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Visible Horizon

2012-01-05T20:32:00.000-08:00

Curated by Kate Hill and Zoë Evershed

Opening Night Drinks

Friday 17th February 2012

7-9pm

Visible Horizon at The Library Artspace, Melbourne

Hideo Aoki, Chiho Fukasawa, Hachio, Shika Haneta,
Tomoaki Hosaka, Kenichi Ichikawa, Muzuki Ichikawa,
Akitaka Kamijo,Kiichi Katsumata, Ryoko Kin, Chie Koda,
Kazuha Komiya, Keita Kunugi, Nagisa Mitsumori,
Chiharu Mizukawa, Tetsuo Nagasaw, Aki Nishiumi,
Izumi Sakamoto, Yota Sakoda, Aki Sugizaki,
Tatsuo Takahashi, Moe Takahashi, Masaki Yoda, Yuko Yokota

Hachio Vision (www.hachio.info)

Yokota Yuko Seawaves


Akitaka Kamijo Patterns of Mountain and Shopping

Visible Horizon at Airy Gallery, Kofu

Abbra Kotlarczyk, Anna Topalidou, Annamaria Plescia, Antonia Goodfellow, Beth Croce, Curtis Moyes, Craig Burgess, Elyss McCleary, Emily Penso, En-En See, Glenn Dalton, Jakob Schmidt, Jennifer Tyers, John Waller, Kate Hill, Liz Walker, Luke Beesley, Maya Green, Michael Needham, Sarah Moore, Zoë Olivia Evershed, Zoë Miller

Zoe Evershed The Way Home

Zoe Miller Spooky Ride

Abbra Kotlarczyk Igneous Faux Pas

Antonia Goodfellow Colour Cluster

Beth Croce Heaven and Earth

You Think Sew Closing Celebration

2011-12-12T02:36:00.000-08:00

Jade Walsh 2011

Jade Walsh

You Think Sew

Saturday 17th December

4-6pm

Closing Celebration

You are invited to join Jade Walsh for veiwing of her exhibition You Think Sew this Saturday afternoon at The Library Artspace.

100 Barkly Street
North Fitzroy Vic 3068

Jade Walsh

2011-11-16T01:48:00.000-08:00

Jade Walsh

YOU THINK SEW

                                    Jade Walsh, N words for (red girl) 2011
   Thread, screenprint,acrylic on fabric

Opening night Drinks
Wednesday 23rd November 6-8pm

love is heartache is it? so far for me it is yeah are you serious? do you still have faith in it? always do you visualise it? Constantly I have scenarios... I must have about 15 a day but then I’ve got a pretty vivid imagination is it too hard to imagine your ultimate partner to end up with if you have not found him yet? No

Using metaphors of courtship, Jade Walsh is concerned
with transferring through the work, a sense of intimacy
and familiarity yet a vulnerability and discomfort in regard
to love, longing and the brokenhearted. This work has
been fueled by personal experiences and refers
especially to love songs, French literature and
Aussie vernacular. Through working with a combination
of processes and media i.e sewing, the layering of fabric,
and the printed /digital image, questions such as
‘what to reveal/what not to reveal’’, are negotiated like
the questions in social situations.

She is interested in a notion of intimacy and the place
where the private becomes public and that which
is ‘socially acceptable’. Through the work she
attempts to reconcile difficulties such as displays of
emotion and confessions, with objectivity and humour
through dialogue and use of layers.

The work is an exploration of sentimental and female
values and cliches through the written word and the
constructed image. It is tactile, colourful, playful,
graphic and humourous. Materials are sourced
through the immediate environment, screenprints
and mis-prints, salvaged off-cuts, leftovers remnants,
reminiscent of out back of a fabric supplies warehouse
or op-shop. Through laborious sewing into the night and
the obsessive manual labour of the DIY, patterns, samples
are blended and tulle, wallpaper, vinyl etc are combined
through to subtly imitate digital ways of image
manipulation through a simplified manual approach.
She investigates found imagery sourced from
catalogues, encyclopaedias and pop culture
to recontextualise it.

A zine will be on sale for the duration of the show.

