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Buxton Contemporary

Locality: Southbank, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9035 9339

Address: Cnr Southbank Boulevard and Dodds Street 3006 Southbank, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.buxtoncontemporary.com/

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23.01.2022 Poetry assumes surprising physical forms in our exhibition . In this exchange of ekphrasis, 31 writers, poets and artists respond to works in the Buxton Contemporary collection. Their imaginative and magical correspondence is now available to read online in the exhibition catalogue. Featuring essays by Wiradjuri writer Jeanine Leane, poet and academic Justin Clemens and exhibition curator Melissa Keys. Installation photographs by Christian Capurro, copyediting b...y Clare Williamson. Publication and signage design by Tristan Main. Read #Thisisapoem exhibition catalogue at link in bio. Installation view, , Buxton Contemproary, The University of Melbourne, 2021, with Bella Li, Planet Score 2021 (detail), photography Christian Capurro

22.01.2022 Director Ryan Johnston in The Age reflecting on a work he can't wait to experience IRL again... / by Yaritji Young "...So looking at this in the catalogue for a recent show Alcaston Gallery is a reminder that painting isn’t purely a visual experience, it’s not something we can experience fully digitally, it’s a bodily experience as well. And an experience that, importantly, provides a spatial encounter with different world views and systems of... being that are otherwise inaccessible, even if we can’t necessarily comprehend them..." -RJ https://www.theage.com.au//indigenous-culture-revealed-in- Image: Yaritji Young, / 2019 (detail), Synthetic Polymer paint on linen, 198 x 122 cm, Courtesy of the artist, Tjala Arts & Alcaston Gallery APY Art Centre Collective #YaritjiYoung #buxtoncontemporary

19.01.2022 ‘Mischievous art turns stock footage into radical satire' - Robert Nelson in The Age . , , . , ... https://www.theage.com.au//mischievous-art-turns-stock-foo... Image: Laresa Kosloff, 2020 (detail), 4K video (stock footage), 7:29 duration, Voice actress: Jenny Seedsman, Singing: Violet CoCo from Extinction Rebellion, Sound design: Final Sound, Music: Secession Studios, the artist, Light Source commission, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2020 @suttongallerymelbourne See more

17.01.2022 Reopening TOMORROW Wednesday 2 Dec - : What confrontations, complexities, critiques and conundra emerge when art adopts the perspective of the alien? The implications of this anthropic inversion proliferate throughout Xenogenesis, the first major solo exhibition of The Otolith Group in Australia, which brings together a cross-section of influential artworks from 2013 to 2018. The works selected are linked by The Otolith Group’s concern to fo...rmulate a science fiction of the present using historical and contemporary images and sounds. By treating the technologies of images, sounds, voices and colours as narrative vehicles for transtemporal travel, the artists seek to reimagine the contemporary global crises that ‘we’ have inherited from colonialism, renarrate the ways in which humans have shaped the planet, and reconfigure the ways that ‘we’ are changing in response to new technologies. Image: Installation view, The Otolith Group:Xenogenesis, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne 2020, with O Horizon 2018 (still), Courtesy of the Otolith Group and LUX, London the artists, photography Christian Capurro https://buxtoncontemporary.com/visit/

13.01.2022 Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts 2020 (detail) 4K video (stock footage) 7:29 duration Voice actress: Jenny Seedsman... Singing: Violet CoCo from Extinction Rebellion Sound design: Final Sound Music: Secession Studios the artist Light Source commission, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2020

13.01.2022 Creative Cosmos: #CreativeCosmos is a series of conversations exploring local and global contemporary art. Read Shreyas Karle in conversation with Melissa Keys HERE: https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitio/creative-cosmos-2/... Image: Shreyas Karle, ' ' 2016, dental plaster, 22 x 19 cm (diam)

12.01.2022 Mitch Cairns, Studies for This is a poem (detail), 2020, letraset on A4 paper, the artist

11.01.2022 Our third #Lightsource commission is STREAMING NOW by Grant Stevens is viewable until 20 Dec https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/grant-stevens/ ... In , an animated juvenile deer wanders through a computer-generated redwood forest. Programmed with artificial intelligence (AI), the fawn moves placidly around the environment, walking, eating, and resting undisturbed by distraction, living by algorithm. An AI camera tracks its movements, gliding through the forest to create a single continuous point of view shot, rendering in real-time. The fawn is isolated, confined and alone, but also protected and buffered from the chaotic world beyond. Working predominantly with computer graphics, moving image, and photography, Grant Stevens’ practice considers the various ways that digital technologies and conventions of representation mediate our inner worlds and social realities. In the contemporary world pervaded by film, television and the internet screens, Grant invites us to explore how we understand, relate to each other and ourselves, construct and communicate our experiences lived, imagined, social and psychological. Image: Grant Stevens, Fawn in the Forest 2020 (still), Live streamed procedurally generated computer graphics with sound, Assisted by Pat Younis, Courtesy the artist and @sullivanstrumpf Sydney #BuxtonContemporary #GrantStevens See more

11.01.2022 WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU #BuxtonContemporary reopens this Wednesday 2 December. The Otolith Group: Xenogenesis will be on view until 14 February 2021. We’ve introduced a number of new measures so you can enjoy your visit safely. When you visit you will be asked to use the hand sanitiser provided, provide your contact details, and wear a fitted face mask for the duration of your time in the museum.... To help us manage restrictions on visitor numbers, we encourage you to pre-book your visit via our website. Read more about our conditions of entry and safety precautions on our COVID-19 Information page; https://buxtoncontemporary.com/visit/ Please email [email protected] or call 03 9035 9339 if you have any questions.

