Linden's 2003 Exhibition Program

10 JANUARY - 2 FEBRUARY
OPENING 6-8PM THURSDAY 9 JANUARY

Gallery 1 & 4 - BORDERLINE - Gabrielle Baker, Corinne Gwyther, Kay Waters
A mixed media installation of photographic prints, hairy objects, cement shoes, closets and digital
video uses imagery and symbolism relating to the human body to challenge the ambiguous nature
of boundaries and borders.

Gallery 2 - UH - Brooke Penrose, Geniene Honey, Oliver Wearne
A twirling dancer in a perfume bottle, animated fighting, computer manipulated photographs of the
artist in various stages of evolution - the ordinary becomes extraordinary in this larger than life,
exploration of 'psychological states'.

Gallery 3 - EYE SPY - Justine Khamara
A photographic exhibition in which the smooth surface of appearances seems to have somehow
ruptured and the camera has managed to document a psychotic reality that lurks beneath
familial relationships.

Gallery 5 - LIVING IMAGE PRODUCTIONS - Elizabeth van Herwaarden
A special preview of a new product range for LIPS, innovative designs in 'Summer Fruits' jewellery
made from plastic and mouldy food items which parody the wares of a 'Lifestyle' company obsessed
with control and preservation.

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8 FEBRUARY - 16 MARCH
OPENING 2-6PM SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY
All Galleries - LINDEN POSTCARD SHOW 2003
An annual open entry award exhibition with over $6,000 in prizes and featuring over 1,000 small
format, contemporary artworks by artists from across Australia. The exhibition, which is part of the St
Kilda Festival and now in its twelfth year, derives its name from the tradition of selecting 6 works to be
reproduced and sold as Linden Postcards. All artworks are for sale.

Linden will be open from 10am - 6pm for the St Kilda Festival - Sunday 9 February. Live
entertainment from acoustic techno duo Obdib from 2pm and Jazz & Brazilian group The Ben
Winkelman Trio from 4pm. Bar open from 1pm.

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21 MARCH - 13 APRIL
OPENING 6-8PM THURSDAY 20 MARCH

Gallery 1 - REFLECTING FRAGILITY - Caryn Giblin
A video and object installation which captures the beauty and fragility of our eco-systems and
environment, particularly that of the artist's home on the banks of Lake Hume, where human control
of the water systems have created a haunting yet beautiful landscape marked with dead trees.

Gallery 2 - INTERSECTIONS - Jacqueline Herbert, Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang
Natural materials such as wood, paper and wax and the tools and language of mapping are used
as a way to record everyday life, past memories and present surroundings.

Gallery 3 - DWELLING IN THE JOURNEY - Nicola McClelland
An installation of fragments of interrupted stories. Hundreds of effigies, moulded from steel wool, stream across the floor while boat shaped objects made from spun steel wool and fabric planes ascend the walls.

Gallery 4 - PRIVATE TO PUBLIC - Cathi Colla
An interactive and kinetic installation comprising moving doors and video projection plays with the
way our sense of touch, feel and memory affects our awareness of space and environment.

Gallery 5 - CALM DAY - Al Munro
Calm Day, a series of collages representing landscapes and skyscapes, takes its name from a light
blue Dulux paint chip. The work explores a desire to surround oneself with nature, albeit in a
sanitised, controlled and calm form

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18 APRIL - 11 MAY
OPENING 6-8PM THURSDAY 17 APRIL

Gallery 1 - HYBRID REMAINS - Aisha Reynolds
Pencil drawings and mixed media sculptures of hybrid forms blur the boundaries between what is
human, animal or plant. Reynolds is interested in the relationships between art and medicine,
medicine and technology and current issues of human and animal genetic research and cloning.

Gallery 2 - SUNYATA - Bill Sampson
'Sunyata', a Japanese word, is the concept of nothingness out of which we construct our world
according to our peculiar politics of vision. Layers of the same 'found image' reproduced with felt tip
pen on PVC panels speculate on the manner in which we create such politics.

Gallery 3 - HAPPY PILLS - Kathy Tsangaridis
Large format digital prints of 'happy pills', anti-depressants prescribed all too willingly by doctors and
promoted by pharmaceutical companies as the answers to all human woe.

Gallery 4 - GAME - Natalie Shields
A series of 8 origami animals, screen printed or constructed from vinyl adhesive, will roam gallery 4 and add to Shields' "Fantastic Plastic World", a construct through which she sees contemporary Japanese culture and society.

Gallery 5 - YIKKITY YAK YAH YAH YAH - Robert McHaffie, Michelle Ussher
An exhibition of oil and watercolour paintings of objects and figures which deal with portraiture and
the perception of ones surrounding environment and in which subjects, and the relationships that
form between them, evoke untold narratives.
Please note - Program details may be subject to change

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16 May - 29 June
opening 7-9pm Friday 16 May

all galleries DRAMA IS CONFLICT

Artists Catherine Bell, Damp, Megan Keating, Dominic Redfern, Christian Thompson and Ronnie van Hout draw from narratives of war, genocide, pornography, protest, entrapment and hell in reference to the drama of conflict throughout society and across time. Curator: Jan Duffy.

