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STALA Contemporary Art

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 417 184 638

Address: 12 Cleaver Street, West Perth 6005 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.stalacontemporary.com.au

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22.01.2022 THEY WHO DREAM BY DAY // Enigmatic and exquisite new giclée print by Michele Ulrich as part of our current exhibition Remove the Truth on now until 30 September @stalacontemporaryA must-see show by the artists of Studio Payoka also featuring stunning sculptures and prints by Adam Hisham Ismail and William Leggett and captivating paintings by Scott RobsonRemove the Truth is supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

22.01.2022 THE TREES NO LONGER RECOGNISE THEIR FRUIT// Detail of Adam Hisham Ismails darkly ambiguous mixed media sculpture as part of the Studio Payoka artists collective new group exhibition Remove the Truth - @scottrobsonart @adamhishamismail @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele Opening next Wednesday 16 September @stalacontemporary 6-8pmRemove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

22.01.2022 OPEN STUDIO // As one of the only commercial galleries in Perth with an in-house artist studio, current Artist-in-Residence Alex Maciver @alexmaciverdotcom welcomes you today to visit him between 10-1 (DM him to say youre popping in)Alex is preparing for a new solo exhibition @stalacontemporary in October alongside Liam Dee @liamdeeart and some of his artist peersIt is truly wonderful to be able to support contemporary visual artists in a practical way when studio space is limited in Perth!SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

21.01.2022 ...there are heroes in the seaweed (youre red, youre dead) // Arresting and ambiguous narratives from Michele Ulrich as part of the Studio Payoka artists collective new group exhibition Remove the Truth - @scottrobsonart @adamhishamismail @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele Opening next Wednesday 16 September @stalacontemporary 6-8pmRemove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

21.01.2022 TOUCH THE SKY (1) // Today is the last day of Kay Woods superb solo Expectation and Other IroniesIt is always a great thrill to support WA contemporary women artists. Some of the works will stay in stock, all works online. This beauty is surprisingly still available.SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

19.01.2022 YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME // Kay Woods work emerges as a result of engagement with her world wherein phenomena are explored for what they do not say the feeling of the invisible within the visible. She sees her work as intersubjective and follows Umberto Ecos ideas on informal art, in considering these works open in that they propose a wide range of interpretive possibilities and whose substantial indeterminacy allows for a number of possible readings, a constellatio...n of elements that lend themselves to all sorts of reciprocal relationships.This can also manifest in the the titling of the work. Sometimes the titles refer to actual places, sometimes they are lines from songs, elsewhere as in the case of Please Explain?, A Painting is Not a Megaphone and Youre Not the Boss of Me (featured here) they are a wry comment on the perpetual Q & A between artist and inner-critic.You can see this and all the other lyrical works in Kays solo exhibition Expectation and Other Ironies on now @stalacontemporary Wed - Sat 10am - 4pm until next Wed 9 SeptemberSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS See more

19.01.2022 OPENING TONIGHT // Remove the Truth, the darkly dramatic new group exhibition by the Studio Payoka artists collective of Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele UlrichThis exhibition has been a year in the making and there has been a tremendous amount of BTS graft to get it to fruition.Team Studio Payoka (and special thanks to Jane and Kayla and Alex Maciver in going above and beyond to assist) are to be congratulated on a monumental achievement! The Remove the Truth exhibition will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS @ STALA Contemporary Art

18.01.2022 THE KID // Original ceramic sculpture by Marcia Espinosa has gone to a wonderful new home! How well placed is it alongside the flying ducks and fabulous red sideboard? Thanks Jane @bepi_columbo for sharing Look our for Marcias next solo AUTOMATON next February 2021 together with a solo by Di Cubitt @cubittdi The paths less troddenSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

17.01.2022 COMING SOON - Remove the Truth // #Repost @studio_payoka with @get_repost We are back on! Studio Payoka is excited to announce 'Remove the Truth' an exhibition of new works by artists Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich to be shown @stalacontemporary Opening Wednesday September 16th, Remove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.com. Visit www.stalacontemporary.com.au//group-exhibition-s...tudio-payo for more info SCOTT ROBSON Numbers Are Meaningless Here 2020 oil on board Informed by an internal catalogue of myth and mysticism, Studio Payoka artist Scott Robson employs a process of free association of subconscious imagery to compose a series of large figurative paintings saturated with colour and symbolism. These are postcards sent from a dreamscape where disembodied hands sign in rudimentary code, animals adopt human personas and strange figures engaged in unknowable ritual pause to return the viewers gaze. Presenting images that recall religious iconography and the covers of pulp fantasy novels and comic books in equal measure, Robson exposes the thread of esotericism woven into the fabric of popular culture. @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele @adamhishamismail @scottrobsonart @studio_payoka @stalacontemporary #removethetruth #alchemy #mysticism #disembodied #contemporaryart #artcollective #artexhibition #portaiture #painting #modernart #oilpaint #skull #westernaustralianart #dreamscape #subconcious #pulpfiction #religiousiconography #esoteric

