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FLORIOGRAPHY
Briana Lawrence, Audrey Harnett, Steve Cox and Iris Sautelle 6th January - 30th January 2010 The exhibition Floriography merges jewellery, painting, drawing and photography together with flowers to create a synergy of inspirations. Four artists, Briana Lawrence, Hang Ong, Steve Cox and Iris Sautelle present new works interpreting the meanings of flowers relating to myths, symbology and the feelings they evoke. They look at themes relating to love, beauty, peace, life and death.
THE CARS THAT ATE SCREAMDANCE
Violet Cooper, Sam Barratt and Chris Edser 3rd February - 27th February 2010 Adelaide's lady of craft Violet Cooper throws down her glue-encrusted glove and the soldiers of Screamdance rise to the challenge. Violet indulged her obsession with strange automobiles combined with her admiration for the Pearly Kings & Queens of England. While Chris Edser & Sam Barratt of Screamdance, widely known for their t-shirt designs including the iconic 'Heaps Good', indulged their obsessions with cycling & walking combined with their admiration of the Australian Republican Movement.
PRETENDING THINGS ARE A COCK
Jon Bennett 1st March - 3rd April 2010 'Pretending things are a cock' is a photographic exhibition created by Jon Bennett (writer/comedian), Simon Mitchell (writer/photographer) and Alexander JE Bradley (photographer/artist). With a large assortment of phalluses protruding from his groin area, Bennett's 'cocks' range from ordinary household utensils, to obscure objects and world-renowned monuments. This project has taken its creators over two years to compile. The exhibition of the 'cocks' photographs is an experiment in art that delves into the nature of masculinity and sex and exposes varying interpretations of irony within society.
ANIMORPHOS
Claudia Deese-Linder, George Zarkov, Kate Gagliardi, Madeline Reece, Rose-Marie Wilkinson and Stephanie English. 7th April - 3rd May 2010 Animorphos showcases the work of six emerging visual artists all focusing on the theme of animal instincts within human nature, encompassing primal nature, its beauty and the raw, sinister side of instinctual desires. The gallery transformed into a gentleman’s trophy room and the art works, the prize game. You are invited to escape to the world of Animorphos with painters Madeline Reece, Rose-Marie Wilkinson and Kate Gagliardi, contemporary jeweller Claudia Deese-Linder, contemporary ceramicist George Zacharoyannis and textile artist Stephanie English.
REPUBLIKA
Katerina Shipova 5th May - 29th May 2010 My exhibition is devoted to three countries. Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Russia once were part of the largest nation. One nation with different languages, traditions and religions- united by Russia and called Soviet Union. In some places I only traveled, in some I was living. It is a part of my life experience, knowledge and unforgettable memories. The Northern Caucasus are a blooming mountainous region. Beauty and greatness of the mountain ranges, deep and velvet black nights and clear crystal air consume all. Here is the Muslim part of Russia, steeped in culture and ceremony. Mountains ranges surround old cities of narrow cosy streets. The Crimea is the cradle of Humanity, where lived during thousands years Greek, Italian, Turkish, Russians, Ukrainian, Tartar and almost extinct Karaite people. History swiftly changed, epochs destroyed and instantly new. I lived and created at this place, in a small tartar village surrounded by mountains and vineyards falling into The Black Sea. Here my friends and Mariya still spend summers. It was free and cheerful part of life.
All these spectacular and fantastical places I fixed in my heart and art works.
FRäULEINS ORCHARD
Georgia Gabrielle, Naomi Murrell, Elisa Mazzone, Katrina Weber, Anna Creasy, Ruby Chew, Peta Alannah Chigwidden & Joelie Croser. 2nd June - 28th June 2010 After a hugely successful first show, fräuleins playthings, the girls are back. Individually the girls handiwork has graced the pages of magazines such as frankie, Sumptuous, InsideOut and Attitude, featured in a number of exhibitions around the country as well taking pride of place on the necks, blouses, in the hands and on the walls of sassy ladies around Australia. A concept born from nuturing talented young female creatives in Adelaide, Urban Cow Studio presents a harvest of works from these eight nature-loving artists and designers. Working in the heirloom varieties of painting, illustration and jewellery, this collective continues to nurture one another's ideas, cultivating a creativity that promises to blossom into a rare display of colour and beauty. The artistic fruits of the Fräuleins are ripe for the picking.
RETURN TO NEST
Steve o'Connor 4th August - 28th August 2010 An exhibition of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking that explores the fleeting nature of all thing that we encounter in our lives. Friends and family, a favourite possession, feelings and emotions, idealeologies and beliefs all may come into and leave our lives. Though some may stay with us forever, others may leave, perhaps to return at a later time. Others may be lost forever.
POLISHED FIREWOOD
Julia McInerney, Katia Carletti and Melanie Bakewell 1st September - 2 October 2010 Polished Firewood explores the relationship between the artists Julia McInerney, Katia Carletti and Melanie Bakewell and their work. If we had a concept, this would be it; three individuals working and developing alongside each other in close proximity, but artistically with their backs to one another. In this exhibition their work is shown standing side by side for the first time.Though the work does not purport to align itself in its materiality, it has been filtered through a relative ideology. The work explores the mediums of painting and sculpture. Katia's oil paintings and stitched works traverse the realms of the real and imagined landscape. Julia deals with the changeable nature of objects and materials by undoing the mechanics of familiar assumptions. Melanie paints, and she finds it hard! Collectively they discuss the compulsion for art making and the slippage which occurs between materiality and thought. "It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood."
WILD THINGS
6 October - 30 October 2010 A wildly different showcase of things that fly or walk or swim... Wild Things is the creative collective of over 50 artists exploring their affiliation with the fauna side of life. Animals have long been referenced in art, and this exhibition will take you on a journey of the human connection with the animal world, it's diversity, originality and personality. An exhibition of painting, illustration and sculpture, Urban Cow Studio will present these animal inquiries, from predominantly Adelaide based artists, in a bright, varied and lively showcase in October.
HANDBOOK FOR GIRLS
Joelie Croser 3 November - 28 November 2010 A whimsical vintage illustrative showcase inspired by the deportment books for girls which were used as rule books for how to make good wives and ladies. With the focus on the illustrative aspect, Joelie has collected the visuals she considers to make up modern day women in this whimsical time where cupcakes and strength go hand in hand. Her own take on 'what makes a lady' depicted in a delicate collective of illustrations with detailed fine ink and pencil, using hints of watercolour and pastel to soften and create a depth of colour, presented in collected vintage frames. Joelie has a lust for storytelling and this passion is what has led her down the path of artist, musician and author. Her desire to portray tales through her work adds an intriguing aspect to her pieces, which are often subtle blends of pretty and feminine with hints of darkness.
FILLING HOLES WITH WOOL
Prue Gramp, Lara Torr and Meghann Wilson 1 December - 31 December 2010 Filling Holes with Wool brings together three artists, Prue Gramp, Lara Torr and Meghann Wilson, who explore the fine detail of traditional craft practices and the broader, historical settings in which these skills were practiced. This exhibition asks you to look up close; to engage with the detail in the works themselves, as well as the stories they tell. The small scale of Prue Gramp's embroidered and painted works belie the grand narratives that inspired them- stories of shipwrecks and icebergs. Lara Torr's series Hymns to the Quiet Life combines images of treasured personal possessions with drawings inspired by photographs in vintage knitting patterns. The intricate combination of painting and embroidery in Meghann Wilson's works are seemingly at odds with the scenes she portrays- freeze frames from cult horror classics such as The Shining and Suspiria. |
