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17 june - 4 july 2009
opening night drinks wednesday 17 june 6-8pm
Actual Size
This exhibition of recent paintings, drawings and woodcuts continues Sarah Gully's long-standing fascination with fairytales and children’s books. As in many fairytales, the birds and animals depicted in Gully’s works are not simply symbolic, but are often the key protagonists in tales of tragedy and salvation, beauty and the macabre. In Actual Size, Gully transforms the gallery into a nest of stories, playing with notions of gravity and flight, scale and proportion.
Sarah Gully has spent several years in Japan working and studying traditional print-making techniques. Her works have been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows in Tokyo.
Strange Garden
Dena Kahan’s paintings of miniature glass marine specimens address the historicall relationship between art and science.
These most recent works are based on photographs taken by the artist while visiting specialist glassware collections in the United Kingdom, and are an extension of her previous work with the Victoria and Albert museum in London. Strange Garden reveals the shifts in translation incurred in the movement between objects and representations, softly prying apart the paradoxes inherent to taxonomy and systems of museum display.
The work in this exhibition was produced with the assistance of an Australia Council New Work Grant.
Endangered and free / Captive and comfortable
Alesh Macak’s intricate hand-drawn, stop-motion animations are gateways into zones of alchemy and transformation; spaces lined with shadows and curiosities, clockwork and dreams. This exhibition features new and recent video projections and charcoal drawings that disrupt or call attention to linear trajectories of ‘causes and effects’, highlighting the interconnectedness of events, images and histories over time.
Alesh Macak is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (painting). This is his first solo exhibition.
