Breaking News:
Two New Photography Exhibitions in Gallery 1.
Art Space Artists Milestones.
Artist-in-Residence now open for applications.
Exhibition News: Opening 20th Sept 2pm
Maid in Hong Kong by Janina Green, Cooked by Pam Kleemann
On face value these two photography exhibitions look unrelated. Green explores traditional genres and the history of photography, the treatment of these prints evoke the style of early travel postcards, emphasizing the itinerate status of both the photographer and her subject. Kleemann, a conceptual artist, uses contemporary techniques to free her images from the photographic paper using both the object and the image to convey her meaning. Both artists in these two exhibitions deal with the body as a commodity.
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Gallery 1:
Green's photographs are a moving witness to the global flow of workers. In Hong Kong, labour shortages and the breakdown of the extended family system have led to the demand for foreign servants -"the help". In Hong Kong the majority of foreign servants or maids come from the Philippines. Since 2003, Green has journeyed to Hong Kong to photograph the public congregation of Filipino maids. Green's process of hand-coloured, large format, black-and-white prints is in direct response to the experience and the fascination with this all-female community and its resilience.
Janina Green Maid in Hong Kong 2009 hand coloured gelatin silver prints courtesy of the artist & M.33
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Gallery 1:
Kleemann feels the global economy is increasingly built on humans and cultures being dispensable, having a use-by date, the colonisers literally feeding off the backs of the colonised.
"The body is a highly contested site - its flesh is both the recipient and source of desire, lust and hatred. As a pawn of technology, it is sacred and sacrificial, bearing the politics of society and state. The body is our common bond, yet it separates us in its public display of identity, race and gender."
Pizza Slide- Photographic installation - liquid emulsion on stainless steel and aluminium cookware
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Gallery 2:
Murray-White's Recent Sculpture continues to inhabit Gallery 2
Clive has also placed sculpture in the Art Space water garden courtyard. With the warmer weather of spring breaking through, it is time to think of things for the garden.
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Art Space News:
Cowwarr Artist Milestones:
Bryony Nainby curated Turbulent Terrain a NETS Victoria Supported project, opened at Latrobe Regional Gallery Friday 4 September and will tour to five of the best public galleries in Victoria throughout 2010-2011. I strongly recommend you take a look.
Turbulent Terrain: Manifestations of the Sublime in Contemporary Art explores postmodern notions of the sublime and presents work by artists who evoke forms of human experience beyond the everyday through painting, sculpture, sound and installation-based artworks from national and international artists.
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Reghan De Mather Movement Mashes at Linton and Kay Contemporary, Perth.
18th September - 3rd October, 2009. Check out a short video of the making of Movement Mashes by Miss Alexandra Bignell.
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Bill Young Landscape and Comfort Paintings 24 October — 13 December 2009 Gippsland Art Gallery Sale. In Landscape and Comfort Paintings he conveys a sense of the Vanitas in a suite of seven paintings that deal with themes such as mortality, desire and appetite. ‘Comfort’, here, alludes to the repetition of a much loved image within the suite of seven, like the comfort of a loved novel or album.
Janina Green Where the Heart Is Latrobe Regional Gallery 10 October - 15 November
Janina Green’s photographic exhibition honours the Ukrainian families who migrated to the Latrobe Valley from the Displaced Persons’ Camps in Europe 60 years ago. Green’s mural-size photographs reflect the role of place as a setting for productive lives of human resilience and survival. This is part of a larger project for the National Library of Australia. The seniors in the portraits are the survivors of approximately 150 families who arrived in the late 1940s and still live in Moe, Newborough or Yallourn North, but for various reasons many of their children and grandchildren have left the Latrobe Valley. This experience applies to Green herself, as she is one of these children.
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Mandy Ridley has been awarded an Australia Council Grant for New Work from the latest funding round, to fund travel to research Islamic art/architecture in Spain, India and Malaysia. Congratulations Mandy.
Artist-in-Residence News:
Applications are now open for all three studio flats!
The Artist-in-Residence program has been an integral part of the life at the Cowwarr Art Space since 1993. It has drawn artists from the broadest conceivable range of arts practices, related disciplines and nationalities. Dancers from Kaliwat Theatre, Mindenao the Philippines, Song Man from Arnhem Land Northern Australia, Makhmpom theatre Co Thailand. Community theatre, fashion, painters, ceramicists, photographers, from around the nation and international artist from Korea, Iran and Scotland.
So what are you waiting for? The exciting opportunity to be part of this dynamic program has arrived. All three studio flats; the Garden, Balcony and Courtyard Studios have undergone an upgrade and are ready to receive new residents.
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Stephen Hurrel an artist from Scotland featured in Turbulent Terrain has been a short term Cowwarr Art Space artist-in-residence. Hurrel's installation Beneath and Beyond utilizes internet and computer technology to collate information from ground stations around the world and convert the subsonic data into audible and visual representations of the earth moving so visitors to the installation can see and hear the earth's activity in real time. In bringing these real world environmental ‘events’ into the gallery, Hurrel has created meeting points between nature, culture and technology.
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We saying farewell to Aehee Park and Bryony Nainby
Bryony Nainby leaves on a high note. Past senior curator at the Latrobe Regional Gallery and occupant of our Garden Studio, Nainby has just accepted a role as Curatorial Project Manager with IASKA in Western Australia. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity as IASKA are one of the most interesting contemporary art organisations in the country. She will be greatly missed and we wish her well in her new role.
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Aehee Park has come to an end of her residency and is returning to Seoul Korea. Park with the collaboration of many locals and visitors to the Art Space has created a video work that is an extension of her ongoing exploration of Caring for Aehee a project that commenced in 2006. In this phase of the project Park seeks to explore the differing expectations between director, subject, recorder and the audience. We look forward to Aehee's return when this work is exhibited at the Gippsland Art Gallery Sale in February 2010.
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It is always an amazing experience and privileged to have artist-in-residence from around the world sharing part of their lives with us at the Cowwarr Art Space. It is what makes the Art Space a very different place and gives us all a broader perspective on art and world affairs.
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