16.01.2022 KEEPING IT REAL // 3/4 of the Studio Payoka team (Scott Robson completes the collective) at the end of a long day of bumping in and install @stalacontemporary for their Remove the Truth group exhibition.A monumental show in every sense of the word!Opening Night Wed 16 September 6pmSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

16.01.2022 I CONJURE YE ANEW // This highly original painting (oil on canvas 2020, 100 x 81cm) from the talented hands of Scott Robson will be part of our upcoming exhibition Remove the Truth by the artists of collective Studio Payoka @scottrobsonart @adamhishamismail @williamleggettart @michelemacmicheleExhibition opens Wed 16 SeptemberWorks online nowSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

16.01.2022 LAST DAY // Tomorrow is your last chance to see Kay Woods wonderful solo Expectation and Other Ironies 10am - 4pm @stalacontemporarySERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

15.01.2022 COMING SOON - Remove the Truth // #Repost @studio_payoka with @get_repost "i just love the conc man" 'Remove the Truth' an exhibition of new works by Studio Payoka artists Adam Hisham Ismai, William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich to be shown @stalacontemporary.Opening Wednesday September the 16th. Remove the Truth will be supported by the @deptlgsc , Bank of I. D. E. A. S and Strongearth WA... WILLIAM LEGGETT Detail of Modules 14, 27, 5, 12, 8 2020 Concrete, steel Studio Payoka artist William Leggett combines an interest in the ability of materials to transfer meaning through their history of use and representation with a unique visual language drawn from a diverse range of influences. Visions of architectural movements, science fiction and utopian dreams weave into one another building worlds of distant familiarity, that serve as mediations on the relationships that exist between man, technology and the environment. Remove the Truth sees the implementing of digital tools at a design level, alongside a further assimilation of concrete construction technologies into the practice. The result is an evolution of an ongoing body of work entitled Monument to the Concrete International. Modular, geometric, concrete objects transform into structures that explore spaces between the worlds of architecture and sculpture. @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele @adamhishamismail @scottrobsonart #module #removethetruth #sciencefiction #westernaustralianartist #concrete #exhibitionopening #formwork #computeraideddesign #worldbuilding #pertharchitecture #distantfamiliarity #conc #contemporaryart #brutalist #sculpture #utopian

14.01.2022 THE TREES NO LONGER RECOGNISE THEIR FRUIT // How incredible is the level of detail in this phenomenal Adam Hisham Ismail sculpture?We are nearly ready for the opening of Remove the Truth group exhibition also featuring new work by his Studio Payoka peers @williamleggettart @scottrobsonart @michelemacmicheleOpening Night Wednesday 16 September 6-8pm @stalacontemporaryRemove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS @ STALA Contemporary Art

13.01.2022 STILL LIFE (17) // Still on show at STALA @stalacontemporary until Wednesday 9 September as part of Kay Woods wonderful solo Expectation and Other IroniesSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

13.01.2022 COMING SOON - Remove the Truth // #Repost @studio_payoka with @get_repost "A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners..." Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy, 1985... Remove the Truth' an exhibition of new works by Studio Payoka artists Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich to be shown @stalacontemporaryOpening Wednesday September the 16th. Remove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of IDEAS and StrongEarthWA. ADAM HISHAM ISMAIL work in progress 2020 mixed media @adamhishamismail @scottrobsonart @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele #removethetruth #contemporaryart #worksinprogress #seedy #cormacmccarthy #sculpture #vivarium #darkaesthetic #dantesinferno #highrise #jgballard #cookiemonster #cinematic #boo #nikond750 #narrativeart #colourpopme #photography #artforsale

12.01.2022 EURYDICE // Intriguing new painting by Scott Robson as part of the Studio Payoka artists collective new group exhibition Remove the Truth - @scottrobsonart @adamhishamismail @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele Opening next Wednesday 16 September @stalacontemporaryRemove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

12.01.2022 MONUMENTAL // Concrete and print works by William Leggett for the newly opened Remove the Truth group exhibition @stalacontemporaryTogether with searing works by his Studio Payoka peers Adam Hisham Ismail, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich, Remove the Truth runs until 30 September and is proudly supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comFt. here clockwise from left: 1. Module 14, 2020,concrete, steel, 40 x 39 x 30cm 2. Projections of the Archispheric 2 2020, giclée print (framed), 86 x 61cm 3. Monument 15 (module 9, 27, 10, 11, 1, 14) 2020, (comprising six concrete modules) 220 x 39 x 30cm 4. Projections of the Archispheric 3 2020, giclée print (framed), 61 x 86cm SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

