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Eva Abbinga

The Well

 

An exhibition of Eva Abbinga’s latest work, a commission for the 80th Holodomor Commemoration.

 

Eva Abbinga is a cross disciplinary visual artist motivated by an interest in the complexities of place, identity and sustainability. Through installation, sculpture, painting and photography Abbinga explores issues of social, environmental and economic concern and aims to create a dialogue with the viewer that questions existing notions of the urban ideal. She embraces collaborative partnerships with other artists, community groups and craftspeople as a means of expanding ideas. Innovation and cross-disciplinary exchange have become important drivers in her work.

 

http://eabbinga.wordpress.com/

Pete Warden

Flattened Cavities

 

Pete reckons: “The World presses on a human pressing on the world. The work creates a process whereby objects press against others and create forms from these interactions. Naturally the objects also press on and penetrate a fellow’s mind, and the mind in turn presses back. Forms of thought collide with physical matter. Pigment presses on foil, foil presses on paper, the mind presses on the pencil, constructions press against plaster. Every pressure leaves traces and indentations. These creations are tectonic in nature; some have a geological appearance, which makes sense given that the formation of soil and mountain is essentially a very heavy slow earthly “pressing”. The unruly techniques and brittle materials used create new limitations and these limitations provide new scaffolding for the forms to emerge. The boundaries of clumsiness create a kind of psychic mould into which the construction is cast. Psychic moulds manifest as literal moulds.”

2014 Exhibition & Events

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Jessica Anderson-Kunert & Karen Barnes

Divine Inklings

 

Anderson-Kunert and Barnes are keenly aware of the divine in the everyday. Through printing, sculpture and installation, both artists utilize materiality and processes of the secular to promote questions regarding the nature of the spiritual and the divine.

 

Barnes’ luscious/dense prints are inklings of spiritual performances; a visual pilgrimage for a sense of place, asking viewers to engage with her environments and ponder the significance of the mundane.

 

Anderson-Kunert embraces images of consumer objects and elevates them to iconographic status through their representation and multiplication. Her work echoes the same promises and stimulation of desire as the world of advertising and fashion, drawing viewers in with its glitzy façade. 

 

Kiera Brew Kurec

Exercises in defining the grey area

 

In Exercises in defining the grey area, Kiera Brew Kurec placed assorted materials in the Conduit Arts space. They existed in the space for two days before Kiera and a performer interacted with the objects over varied periods of time. By pressing the objects between their bodies they absorbed part of the objects into themselves.Following this interaction there was post performance drinks, then two more days of the objects in the space for the public to witness the impressions left from the performance.

Curated by Michael Carolan

Uneasy Truces

 

Four pairs of artists navigated the gallery space, both within, and without, each others' work.

 

Artists Featured:

Tul Suwannakit

Beka Hannah

Hannah Evans

Nick Hackett

Amanda Airs

Hayley Scilini

Paul Candy

Michael Carolan

 

Polly Stanton

Stróhrid

 

Stórhrid is a photographic work that considers representations of place and the changes to landscape that occur when light, horizon and the discernibility of objects can no longer be clearly defined—creating an illusionary and expansive world of limitless space. Shot during a snowstorm on Iceland’s north coast, Stórhrid investigates how place can be defined through the capturing of momentary and disconnected images, creating an experience of site though the framing of space. Extreme weather and the effects of climate change on the known environment are also themes in this work, posing questions regarding landscape and place as a provisional and shifting location.

 

www.pollystanton.com

 

2012

Travis John

Symphony of Stuff

 

Symphony of Stuff engages with both critical music theory as well as social narratives of sound through sculptural assemblage. New works from Travis John will echo the symphonic economy of the daily routine.

Arie Rain Glorie

Parley

 

In Parley the artist will tell you a story. It is neither true nor untrue, it is personal and biographical, it is a historical and mythological story. 

The white flag is commonly used to surrender, to call a truce in war, or parley. But it has also meant many different things throughout history depending on political and cultural context. In this new performance artwork, with Arie Rain Glorie, you are invited to ask questions at will and negotiate the possible meaning of his white flag with him.

 

Marnie Edmiston

Another Special Something

 

Another Special Something brings together an assortment of object-based work by Marnie Edmiston. The exhibition revolves around ideas of selective viewing, presenting works that use appropriation and editing, refocused repetition of styles and gestures, and objective staging of personal "distortion."  In contrast to other forms of visual media, the exhibition attempts to provide a space where the impetus to move quickly, gather points and cement meanings is removed.

