Firstdraft

Firstdraft Position Vacant – Studio Manager

firstdraft — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:13:42 +0000

CALL FOR APPLICANTS:
Firstdraft Depot Studio Manager- Job description- starting Jan 2011
15 hours per week, casual position

JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is a new administrative, artistic and operations manager at Firstdraft Depot – an affordable studio complex owned by City of Sydney and run by Firstdraft Gallery – located at 13 Riley St Woolloomooloo.

Firstdraft is a non-profit gallery run on a voluntary basis by a group of practicing artists. It is one of the longest running and most successful artist-run initiatives in Australia. Firstdraft asserts the importance of contemporary art production, dissemination and discussion in society, providing a stimulating exhibition space that is professional and accessible for a diverse range of artistic practices and projects. Alongside its exhibition program, Firstdraft runs a variety of other programs and projects and in 2010 launched a second venue, Firstdraft Depot.

This casual job requires a practical and motivated person who is interested in and committed to contributing to one of Sydney’s most dynamic art communities through the Studio manager role. As the main point of contact for artists-in-residence, contractors and the local community, the Studio Manager will report to and liaise with the Firstdraft Board of Directors on a regular basis.

DUTIES

- General day to day maintenance of Firstdraft Depot (cleaning, plant watering, basic maintenance and painting, organising workman for repairs, putting out rubbish.) Occasional basic handyman/installation work- patching and painting walls, helping install artworks.

- Working with Firstdraft Directors and Firstdraft volunteers to manage, implement and improve Firstdraft Depot studio programs and to prepare The Firstdraft Depot for specific events- exhibitions, open days and mini-festivals. This may involve development of our Project Space, Reading room and Firstdraft Archive over the longer term.

- Working with studio artists (basic communications and practical assistance) and tenants Big Fag Press. Must be available to promptly answer occasional calls and respond to text and email messages throughout the week (including after hours.)

- Providing leadership and advice as an Occupational Health and Safety officer and Fire officer. Must familiarize self with OH&S plan and issues and learn fire exit strategies.

- Basic administration assistance to Firstdraft Gallery Directors including programming, basic accounts, correspondence and social media.

- Interaction with local community and the public as the face of Firstdraft Depot. This includes being present for openings and events at Firstdraft Depot, distributing info, flyers and application forms throughout City of Sydney and Woolloomooloo venues for quarterly call outs and other events.

SKILLS REQUIRED

- Passion for experimental and emerging art!

- Friendly can-do attitude – able to work cooperatively with diverse artists, Firstdraft volunteers and the local community. You must have an ethical and respectful attitude – both in person and in communications (email and phone). Must be trustworthy and responsible.

- Basic computer admin skills (Word, Excel, email) and social media (Facebook, Twitter, WordPress). Computer design skills a plus (Photoshop, Illustrator). This includes being able to assist artists to use/update studio blog and assist media/promotions for Firstdraft Depot.

- Good communication skills, problem-solving and adaptable to a dynamic and ever-changing group of artists and events.

- Ability to identify work and follow through unsupervised on projects to completion, reporting on progress to the Firstdraft Board and seeking assistance where necessary.

- Basic workshop and carpentry skills not necessary, but desirable.

- Enthusiasm, flexibility and willingness to learn new skills.

HOURLY RATE

15 hrs/week in 2011 @ $25/hr . (Friday + one other full day or two half days with some flexibility). To be confirmed at interview.

APPLICATIONS

Please send via email -

-a cover letter (1 x A4 page- detailing your interest in the emerging/experimental arts and your interest, relevant skills and experience for the position) and a 1 to 2 (A4) page C.V. to (subject- Firstdraft Depot Studio Manager Application)

directors@firstdraftgallery.com

Any questions can also be directed to directors@firstdraftgallery.com (subject- Firstdraft Depot Studio Manager Question)

Applications close: Tuesday 14 December 2010. Job starting January 2011.

Firstdraft Exhibtions Opening 1 Decemeber 2010

firstdraft — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:15:03 +0000

1 Dec – 19 Dec

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 1 December 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 19 December 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 19 December 2010 at 4pm

Gallery 1 and 2 – me you me
Luke Tipene and Emmanuela Prigioni

“The world is a twofold (wo)man in accordance with a twofold attitude. (…) This world is somewhat reliable; it has density and duration; its articulation can be surveyed; (…) Without it you cannot remain alive; its reliability preserves you; but if you were to die into it, then you would be buried in nothingness.”

me you me is an installation and video artwork that investigates the interaction between couples. A collaboration between artists Luke Tipene and Emmanuela Prigioni, me you me is developed from analysing footage of couples in the public domain. The work rationalises the complexity of relationships into derivative “interaction structures”. Isolating specific instances of relationships in this manner provides a platform to explore the nature of interpersonal exchange in detail.

