ARTICULATE

4.12.13

ARTICULATE TURNS THREE opens Friday 6 December 6-9pm

You are invited to celebrate Articulate's third birthday with a show of work by artists who have exhibited in the space since it first opened in 2010.

Opening Friday 6 December 6-9pm
Open Friday - Sunday 11am - 5pm, 7 - 22 December 2013

Michele Beevors, Pacifier 4, 2013. Photo Emma Wise

Adrian Hall Alicia Poppett Alison Clouston and Boyd Anke Stäcker Annette Minchin Barbara Halnan Bettina Hill Billy Gruner and Sarah Keighery Chantal Grech Charlie Aarons Christine Olsen Elke Wohlfahrt Emma Hicks Emma Wise Fiona Kemp Gillian Lavery Helen Sturgess India Zegan Jane Burton Taylor Jane Gavan Jacek Przybyszewski Joan Grounds Kath Fries Kathryn Ryan Katie Williams Kelley Stapleton Kevin Sheehan Laine Hogarty Lesley Giovanelli Linden Braye Ling Yuen Lynne Barwick Mandy Burgess Margaret Roberts Marlene Sarroff Michele Beevors Michele Elliot Nola Farman Nuha Saad Paul Sutton Richard Kean Rose Anne McGreevy Shirley Cho Steven Fasan Tracey Clement Virginia Hilyard Vivienne Dadour Wendy Howard William Seeto

26.11.13

ARTLINK will launch 'MINING: gouging the country' on last day of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND: Sunday 1 December

ARTLINK launch December 1, at 2-4pm at Articulate project space

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND open Fri - Sun 11am - 5pm

Guest speakers at the launch are:

• Dr Ann Finegan, writer-researcher and co-director of Cementa Contemporary Arts Festival located at Kandos, in a valley local to Bylong, the centre of the ongoing Eddie Obeid coal scandal, and

• Jo Holder, curator and founding Director of Cross Art Projects in Sydney, known for experimental, cross cultural and activist dialogues.

Artlink's issue 33#4 December 2013, Mining: gouging the country is edited by

Stephanie Britton and Professor Pat Hoffie and will be available at Articulate

project space.

The world is hungry for minerals and fuel. Is Australia's preparedness to gouge its (sacred) earth any different to that of any other country? The land's value in spiritual as well as economic terms has led to some of the most debated legislation of contemporary times – from Australian Aboriginal ownership and land rights to mining, coal seam gas extraction, the value of the land; who owns it; who has the rights to use it; to sell it; to exploit it; to act as custodian of it. Initially defined as "Terra Nullius" this country is now recognised as an ancient, mineral-rich continent of hotly contested territories.

This issue digs deep into the seen and unseen impact of big mining and its greed for the rapid and ruthless exploitation of fossil fuels. It comes at a turning point for the community in relation to climate change. With the carbon level in the air now reaching 400 ppm, coal mining can never be ‘clean’ or sustainable; 350.org, an urgent global public campaign to keep coal in the ground is growing.

Artists, artists' alliances and arts writers join with environmentalists to raise consciousness about the dangers of mining operations on farmlands, rivers, in remote areas, deserts, and coastal areas, as well as in the depth of the oceans.

• Ken Mulvaney writes on the ancient rock art being damaged by proximity to mining operations on the Burrup Peninsula.

• The tension around funding for arts, science and community enterprise from mining companies which commonly exploit the prestige of arts projects to varnish their image. Arts patronage is used as a wedge to buy off the potential community opposition and the custodial burden is getting heavier for Indigenous land holders in many regions.

• During the mining boom has support to the arts from mining companies been minimal relative to their profits?

Artists include Fiona Hall, Cai Quo-Qiang, Craig Walsh, Jan Senbergs, John Gollings, Ah Xian, and Raymond Arnold.

Writers include Daniel Thomas, Sam Cook, David Hansen, Michael Taussig, Judith Blackall, and Jane Deeth.

PRESS RELEASE

Launch - Jo Holder

20.11.13

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND - Beaker drawing -Toni Warburton Saturday 23 November 11am-5pm

AGITPOTS room list

This Saturday 23rd November, from 11am - 5pm, Toni Warburton will be in the project space making and drawing on wheel thrown clay beakers as part of her work: coal clay water wood - some processes and relationships.

Visitors are invited to post words, images, patterns, marks, ideas into the wooden box labelled Tenders for the artist to select from to do beaker drawings.

