Subsonic Music Festival__ :: Call for Artists_ #deepspaceelectronicmusic #subsonic #geekgirl

Exhibit & participate in the Subsonic Festival :: Applications close 31 October 2011
Subsonic Music Festival will be held 2 – 4 December 2011 in the picturesque surrounds of Riverwood Downs Mountain Valley Resort, Barrington Tops, Northern NSW. Dedicated to deep space electronic music, Subsonic brings together a line-up of international artists in an immersive, multi-sensory environment with an unconventional edge.  The festival is  looking for creative people (18yrs+) who have amazing, large-scale artwork and crazy roaming performances that they would like to display on the green, verdant landscape of Barrington Tops. These may include sculptors, LED artists, performers, installation artists, painters, graffiti artists, video artists, carpenters and costume designers.  If you are creative but don’t want to submit your own artwork, you can sign up for volunteer art team.
http://www.subsonicmusic.com.[20]au/

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…

WHAT: Storytelling: Tales from the Union Art Collection

WHO: Curated by Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan. Featuring works by Bill Henson, Trent Parke, Terry Gilliam, Del Kathryn Barton, Hayley Linz, Gareth Sansom,  Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Matheus Van Helmont and Albrecht Dürer.

WHEN: Opening Thursday October 13, 6pm. October 10-November 4, Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm.

WHERE: Verge Gallery, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Road, University of Sydney. Australia

CONTACT: Greg Shapley on (02) 9563-6218, g.shapley@usu.usyd.edu.au 

Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam, controversial photographer Bill Henson and Dutch art master Matheus Van Helmont walk into a bar. What do they talk about?…

Original artworks from these, and other artists, will be on display at Verge Gallery as part of an exhibition that playfully joins the dots between some of the University of Sydney Union’s most interesting art acquisitions. This century-old art collection contains a prestigious and eclectic range of works. Student interns turned curators, Elyse Horan and Bethany Cannan have selected works from this collection that are dying to be seen and heard. Each one beckons you in closer, throws an arm around your shoulder and whispers historic tales of intrigue and suspense. Collectively, they chatter away inviting audiences to become involved in the bigger conversation on the nature of art and the human condition. Visitors are asked to document what they hear on large scrolls that, in turn, become part of the show. Also involved in this grand narrative are works by Trent Parke, Del Kathryn Barton, Gareth Sansom, Hayley Linz, Noel Counihan, Richard Lewer, Maurice de Vlaminck, Albrecht Dürer and George Milpurrurru.

International Kunst Force – Rebecca Power #Melbourne #femart #geekgirl



A series of ink and watercolour of women in the military. The exhibition uses humor, beauty and satire to explore feminist themes.

Showing at ‘Art at St. Francis’ – 326 Lonsdale St, Melbourne runs until Sept 11th, 2011. Mon – Fri 9-5pm or by appointment.

More info rebeccah@rebeccahpower.com

“My ink and watercolour paintings address feminist issues and explore themes such as archaeology and anthropology. The media is used in such a way as to make the most of the expressive appearance of painterly drips and bleeds creating an ‘other worldly’ or ‘dream like’ quality. I also create special site-specific murals painted directly onto a wall that provides context for my works and reinforce their meanings.” Rebecca Power

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Feature artist Nicole Tattersall #surfboards #melbourne #arts #geekgirl

Based in Melbourne, Australia Nicole Tattersall is a self taught artist whose works vary in mediums such as stencil art, watercolour, ink and installation. Her main source of inspiration is mother nature coupled with the city lights of Melbourne. Throughout her school life she excelled in art and graphics, though it wasn’t until late 2004, 3 years after completing secondary college did Nicole start to create works for placement in galleries and pursue her creative career. 

Nicole’s style has change several times throughout the years from the simple outlines to the urban inspired stencil works and now starting to explore more experimental techniques. Using a selection of mediums, she favours acrylics, pens, markers and spray cans.

Being passionate about animal rights has lead Nicole to create works for WSPA Australia and to aid in their campaigns, with her own works or by being an advocate by speaking about issues.