Adopting scientific exploration as parody, me you me positions itself as an objective, rational investigation of intimate and complex personal emotions. As a commentary, this work suggests that the ability of intimacy, empathy and even love to be rationalised means that these values have lost their social relevance. me you me aims to create a platform for spectator reflection and dialogue on the importance of these values by ironically suggesting their finite, rational limitations.

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Gallery 3 – For no real reason
Yasmin Smith

In July 2010, Yasmin Smith participated in an archaeological excavation in Spain, influencing her investigation into the intersections of fiction and fact in the representation of reality. For no real reason seeks to highlight this intersection, and the language structures, that underlie the interpretation of objects.

The House of the Tragic Poet is a 3D model of the floor plan of a Roman terrace, drawn and described by one of the volunteers on the dig. This work visually encapsulates the influence of memory and personal discourse on recounts of historical knowledge.

Broomsphere utilises 180 household brooms, which protrude from a core of welded plumbing sockets to create a 3 by 3 metre sphere of brooms. This work plays on language associations we create around unnerving objects. ‘Like a giant dandelion’, ‘sort of like a Sea Anemone but bigger’. This work was inspired by an investigation into literary tropes and the role they play in familiarising the unfamiliar.
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Gallery 4 – Divine intervention
Kristin McIver

Kristin McIver is a visual artist whose work is a study of desire and aspiration. Through her works, the artist explores the aspirational impulses of the middle class, and highlights the way that fundamental human needs are transformed into desirable commodities by self serving global corporations.

Divine intervention proposes that the media and digital age have created a perpetual desiring machine, resulting in a global culture obsessed with material consumption. As Corporations expand their markets into remote corners of the globe, they exploit countries desperately trying to buy into the capitalist dream. Our natural habitats are destroyed in order to make way for newer, better environments; seemingly an improvement on that provided by nature.

Through its formal construction and materials, Divine intervention evokes the false propositions promised by futuristic developments, and their glossy promotional material. The work borrows a phrase taken directly from a marketing campaign, emblazoning it in neon to seduce the viewer, while exposing the irony and falsity of the message. The absurd proposal “Life unlimited” promises the impossible; the gift of immortality pursued previously only through religious and spiritual refuge. Has desire replaced religion to become the salvation of the 21st century?
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Exhibition Opening 10 November 2010

firstdraft — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:29:42 +0000

10 Nov – 28 Nov

Zoe McMahon, 2010. Image courtesy and copyright the artist.

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 10 November 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 28 November 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 28 November 2010 at 4pm
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Double Glazed
Curated by Angela Bennetts and Alice Fenton of Even Books – as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program supported by Arts NSW

DOUBLE GLAZED is a collection of doubles, one half text, one half image.

Artists: Kevin Tran, Karl Maier (Rinzen), Sui Zhen, Rachel Feery, Cybele Malinowski, Jacob Burge, Zoe McMahon and Bryn Desmond-Jones

Writers: Nadia Saccardo, Amanda Maxwell, Caleb Lewis, Alice Williams, Lee Tran Lam, Tessa Lunney, Tom Lee and Eddie Sharp

Despite what the name might suggest, this is not an exhibition about donuts. What it is, is a typically Even Books experiment in theming, collaboration and merging disciplines that includes works from many of Sydney’s most exciting visual artists and writers. Yes, you read that correctly – Eve Books has gotten writers involved and they’re blowing their work up big and bold and hanging it on the gallery wall next to ‘real’ art because, well, why not?

To break the concept down: Even Books asked a group of talented writers to write pieces related to the theme of TWINS/DOPPELGANGERS, and a group of artists to craft a visual response to the same theme. The curators then orchestrated a swap, and each creative then responded to someone else’s written or visual piece (writers to visual, artists to text), in a loop of stimulus/stimulated. These pieces will be exhibited in their pairs, creating a multi-disciplinary exhibition that toys with notions of ‘same’, ‘other’, ‘mine’ and ‘yours’.