Jade Walsh completed a B.A. in Graphic Design and a
Master in Fine Arts at RMIT University. Since 2001 she has
had a number of individual shows
(Kings ARI, Seventh Gallery, etc.) and participated
in numerous group shows. She has been the
recipient of grants in Australia and was selected
for internships and residencies in New York, Philadelphia
and in Belgium. She has also had experience as
guest teacher, lecturer and artist assistant.
jadewalsh.com.au

Jade Walshe, 2011

Jade Walsh, 2011

Gallery address: The Library Artspace, 100 Barkly St Nth Fitzroy
Exhibition dates: November 23rd - December 17th
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12-5pm
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Experimental Sounds, Sculptures and Installations.

2011-10-24T18:33:00.000-07:00

Experimental Sounds, Sculptures and Installations.
Curated by Lee-Ann Joy (SCENE5 design)

OPENED: Saturday 29 October 7pm-9pm RUNNING until 19 November Wed to Sat 12-5pm
OPENING NIGHT PERFOMANCES: Dale Chapman, Marco Cher-gibard, Rodney Cooper, Mark Groves & Sharryn Koppins (Dick Threats), Vijay Thillaimuthu.

Experimental sound is a particular genre of music that is elusive to many; it is a genre where people explore sounds outside general rules of composition and assembly to create an unaccustomed type of music. This exhibition offers a discourse of experimental sounds via different forms of media incorporating sculpture, installation and film and is to challenge traditional sensibilities as to what quantifies as music.

Sharryn Koppins & Mark Groves ( Dick Threats) 2011
Photographer: Lily Pilly Photography (top) & Elyss McCleary

Marco Cher-gibard, Dale Chapman 2011
Photographer: Elyss McCleary

Rodney Cooper - Sculptor, performer and sound artist. His sound compositions come from the objects he builds. The ongoing development of the artist’s metal craft skills has facilitated the creation of complex musical instruments that expand the physical relationship between the body, form and space. Rodney has exhibited, toured and played extensively nationally and internationally. Rodney has also been filmed and aired by ABC Television.

Rodney Cooper, 2011
Photographer: Lilly Pilly Photography (top) & Elyss McCleary

John Waller
John Waller is an Australian artist working in new media installation and screen based culture. His current practice focuses on the production of computer animation, video and sound for projection and installation projects.

Antonia Goodfellow
Antonia Goodfellow is best known for her large scale immersive installations and sculptural objects that verge on the architectural. Her work references various aspects of the micro and macro universes.

CLICK here for "Echo".

Lee-Ann Joy
Lee-Ann Joy is the director of SCENE5 design. Lee-Ann's focus of her design practice is concentrating on a cross disciplinary approach to Art and Architecture. Lee-Ann's artistic focus is to develop the sculptural study of domestication and trades with sound art.

Lee-Ann Joy 2011
Photographer: Lilly Pilly Photography

Tara Cook
Tara Cook is a Melbourne based contemporary artist. Tara's practice can be located within the fields of glitch, post-media and expanded practice. Theoretically centred around relationships with technology, she transforms and translates the broken, outmoded and unwanted aspects of media, creating interactive and temporal installations.

Vijay thillaimuthu
Vijay Thillaimuthu is a Melbourne based audio visual artist. who studied under (and later collaborated with) Robin Fox, Vijay has created a body of work that tests relationships between various technologies and how this can be applied within performance and installation situations to create extreme sensory environments.

CLICK here for "Expanse"

Vijay Thillaimuthu, 2011

Photographer: Lee-Ann Joy

Dale Chapman
Dale Chapman is a Melbourne based artist. Dale’s present practice includes building and performing with handmade electronic instruments (tone generators) and circuit bent toys. Dale has over the years contributed greatly to the experimental sound and art scene in Melbourne.

Dale Chapman (L) and Rodney Cooper, 2011
Photographer: Lilly Pilly Photography (top) & Elyss McCleary

International Guest Artists
Buttercup Insurgent, E.T.G, Exomène, Cezary Gapik, IDTAL, Jason Kavanagh, Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, NOS Project, Maresuke Okamoto, PAS, Jaime Rguez, Hugues Vincent.
This collection of overseas artists are renown sound artists that lead the way within their individual fields of creating experimental sound. All are actively involved in the promotion of experimental music whether touring, collaborating or running their own labels and promoting other artists.

