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Showing posts with label Amanda Williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amanda Williams. Show all posts

30.4.17

Expanded Photography opens Friday 5 May at 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm Fri - Sun 6-21 May 2017, 
opening Friday 5 May 6-8pm
Artists' Talks Saturday 13 May 3pm

Expanded Photography shows the work of artists Jack Banduch, Yvette Hamilton, Matt James, Noelene Lucas, Katherine Scott, Enrico Scotece, Sardar Sinjawi, Ioulia Terizis, Amanda Williams and Julian Woods, and is curated by Margaret Roberts.

Expanded Photography reflects on relationships between the virtual space of the photographic image and the live space in which it is located. It shows the work of artists whose practices explore such spatial relationships or otherwise reflect on the nature of photography, whether from the primary position of a photographer or that of an installation artist. 

The exhibition is designed by Articulate to support the interdisciplinary potential being explored within artpractices that are sometimes also more discipline-specific. It is also designed to explore ways in which the spatial concerns of Articulate can engage with the photographic concerns being emphasised by many exhibition around Sydney during Head On. 


Jack Banduch Concrete Ambivalence 2015.  Jack Banduch's work addresses the post-photographic gaze. His work aims to distort the material and receptive legibility of the photographic image to facilitate a renewed, potentially emancipatory platform for viewing. jackbanduch.com
Yvette Hamilton Viewfinder 2015 Cementa15 photo Ian Hobbes 

Yvette Hamilton's work charts the evolution of self, being and presence, as influenced by evolving technological heterotopias through the mediums of photomedia, video and interactivity. She has exhibited in widely in Australia and in London and Slovenia and has recently completed her MFA (Research) at Sydney College of the Arts. www.yvettehamilton.com
Yvette Hamilton​ Lightness #1 2016.  'Lightness' is a series of diptychs that are reductive self-portraits which contemplate the idea of the double. The left-hand image is an animated lightbox and the right-hand image is a photograph of the lightbox. 



























Matthew James Coogee 2015, 2015, 3 rolls of Velvia 120 slide film housed in wooden light box, 
 'There is such a great difference between experiencing a landscape firsthand and seeing it mediated through a photograph. In the former, the potential of peripheral vision is not limited. . . Using a self-developed photographic process and a customised analogue camera, I capture images of the ocean that cover a whole roll of medium format photographic slide film – an attempt to make the largest image possible within the constraints of the medium.' from photoaccess.org.au/files/MatthewJames.web.pdf.  mattjamesimage.com  
Noelene Lucas, Breath, 2013 (video still - see part of moving image here)
  'Breath' is not really a photograph, as it first seems. It is included in this exhibition because the surprising arrival of a breeze during the making of the video shifts attention from the content to the medium, making visitors wonder why the dog is motionless, because they see it is not because it is a photograph. 
Katherine Scott  Imperfection in more than three worlds (detail) 2016 
Katherine works back and forth between the still photographic image and the changing environment from which it is drawn. Her recent work is reminiscent of Carol Rudyard's 1980s and 90s pairing of the camera's and the visitor's slow scanning of the immediate environment, but further complicated by the escape of the image back into that environment which by then is also no longer what is was when it made the image.
































Enrico Scotece Untitled  Fibre Base Silver Gelatin Contact Photograph 121 x 94mm
Enrico Scotece's work shows a continuity between images and the locations in which they are made by using methods, such as the pin-hole camera, that leave traces of the physical process of image-making. 





Sardar Sinjawi, After a Beam of Light, Space Ideation 2014.  Sardar Sinjawi is working on a Space Ideation project in which large images are formed through the interaction of reflections on close, transparent surfaces that, depending on light conditions, are read as large images on more distant surfaces. While they can be documented permanently in photographs, they are most surprising in actual space because they show us images that we already see but overlook, images that are commonplace in modern cities but fleeting because of our mobility.

Ioulia Terizis Slivers and Shard 2017 Gelatin Silver Photograph   83 x 113 cm
Ioulia is a multi-disciplinary artist engaging with materiality, form and  the nature
and processes of perception.  Her photographs merge the form of the photograph 
and the content of the image, exploiting the photograph's characteristic reduction
to create ambiguities of both form and content.   
Amanda Williams is an installation and photomedia artist whose work explores the history of photography and architectural modernism.  In this work Amanda explores the concept of entropy by using photographic materials and processes that evolve and change over time.   http://www.awilliams.com.au/


Amanda Williams, Contemplation Hollow, 2013


Julian Woods  Spirit Life Through Breath 2015 (projected video)
Julian Woods is a Sydney based inter-disciplinary artist. Completing honours in Art History from the University of Sydney in 2015 his current approach to art considers interactions to the environment, spaces, and time. To date, Julian's work has explored relationships between images and their locations through the simplification of images that, when projected onto wallsstairs etc, have their 'natural' movement recontextualised by their new environment.