Using her Events Management skills Nicole has curated and organised a selection of group exhibitions and art events; Random Collective, Art On Your Sleeve, Street Art For Ashes, Melbourne Curvy 6 book launch at Magnation and Split Personalities, a duo show she did with fellow artist Megan Dell.

Artist Statement
“I create works in various mediums that lend themselves to convey the context of the piece and the overall feel of the work, this can be from the innocence and creative minds of two children dressing up as ghosts to the dirty look created to interrupt streets of a busy city. 


Using stenciling as a technique came about when I wanted to start to customise my own surfboards and was exposed to a large variety of applications for stenciling when I visited the Melbourne Stencil Festival in 2006 at Rose St.

In contrast watecolours, ink and charcoal are another preferred medium which allow for a level of naive-ness to be expressed. 

Animal rights, the protection of the environment and the thought of using ones imagination are reoccurring themes in my works and are heavily influenced by my time spent at various beaches, surfing, my family, trips away, the urban jungle of the city and world news”.

Works by Nicole currently reside in private collections throughout Australia as well as Internationally.

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About the Surfboards
My first major exhibition was “Artsticks 2″ held at the Surfing World Museum in Torquay in 2006. The theme for the exhibition was the surfboard as the canvsa and I had painted various stencils onto a board given to me by friend, which had been snapped at the nose. The board has since been repainted over.

I first got into stenciling as a technique to customise my own surfboards and was exposed to a large variety of applications for stenciling when I visited the Melbourne Stencil Festival in 2006 at Rose St. I’ve since developed and gone beyound the humble surfboard and get friends to paint mine for me now.

When Megan Dell and I were thinking about “Split Personalitoes”, a duo exhibition we had at No Vacancy Gallery in February 2010. I felt it was time to go back to my roots. After doing some asking around I was able to get my hands on some broken boards and started to work out what I wanted to paint on them. “Face & Fringe” is a classic stencil of mine so had to be included. I love my animals and what better than a sea turtle! “Jump” features a girl in bathers jumping off a pier, which is a very beachy thing to do. “Surfing Aisling” is named after a very good friend of mine who I use to go surfing with until she moved north to warmer waters. It features a girl just hanging out on her board, which is what me and her use to do alot together. Chatting about all the things one does over coffee, just in this case in between sets.

I felt that to display the boards properly they needed to be suspended by leg ropes so that their movement would reflect that of a surfers lifestyle.

Patchworked – Solo Show
At Large Gallery
208 High St, Northcote, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Exhibition Opening: Friday 17 September 2010, 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition: Friday 17 September – Thursday 30 September 2010

Website: www.atlargegallery.com or www.nicoletattersall.blogspot.com

The Collective have returned in 2010 with “Re_Collection” #Melbourne #arts #geekgirl

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“The Collective are a group of seven artists who also are linked by their professional contributions to the museum profession. In this, their second exhibition together, they explore ideas of time, permanence and memory through a  range of media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation.

Sarah Edwards tackles notions of status and reverence through the re-presentation of discarded objects, re-establishing their permanent place in memory.  Ben Healley photographically captures the fleeting, forgotten moments of a sleeping city, while Colleen Boyle examines the relationship between time and representation via the heavens. Rod Gray stirs up the memory of our subconscious with his paintings of dreamlike landscapes, whilst Lee-Anne Raymond depicts concepts of time and space via illusion and myth. Brendon Taylor tends a sculptural hand to our fragmented, personal memories, while Sarah Parker toys with ideas of transfiguring the ordinary, re-presenting it as a fragile ceramic object.”

In this, their second collaborative exhibition together, the group present their responses to time, permanence and memory.

Opening night Sept 1st 6-8pm
Red Gallery
157 St. Georges Road,
Fitzroy North, Melbourne
03 9482 3550

#Melbourne Art Fair 2010 – #geekgirl

Melbourne Art Fair 2010
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Melbourne Art Fair is an exhibition of leading contemporary art, presented by over 80 selected national and international galleries. The biennial event features paintings, sculpture, photography, installations and multi media art works of over 900 artists and attracts up to 30,000 visitors.

