Project space | Bradley Mendels and Felixe Rives - A Greater Space

Opening Event Thursday May 19, 4.30-8.30pm
Exhibition from May 19 until Jun 5th
Open 11am - 5pm | Thu-Sun

'A Greater Space' performances | Sat May 21, 28 & Jun 4, 3-5pm

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Felixe Rives, 'The studio study'

At a time when borders are more present than ever, between countries, cities and people; the responsibility to overcome them rests at our feet. A Greater Space explores methods of physically reshaping the frame which merges the division of frame and artwork, allowing for a rethinking of the frame’s status. 

Working with empty spaces, Bradley invites the audience to look past the boundaries of the frame and into themselves, as well as the physical landscape. He depicts his landscapes as the antitheses of the natural world; structured and orderly to highlight the chaos of the external.

Felixe focuses on the artist’s experience in space, exploring painting as a window between the personal and the public. The painting becomes the frame of a truth, which allows the frame to hold meaning within itself. She plays with erasure as a performative action of painting to reveal the struggle of the artist within the art world.

This exhibition sees emerging artists Felixe Rives and Bradley Mendels exploring how to navigate and communicate these ideas to a wider audience.

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | April Mountfort - Fabric of Society

Opening Event Saturday May 21, 2-5pm
Exhibition from May 20 until Jun 5th
Open 11am - 5pm | Thu-Sun

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April Mountfort "Not Consent", ©️April Mountfort

 

Two large double-sided hand-stitched fabric banners protest attitudes on contentious social issues and are accompanied by smaller works.

My first large banner, “Not Consent” (1800 x 1580 mm), protests legal responses to criminal charges of sexual assault and rape that also reflect current attitudes of some within society. This work was conceived upon hearing that in late 2018 an Irish court found the defendant not guilty of rape as the victim had been wearing lace undies which was considered to be signalling consent.

Responding to this “signalling consent” attitude I use semaphore, an analogue signalling system for sending messages by holding flags in positions to spell out alphabet letters. A female symbol holds flags onto which feminine lace undies have been stitched, with each square of the banner depicting a letter. Squares are stitched together with one side of the banner spelling “Not Consent” and the other side spelling “No Means No”.

These colourful lacy squares initially seem very pretty and feminine until their underlying message is realised. Additional smaller single-sided banners spell “No Shame” and “Not A Slut”.

My second large banner “Street Life” (2000 x 15000 mm) protests the vilification of homeless persons, an approach perpetuated by politicians unwilling to provide adequate public housing. Extensive research reveals multiple reasons for homelessness, including environmental factors, lack of adequate superannuation, dysfunctional family issues and other traumas. 

A colourful deteriorated blanket has been mended, onto which over 50 lace silhouettes have been stitched on one side. Each silhouette has a brief description of the cause of their homelessness, such as “homemaker, divorcee, little super”, “toxic institutional care”, “continually having a go, no luck” and “left country, no water”. Again, a colourful banner communicates an underlying serious message.

The second side has the words “Street Life” stitched onto white translucent fabric with larger silhouettes falling downwards.

Smaller single-sided fabric works have been created, each with a single silhouette and reason for homelessness.

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | Margaret Roberts - Store_Blp

Opening Event Saturday Apr 30th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 29th until May 15th
Open 11am - 5pm | Wed-Sun

Artist talks | Margaret Roberts, Sat May 7, 2-3pm

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'Store_Blp' is a new site-specific installation made at Articulate to work out relationships site specific artworks could have with their (live) site while the artworks are dormant (uninstalled). It has three main elements: the moveable material remnants of multiple site specific artworks; photographs showing them installed (available to visitors using their phones to access a website); and the site present firstly as the place of Articulate itself, and secondly as a floor drawing of a blp, which was used by its inventor, artist Richard Artschwager, as a pointer to ‘here’ to help us notice where we are. The plan is that the three interact over the duration of the exhibition—starting with the floor drawing storing the remnants, the remnants marking out the blp and the photos showing how components were mixed in the past. Essays speculating on blp usage will also available at the exhibition and via link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OHE7vwbjjcOG2hcet8Ky7tKkuNXsdb4j/view

'Store_Blp' is open 11am - 5pm Wed-Sun 29 April - 15 May 2022 or by arrangement by texting 0425277462. Opening event: Sat 30 April 2-5pm. Artist’s talk: Sat 7 May 2-3pm. Articulate project space is at 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt 2040. articulateprojectspace.org. Links to photographs showing the works installed can be found on http://margaretroberts.org/Storeblp.html .

'Store_Blp' is the latest in 30 years of making site-specific artworks. I realized my attraction to working with site specificity came from its advocacy for place through the role its artworks give to their own physical locations—making them models for how people can also value the places we live in. Actually it’s a model for the globalised Western culture in particular, as Indigenous cultures care for Country as a matter of course.

