28 November 2011
The Very West Showcase | Footscray Community Arts Centre The Very West Showcase |
Cheer on you local Westie band, and see who'll go on to perform at Laneways 2012
26 November 2011
Welcome to Open Studios 2011!
Artists open their doors to you today and tomorrow.
Be inspired...be wowed...be entertained!
But most importantly, don't be shy of a little rain. Artist studios are dry inside.
24 November 2011
Wrap it Up! Exhibition featuring Many of the Open Studio Artists
Wrap it Up! @
Wyndham Art Gallery
177 Watton St, Werribee, MEL WAYS 205 J9
Wednesday 30 Novemb er –
Sunday 4 Decemb er 2011
Seen the artists in their studios? Now come to Wyndham Art Gallery and buy some work
straight off the wall just in time for Christmas. For four days Wyndham Art Gallery will
be transformed into a fine art and contemporary craft gift shop. All works are handmade, original and priced under $80.00.
Launching on Wednesday 30 November @ 6.30pm
Event Brought to you by Arts and Culture at Wyndham City.
Linocut Demonstration at MREAM in Exile on Saturday
Linocut Demonstration
@ MREAM in exile, Big Fish, 47 Moreland Street, Footscray (Entry via Bunbury Street). MELWAYS 42 E5
Larissa MacFarlane is a printmaker, who has lived in and around Footscray for the past decade. Her etchings and linocuts are inspired by the landscapes of Melbourne’s West, and explore ideas of belonging and place, healing and change and ways that we can celebrate what we have here and now. Larissa also has a strong interest in accessible community arts, and occasionally teaches linocut workshops!
On Saturday 26th November 2-3pm, Larissa will perform a demonstration of the art of linocuts. This will cover ways of carving the lino block, methods of inking up the lino and then hand burnishing to paper, as well as attempting to answer all your questions. It will also include a brief history of the art form and an exhibition of Larissa’s linocut artwork. And you should get enough info so that you will be able to print your own lino at home!!
For more info, you can contact Larissa via larissalice@gmail.com
Dagmara and Leonie's Mysterious Puppet Theatre Bus
Dagmara Gieysztor and Leonie Kervin (number 10 in the program guide) are hosting their studio in the Mysterious Theatre Institute Bus.
Go along, see this unique space, meet the artists, have a look at their work, speak to some of the puppets and expect the unexpected.
This temporarily studio will be parked at 185 Somerville Road, Yarraville
ONLY Saturday 11am - 3pm
The bus doesn't like to stand in one spot for too long, but it really likes visitors!!!
23 November 2011
It's All Happening This Weekend!!
Artists open their doors this weekend from 10am on Saturday.
Make sure you visit the 2011 program page and download yourself a copy of the pocket size program guide, so you can create your own art tour of Melbourne's west.
Open Studios is also on Facebook and Twitter, make sure you like or follow our page.
Into The Red - Kindred Studios this Saturday
Into The Red
Into The Red Music and Art. Six gobsmacking hours of art, music, cabaret and utter madness. Never
before has kindred housed such a radical collaboration between more than 70 artists of the musical, digital, visual and theatrical flavour. Live music by: Spoon Bill, Nice & Ego, Kuya, Ehsan Gelsi and more. 18+ only.
Kindred Studios, 212a Whitehall street, Yarraville
5pm – 1am
General Admission $25/17
Snuff Party this Sunday Night
Snuff Party #3
Puppet experiments, live music and raw humans included.
Snuff Party #3 will be a night of entertainment and artistic experiment - loosely based on the Human Body; inside and out, literal, metaphorical, metaphysical, magical and shocking. Dance amongst Snuff Puppets’ latest creations, the giant Human Body Parts. Experience the world from the inside an enormous ear. Be charmed by the flirtatious batting of our giant eye. Or thumb wrestle with the world’s biggest hand.
Snuff Party #3 is part of the Big West Festival and Open Studios.
Footscray Drill Hall- 395 Barkly Street
8PM til late
General Admission $5
General Admission $5
20 November 2011
Silverspun's Opening Night on Friday 25 November
silverspun
2011 Box Hill Jewellery Graduate Exhibition
Opening: Friday 25th November, 6-8pm
Venue: 1000 £ Bend,
361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne 3000
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri: 10am-6pm, Sat - Sun: 11am-5pm
Guest Speaker: David Neale
Dates: Friday 25th November - Sunday 4th December, 2011
FOOTSCARY, FOOTSCRAZY, FOOTSCRAY
Presented by effeMMeRA.
