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Project space | Bradley Mendels and Felixe Rives - A Greater Space

Opening Event Thursday May 19, 4.30-8.30pm
Exhibition from May 19 until Jun 5th
Open 11am - 5pm | Thu-Sun

'A Greater Space' performances | Sat May 21, 28 & Jun 4, 3-5pm

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Felixe Rives, 'The studio study'

At a time when borders are more present than ever, between countries, cities and people; the responsibility to overcome them rests at our feet. A Greater Space explores methods of physically reshaping the frame which merges the division of frame and artwork, allowing for a rethinking of the frame’s status. 

Working with empty spaces, Bradley invites the audience to look past the boundaries of the frame and into themselves, as well as the physical landscape. He depicts his landscapes as the antitheses of the natural world; structured and orderly to highlight the chaos of the external.

Felixe focuses on the artist’s experience in space, exploring painting as a window between the personal and the public. The painting becomes the frame of a truth, which allows the frame to hold meaning within itself. She plays with erasure as a performative action of painting to reveal the struggle of the artist within the art world.

This exhibition sees emerging artists Felixe Rives and Bradley Mendels exploring how to navigate and communicate these ideas to a wider audience.

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | April Mountfort - Fabric of Society

Opening Event Saturday May 21, 2-5pm
Exhibition from May 20 until Jun 5th
Open 11am - 5pm | Thu-Sun

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April Mountfort "Not Consent", ©️April Mountfort

 

Two large double-sided hand-stitched fabric banners protest attitudes on contentious social issues and are accompanied by smaller works.

My first large banner, “Not Consent” (1800 x 1580 mm), protests legal responses to criminal charges of sexual assault and rape that also reflect current attitudes of some within society. This work was conceived upon hearing that in late 2018 an Irish court found the defendant not guilty of rape as the victim had been wearing lace undies which was considered to be signalling consent.

Responding to this “signalling consent” attitude I use semaphore, an analogue signalling system for sending messages by holding flags in positions to spell out alphabet letters. A female symbol holds flags onto which feminine lace undies have been stitched, with each square of the banner depicting a letter. Squares are stitched together with one side of the banner spelling “Not Consent” and the other side spelling “No Means No”.

These colourful lacy squares initially seem very pretty and feminine until their underlying message is realised. Additional smaller single-sided banners spell “No Shame” and “Not A Slut”.

My second large banner “Street Life” (2000 x 15000 mm) protests the vilification of homeless persons, an approach perpetuated by politicians unwilling to provide adequate public housing. Extensive research reveals multiple reasons for homelessness, including environmental factors, lack of adequate superannuation, dysfunctional family issues and other traumas. 

A colourful deteriorated blanket has been mended, onto which over 50 lace silhouettes have been stitched on one side. Each silhouette has a brief description of the cause of their homelessness, such as “homemaker, divorcee, little super”, “toxic institutional care”, “continually having a go, no luck” and “left country, no water”. Again, a colourful banner communicates an underlying serious message.

The second side has the words “Street Life” stitched onto white translucent fabric with larger silhouettes falling downwards.

Smaller single-sided fabric works have been created, each with a single silhouette and reason for homelessness.

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Backroom | Mel Clyne - Same, but different: Variable Gesture Unit

Opening Event Saturday May 21, 2-5pm
Exhibition from May 20 until Jun 5th
Open 11am - 5pm | Thu-Sun

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Installation views, 2022

Can a physical performative trace of the artist’s body arise from the two-dimensional mark-making of brush and pencil and occupy space? View an installation of ‘variable gesture units’ created with both scrap and new acrylic panel.

