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2011
Peter Nelson:
Mountain Drawing (the first time I felt at home)
“The link between art and architecture, in this case, is the common desire to create alternate realities through spatial invention.” – Peter Nelson
Mountain Drawing (the first time I felt at home) comprises a large-scale Perspex sculpture and the series of plein air drawings on which it was based, which Nelson completed during his 2009 study tour of China’s Hunan and Guanxi Province. The work was inspired by urban architectural designs as well as organic geological formations (particularly the karst limestone peaks of Southern China).
The work represents an important juncture in Nelson’s broader exploration of the traditions of the fabricated landscape, encompassing such reference points as the Chinese literati tradition, European Romanticism and urban utopian architectural designs.
Opened 5-7.30pm Tuesday 8 February
Continued to 18 February 2011
Tina Fiveash:
Grace
Featuring a captivating series of large-scale animated lenticular photographs, stills, and video art, the series explores the thematic of dream, memory and emotion.
Grace represents Tina’s shift into video art and animated lenticular photography: a technologically complex and rarely used medium, which produces an illusion of animation on a flat photograph. Viewers of the works are enabled the freedom to infinitely rewind, replay and/or pause to reflect on all they are seeing/perceiving by controlling the angle and pace in which they interact with the large-scale works.
Bernie Hobbs from ABC Science and The New Inventors (ABC TV) officially opened this exhibition 5-7:30pm Tuesday 22 February
Continued to 5 March 2011
John Aslanidis, Denis Beaubois, Shaun Gladwell, Angelica Mesiti, Khalad Sabsabi
Medium Cool
Curated by Nick Vickers
Medium Cool is the phrase that describes the colour temperature of digital presentations. But whilst this exhibition features a cool medium, the artists featured deal with a hot topic - humanity and our social networks. Within our communities, whether urban or rural, a complex fermentation process is in progress. From the sonic reverberations of John Alslanidis’s works to the disquieting undertones of Denis Beaubois’ exploding brews, the collective human heart beats from within Angelica Mesiti’s rapturous audience to Khaled Sabsabi’s multiple racial stereotypes and throughout all, the strife of human endeavour is encapsulated in Shaun Gladwell’s work.
Opened 5-7.30pm Tuesday 8 March
Continued to 19 March 2011
Marlaina Read:
“Do you have a recurring dream space? Can you describe it to me?”
“My interest is nurtured by a desire to intimate the links between perception, faith and memory and the spaces we inhabit, through slow revelation.” – MARLAINA READ
This work represents the culmination of work undertaken for Read’s Masters of Fine Art in which she mounted an exploration into the sensations of pause and delay in viewing still images, particularly through the mnemonic possibilities created by viewing landscapes. The title itself refers to the way that images penetrate our consciousness only to be mediated by memory, in Read’s own words “the image becomes a transition point for recollection, for hallucination.” Read invites us all, through her ambiguous, dreamlike images, to pause and reflect.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 22 March
Continues to 2 April 2011
Shannon Field: "BUSTED... "
Busted is… a mass police lineup made up of well-known colonialists like Elizabeth Macquarie and explorers such as Burke and Wills; placed alongside depictions of convicts from the first fleet (those historically silent). However, Field’s interest is not so much in depicting the historical past; rather his concern is with exploring the relationship between Australia’s convict history and the performance of contemporary Australian masculinity. Utilising various media from textiles to painting, plasticine and ink, Shannon work is at once bold, colourful and tactile. The grotesque and monstrous heads on display in ‘Busted’ thus represent the possibility of Australia’s convict past reactivated in the present: the animation of the monstrous exile within ourselves.
JOIN US FOR OPENING DRINKS 5.00-7.30PM TUESDAY 5 APRIL.
continues to 16 April 2011
Paul Williams: JUNK PILES AND DIRTY STYLES
“By exploring notions of absurdity, humour and absence found within displaced objects, this project- through a variety of disciplines- embraces the filth and forges a relationship with the world through studio detritus, popular culture and memory.” – Paul Williams.
In Junk Piles and Dirty Styles, Williams engages aspects of contemporary masculinity, Australian popular culture and the urban landscape via painting, drawing, and sculpture. Challenging, while working within the possibilities of the ubiquitous “White Cube” Williams will transform Kudos from gallery into an ambiguous and playful space as a means to showcase the vibrant, virile and visceral works where they are most at home.
