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June Exhibitions
Friday 3 – Saturday 18 June
Opening Event: Friday 3 June 6-8pm
Gallery One
Unravel
Nerine Martini
Unravel is an exhibition of drawings and sculptures. This body of work continues Martini’s interest in ideas of belonging, loss, displacement, migration, travel and home. It is a response both to the uncertainties of our time as well as a personal narrative, one that is yet to fully unravel.
Gallery Two
Site Seeing
Fiona Hooton
The works in Site Seeing are models assembled from found, toy-building blocks and sampled fragments of film. They are constructed impressions of cities, their nightly romantic spectacle and their mortgage belts and housing bubbles.
Fiona Hooton is a Canberra-based artist who is currently the artist-in-residence at Thirning Villa, Ashfield until 16 June.
The Cranny
It Speaks of Others
Kate Brown and Tom Hungerford
Curated by Elyse Goldfinch
It Speaks of Others is a collaborative exhibition that will explore the unexpected and abstracted relationships between the human voice and it’s emotive, communicative force. Kate and Tom have both discovered a fascination in the human voice through their musical backgrounds and experiences as artists working with sound. By transforming the gallery into a living organ, the artists will inscribe the space through a vocal performance from 6pm – 7pm on the opening night.
Deep Space
Memory Catchers
Joanne Makas
Memory Catchers is an investigation into how memory can be carried or stored within the materiality of an object. The work grows from an inquiry into the physicality of painting and using colour as a device to trigger memories of past places, times and events.
Images Top to Bottom: Nerine Martini, Between Certainties, 2016, 104 x 187 x 132cm, plywood, woven plastic bags. Image courtesy the artist; Fiona Hooton: Codebox 3, Image courtesy of the artist; Ear, 2016, promotional image: Tom Hungerford; Joanne Makas, Tea-In-Sin, 2015, cotton, oil, acrylic, marble dust, wood, 28 x 36 x 60cm. Image: Document Photography.
ARTIST TALKS
Saturday 21 May 2-5pm
The final day of the May exhibitions
10 Junction Street Marrickville
Join artists Michelle Heldon, Yiorgo Yiannopoulos, Amy Claire Mills and Uri Auerbach for art talks, cake and tea. Engage in conversation about art inspired by cold climates; sites of queer resistance activated by a glance; the secret life of collaboration and meditations on displacement.
ALL WELCOME
Image above: Detail of Kath Fries work from the Beguile i-vii series, 2015, archival photographic print on cotton rag paper, 43x43cm, edition 1/3. Image: AirSpace Projects
Fiona Hooton
Site Seeing: Exhibition and Residency
17 May – 16 June 2016
Canberra artist Fiona Hooton will be taking up a one month residency at Ashfield Council’s Thirning Villa from 17 May to 16 June to coincide with her exhibition Site Seeing at AirSpace Projects. During the residency Fiona will be undertaking projects in the Ashfield Council Area.
Read on to find out more about Fiona Hooton’s events and activities:
Site Seeing
Exhibition, 3-18 June
Opening Friday 3 June, 6-8pm. All Welcome!
AirSpace Projects, 10 Junction Street, Marrickville
New works by Fiona Hooton, Site Seeing includes models and maps of cities assembled from found, building blocks and sampled fragments of film. These assemblages investigate our conflicted relationship with cities, their public sites and private spaces.
Ashfield Stories of Place (digital project)
Stories about place not only enhance local community belonging but also give outsiders insights into the values and connections within the local community. Stories put us in touch with others, our surroundings and with ourselves.
Fiona is seeking volunteers to assist with telling digital stories about Ashfield, people, places and events. If you are interested email:
Ashfield Lightning Talks
7.15pm, Wednesday 15 June
Thirning Villa, 40 Arthur Street, Ashfield
Come along to hear speakers, channel stories (5 mins each) about spirited people, places and events linked to Ashfield’s past and present.
Held in association with Ashfield locals and community groups.
Suitable for all ages
Free, bookings recommended
https://register.eventarc.com/34390/ashfield-lightning-talks
Shapeshifting – Sculpture Workshop
10−12.30am, Sunday 12 June
Thirning Villa, 40 Arthur Street, Ashfield
Explore what’s extraordinary about the spaces and places you live, in this hands on workshop. Re-shape your neighbourhood by tearing up past and present maps and combining them with your imagination. Investigate ideas of what a ‘model’ city might be and build your own version using recycled materials.
Suitable for ages eight and up.
Free, booking recommended
https://register.eventarc.com/34066/sculpture-workshop-shapeshifting-ashfield
MAY EXHIBITIONS
Friday 6 – Saturday 21 May 2016
OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY 6 MAY 6-8PM
Gallery One
Out of Time
Michelle Heldon, Taryn Raffan and Kath Fries
Out of Time traces the artists’ personal engagements with place and time during their residencies in Greenland, Iceland and Finland. Their works range from drawings and sculptures to videos, photographs and installations, conveying felt experiences and responses to the pull of the magical, inner power of the landscapes, icebergs, forests, lava fields, cultures and story-telling traditions of the far north.
Gallery Two
Love Come
Yiorgo Yiannopoulos
Sites that facilitate queer and homosexual erotic encounters are diverse. Clustered throughout the city, toilets, bathhouses, parks and the streets themselves are sites of queer sexual resistance which, when they lay dormant, can be activated with a single glance.
