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april 15 - may 2, 2009

Azlan Mc Lennan

I'm not a monster...I'm just ahead of the curve

Azlan McLennan is a Melbourne-based visual artist. He is an alumnus of the Victorian College of the Arts and has exhibited across Australia and internationally. His work is known for its political content and has been the subject of considerable debate and media attention in Australia.

opening night drinks thursday, april 16,  6-8pm

Phil Edwards

phantom desires

KI

     Phil Edwards explains that his research interests are only partly circumscribed by his formal studies. During his Masters he researched the possibility of an innate aesthetic that manifested itself in the casual assemblage of everyday objects. His PhD studies concerned themselves with an examination of the positioning of audio CDs in a Fine Art culture. Both these formal studies overlapped in the sense that within each was an examination of hybridity as it is expressed in the overlap between art informale and Fine Art.

Phil’s research focus and interests are in six themes: Children’s art/ outsider art and its relationship to formal painting; Fake poetry and Fine Art; Alchemy as a sleight of hand; Music brut; Temporality and Compression in Hybrid art forms; and Painting – Abstraction – Landscape

safe spaces at safe shelters

Australian Volunteers International

This exhibition provides a rare look into the lives of refugees and displaced communities affected by xenophobia attacks in South Africa.

During 2008 refugee communities seeking a safe and better life for their families in South Africa, were the victims of violent attacks. While seeking protection in emergency centres for safe shelter, the Art Therapy Centre facilitated a range of art-based counselling services with the displaced communities.

Michelle Atlas (ATC) in collaboration with the camp residents compiled a powerful record of the events and impact of the violence.