CLICK here for International Guest Artists Sound Clips

International Guest Artists, 2011
Photographer: Lilly Pilly Photography

OPENING NIGHT
CLICK here for Exhibition Opening Photo Gallery

Photographer: Elyss McCleary

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Experimental Sounds, Sculptures & Installations facebook group
Facebook sound group
List of Artists - Facebook Event
lists all the artists involved in the show

TONY ADAMS - The Studio

2011-09-23T22:45:00.000-07:00

Tony Adams, 2011.

Tony Adams

THE STUDIO

an investigation into all matters green

Opening Night Drinks: 12th October

6-8pm

Exhibition Dates: 12.10.11 - 22.10.11

Tony Adams' process-based project is part of The Library Artspace’s inaugural artist’s residency program. Utilising the gallery-as-studio for a 6-week period week responding to the specificities of site through an accumulative collection of green objects and ideas. Undertaking processes involving developmental stages and responses, Adams' aims to create an interactive installation from found objects and salvaged materials that explores and exploits the form and content of green.

Study [Green] Tony Adams,2011

Photographer: Tony Adams 2011

Study [Green] Tony Adams,2011

Photographer: Tony Adams 2011

Study [Green] Tony Adams,2011

Photographer: Tony Adams 2011

Study [Green] Tony Adams,2011

Photographer: Tony Adams 2011

Study [Green] Tony Adams 2011
Photographer: Tony Adams 2011

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Gallery Address The Library Artspace, 100 Barkly St North Fitzroy

Gallery Hours Wed-Sat 12-5pm

'Google Me' Documentry by Curtis Moyers

2011-09-03T15:35:00.000-07:00

Authors

2011-07-23T23:09:00.000-07:00

Luke Beesley

Exhibition:Wednesday 3rd August - 27th August

Opening:Wednesday 3rd August 6-8pm

Poet and visual artist Luke Beesley has received awards and fellowships from The Australia Council (2005), The Asialink Foundation (2006/7), Arts Queensland (2003), Eleanor Dark Foundation (2004), Arts Victoria (2010), The City of Melbourne (2009), The State Library of Victoria (2010) and The Fellowship of Australian Writers (2007); as well as a number of major public art commissions. His first book of poetry Lemon Shark was published in 2006 and he has two books forthcoming.

Increasingly his poetry and drawing is intermingling, and he has just completed a collection of poetry and drawings called Pencilled Losses, which was assisted by an Arts Development grant from Arts Victoria, and he is working on an artist book of poems and drawings called Seed as part of a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship.

Authors is Beesley first solo exhibition of drawings, and includes a series of pencil and charcoal on paper drawings called Authors completed in 2007/2008; a series of pencil on paper drawings called Common Farm Birds (2009/10); and Pencilled Losses - pencil on paper (2010) drawings from his Arts Victoria assisted manuscript. Many of the drawings comprise fragmented images accompanied by half completed marks of text, creating a blurred place between text, image, the author, handwriting and drawing.

Eyes

2011-07-23T22:32:00.000-07:00

Greg Penn

Exhibition:Wednesday 3rd August - 27th August

Opening:Wednesday 3rd August 6pm - 8pm

The simple motif of a set of eyes looking out and around in the work explores my interest in our understanding of perception and memory and the fundamental problems associated with depicting reality.

The work’s darkness allows the viewer an opportunity to suspend their thoughts, slow their mind and contemplate beyond what they see, perhaps asking how they see and how they know what they see to be true.

In the age old allegory of Plato’s cave, one understands a reality may exist beyond what is known and believed to be true to one’s own eyes. This video aims to engage and invite a similar enquiry.

GROUND - Sonja Hornung

2011-07-07T23:05:00.000-07:00

A fan steals a chunk of turf from a football ground.

Inside a labyrinth of scaffolding, Sonja Hornung plays out the meaning of this small-scale intervention. Part-community project, part-archive, GROUND uses photography and installation to separate the drive for ownership and control we layer over earth from the substance of earth itself.

In a world where community spaces are often structured by the interests of the powerful, GROUND quietly insists that we reconsider our relationship with common ground -- working from the ground up.

GROUND is growing. On Wednesdays and Saturdays Sonja Hornung will continue to build in the space.

