guildford lane gallery program

FIRST EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST STUDIOS FOR 2009

2008-12-22T13:26:00.016+11:00

GREENWOOD GUARDIAN

ERIN COATES & JUSTIN SPIERS

Opens 6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009

Image: Erin Coates, Watching you under the stars, Perspex security domes & flashing red LEDs, Approx. 120 x 80 x 15cm, 2008.

Greenwood Guardian contrasts “two apparently disparate motifs – Medieval European Heraldry and the Australian suburban landscape – in a critique of the idea that every person’s house is their castle”. (Dr Jonathan Marshall, Research Fellow, WAAPA)

The title 'Greenwood Guardian' suggests a kind of 'neighbourly' watchfulness. In this exhibition, Perth-based artists Erin Coates and Justin Spiers explore aspects of suburban vigilantism and the use of flags and symbols of heraldry in the built environment. At a time when issues of national security, immigration and economic prosperity dominate nightly news programmes, it is important to reflect upon the way we are creating ‘community’ and a sense of Australianness, and how inclusive and flexible these notions are.

Greenwood Guardian questions the use of surveillance devices and other structures in a residential context to create a sense of safety, and what it means to raise the Australian flag above our homes.

This is a multi-faceted exhibition of installation work containing video, photographic and sculptural elements.

PRINTS & DRAWINGS
By JANE ANSTED & STEPHEN TWOHIG

Opens 6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009

Image: Jane Ansted, Untitled, Lithograph, 2008.

Jane Ansted and Stephen Twohig are showing this body of work- their second exhibition together- not as a rational statement about themselves artistically or art generally, but simply as they share a common interest in beauty expressed in the moment through drawing. Principally and empirically, drawing is the connection that both artists feel can best express the ineffable. As a seed germinates into a plant, so the mark on the lithographic stone or copper plate grows into the unique and reproducible image.

THE MESS INSIDE
Multi channel video installation by Lucy Benson with live soundtrack performance by Jon Pak.

http://www.lucybenson.net/

6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009

Beginning 21 January 2009

MIDSUMMA EXHIBITIONS

Anthony Cleave
Clinton Hayden
T J Bateson
Tim Craker
Rachael Simpson
Brigitte Lewis
Peter Van Der Merwe
Nick O'Keefe

Visit the Midsumma website for more information - www.midsumma.org.au

Launches 6.30pm MONDAY 26 JANUARY 2009

ART SALE!

2008-12-18T17:37:00.013+11:00

ART SALE!

Guildford Lane Gallery is having a bit of fun and as a result you have the opportunity to purchase quality artworks for well below their retail value. Two floors within the gallery are filled with an amazing range of works from printmaking to jewellery, even limited edition films and a bronze sculpture. Prices range from $60 to $3000.

IMAGE: THE WRAPPED LEAVES, AMINA McPHEE, MILD STEEL & SILVER THREAD, 2008. AN ORIGINAL CREATION, NO EDITIONS AVAILABLE, STARTING AT $250 (VALUE $500).

The Story: Our first auction was a fun night for all! It was filled with artists and their friends, but lacked those with buying power! ($) So, now is your chance to purchase the works at reserve prices. An additional 10% on top of the reserve price is added to donate to Westside Circus.

What to do: Choose your art, decide your price above or at the reserve price listed and take home a new inspiring piece of art (keeping in mind the added 10% for Westside). Inform Gallery reception of the Lot number and while they process your payment the work will be taken off the wall and wrapped, ready for you to take home!

GALLERY HOURS:
12 - 9pm Wed - Fri & 12 - 5pm Sat & Sun.
Closing 5pm this Sunday 21 Dec. for 2 weeks.
Reopening 6pm Thursday 8 January 2009.

For more information call the Gallery on 03 9642 0042.

We are also conducting an online auction of Leesa Nicholls' bronze sculpture 'Sunday Mourning' on the News page of this website: http://www.guildfordlanegallery.org/news/index.html

Get your bid in now!

Lucy Benson & Colin Read

2008-12-17T16:26:00.007+11:00

Open Studio
Lucy Benson

Lucy Benson, Still from live performance, 2008.

MONDAY 1 DECEMBER 2008 - SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2009
On the Ground Floor

Lucy Benson is a video artist and multimedia designer from Melbourne. Her work explores sensory perception and inner narratives; the way humans process sensory information and the dialogue this creates between our internal and external worlds.

Lucy will be using this residency to develop new video work which will then be installed in the studio upon completion. During the residency she will be testing out her work in progress in the space, as well as displaying a rotation of previous pieces.