12.01.2022 MODULE 2 // This bright and brutalist beast forms part of the monumental new body of work by William Leggett @williamleggettart as part of Remove the Truth, a Studio Payoka artist collective group exhibition opening this Wednesday. Also featuring works by Adam Hisham Ismail, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich.William Leggett combines an interest in the ability of materials to transfer meaning through their history of use and representation with a unique visual language drawn... from a diverse range of influences.Visions of architectural movements, science fiction and utopian dreams weave into one another building worlds of distant familiarity, that serve as mediations on the relationships that exist between man, technology and the environment.Remove the Truth sees the implementing of digital tools at a design level, alongside a further assimilation of concrete construction technologies into the practice. The result is an evolution of an ongoing body of work entitled Monument to the Concrete International.Modular, geometric, concrete objects transform into structures that explore spaces between the worlds of architecture and sculpture.A monumental must-see show in every sense of the word!SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS See more

10.01.2022 MISDIRECTION // A standout complex and arresting artwork by Scott Robson on display now @stalacontemporary for the Remove the Truth group exhibition opening tonight!Informed by an internal catalogue of myth and mysticism, Studio Payoka artist Scott Robson employs a process of free association of subconscious imagery to compose a series of large figurative paintings saturated with colour and symbolism.These are postcards sent from a dreamscape where disembodied hands ...sign in rudimentary code, animals adopt human personas and strange figures engaged in unknowable ritual pause to return the viewers gaze. Presenting images that recall religious iconography and the covers of pulp fantasy novels and comic books in equal measure, Robson exposes the thread of esotericism woven into the fabric of popular culture.SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS See more

08.01.2022 TAR PITS RED // Dramatic new print work from the über talented Adam Hisham Ismail @adamhishamismail as part of the just opened Remove the Truth group exhibition @stalacontemporaryYou are warmly invited to the gallery today at 2pm to hear Adam In conversation with his Studio Payoka peers William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele UlrichSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

07.01.2022 GICLEÉ TO GO // Had the pleasure of seeing Michele Ulrich @stalacontemporary today with some of her beautiful and enigmatic gicleé prints as part of the upcoming Remove the Truth group exhibition with her Studio Payoka peers @adamhishamismail @williamleggettart @scottrobsonart This work part of the proposal is one of Micheles favouritesPut this show in your diaries arts aficionados...SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

07.01.2022 PROJECTIONS OF THE ARCHISPHERIC 1 // William Leggetts monochromatic and architecturally dramatic giclée print as part of the Studio Payoka artists collective new group exhibition Remove the Truth - @scottrobsonart @adamhishamismail @williamleggettart @michelemacmichele Opening next Wednesday 16 September @stalacontemporary 6-8pmRemove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

06.01.2022 BTS // An incredible amount of hard work, blood, sweat and tears goes into installing each and every art exhibition...Grateful for the support and gritty, authentic captures of the Studio Payoka and STALA team at work by Jane Robson, Scotts wife, thank you sincerely!Showing the human heart and earnest endeavour of focused and dedicated artists in bringing their vision to life. So thank you Jane @bepi_columbo Alex @alexmaciverdotcom and Kayla @kaylalush88 for quietly being integral pieces of the exhibition jigsawSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS @ STALA Contemporary Art

06.01.2022 PAIRINGS // Some favourite groupings from our current exhibition Expectation and Other Ironies, a solo of new paintings of abstract and figurative work by Kay WoodOn display now @stalacontemporary until 9 September. A joy!SERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS @ STALA Contemporary Art

05.01.2022 COMING SOON- Remove the Truth // #Repost @studio_payoka with @get_repost And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed there too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. Haruki Murakami Kafka on ...the Shore, 2002 Remove the Truth' an exhibition of new works by Studio Payoka artists Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich to be shown @stalacontemporaryOpening Wednesday September the 16th. Remove the Truth will be supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of IDEAS and StrongEarthWA. MICHELE ULRICH untitled 2020 giclee print on archival paper #removethetruth #drawing #printmaking #giclee #inversion #blackboard #heart #linework #figurativeart #exhibition #westernaustralianartist #blood #red #dead #contemporaryart #contemporarydrawing #artoftheday #blackandwhite

03.01.2022 BEST CLIENTS // When your loyal clients allow you to snap them in the moment and they unintentionally colour match the artwork Thanks Judy for your enthusiasm for Michele Ulrichs they who dream by day print!From Remove the Truth on now @stalacontemporary until 30 SeptemberSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

02.01.2022 JOIN US // In conversation with the exceptional and eclectic ensemble of the Studio Payoka artists collective: Adam Hisham Ismail, William Leggett, Scott Robson and Michele Ulrich 2pm TOMORROW Sat 19 @stalacontemporaryWed love to see you as the team chat about their practices and dramatic new group exhibition Remove the Truth now open at STALA.Remove the Truth is supported by @deptlgsc, Bank of I. D. E. A. S and www.strongearthwa.comSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS

01.01.2022 OPENING NIGHT // Remove the Truth exhibition featuring some of the enthusiastic crowd who attended on Wednesday night.Thank you Stuart Elliott for opening the exhibition and @jesse_rose for the photos and the support of the Studio Payoka artists @williamleggett_art @adamhishamismail @scottrobsonart @michelemacmicheleSERIOUSLY COLLECTABLE ART MATTERS @ STALA Contemporary Art