There Can Be Only Chaos opens Friday 2 August 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm Fri-Sat 3-18 August

There Can Be Only Chaos shows the work of Liam Garstang, Matthew James, Simon Lawrence, James Nguyen and Hannah Riley

Let's face it; art making is messy process.  Be it a blurred image from a moved camera, a wet shoe or a solid puddle on a shelf when opening a kiln. Working with materials is complicated. This show melds the work of practitioners marinated in the materials they use.  Mathew James’s open shutter film rolls; Hannah Riley’s cobweb drawings, James Nguyen’s humidified river, Liam Garstang’s shotgunned ceramics and Simon Lawrence’s kiln activated objects. Each of these artists has delved down the material rabbit hole and come up with works that infuse the gallery with physical objects that challenge the very fabric of reality. 

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Simon Lawrence  'In-kiln kinetic study' 2019 ceramic and glass

Opening FRIDAY 3 JUNE - I’M OK, YOU’RE OK #2: Merryn Hull

Saturday 4 June to Sunday 19 June
Opening on Friday 3 June, 6-8pm

I’M OK, YOU’RE OK #2: Merryn Hull and
EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS (curated by Merryn Hull)
Ciaran Begley, Georgia Brown, Camilla Cassidy, Kirsten Drewes,
ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams + Emma Hicks), Stephen Little, James Nguyen

Image: Merryn Hull, 2016.

I’M OK, YOU’RE OK#2 and EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS present two groups of work showing concurrently at Articulate project space. I’M OK, YOU’RE OK#2 is a solo show of Merryn Hull’s work and EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS offers a collection of colleagues’ work curated by Merryn. Both exhibitions are positioned as exploratory research relating to Merryn’s PhD candidature.

Merryn Hull’s interdisciplinary practice reflects on the way we connect to the everyday. It does this by exploring objects and ideas configured in constructed environments so that they can be understood in ways discovered by the viewer. The idea behind both exhibitions is that the everyday becomes special if viewed in particular ways. Recognisable objects, both in substance as well as subject are transformed through context into art objects. The objects and materials used in this way give the works a twenty-first century focus acknowledging a culture that celebrates things that are no less brilliant despite their ready availability.

The exhibitions also investigate our capacity to look inwards at our lives. They do this by presenting a series of framed views which provide a kind of evidence relating to our current world while at the same time offering the opportunity to step into another world. They also comment on the nature of contemporary painting by referencing ideas which expand the notion of ‘painting’ as painting in terms of its traditional medium definition; ‘painting’ as installation which alludes to painting; ‘painting’ as photograph which functions as painting and ‘painting’ as video/projection which uses the moving image to evoke painting.

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LAST FAIR ISLE OPENING FRIDAY 9 MAY AND CLOSING DISCUSSION SUNDAY 11 MAY

ROOMSHEET FAIR ISLE 5

The fifth and final iteration of Fair Isle will be open 11am - 5pm Friday 9 May to Sunday 11 May, showing the work of Lisa Andrew, Criena Court, Beata Geyer, Virginia Hilyard, Anna Jaaniste, Gillian Lavery, Diane McCarthy, James Nguyen, Margaret Roberts,  Alexandra Spence/Katrina Stamatopoulos, Ioulia Terizis and India Zegan.   

Opening Friday 9 May 6-8pm.

The discussion on Sunday 11 May starts at 2pm and aims to be a Fair Isle debrief and to also broaden to discuss broader aspects of exhibition practice. The artists, writers and general public are invited to attend and participate. The discussion will be recorded as part of the Fair Isle documentation. 

Diane McCarthy

Gillian Lavery

India Zegan

Alexandra Spence/Katrina Stamatopoulos Mermaid 2014

Front-back: Virginia Hilyard, Anna Jaaniste, Margaret Roberts,
Beata Geyer, Gillian Lavery, Lisa Andrew

Front:Orange: Beata Geyer; black:  Margaret Roberts.
Back L-R Criena Court, Alexandra Spence/Katrina Stamatopoulos,  Diane McCarthy

L-R: Lisa Andrew, Alexandra Spence/Katrina Stamatopoulos, Margaret Roberts