See new work by ArtStarter Dean Butters in An Unkindness of Ravens - an exhibition presenting Dean's new photographic works, as part of the Canberra Contemporary Art Space Residency program.

Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Gorman House Arts Centre
55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon ACT

Exhibition opens Thursday 15 March, 6pm

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ArtStarter Lachlan Plain and Sanctum Theatre invite you to ‘buck the inevitable march of time’ and join them for their Cabinet of Antiquated Recording Devices – a hoge-podge of vague memories and hazy recollections, grainy photographs and crackly recordings – one night only.

The Cabinet contains short films on all kinds of antiquated stock - silent films with live soundtracks provided by the Sanctum Theatre house band, as well as slideshows, puppets, Helmsman Pete and La Bande di Sandro.

Montsalvat
7 Hillcrest Avenue, Eltham VIC

7:30pm Saturday, $10 concession/$15 full price
For bookings/enquiries, please phone 03 9439 7712

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See new work by ArtStarter Kath Fries in her new exhibition exhibition Scorch, at Galleryeight.

Scorch is an exhibition of sculptural installations reflecting on our human efforts to render permanent that which is impermanent. Kath Fries explores materiality, spatiality and archetypical narratives in these works by marking a personal, immediate engagement with time, place and physicality.

Galleryeight
12 Argyle Place, Millers Point NSW

Exhibition openings Friday 2 March, 6pm
Drinks with the artist sponsored by the Lord Nelson Hotel

Art Month Sydney Event
Sunday 11 March, 3pm

Kath Fries in conversation with Megan Robson from the Museum of Contemporary Art and Peter Cramer from Galleryeight. Launch of Kath Fries' new art portfolio website www.kathfries.com, followed by complimentary craft beer tasting courtesy of the Lord Nelson Hotel.

RSVP info@galleryeight.com.au

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See the new play by ArtStarter Alli Sebastian Wolf - The Importance of Being Earnest Dragons, and Other Classic Tales, as Told by An Octopus.
 
This is a brand new junkyard comedy with songs, from award-winning writer Alli Sebastian Wolf. A five-piece band and a glittering troupe of performers will cram this monstrous musical triptych into the legendary Old Fitzroy Theatre.

This lo-fi spectacular mashes together live glam rock, body popping dance moves and dark comedy to re-tell some dusty old classics, so come down, grab a beer and gather round as Mr Octopus puffs on his pipe and flicks through the crumpled pages of some of your favourite stories; complete with dragon gentlemen, hip hoppin’ Grecian Goddesses, and a convenience store clerk called Dante…

Old Fitzroy Theatre
129 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo NSW

Tickets: adult $33, concession $25 (cheap Tuesday/preview night $21)

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Award winning Australian jewellery artist, Melissa Cameron, presents new work for her solo show In Geometry I Trust, inspired by geometry, from the regular rhythmic patterns of architecture to the seemingly random fractals of nature.

I regard myself as the architect of my own worldview. Yet, like most of us, the foundations of my knowledge are based on truths discovered by others. Using a code of point and line, on what amounts to an invisible – and borderless – plane, I create plans for jewellery in AutoCad.

To do this work, I accept and use the tenets of Cartesian geometry, almost without question. But how can I rely on this system, when I don’t know exactly how it all works? I decided to go right back to basics. I sought to rediscover the truths that allow my works to materialise, beginning at the point where philosopher and mathematician René Descartes thought himself, and then the blank plane, into existence.
The drawings, as arranged before you, are the result of this search.

In geometry I trust.

                                  - Melissa Cameron, February 2012

In this exhibition, an intricate pattern is created, and then broken up, with elements forming earrings, pendants, neckpieces and brooches. Colour is brought into the pieces through the application of enamel.

Studio 20/17
6b/2 Danks Street, Waterloo NSW

Exhibition opening Saturday 3 March, 4-6pm

Artist talk: Saturday 3 March, 3:45pm
Melissa Cameron will be discussing her work in the exhibition In Geometry I Trust, prior to celebration drinks at 4pm.

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See This Is It by Team Mess, performed at the Australian Performing Arts Market (APAM) in Adelaide!

Team Mess is the collaborative output of a group of five young artists who work across the performing and visual arts. As a collective we use the conventions, rituals and spectacles of everyday life to stage theatre events that close the critical distance between the work and the viewer and open up a shared space of experience, exchange and possibility. We then use this space to explore contemporary modes of narrative production and audience agency.

Team Mess are: ArtStarters Dara Gill, Frank Mainoo, Natalie Randall and Malcolm Whittaker. Also part of the group is Sime Knezevic.

