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West Space

Locality: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Address: 30 Perry St 3066 Collingwood, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.westspace.org.au

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25.01.2022 West Space Offsite Issue 3: ‘Myths & Facts’ by Rafaela Pandolfini is online now. ‘Myths & Facts’ is a collaborative research project that interrogate Australia’s failure to address environmental violence at a policy level. Find the full issue via the link in our bio.... @rafaelapandolfini

24.01.2022 West Space Staff and Board are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Kate Daw, a generous artist, teacher, advocate, mentor and friend. Kate was a strong supporter of West Space and a mentor to so many artists in our community. We are grateful for her energy and immense contribution our lives and extend our heartfelt sympathies to her family and friends in this difficult time. Image: Kate Daw, Voice (G. Greene, 1969), 2009, typed ink on canvas, three parts (detail)

24.01.2022 Rafaela Pandolfini, ‘Needless Anxieties, 2020, now on Offsite Issue 3 Painting by Sabine Pandolfini Kirkwood Font design by Mitch Brown Caption tracing by Rafaela Pandolfini... Sabine Pandolfini Kirkwood: It’s a Koala because Koala’s trees are going down so we have to save them in a washing basket with nice comfy pillows so they could stay alive from the fires.

22.01.2022 At West Space we are saddened to learn of the passing of artist, musician, curator and small press publisher, John Nixon (1949-2000). John was a prolific maker, mentor, teacher and collaborator. His enthusiasm crossed generations and we are grateful for his immense contribution to our community. We had the pleasure of working with John on his curated series An Evening Of Musik at Bourke St between 2017 and 2019. The broad range of artists, musicians and audiences John engag...ed through these events is a reflection of his generous energy and spirit. We send our thoughts and sincere condolences to Sue, Emma and his extended family and friends during this time. Vale John Nixon, thank you.

21.01.2022 West Space is thrilled to announce the group exhibition Slime & Ashes, curated by Matthew Harris, and the reopening of our gallery at Collingwood Yards on November 28 2020. Participating artists: Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Tony Albert, Aretha Brown, Jemi Gale, Lionel Grijalva, Bronwyn Hack, Kaymay Hallas, Victoria Todorov, Peter Waples-Crowe, Terry Williams. Presented in partnership with @artsprojectaust ... Thank you to our funding partners @yarracityarts @creative_vic @auscouncilarts @matthewharris___ #matthewharris @tonyalbert #tonyalbert @abdul_rahman_abdullah #abdulrahmanabdullah @_enterthedragon_ #ArethaBrown @jemi.gale #jemigale #LionelGrijalva #BronwynHack #KaymayHallas #Victoriatodorov @peterwaplescrowe #peterwaplescrowe #Terrywilliams IMAGE credit: Lionel Grijalva. Image courtesy of the artist and Arts Project Australia Image description

21.01.2022 Sound on Nice to cruise to, some textures that remind me of the landscape, deconstructed vocal stuff, some topical lyrics. Jeanette Little for Offsite Issue 3 Listen via the link in our bio

20.01.2022 ARTIST WALKS: Arini Byng & Amelia Wallin, is now available on West Space OFFSITE. Arini and Amelia discuss archiving a body of work, performance for the screen, Arini’s work ‘Indistinct Chatter’ (2018), and how Melbourne’s lockdown led to a reaffirmation of touch. @_home_body @ameliawallin Arini Byng is an artist who makes body-based work. Born on Gadigal land, she is of Lenape, African American and Anglo-Celtic descent. Arini works with the affective qualities of material...s, gestures and settings - undertaking exercises in image, movement and form to negotiate political scenes. Arini’s performances and videos are complex, intimate studies in gesture and action. ARTIST WALKS is a series of conversations on creative production, process and proximity, recorded on Wurundjeri land. The first of these conversations took place in October, during Melbourne’s COVID-19 lockdown, where West Space staff undertook socially distanced walks with artists living within their 5km radius. Image description: [Tile 1] Black text on a yellow and beige background that reads: Podcast: Artist Walks. Amelia Wallin & Arini Byng. [Tile 2] A photograph with a beige border. The photograph depicts a dilapidated chain link fence in some scrubby bush land. An orange nasturtium vine is crawling up the fence in the centre of the image. In the foreground is a large branch of dead eucalyptus. In the background is green foliage of gum trees and other native trees.