Lucie McIntosh

Reproduced Realities/Indefinite Actualities

 

Reproduced Realities/Indefinite Actualities looks at the photograph and asks the viewer to consider how they come to understand the things that they see. While one might assume that a photograph will impart 'truth', the works included in this exhibition push the medium a little further. Through abstract representation and exploration of non-linear installation, this project looks toward the potential recombination of the viewers eye. It asks the audience to forge their own relationships between each photograph and to consider the realities of mediated sight as well as the endless possibilities of their own imagination.

Nabil Sabio Azadi

Battle Rattle

 

This event marked Nabil Sabio Azadi’s first public exhibition in Australia and the international debut of Battle Rattle, a new collection of photography and sculpture created in Iceland, Australia and New Zealand.

 

For the collection's large-scale photographs the artist digitally composited elements culled from these islands’ starkly different natural environments and combines them into new topographies. The imagery calmly depicts struggle and survival across the year — and around the world — in high summer and the seasonal cocooning of winter. Accompanying the landscapes are photographic portraits of soldiers, and monolith sculptures in concrete, wood and barbed wire.

 

www.nabilsabioazadi.com

Luci Everett

Flower Show

 

Erratic adventures in flora congregate in FLOWER SHOW. Fuelled by a leafy head-haze and lavender dreams, LUCI EVERETT pushes petals in a series of fresh, painterly and papery marks. Collage and mixed media pieces form a textured and vivid play in contrasts between the spontaneous and measured.

 

Luci is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer interested in eclectic, organic and instinctive processes and outcomes. After graduating from Communication Design in 2008, she's worked for a variety of clients in a contented middle ground between illustration and design. She has an intense appreciation for the form, colour and beauty of botanicals which happily informs her first solo show of works. 

 

www.lucieverett.com

Georgina Glanville & Gonzalo Ceballos

Worlds Within Water

 

Georgina Glanville and Gonzalo Ceballos are interested in the ways that artistic practice reflects personal motivation and the lives of artists’. This collaborative exhibition aims to explore this concept through unrealised ideas that have existed in each of the artists’ imaginations for some time. They argue that these recurring ideas are perhaps the closest representation of who that artist is, precisely because they have lived within the artist’s mind for so long.

 

For this exhibition, both artists have realised a work that they have been thinking about for some time. A collaborative sculptural piece will sit alongside individual works by each artist, and will help the viewer to question what makes an artist’s practice uniquely theirs.

Vanessa White & Carolyn Hanna

Plasticus

 

‘Plasticus’ unashamedly revels in the play of making and experiencing art. The collaborative artists, engage together in a broad spectrum of art forms, including visual art, dance and theatre, to expose the joyful absurdity under pinning what we suspect these artistic categories are all about and how artists go about creating interdisciplinary work. Their dynamic, hybrid and energetic creations are intended to provoke not only laughter but also questions about the way in which artistic practices are labeled.

The collaborative performance at Conduit Arts will involved theatre, dance performance and mark making with paper sculpting, paint, signage and props. This ‘Plasticus’ performance was developed while undertaking a residency at Bundanon Trust during 2014 that explored and developed Plasticus’s work in and around interdisciplinary collaborative performance art practices.
 

Cameron Robbins, Dr. Jon Tarry & Samuel Pankhurst

Earthcone

 

Earthcone features electro acoustic adventures with Cameron Robbins (bass clarinet and drawing machine), Dr. Jon Tarry (Sonic Pencil and sound expansions), and special guest Samuel Pankhurst (on the new GeoBass Tripod). 

 

Featuring the Sonic Pencil of Jon Tarry, one hour of improvised electro-acoustic sound and music in collaboration with drawing machine and bass sculptures by Cameron Robbins; 'Loggerheads' live drawing and erasing sound composition. 

Friday August 22 8:30 pm, 83 Brunswick st Fitzroy. one hour performance time.

Natalie Trofimiuk

Dust Breeding

 

As a body of work, Dust Breeding discusses physical forms and how they may embody a psychological space on a two dimensional plane. The drawings are informed by how one navigates through space using the senses and how emotions can influence and interfere in the way we position ourselves in regard to movement and balance control.

