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RAW [Verge]
when: Opening night Thursday 15 July 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Friday 13 August 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Verge Gallery, Jane Foss Russell Plaza, City Road, Darlington.
From RAW:
Second Year students from the Sydney College of the Arts- University of Sydney, invite you to the opening of RAW, an exhibition at Verge Gallery, Thursday the 15th of July at 6pm.
From the SPI (Sculpture, Performance and Installation) Studio at SCA, Reuben Shipp, Tenille Wearne, Alex Reid, Lachlan Boyd and Georgina Wiber present new sculptural and other works with a RAW aesthetic, stripped back and let loose upon The Verge Gallery.
RAW is the result of our groups winning application into the Verge Gallery’s “Wildcard” slot, a timeframe made available to considered proposals. The gallery maintains a schedule of international events and outstanding and emerging artists, facilitated by the University of Sydney Union. RAW exhibits from the 12th of July until the 13th August.
The opening night is a celebration with entertainment and refreshments! Come and meet these artists. Be surprised by the artwork. DJ Yeah!! will be spinning the best of psychedelia and other gems from the collection, so be prepared to boogie. The Speaker is none other than, great Australian Sculptor, Ken Unsworth AM. The opening is a celebration that we hope to continue on the evening, after the gallery. All are welcome and indeed, suggestions toward after-events are thankfully requested.
Kindling [Plump Gallery]
when: Opening night Tuesday 13 July 2010, from 6pm. Exhibition continues until Saturday 31 July 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Plump Gallery, 240 Enmore Road, Enmore.
From Plump:
I am the proud new owner of a new contemporary Art Space called Plump Gallery. A new contemporary Art space full of Juicy concepts and ripe ideas.
I would like to invite you to the first ever exhibition in this beautiful, luscious new space. The property is old and charming but the project is a budding new blossom on the branch of a much greater tree of amazing people and places around this area that I am proud to be part of. Please come along this coming Tuesday and be part of the beginnings of something unique. The first exhibition is going to be a group show called KINDLING. It will be a mixture of mediums that will include of paper works, painting, photography, installation and sculpture. I have not chosen a theme but rather asked the Artists to nominate works that sum them up as an Artist.
kin·dling–noun
1.material that can be readily ignited, used in starting a fire. 2. the act of one who kindles.
kin·dle1 –verb (used with object)
1. to start (a fire); cause (a flame, blaze, etc.) to begin burning. 2. to set fire to or ignite (fuel or any combustible matter). 3. to excite; stir up or set going; animate; rouse; inflame: He kindled their hopes of victory. 4. to light up, illuminate, or make bright: Happiness kindled her eyes.
It is situated in what used to be Vintage Glamour, that Antique shop just past the Warren View down the hill a bit if you are traveling away from Newtown. The show will run from the 13th to the 31st of July and will be open Tuesday-Friday from 10am-6pm and Saturday from 10:30am-7pm.
I want Plump Gallery to be a space where anything can happen and nothing is censored. A place for unheard and unconventional Artist to have a voice. I want to exhibit work that is thought provoking, interesting and important. I want to challenge the preconceptions and conventions of what a Gallery can be. To provide a stage for all those words, images and thoughts that are on the tip of the untapped tongue. A common ground where people can share ideas and make connections with like minded people or even better ones who are not like minded at all.
Being an Aboriginal woman and an Indigenous Urban Artists I am all so challenging the very limited general view of what Aboriginal Art can be.There will be a constant thread of contemporary Indigenous Art thru out the Gallery calender and Galleries consciousness.
Plump is also going to hold one off events and regular nights. These will include Spoken word nights, Music events, possibly Clubs as well as small often solo Performance Art viewings and Creative workshops. I sincerely hope that these will include somehow working with and helping disadvantaged minorities such as Koori youth, migrants, cancer survivors and people living with Autistism.
KINDLING, at Plump Gallery,
An Exhibition of local Artist who I respect and who’s work reflects the nature of the Gallery I am trying to create. It will be an opportunity to warm up the space before the first solo exhibition in August featuring the brilliant Tan Safi and for people to start to become familiar with the gallery.
Some of the Artists
Alice Williams, Wade Marynowsky, Clair Conroy, Jess Pickford, Ears, Bec Sheedy, Rachel J.Park, Maggie Aydin
More surprises to come as well as maybe a little something from yours truly. These are humble beginnings but I think Plump is going to grow to be a place as significant as it is exciting. So if your intellect and creative attention is ripe for the plucking then please join me as I set sail on this wild adventure.
Willurei Kirkbright
xx
Loft Suite [Chalk Horse]
when: Thursday 22 July 2010. 6pm-8pm.
cost: free.
where: Chalk Horse Gallery. 94 Cooper St, Surry Hills.
Go to the FB event – click here.
Lock-In 1, Oil on linen, 117cm x 152.5cm (Yvette Coppersmith)
Rather be Naked – Whitespac3 @ Mils Gallery
Suspended - Brandy Alexander
“Rather be Naked” is a show about exposure. Not necessarily of the lack-of-clothing variety, but of being seen and noticed. This group show was put together by the people at Whitespac3: a new online community for Australian artists.
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