News
2013 2012 2011 2010
2013 Artspace Artistic Program
In the 21st year of Artspace in Woolloomooloo, Artspace opens with an exciting season of exhibitions featuring a range of new work by Australian and international contemporary artists.
The exhibition season kicks off on 31 January with projects by Australian artists Daniel Boyd, Pat Hoffie and Mathieu Gallois that examine facets of Australian history and cultural characteristics.
Following these works Artspace is excited to announce a major exhibition by Europe-based artists Chicks on Speed from 13 March to 21 Aprli. SCREAM will be a multi-faceted new project incorporating music, fashion, performance and video within a unique interactive installation environment, developed in association with ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and given its international premiere here at Artspace.
In conjunction with the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), from 1 May to 16 June artists Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders, Simon Ingram and Mari Velonaki will each create a robotic arts project on-site at Artspace. From 30 May to 16 June the Artspace Reading Room will feature Video Art from Australia Curated by Stephen Jones.
From 26 June to 11 August, Richard Bell’s highly acclaimed and provocative works Scratch an Aussie (2008) and Broken English (2009) will premier alongside his trilogy-culminating new work The Dinner Party, currently in production.
From late-August The Financial Report, a bold group exhibition curated by Artspace Curator Mark Feary will examine and reflect upon the often contentious, yet symbiotic relationship between art and money.
From 20 to 22 September as a part of Sydney Contemporary Blair French and Mark Feary will curate Video Contemporary.
Highlights of the 2013 Artspace Public Program include a major international conference, ‘The 21st Century Artist’ (11-13 July), conceived and convened by Artspace and bringing together a range of national and international experts in their respective fields of contemporary art to consider the rapidly changing role of the artist in the 21st century.
The 2013 exhibition program will conclude with a major solo exhibition developed by NSW artist Ian Milliss (6 November -15 December), ranging from his early 1970s conceptual work through various strands of social activism and incorporating public events and collaborative workshop activities. Running concurrently with his Artspace exhibition Milliss will also exhibit a work as a part of the Art Gallery of NSW Contemporary Projects series with Lucas Ihlein from 28 November 2013 to 27 January 2014.
[Program subject to change. Check the Artspace website for up-to-date information about programming.]
Image: Chicks on Speed, The Making of Art, 2009, documentation of performance, 28 May 2009, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Courtesy of the artists and Kate MacGarry, London
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
19 December 2012
In the 21st year of Artspace in Woolloomooloo, Artspace opens with an exciting season of exhibitions featuring a range of new work by Australian and international contemporary artists.
The exhibition season kicks off on 31 January with projects by Australian artists Daniel Boyd, Pat Hoffie and Mathieu Gallois that examine facets of Australian history and cultural characteristics.
Following these works Artspace is excited to announce a major exhibition by Europe-based artists Chicks on Speed from 13 March to 21 Aprli. SCREAM will be a multi-faceted new project incorporating music, fashion, performance and video within a unique interactive installation environment, developed in association with ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe and given its international premiere here at Artspace.
In conjunction with the International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), from 1 May to 16 June artists Petra Gemeinboeck & Rob Saunders, Simon Ingram and Mari Velonaki will each create a robotic arts project on-site at Artspace. From 30 May to 16 June the Artspace Reading Room will feature Video Art from Australia Curated by Stephen Jones.
From 26 June to 11 August, Richard Bell’s highly acclaimed and provocative works Scratch an Aussie (2008) and Broken English (2009) will premier alongside his trilogy-culminating new work The Dinner Party, currently in production.
From late-August The Financial Report, a bold group exhibition curated by Artspace Curator Mark Feary will examine and reflect upon the often contentious, yet symbiotic relationship between art and money.
From 20 to 22 September as a part of Sydney Contemporary Blair French and Mark Feary will curate Video Contemporary.
Highlights of the 2013 Artspace Public Program include a major international conference, ‘The 21st Century Artist’ (11-13 July), conceived and convened by Artspace and bringing together a range of national and international experts in their respective fields of contemporary art to consider the rapidly changing role of the artist in the 21st century.
The 2013 exhibition program will conclude with a major solo exhibition developed by NSW artist Ian Milliss (6 November -15 December), ranging from his early 1970s conceptual work through various strands of social activism and incorporating public events and collaborative workshop activities. Running concurrently with his Artspace exhibition Milliss will also exhibit a work as a part of the Art Gallery of NSW Contemporary Projects series with Lucas Ihlein from 28 November 2013 to 27 January 2014.
[Program subject to change. Check the Artspace website for up-to-date information about programming.]
Image: Chicks on Speed, The Making of Art, 2009, documentation of performance, 28 May 2009, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Courtesy of the artists and Kate MacGarry, London
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
19 December 2012
Happy holidays and thanks for a great 2012
As the year draws to a close, the Artspace team would like to thank everyone who took part in another fantastic year at Artspace.
In 2012 we proudly exhibited a range of artist projects, including the premiere of Kate Mitchell’s work Fall Stack, which was later presented as a part of the MCA’s Primavera; two major group exhibitions in The Other’s Other and Gap Year: New Sydney Art; while Marco Fusinato's recent solo exhibition The Color of the Sky Has Melted brought Artspace a blast of energy and reconfigured our gallery spaces into a more expansive open gallery.
Our two-part exhibition series Everything Falls Apart featured work by international and Australian artists in an examination of the collapse of ideological and political systems. A highlight of the 2012 Artspace program Everything Falls Apart was recently listed as an artforum.com Critics' Pick and in Artforum Magazine’s Best of 2012 issue. Essays and images documenting this critically acclaimed exhibition can be found in our most recent issue of Column, available from the Artspace website here.
In 2012 our travelling exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow toured throughout regional New South Wales. Thanks to our touring partners Museums and Galleries NSW and the all the artists in the exhibition: Lauren Brincat, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Todd McMillan, Ms&Mr, Tony Schwensen, Sam Smith. Catch the exhibition throughout the Summer holiday period at Gosford Regional Gallery until 27 January 2013, or at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre from 8 February 2013.
In 2012 Artspace farewelled two staff members, Gallery Assistant Sarah Newall and long-serving General Manager Helen Hyatt-Johnston. Special thanks to both Sarah and Helen for their many contributions to Artspace. We would also like to recognise Tristan Derátz for his contributions throughout early-2012. This year we welcomed Executive and Administrative Assistant, Sandra Di Palma and Deputy Director, Operations, Michelle Newton.
Many thanks to the artists, performers, visitors, curators, speakers, writers and supporters who contributed to this busy year at Artspace. We look forward to continued success as we usher in another year of exciting exhibitions.
The Artspace office will close Friday 21 December at 6pm and reopen 7 January 2013 for normal business hours.
Image: Sarah Goffman, Occupy Sydney, 2012, detail view, Artspace, Sydney
Photo: silversalt photography
Posted by Artspace
18 December 2012
As the year draws to a close, the Artspace team would like to thank everyone who took part in another fantastic year at Artspace.
In 2012 we proudly exhibited a range of artist projects, including the premiere of Kate Mitchell’s work Fall Stack, which was later presented as a part of the MCA’s Primavera; two major group exhibitions in The Other’s Other and Gap Year: New Sydney Art; while Marco Fusinato's recent solo exhibition The Color of the Sky Has Melted brought Artspace a blast of energy and reconfigured our gallery spaces into a more expansive open gallery.
Our two-part exhibition series Everything Falls Apart featured work by international and Australian artists in an examination of the collapse of ideological and political systems. A highlight of the 2012 Artspace program Everything Falls Apart was recently listed as an artforum.com Critics' Pick and in Artforum Magazine’s Best of 2012 issue. Essays and images documenting this critically acclaimed exhibition can be found in our most recent issue of Column, available from the Artspace website here.
In 2012 our travelling exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow toured throughout regional New South Wales. Thanks to our touring partners Museums and Galleries NSW and the all the artists in the exhibition: Lauren Brincat, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Todd McMillan, Ms&Mr, Tony Schwensen, Sam Smith. Catch the exhibition throughout the Summer holiday period at Gosford Regional Gallery until 27 January 2013, or at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre from 8 February 2013.
In 2012 Artspace farewelled two staff members, Gallery Assistant Sarah Newall and long-serving General Manager Helen Hyatt-Johnston. Special thanks to both Sarah and Helen for their many contributions to Artspace. We would also like to recognise Tristan Derátz for his contributions throughout early-2012. This year we welcomed Executive and Administrative Assistant, Sandra Di Palma and Deputy Director, Operations, Michelle Newton.
Many thanks to the artists, performers, visitors, curators, speakers, writers and supporters who contributed to this busy year at Artspace. We look forward to continued success as we usher in another year of exciting exhibitions.
The Artspace office will close Friday 21 December at 6pm and reopen 7 January 2013 for normal business hours.
Image: Sarah Goffman, Occupy Sydney, 2012, detail view, Artspace, Sydney
Photo: silversalt photography
Posted by Artspace
18 December 2012
New Publication: Platon’s Mirror and the Actuality of the Cave Allegory Inspired by Projections by Mischa Kuball
Artspace is pleased to announce the new release of Platon’s Mirror and the Actuality of the Cave Allegory Inspired by Projections by Mischa Kuball co-edited by Artspace executive director Blair French. This beautifuly produced publication features a series of texts by writers, academics and historians that examine Plato’s allegory of the cave in Book 7 of The Republic in which the philosopher draws a distinction between two forms of reality: the reality of the visible world and the (true) reality of ideas.
Using artist Mischa Kuball’s recent series, Platon’s Mirror (presented at Artspace in 2011) as a direct point of reference each writer approaches Plato’s cave through insightful investigations of this well-known allegory.
To purchase this publication at our special new release price click here to download an order form, and return to Sandra Di Palma, Administrative and Executive Assistant, sandrad@artspace.org.au.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
12 December 2012
Artspace is pleased to announce the new release of Platon’s Mirror and the Actuality of the Cave Allegory Inspired by Projections by Mischa Kuball co-edited by Artspace executive director Blair French. This beautifuly produced publication features a series of texts by writers, academics and historians that examine Plato’s allegory of the cave in Book 7 of The Republic in which the philosopher draws a distinction between two forms of reality: the reality of the visible world and the (true) reality of ideas.
Using artist Mischa Kuball’s recent series, Platon’s Mirror (presented at Artspace in 2011) as a direct point of reference each writer approaches Plato’s cave through insightful investigations of this well-known allegory.
To purchase this publication at our special new release price click here to download an order form, and return to Sandra Di Palma, Administrative and Executive Assistant, sandrad@artspace.org.au.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
12 December 2012
Open Studio with Alasdair McLuckie — 8 & 9 December
Melbourne-based artist Alasdair McLuckie will present the final Open Studio @ Artspace for 2012 on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 December, open from 11am to 5pm.
Through drawing, craft and sculpture, McLuckie’s practice re-invents traditional folklore with a strong formalist sensibility that incorporates elements of modernism, primitivism, psychedelic imagery and 1970’s design. The attention to detail in the work translates into a dense visually symbolic language that expresses the infinite possibilities of creation & unifies process, material, image, and concept.
McLuckie will share a selection of works produced during his residency. Ask at reception for access.
Image provided courtesy of the artist.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
4 December 2012
Melbourne-based artist Alasdair McLuckie will present the final Open Studio @ Artspace for 2012 on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 December, open from 11am to 5pm.
Through drawing, craft and sculpture, McLuckie’s practice re-invents traditional folklore with a strong formalist sensibility that incorporates elements of modernism, primitivism, psychedelic imagery and 1970’s design. The attention to detail in the work translates into a dense visually symbolic language that expresses the infinite possibilities of creation & unifies process, material, image, and concept.
McLuckie will share a selection of works produced during his residency. Ask at reception for access.
Image provided courtesy of the artist.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
4 December 2012
Open Studio with Thea Costantino — 30 November & 1 December
Join artist Thea Costantino for her Open Studio @ Artspace, Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December, open from 11 am to 5pm.
During her studio residency Thea has continued her ongoing exploration of the representation and memorialisation of history. This exploration has involved sculptural responses to Sydney’s public memorials as well as drawings that consider photography as a trigger of memory and mourning.
Join the artist this week to see and discuss a selection of works in progress.
Ask at reception for access.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
27 November 2012
Join artist Thea Costantino for her Open Studio @ Artspace, Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December, open from 11 am to 5pm.
During her studio residency Thea has continued her ongoing exploration of the representation and memorialisation of history. This exploration has involved sculptural responses to Sydney’s public memorials as well as drawings that consider photography as a trigger of memory and mourning.