It will be possible for interested visitors to be shown the scraffito technique and to participate in doing a beaker drawing.

On Sunday 1^st December during the exhibition closing and launch of Artlink Mining Issue, the completed beakers will be available for sale for $30 each.

photos by Chris Ward and Loretta Picone

17.11.13

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND opening and works

Jamie Parker, our Greens MP, with chocolate frog reward for opening LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND

and launching The Stuttering Frog #2, with Juliet Fowler Smith, founder of WRVAP.

Sharyn Munro speaking at opening of LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND

above photos: Noelene Lucas

David Watson

Ralph Snowball New Lambton pit head, Adamstown 1897

inkjet print (2013) from an original Ralph Snowball glass negative,

courtesy Norm Barney Photographic Collection,University of Newcastle

David Watson Fuse 1:100,000 maps showing proposed 2014 walk

following power grid from Rozelle to Hunter valley source

Information corner

Neil Berecry-Brown Social Licence 2013 inkjet print

Ian Milliss Viburnum with Coal 2013 inkjet print

above Toni Warburton coal clay water wood - some processes and relationships 2013.

People are invited to submit words, images, patterns, marks from which the artist

can select to draw onto clay beakers. Beakers will be glazed, fired and available

for sale for $30.00 each on Sunday 1^st December. Photo Chris Ward

Noelene Lucas Living with Coal 2013 single-channel HD video

photo Chris Ward

Christine McMillan Sludge 2013

coal sludge in snow-domes on shelf

Noelene Lucas, Rivers of Coal 2013 3-channel HD video

Sue Callanan Going, Going, Gone 2013

hessian bags, stencil paint,coal, wood, lights

Margaret Roberts Titled 2013

ply, hinges, live space/visitor-interaction

David Watson Mining Rash [The Drip] 2013

inkjet print on aluminium

David Watson Checkout + Ransom Note (with Denise Corrigan)

2013 powerpoint

Juliet Fowler Smith The Area of Affectation 2013

installation, table, dowel, seats & found objects

Wendy Bowman at 'Rosedale' (centre) in Camberwell,

with David Watson (left, with The Stuttering Frog #2) and Sue Callanan (right)

David Watson and Sue Callanan
distributing The Stuttering Frog #2 in the Hunter region

14.11.13

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND to be opened by our local Greens MP, Jamie Parker, at 7pm tomorrow night

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND will now be opened tomorrow night, Friday 15 November at 7pm by Jamie Parker MP for the local seat of Balmain.

The previous arrangement for John Kaye MLC (who has also opened other WRVAP projects) to open LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND had to change when he became no longer available.

WRVAP is pleased and honoured to have our own local member and the only Greens lower house member of the NSW parliament to open its current project, LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND.

11.11.13

LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND opens Friday 15 November at 6-8pm

To be opened at 7pm by NSW Greens MP John Kaye, MLC.

Open Nov 16 to Dec 1, 11am - 5pm

Galvanised by the crisis in global warming caused by the fossil-fuel industries, theWilliams River Valley Artists' Project (WRVAP) presents LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND with artists Neil Berecry Brown, Sue Callanan, Juliet Fowler Smith, Noelene Lucas, Christine McMillan, Ian Milliss, Margaret Roberts, Toni Warburton and David Watson.

David Watson / Denise Corrigan Ransom Note 2013

Press Release

Invitation
The Stuttering Frog #2 (pdf)
The Stuttering Frog #2 (issuu book)

The 2nd edition of WRVAP's The Stuttering Frog will be launched at the opening. As well as texts and images by the artists, there are also texts by activists Glenn Albrecht, Julia Mullins and Colin Imrie, Julia Sheppard, Sharyn Munro and Chris Ward, as well as some Nuggests and David's Very Crossword.

WVRAP is indebted to graphic designer/layout artist Tony Fuery who generously donates his wondrous pre-press skills to produce both editions of The Stuttering Frog: tony@parslowart.net

Also, there will be an information corner, including one hundred new Bimblebox books by Maureen Cooper will be available at the opening to take in exchange for donations in support of the court case against the Alpha mine.

See previous WRVAP activities (including the highly successful participation in the campaign to stop the Tillegra Dam) on the WRVAP blog. These are included in the first (2010) edition of The Stuttering Frog #1 which can also be downloaded.