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A collection of unidentified objects hover on the wall. The forms are strange but somehow familiar. They look almost like museum pieces, specimens from some lost civilisation or perhaps even from another world altogether. Yet they are recognisably the product of our commercial, industrial age. (installation detail: plaster castes made from plastic packaging) Just passing through During 2007, I’ve been walking the streets of the CBD, observing life as a ‘botanist of the pavement’ and collecting discarded items that can be re-purposed - like the plastic packaging used to cast the objects in this show, and flattened cardboard boxes. The boxes are stencilled and then returned to the piles of flattened cardboard stacked on the street for recycling. Bottom photo: David Tattnall The story of Australian printmaking 1801-2005 The story of Australian printmaking 1801-2005 30 March – 3 June 2007 This landmark exhibition draws almost exclusively from the vast Australasian print collection of the National Gallery of Australia. Included in the exhibition will be, prints by John Lewin, the first printed in the colony, to works by more contemporary artists such as Margaret Preston, Noel Counihan, Bea Maddock, John Brack, Brett Whiteley, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists including Dorothy Napangardi and Dennis Nona. Also includes work by Julie Shiels. Moran Contemporary Photography Prize
Local Exchange - handmade concertina artist book is a finalist for the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize Prize winners will be announced at the Opening Night ceremony at the State Library of NSW on Tuesday 13 March, 6-8pm. More info on the Moran Contemporary Photography Prize website Art in Public Spaces
Tea Ceremony - 2m X 1 m. various materials
Come Hither: Interpretations of the Boudoir  Curated by Susi Muddiman: Mananager Wagga Regional Gallery - A collection of work about the bedroom “Ms Muddiman became intrigued in exploring the historic perception of the boudoir as a room of luxurious femininity,
Discarded Object Poster Project  Discarded Object Poster Project will be launched on the 12/12 at Bus Gallery Studio Space, 6 - 8 pm. Curated by Beth Arnold. Tours to view the posters around the city will take place on Wednesday 13th and Sat 16th at 12pm, leaving from Bus Gallery. You can view some of the images submitted and get more information on the project at www.discardedobject.com Sculpture on the Cliffs 
Twenty eight artists exhibit their work on the cliffs at Elliston in South Australia until October 2006 to January 2007. More Afterlife exhibition @ 45downstairs 
 Photo: Jarek Luszpinski Afterlife  Photo: Rachel Taylor afterlife - @fortyfivedownstairs Exhibition Dates Exhibition to be launched by Jon Cattapan I was stencilling stories onto dumped mattresses in the streets of St Kilda when the fabric on their covers caught my eye. A whole history of textile design was going off to the tip. They were too gorgeous to stencil, too precious to leave. So I started collecting mattresses, piling them onto the roof of my car and taking them home. As the garage began to overfl ow I wondered what to do next. I wanted to give these mattresses another life. I started sewing pyjamas, carefully cutting each garment to fit the cloth avoiding the blemishes where possible but retaining the intimate history. The pyjamas draw our gaze and invite our touch. But as they attract, they also repel, because of their past, their proximity to the skin of a person or persons unknown. They embody someone else’s story but prompt the question “how do you sleep?” Image: ‘Mitford Street Pyjamas’ 2006 and stencilled backgound fortyfivedownstairs - 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne  |
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