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.

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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 weekend coming up - Articulate turns Ten

Open 11-5pm Friday - Sunday till 3 January

Closing drinks: 3.30 - 5pm Sunday 3 January

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 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 

Bottom L: Vilma Bader, Barbara Halnan; Top L-R: Margaret Roberts, Juliet Fowler Smith, Gary Warner

Gary Warner

Curtis Ceapa

Jane Burton Taylor

L-R: Isabel Johnston & Jude Crawford, Bonita Ely, Susan Andrews

                    

Bonita Ely

     

Diane McCarthy

 Murray and Burgess Hazard 2020

back: Beata Geyer; front: Fiona Kemp

Anya Pesce

Steven Fasan

L-R:  Molly Wagner, Anya Pesce, Steven Fasan, Tamsin Salehien

L-R: Anke Stäcker; Rox De Luca

L-R: Anke Stäcker, Rox De Luca, Sarah Fitzgerald, Burgess/Murray

Philippa Hagon

Philippa Hagon Continuum (detail) 2020

Lisa Pang Paintless Painting Series (photo: the artist)

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.

Introversion artists' talks & closing drinks: Sunday 19 July 2-4pm

Last weekend coming up: Open 11-5pm Fri- Sun until 19 July

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Introversion is a group exhibition by Isobel Markus Dunworth, Kath Fries, Prudence Holloway, Fiona Kemp, Kenneth Lambert and Jacqui Mills  reflecting on processes of folding inwards during the COVID-19 crisis. Their videos, sculptures, paintings and installations each trace energy flows within interior worlds and engage with introverted patterns of psychological orientation.

Prudence Holloway Kneading, 2020, still from 30 minute video loop: https://vimeo.com/432754008#at=9

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Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we ask visitors to please: 

• leave your name and contact number at Articulate for contact-tracing 

• have your temperature taken with non-contact thermometer on entry

• always ensure you keep 1.5m distance from others

• use hand sanitiser available

• keep the maximum number of people in Articulate to 35 (the 4sqm/person rule)
• stay home if you are unwell

Introversion opened yesterday with Breaking Bread

Open 11-5pm Fri- Sun until 19 July

Introversion is a group exhibition by Isobel Markus Dunworth, Kath Fries, Prudence Holloway, Fiona Kemp, Kenneth Lambert and Jacqui Mills, which reflects on processes of folding inwards during the COVID-19 crisis. Their videos, sculptures, paintings and installations each trace energy flows within interior worlds and engage with introverted patterns of psychological orientation.

Breaking Bread opening event: Saturday 4 July 2-4pm

Artists talks and closing drinks: Sunday 19 July 2-4pm

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This project has been supported by funding from the Inner West Council through its 2020 Creative and Cultural Resilience Grants Program.

Introversion is open from 11am Friday 3 July

Open 11am - 5pm, Fri-Sun 3 – 19 July 2020

Kath Fries, Prudence Holloway, Fiona Kemp, Kenneth Lambert, Isobel Markus-Dunworth and Jacqui Mills

Breaking Bread opening event: Saturday 4 July 2-4pm

Artists talks and closing drinks: Sunday 19 July 2-4pm

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 Isobel Markus-Dunworth, Sad plant, 2020

Introversion is a group exhibition by Isobel Markus Dunworth, Kath Fries, Prudence Holloway, Fiona Kemp, Kenneth Lambert and Jacqui Mills, which reflects on processes of folding inwards during the COVID-19 crisis. Their videos, sculptures, paintings and installations each trace energy flows within interior worlds and engage with introverted patterns of psychological orientation. Turning one’s attention inwards has been almost unavoidable for many people during COVID-19 enforced social distancing; for some this self-isolation has been regenerative, but for others the compulsory alone-time has been challenging.

The artists in this exhibition would usually value alone-time and seek it out on residencies or in studios, insulated away from the world. For them the COVID-19 crisis period of isolation wasn’t necessarily positive or productive in that way, but it did open up some space for reflection and introspection.

Prior to the COVID-19 crisis these artists were all connected by their participation in the ‘Silence Awareness Existence’ residencies at Arteles Finland, 2012-2019. Drawn to the isolated, quiet and introverted elements of Finnish culture, winter countryside and the secluded nature of the residency; they were inspired to focus on and develop their individual introspective creative processes.

From these common threads of contemplation and quiet attentiveness, new conversations have grown whilst grappling with recent imposed isolation at home. These creative connections now come together opening up space for sharing with others recent experiences of folding inwards during the COVID-19 crisis.

