Linden's 2004 Exhibition ProgramAll Galleries - 2004 POSTCARD SHOW The Linden Postcard Show is an open entry award exhibition featuring hundreds of small contemporary art works in a variety of media. The exhibition, which is part of the St Kilda Festival, has become a prominent event in the Melbourne cultural calendar and attracts entries from all over Australia. The Postcard Show is now in its 13th year and is one of the few open entry award exhibitions left in Australia. It derives its name from the tradition of selecting six works to be reproduced and sold as Linden Postcards. All artworks are for sale. The winners of the following Postcard Show awards willl.
be announced at the opening at 2pm Saturday 31 January. SUMMER EVENTSWho am I? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? Free Live Music Local Knowledge: Booze, Blues & Bohemia Arts Trivia Quiz Night All Galleries - SCULPTED SURFACE Textile sculptures selected by Melbourne fashion label S!X. These sculpted surfaces create an imagined space which a body can inhabit, an environment spun or woven from textiles and transformed using the Japanese pleating technique of Shibori. They are the creations of prominent Japanese and American artists/designers including Yoshiko Wada, president of The World Shibori Network, Junichi Arai, who has produced fabrics for Issey Miyake and Comme des Garcons, and textile artists such as Masae Bamba, Elisa Ligon and Linda Lee Kerr. These artists respond to the tactile surface of the cloth much like painters interact with canvas, color and form. Their work ranges from the employment of centuries old traditional methods to sophisticated technology, from painstaking handiwork to digital manipulation. This exhibition forms part of the 2004 Melbourne Fashion Festival
and is held in conjunction with
the RMIT Symposium "Intermesh" and The 5th World
Shibori Symposium and includes artists from
The World Shibori Network. Public programs will include artist's
talks and workshops. 23 APRIL - 16 MAY Gallery 1 - IF U WERE MINE - Kirsten Farrell, Madeleine
Kidd, Noel Skrzypczak Gallery 2 - UNTITLED - Marc Alperstein, Amelie
Scalerico Gallery 3 - VERTIGO - Liat Azoulay Gallery 4 - EVIL TWIN - Mark Rodda Gallery 5 - TWO AND A 1/2 - Jen Cabraja All Galleries - 120° of Separation Selected works by artists from 3 studios located within 500 metres of Linden Espy Artists Studios EXHIBITIONS 3 JULY - 14 AUGUST 2004 Bonbeach Bourgie Wourgie, in Gallery 1 (front), is a melancholic video and installation piece in which artist Jarrad Kennedy repeatedly draws and erases the text "Wreckless", onto the inside of an inner-city window. In Gallery 1 (rear) Geneine Honey's video piece Falling comprises footage of a trapeze artist projected into a glass tank. Toni Wilkinson's sumptuous photographic prints in Tough Pleasures in Gallery 2 have an iconic quality that elevates the relationship that women have with food to an almost religious level. At the end of the day, by Anne Wilson in Galleries 3 & 5 is a lens and sound based installation, incorporating a projection of a figure repeatedly submerged in water. Naomie Sunner's exhibition Spare Parts in Gallery 4, investigates how medical science interferes with the relationship between our bodies and each other. EXHIBITIONS 20 AUGUST - 12 SEPTEMBER 2004 Mreza, in Gallery 1, by Anita Bacic, is an interactive, mixed media installation which casts a series of autobiographical stories through photographic images, illumination, sound and space... Lani Seligman's photographic exhibition, Contain, in Gallery 2, looks at the way social and political events, such as Australia's response to the sinking of SIEV X in which over 300 refugees drowned, resonate in both private and public spheres... In Gallery 3, Tara Gilbee's, work Velvet Light, is a series of intimate portraits that reveal the subjects response to themselves, rather than a camera... Dear Claire, Love Sonia by Hayley West in Gallery 4, consists of a letter, hand stitched with red thread onto six shirts... Nadine Ann Talalla's, exhibition Unrequited Love, in Gallery 5, focuses on the dynamics of class and race through the memories of an old man's tragic, youthful romance that was destroyed by disapproving parents... EXHIBITIONS 17 SEPTEMBER - 10 OCTOBER 2004 Seated Circle by Kate Stones, in Gallery 1, is a large scale sculptural work made up of four individual, upholstered and sequinned forms that resemble seating in a gallery or museum. Judith Cobb's, oil paintings in Artefacts, in Gallery 2 reference the vanitas tradition of European still life painting but rather than describe status through valuable and rare objects, mundane Australian iconic items are used to symbolise emotional value and associations. Being the Samurai in Gallery 3, by Claire Bridge considers what it is to live, knowing death awaits in the next instance. Paintings of Samurai explore themes of gender, sacrifice, sexuality and fanaticism. Hero Worship Disorder, in Gallery 4, is an investigation into the fantasy life of artist Jessie Angwin and is based on Orlando Troy, a short literary work starring herself and Orlando Bloom as lovers and action heroes. Yvette Coppersmith's range of small paintings in Gallery 5, focus on the constructed nature of representation. The trashy glamour, pin-up style poses explore self-image through fantasy and sensuality and recall the passion for material excess and refinement of traditional portraiture. All Galleries: Skylab - out of orbit Skylab - out of orbit, is a multi-disciplinary collaborative exhibition between Perth based artist Dave Carson, international video artist Brian McClave and ex NASA atmospheric physicist and electronic musician George Millward. Featuring paintings, a 3D video with accompanying sound scape and digital image projections that can be viewed through polarised 3D glasses, Skylab focuses on events that took place at two remote sites in Western Australia, and the relics of those extra-terrestrial visitations.
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