Articulate Turns Nine opened tonight

Open 11am-5pm 7 - 22 December

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Lisa Sharp, Lesley Giovanelli, Michelle LeDain

Virginia Hilyard

Lesley Giovanelli

Sarah Woodward, Margaret Roberts, Jennifer O'Brien

Nola Farman 

left: Mireille Eid; right: Emma Wise

Emma Wise (performed by Ella Dreyfus)

Adrian Hall

Chantal Grech

Paul Sutton & Steve Simpson

Sue Callanan, Jane Burton Taylor

photos: Margaret Roberts

Final Weekend coming up of Articulate Turns Eight

Articulate Turns Eight celebrates eight years of support for spatial and experimental art practices with an exhibition of new work by artists who have shown at Articulate during that time.

Open Friday to Sunday, 11-5pm till 23 December 

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Artists exhibiting in Articulate Turns Eight are Alison Clouston, Anya Pesce, Ambrose Reisch, Anke Stäcker, Asher Millgate, Barbara Halnan, Beata Geyer, Bettina Bruder, Bill Moseley, Brigitta Gallaher, Caitlin Hespe, Chantal Grech, Ebony Secombe, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Genevieve Carroll, Jane Burton Taylor, Jeff Wood, Jenee O’Brien, Jody Graham, Julian Day, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kate Mackay, Laine Hogarty, LInden Braye, Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Lisa Sharp, Liz O’Reilly, Mandy Burgess, Margaret Roberts, Michael Jalaru Torres, Mireille Eid, Molly Wagner, Nadia Odlum, Noelene Lucas, Nola Farman, Pam Kleemann, Parris Dewhurst, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Ros Cook, Rox De Luca, Sarah Woodward, Sardar Sinjawi, Sonja Karl, Steven Cavanagh, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Pedley, Suzanne Bartos, Vilma Bader and Virginia Hilyard.

See more AT8 here

Juliet Fowler Smith

L-R:  Genevieve Carroll , Margaret Roberts, Molly Wagner, Jane Burton Taylor

foreground L-R: Mandy Burgess, Sue Callanan, Linden Braye, Jeff Wood, Lisa Sharp, Beata Geyer

foreground L-R: Lisa Andrew and Rachel Buckeridge, Chantal Grech, Fiona Kemp, Kate MacKay,  Jody Graham

L-R: Ebony Secombe, Jody Graham, Noelene Lucas, Mireille Eid, Alison Clouston

foreground: Laine Hogarty, bckground: L Elzabeth Rankin, R: Sarah Woodward

Photos Peter Murphy

Articulate turns seven opens Friday 8 December 6-8pm

Articulate turns seven celebrates the end of our seventh year with an exhibition of works by 40 of the artists who have exhibited at Articulate since 2010.

It will show new work by Alan Schacher, Alison Clouston and Boyd, Allen Viguier, Anke Stäcker, Annelies Jahn, Barbara Halnan, Bettina Bruder, Bianca Opie, Brigitta Gallaher, Chantal Grech, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Day, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Ella Dreyfus, Fiona Kemp, Helen Grace, Jacek Przybyszewski, Jeff Wood, Jennifer O’Brien, Katya Petetskaya, Kevin Sheehan, Laine Hogarty, Lesley Giovanelli, Linden Braye, Lisa Tolcher, Liz Coats Margaret Roberts, Mireille Eid, Pam Leung, Paul Sutton, Renay Pepita, Ro Murray, Rox de Luca, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Tim Corne and Wendy Howard.

pdf invitation

See previous Articulate birthday shows here: 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010

Martyrium and Reliquary artist talk 3pm Saturday 8 July

Mireille Eid - 3 - 4pm Saturday 8 July

 Martyrium and Reliquary is open 11am - 5pm 

Friday - Sunday until Sunday 9 July

Mireille and Joy at the opening

Martyrium and Reliquary opened last night

 Martyrium and Reliquary is open 11am - 5pm 

Friday - Sunday until Sunday 9 July

photos: Zeina Issa

Martyrium and Reliquary opens Friday 23 June 6-8pm

Mireille Eid and Elizabeth Presa

24 June - 9 July 2017
opening Friday 23 June 6-8pm

Martyrium and Reliquary will be opened by Professor Peter Hutchings, Dean of the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University

Attempting to give sight to invisible silences, we seek to ignite the “unheimliche” as a way to awaken dormant senses. "While a wound or misfortune embodied is not always visible, the opposite is true for the “splendour and brightness which dry up misfortune.” If we understand the “splendour and magnificence” of the event as the luminous yet mysterious moment of “the immaculate conception,” as Deleuze writes in The Logic of Sense, then we see that life is not something that happens accidentally to us. When purely expressed, the event “signals and awaits us” as one might imagine a pregnancy to come, the unborn, as it were." (1) We trust that at the precise moment the visual encounter takes place, senses would surge whilst engaging the decision-making process in an oscillating movement between latent passion and calm-inducing meditation. Nevertheless, spectral representations unsettle these senses as any wound would, while inviting the viewer to seek the quintessential equilibrium between hope and the real, between memory and emotion. 

Mirielle Eid Mar Elias 101cm x 76cm Inkjet print 2017

Each of Eid’s images reminds one of what Merleau-Ponty calls“le mouvant”: the moving object that contains an implicit identity charged with psychic states that had become sanctified. Just as the logic of the perceived circle is the entity that possesses, in advance and in itself, all of the properties that analysis will discover there, the movable object is the object of an indefinite series of explicit and concordant perceptions and beliefs. Stills caught in mid-sentence, prayers yet to be uttered, yet to be discovered, mouth gaping, quiver with beatitude the hidden figures, the veiled reflections, and even dilations of one’s own life. “The hallucinatory thing is not the real thing, a deep being that contracts a thickness of duration in itself … the hallucination slides across time, just as it slides across the world”.(2)

Presa’s sculptures on the other hand function as reliquaries. But whereas reliquaries traditionally contain parts of the bodies of saints, here these small reliquaries, - made by folding , twisting and threading brass mesh - contain something of the inflections, shadows and luminations radiating from their material under differing plays of light. Resembling small Baroque experiments or excitations, they make evident the fact that the physical world, in its most mundane sense, holds within it potentiality for remarkable transformation, whereby the most common of materials can take on the character of an angels wing, metamorphosis of flesh, or transcendent experience. Such experiences may remain imperceptible or may appear in unexpected illuminations, forms and spacings.

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1. E.Presa, text for exhibition, entitled "Life Must First Imitate Matter", 2015 

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/237176/237177 Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium.

2. Merleau-Ponty, M., & Landes, D. A. (2014). Phenomenology of perception. Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, 2014: 355.