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | Margaret Roberts - Store_Blp

Opening Event Saturday Apr 30th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 29th until May 15th
Open 11am - 5pm | Wed-Sun

Artist talks | Margaret Roberts, Sat May 7, 2-3pm

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'Store_Blp' is a new site-specific installation made at Articulate to work out relationships site specific artworks could have with their (live) site while the artworks are dormant (uninstalled). It has three main elements: the moveable material remnants of multiple site specific artworks; photographs showing them installed (available to visitors using their phones to access a website); and the site present firstly as the place of Articulate itself, and secondly as a floor drawing of a blp, which was used by its inventor, artist Richard Artschwager, as a pointer to ‘here’ to help us notice where we are. The plan is that the three interact over the duration of the exhibition—starting with the floor drawing storing the remnants, the remnants marking out the blp and the photos showing how components were mixed in the past. Essays speculating on blp usage will also available at the exhibition and via link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OHE7vwbjjcOG2hcet8Ky7tKkuNXsdb4j/view

'Store_Blp' is open 11am - 5pm Wed-Sun 29 April - 15 May 2022 or by arrangement by texting 0425277462. Opening event: Sat 30 April 2-5pm. Artist’s talk: Sat 7 May 2-3pm. Articulate project space is at 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt 2040. articulateprojectspace.org. Links to photographs showing the works installed can be found on http://margaretroberts.org/Storeblp.html .

'Store_Blp' is the latest in 30 years of making site-specific artworks. I realized my attraction to working with site specificity came from its advocacy for place through the role its artworks give to their own physical locations—making them models for how people can also value the places we live in. Actually it’s a model for the globalised Western culture in particular, as Indigenous cultures care for Country as a matter of course.

Blps do something similar to site-specificity because their inventor, artist Richard Artschwager discovered they help make us aware of the presence of the place that we share with the blp. Blps might also help with the documentation of site specific art by supplementing photography with an ambiguous sign for the presence of the places they are photos of. The next blp project is 'Wayout_Blp', planned for 2023 in Kandos, in the Central West of NSW. It invites residents of the Central West to lend an object they live with to lay out on the floor in a shape of a large blp to demonstrate their communal regard for ‘here’.

-Margaret Roberts, April 2022

Store_Blp has been supported by the National Art School 

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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ArticulateUpstairs | Sandy Edwards - OUT OF THE BOX -Long Live the Archive

Opening Event Saturday Apr 30th, 2-5pm

Exhibition opens early from Apr 28th until May 15th
Open 11am - 5pm | Wed-Sun

Artist talks | 'Nature of the Archive', Sun May 15, 12-2pm

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To 'unpack' photographs and proof sheets from a lifetime of projects, exhibitions and personal histories as a photographer.

This will be a work in process. Throughout the exhibition photos and proofs will move/grow from the boxes to the walls.

The different archives will be articulated and will clarify a resting place for them to be gifted to, within appropriate institutions.

A major objective of this 'research' exhibition is to endeavour to match different projects to appropriate institutions to gift, place or sell the work so it has a presence for future generations. I want to understand the nature of Deductable Gift Status (DGS) and make wise and informed choices for the placement of my work before I die. I not only want to 'entomb' the work in an archive but rather want to bring alive the personal photography stories which are a rich documentation of a very rich historic period.

A major schism that will manifest is that of my commissioned documentary photography (eg. The After 200 Years Bicentennial Project in which I was sent to Brewarrina to document key indigenous leaders on that community - Brewarrina is two thirds indigenous / one third white) and my personal photography in which I photographed close friends and associated colleagues (my peer group). This work is made up of multiple interwoven narratives which cover both my black and white (and to a less degree colour) analogue photography and the transition to digital primarily colour photography. This is a major archive of another nature to the commissioned projects.

This process will be visible to the visiting audience throughout the exhibition period and a public revelation will be celebrated on the last day of the exhibition.

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | Noelene Lucas - Living on a Damaged Planet

Opening Event Saturday Apr 9th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 8th until 24th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

Noelene Lucas, Adaptations , 2018. Bathurst Regional Gallery, ©N Lucas

Living on a Damaged Planet seeks to explore and highlight the threats to our planet yet at the same time to look at where hope might reside.

We also share the birds predicament as we irrevocably destroy the habitats, land & water that we too need for survival.

