those who have already spoken on the theme? How do I make one of the most popular cliché subjects of the tourist oriented galleries' produce to come across meaningful and sincere? How do I create an expression that is romantic without being sentimental? How do I create a nostalgic mood without creating a sense of hopelessness?

The way I have approached the challenge was to create a visual Variation of the Theme. The theme of the Ocean is explored from the various stylistic angles. Combined, they give an answer to one simple question: What is the ocean for me? What has it been for me before I came to Australia? What is it for me now? How could it happen, that the Ocean from the books and movies has turned into a reality that is only a short walk away from where I live? It is truly a miracle I believe…

There is a unifying force that brings together such a widely spread set of styles in my paintings. It is a particular feel that I set to achieve. Regardless of style and the technique used, I seek to create paintings that would speak to the viewer in a soft and gentle voice, that would make a viewer's mind silent, that would make him/her feel calm and grounded; that would balance out the accelerating pace of life that is becoming increasingly intense, noisy and overpowering.

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8 April - 20 April

WORDS AND PICTURES, IT'S AN EXHIBITION! - JONATHAN JAMES

Gallery 3

Jonathan James is a Sydney based artist using art to explore the possibility of fresh perspectives, prompted by open-ended dialogue. Disembodied sentences wait to be subjectively interpreted by each viewer. Nostalgic imagery provides the counter point.

"Song and dance celebrate the classic love affair, mistaking leave taking for something else, as though that leave taking, that walk into the sunset, were a walk into a future together. Of course one takes that other into the future always as a sunny blip in our subconscious but strangely, they're not the one we measure all others by and that relationship is not the one we test others against. That affair becomes a fragment without context, boxed and labelled. Why do we leave it behind? One reason includes the cycle of birth, life and death. Death is inherent in all our daily actions and repeats, spirals, out to our larger narrative also, so we let go the fragments. I suspect our sense of the ridiculous is another reason why we can let go of what may have been 'the one'. Imagine being one of those few couples, we've all seen them, who at fifty, fat and unfashionable, hold hands and make gaga eyes at one another on the street. They appear to have held onto that one who completed them perfectly and it's all one can do not to point and stare." K. Joan Cheaver in The march towards spring, 1978.

This exhibition was inspired by travel brochures, love songs, Sydney's social pages and other sublimated desires.

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25 February - 25 March 2010

ARMAMENT - MARK VAARWERK

Keeper Gallery

"Delve into the garages, spare rooms, bottom drawers, cupboards-below-the-sinks of any home and you will be overwhelmed by mountains of stuff - and most of it plastic. Wasted pens, retired TVs or vacuum cleaners or printers, piles of dirty styrofoam boxes and packaging, shopping bags...

Or a stroll down a busy street, a quick glance in a lunchroom waste-bin, a shortcut down a city alley...

Plastics - discarded, forgotten, superseded, broken. Sifting through this seemingly endless source of raw materials, i transform these everyday materials, utilising simple techniques, into wearable items of jewellery. A small and colourful fragment, new and re-invented, but with still a hint of its less glamorous past." (Mark Vaarwerk)

www.vaarwerk.com
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25 March - 6 April 2010

PRECIOUS METALS - GROUP SHOW

Keeper Gallery

Phoebe Miller
Erin Field
Rae Harvey
Ping Tay
Joao Vaz
Bea Chew
Frejj (Jayne and Julia Flanagan)
Sharon Margaret

"...I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song." - Iris Barrel Apfel

This exhibition celebrates the use of textiles in the creation of extraordinary adornments.

Curated by Zoe Brand

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25 March - 6 April

FAMILIAR FABLE: DWELL - LAUREN HEWITT

Gallery 1

"This body of work attempts to explore the way the local landscape is represented in the imagination. Capturing locations where sometimes something has occurred, an event, or where there is a hint of a happening, and locations that harbour that potential.

Drawing from the traditions of film noir, the familiar scene becomes the unfamiliar. Suburbia, seen from the car window, what we see everyday passes through our awareness, becoming swiftly invisible and unnoticed. Yet glimpses of these shadowed corners can spark the imagination for a fleeting moment, causing the birth of a brief fable, shortly lived, yet lingering.

I find that the urban landscape at night suddenly becomes a lot more interesting, and open to interpretation than during our everyday passings in the light hours. Trying to capture detail in the darkness, subtleties of shadow and low light for atmospheric scenery that easily impels the imagination. Working in the dark, at night, in obscure places is key to the process. It heightens the senses and the imagination, instils a sense of urgency and vulnerability.