11.01.2022 The 19 lithographs in Tracey Moffatt’s ‘Scarred for life’ make for a series of bitterly tragic (and often funny) coming-of-age snapshots. ‘All true stories told to me by friends’ she has said. Poet Brad Aaron Modlin delved further into these images. In ‘Compassion’ he frames facing adversity being humiliated, hurt and burned by love as a necessary rite-of-passage. In doing so, adolescent suffering is given a silver lining; it makes us more compassionate. #Thisisapoem i...s showing until November 14. Installation view, , Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 9 July 14 November 2021, Tracey Moffatt, ' 1975 and 1977 from the series 1994, photography Robert Colvin

10.01.2022 Creative Cosmos: The next in our series of conversations exploring local and global contemporary art: Christian Capurro in conversation with Melissa Keys https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitio/christian-capurro/... Image: Christian Capurro, ( ) 1999-2010, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2010

10.01.2022 David Jolly’s provided the inspiration for Bella Li’s . The Buxton Contemporary collection painting depicts a close-up exterior shot of a conventional office towera kind of corporate blank canvas where any story can be projected. is a playful tribute to the eponymous 1988 film, which follows two unlikely friends over many decades. Inside Jolly’s office tower, Barb privately injects her workplace friendship with the depth of on-sc...reen loyalty between Hillary and CC, two opposite friends who are there for each other through the tribulations of female life. Read #Thisisapoem exhibition catalogue at the link in our bio Installation view, , Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2021, David Jolly, 2006.

10.01.2022 Let’s Melbourne Again

09.01.2022 I believe, because science proves that colour is a vibration, like sound, that has a wavelength, that you’ll have a very different experience when you’re not wearing clothes and can feel that vibration. - Stuart Ringholt in The Age #NakedwithRingholt https://www.theage.com.au//buxton-commissions-art-for-pant

08.01.2022 On your bike, Melbourne! Buxton Contemporary reopens November 5.

08.01.2022 We are delighted to share our second #LightSourcecommission is a darkly humorous and critical short film by Melbourne artist Laresa Kosloff assembled and edited entirely from corporate video stock footage sourced on the internet. tells a fantastical story about frustrated climate scientists who come up with a plan to ensure they are no longer ignored. The scientists create a new pathogen and clandestinely distribute it to corporate offices ...via indoor plants. The pathogen makes corporate workers less productive and more open to possibilities beyond relentless growth and the profit motive. Laresa Kosloff, Radical Acts 2020 (detail), 4K video (stock footage), 7:29 duration, Voice actress: Jenny Seedsman, Singing: Violet CoCo from Extinction Rebellion, Sound design: Final Sound, Music: Secession Studios, the artist, Light Source commission, Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne, 2020 Sutton Gallery https://buxtoncontemporary.com//laresa-kosloff-radical-ac/ #Lightsourcecommission #LaresaKosloff #BuxtonContemporary #BuxtonContemporaryCollection #RadicalActs

07.01.2022 The University of Melbourne Open Days 2020 start TODAY! Join us for a webinar to learn about the museums and galleries on campus & the opportunities these spaces provide for students 1.30PM TODAY - Learn how students are embedded and engaged in the Museums and Collections programs ... 12.30PM SUNDAY - Find out more about the museums and galleries on campus https://culturalcommons.edu.au/cultural-commons-at-virtual/

04.01.2022 Durrmu artists' Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Kathleen Korda have been mentioned as artists and cultural leaders who have influenced artist Katie West as part of Bu...xton Contemporary’s ‘Creative Cosmos'; a digital program of conversations with artists. Katie met Regina and Kathleen while attending a weaving workshop at @lot19artspace in Castlemaine. Who are some of the thinkers, artists and cultural leaders who influence you? I admire Regina Pilawuk Wilson and Kathleen Korda, artists from Peppimenarti, west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. I met Regina and Kathleen while they were visiting Castlemaine, Victoria, to run a workshop on how to make string from palm leaf and how to dye the fibre. This was the first time I had ever been shown how to make string by rubbing the fibre on your leg in a back-and-forth motion. The process requires a gentle touch and nuanced knowledge in your fingertips, and once expertly mastered, it is a quick and efficient method. Regina and Kathleen are highly skilled and are generous with their knowledge, which is deeply entwined with family and country. Knowing their history and how Peppimenarti came to be as a community, I deeply admire and look up to them as artists and elders. #culturalleaders #durrmuarts #durrmuartists #weaving #peppimenarti #keepingculturestrong #weavingworkshop #sharingculture #intergenerationalknowledge #nimbi @ Castlemaine, Victoria

02.01.2022 Missed @laresa.kosloff on @themixabc last Friday? GOOD NEWS, it's now available on ABC iview Report by @lisaskerrett

02.01.2022 Grant Stevens, Fawn in the Forest 2020 (still), Live streamed procedurally generated computer graphics with sound, Assisted by Pat Younis, Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney LIVE STREAM available until 20 December: https://buxtoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/grant-stevens/

01.01.2022 Buxton Contemporary joins so many others in grieving the loss of dearest colleague, committee member, richly imaginative artist and friend Kate Daw. A magnetically powerful and positive force in the artworld, Kate passionately advocated for artists, education and for the pursuit of a rich and creative life. We extend our love and thoughts to her family Robert, Theo and Camille, her friends, peers, students and colleagues. Hugely generous, loving and incomparable, Kate leaves an enormous gap and will be forever missed. Kate Daw, 2013, On top of the world: Flags for Melbourne series 2013, digital print on polyester, nylon, 122.0 250.0 cm

01.01.2022 Shreyas Karle in conversation with Melissa Keys for Creative Cosmos a series of conversations exploring local and global contemporary art. Initiated by Buxton Contemporary, Victoria, Australia.