20.01.2022 ‘It’s a strange thing missing something you don’t yet know My experience of Improvements and Reproductions and the new West Space gallery has been exclusively through a screen - Pixel, iPad and iMac - these retina displays are good, but not good enough to give me what I miss the most.’ - Excerpt from Gertrude Gallery @gertrudecontemporary Coordinator Siobhan Sloper @slopes____ Ode to @WestSpace. Read the full text via the link in @gertrudecontemporary bio... Image Improvements and Reproductions, West Space. Credit: Photography by Aaron Christopher Rees. [Image description: West Space gallery at Collingwood Yards with installed work]

20.01.2022 We’re delighted to announce that Matilda Davis’ editions are now open for presale via the link in our bio. The editions will be available to pick up from West Space in mid-December post can also be arranged. Produced in partnership with our friends and neighbours, @thesocialstudio, two of Matilda’s oil on linen canvas paintings have been carefully reproduced onto a silk cotton blend fabric, hand finished and hemmed. Each edition measures44 x 56cm. Matilda Davis,Parfum de ...larmes, 2020. @tildy_davis Animation courtesy of our friend and collaborator Benjamin Thomson @benjamin_thomson

20.01.2022 We’re closing a little bit early today for our end of year staff party Slime and Ashes reopens again tomorrow (Sat 12 Dec) 12-4pm. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope to see you at West Space soon! Image description: Black text on a light blue background that reads: Please note: West Space will be closing at 4:30 today, Fri 11 Dec

19.01.2022 this Saturday at @mpavilion and online, West Space x @experimenta_ preset: ‘Disrupting the Digital’, a conversation on the disruption of in-person exhibitions, and the possibilities this holds for alternative modes of engagement. Featuring West Space’s Tamsen Hopkinson, Experimenta’s Nicky Pastore, artist Fayen D’Evie and curator Jessica Clark with curator and writer Emma McRae ... @tamsenhopkinson @muckletimes @clark_jessicaa @thatemmamcrae

17.01.2022 This NAIDOC week we’re reflecting on this years theme: Always Was, Always Will Be. We’re honoured to be working with some incredible Indigenous artists in our upcoming exhibition ‘Slime & Ashes’. This image is a work by Aretha Brown @_enterthedragon_ that will be exhibited in ‘Slime & Ashes’, centred around a photograph of an unknown Aboriginal activist at the forefront of police brutality. Aretha writes: This work questions existing structures that have been built to oppre...ss Aboriginal peoples here in Australia since 1788. The second slide is a document put together by Aretha with 73 questions that you can use to reflect on your own allyship and relationship to colonisation. The full document is available for download via the link in our bio. West Space stands on the sovereign lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, and we acknowledge that their sovereignty was never ceded. Specifically, we recognise the significance of the Collingwood and Smith St area where our gallery operates, to local Indigenous communities. As uninvited guests on this land, we pay our deepest respects to Wurundjeri elders, past, present and emerging. Image description: 1: A black and white photograph of an Aboriginal person being pushed into the back of a van by 5 police. The person is facing the camera and holding up their fist in a black power salute. There is a border of pearl beads glued around the image. 2: Black text on a white background with a detailed black and white border. The heading reads Decolonising Yo’self, the subheading reads Questions for the thoughtful ally.

15.01.2022 David Chesworth’s ‘Indexing the Cylinder’ recounts his experience of viewing and listening to a one hundred year old wax cylinder recording of an Indigenous elder while visiting the storeroom at Melbourne Museum twenty years ago.The artwork itself becomes a document that archives dubious certainties of human memory and questions our ability to categorically define and locate experience. @chesworth.d Watch the film and explore Offsite Issue 4 via the link in our bio

15.01.2022 West Space will be closed from tomorrow until Wednesday 6th Jan, but while we’re having a break you can view Slime & Ashes virtually thanks to Matt + Ross Melbourne Museum Photography! @countercoulter @matthewrstanton Link in our stories, or view the 3D tour on our website by heading to the Slime & Ashes exhibition page. See you next year!... Image description: A screen grab video of a 3D virtual tour of Slime & Ashes at West Space. The video pans around the gallery, and zooms in on the detail of Abdul-Rahman Abdullah before zooming back out and completing a full pan of the space.

