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7.2.16

Fresh Paint - Grilled Chicken - Final Weekend events

Saturday 13th February
Closing event: 11.30am - 12.30pm
Artist talks
12.30pm Engrybirdz - Dorit Goldman and Melissa Maree.

Sunday 14th February
Artists Talks:
1.30pm Lea Kannar
2.30pm Bernadette Smith

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Engrybirdz

Lea Kannar

Bernadette Smith

Fresh Paint- Grilled Chicken Roomsheet

29.1.16

Fresh Paint - Grilled Chicken opened tonight

Fiona Davies

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger

Niall Robb

Audrey Newton

Cybele Cox; Bernadette Smith

Bernadette Smith (Photo: FB)

Nick De Lorenzo

Trevor Fry

Lea Kannar

Engrybirdz - collaborative duo - Dorit Goldman and Melissa Maree
(Ph Bernadette Smith)

Engrybirdz - collaborative duo -
Dorit Goldman and Melissa Maree (detail)

Photos: Margaret Roberts (except where stated)

Saturday 6 February:
Lea Kannar 12pm-12:30pm Discussion time: 12:30pm-1pm
Fiona Davies: 2pm - 2:30pm Discussion time: 2.30-3pm

1.2.15

FERAL 4 OPEN TODAY TILL 5PM

and FERAL 5 begins installing tomorrow for final FERAL opening on Friday 6 February.

see Rochford Street Review commentary

Helen L Sturgess, Phaptawan Suwannakudt

Veronica Habib

FERAL 4

Ambrose Reisch (photo by Glenn Locklee)

Sue Callanan, Jeff Wood

Jeff Wood

Melissa Maree

Jeff Wood, Richard Dunn, Melissa Maree

Richard Dunn, Kate Mackay

Judith Torzillo, Jannah Quill, Melissa Jane Palmer,
Sarah Fitzgerald, Kate Mackay

Melissa Jane Palmer, Sarah Fitzgerald, Katya Petetskaya

Dominic Byrne, Helen M Sturgess, Melissa Jane Palmer

Andrew Christie, Yoshi Takahashi

Foreground-back: Kathryn Ryan, Helen L Sturgess, Elizabeth Rankin,

Kathryn Ryan

see photos by Glenn Locklee on facebook

FERAL 4 ROOMSHEET

25.1.15

MELISSA MAREE WRITES ABOUT THE DOUBLING IN FERAL 3

download this text as pdf with images

What is Doubling?

The Surrealist notion of 'Doubling' is a technique used to fracture and destabilize an object/image. The uncanny shudder felt from duplication also draws on a crisis of identity of divisions of the self (Unconscious/conscious and/or binary of reality/illusion).

A sense of humour is found in Veronica Habib's 'I Love What You Have Done With Your Hair, Underwear Brief, G-String and Dress' which strongly inspired the bridged link between 'Doubling'. After conversation and consideration of Habib's choice of materials and ideas (clothing/hair and warping of the familiar codes/perceptions of body image/sexuality), I saw a strong link in my manipulation of Mcdonalds Uniforms. The cutting of the uniforms served to create holes to acknowledge the space outside of the uniform – that is left open to audience interpretation.

Doubling uses the pseudonym of Veronica Habib to show the value of collaborative authorship and the importance of acknowledging fellow artists in process-based projects. This acknowledgement involves speaking with artists in process-based projects in a means of verbal and non-verbal language. After much discussion with Habib I asked her if I could use her name as alias.

The idea of assuming an alias came from the 'Doubling' of Helen L Sturgess and Helen M Sturgess, two artists with the exact same first and last name who were placed in Feral 3's project week. The blurry lines between who was who, I felt created a unintended collaborative authorship. Extending on this idea the pseudonym opens up discussion for collaborative authorship, and visibility and invisibility of the artist in an artwork.

The idea of Doubling, also forms a dialogue with Andrew Christie's 'Echo' through the duplication and manipulation of everyday objects (basket ball hoops – Mcdonalds T-shirts). Christie's work echoes a sense of erotic doubling, where a hoop net is interwoven connecting the two together. If we think of Echo in literal terms the action of shooting a basket ball into the hoop would cause the ball to clot in this umbilical cord-like net. This poetically playful gesture suggests something deeper of the idea of the Everyday such as a feeling of repetition, monotony and mimicry that characterises everyday life.

The remains of the shirts also form a reference to Margaret Roberts 'Blps', where the leftovers form markers on the floor. Since 'Cutendpaste' a prior process-based show I participated in with Marg, I have been influenced by her spatial interests in merging abstract space with everyday familiar space. The abstraction of the everyday object (Maccas uniform) is an attempt to merge these two spaces, to draw on relationship between work practice and art practice. The instability of casualisation in the workplace is felt by many artists across broad spectrum of professions: hospitality, retail, and education. Doubling attempts to open questions on the impact of work relations on art practice, the holes acting as a point to see-through.

Melissa Maree

25 Jan 2015

24.1.15

FERAL 3 Opened last night

and closes at 5pm, Sunday 24 January, after which half these works will be removed and another 10 or so installed for FERAL4 which will open on Friday 30 January.

FERAL3 ROOMSHEET

Above photos: William Seeto

image Sue Callanan; non-voice sound: Jannah Quill

18.1.15

FERAL 3 opens Friday 23 January at 6-8pm

ROOMSHEET

Artists in FERAL 3 are Bianca Burns, Sue Callanan, Andrew Christie, Timothy Corne, Nicole Ellis, Veronica Habib, Justine Holt, Richard Kean, Blaide Lallemand, Martin Langthorne, Melissa Maree, Rachel McCallum, Christine Myerscough, Katya Petetskaya, Jannah Quill, Ambrose Reisch, Helen L Sturgess, Helen M Sturgess, Elena Tory-Henderson, Judith Torzillo, Allen Alain Viguier and Julian Woods.

FERAL is a progressive, overlapping exhibition program of over 60 artists that will be open Friday - Sunday 11-5pm between 9 January - 8 February 2015. Its five opening events are Fridays 9, 16, 23 + 30 January and 6 February at 6-8pm, each of which will show the work of a different combination of about twenty artists.

FERAL is designed for artists to experiment with installation or location of artwork in an architectural space that is already altered by the earlier installation of other artists' work, and which will be altered again when another group replaces that earlier installation.

The FERAL project is part of the broader Articulate interest in the relationships artworks form with their locations. It does this by focusing in particular on the contribution that the changing installations of artwork make to the constitution of a site.