Join the artist this week to see and discuss a selection of works in progress.
Ask at reception for access.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
27 November 2012
More Volunteer Opportunities @ Artspace
Interested in volunteering at Artspace? We're seeking enthusiastic volunteers to assist with front-of-house and basic administrative duties. Volunteers are responsible for providing reception for both front-of-house and telephone enquiries, monitor and invigilate exhibitions, act as a point of contact with audiences and other visitors, providing administrative support as required.
To register your interest download an application form below and send to Sandra Di Palma, Executive and Administrative Assistant:sandrad@artspace.org.au, 02 9356 0555.
+ More Info
Posted by Sandra Di Palma
27 November 2012
To register your interest download an application form below and send to Sandra Di Palma, Executive and Administrative Assistant:sandrad@artspace.org.au, 02 9356 0555.
+ More Info
Posted by Sandra Di Palma
27 November 2012
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Opens at Gosford Regional Gallery 30 November, 6.30pm
Artspace touring exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow opens Friday 30 November, 6.30pm, Gosford Regional Gallery 36 Webb Street, East Gosford. The exhibition will be launched by Artspace Executive Director Blair French.
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow is presented at Gosford Regional Gallery from 1 December to 27 January. Click here for Gallery opening hours and gallery directions.
Image: Ms&Mr, First House (The Optimist), 1984 / 2009
restored drawing, acrylic, ink and pencil on school issued paper
courtesy of the artists
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 November 2012
Artspace touring exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow opens Friday 30 November, 6.30pm, Gosford Regional Gallery 36 Webb Street, East Gosford. The exhibition will be launched by Artspace Executive Director Blair French.
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow is presented at Gosford Regional Gallery from 1 December to 27 January. Click here for Gallery opening hours and gallery directions.
Image: Ms&Mr, First House (The Optimist), 1984 / 2009
restored drawing, acrylic, ink and pencil on school issued paper
courtesy of the artists
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 November 2012
Congratulations to Jess Oliveri and Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for Ladies
NSW Artists Jess Oliveri and Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for Ladies were awarded a Qantas Foundation’s Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award at last night's award ceremony. Other 2012 Award recipients were Susan Jacobs (Vic), Daniel McKewen (Qld), Heidi Kenyon (SA), Meijers + Walsh (Tas), Chris Carmody (ACT), Andrew Varano (WA) and Min Wong (NT). The Award for each recipient consists of a mix of international or domestic Qantas flights, a cash prize and funding for a community residency undertaken by the recipient.
Parachutes for Ladies work in a multidisciplinary practice that has included sound, performance, visual media and collaborative participation. They have previously exhibited at Artspace in 2009 as a part of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition. Susan Jacobs, the 2012 Qantas award recipient for Victoria, was recently in residence as a part of the Artspace Studio program.
Previous recipients of the Qantas award have included Artspace exhibitors: last year's NSW recipients, Brown Council, Nothing Like Performance, 2011; Newell Harry, The Other's Other, 2012; Vernon Ah Kee, Everything Falls Apart, 2012; Ash Keating, Publicitiy, 2007; as well current Artspace Studio resident Thea Costantino.
Image: Jess Oliveri and Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for Ladies, Small states, 2008
installation view, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
Photo: silversalt photography
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
23 November 2012
NSW Artists Jess Oliveri and Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for Ladies were awarded a Qantas Foundation’s Encouragement of Australian Contemporary Art Award at last night's award ceremony. Other 2012 Award recipients were Susan Jacobs (Vic), Daniel McKewen (Qld), Heidi Kenyon (SA), Meijers + Walsh (Tas), Chris Carmody (ACT), Andrew Varano (WA) and Min Wong (NT). The Award for each recipient consists of a mix of international or domestic Qantas flights, a cash prize and funding for a community residency undertaken by the recipient.
Parachutes for Ladies work in a multidisciplinary practice that has included sound, performance, visual media and collaborative participation. They have previously exhibited at Artspace in 2009 as a part of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship exhibition. Susan Jacobs, the 2012 Qantas award recipient for Victoria, was recently in residence as a part of the Artspace Studio program.
Previous recipients of the Qantas award have included Artspace exhibitors: last year's NSW recipients, Brown Council, Nothing Like Performance, 2011; Newell Harry, The Other's Other, 2012; Vernon Ah Kee, Everything Falls Apart, 2012; Ash Keating, Publicitiy, 2007; as well current Artspace Studio resident Thea Costantino.
Image: Jess Oliveri and Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for Ladies, Small states, 2008
installation view, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, Artspace, Sydney, 2009
Photo: silversalt photography
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
23 November 2012
Open Studio with Huseyin Sami — Saturday 24 November
Join artist Huseyin Sami at his Open Studio @ Artspace Saturday 24 November open 11 am to 5pm.
Sami has returned to Artspace for a second Studio Residency where he is currently producing new work for exhibition in 2013. The artist welcomes visitors to his open studio for a sneak peek of this work-in-progress.
Image: Huseyin Sami, untitled work-in-progress, 2012, installation view
courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
19 November 2012
Join artist Huseyin Sami at his Open Studio @ Artspace Saturday 24 November open 11 am to 5pm.
Sami has returned to Artspace for a second Studio Residency where he is currently producing new work for exhibition in 2013. The artist welcomes visitors to his open studio for a sneak peek of this work-in-progress.
Image: Huseyin Sami, untitled work-in-progress, 2012, installation view
courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
19 November 2012
Save Art in TAFE: ArtRage Monday 19 November 6-8pm
Support the future of TAFE Art Education by attending an art industry event at Damien Minton Gallery.
Speakers will include Andrew Frost, Ann Stephen and Joan Ross.
Event Details
Location: Damien Minton, 61-63 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern
Date: 19 November, 6-8pm
RSVP: Penny Ryan
savetafeart@gmail.com
0417 266 296
02 9557 1690
For more information and to support the cause by signing the petition follow the link below.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
7 November 2012
Support the future of TAFE Art Education by attending an art industry event at Damien Minton Gallery.
Speakers will include Andrew Frost, Ann Stephen and Joan Ross.
Event Details
Location: Damien Minton, 61-63 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern
Date: 19 November, 6-8pm
RSVP: Penny Ryan
savetafeart@gmail.com
0417 266 296
02 9557 1690
For more information and to support the cause by signing the petition follow the link below.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
7 November 2012
Open Studio with Wayne Youle - 9 & 10 November
Join artist Wayne Youle at his Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 9 & Saturday 10 November open 11 am to 5pm. The artist welcomes visitors to his studio to offer an introduction to his practice, including work produced during his twelve-week residency in Sydney.
Among many projects he has produced during his time at Artspace, he will present a new series of work inspired by the hand-outline ochre paintings often seen in caves and on rock walls around the world, specifically here in Australia. Through this familiar imagery, the artist playfully reconfigures these silhouettes. The features of these figures are adorned with dot work that not only highlights the form itself, but is also a direct reference to Aboriginal dot painting techniques that the artist has found to be a source of inspiration.
Wayne Youle (Nga Puhi, Ngati Whakaeke, Ngati Pakeha) is recipient of the 2012 SCAPE Sydney residency for Christchurch artists (supported by Creative NZ). Youle's work is held in both public and private collections throughout New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the Sir James Wallace Collection, Chartwell Collection. He has exhibited widely both in New Zealand and internationally, and was the subject of a survey exhibition Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua in 2010.
Image: Wayne Youle, PEACE RABBIT, 2012
courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
31 October 2012
Join artist Wayne Youle at his Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 9 & Saturday 10 November open 11 am to 5pm. The artist welcomes visitors to his studio to offer an introduction to his practice, including work produced during his twelve-week residency in Sydney.
Among many projects he has produced during his time at Artspace, he will present a new series of work inspired by the hand-outline ochre paintings often seen in caves and on rock walls around the world, specifically here in Australia. Through this familiar imagery, the artist playfully reconfigures these silhouettes. The features of these figures are adorned with dot work that not only highlights the form itself, but is also a direct reference to Aboriginal dot painting techniques that the artist has found to be a source of inspiration.
Wayne Youle (Nga Puhi, Ngati Whakaeke, Ngati Pakeha) is recipient of the 2012 SCAPE Sydney residency for Christchurch artists (supported by Creative NZ). Youle's work is held in both public and private collections throughout New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, the Sir James Wallace Collection, Chartwell Collection. He has exhibited widely both in New Zealand and internationally, and was the subject of a survey exhibition Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua in 2010.
Image: Wayne Youle, PEACE RABBIT, 2012
courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
31 October 2012
Curator and Artist Talk at Manly Art Gallery & Museum this Sunday
Join Curator Mark Feary as he leads a discussion with How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow artists Todd McMillan, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro on Sunday 28 October at Manly Art Gallery and Museum from 3pm. The artists will discuss their work in the exhibition and the development of their art practices over time.
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Curator and Artist Talk
Sunday 28 October, 3pm
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
West Esplanade Reserve
Manly
Image: Todd McMillan, after the deluge, 2010, installation view, courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Link:
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 October 2012
Join Curator Mark Feary as he leads a discussion with How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow artists Todd McMillan, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro on Sunday 28 October at Manly Art Gallery and Museum from 3pm. The artists will discuss their work in the exhibition and the development of their art practices over time.
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Curator and Artist Talk
Sunday 28 October, 3pm
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
West Esplanade Reserve
Manly
Image: Todd McMillan, after the deluge, 2010, installation view, courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Link:
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 October 2012
Artspace congratulates Melanie Oliver on new appointment as Director of the Physics Room
Artspace would like to congratulate former Assistant Curator Melanie Oliver on her recent appointment to the position of Director at the Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Melanie joined the Artspace team in 2010 in the role of temporary Assistant Curator. During her time in Sydney she co-curated (with Reuben Keehan) Eastern Seaboard, an exhibition and symposium project exploring the conditions, conceptual frameworks and creativity of artist collectives operating in Australia’s urbanised southeast, and curated Talking Pictures, an exhibition of work by artists from Australia and New Zealand who utilise archival documents and obsolete technologies to present fragmented cinematic narratives. She co-edited three issues of the Artspace Column publication series and assisted with the facilitation and delivery of the conference New Imagining: Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media.
We look forward to following Melanie’s progress at the Physics Room during this critical time when innovative thinking is vital to the arts community in Christchurch.
Image: Louise Menzies, Everything put to use, 2011
installation view: Talking Pictures, Artspace, Sydney, 2011, curated by Melanie Oliver
+ More Info
Posted by Blair French
18 October 2012
Artspace would like to congratulate former Assistant Curator Melanie Oliver on her recent appointment to the position of Director at the Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Melanie joined the Artspace team in 2010 in the role of temporary Assistant Curator. During her time in Sydney she co-curated (with Reuben Keehan) Eastern Seaboard, an exhibition and symposium project exploring the conditions, conceptual frameworks and creativity of artist collectives operating in Australia’s urbanised southeast, and curated Talking Pictures, an exhibition of work by artists from Australia and New Zealand who utilise archival documents and obsolete technologies to present fragmented cinematic narratives. She co-edited three issues of the Artspace Column publication series and assisted with the facilitation and delivery of the conference New Imagining: Transdisciplinary strategies for art beyond the new media.
We look forward to following Melanie’s progress at the Physics Room during this critical time when innovative thinking is vital to the arts community in Christchurch.
Image: Louise Menzies, Everything put to use, 2011
installation view: Talking Pictures, Artspace, Sydney, 2011, curated by Melanie Oliver
+ More Info
Posted by Blair French
18 October 2012
Artspace congratulates artists currently in MCA exhibitions
Artspace would like to congratulate a number of the artists currently exhibiting new and recent works within the newly opened season of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (MCA). The collaborative practice of Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro is contextualised through a survey of a selection of their most significant works drawn from the past decade. Featured within the exhibition is documentation from Cordial Home Project, originally presented at Artspace within the finalists’ exhibition of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2003. The series of photographic documentation is also currently being exhibited within the Artspace touring exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow, in association with Museums and Galleries New South Wales, at Manly Art Gallery & Museum (until 18 November 2012).
Todd McMillan has been selected to present his ambitious new work within Primavera 2012, already garnering significant critical acclaim. McMillan was a recipient of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2005 and a work from that year as well as a more recent work relating to his current MCA project also feature within How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow.