15.01.2022 ARIST WALKS is a series of conversations on creative production, process and proximity recorded on Wurundjeri land. The first of these conversations took place in October during the COVID-19 lockdown, where West Space staff undertook socially distanced walks with artists living within their 5km radius. In this conversation between Natalie Thomas and Andy Butler was recorded from the empty grandstand of the football oval across the road from Preston Markets, during the height... of stage four lockdowns. Nat talks about precarity, the power of culture, and coming to art from suburban Brisbane. @andyray87 @natty_solo West Space is grateful to the City of Yarra for their support of this project through the City of Yarra annual grants fund. @yarracityarts Follow the link in our bio to listen to the conversation or read the transcript. Image descriptions 1.A yellow and grey square that reads PODCAST: ARTIST WALKS. Andy Butler & Natalie Thomas 2. A photo of a woman hanging by finger tips off a concrete ledge with traffic far below. She is looking directly at the camera with a worried expression.

14.01.2022 ‘Myths & Facts’ by Rafaela Pandolfini, Offsite issue 3 Painting by Rozsa Pandolfini Kirkwood Font design by Mitch Brown Caption tracing by Rafaela Pandolfini... Rozsa Pandolfini Kirkwood: I told you. It’s a koala. They are almost extinct, that’s why I drew it. @rafaelapandolfini

13.01.2022 Phil Dadson’s @phildadsonic ‘10 Sound Stories from an Ongoing Collection’ available to read on West Space Offsite Issue 4 Image description: A green square with black text which reads ... PUNAKAIKI On a dirt path, high on the cliffs of Punakaiki, two crickets sing. Against an accompaniment of the sea surging at the base of the cliffs they weave a hocket, one each side of the track. I lie in the middle spellbound, absorbed in their miniature world.

13.01.2022 West Space is now open on Sundays! New opening hours: Wednesday - Friday: 12-6pm... Saturday - Sunday: 12-4pm See more

10.01.2022 Now on West Space Offsite , @jazzmoney_______ ‘s mix to accompany ‘Myths & Facts’, by @rafaelapandolfini Myths&Facts will be presented in February 2021 as part of PHOTO2021 @photofestivalau . The project takes form as a processional series of images displayed on billboards along the Hume Highway in Eora, Wiradjuri, Taungurong and Woiworung countrie Jazz’s mix is the third in a series of 8 which collectively will span the 878kms / 9 hour 12 minute drive from Sydney to Melbou...rne. Thank you to @cityofmelbourne and @cityofsydney for their support of this project.

09.01.2022 Opening November 28, Matthew Clarke’s ‘Little Cloudy Wallaby’, our inaugural exhibition at West Space Window. I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. I started my life as an artist at South West TAFE in 2005. I graduated in 2011. I live in South West Victoria, Warrnamboool. One of my major influences is the natural environment that surrounds me which has led me make art of birds, wallabies and turtles/tortoises. Another one of my influences is the people immedi...ately around me. I paint portraits of my two mentors Barry Tate and Glenn Morgan. My portrait of Glenn Morgan appeared on a Melbourne Art tram and my portrait of Barry Tate appeared on a street mural in Adelaide. I paint acrylic paint on linen, I make sculptures out of ply wood, I draw on paper and make lino cuts. - @matthewclarke86_art Thank you for city of yarra for your support if this project @yarracityarts

