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14.5.17

Expanded Photography open until Sunday 21 May 5pm

ROOMSHEET

Ioulia Terizis

Amanda Williams

Julian Woods

Enrico Scotece

Katherine Scott

Sardar Sinjawi

Jack Banduch

Yvette Hamilton

Matt James

6.5.17

Expanded Photography opened last night

Articulations ArticulateUpstairs

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 walls, stairs etc, have their 'natural' movement recontextualised by their new environment.

An Associated exhibition of Head On Photo Festival

Head On Photo Festival

19.3.16

Saturday Artists talks in Room To Move

Saturday 12 March: Gary Warner, Margaret Roberts, Jenny Brown

Saturday 19 March: Fiona Kemp, Virginia Hilyard, Linden Braye

Saturday 26 March: Emma Wise, Sue Callanan, Lesley Giovanelli, Julian Woods

The artists talks during Room To Move are generating interesting discussion and good attendance. On the first Saturday we listened to Gary Warner's orchestra of instruments fed by turntables and gravity, and heard about how he arrived at them. Then we heard Margaret Roberts talk about her ninth (and so far final) re-make of one of Katarzyna Kobro's works, and how she got to this project. Finally Jenny Brown spoke about making her video designed to give voice to the mourning we will experience for the loss of place as climate change progresses. Images are below.

Today Fiona Kemp talked about how she arrived at using horse figurines and horse-feed bags to engage with memory processes. Then Virginia Hilyard spoke about her practice of making rubbings of doors and clothing and its similarity to her related practice of recording sound in walls etc using contact microphones. Linden Braye then talked about how she got a video recording of a father and son playing a coin tossing game in the CBD and her interest in relating the content of such found footage with the surfaces on which it is later projected. We got so involved in the discussion that no one remembered to take any photos.

Next Saturday Emma Wise will talk about her interactive access work, Sue Callanan about her swimming projection, Lesley Giovanelli about her fabric sculpture and Julian Woods about his pillar-of-water projection. Come along at 2pm for the talks and discussion.

back: Gary Warner an aleatoric ensemble (variations) 2016
front: Lesley Giovanelli Dwarka 2016

Margaret Roberts discussing #9 2016

Jenny Brown discussing her The hitchhiker’s guide to the Symbiocene 2016

8.3.16

Room To Move opens Friday 11 March 6-8pm

Articulate Directors Show

Open Friday - Sunday 12 -27 March, 11am-5pm

Artists talks: Saturdays at 2pm

Saturday 12 March: Gary Warner, Margaret Roberts, Jenny Brown

Saturday 19 March: Fiona Kemp, Virginia Hilyard, Linden Braye

Saturday 26 March: Emma Wise, Sue Callanan, Lesley Giovanelli, Julian Woods

Room to Move ROOMSHEET

Room to Move includes work by Linden Braye, Jenny Brown, Sue Callanan, Lesley Giovanelli, Virginia Hilyard, Fiona Kemp, Francesca Mataraga, Margaret Roberts, Gary Warner, Emma Wise and Julian Woods - artists who, in 2016, are either Directors of, or in other ways work to run Articulate .

Articulate began five years ago when a group of artists with a common background in the Sculpture Studio at Sydney College of the Arts found an opportunity to fill a gap in the Sydney art scene that had long effected them and other installation artists. The gap was caused by the increasingly institutional nature of otherwise sympathetic exhibition spaces, that might welcome installations but then expect them to be constructed within a few days. Twenty-four-hour access to devise and construct work in situ had become harder to find. We wanted a place where artists are welcome to work with the relationships that can be formed between artwork and location by actually devising and making artwork in it.

These frustrations and enthusiasms brought us to accept an opportunity to rent a newly renovated space on the ground floor of 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt. The name 'articulate' was proposed, to emphasise our intention to give voice to space— to 'articulate the space'. We called it a 'project space' rather than 'gallery' to signal our interest in the open-ended and process-oriented nature of experimentation and live art, to invite artists to experiment with exhibition-practice as much as art-practice, and to remind ourselves that an exhibition space is also a live space that is not contained by the building walls.

We described our agenda as spatial, experimental, critical, cross-disciplinary and artist-centred. We wanted to suggest that, as much as possible, Articulate is a place where artists and our practices are respected and where the lateral thinking of art practice is standard; where content is sought in form, material, action and construction, etc., as much as in representation; where critique and reflection are taken seriously; and where art conventions are questioned—especially the conventions of spatial autonomy (eg through installation practices) and of art speciality (eg through ‘idea dictates form’, where people see themselves as artists first, and think of their art-disciplines as part of their toolkit). Underlying it all however was a desire to also show what we think is the most interesting artwork available.

In the five years since then, there have been over 120 projects and exhibitions showing the work of the 350 artists currently listed on the index of both Articulate blogs. Collectively they represent a variety of practices that either overlap with Articulate's spatial and experimental focus, or form part of their wider sympathetic context. And we plan to continue for a while longer.

Over this time the group running Articulate has also expanded to now include 12 artists, and Room to Move shows examples of their work. Artist talks will be held in the project space each Saturday at 2pm.

Jenny Brown

Linden Braye, still from Untitled, 2014-16
filmed in 2014, edit #1, 2016.

Emma Wise

Lesley Giovanelli

Fiona Kemp Lapland 2013

Francesca Mataraga

'banner' Sculpture at Scenic World, 2015

digital print on perforated vinyl 23m x 1.8m

Photo: Justin Morrissey, courtesy Scenic World.

Gary Warner

Julian Woods (photo Marta Farracin)

Virginia Hilyard

L: Sue Callanan; R: Gary Warner

Margaret Roberts KK SC2 #8 (ash) & #9 (tulle), 2016

Room To Move handout + 2016 Articulate program

24.7.15

FLOOR WORKS - photos by Linden Braye

Loma Bridge, Julian Woods, Elizabeth Day

Lynne Eastaway

Justin Henderson, Hana Hoogedeure

Loma Bridge

Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day, Chantal Grech, Beata Geyer


Front-back: Beata Geyer, Heidi Abraham, Nicole Ellis, Chantal Grech, Elizabeth Day, Julian Woods, Loma bridge, Hana Hoogadeure, Lynne Eastway, Justin Henderson