OLD TVS & DVDS WANTED FOR LUCY'S STUDIO WORK - PLEASE EMAIL MANAGER@GUILDFORDLANEGALLERY.ORG OR PHONE 03 9642 0042 IF YOU CAN ASSIST.

3 Selected Video Works
by Colin Read

Still from “We Sleep and Dream in Tele-Vision”, Colin Read, 2008.

Continues until Sun 21 Dec 2008
On the First Floor

“A Vlexicon for Times of War”; “Drive”; and “We Sleep and Dream in Tele-Vision” are three video works by Colin Read, a Melbourne based video and multimedia artist. The videos have been selected from a larger series entitled “The Nature of Conflict – Inclination and Proclivity”. With a total viewing time of approximately 22 minutes these three works begin to explore the internal worlds that we inhabit both as individuals and collectively, and the subliminal influences of the technologies of one’s time and accompanying zeitgeist in subconsciously shaping our external and “visible” lives.

THE VESSEL PROJECT

*** Please note: Due to unforeseen circumstances all future dates of The Vessel Project have been cancelled. Guildford Lane Gallery apologises for any inconvenience caused. ***

Curated by Rod Cooper the Vessel Project brings together an eclectic group of artists who will be applying their expertise in performance, electronics, lighting, film and video.

The Vessel itself, is a long boat form with semi -enclosed sound chambers covered in strings, springs, bowing mechanisms, tongs, rods and tubing. The hybrid combines a complex array of sound-making devices all into the one instrument.

An increase in scale enables several artists to preform at once while allowing for other builders to attach their creations to the main stainless steel hull. The vessel’s mast includes a harp and a sail for video projection.

The first installation at Guildford Lane Gallery on WED 17 Dec will feature Australian filmmaker Dirk De Bruin; Rod Cooper on construction, percussion & bowing; Anthony Magen on construction & sound design; Alice Eldridge on Idiophone bowing; Dale Chapman on construction & electronics; Dale Gorfinkle on construction & percussion/strings and John Jacobs on construction & pirate radio.

Doors open at 6pm.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT.

FINAL EXHIBITIONS & STUDIOS FOR 2008

2008-12-17T16:21:00.004+11:00

Brooklyn Bags

Photography by Catherine Gomersall

Opens 6pm THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 2008
Continues until Sun 21 Dec
On the Ground Floor

Catherine Gomersall, Untitled from the series 'Brooklyn Bags', 2008, Inkjet Print, 60 x 90cm.

Currently in New York, Perth-based photographer and Edith Cowan University PhD candidate Catherine Gomersall brings her latest series of work to Melbourne in Brooklyn Bags.

The ‘plastic bag’ has not only become a controversial cultural artifact, it has come to symbolise a predicament of modern living. Photographers around the world have documented the plastic bag in public spaces expressing curiosity and concern over their use and management. The plastic bag appears as an accessory to the famous Tiananmen Square protest of 1989. In 2004 a rubbish bag as an art exhibit made headlines and is binned by a cleaner at the Tate Gallery in Britain. Petitions litter the streets and internet forum sites by local and national activists encouraging the public to “Ban the Bag”. The question remains has the “Green Bag” actually altered the cultural phenomenon of the bag?

Gomersall's new exhibition questions these views through a series of compelling and bold photographic prints entitled ‘Brooklyn Bags’. Taken on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, earlier this year, she is currently on her 2nd photographic expedition there and will be flying in directly for this exhibition at Guildford Lane Gallery.

www.catherinegomersall.com

Salt and the Dress

An Installation by Lesley Dickman

Opens 6pm THURSDAY 4 DECEMBER 2008
Continues until Sun 21 Dec
On the Ground Floor

Salt and the Dress raises concerns about rising water levels and desalination. Established painter Lesley Dickman extends her art practice with this installation, continuing her interest in textural qualities with the use of white muslin and salt. A soft aesthetic initially disguises elements of discomfort in Salt and the Dress, like a chameleon it has its disguises...

Graduating with a degree in Fine Art from Monash University, Gembrook’s artist Lesley Dickman has since developed a career spanning graphic design, painting, performance and teaching. Exhibiting since 1981 Dickman’s style and content has evolved to include textiles and installation media successfully pushing her theories beyond the canvas.

Open Studio
Lucy Benson

Lucy Benson, Still from live performance, 2008.

MONDAY 1 DECEMBER 2008 - SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2009
On the Ground Floor

3 Selected Video Works
by Colin Read

Still from “We Sleep and Dream in Tele-Vision”, Colin Read, 2008.