Adelaide College of the Arts - XSpace
39 Light Square, Adelaide SA

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See new work by ArtStarter Sue Saxon and fellow artist Jane Becker in their new exhibition All that is solid melts into air, at TarraWarra Museum of Art.

All that is solid melts into air is a site-specific project by two Sydney artists, Sue Saxon and Jane Becker, who conceived this exhibition as a response to a prevailing anxiety and uncertainty in the natural and socio-political spheres an increasing awareness of our vulnerability to uncontrollable destabilising forces. The artists chosen medium of eggshells is apposite for evoking this sense of fragility and defencelessness in the midst of the overwhelming dynamisms that are reshaping our world. Cracked, fragmented, hollowed out or illuminated from within, the symbolic and formal properties of the eggshells are applied to intriguing effect in a series of small sculptures, a mosaic on paper, cursive script and a large scale installation. These delicate and ephemeral works compel us to reconsider our relationship to nature and contemplate how our ongoing exploitation and degradation of the environment also diminishes humanity, further undermining and eroding our sense of connection to the natural world.

TarraWarra Museum of Art
311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Road, Healesville VIC

Exhibition opens Saturday 25 February 2012, 4.30-7.30pm
Guest Speaker Max Delany - Director, Monash University Museum of Art

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See new work by The Sisters Hayes, including ArtStarter Rebecca Hayes, in their latest photographic exhibition Big Sky Country.

Last year while visiting America the sisters traced the journey of their American ancestors as they pioneered westward, before settling under Montana's Big Sky. These photographs are a record of time spent in Wibaux, Montana (population 580), the place where their Great grandmother Verona was born a hundred years ago.

Rae & Bennett Fine Art Printers & Gallery
475 Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy VIC

Exhibition opens Friday 24 February, 6-8pm

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See new work by ArtStarter Sue Beyer in Anywhere out of the World, Sue's first solo exhibition at Gilligan Grant Gallery in Melbourne.

Gilligan Grant Gallery
1B Stanley Street, Collingwood VIC

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Bulleen Art & Garden’s GAIA Night: a celebration of art & environment

As part of Melbourne’s Sustainable Living Festival, Bulleen Art & Garden will celebrate the Earth’s life support system, Gaia, in a night of discussion, performance, song and art whilst raising funds for Sustainable Gardening Australia.

From 5-6pm there will be a Habitat Walk along the Yarra, and a Produce Walk through the nursery.
Then from 6-8pm, Jason Smith, director of Heide Museum of Modern Art, will launch ArtStarter Lachlan Plain’s 5 metre x 11 metre mural The Final Journey of Pedro Piscator and open the group exhibition, Sanctum Theatre’s Conservatory of Singular Specimens; well-known television and radio gardening personality, Jane Edmanson, will address the challenges of urban ecology; live performances will be provided by Sanctum Theatre and music by Andy Jans-Brown.

Bulleen Art & Garden
6 Manningham Road West, Bulleen VIC

5–6pm Habitat Walk & Produce Walk
6–8pm Mural Launch & Exhibition Opening
RSVP: meredith@baag.com.au or 8850 3030 (for Walks and/or Launch)

Price:  FREE

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See new work by ArtStarter Connie Anthes in her show He Blinked Back at First Draft Gallery in Sydney. This show will involve big, inflatable somethings...so get to the gallery and check it out!

First Draft Gallery
116-118 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills NSW

Exhibition opens Wednesday 22 February, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: Saturday 10 March, 2pm

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See new photographic work by ArtStarter Dean Butters in Blaze 6 - an exhibition of emerging artists. Other exhibiting artists are Kate Barker, Helani Laisk, Bettina Hill, Ishak Masukor, Dan Lorrimer, Jonathan Webster, Fiona Veikkanen.

Canberra Contemporary Art Space
Gorman House Arts Centre
55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon ACT

Exhibition opens Friday 17 Februay, 6pm

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See work by ArtStarter Lachlan Plain in The Conservatory - an ark upon which Sanctum Theatre and Bulleen Art & Garden artists rescue some of our most singular specimens - whether they be arboreal, bestial or purely alchemical. Other artists involved include Sandra Bain, Colleen Burke, Michael Camilleri, Jody Nunn, Melissa Osborne, Meredith Plain, Guiseppe Raneri and Carmen Reid.

           
Art Trail & Exhibition Floor Talk: Sunday 28th February 2012, 3 – 4pm
Bolin Bolin Gallery, Bulleen Art & Garden
6 Manningham Road West, Bulleen VIC

Opening: Thursday 23 February 2012, 5–8pm (as part of Bulleen Art & Garden’s GAIA Night)

Price:  FREE

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See new work by ArtStarter Emma Rochester in Life Bloody Live - an exhibition curated by Opie Boero Imwinkelried. This exhibition showcases 17 international artist who have previously created works for Dimanche Rouge in Paris, France - the premier experimental performance art venue in Paris. Life Bloody Live predominantly features 14 female artists working with performance art, installation and sound art.

