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Mailbox Art Space

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: 141-143 Flinders Lane 3000 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://mailboxartspace.com.au

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25.01.2022 Pimento Mori: Life and Desk Lunch by Chloe Smith opens tonight 6-8pm

22.01.2022 Mailbox Art Space is proud to announce its new directorship! - Commencing March 2018 the space will be under the excellent direction of Andy Butler, John Brooks and Louise Meuwissen - whose collective vision, diversity and passion will deliver a freshness and continued vitality into this loved, heritage, alternative art space. - We look forward to the exciting calendar of exhibitions, public programs and collaborations these three creative practitioners will be delivering ove...r the coming years. Congratulations! - Departing directors Andree Ruggeri, Jake Treacy and Sigourney Jacks would like to thank all our patrons, supporters and creative collaborators for all their on-going commitment and warmth over the past two years. Thank you, we have loved every moment of it! - #mailboxartspace #directors @andyray87 @l00ming @louisemeuwissen See more

20.01.2022 Please join us for the opening of Talitha Kennedy's @talitha.kennedy 'To Be Held' at Mailbox this Thursday 7th November 6-8pm 7 30 November 2019 Open boxes, artist chat and object holding sessions: Saturday 9 November 2pm ... Monday 11 November 1pm and by appointment To be held plays with the Do not touch rule of art where sculpture and installation tempt tactility and intimacy between the object and the viewer. Displayed in Mailbox Art Space are my hand-stitched black leather soft-sculptures which on occasion will be uncaged to hold and touch so that they are truly known as material objects. I relate to leather as flesh like my own flesh so by re-animating industrialised dead animal skin I suggest my existence as possibly one with the natural world - animal, plant and landscape. All these things can be known by touching it and reversibly they come into being by being touched by the toucher. The corporeal qualities of sculpture allow an encounter with the observed world to be transformed into creatures to engage with tactility and visibly as a substitute holdable object. I am interested in our cultural failure to know ourselves as part of the natural environment and I make comfort devices for this separation anxiety. Talitha Kennedy works in sculpture, drawing and installation practices. Recent solo exhibitions include Mars Gallery (Melbourne VIC), Interlude Gallery (Sydney NSW) and Umbrella Studios (Townsville QLD). Inclusion in curated group shows include Legacy: Reflections on Mabo currently touring nationally with Visions of Australia; Fecund: Fertile Worlds toured in the Northern Territory with Artback NT, As long as the night is dark at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and MARS Gallery, Not Fair concurrent with 2014 Melbourne Art Fair and RendezVoodoo Fontantelle ARI Adelaide. In 2011 Talitha completed Masters by Research in Creative Arts at Charles Darwin University Darwin with an Australian Post-Graduate Award and awarded a Qantas Foundation Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award and ArtStart Grant from Australia Council. Image: Talitha Kennedy, To be held (twig tree) 2019, leather, thread, polyester fibre, wire and silica gravel, 21 x 8 x 8 cm. Photo b

10.01.2022 Please join artist Teresa Hsieh on Sat 24 Feb, 2pm for a floor talk about her recent practice and current exhibition at Mailbox

09.01.2022 We are now taking proposals to exhibit at Mailbox from August to January next year! Applications close Monday 28th May! Details on our website via bio

08.01.2022 Thank you to all who came to celebrate the opening HASHTAG NAMASTE by Snehargho Ghosh last night! For any that missed out the exhibition continues until Sunday 28 October.... _ 'Hashtag Namaste' is a solo exhibition by Snehargho Ghosh, (@snehargho.photography) an Indian born, Paris based photographer. This new series is inspired by the artists own uncomfortable attempts to maintain a yoga practice during a four-year period of living in Melbourne, and of feeling bewildered in our citys slick yoga studios. The images speak to a sense of nostalgia and alienation in encountering a distorted cultural practice thats meant to feel like home, while also giving an insight in to a local yoga school near Sneharghos parents house in Siliguri, West Bengal. Snehargho Ghosh is a photographer born in West Bengal, India. He was previously based in Melbourne, and now lives and works in Paris. He has exhibited work at Brisbane Powerhouse, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Blacktown Art Centre, as well as in exhibitions internationally in India and Europe. His photographs have been published by the Age, The Guardian, Photodust, Al Jazeera and Peril Magazine. In 2017 he was a participant in Footscray Community Art Centres Emerging Cultural Leaders program This project was made with the assistance of Rajesh Das and the students of the Academy of Vedic Yoga. Mailbox Art Space operates on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded, and acknowledge them as Traditional custodians of these lands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. #namaste

07.01.2022 CITIES OF GOLD Gonzalo Ceballos x Brainfoetus (Laura McMahon) @dirty_sprite_pouring @brainfoetus Please join us TONIGHT to celebrating the opening, 6-8pm!! ... The exhibition continues until Sunday 30 September 'Cities of Gold' presents a constructed personal universe of emotionally charged, allegorical forms. In their first collaborative exhibition Gonzalo Ceballos and Brainfoetus (aka Laura McMahon) search for where true value lies. Their shrine-like works present idealised, imagined realities and inner narratives filled with talismans, symbols of worship, protection and rebirth, fantastical characters, and depictions of home. Gonzalo Ceballos arrived in Melbourne at the age of four. His family fled the Pinochet regime in Chile and he grew up in the commission housing community of inner-city Melbourne. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Victorian College of the Arts, and has previously exhibited at Chapterhouse Lane, The Food Court, Blak Dot Gallery, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Seventh Gallery, a laundromat and a public toilet. Laura McMahon, who signs her work Brainfoetus, is a Fremantle native now living and working in Hobart, Tasmania. Predominantly self-taught and hailing from a street art background, Laura is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist. Her work employs a host of recurring characters who appear in an increasingly elaborative narrative - which runs parallel to her own - discussing her sense of self and belonging. Mailbox Art Space operates on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded, and acknowledge them as Traditional custodians of these lands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.