Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts: Innovators 3 Exhibitions 14 November

Innovators 3 Exhibitions

14 November - 13 December 2009
Opening 6pm Friday 13 November

The Occurrence Project - Gwenneth Boelens (NL) & Helen Grogan (Au)
The collaboration between these two artists began in 2003 and applies critical dialogue and experimentation to shared conceptual concerns, notably the performative mechanisms of viewing. The work is part of an ongoing project that has included installations in Amsterdam in 2007 and Melbourne in 2008. The process for this site-specific work included a three-month working period in Amsterdam in 2009. Built structures, assembled objects and large-format photographic prints contribute to a layered constellation.

The Sublimation and Spiritualisation of Solids - Carl Scrase
As the artist stared at his shadow his mind raced. "I was trying to be empty, but thoughts kept stumbling in: I have a way to go. There were a few moments though, where I just looked, just was; the edges blurred, my head became light".

Immense Views - Justy Phillips, Lucy Bleach, James Newitt
A collection of works focusing on actions and reactions to place and culture in Australia through the social, political and environmental realities of everyday life. This narrative of observation, departure, and intervention, challenges representations of truth and reality through constructed sequences, twisted vernaculars and intimate fictions.

Hothouse - Stuart Bailey
This immersive installation is inspired by drug busts in Blair Athol,western Sydney. Up to ten separate residences have been raided by police and discovered to have a large amount of marijuana plants growing voraciously under extensive and well-organised lighting and watering systems. The houses that have been raided are very familiar and quite banal, ranging from well-maintained weatherboard houses to new 'McMansions'. The complex systems required to grow these crops are some of the most ambitious police have seen. The idea of enormous crops of intoxicating plants growing behind the doors of gutted suburban dwellings is a compelling one.

Hearth - Kevin Chin
Once a house, the space reconfigured as a gallery denies traces of homeliness. Hearth uses domestic materials like porcelain, canvas and ash to respond to domestic vestiges in the fireplace, floorboards, and window. Moulding, concealing, and illuminating work to reveal the things that like to hide in cracks.

For interviews, images or further information please contact Jan Duffy on 9209 6794 or info@lindenarts.org

Stuart Bailey

Lucy Bleach

Kevin Chin

Helen Grogan

James Newitt

Justy Phillips

Carl Scrase