LOUISE ZHANG // in group show at TWENTY THIRTY SEVEN

 

Louise Zhang, GHOST GLAZER DREAM EATER, 2013

Artist Louise Zhang will show a selection of paintings as part of a group show at TWENTY THIRTY SEVEN,  a new gallery space in Glebe.

Opening Thursday 26 February at 6.00PM, the exhibition will run until 29 February, open every day during the hours of 12-5.00PM.

Other artists in the show include David Attwood, Priscilla Bourne, Will Cooke, James Dodd, Matthew Greeves, Jesse Hogan, Leahlani Johnson, Ben Leslie, Rohan Schwartz and Sam Songailo.

Louise Zhang will also form part of a group exhibition, entitled PAINT15, taking place at Artereal Gallery this May.

COLLABORATEURS / LEAHLANI JOHNSON INTERVIEW

Leahlani Johnson_Collaboration with Brook Morgan_installation at Artereal Gallery

Throughout the Collaborateurs exhibition, we will be sharing an interview with one of the exhibiting artists...

LEAHLANI JOHNSON

How did you and Brook Morgan first meet?

I first met Brook in 2005 as we were both undertaking our honours year in Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW, Paddington. We have not met up again until this year when I started my Masters, also at COFA, and attended a weaving class that Brook was teaching.

Why did you choose to collaborate with Brook Morgan?

I thought the exhibition at Artereal would be a good opportunity to undertake a project that explores ephemeral gestures and materials in the gallery space, because it would be contained within a brief one-day time frame itself. Brook and I both work with natural occurring materials in our practices, such as flora and fauna, in different ways. Collaborating with Brook on this project will allow diverse responses to the same material of paper and flowers within a new context for both of us.

What is it about collaboration as a process that appeals to you as a contemporary artist?

I find it really interesting that a group of people could be viewing the same thing, yet each respond differently. So I think in collaborating as an artist you can have just that, another perception and perspective that could potentially broaden and bring clarity to your own work.

What is it that you hope to realise through this collaborative project?

Through this one-day project I hope we are able to have a conversation around value systems, exploring the materiality and passing nature of flowers in relation to other mediums.

Leahlani Johnson will be exhibiting today, Thursday 4 July, from 3pm-9pm.

Click here to learn more about the Collaborateurs exhibition.

COLLABORATEURS: NINE EXHIBITION OPENINGS. NINE DAYS. NINE COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS...

Bridie Connell_Free Fall performance shot_2012

Nine artists. Nine collaborative projects. Nine days. Nine consecutive exhibition openings... 

For nine consecutive days from the 3-11 July, within the confines of a 3 metre x 3 metre white cube contained within the gallery space, Artereal Gallery will present a series of collaborations as a platform for initiating new ideas and objects, sometimes unpredictable encounters, and for developing critical social and artistic relationships. 

Acknowledging that collaboration has moved into the mainstream of visual arts practice in the past decade, Collaborateurs offers an insight into the variety of ways in which artists collaborate with others: be it their peers, family, mentors, a musician, dancer, film-maker, with machines and technology, or simply with their audience.

FEATURING:  ELLA BARCLAY, LIAM BENSON, DAVID CAPRA, BRIDIE CONNELL, TULLY ARNOT & CHARLES DENNINGTON, NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS, LEAHLANI JOHNSON, SYLVIA SCHWENK AND KARINA WIKAMTO 

The personal and professional ties that bind artist and artist, artist and mentors, friends, colleagues and collectors will be expressed and interpreted as intervention, as performance or installation, or serendipitous outcome; others may simply present a collaborative work produced before or on the day. 

The diverse program opens with an installation of David Capra’s Wizard of Oz Intercession series of ceramic sculptures he produced in association with his constant muse the 1939 film ‘The Wizard of Oz’. The marquettes are re-imagined sets from his recent performance pieces for the Workout program at The Museum of Contemporary Art. Sylvia Schwenk presents 'A shared space' recording an unexpected encounter for two grave diggers at work in a German cemetery. Michael and Karina Wikamto, a brother and sister pair from a family whose father’s given name and cultural identity were outlawed by the militant Suharto regime, create simultaneous versions of their family tree; Michael’s is computer generated while Katrina’s sculptural collage integrates objects and images to symbolize family members. 

Dance is an element common to several collaborations. Liam Benson in association with choreographer Nick Atkins develops, rehearses and presents a dance routine, Pas de deux for a noble savage exploring gender and masculinity. Bridie Connell’s St Theresa Swoon creates an image and immersive environment of religious ecstasy through repetitive dance moves that are curiously based on a seductive classic burlesque fan dance performed to a mediative single drum tone sound-scape by American musician Brian Chase (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). 

Long term artistic duo Tully Arnot & Charles Dennington will collaborate with each other and instructions found on the internet for Adam “Myth Buster” Savage’s instructions for DIY personal hovercrafts. They will employ their idiosyncratic sensibilities and skills to produce two ‘Hoverchairs’, which in the end become portraits of their collaborative peculiarities. Artist Nola Diamantopoulos will conclude the program with Quest, an endurance performance of a continuous questions only dialogue with a succession of psychotherapy students ‘in search of the soul’.

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