09.01.2022 @constantecology is excited to introduce Constant Ecology participating artist Kate Ellis. . During Constant Ecology Kate Ellis is interested in examining the fragility of isolation, separation and the impossibility of a protected ecology through the development of a series of hanging pouch forms made from poodle fur. These pouches will reference wildlife pouches that Kate made last Summer for Joeys injured and orphaned during Australia’s bushfires. . The development of thes...e forms will be impossibly fine and translucent, their various sizes will not be quite human scale and will explore the seemingly contrary sensations of suffocation and constriction, and nurture and comfort. . Kate Ellis’s exhibitions include 2018 Untitled (Poodle/Human) at Caves Gallery, Melbourne International Arts Festival (2006), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (2004), and several at 1st Floor (1994-2002). Recent group exhibitions include Hello Goodbye at Caves (2019), Deakin University Small Sculpture Award (2019), The Utopian Object at C3 (2019), Gardening is Not a Rational Act at C3 (2017), Every Day at Murray White Room (2013), A Fragile State Martin Brown Sydney (2009), Melbourne Art Fair (2008), You’re So Vain Karen Woodbury Gallery (2005), Pitch Your Own Tent Monash University Museum of Art (2005), and exhibitions in Singapore and New Zealand. . Constant Ecology is a joint initiative facilitated by @blindside_ari @caves.melbourne @kingsartistrun @westspace and is Supported by @cityofmelbourne . Please go to constantecology.com for more information See more

08.01.2022 Matilda Davis editions have arrived! We’re open today until 6pm for last minute gift shopping Photo courtesy @ameliawallin and Otto Image description: [Tile 1] A small child with blonde hair and dark coloured clothes is holding a rectangular piece of fabric up in front of their face with a painting of a vase and crying eyes printed on it. in the background is a beige coloured curtain. [Tile 2] The same image but with the child’s eyes peeping over the top edge of the fabric. [Tile 3] The same child is holding a piece of fabric up over their face with a painting of four shells and a thorny stick printed on it. [Tile 4] The same image but with the child’s eyes peeping over the top edge of the fabric.

08.01.2022 @constantecology is excited to introduce the fourth artist participating in the Constant Ecology residency, Noriko Nakamura. @norikonakamuracat . Noriko’s Constant Ecology project includes the development of a new body of work that engages discourses on maternal experiences viewed through a nonbinary perspective. Noriko will create performative video works in collaboration with their two-year-old daughter replete with props, costumes, and sounds developed using various house...hold items along with recycled, found and natural materials. The video will show ritualistic performances inspired by Japanese mythology, which approaches birth as a metaphor for the creation of natural elements and landscape ecologies within the chaotic state of the world. . Noriko Nakamura completed a Fine Art Foundation Diploma at Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London, before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts and BA Fine Arts Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2012. Her recent practice has explored chaos in relation to maternal experience, and the helplessness of a newborn baby. She explores the ways that chaos challenges and invites alternative understandings of socially constructed categorisations of corporeality and sexuality. She has presented solo exhibitions at Caves Gallery, Gertrude Glasshouse, Collingwood, Daine Singer, Melbourne; Sutton Projects, Melbourne; West Space, Melbourne; TCB art inc.,Melbourne. Her work has been exhibited at Aperto, Montpellier France; XYZ Collective, Tokyo; RM gallery, Auckland; Dog Park Art Project Space, Christchurch; Murray White Room. She was a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary from 2016-2018. . Constant Ecology is a joint initiative facilitated by @blindside_ari @caves.melbourne @kingsartistrun @westspace and is Supported by @cityofmelbourne . Please go to constantecology.com for more information or follow @constantecology See more

08.01.2022 Rafaela Pandolfini and Mitchel Cumming discuss empty sloganeering, environmental violence and the research process behind ‘Myths & Facts’ for West Space Offsite Issue 3 Follow the link in bio to read the full text "it became difficult to focus on the language of legislation because there simply wasn’t any! Most of the discussion around climate happened at the level of empty sloganeering, while the government avoided anything resembling coherent policy."... @mitchel_cumming Scott Morrison took to the airwaves to ‘reassure’ children who were taking time off school to protest against climate change and politicians' continual inaction. Morrison called the students' concerns needless anxieties just 2 months before the horrific fires began burning." @rafaelapandolfini

07.01.2022 Slime & Ashes opening weekend Thank you to everyone who came to visit today @collingwood_yards. We’ll be open tomorrow from 12-4pm Slime & Ashes, curated by Matthew Harris, brings together varied artistic approaches to uncanny figuration and anthropomorphic cuteness to consider the interlocking experiences of nature, culture, community and identity. ... Image installation view of work by @abdul_rahman_abdullah @peterwaplescrowe and @jemi.gale Photography curtesy of @dunnlauren ID: two life sized pigs carved out of pale wood placed upon wooden floorboards. In the background there is a white wall with a series of four small colourful paintings hung in a cluster and a section of larger bright coloured painting to the right.