Kate Mitchell is also presenting new and recent work within this year’s incarnation of Primavera. In this exhibition Mitchell re-presents her highly accomplished multi-channel video work Fall Stack that was developed for and presented within her Artspace project earlier this year.
Artspace would like to warmly congratulate Claire, Sean, Todd and Kate on their current projects as well as acknowledging the other participating artists within MCA’s current exhibitions.
Image: Todd McMillan, Oh Captain, my Captain (dead albatross), 2005, c-type photograph, courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
+ More Info
Posted by Mark Feary
10 October 2012
Artspace would like to congratulate a number of the artists currently exhibiting new and recent works within the newly opened season of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (MCA). The collaborative practice of Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro is contextualised through a survey of a selection of their most significant works drawn from the past decade. Featured within the exhibition is documentation from Cordial Home Project, originally presented at Artspace within the finalists’ exhibition of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2003. The series of photographic documentation is also currently being exhibited within the Artspace touring exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow, in association with Museums and Galleries New South Wales, at Manly Art Gallery & Museum (until 18 November 2012).
Todd McMillan has been selected to present his ambitious new work within Primavera 2012, already garnering significant critical acclaim. McMillan was a recipient of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2005 and a work from that year as well as a more recent work relating to his current MCA project also feature within How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow.
Kate Mitchell is also presenting new and recent work within this year’s incarnation of Primavera. In this exhibition Mitchell re-presents her highly accomplished multi-channel video work Fall Stack that was developed for and presented within her Artspace project earlier this year.
Artspace would like to warmly congratulate Claire, Sean, Todd and Kate on their current projects as well as acknowledging the other participating artists within MCA’s current exhibitions.
Image: Todd McMillan, Oh Captain, my Captain (dead albatross), 2005, c-type photograph, courtesy of the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
+ More Info
Posted by Mark Feary
10 October 2012
Artspace welcomes Michelle Newton to Deputy Director, Operations position
Artspace is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Deputy Director, Operations, Michelle Newton. Michelle has previously held appointments as Development Manager at the Griffin Theatre Company and General Manager at Grantpirrie Gallery, and has worked across programming and business development in both the commercial and not-for-profit contemporary art sector. She has also been involved with a number of exhibition and cultural exchange projects nationally and internationally including No Name Station (2010) with Gertrude Contemporary, and with indigenous organisations in the Tiwi Islands (NT) and East Kimberley (WA).
Michelle will be a superb addition to the Artspace team in this new key leadership position. She will work closely with the Executive Director to drive the forward development of Artspace, implementing our strategic initiatives and realising our vision and goals.
Posted by Blair French
9 October 2012
Michelle will be a superb addition to the Artspace team in this new key leadership position. She will work closely with the Executive Director to drive the forward development of Artspace, implementing our strategic initiatives and realising our vision and goals.
Posted by Blair French
9 October 2012
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Opens at Manly Art Gallery & Museum Friday 12 October, 6pm
Join us for the opening of the Artspace touring exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Friday 12 October, 6 - 8pm, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, West Esplanade Reserve, Manly.
The opening will provide a unique opportunity to view the touring exhibition on its sole presentation in metropolitan Sydney. Curated by Mark Feary, How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow has been designed specifically for regional venues. It casts a selective gaze upon a number of artists who have been recipients of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, introducing their work to new audiences. Through inviting some of the previous recipients of the scholarship to present an earlier work alongside one of their most current works the exhibition attempts to reflect upon how an art practice shifts and changes over time. Such developments may involve the adoption of new media and the integration of new research interests to address evolving concerns.
Click here for Manly Art Gallery & Museum opening hours and gallery directions.
Image: Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, 1st Draft, 2009, cork board, drawing pins courtesy of the artists and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
8 October 2012
Join us for the opening of the Artspace touring exhibition How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Friday 12 October, 6 - 8pm, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, West Esplanade Reserve, Manly.
The opening will provide a unique opportunity to view the touring exhibition on its sole presentation in metropolitan Sydney. Curated by Mark Feary, How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow has been designed specifically for regional venues. It casts a selective gaze upon a number of artists who have been recipients of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, introducing their work to new audiences. Through inviting some of the previous recipients of the scholarship to present an earlier work alongside one of their most current works the exhibition attempts to reflect upon how an art practice shifts and changes over time. Such developments may involve the adoption of new media and the integration of new research interests to address evolving concerns.
Click here for Manly Art Gallery & Museum opening hours and gallery directions.
Image: Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, 1st Draft, 2009, cork board, drawing pins courtesy of the artists and Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
8 October 2012
Announcing Keg de Souza as the 2012 Darling Foundry Residency Recipient
Artspace Visual Arts Centre, in partnership with the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW and Canada Council for the Arts, is delighted to announce artist Keg de Souza as the 2012 recipient of the NSW Visual Artist Residency at Darling Foundry, Montréal, Canada. The artist will be in residency at the Darling Foundry from October to December this year.
The program provides a NSW visual artist a unique international development opportunity – a fully funded three-month residency at a major international contemporary arts centre. This is partnered by an annual three-month residency at Artspace for a selected Canadian artist. Previous recipients of this reciprocal residency program include: Mark Brown (Sydney), Wade Marynowsky (Sydney), Rhonda Weppler (Canada) and Sarindar Dhaliwal (Canada).
Keg de Souza’s artistic practice focuses on the politics of space through a site and situation specific methodology. De Souza works across a variety of mediums including architecture, video, artists’ books, dialogical projects, installation, text and drawing. She has collaborated with a number of groups including: the SquatSpace artist collective, You Are Here (with Zanny Begg), the Network of Un-Collectable Artists and the Rizzeria printmaking collective.
Whilst in Montréal de Souza proposes to undertake research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, home to an archive of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work. Matta-Clark, a fellow architect-turned artist (or anarchitect) has been influential to de Souza’s practice. The artist also proposes to work with the local group, Urban Occupations Urbaines, on a new work exploring the spatial politics at play in Griffintown, the local largely post-industrial area surrounding the Darling Foundry that has recently undergone rapid gentrification. During the residency de Souza will also be part of the HTMlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts and Digital Culture. (http://www.htmlles.net/2012/index.xhtml).
Follow the artist's progress in Montréal: www.allthumbspress.net
Image: Keg de Souza, Impossible Utopia, 2011, installation view MCA, Sydney, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
25 September 2012
Artspace Visual Arts Centre, in partnership with the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW and Canada Council for the Arts, is delighted to announce artist Keg de Souza as the 2012 recipient of the NSW Visual Artist Residency at Darling Foundry, Montréal, Canada. The artist will be in residency at the Darling Foundry from October to December this year.
The program provides a NSW visual artist a unique international development opportunity – a fully funded three-month residency at a major international contemporary arts centre. This is partnered by an annual three-month residency at Artspace for a selected Canadian artist. Previous recipients of this reciprocal residency program include: Mark Brown (Sydney), Wade Marynowsky (Sydney), Rhonda Weppler (Canada) and Sarindar Dhaliwal (Canada).
Keg de Souza’s artistic practice focuses on the politics of space through a site and situation specific methodology. De Souza works across a variety of mediums including architecture, video, artists’ books, dialogical projects, installation, text and drawing. She has collaborated with a number of groups including: the SquatSpace artist collective, You Are Here (with Zanny Begg), the Network of Un-Collectable Artists and the Rizzeria printmaking collective.
Whilst in Montréal de Souza proposes to undertake research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, home to an archive of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work. Matta-Clark, a fellow architect-turned artist (or anarchitect) has been influential to de Souza’s practice. The artist also proposes to work with the local group, Urban Occupations Urbaines, on a new work exploring the spatial politics at play in Griffintown, the local largely post-industrial area surrounding the Darling Foundry that has recently undergone rapid gentrification. During the residency de Souza will also be part of the HTMlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts and Digital Culture. (http://www.htmlles.net/2012/index.xhtml).
Follow the artist's progress in Montréal: www.allthumbspress.net
Image: Keg de Souza, Impossible Utopia, 2011, installation view MCA, Sydney, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
25 September 2012
Show Us Your Woolloomooloo, 19 September & 20 September
Artspace is pleased to announce support of Show Us Your Woolloomooloo, a community project which uses photography and dialogue to give locals a creative outlet to share a vision of the Woolloomooloo community.
The photographs taken by Show Us Your Woolloomooloo community participants will be shared at a public exhibition at Artspace this September, where all are invited to witness the story told by the people of Woolloomooloo. The exhibition will give participants an opportunity to showcase not just the photographs, but the essence of Woolloomooloo as they see it.
The exhibition will also feature a World Café dialogue event through which invited participants will share stories and a diverse range of opinions and experiences about their experiences in Woolloomooloo.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
17 September 2012
Artspace is pleased to announce support of Show Us Your Woolloomooloo, a community project which uses photography and dialogue to give locals a creative outlet to share a vision of the Woolloomooloo community.
The photographs taken by Show Us Your Woolloomooloo community participants will be shared at a public exhibition at Artspace this September, where all are invited to witness the story told by the people of Woolloomooloo. The exhibition will give participants an opportunity to showcase not just the photographs, but the essence of Woolloomooloo as they see it.
The exhibition will also feature a World Café dialogue event through which invited participants will share stories and a diverse range of opinions and experiences about their experiences in Woolloomooloo.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
17 September 2012
Paul Saint Book and Exhibition Launch at Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown (ICAN) 28 September 6pm
Join us for the launch of the new Artspace book on the work of Paul Saint, at ICAN on 28 September from 6pm
In conjunction with the opening of Saint's ICAN exhibition Giftware, Artspace is launching the the book Paul Saint: Slab which features extensive documentation of Saint's work as well as essays by Max Delany, Luke Parker and Blair French.
Sydney-based Paul Saint has exhibited throughout Australia as well as in Germany, Thailand and New Zealand. He has featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Australian Perspecta 1995 and everyday, the 1998 Biennale of Sydney, and has held solo exhibitions at a range of galleries including Gitte Weise Gallery, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Firstdraft and the major survey project Slab at Artspace in late 2010. The titles of many of his solo projects reflect the humble humour in his practice: rules + suits; Meagre; Palatial; Rat a tat tat; When a great artist makes a gun; Three Vases and a Ball; Towards a Cultural Future; The pot was awful; Technique & Personality; Slump; Boy Friday; Botanical Studies; Goodbye to All That; and Can’t See the Wood for the Trees.
Book Launch
Paul Saint: Slab 28 September, 6pm
ICAN
15 Fowler Street
Camperdown, Sydney
For more information please contact:
Caraline Douglas
Artspace Communications and Publications Coordinator
caralined@artspace.org.au
Image: Paul Saint, Disembodied Information Content, 2010, offset litho print, Printed with Big Fag Press (detail view)
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
11 September 2012
Join us for the launch of the new Artspace book on the work of Paul Saint, at ICAN on 28 September from 6pm
In conjunction with the opening of Saint's ICAN exhibition Giftware, Artspace is launching the the book Paul Saint: Slab which features extensive documentation of Saint's work as well as essays by Max Delany, Luke Parker and Blair French.
Sydney-based Paul Saint has exhibited throughout Australia as well as in Germany, Thailand and New Zealand. He has featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Australian Perspecta 1995 and everyday, the 1998 Biennale of Sydney, and has held solo exhibitions at a range of galleries including Gitte Weise Gallery, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Firstdraft and the major survey project Slab at Artspace in late 2010. The titles of many of his solo projects reflect the humble humour in his practice: rules + suits; Meagre; Palatial; Rat a tat tat; When a great artist makes a gun; Three Vases and a Ball; Towards a Cultural Future; The pot was awful; Technique & Personality; Slump; Boy Friday; Botanical Studies; Goodbye to All That; and Can’t See the Wood for the Trees.
Book Launch
Paul Saint: Slab 28 September, 6pm
ICAN
15 Fowler Street
Camperdown, Sydney
For more information please contact:
Caraline Douglas
Artspace Communications and Publications Coordinator
caralined@artspace.org.au
Image: Paul Saint, Disembodied Information Content, 2010, offset litho print, Printed with Big Fag Press (detail view)
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
11 September 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace with Lee Hai Min Sun, 14 & 15 September
Join artist Lee Hai Min Sun in her Open Studio @ Artspace, Friday 14 & Saturday 15 September from 11am to 5pm.
During her Artspace residency the artist has been working toward the production of a series of works on paper and installations based on the nature of observation. Come along to the Open Studio to view Min Sun's recent work.