A group visual arts exhibition featuring the work of Heather Horrocks, Sylvie Leber, Karenne Rees and Vicki Saray reflecting on Footscray and the West.
Art Hang Out: Watch the walls & windows as effeMMeRA artists let their art hang out upstairs at one of Footscray’s historic buildings, Ercildoune.
Crochet Contained: Free workshops on how to make things that hold things with Heather Horrocks, crochet queen of the West. Beginners welcome, bring your own hook.
effeMMeRA Gallery & Studios
upstairs at Ercildoune
66 Napier St, Footscray (opp police station)
DATES: Tue 15 Nov–Sun 27 Nov, 2–6pm
Workshops: Wed 16 & 23 Nov 7-9pm, Sat/Sun 19/20, 26/27 Nov 2–5pm
CALL FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery is calling for submissions from emerging artists to exhibit in
their 2012 Emerging Artist exhibition.
Successful applicants are eligible to apply for the $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award. A broad range of contemporary and traditional works across all mediums is sought from artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The focus is on local artists from the cities of Port Phillip and Hobsons Bay but the program is also open to regional and interstate artists. There is no cost to exhibit and no commission charged on sales of work.
Established in 2004, the Gallery runs a continuous program of exhibitions at Toyota’s corporate headquarters in Port Melbourne and has shown the works of over 700 artists.
To download information and application documents visit www.watcharts.com.au/toyota.html or contact the curator, Ken Wong at info@watcharts.com.au or phone 03 58214548.
Applications close 17 February 2012
Image: Sharron Okines Danger Drypoint etching/chine colle, 2010
from the 2010 Emerging Artist exhibition The Butterfly Effect.
19 November 2011
Kindred Studios Profile Artists
There are many musicians and artists from the ‘Creative Arts Collective’ that present Kindred Studios event ‘Into the Red’; so to give you an insight of what to expect, here are some of the artists highlighted.
Dominic Francis Taranto A.K.A. d-artworks
www.facebook.com/groups/dartworks
1. So how did you beco
me involved in Into the Red?
Dave Dave Dave! A great friend of mine who i have collaborated with before specifically in Dead House Walking, a street art / performance art project, lured me into helping make Into the Red the must see art and music show of the year! Both of us come from very different backgrounds within the art industry but share the same passion and hard-working attitude that we both so rarely seem to find within the Melbourne art world. Anyway the short and short of it was that Dave managed to snag us this amazing venue that was just begging to be used before we knew it we had dreams of 4 stages - music - theatre - installation art - DJ/VJ you name it we wanted it and it has just grown/shrunk/grown/shrunk from there!
2. What do you think is special or important about Into the Red?
The fact that we are trying to cater to so many different tastes and genres than you normally would not have at a small time. The other amazing thing is that majority of the entire event is managed, co-ordinated and staffed by mainly students from VU and that everyone involved is encouraged to bring their own previous skill sets to the table and help make Into the Red the
best it can be. I honestly cannot describe to you the energy of the team when they are together because there is no negativity it’s just down to business and help all around to anyone who has the desire to do something wacky and wonderful and probably never done before!
3. How would you describe your style of artwork normally?
Funnily enough i am very new to the practice of installation art but so far i am loving the new challenges that come with discovering a new way of expressing my work. I normally stick to painting on canvas but for the past two years i have actually started to move in a different direction to further add to my long term goals of combining street art/performance art and
painting. I am currently studying a Bachelor of Creative Arts Industries at VU after studying Fine Art Painting at Monash for a while. This time through university however i am focusing on contemporary performance since i have so little experience i believe it important i gain some skills so i can then bring this crucial element back to my painting work. I hope to in the future do a series of pieces that use both my abilities as a painter but also as a performer to create work that highlights the importance of the process of the work rather than a final piece hung on a white wall with no background information given.
4. What inspired you to become an artist?
Well without sounding self-absorbed i guess the quick answer is that i inspired myself to become an 'artist'! I had great art teachers that encouraged me and a mother that was creative to her very core but it was my own personal issues growing up that allowed me to recognise a way to deal with and express emotion. Early school life was a struggle for me privately but discovering art as a way of working through these tough times was possibly the greatest thing that ever happened to me. It slowly became a thing that i could not live without and if i wasn't painting the rest of my life didn't feel quite right as if it was my own personal psychiatrist! Lol later however artists such
as Jackson Pollack, Howard Ackley, David Hockney, Mark Rothko and even Wassily Kandinsky have and still do inspire me on a daily basis.
