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Artist Talk | Standing Stone - Catherine Evans | BLINDSIDE Gallery

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Constellation II, Catherine Evans, ballpoint pen on paper, 21 x 30cm, 2014.

STANDING STONE: An exhibition of new artwork by Catherine Evans at BLINDSIDE Gallery Artist talk, Saturday 10th of May at 2.30pm. Venue: BLINDSIDE, Level 7, Room 14, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Exhibition Dates: 30th  April – 17th May 2014 | Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6pm Standing Stone is an exhibition of photographs and sculpture that transposes the marks on our own bodies into a large-scale map using basalt boulders, sticky tape and the raw materials of photography, such as unprocessed photographic paper exposed to ambient light. In this exhibition…

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Artist Talk | Dominic Kavanagh, Natasha Madden and Zac St. Clair | BLINDSIDE Gallery

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Dominic Kavanagh, The Beehive

 Dominic Kavanagh, Natasha Madden and Zac St. Clair | BLINDSIDE Gallery Dominic Kavanagh’s The Beehive is an installation inspired by and sourced from urban ruins. It metaphorically relates the lifeless urban scrapheap to the contrastingly buzzing, complex and teeming circumstance of an archetypal beehive. More about the exhibition here. Natasha Madden and Zac St. Clair create a utopian model for comfortable living, with a mutual inertia and optimistic apathy. By using materials that are both visually and physically comforting, utilitarian objects are created and given a rest from the obligation of their…

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Artist Talks at BLINDSIDE Gallery | Kieran Stewart and Todd Johnson

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Artist talks on the current exhibition at Blindside. Saturday 22 March 2.30pm A HIGHLY INADVISABLE UNDERTAKING | KIERAN STEWART A highly unadvisable undertaking, is a handmade parachute apparatus built by filling in the gaps and constructing through a process of guesswork and sheer intuition. A garage built stand-in that may do the job but could kill the user in the same stroke. EVIDENCE | TODD JOHNSON This multi-media installation aestheticizes moments of extremity, intensity, and disorder that might emerge from life on the periphery. Defaced signage, fractured objects and enigmatic…

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The 24hr Drawing Project | BLINDSIDE Gallery

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Hannah Bertram | The 24 hour Drawing Project Saturday 1st March 10am – 8pm: Hannah Bertram and Jenny Hector create a new Drawing Project at BLINDSIDE   The 24 Hour Drawing Project is an event in which artists start and finish a work of art in a continuous 24 hour period. Hannah Bertram has co-curated and participated in nine of these projects and is now exhibiting a selection of works produced during previous events. At the core of the event is an exploration of intensive effort, attention to process, action and time. From 10am until 8pm…

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Artist Talk | BLINDSIDE Gallery | Spencer Lai and Jake Swinson

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Spencer Lai and Jake Swinson | Do you want me to come downstairs, with rollers in my hair? Come and hear artist Spencer Lai and curator Jake Swinson talk about their collaboration. Both are interested in the language of narrative and semiotics, fragmentation of identity and the process of commercial imaging within the psyche of modern popular culture and consumerism and have set out to create a body of works that experiment with the unstable, amorphous language and form that is residual of cultural messiness. Date: Saturday 1st March 2:30pm Venue: BLINDSIDE…

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Artist Talk | BLINDSIDE Gallery | Debut X 2014

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DEBUT X 2014 BLINDSIDE celebrates ten years of Debut—an annual survey exhibition of the new artistic talent of fine art graduates from Melbourne’s major universities. Debut X is a special feature of the annual exhibition program, presenting a dynamic collection of the freshest batch of emerging artists, with a generous accompanying print and online catalogue. A VCE student forum with the artists in the Debut X exhibition will be held and coordinated by BLINDSIDE’s Education Program Coordinator, as part of a mentorship program in partnership with Art Education Victoria. Curated by Xanthe Dobbie, Felicity Strong…

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Artist’s Talks | BLINDSIDE Gallery

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BLINDSIDE Gallery | Summer Studio Artist Talk Artists: Diego Ramirez, Emma Collard, Cherie Peele, Natalie Turnbull. BLINDSIDE Gallery opens its doors to summer and the New Year with a burst of colour and performance. Summer Studio Artists have adopted the Gallery space as their studios over the summer break and we welcome you to come along to the opening night on the 23rd January, and to engage in robust conversation on the 25th January to the Summer studio artist talk. Date: 25th January 2:30pm Venue: Level 7 Nicholson Building Swanston Street…

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