The Cranny
Collusions
Bailee Lobb and Amy Claire Mills
Collusions explores collaboration as a secretive and private act between two people, when we make we make together. The work is only ever discussed between the collaborators and evolves not only through their connection, but also through the exclusion of the outside world.
Deep Space
Dune
Uri Auerbach
Inspired by recent developments in Australian immigration policy, as well as the artist’s family history as exiles, refugees and immigrants, Dune is a meditation on territory and identity: a contemplation of borders, belonging, displacement and mutation.
ALL WELCOME!
Images From Top: Taryn Raffan, oracle (green), 2014-2015, Icelandic, Danish and Scottish wool, cotton thread and plaster, approx. 12 x 12 x 12cm. Photo: Taryn Raffan. Yiorgo Yiannopoulos, Cum Laude #9, 2015, pigment print, 70 x 53cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Bailee Lobb and Amy Claire Mills, Collusions (detail), 2016. Image courtesy of the artists. Uri Auerbach, Dune (detail), 2016. Image courtesy of the artist.
ARTIST TALKS
On Saturday 16 April 2-5pm
The Artists Will Be Present
10 Junction Street Marrickville Sydney
Shalini Jardin, Ainsley Wilcock and Janette Gay will discuss the ideas underpinning their exhibitions from 2.00pm. Join us and navigate encounters with the ‘other’, the action of ‘grotesquing’ and altered perceptions of space. Conversation and lashing of tea until the closing of the April exhibitions at 5pm.
Ainsley Wilcock, Skin to Green, 2016, faux fur on stretchers, 40.6 x 40.6cm. Photo: AirSpace Projects
Janette Gay, Cornered (installation view), 2016, HD video looped (1:20 mins). Photo: AirSpace Projects.AirSpace Projects currently closed while new exhibitions are installed. Reopens 11am Friday 1 April
APRIL EXHIBITIONS
Friday 1 to Saturday 16 April
Opening Event
Friday 1 April 6-8pm
ALL WELCOME
Gallery One and The Cranny
Shalini Jardin
Other/Worldly
This exhibition explores a fusion of animal/human hybridity and questions fixed binary constructions of Otherness. Various beings and sentient life forms are de/constructed to create new meanings.
Gallery Two
Ainsley Wilcock
Grotesquing The Body Trace
Relying on the interaction and co-presence of humour, horror, play and terror, Wilcock fuses the grotesque aesthetic with seemingly incongruous categories of images and forms. Clothing and unstable ‘bodily’ materials provide transient territories to explore ideas of presence and absence.
Deep Space
Janette Gay
Cornered
Cornered, a multi-media digital installation will explore the manner in which our increasingly constrained and inward focussed urban environments can confine our world. The installation will play with the restricted gallery space, its corners and with concepts of being cornered and forced into restricted positions.
Image Top: Shalini Jardin, Hybrid Beings (video still), 2016, HD digital video: 5 mins. Courtesy of the artist.
Image Middle: Ainsley Wilcock, Composite #15 (detail), 2016, coloured pencil on Stonehenge paper, 112 x 76.5cm. Courtesy of the artist.
Image Bottom: Janette Gay, Cornered #1 (video still), 2016, HD video looped (1:20 minutes). Courtesy of the artist.
The Artists Are Present
Sunday 20 March 11-5pm
AirSpace Projects is extending it’s opening hours for the final day of Art Month!
Over the course of Sunday 20 March, between 11-5, the exhibiting artists Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Marie McMahon, Katya Petetskaya and Emily Copp will come and go for informal conversations about their work.
Phaptawan Suwannakudt was born in Thailand and has been living in Australia for twenty years. She is an established artist and began her art career as a temple mural painter. Phaptawan’s contemporary installation and paintings, Reincarnation of the Butterflies, addresses her relocation to Australia from Thailand and the memories emerging from that experience. Phaptawan’s work is in major collections and was chosen by curators Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster to be represented in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, All Our Relations, 2014.
Marie McMahon, political poster-maker of 1975-90 Tin Sheds fame, has been visiting the Botany Bay National Park one day a week for three years and filling her visuals diaries with colour swatches. These have been translated into relief models which in turn have been transformed into exquisite landscape paintings of folded colour. As well as being interesting both formally and philosophically, the fold also echoes the architectural facades of 1960s buildings Marie documented while researching in Cambodia.
Katya Petetskaya’s paintings explore the politics of contamination through oil spills. Oil spills shape Australian landscapes economically and politically because Australian companies invest in international companies that are responsible for oil spills both inside and outside of Australia including her birth place, Russia. In addition to painting Katya works as a performance artist, attempting correlationist experiments with alternative forms of knowledge that go beyond thought to understand the co-relation between body and reality.
Emily Copp is passionate about the environment, particularly the impact of unconventional coal seam gas mining on communities and natural resources. In As Above, So Below Emily translates her concerns into table platters and jewellery through new technologies of 3D printing and hydraulic pressing. Emily has worked closely with the Lock The Gate Alliance during this project and is highly motivated to explore ethical and environmental issues through her work. Emily studied at Enmore College of Design and is a community-minded and contributing tenant – along with her well-trained dog Tiga – at SquarePeg Studios, Marrickville.
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