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Artspace Sydney

Locality: Sydney, Australia

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Address: 43-51 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo 2011 Sydney, NSW, Australia

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24.01.2022 Callout for Participants | 52 ACTIONS | Lill Colgan & Sab D'Souza's 'Haha... Unless?' 'Haha Unless?' is an ongoing collaborative project between artists Lill Colgan @girl_introjected and Sab D’Souza @sab.dsouza. When emotions are put into text, their meaning often mutates and becomes distorted. Conversations mediated by communication technologies are littered with personal associations and contexts. Text messaging becomes a clumsy process of decoding and translating, wher...e another's pace, tone and punctuation are imbued with profound meaning. Staged as part of Artspace's ongoing 52 ACTIONS project, 'Haha Unless?' presents a week-long performative encounter, running from 1521 February, sent directly to your phone. Audiences are invited to sign up and experience a series of text-based ‘vignettes’ that unpack the anxious and frustrating ways we attempt to understand each other at a distance. Documentation of the performance will be shared through @52artists52actions and artspace.org.au/52actions To sign up, head to artspace.org.au/unless See more

23.01.2022 Join us live online this Thursday 12 November, 5:45pm for the announcement of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSW VAEF) recipient. Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. This year's finalists are Akil Ahamat, Tarik Ahlip, Tiyan Baker, Kate Brown, Dennis Golding, Julia Gutman, Nadia Hernández and Kirtika Kain.... The Fellowship will be presented by The Hon. Don Harwin MLC, Minister for the Arts. See more

23.01.2022 Spotlight ~ Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Today’s spotlight with Nadia Hernández who discusses her work ‘De donde no se ve el horizonte y la vista choca contra la montaña / from where you can’t see the horizon and sight collides with the mountain’. Speaking to her process of collaboration, Hernández describes how her work functions as a collective poem, which can negotiate a connection with family despite physical and ...geographical boundaries. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

23.01.2022 Spotlight | Julia Gutman , finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Our spotlight for the day with Julia Gutman speaking about her work ‘No one Told Me the Shadows Could Be so Bright’. Made as a respite from the panic of 2020, 'No one Told Me the Shadows Could Be so Bright' speaks to the power of coming together, particularly in moments of despair. Gutman reflects upon the interwoven experiences of grief, intimacy and joy through a process of laboriously sewin...g figures as an act of healing and repair. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

22.01.2022 It’s that time of year again, our two most anticipated yearly exhibitions - The 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSWVAEF) and the Parramatta Artists Studio Exhibition - are now open! This year’s NSWVAEF features work by Akil Ahamat @premiumsweats, Tarik Ahlip @tarik.ahlip, Tiyan Baker, @___titan_baker___, Kate Brown @katebrown, Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, Julia Gutman @julia_____gutman, Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez and Kirtika Kain @kirtika.kain. The exhibitio...n will be open everyday until 13 December, and for the first time (and hopefully the only time) the announcement of this year’s recipient will be taking place online, 12 November, 5:45pm via Facebook Live. The 2020 Parammata Artists’ Studios Exhibition ‘How to measure the body against the earth’ features work by artists Liam Benson @liam_benson, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen @cindy_yz_chen and Sofiyah Ruqayah @sofiyahruqayah and will be open in the Ideas Platform everyday until 13 December. 1. 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, installation view, Artspace Sydney 2. Sofiyah Ruqayah, Cascading Failures, detail, How to measure the body against the earth, 2020 Parramatta Artists’ Studio Exhibition, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney See more

22.01.2022 Spotlight ~ Kirtika Kain @kirtika.kain, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Our spotlight today features Kirtika Kain who discusses the thoughts and processes behind her series of 30 screen prints titled 'The Solar Line' for this year’s Fellowship. Kirtika exposes excerpts from the Laws of Manu (circa 100 CE), an ancient Hindu legal text codifying caste and patriarchy, to question how this ancient text continues to be used as justification for caste and g...ender violence in modern India. The work engages materials that are synonymous with religion, studio process, labour and value. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