05.01.2022 @lucrecciaquintanilla sound work‘Call’combines various recordings of bird noises from segments in house music, dancehall, ocarinas, flutes in jazz and her own field recordings. Quintanilla refers to the act of careful listening and uses sound to question our relationship to place. Listen to ‘Call’ and explore Offsite Issue 4 via the link in our bio

05.01.2022 @constantecology is excited to introduce Constant Ecology participating artist Kate Wallace. . Throughout the Constant Ecology residency Kate Wallace has been creating a body of work that reflects upon the experience of isolation in an age of ecological unrest. Kate’s exploration of escapism, nostalgia and a longing for worlds distant and unknown, has begun to manifest in a series of paintings and short stories developed during lockdown. . The artwork derives from thoughts ab...out the systemic issues of access and inequality that have been compounded by the restrictions governing our movements. These restrictions have come to define an element of loneliness and a desire to seek comfort despite the barriers to transit remaining in place.Kate completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2018, receiving the Wingate Student Fellowship Art Prize. Kate has exhibited across galleries in Melbourne, recent exhibitions including New Landscapes, Lon Gallery, Collingwood (2020), Dimensions, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford (2020), Views To Remember, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Abbotsford (2019), Views to a room, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne (2019), Futures, Hyper Contemporary, Preston (2019), Coalescence, Linden Projects Space, St. Kilda (2019), The Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms, Rubicon Ari, North Melbourne (2019), The F Word, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray (2019) and Pictures, Alternating Current Art Space, Windsor (2018). She is a recent recipient of a Career Development Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. . Constant Ecology is a joint initiative facilitated by @blindside_ari @caves.melbourne @kingsartistrun @westspace and is Supported by @cityofmelbourne . Please go to constantecology.com for more information or follow @constantecology See more

02.01.2022 West Space Offsite Issue 4: ‘Performing The Archives: an act of listening’ edited by Tamsen Hopkinson is online now. ‘an act of listening’ considers the role of memory, time, cultural responsibility and collective care in the creation and maintenance of sonic archives and the recording of sound. @tamsenhopkinson... @lucrecciaquintanilla @chesworth.d @phildadsonic @huni_mancini Find the full issue via the link in our bio.

01.01.2022 Please join @samiraharaf and @lucrecciaquintanilla in conversation for @writingandconcepts this evening at 6pm, Oct 22. Samira and Lucreccia will share music and texts to consider ancestral relationships of sound making and what the black, latino and caribbean archive offer as possibilities in re-calibrating the notion of ‘diaspora’. This conversation precedes Samira’s curated exhibition at West Space in 2021, co-commissioned by West Space and @liquid_architecture.... Please register via the link in our bio to attend

01.01.2022 For our first #westspacewindow exhibition we are delighted to present Matthew Clarke’s ‘Little Cloudy Wallaby’ I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. I started my life as an artist at South West TAFE in 2005. I graduated in 2011. I live in South West Victoria, Warrnambool. One of my major influences is the natural environment that surrounds me which has led me make art of birds, wallabies and turtles/tortoises. ‘Little Cloudy Wallaby’ is made out of ply wood an...d painted with acrylic paint. The background piece is made of black artist canvas marked with metallic pen. This work is about a wallaby who wears a crown whilst the background is cloudy. The wallaby believes he is royalty wearing the crown. - @matthewclarke86_art Photography courtesy of @dunnlauren ID The brick facade of west space, with two windows and a full length glass box. Behind the glass is a sculpture made from plywood, decorated in colourful abstract patterns.