Linden's 2005 Exhibition Program
All Galleries 2005 POSTCARD SHOW
5 FEBRUARY - 19 MARCH
OPENING 1 - 6PM SATURDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2005
The 14th Annual Linden Postcard Show will open with a whopping 3,000 contemporaryart works by more
than 1,000 artists from all over Australia.
The Postcard Show is one of the few open entry award exhibitions left in Australia in which every entry is exhibited,
revealing an enormous diversity of art forms and, as always, some new talent. This year's judges are Naomi Cass, Director
of Centre for Contemporary Photography, Georgina Safe, Arts Writer for The Australian and artist Sean Meilak.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Linden's Arts Trivia Quiz Night
7pm Friday 25 February 2005
St Kilda Festival Day at Linden
10am-6pm Sunday 13 February 2005
Collecting Art on a Small Budget
6.30pm Thursday 17 February 2005
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EXHIBITIONS 25 MARCH - 17 APRIL, 2005
Opening: 6pm Thursday 24 March 2005
Gallery 1 Within Without Elisabeth Weissensteiner
Gallery 2 Shadowbreath Helen Pynor
Gallery 3 Still Alexis Beckett & Julia Silvester
Gallery 4 False Idols Simone Ewenson & Helen Anderson
Gallery 5 Cell Heather Clugston, Annemarie Schweitzer & Leanne Baker
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All galleries - Awkward Silences
EXHIBITION 22 APRIL - 22 MAY, 2005
Opening: Thursday 21 April at 6pm 2005
Simon Cuthbert, Rebecca Hobbs, Paul Knight, Darren Sylvester, Toni Wilkinson.
Curated by Jan Duffy
An exhibition of work by key contemporary Australian photographers exploring present day feelings of alienation and the odd awkward relationships we have with our environments and each other. The work in this exhibition is typical of a new generation of photographers who explore social identity through documentary and conceptual means, with a mix of traditional genres such as landscape, architecture and portraiture.
Free artists floor talks - 3pm Sunday 24 April 2005Join artists Simon Cuthbert, Paul Knight, Darren Sylvester and Toni Wilkinson for an informal discussion about their photography; and their diverse practices and working methods.
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All galleries - A re-Constructed World
EXHIBITION 27 May - 26 June, 2005
Opening: 6-8pm Thursday 26 May 2005
Narelle Desmond, Matt Gardiner, Ry Haskings, Tess Milne, Steven Rendall, Renee So.
Curated by Jan Duffy
Opening night performance 'Breakfast Epiphanies' by Mathew Davis
Free artists floor talks - 3pm Sunday 5 June 2005
A great opportunity to find out what makes contemporary artists tick.
Narelle Desmond,Ry Haskings, Tess Milne, Steven Rendall & Renee So will introduce their work
and talkabout concepts, working methods and materials.
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All Galleries - CROSS CURRENTS
2 JULY - 7 AUGUST 2005
OPENING 6-8PM FRIDAY 1 JULY
An exhibition of work by five Aboriginal women artists from Victoria and Tasmania. Artists
Lorraine Connelly-Northey, Lola Greeno, Julie Gough, Treahna Hamm and Denise Robinson explore
found materials in very personal and culturally evocative ways. Their artworks respond to
immediate, ancestral and historical environments, stories, responsibilities and relationships
with people, places and their resources. This exhibition forms part of the City of
Port Phillip's 2005 NAIDOC week celebrations and is supportedby the Myer Foundation.
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12 AUGUST - 4 SEPTEMBER
OPENING 6-8PM THURSDAY 11 AUGUST
Gallery 1 UP SHE GOES Louise Paramor
A large scale video projection, featuring a girl leaning over a fancy sports car, is used
to explore the way men gaze at images and dream their dreams of power, wealth and sexual
fulfilment. The work for this exhibition came about as a result of a residency at Stichting
Duende Aktiviteiten, Rotterdam earlier this year.
