Anke Stäcker, Elke Wohlfahrt, Liz O’Reilly and Sonja Karl - open from Friday 16 April

                                                            SERIOUSLY VAGUE 

presents

four solo exhibitions:

Anke Stäcker – Random Discoveries

Elke Wohlfahrt – Positively Negative

Liz O’Reilly – Travelling Light

Sonja Karl – Revealing Visions

Anke Stäcker investigates streets with female names in Sydney, Elke Wohlfahrt works with the hardware of analogue photography, Liz O’Reilly plays with the weight of treasured ephemera, and Sonja Karl reveals changing scenes in different lights. 

Conversations between these four artists working entirely independently of one another have uncovered relationships and unexpected dialogues between their work. By deciding to combine individual exhibitions under the one collective Seriously Vague, the artists invite you to look for connections. 

Exhibition  Friday 16 April  - Sunday 2 May 2021

Opening  Saturday 17 April 1-5pm 

Performance by Liz O’Reilly 

Saturday 17 April at 3pm 

Artists talk with Anke, Elke, Liz and Sonja 

Saturday 1 May at 3pm

Anke Stäcker Watch for Mabel 2020 (digital photo)

Elke Wohlfahrt – Positively Negative 2021

Liz O’Reilly World Cases 2021

Sonja Karl Fluid Shifts on the wing 1 2021

Conditions of entry:

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

Articulate Turns Ten is open Sunday 27 December

 Open 11-5pm Friday - Sunday

19 December - 3 January

(closed 25-26 December)

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 Articulate Turns Ten shows the work of Susan Andrews, Vilma  Bader, Bettina Bruder,  Mandy Burgess and Ro Murray, Jane Burton Taylor, Curtis Ceapa, Sue Callanan, Rox De Luca, Parris Dewhurst, Ella Dreyfus, Nicole Ellis, Bonita Ely, Steven Fasan, Sarah Fitzgerald, Juliet Fowler Smith, Beata Geyer, Simone Griffin, Philippa Hagon, Barbara Halnan, Jan Handel, Kendal Heyes, Isobel Johnston and Jude Crawford, Sonja Karl, Fiona Kemp, Michelle Ledain, Noelene Lucas, Kate Mackay, Diane McCarthy, Mahalya Middlemist, Raymond Matthews, Sue Murray, Sue Pedley and  Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Renay Pepita, Anya Pesce, Elizabeth Rankin, Che Ritz, Margaret Roberts, Tamsin Salehian, Alan Schacher, Lisa Sharp, Anke Stacker, Voices of Women (Lliane Clarke), Molly Wagner, Gary Warner and Elke Wohlfahrt 

Elizabeth Rankin (Ph Curtis Ceapa)

Sue Callanan (Ph Curtis Ceapa)

Noelene Lucas

L-R: Che Ritz, Noelene Lucas, Elizabeth Rankin

L: Vilma Bader; floor: Alan Schacher; top R Elke Wohlfahrt (detail); Bottom R: Sue Pedley/Phaptawan Suwannakudt (detail)

L: Raymond Matthews, Michele LeDain, Elke Wohlfahrt, R: Sue Pedley/Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Elke Wohlfahrt (detail) (Phot: Lisa Pang)

L-R: Vilma Bader, Barbara Halnan

Vilma Bader

L-R: Ella Dreyfus, Kate Mackay

L-R: Raymond Matthews, Margaret Roberts, Ella Dreyfus, Kate Mackay 

Kate Mackay

Jan Handel (Phot: Lisa Pang)

L-R: Sue Murray, Sue Callanan, Nicole Ellis

L: Sonja Karl; R: Kendal Heyes

Parris Dewhurst

Mahalya Middlemist

Photos: Margaret Roberts except where stated

Conditions of entry to the exhibition:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. 

Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people and wear a face mask.