JOIN US FOR OPENING DRINKS 5.00-7.30PM TUESDAY 19 APRIL
exhibition continues to 30 April 2011
2010
Unearthed
Amanda Ryan
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 2 February
Continues to 13 February 2010
The Threads Between
Marnie Ross, Mitchell Kelly, Mike Barnard
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 16 February
Continues to 27 February 2010
Constructed Painting
Francesca Mataraga, Beata Geyer, Margaret Roberts, Rossana Martinez
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 2 March
Continues to 13 March 2010
Moment: Minus Them & Meaning
Adrian Clement, Alex Clapham, Andrew Haining, Zoe Robertson
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 16 March
Continues to 27 March 2010
Women in Piracy
Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris, Penelope Benton, Tara Cook, Brown Council, Tina Fiveash, Chloe Hughes, The Kingpins, Vicki Papa & Elizabeth Reidy. Curated by Marcel Cooper
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 30 March
Continues to 17 April 2010
Eye SPI
Curated by Emma Price
Exhibition 21 April – 1 May 2010
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 27 April
Out of Space
Lydia Dowman, Gemma Messih, Ben Holdstock, Andy Bass, Caitlin Gibson and more
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 4 May
Continues to 15 May 2010
IDAHO
Curated by SRC@COFA Queer Collective
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 18 May
Continues to 29 May 2010
After the Rainbow
Soda_Jerk
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 1 June
Continues to 12 June 2010
A Closer Distance
curated by Emma Pike
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 15 June
Continues to 19 June 2010
Anti Bodies
Melissa Beowulf, Julie Clarke, Hai Ying Gao, Megan Won
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 22 June
Continues to 26 June 2010
Subjectivity and Authorship – Surface and
Materiality in Painting and Drawing
Damian Moss
This exhibition examines how an artist affects the subjectivity and authorship of an image through their handling of surface and their interaction with materials.
Opens 5-7.30pm 29 June
Continues to 3 July 2010
The Shape of Language
Stuart Watters
In a recent essay, Dave Hickey explored the idea that ‘human beings do not express themselves telepathically, everything goes out into the physical world in discreet patterns. It all comes back in through our hardwired capacity to recognize patterns, whether they are meaningful or not.’ In other words, it appears we have the ability to recognize the complexity of an unknown pattern and if no translation exists, we nonetheless attempt to understand what it is before us.
Opens 5-.703pm 6 July
Continues to 10 July 2010
Forecast
Carmel Byrne
Landscape and maps are a rich source for metaphor yet the perception of maps as Cartesian representations of the grid include all the implications associated with power, ownership and colonisation. For this series of paintings the perspective is raised to the space above land where climate and weather shape it. http://www.carmelbyrne.com
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 13 July
Continues to 17 July 2010
410 kg/sec
Kathy Yeh
An exhibition of light installations exploring the aesthetics of wonder and ocean conservation.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 20 July
Continues to 31 July 2010
Show Us Your Politics
Coordinated by the Arc @ COFA Student Representative Council
Art Revolt! Creative comments on sexism, racism, homophobia, patriarchy, institutions, capitalism, corporations and environmental destruction! Art to inspire, annoy, educate, and empower! "To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing"
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 3 August
Continues to 14 August 2010
Dislocation
curated by Stephen Chikazaza
An annual exhibition, supported by the SRC@COFA, aimed at welcoming, exploring and promoting cultural diversity at COFA. International and local exchange students creatively express and respond to feelings of exclusion or inclusion inspired by being in a new or foreign place. The opening of the exhibition will feature live performances and a delicious international feast.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 17 August
Continues to 28 August 2010
Simpatico: The Gentle Art of Making
Brook Morgan
With pleasure and wonder at the core, this work resonates the beauty found within tactile and somatic inquiry of natural and found materials that are collected, sorted and arranged into gradated colour and archetypal shapes and often meticulously woven configurations. Intuition admits a type of ‘knowing’ that is fostered through sensorial and visceral connectivity.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 7 September
Exhibition dates: 1-11 September 2010
Tim Olsen Drawing Prize
A collaborative initiative, now in its tenth year, between the Tim Olsen Gallery and the Department of Drawing and Painting at COFA, with the intention of encouraging excellence in drawing.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 14 September
Continues to 25 September 2010
Kudos
Arc @ COFA Emerging Artists & Designer Award
JUDGING PANEL
Janet Laurence, artist
Benja Harney, designer/sculptor
Anna Davis, MCA curator
RUNNER UP PRIZES FROM
Kudos Gallery, pyd.design markets, Ariel bookshop, Matisse, Artist Profile magazine,
Sherman Contemporary Arts Foundation, DasSuperpaper, and Sydney Opera House.