Opening drinks Wednesday 6th July, 6-8pm
Exhibition runs 6th - 30th July
Gallery hours Wednesday - Saturday 12 - 5pm

Images: Ben Vella

More info: http://sonjatineke.wordpress.com/

Extra Extra 011110.

2011-05-28T19:47:00.000-07:00

Extra

011110

Curated by Jakob Schmitt and Elyss McCleary.

Elyss McCleary, Extra extra collage 011110 2011.

Emily Bissland

Pierrette Boustany

Rachel Guy

Christina Hayes

Penelope Hunt

Katie Jacobs

Sim Luttin

Elyss McCleary

James McDonald

Melissa Petty

Jakob Schmitt

Bernadette Trench- Theideman

Anne Warren

Lynette Young

Exhibition:Wednesday 08 June 2011 to Saturday 02 July 2011

Opening Wednesday 08 June 2011 6-8pm

Extra Extra 011110 is an exhibition consisting of 14 artists currently employed at Arts Project Australia, Northcote that supports artists witha disability. The project evolved naturally at work through our interest in art, and a desire to collaborate together.

Jakob Schmitt and Elyss McCleary, 2011.

Printmaking lives on in a digital age

June 9, 2011

Elyss McCleary's Newspaper Wall is one of the works on show at the Extra Extra 011110 exhibition. Photo: Paul Rovere

IF PRINTERS are going out of business in the digital age, then what is the future for printmakers?

''Alive and well'', according to Jakob Schmitt, 33. ''It's a beautiful process and a lot of people are reverting to that winding something through a wheel.

When so much now is digital it's refreshing to have a process that has an old-school rawness to it,'' said the printmaker who organised the Extra Extra 011110 exhibition that opened at The Library Artspace in North Fitzroy last night.

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Given his feelings for print, it's no surprise that Schmitt and the 13 other artists - who all teach at Arts Project Australia for disabled artists - drew their inspiration for their group show from the print edition of The Age from November 1 last year rather than the iPad version of the newspaper.

''We were looking for a theme and randomly chose The Age because of the tactile nature of a newspaper,'' said Schmitt, whose own entry replicates The Age crossword and ''Target'' quiz from that day. ''And as a printmaker I really liked the graphic and striking nature of a crossword,'' he said.

But don't go looking for a solution to Schmitt's Target quiz because he changed one letter ''to keep people guessing''.

The artists chose the November 1, 2010 edition of The Age for the ''aesthetics'' of how the date looks as the palindromic number 011110.

The date also looks somewhat Satanic, though in this case that's only true if you consider horse-racing the Devil's work.

November 1, 2010 was Melbourne Cup eve so almost half the art works in the show have a horse-racing theme.

The works, which are for sale, include paintings, sculpture, collage, silversmithing and one video work - images of Miss Universe 2010 accompanied by Bruce McAvaney's call of last year's Melbourne Cup won by Americain.

RAYMOND GILL

Extra Extra 011110 is at The Library Artspace, 100 Barkly Street, North Fitzroy, until July 2

Sim Luttin

Horses for courses, 2011.

Steel, sterling silver,wood.

Emily Bissland

From Fact to Fiction, 2011 (detail)

Acrylic,posca on canvas

Racheal Wenona Guy

Fascinator #3, 2011

compressed charcoal and conte

Bernadette Trench-Theideman

Vegemite Sandwich, 2011

Paper, ink, timber, plastic lamp

Google me This

2011-05-02T03:38:00.000-07:00

Google Me This

a group exhibition of over 50 self-portraits

Photographer: Carmen Reid, 2011

DIANA ALI SANTINA AMATO ADAM HOSS AYRES

ELLEN BENSON JEANNIE BROWN JADE BURSTALL

JAMES CAREY EDDY CARROLL DAVID COLLINS

PAUL COMPTON GREG CREEK CATH DA COSTA

ANITA BELIA REBECCA DELANGE ANGELA EAST

BEAU EMMETT NESS FLETT KUBOTA FUMIKAZA

GINNY GRAYSON BONNIE HANLON EMMA IKIN

COLLEEN JONES ALISTER KARL SKYE KELLY

ANNE KWASNER NATHALIE LEVI SAYRAPHIM LOTHIAN

RACHEL MACBRYDE NATALIE MCCARTHY
ELYSS MCCLEARY GLENN MCCLEARY TED MCKINLAY
NATALIE MCQUADE HERBERT NG DANIEL O’BRIEN
SIMON PERRY MISHELLE PREDIKA AHMARNYA PRICE
KARLA PRINGLE RENUKA RAJIV CARMEN REID
PETE REID JAMES RICHES ROBBIE ROWLANDS
EMMA ROCHESTER MARK RODDA MIGNON STEELE
LINDA STUDENA CHLOE VALLANCE GEORGINA WARD
EMMA WATERS SHANE WELLS LEX WICK