The exhibition will consist of video projections and screen based works. 

Noelene Lucas, video stills, "Magpies", 2022, ©N.Lucas

Noelene Lucas, video stills, "Galars", 2022, ©N.Lucas

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.

The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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ArticulateUpstairs | Juliet Fowler Smith - Habitat 497

Opening Event Saturday Apr 9th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 8th until 24th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

Studio study, Habitat 497. Drawing on shutters, tracing paper. 2022

Suzanne Bartos and Juliet Fowler Smith have occupied studios at Articulate since its beginning. In Habitat 497 they incorporate drawing, found objects and other spatial interventions developed in the studio in relationship to the site and individual but overlapping interests. While two distinct works, they share a common interest in expressing the feeling that having a sense of place, safety brings.

There are particular locations at Articulate that I have been drawn to in past works. Heights, corners, airflow and light, on top of a building on top of a hill. Horizons and sky views.

Habitat 497 is a response to this space above Parramatta Road developed on site (in quiet moments) and those in Studio 4 nearby. Trying to imagine past hill views and horizons while watching the cars go by.

Interplaying ideas around inhabiting and Habitats and survival.

Studying ecology , Space- Time saturation is what the Northern Bobwhite* wants and I get that. A place to be where there is unconstrained space to thrive over a decent period of time.

VOTE 1 HABITAT!

* Fred S Guthery ,A Philosophy of Habitat Management for Northern Bobwhites. The jnl of Wildlife Management Vol.61,No.2,(Apr 1997)

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.

The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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ArticulateUpstairs | Suzanne Bartos - GO

Opening Event Saturday Apr 9th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 8th until 24th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

Suzanne Bartos and Juliet Fowler Smith have occupied studios at Articulate since its beginning. In Habitat 497 they incorporate drawing, found objects and other spatial interventions developed in the studio in relationship to the site and individual but overlapping interests. While two distinct works, they share a common interest in expressing the feeling that having a sense of place, safety brings.

I’m taking the 12th century Persian poem by Farid ud-Din Attar: The Conference of the Birds as my starting point. It’s about the commitment it takes to follow a particular path.

I’m combining my interest in children’s play, storytelling and sculptures’ inherent physicality to explore embodied resting.  

Pedestals have always interested me as they translate as a “place for the foot”. But they’re a frame, removing them from real space. From a real resting, in place.  

I’ll be working in the gallery over the period of our occupancy. Do call in and chat with me as I work.

bartosculpture.weebly.com

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.

The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Backroom | Annabel Nowlan - Flux

Opening Event Saturday Apr 9th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 8th until 24th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

‘Eulogy 001’  Mixed media on copper on wood. 2022 60x55cms  

It’s unstable, reactive and maybe a bit toxic but that hasn’t tempered our obsession with the fragile beauty of Verdigris

Flux is a deep engagement with the natural (and unnatural) environment, focusing on the endless bounty of everyday aesthetic nuances. It is a selection of mixed media and curios that predominately feature verdigris surfaces, finishes and effects. Conceptually the works obliquely explore themes of: nostalgia, decay and environmental chaos.

The beauty in the seemingly mundane and the everyday is celebrated and bought to life. I am particularly drawn to surfaces that change and deteriorate with time and exposure to the elements. The appeal of these unique surfaces, found objects and unrefined materials are for me, suggestive of the tactile and kinaesthetic properties of the earth and our relationship with it.

The verdigris green patina surfaces are un-treated (unfixed) so they remain in flux and the colour will vary according to the surrounding humidity. Recipes for verdigris are found throughout ancient literature and include ingredients like salt, honey, vinegar and even urine to be applied to copper plates in order to cause the necessary chemical reaction.

While the mixed materials mimic and celebrate the rich vocabulary of the tamed and untamed environment, they also speak to human endeavour and misguided attempts to dominate and subdue the land.

