FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
INFRA GHOSTS
Artist: HUGH DAVIS
Exhibition Dates: 15 May - 27 May 2012
Opening Celebrations: 6-9pm Tuesday 15 May 2012
Tea and Scones: 11am-4pm Sunday 27 May 2012
SATIRE AND SENTIMENTALITY
Artist: MARYA ELIMELAKH
Exhibition Dates: 24 April - 29 April 2012
Opening Celebrations: 6-9pm Tuesday 24 April 2012
Tea and Scones: 11am-4pm Sunday 29 April
Open for one week only, opening night on ANZAC day eve!
Marya presents three deeply personal video works that explore her past through the prism of her current environment. Born in Russia, Marya emigrated to Australia aged 5. Her works look at concepts of the home, family and political isolation through her own story of immigration and dislocation.
In Home 1959-2009, Marya presents split screen footage of the same location - her family’s summer home in Russia - filmed 50 years apart. The first shows family life in the ‘Dacha’ in 1959. The second video was filmed in 2009 by a neighbour as that very same house was burnt to the ground. Russia 1917-2009 is a reflection on Russian politics. Marya drinks shots of vodka for every Russian leader since 1917. Slowly becoming increasingly sick, the footage ends with Marya on the floor, unable to move. The original working title of the piece was “here’s to you, you make me sick”. Lastly, Escape explores the built environment and its effect on memory and belonging. Eerily reminiscent of Soviet-era housing, the housing commission flats in Redfern, Sydney stand impenetrably sombre. Marya tries to escape these walls by tying sheets together for 80 meters to reach the ground while residents of the building look on.
Marya Elimelakh is a multi-media artist born in Russia. She currently resides in Sydney where she is completing a PHD on contemporary Russian performance art.
GLAMOROUS DAMAGE
Artist: Angus Christophersen
Exhibition Dates: 31 March - 17 April 2012
Opening Celebrations: 4-7pm Saturday 31 March 2012
Tea and Scones: 11am-4pm Sunday 15 April
*Special opening hours * Saturday-Tuesday 12-6pm (closed Easter weekend)
IN-HOUSE MONSTERS
Artists: Kristy Young
Exhibition Dates: 8-18 March
Opening Celebrations: 6–8pm Thursday 8 March 2012
Tea and Scones: 10am-4pm Sunday 11 March 2012
Image: Kristy Young Tea for Two 2011
BUILD AND DESTROY
Artists: Darcy McFall and Oli Wilson
Exhibition dates: 16 February - 4 March 2012
Opening Celebrations: 6–8pm Thursday 16 February 2012
Tea and Scones: 10am-4pm Sunday 19 February 2012
BUILD AND DESTROY presents a world where images destroy images and the old gatecrashes the new. Ancient images merge with the anachronisms of modern life while daily life crashes into graphic nonsense.
Image: Darcy McFall Chinese Horse Remix 2012
CONTAINMENT STRUCTURE: a group exhibition curated by Roger Nelson
Artists: Jessica Brent, Daniel Jenatsch, Stephanie Hicks, Heidi Holmes, Clare McCracken
Exhibition dates: 12–28 January 2012
Opening Celebrations: 6–8pm Thursday 12 January 2012
CONTAINMENT STRUCTURE collects five artists who choose to impose strict, often severe limitations on their practice. Their work draws on systems and series and patterns and constraints, claiming agency over these and pointing to their productive potential for creative, even liberatory possibilities.
Left: Stephanie Hicks, Untitled, collage 2011 | Right: Clare McCracken, Containment Structure, digital print, 2011
Supported by the City of Melbourne through its Arts Grants.