CARRIAGEWORKS
February 5th 2010 22:54
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CARRIAGEWORKS PRESENTS
carriageARTworks
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE CITY FRINGE
25 March - 24 April 2010 Partner venue of Art Month Sydney 2010
From 25 March to 24 April, as part of Art Month Sydney, CarriageWorks presents carriageARTworks - a free annual event celebrating the most original and evocative works of art from Sydney's city fringe. A cultural Mecca for contemporary art and design, CarriageWorks features artists from select galleries and Artist Run Initiatives around Sydney, curated by a panel of Sydney's most well-known artistic contributors, including Guy Maestri (Winner 2009 Archibald), Jamie Dawson (Executive Producer, CarriageWorks), and Paul Howard (Senior Curator, Casula Powerhouse).
As a partner venue of Art Month Sydney, CarriageWorks - the converted rail carriage workshop, in Eveleigh - is the venue for Art Month's closing night celebrations on March 31. Showcasing new ideas as well as the most creative aesthetic pieces in an incredible industrial space, carriageARTworks brings artist, audience and gallery curators together and acts as the backdrop for a speed-dating-style meet and greet earlier on March 31, which is culminating with a finale party for Art Month that brings together Sydney's most creative and cutting-edge types under one cathedral-scale roof.
Featuring a broad mix of work on canvas, sculpture, photography, mixed media, video art, performance art and textiles, carriageARTworks unfolds over a month into a multi-faceted public showcase of creativity. Artist talks, tours and themed forums spark conversation around art from the point of the artist and the consumer, and boast the cream of Sydney's creative crop in one unarguably impressive gallery space.
Opened in 2007, CarriageWorks is housed in the old Eveleigh Rail Yards, located within the emerging Redfern Waterloo Precinct. Featuring original nineteenth century industrial details, the physical beauty and scope of CarriageWorks is undeniably inspiring. One of few opportunities for artists to discuss their own practice and connect with their audience and other artists, carriageARTworks is received with open arms as a refreshing addition to Sydney's art calendar.
The south west city fringe area stretches north to Parramatta Road, east to Bourke Street, south to the Princess Highway through Sydenham, west to Marrickville and Petersham - with CarriageWorks lying at the heart of the area.
Free events include:
MEET THE ARTISTS AND GALLERISTS - Exhibition Walk Talk Tour
Saturday 3 April 11am, Thursday 15 April 6:30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION - Contemporary Art: Ingenious or Irrelevant?
Saturday 17 April, 11am
* An Artist Run Initiative (ARI) is a cooperative of artists who are unrepresented by commercial galleries or artist agents.
EXHIBITION DATES & TIMES 25 March - 24 April, 2010 | Open Mon - Fri, 10am - 5pm and Sat, 9am - 1pm.
Also open during evening performances at CarriageWorks. Closed Sundays.
MEET THE ARTISTS TALK & TOUR Saturday 3 and Thursday 15 April. Times TBC.
VENUE CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh
Main entrance: Cnr of Codrington Street | Train: Redfern or Macdonaldtown
FREE PARKNG Limited spaces. Enter at 229 Wilson Street, opposite Queen Street
MORE INFO 02 8571 9099
CURATORIAL PANEL
Jamie Dawson - Executive Producer, CarriageWorks
Jamie Dawson joined CarriageWorks in January 2009 and has ensured that this new home for contemporary arts continues to thrive as it enters its fourth year of exhibitions. With a whirlwind of sell-out shows and hugely successful free events that saw tens of thousands of people visit CarriageWorks last year, Jamie has drawn on two decades experience as Director, Producer, Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Film Editor and Arts Manager in both Australia and the UK to put together CarriageARTWorks. A seasoned theatre and short film director, Jamie is also the Executive Producer for Circus Monoxide and the Producer and Production Manager for Merrigong Theatre Company at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre.