Nowlan’s work often references her connection to Bimbi in south-western NSW, where her Irish convict ancestors have been farmers for six generations. In calling her exhibition ‘flux’, Nowlan acknowledges that the land is a continuously changing domain, and, any non-Indigenous attempt to narrate unceded lands will always be partial and incomplete.

'Time is of the essence' Mixed media on pegboard on wood  2022 60x55cms 

‘Going local’ Mixed media on ply on wood 2021 60x55cms 

‘Cloud i’ Pigment & paint on wood 2021 15x60cms

‘Cloud ii’ Pigment & paint on wood 2022 11x18cms

annabelnowlan.com.au

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.

The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | Mark Ryan - Overlap

Opening Event Friday Mar 18th, 6-8pm

Exhibition from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

 

Mark Ryan, Was Yours, Now Mine, (detail),
2022, oil, copper and paper on wood,
600 x 250 x 25 cm

Investigations into the themes of power, property and impermanent ownership: 'What once was yours, is now mine' and vice versa. Furthermore, what was once no-one’s can become anyone’s. And all rights can be obliterated by aggression, obsolesce or the passage of time.

https://www.instagram.com/mark.j.ryan/

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NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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Backroom | Emilio Cresciani - State of Change

Opening Event Friday Mar 18th, 6-8pm
Exhibition from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

 

Emilio Cresciani, Breaking of Ice #7, 2020, duratran, 42 x 30cm, Edition of 3 + AP

The ice caps are melting. New topographies are created through rising sea levels. And as the ice sheets shrink, more light is absorbed onto the earth’s surface, further accelerating global warming. A vicious circle. 

In these works light travels through blocks of ice, large and small, industrial and domestic. As it slowly melts, its shape and form is changed. The resulting images document the frozen fragments refracting and reflecting light, producing patterns suggestive of shifting landscapes. The ice floats in a sea of negative space. 

Like a window into other worlds, drips and spots from the melting ice reference how humans have marked the earth. They reference the profound impacts of human-induced climate change on our landscapes.

The works were made during a Dark Matter Residency at PhotoAccess Canberra in 2020.

Emilio Cresciani Changing of Ice #13, 2020, duraclear, 76 x 56cm Edition of 3 + AP

Emilio Cresciani, Breaking of Ice #4, 2020, duratran, 42 x 30cm, Edition of 3 + AP

Ice is transparent and transient, whilst light penetrates and exposes. The artworks explore the relationship between these two elements and draw links between states of change, examining literally, figuratively, and abstractly, human impacts on the globe.

The works continue Cresciani’s interest in altered landscapes, in an abstract way, exploring negative space and particularly transition and transformation. Non-places like road works, waste centres, and deforested sites. 

Cresciani graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2012 and was a finalist in 2021 Earth Photo Award London and the KL Photo Award; 2019 and 2017 Bowness Photography Prize; 2018 and 2020 Mandorla Prize; semi finalist 2019 Head On; finalist 2015 Chippendale New World Art Prize, Agendo Art Prize and 2010 National Youth Self Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery. 

Emilio Cresciani Changing of Ice #12, 2020, duraclear, 76 x 56cm Edition of 3 + AP

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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ArticulateUpstairs | Chantal Grech - Annotations, notations, notions

Three week work in progress
Project from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd

Opening times to be announced

Lake George- the Luxor desert

My work is never about a single idea. It’s more a constellation of fragments on a single subject looking for a form. That subject has been about home and the nature of belonging. For some time, home resided in the texts and the voice of others who have travelled the same way. But recently it has become more embodied involving momentary encounters with people I have never seen again. These encounters were like signposts, co-ordinates on a map, moments in the same narrative.

Each of us, I think, has a narrative that defines our life. Mine is one of displacement and migration. What gives it meaning are the details, often incoherent, like a mirage, constantly disappearing over a horizon just as a resolution is in sight. And so the question shifts and the journey begins again. What form this narrative can take is one of the ongoing questions posed in this work in progress over the three weeks in Articulate. What are the elements and what relationship between the visual and textual language of this narrative can co-exist in an art space without the conventional illustrative relationship between image and text without losing the specificity of those moments.