Australian artist, Emma Rochester, will be showcasing a series of works using fabric and video as ways to navigate different landscapes from floating in the Seine to lying in burnt brown fields. Her work documents the paths she traverses through nature in order to experiment with ephemeral notions of the feminine.

On the closing night (25 February) Emma will also do a live feed from Cataract Gorge in Tasmania (as part of an AIR with Launceston City Council) to Moretti & Moretti Gallery where the performance will be viewed both within the gallery and online.

Moretti & Moretti Gallery : http://www.moretti-moretti.com
6, Cour Bérard 75004 PARIS

Exhibition opens Wednesday 15 February, 7pm
Live Stream: 25 February, time TBA

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See new work by ArtStarter Emma Rochester in Venus with her interrupted life - a multidisciplinary installation exploring the felt feminine experience of sacred landscape. In this case the archaeological remnants of Ancient Tamasus in Cyprus. Tamasus being one of the major sites of veneration to the Goddess Aphrodite/Venus in Hellenic time. Now this forgotten place lies still and dormant an effigy to both orgiastic celebration and lassitudanal comfort of past pilgrims.

Kings Artist Run Initiative
Level 1/171 King Street, Melbourne VIC

Exhibition ppens Friday 10 February 2012, 6-8pm

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See work by ArtStarters Melissa Cameron, Jill Hermans and Jin Ah Jo in Joyaviva - Live Jewellery across the Pacific.

This show features new works from local and international artists, including a collaborative project between Melissa Cameron and Jill Hermans.

Joyaviva - Live Jewellery across the Pacific is an exhibition of leading contemporary jewellers from across the Pacific. For this exhibition, jewellers from Australia, New Zealand and Chile have made beautiful objects that recover the power of jewellery in our world. Using innovative concepts, they have designed charms that respond to our hopes and fears, ranging from threat of earthquake to a child’s school exam. This is a new frontier of contemporary jewellery, drawing on the rich mix of cultures and skills across our wide Pacific Ocean.

Visitors to this exhibition not only have the chance to enjoy the intricate objects, they can also learn intriguing stories about their effect on people’s lives. As a ‘live’ exhibition, Joyaviva also welcomes visitors to contribute stories from either their own experience or by using the charms themselves.

RMIT Gallery
344 Swanston Street, Melbourne 3000

Exhibition opens Thursday 9 February 2012, 6-8pm

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See the new work Cocktail Hour by ArtStarter Tim Gregory with artistic partner Oliver Watts, at Melbourne's Helen Gorie Galerie.

Gregory&Watts are a conceptual duo who use audio guides, lectures and other forms to create art.

Helen Gorie Galerie

25 St Edmonds Road, Prahran VIC

Exhibition opens Wednesday 8 February 6-8pm

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See new owrk by ArtStarters Zoe Scoglio, Malcolm Whittaker and Danae Valenza in the new exhibition Project 12: This Is Not A Love Song at Anna Pappas Gallery.

Other artists exhibiting in the show are Ben Coonley (USA), Ross Coulter, Meredith Turnbull, Sue Dodd, Tony Garifalakis, Irene Hanenbergh, Lucas Grogan, Heidi Holmes, Marco Paulo Rolla (BR),  Cait Foran, Darren Sylvester and Salote Tawale

Anna Pappas Gallery
2-4 Carlton Street, Prahan VIC

Exhibition opens Friday 10 February, 6pm
Guest Speaker Alexie Glass-Kantor (Director, Gertrude Contemporary)

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ArtStarter Paul Kalemba and fellow artist Aviva Reed present The Symbiogenesis Project.

Symbiogenesis: (v) The merging of two separate organisms to form a single new organism.

Symbiogenesis is a body of works on paper and found object assemblage exploring the ecologically unique synergies around the Yarra River at Laughing Waters. This exhibition aims to create ripples of interest, understanding and celebration of the ecological systems which form the cornerstones of the balance of life.

Melbourne City Library
253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC

Exhibition opens Thursday 2 February 2012, 6-8pm

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See work by ArtStarter Rosa Toto and Ange Leech in Sculpture 2011 - Flourish at the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery.

Toyota Community Spirit Gallery
155 Bertie Street, Port Melbourne VIC

Official exhibition opening and award presentations:
6-8pm, Tuesday 8 November 2011

Exhibition will be officially opened by Jason Smith, Director & CEO, Heide Museum of Modern Art

The evening will feature the announcement of the 2011 $10,000 Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award

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