Paul Howard - Senior Curator, Casula Powerhouse
Paul Howard is Senior Curator at the Casula Powerhouse in Western Sydney and was recently artist-in-residence at the Lock-Up Cultural Centre in Newcastle. His forthcoming exhibition in May 2010 is at the reopening and redevelopment of the Mac Centre for Contemporary Art in Birmingham, England. Before relocating to Sydney in 2008, Paul was Curator at Tate Modern, London, specialising in new technological displays of Tate's modern and contemporary art collection and partnerships with Europe's major museums of modern art. He has been an independent curator, artist and educator developing new models of practice with emerging communities and exhibiting for nearly twenty years in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Michelle Perry - Gallery Manager, Wilson Street Gallery
One of Australia's leading silkscreen and relief printmakers, Michelle has collaborated with many of Australia's top artists. Michelle trained at City Art Institute and Alexander Mackie CAE, plus MA (Visual Arts, Printmaking and Drawing) from COFA, UNSW. Michelle has strong connections to the Sydney art world and a keen empathy with and understanding of the artistic process. Her printmaking expertise and knowledge of the Sydney art scene has ensured Wilson Street Gallery has always featured diverse and established artists over the two years since opening.
Nicky Ginsberg - Senior Curator, NG Art Gallery
A tireless and enthusiastic supporter of the arts, Nicky Ginsberg has been committed to promoting the works of young talent, as well as the works of mid-career and established artists, for over fifteen years. Many of her artists have built formidable reputations in their respective disciplines. Nicky has presided on a number of prestigious panels to evaluate artists and galleries, including the Fraserstudios Visual Arts Residency Program 2008/2009 and the 2009 CarriageArtWorks curatorial panel for an exhibition of Contemporary Art which coincided with the 2009 Sydney Film Festival
Guy Maestri - Australian Artist, 2009 Archibald Winner
His strong and haunting portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu earnt Guy the 2009 Archibald Prize and further acclaim for his beautiful and intimate work. The award-winning portrait was based on a 40 minute meeting that Guy had with his subject at Sydney Airport in December 2008, during which time he absorbed as much of Geoffrey's character and strength as possible and then spent the next month translating this into the memorable painting. Guy completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) in Painting at the National Art School in 2003, and has exhibitions at the Tim Olsen Gallery. A finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize, wildlife and the environment are commonly recurring subjects in Guy's work, where he embraces the concept of memory and forgetfulness by way of drawing attention to endangered species and dated technologies.
SELECTION OF EXHIBITING SYDNEY ARTISTS
Alison Coates
Inspired by the lost and found in the natural world, florist and artist Alison Coates uses organic material, random detritus and man-made materials of yesteryear to create raw and honest contemporary assemblage works. With an extraordinary ability to find beauty in the harsh, broken and weathered waste of the land, her work has garnered widespread public, media and critical attention. Following a successful exhibition at Danks Street Waterloo, Alison presented a stunning collection at NG Gallery in 2008. Alison's work is highly sought after and held by many noted art collectors, and she was recently commissioned in 2009 by the Emirates Hotel Group for a major series of artworks for their new development, Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains
Fan Dongwang
Born in Shanghai, Fan Dongwang has achieved extensive exposure in both China and Australia, with public exhibitions at Shanghai Art Gallery since 1982, the Shanghai Art Gallery since 1982, and the National Gallery of Australia in 2002. Currently based in Sydney, Fan's works are held in many public exhibitions throughout the country and have featured in various curated exhibitions, including the 2004 Australian Drawing Biennale, and Shanghai Star; a nationally touring exhibition featuring leading Chinese artists. Fans academic credentials are ample, having most recently completed a Doctor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University in 1999. His vivid and striking works are a bold synthesis of various cultural influences, representing a defiance of the cultural uniformity that has become an unsettling by-product of globalization.
