EXHIBITIONS & ARTIST STUDIOS until JAN 18 2009
GREENWOOD GUARDIAN
ERIN COATES & JUSTIN SPIERS
Opens 6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009
Image: Erin Coates, Watching you under the stars, Perspex security domes & flashing red LEDs, Approx. 120 x 80 x 15cm, 2008.Greenwood Guardian contrasts “two apparently disparate motifs – Medieval European Heraldry and the Australian suburban landscape – in a critique of the idea that every person’s house is their castle”. (Dr Jonathan Marshall, Research Fellow, WAAPA)
The title 'Greenwood Guardian' suggests a kind of 'neighbourly' watchfulness. In this exhibition, Perth-based artists Erin Coates and Justin Spiers explore aspects of suburban vigilantism and the use of flags and symbols of heraldry in the built environment. At a time when issues of national security, immigration and economic prosperity dominate nightly news programmes, it is important to reflect upon the way we are creating ‘community’ and a sense of Australianness, and how inclusive and flexible these notions are.
Greenwood Guardian questions the use of surveillance devices and other structures in a residential context to create a sense of safety, and what it means to raise the Australian flag above our homes.
This is a multi-faceted exhibition of installation work containing video, photographic and sculptural elements.
Jane Ansted and Stephen Twohig are showing this body of work- their second exhibition together- not as a rational statement about themselves artistically or art generally, but simply as they share a common interest in beauty expressed in the moment through drawing. Principally and empirically, drawing is the connection that both artists feel can best express the ineffable. As a seed germinates into a plant, so the mark on the lithographic stone or copper plate grows into the unique and reproducible image.
THE MESS INSIDE
Multi channel video installation by Lucy Benson with live soundtrack performance by Jon Pak.
http://www.lucybenson.net/
6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009
Lucy Benson's Studio residency continues until JANUARY 18 2009
A VLEXICON FOR TIMES OF WAR
DRIVE
WE SLEEP AND DREAM IN TELE-VISION
Video Projections by Colin Read
Still from “We Sleep and Dream in Tele-Vision”, Colin Read, 2008.
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009
The title 'Greenwood Guardian' suggests a kind of 'neighbourly' watchfulness. In this exhibition, Perth-based artists Erin Coates and Justin Spiers explore aspects of suburban vigilantism and the use of flags and symbols of heraldry in the built environment. At a time when issues of national security, immigration and economic prosperity dominate nightly news programmes, it is important to reflect upon the way we are creating ‘community’ and a sense of Australianness, and how inclusive and flexible these notions are.
Greenwood Guardian questions the use of surveillance devices and other structures in a residential context to create a sense of safety, and what it means to raise the Australian flag above our homes.
This is a multi-faceted exhibition of installation work containing video, photographic and sculptural elements.
PRINTS & DRAWINGS
By JANE ANSTED & STEPHEN TWOHIG
By JANE ANSTED & STEPHEN TWOHIG
Opens 6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009
Image: Jane Ansted, Untitled, Lithograph, 2008.
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009
Image: Jane Ansted, Untitled, Lithograph, 2008.Jane Ansted and Stephen Twohig are showing this body of work- their second exhibition together- not as a rational statement about themselves artistically or art generally, but simply as they share a common interest in beauty expressed in the moment through drawing. Principally and empirically, drawing is the connection that both artists feel can best express the ineffable. As a seed germinates into a plant, so the mark on the lithographic stone or copper plate grows into the unique and reproducible image.
THE MESS INSIDE
Multi channel video installation by Lucy Benson with live soundtrack performance by Jon Pak.
http://www.lucybenson.net/
6pm THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 2009
Lucy Benson's Studio residency continues until JANUARY 18 2009
A VLEXICON FOR TIMES OF WAR
DRIVE
WE SLEEP AND DREAM IN TELE-VISION
Video Projections by Colin Read
Still from “We Sleep and Dream in Tele-Vision”, Colin Read, 2008.These videos have been selected from a larger series entitled “The Nature of Conflict – Inclination and Proclivity”. With a total viewing time of approximately 22 minutes these three works begin to explore the internal worlds that we inhabit both as individuals and collectively, and the subliminal influences of the technologies of one’s time and accompanying zeitgeist in subconsciously shaping our external and “visible” lives.
Continues until JANUARY 18 2009