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April 2010

HILLARY ARCHER

PROJECT ROOM OPEN MIND: A TOY HILARY ARCHER Hillary Archer will exhibit an interactive work, challenging the viewer to create a story from images and ideas that occur from the… Continue reading

BERNADETTE KEYS

GALLERY 2 VITAL STATISTICS BERNADETTE KEYS Vital Statistics is a playful post-modern exhibition where classic pin-up style colour photographs of contemporary Australian women are projected onto a screen in a… Continue reading

VANESSA VAN HOUTEN

GALLERY 3 + FOYER SPACE TABOO VANESSA VAN HOUTEN Taboo is a series of 11 tableaux vivants which opens the facade of a Bavarian, middle-class house and shows the life… Continue reading

March 2010

ELLEQUA MARTIN

GALLERY 1 FOYER SPACE A PLACE TO BE ELLEQUA MARTIN A place to be is an installation reflecting upon dislocation and dream states. It is an offering of an imagined… Continue reading

HOLLY AND ROWAN MCNAUGHT

SPACE A NEW WORK BY HOLLY AND ROWAN MCNAUGHT Sometimes, we are given trophies as a reward for an achievement. These are often ceremonially given over by notable people. At… Continue reading

PAUL PHILIPSON

SPACE B A HIERARCHY OF LOSS PAUL PHILIPSON Philipson’s work explores the poetics of photography and its ability to present description without place. His seemingly unrelated images, when placed together,… Continue reading

NATASHA CARRINGTON

PROJECT SPACE WITH AND WITHOUT IDENTITY NATASHA CARRINGTON With and Without Identity is the finding of an ethnographic investigation into the construct of the criminal ‘other’. As an installation of… Continue reading

SIMON MACEWAN

GALLERY 2 YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG SIMON MACEWAN A series of drawings on the themes of growth repetition and the futility of trying to draw abstract philosophical concepts. With a… Continue reading

SYLVIA JEFFRIES

GALLERY 3 BADLANDS AND THE GENERAL JUNGLE SYLVIA JEFFRIES Sylvia Jeffriess’ works take the construction of character and it’s relationship to idiosyncratic language through the psychedelic meat mincer of the… Continue reading

February 2010

LAURA SHEEHAN

GALLERY 1 SPACE A GEORGE BANKS IS NOT FOR SALE LAURA SHEEHAN Laura Sheehan uses paint techniques to explore the real and the fantasy elements of her life. Employing a… Continue reading