Open Friday - Sunday 11am - 5pm, 30 January - 14 February
Artist Talk/Live:
Saturday 6 February:
Lea Kannar 12pm-12:30pm Discussion time: 12:30pm-1pm
Bernadette Smith: 1pm-1:30pm Discussion time: 1:30pm-2pm
Fiona Davies: 2pm - 2:30pm Discussion time: 2.30-3pm
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SCASS Project: Fresh Paint - Grilled Chicken is curated by Melissa Maree and shows work of ten artists who are recent postgraduates from Sydney College of the Arts (SCA)—Audrey Newton, Cybele Cox, Fiona Davies, Nick De Lorenzo, Trevor Fry, Dorit Goldman, Majose Guzman, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Niall Robb and Bernadette Smith. Fresh Paint - Grilled Chicken replaces the annual postgraduate exhibition that has recently been cut from the SCA program, and is supported instead by Sydney College of the Arts Student Society (SCASS) and University of Sydney Union (USU). It includes the work of postgraduates from 2014 and 2015.
The works are the product of a common purpose of postgraduate study, not because their work shares common concerns or has been curated to fit a coherent theme. Instead it shows the diversity of ten independent art practices, described by the artists as ranging from the impact of the Anthropocene on our biosphere, concern for the recognition and preservation of ancestral cultures, death within the mediated context of the Intensive Care Unit, contemporary social inequality, the traditional role of names, the imagining of ritual cult religions, the mixing of religious art with pop culture, and experiments with destablising traditional form or investigations of “surface encounters”.
Despite this diversity, as each work will be installed with regard to its spatial relationship with each other and with the architectural forms of the building, a coherence will be sought during installation that may draw more randomly on other elements in the work.
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| Majose Guzman Invisible Roots 2014 |
Majose Guzman
Invisible
Roots was created as a tribute to the amazing changes that are happening thanks
to leaders that are completely engaged with the protection and development of
their communities. Invisible Roots hopes to awaken the desire in people, with
no regard of their ethnicity, to reconnect with where we come from and who we
are, to start realising that our roots make us unique in a world where
everything is starting to look the same; and through this desire, inspire the
recognition and preservation of our ancestral cultures.
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| Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Feasting and Meditating on the Anthropocene 2 2015 |
Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger
Avoidance - Unseen in the Anthropocene
2 video 12 min loop, plastic sheeting, plastic debris
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Avoidance - Unseen in the Anthropocene
2 video 12 min loop, plastic sheeting, plastic debris
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This
work explores the impact of the Anthropocene on two islands, and
generally the impact of humans and tourism on the local marine
populations. Due to the
upwelling Humboldt Current, Galapagos Island has little or no ocean debris. In contrast, Lord Howe Island, isolated 600 km off the Australian coast
is constantly bombarded with ocean debris.
This
work is a social, ethical and environmental comment on the
human connection to our oceans. It is an enquiry into the ways in which individual people and
science are working to save non-human life and
deal with climate change, and increasing ocean
pollution. It juxtaposes the creation of more disposable
technology and plastics with our concern for the preservation of the
marine environment.
www.leakannar.com
leakannar@bigpond.com
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| Fiona Davies, Blood on Silk: Magenta |
Fiona Davies
I am a
visual artist working primarily with installation, video and sound and
interested in death within the mediated context of the Intensive Care Unit.
www.fionadavies.com.au
www.bloodonsilk.com
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| Audrey Newton I tried i reall did 2015 |
Audrey Newton
I am a
practice led artist who works with investigational techniques in painting,
sculpture and installation. I use a variation of mediums as experiments in
deforming and destabilizing traditional form.
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| Cybele Cox Mystic Kittens 2015 |
Cybele Cox
My large
totemic ceramic sculptures construct objects of an archaic imagined ritual cult
reiligion that either happened in the past or could be of the future.
www.cybelecox.com.au
cybelefrancescox@gmail.com
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| Bernadette Smith Our rights are NOT discretionary 1 2015 |
Bernadette Smith
My art
installation investigates the issue of ableism or discrimination against less
able bodied swimmers in public pools. In a throwback to the Nazi era elite
swimmers are often unfairly privileged while those with injuries, disabilities
or older swimmers struggle for equal access. This artwork highlights such
social inequality and presents a protest banner, photographic documentation and
actual email correspondence between a less able bodied swimmer and pool
management. The installation also includes portraits of people randomly
selected from the street who were asked to pose in front of this banner to be
part of the exhibition if they agreed with its message. http://bernadettesmithart.blogspot.com.au
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| Nick De Lorenzo digital clouds 1 |
Nick De Lorenzo
Through
alchemical experimentations and abstractions my work explores the materiality
of the photograph as an object, and the spaces between painting and
photography.
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| Trevor Fry enlightened being 2014-15 |
Trevor Fry
I currently
work mainly in ceramics, making figurative sculptures inspired by wide ranging
sources, from religious art to pop culture monsters and aliens.
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| Niall Robb Untitled 2015 |
Niall Robb
Niall Robb
is a multidisciplinary artist who engages with varied materialities and
minimalist forms, positioning materials and more specifically their surfaces as
sites of engagement and wonder, investigating “surface encounters” which
trouble conceived notions of the “thickness of existence.”
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| dis_object g ven 2015 |
dis_Object
Each of us
has a name – Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky.
Each of us
has a name, given by God, and given by our parents
Each of us
has a name, given by our stature and our smile, and given by what we wear
Each of us
has a name, given by the mountains, and given by our walls
Each of us
has a name, given by the stars, and given by our neighbours
Each of us
has a name, given by our sins, and given by our longing
Each of us
has a name, given by our enemies, and given by our love
Each of us
has a name, given by our celebrations, and given by our work
Each of us
has a name, given by the seasons, and given by our blindness
Each of us
has a name, given by the sea, and given by, our death.
Mishkovsky,
Zelda Schneersohn. "Each of Us Has a Name." Poetry International Rotterdam.
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 2004. Web. 7 Dec. 2015.
<http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/3275/auto/EACH-OF-US-HAS-A-NAME>.
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