PROGRAM 2003
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FEBRUARY 8 - MARCH 8

Prof. KIM YONG SIK
"Eternity & Limitation" is Sik's second one-man exhibition in Australia and is imbued with symbolic communication. Prof. Kim Yong Sik's work is cheifly about the sublime, the ideas of eternity and infinity, and in that the work is complex, layered, and multivalent.

 

 

 

MARCH 12 - APRIL 5

ADRIAN PAGE
Page's work closely resembles the process of architecture to building - where the conceived idea is computer drawn in 3D, then accurately drawn as 2D "working drawings" which are electronically sent to the laser cutting industry, which in turn is transported to the artist's studio for the bolted assembly of the individual components.

 

RODNEY STENNARD
Stennard's working process has an emphasis on mapping, measuring and representing observation in terms of drawing. The works are mappings of the observation of receeding space which which have associations with the landscape tradition but perhaps in a politically neutral way.

 

 

 

APRIL 9 - MAY 3

GAYLE SLATER
Objects which were once new command attention because their presence was strong. Now faded or torn, they evoke a new, finer quality: they are fragile and as such so much more precious. Slater treads softly and pays respect to the gentle interplay between beauty and ffragility caused by the passage of time.

 

CLIFF BURTT [profiled artist]
Dark, dramatic and austere, the semi-abstract forms are evocative of a timeless landscape which curve and flow in a series of linked rhythms. The work is characterised by a feeling for proportion and balance which is evident in the simple articulation of form.

 

 

 

MAY 7 - MAY 31

VIKI PETHERBRIDGE
Petherbridge's work combines the metaphysical and the surreal, which is achieved through photography, painting and collage. Portrait, scenery and object all blended into one vision with the camera and the brush challenging each other. This current exhibition concentrates on the physical form with emotive content designed to draw the the viewer into the personality of the subject.

 

TIM NEATE
Tim Neate's work is an interpretation of the contemporary world and its characters. Everyday life is expressed through a mass of texture and colour where the full story is found in the detail.

 

 

 

JUNE 4 - JUNE 28

JANINA GREEN [profiled artist]
Green's work has focused on the exploration of facets of feminism, particularly domesticity and sexuality. Much of the imagery centers around the female body, even if sometimes by association. In recent times these issues have been explored in more nostalgic and poetic ways highlighted by her extensive use of hand colouring dyes.

 

CHRIS BOLD
Bold's sculpture, in mild steel, takes a fresh look at a repetoire of different shapes. Linear and rod-like, they are ambiguous in depth and show no physical complex mechanisms.

 

 

JULY 12 - AUGUST 9

PAUL JURASZEK
Working often on a huge scale and in stone, marble, wood and metal, Juraszek's representational sculptures are impressive for their scale and presence created by his choice of subject. In the current exhibition, there are small and intimate works which are linked to ancient civilisation and Greek and Roman Mythology.

 

EOLO BOTTARO
Bottaro's artwork could easily be described as "figurative" in it's overall appearance. However, the intention is for each individual picture to represent a narrative, that is the artist's own interpretation of stories, fables and myths drawn from his cultural heritage.

 

 

 

AUGUST 13 - SEPTEMBER 6

IAN GRIEG
The Drift series and the Botanic Pond series continue Griegs concern with exploring aesthetic analogies of water as a shifting surface. greigs abstract expressionist pictures are in a constant state of flux which persue the ineffsble.

 

MARCUS WILLS [profiled artist]
A collection of small paintings, as an investigation into the suggestion of narrative through physiognomy, exploring aspects of the face and body by way of counternance and posture.

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER 10 - OCOTBER 4

STEFAN GEVERS
Felt sculptures created by "printing" felt on felt, resulting in an exploration of placement and space by way of minimal design and colour, and inspired by architecture and indusrtial shapes.

 

FILOMENA COPPOLA [profiled artist]
A brilliant energy is generated through the dynamic oppositions between dark/light, part/whole, and microcosm/macrocosm both within and between the works. Verticle and horizontal forms pull against each other and shimmer between two and three dimensions. - Sarah Scott

 

 

 

OCTOBER 8 - NOVEMBER 1

BEN SHEERS
Paintings that explore the landscape of Morinington Peninsula's and Phillip Island's unban fringe where organic forms of coastal vegetation visually compete with the geometry of human development. The works capture a sense of visual poetry created through disparate forms, whilst also invoking a metaphysical presence.

 

JUISEPPE RANERI
Raneri uses rich colours and decorative patterns to tell sombre stories of loss and abandonment, senseless war and suffering.The works are built up gradually, with many layers of colour, and then scratched back as the ceramic dries.

 

 

 

NOVEMBER 5 - NOVEMBER 29

HARRY NANKIN [profiled artist]
Ffinely-detailed, dark, x-ray-like shadowgram films created on site using nocturnal flash and moonlight. Dramatic photographs interpreting a remnant block of Mallee landscape at life-scale.

 

IAN McINTOSH
Mcintosh's pictures are about putting into order the so-called ordinary and everyday he finds around himself. Using collage and mixed media his work draws together elements from popular cunture, advertising and poublic art to make artworks are part wall poster, part ironic and part political.