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October 2013

ROBYN HOSKING

SPACE A FEDERAL FOLLIES ROBYN HOSKING I focus on the problem of translating the idea of the satirical or animated cartoon into a complex three-dimensional form. Through the process of… Continue reading

BETRA FRAVAL

SPACE B STILL REMAINS BETRA FRAVAL This exhibition is an exploration of the impressions left behind when something material has gone. The paintings and objects forming this body of work… Continue reading

CLEMENTINE EDWARDS

PROJECT SPACE STATE OF EMERGENCY CLEMENTINE EDWARDS State of emergency is an exhibition of new work by jeweller Clementine Edwards. Interested in the Boston bombings and the publication of the… Continue reading

CAMERON CLARKE

GALLERY 2 405 MILES TO CHESAPEAKE BAY CAMERON CLARKE 405 Miles to Chesapeake Bay explores the path of one of The United States of Americas most significant waterways. From its… Continue reading

JO SCICLUNA

GALLERY 3 WHERE TOMORROW MEETS TODAY JO SCICLUNA ‘Nature is an infinite sphere, whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.’ Blaise Pascal I have always been dissatisfied with… Continue reading

September 2013

NICHOLAS KLEINDIENST

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE ERRANGEMENT NICHOLAS KLEINDIENST The Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre is falling to pieces. The series, Errangement, considers the habits of time in mythologising the mundane traces… Continue reading

BETHANY O’DONNELL

SPACE A IT WILL PASS BETHANY O’DONNELL It Will Pass examines the notion of home, both the tangible place and the imagined space in my head. It is a personal… Continue reading

SOPHIE NEATE

SPACE B PAUSE, ROTATE. SOPHIE NEATE Pause, Rotate investigates movement and non-movement as qualities intrinsic to certain objects and materials. Copper pipes silently conduct heat from the ceiling into ceramic… Continue reading

HA HA

PROJECT SPACE FUSION HA HA Fusion is a pataphysical exploration into the human psyche by means of integrating stencil portraits of two or more individuals. By collapsing these personalities, attempts… Continue reading

GRACE WOOD

GALLERY 2 ZEN #2: ON MAINTAINING ENLIGHTENMENT GRACE WOOD This body of work sits in a juncture between the exploration of contemporary spirituality in art and the transcendental power of… Continue reading