CURRENT PROJECTS
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2006 Synoptic 06 with Natasha Johns-Messenger, Mir 11, Melb, 2005 Formless, commissioned by Experimenta art Inc for Vanishing Point, Melb, 2004 Pointform, with Natasha Johns-Messenger, Conical Gallery, Melb, 1998 Cube, with Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer in Strangely Familiar, curated by Claire Williams, ACCA, Melb, 1997 General Review of Gain and Loss, with Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer, Westspace, Melb 1996 The Art of Listening, with Brenda Ludeman, Nicole Tomlinson and Georgina Konstandakopoulos, Linden Gallery, Melb.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Apartment, at Apartment, 2002 Several Contingent Provisionalities, Penthouse and Pavement, Melb. Eraserhead, RMIT Project Space, 1998 Untitled, Grey Area Art Space Inc, Melb, In the Light of the Other 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space Melb.,1997 Scan, Studio 12, 200 Gertrude St, Melb, Flux, Stripp Gallery, Melb,1996 In Time 1st Floor Artist and Writers Space, Melb.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 An answer for the parts only itinerant sighs can fathom, curated by Storm Gold, Victoria Park Gallery, Stranger Geography curated by Kit Wise, Palazzo Vaj Prato Italy, 2005 Australian New Media Art, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Skopje, November, Australian Video Art 5uper, Museumsqartier, Vienna, 2004 The Visible and the Invisible commissioned for Swoon, ACCA, Melb, 2003 Video Projekt, Kings Space Gallery, Melbourne, VCA Projects, curated by John Neeson, VCA Gallery , Melbourne, 2002 Gating curated by Michael Graeve, Westspace, Melb, 1998 Lux, Curated by Julian Savage, 1st Floor, Melb, 1997 Flat, curated by Michael Goldsmith, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Adjacent, curated by Susie Atiwell, 200 Gertrude St, Melbourne, 1996 Dermartology, curated by Stephen O’Connell, 200 Gertude St, Melb.
Forthcoming: My doubtful mind, Linden April, A collaboration with Natasha Johns- Messenger
Contingency and Infinity-PhD Project
The PhD research begins with a question about the ‘Real’ and the constituent elements that comprise the Real: space, time and and experience. The work is a speculation about the way we frame, and describe our perceptions. These re-presentations are themselves embedded and interwoven within the fabric of their subject and are therefore always relative and contingent. The work turns about itself: the object is the subject of the work and the subject becomes the object. The very nature of the project - Being in relation to Becoming- means that the work is always propositional: conjectural rather than definitive. Formally the work seeks to elaborate ideas traditionally found in painting, about pictorial space, representation and interpretation, and extends them through references to architecture, cinema and literature into the language of contemporary visual discourse with all its composite materials and complex methodologies.
Panavision: All at once: Everywhere (Working title). Sehr weit.
This project explores the interelatedness and simultaneity of light (day) and darkness (night) in the skies of geographically separate locations, through the use of video streaming technology. The impossible ideal for the project will be the simultaneous streaming of live footage documenting the sky from every latitude around the globe, to the one gallery location. All at once, everywhere.
Funding is being sought to tour the Visible and the Invisible
Paradox a
Research Cluster Monash University
Ken Smith
Maryanne Coutts
Paul Uhlman
Leslie Eastman
The group is united by a common interest in the paradoxes of perception and representation. In this instance the specific subject of their investigation is observable environmental phenomena. The strength of this group is the diversity of rationale, method, and media in approaching the shared subject. The modes of expression range form painting, drawing and animation to installation.
The group is currently working towards a research outcome entitled 'phenomena'. The exhibition will include works by diverse practitioners curated by the cluster members. Whilst centered around weather as a clear manifestation of environmental phenomena the intention is to also address the phenomena of change in the context of a landscape of immanence as conceived in romantic philosophy but also as an analogy to states of being. The project will further extend the idea of phenomena to include the fact and experience of making as artists, of different rafts of practice to be included in the exhibition.
PAAAAN with Natasha Johns Messenger
Synoptic 09 with NJM