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Juan Ford

A Phrenologist's Deceptions

13 February – 21 March 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 13 February
In "A phrenologist's Deception", Ford reveals an unsettling sensation in his high realism paintings. The concepts of contradiction and paradox are testified through the anamorphosis that Ford creates on the canvas.

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• Title: Abstraction#4
• Meduim: Oil on aluminium,90x90cm

Sigit Bapak

Woro-woro "Jogja S.O.S. !"

13 February – 21 March 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 13 February
In "Woro-woro Jogja S.O.S!" Bapak calls on artists in Yogyakarta to remain "human", to resist conforming to the growing trend of exhibitions being all about commercialism, and not to simply follow the "comfortable way". Bapak is critical of current art practices in Jogja, claiming many artists are being influenced by curators and gallery owners to follow the "money makers", that Jogja is losing it's reputation as the creative hub of Indonesia.

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• Title: Kemana Kita? (Where are we going?)
• Meduim: Mural on plywood, wooden sculpture, video, performance

Christine Collins

Riding School for the Cowboys of Doom

13 February – 21 March 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 13 February
"Riding School for the Cowboys of Doom" is a triptych interpretation of Albert Durers' 1498 "Four Horseman of the Apocalypse". A series of fine copper wire threads draw together each of Durers' horsemen, whilst transmitting the sound of a character derived from a post apocalyptic science fiction film.

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• Title: Riding School for the Cowboys of Doom
• Meduim: MDF, copper wire, amplifiers, CD players, Speakers

Talitha Kennedy

New World Romance

13 February – 21 March 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 13 February
"New World Romance" is a collection of handmade distorted natural forms constructed of material sourced from local coastal plants, and reminiscent of domestic décor, clothes and furniture. These soft sculptures interrogate the notion of representing place and living within the natural environment.

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• Title: Symbiotic growth
• Medium: leather, printed fabric, thread and stuffing on canvas

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Helen Brown

13 February – 21 March 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 13 February
With an interest in the existence of a dual or alternate reality, Brown explores the moment in which the eyes play tricks, allowing people to observe fragments of the real world in an alternate state.

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• Title: Take 23 (video still)
• Medium: Video Installation

Adam Cullen

Fundamental Purgatory

27 March – 2 May 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 27 March
Presented in landscape tradition without a horizon line, "Fundamental Purgatory" reflects Cullen's ongoing interest in physiological and physical trauma. Through his work, Cullen tells his belief that in these heady days, our planet has been left in a perpetual state of disrepair. We are also in an age of radical conservatism embodied in fundamentalism and ridiculous religious delusion.

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• Title: Celtic Unicorn In Frankfurt
• Medium: acrylic and enamel on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm Courtesy of the artist and Kaliman Gallery, Sydney

ANAT

Portable Worlds, 2nd Edition

27 March – 2 May 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 27 March
Believing that technology and mobility can change habits and inhabitation of public spaces, the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) presents "Portable Worlds 2nd Edition", a series of video works which have been created using mobile phone technologies. These works explore connection and intimacy, portability and community, scale and distance.

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• Artists: Troy Innocent, Ollie Olsen & Harry Lee
• Title: SWM05: distributed bodies of musical visual form

Jackie McNamee

Pigeon GPS

27 March – 2 May 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 27 March
Humans have filled the skies with an ever-increasing amount of electronic smog. McNamee has found a solution to the disruption that people have caused to a homing pigeons' ability to navigate, a specially constructed navigational aid.

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• Title: Pigeon GPS
• Medium: Painted Birch (with branch)

Gabrielle Baker

Allard Park

27 March – 2 May 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 27 March
A young boy is filmed in a park practising ballet whilst a blonde haired dog, constructed by the artist, watches over him. Baker attempts to make visible the indivisible, the seamless relation between nature and culture, it is a truncated but nevertheless poignant view of a boy in a landscape.

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• Title: Allard Park (video still)
• Medium: DVD, 2.49 secs looped

Christopher Langton

Plastorama

8 May – 13 Jun 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 8 May
In "Plastorama", Langton creates a panoramic landscape filled with bulbous plastic inflatable objects. Using malleable and artificial qualities of the materials, he defines a world that is strangely alluring and at the same time utterly repugnant – a world that is like a bubble about to burst.

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• Title: See No Evil
• Medium: Polyurethane and resin on PVC 120 x 100 x 20 cm, Image courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

James Dodd

Sunset Dreaming

8 May – 13 Jun 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 8 May
Inspired by Darwin's bus shelters that have been painted with murals of local flora, fauna and landscapes, Dodd represents the psyche of a physical public space via the visual interpretation of layers of found text and graffiti.

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• Title: Sunset Dreaming
• Medium: Acrylic on MDF and pine. Photography by Sam Roberts

Michael Yuen

Pulse

8 May – 13 Jun 2009 : Opening 6pm Friday 8 May/strong>
Yuen creates a quiet, soft, reflective space with a pulsing dim blue light escaping through the floor. The light and accompanied pulsing audio draws the audience into darkness as the light fades to black.

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• Title: Pulse
• Medium: Samzie Space, Seoul installation view