Jasper Knight
A finalist for the Archibald Prize from 2005 to 2007, as well as the Wynne Prize in 2005 and 2006, The Blake Prize and the Brett Whiteley prize to name but a few, Jasper has exhibited across Australia and in various countries worldwide. The 29 year-old was awarded an Australia Council New Work grant, the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and the Rocks Art Prize in 2006. Jasper has shown in and organised exhibitions at numerous venues, including every major artist-run space in Sydney. He started the Half Dozen Artist-run Initiative in 2004 which has since shown over 150 artists in four countries, and also opened the Chalk Horse Gallery in 2007. Bright and bold, JasperÃÂÃÂs work questions the boundary not only between high art and the amateur, but also between sculpture and painting. He explores the relationship between material and subject in an abstract way
Manne Schulze
Born in Germany, Manne Schulze pursued a PhD in Neurophysiology before embarking on his full-time career as an artist. However, he has not abandoned his scientific approach to life, placing human society instead of cells under the microscope. Based in Sydneys inner-west, Manne has achieved acclaim as an artist since the 1970s, exhibiting extensively in Australia with solo exhibitions in Sydney and Adelaide and group shows across Australia, USA and Japan. His work is iconoclastic in nature, with his latest collection Squaring the Circle taking vinyl albums and reconfiguring them into geometric pieces that form a dazzling interplay of colour and line. Whilst aesthetically pleasing, the art, like Manne's previous work, makes a statement about contemporary society - the nostalgia of the vinyl is symbolic of the nature of popular fads and fears.
Anna Tow
Anna Tow is a Sydney-based animator and artist who works amongst the thriving art community housed in the Lennox Street Studios in Newtown. Practising her work for over ten years, Anna has a Masters of Animation from Australian Film TV Radio School (AFTRS) and a Bachelor of Visual Art from Sydney College of the Arts. Her paintings and digital media work have been recognised nationally and internationally, short listed for the Me and My Toyota Art Prize 2009, and have shown in various galleries across Australia. Anna's animations have been featured at several film festivals, including the 2002 Venice Film Festival. Inspired by the inner-city environment, Anna's CarriageARTWorks exhibition 'How happily I ride my bike' is a playful observation of the journeys undertaken by the inner-city cyclist. The work is a touching combination of hand drawn frames, digital elements and atmospheric sound design.
carriageARTworks
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE CITY FRINGE
25 March - 24 April 2010 Partner venue of Art Month Sydney 2010
From 25 March to 24 April, as part of Art Month Sydney, CarriageWorks presents carriageARTworks - a free annual event celebrating the most original and evocative works of art from Sydney's city fringe. A cultural Mecca for contemporary art and design, CarriageWorks features artists from select galleries and Artist Run Initiatives around Sydney, curated by a panel of Sydney's most well-known artistic contributors, including Guy Maestri (Winner 2009 Archibald), Jamie Dawson (Executive Producer, CarriageWorks), and Paul Howard (Senior Curator, Casula Powerhouse).
As a partner venue of Art Month Sydney, CarriageWorks - the converted rail carriage workshop, in Eveleigh - is the venue for Art Month's closing night celebrations on March 31. Showcasing new ideas as well as the most creative aesthetic pieces in an incredible industrial space, carriageARTworks brings artist, audience and gallery curators together and acts as the backdrop for a speed-dating-style meet and greet earlier on March 31, which is culminating with a finale party for Art Month that brings together Sydney's most creative and cutting-edge types under one cathedral-scale roof.
Featuring a broad mix of work on canvas, sculpture, photography, mixed media, video art, performance art and textiles, carriageARTworks unfolds over a month into a multi-faceted public showcase of creativity. Artist talks, tours and themed forums spark conversation around art from the point of the artist and the consumer, and boast the cream of Sydney's creative crop in one unarguably impressive gallery space.
Opened in 2007, CarriageWorks is housed in the old Eveleigh Rail Yards, located within the emerging Redfern Waterloo Precinct. Featuring original nineteenth century industrial details, the physical beauty and scope of CarriageWorks is undeniably inspiring. One of few opportunities for artists to discuss their own practice and connect with their audience and other artists, carriageARTworks is received with open arms as a refreshing addition to Sydney's art calendar.
The south west city fringe area stretches north to Parramatta Road, east to Bourke Street, south to the Princess Highway through Sydenham, west to Marrickville and Petersham - with CarriageWorks lying at the heart of the area.
