Archives for category: Exhibitions
Danger Will Robinson! closes today, Sunday 29 June, at 5.00pm.
Tony Albert, The Moon Is Not Yours to Take, 2014. Coca Cola cans and wire, 65 x 30cm. (Courtesy of the Artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney)
Margarita Sampson, The Purple Peril, 2014. Textiles, variable dimensions. Photo credit: John McRae.
Also today Master Miniature Painter Ajay Sharma arrives in Sydney from Jaipur. His exhibition of paintings, The Speed of Life, opens this Thursday, 3 July, at 6.00pm. The Deputy Mayor of Marrickville, Councillor Rosana Tyler will introduce Pawan Luthra, CEO of Indian Link Media Group, who will open the exhibition. Chai and Indian sweets will be served. All welcome!
Ajay Sharma, Krishna Mankot, 2014. Pigment on paper. Image credit: Ajay Sharma.
Ajay Sharma will also be running two five-day miniature painting workshops from next week. Contact SquarePeg Studios for details under Opportunities. There is only one spot left in the second workshop but your name can go on a waiting list.
Dr Andrew Frost opens Danger Will Robinson! at 6.30pm tonight.
Doors open at 6.00pm.
While the exhibition looks playful enough, it is underpinned by some very serious political as well as sinister concerns.
Only open for three days from 11.00 – 5.00pm today Friday 27 June to Sunday 29 June it is well worth the visit to the outer limits of this Inner West arts precinct!
TextaQueen, When The South Rises, 2011. Felt tip on Stonehenge cotton paper. 127 x 97cm. Photo credit:Sullivan+Strumpf (represented by Sullivan+Strumpf)
Shalini Jardin, girl with yellow eyes, 2014, Digital drawing on photo paper, 29.7 x 21cm. Photo credit: Shalini Jardin (represrent by Flinders Street Gallery)
Lynda Draper, Starman, 2014, Ceramic and various glazes, 19 x 26 x 17cm. Photo credit: Lynda Draper (represented by Gallerysmith, Melbourne)
Abdullah M I Syed, The Currency of Star-Trek-War, 2014, Folded US$1 bills, various dimensions.
Jane Polkinghorne, We Are The Robots (black), 2014, Sharpie and gel ink on paper, 21 x 29.7cm
Deborah Kelly, Empress, Digital photomontage. Pigment print on Hahnemuelle archival photo etching paper, 99 x 150cm.
Yiorgos Zafiriou, Exterior Foil Landscape, 2014. Performance. 20 minutes.
And there is more fabulous work – this is just a taster!
Francesca Mataraga’s wonderful exhibition Spaces For Leisure has closed and an unnerving silence has descended upon AirSpace Projects.
Now they are coming …
Tony Albert
Pat Brassington
Lynda Draper
Brenda Factor
C.Moore Hardy
Helen Hyatt-Johnston
Shalini Jardin
Deborah Kelly
Allison M. Low
Sarah Newall
Sarah Park
Jane Polkinghorne
Somboun Phonesouk
Abdullah M I Syed
TextaQueen
Margarita Sampson
Yiorgos Zafiriou
Louise Zhang
Open for 3 days only: 11.00am – 5.00pm Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June.
Andrew Frost will be opening the exhibition at 6.30pm Friday 27 June.
Doors open at 6.00pm.
10 Junction Street Marrickville Sydney. See you there.
This is what AirSpace Projects used to be – cold storage for Czechoslovakian beer – and this is the beginnings of a plan being hatched by Jamil Yamini for In Motion on November 22:
Danger Will Robinson! is coming soon …
To be opened by Dr Andrew Frost at 6.30pm Friday 27 June at AirSpace Projects. All Welcome!
This unofficial satellite exhibition coincides with the final days of Conquest of Space: Science Fiction and Contemporary Art at UNSW Galleries and features a stellar cast of artists:
Tony Albert, Pat Brassington, Lynda Draper, Brenda Factor, C.Moore Hardy, Helen Hyatt Johnston, Shalini Jardin, Deborah Kelly, Allison M. Low, Sarah Newall, Sarah Park, Somboun Phonesouk, Jane Polkinghorne, Margarita Sampson, Abdullah M I Syed, TextaQueen, Yiorgos Zafiriou, Louise Zhang
This exhibition runs for 3 days only!
11.00 – 5.00pm Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June
See Upcoming Exhibitions for more details
Francesca Mataraga’s ‘Spaces for Leisure (an installation for AirSpace Projects)’ is opening on Thursday 5 June between 6.00 and 8.00pm. The exhibition will run from Friday 6 June until Saturday 21 June. Francesca Mataraga is a site responsive artist who has created some phenomenal installations including ‘a to b (wall work for Articulate Upstairs)’, Vitrine (Kandos Projects) and Elisabet at Queen Street Studios/Frasers. We are thrilled to be hosting ‘Spaces for Leisure (an installation for AirSpace)’ and look forward to seeing how this wonderful artist transforms our space.
