Exhibition Program 2009

2009 Linden Postcard Show
7 February - 27 March

The Annual Linden Postcard Show is the wealthiest open entry competition in Australia open to all artists using all mediums with 1,000s of artists entering from across Australia.

The Postcard Show is Linden's major fund-raising event. Bendigo Bank is the principal sponsor of the Linden Postcard Show

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image: Scott Miles - Hoodhead No 5
image: Scott Miles Hoodhead No.5, oil on board.
Art Spectrum Finest Colours 3rd Prize Winner Linden Postcard Show 2008

The Secret Life of Plants
4 April - 17 May

All galleries Jane Burton, Luke Pither, Paul Gazzola, Rewi Lyall, Richard Giblett, Sally Ross, Simon Pericich, Starlie Geikie and selected Victorian Botanical Society artists. Curated by Andrew Gaynor

The artists in this exhibition have variously included plant-related imagery or motifs within their work. In most cases, they abstract or tinker with straightforward representation in ways that add a veil of mystery or ambiguity to the work. This exhibition was inspired by the Stevie Wonder 1979 album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants (Vol 1).

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Jane Burton House Plant 2008
type C photograph, 110 x 110 cm

Innovators 1
23 May - 21 June

gallery 1 Pretty in Pink Natalie Ryan
A life size bear rug and two wild boar heads will be created using taxidermy foam casts and prosthetic eyes, noses, jaws, tusks and a coating of fine pale pink velvet. The installation will include a series of anatomical drawings, also in pale pinks, and continues the artist's historical research into the complex structures that attempt to house uncanny images of the corpse. Linden Studio Artist Program
gallery 2 R.I.P Michael Vale
A ghost story about art, told through photography, painting and video. Using 'spirit photography' and the occult as vehicles for satirical critique this project will interrogate the retrospective evaluation of art according to its prescience and influence.
gallery 3 The Sanguine Spectre Mila Faranov
This installation explores the notion of the phantasmagoric and the spectral. Painted imagery and rubber latex is cut, pinned and glued to create ornamental patterns and three dimensional objects in a non-linear narrative.
gallery 4 + 6c Gabrielle Baker
A video projection that takes the post-Darwinian view that the animal in the human is positive and defining.
gallery 5 Melbourne Fringe Festival Winner Antonia Goodfellow

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Natalie Ryan Untitled (White Baboon) 2008
taxidermy foam cast, prostheic eyes, prosthetic jaw and tongue, synthetic fibers

Just Can't Get Enough
27 June - 2 August

All galleries Clinton Nain, Bindi Cole, Duncan Robinson Curated by Ben McKeown

The rise in popularity of contemporary Indigenous art, combined with the risk taking attitudes of many Indigenous artists, has forged a pathway that has helped shape a new popular culture in this country - one that embraces all artforms.

The artists in this exhibition create works that escape the confines of post-colonialism and proactively engage in urban discourse, celebrating identity while exploring individual interests.

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Bindi Cole How To Be A Domestic Goddess 2008
pigment print on rag paper

Persuasion Equation
8 August - 20 September

Peter McKay Curator, CACSA (SA), Melissa Keys Curator, PICA (WA) and Reuben Keehan Curator, Artspace (NSW).

Chris Bond (Vic), Catherine Bell (Vic), Huseyin Sami (NSW), Akira Akira (SA) and Matthew Hunt (WA)

This exhibition aims to explore the role of the curator in the presentation of contemporary art and to look at their relationship to living artists. Each curator will develop a theme and share the same five artists to work with them in developing and presenting their exhibitions. The Curators will not correspond with each other about the exhibition nor will the artists discuss the comparative approaches and themes that each curator is exploring. This show will present challenges to curators, artists and audience alike.

Co-ordinated and conceived by Jan Duffy

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Akira Akira All that is solid melts into air (detail)
table, laminate & polyurethane resin on particle oard, acrylic, eraser, plastic

Innovators 2
26 September - 25 October

gallery 1 Beauty Of Decay Cyrus Tang
An attempt to capture loss and unfulfilled childhood dreams is the driver for this video installation.
gallery 2 You Should Be Treated Like A Princess Jessie Angwin
An experimental installation of new work in sound, embroidery and books based on documentation collected during a research trip inspired by Princess Masako of Japan. The work attempts to invert the phrase of endearment expressed in the exhibition title by re-contextualising the real life of Owada Masako, a woman whose fifteen years of isolation has compromised her independence and health. Linden Studio Artist Program
gallery 3 Inclusive Participation (Working Title) Ben Millar
A performance video in which six guitar playing members from the band The Mass Graves Orchestra will use one string on their guitar to make complete songs.
gallery 4 The Triumph Of Adversity Simon Mee
Using sources inspired by narratives and figures such as Moby Dick and the pastorale's of French rococo this suite of paintings counterpoints visual titillation and heroic seriousness and explores the interchange between dystopian and utopian visions.
gallery 5 Working Title Christine Collins

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image: Jessie Angwin

Martha McDonald
31 October - 8 November

All galleries
Inspired by Linden's history as a Victorian family home and its current layout which retains many domestic features, Martha McDonald's performance will draw on the "women's work" of Victorian mourning culture to explore memory, loss and disappearance. Working exclusively in black yarn, McDonald will fill one half of Linden's exhibition space with an excess of knitted flowers, wreaths, forget-me-not samplers and other momento mori that grow bigger and more obsessive as the performance progresses.

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Aphids
CARE INSTRUCTIONS
DIRECTOR Margaret Cameron
WRITER Cynthia Troup
PERFORMERS Jane Bayly, Liz Jones & Caroline Lee
MUSIC David Young
LIGHTING Danny Pettingill
VIDEO Eugene Schlusser
PHOTOGRAPHY Yatzek

Showing in the Linden Reading Room Care Instructions is a video installation centred on the porthole of an old tumble-dryer.

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image: Martha McDonald

Innovators 3
14 November - 13 December

gallery 1 (front) Occurrence Project Helen Grogan & Gwenneth Boelens
Occurrence Project is an architectural installation by Gwenneth Boelens (NL) and Helen Grogan (AU). The collaboration, which began in 2002, applies critical dialogue and experimentation to shared conceptual concerns, notably the performative mechanisms of viewing.
As part of an ongoing project that has included installations in Netherlands in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008, this site-specific work is resolved through a 2 month working period in Amsterdam 2009. Built structures, assembled objects and large-format photographic prints contribute to a layered constellation.
gallery 1 (rear) A Construction To Alter Reality Carl Scrase
Twenty tents, connected by their original clips and ties form a portal that will only reveal its true magic when the viewer gazes through the structure past the matrix of poles.
gallery 2 & 5 Immense Views Justy Phillips, Lucy Bleach, James Newitt
Three Hobart based artists work around a thematic narrative, exploring universal themes of identity, place, memory and history through personal relationships. Developed through intensive residency periods by each artist in late 2008 at Bundanon, NSW, Tasmania and 18th Street Art Centre in Santa Monica, LA.
gallery 3 Hothouse Stuart Bailey
Inspired by the drug busts in western Sydney this installation suggests the comforting (brick) veneer of our everyday delirium is being eroded by a creeping feeling that under the surface all is not well.
gallery 4 Under The Rug Kevin Chin
Four discrete domestic items, of varying scale, made from paint, ceramics and acrylic wool, respond to the architectural nuances of Linden's domestic space and explore the relationships between material objects and memory.

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Please note: Program details may be subject to change

 


Stuart Bailey Untitled 2005
acrylic, polystyrene, digital prints