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Peter Ellis, Louise Weaver

Gamble Against The Spirit World

12 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 12 Feb
Weaver and Ellis explore the shared affinities of transformation, metamorphosis and the imaginative power of unconventional imagery.

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• Title: Ghost with plaits
• Artist: Peter Ellis
• Meduim: Ink on fabriano artistico 640 gms paper, 76 x 58 cms, 2007
• Courtesy of the artist

Anna Reynolds

Awesome Atrocity

12 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 12 Feb
In her mixed media paintings, Reynolds invites us to explore an imaginary absurd metropolis and crawl through the watery mud of an urban and mangrove liaison. Ask yourself what lies beyond an industrialized world and gnaw on the barnacles of the forsaken bones of the harbour’s landfill bramble.

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• Title: High tide
• Meduim: mixed media, 2009

Tobias Richardson, Skye Raabe

Night Space

12 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 12 Feb
Collaborators Raabe and Richardson present video works and paintings of darkened architectural spaces. In ‘Night Space’, light generated from the video projections illuminate and animate a series of black paintings to create an unusual dialogue.

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• Artist: Skye Raabe
• Title: Night Space (video still)
• Medium:DVD, 2010

Amy Keane

Girls In Little Dresses Have Big Shoes To Fill

12 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 12 Feb
Filling the space with piles of plaster-bandaged shoes, Keane reveals an emotional and methodical process of binding once loved shoes, attempting to mend and heal a hunger for love and affection.

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• Title: Girls In Little Dresses Have Big Shoes To Fill
• Medium: Over priced footwear, plaster bandage, tears, 2009

Stuart Elliott

The Underpass Motel

12 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 12 Feb
Depicting a timeless fictional motel beneath an overpass and between the Hollow City and the void, ‘The Underpass Motel’ is an animated video in a modular format, a psychological space accommodating fantasy, longing and acting out.

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• Promotion Poster

Izabela Pluta

Gestures Of The Landscape

26 Mar - 1 May 2010: Opening at 6pm Fri 26 Mar
Capturing the impermanence and transience of Western Australia’s mining towns, Pluta explores the psychological connection (or disconnection) between places and examines the semi-permanent, fly-in fly-out lifestyles of regions such as the Pilbara. Through her photography work, temporality is ever-present.

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• Title: Untitled (caravan)
• Medium: photo mural on adshel paper, 2009

Simon Cooper, Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Katherine Olston

Second Language

26 Mar - 1 May 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 26 Mar
Through their unique artistic approaches, Cooper, Olston and Suwnnakudt reveal insights into living. In the installation Phaa – Kradart Tongkum Plaew Olston and Suwannakudt explore the multi-layering and interrelatedness of accumulated cultural narratives, while Cooper’s Circuit of Life examines popular nations of genetic engineering, ancestral bloodlines, natural selection and divine creation.

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• Title: Circuit of Life (detail)
• Artist: Simon Cooper
• Medium: 2009, Wood, acrylic paint, metal leaf,180 x 50 x 15 cm

Wimo Ambala Bayang

Once Upon A Time

26 Mar - 1 May 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 26 Mar
A screening of selected short films by Indonesian artist Wimo Ambala Bayang, known as a ‘Local Hero’ in the Yogyakarta art community, “Once Upon A Time” takes the audience on a visual journey in which an absurd, humorous and ordinary life is seen through Bayang’s unique perspective.

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• Title: Once Upon A Time (Screen Shot)
• Medium: DVD

Sari Harris

Imagining Darwin

26 Mar - 1 May 2010: Opening at 6pm Fri 26 Mar
Inspired by the unique land and seascape of Australia and the Galapagos Islands, Harris creates small objects using skin-like silicone, smooth porcelain, silver and timber to encourage human compulsion to touch and create order. It’s a colourful, tactile feast.

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• Title: Specimens 2
• Medium: Porcelain, silicone, pigment. Sizes variable approx 70mm diameter x 30-70mm high. Photography: Jeremy Dillon, The Photography Department

Mark Rodda

Tidal River

26 Mar - 1 May 2010: Opening at 6pm Fri 26 Mar
Rodda features a silent and primordial world, showing landforms that conjure up reveries of a pre-human era. Tidal River explores the transformation of natural habitats into staged artificial environments.

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• Title: Tidal River
• Medium: Video, 12 min

Mimi Kelly, Pat Brassington, Jane Burton, Monika Tichacek

Dark Dreams + Flourescent Flesh

7 May - 12 Jun 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 7 May
Empowering the exhibition with polemic genres that are informed by popular culture, the gothic and the sublime provocatively pose questions of corporal exes, female pleasure and sexual paradox. The four artists present a world emanating with a surreal and luscious aesthetic, a prism of dark dreams and fluorescent flesh in a series of large-scale photographs and video installation.

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• Artist: Mimi Kelly
• Title: Untitled #2
• Medium: Glicée print, 2009.
• Image courtesy of the artist

Carole Wilson

Mrs Darwin’s Garden

7 May - 12 Jun 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 7 May
Connecting the themes of European exploration and ongoing themes of domesticity and home making, Wilson explores the ways that women map the minutiae to order their world when they are displaced into new environments.

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• Title: Survey Vessel 2
• Medium: collaged maps on paper,photographer Gavin Hansford, 2008
• collection of St Patricks College Ballarat, courtesy of the artist and St Patricks College Ballarat

Blythe Neve

Enchanted Commerce

7 May - 12 Jun 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 7 May
Neve's chain sculpture Enchanted Commerce contemplates creative and innovative possibilities of tender, enterprise and trade. A nostalgic celebration of reduced reliance upon economic conventions, towards a more Arcadian and tribal system of transference and market.

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• Title: Enchanted Commerce
• Medium: Recycled wood, rope and enamel paint, 2009

Dorota Mytych

Tea Leaf Reading 1

7 May - 12 Jun 2010 : Opening at 6pm Fri 7 May
Mytych captures the movement of tea leaves being blown away in slow motion, depicting an image that forms an independent reality. Anger, disaster, hate and killing exist together with compassion, beauty and caring in an endless loop.

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• Title: Tea Leaf Reading 1 (video still)
• Medium: DVD 12:33 looped, 2009