Image: Lee Hai Min Sun, The tracing rope, 2011, acrylic on paper, 45 x 55cm
+ More Info
Posted by Sandra Di Palma
10 September 2012
Join artist Lee Hai Min Sun in her Open Studio @ Artspace, Friday 14 & Saturday 15 September from 11am to 5pm.
During her Artspace residency the artist has been working toward the production of a series of works on paper and installations based on the nature of observation. Come along to the Open Studio to view Min Sun's recent work.
Image: Lee Hai Min Sun, The tracing rope, 2011, acrylic on paper, 45 x 55cm
+ More Info
Posted by Sandra Di Palma
10 September 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Anna Horne, 7 & 8 September
Join Anna Horne for her Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 7 and Saturday 8 September, open from 11am to 5pm.
In her open studio, the artist will present propositional works made during her 12 week residency at Artspace.
Horne engages in a strong sculptural practice. The materiality of her sculptural work reflects a concern with choice of materials and a consideration of the fake in opposition to the authentic. These propositional works in progress explore new material adventures examining the potentially perverse and sexualised nature of 'cheap' merchandise. On show will be a variety of sculptural experiments involving mass produced materials.
Image: Untitled, 2008, canvas strap, pillow inserts, ply-wood, calico, tacks, 120cm (h) x 30cm (w) x 30cm (d), courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
28 August 2012
Join Anna Horne for her Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 7 and Saturday 8 September, open from 11am to 5pm.
In her open studio, the artist will present propositional works made during her 12 week residency at Artspace.
Horne engages in a strong sculptural practice. The materiality of her sculptural work reflects a concern with choice of materials and a consideration of the fake in opposition to the authentic. These propositional works in progress explore new material adventures examining the potentially perverse and sexualised nature of 'cheap' merchandise. On show will be a variety of sculptural experiments involving mass produced materials.
Image: Untitled, 2008, canvas strap, pillow inserts, ply-wood, calico, tacks, 120cm (h) x 30cm (w) x 30cm (d), courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
28 August 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Alex Kershaw, 24 & 25 August
In his Open Studio @ Artspace, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 August 11am-5pm, Kershaw will present work in progress from two current video projects. The first filmed in collaboration with Ikebana sensei’s while in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in 2011. The second, made with animal hunters in New York State, during his residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in 2012.
Kershaw uses video and photography to mediate intercultural exchange with people and communities from a specific place. In this process, everyday people become participants and collaborators in the production of the work. The artist is undertaking his Artspace Studio Residency before he departs Australia to begin a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego.
Image: Untitled, 2012, production still, digital video and sound
+ More Info
Posted by Tristan Derátz
14 August 2012
In his Open Studio @ Artspace, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 August 11am-5pm, Kershaw will present work in progress from two current video projects. The first filmed in collaboration with Ikebana sensei’s while in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in 2011. The second, made with animal hunters in New York State, during his residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in 2012.
Kershaw uses video and photography to mediate intercultural exchange with people and communities from a specific place. In this process, everyday people become participants and collaborators in the production of the work. The artist is undertaking his Artspace Studio Residency before he departs Australia to begin a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego.
Image: Untitled, 2012, production still, digital video and sound
+ More Info
Posted by Tristan Derátz
14 August 2012
This Friday @ Artspace
Don't miss the 'Another World' symposium @ Artspace, Friday 17 August from 10am to 4.30pm. Bringing together leading theorists of contemporary art and culture, curators and artists over a single day 'Another World' will ask how twenty-first-century global crises — whether financial, environmental, social or political — have transformed the context of art practice and analysis. No bookings required. Click here to download the full symposium program.
The symposium will be followed by the launch of Jill Bennet's Practical Aesthetics: Events, Affect and Art After 9/11 (I.B. Tauris, 2012) in the Artspace galleries and a private viewing of the exhibition Everything Falls Apart, Part II curated by Mark Feary and Blair French.
Promptly at 6pm a free bus will depart Artspace for Campbelltown Arts Centre's opening of There’s a Hole in the Sky. Limited seats available. To reserve a seat please contact Megan Monte, Campbelltown Arts Centre Program Support Officer: E: Megan.Monte@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au.
Image: Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, What Would it Mean to Win? 2008, production still, courtesy of the artists. Photo: Zanny Begg
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
13 August 2012
Don't miss the 'Another World' symposium @ Artspace, Friday 17 August from 10am to 4.30pm. Bringing together leading theorists of contemporary art and culture, curators and artists over a single day 'Another World' will ask how twenty-first-century global crises — whether financial, environmental, social or political — have transformed the context of art practice and analysis. No bookings required. Click here to download the full symposium program.
The symposium will be followed by the launch of Jill Bennet's Practical Aesthetics: Events, Affect and Art After 9/11 (I.B. Tauris, 2012) in the Artspace galleries and a private viewing of the exhibition Everything Falls Apart, Part II curated by Mark Feary and Blair French.
Promptly at 6pm a free bus will depart Artspace for Campbelltown Arts Centre's opening of There’s a Hole in the Sky. Limited seats available. To reserve a seat please contact Megan Monte, Campbelltown Arts Centre Program Support Officer: E: Megan.Monte@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au.
Image: Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, What Would it Mean to Win? 2008, production still, courtesy of the artists. Photo: Zanny Begg
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
13 August 2012
The Color of the Sky Has Melted opens at the IMA Saturday 11 August, 5pm
Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato explores rhetorics of extremism in art, music, and politics in The Color of the Sky Has Melted, opening this weekend at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The opening on Saturday 11 August will be preceded by an artist talk by Marco Fusinato at 4pm.
The Color of the Sky has Melted will be exhibited at Artspace from 1 November to 9 December this year. Fusinato will present a durational noise performance @ Artspace on Saturday 3 November from 11am to 5pm.
The exhibition is curated by Charlotte Day and is presented with support from Besen Family Foundation.
Image: Marco Fusinato
Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
6 August 2012
Melbourne artist Marco Fusinato explores rhetorics of extremism in art, music, and politics in The Color of the Sky Has Melted, opening this weekend at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. The opening on Saturday 11 August will be preceded by an artist talk by Marco Fusinato at 4pm.
The Color of the Sky has Melted will be exhibited at Artspace from 1 November to 9 December this year. Fusinato will present a durational noise performance @ Artspace on Saturday 3 November from 11am to 5pm.
The exhibition is curated by Charlotte Day and is presented with support from Besen Family Foundation.
Image: Marco Fusinato
Courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
6 August 2012
Volunteer Opportunities @ Artspace
Artspace is currently seeking enthusiastic volunteers to assist with front-of-house and basic administrative duties. Volunteers will be responsible for providing reception for both front-of-house and telephone enquiries, monitor and invigilate exhibitions, act as a point of contact with audiences and other visitors, providing administrative support as required.
To register your interest download an application form below and send to Sandra Di Palma, Executive and Administrative Assistant: sandrad@artspace.org.au, 02 9356 0555.
Applications close 15 August 2012 at 5pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Sandra Di Palma
31 July 2012
To register your interest download an application form below and send to Sandra Di Palma, Executive and Administrative Assistant: sandrad@artspace.org.au, 02 9356 0555.
Applications close 15 August 2012 at 5pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Sandra Di Palma
31 July 2012
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow opens this week at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre
The Artspace travelling exhibition, How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow opens Saturday 4 August at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre.
Follow the link for more information or click here to download an Education Resource.
Image: Tony Schwensen, Hamburger Boygroup, 2000 production still, courtesy the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; and KalimanRawlins Gallery, Melbourne
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
30 July 2012
The Artspace travelling exhibition, How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow opens Saturday 4 August at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre.
Follow the link for more information or click here to download an Education Resource.
Image: Tony Schwensen, Hamburger Boygroup, 2000 production still, courtesy the artist and Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney; and KalimanRawlins Gallery, Melbourne
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
30 July 2012
Juanita Nielsen Community Centre Children's Workshops
Sydney-based artist and former Artspace Studio Resident Sara Givins is leading a series of workshops at the Juanita Nielsen Community Centre, Woolloomooloo during August and September 2012.
In the series of workshops Sara will teach local children who attend the Juanita Nielsen after school program about wood and lino cut printing. The resulting artworks created by the students will be displayed at the centre in October. Artspace is pleased to present these workshops at the Community Centre. Follow our website and facebook page for updates and photos from the workshops.
Image: Sara Givins, Open Studio @ Artspace, 2011. Photo: Joy Lai
Posted by Caraline Douglas
20 July 2012
Sydney-based artist and former Artspace Studio Resident Sara Givins is leading a series of workshops at the Juanita Nielsen Community Centre, Woolloomooloo during August and September 2012.
In the series of workshops Sara will teach local children who attend the Juanita Nielsen after school program about wood and lino cut printing. The resulting artworks created by the students will be displayed at the centre in October. Artspace is pleased to present these workshops at the Community Centre. Follow our website and facebook page for updates and photos from the workshops.
Image: Sara Givins, Open Studio @ Artspace, 2011. Photo: Joy Lai
Posted by Caraline Douglas
20 July 2012
New Books @ Artspace
Hot off the presses: two new Artspace Column publications!
Be sure to grab our newest books, Columns 9 & 10, online or from Artspace at a special double issue price of $30.
Column 9 Burn what you cannot steal expands upon ideas emerging from a major exhibition of the same title presented at Galerija Nova, Zagreb. Featuring the work of artists Brook Andrew, Alicia Frankovich, Deborah Kelly, Minouk Lim, Daniel Malone and Hiroharu Mori, the exhibition proposed the readymade as an unsurpassable horizon of the art of our time, but also as a sign functioning within a distinctly Euro-American canon, that system of legitimations under which the supposedly global art world continues to operate.
Column 10 features a special section dedicated to our current Everything Falls Apart exhibition series, and essays reflecting on a range of exhibitions from late-2011 to now including major solo works by artists as diverse as: Praneet Soi, Fiona McGregor, Alex Martinis Roe, Alex Gawronski, Kate Mitchell, Khaled Sabsabi and Adam Geczy; as well as essays examining two group exhibitions: Nothing Like Performance (Matthew Bradley, Lauren Brincat, Brown Council, Paul Donald, Will French, Yiorgos Zafiriou) and The Other's Other (Newell Harry, Raafat Ishak, Dinh Q Lê, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Jun Yang).
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
19 July 2012
Hot off the presses: two new Artspace Column publications!
Be sure to grab our newest books, Columns 9 & 10, online or from Artspace at a special double issue price of $30.
Column 9 Burn what you cannot steal expands upon ideas emerging from a major exhibition of the same title presented at Galerija Nova, Zagreb. Featuring the work of artists Brook Andrew, Alicia Frankovich, Deborah Kelly, Minouk Lim, Daniel Malone and Hiroharu Mori, the exhibition proposed the readymade as an unsurpassable horizon of the art of our time, but also as a sign functioning within a distinctly Euro-American canon, that system of legitimations under which the supposedly global art world continues to operate.
Column 10 features a special section dedicated to our current Everything Falls Apart exhibition series, and essays reflecting on a range of exhibitions from late-2011 to now including major solo works by artists as diverse as: Praneet Soi, Fiona McGregor, Alex Martinis Roe, Alex Gawronski, Kate Mitchell, Khaled Sabsabi and Adam Geczy; as well as essays examining two group exhibitions: Nothing Like Performance (Matthew Bradley, Lauren Brincat, Brown Council, Paul Donald, Will French, Yiorgos Zafiriou) and The Other's Other (Newell Harry, Raafat Ishak, Dinh Q Lê, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Jun Yang).
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
19 July 2012
Staff Changes
It is a period of change at Artspace. Most significantly, we have recently farewelled long-standing General Manager Helen Hyatt-Johnston. Helen’s commitment and contribution to the organisation over many years has been extraordinary. Board and staff alike thank her and wish her well in her future endeavours. We have also recently welcomed Sandra Di Palma to the position of Administrative and Executive Assistant. Sandra has been actively involved with artist initiatives in Sydney and has come to Artspace from a position at Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney.
Posted by Blair French
10 July 2012
Posted by Blair French
10 July 2012
Artspace Welcomes New Board Members
Following the departures from the Artspace Board of Sandra Bender, Chair Michael Dagostino and Emma Price, Artspace is delighted to welcome three new members to the Board: artist Caroline Rothwell; Karilyn Brown, who is General Manager, International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) - the global network of national arts funding agencies (national arts councils and ministries of culture; and new Chair of the Artspace Board, James Emmett who is a Barrister with the New South Wales Bar Association and a Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
We thank our departing members for all their work towards the development of Artspace and wish them well. We also welcome James, Karilyn and Caroline to the organisation, and we look forward to their contributions at an exciting time in the life of the organisation.