5. What are you most
looking forward to or hoping will come from Into the Red and in a larger sense?
I am hoping that the western suburbs of Melbourne start to realise that there is this untapped talent on their doorstep that is just begging to come out into the public eye. I hope that in some small way Into the Red is the beginning of this western suburbs art revolution. At the end of the
day i hope that the whole event goes off without any major difficulties and all that come enjoy what they see and that the artists get to display their work exactly the way the wanted to! It is hard to picture what the final set up will look like so to be honest i am just as excited as the audience to see everything together and witness some of the work i know very little about. There
are so many different artists involved that some i haven't even met yet let alone seen their work so i will be just as much an audience member on the night as anyone else.
www.facebook.com/groups/dartworks
1. So how did you beco
me involved in Into the Red?Dave Dave Dave! A great friend of mine who i have collaborated with before specifically in Dead House Walking, a street art / performance art project, lured me into helping make Into the Red the must see art and music show of the year! Both of us come from very different backgrounds within the art industry but share the same passion and hard-working attitude that we both so rarely seem to find within the Melbourne art world. Anyway the short and short of it was that Dave managed to snag us this amazing venue that was just begging to be used before we knew it we had dreams of 4 stages - music - theatre - installation art - DJ/VJ you name it we wanted it and it has just grown/shrunk/grown/shrunk from there!
2. What do you think is special or important about Into the Red?
The fact that we are trying to cater to so many different tastes and genres than you normally would not have at a small time. The other amazing thing is that majority of the entire event is managed, co-ordinated and staffed by mainly students from VU and that everyone involved is encouraged to bring their own previous skill sets to the table and help make Into the Red the
best it can be. I honestly cannot describe to you the energy of the team when they are together because there is no negativity it’s just down to business and help all around to anyone who has the desire to do something wacky and wonderful and probably never done before!
3. How would you describe your style of artwork normally?
Funnily enough i am very new to the practice of installation art but so far i am loving the new challenges that come with discovering a new way of expressing my work. I normally stick to painting on canvas but for the past two years i have actually started to move in a different direction to further add to my long term goals of combining street art/performance art and
painting. I am currently studying a Bachelor of Creative Arts Industries at VU after studying Fine Art Painting at Monash for a while. This time through university however i am focusing on contemporary performance since i have so little experience i believe it important i gain some skills so i can then bring this crucial element back to my painting work. I hope to in the future do a series of pieces that use both my abilities as a painter but also as a performer to create work that highlights the importance of the process of the work rather than a final piece hung on a white wall with no background information given.
4. What inspired you to become an artist?
Well without sounding self-absorbed i guess the quick answer is that i inspired myself to become an 'artist'! I had great art teachers that encouraged me and a mother that was creative to her very core but it was my own personal issues growing up that allowed me to recognise a way to deal with and express emotion. Early school life was a struggle for me privately but discovering art as a way of working through these tough times was possibly the greatest thing that ever happened to me. It slowly became a thing that i could not live without and if i wasn't painting the rest of my life didn't feel quite right as if it was my own personal psychiatrist! Lol later however artists such
as Jackson Pollack, Howard Ackley, David Hockney, Mark Rothko and even Wassily Kandinsky have and still do inspire me on a daily basis.
5. What are you most
looking forward to or hoping will come from Into the Red and in a larger sense?
I am hoping that the western suburbs of Melbourne start to realise that there is this untapped talent on their doorstep that is just begging to come out into the public eye. I hope that in some small way Into the Red is the beginning of this western suburbs art revolution. At the end of the
day i hope that the whole event goes off without any major difficulties and all that come enjoy what they see and that the artists get to display their work exactly the way the wanted to! It is hard to picture what the final set up will look like so to be honest i am just as excited as the audience to see everything together and witness some of the work i know very little about. There
are so many different artists involved that some i haven't even met yet let alone seen their work so i will be just as much an audience member on the night as anyone else.
Louise Purcell
1. So how did you become involved in Into the Red?Prior involvement with creative arts collective, in Dead
House Walking event, partaking in the theatre and visual arts section.