Melbourne Art Week 2010 will be launched with the Melbourne Art Foundation Lecture presented by a Bill Henson.  This is followed by six days of events, functions and entertainment, including: the Galleries and Collectors Dinner, the celebrated opening night Vernissage and after party, free Lectures, Forums and Artist Talks, receptions for international guests, industry parties, walking art tours of Melbourne, live radio broadcasts from the venue, private morning teas, free Guided Tours, the launch and gifting of the Melbourne Art Foundation Commission, Project Rooms, Music Music Music! Fair Shake music night, and other public events and functions, and most importantly the Melbourne Art Fair exhibition of over 80 galleries and 10 project rooms held in the Royal Exhibition Building and surrounds.

Australiana exhibition on at Arts Project Australia #Melbourne #painters #disabilitynot

Steven Worrell
Dame Edna 2010
gouache on black rag paper
38 x 28.5cm

Australiana is a loud, bold and colourful exhibition of a loud, bold and colourful land.  Far removed from notions of patriotism, politics or nationalism, this collection of works reveal a great love, an adoring lens through which the wonder and hilarity of our Great Brown Land can be viewed.

Created with a loving hand and an innate, familiar knowledge of the subject, these works catch the eye, capture the heart and make us feel at home.  Australiana – like our country itself, is really an experience, not just a show.  Upon entry, viewers will become immersed in the tastes, sounds and sights of the kitsch, the entertaining, the sporting and the clichéd; the rock, the sails, the bridge.  Amongst this virtual tour of the Great Down Under there are truly some stand-out; Steven Worrell’s haunting portryal portrayal of Ned Kelly, Michael Trasancos’ loving and painterly cataloguing of native mammals, and Lisa Reid’s detailed, near photorealistic rendering of the Big Pineapple, to name just a few.

Venue: Arts Project Australia
Until: 21  July 2010

Lee-Anne Raymond – Painting 10A – are the burqa and nica a matter of fashion or choice? #Melbourne #painters

isochronos metamorphosis with nicab by lee anne raymond

Lee-Anne Raymond currently exhibiting in a group show Painting 10A, at the Brunswick Street Gallery #Melbourne. A range of artists will be represented, all are painters. Lee-Anne has created 4 new works challenging the misconception that the burqa and nicab are a matter of fashion or choice providing the wearer with security and empowerment.

Painting 10A
Until 14th July, 2010
Brunswick Street Gallery
2/322 Brunswick St
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

www.leeanneart.com
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Gallery 9 Presents ‘Ad Astra’ Exhibition

21 July – 14 August 2010 :: Sydney, Australia

Ad Astra, by artist Adam Norton, reflects on the desire for space travel, and contains a series of paintings comparing past individuals and present agencies involved in Space exploration, both physically and imaginatively.

For more information visit www.gallery9.com.au

Hidden – at Arts Project Australia

Hidden. A significant group exhibition of artwork that will challenge and engage the viewer on many levels, with hidden layers and messages, at Arts Project Australia Gallery until – 24 April 2010.

Hidden has its own logic, its own language of coded form and idiosyncracy hidden within the artist’s mind and located somewhere between the viewer and the artwork. Just as a puzzle or riddle evades us, these works challenge the viewer to decipher or see beyond their initial reading.

“Hidden showcases the symbolic and abstract work of established artists side by side with that of  emerging artists – a striking combination of pathos and humour.” Sue Roff, Director Arts Project Australia.

The artists use symbols, codes and metaphor as vehicles in many of these works. Familiar objects are cloaked, re-fashioned and abstracted into new forms and compositions that are evocative, surprising and mysterious.

Sometimes the subject can be found closer to the surface, others are more subtle, they need a commitment of time to unravel their magic, which might also lie somewhere between meaning and (un)reason.

With work by Boris Cipusev, Ruth Howard, Julian Martin, Rebecca Scibilia, Leo Cussen, Terry Williams, Andrew Barbour, Guiseppe Calcagno, Brendan Slee and Antonella Calvano, Kieren Carroll, Fulli Andrinopoulos and Tim Williams amongst others. Curated by Camille Hannah and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman.

Gallery talk
Sat 10 April, from 12.30-1pm

Camille Hannah and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman in discussion with various artists

Location

Arts Project Australia,
24 High Street  Northcote Vic  3070

Gallery hours
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-1pm