Then and Now opened tonight

Michele Beevors and Nuha Saad

open 11am-5pm Friday - Sunday 6-21 October

Link to Artlink review by Craig Judd

photos: Margaret Roberts

Then and Now: Nuha Saad and Michele Beevors - opens Friday 5 October6-8pm

6 – 21 October 

Open 11am-5pm Friday - Sunday

This exhibition addresses the shifts in working methodologies over many years of encounters between two artists, Nuha Saad and Michele Beevors who met while sharing a studio at art college.

From left Nuha Saad, Untitled 2018 (work in progress-detail), acrylic on wood; 
Michele Beevors, Dustcatchers, 2018 ( work in progress-detail), wool

Nuha Saad works with the formal aspects of the space between painting and sculpture. Saad has been engaged for a long period of time with the decorative and the architectural. The work reinvigorates long overlooked spaces and displays an inherited sensibility which is influenced by both (post)colonial woodwork with its turned ornamentalism and a Lebanese/Australian heritage where counting, patterning, and colour have remained consistent themes These themes undermine the grim, muted and dour colour pallet of our colonial past and reinvigorate, playgrounds, public spaces and home furnishings in unique combinations of colour and shape which confront the viewer in surprising ways and overturn our expectations of the inherently bland urban architecture we expect in cities and in vogue living rooms, negotiating the difference between formalisms strict, this not that formula, and Minimalism's phenomenological encounter with a body in space.

Michele Beevors' practice has been interested in figuration as an encounter between feminism and commodity culture attempting a materialist critique in large scale sculptures in a series’ dedicated to disarm Disney Princesses, the typical Hollywood movie star and particular examples from art history, in which the female forms appear as armoured, abject and rampantly humorous in a riotous array of domestic materials and assorted cleaning products that also examines women’s labour in terms of the clean and tidy home and handcrafted traditions of knitting, and sewing. Informed by a pop sensibility, with a nod to the coming environmental crisis brought on by rampant global capitalism and its stockpiles of waste Beevors' work moves between figurative sculpture and the domestic abyss.

Michele Beevors 2018

About the artists:

Michele Beevors is an Australian artist and a Senior Lecturer at Dunedin School of Art in New Zealand. Beevors holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University, a Master of Visual Arts from The Australian National University, School of Art and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from City Art Institute. Beevors has exhibited in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe.

https://www.michelebeevors.org/   https://www.instagram.com/woollyskeletons/

Nuha Saad is a Sydney based sculptor working in the areas of installation, galleries and public art. Saad holds a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from City Art Institute. Saad has exhibited extensively in both solo and group exhibitions in public, commercial and artist run galleries and her public artworks have been featured in public buildings and urban renewal projects, including large scale commissions for City of Sydney and Transport for NSW. http://nuhasaad.com/nuha-saad   https://www.instagram.com/nuhasaad1/

FERRET 5 opens Friday 23 February 6-8pm

FERRET 5 will open Friday 23 February showing the work of  Susan Andrews, Michele Beevors, Bettina Bruder, Sophie Coombs, Carolyn Craig, Julia Davis, Marta Ferracin, Sarah Fitzgerald, Jane Gavan, Michelle Grasso, Lyn Heazlewood, Caitlan Hespe, Kendal Heyes, Elizabeth Hogan, Lisa Jones, Michelle Ledain, Tom Loveday, Joanne Makas, Alex Moulis,  Eva Simmons, Helen M Sturgess, Yoshi Takahashi, Sienna White and Elke Wohlfahrt.

FERRET 5 ROOMSHEET

Helen M Sturgess Untited 2018, Photo: Louise Morgan

Articulate’s FERRET project shows the work of over 60 artists during the 5 weeks from 26 January to 25 February 2018. Each of its five shows is open Friday to Sunday, 11am-5pm, with Friday night (6-8pm) openings on 26 January and 2, 9, 16 and 23 February.

FERRET is Articulate's third project that presents the exhibition as a site determined as much by changing artwork as by architecture and location. It does this by intermingling works by two groups of artists each week — incoming artists install in a site shaped partly by works continuing from the previous week and the gaps left by outgoing works. It is planned as a slow progressive artists' dance in which each show is one step, and in which the whole is understood through a mixture of observing and remembering. FERRET 5 is the fifth and last of these FERRET shows.  