Top overall prize: $1,500 from Arc@COFA - Eva Muller - Landscapes on hold 1/2 Artist runner up: Solo exhibition at Kudos in 2011 - Jack Stahel - Mindscape Designer runner up: Stall at the PYD markets in November - Guy Keulemans - LKP/Objects for atheists. Congratulations to all the other winners: Kylie Banyard, Mike Barnard, Sally Kim, Ramesh Mario, David Manley and Ashley Fiona McHutchinson. More congratulations to all 40+ selected finalists, and big big thank yous to everyone who entered this year's award, times like this we wish the gallery was bigger!
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 12 October
Continues to 23 October 2010
Tom Boyd, Victorian Working Man Both Ordinary and Peculiar:
A Lesson in Applied Physiognomy
Nick Brown
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 26 October
Continues to 6 November 2010
ENLIGHTENMENT
Achieving an Illuminated State
COFA 2nd Year Object Design students showcase inspired ideas to lighten our load on the environment.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 9 November
Continues to 20 November 2010
EVIL PARADISES
Marilyn Schnieder
Through sculptural installation Marilyn Schneider critiques the relationship between cinema experience and themed environments in commercial spaces such as casinos, resorts and gated communities.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 23 November
Continues to 4 December 2010
BUNYIP GOTHIC PANTO
Graham Cheney
A series of paintings, created by Graham Cheney that explore how Australia’s developing psyche was influenced by distance, isolation, and fear of the unfamiliar. It was surrounded by a vast unexplored, dark and sinister landscape that conjured stories, telling of the triumphs of the haunted gothic landscape over mortals.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 7 December
Continues to 11 December 2010
Scopophilia
Alex Kiers, Dara Gill, and Daniel Kirkwood.
The Artists have each become a Panopticon, an investigation into the love of looking.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 27 January
Continues to 7 February 2009
Flight of Fancy
Flee into new fangled reality of immersive live performance at the opening of The Glorious Undead Festival. Jokers beware, carnivale be welcome, adorn yourself! Expect endurance, random interval and continual performance throughout the evening and the week long exhibition. Curated by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Marcel Cooper
Opens 5-7.30pm 10 February
Continues to 14 February 2009
Irreversible Encounters and the Point of No Return
Katherine Olston
Through exploring the position of the Westerner, or ‘farang’ as Other in Thailand, the exhibition provides an insight into one of those irreversible experiences in our lives where core perceptions of Self, and the way we inhabit the world are fundamentally challenged, forcing us into previously unknown territory, to a place from which we can never return.
Opens 5-7.30pm 17 February
Continues to 21 February 2009
Dark Hall
The audience are quickly evaporated in the great Dark Hall. Skip a beat and replace a step in our forest of digital glow. White horses bucking, sounds unheard, surprises behind every door. Kudos Gallery transforms for the final exhibition of The Glorious Undead. Curated by Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris and Marcel Cooper.
Opens 5-7.30pm 24 February
Continues to 28 February 2009
Out of the Frying Pan..
Keith Chidzey
Out of the Frying Pan..traces much of the pyritic journey Chidzey has been undertaking over the years, culminating in his current research into conflagration and the processes of the life and aesthetics of fire.
Opens 5-7.30pm 3 March
Continues to 7 March 2009
Articulating the Grid
Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor’s MFA exhibition details the development of his encoded dripmark paintings informed by his Environmental Science degree and the Australian landscape.
Opens 5-7.30pm 10 March
Continues till 14 March 2009
5th Constructive Cannibalism & Structural Studies
Alex Greene
COFA graduate Alex Greene continues his sculptural exploration of space and the built environment through his new installation at Kudos Gallery. This exhibit will also be accompanied by recent works on paper that further explore the concepts embedded in his current body of work.
Open Studio: Wednesday 18-Sat 21.
Opening 5-7.30pm 24 March
Continues to 4 April 2009
Becoming
Witness the exciting new talent of third year COFA painting and drawing students, as they approach their final year of study. This show provides an interesting insight into how the medium can be represented, reinvented and explored by students seeking their own artistic individuality. Curated by Megan Russell
Opens 5-7.30pm 31 March
Continues to 11 April 2009
Do You Remember Patrida (Homeland)
Dual Greek #1 by Sue Soliman & Athena Xenakis
An exhibition conceived as a result of a friendship between two artists and their deep love for their "Patrida" (homeland). Sue and Athena share a contemporary approach to their art and their paintings are inspire by their regular trips to Greece.
