Untitled (home) #3 (2015) is a finalist in the Sunshine Coast Art Prize. Catch the exhibition at the Caloundra Regional Gallery from Thursday 18 August until Sunday 2 October. To view works by the 40 finalists and for more information see here: https://gallery.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/Art-Prizes/Sunshine-Coast-Art-Prize/Finalists-2016
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If you missed the artist talks by Georgia Rae Banks and myself as part of the Femme Fatale exhibition at Arcade gallery, Footscray, you can listen to it at the link below. Georgia Rae Banks speaks eloquently to her work Drip, and I speak about my work Untitled (heel), and in the meantime learn how much I say, "you know"....
https://www.mixcloud.com/ArcadeGallery/artist-talks-georgia-banks-and-tania-smith-femme-fatale-at-arcade/ Quite by accident I'm in an exhibition called Femme Fatale with artist Georgia Banks at Arcade Gallery in Footscray- and by accident, I mean, making art-life-scheduling decisions after a couple of glasses of wine, whilst on the phone to a friend. And why not? My Untitled (heel) 2015 video gets another outing, the gallery is a wonderful new space and the exhibitions across three spaces all dare to feature women artists (gasp!). So please pop into the Trocadero complex in Footscray (taking in Trocadero, Five Walls Projects and Arcade) Wednesday 29 June until Saturday 16 July and drink in the blood, breast milk, seismic activity and plastic on show. Sans It Boys.
Image: Untitled (heel) (2015). Video Still. Untitled #2 (fire extinguisher) at Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
My Untitled (domestic gestures) series of videos in now showing at Brenda May Gallery, Sydney. The opening provided the perfect excuse to pop up and visit the Sydney Biennale and - why not? - Isabella Blow's clothing collection on view at the Powerhouse. Sydneysiders can head to Waterloo to catch my series at Brenda May Gallery until 9 June- for non-Sydneysiders, please have a look at the exhibition catalogue and information here. It was great to once again be invited to the Poh Chang Academy of the Arts for the 11th International Art Workshop. I developed some new works inspired by the gold so integral to Thai culture.
The Untitled (home) series of works found a home in an exhibition at St Helier's Gallery over Dec 2015 and January 2016. The exhibition was the culmination of the Studio Start-Up program, and fellow program member Briony Galligan also exhibited some new works in the adjoining space.
Photo by Christo Crocker. I'm showing some new video works and opening my studio as part of the inaugural Open Spaces event at the Abbotsford Convent on Sunday 8 November. It'll be a great day full of tours of the convent, workshops, performances, a book fair and more. Please come along and say hi.
My work Untitled (home) #3 (2015) has been selected as a finalist in the Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women, exhibiting at Brightspace gallery and opening 3 September. More details on the prize are here.
The Northcote Penguins are a group of Arts Project Australia artists undertaking an intensive professional development program, funded by Darebin City Council. Camille Hannah is working closely with the penguins and asked me to come along and lead a workshop on performance making in June this year. We had a fantastic day exploring performance art utilising Anthony Howell's three principles of Performance Art- Stillness, Repitition and Inconsistency. We also worked with objects and images as a basis for developing new performance work. And pictured here is the moment when the group had to suffer from my compulsion of making costumes from sticking things on our head....
Read a much more eloquent assessment of the day on the Arts Project blog here. This view of an empty corner is no longer such a quiet and empty space - all manner of ridiculous things are crammed into the little space at the Abbotsford Convent that is my studio for the time being. I was lucky enough to receive one of this year's Studio Start- Up: six months of rent free studio space at the convent (in an ex-nun's bedroom - that is, a room that used to be a bedroom for a nun, not a bedroom for women that were previously nuns).
I'll try and update with some photos of its current state (bags, wigs, flags, sewing machines, books, TVs TVs and more TVs, 9 DVD players etc etc), but please feel free to get in touch if you are heading in to the convent, I am always keen to be distracted and grab a coffee. Read more about the initiative and the recipients here. |
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