Innovators I
10 April - 9 May

Ideas of scale, perspective and the relationship with the viewer are explored in these 5 exhibitions.

Lisa Barmby Slender Harbour
Andy Hutson Everything You Know is About to Change, Forever
Benedict Ernst Botannica Profunda
Skye Kennewell Buildage
Tess Milne 20 Halifax Street

Lisa Barmby Peggy Guggenheim's Gondola Poles 2009 paint, wood, gold leaf

The Politics of Art
15 May - 27 June

"... art is clearly an ideological activity and an ideological product." Janet Wolff, The Social Production of Art, 1981

Artists Joel Birnie, Philip Brophy, Louise Hubbard, Alex Martinis-Roe, Geoff Newton, Kit Wise
Curator: Jan Duffy

Terms such as 'art-world' and 'art industry' suggest a community dedicated to the production and consumption of art that is separate from yet similar to the 'real' world. At the same time there prevails an image of the artist as an individual unbound by the rules of society. There are benefits to artists in belonging to the art-world such as a greater freedom of expression and a sense of acceptance when exploring ideas that may offend the general populace. There are also disadvantages. Artists are not governed by the normal working conditions of a free market. Even though they are fundamental to the production of art they have little power in controlling its consumption. This project aims to explore the concept of an art-world and its implications.

Geoff Newton Untited 2009 collage

Innovators II
3 July - 1 August

Old technology, new technology and the spaces in between are explored in the second Innovators series of exhibitions.

Chris Bennie Untitled
Dane Lovett Untitled
Georgie Roxby Smith Dystopian Glitch
Siri Hayes & Eve Duncan Dredge
Sarah crowEST Letting the Odd One In
Linden Award Winner Devon Atkins

Georgie Roxby-Smith Dystopian Glitch (installation detail) 2009 recycled computer parts, electrical cords, televisions, phones ...

Just Drawn
7 August - 12 September

The exhibition will feature drawings by ProppaNOW Richard Bell, Bianca Beetson, Vernon Ah Kee, Gordon Hookey, Laurie Nilsen, Jennifer Herd, Andrea Fisher and Tony Albert. This is the first time the collective ProppaNOW has exhibited in Melbourne and the first time they have ever worked as a group in this medium. The exhibition will tour regional Victoria.

proppaNOW collective

Interior Castle
18 September - 17 October

Elizabeth Presa, in collaboration with architect Greg Burgess.

This exhibition takes as its starting point the writing of the Spanish mystic, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), in particular her last work Interior Castle (1577), which contains detailed and poetic accounts of imagined architectural spaces. Labyrinthine architectural spaces will be created using mirrors, screens, and digital images. Each of the gallery spaces will contain a unique set of sculpted objects. Both the interior and exterior of Linden will be used in the exhibition.

Gregory Burgess
Places80

The Bedroom Project
23 October - 7 November

The Rabble: including Dan Spielman, Kate Davis, Emma Valente, Matt Davis, Dana Miltins, Jayne Tuttle, Mary Helen Sassman.

The Bedroom Project is a continual performance exhibition exploring the themes of voyeurism, fantasy and the construction of the image by re-imagining a series of Victorian bedrooms and their inhabitants. A cup of tea steams beside an open diary, a leg sticks out from underneath the bed, a secret slowly emerges as the camera captures every moment. The excessive and decadent naturalism of the bedrooms are juxtaposed against the 'void' rooms: starkly abstract interiors; rooms of refraction and reflection. The Bedroom Project is a complex and detailed immersive live art installation.

The Rabble

Innovators III
13 November - 12 December

Movement, space and science all feature in the last of the Innovators exhibition for 2010.

Matthew Gardiner Oribotics
Wanda Gillespie Manhole No #2 - Escape into the Void (working title)
Laura Woodward Underwing
William Mackrell Spectrum
Clare Peake & Tanya Shultz
The problem of explaining the beginning of time

Please note: Program details may be subject to change

Matthew Gardiner Oribotics [network] 4, 2007 paper, plastic, aluminium, electronics