L-R: Marta Ferracin, Sophie Coombs, Sienna White

Sarah Fitzgerald, Carolyn Craig, Joanna Makas, Michele Beevors, Liz Hogan

L_R: Eva Simmons, Susan Andrews, Sarah Fitzgerald

L-R: Carolyn Craig, Joanna Makas, Michele Beevors, Liz Hogan

Helen M Sturgess

Yoshi Takahashi, Julia Davis/Lisa Jones

Jane Gavan, Julia Davis\Lisa Jones

Bettina Bruder | Jane Gavan

Alex Moulis

Caitlan Hespe

Opening night of The Immaterial - film and object - open till 27 September

opening night images by Lucinda Clutterbuck

The Immaterial opens on Friday 11 September 6-8pm

Video works and object relations.

Kiri Mitchel, Rebecca Agnew, Joe Worley, Phoebe Thompson, The Yellow Men.

Curated by Michele Beevors

Video is a compromised word.  To describe the work in this exhibition as video is misrepresentative. Video tape has been outmoded and replaced by the digital and yet it seems to describe the work produced by these New Zealand artists better than digital video and computer generated imagery (CGI) associations with wiz bang technology and multimillion dollar effects.  These works sit more easily with the concreteness, the thingness of video tape.  Here the material world of toffee, rubber gloves, hair, and architecture to examine the relationships we as humans have to objects rendered present through the video camera and projector.  

The artists in this exhibition have all graduated at some point from the Sculpture Department at Dunedin School of Art. This perspective of literally thinking through the implications of the relationship of film to object have developed as a direct result of the programme and result in works rendered through Claymation, performance and architecture.

FERAL 1 opens Friday 9 January 6-8pm

ROOMSHEET FERAL 1

FERAL1 shows the work of Tania Alexander, Linden Braye, Michele Beevors,  Liz Coats,  Kathy Devine, Marta Ferracin, Barbara Halnan, Joanne Makas, Alicia Poppett, Kimberley Peel, Renay Pepita, Anya Pesce, Alan Rose, Margaret Roberts, Katherine Scott, Emma Wise and India Zegan. 

FERAL is a progressive, overlapping exhibition program of about 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. It is called FERAL because its progressive overlapping nature is a slightly feral form of exhibition practice, and because FERAL sounds like FAIR ISLE, the 2014 version of the same sort of project. The FERAL/FAIR-ISLE  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.

Anya Pesce

Katherine Scott Heads & Tails B projection 2014

Liz Coats Whiteout ab & ba 2013
Liz Coats is represented by Utopia Art Sydney

Marta Ferracin Domestic Totem 2014

Michele Beevors Toolbelts 2014

Tania Alexander Installation No. 5, 2014

 

Margaret Roberts whl-blp 2014

Linden Braye - video still from Authorised Personnel Only

Alicia Poppett 2012 ph Ella Dreyfus

Barbara Halnan 2013 

Emma Wise 2013

Alan Rose Geometry and Light 2015 Wood, EPS, acrylic, 

Renay Pepita

India Zegan (on wall), Margaret Roberts (on floor) 2014

ARTISTS TALK - MICHELE BEEVORS

ARTISTS TALK - MICHELE BEEVORS Sunday 4 January 4-6pm

Image: Michele Beevors,The Wreck of Hope, installation view, Forrester Gallery, 2014.

Michele Beevors works between the monstrous feminine and commodity fetishism and has recently become interested in object oriented ontologies.

Michele completed Masters Degrees at the ANU School of Art and at Columbia University New York in the 1990s and is currently visiting Sydney from the Otago Polytechnic  School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she now heads the Sculpture Department. Michele will be speaking about her practice in general, with particular emphasis on her latest body of work, The Wreck of Hope currently showing at the Forrester Gallery at Oamaro in New Zealand until mid February. Michele will present images  of her work and talk about her intentions and processes, followed by discussion with the audience.

http://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz/forrester-gallery/exhibition/wreck-hope

This is the first of an ongoing program of free artists' talks at Articulate project space to which everyone is invited. It gives artists and anyone interested in art the opportunity to see and hear how artworks are contextualised within the artist's art practice and understanding of the world, as well as providing opportunity to discuss directly with the artist. 

Please RSVP if possible.