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Kate Shaw Laneway Commission
Spencer Lane is one of the first laneways selected for reactivation through the Brisbane City Council's Inhabit/Small Spaces program, designed to transform overlooked and forgotten spaces in the CBD through creative artworks and installations.
Urban Art Projects mentored emerging Melbourne artist Kate Shaw to translate her painting practice into a large scale outdoor wall artwork for Spencer Lane, which is also earmarked for private development with a Laneway Bar.
Darren Wardle in New York group show
Sites of Memory: Architecture and Remembering
June 11- July 25, 2010Whether it is the shared experience of the built environment, the psychological and metaphorical aspects of theory and design, or the physical construction itself, the very qualities of architecture have inspired visual artists for centuries.
One thread that many artists have recently investigated is the creation of memory and its relationship to architecture. Cultural or individual memory, both real and imagined, has been explored in many of these works. With their commanding presence and sometimes troubled histories, buildings (and monuments) are mediators of the past and are, arguably, the strongest medium of our collective consciousness. Through built spaces, communities articulate ideologies, create social, race, ethnic and class relationships, construct histories and inform the unconscious. How does the past accumulate in built space and in what ways does this space shape our individual memory? What of the past is an actual memory and what is a fantasy or our mis-remembering? How has architecture played a role in this process? Is memory the residue of the individual lives and interactions that shape architecture or is it that architecture imposes itself on our memory?
Inspired by the lower level gallery space in which the exhibition will be installed, Sites of Memory explores these intersections through an eclectic group of works in all media by a range of internationally respected artists including Bernd and Hila Becher, Nayland Blake, Amelie Chabannes, Rebecca Chamberlain, Eva Davidova, Lieven de Boeck, Terence Gower, Candida Höfer, Dimitri Kozyrev, Rita McBride, Caoimhghin O'Fraithile, Thomas Ruff, Samuil Stoyanov, Darren Wardle, Jill Weber, and Rachel Whiteread. Sculptor Dave Eppley and sound artist Nina Waisman have created site-specific installations in response to the architecture and history of the building in which the gallery is located. The exhibition is curated by William Stover in collaboration with Stephan Stoyanov.
The exhibition will also showcase MLAB (Mobile Literacy Arts Bus), a 1984 recreational vehicle that was transformed into a space for alternative educational and cultural programming by the Social Sculpture class at Syracuse University, taught and founded by artist Marion Wilson. Comprised of art & architecture students, the class created a mobile classroom, digital photo lab, recording studio, gallery space, and community center. MLAB will be temporarily installed in front of the gallery and will serve as an extension of the exhibition. MLAB embodies the concept of liminality: dissolving boundaries between what was (history) and what is possible (present/future). For more information please visit mobileliteracyartsbus.blogspot.comstephan stoyanov gallery
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Nellie Castan Gallery welcomes Dorota Mytych
Nellie Castan Gallery is pleased to announce Dorota Mytych as our newest addition to the gallery. Dorota's current solo exhibition is on until Saturday 5th June 2010
Bindo Cole's documentary screening
Eye is screening at SIFF on Saturday June 5th at 6.30pm, George St cinemas, Sydney. A documentary about the award-winning indigenous photographer Bindi Cole who travels from her Melbourne home to the far north of Australia to document the beautiful transgender ‘Sistergirls’ of the Tiwi Islands.
WHITEWASH By BINDI COLE
WHITEWASH By BINDI COLE
Whitewash - a video installation by Bindi Cole and soundscape featuring Ben Graetz and participants of NGV WeR1 project 2009-2010. Does dark skin make you black or light skin make you white? What is Aboriginal? How do our children perceive Aboriginality when all they are taught in schools stops at Captain Cook? Whitewash is a new video installation projection soundscape work by Bindi Cole that is being projected and played on the Water Wall at the NGV International over nighttimes during Reconciliation week 2010. Whitewash explores Aboriginal stereotypes and the effect of government legislation such as the White Australia policy on urban Aboriginal communities.
Bindi Cole is an award-winning artist. In 2009, she won the $25,000 Deadly Art Award as part of the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards and she has also been a finalist in the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Telstra) and the National Photographic Portrait Prize. Coles recent projects include Not Really Aboriginal at the Centre for Contemporary Photography and her next solo show 'Sistagirls' at Nellie Castan Gallery is a series of portraits of Aboriginal Transgender men that identify as women.
The projection and soundscape will run every night for a week from 6pm to 1am starting Thursday 27th May 2010 with a launch party of Friday 28th May 2010.