2. What do you think is special or important about Into the
Red?
Contrast, exhibiting a variety of individuals work. It will
be interesting as a collaboration with no coherent theme.
3. How would you describe your style of artwork?
Normally offload of my inner thoughts .
4. What inspired you to become an artist?
You don't become an artist.
5. What are you most looking forward to or hoping will come
from Into the Red and in a larger sense?
Hopefully exposure for students becomes more prominant with further community events taking place in the future. I'm particually interested in events allowing a platform to express my art and giving others the same chance rather than monetary and success gains but individual growth as a creative being.
4. What inspired you to become an artist?
You don't become an artist.
5. What are you most looking forward to or hoping will come
from Into the Red and in a larger sense?
Hopefully exposure for students becomes more prominant with further community events taking place in the future. I'm particually interested in events allowing a platform to express my art and giving others the same chance rather than monetary and success gains but individual growth as a creative being.
Photos: N.TRIGUE SHOT
Some interesting facts on Photography and Copyright
*extracts from Australian Copyright Council Photographers & Copyright information sheets G011v14 (January 2006).
For more information about copyright visit www.copyright.org.au
"There is no system of registration for copyright protection in Australia... A photograph is protected by copyright automatically from the moment it is taken...For photographs, unless there is an agreement to the contrary, the general rule is that the photographer is the first owner of
copyright.
Generally, a photographer does not need permission to photograph a building. Although a building is protected by copyright, a special exception in the Copyright Act allows buildings to be photographed without permission.
A person’s image is not protected by copyright. However, in some cases, using a person’s image without permission may be prevented under other laws, such as the law of passing off, the Trade
Practices Act 1974 and State and Territory fair trading laws...In other cases, photographers may take more casual shots—for example, photographs of people in the street or at markets, or playing sports. If you know that you might later be using such a photograph commercially, itʼs generally a good idea to get a model release from the people you have photographed.
Rights of copyright owners
Owners of copyright in photographs have the exclusive right to:
• reproduce the photographs—for example, by making prints, photocopying, and digitising;
• publish the photograph (make copies of the photographs available to the public for the first time); and
• communicate the photograph to the public—for example, by putting the photographs onto a website, broadcasting or faxing them or emailing digital files of them.
Moral Rights
Creators of copyright works, including photographers, have “moral rights” in relation to their works. These are separate from copyright. Moral rights impose certain obligations on people who use a copyright work. As a photographer you have the right to:
• be attributed as creator of your photographs;
• take action if your work is falsely attributed; and
• take action if your work is distorted or treated in a way that is prejudicial to your honour or reputation.
Alteration of photos (by a party other than the original author of the photo) may, in some cases, infringe your moral rights in the work (the rights to be attributed as creator of a work, right not to be falsely attributed as the creator and the right of integrity against derogatory treatment of the work).
A dispute about who took a photograph, or who is the owner of copyright in a photograph, may need to be resolved by a court if the parties cannot agree. Someone else claiming to own copyright without any basis, generally runs large financial risks in bringing such a case."
For more information about copyright visit www.copyright.org.au
"There is no system of registration for copyright protection in Australia... A photograph is protected by copyright automatically from the moment it is taken...For photographs, unless there is an agreement to the contrary, the general rule is that the photographer is the first owner of
copyright.
Generally, a photographer does not need permission to photograph a building. Although a building is protected by copyright, a special exception in the Copyright Act allows buildings to be photographed without permission.
A person’s image is not protected by copyright. However, in some cases, using a person’s image without permission may be prevented under other laws, such as the law of passing off, the Trade
Practices Act 1974 and State and Territory fair trading laws...In other cases, photographers may take more casual shots—for example, photographs of people in the street or at markets, or playing sports. If you know that you might later be using such a photograph commercially, itʼs generally a good idea to get a model release from the people you have photographed.
Rights of copyright owners
Owners of copyright in photographs have the exclusive right to:
• reproduce the photographs—for example, by making prints, photocopying, and digitising;
• publish the photograph (make copies of the photographs available to the public for the first time); and
• communicate the photograph to the public—for example, by putting the photographs onto a website, broadcasting or faxing them or emailing digital files of them.
