From
the curators of "TOPS", "strps"
will be held in conjunction with the Melbourne Fashion
Festival, featuring works from four, Melbourne based,
design orientated labels: Burn Crew, P.A.M, Princess
Tina's Pony Club, schwipe.
The labels have been asked to create a piece that
consists of stripes or strips, of whatever they choose,
to represent their label. Expect to see paintings,
fabric designs, patterns and installations. |
Princess Tina's Pony Club |
Robyn
Burgess continues her journeying this time evoking
St Petersburg, Russia. She takes us to the heart of
a Russian winter to conjure atmospheric images of
monumental buildings in thick, heavy layers of monochrome
paint reflecting powerfully the cold and the snow.
Her obscured, abstracted buildings are rendered such
that the further away you stand the clearer you see
the huge scale.
Robyn Burgess
Burgess
documents the formal and non-formal issues in our
architectural culture and seeks to reinforce her
exploration of mood, beauty and history.
17
july - 10 august
gemma + ben + joan + christine "group show"
A group show of 4 artists
from 3 states which proudly declares the sparkle
of fresh contemporary artists working loosely with
appropriated imagery.
Christine Aerfeldt (Adelaide) takes a seemingly
romanticized and nostalgic view of the past and
of childhood - creating an artificial world where
things are superficially 'nice', denying the realities
hidden below a façade. Her style explores dream-like
hyper-realities. Joan Letcher's practice revolves
around image-making with photocopying and collage
in a surreal way that combines mystery and captivating
simplicity. Ben Jones (Perth) takes imagery from
the popular culture of comic books, children's encyclopedias
and everyday advertising, painting them seemingly
casually on found pieces of metal and other discarded
industrial material. Gemma Jones's bold, pop portraiture
celebrates the female image while reveling in the
flatness of paint and accidental abstraction.
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29
may - 27 june
Multi-award winning artist
and printmaker Marcel Cousins' immersion in Japanese
culture has produced this brilliant recent body of
work "If You Want To be Moved Take The Bus"
For Marcel, Tokyo is a city based on "hyper-reality
where … image and reality implodes. Generating visual
images that are contradictory, popular, animated,
ironic and blank". Marcel takes the imagery from
everyday contemporary culture and twists them in his
own unique version of cross-cultural pop.
From political pop posters to ero manga - Marcel Cousins
is on the cutting edge of young contemporary Australian
artists.
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Marcel
Cousins
"If
you want to be moved take the bus"
Marcel Cousins detail
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