Continues until Sun 21 Dec 2008
On the First Floor

AUCTION - THIS MONDAY!

2008-12-06T15:19:00.008+11:00

OUR 1ST CHARITY ART AUCTION!

6pm Monday 15 December 2008

Come and enjoy this wonderful event! At our first charity art auction you'll find an incredibly high quality selection of original works from emerging and established artists, offering an exciting and broad spectrum of works to suit the needs and desires of every art lover, from paintings and edition prints to sculpture and more. You'll find unique gifts, be entertained by circus performers and be supporting three important communities all in one; Australian artists, Melbourne's youngest contemporary art space and our partner in this event, Westside Circus.

A generous portion of each of the art works sold will go to helping disadvantaged youth in our community through the Westside Circus program. A local community arts organisation, Westside Circus aims to provide exciting and challenging programs for people between the ages of 3 and 25 to build confidence, promote personal wellbeing and create positive relationships both with peers and the community. The night will be head by auctioneer extraordinaire Trevor Gager, from ArtsHub, with Westside Circus providing entertainment during the preview to demonstrate their ideas and strength of commitment to the community and the arts.

This is a fantastic collaboration between two local organisations, who both provide spaces to individuals to express and promote themselves through innovative art streams. It gives the wider community an opportunity to buy original art from local and national artists, while seeing the cultivation of innovative artistic expression by young individuals from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. This will be a fun night of entertainment and shared significance.

THE WEDNESDAY PROJECT - ONGOING

2008-11-25T17:35:00.007+11:00

THE
WEDNESDAY
PROJECT

A FREE Weekly Event

Doors open 6.30pm with drinks on the ground floor, Performance begins 7pm on the 2nd floor. Free Entry!

INTWINED - Session #2
Curated by Tom Hall featuring

Bonnie Mercer (Grey Daturas)
Robin Fox (Yokohama Triennale, Melbourne Festival, Sounds Outback Festival in WA)
Ben Byrne

The Wednesday Project is a dynamic and innovative creative forum which roams the spaces of Guildford Lane Gallery every Wednesday night. Fostering ideas of collaboration and interaction, The Wednesday Project exists as a series of artist-run or curated sessions, asking artists to push the boundaries of genre and medium and allowing the audience to witness and interact with the process over a period of time. Nights can involve anything from insight or commentary into the artistic process, performance, soundscapes, workshops, critical talks or discussions, screenings and beyond. The Wednesday Project provides a vibrant and diverse take on art and how the audience views it, as well as how the artists themselves create it.

Wednesday, November 26 2008 marks the very first Wednesday Project event. Curated by Brisbane Media Artist Tom Hall, the opening project spans three Wednesdays in a row and features a huge line-up of visual, media, sound and performance artists such as Robin Fox (Yokohama Triennale, Melbourne Festival and Sounds Outback festival in WA.), Bonnie Mercer of the Grey Daturas and Tom Hall himself (Nasic Square Gallery, Open Frame Festival, Otherfilm Festival, Perth International Arts Festival). Over three weeks, extreme adventurers who combine themes of improvisation, experimentation, collaboration, science, contemporary theatre and other visceral elements drawn from everyday music, life, culture and art. These artists place an importance on new discoveries and will challenge you to see, hear and exist within art in an entirely different way.

Thanks to sponsor Melaleuca Grove Wines for making this session delicious and possible!

FUTURE PROJECT LINE-UPS:

Session #3 – Dec 10

Daniel Jenatsch
Christina Tester
Make Up Sex (Sophie Brous and Tarquin Manek)
Scot Cotterell (Hobert)

Dec 17 – NEW PROJECT – Session #1

Rod Cooper, Vessel Project

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2008-11-11T10:32:00.030+11:00

Parting Line
Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design), GRADUATE EXHIBITION (BA and Honours), RMIT University

SUNDAY 23 - SUNDAY 30 NOVEMBER
On the Ground & 1st Floors

Parting Line is the graduating exhibition of RMIT's Industrial Design fourth year 2008. This years graduating year is made up of 57 students all working under the discipline of Industrial Design, yet endeavoring on a range of very diverse projects. Parting Line will showcase each students major project from 2008. The projects showcased in Parting Line include automotive, bicycle, home product, furniture, lighting, sustainable, interactive, system and conceptual design. View the exhibition website here.

Sponsored by Mountain Goat Beer

Self.X.Posure
Natalie Taylor

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 - SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30

On the 2nd Floor

Image: Natalie Taylor, Passion Pop XXX, Oil on Canvas, 1130 x 1135 cm, 2008.

