Five new exhibitions open at Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts on Thursday July 26 at 6pm.

In Gallery One Kate Just, Kate Rohde and Kate Stones tap into their shared interest in soft sculpture, gender definitions and notions of sexuality. Their exhibition, Kate, is a collaborative display of video and sculptural work in the ‘members-only’ atmosphere of a private gentleman’s club.

Steven Rendall paints the hellish, the disastrous and the mundane in his In Every Dream Home a Heartache (Gallery Two). He believes that sometimes it is necessary that works dealing with things going disastrously wrong in the world transcend their bleak subject matter. His chosen subjects range from the effects of mad cow disease, to the Mir space station and the atomic bomb.

Sense of Place by Peter Block in Gallery Three incorporates optical effects and the manipulation of everyday objects to question our perceptions of nationhood, particularly in light of recent events – the birth of a new millennium, federation celebrations and an abortive attempt to become a republic.

Gary Wheeler's Cold Body video installation (Gallery Four) is a record of the results of exposing a human body to cold. The recorded images of a section of the body are projected onto a large block of slowly melting ice.

The distinction between the natural and the artificial is blurred in John Marshall's Subtitles (Cabinets) as he "grows" silicon grass on wire mesh.

All exhibitions continue until Sunday 19 August.
Gallery hours are: Tuesday – Sunday 1.00pm – 6.00pm

Large scale projections of Cold Body and two sets of talks will accompany these exhibitions. See below for details.

For further information and/or images please contact Amy Barrett-Lennard on +61 3 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org

What's in a name?

Artists Kate Just, Kate Rohde, Kate Stones and Peter Block discuss notions of personal and national identity expressed in their current exhibitions Kate and Sense of Place

6pm Tuesday 7 August
Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
26 Acland Street, St Kilda
Cost: $5   (includes a complimentary glass of wine after the talks at il Fornaio)
bookings essential, ph 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org

Kate (Gallery One) Kate Just, Kate Rohde and Kate Stone - three friends who share an interest in soft sculpture and sexuality display their video and sculptural work in the "members - only" atmosphere of a private gentleman's club.

Sense of Place (Gallery Three) Peter Block has reviewed recent events - the birth of a new millenium, federation celebrations and an abortive attempt to become a republic. His frieze of circular frame constructions using ceramic saucers, Australian currency and lenses highlights the difficulties we have with developing a sense of place or nationhood.

Man-made disasters and "experiments" with silicon grass

Exhibiting artists Steven Rendall and John Marshall discuss how science, technology and experimentation have influenced their work

3pm Sunday 19 August
Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
26 Acland Street, St Kilda
Cost: $5
(includes coffee and cake at Veludo following the talks)
bookings essential, ph 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org

Steven Rendall's paintings in In Every Dream Home a Heartache (Gallery 2) record the hellish, the disastrous and the mundane. Man-made calamaties and disasters from the atomic bomb to the Mir space station are rendered on cheap, scrap or found materials and focus on man's absurd heroic "feats" and rescue missions.

John Marshall's Subtitles (Cabinets) has the appearance of a controlled laboratory experiment. Silicon has been thinned and applied to wire mesh forming a grass like effect and the appearance of an organic growth.

Large scale projections of Cold Body

6pm - 10pm
Friday 27 July, Saturday 28 July, Friday 10 August, Saturday 11 August
(weather permitting)
Front Facade, Linden - St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts
26 Acland Street, St Kilda

Can you remember what it is like to be cold, really cold?

Gary Wheeler's Cold Body video is a record of the body as it begins to react to the cold, close up so that the goose-bumps on the surface of the skin, the initial quivers of the muscles are visible. Involuntarily the body begins to tremble then shudder uncontrollably. Extremities, toes and fingers, become cold first, then they become warm, tingling, as if somehow the body reacts to the cold by pumping in more blood, then after a while longer they become numb, lifeless, unfeeling. Breathing somehow becomes important, as if the air passing through the lungs provides some sort of heat, some way of heating the internal parts of the body. Cold seems to pound into the brain...

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