Opens 5-7.30pm 21 April
Continues to 2 May 2009
Cover Me: Animal Defences, Armour and the Amulet
Kamila Shepherd
An exhibition of jewellery objects which interrogate the metaphysical protection provided by the amulet, and showcase the synthesis of animal defences and instinct into a new visual vocabulary of protection.
Opens 5-7.30pm 5 May
Continues to 9 May 2009
Reaching Likeness through Unlikeness
Wenmin Li
This body of work from Wenmin Li’s current PhD study searches for a way of interpreting and applying a particular concept in Chinese traditional painting in contemporary drawing practice.
Opens 5-7.30pm 10 March
Continues to 14 March 2009
Greece Past and Present
Solo Greek #2 Maria Sarri
Gifted and inventive, Maria’s love for paintings has seen her become one of Greece’s finest artists, travelling the world exhibiting her works. In this rare exhibition, Maria brings a collection of her work offering the beauty of Greek landscape and architecture.
Opens 5-7.30pm 19 May
Continues to 23 May 2009
Not I / A Play Chandelier/ A Chandelier
Marian Tubbs
A two-part installation, a video re-imagination of Samuel Beckett's play 'Not I' and 'Chandelier' a meditation on value and content in art and luxury design.
Opens 5-7.30pm 26 May
Continues to 6 June 2009
on EST (we ARE)
Melanie Boreham
This exhibition engages with society’s increasing vulnerability to the consummation of imagery. Through sensitivity and diverse range in media, Melanie’s 2D works depict a raw humanity that create a greater sensory experience and yearns for depth of meaning.
Opens 5-7.30pm 9 June
Continues to 20 June 2009
Buzzing
Abdullah M. I. Syed
"It's just a beehive theory. We should have just let the beehive sit there and hope the bees don’t come out of the hive? ... And somehow, to suggest that bees would stay in the hive is naive." President George W. Bush - 2008
Opens 5-7.30pm 23 June
Continues to 4 July 2009
Solo and Pas de Deux
Solo and Pas de Deux is a unique event to take place at Kudos Gallery. Featuring work of a leading contemporary dance figure - Tamara Gulic, the audience is invited to the preview of the upcoming documentary about this truly extraordinary artist.
Opens 5-7.30pm 7 July
Continues to 18 July
Dislocation
Local and International students at COFA come together in a culturally diverse exhibition exploring issues surrounding being away from home, long distance love, non comfort zones, financial troubles, and challenges faced in a foreign or unfamiliar situation, setting or place. Curated by The SRC@COFA International officer Lisa Lee.
Artists: Bernardo Bento, Margarita Echavarria, Andrew Moran, Wei Ning, Jason Phu, ‘Pong, Ben Rak, Yadnyesh Shirwadkar, Tushar M Wahab, Michael Waite
Opens 5-7.30pm 21 July
Continues to 1 August 2009
Urban Fragments & Narratives
'Urban Fragments and Narratives' refers to narratives both of the individual that inhabits a city and the narratives held in the urban environment itself. The exhibition explores the notion of the city as a place of converging identities, ideas and environments; reflected in the diversity of disciplines and ideas within the exhibition itself. A micro city is created; a semi-chaotic environment in which different ideas, forms, aesthetics and mediums coexist.
Artists: Joel Burrows, Tara Cook, Alex Kiers, George Nagel, Amy Thornett, Lucy Thornett.
Opens 5-7.30pm 4 August
Continues to 15 August 2009
Dissonance
An annual exhibition of works by womyn challenging, question and opening new dialogue around identity, experience and expression. Supported by Arc and SRC@COFA. Curated by the SRC@COFA Womens Officers Natasha Nolan and Rivka Abdilla-Schembri.
Works by Che Ritz, Andrew Santoso, Ally Bisshop, Sian McIntyre, Amanda Fisher-Vosilla, Yiwon Park, Tess Emslie, Harriet Body, Haidee Ireland, Josephine Gibbs, Laura Hill, Rivka Abdilla-Schembri, Jarrah Flannagan, Natasha Nolan, Stella Rosa McDonald, Eleanor Hanlon, Deborah May, Cigdem Aydemir, and Jacqueline Mills,
Opens 5-7.30pm 18 August
Continues to 29 August 2009
THAUMATURGY
(thaw-muh-tur-jee_ meaning wonder making or magic.