There are over a dozen meanings associated with X; it is an unknown, an influence, a mystery, a kiss, a generation, an agent, an Icon, to sign here, to multiply, to censor, to negate, to exit, as an unnamed, a verb transition and the number 10 to name a few. Natalie Taylor is a Brisbane based artist whose current practice focuses on the interaction of the primary symbol X within her life experiences. Self.X.Posure represents Taylor's concepts and emotions whilst delving into family loves, miss-adventures and the destruction of the significant other, which is not named or identified. Taylor has drawn inspiration for this exhibition from Cy Twombly and Antonio Tapies, whose works were influential in the way the human mind questions the powerful demand of a mark and how it is applied metonymically.

Click here to read a review of Natalie Taylor's exhibition by Trevor Gager (You need to be a member of ArtsHub).

October Exhibitions

2008-09-25T19:02:00.041+10:00

WITHOUT MONEY THERE IS NO LOVE
OCTOBER 2 - NOVEMBER 2

Image: Annika Koops, Rose Coloured Masses, 2008.

ANDREW ATCHISON MARTIN BELL CHRISTOPHER-DAVID BRIL

KELLY DOLEY JEREMY DRAPE EXQUISITE FEATURES ROMY HOFFMAN

ANNIKA KOOPS HIDDE VAN SCHIE TAPE PROJECTS MICHELLE TRAN

CURATED BY VERONICA TELLO

Without Money There Is No Love deals with numerous facets of contemporary D.I.Y aesthetics and sensibilities in independent publications, sound art and the visual arts. By bringing to the fore various practices that to greater or lesser degrees blend lo-tech and high-tech strategies and aesthetics, W.M.T.I.N.L considers how such artists work and negotiate within or without art markets.

PREVIOUS OPEN STUDIO ARTISTS

2008-09-04T14:27:00.024+10:00

Tamar Dolev
2 OCTOBER 2 - NOVEMBER 2
ARTIST TALK SUNDAY 2ND NOV AT 2.30PM

Tamar Dolev's stencil artworks represent the body as being both beautiful and grotesque. In Tamar's month in the Open Studio Space she hopes to expand her artistic repertoire by creating an installation piece which deals with the body and how it can be pushed and shoved and disoriented. Tamar looks forward to this challenge.

Download a PDF of Tamar's Artist Talk here.: ARTIST%20TALK-GLG-TAMAR.pdf

Please check out Tamar's website.

Elin Eriksen & Miles Brown - Until 28 September
SEPTEMBER 1 - 28
DRINKS & DISCUSSION SATURDAY 20TH SEPT, 4 - 6PM

Miles Brown, Open Artist Studio, Guildford Lane Gallery, September 2008

During their residency in the Open Artist Studio, Elin Eriksen and Miles Brown will work together to create a rich, experiential and immersive installation.

"The idea came from meeting a flat and seemingly endless cityscape such as Melbourne and wanting to create a tactile and animated installation that alludes to the experience of nature either as sheltering and concealing or unfamiliar and to be avoided, with the viewer having the choice of entering and engaging or keeping their distance." Elin Eriksen

"We're both artists from who work in fabric and sound installation, but come from opposite sides of the world (Tasmania, Norway). Both of our home towns are places where the wilderness is close at hand. We are creating the imaginary forest we can't find in the city, from industrial materials / castoffs, and found sounds - exploring a psychological space that is at once comforting and unsettling...familiar yet best kept at a distance from. Also we like black things. And forests." Miles Brown

2nd FLOOR STUDIO
Emily Hodge - Until 28 September

Emily Hodge is engaged in the development of a collaborative performance/art installation working with dancer Luke Hickmott and electronic musician Drew Bluetree. The project is inspired by the choreographic 'kinesphere' which Luke has begun to implement through a mentorship program with Melbourne dance artist, Carlee Mellow. The kinesphere is an imagined cube-like structure consisting of 27 points which hold a specific relationship to one another.

This system allows the dancer to be within their body and, via an imagined inhabiting of the cube, outside of their body simultaneously. As a visual artist Emily is investigating how she might also participate with her own constructed kinespheric system. She will implement her own 27-point system that engages with the idea of moving in relation to this imagined geometric entity. The emphasis is on finding new processes, games and ideas which can be fed back into the collaborative process in order to find their translations into sound and movement, and contributing to the collaborative aesthetic.