Blps do something similar to site-specificity because their inventor, artist Richard Artschwager discovered they help make us aware of the presence of the place that we share with the blp. Blps might also help with the documentation of site specific art by supplementing photography with an ambiguous sign for the presence of the places they are photos of. The next blp project is 'Wayout_Blp', planned for 2023 in Kandos, in the Central West of NSW. It invites residents of the Central West to lend an object they live with to lay out on the floor in a shape of a large blp to demonstrate their communal regard for ‘here’.

-Margaret Roberts, April 2022

Store_Blp has been supported by the National Art School 

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | Noelene Lucas - Living on a Damaged Planet

Opening Event Saturday Apr 9th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 8th until 24th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

Noelene Lucas, Adaptations , 2018. Bathurst Regional Gallery, ©N Lucas

Living on a Damaged Planet seeks to explore and highlight the threats to our planet yet at the same time to look at where hope might reside.

We also share the birds predicament as we irrevocably destroy the habitats, land & water that we too need for survival.

The exhibition will consist of video projections and screen based works. 

Noelene Lucas, video stills, "Magpies", 2022, ©N.Lucas

Noelene Lucas, video stills, "Galars", 2022, ©N.Lucas

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COVID-Safe Measures:

Following the NSW Government’s relaxing of COVID-safe rules, there will be no check-in requirements. Wearing face masks is a personal choice, but we highly encourage you to when social distancing might be difficult. Please do not visit if you’re unwell or, if you have been instructed by health authorities to isolate or are a close contact of an identified COVID case.

The health and wellbeing of our visitors, artists and volunteers is our priority. We look forward to seeing you at Articulate project space.

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Project space | Mark Ryan - Overlap

Opening Event Friday Mar 18th, 6-8pm

Exhibition from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

 

Mark Ryan, Was Yours, Now Mine, (detail),
2022, oil, copper and paper on wood,
600 x 250 x 25 cm

Investigations into the themes of power, property and impermanent ownership: 'What once was yours, is now mine' and vice versa. Furthermore, what was once no-one’s can become anyone’s. And all rights can be obliterated by aggression, obsolesce or the passage of time.

https://www.instagram.com/mark.j.ryan/

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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Special show | Barbara Halnan 1941-2021

A survey exhibition facilitated by Dr William Seeto

Opening Reception Sat Mar 5th, 2-5pm

Facilitator Talk Sun Mar 13th, 2-4pm

Exhibition from Mar 2nd until Mar 13th
Open 11am - 5pm | Wed-Sun

Download PDF | Barbara Halnan Survey Exhibition Catalogue

"Variations on a Picket Fence" 2011. Photo by JC

Barbara Halnan described herself as an artist, painter and installation artist - her interests were art, music and reading. She was a dedicated artist and for many she was a friend and colleague. As an artist Barbara was knowledgeable, unpretentious, friendly, self-sufficient and hard working. She went about making art with determination and she needed no prompting to achieve it. Barbara made an impression on everyone who met her in Australia and other countries.

The survey exhibition celebrates her memory and place in Australian and international art. A tribute exhibition is also being held in Paris. ‘Barbara Halnan had strong ties with Paris and friendships with both French and European artists. She participated in the Salon Réalités Nouvelles from 2012 to 2019 and was part of the group of the "non-objective" art movement in Paris where she participated in exhibitions at the ParisCONCRET and ABSTRACT PROJECT galleries. She was an active member and driving force behind Franco-Australian exchange, particularly for The Drawing Collective; she also organised exhibitions of French and international artists in Australia’.

"View of exhibition preparation" 2022. Photos by William Seeto

 

The exhibition in Sydney is facilitated by William Seeto, a friend and colleague, who provides structure to 250+ artworks consisting of finished, lead-up and early works in the main gallery; with selected videos of past exhibitions, her last interview for Inner-West Council Library, and a link to the Paris exhibition in the Backroom. This is supplemented with sections defined by her Paris connection, a collection of Rose McGreevy and other artists' work, her curated artists projects with Rose, a display of her small artworks, booklets and studio set-up with easel, paints, and brushes in the Upstairs space. 

The survey of Barbara Halnan's life work offers a rare insight into her creative process in making artworks - it is the first time they are exhibited together and their significance cannot be overstated. Like most artists Barbara was a modest person who made art and did not promote her rightful place in Australian and international art. This exhibition makes a claim for her as an innovative artist. 

"View of exhibition preparation" 2022. Photo by William Seeto

Barbara Halnan. Photo credit A.P.

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William Seeto BA, GDip (VA/GM), PhD is a practicing visual artist and exhibition facilitator with a practice of 40 years. His perceptual installations investigate the built environment by reconstructing architectural space.