An exhibition featuring fifteen artists considering the notion of enchantment. In times of turmoil and disenchantment, how can we become re-enchanted with the world around us? Works by Alice Amsel, Amy Craig, Anna Chase, Daniel Green, Katherine Corcoran, Kate Brown, Katherine Saunders, Louise Dibbens, Marian Tubbs, Peter Newman, Samuel Bruce, Sian McIntyre, Torunn Higgins, T.R Carter, Zan Lockyer. Curated by Anastasia Freeman.
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 1 September
Continues to 12 September 2009
Tim Olsen Drawing Prize
A collaborative initiative, now in its ninth year, between the Tim Olsen Gallery and the Department of Drawing and Painting at COFA, with the intention of encouraging excellence in drawing.
Opens 5.7.30pm 15 September
Continues to 26 September 2009
Caught in the Act
An exhibition featuring the latest work by a new generation of promising young Sydney-based artists. Together they demonstrate why it’s better to be caught now rather than later. Works by Lachlan Anthony, Bronwyn Bailey-Charteris with Marcel Cooper, Chloe Hughes, Andrew Moran, Ivan Muñiz Reed, Taylor and Kirkwood and Giselle Stanborough et al. Curated by Sandra Di Palma
Opens 5-7.30pm Tuesday 29th September
Continues to 10th October 2009
KUDOS
The Annual Arc Emerging Artist and Designer Award
Kudos by definition and intention extends well deserved praise to the significant talents and achievements of emerging COFA artists and designers. Now in its 8th year, this Award funded by Arc@CFOA promotes the creative student community, offering our emerging stars the kudos they deserve. Major prize is $1500 from Arc with runner up prizes from Matisse, Right Angles Framing, Kudos and Object Gallery. 2009 Judging Panel – Zanny Begg, Andrew Frost and Brian Parkes.
Opens 5-7.30pm 13 October
Continues to 24 October 2009
Landscapes: A Journey home in Textiles
In Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard explored the significance of the spaces we identify as ‘home’; “how we take root day after day in a corner of the world”. This exhibition explore how the landscape of home “shelters day-dreaming…protects the dreamer…allows one to dream in peace.” Works by Georgia Graham, Rodney Love, Brook Morgan, Belinda von Mengersen, Alison Muir, Paula do Prado, Joanna Redestowicz, Lucy Simpson and Liz Williamson. Curated by Sarah Evans.
Opens 5-7.30pm 27 October
Continues to 7 November 2009
Annual Lighting Exhibition
COFA 2nd Year Applied Object Design students explore alternative lighting sources in diverse contexts, whilst uniting in an effort to lighten the load on the earth’s natural resources.
Opens 5-7.30pm 10 November
Continues to 21 November 2009
POROSITY : e-SCAPE
An exhibition of student works from the Porosity Cardiff and Porosity Shanghai. E-SCAPE is a cross-disciplinary studio developed by COFA’s Porosity Studio and The Collabor8 project (C8) working in both offline and online spaces to provide students with a unique opportunity to engage with a complex brief focusing on a brief dealing with different levels of scale within the city. Radical Transformations: Crossing Cultures, Bodies and Cities. As part of the COFA Annual 2009.
Opens 5-7.30pm 24 November
Continues to 5 December 2009
WATCH THIS SPACE
A red hot assortment of 2nd year SPI and MArt (Sculpture, Performance and Installation) majors kicking it out after a furiously fantastic year in the studio. A gallery packed with performative projections, monster pin-up paste-ups, giant spiderwebs, disco dunces, chopstick forests and ephemeral toffee sculpture oozing from the rafters, this is one not to miss. Come and “WATCH THIS SPACE”... and taste, touch, hear, feel and see the future, NOW.Curated by Emma Price.
Sergio Abugattas, Ally Bisshop, Alexandra Clapham, Adrian Clement, Jonothan Cole, Erin De Vroom, Jarrah Flanagan, Amy Gardner, James Gatt, Adam Gibson, Caroline Inglis, Mazzy Knoles, Fernando Navarro, Natasha Nolan, Celine Roberts, Thalia Sadumiano, Naomi Shedlezki, Janneke Thurlow, Camilla Tully
Opens 5-7.30pm 8 December
Continues to 12 December 2009
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