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TIME - MOVEMENT - SPACESee also: Public Programs Five new exhibitions open at Linden 6pm Thursday 23 October Screen/Painting, in Gallery 1 combines alternative and conventional media with formal techniques. Artists Linda Van Kalleveen and Marissa Keller use elastic bands, digital and woodblock prints, as well as video installation to experiment with the language of abstract painting and the expression of time. Saffron Newey uses the traditional medium of oil on canvas to reference the mechanical nature of photographic and digital reproduction and examine gesture and the idiosyncrasy of mark making in painting, in her exhibition Two Rooms in Gallery 2 In Gallery 3, Niomi Sands will create an environment in which to reference the significance of mnemonic devices in relation to memory. Keeping Time, is an installation comprising giant lockets carved from glycerine soap, a wall embedded with locks of the artist’s hair, soft lighting and scent. Ian Tippett's large format digital prints in Gallery 4, respond to seventies street photography and its sense of randomness and immediacy. The scale of the work in Day to Day and the subjects' awareness of their public presence, while alluding to contemporary advertising, also reflects the cinematic experience of the street. Anthea Boesenberg will gradually reconstruct herself in Beam Me Up - Body Works as segments of her body, and finally her DNA are scanned, emailed, printed and then pinned to the walls in Gallery 5. All exhibitions continue until Sunday 23 November.Gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday 1.00pm - 6.00pm. For further information and/or images please contact Jan Duffy on 9209 6794 or email info@lindenarts.org
PUBLIC PROGRAMSLOCAL KNOWLEDGE - SERIES II - NOVEMBER EVENTMurder, Mystery & Mayhem In 1852, bushrangers staged a dramatic stage coach robbery on the St Kilda road. Ever since, St Kilda has been home to notorious crimes and infamous characters. A panel discussion of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem is therefore a logical choice for Linden to open its latest series of Local Knowledge events. As event coordinator Stephanie Holt explains, “St Kilda and the surrounding area has been a source of both fear and fascination for much of its history, due to its association with underworld or criminal activities. And the distinctive culture of the area has often been flavoured by delicious hints of illicit or immoral activity. We wanted to explore this theme more deeply.” The heady mix of glamour and sleaze, pleasure and danger, has seized the imagination of writers, artists and filmmakers, as well as fascinating the general public. Local art historian and Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art, Dr Chris McAuliffe, will offer his thoughts on William Strutt’s famous painting of the bushrangers on the St Kilda road. He notes that Strutt’s painting “has strong echoes of contemporary society, which continues to attach wider moral and political agendas to individual criminal activities in St Kilda” emphasising that “exploring responses to crime in the nineteenth century allows us to reflect on similar patterns of reaction today”. Janine Burke, whose award-winning biography of painter Albert Tucker was released earlier this year, notes that Tucker took inspiration from local events to explore the taboo subjects of sex and death. Amongst Tucker’s notable images is his painting of Leonski, the ‘Brownout Strangler’ who killed three Melbourne women in 1942, the first of them in Albert Park, while stationed here as a US soldier. These panelists will be joined by crime fiction writer Lindy Cameron, creator of St Kilda habitué Kit O’Malley PI, Robyn Szechtman, a community development worker, who is currently developing a historical walking tour exploring cycles of street sex work and drug use in St Kilda from the 1880s to today, and Sergeant Nathan Kaeser, a police officer with over 13 years experience who has worked extensively in the St Kilda area with the CIB and the NCA. The panel will be chaired by noted crime writing aficionado Carmel Shute, a convenor of ‘Sisters in Crime’. This is the first event in a new Local Knowledge series, following a very successful program last year which highlighted life and culture in the City of Port Phillip. Different themes will be used to investigate our sights and spaces, reveal some of our best kept secrets and provide a forum for topical debate. Other themes to be covered in this series will be Hotels and Pubs and The Moving Image. What Murder, Mystery & Mayhem - a panel discussion For further information please contact Linden Programs Manager This project has been assisted by the City of Port Phillip Cultural Advisory Board through its Cultural Development fund.
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