Much of the drawings’ content is taken from discarded architectural structures that exist in a human constructed environment. The drawings exist, vulnerable to wear and tear, like their content. The imagery has developed through a process of continuous transformation; structures growing out of structures pertaining to no definite beginning or end. The density of ruin and dirt, layers of interior and exterior materials shape the partially abstracted imagery and cultivate an unknown environment void of literal or verbal associations.

 

Sapna Chandu

Kwality Chai - development showing

 

Kwality Chai is an interactive and immersive Live Art performance that imagines an alternate reality where India has taken over Australia, and stages an extraordinary performance that revolves around the making and serving of tea. Come experience a new world of chai in a new world order! Excite your tastebuds, listen to new world sounds, and read about the latest happenings in Kwality Times.

 

The dynamic public performance presents an animated ‘chai-wallah (specialist Indian tea maker) who theatrically “pulls” spicy tea for commuters and passers by. From here, the alternate reality unfolds as the audience interact with a team of talented performers (playing waiters who speak in an invented Indian-Australian language), an immersive soundscape, a specially published newspaper (Kwality Times), and a “New World” radio station playing news, stories and beats.

 

Kwality Chaiʼs gifted creative team includes Shash Lall (Producer and Drama Director), Annisa Dharma (Kwality Times Editor), Byron Scullin (Sound Design), Sharon Johal, Luke D'Emmanuelle, Vincent Conti and Jan Di Pietro (performers).

 

Black Canyon Initiative

Welcome to Black Canyon

 

Print Exhibition / Publication Launch

 

Participating Artists:

Simon Landrein

Irkus M. Zeberio

French

Tina Lugo

Jasper Dunk

Caitlin Shearer

James Jirat Patradoon

Ben Constantine

We Buy Your Kids

Nathan Brown

Maddy Young

Bene Rohlmann

Emma Wiesenekker

Jumbo

Reginald Pean

Luke Howard

Two & One

 

Limited edition photo book consisting of fifty-four carefully selected photos from travels throughout Australia, North America and Europe. Printed in Melbourne, Australia on 148gsm Mohawk Digital Superfine Smooth paper.

 

Recorded at Lukktone, Melbourne
Additional recording at Greenhouse Studios, Reykjavík

 

Produced by Luke Howard
Additional production by Hadyn Buxton
Guitar played by Leonard Grigoryan
Mastered by Lachlan Carrick

 

www.lukehoward.com/books/two--one/

 

Disowned: A silent auction

 

Submitted anonymously by artists of all calibres, 'Disowned' was a group exhibition. The artworks presented were aesthetic outliers, not-quite-realised projects, or just plain disliked by their makers. 

The silent auction had no starting bids, no reserves, no defined bidding end time and bid were made under soudonyms. The artists generously donating 70% of all sales to the Conduit cause. 

Works include those by:
 

Eva Abbinga

Jessica Anderson-Kunert

Michael Carolan
Veronica Cust
Alexander Dathe 
Marnie Edmiston 
Dominic Kavanagh

Leo Kavanagh
Llawella Lewis 
Si Ma Va
Lucie McIntosh
Michael Meneghetti

Kate Palella
Ben Taranto
Andrew Treloar
Benjamin Woods

 

Elizabeth Farlie

Unmaking her

 

Unmaking her explored the dismantling of an identity and looked at how systems of representation shape our ideas of who we are. The work asked, can we really see ourselves and who am I to me? In some way each part of the work dealt with emptiness and our own sense of absence.

 

The work consisted of projected video loops, mounted and suspended images and objects. The work was emotionally vulnerable, inviting the audience into an intimate exchange but there is uncertainty, is this intimate space comforting or threatening? The work is akin to what happens when you lie awake at 3am, the brutal processing plant called us. (Unmaking her is a trial run for another work, deus ex machina or God from the machinery).

 

www.skiptomorrow.com

 

Si Ma Va

Yes, but it should be.

 

Yes, but it should be. I mean, it can’t help be a show, no?

 

I guess so. Hm. It’s just so hard to know with the lack of distinction between art and real life these days. I can’t even tell who the artist and the viewer is anymore.

 

Haha, yeah, what is it… everyone is an artist and everything is art?

 

That sounds somewhere between right and wrong.

 

Yeah, it helps knowing what you’re looking at… what will we be looking at?

 

Um. Well, there will be people doing stuff, getting on and getting by… figuring out what to make of the place in the place. And there’ll be all these things in there…

 

(picture)

 

Well, it looks like art.

 

Yeah, I don’t know. If all goes to plan during the week, it will be over by then and we’ll just know, you know?

 

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