21.01.2022 Final day to apply for Artspace's 2021 One Year Studio Program offering one year rent-free studios for artists. Since 2015, Artspace has provided year-long, rent-free studios that support artists across generations from emerging to established, working across all media to embrace risk and experimentation in their practice. Don't miss out on your chance to be part of this incredible program that allows artists to create new work in an open, critically-engaged, and... supportive environment. Get your applications in today at artspace.org.au/studiocallout Applications due Mon 26 Oct, 11:5pm Image: Rochelle Haley @rochellehaley in her Artspace Studio, 2020. Photo: Zan Wimberley @zanwimberley See more

21.01.2022 Congratulations Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, recipient of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, and the first Aboriginal winner of this prestigious award. Dennis’s work, Cast in cast out, stems from memories of the Victorian lacework that lined the terrace houses in his childhood suburb of Redfern and throughout the work’s development the artist consulted with family, community and peers to embed shared lived experience into the inst...allation. We’d also like to extend our congratulations to all of the finalists in this year’s Fellowship for their amazing work that they put into this exhibition despite all the challenges that this year presented. The NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace until 13 December Photo: Document See more

20.01.2022 Artist talks with 2020 Parramatta Artists' Studio's exhibitors Liam Benson, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen and Sofiyah Ruqayah.

20.01.2022 Part one of our 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSW VAEF) artist talks with finalists Akil Ahamat, Tarik Ahlip, Tiyan Baker and Kirtika Kain in conversation with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch.

19.01.2022 Part two of our 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship artist talks with finalists Kate Brown, Dennis Golding, Julia Gutman and Nadia Hernández in conversation with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch.

17.01.2022 In the first of our spotlight series on the 2020 NSW VAEF finalists we hear from Akil Ahamat who discusses his work ‘Unchained Melody’. Developed from Akil’s interest in Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and its therapeutic affects in online communities, he considers the potential of ASMR as it translates beyond the digital and into public space. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December.

16.01.2022 Join us for the performance of Judy Watson's 'skullduggery' with the Jannawi Dance Clan. Commissioned as a response to Watson's work of the same title, skullduggery stems from her research into the early 1930s theft of a skull and king plate from the grave of Aboriginal man Tiger, known as ‘King of the Mines’ of Lawn Hill near the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland.

15.01.2022 Artspace today welcomed the NSW Government’s commitment of over $5 million that will see The Gunnery in Woolloomooloo Artspace’s home since 1993 transformed into a state-of-the-art facility with expanded exhibition spaces, increased artist-in-residence studios and a greater connection to the local neighbourhood and Sydney Harbour Foreshore. This significant investment in The Gunnery will ensure the legacy of the landmark building as the destination for visual arts in N...SW and highlights the important role of the arts in fuelling NSW’s cultural and economic recovery following the impact of COVID-19. The transformation of The Gunnery will feature these key elements: - Reorientation of the gallery entrance to Forbes Street plaza to provide greater connection with the neighbourhood and harbour foreshore and create a cultural corridor and sightline with Art Gallery New South Wales/Sydney Modern Project and the Domain parklands; - Expanded exhibition space on the ground floor; - The first floor will be upgraded into an education, outreach, digital broadcast, performance, production and public program space; - Increasing the number of artist studios offered rent-free to NSW-based artists from 7 to 10; and - Creating equity access for audiences across all levels The early 20th Century federation warehouse building is an important heritage listed site, which through its history has been a bulk store for the Sydney Morning Herald and a World War II gunnery instructional centre from which the building derived its name. In the 1970s, it became a famed artist squat, leading to its transformation as an artistic hub. This project will also allow Artspace to build on their growing strategic partnership with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, which supports expanded programs across education and outreach, curatorial, digital learning and capacity-building. _ Full article available through link in bio Image: Dunn & Hillam Architects @dunnhillam, Architect’s render of The Gunnery featuring artwork by Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, 'Cast in cast out', 2020, detail, courtesy the artist. See more