On opening night, there will a one-off concept event similarly themed to TWINS/DOPPELGANGERS. This event will highlight key fictional or artistic examples of twins in an immersive, experiential fashion, as well as encouraging appreciation of the pieces. Attendees can expect: mirrors, dressed-up doubles, being tied to a stranger, screenings of films and more.

There will also be a limited edition publication available for purchase, designed by Blood & Thunder Publishing and with an opening essay by Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of The Doppelganger: Literature’s Philosophy.

The Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program is assisted by the NSW Government through Arts NSW, Communities NSW

WHO/WHAT IS EVEN BOOKS?

Even Books is a regular event themed around a book, author or genre. It is an attempt to create an experiential, lived and immersive interaction with words and the worlds they create. Even Books links artists, musicians, actors, writers with people who are seeking a connection with the creative communities in Sydney. People draw on walls, write love letters to strangers, re-enact scenes from literature, recreate Tarot cards in pop-up photo booths, resurrect Ern Malley’s cut+paste art criticism, play 6ft Guitar Hero, dress up, battle for best zombie dancer, play putt-putt golf beside Gatsby’s mansion, swig beer and meet people they don’t know.

There have been 12 events to date, including Sydney’s inaugural Readers’ Festival in May, a fringe event to the Writers’ Festival. Even Books is not-for-profit and itinerant, moving around independent venues like Fraser Studios, Bill+George and Performance Space.

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FIRSTDRAFT ANNUAL FUNDRAISER

firstdraft — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:11:51 +0000

So you think you can draw…(or make other stuff)

Firstdraft Gallery’s annual fundraiser, So you think you can draw… (or make other stuff) is on Saturday 13th November at the new home of Firstdraft’s studios – Firstdraft Depot.

You will be enticed by the smorgasbord of art for sale. Hundreds of works on paper have been donated by killer artists and all are available at the bargain price of $50 for A4 works and $100 for A3 works.

You’ll also be enticed by sweet tunes by Smokey La Beef of Jingle Jangle fame and Dara Gill of Dara Gill fame.

And performing will be Charlie Garber, Nick Coyle & Claudia O’Doherty a k a Pig Island a k a pure all encompassing talent.

And did we mention there would be a sausage sizzle? There will be a sausage sizzle!

All proceeds go towards continuing to help Firstdraft support emerging creative types.

So don’t just think you can draw…( and make other stuff) come on down to the Depot have fun and support Firstdraft Gallery.

From 6pm – 9pm
Door entry gold coin donation
Firstdraft Depot 13 – 17 Riley Street
Woolloomooloo

Exhibitions Opening 20 October 2010

firstdraft — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:17:21 +0000

20 Oct – 7 Nov

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 20 October 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 7 November 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 7 November 2010 at 4pm
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Gallery 1 – The Learning Centre: Paintings for People
Kelly Doley

The Learning Centre: Paintings For People is an attempt to engage with others. To look at who and why people come into art galleries, what makes them stay, and the limits of what is (and what is not) sanctioned in ‘art spaces’.

In January of this year, people from Sydney donated their time and knowledge to Kelly Doley as part of a project called The Learning Centre. At Tin Sheds Gallery, Doley received 16 lessons ranging from Anarchism, Christianity, How to Break Up with Someone and How to Build a Bee Hotel. In exchange, and as a token of my appreciation, Doley offered to paint each participant a painting of his or her choice. These paintings are now complete and will be exhibited as Paintings For People. In addition, Doley has asked each Learning Centre participant to come into the gallery and collect his or her painting from the wall. Doley is hoping that the paintings will dissipate over the course of the exhibition, eventually leaving the gallery walls blank.

Doley will be present in the gallery during set collection times. Collection times are as follows: Saturday 23 October 12-6 pm; Saturday 30 October 12-6 pm; and Sunday 7 November 12-4 pm.

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Gallery 2 – Lessons for Living: Know Your Resource No#1 (Wood)
James Harney

Lessons for Living: Know Your Resource No#1 (Wood) is an earnest attempt to re-claim and re-learn those skills that have been lost in contemporary culture. (Wood) is the first stage of this process whereby James Harney will attempt to make a chair out of the raw material of recycled Eucalyptus pilularis (Blackbutt) timber. The success and inevitable failure of this process over the course of Harney’s Firstdraft studio residency will form the basis for the exhibition.

