Anke Stäcker, Elke Wohlfahrt, Liz O’Reilly and Sonja Karl - open from Friday 16 April

                                                            SERIOUSLY VAGUE 

presents

four solo exhibitions:

Anke Stäcker – Random Discoveries

Elke Wohlfahrt – Positively Negative

Liz O’Reilly – Travelling Light

Sonja Karl – Revealing Visions

Anke Stäcker investigates streets with female names in Sydney, Elke Wohlfahrt works with the hardware of analogue photography, Liz O’Reilly plays with the weight of treasured ephemera, and Sonja Karl reveals changing scenes in different lights. 

Conversations between these four artists working entirely independently of one another have uncovered relationships and unexpected dialogues between their work. By deciding to combine individual exhibitions under the one collective Seriously Vague, the artists invite you to look for connections. 

Exhibition  Friday 16 April  - Sunday 2 May 2021

Opening  Saturday 17 April 1-5pm 

Performance by Liz O’Reilly 

Saturday 17 April at 3pm 

Artists talk with Anke, Elke, Liz and Sonja 

Saturday 1 May at 3pm

Anke Stäcker Watch for Mabel 2020 (digital photo)

Elke Wohlfahrt – Positively Negative 2021

Liz O’Reilly World Cases 2021

Sonja Karl Fluid Shifts on the wing 1 2021

Conditions of entry:

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

Eight - open 20-21 March

Open Days 11am-5pm Sat-Sun 20-21 March

Artists talk/discussion 2-4pm Sunday 21 March

Performance 3pm Saturday 20 March: Kit Bylett, Unravelling in Figure 8's.

Eight roomsheet 

Ten artists—Linden Braye, Kit Bylett, Sue Callanan, Lesley Giovanelli, Barbara Halnan, Fiona Kemp & Virginia Hilyard, Margaret Roberts, Emma Wise and Elke Wohlfahrt—have been working in the project space and backroom for nearly 3 weeks and will open the space to visitors on the final weekend as a group show.

Sue Callanan

L: Emma Wise, R: Barbara Halnan

Emma Wise

Lesley Giovanelli

Barbara Halnan

Margaret Roberts (photos the artist)

Kit Bylett

Linden Braye

Elke Wohlfahrt

Virginia Hilyard and Fiona Kemp

Conditions of entry:

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

Last day for FRACAS

Open Sunday 21 February  11am - 5pm

Thanks to Articulate's wonderful Fracas volunteer, Kit Bylett, who organised Fracas so superbly despite the difficult COVID context. Here Kit participates in Stuff Back, participatory work by Emma Wise in Fracas6, by trying out a hat with a history. (See part of that history here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157810619730987&set=t.719830986&type=3)

Emma Wise Stuff Back 2021 (with Elizabeth Rankin participating)

L-R: Em Ingram-Shute, Emma Wise, Vilma Bader, Elke Wohlfahrt, Hannah Wilson

Conditions of entry to Fracas:

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

See all FRACAS posts

FRACAS5 is open from Friday 12 February

 Open 11am-5pm, Fri-Sun  12-14 February

 Opening event Saturday 13 February 1-5pm

FRACAS FIVE ROOMSHEET

FRACAS continues Articulate’s experiment with exhibition practice begun with  FAIRISLE,  FERAL, FERRET, FERMENT and FROLIC FREEZE  in previous years. It presents the exhibition as a changing site by re-contextualising each artwork with new works installed in the gaps left by the departure of works that were installed earlier. This weekly coming and going of artworks is a slow and progressive art-dance, each step of which is seen by coming to each of its six Friday-Sunday iterations until February 22. Opening events are each Saturday 1-5pm.