15.01.2022 Join us online this Monday 1 March, 2pm, for an in conversation with Danie Mellor and Tyson Yunkaporta to discuss 'jujaba: [a thought space]' currently showing in the Ideas Platform. Danie Mellor @daniemellor is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Bowral, New South Wales whose multidisciplinary practice explores intersections between Aboriginal and Western cultures while considering legacies of memory and knowledge. Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts crit...ic, and a researcher who belongs to the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. Grab your ticket at artspace.org.au/jujaba 'jujaba: [a thought space]’ will be showing in the Ideas Platform until 7 March Image: @zanwimberley See more

14.01.2022 There are still a few positions remaining to sign up for Lill Colgan and Sab D'Souza's text message based-performance 'Haha...Unless?' Staged as part of our '52 ACTIONS' project, 'Haha Unless?' presents a week-long performative encounter sent directly to your phone. Audiences are invited to sign up and experience a series of text-based ‘vignettes’ that unpack the anxious and frustrating ways we attempt to understand each other at a distance. For more information, and how you can join in, head to www.artspace.org.au/unless

12.01.2022 Spotlight Tiyan Baker @___titan_baker___, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship In today’s spotlight we hear from Tiyan Baker who discusses her work ‘Juruh’, which translates to the thorn in durian, the fruit at centre of her work. Baker reflects on the menacing, alien perception of durian in Western discourse, alongside the significance of the fruit to bring wealth, nourishment and continuity for the artist and her family who continue to grow wild specie...s of durian trees in their Bidayh village in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

09.01.2022 Spotlight Kate Brown @_ratitata_, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Kate Brown is today’s spotlight speaking about her multi-channel video installation, ‘This is a ghost voice’. The title of Brown’s work comes from a concept called a ‘ghost voice’ that identifies traces of human sounds as they echo and pass through various sites. Each video depicts the artist performing a vocal score that responds directly to the site of the exhibition, connecting the...se spaces back to specific parts of the human body. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

09.01.2022 Highlights from last weeks @52artists52actions feature artist Ivy Wawn @iwawn _ For my action, I spent a week working on site at Artspace, engaging each day in a practice of Mourning Dancing. At its base level, this exercise involves dancing with one's attention on the past. With each new action the dancer keeps their mind on their previous movement and on the histories attached to it. As they perform, they attempt to remember and hold on to their own relationship to e...ach move; recalling memories of people, places and things that are stirred up in the sensations produced. The dancer makes for themselves a historical context in these conjured points of connection between themselves in the current moment and the remembrances of people, places and things connected to the movement. When the dancer returns to the practice, they lament the dance before, creating a new loop that is extended upon and modulated each time. For 52 ACTIONS I am presenting seven moves that were reiterated throughout the week _ @iwawn See more

08.01.2022 Opening this Thursday in the Ideas Platform, Dannie Mellor’s 'jujaba: [a thought space]’ 'jujaba: [a thought space]' is an installation of paintings and objects that delineates the cataclysmic disruption to life experienced by the murraamba (Aboriginal people) of the rainforests of northern Queensland. 'jujaba: [a thought space]’ will be showing in the Ideas Platform until 7 March. ... @daniemellor @yavuzgallery See more

07.01.2022 Drop in this Friday, Saturday or Sunday, 33:30pm, to catch the performance of Judy Watson's ‘skullduggery' with the Jannawi Dance Clan @jannawidanceclan. Commissioned as a response to Watson's work of the same title, 'skullduggery' stems from her research into the early 1930s theft of a skull and king plate from the grave of Aboriginal man Tiger, known as ‘King of the Mines’ of Lawn Hill near the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland. Please note, due to COVID-1...9 guidelines and capacity restrictions, RSVPs are essential. To RSVP, head to artspace.org.au/skulduggery Image: Jannawi Dance Clan. Photo: Christopher Woe See more

