Opening Friday 29 May 6-8pm FIVE YEARS ON . . . Deb Burdett, Mandy Burgess, Ren Fernando, Kiata Mason, Ro Murray, Elwira Titan and Susie Williams

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An Intro 6-8pm Friday 29 May

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Saturday 30 May-14 June

Artists' Talks 2-4pm Saturday 13 June

FIVE YEARS ON . . . brings together seven women artists who studied together at the National Art School, graduating 3-5 years ago. Their work to date ranges across ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture and installation and explores questions ranging from the contemporary sublime to street art, the gestural act and acoustic journeys to the nature of painting. These artists will spend three weeks together at Articulate project space, using it as it was partly intended, as a residency-project space in which the location has an opportunity to influence the work produced there, and in which 'the location' is thought of broadly, including other artists, the building, the street outside, the location's history etc etc, depending on what artists decide.

The artists in FIVE YEARS ON . . . will explore their shared art school foundations and aspirations so as to open collaborative possibilities and expand individual practices. The opening event is at an early point in this process giving visitors and friends opportunities to discuss plans with the artists and make suggestions. The exhibition and artists' talks in the final weekend will provide another opportunity to see where their journey has taken them, and hear about the ups and downs of the experience.

Ro Murray Five Years On photograph 2015

The artists are Deborah Burdett, Mandy Burgess, Ren Fernando, Kiata Mason, Ro Murray, Elwira Titan and Susie Williams, emerging artists who studied in a range of disciplines at the National Art School, graduating 3-5 years ago. Their art practices range across ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, and explore a range of issues from the contemporary sublime to street art, the gestural act and acoustic journeys to the nature of painting.

Deborah Burdett

Elwira Titan 

Kiata Mason

Mandy Burgess

Renuka Fernando

Susie Williams/Ro Murray

Ro Murray

LOVE LETTER opens 6-8pm Friday 8 May

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Opening Friday 8th May 6-8pm.

Open 11am - 5pm Friday - Sunday, 9 - 24 May 

Michael Li Present to you, 2015, photograph 

Love Letter is curated by Yves Lee and includes the work of artists Ally Adeney, Cecilia Castro, Andy Ho, Yves Lee, Michael Li, Tania Murphy, Merena Nguyen, Ariel Smith, Annemieke Tierney, Ed Whitelock, Nancy Yu, Aviva Zhang and Jasmine Zhuang Jia.

"We speak different languages, from different parts of the world and maybe even universe, but somehow, through art we can communicate, like a love letter." -curator, Love Letter

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Artist Talks: Ben Denham, Socorro Cifuentes, Antonio Díaz and Joel Martínez: SATURDAY 2 MAY 3pm

Artists Ben Denham, Antonio Díaz, Joel Martínez and curator Socorro Cifuentes will discuss their work in the two exhibitions currently on at Articulate project space; Wave Form by Ben Denham and 43 Reflections for Ayotzinapa by Antonio Díaz and Joel Martínez curated by Socorro Cifuentes and Ben Denham. Socorro Cifuentes with facilitate a discussion with photographers Díaz and Martínez about their work in relation to the current political and social crisis in Mexico while Ben Denham will talk about his laser drawings and moving image works, their relationship to his broader practice, and the rationale for bringing them together with the work of Díaz and Martínez.

Opening Wave Form and 43 Reflections. Photos William Seeto

Above: 43 Reflections for Ayotzinapa

Ben Denham Overdub Waveform 2015

Ben Denham  Laser Line Phase No. 1 2014

Ben Denham Wave Form (detail - sound & video)

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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government

through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and

advisory body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an

initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.

Ben Denham 'Wave Form' and Antonio Díaz & Joel Martínez '43 Reflections for Ayotzinapa' - opening Friday 17 April 6-8pm

Open Friday - Sunday 18 April - 3 May 11am - 5pm

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Ben Denham Dimensions of Line: Movements of Force 2014 photographic documentation

Wave Form 

Ben Denham has been working with a custom laser etcher and a drawing machine to produce new works on paper. These works include the recording of audio waveforms in marks on paper and the use of the laser to burn intermittent lines through the paper and create a mask for new moving image works. These works extend on the work that Ben presented as part of Primavera 2014 at the MCA and his exhibition IOU in material thought at Mop Gallery last year by working with the new media of the laser and incorporating moving image elements more directly into the drawings.  

Ben Denham, In Flames (windy chaos), 2015, single channel video, stereo sound, custom laser cut mask over LCD screen, 9:34 minutes

43 Reflections for Ayotzinapa

Ben Denham is also curating, with Socorro Cifuentes, an exhibition of photographs by Antonio Díaz and Joel Martínez that will be shown alongside his work. The photographs document the protests that have occurred in response to the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers at the hands of the municipal police force of Iguala, Mexico on 26-27 September 2014. The students, from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rual Teachers College in Ayotzinapa, Mexico, come from humble backgrounds and were training to become teachers for some poorest and most isolated communities in Mexico. The disappearance of these students at the hands of the police, and in collusion with narco gangs, has highlighted both the corruption, violence and impunity that exists in Mexico where over 20 000 people have been forcefully disappeared and where none of those cases has been resolved judicially. Add to this the 100 000 people that have been killed in the so called 'war on drugs' and you can begin to understand the gravity of the situation in Mexico. 

Ben Denham says that rather than being a calculated curatorial decision, presenting Antonio Díaz and Joel Martínez's photographs alongside his work stems from the urgency of the case involving the disappeared students. "Socorro and I were presented with the opportunity to show these works and I already had an exhibition lined up with the gallery so I thought that it would be appropriate for me to share the space with these artists who are helping to document this crucial social movement that highlights so many of the problems that Mexico is currently facing."