The aim here is not to seek coherence or resolution but to ask the question-what is possible if anything. The project begins with both abstract and and representative elements juxtaposed and laid one on top of the other. As such there are no 'works’ only incomplete fragments searching for a form and the only rule is to keep moving.

Nb: Here colour is selective; red, black and white are the colours of the Egyptian flag and though I do not wish to emphasise nation states it seems colour here matters (this flag and these colours were used in the Arab spring to represent the Egyptian people as a united community just as we are seeing blue and yellow as the colours for Ukraine). 

Red is an ongoing colour in my work and represents for me the colour of blood and roses and perhaps as John Berger says, ‘could it be that red is the only colour that is constantly seeking the body?

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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Special show | Barbara Halnan 1941-2021

A survey exhibition facilitated by Dr William Seeto

Opening Reception Sat Mar 5th, 2-5pm

Facilitator Talk Sun Mar 13th, 2-4pm

Exhibition from Mar 2nd until Mar 13th
Open 11am - 5pm | Wed-Sun

Download PDF | Barbara Halnan Survey Exhibition Catalogue

"Variations on a Picket Fence" 2011. Photo by JC

Barbara Halnan described herself as an artist, painter and installation artist - her interests were art, music and reading. She was a dedicated artist and for many she was a friend and colleague. As an artist Barbara was knowledgeable, unpretentious, friendly, self-sufficient and hard working. She went about making art with determination and she needed no prompting to achieve it. Barbara made an impression on everyone who met her in Australia and other countries.

The survey exhibition celebrates her memory and place in Australian and international art. A tribute exhibition is also being held in Paris. ‘Barbara Halnan had strong ties with Paris and friendships with both French and European artists. She participated in the Salon Réalités Nouvelles from 2012 to 2019 and was part of the group of the "non-objective" art movement in Paris where she participated in exhibitions at the ParisCONCRET and ABSTRACT PROJECT galleries. She was an active member and driving force behind Franco-Australian exchange, particularly for The Drawing Collective; she also organised exhibitions of French and international artists in Australia’.

"View of exhibition preparation" 2022. Photos by William Seeto

 

The exhibition in Sydney is facilitated by William Seeto, a friend and colleague, who provides structure to 250+ artworks consisting of finished, lead-up and early works in the main gallery; with selected videos of past exhibitions, her last interview for Inner-West Council Library, and a link to the Paris exhibition in the Backroom. This is supplemented with sections defined by her Paris connection, a collection of Rose McGreevy and other artists' work, her curated artists projects with Rose, a display of her small artworks, booklets and studio set-up with easel, paints, and brushes in the Upstairs space. 

The survey of Barbara Halnan's life work offers a rare insight into her creative process in making artworks - it is the first time they are exhibited together and their significance cannot be overstated. Like most artists Barbara was a modest person who made art and did not promote her rightful place in Australian and international art. This exhibition makes a claim for her as an innovative artist. 

"View of exhibition preparation" 2022. Photo by William Seeto

Barbara Halnan. Photo credit A.P.

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William Seeto BA, GDip (VA/GM), PhD is a practicing visual artist and exhibition facilitator with a practice of 40 years. His perceptual installations investigate the built environment by reconstructing architectural space.

Contact: bmseeto@gmail.com

"View of exhibition preparation" 2022. Photo by William Seeto

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Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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per.doc | project space | Feb 18-20 | Model the Model: a performed action

Artists: Barbara Campbell + Clare Grant

Performances Sat Feb 19th, 5-6pm (Limited capacity event)
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

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Clare Grant costume trial for Model the Model performed action by Barbara Campbell and Clare Grant, 5pm February 20, Articulate, Sydney. Photo: Barbara Campbell

In Model the Model, Campbell and Grant re-articulate a small terracotta figure made somewhere between the 3rd Century BCE and the 2nd Century CE. 