PUBLIC PROGRAM
6-8PM Thursday 26 June
Join artists Christian Thompson and Catherine Bell in conversation with writer Alex Taylor.
Cost: $8 full, $5 concession and Linden subscribers (includes wine and refreshments).
Bookings essential, telephone 9209 6794 or email admin@lindenarts.org

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5 July -14 August
opening 6-8pm Friday 4 July

all galleries CON-SENT-TRICK SIR-KILLS

An exhibition of highly political work by artist in residence, Gordon Hookey, and five Victorian Indigenous artists: Shirley Angus, Gary Donnelly, Dennis Fisher, Daniel King and Jenny Murray-Jones.

FREE PUBLIC PROGRAMS
3pm Sunday 20 July
Floor Talk and Studio Tour with Gordon Hookey
6pm Tuesday 29 July
Floor Talks by writer Christian Thompson and artist Jenny Murray-Jones
Poetry reading by Dennis Fisher

This project is supported by the City of Port Phillip as a NAIDOC week celebration and has been assisted by the Myer Foundation and the Commonwealth †Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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22 August - 14 September
opening 6-8pm Thursday 21 August

Gallery 1 D-PART Heath Sutherland, Miles Brown, Roh Singh

An exhibition of work by three emerging contemporary sculptors that investigates the notion of departure and how memory is used to navigate identity, uncertainty and displacement in today's fragmented society.

Gallery 2, 3 & 5 RECONNAISSANCE Sharon Thorne, Viveka Marksjo, Shaun Elstob

The impact of surveillance and voyeurism in contemporary society is explored, using architecture, constructed objects, light, sound and animation to observe the way in which a space is altered by the presence of the viewer.

Gallery 4 DIMENSION(S) George Dann, Patricia Bursill

Everyday found objects and screen images inhabit new environments in a playful commentary on value, containment, and displacement.

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19 September - 19 October
opening 6-8pm Thursday 18 September

Gallery 1 ICON-OGRAPHY Darren Gunstone

A ten meter frieze, made up of 524 positive pixels printed on mdf squares, draws attention to the ubiquity of technology, the changing nature of language, the physical act of writing and the concept of being switched on 24 hours a day.

Gallery 2 MMM POP Katherine Jacobs

The artist's obsession with lollies, as icons of popular culture, manifests as multiple object based ceramic works that can be read simultaneously as friendly, familiar and menacing.

Gallery 3 DAISY CUTTER Natasha Carrington

The narrative of weaponry, constructed under the US military umbrella for the purpose of global security, is challenged through the literal reproduction of euphemisms that refer to weapons of mass destruction as harmless garden tools.

Gallery 4 DOG ON THE TUCKERBOX Waratah Lahy

Oil paintings combining board, blanket and beer cans, draw on subjects from childhood photographs, stock competitions and found imagery in a humorous interpretation of the portrayal of Australian animals as totems of mateship, humour, pride and the battler mentality.

Gallery 5 FAST CARS FAST WOMEN Natalie Kosnar

Gender stereotypes, the male gaze and consumerism are scrutinised through small format layered glass images of women and fast cars.

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24 October - 23 November
opening 6-8pm Thursday 23 October

Gallery 1 SCREEN/PAINTING Linda Van Kalleveen, Marisa Keller

Alternative materials such as elastic bands are used to emphasise the formal language of painterly abstraction, whilst a range of printing techniques combine to express different paces of time, in the context of movement and continuous space.

Gallery 2 TWO ROOMS Saffron Newey

The mechanical nature of photographic and digital reproduction is examined through the traditional medium of oil on canvas, with the artist's own domestic space as a subject.

Gallery 3 KEEPING TIME Niomi Sands

Giant lockets carved in clear glycerine soap and embroidery of the artist's hair, embedded in a free standing plaster wall, create an environment for reflection in which the artist explores the significance of mnemonic devices in relation to memory.

Gallery 4 DAY TO DAY Ian Tippett

Ian Tippett's large format digital prints in Gallery 4, respond to seventies street photography and its sense of randomness and immediacy. The scale of the work in Day to Day and the subjects' awareness of their public presence, while alluding to contemporary advertising, also reflects the cinematic experience of the street.

Gallery 5 BEAM ME UP - BODY WORKS Anthea Boesenberg

The artist will gradually reconstruct herself in the gallery space as segments of her body, and finally her DNA, are scanned, emailed, printed and then pinned to the walls.

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28 November - 14 December
opening 6-8pm Thurs 27 November

all galleries THE INSTRUMENT BUILDING

The sounds of contemporary instruments under construction, in rehearsal and in performance will turn Linden into a huge instrument building: with boiling kettles, miniature percussion, analogue noise boxes, violinmaking and a circular harp.
Builders: Demir Alir, Rosemary Joy, David Murphy, Glen Nichols, Dean Stanton.
Performers include: David Hewitt, Peter Humble, Graeme Leak, Vanessa Tomlinson.
Curators: Rosemary Joy and David Young.

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