Please Whoever Took My Bench Seat is now installed in a solo exhibition, Take Note, at Five Walls in Footscray from 14 April to 1 May 2021. It’s a copy of a handwritten note I found during Melbourne’s lockdown in 2020. It was translated onto a large scale on paper at Strange Engine studios. (acrylic, ink and charcoal on paper, 198cm x 292cm).
PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHTS WHEN GOING HOME FOR THE DAY
A new drawing of a found note in progress at Strange Engine in Preston.
Check out Strange Engine, run by Jason Maling, here: strangeengine.org
CHANGE_DIVISION
The Change Division of The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins, or The BOO, has its lights on. It feels like things are happening, but are they? Is this a door that can be opened? Or does it just feel that way? What do they do at the Change Division?
An artwork created in collaboration with Ben Sheppard for the Incinerator Art Award 2020, currently showing here: Incinerator Art Award Exhibition
HOT DATES & FREE DONUTS
In March, Adele Varcoe and I brought our ‘art speed date’ project DATE–O to the University of Melbourne’s Parkville campus, offering hot dates and free donuts to willing punters.
ART SCHOOLS FOR FIRE RELIEF
Margaret Lawrence Gallery in collaboration with artists from Deakin University, Monash University, RMIT University and VCA, University of Melbourne invites you to a sale of donated works of art by some of Australia’s leading artists.
Works of art start at $500 with sales opening at 12pm sharp, Thursday 30 January, in gallery and over the phone. An online catalogue of the artwork will be available soon, keep an eye out on Facebook and our website.
Opening: Thursday 30 January, 2020, 6-8pm
Where: Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 40 Dodds St, Southbank
100% of the proceeds will go to Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund INC and Wildlife Victoria to support their tireless work during the bushfire disaster.
Image: Need $ For New Death Star, oil on board, 2020
STREETWISE FESTIVAL, HAIFA, ISRAEL
4A A4 EXHIBITION, SYDNEY
A collaborative work with Princess Pea (New Delhi) exhibited as part of 4A A4, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Sydney, October 2019.
UNFINISHED: DÉCOR, SYDNEY
Unfinished: Décor, curated by Peter Burke and Robert Mangion, with Damiano Bertoli and David Thomas, opens Friday 4 October 2019 at AirSpace Projects, Marrickville, Sydney and runs until Saturday 19 October. https://www.airspaceprojects.com.au
Image: Unfinished: Décor, Photo: Campbell Henderson.
UNFINISHED (...) TALK TALK
In addition to their exhibition Unfinished Décor, Robert Mangion and Peter Burke will present the performance lecture Unfinished (...) Talk Talk. More than a curatorial floor talk, it's a live sublimated appraisal, thawing the boundaries between creating, forming and experiencing art, giving way to a manifold of loose associations and Institutional mutations. Listen and follow the artists in and out of the gallery space as they attempt to establish contexts by which the artwork cannot be edified or concluded. Think porous, not staged and certainly not completed. Audience participation encouraged, maybe.
Wednesday 12 June 2019 at 1:30pm at Blindside, Melbourne.
Photo: Roberta Govoni
OFFICIAL WELCOME
Today Attaché Case was officially welcomed to its new home at Museum Victoria in Melbourne. Attaché Case is an exhibition of 41 miniature artworks inside a ‘low cost diplomatic bag’ that has been in the making since 2015. Asylum seekers and refugees in Melbourne were invited create artworks that addressed their refugee experience. The artists, some of whom were living in detention centres, come from countries including Afghanistan, Columbia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Poland, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. In their artworks they explored diverse issues about detainment, political policies, optimism and waiting. Many artists wrote messages on the reverse of their artwork. The project [poignantly] captures the personal experience of refugees and gives voice to those who are seldom heard or seen.
Photo: Dr Moya McFadzean, Senior Curator Migration & Cultural Diversity, unlocking Peter Burke’s handcuffs at Museum Victoria.
Attaché Case. Artists include: Mitra Ashanti, Neda Daryabar, Alyana Eau, BHR, Sririhan Ganeshan, Dagmara Gieysztor, Tadros Hanna, Zohreh Izadikia, Mehdi Jaghuri, Carmenza Jimenez Osorio, Azizeh Khademi, Samaneh Malekshahi, Gyorgyi Marek, Margaret Mayhew, Noony, Minh Phan, Anthony Rodriguez, Eghbal Saki, Rayka,.Maryam Sepasi, Honey & Azizeh.
UNFINISHED: DÉCOR
The exhibition UNFINISHED: DÉCOR is running at Blindside ARI in Melbourne until 15 June 2019. Artists include Damiano Bertoli, Peter Burke, Robert Mangion, Elizabeth Newman, David Thomas.
Artwork (above): Peter Burke, Findings (notes), oil on wood panels, 2019.
Artwork: Peter Burke, Findings (notes), Please Don’t Wash Your Dishes, oil on wood panel, 2019.
WAITING FOR YOU 2
New artwork Waiting for you (#2), an edition of prints for Artbox Art Club. https://artboxartclub.com
Photographer: Andrew Mc Laughlin.
VOTE 1 THE BOOREAUCRATS
Vote 1 The Booreaucrats (poster) at BOO, The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins, AAANZ, Melbourne, 2018 (with Ben Sheppard).
PICK UP CLIPS
Sorting paperclips at BOO (The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins), AAANZ, Melbourne. Someone's gotta do it.
Photo: Samira Ghasempour
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Day 1 of What Goes Around Comes Around, a live painting in progress over five days this week at the Biennale of Australian Art in Ballarat, Victoria from 22-28 September 2018.
Stamp. Press. Scrape. Pull. Stretch. Drag. Scratch. Tug. Oscillate. Roll. Unwind. Repeat. What Goes Around Comes Around is a never-ending installation in the making. Its continuous surface is both a palette and a canvas with only one side and only one edge. The inside becomes the outside and the front becomes the back. Visitors are invited to contribute to the live artwork as it expands and unravels over seven days. Not to be missed and never to be repeated.
CATCH YOUR BREATH! DAEGU, South Korea
PROPOSITION FOR REVERSING THE INVISIBLE REDACTION OF AN UNBUILT MONUMENT
A photo taken on Wadjemup/Rottnest Island in Western Australia for a new series of images created with Ben Sheppard for the BOOreaucrats.
BOOREAUCRATS
Another investigation in progress by the Bureaucrats on Wadjemup (Rottnest Island, Western Australia), in collaboration with Ben Sheppard, December 2017.
UNFINISHED – SEARCH FOR THE MIRACULOUS
Unfinished – Search for the Miraculous draws from a subject critical to art practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. In this project, the unfinished is explored in cross-disciplinary ways, blurring the distinction between making and un-making, and extending the boundaries between beginnings and endings.
Opening night: Wed 20 Sept 6-9pm
Five Walls Projects
Level 1/119 Hopkins St, Footscray
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm
Exhibition runs until Sat 7 Oct 2017
Update on 2017-10-26 12:43 by [Your Name Here]
EXIT
EXIT (2017), enamel and acrylic on board. An artwork for the VCA's '9x5 NOW!' exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery.
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/small-pictures-big-legacy-the-9-by-5-exhibition-then-and-now