Gallery 1

Foyer Space

A PLACE TO BE

Ellequa Martin

A place to be is an installation reflecting upon dislocation and dream states. It is an offering of an imagined environment for a space for the

future or of one long since past.

Ellequa Martin utilizes a range of media in her practice, including drawing, collage, painting, sculpture, installation, and ceramics.

She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art, Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2006 and has had solo shows at t.c.b., Westspace and Seventh Gallery in Melbourne and received a Melbourne City Council Young Artist Grant in 2007 for her exhibition Deep Cuts at Westspace.

Space A

NEW WORK BY

Holly and Rowan McNaught

Sometimes, we are given trophies as a reward for an achievement. These are often ceremonially given over by notable people.

At the Australian Open this year, the president of Kia Motors gave out the trophies.

One example of a pilgrimage is going to the Monaco Grand Prix. You can watch the cars go past from a balcony overlooking the beach.

It must be pretty nice.

His Serene Highness Prince Rainier of Monte Carlo was given the 2004 FIA Gold Medal as recognition of an outstanding contribution to motor sport.

For this exhibition, we will present new agglomerations of rewards & pilgrimages, traversing the world with a bustling eagerness.

Holly and Rowan McNaught live and work together in Melbourne, making project-based and cross-disciplinary work. They graduated from RMIT and VCA respectively in 2009.

Space B

A HIERARCHY OF LOSS

Paul Phillipson

Philipson’s work explores the poetics of photography and its ability to present description without place. His seemingly unrelated images, when placed together, expose a shared language. The result is an unsettling exploration through territories as diverse as the elegiac texture of his landscapes to the texture of skin itself.

The currency of the sublime runs through every aspect of Philipson’s work. His upcoming exhibition shows a series of ethereal photographs which transport you from a frozen lake, to a misty tree-lined road, to a night owl caught in the flash of a light. The effect is one of an almost David Lynch-ian strangeness, deftly offset by a sweeping gesture towards German romanticism.

Paul has exhibited widely over the last five years, having shown his work at Vyner

Street Gallery in London, Arts Aporia in Osaka and at Spacement Gallery in Melbourne.

Project Room

WITH AND WITHOUT IDENTITY

Natasha Carrington

With and Without Identity is the finding of an ethnographic investigation into the construct of the criminal ‘other’.

As an installation of stills and texts taken from filmed interviews it aims to magnify issues that surround the visual representation of prisoners.

Culturally it is interested in the role images play the construction of myths and how aesthetics form the signposts by which criminals are identified and categorised. Because prisoners are under the care of the State, questions of agency and identity become associated with censorship and risk.

This exhibition asks that we consider how one set of institutionalised practises designed to control and protect, might actually enable another with the power to label and dehumanise.

Gallery 2

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

Simon MacEwan

A series of drawings on the themes of growth repetition and the futility of trying to draw abstract philosophical concepts. With a confusion of approaches including cartography, geometric and psychedelic abstraction and natural history illustration; Simon MacEwan explores collective behaviour, the yearning for utopia and the frequent gulf between one's intention and the end result.
In You're doing it wrong one can see the dark side of the moon, drink the milk of paradise or catch the train from Piccadilly Circus to Grand Central station.