Five new exhibitions open at Linden 6pm Thursday 22 April 2004

If U Were Mine, in Gallery 1, is an exhibition that addresses the notions of fantasy and desire within the practice of painting. Colour and abstraction are major considerations in the work of artists Kirsten Farrell, Madeline Kidd and Noël Skrzypczak yet their approaches, techniques and materials differ vastly.

Gallery 2 becomes a site for struggle as, bound by the wrists, Marc Alperstein & Amelie Scalercio produce the collaborative drawings which will form their exhibition Untitled. Working simultaneously on a single piece of work the physical act of producing is fraught with tension and takes priority over the product as each artist struggles to put their individual mark on the paper.

For Vertigo, in Gallery 3 Liat Azoulay will transform the space by adhering felt forms to the surfaces to play with perspective and create architectural distortion, thereby amplifying optical and illusionary effects.

Mark Rodda's paintings in Evil Twin in Gallery 4, began with 20 to 30 figurative drawings supplied by other people - both professional artists and non-artists. The works, then reproduced by Mark, as closely as possible to the original composition, examine the notions of creative responsibility and ownership.

Jen Cabraja's intent, in Two and 1/2, is to transform Gallery 5 into an alternative world in which the support structures of meaning are no longer available. Two collages of coloured comic book style illustrations are placed to echo the movement of people through the gallery and accentuate the space as a thoroughfare.

All exhibitions continue until Sunday 23 May 2004.
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