Opening night: Thursday 7 June from 6pm-8pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
May 24, 2012
through a glass, darkly - PENNY DUNSTAN
Wednesday 6 June - Saturday 23 June 2012
Opening night: Thursday 7 June from 6pm-8pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Opening night: Thursday 7 June from 6pm-8pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
May 23, 2012
A Poetry of Inifinate Possibilities - LEZLIE TILLEY
Wednesday 16 May - Saturday 2 June 2012
Opening night: Thursday 17 May from 6pm-8pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Opening night: Thursday 17 May from 6pm-8pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
April 12, 2012
DIAMETRIC - Simone PATERSON
Thursday 26 April - Saturday 12 May 2012
Opening night: Thursday 26 April from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Visual art offers us the opportunity to reflect on the human condition and provides us with a way to transform our understanding. In a time of increasing reliance on technology it is the practice and study of new media itself, the aesthetic and philosophical concerns that can clarify our position within the world. In the exhibition DIAMETRIC I employ a range of contrasting art-making techniques unconditional craft, such as sewing and fabric casting, as well as computer technologies such as interactive software, digital video visual effects and digital imaging. The combination of techniques is a deliberate strategy to blur the boundaries between art, craft and digital reproduction.
Opening night: Thursday 26 April from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Visual art offers us the opportunity to reflect on the human condition and provides us with a way to transform our understanding. In a time of increasing reliance on technology it is the practice and study of new media itself, the aesthetic and philosophical concerns that can clarify our position within the world. In the exhibition DIAMETRIC I employ a range of contrasting art-making techniques unconditional craft, such as sewing and fabric casting, as well as computer technologies such as interactive software, digital video visual effects and digital imaging. The combination of techniques is a deliberate strategy to blur the boundaries between art, craft and digital reproduction.
March 24, 2012
Landscape - Eliza ADAM
Wednesday 4 April - Saturday 21 April 2012
Opening night: Thursday 5 April from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Opening night: Thursday 5 April from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
do you see what I see? - Thadeous Ikihega
Wednesday 14 March - Saturday 31 March 2012
Opening night: Thursday 15 March from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Mix Media Drawings & Photographs by Thadeous Ikihega
Thadeous drawings are right up my alley. I love ink, charcoal and nice paper, so I’m rather bias. Thadeous commented about the importance of the paper and brushes used when making studies in ink. I agree and the quality of these studies is enhanced by the Archival paper and goat hair brushes used by the artist.
Thadeous worked at David Jones in retail in another life and I guess the numerous, moody studies of the now vacant DJs store are explorations of that past existence, as well as very beautiful gestural studies of the architecture of that old shopping hub, now gone quiet. I love the gestural studies in neon of traffic jams. Who would imagine a traffic jam to be so vibrant?
The photographs are taken at night and the artificial street light scenes are hard to describe... lonely & beautiful. The photos remind me of quiet nights in the centre of town, the solitude of the empty city streets of Newcastle after midnight when pretty much everything is closed. The images are raw and unframed, which gives an opportunity to see the work intimately, without the formal glass and frame barrier usual when art is exhibited.
For me this is what these works are; seeing beauty in the everyday and mundane, traffic jams, street lights and the familiar buildings of the decrepit town centre. I do see what you see, I think Thadeous. Newcastle's landmarks, that we see every day as we wander or rush past the same buildings, trees and Hunter Street traffic, stopped at the lights. Thank you for reminding me. It is easy to forget to look with wonder, with fresh eyes. It is even more challenging to capture that mood and wonder in a gestural study or digital photograph.
Fern York
http://culturehunter.org/notice-board/review-do-you-see-what-i-see
Opening night: Thursday 15 March from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
Mix Media Drawings & Photographs by Thadeous Ikihega
Thadeous drawings are right up my alley. I love ink, charcoal and nice paper, so I’m rather bias. Thadeous commented about the importance of the paper and brushes used when making studies in ink. I agree and the quality of these studies is enhanced by the Archival paper and goat hair brushes used by the artist.
Thadeous worked at David Jones in retail in another life and I guess the numerous, moody studies of the now vacant DJs store are explorations of that past existence, as well as very beautiful gestural studies of the architecture of that old shopping hub, now gone quiet. I love the gestural studies in neon of traffic jams. Who would imagine a traffic jam to be so vibrant?
The photographs are taken at night and the artificial street light scenes are hard to describe... lonely & beautiful. The photos remind me of quiet nights in the centre of town, the solitude of the empty city streets of Newcastle after midnight when pretty much everything is closed. The images are raw and unframed, which gives an opportunity to see the work intimately, without the formal glass and frame barrier usual when art is exhibited.