The landscapes I shoot are not grand. I prefer a subtler scale, exploring how our history and memory inform our responses to the places we inhabit. We often do not choose our broader surroundings, they occur as a consequence to the places in which we choose to dwell."

- Lauren Hewitt

www.lauren-hewitt.com

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25 March - 6 April

FROM ME TO YOU - MICHELLE HELDON

Gallery 2

From me to you is an exhibition of new work by Sydney-based emerging artist Michelle Heldon, which investigates the idea of the wind as both a physical phenomenon and as a mythical and romanticised allegory. From the gentle breeze to the devastating gales that create havoc, the wind expanses a spectrum of forces and in turn, elicits a range of responses that veer from the welcoming to the fearful. It is no surprise then that this natural element is the protagonist of a number of mythical stories, or is portrayed in historical and contemporary prose and verse as a messenger of love, a destructive vehicle, a cause for reflection and a signal of change.

In From me to you, Heldon explores the physicality of wind as a counterpoint to the element's role as a conduit between people and places, thoughts and feelings. The title work of the exhibition, a large-scale installation, is the result of the artist's investigations into how one could attempt to map the movement of wind. From me to you (2010) consists of over 1500 hanging beads and plays with both the fragility and power of this elusive matter.

Presented alongside the installation will be a series of small assemblage works that comprise found objects and worked surfaces. In these works the artist continues her explorations of the role of memory in the landscape and presents a more intimate reflection on the wind.

Michelle Heldon graduated with an Honours degree in Fine Arts from the National Art School in 2007. She has participated in a number of group exhibitions including Le Fil (The Thread), Gaffa Gallery; Lure, Allure, Illusion, Gaffa Gallery; Drawing in the City at Night ,Gallery Red; sQuareOne, Mori Gallery; Sax in the City, White Horse Hotel, Surry Hills; Four x Four Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Darlinghurst; and Harmony With White, Sabaai Gallery, Neutral Bay. In 2008 she was the recipient of the Tom Bass Sculpture Scholarship.

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25 March - 6 April

VERSION - COURT WILLIAMS

Gallery 3

"Playing with historical events and relics, my practice measures science fiction's dystopian threats on modern life by situating shared social spaces as systematic sites of transience and artefact to explore the precarious nature of being a part of a functioning system and the unpredictably and fragility of human co-habitation.

Employing ubiquitous model making techniques and materials, Version explores notions of disembodied co-habitations, avatars, simulated environments and strange encounters in the modern world.

History, situations, appearances and social spaces are reinvented and reinterpreted in order to examine the blurred boundaries that exist between the real and the unreal."

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25 February - 25 March 2010

ARMAMENT - MARK VAARWERK

Keeper Gallery

"Delve into the garages, spare rooms, bottom drawers, cupboards-below-the-sinks of any home and you will be overwhelmed by mountains of stuff - and most of it plastic. Wasted pens, retired TVs or vacuum cleaners or printers, piles of dirty styrofoam boxes and packaging, shopping bags...

Or a stroll down a busy street, a quick glance in a lunchroom waste-bin, a shortcut down a city alley...

Plastics - discarded, forgotten, superseded, broken. Sifting through this seemingly endless source of raw materials, i transform these everyday materials, utilising simple techniques, into wearable items of jewellery. A small and colourful fragment, new and re-invented, but with still a hint of its less glamorous past." (Mark Vaarwerk)

www.vaarwerk.com
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11 March - 23 March 2010

ARMAMENT - A SOLO SHOW BY DAN SIMON

Gallery 1

As an emerging sculptor Dan Simon is fascinated by the construction and usage of our cultures weaponry.

Simon's interest in weaponry ranges from the use of delicate mechanisms and springs within a machine gun to the heavy cast iron barrel of a field cannon. His previous work in this area has only compelled him to further explore the assemblage, physical identity and the relationship weaponry has with the public.

The exploration of various weapons from 17th century cannons, the atomic bomb and firearms to domesticated weapons such as axes and chainsaws has developed a theme within his sculptural practice. Simon's sculptures play on the stereotypes of weaponry that are prevalent in society.

Through the deconstruction of weapons he has discovered an intricate aesthetic in the technical detail and mechanical components of weapons despite the fact that as a whole they are considered an instrument of war or death.

