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Simon Cooper, Rebecca Arbon, Tobias Richardson, Min Wong, Qiusha Ma, Zhao Zhao, Lei Ge, curated by Steve Eland & Wenxiang Su

Personal Space

19 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 : Opening at 6pm Fri 19 Jun
The idiom ‘Personal Space’ has many connotations as a citizen living in a modern world, a world that is definitely more complex to exist in than in previous times. Navigating day to day life is now challenged by new technologies and invasive constructs; spam, Facebook, cctv surveillance and marketing profilers, to name a few. The exhibition ‘Personal Space’ invites artists from Darwin and Beijing to question notions of personal space, not in the literal sense, but in relation to private space, shared space and public space.

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• Title: Warm Snow
• Artist: Qiusha Ma
• Meduim: Digital Print, 2008, 150x100cm
• Courtesy of the artist and Beijing Commune, China

Pip Shea, Lynn Charlotte Lu, Analogue Art Map,Unreasonable Adults, Kerrie-Dee Johns and Jon Tjhia, Curated by Hugh Davies

Pro - Tribute

19 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 : Opening at 6pm Fri 19 Jun
‘Pro –Tribute’ presents a series of artists from Australia and Asia whose practice requires active participation from the audience for the works to be fully realised. Curated by Hugh Davies, Pro – Tribute includes work from the Pip Shea, Lynn Charlotte Lu, Analogue Art Map, Unreasonable Adults, Kerrie-Dee Johns and Jon Tjhia.

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• Title: Personal and drawn maps of Melbourne contributed to Analogue Art Map during the 2008 Next Wave festival

Laurens Tan

Babalogic

19 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 : Opening at 6pm Fri 19 Jun
Reflecting on bridging linguistic and cultural barriers, and overturning outmoded models of morality and conduct, Tan questions China’s perceived attitudes about becoming a member of a global village. Tan’s schema simulates the computational coding needed for Chinese speakers to learn English and English speakers to learn Chinese, both enduring the same difficulty and frustration.

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• Title: Babalogic
• Medium: Installation View: Tower & Dual-Channel Projection

Tracey Meziane Benson

Estuarine Flows

19 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 : Opening at 6pm Fri 19 Jun
Evoking memories as a teenager in Nightcliff, Darwin, Tracey draws images from scientific data repositories as source material. Using digitally manipulated map images, she explores the borders between land and sea, between science and memory.

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• Title: Estuarine Flows
• Medium: Digital collage, 2008 - 2009

Sutthirat Supaparinya

Dotscape

19 Jun - 25 Jul 2009 : Opening at 6pm Fri 19 Jun
Annoyed by the interrupted view from the train window caused by advertising posters, Supapaprinya shows a sequence of blurred landscape images travelling from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, unravelling the threat to the natural landscape and daily life by commercial development in Thailand.

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• Title: Dotscape
• Medium: Video single channel, 6.48 min

Michael Aird, Mervyn Bishop, Gary Lee, Ricky Maynard, Michael Riley, curated by Djon Mundine

More Than My Skin

1 Aug - 5 Sep 2009: Opening at 6pm Sat 15 Aug
Curated by Djon Mundine, ‘More Than My Skin’ features the work of six of Australia’s leading Aboriginal photographers: Michael Aird, Mervyn Bishop, Gary Lee, Ricky Maynard, Peter McKenzie and Michael Riley. The role and character of urban adult Aboriginal males is the subject of intense discussion in recent times. Are they ‘warriors’; and how does one escape all the negative attributes connected with that primitivist title?

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• Title: Vincent Brady Leasds A Protest March
• Brisbane, 9 December 1987,
• Medium: CAC Frame Black 54 x 77 cm

Adam Geczy, Adam Hill

Australia – the Trailer

1 Aug - 5 Sep 2009: Opening at 6pm Sat 15 Aug
The first collaboration between Adam Geczy and Adam Hill brings together a suite of films and performances about the hypocrisies and prejudices surrounding Australian nationalism. The title references the Baz Luhrman blockbuster which the artists see as an objectionable view of Australian identity, one perpetuated by the media and happily consumed by an uncritical (white) public.

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• Title: 3rd September
• Artist: Geczy Hill
• Medium: Video Still

Joshua Bonson

Stalking

1 Aug - 5 Sep 2009: Opening at 6pm Sat 15 Aug
Bonson is a saltwater person, he belongs to a long lineage saltwater clan, his totem is the crocodile. He speaks of life’s experiences through multi-layered abstract depictions of totems and landscape. The crocodile’s honed hunting skills akin to life’s lurking dangers, without warning these dangers can strike with formidable force.

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• Title: SKIN - JB0100
• Medium: oil paints on canvas

Pip McManus

Storm

1 Aug - 5 Sep 2009: Opening at 6pm Sat 15 Aug
This work incorporates several pieces of footage from different aquarium shoots which McManus has edited together to evoke the unsettling sense of an impending storm. This uneasiness is heightened by the appearance of a crouched figure whose hunched back is braced towards darkening clouds descending rapidly around the figure, alluding to our tenuous relationship as human beings to the natural world.

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• Title: Storm
• Medium: Video, 12 min

Belle Bassin, Irene Hanenbergh, Tony Garifalakis, Simon Pericich, curated by Ashley Crawford

Dark Liaisons

11 Sep - 17 Oct 2009: Opening at 6pm Fri 11 Sep
The gallery has been transformed into a cavern, a place of ritual, a site of phantasms and chimera. Tony Garifalakis prepares us for strange ritual while we share hallucinogens with Irene Hanenbergh. Simon Pericich has readied the weapons and Belle Bassin has anointed the altar. These four Melbourne artists open portals to other dimensions where reality is what you make of it. This is the future, a dark and ominous place indeed, but not without its’ share of humour and whimsy.

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• Title: See No Evil
• Medium: Polyurethane and resin on PVC, 2006
• Image courtesy of the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne

Benjamin Forster

Extended

11 Sep - 17 Oct 2009: Opening at 6pm Fri 11 Sep
Extended includes two variations of Forster’s Drawing Machine project, Drawing Machine – ‘Listening’ and Drawing Machine – ‘Watching’. Both variations are hypothetical extensions of the concept of drawing’. ‘Watching’ actively monitors the gallery space and responds graphically to any visual disturbance, whilst ‘Listening’ will only draw in response to the sound of drawing.

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

Lisa Wolfgramm

Pulse

11 Sep - 17 Oct 2009: Opening at 6pm Fri 11 Sep
Wolfgramm continues her visual research on the methods and material processes of painting. The canvas is treated as a field, to be activated through material manipulation applied across the whole surface. Her works evolve through continued development of various technical approaches and methods of applying and manipulating paint.

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• Title: Pulse
• Medium: video installation, 2007

Sarah Tracton

White Sound

11 Sep - 17 Oct 2009: Opening at 6pm Fri 11 Sep
An experiential trip into sonic landscapes. Tracton’s White Sound explores the notion of a ‘soundless’ existence. Visualised through deaf observance, White Sound is a space where noise, silence and imagination converge.

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• Title: Walking Bass Line II
• Medium: Recycled timber, wire, 2009