Gap Year

Peter Blamey, Mitchel Cumming, Francesca Heinz, Jesse Hogan, Kusum Normoyle, Baden Pailthorpe, Zoe Robertson, Marilyn Schneider, Paul Williams

 

Exhibition Dates
28 September - 14 October 2012

Gap Year features the work of nine early career Sydney artists selected by consulting curators: Carla Cescon, Susan Gibb and Tom Polo. The exhibition brings together a range of new works exploring a variety of mediums and present a snapshot of practices by artists from the immediate community.

Gap Year is generously supported by the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW.

Overview

Gap Year features the work of nine early career Sydney artists selected by consulting curators: Carla Cescon, Susan Gibb and Tom Polo. The exhibition brings together a range of new works exploring a variety of mediums and present a snapshot of practices by artists from the immediate community.

  

Gap Year is generously supported by the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW. 

  • Marilyn Schneider, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2012. Background: 'Feature Wall/ Green Screen', 2012. Middleground: Screen Wall, 2012. Foreground: 'Mega Mansion', 2012

  • Kusum Normoyle, 'S.I.T.E.', 2012, documentation of performance, Thursday 27 September 2012. 
Photo: Louise M Cooper

  • Zoe M Robertson, 'The Fetishisation of Poverty  (KIND_LING MAN_KIND; RAMPANT AGENCY CAGE;  MORTIS DE RIGEUER: HUMUS AND POSTHUMOUS; SCIZOGENETIC BAPTISMAL)', 2006-12, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2012

  • Mitchel Cumming, installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Foreground left to right: 'Designs for Flags or Floor to Ceiling, with David M. Thomas', 2012 and 'Designs for Flags or Face to Face, with Shane Haseman and Agatha Gothe-Snape', 2012. Middleground: 'Designs for Flags or Laying Claim with/to Matthys Gerber', 2012. Background left to right: 'Designs for Flags or Staking Out the Periphery with Roland Souliere', 2012 and 'Designs for Flags or Self Supporting Self Portrait', 2012

  • Francesca Heinz, 'The complete woman package', 2012, installation view, Artspace, Sydney

  • Peter Blamey, 'Circuit Hut (the future is other people’s garbage)', 2012, installation view, Artspace, Sydney

  • Jesse Hogan, 'The Museum Lifestyle – Ruptures and Other Degrees of Effect', 2012, installation view, Artspace, Sydney. Foreground: 'Intent of Intervention/ Endurance of Structure', 2012. Background: Floor Talks, 2012

  • Paul Williams, 'The Making of Things', 2012, installation view, Artspace, Sydney

  • Baden Pailthorpe, installation view, Artspace, Sydney. From left to right: 'Airquake, landscape (Libya)' and 'Colour Study (Top Gun)', both 2012

Press

The Art Life, Gap Year: New Sydney Art, 5 October 2012

 

TwoThousand, Gap Year at Artspace2012

 

DasSuperpaper, Gap Year15 October 2012