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Affirmative Action @ PIC Art Fair - Queensbridge Square

All photos by Beth Ellen Wilkinson.

Affirmative Action @ PIC Art Fair - coming up soon

As above.

Come along and help me make the collaborative sculpture AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

More details here:

www.picfair2016.com


Affirmative Action might look something like this:

Or it might not.

 

Hope to see you there!

Heathen at the Mailbox Art Space, Flinders Lane, Melbourne

I recently curated three Melbourne artists, Belle Bassin, Valentina Palonen and Anna Parry, into an exhibition at the Mailbox Art Space in the CBD, Heathen. The mind map above captures, in a lateral way, some of the ideas the work was about. The space is unique and cosy - the images below are of some the installed work in the confines of the converted mailboxes.

Visible here: Valentina Palonen (left), Anna Parry (centre) and a curatorial intervention (right).

 



Installation view.

Feeled at the Incinerator, April - May 2016

Little one adding stickers to Feeled.

 

Feeled detail.

Feeled at Moonee Ponds Incinerator Gallery

Feeled  is a large scale installation covering the atrium space in brightly coloured stickers emblazoned with words of encouragement. The title of the exhibition references colour field painting, but is also a playful allusion to the sticker and its emotive and motivational quality. The installation can be read formally, as a large scale abstraction: conceptually, as an exploration of contemporary cultures of affirmation, motivation and self-help; or playfully, as a colourful, fun and irreverent field of stickers that recalls primary school teacher feedback.

Opening Friday April 1
Exhibition runs 1 April -22 May
Incinerator Gallery, 180 Holmes Road, Moonee Ponds

Agendo Art Prize

Unreal Conditions (above) has been finalised for the Agendo Art Prize. The exhibition will be held at the St Heliers Street Gallery, at the Abbotsford convent. The opening is on Wednesday August 5th, from 6pm.

Images from Feral Science at the Counihan Gallery, Brunswick

Installation detail (visible works Architectures 1-8, all watercolour on paper, 2014)

 

 



Installation detail (visible works from left to right - Seed of Seeds, Unreal Conditions, Border Crossings, Genetic Drift, all mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (Panoptes 1-3, mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (Border Crossings, mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (Genetic Drift, mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (Seed of Seeds, mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (Unreal Conditions, mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (visible works left to right Seed of Seeds, Unreal Conditions, Aristocrats of the Spirit, all mixed media on board, 2014)

Installation detail (Architectures 1&2, watercolour on paper, 2014)

 

Installation detail (Architectures 7&8, watercolour on paper, 2014)

Feral Science at Counihan Gallery 2014

 

 

Upcoming solo exhibition, Feral Science, at Counihan Gallery, Brunswick.

17 October to 9 November, 2014
Opening: Thursday 16 October, 6 - 8 pm

For more information and the gallery's 2014 exhibition schedule, click here.

Self-Help Monument, Brunswick Arts Space, March 2014

Self-Help Monument (installation detail), motivational stickers, reflective stickers, masking tape, birthday candles, plastic trophy, blu-tac, enamel paint, cardboard

 

 

Self-Help Mural (installation detail), motivational stickers on plasterboard

 

 

 Self-Help Mural (installation detail), motivational stickers on plasterboard

Everywhere but Here, Artwork for Blindside Festival Poster

The Masses, The Void, mixed media on board, 2012

Commissioned for Blindside Festival

Rainbow Eaters Exhibition - West Space, April 2012

I am curating an exhibition titled Rainbow Eaters at West Space's new gallery in the Melbourne CBD.  It brings together the work of four contemporary artists, Kirra Jamison (above), Valentina Palonen, Nick Selenitsch and Paul Yore, who use lurid combinations of colour in their work to create talismans (of sorts) and bizarre shrines that reflect a wider interest in neo-shamanic, psychedelic and mystical discourses. 

 

The exhibition will open on the 19th of April and runs until May 12.

 More info about the exhibition and venue on the gallery's site here.

Open Up Performance, Kings ARI

Open Up, installation and performance, 22/10/11

Open Up, performance detail

Open Up, installation detail

Open Up, installation detail

Open Up @ Kings ARI

Four days of performance art at Kings Artist Run Initiative

Opening 6 – 9pm Wednesday 19 October. 

Performances daily until Saturday 22 October.

The ten artists performing throughout Open Up explore their own bodily experience and the relationship between the bodily and the spiritual.  Each performance centres on an exploration of lived experience; through obsessive rituals and visceral actions, the artists explore how spirituality is lived through their own bodies.  Featuring performances by Dominic Kavanagh, Luke Kempster, CJ Conway, Dylan Hammond , Richard Pilkington, Danae Valenza, Agnes So,  Hi God People, Sean Crossley and Mitchel Brannan.

Curated by Malcolm Lloyd.

I will be performing in the gallery from 3-5pm, Saturday 22nd.

More info here: http://www.kingsartistrun.com.au/kingsartistrun/

and the curator's site here: http://malcolmlloyd.com.au/

Global/Structural 1 and 2

 Global/Structural, installation in How to Draw ..., graphite and watercolour on pine

Global/Structural 1, installation detail, graphite and watercolour on pine

Global/Structural 1, installation detail, graphite and watercolour on pine

More How to Draw ...

How to Draw ... installation detail.



forgetting/remembering (detail), mixed media on board, 2011.

How to Draw ... at Blindside

How to Draw Charts and Diagrams (installation detail)

at Blindside Artist Run Space. 

Visible pieces are david/everybody, forgetting/remembering and

goal-Setting/vodka, all mixed media on board.



The 1001 Nights (Excerpts) at Experimental Art Space, University of Melbourne

An installation of drawings titled The 1001 Nights (Excerpts) will be up at the Experimental Arts Space, outside the George Paton gallery, University of Melbourne, until the end of April.  George Paton gallery is located on the second floor of Union House at the University of Melbourne.

George Paton Gallery

MU Student Union Ltd

Second Floor Union House, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010
Open:11pm-5pm, Monday to Friday

How to Draw Charts and Diagrams @ Blindside Artist Run Space

Goal-setting/Vodka (detail), mixed media on board, 2011

HOW TO DRAW CHARTS AND DIAGRAMS

Blindside Artist Run Space

23 Mar - 9 Apr 2011

Opening: Thursday 24 March, 6-8pm

Gallery One

Nicholas Building  level 7  room 14
37 Swanston Street  Melbourne  Victoria  3000
Enter via lifts in Cathedrale Arcade corner of Flinders Lane
Opening Hours 12-6pm Tuesday to Saturday

More info on the exhibition and gallery here:  How to Draw ... @ Blindside