Gallery 2 UNTITLED Chris Bell
A psychologically strange and inspiring space is created with black glass and steel crystalline
prisms attached, like spores or barnacles to the windows, doorframes and cornices of the gallery.
Primarily inspired by Regency and Victorian lamp housings and mullioned glass houses these
sculptures attempt to fuse the notion of biology, history, geology and architecture.
Gallery 3 THE LIVING ROOM Kristina Tsoulis-Reay
This installation of painting, drawing, patchwork and hand-sewn human figures explores the aesthetics
of memory by drawing on notions of the 'ancestor'. Each piece engages with themes of childhood and
family history, suggesting the domestic living space as a vestige of personal spirituality in its
engagement with the living and the dead.
Gallery 4 NO PLACE LIKE HOME Richard Ellard
The construction of personal and collective identities is explored through symbols of celebrity and
consumerism. Digital prints and transfers in the form of vinyl printed banners and stippled surfaced
floor graphics form part of this investigation into the psychiatric condition dubbed 'Celebrity Worship
Syndrome', that manifests most often during adolescence and times of crisis.
Gallery 5 DONKEY Olivia Dowling
This performance/installation compares the marginalisation of artists' lives to that of the homeless.
Young participating artists, dressed in a donkey suit made from paint and canvas, endure uncomfortable
poses for extended periods of time, illustrating the frustrations, torments and competitive lifestyles
of contemporary artists.
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17 SEPTEMBER - 16 OCTOBER
OPENING 6-8PM FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
All Galleries NATURAL SELECTION
This exhibition investigates the material use of objects, ranging from dried plant and sea matter
to readily available international commodity items, in the consideration of issues including
globalisation, identity, and cultural specificity. This exhibition incorporates works that vary
considerably in materiality, as each artist draws from their individual social histories and directly
engages with ideas that are both localised and global in context.
Artists: Mella Jaarsma (Indonesia), Sharmila Samant (India), Linde Ivimey (Australia),
Niki Hastings-McFall (New Zealand), Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang (Australia).
Curated by Christine Clark and Lisa Byrne
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21 OCTOBER - 13 NOVEMBER
OPENING 6-8PM THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER
Gallery 1 FLESHLINGS Mary Scott
A suite of paintings exploring identity within domestic and public space, as well as prevailing societal
attitudes toward the female body as a distinctive vehicle for transgressing collective protocols.
Gallery 2 UNTITLED Leah Davidson
A photographic series of lifelike dolls that represent people on the fringes of society. The images are
concerned with the phenomenon of 'looking' and draw on the viewers' sense of admiration, compassion and
relatedness when viewing these images of people 'on the fringe'.
Gallery 3 DANGEROUS LIAISONS Lily Hibberd
Characters from contemporary films depicting stories of the class struggle, are inserted into monochromatic
paintings of old masters that have similar stories or conceptual links. An installation that questions the
concept of a classless society.
Gallery 4 IN YOUR DREAMS Cheryl Adam
Popular culture, 'old bags', and other discarded materials are used in this video installation to challenge
the assumption that age limits creativity and is a barrier to success.
Gallery 5 AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH WORD Nicholas Jones
Through the acts of cutting, folding, tearing and stacking, this installation looks at the future of the book
as a cultural icon. Removed from their initial raison d'etre, books evoke a nostalgic feeling where meaning
slips from their pages.
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19 NOVEMBER - 18 DECEMBER
OPENING 6-8PM THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER
All galleries NEW ACQUISTIONS
City of Port Phillip - Contemporary Visual Arts Collection
This exhibition will feature important new acquisitions by the City of Port Phillip for their
Contemporary Art Collection, now in its 25th year. The acquisitions represent work by significant
contemporary artists who have identifiable links with the City, either through being based in Port
Phillip or creating work with a connection to the culture and identity of the City. The exhibition
will include pieces by Callum Morton, Alex Danko, Vera Moeller,
Penny Davis, Jason Hartcup and Stieg Persson.
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