Posted by Blair French
2 July 2012
We thank our departing members for all their work towards the development of Artspace and wish them well. We also welcome James, Karilyn and Caroline to the organisation, and we look forward to their contributions at an exciting time in the life of the organisation.
Posted by Blair French
2 July 2012
Asialink Residency Program Sydney Info Session 11 July
Interested in applying for an Asialink Arts Residency? Join Asialink in Sydney for an introduction to the program and the array of residency partners across the region.
Asialink Arts Residency Program: The Asialink Arts Residency Program has been operating since 1991. The aim of this program is to broaden the experiences available to Australian artists in the Asian region; to develop projects related to the host country; and to encourage ongoing involvement and collaboration between Australian and Asian artists and organisations. The residencies are a professional development opportunity for Australian arts practitioners and also act to foster bilateral relationships in the region. The grant of up to $12,000 is to be used towards travel, living, and project expenses. The residency experience affords recipients the opportunity for indepth research, stimulating cultural exchange, international collaboration and uninterrupted time for creativity.
When: Wednesday 11 July, 3.30 – 5.00 pm
Where: The Australia Council for the Arts, Rover Thomas Auditorium
372 Elizabeth St Surry Hills NSW 2010
RSVP to Asialink: email Eliza Roberts at e.roberts@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
+ More Info
Posted by Artspace
2 July 2012
Interested in applying for an Asialink Arts Residency? Join Asialink in Sydney for an introduction to the program and the array of residency partners across the region.
Asialink Arts Residency Program: The Asialink Arts Residency Program has been operating since 1991. The aim of this program is to broaden the experiences available to Australian artists in the Asian region; to develop projects related to the host country; and to encourage ongoing involvement and collaboration between Australian and Asian artists and organisations. The residencies are a professional development opportunity for Australian arts practitioners and also act to foster bilateral relationships in the region. The grant of up to $12,000 is to be used towards travel, living, and project expenses. The residency experience affords recipients the opportunity for indepth research, stimulating cultural exchange, international collaboration and uninterrupted time for creativity.
When: Wednesday 11 July, 3.30 – 5.00 pm
Where: The Australia Council for the Arts, Rover Thomas Auditorium
372 Elizabeth St Surry Hills NSW 2010
RSVP to Asialink: email Eliza Roberts at e.roberts@asialink.unimelb.edu.au
+ More Info
Posted by Artspace
2 July 2012
Artspace Launches New Donor Program
Artspace launched a new Donor Program during a small function held in the Chippendale studios of artists Caroline Rothwell, Janet Laurence, Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford. Guests were introduced to the program by new Chair of the Artspace Board, James Emmett. Executive Director Blair French outlined some of the recent achievements of the organisation and highlights of its future programming, and then the host artists took guests on a tour of the studios, talking about their working practices within a studio context. The new Donor Program, focussed upon the work of Artspace to support artist research and development, invites contributions over a range of levels.
For more information about the Donor Program and the ongoing Artspace Artist Multiple Program contact us.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
25 June 2012
Artspace launched a new Donor Program during a small function held in the Chippendale studios of artists Caroline Rothwell, Janet Laurence, Jennifer Turpin and Michaelie Crawford. Guests were introduced to the program by new Chair of the Artspace Board, James Emmett. Executive Director Blair French outlined some of the recent achievements of the organisation and highlights of its future programming, and then the host artists took guests on a tour of the studios, talking about their working practices within a studio context. The new Donor Program, focussed upon the work of Artspace to support artist research and development, invites contributions over a range of levels.
For more information about the Donor Program and the ongoing Artspace Artist Multiple Program contact us.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
25 June 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Chung-Kun WANG 15-16 June, 11am - 5pm
Please join Chug-Kun WANG in his Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June, 11am-5pm to view work in progress and research material the artist has gathered while on residency in Sydney.
Ask at reception for access.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
13 June 2012
Please join Chug-Kun WANG in his Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June, 11am-5pm to view work in progress and research material the artist has gathered while on residency in Sydney.
Ask at reception for access.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
13 June 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Sarindar Dhaliwal 8-9 June, 11am - 5pm
Sarindar Dhaliwal is the 2012 recipient of the three month Canada Council International Residency at Artspace. While in Australia she has focused her research on tales of Australian migration, native birds and the landscape viewed via railway journeys. For her Open Studio @ Artspace Sarindar will present a series of studies for text based works, research materials, recent unedited video footage from India and her experimental film olive, almond & mustard... (2010).
Image: the cartographer's mistake: toward the akashic library, chromira print, 2012
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
31 May 2012
Sarindar Dhaliwal is the 2012 recipient of the three month Canada Council International Residency at Artspace. While in Australia she has focused her research on tales of Australian migration, native birds and the landscape viewed via railway journeys. For her Open Studio @ Artspace Sarindar will present a series of studies for text based works, research materials, recent unedited video footage from India and her experimental film olive, almond & mustard... (2010).
Image: the cartographer's mistake: toward the akashic library, chromira print, 2012
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
31 May 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Tony Albert 1-2 June, 11am - 5pm
Join Tony Albert in his Artspace Studio this Friday 1 and Saturday 2 June, from 11am to 5pm.
Now in the final weeks of his six month stay a Artspace Tony will be holding an Open Studio to share a range of current work in progress.
Enquire at reception for access.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
29 May 2012
Join Tony Albert in his Artspace Studio this Friday 1 and Saturday 2 June, from 11am to 5pm.
Now in the final weeks of his six month stay a Artspace Tony will be holding an Open Studio to share a range of current work in progress.
Enquire at reception for access.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
29 May 2012
Studio Residency Applications Closing Soon
Applications close 5pm, Friday 15 June 2012. Don't miss the deadline!
The Artspace Studio Residency Program provides local, national and international contemporary visual arts practitioners, curators, theorists and writers with subsidised studio facilities for the development of new ideas and work.
Application form and guidelines online now. Follow the link below for more information.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
29 May 2012
The Artspace Studio Residency Program provides local, national and international contemporary visual arts practitioners, curators, theorists and writers with subsidised studio facilities for the development of new ideas and work.
Application form and guidelines online now. Follow the link below for more information.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
29 May 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Lucas Abela 25-26 May, 11am-5pm
During his Artspace Studio Residency Lucas Abela has devised a Frankenstein experiment, combining the greatest musical invention of all time, the Piano, with arguably the coolest amusement machines ever conceived, Pinball, to create an interactive sound installation like no other. Pinball Pianola is a musical device constructed by replacing the keyboard, hammers and front paneling of an upright piano, with a pinball cabinet abutted at a perpendicular angle against the piano's exposed strings. Utilising both high and low culture this instrument allows virtuosos and wizards alike to pit their skills in a game where musical compositions are created as metallic balls jettisoned into the game clash with the pianos resonating wires. This experiment is the first of in a series of individually crafted instruments Ablea constructs as part of an Australia Council Music Board Project Fellowship that introduce musical elements into the iconic game of Pinball, making sound generation – not scoring – the main objective of the game.
Come to Artspace to experience Pinball Pianola during Abela's Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 25 and Saturday 26 May,11am - 5pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
21 May 2012
During his Artspace Studio Residency Lucas Abela has devised a Frankenstein experiment, combining the greatest musical invention of all time, the Piano, with arguably the coolest amusement machines ever conceived, Pinball, to create an interactive sound installation like no other. Pinball Pianola is a musical device constructed by replacing the keyboard, hammers and front paneling of an upright piano, with a pinball cabinet abutted at a perpendicular angle against the piano's exposed strings. Utilising both high and low culture this instrument allows virtuosos and wizards alike to pit their skills in a game where musical compositions are created as metallic balls jettisoned into the game clash with the pianos resonating wires. This experiment is the first of in a series of individually crafted instruments Ablea constructs as part of an Australia Council Music Board Project Fellowship that introduce musical elements into the iconic game of Pinball, making sound generation – not scoring – the main objective of the game.
Come to Artspace to experience Pinball Pianola during Abela's Open Studio @ Artspace Friday 25 and Saturday 26 May,11am - 5pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
21 May 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Adam Norton
Please join Adam Norton on Friday and Saturday 11-12 May to view his newest work Space Yurt ahead of its launch at the Melbourne Art Fair in August. Space Yurt is the latest in the ongoing series of works titled ‘Das Marsprojekt’. Das Marsprojekt includes the performance work Mars Gravity Simulator, exhibited at Performance Space in 2011. Norton's work uses aspects of technology and science to explore the human condition.
www.adamnorton.net
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
3 May 2012
Please join Adam Norton on Friday and Saturday 11-12 May to view his newest work Space Yurt ahead of its launch at the Melbourne Art Fair in August. Space Yurt is the latest in the ongoing series of works titled ‘Das Marsprojekt’. Das Marsprojekt includes the performance work Mars Gravity Simulator, exhibited at Performance Space in 2011. Norton's work uses aspects of technology and science to explore the human condition.
www.adamnorton.net
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
3 May 2012
Artist Talk with Artspace Studio Resident Sarindar Dhaliwal, National Art School 2 May, 1pm
Toronto based visual artists Sarindar Dhaliwal will discuss her residency research interests and screen her short film olive, almond & mustard... (2010) at the National Art School Black Theatre on Wednesday 2 May at 1pm.
Sarindar Dhaliwal is a visual artist based in Toronto. She has been awarded a Canada Council International Residency at Artspace in Sydney. The focus of her research here are tales of Australian migration, native birds and the landscape viewed via railway journeys. Dhaliwal will screen her first short, experimental film olive, almond & mustard… (2010), and discuss the interdisciplinary nature of her art practice and speak on her current project: the cartographer’s mistake.
olive, almond & mustard… is part of a larger body of work that explores growing up in Southall, a borough on the western edge of Greater London. It is where Dhaliwal was raised and is considered the capital of Punjabi Britain. The film references the historical and cultural ties that bind India and Great Britain together after centuries of shared colonial life and records the alienating experience of the immigrant child – a dissonance exacerbated by the political and journalistic diatribes against the post war influx of Indians and West Indians to England in the 50s and 60s.
Image: Sarindar Dhaliwal, The Cartographer’s Mistake: The Radcliffe Line, 2012, chromira print 28 x 27.5 inches
Posted by Tracy Burgess
30 April 2012
Toronto based visual artists Sarindar Dhaliwal will discuss her residency research interests and screen her short film olive, almond & mustard... (2010) at the National Art School Black Theatre on Wednesday 2 May at 1pm.
Sarindar Dhaliwal is a visual artist based in Toronto. She has been awarded a Canada Council International Residency at Artspace in Sydney. The focus of her research here are tales of Australian migration, native birds and the landscape viewed via railway journeys. Dhaliwal will screen her first short, experimental film olive, almond & mustard… (2010), and discuss the interdisciplinary nature of her art practice and speak on her current project: the cartographer’s mistake.
olive, almond & mustard… is part of a larger body of work that explores growing up in Southall, a borough on the western edge of Greater London. It is where Dhaliwal was raised and is considered the capital of Punjabi Britain. The film references the historical and cultural ties that bind India and Great Britain together after centuries of shared colonial life and records the alienating experience of the immigrant child – a dissonance exacerbated by the political and journalistic diatribes against the post war influx of Indians and West Indians to England in the 50s and 60s.
Image: Sarindar Dhaliwal, The Cartographer’s Mistake: The Radcliffe Line, 2012, chromira print 28 x 27.5 inches
Posted by Tracy Burgess
30 April 2012
Blair French announced as 7th SCAPE Curator
Blair French has been announced as the curator of the 7th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space to be held in September 2013. French was convenor of the curatorial group for the earthquake-beleaguered 6th SCAPE and has agreed to return in a similar role for the 7th SCAPE.
He says “I am delighted to have been offered the opportunity to curate 7th SCAPE and in so doing continue work with the Art & Industry Trust, its partners and the Christchurch arts community. It is a wonderful opportunity, a significant challenge and a great responsibility. As is the case across all aspects of life and work in Christchurch, we obviously face a unique situation and set of challenges in developing public art projects in the uncertain and changing post-earthquakes environment. But with these challenges come extraordinary opportunities to reconsider the way in which public art can contribute to processes of community rebuilding and urban development, and to demonstrate its important to the vitality of civic life.”
