Upcoming

Exhibition opens: Wednesday 6 June 2012, 6-8pm
Exhibition continues: to 23 June 2012
Artist talks: Saturday 23 June 2012 at 2pm

Gallery 1
Between Painted Places
Emily Ferretti

Between Painted Places shows real and fictitious scenes caught in a state of reminiscence. Rendered with representational and abstracted elements, the work uses form and colour to evoke and highlight feelings of recollection, sentiment and memory. The project juxtaposes my influence of growing up on a property in country Victoria with my interest in early folk painting.

Emily Ferretti has shown widely in a range of artist run, public and commercial galleries throughout Australia. She has recently completed her studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne. She is represented by Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne and Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney.

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Gallery 2
some light work
Max Creasy

Max Creasy’s constructed images subvert the authority of photography. His deft use of sculpture, painting and photography carefully unravels our understanding of photographic representation.
In this new series, some light work, a sequence of constructed candles continue his dialogue with the legitimacy of photographic truth, and also question its relationship to time. These candles undermine photography’s claim to freeze time by representing the temporal labour inherent in this process of simulation.

Max Creasy was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1976. He studied at the Photography Studies College from 1996-98 and in 2009 he completed a Masters of Art at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW. Recent solo exhibitions include Reflections – Centre for Contemporary Photography, Paintings – James Dorahy Project Space. Recent group shows include Objectives – Techno Park Studios, Forms of Deception – Light Projects and Emerging – Stills Gallery.

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Gallery 3
Slush
Marian Tubbs

Slush is a process of melting and re-solidifying the five Sydney based sculpture and installation practices of Charles Dennington, Sarah Contos, Marian Tubbs, Jonny Niesche and Justin Balmain. It is an experimental group interested in the event and multiplicity of events that take place as precursors to form being established and artwork asserted. Art practice here is not allowed to be an artist’s provincial abode or far away place, but present, in dialogue, challenging and changing others.

Unafraid to pose fundamental questions such as, ‘Why does a thing have the look and shape it does and what does that have to do with the bricks and bread of everyday life?’ Slush was conceived as an art group in 2012 and is concerned with the production of difference in form, found both in art and the complex world that we draw from.

Slush, the limited edition artist book designed by Rainoff features work of the artists, Slush artist pages and contributions from writers Mathew Abbott and Astrid Lorange.

The exhibition Slush at Firstdraft Gallery and publication were coordinated by Marian Tubbs.

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Gallery 3
I/WE
ONE/OTHER
Amelia Johannes

I/WE ONE/OTHER visually explores the duality of personal identity: Australia/South Africa, cultural/biological, I/we, one/other. Video, photography and sculpture are brought together to create a multifaceted installation that acts as a point of intersection for the artist’s hybrid identity. This installation is inspired by research into ritual customs concentrating on cultural traditions and ceremonial binaries embedded in twin rituals: female/male, real/divine, left/right, birth/death, I/we, one/other. The creative process was inspired by research of anthropological materials that focus on narratives, myths and symbols documented in West African twin rituals and twin beliefs in South African traditions.

Amelia Johannes is a Melbourne-based artist, whose practice visually explores identity, uncertainty and tradition. Johannes recently completed Master of Fine Art (By Research) at VCA. She has presented solo exhibitions at Propaganda Window and Linden Centre for Contemporary Art and group exhibitions at Platform Art Space and Elysium Gallery (Wales).