Articulate Turns Nine

Open 11am-5pm 7-22 December

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Molly Wagner

Laine Hogarty

Karen Banks

Vilma Badser

Anja Pesce

Molly Wagner, Elizabeth Day, Jacquelene Drinkall

Lesley Giovanelli, Michelle Ledain

Angus Callander

Sonja Karl

Sue Callanan, Merryn Hull, Virginia Hilyard

Sarah Woodward

Jeff Wood

Beta Bruder

Anna Tierney

Barbara Halnan

Emma Wise (last day)

Photos: Margaret Roberts

Final day coming up for Articulate Turns Eight

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.

Open Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm till 23 December 

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Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

More AT8 here

L-R: Barbara Halnan, Ros Cook (top), Nadia Odlum, Anke Stäcker

L-R: Vilma Bader, Renay Pepita, Barbara Halnan, Ros Cook, Nadia Odlum, Anke Stäcker, Pam Kleeman, Elizabeth Hogan, Steven Cavanagh

L-R: Julian Day, Jenee O'Brien, Vilma Bader

L-R: Sonja Karl and Liz O'Reilly, Sue Callanan, Mandy Burgess, Elizabeth Ashburn

photos: Peter Murphy

COMMON FATE open from Thursday 19 April

Common Fate – Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly – Artists-in-residence

Common Fate is an open residency of project work culminating in a series of installations and performances. It is a changing reflection on our personal collections of death and memory objects. It explores the multiple narratives of our inherited possessions and intimacies.

Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly, Installation, ‘memento-mori – Narratives of Inheritance’

Articulate will be open 11am-5pm, Thursday to Sunday until Saturday May 5^th during which time there will be opportunities for discussion and interaction with the artists in the evolution of the project.

Saturday 21st April 1 – 4pm

1.00pm Screening of award winning documentary – TENDER

The heartwarming story of a community coming together to challenge mainstream attitudes to dying, death and the business of funerals. 

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Sunday 22nd April: 2:00 – 4pm

2pm Performance

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Saturday 28th April: 2.00 – 4pm

2pm Artist’s Talk:  Invited artist Sylvia Griffin presents her contemporary practice of working with memory and trauma.

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Sunday 29th April: 2.00 – 4pm

2pm Performance

2.30pm Memento Mori Talking Circle: all are invited to bring a memory object of hand-held size to share in a group discussion

Friday 4th May 6pm

Finissage: Performance and closing drinks

Due to the sensitive nature of discussing death and loss, we ask that there be no recordings of performances or talking circles out of respect for the participants and observers.  Please arrive 10 minutes prior to performances thank you.

Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly, Installation, ‘memento mori – Narratives of Inheritance.’(detail)

After someone dies there are objects left. We call them possessions, and understand them not just in the sense of literal ownership, but in the complex way an object reflects a person back to themselves. However fleeting or lasting, the intimate connection to an object is something we all have, and when death severs that relationship between person and possession, what becomes of it?

This liminal space of loss is where the project Common Fate resides, as an exploration of collections of objects left behind after death and an extrapolation of their resonance as possessed or known objects or lost intimacies. After death some possessions are highly visible, all over a person's house: next to their bed, in their bathroom cabinet, in the kitchen or in the drawers of their desks. However a great numbers of possessions are hidden, sometimes never seen by loved ones until after death.

Who possesses these visible and hidden objects now? When we see the material things in someone's possessions as a collection of intangible and intimate connections between them and the actual object, we can also see narratives around the transferral, dispersal or disposal of these possessions as layered and intricate relationships, family history and cultural inheritance.

Common Fate aims to reach out to the community; to initiate conversations, to provoke memories and stories, opening up expressions around diverse cultural concepts of death in order to bring to the fore what closure really signifies. 

Sonja Karl and Liz O'Reilly will be artists in residence in Articulate project space from 20 April 2018, using their personal collections of 'death objects' as the basis for Common Fate, from experimentation to installation, incorporating a dialogue with the community, finishing with a closing on the third weekend. 

Sonja Karl and Liz O’Reilly, Installation, ‘memento mori – Narratives of Inheritance.’(detail)