His reappointment to the role will bring a continuity of curatorial process from the work he has undertaken over the past two and a half years in Christchurch. His knowledge of the SCAPE model has also enabled him to suggest amendments to the curatorial process, and for 7th SCAPE he will be working with a newly appointed International Curatorial Advisors Group and a Christchurch Reference Group who will act as concept sounding boards and provide specialist advice.
Artspace is pleased to continue the support of SCAPE.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 April 2012
Blair French has been announced as the curator of the 7th SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space to be held in September 2013. French was convenor of the curatorial group for the earthquake-beleaguered 6th SCAPE and has agreed to return in a similar role for the 7th SCAPE.
He says “I am delighted to have been offered the opportunity to curate 7th SCAPE and in so doing continue work with the Art & Industry Trust, its partners and the Christchurch arts community. It is a wonderful opportunity, a significant challenge and a great responsibility. As is the case across all aspects of life and work in Christchurch, we obviously face a unique situation and set of challenges in developing public art projects in the uncertain and changing post-earthquakes environment. But with these challenges come extraordinary opportunities to reconsider the way in which public art can contribute to processes of community rebuilding and urban development, and to demonstrate its important to the vitality of civic life.”
His reappointment to the role will bring a continuity of curatorial process from the work he has undertaken over the past two and a half years in Christchurch. His knowledge of the SCAPE model has also enabled him to suggest amendments to the curatorial process, and for 7th SCAPE he will be working with a newly appointed International Curatorial Advisors Group and a Christchurch Reference Group who will act as concept sounding boards and provide specialist advice.
Artspace is pleased to continue the support of SCAPE.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 April 2012
Artspace congratulates the nominees in the Walters Prize 2012
It is with great pleasure that Artspace congratulates the recently announced nominees for New Zealand’s most prestigious award for contemporary art. Simon Denny has been selected for inclusion in this year’s award on the basis of his major project Introductory logic video tutorial presented at Artspace in 2010.
Of Denny’s project the judging committee stated:
'While the jury were impressed with a number of Simon Denny’s recent bodies of work, his major project for Artspace, Sydney, Introductory logic video tutorial, was identified as being especially significant. The exhibition set up a platform for Denny to retrace, expand and actualise his academic experiences as a philosophy student at Sydney University. For the Artspace installation, the artist created a network of interconnecting tautological statements, screen grabs, television monitors (both real and surrogates), and an inventory of the gallery’s audiovisual gear which together charted a clever path through a fictional educational video.'
Artspace also congratulates fellow nominees Alicia Frankovich (Super Segue, Artspace, 2009), Sriwhana Spong (Beetlejuice, Artspace, 2007) and Kate Newby.
The finallist’s exhibition will be presented at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from early August 2012.
Image: Simon Denny, Introductory logic video tutorial, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2010
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 April 2012
It is with great pleasure that Artspace congratulates the recently announced nominees for New Zealand’s most prestigious award for contemporary art. Simon Denny has been selected for inclusion in this year’s award on the basis of his major project Introductory logic video tutorial presented at Artspace in 2010.
Of Denny’s project the judging committee stated:
'While the jury were impressed with a number of Simon Denny’s recent bodies of work, his major project for Artspace, Sydney, Introductory logic video tutorial, was identified as being especially significant. The exhibition set up a platform for Denny to retrace, expand and actualise his academic experiences as a philosophy student at Sydney University. For the Artspace installation, the artist created a network of interconnecting tautological statements, screen grabs, television monitors (both real and surrogates), and an inventory of the gallery’s audiovisual gear which together charted a clever path through a fictional educational video.'
Artspace also congratulates fellow nominees Alicia Frankovich (Super Segue, Artspace, 2009), Sriwhana Spong (Beetlejuice, Artspace, 2007) and Kate Newby.
The finallist’s exhibition will be presented at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki from early August 2012.
Image: Simon Denny, Introductory logic video tutorial, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2010
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
26 April 2012
Artspace Closed Wednesday 25 April
Artspace will be closed Wednesday 25 April for the Anzac Day public holiday. We will reopen at 11am on Thursday 26 April for normal operating hours.
23 April 2012
23 April 2012
Now Accepting Applications for Administrative & Executive Assistant
Artspace is currently seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to fill the role of Administrative & Executive Assistant.
This person is the key front-of-house contact point for all visitors to Artspace, shares responsibility for the high quality presentation and safety of the exhibitions and contributes to the efficient operation of all aspects of Artspace activity through provision of administrative support to the General Manager and Executive Director.
For three to four days of a five-day (Monday – Friday) working week the Administrative & Executive Assistant is based at the reception desk. Follow the link below to download a position description. For further information please contact the Artspace General Manager, Helen Hyatt-Johnston on 02 9356 0504 or email helenhj@artspace.org.au
Applications close Monday 30 April at 5pm.
+ More Info
23 April 2012
This person is the key front-of-house contact point for all visitors to Artspace, shares responsibility for the high quality presentation and safety of the exhibitions and contributes to the efficient operation of all aspects of Artspace activity through provision of administrative support to the General Manager and Executive Director.
For three to four days of a five-day (Monday – Friday) working week the Administrative & Executive Assistant is based at the reception desk. Follow the link below to download a position description. For further information please contact the Artspace General Manager, Helen Hyatt-Johnston on 02 9356 0504 or email helenhj@artspace.org.au
Applications close Monday 30 April at 5pm.
+ More Info
23 April 2012
Call for Applications: 2013 Artspace Studio Residencies
The Artspace Studio Residency Program provides local, national and international contemporary visual arts practitioners, curators, theorists and writers with subsidised studio facilities for the development of new ideas and work.
Artspace operates four residential and six non-residential studios on-site in the Gunnery Building, Woolloomooloo. These residencies are generally offered for periods of between two and six months. Successful applicants are charged a subsidised studio rental. Artspace also operates an Open Studio space where resident artists may be offered the opportunity to publicly present work in progress.
Applications close 5pm, Friday 15 June 2012
Application form and guidelines online now.
Image: Sara Givins, Open Studio @ Artspace, 2011 (Photo: Joy Lai)
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
23 April 2012
The Artspace Studio Residency Program provides local, national and international contemporary visual arts practitioners, curators, theorists and writers with subsidised studio facilities for the development of new ideas and work.
Artspace operates four residential and six non-residential studios on-site in the Gunnery Building, Woolloomooloo. These residencies are generally offered for periods of between two and six months. Successful applicants are charged a subsidised studio rental. Artspace also operates an Open Studio space where resident artists may be offered the opportunity to publicly present work in progress.
Applications close 5pm, Friday 15 June 2012
Application form and guidelines online now.
Image: Sara Givins, Open Studio @ Artspace, 2011 (Photo: Joy Lai)
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
23 April 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace – Sophia Egarchos
Please join Sophia Egarchos for Open Studio @ Artspace this Friday 20 and Saturday 21 April from 11 am to 5pm. Sophia will share a range of recently completed work.
The artist will also publicly continue to work on her paintings at her Open Studio.
Image: Sophia Egarchos, Table #1 in progress (Table Series), 2012, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
17 April 2012
Please join Sophia Egarchos for Open Studio @ Artspace this Friday 20 and Saturday 21 April from 11 am to 5pm. Sophia will share a range of recently completed work.
The artist will also publicly continue to work on her paintings at her Open Studio.
Image: Sophia Egarchos, Table #1 in progress (Table Series), 2012, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
17 April 2012
Artspace congratulates Contemporary Australian Women
Artspace would like to congratulate all of the artists selected to be part of the major survey exhibition Contemporary Australia: Women developed by Queensland Gallery of Art | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (21 April – 22 July 2012). Artspace acknowledges the significant achievements of all of the invited artists and the vital contributions that they have made and continue to make to contemporary culture in Australia and internationally.
In particular, Artspace would like to recognise many of the selected artists who have so significantly contributed toward the Gallery and Studio Programs at Artspace, including:
Lauren Brincat (How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow, 2012; Nothing Like Performance, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Recipient, 2009); Brown Council (Nothing Like Performance, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2009); Agatha Gothe-Snape (Eastern Seaboard, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2010); Deborah Kelly (Burn what you cannot steal, 2011; From Blank Pages, 2011; Make More Monsters, 2011); Kate Mitchell (Magic Undone, 2012; Artspace@BankART: Life III, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2011); Rose Nolan (Why We Do The Things We Do, 2008); Jess Olivieri & Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for the Ladies (Artspace Studio Residents, 2010; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2009); Sandra Selig (be some other material, 2011); Soda_Jerk (Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Recipients, 2011); Monika Tichacek (The Shadowers, 2005; Work Rest Play (Escape), 2004; MNCBM, 2000; Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Recipient, 2000); Justene Williams (Hot Air Hillbilly Weekend Workshop, 2011; Tomorrow Again, 2006; The Shangri-La Collective, 2003; Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2000).
Image: Kate Mitchell, Being Punctual, 2010, courtesy of the artist and Chalk Horse
+ More Info
Posted by Mark Feary
16 April 2012
Artspace would like to congratulate all of the artists selected to be part of the major survey exhibition Contemporary Australia: Women developed by Queensland Gallery of Art | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (21 April – 22 July 2012). Artspace acknowledges the significant achievements of all of the invited artists and the vital contributions that they have made and continue to make to contemporary culture in Australia and internationally.
In particular, Artspace would like to recognise many of the selected artists who have so significantly contributed toward the Gallery and Studio Programs at Artspace, including:
Lauren Brincat (How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow, 2012; Nothing Like Performance, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Recipient, 2009); Brown Council (Nothing Like Performance, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2009); Agatha Gothe-Snape (Eastern Seaboard, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2010); Deborah Kelly (Burn what you cannot steal, 2011; From Blank Pages, 2011; Make More Monsters, 2011); Kate Mitchell (Magic Undone, 2012; Artspace@BankART: Life III, 2011; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2011); Rose Nolan (Why We Do The Things We Do, 2008); Jess Olivieri & Hayley Forward with the Parachutes for the Ladies (Artspace Studio Residents, 2010; Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2009); Sandra Selig (be some other material, 2011); Soda_Jerk (Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship Recipients, 2011); Monika Tichacek (The Shadowers, 2005; Work Rest Play (Escape), 2004; MNCBM, 2000; Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Recipient, 2000); Justene Williams (Hot Air Hillbilly Weekend Workshop, 2011; Tomorrow Again, 2006; The Shangri-La Collective, 2003; Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition, 2000).
Image: Kate Mitchell, Being Punctual, 2010, courtesy of the artist and Chalk Horse
+ More Info
Posted by Mark Feary
16 April 2012
Artspace Closed Easter Weekend
Artspace will be closed from Friday 6 April to Monday 9 April for the Easter public holidays. We will reopen for our normal operating hours on Tuesday 10 April at 11am.
28 March 2012
28 March 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace – Will French
During his Open Studio @ Artspace Will French will be showcasing recent work, ideas and plans for projects. Since returning to Australia in October, he has been in residency at Artspace developing and completing a variety of works. This recent return to studio-based practice and the momentum and influence of travel and mentorship sees the works explore ideas of extended geographical borders, consumption, debt and flight. French’s multi-disciplined works are taking a conceptual tilt. With an ambition to simplify and a playful approach to production the artist hopes exhibit development, attain support for proposals and secure opportunity to exhibit works on completion.
The Open Studio will take place Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March from 11 am – 5pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
27 March 2012
During his Open Studio @ Artspace Will French will be showcasing recent work, ideas and plans for projects. Since returning to Australia in October, he has been in residency at Artspace developing and completing a variety of works. This recent return to studio-based practice and the momentum and influence of travel and mentorship sees the works explore ideas of extended geographical borders, consumption, debt and flight. French’s multi-disciplined works are taking a conceptual tilt. With an ambition to simplify and a playful approach to production the artist hopes exhibit development, attain support for proposals and secure opportunity to exhibit works on completion.
The Open Studio will take place Friday 30 and Saturday 31 March from 11 am – 5pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
27 March 2012
Christchurch Artist Wayne Youle Receives Artspace Residency
Canterbury-based artist Wayne Youle has been awarded the SCAPE Christchurch/Artspace Sydney artist residency.
Youle says 'The residency is a major achievement and will surely be important in my career and the future of my work. I look forward to the ability to work without many of the hurdles we all have as artists. The freedom to focus and create a body of work each day while surrounded by other creative people from other countries will give me the chance to have critical discussions regarding the work I make. I look forward to the time in Sydney and am humbled by the selection.'
