69 SMITH STREET GALLERY


19 January to 9 February Midsumma Festival 2008 Gallery 1 & 2	69 Smith Street presents an exhibition of five artists as part of this year's gay and lesbian community celebration Midsumma. Artists Michael Brady, Tristan Jalleh, Marcus Keating, Clinton Hayden and Cara Jones offer a diverse selection of work for our first show of 2008.

13 February to 2 March

Theo LA Den Brinker

Sura
Gallery 1 & 2

Religion, symbolism and terrorism are the themes of Sura 1-12. Twelve images of people mentioned in relationship to carrying out the Bali bombing. The
images have been digitally recreated
and printed on pages of the Koran.

"Current events should still be an important theme for artists, not just pictures of gum trees or vague abstracts" says Theo LA den Brinker. "The goal is
to create the compelling image which
goes beyond the static visual reporting
or the politics.

5 to 23 March

Emma Blee

Scattered Memories
Gallery 1

Scattered Memories is inspired by the interplay of the interaction of colours seen in the artist’s travels and experiences. The patches themselves represent the individual pixels that make up the memory of an event or image - pixels of emotions, pixels of reality, pixels of remembered experience. They are bold, strong statements – exaggerating individual parts of memory that have particular significance to the artist… and over time are scattered among memories of daily life.

5 March to 23 March Bernd Jansons All About the Image Gallery 2	This is a collection of pieces examining the role of the digital image within the context of traditional visual art. His work is created digitally, having started from some source, for example a sketch or a photo, he then works with this image through hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of manipulations until the piece is finished. Recognising the irony of the original (or more precisely the lack of the original) in the digital medium. Each is a genuine original as only one is ever made and each work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

26 March to 13 April Anne Conron A Tasmanian Wunderkammer Gallery 1	Anne has set up a wunderkammer. These mixed media works are about a small, amateur museum, or chamber of curiosities. Anne’s concept is flexible with an element of playfulness involved, which may include asking visitors to participate in making dioramas or labelling museum tags.

26 March to 13 April 69 Pinhole Exhibition Lets See What Develops Gallery 2	On 2 March 69 arranged a pinhole day for its members. This was an exciting day made really interesting by the expertise of David Tatnall. All the work captured on the day will be exhibited in this show. The artists are unaware of their final results. This is a refreshing and somewhat different approach to exhibiting. Lets See What Develops!

16 April to 4 May Michele Meister The Travel Gallery 1	Michele has a German/French background and lived in many parts around the globe before relocating to Melbourne in 2004. Since arriving in Australia she has been working on a theme “the travel”. She has found that nearly everyone around her has their own story how they arrived here. Michele wants to capture people’s feelings while they are travelling and looking for a new place to be. This is a beautiful collection of paintings and mixed media.

16 April to 4 May Joshua Foley & Nathan Clark Clear History Gallery 2	One of the tricks an individual may employ to conceal their secret visits to embarrassing or incriminating websites is the Clear History option. It’s a way to maintain a clean reputation. When thinking about this simple command, on the verge of purging my sins from the records, my eyes rested on the words Clear History. Foley is a Hyper-realist Painter who works meticulously to create detached images responding to a broad range of themes. Clark is describing through his work, a general malaise. He is trying to name the nameless.

7 to 25 May Phillip Howe Phillip Howe 08 Gallery 1 & 2	A solo exhibition of mixed-media works on canvas and paper by artist Phillip Howe. This exhibition features a collection of vibrantly painted and drawn recent works by Phillip Howe of Australian landscapes and nudes; with a unique perspective by the artist when the two subjects collaborate.

28 May to 15 June Group Exhibition Vanishing Point Gallery 1 & 2	Drifting between reality and abstraction, Vanishing Point brings together artists, Wendy Cavenett, Catherine Coad, Francis Coen, Kathy Cresp-Gerrard, Kalliopi Katsambis and Maureen Macauley. As a group they examine the interior life of emotion, time and perception. With works on paper, canvas, photography and video art, this exhibition offers an intimate and contemplative experience where shifting perspectives and the seduction of space ultimately invite the viewer to connect with art from a private, inner world that is unique to each individual.

18 June to 6 July Group Exhibition JUST 3 Gallery 1 & 2	A group exhibition of third year, Visual Art Students from Latrobe University, Bendigo. Fifteen artists, working in a range of disciplines from painting, printmaking, ceramics and drawing, express their own artistic voice. Artists include; Belinda Raymond, Marie Pienne, Robyn Whealing, Belinda Raymond, Mary Kerlin, Kate Murphy, Peggy Devlin, Rebecca Giles, Felicity Ranson, Nicole Schneider, Bill Kemp, Patsy Wilson, Luke Kelly, Marga McEvoy and Carolyn Saunders.

9 to 27 July Group Exhibition Irreal Being Exists Gallery 1	This exhibition engages ideas about the irreal way images pass from the imaginary to the real. Susan Marsh examines the slippage of identity linked to imminent mortality, particularly fragile bodies that are made docile in institutional spaces. Maggie Maccathie-Nevile explores the blurring of boundaries between human consciousness and the virtual body and the psychological intrusion of one subject into another. Robert Mangion investigates aspects of the social imaginary and systems of belief. His works explores the relation between the visible and invisibility within spectral phenomenon and the limitation of language. The exhibition will also feature work by Jessica Raschke.

9 to 27 July Caroline Ierodiaconou Life Gallery 2	Life is an exhibition that mourns the erosion of this earth, as well as the current state of humanity as increasingly fragmented and incomplete. All Ierodiaconou’s works deal with the current world issues including politics, environmental issues and the Third world. The exhibition is a collection of paintings in mixed media along with small installations.

30 July to 17 August Julie-Anne Armstrong-Roper Against the Weather: Arid Land Gallery 1	Armstrong-Roper's work has been widely exhibited in Melbourne and overseas since 1991, including a major solo exhibition in 2000 at Australia House in London. During the past eight years Armstrong-Roper's works have explored the complexities of the human psyche. In her latest body of work she has expanded upon these themes. Using the whole landscape to express a feeling of isolation and a sense of the frailty of humanity exposed to the elements. The artist believes this to be the natural continuation of her expressing human nature and emotion using the atmospheric and geological environments. For more information on Armstrong-Roper and her works please visit her website www.armstrong-roper.com.

10 to 28 September Shane Hulbert Altered Landscapes Gallery 2	The photographic images in this exhibition explore the land-use experience, in relation to our cultural identity. Iconic areas of the Australian landscape, such as industrial towns, mining towns and outback communities are indexed in relation to the significance of sites like playing grounds, recreation areas, worship centres and mining sites on the social development and stability of these places. These relationships are evidenced by the casual connects between the sites and the landscape, where attempts to separate the grounds are as common as attempts to integrate them.

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