11th May - 5th June 2011

Opens Wednesday 11th May from 6 - 8pm

Gallery Hours are Wed - Sun 12 - 5pm

Ellen Benson
Nancy Gates is SUDDENLY Ellen Benson, 2011.
Digital print
Simon Perry
Dr. Perry's Eureka Brain Tonic, 2011
Found Bottle, digital print
Photographer: Elyss McCleary, 2011

Mishelle Pheonix-Predika
Jellyfish, 2011.
Digital print
Photographer: Elyss McCleary

Robbie Rowlands
Inhale, 2011
Vacuum cleaner, blue shorts and mixed media.
Represented by Arc One Gallery Melbourne.

Angela East
Cello, 2011
Textile

Georgina Ward
're-emerge',2011
Resin,copper,hair and kenzan
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Paul Compton
Portrait of the artist that becomes a Yowie that plays Trombone, 2011
Pen, ink, tea on paper

Beau Emmett
ERGO (mis) NOMIC, 2011
Mixed Media
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Mignon Steele
I Could Knock on your Door,(detail) 2011
Mixed media on board.
Photographer: Elyss McCleary, 2011

Mark Rodda
Wool Man, 2011
Watercolour on paper
Represented by Utopian Slumps Gallery, Melbourne.
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Carmen Reid
Operatic Portrait of Carmen, 'The Total Female Animal' 2011
Mixed media wall sculpture
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Carmen Reid
Operatic Portrait of Carmen, 'The Total Female Animal'(detail) 2011
Mixed media wall sculpture
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Shane Welles
Don't Mess with Texas, 2011
Digital Print

Santina Amato
Beloved, 2011
Digital video installation
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Ahmarnya Price
Talk of the Weather with Tippi Hendron as Marnee and Kate Bush as Peter Reich,(detail) 2011
Mixed Media on board
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Jade Burstall
Letter to Daniel from Jade,2011
DVD, mixed media
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Jade Burstall
Letter to Daniel from Jade,2011
DVD, mixed media

Glenn McCleary
Doppelganger Dissapointment, 2011
Digital drawing

(L-R) Rebecca DeLange
Untitled, 2011-05-11, 2011
Play-dough on plywood plinth
Elyss McCleary
A pom-pom screen saver, 2011
Gouache, marker and slide projector
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Pete Reid
Primate Matches, 2011
Cardboard, wood, matches, acrylic,paper and pva

Ginny Grayson
Facebook_gg159969319, 2011
Oil on paper
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Eddy Carroll
Eddie Carroll 1933-2010, Canadian voice over actor who in 1973 became voice of Jiminy Cricket, 2011
Voice recording and ipod
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Adam Hoss Ayres
Morph-Queen, 2011.
Steel, bone and electrical wire.
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Herbert Ng,
Herbert's Lost, 2011.
marker, acrylic on cardboard.
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

Greg Creek
Portrait as Greg Creek-2nd Interation,(detail) 2011
Mixed Media on paper

Anne Kwasner
Princess Anne Kwasner (detail ) 2011
Pencil on board.

Linda Studena
Studena population, 2011
Oil on wood, 2011

“Google Me This” is a group exhibition based on artist’s self-portraits. The show presents an unusual approach to what self-portraiture can be with a group of works that takes the artist’s name, rather than character as a basis for identity. Curators Carmen Reid and Elyss McCleary have given over 50 artist’s free reign to produce a work using the same basic starting point; to conduct a Google search of their own name and create a “self”-portrait that interprets the online results.

Taken as only one portion of a multi-faceted life, a portrait is always a constructed depiction of an identity and provides opportunity for manipulation of self-image, even possible re-invention.