Youle’s art practice is varied and ranges from painting and sculpture to photography, ceramics and bronze casting. His work is highly regarded and has been shown in public gallery exhibitions including Close Encounters at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; 10DOWN, A survey of Wayne Youle’s practice, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua; and most recently a giant shadow board mural in Sydenham, Christchurch with Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and Gap Filler which was inspired by memories of his grandfather’s tool shed.
The artist will be in residency at Artspace from August to November 2012.
Image: Wayne Youle, My Cranial Palette, 2008, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, materials: enamel, paint, plastic skill and timber. Image courtesy of the artist and Tim Melville Gallery.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
27 March 2012
Canterbury-based artist Wayne Youle has been awarded the SCAPE Christchurch/Artspace Sydney artist residency.
Youle says 'The residency is a major achievement and will surely be important in my career and the future of my work. I look forward to the ability to work without many of the hurdles we all have as artists. The freedom to focus and create a body of work each day while surrounded by other creative people from other countries will give me the chance to have critical discussions regarding the work I make. I look forward to the time in Sydney and am humbled by the selection.'
Youle’s art practice is varied and ranges from painting and sculpture to photography, ceramics and bronze casting. His work is highly regarded and has been shown in public gallery exhibitions including Close Encounters at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago; 10DOWN, A survey of Wayne Youle’s practice, Pataka Museum of Arts and Cultures, Porirua; and most recently a giant shadow board mural in Sydenham, Christchurch with Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu and Gap Filler which was inspired by memories of his grandfather’s tool shed.
The artist will be in residency at Artspace from August to November 2012.
Image: Wayne Youle, My Cranial Palette, 2008, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, materials: enamel, paint, plastic skill and timber. Image courtesy of the artist and Tim Melville Gallery.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
27 March 2012
Artspace project How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow opens at Orange Regional Gallery Friday 23 March
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow casts a selective gaze upon a number of artists who have been recipients of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. Through inviting some of the previous recipients of the scholarship to present an earlier work alongside one of their most current works the exhibition attempts to reflect upon how an art practice shifts and changes over time. The exhibition features work by Lauren Brincat, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Todd McMillan, Ms&Mr, Tony Schwensen and Sam Smith.
After Orange Regional Gallery How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow will tour to six regional galleries and cultural centres in New South Wales and Queensland throughout 2012 and 2013.
Click here to download a How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Education Resource.
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW as a result of the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy. An Artspace exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries NSW.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
16 March 2012
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow casts a selective gaze upon a number of artists who have been recipients of the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship. Through inviting some of the previous recipients of the scholarship to present an earlier work alongside one of their most current works the exhibition attempts to reflect upon how an art practice shifts and changes over time. The exhibition features work by Lauren Brincat, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Todd McMillan, Ms&Mr, Tony Schwensen and Sam Smith.
After Orange Regional Gallery How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow will tour to six regional galleries and cultural centres in New South Wales and Queensland throughout 2012 and 2013.
Click here to download a How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow Education Resource.
How Yesterday Remembers Tomorrow is supported by the NSW Government through Arts NSW as a result of the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy. An Artspace exhibition toured by Museums & Galleries NSW.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
16 March 2012
Now Accepting Applications for Publications and Curatorial Programs Internship
Artspace is seeking a motivated postgraduate student to intern with us one day per week over a total period of twenty-four weeks (including a four-week break in the middle of the internship). The intern will work directly with and assist the Artspace Curator, Communications & Publications Coordinator and Studio & Public Program Coordinator. The internship will be divided into two parts, the first ten weeks will include assistance with the editorial and print production of Artspace publications. The second component of the internship will assist in the facilitation and execution of exhibition and public programs.
To apply: Please send a PDF document of your CV (of no more than two pages) and a completed application form to: artspace@artspace.org.au; or Artspace Internship Applications, Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011, Sydney
Follow the link below or click here to download more information, and click here to download an application form.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
16 March 2012
To apply: Please send a PDF document of your CV (of no more than two pages) and a completed application form to: artspace@artspace.org.au; or Artspace Internship Applications, Artspace, 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011, Sydney
Follow the link below or click here to download more information, and click here to download an application form.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
16 March 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace – Simone Paterson
Please join Simone Paterson for her Open Studio @ Artspace on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 March from 11am to 5pm.
During her Artspace studio residency Simone has produced a new body of work entitled Diametric. The work employs a range of contrasting production techniques including sewing and casting as well as computer technologies such as interactive software, digital video, sound effects and digital imaging; and materials such as a variety of fabrics including cotton, polyester and upholstery fabrics as well as tree bark, gum leaves and glass bottles. The combination of techniques and materials employ a strategy to blur the boundaries between art, craft and digital reproduction. The artist classifies her method of working as 'post new media', that is, a collision or coalescence between traditional and new media techniques.
Diametric will be exhibited at PODspace Gallery Newcastle, 26 April - 12 May 2012.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
5 March 2012
Please join Simone Paterson for her Open Studio @ Artspace on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 March from 11am to 5pm.
During her Artspace studio residency Simone has produced a new body of work entitled Diametric. The work employs a range of contrasting production techniques including sewing and casting as well as computer technologies such as interactive software, digital video, sound effects and digital imaging; and materials such as a variety of fabrics including cotton, polyester and upholstery fabrics as well as tree bark, gum leaves and glass bottles. The combination of techniques and materials employ a strategy to blur the boundaries between art, craft and digital reproduction. The artist classifies her method of working as 'post new media', that is, a collision or coalescence between traditional and new media techniques.
Diametric will be exhibited at PODspace Gallery Newcastle, 26 April - 12 May 2012.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
5 March 2012
Forthcoming Artspace Exhibitions June to September 2012
Artspace is pleased to announce Everything Falls Apart, a two-part exhibition series beginning late June 2012.
Everything Falls Apart brings together several significant works by international and Australian artists presented over two exhibitions. Overall, the project focuses on works examining the collapse of ideological and political systems – actual, imagined, desired – be this via specific events or through broader consideration of the dissolution of, or confrontation with, capitalist, colonial, communist or totalitarian regimes.
The first exhibition in this series, 27 June – 5 August, will include works by Jem Cohen, Sarah Goffman, Sarah Morris and Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck & Media Farzin.
The second of the series, 10 August – 16 September, will include works by Vernon Ah Kee, Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, Tony Garifalakis and Merata Mita.
For more information about the exhibition click here to download an advance information document. Follow our news posts and subscribe to our Artspace newsletter for up-to-date information.
Image: Tony Garifalakis, Anti Christs (Putin and Regan), 2011, image of C-type prints, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
29 February 2012
Artspace is pleased to announce Everything Falls Apart, a two-part exhibition series beginning late June 2012.
Everything Falls Apart brings together several significant works by international and Australian artists presented over two exhibitions. Overall, the project focuses on works examining the collapse of ideological and political systems – actual, imagined, desired – be this via specific events or through broader consideration of the dissolution of, or confrontation with, capitalist, colonial, communist or totalitarian regimes.
The first exhibition in this series, 27 June – 5 August, will include works by Jem Cohen, Sarah Goffman, Sarah Morris and Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck & Media Farzin.
The second of the series, 10 August – 16 September, will include works by Vernon Ah Kee, Zanny Begg & Oliver Ressler, Tony Garifalakis and Merata Mita.
For more information about the exhibition click here to download an advance information document. Follow our news posts and subscribe to our Artspace newsletter for up-to-date information.
Image: Tony Garifalakis, Anti Christs (Putin and Regan), 2011, image of C-type prints, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
29 February 2012
Emerging in the Arts: Achieving Acclaim in Australia Today @ Artspace 22 March 4-6pm
Art Month and Artspace present Emerging in the Arts: Achieving Acclaim in Australia Today on Thursday 22 March 4-6pm.
What happens between graduating from art school and becoming an exhibiting artist? Three Sydney artists who have experienced recent success discuss how they got there. The conversation will address how artists may find opportunities to develop their practice both locally and internationally.
The discussion panel will also look at the wider topic of achieving acclaim as an emerging artist in Australia today. Speakers include Adam Geczy, Kate Mitchell and Adam Norton.
Click here for more information and to register your interest.
This is an Art Month Sydney curated event @ Artspace.
Image: Adam Geczy, from The Most Beautiful Cities in the World: San Francisco, 2012, video still, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
27 February 2012
Art Month and Artspace present Emerging in the Arts: Achieving Acclaim in Australia Today on Thursday 22 March 4-6pm.
What happens between graduating from art school and becoming an exhibiting artist? Three Sydney artists who have experienced recent success discuss how they got there. The conversation will address how artists may find opportunities to develop their practice both locally and internationally.
The discussion panel will also look at the wider topic of achieving acclaim as an emerging artist in Australia today. Speakers include Adam Geczy, Kate Mitchell and Adam Norton.
Click here for more information and to register your interest.
This is an Art Month Sydney curated event @ Artspace.
Image: Adam Geczy, from The Most Beautiful Cities in the World: San Francisco, 2012, video still, courtesy of the artist
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
27 February 2012
Fashion and Art book launch 29 March 2012 6pm
Artspace invites you to the launch of Fashion and Art, a new book by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas, published by Berg and launched by Academy Award winner Tim Chappell, costume designer for Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
The launch will occur at Artspace Thursday 29 March at 6pm.
RSVP essential: Monday 26 March 2012, hannah.temby@bloomsbury.com
For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive lovehate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.
Until now, the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection of new and updated essays is the most well-rounded and authoritative to date. Some of the world’s foremost scholars in the field are assembled here to explore the art–fashion nexus in numerous ways: from aesthetics and performance to masquerade and media. Original and inspiring, this book not only secures 'art-fashion' as a discrete area of study, but also suggests new critical pathways for exploring their continuing cross-pollination. Fashion and Art is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, art history and theory, cultural studies and related fields.
Adam Geczy is an artist, writer and Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia. Geczy's forthcoming project, Beautiful Cities opens at Artspace 21 March.
Vicki Karaminas is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and Associate Head of the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Posted by Caraline Douglas
20 February 2012
Artspace invites you to the launch of Fashion and Art, a new book by Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas, published by Berg and launched by Academy Award winner Tim Chappell, costume designer for Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
The launch will occur at Artspace Thursday 29 March at 6pm.
RSVP essential: Monday 26 March 2012, hannah.temby@bloomsbury.com
For at least two centuries, fashion and art have maintained a competitive lovehate relationship. Both fashion and art construct imaginary worlds, and use a language of style to invigorate beliefs, perceptions and ideas.
Until now, the crossovers of fashion and art have received only scattered treatment and suffered from a dearth of theorization. As an attempt to theorize the area, this collection of new and updated essays is the most well-rounded and authoritative to date. Some of the world’s foremost scholars in the field are assembled here to explore the art–fashion nexus in numerous ways: from aesthetics and performance to masquerade and media. Original and inspiring, this book not only secures 'art-fashion' as a discrete area of study, but also suggests new critical pathways for exploring their continuing cross-pollination. Fashion and Art is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, art history and theory, cultural studies and related fields.
Adam Geczy is an artist, writer and Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia. Geczy's forthcoming project, Beautiful Cities opens at Artspace 21 March.
Vicki Karaminas is Associate Professor of Fashion Studies and Associate Head of the School of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Posted by Caraline Douglas
20 February 2012
Volunteer Opportunity with Lauren Brincat from 20 February 2012
Artspace Studio Resident Lauren Brincat is currently seeking volunteer artist assistants to aid in the production of a large scale soft sculpture that will be exhibited in her upcoming show at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney. Lauren will be working onsite in her Artspace studio daily during the week of 20 February. If you are interested in participating please contact Lauren directly on lauren@laurenbrincat.com.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
16 February 2012
Artspace Studio Resident Lauren Brincat is currently seeking volunteer artist assistants to aid in the production of a large scale soft sculpture that will be exhibited in her upcoming show at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney. Lauren will be working onsite in her Artspace studio daily during the week of 20 February. If you are interested in participating please contact Lauren directly on lauren@laurenbrincat.com.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
16 February 2012
Artspace International Curator Lecture Series
Join us at Artspace for our forthcoming International Curator Lecture Series 23 February to 7 March.
Building on recent enriching presentations and talks by international guests and curators such as: Croatia-based curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/WHW and UK-based curator and artist Paul O’Neill, Artspace presents a new series of lectures and presentations by three international curators over a period of three weeks.
The series begins Thursday 23 February, 6.30pm with a lecture by Kate Fowle, Executive Director, Independent Curators International, NY. Kate will look at recent examples of institutions that reflexively question issues facing the role of curators today.