FRACAS FIVE shows the work of Maria Alvarado, Brett Anthony Moore, Isobel Johnston + Jude Crawford, Julia Hemens, Mia Domansky, Kim Bennett, Elke Wohlfahrt,  Em Ingram-Shute,  Annelies Jahn, Sarah FitzGerald, Seema Akhmetova, Jane Alexander, Steve Simpson + Paul Sutton, Vilma Bader, Sonia Vuchich. and Teong Eng Tan + Elke Wohlfahrt,

design: Kit Bylett 

FRACAS5 includes Walking together along the Edge, which will be held in Articulate's backroom. Teong Eng Tan and Elke Wohlfahrt warmly invite you to take part in ‘The Dialogue’,  based on David Bohm’s writing ‘On Dialogue’. The meaning of the word ‘dialogue’ is somewhat different from what is commonly used. ‘Dia’ means ‘through’. A dialogue can be among any number of people, not just two.  The dialogue will be a stream of meaning, flowing among and through us and between us - out of which may emerge some new understanding, something creative, new, uniting you and all together. In dialogue nobody is trying to win. Everybody wins if anybody wins.

‘The Dialogue’ will be held on Saturdays, February 13 and 20, 2021 from 3pm

Artists participating in FRACAS over its six week program are Lisa Andrew, Pamela Leung, Tara McIntosh, Raymond Matthews, Margaret Roberts, Sue Callanan, Kit Bylett, Jeni Mulvey, Stefania Riccardi, Sadhbha Cockburn, , Kiwibull Art, Alyssa Clemson, A Legge, Michele Elliot, Sue Murray, Mahalya Middlemist, Diane McCarthy + Bruce McCalmont, Anke Stäcker, Maria Alvarado, Brett Anthony Moore, Isobel Johnston + Sue Murray, Lucy Keirle, Julia Hemens, Mia Domansky, Kim Bennett, Elke Wohlfahrt, Em Ingram-Shute, Annelies Jahn, Bettina Bruder, Seema Akhmetova, Jane Alexander, Steve Simpson + Paul Sutton, Isobel Johnston + Jude crawford, Vilma Bader, Kansas Smeaton, Isabella Cooke, Lisa Pang, Anya Pesce, Sonia Vuchich, Teong Eng Tan + Elke Wohlfahrt, and Riley Anderson. Images of artwork appear on articulate497.blogspot.com as it is installed.

Conditions of entry to Fracas:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. 

Please do not come if you are unwell or a contact of a COVID-19 case.

Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.

Complete your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Keep 1.5 metres distance from others or wear a face mask

See all FRACAS posts

Articulate Turns Ten is open Sunday 27 December

 Open 11-5pm Friday - Sunday

19 December - 3 January

(closed 25-26 December)

AT10 ROOMSHEET

All AT10 posts

 Articulate Turns Ten shows the work of Susan Andrews, Vilma  Bader, Bettina Bruder,  Mandy Burgess and Ro Murray, Jane Burton Taylor, Curtis Ceapa, Sue Callanan, Rox De Luca, Parris Dewhurst, Ella Dreyfus, Nicole Ellis, Bonita Ely, Steven Fasan, Sarah Fitzgerald, Juliet Fowler Smith, Beata Geyer, Simone Griffin, Philippa Hagon, Barbara Halnan, Jan Handel, Kendal Heyes, Isobel Johnston and Jude Crawford, Sonja Karl, Fiona Kemp, Michelle Ledain, Noelene Lucas, Kate Mackay, Diane McCarthy, Mahalya Middlemist, Raymond Matthews, Sue Murray, Sue Pedley and  Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Renay Pepita, Anya Pesce, Elizabeth Rankin, Che Ritz, Margaret Roberts, Tamsin Salehian, Alan Schacher, Lisa Sharp, Anke Stacker, Voices of Women (Lliane Clarke), Molly Wagner, Gary Warner and Elke Wohlfahrt 

Elizabeth Rankin (Ph Curtis Ceapa)

Sue Callanan (Ph Curtis Ceapa)

Noelene Lucas

L-R: Che Ritz, Noelene Lucas, Elizabeth Rankin

L: Vilma Bader; floor: Alan Schacher; top R Elke Wohlfahrt (detail); Bottom R: Sue Pedley/Phaptawan Suwannakudt (detail)