The figure comes from an undocumented location somewhere in Southern Italy and is currently stored in a drawer in Rome. This object—like others in the same drawer and in other drawers in the same cabinet, other cabinets in the same room of the museum—comes with a “commentary” that is itself a re-articulation or, better, a re-animation, in which object is made subject. Sentences such as “She stands on her left leg, right drawn back.” and “The tips of her feet project from the hem of her garment.” introduce us to a woman standing somewhere in time and space while she, as object still lies in a museum drawer in Rome. She is stood up. She becomes a “standing woman.”

 

Model the Model is a limited capacity event (taking account of Covid restrictions) in which Campbell sets the conditions for Grant as ‘model’ to take the position of standing woman. Grant will oscillate between subject and object, perhaps to the point of shimmering, perhaps to the point of energetic stillness. The state or status of the standing woman is relayed to others in the room who act on the figure through acute attention, choosing their own role either as writer, artist or more distanced observer.

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Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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per.doc | project space | Feb 11-13 | The Hidden 2022

Artists: Jo Truman + Andy Milne (+ The Fragile Ids- 

Tim Cunningham, Jo Truman, Andy Milne and John Shand)

Performance Sat Feb 12th, 6pm (Limited capacity event)
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

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Image: drawing by Jo Truman

Installation with drawings and sound.

This project explores trauma and memory through sound and silence, the written word and drawing. I am working from the premise that “the body holds the score” and that every one of our cells contain imprinted memories of our lives, a notion that is gaining traction through the field of Polyvagal theory and Epigenetics. However, it is not a new notion- first nations people are aware of ancestors living within and around them, notions which are not just beliefs but lived experiences. 

I work from the premise that we have the capacity to “read” our own imprinted memories through interception and visceral awareness. These imprints inform our lives on a daily basis, impacting us, generating positive (expansive) or negative/traumatic (constrictive) feelings experienced on a visceral level. Imprints may be deep but are plastic in nature and may be mitigated and transformed through sound. 

The collaboration with Andy Milne involves bringing sonic memories into the real time of the present, as the installation interacts with the space of the gallery with random sounds informed by memory intrude into the present moment, also signifying the tendency for traumatic memory to intrude on the present. Not only sound is explored but the sometimes loaded implications of frozen silence. 

Following my mother’s death I inherited hundreds of little notes inscribed with existential and spiritual musings about life following her escape from a repressive abusive marriage, about the same age as I am now.  Her rich inner life was inaccessible to me, as her state of shut down from years of trauma from losses experienced in WW2 and beyond into her marriage had impacted her ability to talk. The notes reveal her quest for her authentic self  which had been compromised by the adverse experiences which dominated her life. They have provided a portal through which I can finally get to know her and consequently understand myself, as she is deeply imprinted within my own body and being. These notes and their content form a basis of this project.

My current work explores the threshold of the tipping point between “being” and “nothingness” and how internalised and intergenerational social imprints construct the sense of self, thus informing  interactions with the surrounding environment. The current Covid shut down is an echo of the experiences of my early childhood life which was a constant struggle for the recognition of self, a selfhood which was consistently denied by a shut down mother and a shutting down father- signals which were consequently played out by siblings to maintain a perceived status quo. 

My vocal improvisations have  evolved over many years through a process of interoception, involving a visceral mapping of my nervous system and deeply internalised feelings, bringing their messages to the external via  the voice, working with these sonic energies as compositional material for transformation. The body holds the score. I am curious about how women can develop their own sense of authentic self and identity in a world dominated by authoritative male voices. My response has to go inwards to discover and honour the deeply embodied stories and experiences I hold within my body using my breath and voice as an instrument. 

The band “fragile ids” (Jo Truman/Andre Milne/John Shand/ Tim Cunningham) will be performing on Feb 12th in a dynamic sonic celebration of the Articulate Project Space. 

Due to Covid restrictions the Articulate Project Space is only able to accommodate 29 people for this event.

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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