As the second in this series Artspace will present Nablus Soap, a presentation/performance by Jerusalem and Sharjah-based Curator Jack Persekian on Wednesday 29 February, 6.30pm. Jack's presentation will reflect on the ephemeral and perishable nature of soap alluded most precisely to the unsustainability of the arrangements of control over the West Bank and Gaza as delineated in the Oslo agreement maps. Mona Hatoum’s choice of this medium enabled Jack to reflect for over a decade (1994-2004) on the failed peace promises, the separation wall and the volatile, shifting and disintegrating country.
The final event in this series will be a presentation by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Independent Curator and Critic, Mexico City, and Curator of Manifesta9, Wednesday 7 March, 6.30pm (subject to change please check the website for further information).
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
15 February 2012
Building on recent enriching presentations and talks by international guests and curators such as: Croatia-based curatorial collective What, How & for Whom/WHW and UK-based curator and artist Paul O’Neill, Artspace presents a new series of lectures and presentations by three international curators over a period of three weeks.
The series begins Thursday 23 February, 6.30pm with a lecture by Kate Fowle, Executive Director, Independent Curators International, NY. Kate will look at recent examples of institutions that reflexively question issues facing the role of curators today.
As the second in this series Artspace will present Nablus Soap, a presentation/performance by Jerusalem and Sharjah-based Curator Jack Persekian on Wednesday 29 February, 6.30pm. Jack's presentation will reflect on the ephemeral and perishable nature of soap alluded most precisely to the unsustainability of the arrangements of control over the West Bank and Gaza as delineated in the Oslo agreement maps. Mona Hatoum’s choice of this medium enabled Jack to reflect for over a decade (1994-2004) on the failed peace promises, the separation wall and the volatile, shifting and disintegrating country.
The final event in this series will be a presentation by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Independent Curator and Critic, Mexico City, and Curator of Manifesta9, Wednesday 7 March, 6.30pm (subject to change please check the website for further information).
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
15 February 2012
Open Studio @ Artspace - Jacquelene Drinkall
In the final days of her residency at Artspace Jacquelene Drinkall is holding an Open Studio @ Artspace. The artist will preview her UFO sculpture as part of the ongoing ELF Weatherman UFOlogy project, which explores activist shared subjectivities and collaborative telepathies. This work will be contextualised with loosely related paintings, as well as video footage, collaborative animations, photographic documentation, sketches from court hearings and the occupy site, and some performance objects that connect the UFOlogy project to the Occupy Movement.
Please join Jacquelene's Open Studio @ Artspace on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 February from 11am to 5pm. Additionally, as part of #F12 International Occupy Art Day of Creative Action, Jacquelene will host a screening of Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg's new film The Bull Laid Bear, launched by Economist Steven Keen, on Sunday 12 February at 2pm in the Artspace seminar room. For further information please email jacquelene.drinkall@gmail.com
For information about access to both the screening and the Open Studio please enquire at Artspace reception.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
7 February 2012
In the final days of her residency at Artspace Jacquelene Drinkall is holding an Open Studio @ Artspace. The artist will preview her UFO sculpture as part of the ongoing ELF Weatherman UFOlogy project, which explores activist shared subjectivities and collaborative telepathies. This work will be contextualised with loosely related paintings, as well as video footage, collaborative animations, photographic documentation, sketches from court hearings and the occupy site, and some performance objects that connect the UFOlogy project to the Occupy Movement.
Please join Jacquelene's Open Studio @ Artspace on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 February from 11am to 5pm. Additionally, as part of #F12 International Occupy Art Day of Creative Action, Jacquelene will host a screening of Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg's new film The Bull Laid Bear, launched by Economist Steven Keen, on Sunday 12 February at 2pm in the Artspace seminar room. For further information please email jacquelene.drinkall@gmail.com
For information about access to both the screening and the Open Studio please enquire at Artspace reception.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
7 February 2012
Call for Applications: NSW Visual Artist International Residency Opportunity at Darling Foundry, Montréal
Artspace is now accepting applications from professional visual artists resident in New South Wales and working in any medium. For a fully funded residency opportunity at the Darling Foundry, Montréal to take place October -December 2012.
Due date: 20 April 2012
Application form and guidelines available now.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
7 February 2012
Artspace is now accepting applications from professional visual artists resident in New South Wales and working in any medium. For a fully funded residency opportunity at the Darling Foundry, Montréal to take place October -December 2012.
Due date: 20 April 2012
Application form and guidelines available now.
+ More Info
Posted by Tracy Burgess
7 February 2012
2012 Future Generation Art Prize launches 6 February
The second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize of $100,000 opens to all artists up to the age of 35. Online applications are accepted from 6 February till 6 May 2012.
The Future Generation Art Prize was established in 2009 by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. A worldwide contemporary art prize, the Future Generation Art Prize aims to provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists up to 35 years of age, wherever they may live and work. This unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists.
Awarded through a competition, judged by a distinguished jury, the Future Generation Art Prize is founded on the idea of generosity, a network of outstanding patron artists and institutional partners, and a highly democratic application procedure. An exhibition of 21 shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre (Kiev, Ukraine) in October 2012. The respected international jury will then announce the winner of the Main Prize who will receive a generous prize ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 toward production of new work) at the Award Ceremony in December 2012 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Artists up to 35 years of age of any gender, nationality, race or artistic medium are invited to apply via: www.futuregenerationartprize.org
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
6 February 2012
The second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize of $100,000 opens to all artists up to the age of 35. Online applications are accepted from 6 February till 6 May 2012.
The Future Generation Art Prize was established in 2009 by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation. A worldwide contemporary art prize, the Future Generation Art Prize aims to provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists up to 35 years of age, wherever they may live and work. This unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists.
Awarded through a competition, judged by a distinguished jury, the Future Generation Art Prize is founded on the idea of generosity, a network of outstanding patron artists and institutional partners, and a highly democratic application procedure. An exhibition of 21 shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre (Kiev, Ukraine) in October 2012. The respected international jury will then announce the winner of the Main Prize who will receive a generous prize ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 toward production of new work) at the Award Ceremony in December 2012 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Artists up to 35 years of age of any gender, nationality, race or artistic medium are invited to apply via: www.futuregenerationartprize.org
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
6 February 2012
Katthy Cavaliere, 1972 – 2012
Artspace sadly notes the death of Sydney artist Katthy Cavaliere at the age of 39. Katthy passed away on 23 January following a stroke on New Year’s Eve. She had been suffering from cancer.
Working across a range of media – installation, performance, drawing, video and photography – Katthy utilised objects and experiences drawn from her immediate life in often poignant manners. Born in Italy and a graduate of College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Katthy came to prominence in the late 1990s, her work selected for presentation in the first four Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (HLTAS) exhibitions at Artspace (1997 – 2000). Her 1999 solo project at Artspace – story of a girl (1999) – is well remembered for both its formal beauty and the generosity at its core, based as it was around acts of gifting personal objects to audience members.
Katthy was recipient of the HLTAS in 2000, providing her with the opportunity to study in Italy at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Brera, Milano and the Fondazione Ratti Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Como under Marina Abramovic. Upon her return to Australia Katthy exhibited widely, with her solo exhibition Suspended Moment touring galleries in regional NSW in 2004-05. She held a number of residencies, including at Artspace in 2009-10. Her live performance Loved for Artspace 24/25 in 2008 formed the basis of a video work that was last year presented in the In the World exhibition for the Italian Institute of Culture at the Venice Biennale.
Katthy was closely associated with Artspace for many years. She will be sadly missed by everyone here, and by all her peers, friends and colleagues.
Posted by Blair French
25 January 2012
Working across a range of media – installation, performance, drawing, video and photography – Katthy utilised objects and experiences drawn from her immediate life in often poignant manners. Born in Italy and a graduate of College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Katthy came to prominence in the late 1990s, her work selected for presentation in the first four Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship (HLTAS) exhibitions at Artspace (1997 – 2000). Her 1999 solo project at Artspace – story of a girl (1999) – is well remembered for both its formal beauty and the generosity at its core, based as it was around acts of gifting personal objects to audience members.
Katthy was recipient of the HLTAS in 2000, providing her with the opportunity to study in Italy at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Brera, Milano and the Fondazione Ratti Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Como under Marina Abramovic. Upon her return to Australia Katthy exhibited widely, with her solo exhibition Suspended Moment touring galleries in regional NSW in 2004-05. She held a number of residencies, including at Artspace in 2009-10. Her live performance Loved for Artspace 24/25 in 2008 formed the basis of a video work that was last year presented in the In the World exhibition for the Italian Institute of Culture at the Venice Biennale.
Katthy was closely associated with Artspace for many years. She will be sadly missed by everyone here, and by all her peers, friends and colleagues.
Posted by Blair French
25 January 2012
non-writing histories encounter events @ Artspace
Alex Martinis Roe's non-writing histories will include a sound installation produced by a series of actions that the artist undertakes in the gallery space.
Visitors are invited to join the artist for these encounter events:
1 February for the duration of the exhibition opening
2 and 3 February between 2pm and 5pm
4 February following the conclusion of the 2pm artist discussion
9, 10 and 11 February between 2pm and 5pm
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
19 January 2012
Alex Martinis Roe's non-writing histories will include a sound installation produced by a series of actions that the artist undertakes in the gallery space.
Visitors are invited to join the artist for these encounter events:
1 February for the duration of the exhibition opening
2 and 3 February between 2pm and 5pm
4 February following the conclusion of the 2pm artist discussion
9, 10 and 11 February between 2pm and 5pm
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
19 January 2012
Exhibition Opening and Artist Discussion @ Artspace
Join us for the opening of projects by Alex Gawronski, Kate Mitchell and Alex Martinis Roe Wednesday 1 February from 6pm.
Artspace will also present an artist discussion with all three artists in conversation with Mark Feary Saturday 4 February at 2pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
18 January 2012
Join us for the opening of projects by Alex Gawronski, Kate Mitchell and Alex Martinis Roe Wednesday 1 February from 6pm.
Artspace will also present an artist discussion with all three artists in conversation with Mark Feary Saturday 4 February at 2pm.
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
18 January 2012
A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance, curated by Mark Feary, opens today at apexart
Artspace curator, Mark Feary, is currently in New York for the exhibition of A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance a project presented at influential not-for-profit space apexart in Lower Manhattan, New York.
The exhibition, which features work by: Magnus Bärtås, Peter Cave, Alain Declercq, Jim Finn, Tony Garifalakis, Soni Kum, Jung Lee and Karl Tuikkanen, is an attempt to envisage a state and culture that is shrouded in secrecy, being both the producer and victim of oppositional propaganda mechanisms. The project brings together new and recent works by a selection of international artists attempting to develop a picture of what the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea might be, in the absence of reliable, unbiased information of a nation that operates in exile from the international community.
The project emerges out of the Unsolicited Proposals Program which apexart began in 2003. Mark’s proposal for A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance was one of two projects selected from an international pool of nearly 500 curatorial proposals. Mark is the first Australasian curator to have been selected to develop a project within the apexart program.
A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance opens in New York today and continues until 10 March 2012.
Image: Tony Garifalakis, Leader of the Pack, 2011, mixed media on denim vest, courtesy of the artist and apexart
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
11 January 2012
Artspace curator, Mark Feary, is currently in New York for the exhibition of A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance a project presented at influential not-for-profit space apexart in Lower Manhattan, New York.
The exhibition, which features work by: Magnus Bärtås, Peter Cave, Alain Declercq, Jim Finn, Tony Garifalakis, Soni Kum, Jung Lee and Karl Tuikkanen, is an attempt to envisage a state and culture that is shrouded in secrecy, being both the producer and victim of oppositional propaganda mechanisms. The project brings together new and recent works by a selection of international artists attempting to develop a picture of what the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea might be, in the absence of reliable, unbiased information of a nation that operates in exile from the international community.
The project emerges out of the Unsolicited Proposals Program which apexart began in 2003. Mark’s proposal for A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance was one of two projects selected from an international pool of nearly 500 curatorial proposals. Mark is the first Australasian curator to have been selected to develop a project within the apexart program.
A Postcard from Afar: North Korea from a Distance opens in New York today and continues until 10 March 2012.
Image: Tony Garifalakis, Leader of the Pack, 2011, mixed media on denim vest, courtesy of the artist and apexart
+ More Info
Posted by Caraline Douglas
11 January 2012