Introversion is a collective response to the artists’ exploration of self, home, imagination and mindscape; letting go of the outside world, the city rat-race and extraverted social interactions. Through their shared exploration of alone-time, each reflects on their unique challenges of enforced social isolation and its impact on the inner psyche. Introversion shares their experiences of creative indoor plant cultivation, working patiently with layered textures and natural materials, mesmerising metallic painting processes, videos conjuring the elemental and notions of memory, and the meditative process of kneading and baking bread.

Isobel Markus-Dunworth http://isobelmarkusdunworth.com

Kath Fries  http://kathfries.com

Prudence Holloway http://www.prudenceholloway.com

Fiona Kemp http://fionakemp.com

Kenneth Lambert https://www.kclart.com 

Because of the COVID-19 restrictions, there will be no opening event and we ask visitors to please observe the following 

• ensure you keep 1.5m distance from others

• use hand sanitiser available

• a maximum of 35 people are allowed in Articulate under the 4sqm/person restriction.

• leave your name and contact number in case of contact-tracing 

This project has been supported by funding from the Inner West Council through its 2020 Creative and Cultural Resilience Grants Program.

FIONA KEMP & VIRGINIA HILYARD: TO RUSSIA opening discussion Sunday 29 September 2-5pm

project space project #23: 24 - 29 September:

Open Sunday 29 September 2-5pm with discussion with the artists.

Virginia Hilyard/FionaKemp   PARE, 2019

During a residency on Kotlin Island in Russia last year we gathered together a visual and sound treasure trove. We intend to let this archive loose into the space of articulate to see how it responds with the space and to work on its development.
Fiona Kemp and Virginia Hilyard

http://fionakemp.com/
http://www.virginiahilyard.com

Three project space projects: Sue Callanan, Elia Bosshard and Fiona Kemp/Virginia Hilyard

10 -15 September
SUE CALLANAN

ARCHITECTURAL AMENDMENTS: BUILDING PERMITS
project space project #21

I intend to occupy the ground floor space of Articulate and investigate ways of adapting or altering its architectural features so as to displace the familiar elements and structure, giving them a new reading. I have, at intervals over the life of Articulate, undertaken interventions in different parts of the space. In this instance, I would like to treat the downstairs  space as a whole, using  industrial materials that I’ve gathered over time, turning them into  a new configuration that takes account of the whole of the downstairs space as a single, but multifarious form.

I’m curious about the slippage between art and its architectural surrounds, and how one can be seamed into the other, such that figure and ground oscillate between each other, creating uncertainty about what was meant to be there in the first place.

There will be no official opening for ARCHITECTURAL AMENDMENTS, but the artist will be available for discussion during the opening of Time and the Ocean at ArticulateUpstairs, on Friday 13^th Sept 6-8pm, and on Sunday 16^th Sept 2-5pm.

Sue Callanan

Sue Callanan​, Remnants: repairs and maintenance undertaken November 2016

17 - 22 September:
ELIA BOSSHARD
BINARY FIELD (THE MEETING BETEEN TWO SPACES)
project space project #22

Opening event: Friday 20 September 6-8pm; open 11am- 5pm Sat-Sun 21-22 September

Elia Bosshard BINARY FIELD in development, Studio One 2019. Still from video by Hospital Hill

A long path cuts through diagonally, dividing the room into two parts. Essentially one line, it is an active object that functions to vertically distinguish between high and low space. Where is high and low? There is no one point when the space transitions from being above to below you. That meeting point

depends on one's relationship to height. The walk from one end to another is slow paced, through which our experience shifts. At what point do we perceive that our relationship with the path has changed or are aware of it changing? BINARY FIELD explores the immediacy of physical environments and how we inhabit and feel the presence of structures as we move by them.

Elia Bosshard

https://www.eliabosshard.com/

24 - 29 September:
FIONA KEMP & VIRGINIA HILYARD
TO RUSSIA
project space project #23

Open Sunday 29 September 2-5pm with discussion with the artists.

Virginia Hilyard/FionaKemp   PARE, 2019

During a residency on Kotlin Island in Russia last year we gathered together a visual and sound treasure trove. We intend to let this archive loose into the space of articulate to see how it responds with the space and to work on its development.
Fiona Kemp and Virginia Hilyard
http://fionakemp.com/

CLEAVE 2019 opened last night

Open Fri-Sun 11am-5pm to 23 June 2019 

Artists talks Saturday 15 June 2pm 

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CLEAVE shows the work of artists Lisa Andrew, Karen Banks, Linden Braye, Jenny Brown, Sue Callanan, Socorro Cifuentes, Ben Denham, Nola Farman, WeiZen Ho, Fiona Kemp/Virginia Hilyard, Jacek Przybyszewski and Margaret Roberts. 

