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B-Side B
Kate Just, Sary Zananiri, Kate Rohde and Marion Piper
29th November – 15th December 2007
Opening Thursday 29th November 6 - 8pm
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Previous Owner: Unknown
Emma J Davis
8th November – 24th November 2007
Opening Thursday 8th November
Found: 3 Small Photograph Albums including Colour and B & W Photographs// Content: Portraits and family snapshots of children, families, young adults, lovers, friends// Location of imagery: Asia, and/or possibly the West// Size: Each album is approximately 13 x 10 x 2 cm// Details: Many photographs have pencil and pen handwriting and dates on the reverse side// Language: English, Chinese, Vietnamese and some unknown// Date of Exchange: 09 February 2007// Location: Second Hand Dealer Hanoi, Vietnam// Exchange: US$4.00 each// Exported to: Melbourne, Australia// Export date: 29 February 2007// Previous Owner: Unknown// Current Owner: Emma J. Davis// Previous Owner: Unknown.
http://www.ninebeginnings.org/previous-owner-unknown
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Girls Say No To White Gloves
Amy Marjoram, Kate Robertson, Amanda Schembri and Michelle Tran
18th October – 3rd November 2007
Opening Thursday 18th October 6 - 8pm
Artists Amy Marjoram, Kate Robertson, Amanda Schembri and Michelle Tran met whilst studying Fine Arts at the Victorian College of Arts.
The exhibition came together through endless discussion about the multiple possibilities the photographic medium lends to artists, beyond the pristine 'white gloved' image placed on a wall. This exhibition is an exploration of the robust and malleable potential of photography; a celebratory embrace of photography's expanding and continual value to the visual arts.
The outcome is a group exhibition, including darting disco lasers, moving portraits, expanding plants, and alternative floor samples, accompanying a collaborative installation on the gallery's window and a catalogue written by Claire Richardson.
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Silent Menagerie
Leah Williams
6th September – 22nd September 2007
Opening Thursday 6th September
An eerie, yet beautiful paradox presents itself when death reveals something of life - where breathless creatures appear to sleep and inanimate remains imply movement.
Images of death are often considered grotesque and taboo, but these photographs seek to offer an alternative perspective to the frightening and often violent portrayal of death that we are conditioned to accept. We see in the artificially captured states of these specimens an impression of death that is lasting, seemingly independent of passing time. However, if we look more closely we can also see impressions of life that our rational minds tell us should not be there and more importantly perhaps, remind us of our own mortality.
Leah Williams would like to thank Walter Boles, Mark McGrouther, Sandy Ingleby, Ross Sadlier and Graham Milledge at the Australian Museum in Sydney for their generous assistance with this project. Also, a special thanks to Wayne Longmore, Collections Manager of Mammals and Birds at the Melbourne Museum, for his time, knowledge, sense of humour and eclectic tea collection. Finally, Leah would like to thank the Victorian College of the Arts for their generous support by way of the Anthony Ganim Scholarship.
View catalogue essay
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The Phil Spectre Spectaculum
Lisa Broomhead and Kirsten Perry
6th September – 22nd September 2007
Opening Thursday 27th September
Spector: Phil. Born 1940, U.S.record producer and songwriter
Spectre: 1. A ghost; phantom; apparition. 2. An unpleasant or menacing mental image.
Spectacle: 1. A public display or performance, esp. a showy or ceremonial one. 2. A thing or person seen, esp. an unusual or ridiculous one. 3. A strange or interesting object or phenomenon. From Latin spectaculum – a show
Spectator: a person viewing anything; onlooker; observer.
Speculate: 1. To conjecture without knowing the complete facts*.
The Phil Spectre Spectaculum is inspired by American record producer and songwriter Phil Spector, or rather Phil Spector’s public persona. In keeping with the above definitions, an imaginary character, Phil Spectre has been developed by the artists as a way of exploring issues related to psychological space, celebrity and fandom, and the relationship between the spectacle and the role of the spectator.
As part of the 2007 Fringe Festival this mixed media exhibition consists of wrestling masks, dolls, balloons, and ceramic miniature portraiture.
So come along and get inside Phil’s Head…
* p. 1293 Collins Concise English Dictionary
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Unkept Appointments
Stephen Hennessy
16th August – 1st September 2007
Opening Thursday 16th August
'Unkept Appointments’ make something of the memory of things that failed to take place or perhaps never happened. They are interior fixtures, attached to the wall like minimalist sculpture but overlayed with arcane and sentimental illustrations and photography that undermine the assumed autonomy of each piece.
An appointment registers time prior to a meeting or event. An appointment is not a keepsake but a call to arrive and fulfil the contract, enact a meeting, make a social or business exchange. It’s usually a formal agreement, when unkept the diary entry drifts into oblivion, a time not worth remembering. So why make space for a non-event?
