Systems: Air and Water - closing drinks Sunday 30 April 2-4pm

Come and see the rest of each of these artworks, and celebrate the conclusion of Systems: Air and Water with the artists on Sunday afternoon.  

Deborah Porch Facts of Life 2017 (detail) 

Deborah Porch life-line 2017 (detail)

Hilarie Mais System 10 2016 (detail) 

Hilarie Mais Window (Sense 3) 2005 (detail)

Anne Graham Feather Cloud 2017 (detail)

Noelene Lucas Sacrifice Zone 1 2017 (detail)

Noelene Lucas Sacrifice Zone 2 2017 (detail)

Eugenia Raskopoulos Openborders 2017 (detail)

Sue Callanan Air into Water: Water into Air 2017 (detail)

Systems: Air & Water opened last night

Systems: Air & Water has a Closing Event on their last day, Sunday April 30 at 2-4pm. Please come along and celebrate their project with them.

downstairs left: Noelene Lucas; centre: Eugenia Raskopoulos; right: Sue Callanan; upstairs: International Drawing Collective

Sue Callanan

left: Hilarie Mais; right: Noelene Lucas

Noelene Lucas

left: Anne Graham; right: Hilarie Mais

Noelene Lucas

Debra Porch

Systems: Air & Water opens THURSDAY 13 April 6-8pm

Open Fri - Sun 11am-5pm 15 - 30 April 2017
opening Thursday 13 April 6-8pm
(NB: closed Friday 14 April for the public holiday)

Systems: Air & Water shows the work of artists Sue Callanan, Ann Graham, Noelene Lucas, Hilarie Mais, Debra Porch and Eugenia Raskopoulos

Photo: Noelene Lucas, 2015

Air & water are the elemental systems of all life forms – flora & fauna (including human). They display the interdependence & interconnection of all phenomena. All cellular life is embedded in the planetary systems of air & water (weather, precipitation, photosynthesis, respiration).

This exhibition explores and celebrates the multiple ways these often overlooked, but essential, forces of life interact and are interdependent. The artists will consider the perceptions, social understandings & insights that fall under this wide parameter of the “system” - system as structure, arrangement, network, complex, methods, frameworks.

Some questions arise – how do we attach or make meaning in that which transpires between air and water? Is this the large mystery of the planet, or is it also the question of the heart and mind that can communicate beautiful and abstract concepts through objects, images and the senses?

The exhibition will consist of photography, video, installation & mixed media.




Anne Graham's Shifting Sands and Falling Trees opens Friday 19 September 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday, 20 September - October 5

In The Niigata Land and Water Festival, 2009 I presented the work Shinohara’s House.  This house had been moved to the village of Gokahama when the village in which it was situated, Kakuminhama, sank beneath the encroaching ocean. Kakuminaha was famous for singing sand, My bronze and glass columns sang when a mixture of glass beads and sand were poured through them. This work remained in Japan but I realised that a version of this musical piece would transfer to another context.

I now live on the Cox’s River and the riverbank provides an ever-changing environment, small beaches form and reform, the roots of the trees are rounded and curved by the flow of the river, occasionally a tree falls and this creates new sand banks. Here nothing is permanent and the sound of the water provides an ongoing flowing rhythm of continues movement. My intention is to create an installation that reverberates with this sense of an organic process of change, decay and regrowth.

Shifting Sands and Falling Trees will be accompanied by an exhibition in ArticulateUpstairs of new work by Hilarie Mais, Jessica Mais Wright and Eugenia Raskopoulos from williamwrightartists.com.au. More details to come. 

Water and Land

This project  is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.