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11 March - 23 March 2010

BIRD BRAIN - A SOLO SHOW BY ANDREW ENSOR

Gallery 2

Although this exhibition has it's origins in ornithology, it is as much about absented minded obsessions as it is feathers and flight.

The work blends pop fantasy and pseudo-surrealism as it examines the things that nest at the back of the mind. It's about escapisms that find themselves still inside the cage, lost to pointless passions and foolish philosophies.

It is a constant thinking of something, anything else.

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11 March - 23 March 2010

TA'AHINES & SENORITAS - PATRICIA ALVAREZ & VIOLA BLOOMFIELD
and
GESTURE INSTRUCTIONS - LEYLA STEVENS

Gallery 3

Ta'ahines and Senoritas

A collaboration in drawing and paint between Patricia Alvarez and Viola Bloomfield

Gesture Instructions

A solo exhibition by Leyla Stevens.

Daily theatrics, everyday interactions and body language. An exhibition combining the use of photography and text.

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25 February - 9 March 2010

THE MCA STAFF SHOW

Galleries 1 and 2

An annual showing of works in mixed media by staff from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

Participating artists:

Ernest Aaron, Gus Boke, Rae Bolotin, Mark Booth, Mark Brown, Ella Condon, Bridie Connell, Sarah Contos, Sally Edwards, Eleanor Er, Rachel Forbes, Seb Goldspink, Margaret Gor, Angela Grimsdale, Jessica Haly, Sahar Hosseinabadi, Chloe Hughes, Biljana Jancic, Garth Knight, Sheridan Knox-Johnston, Ryan Leech, Kerry MacAulay, Antoinette McSharry, Sarah Milgate, Adam North, Jennie Pry, Christina Puth, Ivan Muniz Reed, Che Ritz, Jessica Robertson, Nicola Walkerden and Emma Wise.

Formally opened by Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, MCA Director.

Photos (from top, left to right):

1. Mark Booth
2. Gus Boke
3. Garth Knight
4. Rachel Forbes
5. Jessica Haly
6. Angela Grimsdale
7. Opening night (photo by Strobed, www.strobed.com.au)
8. Opening night (photo by Strobed, www.strobed.com.au)

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25 February - 9 March 2010

THE PHOTOGROUP: SUBSET

Gallery 3

The Photo Group is a collective of 8 photographers each with their own unique aesthetic and style. From fine art to macro and architecture to documentary we explore life and beauty through photographic art. Subset is a collection of recent works.

Featuring:

Asim Aly-Khan, Bryan Cummins, Caroline Foldes, Pat Gilling, Andrea Klucis, Philippa Margan, Mirjana Panich and Mimi Stirling

Photos (from top, left to right):

1-8. Photos by The Photogroup
9. Opening night (photo by Strobed, www.strobed.com.au)
10. Opening night (photo by Strobed, www.strobed.com.au)

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11 February - 23 March 2010

FIDELITY - INAUGURAL RELAUNCH EXHIBITION

Galleries 1, 2 and 3

With our inaugural exhibition Fidelity, we launched our new building on Thursday 11 February 2010.

Using all four gallery spaces, Fidelity featured the following artists:

Ella Barclay, Rohan Wilson, Vernon Bowden, Sumugan Sivanesan, Mark Gerada, Sean O'Connell, Marcelle Robbins, Ben Backhouse, Geoffrey Farquhar-Still, Andrew Lavery, Melinda Young, Mike Turner, Zoe Brand and Kath Fries.

Featured in The Arcade Project, are Emma Elizabeth Designs, Vert Design, Bams & Ted and our very own contemporary jewellery store.

We are thrilled by the move and hope that this significantly larger site will not only bring more artists together, but will expose them to new and wider audiences.

Photos (from top, left to right):

1. Rohan Wilson (background) and Andrew Lavery (foreground)
2. Mark Gerada (paintings on wall), Geoffrey Farquhar-Still (on plinth) and Rohan Wilson (background)
3. Mark Gerada (paintings on wall) and Geoffrey Farquhar-Still (on plinth)
4. Vernon Bowden
5. Zoe Brand
6. Melinda Young
7. Sumugan Sivanesan
8. Marcelle Robbins (on plinth) and Kath Fries (on wall)
9. Mike Turner
10. Sean O'Connell
11. Ben Backhouse (on wall) and Rohan Wilson (background)
12. Rooftop crowd

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