Last weekend and artists' talks - Sunday 13 December

Too bright for our infirm Delight & Solo

Open 11am-5pm Fri - Sun 13 December

Articulate began a year-long celebration of a decade of exhibitions and projects with the opening last weekend of Too bright for our infirm Delight, a new single-installation by Sarah Woodward in the project space, and Solo, an exhibition upstairs and in the backroom, of documentation of past single-installations in the project space.  Read more about Articulate's decade here.

CATALOGUE

The second weekend of artists' talks is

2pm Sunday 13 December 

• Solo artists:  Jenny Brown, Chantal Grech, Michele Elliot/Louise Curham (Slowing Down Time), Lesley Giovanelli and the Splinter Orchestra.

Splinter Orchestra,  Splintstallation 2017 2020

Jenny Brown Slow hope: becoming coronavirus 2020. Photo: the artist

Jenny Brown Slow hope: becoming coronavirus 2020. Photo Peter Murphy

Jenny Brown Slow hope: becoming coronavirus 2020. Photo Peter Murphy

Chantal Grech Residues 2020

Lesley Giovanelli  Maybe Coming 2019

Slowing Down Time (documentation) 2020 (video clip here)

L: Alan Schacher Dividing/Line (2018) 2020; R: Perrine Lacroix NO WAY 2020

L: Wendy Howard The Bronze Age Part 1: Travels 2014 2020; R: Beata Geyer ObliqueXT 2020

L: Chantal grech; R: Kenneth Lambert Ph Peter Murphy (video clip here)

Ciaran Begley & Merran Hull Still Morphing 2020 Ph Peter Murphy

Richard Kean Aural Solo 2020  Ph Peter Murphy

Slowing Down Time 2014-15 2020  Ph Peter Murphy (video clip here)

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Conditions of entry to the exhibition and talks:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. Please be prepared to wait if it is full when you arrive.

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.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
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.

Celebrating Articulate's Decade

Open 28 November - 13 December 

Hours Fri-Sun 11am - 5pm

Opening event Saturday 28 November 1-5pm

Artists' Talks TBA

A5 catalogue of texts: ready for printing at OW

Articulate is celebrating a decade of exhibitions and projects with an occasional series of paired exhibitions over the next twelve months. Each pair will include a new single installation in the project space, accompanied by an exhibition documenting works from different groupings of projects that have occurred in the space over the past ten years. Read more about what Articulate celebrates here.

The first pair is Too bright for our infirm delight, a new single installation by Sarah Woodward in the ground floor project space, accompanied by Solo in the mezzanine and backroom, an exhibition that documents single installations made in the project space since 2010. 

Sarah Woodward describes Too bright for our infirm delight as 'a reflection of the constant fascination with ontology, the fundamental understanding of who we are. As Heidegger states I can only see from my own point of view. That’s what I’m trying to share, my perspective.' Read more here.

Artists participating in Solo are Ciaran Begley and Merryn Hull, Elia Bosshard, Jenny Brown, Alison Clouston and Boyd, Beata Geyer, Lesley Giovanelli, Chantal Grech,  WeiZen Ho, Laine Hogarty, Wendy Howard, Richard Kean, Perrine Lacroix, Kenneth Lambert, Kathryn Ryan, Alan Schacher, Slowing Down Time (Louise Curham, Michele Elliot, Sue Healey and Jo Law),  Splinter Orchestra and Helen M Sturgess. Each document past single-installations they have shown at Articulate in the last decade, and what they say about their works and their documentation can be read here.

Solo roomsheet

Sarah Woodward Too bright for our infirm delight (detail) 2020

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Conditions of entry to the exhibition:

There are limited places in Articulate due to COVID restrictions. Please be prepared to wait if it is full when you arrive.

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.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
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. 

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

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

CATALOGUE

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.

