9th November - 1st December, opens Thursday 8th November 6-8pm
Free artist talk: Thursday 29th November 12:30-1:30pm
home(land) investigates the conjuring of place by exploring the materiality and physicality of photographic wallpaper. Cultures seem ever more transient, moving back and forth between places. This work explores the state of flux: the attachment and nostalgia for the past, manifested through physical spaces in the present.
Residing somewhere between used and displaced, the interstitial space within the images contain a foreign narrative and history, one that transcends the importance of distinct placement, and where the images become a universal place. They seek human presence, and at the same time are void of it and become both distant and familiar.
Izabela Pluta was born in Warsaw, Poland, and migrated to Australia in 1987. She is currently based in Sydney and lectures in Photography at The National Art School, Sydney and College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at The College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
The exhibition was assisted by The Janet Holmes á Court Artists' Grant. The Janet Holmes á Court Artists' Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes á Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
Ang Connor On Site
9th November - 1st December, opens Thursday 8th November 6-8pm
Free artist talk: Thursday 29th November 12:30-1:30pm
Artist looking to work with blind and vision-impaired people on a collaborative photographic project that examines the portrayal of blind and vision impaired people in contemporary photography. Email artist on a.connor@pgrad.unimelb.edu.auThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to arrange a meeting.
On Site is a selection of portraits, which reflect upon how the blind and vision impaired are represented in contemporary photography. This resulting corpus grew from the collaboration between the artist and Arielle, an Arizona State University student who responded to Connor’s advertisement. Arielle has been blind from birth, and spends a lot of time at airports. On Site is part of an ongoing research project for Connor.
Ang Connor is a Melbourne based artist studying her Masters in Fine Art by Research at the Victorian College of the Arts. In 2007 she was awarded the Kodak Salon Best Portrait at Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne and was a finalist in the National Head-On Portrait Award at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney.
Christine Collins A Room for Mrs. Brown
9th November - 1st December, opens Thursday 8th November 6-8pm
Free artist talk: Thursday 29th November 12:30-1:30pm
'There are no Mrs Browns in Utopia', states Virginia Woolf, lamenting the lack of character, in the characters, of the fiction of the day; the creation of utopias without the creation of a real representative of humanity, to occupy the space and see it for us.
Are there no Mrs Browns for Utopia?
Apparently, Modern architecture died in 1972, on July 15, at 3:32 pm in St Louis, Missouri, as the Pruitt Sound housing scheme was detonated. Under the weight of the life of real characters, modern architecture crumbled. Utopia went missing in the rubble.
Are there no Utopias for Mrs Brown.
Christine Collins' new sound installation, developed for West Space, takes a look.
Christine Collins completed her Masters of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art in 2003, with the assistance of a Samstag Scholarship. She has exhibited in Glasgow, Rotterdam, London and Mexico City and in Australia at CACSA, Object Gallery, Artspace and First Draft.
This project has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Arts SA.