Moral Rights
Creators of copyright works, including photographers, have “moral rights” in relation to their works. These are separate from copyright. Moral rights impose certain obligations on people who use a copyright work. As a photographer you have the right to:
• be attributed as creator of your photographs;
• take action if your work is falsely attributed; and
• take action if your work is distorted or treated in a way that is prejudicial to your honour or reputation.
Alteration of photos (by a party other than the original author of the photo) may, in some cases, infringe your moral rights in the work (the rights to be attributed as creator of a work, right not to be falsely attributed as the creator and the right of integrity against derogatory treatment of the work).
A dispute about who took a photograph, or who is the owner of copyright in a photograph, may need to be resolved by a court if the parties cannot agree. Someone else claiming to own copyright without any basis, generally runs large financial risks in bringing such a case."
17 November 2011
LARGER THAN LIFE Exhibition
Presented by Big West Festival in association with The Substation.The industrial spaces of The Substation explode to a myriad of site responsive installations and artworks featuring sound art, automotive painting, photography, drawing and sculpture in big, BIG art for this year’s festival as thirteen artists living or working in the West respond to the theme ‘Uncontained’ in works greater than 2 metres.Among the exhibition are Cara Jones’s large format panoptical photographs from the series Yarraville and Container. Using repetitive layered photographs Jones creates stunning images of an inverted urban landscape which folds and unfolds endlessly on itself. Frank Veldze’s outdoor sculptural gorse rabbit imagines a frightening marrying of a noxious weed and animal in gargantuan proportions and is accompanied by multi-layered multi-media installation. Nick Ilton presents a haunting documentation of his six year correspondence with a prisoner on deathrow while Merry Trevethan’s psychedelic colour field paintings explode in a joyous riot over the exterior billboards of the building.Reflecting on the absurdities of consumerism and capitalism, freedom and oppression, law and order, Larger than Life highlights the duplicity of the developed world and the possibilities of unbridled freedom.
ARTISTS: Adrienne Kneebone, Cara Jones, Cath Johnston, Fleur Brett, Georgina Humphries, Frank Veldze, Fred Fowler, Ilona Nelson, Jane Hall, Larissa MacFarlane, Merryn J Trevethan, Nick Ilton and Suzanne Nguyen.
Project Coordination: Jessica Bridgfoot, Visual Arts Program Manager, The Substation
Venue:The Substation1 Market Street, Newport
DATES:Tue 15 - Sun 27 Nov, 11am-4pm
11 November 2011
Artists - there is still time
The deadline has been extended to partake in Art in Public Places 2012 to Wednesday 16 November 2011.Apply online and visit the website for more information www.artinpublicplaces.com.au
Anyone looking to be involved in a film project this weekend?
A movie projectKIM DONALDSON & JASON HELLER
A car with a full tank of fuel has been found. It is a time, not far from now, when the oil refinery flame has gone out and all petrol production has ceased. Gangs control the area, the supermarkets are looted and empty and an incredible quiet replaces the familiar sounds of the city. The inhabitants of Techno Park Studios plan their future.
The ruins of the gallery are a film set and the surrounding industrial and wetland areas the site for location footage and sound recording. Fragmented scenes created by multiple participants will tell the story of THE LAST GREAT ROAD TRIP.
Anyone interested in being a part of this project. We need footage and sound from your
phone or your camera. As well as, for those that like to dress up, we need your acting skill as you play a gang member. We also need anyone who would like to help out with the construction of sets or to be here to experience the event.
SHOOTING SCHEDULE:
NOVEMBER 5 - Filming of Gangs / Construction of the set in gallery - 1 – 5 pm
NOVEMBER 6 - Filming in the gallery / Construction in the yard - 1 – 5 pm
NOVEMBER 12 - Filming in the yard/Filming the FINALE as the car drives off - 4 – 8 pm
NOVEMBER 13 - Location filming and sound recording of nature and industry - 1 – 5 pm
Free BBQ food available on each day of the filming
Exhibition dates: 5 November – 13 November 2011
Location: 15 Techno Park Drive, Williamstown 3016
Ph. +61 3 9397 6344
http://www.technoparkstudios.com
Enquiries: Kim Donaldson +61 41000 1030
Email: mailto:kdonaldson@impulse.net.au
Wrap it Up call for artists ends today
If you are an artist and have been looking for a place to display / sell your work before Christmas and you live in the western suburbs of Melbourne, this is the show for you. All works must be under $80 and you need to contact Wyndham City today. Email bec.cole@wyndham.vic.gov.au
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