Last weekend for De-Interlaced - closes Sunday 30 Sept at 5pm

Closing party last night

De-interlaced is open - Closing Party Friday 28 September 6-8pm

ROOMSHEET

Open 11am - 5pm Friday-Sunday until Sunday 30 September

The endless circulation of data and e-information that now travels in and around everyday existence, like an unabating convergence of starlings blotting out a Roman sunset, is not a subject one tends to frequently consider. Text, images and code fracture before committing to an imperceptible journey and only at their destination do the fragments rearrange themselves into their original forms. This is referred to as de-interlacing. 

De-interlaced is a response by artist Kenneth Lambert to this series of seemingly simple events, taking the form of a multi-panel installation, that examines the commonality between the artistic process of conceptualisation, scrutiny and final outcome and the way in which data behaves in transit. Lambert has created six containers of technological uncertainty that, while imposing due to their size and solitary, almost detached nature, cannot help but invite curious investigation by the viewer.  

As physical objects the installation embodies the sense of the de-interlaced. The outer layer exposed to the viewer is constructed of Mylar, a material commonly utilised when packaging electronic consumer products, while the interior is never revealed. In this sense the object itself and the viewer experience life in a middle ground of sorts, between conceptualisation and active use, both informed of a soon to be functional existence yet unaware of exactly what that existence may entail. Each seems as if it were simply opened whatever is contained would be immediately put to use. 

Through slight visual cues Lambert dares each individual object to reveal a greater purpose, almost breathing life into dormant sentinels. Distinct colours are used to reference specific areas of research in which new media technologies have had a significant impact on the contemporary human psyche; personal identity, social interaction, cultural identity, environmentalism, political preference and spirituality. The de-interlacing of information suggests that increasingly digital selves made up of these varying aspects are perpetually swirling around the world we know, a tempest of our own and our peers’ personalities supposedly laid bare and immediately reachable yet still invisible, like each reflective techno-monolith Lambert presents.  

In De-interlaced microscopic voyages of fantastic proportions are revealed and through an attentiveness to human relationships with current technologies the artist transmutes this surging swarm of unobserved digital intelligence into tangible reflections of the intricacies of our own modern-day identities. Despite an impenetrable aloofness conveyed by the physical structures Lambert somehow pierces the skin to release a clearer picture of what the contents may become when data adrift reaches a terminus. 

Sotiris Sotiriou 

Gallerist and Curator

www.comagallery.com 

Kenneth Lambert's De-Interlaced opens Friday 14 Sept 6-8pm

Open 11am - 5pm, Fri - Sun,  15-30 September 

opening Friday 14 September 6-8pm

Artists talk 11am Sunday 23 September

Closing Party Friday 28 September 6-8pm

Kenneth Lambert De-Interlaced (detail) 2018

De-interlaced is a technical term borrowed from broadcast media, which in this situation represents the artist’s process of investigation, analysis and final response. The response takes the format of a multi-panel installation work. Each panel represents a specific area of research in which media technologies have had a noted impact on the human psyche. The areas of research represented in the work include personal identity, social interaction, cultural identity, environmental, political and spirituality.

These outcomes have been represented as soft metallic colour fields that intrude over the liquid mirror surfaces. The result is a series of suspended multi-dimensional paintings that are simultaneously translucent, reflective and chromatic in materiality. Further the artist’s intention goes beyond the physical work to include the surrounding space. Light and colour refract onto the gallery’s surfaces as the panels spin on their central axis. This immersive experience can be harmonious, sometimes discordant, and totally dependent on the external environmental forces of light, space and time.

“I strive to create work which is a catalyst for an emotive resonance. A way of beguiling the participant into a seemingly simple but deeply layered experience”.

Kenneth Lambert - Artist

Lambert is a conceptually driven artist whose practice investigates the human psyche through the lens of technology. His practice extends across digital media and installation. Lambert approaches his experimental art practice with the deliberation of a scientist and philosopher combined. His intention is to entice the viewer into a state that is self-reflective.

Lambert’s work has been recently recognized with his inclusion in 2018 the Churchie Emerging Artist Prize, Lismore Portrait Prize, Hidden Sculpture Walk and the Alice Prize. He is also this year’s recipient of the Newington Armory Award: Artist in Residency and has been invited to take part in 2019 Arteles Artist residency program in Finland.

www.kclart.com