ROSE ANN MCGREEVY 1945 - 2015

The Opening

above photos: William Seeto 

The Work: 

Rose Ann McGreevy Interrupting the Spatial Plane 2014

Rose Ann McGreevy Inside-Out Sculpture 2014-5  (interior view from South end)

Rose Ann McGreevy Targets 1992

Rose Ann McGreevy Inside-Out Sculpture 2014-5 (interior view from North end)

Rose Ann McGreevy L-R: plans for Inside-Out Sculpture 2014; Inside-Out Sculpture 2014-5; Targets 1992

Rose Ann McGreevy  A space for Inconsistencies (maquette) 2014

Rose Ann McGreevy The man who rolled a stone up a hill 2014-5

Rose Ann McGreevy Reconfiguring Space 2011

Rose Ann McGreevy Non-identical Set#1 2009

above photos: Margaret Roberts

This project is supported by funding from Leichhardt Council

ROSE ANN MCGREEVY 1945 - 2014 opens Friday 23 Otober 6-8pm

Curator: Barbara Halnan
Exhibition Coordinator: India Zegan

ROOMSHEET

Opening night Friday 23 October 6-8pm 
Opening remarks by Mikala Dwyer and Steve Sinn
Open Friday - Sunday 11am - 5pm 24 October - 9 November

ROSE ANN McGREEVY 1945-2014, celebrates the life and work of the Irish-Australian experimental artist, Rose Ann McGreevy, and will include works and documentation not seen publicly before.  These include Inside-out Sculpture, planned by Rose in the year prior to her untimely death: 

Inside-out Sculpture

Inspiration taken from Pompidou Centre, Art Gallery in Paris, France whose ‘working’ bits are mostly on the outside - not hidden - a transparent architecture. How something is made is fascinating to me and to have that articulation seen is paramount to this sculpture. Inside will be white, sheer and clean lines and the exterior will have all the marks and mechanisms of its construction. The inside will bring to mind the unmitigated perfect white walls of a gallery. It will be tall enough so that the viewer will have to peek in and therefore be made aware that they are looking into the sculpture as opposed to looking at it - a transparent sculpture which cannot be seen through but looked into as one might a crevice and yet like all sculpture it will envelope, employ, contain and define space. Rose Ann McGreevy 2014

Rose Ann McGreevy Drawing for Inside-Out Sculpture 2014

In the last year of Rose's life some friends and colleagues approached her suggesting a  one-person exhibition at Articulate project space. With this in mind Articulate applied to Leichhardt Council for seed funding. Rose made drawings conceptualising new works for this exhibition, which was scheduled for March 2015 in the gallery at Articulate. From mid-2014 her health declined rapidly, and she died in October after a long and difficult battle with cancer.

It was decided to proceed with plans for this exhibition, but to postpone it until October 2015. The major work, Inside-Out Sculpture, will be constructed in the project space by a team of workers reflecting  her concept as closely as possible. As I have worked with Rose over many years making work ranging from installations to sculptural works, it has been my pleasure and responsibility to orchestrate the presentation of this work, with the help and support of others.

The man who rolled a stone up a hill

 A second new work The man who rolled a stone up a hill was constructed in the spirit of Rose's writings. Thanks to Paul Cooper for making this work possible.

Using technology ... the boots travel a prescribed distance from the wall and then contract backwards to their original position - continuous motion, but so slowly that at first one doesn't realise the 'boots' are moving. We seem to want machines to like us - our relation to machines has always been complicated - from the Luddites to the Japanese robot makers who are getting close to making the robot in our image.  This work questions the conundrum of desire, activity and beauty. R.A. McGreevy

Other parts of the exhibition include some of her notebooks, a slide show of drawings to give an indication of the power and energy of her mark-making, and maquettes and re-creations of earlier work. A catalogue is also being produced to accompany the exhibition.

Barbara Halnan

August 2015 

The exhibition also includes a 2005 interview with Rose from Artist Archive by Anne Kay and Jane Polkinghorne, and unpublished interviews with Rose by Pam Aitken for the Factory 49 archive. 

Rose's most recent previous work at Articulate project space is Interrupting the Spatial Plane 2014:

Rose Ann McGreevy Interrupting the Spatial Plane 2014 (centre)  Photo Fiona Kemp

http://roseannmcgreevy.blogspot.com.au/

This project is supported by funding from Leichhardt Council

Opening of Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015 tonight

 

 above photos: William Seeto

above photos: Luke Jaaniste

Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015 opens Friday 2 October 6-8pm

Messametito presents Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015

Opening night Friday 2 October
Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Saturday 3 - 11 October.

Fcklty of Controlled Kaos 2015 is an extension of work that began last year, as a group of scientist were put together to explore a theory about sound. Each scientist was in agreement that the theory made sense. The scientists wrote reports as to why and how the theory could or could not be shown. The idea of a Fcklty (as pronounced by Polish science types) is that like-minded people come together to research and inquire about the same subject matter. 

Yet, more often than not, the people within a faculty will be looking at the subject form various viewpoints. It is with this idea we would like to investigate various artists working within sound, by creating a faculty we are able to learn, teach and engage with each other. This faculty will still be manned by the science types that were there from the beginning and I hope to add some more. Artists working in sound do not engage with scientists or mathematicians and engineers very often. And often these science types do not engage with the arts. By creating a large reaching faculty we the artists get the benefit of discussing ideas with scientists and scientists get the benefits of discussing creative ideas with artists. Controlled= science, kaos= art. Ideally this show is a place where the artists get to meet and engage with others working within their field. We hope that these shows will help to nourish new ideas, contacts and an environment of learning and fun. Strangely enough- when you invite scientist to play- art actually becomes more absurd. This work is an experiment and as such we will continue to learn via trial and error - a fundamental tool used in science to solve problems. “Experimental research is a systematic and scientific approach to the scientific method where the scientist manipulates variables.” Or is this Art?
  
follow via facebook: A faculty is an area where many people converge that look at the same subject matter, however often research it in a multitude of ways. This show highlights many different emerging artists using the subject of sound as a starting point. Through the study of sound, artists often engage in scientific and language studies, as well as musical history and hybridity. By using sound the artist often marries the arts and sciences back together in a submersive and interactive way that is experienced by each viewer individually. 

In a world where creativity has often left the science arena artists pick up the reins again. Join us to investigate the wonderous works by Frankie Chow, Gucci Hummus Wayne, Laura Hunt, Jannah Quill, Liam Crowley, Jeffrey Wood, Bronwen Williams and more

Jenny Alaca will perform  'Destroying 88 Metres'. image credit: Interlude Gallery

Jeffrey Wood

Luke Jaaniste, BLACK BOX SUPER STACK
sonic feedback sculpture using miniature no-input woofers