Free events include:
MEET THE ARTISTS AND GALLERISTS - Exhibition Walk Talk Tour
Saturday 3 April 11am, Thursday 15 April 6:30pm
PANEL DISCUSSION - Contemporary Art: Ingenious or Irrelevant?
Saturday 17 April, 11am
* An Artist Run Initiative (ARI) is a cooperative of artists who are unrepresented by commercial galleries or artist agents.
EXHIBITION DATES & TIMES 25 March - 24 April, 2010 | Open Mon - Fri, 10am - 5pm and Sat, 9am - 1pm.
Also open during evening performances at CarriageWorks. Closed Sundays.
MEET THE ARTISTS TALK & TOUR Saturday 3 and Thursday 15 April. Times TBC.
VENUE CarriageWorks, 245 Wilson Street Eveleigh
Main entrance: Cnr of Codrington Street | Train: Redfern or Macdonaldtown
FREE PARKNG Limited spaces. Enter at 229 Wilson Street, opposite Queen Street
MORE INFO 02 8571 9099
CURATORIAL PANEL
Jamie Dawson - Executive Producer, CarriageWorks
Jamie Dawson joined CarriageWorks in January 2009 and has ensured that this new home for contemporary arts continues to thrive as it enters its fourth year of exhibitions. With a whirlwind of sell-out shows and hugely successful free events that saw tens of thousands of people visit CarriageWorks last year, Jamie has drawn on two decades experience as Director, Producer, Lighting Designer, Production Manager, Film Editor and Arts Manager in both Australia and the UK to put together CarriageARTWorks. A seasoned theatre and short film director, Jamie is also the Executive Producer for Circus Monoxide and the Producer and Production Manager for Merrigong Theatre Company at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre.
Paul Howard - Senior Curator, Casula Powerhouse
Paul Howard is Senior Curator at the Casula Powerhouse in Western Sydney and was recently artist-in-residence at the Lock-Up Cultural Centre in Newcastle. His forthcoming exhibition in May 2010 is at the reopening and redevelopment of the Mac Centre for Contemporary Art in Birmingham, England. Before relocating to Sydney in 2008, Paul was Curator at Tate Modern, London, specialising in new technological displays of Tate's modern and contemporary art collection and partnerships with Europe's major museums of modern art. He has been an independent curator, artist and educator developing new models of practice with emerging communities and exhibiting for nearly twenty years in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Michelle Perry - Gallery Manager, Wilson Street Gallery
One of Australia's leading silkscreen and relief printmakers, Michelle has collaborated with many of Australia's top artists. Michelle trained at City Art Institute and Alexander Mackie CAE, plus MA (Visual Arts, Printmaking and Drawing) from COFA, UNSW. Michelle has strong connections to the Sydney art world and a keen empathy with and understanding of the artistic process. Her printmaking expertise and knowledge of the Sydney art scene has ensured Wilson Street Gallery has always featured diverse and established artists over the two years since opening.
Nicky Ginsberg - Senior Curator, NG Art Gallery
A tireless and enthusiastic supporter of the arts, Nicky Ginsberg has been committed to promoting the works of young talent, as well as the works of mid-career and established artists, for over fifteen years. Many of her artists have built formidable reputations in their respective disciplines. Nicky has presided on a number of prestigious panels to evaluate artists and galleries, including the Fraserstudios Visual Arts Residency Program 2008/2009 and the 2009 CarriageArtWorks curatorial panel for an exhibition of Contemporary Art which coincided with the 2009 Sydney Film Festival
Guy Maestri - Australian Artist, 2009 Archibald Winner
His strong and haunting portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu earnt Guy the 2009 Archibald Prize and further acclaim for his beautiful and intimate work. The award-winning portrait was based on a 40 minute meeting that Guy had with his subject at Sydney Airport in December 2008, during which time he absorbed as much of Geoffrey's character and strength as possible and then spent the next month translating this into the memorable painting. Guy completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) in Painting at the National Art School in 2003, and has exhibitions at the Tim Olsen Gallery. A finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize, wildlife and the environment are commonly recurring subjects in Guy's work, where he embraces the concept of memory and forgetfulness by way of drawing attention to endangered species and dated technologies.
