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#Melbourne Art Fair 2010 – #geekgirl
Melbourne Art Fair 2010
4-8the AugustMelbourne 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.
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Australiana exhibition on at Arts Project Australia #Melbourne #painters #disabilitynot
Steven Worrell
Dame Edna 2010
gouache on black rag paper
38 x 28.5cmAustraliana 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
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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, Australiawww.leeanneart.com
Humanist Transhumanist Catalogue
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Gallery 9 Presents ‘Ad Astra’ Exhibition
21 July – 14 August 2010 :: Sydney, AustraliaAd 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
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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 12.30-1pmCamille Hannah and Bernadette Trench-Thiedeman in discussion with various artists
Location
Arts Project Australia,
24 High Street Northcote Vic 3070Gallery hours
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday 10am-1pm
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Ada Lovelace by @emcee #emcee
This is cool I stumbled across it today.
Ada Lovelace by M-C Turgeon
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Frida Kahlo exhibit in Brussels, FRIDA KAHLO Y SU MUNDO
Frida Kahlo with small monkey, 1945
Frida Kahlo – Autorretrato con changuito (Self-Portrait with Small Monkey), 1945. – ©I stumbled upon this lovely image of a Frida Kahlo self-portrait with small monkey as part of the Bozar Museum’s, FRIDA KAHLO Y SU MUNDO exhibit from Jan 16 – 18 April, 2010. Profound as always, Frida captures a moment of insight and great intensity.BRUSSELS – Throughout her short life she was shadowed by her powerful lover and husband, Diego Rivera, and had to fight against the consequences of a terrible tram accident. Today, Rivera is in purgatory and she, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), has become an international icon, even enticing Hollywood screenwriters. As incomplete as it may be, an exhibition of her works is bound to attract the crowds. It is the conviction at Bozar, which presents for the bicentennial of the Mexican Independence the private collection from the Dolores Olmedo museum: a mere twenty paintings, but they cover the essential part of Kahlo’s career, from 1927 to 1945, and most of the themes she dealt with, of which of course the self-portrait. At a time when the discovery of Frida Kahlo copies is constantly announced, this is good timing. An ensemble o f photographs presents the famous Blue House in Coyoacán, in Mexico City, and the people who surrounded her, including some well-known personalities such as Trotsky and Gisèle Freund.
•Frida Kahlo y su mundo, at Bozar, from 16 January to 18 April 2010
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See Salvador Dali before he melts away
13 June to 4 October 2009 – Salvador Dali – Liquid Desire – More than 200 works including painting, drawing, watercolour, etchings, jewellery, sculpture, fashion, cinema and photography. The exhibition aims to trace Dali from his earliest years as a 14-year-old Impressionist painter to the final paintings, which address science and physics and which were created when the artist was in his seventies.
Open Wednesday to Monday from 10.00am to 5.00pm at the National Gallery Victoria International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne. During the Salvadore Dali exhibition the National Gallery Victoria International is open until 9.00pm on Wednesdays for art after dark.
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Tickled Pink in association with the Breast Cancer Network Australia
From 7 – 31 October 2009, Tickled Pink will be hosted at Artereal Gallery in Rozelle (Australia) to support Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) – the peak national organisation representing Australians personally affected by breast cancer.
The director, staff and artists from Artereal Gallery and the broader arts community have come together to organise the Tickled Pink fundraising event, which is an exhibition of work by 25 of Australia’s finest contemporary artists.
Opening night pink drinks with the artists and tasty pink treats will be served on Wed Oct 7 from 6 – 8 pm.
The art work exhibited includes sculptures, works on paper, oil paintings, photographs and mixed media works made specifically for the exhibition by leading local and interstate artists such as Kate Rhode, Claude Jones, Damian Dillon, Andrew Lavery, Christine Polowyj , Cecilia Fogelberg, Glen Henderson, Sarah Parker, Anne MacDonald, Sylvia Schwenk, Ruth Hassall, Nola Diamantopoulos and Cash Brown.
Nola Diamantopoulos has generously donated her time and expertise to hold workshops for women living with breast cancer to explore their journeys through art making and meditation. Some of these works will also be exhibited, and we gratefully acknowledge Tilly’s Art Supplies for donating the workshop materials.
Money raised from the sale of artworks and activities during the event will directly assist BCNA to continue its work ensuring Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer have the very best information, treatment and support possible.
This includes the distribution of the My Journey Kit, a free comprehensive information resource for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. BCNA works to ensure that women diagnosed with breast cancer, and their families, receive the very best treatment, care and support possible – no matter who they are, or where they live.
BCNA acknowledges the tremendous efforts of Artereal Gallery, Art Almanac, Tilly’s Art and Office Supplies, Darling Park Wines, The Art Scene and the artists in supporting our work, and encourages the local community to participate and help to make a difference to women and their families.
Artereal Gallery
Street: 747 Darling Street
Rozelle, NSW AustraliaOpens: 6pm. Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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DIY Project: Window Films
“…using contact paper and a white paint pen, i’ve created some decorative window films that are easy to change, replace, move, etc. if you don’t feel super comfortable with your drawing skills, you can easily print out images or text and trace them onto the contact paper…
What You’ll Need:
1. contact paper, clear (this is for lining drawers, you can find it at hardware or drug stores)
2. ruler
3. scissors or exacto
4. paint pen
5. tape…”For the complete instructions and examples, visit Design Sponge.
