Salt and the Dress an Installation by Lesley Dickman

Lesley Dickman’s new installation, Salt And The Dress, arrives at Guildford Lane Gallery this June. The artist, who cites the landscape as the starting point for her work, has travelled the Australian outback and crossed America’s Mohave dessert, sketching, painting and photographing the interesting shapes found in the eroded rock
formations.

Having grown up with a dressmaking mother, Lesley’s work also focuses on the theme of the dress. Living in a house used as a dressmaking factory meant there was very little separation between that creative process and our day-to-day living, she says. Like fabric it was woven into many aspects of my childhood memories.

Currently working with the landscape around Geelong and the You Yangs in Victoria, the artist says she has discovered the salt pond as a rich resource for the next series of paintings: I find it interesting that salt is corrosive yet a healer of wounds. It has proved to be very destructive in the environment and yet it has many useful properties that we encounter on a daily basis. I work in layers of paint that, like salt, can dissolve
and merge then reappear.

Exhibition: 17 June – 5 July
Opening: 6pm Thurs 18 June

20 – 24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne
http://www.guildfordlanegallery.org/

Sydney Sleek Geeks at ACP

The Australian Centre of Photography (ACP) presents the winners of the University of Sydney’s Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize 2008. This prize is for a short video that communicates a scientific concept in a way that is accessible and entertaining while painlessly increasing the public’s understanding of science.
 
12 June – 28 June
Free Admission
ACP Lounge, 257 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW 2021
 
Go to <http://www.acp.org.au/videos> to find out more

i am uniQue

This site lets you build a unique interactive 3D portrait made up of words, pictures, video, tweets etc.

Appears to be FOXTEL’s latest foray and attempt at a social media campaign.

Start playing with yourself at i am uniQue

FamousWhenDead exhibitions in May

All in All is an exhibition aimed to bring together local artists and local residents alike. It presents artists from a variety of different ages and backgrounds living and working in 3003 and 3051. Expect a range of different mediums including painting, sculpture, photography and jewellery. Featured are works by Ted May, Eric Henshall, Catherine Mather, Theo Robinson, Bengamin, Noriko Nakamura, Sophie Black, Lehmann Smith, Sonja Hornung, Natalie Jeffcott, Mirian Mooney and Julie Parker.
Exhibition runs from 1 – 17 May.

What to do with the good old vinyl record when music comes from discs and pods these days? Throw some art on it and spin that thing! This exhibition will present unique works on 12inch records, and if you are luck you might be still able to  play the B-side. Collector’s feast…
Artists include: Ali J, El Moocho, ApeSeven, Kirsty Furnes (FR), Shayna Yasuhara (USA), Martin Whatson (NOR), Caitlin Rigby, Yuki Nakano, Adi, Fray, Hermlife (USA), Megan Dell, Simon Milligan (NL), A1one (IRAN), Laura McKellar, Maria Slovakova (UK), Papermonster (USA). More to be announced.
Exhibition runs 21 – 31 May.

FamousWhenDead Gallery | 207 Victoria St | West Melbourne VIC 3003 | melway ref 2B A11 | Australia

http://www.famouswhendead.com.au/

Have you ever been on the Tour of Beauty – squatfest request.

It’s been three and half years since SquatSpace first conducted their now infamous REDFERN-WATERLOO – TOUR OF BEAUTY.

The next tour on May 31st is part of the exhibition There Goes The Neighbourhood at Performance Space in The Carriageworks (Sydney).  Squatfest normally loathe to do a gallery piece about Redfern, which of course was the original impetus to instead take people around on the ground in Redfern.  However, in addition to a tour, Squatfest has come up with a great idea to create a giant photo mural from all the pics taken on the tour over the past few years!  Something like “A thousand pictures speak one word: Redfern”

So if you have been on any of the tours over the years, we are looking for your photos! They need your digital file and they’ll do the printing.

Please send by May 8th,  to info@squatspace. com, or upload them to Flickr, or other such online photo management and sharing applications, and send the link. Thanks!

Polar Rose – photo app

Polar Rose detects and matches the faces in your flickr® photos – so you can easily name people and share photos with your Facebook friends.

http://www.polarrose.com/

10th Anniversary of the Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival

Enjoy 7 world premieres of 7 Short Films by 7 new Australian directors including directorial debuts by Deborah Mailman and Leah Purcell.

FREE public screenings, FREE live music,and a FREE photographic art exhibition. You will also have an opportunity to meet and talk with filmmakers after each session.

Sydney Opera House presents the 10th Message Sticks Festival, a program of film and performance celebrating the creativity of indigenous artists from Australia and overseas.

Runs May 7 – May 10th, 2009
Location:
The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House
Bennelong Point
Sydney, Australia

Eugenia Raskopoulos at Arc One Gallery – Melbourne

Eugenia Raskopoulos’s exhibition titled Writing Towards Disappearance continues her ongoing exploration of performance, language, identity and the subjective nature of translation across cultures.

Recently returning from Istanbul where her video work In A Word: Untitled #5 was featured in the Nightcomers Project: 10th International Istanbul Biennale, Raskopoulos has become recognized as a significant artist working across photography, video, installation and performance.  Technically Raskopoulos’s work explores the margins of photography and video, an interdisciplinary zone that synthesizes different methods of communication-highlighting the profound implications and meaning embedded in a simple movement.

runs until 2 May
Arc One Gallery
45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
www.arc1gallery.com

F*ck this Book at Polyester

Juvenile profane and timeless Bodhi Oser’s first collection of photographs F*ck this Book (more than 60 000 copies sold) featured images of real public signs that had been mischievously altered by stickers bearing the most expressive of all four-letter words. For this all-new collection Oser embarked on a globe-trotting odyssey spending countless hours on the hunt for the almost-perfect sign in need of just the slightest improvement.

PolyEster Books
330 Brunswick St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
T: 03 9419 5223
F: 03 9419 5451

www.polyester.com.au
www.myspace.com/polyesterbooks

face to face – portraiture in a digital age – a touring exhibition

How have new media and digital technologies changed the way we think about portraiture, identity and faces? What new forms of audience engagement and interaction are made possible by these new technologies?

Face to Face explores new forms of portraiture that incorporate a variety of different technologies from digital prints to single channel digital video and interactive installations.

Artists: Michele Barker & Anna Munster, Denis Beaubois, Daniel Crooks, Anna Davis & Jason Gee, Emil Goh, Angelica Mesiti, Adam Nash & Mami Yamanaka, David Rosetzky, Rachel Scott, Stelarc, John Tonkin

Opens Friday 27 March at Hazelhurst Gallery
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
Street: 782 Kingsway
City/Town: Gymea, Australia 
 
Email: kathy.cleland@usyd.edu.au
http://www.dlux.org.au/face2face