| 13 march - 23rd march |
8 may - 25th may |
| Robyn Burgess "Russia" |
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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. |
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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.
Burgess documents the formal
and non-formal issues in our architectural culture and seeks to reinforce her
exploration of mood, beauty and history.
Robyn Burgess |
| Princess Tina's Pony Club |
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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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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. |
| Gemma Jones |
Ben Jones |
Joan Letcher |
Christine Aerfeldt |
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