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Gallery 3 – Jewel of the Newell
Tulley Moore and Colleen Ahern

There are yowies on the Newell, truckies won’t stop there, out near Coonabarabran stories are told, plaster footprints have been taken.

The old 39 shield sign markers stretch the entire length of NSW from Toke in the south and Goondiwindi in the north, what lies between is the epitome of the j word thrown around in mind numbing, high rating TV reality fodder.

The Newell splits the land of the largest tribal area in NSW that of the Wiradjuri people. Bushrangers Kelly and Hall plied their trade, trees live on farms on the Newell and have their own displays, Crawf is proudly a favourite son of Finley (the self proclaimed Jewel of the Newell), Tidy Towns are aplenty. All have stories.

- Justin Dowd (Newell Highway Motorcycling specialist)

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Gallery 4 – John Mandeville’s Flying Machine
Jesse Cox

We spend nearly one-third of our life sleeping and dreaming. In our minds we can travel to distant lands, speak with any real or imagined person and fulfill our wildest dreams. As children we invent fantastical worlds and creatures. As we grow older we escape into nostalgia and dream of better futures. But we never stop imagining.

Sir John Mandeville was the supposed author of a book of travels written in the fourteenth century. The book was highly unreliable (Mandeville himself may have never existed) and extremely fantastical, but became immensely popular. Writing from early explorers often included tales of creatures and lands that were so extraordinary that they sounded as if they belonged in mythology. Indeed, many myths began out of an initial encounter with a new creature that became completely distorted over the years. It is this blurry boundary between reality and fantasy that is the starting point for John Mandeville’s Flying Machine. Instead of a French explorer of the fourteenth century, the John Mandeville who is the protagonist of this exhibition is born within the timeframe of our own memories.

2011 Firstdraft Call for Directors

firstdraft — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:01:10 +0000

Are you keen to get involved in the emerging arts scene by volunteering time, energy and headspace to developing Firstdraft’s 2011 and 2012 program?

Applications are currently being sought for new directors to join a dedicated and enthusiastic team of emerging artists and curators to run Sydney’s longest running ARI.

About Firstdraft
Firstdraft is a non-profit gallery run on a voluntary basis by a group of practising artists and curators. It is one of the longest running artist-run
spaces in Australia. Firstdraft asserts the importance of contemporary art production, dissemination and discussion in society, providing a stimulating
exhibition space that is professional and accessible for a diverse range of artistic practices and projects.

Directors are appointed to the board of Firstdraft on a voluntary term of two years directorship. The board consists of generally around eight directors, each of whom dedicate their time to roles including:

Programming upcoming 2011/2012 exhibitions
Creative input to the programming and special projects for the space
Installation and de-installation of exhibitions
Liaising with artists
Media and Publicity
Administration and Finances
Website management
Gallery maintenance
Day to day correspondence
Opening night
Developing Firstdraft Depot & Studio programs

The next few years will mark an important phase for Firstdraft, which includes developing our studio program at the Depot Woolloomooloo. It is an exciting, rewarding – and also demanding – time to be involved in Firstdraft!!

Please email your application (including a 1 page (MAX) cover letter and a 1 page (MAX) curriculum vitae and short biography) to directors[at]firstdraftgallery[dot]com by Friday, 5 November 2010.

Firstdraft Annual Fundraiser

firstdraft — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:01:06 +0000

So you think you can draw…or make other stuff

So you think you can draw…or make other stuff is one night only and we need your art!

Firstdraft’s annual fundraiser is happening on 13th November at The Firstdraft Depot. We are now calling for submissions of original works on paper by emerging and established artists. That means you! So get cracking and submit your amazing drawing, watercolour, mixed media, print, photograph or work on paper by 11th November.

As a non-profit organization that is run by volunteers, Firstdraft relies on our annual fundraiser and your donations to keep our doors open. All proceeds directly support Firstdraft gallery and depot.

Anyone can be involved! Whether you are an emerging artist wanting to get your work out there, or an established artist supporting a key contemporary art space, donating a piece is a great way to give back to the Firstdraft community.

Donate your work and join us for a magical night of art, music, performance and a BBQ!

WHERE:
Firstdraft Depot
17-19 Riley St, Woolloomooloo NSW 2010

WHAT:
Original works on paper for sale, all priced at $50 (up to 21 x 29 cms, A4) and $100 (29.7 x 42 cms, A3 and larger).

HOW:
Firstdraft will accept up to four unframed, unmatted works on paper from any individual artist.