The artist’s self portrait is a reflexive and introspective action often made in a directed manner that represents the artist as not only a unique individual, but also as a unique artist with a persona distinguishable from other artists. The key concept is that of the “self” and how a sense of self is captured by the artist through their chosen medium.

The concept of the self is massively expanded when the internet is added to the mix. “Google Me This” takes one aspect of the self, the name, and asks, somewhat tongue in cheek “Who am I, and who are you and what are you doing with my name”?

With distraction and short attention spans rife, an innocent, if narcissistic urge to google one’s own name can open up a minefield as our namesake’s lives are revealed in tantalising glimpes of parallel worlds. Content connected to our names in the public domain is inevitably a fragmented array of information that builds a series of impressions but leaves plenty of room for the imagination to fill in the gaps. Potentially intriguing, amusing, horrifying or awe inspiring, there is hard evidence our name’s have been busy forging different lives and we had no say in it. We may find that one of our most distinguishing features, our name is shared and portrayed by others in ways we may not approve of.

The artists in the show are a motley mix of emerging and established artists, based predominantly in Melbourne but also interstate and overseas. The self-portraits they have made for “Google Me This” are interpretive portraits – fictional portrayals of real people who share our names. The interpretations have been made through mediums including drawing, video, installation, sculpture, and photography. Many of the exhibiting artists have made work employing mediums or sensibilities outside of their normal practice.

Excerpt from "Google Me This"* essay by Carmen Reid, 2011

"The Janet Holmes a Court Artists' Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes a Court and through the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts".

ENCOUNTERS

2011-04-07T15:14:00.000-07:00

ENCOUNTERS

Curated by Brad Rusbridge and Zoe Evershed

ELROY HENDRICKS

JOHN BUTTON

VITA CELESTINO

BEVERLY DUNCOMBE

LORETTA LYNCH

MATTHEW SOTIROPOULOS

JOHN WADDINGTON

BRADLEY WATTS

Elroy Hendricks, 2011.

Opening Night Drinks: Wednesday 20th April

6 - 8pm

Exhibition Dates: 20th April - 7th May 2011
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Saturday 12 - 5pm

‘Encounters’ presents a group of eight Melbourne artists whose works reflects meeting s and engagements with people and objects – real or imagined. All encounters are ephemeral in nature and here, each artist chooses to galvanise their experiences in a way that has particular personal resonance.

Elroy Hendrick’s has been a keen member of the Alrassa Art Group and the art studio at Nadrasca. He has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions such as Connected 08 and Connected 09 at the Art Centre’s Black Box, and ADEC’s 2010 exhibition Summer at the Atrium, Federation Square. His practice is charactersised by a refined level of pattern making and surreal imagery, an interest in people and community, and his wry sense of humour.

Alongside Elroy’s artworks are artworks from John Button, Vita Celestino, Beverly Duncombe, Loretta Lynch, Matthew Sotiropoulos, John Waddington and Bradley Watts. These artists are a collective of emerging artists who attend Ivanhoe Diamond Valley Centre together and have been developing their individual art practices for the past year at 'Nick's Space' contemporary art program at J-studios. The artworks included in this exhibition have been selected by the curators and the artists as representing the individual artist's style, but also as artworks that capture shared themes and preoccupations that can be seen through the lens of 'Encounters'.

Elroy Hendricks, 2011
(pen, pencil, ink on paper)

Beverly Duncombe, 2011
(marker on canvas)

Loretta Lynch, 2011

(conte and marker on canvas)

John Waddington, 2011

(plastics straws, wood and vcr)

Vita Celestino,2011

(pencil on paper)

The Library Artspace

100 Barkly Street

North Fitzroy Vic 3068

HEIDI HOLMES The Unremarkable

2011-03-15T14:11:00.000-07:00

HEIDI HOLMES

THE UNREMARKABLE

Opening Night Wednesday 16th March 2011, 6-8pm

The Unremarkable is a literal account into the happenings of
the ordinary persons, everyday. Through a series of
self-examining works, artist, Heidi Holmes has made a
collection of works that investigate the possibilities of finding
art in everydayness.
Revealing the remarkable in the unremarkable, Holmes critically
examines how she looks, what she says, how she thinks, all of the
currencies that make her, her. The resulting works are intimate
and honest, exposing all and also nothing.

