24HrArt


		15 FEB - 22 MAR 2008 : Opening 6pm 15 FEB The ‘folk art’ technique of ‘paper cutting’ developed in China with the advent of an abundant and cheap source of material, mass produced paper. It has become an integral part of Chinese cultural life, existing for thousands of years celebrating wedding ceremonies, folklore legends and traditional festivals. In present day China, the ‘paper cut’ has found it’s way into animation, television backdrops and advertising campaigns, and into the art practices of a number of contemporary Australian artists. image: Falling Pamela See 2007 Paper 70 x 60cm Courtesy of the Artist and Boutwell Draper Gallery
		15 FEB - 22 MAR 2008 : Opening 6pm 15 FEB Concerned with the landscape from cultural, historical and imaginative perspectives, Matt Huttlestone’s new works refer to the navigators that colonial history has made heroes of - who sought to explore the unknown, chart the oceans and map new land. Matt uses this analogy for the process of his artmaking, navigating the search to find meaning in contemporary life. image:Tasmin Oil painting on canvas 2007
		15 FEB - 22 MAR 2008 : Opening 6pm 15 FEB Scott’s video works employ self-deprecating humour and confession-like candour, a direct and unmediated communication subverting the line between public and private. They interrogate the distinction between the real and the constructed, simultaneously perpetuating and critiquing the contemporary compulsion for one’s existence to be expressed and inscribed through the camera lens. image: Hot Not digital video short DVD dur: 3:17 mins 2006
		15 FEB - 22 MAR 2008 : Opening 6pm 15 FEB In a game of pool, if the white ball is sunk off the black ball in a player’s final shot, everything turns around, the winning player loses and the losing player becomes the winner. This concept has been with Moynihan since childhood, now living in central Australia the metaphor has new meaning, there, the words ‘white’ and ‘black’ have strong associations allowing for complex confusions and illusions. image:Black-White ball...Centre Pocket Installation
		Music by ‘Dweller on the Threshold’ 15 FEB - 22 MAR 2008 : Opening 6pm 15 FEB ‘Ruben’, the central character, began life as a 3d animation experiment, a ten second loop of a two headed character in purple bubonic lizard skin, writhing and twisting. Ruben took first form in post-box red enamel, growing wings and various digital appendages as the engine of evolution dictates. The end result, a full length video clip set to the tracks “Dweller on the Threshold” and ‘Subterranean Ride’. Image:Subterranean Ride video still
		28 MAR - 3 MAY 2008 These works deal with questions of a non-Indigenous relationship to the central desert areas of Australia where Lofts has lived for sixteen years. Personal experience and memory inform her exploration of the idea that a sense of place – our understanding and belonging – is incomplete without an appreciation of (the) country as ‘storied’. Image:Requiem For Another Photography
		28 MAR - 3 MAY 2008 Artesian Basin: a geological structural feature in which water is confined under pressure Artesian Bore: a deep hole drilled to the aquifer of an artesian basin, through which water rises under hydrostatic pressure, This project is an inquiry about the relationships between land/water and thought/imagination; it works between the aesthetic fields of eco-poetics and psycho-geography. The video works were made at sites within The Great Artesian Basin region and are an extension of a spatial drawing practice, where abstraction is formed in-camera. Image:Artesian video still
		28 MAR - 3 MAY 2008 Questioning the Australian iconic dream of owning your own home, of appropriate housing, accessibility, cost and adaptability to the NT environment, this work deals with the construction and deconstruction of societies musings. The installation draws on Min Wong’s Anglo Chinese heritage, the opposing elements of the ‘white picket fence’ and Qingming, a Chinese ceremony to honour ancestors. Image: The Package Installation
		28 MAR - 3 MAY 2008 A raft of empty water bottles and soccer balls continuously forms and is pulled apart by powerful forces at work beneath the convulsing surface of a fermenting river. Flooded with jewel like colour, this massing of detritus simultaneously mesmerises and repels. An inner turbulence is generated as aesthetic seduction ushers in a melancholia, like the discarded water bottles and lost soccer balls, our feelings are slowly tossed around, drawn down and rising to the surface again in this surging world. Image:Turbulence video still
		9 MAY - 14 JUN 2008 Three artists from different parts of the globe explore human environments. Questioning ways in which we inhabit space, Haggblom documents an ambiguous heterotopian landscape where the inhabitants seem desperately trying to make sense of the physical and psychological constructs that surround them. Masuda’s stylised imagery freezes time, he arrives at locations just after a crucial act has taken place, with only traces left behind. Bernard-Raymond skirts the edges of the metropolis to locations preferred more by tourists, temporary human figures who stop only momentarily. Image: Meteor Crater Subway Photography
		9 MAY - 14 JUN 2008 The thematic basis of Brown’s painting has been to re-create contemporary people and events in a traditional European artistic context. His work is a social comment on today and by association, a celebration of western art with a derisive glimpse of some of its greatest exponents, he juxtaposes the traditional with the contemporary whilst playing with sharp contrasts and oxymoronic combinations. Image:Saturday Morning c.1642 oil painting on canvas
		9 MAY - 14 JUN 2008 ‘12345678’. Similar to brainwashing, the Chinese ‘radio gymnastics’ was compulsory for many past generations of school children. Upon hearing the indoctrinated melody, you will remember every detail out of the instinctive conditioned reflex. The current ‘radio gymnastics’ brings an inquiry and criticism on the significance between the traditional commonality and individuality in present day China. ‘The Nth Power Of One’ strongly expresses the notion of ‘Orientalism’ as well as the ultimate destiny of everything on earth, fatality. Using an extreme recording method, the work moves from white to black, from the individual “I” to the group “we”. Image:The Nthe Power of One video still
		9 MAY - 14 JUN 2008 From the tranquillity of the Top End's rural environment to the hedonistic heart of a major urban centre, Kneebone explores the fragility, saturation and entirety of mass culture, whilst revealing how vulnerable and anonymous humanity has become. Image:Soft Hearts Installation
		9 MAY - 14 JUN 2008 What is the sound of red, blue or green? What is the sound of our inner ear? An animation investigating our awareness of the sounds in our direct environment, from street sounds to bodily sounds. Image:Elka Kerkhofs What Is The Sound Of (video still) video on DVD