Contact: bmseeto@gmail.com

"View of exhibition preparation" 2022. Photo by William Seeto

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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Opening Event | Saturday Dec 11th, 1-4pm

Articulate annual group show Opening Event Saturday Dec 11th, 1-4pm Exhibition from Dec 11th until Dec 19th

Articulate turns eleven celebrates 11 years of spatial and experimental art practice with an exhibition of new or recent work by 47 artists. It acknowledges all the artists who have exhibited in that time, and the community who support it. Read more

Conditions of entry: NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age, To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance, To have double vaccination, and wear a mask. Social distancing rules will also apply. Please don't come if you are feeling unwell. Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

Group Show | Articulate turns eleven

Opening Event Saturday Dec 11th, 1-4pm
Exhibition from Dec 11th until Dec 19th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun
Other times by private arrangement with the artist

Digital Roomsheet

Articulate turns eleven celebrates 11 years of spatial and experimental art practice with an exhibition of new or recent work by artists who have shown at Articulate. It acknowledges all the artists who have exhibited in that time, and the community who support it.

 

Artists showing :

Anke Stäcker, Anya Pesce, Aude Parichot, Barbara Halnan, Chantal Grech, Che Ritz, Corinne Brittain, Diane McCarthy, Do not wish to disclose, Elizabeth Day, Elizabeth Hogan, Elizabeth-Rankin, Elke Wohlfahrt, Eunjoo Jang, Fiona Kemp, Frankie Chow, Isobel johnston, Jan Handel, Jane Burton Taylor, Jennifer O'Brien, Judy-Ann Moule, Karen Benton, Kendal Heyes, LAN: Laurens Tan, Alex Wright, Noelene Lucas, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Leisa Sage, linden Braye, Lisa Pang, Margaret Seymour, Melinda Clyne, Michelle Le Dain, Molly Wagner, Nathalie Hartog-Gautier in collaboration with Broken Yellow, Pamela Leung, Paul Sutton & Steve Simpson, Peter De Lorenzo, Philippa Hagon, Richard Kean, Ro Murray, Rox De Luca, Sarah Fitzgerald, Stefania Riccardi, STEVEN FASAN, Sue Callanan, Sue Murray, Tom Loveday, Vilma Bader

PREVIEW

Black and Red Organic Spill (2021) by Anya Pesce

Untitled: Remake, 2014-2021 by Margaret Seymour

PACKAGING NEEDS (my plastic brain). 2021, by Jan Handel

Notation Series (2015) by Barbara Halnan

#walkinginthecity by Molly Wagner

'and she called him Daddy!' by Judy-Ann Moule

Between Here and There, 2021, by Karen Benton

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,
To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,
To have double vaccination, and wear a mask.
Social distancing rules will also apply.
Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.
Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

Project space | Collaboration by Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Sue Pedley - Line Works

Opening Event Saturday Nov 20th, 1-4pm
Exhibition from Nov 19th until Dec 5th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun
Other times by private arrangement with the artist

Line Work#1 (2019), paper water colour triptych

Line Works is an exhibition of Phaptawan Suwannakudt  and Sue Pedleys’ collaborative drawings plus drawings made individually.

Sue and Phaptawan have been collaborating on a series of layered drawings, titled Line Work (#1 – #27) since March 2019. Through repeatedly working over marks made by the other, each artist able to bring their own perspective and life experience to the outcome. To cement this joint authorship, they regularly alternate between directing the drawing process and following the other’s instructions.

Through the process we each become a practitioner, a producer, and an audience.  We used this collaborative practice as a point of departure to approach the exhibition Line Work: Rivers of the Basin which is currently exhibiting Penrith Regional (25th  October 2021 – 7th  January 2022).

Line Work#2 (2019), paper water pastel diptych

Line Work#19 (2020), paper silk pins aluminium wire gauze copperwire

Phaptawan is trained as a mural painter in Thai Buddhist temples and has lived in Sydney for two decades. Her work explores making sense of place through memory and experience of being a migrant in Australia. ‘Not For Sure’ 2012 was developed during two floods in Australia and Thailand which happened at the same time. The layered text is from a Thai Buddhist book ‘Not for Sure’ by Ajarn Cha Subhatto and ‘Kularb in Oz’ by Kularb Saipradit. 

Sue’s ink and pastel drawings titled Rope Work are inspired by reading Of Knots and Joints  written by social anthropologist Tim Ingold. The drawings experiment with visualising a philosophical and ecological text relating to memory, space, architecture and the materiality of carpentry and textiles. 

Line Work#4 (2019) paper paint

Line Work#4 (2019) paper paint

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,
To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,
To have double vaccination, and wear a mask.
Social distancing rules will also apply.
Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.
Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.