Francesca Mataraga, a to b (wall work for Articulate Upstairs), 2013. Photo credit: Johan Palsson.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
Ajay Sharma, 2014. From the Speed of Life series.
AirSpace Projects and SquarePeg Studios are proud to announce that Ajay Sharma is coming to Marrickville in July to exhibit his work and to run two five-day Miniature Painting workshops. Only a limited number of students will be accepted into the workshop. For more information and enrolment go to SquarePeg Studios.
Sharma is a freelance artist and Master Mughal Miniature Painter of the Rajasthan School who has been supervising a studio of employees and students in Jaipur, India, since 1984. From 1979 until 1984 he was apprenticed under the direct tutelage of Master Painter Mahendra Sharma in Jaipur, India.
Ajay Sharma, 2014. From the Zodiac series.
Sharma has built an international reputation based upon the many artists and students who have passed through his school and as a result of his teaching and exhibition history both in India and abroad. In 2010 he exhibited his collaborative works with artist Julie Evans in ‘Cowdust’ at the Julie Saul Gallery, New York. The exhibition received significant reviews in Art in America (Anna MeCugni, January 2011), Art Forum (Ida Panicelli, February 2011) and Vogue Italia (Emanuel, Lugli, November 2011). He has taught miniature painting at the Jaipur Virasat Foundation; the Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha; the University of Baroda; the Sanskriti Kendra in New Delhi; the Ahmadabad Fine Arts College and the Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London.
The work of Francine Haywood, first time student of Ajay Sharma.
Ajay Sharma is an expert in the field of Mughal miniature painting, conservation and copy work. He has formidable knowledge in the research, preparation and practice in pigments, composition and drawing, brushes and gold leaf. He specialises in all types of miniature and mural painting including Tantra painting, Rajput Painting, Kota School and Jaipur School, Rajput and his practice spans new creations, collaborations, traditional style, portrait painting and commission work. His major preservation and conservation projects include the Heritage Hotel Samode Palace and the Multan Estate in Jaipur, India.
Cancel all engagements on Friday May 2 between 6-8pm. JD Reforma is coming to AirSpace Projects.
JD Reforma, Luvo, 2014
Digital stock image appropriated for promotional use. Image copyright Brian Mueller. Used under license from Shutterstock.com
‘Love’ is an installation in two parts. In the video, a figure swings at a cycle of tennis balls served by an unseen opponent. As the sole player, his motivation wavers until his focus gives way to exhaustion or indifference. It is a game played with no cumulative goal or order and, as it progresses, he loses heart. In the accompanying text – a list – names have been catalogued according to the rhythm of the match.
In exploring the tension between narrative and gesture, ‘Love’ attempts to conflate the rhythm of written language with that of the moving image.
It was another great night at AirSpace Projects for the opening of Landscape Too. And to echo ek.1’s video work ‘Make it real (one more time)’ storm clouds and lightening provided a dramatic backdrop but fortunately spared us from the deluge that struck parts of the south coast and tablelands. In the manner of a gothic harbinger fruit bats streamed across the sky to seek refuge in the city, forewarning only those who are inclined to superstition.
The work looks great, a mixture of traditional and new media responses to the enduring concern of landscape. In recent years, new questions have been raised in relation to landscape, framing it not as a shared or agreed upon reality but rather as a subjective experience where its representation reflects the attributes of the culture it emerges from. Some of the questions have been addressed in the work and the accompanying booklet, encouraging viewers and readers to reflect upon their own experience of landscape and to consider how it is socially and culturally manipulated.
Viewing art on the internet doesn’t compare to viewing art in the flesh. Not only is there the variation of scale to consider, some of the works function as sounds and moving images while the more traditional media offer seductive surfaces not easily appreciated when mediated by the virtual world. Here are a few details of work to entice you over to Marrickville. And come enjoy the ambience of AirSpace Projects.
Ron McBurnie, Catherine Parker and Stephen Spurrier. Unraveling a Constellation (detail), 2014. Etching, screenprint and acrylic paint on paper, 20 x 20cm each.
ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams and Emma Hicks). Make it real (one more time) (detail), 2014. Digital print on fabric banner, digital video looped on LCD screen on four panels. 69 x 240cm.
Hayley Megan French. Some Distance (detail), 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 160cm.
Mark Shorter, Two Sketches for Antipodysseus (detail), 2014. Two channel HD video installation, 9:34. Camera Jürgen Kerkovius.
AirSpace Projects 2014-2017 