Works must be NO LARGER than 29.7 x 42 cms, A3.

Drawings, photographs, watercolours, digital prints are acceptable as long as they are the original media, i.e, no digital reproductions.

Where possible please create works on Archival Paper.

On the back of each work, write your name and the title of the piece clearly with a marker that will not damage the work, or adhesive label with drafting tape. Appropriately attach a piece of paper to the work with your name and email address. Please do not use Post-It notes to attach your information onto your work, as they will fall off.

Mail or drop off your work to:
Firstdraft gallery
116-118 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010

If dropping off work in person, please do so during regular gallery hours: Wed – Sun 11-6pm

Drawings will be accepted from now until Thursday November 11. If a drawing is mailed in, it must be received at firstdraft gallery by this date to be included; this is NOT the postmark date. You will receive a thank you letter and notification of sale by Friday November 27.

SMALL PRINT:

The firstdraft fundraiser is open to all and a non-juried event. All works submitted will be shown for sale. Up to four works by any individual artist will be displayed.
Work should be submitted unframed, as it is quite difficult for us to display work submitted with framing in place. Please DO NOT submit framed work.
If you wish to have unsold work returned to you, you MUST submit a self-addressed stamped envelope with your drawings. Please be sure the envelope is the correct size and has the proper postage. Drawings will not be sent back to sender unless this is provided. The work will be stored for one month in the gallery for the artist to collect.
Presentation of work: The work will be clipped to laundry-line style cords that will run through salon style through the gallery.

Exhibitions Opening 29 September 2010

firstdraft — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:01:15 +0000

29 Sept – 17 Oct

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 29 September 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 17 October 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 17 October 2010 at 4pm

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Gallery 1 and 2 – 42a
Alison Currie – director/choreographer/dancer; Annemarie Kohn – video artist; Alisdair Macindoe – sound artist; Kel Mocilnik – visual artist / dancer; Carlie Angel – dancer; Lewis Rankin – dancer

42a the dance of the home.

42a is dance, video, sound, media, sculpture and painting. It is an experience, an experience of home and homes and houses and our imaginations within those spaces. In a gallery setting you can come and go as you like, or stay for hours at a time.

42a is an interactive installation based dance work at the nexus of visual art, media and performance. The work utilises elements of dance, sculpture, video and new media to explore concepts relating to house and home. Themes include memories attached to objects, personal relationships within this space, instructions found in the home, how individuals relate to the physical constructs of a house, as well as notions of home, where that is, and the possibility of creating this space with in one’s imagination.

Workshops with the cast of 42a; come and learn the dance of the home. Try the movement, learn how the performance works and meet the artists Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th October 1pm – 3pm. Workshops by donation

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Gallery 3 – A Solution
Jelena Telecki

A Solution is the project addressing the hesitancy and the confusion of living in-between two cultures. Being a migrant living and working in Australia, I have often perceived this confusion as an innate part of a migrant identity and aimed to further explore this issue in my paintings. In this sense, works from this series try to find the solution for the perplexity of being in a constant shift from a compliance to the immediate surrounding and the expectations to adapt to a positive and a happy environment, to a never fading sense of a failure, shame and a disappointment that is inseparable from the recent past of my country of origin and my personal history.

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

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Gallery 4 – Cream

Blaine Cooper and Lillian O’Neil

HASTA LA VISTA BABY. BLAM. BLAM.

Romance, love, hatred, death, life, cream, sexy. We like the movies.

Blaine Cooper and Lillian O’Neil present an epic drawing show of the stars. We want to spend some quality time with Arnie’s bad bad face and really get to know him and his famous friends. We want kissy kissy tension, on screen to off screen. Shatteringly fake drama exploding in gold. We have spent hours with them. A study of locked lips and tough love. Can this kind of romance and heroism become a reality? We are addicted to the romantically unachievable and the empty hero. We can’t get enough Blam Blam. We hope you enjoy CREAM, a celebration of trickery.

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2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

firstdraft — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:08:41 +0000

Firstdraft is currently accepting proposals for its 2011 Exhibition, Emerging Artist Studio Residency, Emerging Curators Programs and Emerging Arts Writers Programs.