Polixeni Papapetrou
What a busy year for Polixeni Papapetrou
Betweens Worlds will be shown in 2010:
Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia (November)
ARTITLED!, Berghem, The Netherlands (TBA About October-Nov)
L MD Gallerie, Paris, France (May)
Stills Gallery, Sydney (June)
Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria (March-April)
Gallery 25 at Stefano’s, Mildura, (July)
Johnston Gallery, Perth (TBA Oct?)Group shows for 2010:
Polixeni has been included in a group show called La forêt de mon rêve (The Forest of My Dream). Some of the other artist’s in the exhibition are Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Bernard Faucon, Olaf Breuning and Sarah Moon
Imagining the Everyday, curated by Alasdair Foster, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Hijacked 2: Australia and Germany, The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Duetto, Experimental Arts Foundation, Adelaide
Stephen Haley and Darren Wardle
Stephen and Darren's work will be a part of group show called The Vision exhibition at Glen Eira city from 10 June - 4 July
The show includes artists: Darren Wardle, Stephen Haley, Jon Cattapan, Kit Wise, Greer Honeywill, Valerie Sparks, Simon Terril and is curated by Diane Soumilas.
Danks Street Depot in March 2010
Nellie Castan Gallery exhibited at Danks Street Depot Gallery Tuesday 23rd - Sunday 28 March 2010. The gallery showcased a selection of Melbourne artists to Sydney enthusiasts during Sydney Art Month. Artists included were: James & Eleanor Avery, Chris Bond, Penelope Davis, Craig Easton, Prudence Flint, Stephen Haley and Kate Just
Marina Strocchi
Congratulations to Marina Strocchi for being shortlisted for the Wynne Prize.
The Tanami
200 x 300cm
acrylic on linen
2010
Megan Walch at the Art Gallery of NSW
Megan Walch has been curated into Wilderness at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Included in the show is a superb wall painting "Tahune" titled after John Ernest Philip's pen name (Tasmanian Bushman, Sailor, Explorer 1869–1937) to whom this picture is dedicated.
Congratulations Kate Shaw
Kate Shaw has been awarded an Arts Victoria Grant 6 months residency at Flux Factory in New York.
Darren Wardle and Kate Shaw
Darren Wardle and Kate Shaw have been selected for a group show called " The possibility of a painting" at the Chelsea Hotel New York from March 6th 2010
Marina Strocchi and Wayne Eager
Tjukurpa Pulkatjara: The Power of the Law is a new exhibition of 48 benchmark works by senior artists from the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara lands. The exhibition features works from major private, and public collections and is presented by the South Australian Museum and Ananguku Arts and Culture Aboriginal Corporation during Visual Arts Week at the 50th Adelaide Festival. Curated by artists Marina Strocchi and Wayne Eager in response to selections made by art centre managers, the exhibtion is free and will be opened formally on Wed 3 March at 6.00pm by The Hon Dr JC Bannon AO. It will open to the public from 4 March and remain on show each day until 14 March at the South Australian Museum, North Terrace Adelaide. The exhibition celebrates works of senior artists currently making art in their own country and the work of the Aboriginal-owned community art centres.
Louise Paramor COSTCO commission
Louise Paramor is working towards her COSTCO commission, where she will be installing six sculptures, collectively titled ‘Heavy Metal Jam Session’, which are scaled up versions of earlier plastic assemblage works
Congratulations David Ray!
David Ray has been shortlisted for the 2010 Basil Sellers Art prize and exhibition. We look forward to seeing new work based on the trophy series
Veg Out community Art Spaces
Congratulations to Penelope Davis, Prudence Flint and Kate Just for each successfully receiving a St Kilda Bowling Club Studio.
The Shilo Project
We are pleased to announce a large number of our artists are involved in Chris McAuliffe's curated show, The Shilo Project at the Ian Potter Museum of Art at The University of Melbourne. The project is based on Neil Diamond's 1970 song and album cover Shilo, which features a do it yourself, connect-the-dots portrait of the musician that invited fans to complete their own portrait. One hundred contemporary Australian artists have been invited to complete their own version of the blank cover. These works will be exhibited along with ten anonymous amateur responses. The exhibition examines the crossover between art and popular music. Artists included in this exhibition from Nellie Castan Gallery are Chris Bond, Sam Leach, Louise Paramor and David Thomas
Bindi Cole now represented by Nellie Castan Gallery
Bindi Cole has recently joined Nellie Castan Gallery. Cole won the 2009 Victoria Indigenous Art Award with a photograph from her current project photographing the Sister Girls in the Tiwi Islands.
Bindi Cole is an emerging artist and photographer whose work reveals some uncomfortable truths about the fundamental disconnection between who we are – the communities and identities by which we shape our sense of self – and how the prevailing culture attempts to place and define. In 2008, Cole was a finalist in the 2008 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards (Boscia Galleries, Melbourne) and the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin).
Bindi Cole will have her solo exhibition 'Sister Girls' at Nellie Castan Gallery in July 2010. Watch out for this exciting new body of work.