Sue Callanan Rediscovering Cristina Iglesias (2019). Plasterboard. I first saw Cristina Iglesias’s work in the Guggenheim, NY in the late 90’s. The large concrete and tapestry works nestled into the architecture- hard edged on the outside, soft and domestic on the inside. I’ve created a mini version to insert itself into the architecture of Articulate- the outer plaster surface continuous with the plaster walls of the space; the inner walls, revealing  the exposed paper surface of the plasterboard, with their fragile scrapings mimicking the soft interiors of Iglesias’s work.

Linden Braye Igloo 2019 (fibreglass, perspex, metal, cotton string, copper wire, plastic)

Karen Banks  aAND, 2019 Video projection, 3.22min, yellow glass 25mm x 35mm
Single channel video work projected onto glass. Using hand-processed 16mm film that has been subjected to digital manipulation the video projection re-discovers the ‘hand’ as object within the context of Dora Maar’s Untitled, 1933-34 (shown left).  Following the contours of Maar’s photomontaged image, the video traces an unfolding into an unknown landscape; it is here the ‘hand’ negotiates containment and escape.

Front to back: Ben Denham, Margaret Roberts, Virginia Hilyard/Fiona Kemp, Lisa Andrew, Jacek Przybyszewski
Ben Denham HEAT DEATH: SOMETIMES MAKING SOMETHING LEADS TO NOTHING, REPRISE (2012), single channel video, 2:43 minutes. A remake of Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing by Francis Alÿs.

Margaret Roberts  Dance 2019 (floor, wood, scenic paint+shoe polish 240x90cm).  Dance enlarges Sophie Taeuber’s Vertical-Horizontal Composition, cuts it into its parts and locates them together on the floor, aiming to incorporate the actual place of dancing that Taeuber included implicitly in her painting.    margaretroberts.org

Nola Farman   The Hermit’s Tablecloth (Version 3)

A re-contextualization of a passage from Eugene Ionesco’s Le Solitaire concerning a peaceful, solitary life besieged by the politics and power struggles of others, which are ultimately  inescapable. 

Virginia Hilyard/FionaKemp   PARE, 2019     Single channel video

The work of Andrei Tarkovsky was the catalyst  to use a 360 camera on a recent residency in Russia. For Cleave we are specifically working with the sense of ‘a peeling’ - of one side from the other - a by-product of the 360 video spheres. While moving through a space as it is being filmed, the fabric of the environment is being peeled away. What is being filmed is the body of a house in decay.  http://www.virginiahilyard.com     http://fionakemp.com

Lisa Andrew HighWayWear, 2019  polyester, plastic and pineapple silk, Wooden stand, variable dimensions. Visitors are asked to please pick cloth up and wear it.

WeiZen Ho The Subtle Beings Installation, 2018  beams, hair, perspex

I am extending upon one of the elements to the The Subtle Beings project installed in 2018 at Articulate project space.  It was a response to the conversations and stories exchanged in the communion area next to the home of one of the female shamans from the ‘Rungus’ tribe in Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), where major possession rituals take place. I am reflecting on how the roof structure of the area we were sitting in would be raised several storeys higher during ritual ceremonies and a small platform would be built close to the roof area, enough for the female ritual-maker to conduct her invocation song and dance. It is also connected with the fact that the female maternal lineage has been disintegrating as daughters are less willing to take on the apprenticeship role. weizenho.com                                                                                              

Jacek Przybyszewski TearWalkingimages 2019 (paper, tape, table, floor, wall) Walk signifies for me movement, process or transformation from one meaning to another. What interests me the most is a process… “Not only the  result, but the road to it also, is a part of the truth. The investigation of truth must itself be true: true investigation of truth is unfolded truth, the disjunct members of which unite in the result.” (Eisenstein citing Marx). This work  follows other walking works (SkyWalk mirroring sculpture and WindowWalk photography collection from Factory49 Paris 2016, Walkwithrose interactive floor wooden pieces 2018 and Walkforrose, wall blue tape drawing 2018 at Articulate).

Jenny Brown The activists cave _ charting the historical critique of capitalism. 2019 (detail). Through tapestry titled Maladaptation, Jenny Brown traces the alienating effects of capitalism that sits in the world of activist-on-the-run, Bev Smiles now caught in Kaufman’s hyperreal ‘Adaptation.’

Jenny Brown The activists cave _ charting the historical critique of capitalism. 2019 (detail). Through tapestry titled Maladaptation, Jenny Brown traces the alienating effects of capitalism that sits in the world of activist-on-the-run, Bev Smiles now caught in Kaufman’s hyperreal ‘Adaptation.’

Socorro Cifuentes  Experiencing the World as Our Own (2018, 11'43") is a rearguard remix with different ideas and experiences of activists and intellectuals regarding storytelling, orality, listening, memory and justice. This remix work is thought of as a practice of listening to important political ideas/practices, and aims to recirculate and create relationships among them.