UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate opened last night

showing work by Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter & William Seeto

Photos: W.Seeto

UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate opens Friday 2 November; opening event: 6-8pm

UnpackAssembleAddDiscardCreate by Adrian Hall, Sibylle Hofter & William Seeto

Opening Reception: Friday 2 November 6-8pm

Artists’ Talk: 4.30pm Saturday 10 November

Open Hours: 11am – 5pm, Friday – Sunday,  2 – 11 November 2018
Closing event: 6pm Saturday 10 November

The exhibition examines individual artworks created in diverse locations with works that engage with environments. The concept of location initiates a way of working individually and between artists with established practices and the difficulties encountered are made more prominent by duration and distance.            

            The exhibition is by three artists who deal with location as they merge and intervene through metaphoric gaps, virtualities not easily categorised as one or the other. By extending experience of localised environments, situations are created whereby sites are adapted and changed to challenge perceptual and personal awareness. In analysing diverse areas and environments, new ways of working are discovered.

            By examining differences in work perceived knowledge and experience is extended and heightened, changed and challenged. The bringing together of three established practitioners is significant in that it showcases innovative and exciting new works by artists in the geographical locations of New Zealand, Germany and Australia.

Adrian Hall, ‘yes YOU WILL be’_2016. photo: w.seeto 

Adrian Hall, ‘yes YOU WILL be’_2016. photo: w.seeto

Adrian Hall

Adrian Hall is an artist with five decades of living and working in the United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. His practice involved and moved from painting to formal structures, photo/ video installations and sound works, and all combinations. Currently, photographic works with textual addenda at gallery scale rival his live practice; objects and structures and drawings too. His work practice includes colleagues and friends in improvised visual/ sonic collaboration. He relishes conjugations of mixed gender, race, and generations. He continues to challenge preconceptions of the world; and eliminates that which seems irrelevant, as he also examines the sanctity of art as it is presumed to be.

http://www.adrianhall.space/

Sibylle Hofter, ‘Portrait of the Continent in 4 Weeks. June – July’ & ‘219x132x219cm’_2012. photo: w.seeto

  Sibylle Hofter, ‘219x132x219cm’_2012≥ photo: w.seeto

Sibylle Hofter

Sibylle Hofter has over two decades of multi-media art practice that includes extended research into extra-artistic fields, curatorial and participative approaches. She is driven by a desire to create multi-faceted collaborative photo-portrayals of countries she visits. Her interest is within regional contexts and beyond, which operates outside the schemes of photographic genres. Her work involves the ongoing Agentur Schwimmer photography project, which promotes a simple approach in a complex world by asking what is behind facades? What makes our daily reality work? What are our possibilities to perceive and to show? Her approach is one of unrestrained enthusiasm to get to know more about the inner workings of society and the questions arising out of representing a multiplicity of background and other aspects of art in developing visual languages that are beyond our daily visual experience.

http://www.hofter.de/

https://agentur-schwimmer.de/index.php?id=7

            William Seeto, ‘RmG 3’_2018. photo: w.seeto

    William Seeto, ‘RmG 2 (in deconstruction)’_2016. photo: w.seeto

                                

William Seeto

William Seeto is a site-specific constructed installation and photomedia artist with a practice of more than three decades with experience in creating perceptual installations and photomedia works. His practice examines sensory and visual perception and interrogates different ways artworks heighten or displace experience and referential codes in photo-imagery. His constructed installations examine perceptual qualities in built environments and his ephemeral artworks are based on everyday materials that seek to extend the dialogue by blurring the lines in order to expand contextual meaning, and in so doing continue connections generated by reworking ideas formed by deconstruction and reconstruction that is inspired by Arte Povera.

http://williamseeto.blogspot.com/

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/