Systems: Air and Water - closing drinks Sunday 30 April 2-4pm

Come and see the rest of each of these artworks, and celebrate the conclusion of Systems: Air and Water with the artists on Sunday afternoon.  

Deborah Porch Facts of Life 2017 (detail) 

Deborah Porch life-line 2017 (detail)

Hilarie Mais System 10 2016 (detail) 

Hilarie Mais Window (Sense 3) 2005 (detail)

Anne Graham Feather Cloud 2017 (detail)

Noelene Lucas Sacrifice Zone 1 2017 (detail)

Noelene Lucas Sacrifice Zone 2 2017 (detail)

Eugenia Raskopoulos Openborders 2017 (detail)

Sue Callanan Air into Water: Water into Air 2017 (detail)

Systems: Air & Water opened last night

Systems: Air & Water has a Closing Event on their last day, Sunday April 30 at 2-4pm. Please come along and celebrate their project with them.

downstairs left: Noelene Lucas; centre: Eugenia Raskopoulos; right: Sue Callanan; upstairs: International Drawing Collective

Sue Callanan

left: Hilarie Mais; right: Noelene Lucas

Noelene Lucas

left: Anne Graham; right: Hilarie Mais

Noelene Lucas

Debra Porch

Systems: Air & Water opens THURSDAY 13 April 6-8pm

Open Fri - Sun 11am-5pm 15 - 30 April 2017
opening Thursday 13 April 6-8pm
(NB: closed Friday 14 April for the public holiday)

Systems: Air & Water shows the work of artists Sue Callanan, Ann Graham, Noelene Lucas, Hilarie Mais, Debra Porch and Eugenia Raskopoulos

Photo: Noelene Lucas, 2015

Air & water are the elemental systems of all life forms – flora & fauna (including human). They display the interdependence & interconnection of all phenomena. All cellular life is embedded in the planetary systems of air & water (weather, precipitation, photosynthesis, respiration).

This exhibition explores and celebrates the multiple ways these often overlooked, but essential, forces of life interact and are interdependent. The artists will consider the perceptions, social understandings & insights that fall under this wide parameter of the “system” - system as structure, arrangement, network, complex, methods, frameworks.

Some questions arise – how do we attach or make meaning in that which transpires between air and water? Is this the large mystery of the planet, or is it also the question of the heart and mind that can communicate beautiful and abstract concepts through objects, images and the senses?

The exhibition will consist of photography, video, installation & mixed media.




TWITCHERS - the works

Linden Braye above L: Wetlands Launch Pad: R: Birdwalk; Below: Ibis

See Friday Essay: the rise of the 'bin chicken'


Below: Noelene Lucas Incidence of appearance 2016, 6-channel HD video and mixed media

Anne Graham

Anne Graham Plucked (detail) 2016

Debra Porch My grandfather named all his parakeets Billy (detail) 2016

Juliet Fowler Smith Curleeee 2016

The Dog Show images - open Fri - Sun 11-5pm till 16 June

                                                             Noelene Lucas – Breath, 2013, SD video, 11 minute loop 

                                                                                        Work courtesy of the artist

Wendy Teakel – Aspriations, 2013, H 175 x W 41 x D120 cm

Ladder, grass, bone, dog prints

Works courtesy of the artist and Beaver Galleries, Canberra

Wendy Teakel – Side Dish, 2013, H 70 x W 120 x D 70 cm
Table, kibble, bone, bowls, water

Christine Cornish – Threshold II, 2, 2013, 74.4 x 58.8 cm

Framed pigment print on rag paper

Eugenia Raskopoulos – Astro, 2013, H 100 x W 100 cm

Digital print on archival paper

Work courtesy of the artist and William Wright // Artists, Sydney

Steven Lojewski – Quakers Hill, 2013, H 80 x W 52 cm

Framed pigment print on rag paper 

Daniel Mudie Cunningham – Dog Eat Dog, 2013, HD video, 2:59 loop

Camera: Catherine White; Remix: Andy Rantzen;

Samples: ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, The Beatles, 1963;

‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’, The Stooges, 1969;

Editor: Vera Hong

Work courtesy of the artist

Debra Porch – felix trying to imitate felix, 2013, dimensions variable

Poodle hair, photo, chalk Work courtesy of the artist


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The Dog Show opens at Articulate project space on Friday 24 May at 6-8m.

The Dog Show will include the work of artists Christine Cornish, Steven Lojewski,  Noelene Lucas, Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Debra Porch, Eugenia Raskopoulos and Wendy Teakel. The artists all have (or have had) dogs as an important part of their families. Christine Cornish and Steven Lojewski have Beagles Miko and Quincy and Tashi the Shih Tzu. Noelene Lucas had George and Bruno who were Dalmations.  Daniel Mudie Cunningham had the Terrier Normie Hot Rocks. Debra Porch has Felix a miniature salt and pepper Poodle. Eugenia Raskopoulos has Atom and Stella and had Astro, all Standard Poodles. Wendy Teakel has Ruby, Lucy and until recently Millie, Tenterfield Terriers. 

These artists come together in an exhibition about dogs that reveals the experience of life with dogs, and explores the relationships these artists have with their dogs. It may be about love and loss, joy and grief, endurance and what endures, top dogs and top people, in fact the gamut of experiences of life, love and dogs. 

Opening: Friday May 24

Dates: 24 May - 16 June

Hours:  Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am till 5pm