For me this is what these works are; seeing beauty in the everyday and mundane, traffic jams, street lights and the familiar buildings of the decrepit town centre. I do see what you see, I think Thadeous. Newcastle's landmarks, that we see every day as we wander or rush past the same buildings, trees and Hunter Street traffic, stopped at the lights. Thank you for reminding me. It is easy to forget to look with wonder, with fresh eyes. It is even more challenging to capture that mood and wonder in a gestural study or digital photograph.
Fern York
http://culturehunter.org/notice-board/review-do-you-see-what-i-see
February 20, 2012
Two, Too, To, 2 | Peter SPEIGHT and Ahn WELLS
Wednesday 22 February - Saturday 10 March 2012
Opening night: Thursday 23 February from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
This exhibition sees both artists pushing their individual art practices into new directions. SPEIGHT will be exhibiting for the first time drawings within a white gallery space. While WELLS is exploring ideas beyond her signature pattern and abstract based works on paper.
Dwuan LaTrobe writes about the works:
"Ahn's works are a series she entitles Garden Party Suite. And I'm transported to a world where things are much simpler. Tea on the lawn and a nice game of croquet. When video games looked like:
You awake in a garden. To the west the blooms are huddled close. There are paths to South, North, East.
>look blooms
Pixelated pinpricks, hexagonal cartwheels; I love the simplistic nature of Ahns work. There's a certain etherealness to it, like the ghost of a tatterdemalion. Poke it with a stick and it just disappears.
Peter's work, on the other hand, doesn't do anything like fade away into the back ground, it's just there. The wry wit of a mad magician with a well-thumbed tarot deck of fantastical images. In an inverted 35 card spread on 2 walls. Blasting away with colour, seeped in symbolism. A well-spiced psychedelic soup.
I like the one with the divers. It's telling me something deep."
http://culturehunter.org/notice-board/review-two-too-2
Opening night: Thursday 23 February from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
This exhibition sees both artists pushing their individual art practices into new directions. SPEIGHT will be exhibiting for the first time drawings within a white gallery space. While WELLS is exploring ideas beyond her signature pattern and abstract based works on paper.
Dwuan LaTrobe writes about the works:
"Ahn's works are a series she entitles Garden Party Suite. And I'm transported to a world where things are much simpler. Tea on the lawn and a nice game of croquet. When video games looked like:
You awake in a garden. To the west the blooms are huddled close. There are paths to South, North, East.
>look blooms
Pixelated pinpricks, hexagonal cartwheels; I love the simplistic nature of Ahns work. There's a certain etherealness to it, like the ghost of a tatterdemalion. Poke it with a stick and it just disappears.
Peter's work, on the other hand, doesn't do anything like fade away into the back ground, it's just there. The wry wit of a mad magician with a well-thumbed tarot deck of fantastical images. In an inverted 35 card spread on 2 walls. Blasting away with colour, seeped in symbolism. A well-spiced psychedelic soup.
I like the one with the divers. It's telling me something deep."
http://culturehunter.org/notice-board/review-two-too-2
January 15, 2012
OPEN HOUSE - group exhibition
Wednesday 1 February - Saturday 18 February 2012
Opening night: Thursday 2 February from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
To be opened by Art Critic (Newcastle Herald) UNA REY
Gina McDonald - Steve McDonald - Debra Byrne - Garry Hamilton - Stevi Cannon- Belinda Alcock - Jane Robinson - Thadaeus Ikehaga - Jesse Neale - Sophie Toupien - Shane Audrins - Paul Maher - Bree Cunningham - Carly Brett - Malcolm Berry - Carla Feltham - Natalie Engdahl - Johnathan Hardy - Robyn Nunan - Clare Weeks - James Murphy - Caelli-Jo Brooker - Helene Leane - Ben Kenning
Opening night: Thursday 2 February from 6pm
GALLERY OPEN: WED - SAT 12-5PM
To be opened by Art Critic (Newcastle Herald) UNA REY
Gina McDonald - Steve McDonald - Debra Byrne - Garry Hamilton - Stevi Cannon- Belinda Alcock - Jane Robinson - Thadaeus Ikehaga - Jesse Neale - Sophie Toupien - Shane Audrins - Paul Maher - Bree Cunningham - Carly Brett - Malcolm Berry - Carla Feltham - Natalie Engdahl - Johnathan Hardy - Robyn Nunan - Clare Weeks - James Murphy - Caelli-Jo Brooker - Helene Leane - Ben Kenning
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