LOST opens Friday 28 February 6-8pm

LOST is an exhibition of works by Articulate directors and studio artists that they are happy to lose to visitors who want to buy or swap them. Opening Friday 28 February 6-8pm, it will also be open for the Leichhardt Open Studio Trail  (L.O.S.T.) organised by Leichhardt Council for the weekend of 8 & 9 March. It will close 5pm on Sunday 9 March.

It will include the work of artists Suzanne Bartos, Lynne Barwick, Linden Braye, Sue Callanan, Michele Elliot, Gillian Lavery, Francesca Mataraga, Rose Anne McGreevy, Margaret Roberts, Emma Wise, India Zegan.  During the L.O.S.T weekend the studio of Wendy Howard will also be open. 

Opening: Friday 28 February 6-8pm

Hours: Friday - Sunday 11-5pm, 1-9 March

Francesca Mataraga elisabet drawing (stripes in cork mat shape), 2012. 

Watercolour and pencil on paper

Linden Braye

Gillian Lavery, Weaving study 1, 2012, silk organza and cotton embroidery thread 

Margaret Roberts Polygon Landscape 2013 (detail - doc: House/Polygon23 & Ray Ferguson) digital prints

Michele Eliott into ether 2007 (detail) graphite on paper

See Leichhardt Council's  L.O.S.T. program.

Longford Project Lab artist/curators talks Friday 21 February 6 - 8 pm

The Longford Project Lab begins today: Liz Day, Anna Gibbs, Julie Gough & Noelene Lucas

The Longford Project Lab is an ongoing project between Liz Day, Anna Gibbs, Julie Gough and Noelene Lucas exploring global and local connectedness - diaspora and reconciliation between people of Aboriginal and European descent. The Longford Project Lab is curated by Nicholas Tsoutis and Brianna Munting.

The artists are working in the project space between 8 - 23 February and it will be open to the public each Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 5pm.

Artists' & Curators' talk: Friday 21 February 6-8pm
Closing event: Sunday 23 February 2 - 4 pm.

above: Liz Day, Julie Gough, Noelene Lucas, Anna Gibbs at Longford, January 2014

 photo:  B. Munting. 

The Longford Project Lab follows on from a  residency during January 2014 in Longford Tasmania during which time connections to the community were formed. The residency will be ground work for the lab at Articulate.

The Longford Group is investigating the intersection of family and cultural histories through residencies developing skills through collaboration, community immersion and critical dialogues between the Longford community, Indigenous peoples, artists, writers & curators.The residencies interrogate the ideological, personal and geographical relationships between people, landscape, history and home and the tensions surrounding the group's personal connection to Longford, Tasmania. The residencies will be an interrogation of genealogical, colonial and post colonial histories of settlement and displacement, and community stories.

The residencies provide the opportunity for new collaborative practices to emerge expanding on the Group's previous work, Alchemy 2012. This residency will explore Longford as a point of departure for mapping our colonial and post colonial connections. It will engage with community to discover relations and interconnections of the local and global diaspora and Indigenous peoples. It will document the stories of those who came into Longford, or were always there, and then radiated out. 

By engaging with the participants’ family histories and the Longford residents' memories and their family histories, the research will identify the relationship of these family stories to the larger political and cultural histories of Tasmania and Australia, developing a philosophy of history and an the ethics of responsibility for the present made possible by the past.This opportunity emphasises the importance of meaningful exchange through immersion, negotiation and partnerships in and with cultures and across disciplines.

The first Longford Project Lab took place during Alchemy,
artist and philosophers' collaborations curated by Mireille Astore
 and Nicholas Tsoutas 2012, Sydney College of the Arts.