06.01.2022 Spotlight | Tarik Ahlip @tarik.ahlip, finalist, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Check out today’s spotlight with Tarik Ahlip who discusses his body of work in this year’s Fellowship exhibition. Tarik’s practice engages with the intersectional space between painting and sculpture or more specifically between image and presence.... His work for this year’s exhibition speaks to the poetic associations with the properties of water: as a medium, as a lens and as a volume with its own elastic, spatial dimensions. The 2020 NSW VAEF is showing at Artspace every day until 13 December. See more

06.01.2022 Artspace and Create NSW @creatensw are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the 2021 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. A shortlist of up to 8 artists will be selected by an independent panel of peers managed by Create NSW to participate in an exhibition at Artspace. ... This year, Artspace has partnered with the National Art School to exhibit the Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship while The Gunnery undertakes a redevelopment supported by the NSW Government. Now in its 25th year, The Fellowship is Artspace’s key exhibition for profiling the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW, and builds upon our ongoing commitment to supporting emerging artists through curatorial development and dialogue. We encourage visual artists to apply for the Fellowship, which supports the professional development of artists in NSW, enabling recipients to undertake activities including travel, mentorships, internships, courses, research and the creation of new work. Applications for the 2021 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship are now open, and close 24 March, 2021. For more information, and how you can apply, visit artspace.org.au/fellowship Image: Dennis Golding, ‘Cast in cast out’, 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney. Photo: Document See more

05.01.2022 Join us online this Wednesday at 2pm for part two of the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship (NSW VAEF) artist talks with finalists Kate Brown, Dennis Golding, Julia Gutman and Nadia Hernández in conversation with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch. This event will take place live online via zoom Grab your ticket through artspace.org.au/fellowship... Images: 1. Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez, ‘De donde no se ve el horizonte y la vista choca contra la montaña / from where you can’t see the horizon and sight collides with the mountain’, 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Artspace, Sydney 2. Kate Brown @_ratitata_, 'This is a ghost voice', 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW VAEF, Artspace, Sydney 3. Dennis Golding @dennisgolding, 'Cast in cast out', 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW VAEF, Artspace, Sydney 4. Julia Gutman @julia_____gutman, 'No one Told Me the Shadows Could Be so Bright', 2020, installation view, 2020 NSW VAEF, Artspace, Sydney Photos: Document See more

04.01.2022 Final days to catch the 2020 Parramatta Artists’ Studio exhibition ‘How to measure the body against the earth’. Featuring works by Liam Benson @liam_benson , Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen @cindy_yz_chen and Sofiyah Ruqayah @sofiyahruqayah. ‘How to measure the body against the earth’ is showing every day in the Ideas Platform until Dec 13 Image: Liam Benson, 'Colonial Burn Line', 2020, detail. Photo: Document

02.01.2022 Tonights the night, we’re going live at 5:45pm for the announcement of the 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship recipient. Valued at $30,000, this Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW to enable a visual artist at the beginning of their career to undertake a self-directed program of professional development. This year's finalists are Tarik Ahlip @tarik.ahlip, Tiyan Baker, @___titan_baker___, Kate Brown @_ratitata_, Dennis Golding @dennisgold...ing, Julia Gutman @julia_____gutman, Nadia Hernández @nando_nandez and Kirtika Kain @kirtika.kain The Fellowship will be presented by The Hon. Don Harwin MLC, Minister for the Arts Join the live stream via our facebook, or tune in at artspace.org.au/fellowship Image: Document

01.01.2022 Following last night’s incredible news, here is 2020 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship Recipient, Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding, joined by Clothilde Bullen, Senior Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections and Exhibitions, MCA, Sydney, discussing his work for this year’s Fellowship. Dennis’s work, Cast in cast out, stems from memories of the Victorian lacework that lined the terrace houses in his childhood suburb of Redfern and throughout th...e work’s development the artist consulted with family, community and peers to embed shared lived experience into the installation. We wish to again congratulate Dennis on receiving this year’s fellowship, and to celebrate an important recognition of Australia’s First Peoples through his success. @dennisgolding #NSWVAEF @NAIDOC2020 See more