View catalogue essay
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25 Blackwood Park Road
Geoff Newman
26th July – 11th August 2007
Opening Thursday 26th July
25 Blackwood Park Road is an installation-based work exploring the similarities between devices used in both theme parks and new housing estates. Geoff Newman is a Melbourne based artist, increasingly interested in the way these devices are being used on the edge of the city. His practice deals with issues of community and the spaces we create for ourselves. His previous work has dealt largely with issues of social history and the relationship between water and wealth.
Geoff Newman completed a BFA at Massey University in 2004, and has shown other works from his Blackwood Park series at Westspace, Kings ARI and in the Next Wave Festival.
View catalogue essay
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Failed leisure
Curated by Andrea Bell
Adam Rozsa, Heather Lighton, Clare Redenbach
5th July – 21st July 2007
Opening Thursday 5th July –
with a performance by Ryan Frazer
The pursuit of leisure is characterized by escape
and possibility, but so often these desires remain unfulfilled. Drawing from this uncertainty and ambivalence, three Melbourne artists examine their disillusionment with the paradoxical nature and meaninglessness of our recreational endeavours.
View catalogue essay
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The Narcissist
Jade Venus
14th June – 15th June 2007
Opening Thursday 14th June, 6 - 8pm
A video of a girl crying. A childhood anecdote embroidered on linen.
Hand sewn cotton dolls suspended in the middle of a room. In this solo
exhibition by Jade Venus, The Narcissist, the boundaries between fact
and fiction, reality and construction, memory and imagination
disappear. Within a mix of video, written text and craft,
notions of
authenticity, performance and identity
within the autobiographical are
questioned. The artworks have all been
constructed from memory,
their
accuracy indefinable, their ambiguity apparent. Fuelled by a self
obsession that only narcissistic artists have, Venus' analysis of her
life reveals a fluid and fragmented identity. Multiple selves exist
simultaneously, with the internal conflict and self loathing of the
artist leaving viewers uneasy. Coupled with the emphasis on the
handmade, and the use of domestic fabrics, this intimate and emotional
exhibition at Blindside Gallery, is vulnerable, confessional and
poignant. Within Venus' autobiographical art, the inherently personal
becomes and reflects the universal as anyone, someone or everyone has
lived through and experienced
these moments.
View catalogue essay
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Going to Town
Curated by Linda Good
Marilyn Ardley, Rehgan De Mather, Caryn Giblin, Lisa Honeychurch, Nanette Hoysted, Helen Kelly
24th May - 9th June 2007
Opening Thursday 24th May
Going to Town will highlight the diversity of talent
in regional
Victoria. It will provide an all too rare pportunity for visual artists
involved with
artist
run spaces outside of Melbourne to come
together at Blindside.
The artists are Marilyn Ardley and Rehgan De Mather from Cowwarr, Lisa
Honeychurch from Bendigo, Helen Kelly from Castlemaine, and Caryn Giblin
and Nanette Hoysted from Albury/Wodonga. Their work will collapse the
disparity between many of our urban centres' reconceptions of current
arts practice undertaken by regionally based artists and the actuality
of their work.
View catalogue essay
Blindside is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an nitiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments |
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Pains in the Artists
Endurance and Suffering
Curated by Daine Singer
Simon Pericich, Anastasia Klose, Danielle Freakley, Timothy Kendall Edser
3rd May - 19th May 2007
Opening Thursday May 3rd -
with performances by Timothy Kendall Edser and Danielle Freakley
The exhibition brings together Simon Pericich, Anastasia Klose, Danielle Freakley and Timothy
Kendall Edser, four Melbourne-based artists whose workhas touched on themes of endurance, embarrassment and suffering. Each has
pushed themselves to the limits of physical endurance and humiliation,
and at times treated their art practice
as a public forum for working through their own neuroses. Endurance in their work forms a basis for
something more, whether that be proof of fortitude, overcoming shame and embarrassment, catharsis, interrogating the way we communicate, or
simply
to test their own limits.
View catalogue essay
Blindside is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an
initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments
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Drips and Thickets
Alice Lang, Kirra Jamison
5th April- 28th April 2007
Opening Thursday 12th April
View Catalogue Essay
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Drawn Together
Jasmin Dessmann, Rebbecca Synnott, Jelena Telecki, Gemma Young
15th March - 31st March 2007
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Side Stitch
Curated by Olivia Poloni
Tamara Marwood, Michelle Hamer, Stephen Gallagher, Kate Just
22nd February - 10th March 2007
Celebration party Wednesday 7 March -
to coincide with Nichols Building Opening
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Debut III
Curated by Chris Howlett
Kat Clarke, Emily Fewkes, Marita Hamalainen, Jordan Wood, Lucy Griggs, Yvette King, Dean Linguey, Gemma Mather
1 - 24 February 2007
Debut III features works selected from Melbourne’s
major universities Fine Arts Graduates of 2006. It is an annual exhibition presented by Blindside Artist Run Space
to support and showcase artists at the beginning of their careers.
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