SELECTION OF EXHIBITING SYDNEY ARTISTS
Alison Coates
Inspired by the lost and found in the natural world, florist and artist Alison Coates uses organic material, random detritus and man-made materials of yesteryear to create raw and honest contemporary assemblage works. With an extraordinary ability to find beauty in the harsh, broken and weathered waste of the land, her work has garnered widespread public, media and critical attention. Following a successful exhibition at Danks Street Waterloo, Alison presented a stunning collection at NG Gallery in 2008. Alison's work is highly sought after and held by many noted art collectors, and she was recently commissioned in 2009 by the Emirates Hotel Group for a major series of artworks for their new development, Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains
Fan Dongwang
Born in Shanghai, Fan Dongwang has achieved extensive exposure in both China and Australia, with public exhibitions at Shanghai Art Gallery since 1982, the Shanghai Art Gallery since 1982, and the National Gallery of Australia in 2002. Currently based in Sydney, Fan's works are held in many public exhibitions throughout the country and have featured in various curated exhibitions, including the 2004 Australian Drawing Biennale, and Shanghai Star; a nationally touring exhibition featuring leading Chinese artists. Fans academic credentials are ample, having most recently completed a Doctor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University in 1999. His vivid and striking works are a bold synthesis of various cultural influences, representing a defiance of the cultural uniformity that has become an unsettling by-product of globalization.
Jasper Knight
A finalist for the Archibald Prize from 2005 to 2007, as well as the Wynne Prize in 2005 and 2006, The Blake Prize and the Brett Whiteley prize to name but a few, Jasper has exhibited across Australia and in various countries worldwide. The 29 year-old was awarded an Australia Council New Work grant, the Freedman Foundation Scholarship and the Rocks Art Prize in 2006. Jasper has shown in and organised exhibitions at numerous venues, including every major artist-run space in Sydney. He started the Half Dozen Artist-run Initiative in 2004 which has since shown over 150 artists in four countries, and also opened the Chalk Horse Gallery in 2007. Bright and bold, JasperÃÂÃÂs work questions the boundary not only between high art and the amateur, but also between sculpture and painting. He explores the relationship between material and subject in an abstract way
Manne Schulze
Born in Germany, Manne Schulze pursued a PhD in Neurophysiology before embarking on his full-time career as an artist. However, he has not abandoned his scientific approach to life, placing human society instead of cells under the microscope. Based in Sydneys inner-west, Manne has achieved acclaim as an artist since the 1970s, exhibiting extensively in Australia with solo exhibitions in Sydney and Adelaide and group shows across Australia, USA and Japan. His work is iconoclastic in nature, with his latest collection Squaring the Circle taking vinyl albums and reconfiguring them into geometric pieces that form a dazzling interplay of colour and line. Whilst aesthetically pleasing, the art, like Manne's previous work, makes a statement about contemporary society - the nostalgia of the vinyl is symbolic of the nature of popular fads and fears.
Anna Tow
Anna Tow is a Sydney-based animator and artist who works amongst the thriving art community housed in the Lennox Street Studios in Newtown. Practising her work for over ten years, Anna has a Masters of Animation from Australian Film TV Radio School (AFTRS) and a Bachelor of Visual Art from Sydney College of the Arts. Her paintings and digital media work have been recognised nationally and internationally, short listed for the Me and My Toyota Art Prize 2009, and have shown in various galleries across Australia. Anna's animations have been featured at several film festivals, including the 2002 Venice Film Festival. Inspired by the inner-city environment, Anna's CarriageARTWorks exhibition 'How happily I ride my bike' is a playful observation of the journeys undertaken by the inner-city cyclist. The work is a touching combination of hand drawn frames, digital elements and atmospheric sound design.
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