STROBED
a calendar for emerging artist exhibition openings in sydney + a few exhibition reviews
MAD DOGS Part One – Sam Smith [Oh Really]
when: Opening night Thursday 29 July 2010, 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday 8 August 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Oh Really Gallery, 55 Enmore Road, Newtown.
From Oh Really:
Just because your paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not after you.
The strange and terrible saga of the Mad Dogs.
The first Sydney solo exhibition by Gold Coast based artist Sam Smith
Johnny Niesche + Vicky Browne [MOP]
when: Opening night Thursday 29 July 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday 15 August 2010.
cost: Free.
where: MOP Projects, 2/39 Abercrombie Street, Chippendale.
From MOP:
GALLERY 1
The Glitter Stick
Jonny Niesche
Once upon a time the glitter stick was passed from Niesche to Niesche and on and on and back and forth in time beyond the place in which my ancient Nordic ancestors were still shamans and wild horsemen. As it is commonly said that whomever won the war must paint its history and the stick must and will paint on and around it goes again. Rejoice! For each painting is a battle and the studio the battlefield my friend. Here, the only winner is painting my long dead friend to pass the glitter stick on and on and round again from shaman to shaman, from generation to generation…and on to Sydney town again.
Jonny Niesche is a Sydney based painter. Returning to Sydney after 10 years in New York playing experimental music, Niesche completed his BVA (Hons 1) at Sydney College of the Arts in 2008. Selected for Hatched (2007) at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, a finalist in the Blake (2006), Sulman (2007), and Stanthorpe (2009) prizes, and included in numerous events and group exhibitions, Niesche has already had three successful solo exhibitions in Sydney.
GALLERY 2
Come Down From the Mountain
Vicky Browne
Vicky Browne’s practice is concerned with domestic sound technology and music culture. The sculptures and installations she makes comment on changes in technology, music trends and consumer culture via explorations into personal identity. She often combine’s found objects with domestic materials such as wool, string and fire wood. The found objects are often manipulated to expose the cultural significance and role within society. Her work frequently includes sound as part of the work. The sound used is lo-fi and domestic, such as a transistor radio or a mobile phone. As a society we are quick to discard working technology for faster, smaller and more powerful tools with little regard for the debris left behind, Browne’s practice gives this debris a sense of history, a context and comments on consumer culture as a way of life.
Vicky Browne has been making installation and sound art for the past eight years. Recently she has exhibited at Performance space Sydney for the Liquid Architecture festival and had a sole exhibition at I.C.A.N. in Newtown; She has also exhibited at Artspace Sydney and Art Space New Zealand. In 2009 her work was selected and acquired for the Duke award Gold Coast Art Gallery and in June this year she will be performing at Artspace as part of the Biennale of Sydney.
The Glitter Stick Facebook Invite
Rohan Wilson [Peloton]
when: Opening night Thursday 29 July 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Saturday 21 August 2010.
cost: Free.
where: Peloton Gallery, 19 + 25 Meagher Street, Chippendale.
From Peloton:
Photography, Paintings, Postcards [ATVP]
when: Opening night Thursday 29 August 2010, 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until Saturday 15 August 2010.
cost: Free.
where: At The Vanishing Point Contemporary Art Gallery, 565 King Street, Newtown.
From ATVP:
Holly Schulte, Jude Hotchkiss, Michelle Loa Kum Cheung & The Postcard Project: Beatrice Markopoulos, Natasha Wills and Lina Zainal
Holly Schulte’s Needlework series examines doilies; the crocheted laces or cottons that are a testament to the hours of work each took to create. Using photography to represent and classify her collection, Schulte highlights the individual and complex concentric patterns in each piece, while also drawing attention to loose threads and discolouration, revealing the subtle residue of use.
Holly Schulte has a Bachelor of Photography (Honours) from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
Jude Hotchkiss combines digital manipulation, video and photographic images with Modernist painting techniques to explore traditional themes of landscape, streetscape and portraiture. In the series Hold Still, Hotchkiss uses painting and video to evoke her experience of a train journey through France, capturing the flickering and fractured effects of motion on the landscape.
Jude Hotchkiss has a Masters of Art from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Michelle Loa Kum Cheung’s work focuses on the fluidity and transience of clouds, exploring a range of colours and moods. In Loa Kum Cheung’s paintings, clouds act as metaphor for small, background changes in life that are often overlooked in favour of what is concrete, real and at the foreground of consciousness.
Michelle Loa Kum Cheung has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
The Postcard Project is a collaboration between Beatrice Markopoulos, Natasha Wills and Lina Zainal. In a world where technology reigns, the artists aim to find comfort in a more intimate way of communicating. Co-creating postcards they post eacother through a conglomeration of paint, personal words, letters, photographs, stolen images, overheard conversations, drawings and more, the artists share a part of their imaginations and everyday life. Like a diary among friends, their goal is let each other know that ‘I still remember you’.
Beatrice Markopoulos, Natasha Wills and Lina Zainal are currently undertaking a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, USyd.