Heidi Holmes is current Painting student at the Victorian
College of the Arts. Heidi has been actively exhibiting
whist studying. She has had works shown at Chapman and Bailey,
First Site Gallery RMIT and “Anonheartsart”-Various City Streetscapes.

Gallery address: The Library Artspace, 100 Barkly St Nth Fitzroy.

Exhibition dates:16th March – 9th April

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12:00pm - 5:00pm

Heidi Holmes 2011

(L-R) Mole ink, graphite

All I said, February Ink jet paper, office paper

Breast Mole Digital print

Back Mole Digital print

Under Arm Mole Digital print.

Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Heidi Holmes 2011

All I said, February Ink jet paper, office paper

Mole ink, graphite
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Heidi Holmes 2011 All I said, February Ink jet paper, office paper.

Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Heidi Holmes 2011
Mole ink, graphite
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Heidi Holmes 2011
Mole ink, graphite (detail)
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Heidi Holmes 2011
38 minutes on the phone to my Mum 2.04 minutes
Photgrapher: Elyss McCleary 2011

Heidi Holmes 2011

(L-R) Mole ink, graphite

All I said, February Ink jet paper, office paper

Breast Mole Digital print

Back Mole Digital print

Under Arm Mole Digital print

Arm Mole Digital print

Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Heidi Holmes 2011
All I said, February (detail) Ink jet paper, office paper.
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

PROPOSALS

2011-03-08T14:23:00.000-08:00

The Library Artspace is currently inviting proposals for the second half of 2011.

Please email info.thelibraryartspace@gmail.com for an application to be sent.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 31st March 2011.

TIME / LIGHT PROJECT Zoe Olivia Evershed

2011-01-31T18:54:00.000-08:00

Zoe Olivia Evershed

Time / Light Project
23rd February - 12th March 2011

I am currently developing ways of using the ambient external light sources at The Library Artspace Gallery to represent alternative measurements of time, as embodied by the movement of light and shadow within the space. The project draws inspiration from the history of early pinhole photography with the long exposures they required, and primitive methods of measuring time such as sun-dials and tide sticks.

Zoe Evershed, 2011.

Opening Night Drinks

Wednesday 23rd February 2011

6pm - 8pm

The Library Artspace

100 Barkly Street

North Fitzroy Vic 3068
Gallery Hours: Wed- Sun 12-5pm

Zoe Olivia Evershed, 2011.

Zoe Olivia Evershed , 2011

Zoe Olivia Evershed

Time-light Project, Installation View, 2011

Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Zoe Olivia Evershed

Time-light Project, Installation View, 2011

Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011.

Zoe Olivia Evershed
Time- Light Project, 2011
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2011

PLUS ONE 2010 Annual Group Show

2010-11-21T18:18:00.001-08:00

Plus One 2010

The Library Artspace Annual Collaborative Show
04.12.10 - 18.12.10
Curated by Viona Fung and Zoe Evershed

Opening Night Drinks

Saturday 4th December 2010

5.30-8.30pm

MICHAEL AMOND
ADAM HOSS AYRES
MICHAEL BAGLIN
ALIEY BALL
LUKE BEESLEY
CATHERINE BENNET

JOHN BUTTON

VITA CELESTINO

BEVERLY DUNCOMBE

BENEDICT ERNST

ZOE EVERSHED

JAKE FICNERSKI

KAREN FLETCHER
ANTONIA GOODFELLOW
ROB GRAHAM
NAT GRANT
BONNIE HANLON
WAYNE HASSELMAN

RAHIMA HAYES
RAELENE HERITAGE
PAUL HODGES
TESSA HOWARD
JUSTINE JACKSON
SCOTT LEWIS
GLENDA LOWE
LORETTA LYNCH
ELYSS MCCLEARY
TED MCKINLAY
CURTIS MOYES
SUSANNE PEARCE

PETER PHILLIPS
ANNAMARIA PLESCIA
LISA REID
DIANNE RIVERWOOD
JACOB SCHMITT
EN-EN SEE
MATTHEW SOTIROPOULOS
MY LE THI
LEONIE VAN EYK

JOHN WADDINGTON
LIZ WALKER
JOHN WALLER
BRADLEY WATTS
DIANE WILSON

Wayne Hasselman, Luke Beesley 2010 (detail)

Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2010

Benedict Ernst 2010 (detail)
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2010

En-En See, 2010
Photographer: Elyss McCleary 2010

THE MASTERS Cameron Sievers

2010-11-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

The Library Artspace is hosting
A Fractured Femur Theatre Production

The Masters

written and directed by Cameron Sievers

Set amid a disturbingly commonplace domestic landscape,
The Masters is a language-based, two act piece of
naturalistic subversion for six players. The strength
of this murky farce lies in its subtle straddling between
naturalism and absurdity, the use of the strata of society
(landowner, mortgage holders, renter/tenant, mortgage defaulter
and homeless), and the depiction of a contemporary
concern: obsession with home ownership. In perverse, confronting,
and blackly humorous fashion, the play explores themes
of domestic entrapment, power, and suppression. An unnerving,
nihilistic pulse underscores the drama capturing the menace of a
common situation – a rental payment transaction. Ruud and Ruth,
mortgage holders and landlords to a tenant who lives beneath
them, await payment upstairs. It is a tortuous delay. Motion,
air, and stillness combine to bring a subtext-laden tension
suggestive of inveterate scars and secrets, as their journey
exposes the horror of their existence and all manner of bleak
excesses: domestic violence, attempted murder, sexual depravity,
and something much, much worse...

“What could you possibly confess, Gerald?
You have a family, a wife. Four walls.”

This is the third part of the DNA strand that brought you
The Game and Anhedonia.
Sievers, on the cusp of his twelfth production,
says: “It is within language that I explore and heighten the horror
of the everyday through the subversion of mundane states. There are clear reasons for this work to exist; but I reject an issues-based approach
to theatre. For various reasons too much theatre is too determined
to be about something."
The Masters is about everything and nothing; yet remains
highly contemporary. As opposed to a linear exploration of
what’s in the room
or a surface conflict between men and women, it offers
something older. It offers
a world in which a room becomes more than a room
over time. A room, after-all,
has horrifying possibilities.

Gallery address:
The Library Artspace,
100 Barkly St Nth Fitzroy.
Season: 11 November – 27 November 8:30pm
$24 / $18

Bookings: 0425 813 007
Group bookings available.
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2010-10-10T14:50:00.000-07:00

SWAMPLAND Kate Hodgetts, Jordon Wood, Pip Ryan

2010-10-10T14:41:00.000-07:00

SWAMPLAND

KATE HODGETTS JORDAN WOOD PIP RYAN

Opening Night: Saturday 16th October

5.30pm-7.30pm

Swampland - A collaborative response to ideas of captivity and uncompromised order akin to the human experience in the urban environment.
A dystopian wasteland full of drudge, slop and darkness, discarded remnants of the modern world, things better hidden and forgotten.
Through video, sound, sculpture and installation the artists create a hybrid landscape demanding the viewer to navigate the maze before them. Enter into this ‘swampy hell’.
Like driving past a forest plantation with trees lining the road, separating the driver from what is happening beyond; the path of the exhibition is lined with debris swept up from the clearing, pits of bubbling goo. Beyond this darkness and depravity, off in the distance of the clearing there is a sign of hope, a hallucination or mirage of Eden.
If you listen you can hear signs of life.

Kate Hodgetts is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, BFA (Honours). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Head of School Award VCA and the Theodore Urbach Encouragement Award. Kate has exhibited in numerous ARI’s around Melbourne as well as the 'This is not art' Festival in Newcastle.

Jordan Wood Is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, BFA (Honours). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the National Gallery Woman’s Association Undergraduate Encouragement Award, and the David Teleskivi Memorial Prize for Sculpture. Jordan has exhibited in numerous ARI’s around Melbourne as well as Mars Gallery, The Margaret Laurence Gallery and the McClelland Sculpture Park.

Pip Ryan Is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, BFA (Honours). She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the ‘Proud’ Best Photographic Print and the ‘Contemporary Drawing Prize’ VCA. Pip has exhibited in numerous ARI’s around Melbourne as well as ACCA, ACMI, PICA in Perth and in Mexico

Gallery address: The Library Artspace, 100 Barkly St Nth Fitzroy.
Exhibition dates: 13 October – 6 November 2010
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 12:00pm - 5:00pm