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a calendar for emerging artist exhibition openings in sydney + a few exhibition reviews
The Keg Show [aMBUSH]
when: Opening night Thursday 1 July 2010, 6-9pm.
cost: Free.
where: aMBUSH Gallery, 4a James Street, Waterloo.
from Stone & Wood:
“We paint our kegs with a simple green stripe, so we don’t lose them. But this got us thinking about what it’d be like if we got some real artists to paint an entire keg each and then sell them for charity. So The Keg Show was born … where twelve Australian artists have used our kegs as canvases to capture their creativity. The collection of keg artwork will be on show at three events, where art and the art of brewing beer come together for a good cause. The exhibition includes original works by Beci Orpin, Ben Brown, Beastman and heaps of others. So come along and have a beer with us at the Stone & Wood Brewery (Byron Bay) on June 4, 19 Karen Gallery (Gold Coast) on June 18, or Ambush Gallery (Sydney) on July 1.
Each of the artists have chosen a charity for their own keg. Some of those include Sea Shepherd, WIRES (Wildlife Rescue), SANE Australia, Movember and Rainforest Rescue. Of course, not everyone can afford one of the kegs, so we also have a an empty keg on the night where people can chuck their spare change. That money goes to Food Shelter Water, a favourite charity of ours at the brewery.
All shows are from 6pm-9pm. Also with thanks to Element there are 50 special-edition Keg Show shirts to be given away at each show for the early birds.”
Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home [Blender]
when: Thursday 1 July 2010. 6pm-8pm.
cost: free.
where: Blender Gallery. 16 Elizabeth St, Paddington.
from Blender Gallery:
For the first time in Australia an exhibition of iconic, rare, intimate and unseen moments of Bob Dylan will be on display in Sydney.
Blender Gallery, in association with Morrison Hotel Gallery in the USA, and Rockarchive.com in the UK, is delighted to present “DYLAN – Bringing It All Back Home” an incredible collection of highly collectable images of the legendary musician Bob Dylan.
For almost 50 years, Bob Dylan has remained, one of the most influential American musicians rock & roll has ever produced. “Inscrutable and unpredictable, Dylan has been both deified and denounced for his shifts of interest, while whole schools of musicians took up his ideas” – Rolling Stone
By personalizing folk songs, Dylan reinvented the singer-songwriter genre; by performing his allusive, poetic songs in his nasal, spontaneous vocal style with an electric band, he enlarged pop’s range and vocabulary while creating a widely imitated sound. By recording with Nashville veterans, he helped give rise to Seventies country-rock. In the 1980s and 1990s, although he often seemed to flounder, he still had the ability to challenge, influence, and surprise listeners — something he did more reliably in the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of the greatest music of his career.
“I’ve admired and enjoyed his many musical transformations.
For me, there is no other musical artist who weaves his influences so densely to create something so personal and unique.” – Martin Scorsese
This particular collection of photographs showcases the earlier career of Bob Dylan beginning with photographs from 1961 – Bob Dylan tuning his guitar at Columbia’s recording studios in New York City – one of his first ever recording sessions. He signed to Columbia Records in October of that year.
‘I was in a unique position, given complete access and trust. I liked Dylan’s work, he liked mine. He knew I would make him look interesting – and he was. I knew I was in the presence of genius.’ – Barry Feinstein, Photographer
Bob Dylan has been described as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, musically and culturally. Dylan was included in the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century where he was called “master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation”
Bringing It All Back Home is Dylan’s fifth studio album, released in March 1965 by Columbia Records.
The album is divided into an electric and an acoustic side which surprised listeners for the first of many times by turning his back on folk purism.
This exhibition has been aptly titled around this particular album – the music Dylan made in 1965 and 1966 revolutionized rock – as his lyrics continued their trend toward the abstract and personal, bringing intellectual ambition to popular music.
A portrait of the beginnings of the ever-changing Bob Dylan.
All photographs in this exhibition will be for sale in a range of sizes from 16 x 20 inches upwards.