Exhibition Program:

Exhibition proposals are invited from individuals and groups, artists and curators for exhibitions showcasing emerging, experimental and innovative practices
Firstdraft does not charge any commission on works sold during the exhibition
Gallery rental fees include all promotional, opening and gallery-running costs

Emerging Curators Program:

A fully subsidised three-week exhibition in the whole gallery (including promotion and opening costs)
Access to and assistance with Firstdraft’s equipment and resources
Funding and assistance for the production of a small catalogue to accompany the show and towards curatorial costs

Emerging Artists Studio Residency Program:

A studio space at Firstdraft’s new off-site studio complex, the Firstdraft Depot in Riley Street, Woolloomooloo, for ten weeks
A fully subsidised three-week exhibition at Firstdraft upon completion of the program
A flat artist fee for work completed as part of the program
Firstdraft encourages proposals from artists working across interdisciplinary, new media and collaborative practices for its Studio Program

Emerging Arts Writer in Residence:

A 3-month writing mentorship with an established arts writer – Firstdraft will negotiate the mentorship with your nominated arts writer on your behalf
The opportunity to interview Firstdraft Studio artists to be published on the Firstdraft Studio blog and/or the annual Firstdraft Studio Publication
Writers’ fee of $500.

For more information please download application forms here

Please return applications in digital format [on a CD or DVD] to Firstdraft gallery on or before: 6pm Friday, 15 October 2010

Exhibitions Opening 8 September 2010

firstdraft — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:35:18 +0000

8 September – 26 September

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 8 September 2010, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 26 September 2010
Artist talks: Sunday 26 September 2010 at 4pm

Gallery 1- In pursuit of a state of uncertainty
Barbara Knezevic

For this exhibition, Barbara Knezevic is presenting a series of sculptural studies. Posited as a means of working out, a probe with which to test the viability of ideas, these ‘studies’ encompass elements that veer from the handmade and unique to the mass produced and ubiquitous. Central to the artists’ interests is the consideration of how value and meaning is constructed through objects; simultaneously through their complex inter-relationships with each other, the viewer and the environment. Knezevic presents the viewer with a tableau, configured in a way that often produces a sense of unease. Thus the artist proposes objects as carriers of psychological meaning and points to the failures inherent in objecthood. Collectively, these works offer a consideration of transience; objects and meanings are presented as temporary, fragile, unstable, vulnerable and fundamentally contested.

This exhibition is funded with the assistance of Culture Ireland
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Gallery 2 - Surrender Star
Kirra Jamison

As a painter Kirra Jamison’s practice can be broken down into two distinct modes of working. One part of her practice involves working loosely and almost entirely spontaneously on large scale canvas painting. These works are made when Jamison is warm. The second way of making work requires total control and planning and is the work seen in this exhibition. These works are made when Jamison is cold.

The kaleidoscopic Surrender Star paintings are part of an ongoing series of psychedelic gouache, pen and vinyl paintings on paper. Each work is comprised of intricate patterns that are repeated and inverted to create dense and graphic images. The execution of these paintings is physically restrained and intensely repetitive. For the artist, this meditative and time consuming process functions as a daily ritual. This compulsion to fill space and time with colour becomes a way of coping with the Melbourne winters.
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Gallery 3 - Space Exploration
Giselle Stanborough

Space Exploration is a body of a work concerned with forging links between physical and cyber space, and utilizing the viewing experiences particular to each environment. The ongoing online elements of Space Exploration take place at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Spacepace9000. These video works are intended to be viewed outside the gallery via any web-enabled technology. The online component of the work reinterprets YouTube (and other sites associated with cloud computing) as a merger of reality television and science fiction. Whilst episodic and abstract, the online videos attempt to be part journey log and part diary room, evolving with and reflecting upon the evolution of the project. In conjunction with the videos Space Exploration involves a gallery installation depicting the crash landing of the virtual into the physical. The installation utilizes the corporality of the gallery space to form an experience analogous to the passing of information in cloud computing models. As the viewers transverses the space, their gaze is transferred back and fourth between different elements of the installation; the gaze becomes the data of the installation machine.
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Gallery 4 - Superstructure
Jai McKenzie

Superstructure re-exhibits through its reductive form the visions of certain ideological mid-20th century architectural propositions. Buckminster Fuller and Superstudio proposed the unrealized construction of large circumscribing forms intended to encase or disrupt urban spaces to enable holistic systems for living, connection and growth. Superstructure is also only partially present. While its form signals ideas which are associated with these modernist notions, its dreamlike tension suggests a circumvention of the seriousness associated with such univocal social organization, challenging the optimistic concepts and convictions predicated on a technologically and morally superior future.
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