Emily is in her studio most days and welcomes visitors by appointment: 0435 148 510

Inaugural Opening of Guildford Lane Gallery, to be opened by Stelarc: Thursday July 31, 6pm.

2008-07-02T12:33:00.032+10:00

EXHIBITIONS

01 August - 21 September
Anita Bacic: Outside In/Inside Out

“We don’t often realise that we learn how to see, how to look and how to interpret the world around us, often guided by an external hand or editor. In Outside In/Inside Out I have freed my work from the computer to display an unedited image without any editorial control. The only “editor” is natural light provided by the sun. Each viewer draws upon his or her own experiences in order to interpret what is happening; making this encounter similar yet different to others. The work allows a sense of self and a space for contemplation on the universality of the world outside as we share experiences despite our differences.”
Anita Bacic, 2008

Bacic is a Sydney based artist currently completing a Masters degree from the University of New South Wales. She has exhibited throughout Australia and overseas including Sao Paulo, Brazil and Istanbul, Turkey. Through the assistance of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant, AGNSW’s Dyson Bequest and the University of New South Wales, Bacic completed a residency at the Cité in Internationale des Arts (Paris) in 2007.

01 August - 28 September
Nina Sellars, Oblique: Images from Stelarc's Extra Ear Surgery

With the assistance of an Australia Council grant, Nina Sellars travelled to Los Angeles in 2006 to photograph the surgical construction of Stelarc's Extra Ear project. The experimental and internationally renowned artist Stelarc underwent surgery to have a left ear constructed on his left forearm. A miniature microphone was also embedded underneath the Extra Ear during surgery, allowing it to be wirelessly connected to the Internet via a Bluetooth transmitter. Sellars' artistic practice, which focuses on the physiology and phenomenology of the human body, profoundly intersects with Stelarc's own body-based practice.

Sellars lectures in Anatomical Drawing at Monash University, where she is currently completing her Masters of Fine Arts having received an Australian Postgraduate Award. Sellars’ MFA research investigates the idea that with the advent of new technologies to emanate, record and capture light, our perception of the anatomical body alters and a new body is imaged. The work explores how light determines what we see and experience in relation to the anatomical body. Sellars’ is also a trained Prosector: a dissector of cadavers for medical display, and her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2008 Sellars was an invited speaker at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin where she presented the lecture ‘Anatomy and Light’.
Download Nina Sellars' catalogue.

Nina Sellars, Extra Ear Portrait, 2006

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

01 August - 28 September
Elizabeth Delfs and Robyn Beeche: Body, Provocation

For Body, Provocation, Robyn Beeche and Elizabeth Delfs worked with dancers and photography - or the ephemeral and documentation - to combine two diverse and intriguing practices. Their images reflect their shared interest in the body, which they perceive to be a site of creation and deconstruction, and a means to make alternative and "anti-fashion" statements. In their photographs, the dancers exist in a space that oscillates between the organic and the inorganic, fervor and calm, and reveries and consciousness. The notions of beauty, sexuality, the surreal, provocation and the occult are some of the themes and ideas explored by the artists.

For 35 years, Beeche has focused on the intersections between art and fashion. Her work is theatrical and immersed in high fashion and art photography. Beeche is responsible for creating iconic images for fashion royalty such as Vivienne Westwood and Zhandra Rhodes. She is currently based in India where she documents festivals and Indian culture. These images were the focus of Krishna Love and Devotion, an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria in early 2008.

Delfs teaches at the Curtin University of Technology and regularly exhibits her work in and around Perth. Delfs’ practice, which engages fashion and artificial environments, first gained recognition when she was selected to exhibit in Talente, an international exhibition held in Munich 2005, featuring outstanding emerging artists and craft practitioners.

Robyn Beeche and Elizabeth Delfs, Body, Provation Series, 2007

OPEN STUDIO

1 August - 28 August
Resident: Carrie McGrath

During her residency in the Open Artist Studio, Carrie McGrath will be preparing for her upcoming show at SEVENTH gallery, titled Lots. McGrath's work presents aesthetics and processes that are closely tied to urban redevelopment and gentrification. McGrath's work is inspired by her recent travels in South America where she found herself nestled within hectic cities but attracted to spaces "where nothing was going on. Places such as vacant block and unused car parks." The artist states, "These spaces for me became a silent protest against ugly development." McGrath uses various materials to create large-scale installations that abstractly mirror such 'silent protests'.

McGrath's work will be showing at SEVENTH gallery, 155 Gertrude Street Fitzroy, from 12 August - 23 August. www.seventhgallery.org

Carrie McGrath, Untitled, 2005