Photographs are a selection of beautiful handmade silver gelatin prints, archival Fine-Art prints on Hahnemühle paper and colour photographic prints. All are created from the original negatives.
EXHIBITION DATES: July 2nd – August 3rd 2010
BLENDER GALLERY
16 Elizabeth Street Paddington NSW 2021
ph: 02 93807080
email: info@blender.com.au
www.blender.com.au
Wanderlust [Tin Sheds]
when: Thursday 1 July 2010, 6pm.
cost: free.
where: Tin Sheds Gallery. 154 City Road, Chippendale.
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Sandra di Palma
from Tin Sheds Gallery:
Michael Esson
The survey exhibition Wanderlust – A Drawing Dialogue is of the inspirational process and experience of over 30 years of Esson’s drawing practice in forensic investigation forging links between art, anatomy and surgery. This exhibition concentrates on the last ten years of travel and his highly original drawings focus on the study and expression of the human figure. Esson is concerned with the body, its functions, its frailties and above all mortality.
Esson has described his own practice as :
“grappling with incoherent thoughts, sometimes collision of ideas. It is a way of inventing personal narratives, creating graphic dialogue, and discovering images hidden on the tip of memory…. The drawings are like private conversations, suggesting possibilities, offering propositions and testing relationships. It is an interior monologue rather than public announcement at this stage. The drawings explore the potential of a theme, the conversation meanders and the process remains fluid, conjuring hidden and unexpected narratives. This dialogue is not a matter of finding equivalents in line and marks for ideas constructed by, or with words. I would prefer it to be a matter of …see what I think and how I think, rather than hear what I think”.
Exhibited widely in Asia and Australia, Esson is the Director, International Drawing Research Institute at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, and has expensive teaching in the discipline of drawing as an investigative art. Born in Scotland and studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Esson is Professor of Drawing at Lincoln University, UK, and also a Guest Professor at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Art, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang and a Consultant Professor at Dong Hua University, Shanghai. China.
Proliferation – Kath Fries [Gaffa]
when: Opening night Thursday 1 July 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Tuesday 13 July 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Gaffa Gallery, 281 Clarence Street, Sydney.
From Kath Fries:
Please join me for the opening night, 6–8pm Thurs 1 July And my artist talk, 2pm Sat 10 July
‘Proliferation’ is a new installation by Kath Fries at Gaffa Sydney that fills the gallery space with hundreds of feathers. The gallery space will appear to be bursting at the seams as hidden stuffing spews forth and strands of feathers trail down the walls and explode out of the cracks between floorboards. The artist will tend the installation daily and viewers will be able to see it change and grow over this period.
Feathers have featured as a consistent motif in Fries’ work over the past three years. In ‘Proliferation’ the artist has used recycled feathers — reclaimed stuffing from an old sofa, an inconsequential material usually dismissed as debris — to comment on humanity’s destructive urges and continued environmental abuse. The use of feathers within this context provokes emotionally volatile responses from attraction to repulsion.
In this installation Fries creates a space that conjures dreamlike connections and evokes cautionary myths and fables. ‘Proliferation’s’ fleeting and temporal qualities resonate a sense of tension, balancing between the immediate present and the possibilities of the unknown.
An artist’s book titled ‘Feather’ will also accompany the installation. The publication features a selection of photographs taken by the artist that present an illuminating insight into her ongoing explorations of this material. Fries’ photography is both informed and complementary to her installation practice and offers a unique perspective on her art practice.
Kath Fries completed a Masters of Visual Art at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney in 2008. She has been exhibiting at Gaffa Gallery since 2006 and has created site-sensitive temporal installations for numerous national art festivals including Rockingham WA, Hunter Valley NSW, Drummoyne NSW, Lake George NSW and Bryon Bay NSW. She recently completed an artist-residency at Laughing Waters VIC and was awarded a ‘Facetnate’ scholarship from the Japan Foundation’s Emerging Artist Program.