L: Raymond Matthews, Michele LeDain, Elke Wohlfahrt, R: Sue Pedley/Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Elke Wohlfahrt (detail) (Phot: Lisa Pang)

L-R: Vilma Bader, Barbara Halnan

Vilma Bader

L-R: Ella Dreyfus, Kate Mackay

L-R: Raymond Matthews, Margaret Roberts, Ella Dreyfus, Kate Mackay 

Kate Mackay

Jan Handel (Phot: Lisa Pang)

L-R: Sue Murray, Sue Callanan, Nicole Ellis

L: Sonja Karl; R: Kendal Heyes

Parris Dewhurst

Mahalya Middlemist

Photos: Margaret Roberts except where stated

Conditions of entry to the exhibition:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. 

Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Use the hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people and wear a face mask.

The few and far between - open from Saturday 21 March

The few and far between

Preview: Saturday 21 March, 12-4pm

Open Hours: Friday – Sunday 11am  - 5pm, 21 – 29 March

An exhibition by Jan Cleveringa, Elizabeth Day, Elizabeth Mifsud, Marlene Sarroff, Bm Seeto, Anke Stäcker and Elke Wohlfahrt

“It’s not that fast horses are rare

but (those) who know enough to spot them

are few and far between”  Han Yü

This exhibition is a facilitated project that takes place with a short lead-up time for participation; it is a project that is not curated by theme or curatorial recipe. The project provides artists with a space to show work that is free from curated direction, encourages artists to experiment with practice and evolves discourse in artist-run spaces.

Articulate wishes to advise that due to ongoing concerns about COVID-19 and the Federal Government’s announcement of stage 2 closures of galleries and museums, the current exhibitions at Articulate has been cancelled for the last weekend of Friday to Sunday, 27-29 March

Elizabeth Day

Anke Stäcker

Marlene Sarroff

Barbara Halnan

Bm Seeto, 'Untitled (reconfigure : in process) 2020

Opening Friday 6 March 6-8pm: WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFTEN

Sydney Art Exchange

Open 11am - 5pm Fri - Sun, 7 - 15 March 2020

Opening event Friday 6 March 6-8pm

Sydney Art Exchange artists are Corinne Brittain, Elke Wohlfahrt, Eleanor Er, Kerry MacAulay and Anya Pesce. 

WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFTEN (ELECTIVE AFFINITIES) is our response to the bushfire crisis in our country. We also wish to draw attention to the political and personal responses to climate change and climate catastrophe.

Sydney Art Exchange Have a Mask 23 January 2020

The P2 mask has become a symbol of personal protection in our time of vulnerability. It has brought the consequences of bushfires into our urban environment and now has also become indicative of a world-wide health crisis. 

It evokes a pervading sense of unprecedented danger. With the use of masks, we acknowledge the powerful articulation of sympathy and compassion, both nationally and internationally, toward those affected.

Wahlverwandtschaften is the title of a book by the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He describes the feelings of sympathy or attraction towards a particular idea, attitude or person. We relate to these concepts because our whole community is drawn together, and seeks protection in the face of impending crisis. 

FROLIC FREEZE 5 opened last night

FROLIC FREEZE 5 is open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday, 14 - 16  February, showing the work of  Michele Elliot, Chantal Grech, Raymond Matthews, Diane McCarthy, Sue Murray, Renay Pepita, Paul Sutton & Steve Simpson, Jessica Thallmaier, Elke Wohlfahrt  and Sarah Woodward.

FROLIC FREEZE 5 ROOMSHEET  

The final FROLIC FREEZE iteration, FROLIC FREEZE 6, will open Friday 21 February 6-8pm.

Diane McCarthy

Paul Sutton & Steve Simpson

Sarah Woodward

L Sue Murray; Right Michele Elliot

Jessica Thallmaier Locus 2020, LED, electronic, human energy