13.9.16

New Values with Amanda Williams and Uri Auerbach opens Friday 16 September 6-8pm


New Values shows photographs and sculpture

Opening Friday 16th September 2016
Exhibition continues Fri - Sunday 11am-5pm,
17 September - 2 October

Finissage drinks Sat 1 Oct 2pm

"According to (Tristan) Tzara, the ideal 'dwelling place' is 'the prenatal comfort' of the mother; and so, against the 'aesthetics of castration called modern, he calls, outrageously enough, for an 'architecture of the womb.' ” Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods

L: Uri Auerbach, Untitled (Vatican Museum) III, 2015; R: Amanda Williams, Untitled (Walking on the moon) 2016
 
Events, accidents and associated crises are situations that we will always encounter however big or small, public or private, tragic or rewarding they may ultimately be. Life is propelled into being by such moments and the world around us, contained and spinning in an ever-expanding universe, is the result of one such event, a very big bang – the original accident perhaps?

The way we contend with and emotionally process such events has changed dramatically in recent times. Events in one hemisphere travel at the speed of light towards the other via image, text and sound feeds. Moments are captured and disseminated instantaneously and often before the event has finished unfolding, with the resulting ruptures in continuity having a profoundly unsettling influence on our collective and individual psyche. Technology allows for and encourages people to share and connect second by second opening up a space, a void, into which we are encouraged to seek support and feel 'at home', a place where the personal becomes public, and the public, becomes personal. The event and the representation are seemingly interchangeable, and the “world out there” is both as real and as unreal as it’s virtual double.

New Values offers no answers. It simply offers a view into the psyche of two artists embracing the day-to-day realities of life in the event cycle. Traversing the terrain is emotional and rewarding.

Biographies:
Amanda Williams is a photographic artist interested in architectural modernism and the history of photography. Current work engages with the allegory of the cave and the concept of entropy by using materials and processes that evolve and change over time – such as the use of unfixed and solarized gelatin silver prints and bleached C-Type prints. Recent group exhibitions include #memoryarchive Photo Award, Photobook Melbourne 2016, GAFFA Photo Fest Award, 2016, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2015, Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art 2015. Recent solo exhibition: Towards a New Architecture, Firstdraft Sydney 2015.

Uri Auerbach works across photography, sculpture and installation to explore the social creation of meaning. His practice traces the evolution of socially constructed narratives that have become distorted, mutated or corrupted over time. His works typically address concepts that have become hollowed out by use and filled with new, often contrary meanings. Areas of this research have included fame, progress, leisure, and masculinity. Uri Auerbach’s work, A River is currently showing at UNSW Galleries as part of the 2016 John Fries Award.
 Uri Auerbach 

6.7.13

Eclipse (return) LAST DAYS

Eclipse (return) closes Sunday 7 July at 5pm. 


Eclipse (return) shows the work of Kate Beckingham, Emma Hamilton, Therese Keogh and Amanda Williams, and their reflections on the place of the image in contemporary art practice. 

let: Kate Beckingham Palantine Hill - Column #2 (476/2013), 2013, digital C-type print mounted behind acrylic, marble 

21.6.13

Eclipse (return) opened tonight

Artists Talks tomorrow, Saturday 22 June at 2pm
 above: Emma Hamilton
Enantiomorphic Landscape (installation), 2013, 
Perspex, salt crystals, clamps, wood, tables, duratran,
 slide negative, rubber bands, light, photograms. 

Emma Hamilton's participation in Eclipse (return) 
has been supported by the Victorian College of the Arts.

above: Amanda Williams

The “Unité d'Habitation”, 2013
Series of 9 digital C-Type prints 
Water from the Ganges and Soil from the Acropolis, 2013
Oak plinth, Perspex, glass, soil, water 
above: Kate Beckingham
View from Palatine Hill (476/2013), 2013, (detail)
air dry clay, plaster, digital C-Type print mounted behind acrylic
above: Kate Beckingham
Palatine Hill – Column #1 (476/2013), 2013, 
plaster, shelf, digital C-Type print mounted behind acrylic

above: Therese Keogh
 Preparations for a pit kiln, 2013 (detail)
HD video projection, felt, dyed cotton rope,
 dowel, found beams, unfired clay, soil.

Amanda, Emma, Kate, Therese

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