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February 2011

Kirra Jamison

Gallery 1 Foyer Space Spirit is a bone Kirra Jamison For her exhibition at c3, Kirra Jamison has created a large-scale site-specific painting. Drawing upon dark mythologies and childhood fairy… Continue reading

Nina Ross

GALLERY 1 SPACE A STRANGERS TO OURSELVES NINA ROSS We carry our own culture with us wherever we go. There can be a struggle between one’s old and new culture… Continue reading

NINA KNEZEVIC

GALLERY 1 SPACE B AN END IN SIGHT NINA KNEZEVIC An End in Sight is an exhibition of small-format and intimate drawings. Scrutinising old saturated photographic images and Polaroids of… Continue reading

DARREN HENDERSON

PROJECT ROOM FIGHT OR FLIGHT DARREN HENDERSON Loved, feared, celebrated and even hated, owls have a long running history in many cultures throughout the world. They have been seen as… Continue reading

NICK HALL

GALLERY 2 FORGETTING TO SLEEP NICK HALL “Anxiety is the price we pay for civilization” (Sigmund Freud) In the endless march of progress, modern man has become divorced from the… Continue reading

ALIZON GRAY

GALLERY 3 STASIS ALIZON GRAY Within this body of work I am exploring the notion of Stasis through an abstract investigation into the materiality and substance of paint which drips,… Continue reading

December 2010

PIA MURPHY

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE NEW WORK PIA MURPHY It was discovering an image of a mummified pet baboon that inspired the first piece in this body of work. It was… Continue reading

HOLLY DAVIES

GALLERY 1 SPACE A DAYDREAMS ARE LONELY HOLLY DAVIES In Daydreams are Lonely the artist looks into herself and embraces an ongoing struggle between movement and stillness, impermanence and death… Continue reading

PATRICK RODRIGUEZ

GALLERY 1 SPACE B 1:10 PATRICK RODRIGUEZ 1:10 is a series of images shot while on a recent trip to Hong Kong and Beijing. I was interested in presenting some… Continue reading

CLARE HUMPHRIES

PROJECT ROOM MATERIAL REMAINS CLARE HUMPHRIES Most of us live with the traces of the dead – the personal belongings left behind when someone dies. David Malouf once wrote that… Continue reading