Guildford Lane Gallery is now closed and will be relocating in early 2012. Please join the mailing list to stay informed by clicking ‘subscribe’ to the right of this page.
Thank you for your continued friendship and support over the years.
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We would like to thank everyone for your continued friendship and support over the past few years. To every one who has exhibited or performed at GLG – thank you- you’ve been an integral part of making GLGthe much loved space that we will all miss dearly.
To past and current staff members and volunteers – thank you – your efforts have made it all possible.
To Steve Sedergreen and the Friday Night Jazz community – thank you – its been a delight to work with you all & its been a fantastic couple of months of quality performance.
Monday July 4 – Saturday September 17
Opening Thursday 7th of July 6.00 – 9.00PM
Linda Fish presents Looking Forward, an exhibition of small Figurative Bronze sculptures and Lino Prints.
My artwork aims to transform real-life events into positive artworks.
I am interested in the contradictions and paradoxes in life, the challenges of events and their transformation into sculptures and prints.
Building on a 2008 work titled ‘Eulogy’ – a sculpture made of lace cloth filled with the personal items that belonged to a friend who died tragically – the ‘bundle’ represented the positive aspects of my friend’s personality and interests.
The image of the bundle has now been transferred to my new works of small figurative bronze sculptures where it represents my own recent struggles with cancer. The ‘bundle’ depicts the many emotions of my journey.
I have also completed a series of linocut prints titled ‘Looking Forward’, each of which contains an image of an eye. The eye represents my new way of seeing life. Within the eye are images of the treasures in my life such as trees, animals, my son, and the mountains of Yackandandah.
This is not a sad or negative exhibition of artwork but one with a positive message that needs to be shared.
Guildford Lane Gallery has sold!
With a phenomenal result!
The gallery will be closing in the current CBD location at the end of July. For updates and relocation details join the mailing list and stay tuned!
Showing: Current – July 31
It has been said that at the end of the 18th century, men surrendered their right to be considered beautiful, becoming austere and ascetic in sartorial expression. Has the male body in fashion been freed from those traditional confines in recent decades? Has it become a canvas for the reclamation of masculine beauty?
Whilst some commentators see the changes in masculinities as crisis, others see them as indicators of liberation and experimentation. Polarities have begun to appear in the expression of masculinity in fashion. Are we seeing an acceptance of diversity or the creation of limited stereotypes? As the redefinition of the male body in fashion becomes global, it is imperative for menswear designers and fashion educators to acknowledge the impact of the new male archetypes.
Showing: Current – July 31
Scott’s art practice focuses on the consumer modification of mass-produced goods. Commonly referred to as ‘modding’ or ‘hacking’ these modes of production are often marginalised within ‘consumer society’. Through projects such as the iPod Social Outreach Program Scott uncovers the consumer agency at work within the act of consumption. These projects privilege amateur practices and participate within gift economies. By engaging with existing communities of users Scott’s practice contributes to open information resources and seeks to remake consumer objects as public spaces.
Scott graduated from Fine Art (RMIT) in 2000 and is currently completing a PhD in Industrial Design at RMIT. He teaches regularly within the RMIT School of Architecture and Design and the VCA Sculpture and Spatial Practice program.
Scott has exhibited widely as both an individual artist and as part of the collaborative group OSW (Open Spatial Workshop). As a member of OSW, he was awarded the 2005 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture for the sculptural work groundings. Details on Scott’s art, research and teaching practice can be found at www.openobject.org
Monday May 30 – Saturday June 25
Presentations Friday June 3
Between the Lived and the Built : Foregrounding the User in Design for the Public Realm
Between the built and the lived there is a domain that presents the architect with a great deal of difficulty. It is a space characterized by difference and contrast: on the one side the architect, contractor and consultants and clients responsible for building. On the other, the messy reality of everyday life as experienced by all other people who are occupants and inhabitants of the spaces they construct in perpetuity. Whilst these two domains do collide, they remain fundamentally at odds because of the distance between the two.
How architecture might occupy this gap is the propositional framework for each design project undertaken as part of this PhD by Project. The PhD seeks to explore a demonstration of an expanded definition of architectural practice through the making of projects by the practices muf (London)and muf_aus (Melbourne). The Exhibition and Presentation for the PhD consists of a matrix of eleven projects undertaken by the practices which explore the alternate roles and personas played out, and the objects and things created.
Thanks a million to Christophe Sachs for this amazing artwork displaying Mark Paul‘s new Vertical Garden in Guildford Lane.
Guildford Lane Gallery will close in August, and as a special treat we are offering exhibitions spaces on the first floor for fantastic prices.
$500 each from Monday July 4 to Sunday July 31/ Opening night Thursday July 7.
This is your LAST CHANCE to exhibit in this amazing space.
Robert is selling his building. GLG will relocate within 5 km of the cbd. The new venue will include a cafe, drama/theatre area, music performance space, bar and exhibition walls. We will specialise in contemporary classical music, classical, opera and jazz with an art emphasis on mid/established artists in fine art, craft and performance.
We are delighted to announce the installation of the front Vertical Garden! This will be an onging installation at GLG and a superb method of ‘greening’ Melbourne’s laneways. It’s been a longtime coming, but Mark Paul and the team have done a fantastic job! See more pictures from the installation on our facebook page.
