LIMINAL

Liminal is a curated group exhibition that explores the concept of the space in-between definite categories of being. Seven contemporary artists who have recently used images of the setting or rising sun will produce work that goes beyond the familiar ideaof that atmospheric subject as simply beautiful or symbolic of death or the afterlife and rather uses it to address more contemporary themes such as global warming.


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Ali Sanderson (Vic), Andrew Dewhurst (Vic), David Martin (Tas), Richard Giblett (Vic), Richard Wastell (Tas), Thomas Bachler (Germenay) and Todd McMillan (Nsw)

Hawkesbury Regional Gallery 1 Aug - 7 Sep 08.

Wollongong City Gallery 18 Apr - 28 Jun 09

Tamworth Regional Gallery 26 Sep- 8 Nov 09

Parallel

PARALLEL is based on the simple idea that the everyday world is not what it seems. It will feature art work that explores issues associated with the subconscious, the unknown, the paranormal and unseen energies and forces, inviting audiences to contemplate the links between art, spirituality and parallel states of being.

The artists selected for PARALLEL make work that evokes a desire to engage with something that may exist beyond the everyday, objectice, rational experience of life. Rather than providing a typical, postmodern critique of contemporary culture, their work reflects a desire to make manifest aspects of the unkown, the unreachable and the unseen. It provides the viewer with clues that suggest all is not what it seems, that our everyday lives are underscored by experiences and events that indicate other levels or modes of being.


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Jordan Baseman, Patricia Brassington, Ruth Frost, Julie Gough, Lorraine Jenyns, Anne Ooms, Eugenia Raskopoulos, Sally Rees, Alyssa Simone, Matt Warren

2 data projectors, dvd player

Chance encounters

Salamanca Arts Centre has commissioned Mary Knights, Director, SASA Gallery, UniSA & Maria Kunda, Lecturer, Art & Design Theory, TSA, Uni Tas, to curate an exhibition entitled Chance Encounters as part of the 2009 10 Days on the Island Festival. The curators will select from eight to ten artists from Tasmania and elsewhere, whose past work engages with chance, the momentary and the unexpected. The selected artists will be invited to include works that reveal the marvellous in the everyday and familiar.

Bianca Barling, Jim Everett, Nicholas Folland, Louise Haselton,Anne Mestitz, Aleksandra Mir, Heather B. Swann, Elizabeth Woods

Returning

Returning presents work which references ‘other’ places with an intimacy and sensuality available to textile and fibre artists by the very nature of their medium.

Featuring new and recent works by eight high caliber textile and fibre artists
Returning will expose audiences to influences from ‘other’ places.

The artists selected for Returning all have an association with Tasmania
AND have pre-occupations or connections which have drawn them away. Returning presents work which arises from their pre-occupations elsewhere.

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Irene Briant, Julie Gough, Rosemary O’Rourke, Tara Badcock, Kathy Deprez, Petra Meer, Sara Lindsay,
Elena Gallegos

Down to Earth

You might say that the exhibition Down to Earth is under the influence of gravity. The works in the exhibition are informed by ideas that relate to external environments and natural forces, and to being in the world and being subject to external influence. In certain works the human figure in a landscape is exposed to the elements and in some way lost. In others the landscape evoked is a cultural one. Made in various geographical locations around Australia and the world - a skydiver in the air above Spain, rolling tumbleweed figures in a California desert, a disintegrating corpse on an Australian beach - it is not the experience of a specific location that is a focus but the vastness of the environments of the earth: the sky, the oceans and the deserts.



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Christl Berg, Jennifer Dickens, Leigh Hobba, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, David Martin, Troy Ruffles, Tim Silver, Pernille Spence

$1200.00 (+ GST and freight share)

NEW DEITIES: ART AND THE CULT OF CELEBRITY

New Deities includes works by eight artists exploring the cult of celebrity. The exhibition will examine the transformation of pop culture ephemera into images of a more iconic status.
 
Celebrities have come to represent the new deities, the demi-gods of contemporary society, where celebrity worship is a new religion. The exhibition will examine the ways in which contemporary artists explore society’s obsession with fame, using the images sourced from mass media and the internet, to highlight issues surrounding this cultural phenomenon.

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Emily Hunt & Raquel Welch (NSW),  Jonathan Nichols (VIC), Grant Stevens (QLD) Monika Tichacek (NSW)
John Vella (TAS), Tiffany Winterbottom, (TAS)
Paul Wrigley, (VIC)

THIS IS NOT A PRINT SHOW

Curated Dr Karen Lunn and Milan Milojevic for the Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, this exhibition deals with contemporary innovative art practices that challenge the traditional notion, format and use of the print. It is driven by an interest in the evolution of printmaking practice since advances in digital technology and through the challenges brought to the traditional medium by concept-driven (as opposed to discipline specific) art practices.


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Neil Emmerson, Tom O’Hern, Mohd Fauzi Sedon, Alexis Beckett, Jazmina Cininas

Burnie Regional Art Gallery 26  October – 9 December 2007-02-01 Wagga Wagga Art Gallery 8 February – 13 April 2008, Gippsland Art Gallery 12 July – 17 August 2008, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery 26.September – 2 November 2008