20 to 30 January

Midsumma Festival 2010
Gay Pop Culture



Gallery 1, 2 & 3

69 Smith Street presents a group exhibition of seven artists as part of this year's gay and lesbian community celebration; Midsumma.
Artists include: Benja, Mark Bareald, Gary Campbell, J. Kristensen, Piepke, Mel Simpson and Rat Simpson.

3 to 21 February

Naomi Eller
Solitary Man


Nele Hoffmann
Encounters in Melbourne


Rose O'Shea
Microbial Fictions


Dominique Dunstan
FIELD


Gallery 1, 2 & 3

Works on paper and sculpture by Melbourne based artist, Naomi Eller. Through the use of birds as vehicles of expression we see man’s deliberation. The essence of who we are and what is carried through centuries to influence our contemporary workings.

 

Nele Hoffmann, a German born artist will exhibit unusual views of daily moments in Australia’s big cities.

 

Rose O’Shea explores the unseen, ever-present world of pathogenic invaders such as typhus, smallpox, influenza, HIV, syphilis, leprosy, bubonic plague in paintings, collages and works-on-paper.

FIELD is an exhibition of photographic installations by Dominique Dunstan.

24 February to 14 March

Andrew Maclean & Margaret Thomson
Extrapolate


Emma Morrison

Figments


Carol Rowlands
Journey


Aneta Bozic
Power Plays


Gallery 1, 2 & 3

Extrapolate, an exhibition by Margaret Thomson and Andrew Maclean, demonstrates photography as an art form.

Margaret's use of extended exposures during the magical late afternoon light and of the drama of the city at night, reveal intricate images that are vibrant, subtle and inexplicable. Andrew pares his streetscape images down to abstract blocks of pure colour, eliminating everything that could cause a visual disturbance to the harmonious whole that he seeks.

 

Figments is an investigation into the history of the fig, from its’ botanical form and ancient history to how figs were used in art to censor the figure. With references to the fig in everyday language that imply something else, such as the politician who talks about ‘a moral fig leaf’ or the saying “Don’t give a fig” used across different cultures.

 

Journey - everyday journeys through industrial, urban, city or country landscapes involve the movement through time and space.

We pass changing colours, textures and geometric shapes, buildings and paddocks that are demolished and re-built to suit a changing agenda and clientele. We can ignore, dislike or enjoy this evolving environment. Industrial developments, multi-storied apartments and gated estates rise where green rural belts were the norm. Life’s boundaries are renegotiated.

 

In Power Plays, Aneta Bozic explores the power relationships between objects and the meanings we project onto them. Using natural and ready-made objects, she has created a dialogue between them that challenges our usual reading of them as individual objects and our understanding of hierarchies of strength and power.

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