Innovators 2

30 May - 29 June 2008
Opening 6-8pm Thursday 5 June 2008

gallery 1 (front) NOT YET
Kel Glaister (Melbourne), Anthony Johnson (Hobart), Sebastian Moody (Brisbane)
It begins with emails, chats on the phone, points discussed and argued, threads started, forgotten, found, ignored. But then what? This exhibition is the end point in a long distance conversation between three artists from three states. Found objects, installation and text based works that test the influence of distance.
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gallery 1 (rear) STORYBOARD #96
Caroline Kennedy
Short stories on etched glass plates are stacked together on shelves, creating a multi-dimensional diorama tracking the number 96 tram route. "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."
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gallery 2 ALWAYS
Shungo Kimata (Japan)
A large sculptural image of a moss covered mountain, replicated and reversed so as to resemble an island surrounded by water. This installation explores the connection between humans and nature by looking at the optical peculiarities that appear in our world.
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gallery 3 SURFACING
Michele Elliot
Hand made wooden pins and cotton thread are used to create a floor work and a wall work. The pins operate in a liminal role, hovering between states of perception - flat/round, fluid/solid, two/three dimensional, puncturing/smoothing, drawing the viewer to consider their relationship to the works and the shifting space of the gallery.
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gallery 4 BIFURCATING FOREST
Briony Barr
An installation of bifurcating forms grow into a forest-like, immersive, walk in drawing. Walls, windows and floors are all sites for overgrowth. Excessive growth is articulated through both the metaphor of the forest and images depicting forms that occur throughout nature, from the micro to the macro, such as rivers, electrical discharge patterns, blood vessels, coral, neurons and cracking patterns on glass or ice.
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gallery 5 FANCY, FRET AND FILIGREE
Fiona Cabassi
An installation of sculptured, exotic ecologies suspended from the ceiling. Tuber structures sprout forth a decorative, labyrinthine miniature world creating an intricate and beguiling environment that playfully invents an alternative world that the imagination can inhabit and explore.
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For interviews, images or further information please contact Jan Duffy 03 9209 6794 or info@lindenarts.org

YOUNG ARTIST WINS SHANGHAI BIENNALE TRAVEL PRIZE

Thursday 5 June 2008

Minister Lynne Kosky announced Simon Obarzanek as the winner of the second Melbourne Airport Innovators Award at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts St Kilda for his work Men of Passion.

Linden Director, Ms Giacomina Pradolin said the award is given to an artist who participates in Linden's Innovators Program that promotes new, innovative and uncompromising art in a professional and accessible environment - a centre of creative excellence worldwide.

"It's stating the obvious but without artists Linden wouldn't exist. This $5,000 award is a great way for us to give something back to our Innovator artists. This is a unique opportunity for Simon to travel overseas and see the diverse work being produced in China," said Ms Pradolin.

Simon Orbarzanek's exhibition Men of Passion was part of the 2007 Innovators Program at Linden, supported by Melbourne Airport. The exhibition was part of a series of large-scale photographic colour portraits of passionate men.

The award is a key part of Melbourne Airport's Emerging Talent Program, an initiative to support emerging Victorian talent in a wide range of performance and visual arts.

The program sponsors the best newcomer awards at the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Melbourne Fringe Festival and the Mietta Song Recital.

"By partnering with Melbourne's leading arts organisations and the talent they cultivate, we are helping to build the creative future for this city," said Melbourne Airport Chief Executive Officer Chris Woodruff.

Simon Obarzanek says it is important for artists to have a global perspective and experience of the art world in order to engage as an innovator in the arts.

"At this stage of my career, as my ideas and technique are being delivered with more confidence than before, the opportunity to venture from the local art scene and gain exposure to such a large international art event will provide vital perspective on my own work," said Simon.

Linden Contemporary Arts Centre is a not-for-profit gallery devoted exclusively to the exhibition of art produced by living artists.

For further information about the Melbourne Airport Innovators Award and the Innovators Program at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts please contact Giacomina Pradolin, Director on 03 9209 6794

For further information about the Melbourne Airport Emerging Talent program, please visit www.melbourneairport.com.au/emergingtalent

 

 

 


image: Fiona Cabassi