Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts, Victoria Australia

Exhibitions Innovators Program Contemporary Indigenous Art Linden Postcard Show Current exhibition Exhibition Program Previous exhibitions	Exhibition Program 2008 2008 POSTCARD SHOW 2 February - 8 March The Linden Postcard Show is an open entry award competition featuring small contemporary artwork in a variety of media. The Postcard Show is now in its 17th year and is one of the only open entry award exhibitions left in Australia. The Postcard Show is Linden's major fund-raising event. Bendigo Bank is the principal sponsor of the Linden Postcard Show More Information... PUBLIC PROGRAMS United Artists Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts & the Palais Theatre present music by visual artists The Palais Theatre Sunday 17 February 2008, 4pm ONE SHOW ONLY Darren Sylvester - Gloss Enamel Jon Campbell, Matt Griffin, Chris Dyson - Gossippop Sue & Phil Dodd - Into the Void Jason Greig, James Greig, Dave Imlay, Mark Whyte, Paul Sutherland, Ronnie van Hout - Jon Cattapan & David Palliser - Marco Fusinato - Paeces Sean Bailey, Josh Petherick, Chris Hill - Phillip Brophy - Red Knight Night Christian Thompson, Chris O'Halloran - Snawklor Dylan Martorell, Nathan Gray - Suns of Suction Alex Selenitsch, Allan Willingham - The Donkey's Tail John Nixon, John Bartley, Ljiljana Green, Danny Lacy, MattHinkley, Warren Taylor - The Histrionics Danius Kesminas, Stepas Levickis, Craig Fermanis, Antonio Milillo, Dave O'Brien, Tomas Zdanius - Van Newton Geoff Newton, Andrew Newton, Masato Takasaka Hosted by Chris McAuliffe With installations by Chris Bond, Neil Taylor, Kate Just	Tess Milne Manchester Lane photograph 2007
	Innovators 1 An Ideal for Living 14 MARCH - 13 APRIL All galleries Hannah Bertram, Iris Fischer, Briele Hansen, Sanné Mestrom, Susan Milne, Anna-Maria O'Keeffe, Jessica Page, Izabela Pluta, Julia Silvester, Camilla Tadich, Louiseann Zahra-King Curated by Simon Gregg An Ideal for Living is the first of the Innovators Program 2008 series of exhibitions. The exhibition follows the trajectory of decay and impermanence within contemporary Australian art. Curated by Simon Gregg, author of a forthcoming book on the Romantic sublime in contemporary Australian art, An Ideal for Living draws together a wide range of works from eleven artists, united by their concerns for the life and death of the object, memory, transitional space, and longing and absence. More Information...	image: Izabela Pluta
	MY DOUBTFUL MIND 18 APRIL - 25 MAY All galleries David Rozetsky, Dan Spielman, Dominic Redfern, Natasha Johns-Messenger, Leslie Eastman & Soo-Joo Yoo Curated by Jan Duffy and Alex Taylor Phobias are the shadows beneath the steel and glass constructions of our lives. New works by established and emerging Australian artists. This exhibition will not simply describe phobias, rather, it will attempt to approximate their effects. The exhibition aims to provoke a palpable sense of discomfort through site specific interventions. More Information...	image: Dominic Redfern
	Innovators 2 30 MAY - 29 JUNE gallery 1 (front) NOT YET Kel Glaister (Melbourne), Anthony Johnson (Hobart), Sebastian Moody (Brisbane) This exhibition is the end point in a series of long-distance phone and email conversations between three artists from three states. gallery 1 (rear) Storyboard #96 Caroline Kennedy Sitting in a tram, one is transfixed by the transient interplay of the views outside and reflections of people inside. Windows are meant to be for looking through, but I find myself looking at them as ever changing pictures. Etched glass plates are stacked together on shelves, creating a multi-dimensional diorama tracking the #96 tram route . gallery 2 ALWAYS Shungo Kimata A large sculpture of a moss covered mountain, looks at the optical peculiarities that appear in our world. gallery 3 SURFACING Michele Elliot A performance based installation that works the fabric of the gallery space through material and drawing. gallery 4 BIFURCATING FOREST Briony Barr A forest-like, walk-in drawing/installation constructed out of bifurcating forms sourced from a collection of images from nature. gallery 5 FANCY, FRET AND FILIGREE Fiona Cabassi An installation of sculptural, exotic ecologies that are suspended from the ceiling. More Information...	image: Fiona Cabassi
	The Haunted and the Bad 4 JULY - 10 AUGUST 2008 Tony Albert, Joel Birnie, Nici Cumpston, Andrea Fisher, Yhonnie Scarce Curated by Julie Gough Linden continues its commitment to contemporary Indigenous art bringing the works of contemporary indigenous artists to a wider audience. Julie Gough guest curates this important annual exhibition. More Information...	image: Andrea Fisher
	Innovators 3 15 AUGUST - 14 SEPTEMBER gallery 1 BRANDED Simon Cuthbert A series of images that consider the role architecture can play in the packaging and delivery of goods. Featuring the shop fronts of international fashion houses in Tokyo's Harajuko retail district. gallery 2 CULTURE MADE EASY Nathan Taylor Highly realistic and cinematic paintings that examine the subtle gestures in our suburban and regional landscape. gallery 3 BIBLIOMANIA - THE BOOKSELF PROJECT Victoria Reichelt Painted 'portraits' of eight Australian artists based on photographs of their bookshelves. gallery 4 NATURAL DISASTER Kit Wise A video installation of architectural-scale imagery of a cityscape subject to a natural disaster gallery 5 Glenn Pilkington Winner of the Linden Award at the 2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival	image: Simon Cuthbert
	FLASH 19 SEPTEMBER - 2 NOVEMBER Julia Gorman, Katherine Huang, Anne-Marie May, Peter McKay, Louise Paramor, Giles Ryder Curated by Jan Duffy and Geoff Newton Six artists from diverse backgrounds will create site specific works in dialogue with each other and the architectural elements of the Linden building. .The show.is an exclamation of our increasingly artificial, unnatural and moulded yet rapidly changeable environment. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.	image: Anne-Marie May
	INNOVATORS 4 7 NOVEMBER - 14 DECEMBER LINDEN 1968 LaunchArt - a collective of approximately 30 Perth based artists including Tom Muller, Bennet Miller, Eli Smith, Justin Smith, Ric Spencer, Rodney Glick, Annabel Dixon, Joshua Webb, Kevin Robertson & Diode Curated by Ben Riding & Hannah Mathews Linden 1968 is a selection of emerging and established West Australian artists who have been asked to create an improvised response to the Linden site through its history, space, function. The exhibition intends to provide a fantastic snapshot of Linden's existence in 1968 as a private hotel. PLEASE NOTE - PROGRAM DETAILS MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE