allan's walk artist run space inc

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Allans Walk Artist Run Space (AWARS) invites proposals by emerging and established artists and curators from Bendigo & beyond, producing innovative, challenging and critical contemporary art, including visual and audiovisual arts, new media, sound, design, craft, literature and live art. We invite applications for solo and group exhibitions, and curated projects.

Please download & read the revised Exhibition Proposal and Application Guidelines

http://www.allanswalk.com/wp-content/uploads/AWARSapplication2011jan-jun.pdf

Closing Date 30th July 2010 at 5pm.

Further information from info@allanswalk.com

Metasonic 2

“hearing is another form of seeing” – sound art is increasingly being presented in art galleries which used to restrict themselves to visual art. So what is sound art? A relatively new term it refers to sound-based art work (or at least art work where the principal focus is on sound) which departs from both traditional musical instrumentation and notational methods and frequently employs electronic media. Central Victoria has a sound art collective called Undue Noise which is presenting an exhibition called metasonic 2 at Allan’s Walk Artist Run Space as part of the local component of the national Liquid Architecture sound art festival.

Following last year’s successful metasonic exhibition at Dudley House, we return with Metasonic 2, featuring works involving sound, and sometimes more. Central Victorian artists involved this time are Paul Fletcher, Simon Howard, Bridget Robertson & Jenny King, Annie Piranha, Mathew Underwood, Michael Harkin, Andrew Goodman, Jacques Soddell. They will present a wide range of artworks ranging from simple listening experiences to interactive works, some audio only, others including video.

Undue Noise blog at http://undue.cajid.com/wp_undue

Elka Kerkhofs, Robert Stephenson and Paul Fletcher

THE ANIMATED ARTEFACT EXCHANGE.

An exchange between animation art and visitors to Allans Walk Artist
Run Space . An exchange between animation artists; Elka Kerkhofs,
Robert Stephenson and Paul Fletcher with other special guests. The
exhibition will feature a new short work produced collaboratively and
premiering at the exhibition plus a collection of Artefacts such as
drawings,prints, sculpture and inventions, from and related to their
present, past and future animation productions.

The theme of “exchange” is recognised as a pertinent and popular
perennial theme dating back to the original history of the Beehive
Building in which Allan’s Walk is housed. The Animated Artefact
Exchange, alludes to the history of the Allans Walk building having
once been a site of exchange- the mining and stock exchange. This
exhibition is conceived as several layers of exchange- between pubic
and artwork, between the artists involved and between the different
artforms and disciplines involved .

An exhibition of a diverse responses to the artform of animation-
past ,present and future, presented in a manner that references and
forms a hybrid of penny arcades/museums/ and audio visual libraries.
This exhibition will contain a collection of sculptural and drawing
based artworks as well as hi-tech/low tech, electro/electronic/
mechanical devices for creating/displaying moving image with and
without sound.

The three main artists involved, Robert Elka and Paul, are often
geographically separated and have diverse interests and artistic
practices in which various applications of Animation as an artform
are a common ground. Elka ‘s work has intersected animation with
Theatre, Dance, Installation and Performance Art, Roberts’ work has
encompassed the range from commercial art to independent film and
comic art and Paul’s work has been around the meeting of experimental
film, gallery installation and animation. This exhibition will pool
these interests to present a compendium of animation related
artworks. As such the exhibition will question the role of the moving
image in the 21st century, particularly the relationship between
animation and fine art and between animation and other forms of
manufactured moving image.

Artists statements re : Why Animation ?

Elka:
I like to use the craft of animation to visualise metaphors, like
many branches stuck together become a tree or a totally new wooden
stick creature.

Everything starts from a desire, which generates an idea that we want
to explore further.

The key to birth the idea into a visual and audio experience is to
communicate and exchange variations on the original ideas and apply
existing skills or develop new skills through experimentation. This is
a space any animator loves to swim in!

Robert:
I like to make things. I am never exactly sure how these drawings,
animations, models, writing, characters, places will turn out but
their development is fed by observation, personal biases, trying
traditional and non-traditional methods, responding to urges, being
inspired by others, and often just playing around with whatever
materials are handy. I have often found myself caught in the middle or
falling through the trap door of,‘industry’ and ‘art’ not being able
to completely satisfy both camps by what I do or how I go about the
work, and so the regions of ‘industry’ and ‘art’ and whatever
determines those places don’t, during the intimacy of the making,
determine the end result.

Paul:
I am currently fascinated with the potential of the combination of
digital and traditionally crafted animation for creating engaging non-
sense, realistic impossible and improbable spaces, creatures and
movement.

More info at ;
http://www.digitalcompost.net/animated_artefactINPROGRESS.html

Leo Garrouste
An exhibition of definitive works
From the 23rd of March 2010
With the Exhibition Launch Party taking place on Saturday 27th of March from 3pm.

Art can show something impossible. This exhibition, which focuses mainly on china ink, stencils and comic illustrations, is a recent collection of works compiled by the artist during his numerous travels.
Leo aims to affect you, entertain you, to take you on a journey so to speak.
He presents the absurd and the surreal, a surrealism not restricted to the unconscious….but one which gives shape to hypothetical worlds; where animals, nature and tribal shapes together form part of an intricate architecture.

Whether one enjoys the humour in one of his surrealist comics or the beauty of tribal patterns woven into an Asian-styled stencil, Leo will strike his viewers with an original voice, technical proficiency and a dedication to the malleable dimensions of artistic production.

Open Studio! Throughout the month long exhibition, Leo will be showing his finished pieces and displaying his method of creation to the public in an interactive manner. He will be available for both comment and conversation.

A MURAL BY LEO GARROUSTE CAN ALSO BE VIEWED AT 80 MARONG RD.

Visit www.leogarrouste.com to see more of Leo’s works.

Image- “Prise de tete, ink on paper.”

Image – “Gulliver, ink on paper.”

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 Bridget KEENA

26^th November – 19^th December 2009

Opening Celebration: 1pm Saturday 5^th December

Allan’s Walk Artist Run Space

Shops 5 & 7, Allan’s Walk, Bendigo

Opening Hours: Thursday & Friday: 11am – 4pm, Saturday: 11am – 3pm

Mirror, Mirror will consist of two large installations, one in each shop of Allan’s Walk Artist Run Space. The exhibition surveys a range of the artist’s work, covering some breadth of the artist’s oeuvre, including painting, photography & drawing.

Two themes are strongly observed; the first a preoccupation with the portrait and especially the self-portrait, the second the need to reflect one’s environment, and how this in turn reinforces or imbues the portraits with a greater sense of gravity.

Keena draws heavily from her “drawing” practice of photography and the collection of images. Reminiscent of the photographic work of Nobuyoshi Araki, Keena exposes her private life. From the mundane to the intimate, there is perhaps a somewhat obsessive compulsion to record and to retain the detritus of modern life.

The sheer proliferation of photographs could trivialise the work; however the artist chooses to paint from some images rather than others. This selection allows Keena to monumentalise moments, thrusting them into the canons of art history.

In the same sense that the Impressionists sought to capture the fleeting nature of light; to paint from the mirror or the photograph, as in all depictions, can only attempt to hint at the “élan” or essence of what is contained in the vignette and only as seen by the artist. The mirror acts as a description of reality however this is all the image is; it is not reality and it is not tangible.

Knowing this, the artist attempts to go beyond presenting scenes, and to instead immerse the viewer in an experience not dissimilar to the artist’s own cognition of existence. To do this the artist has intervened in the space of the gallery, installing simulacra of Keena’s private internal and external life as ontological ruminations.

Mirror, Mirror

Friday 20th November

4pm Children’s Animation Program, Campbell Theatrette, FREE

This year’s Australian International Animation Festival descends on Bendigo with a selection of program’s from the animation festival held earlier this year in Melbourne, as well as a local component featuring Bendigo animators, including award winning animator Susan McMinn.

The screenings are on Friday 20^th November at the Campbell Theatrette (next to the Library) and Allan’s Walk Artist Run Space and on Saturday 21^st November at La Trobe University’s Visual Arts Centre in View St.

Presented by Allan’s Walk Artist Run Space, La Trobe University’s Visual Arts Centre and Undue Noise, with the assistance of the City of Greater Bendigo, the program will feature a free children’s animation program, an evening of local animation screenings, talks and performance (yes, some Bendigo animators perform their works), programs of Australian, International and Digital animation, as well as a session with Dennis Tupicoff, an internationally recognised Melbourne-based animator.

The festival program commences with a selection of Children’s Animation on Friday afternoon (4pm) at the Campbell Theatrette, next to the Library. This features some of the best animated films made recently made for children, as well as a couple of films involving the work of Central Victorian school children.

The festival will be officially opened on Friday at 7pm by multi-media artist Claire Smith, who first brought the festival to Bendigo about three years ago. This opening will be at Allan’s Walk Artist Run Space on Friday evening and will highlight the work of Bendigo Animators. This free event will feature performance involving animation by Paul Fletcher, who controls his live animation presentation with a vacuum cleaner, and choreographer Megan Beckwith, who projects her own 3D animations onto her dance performance. Also will be animated films by young Bendigo Animators, Christopher Tay, Daniel Russell and Erin Ricardo, who will also talk about their animation techniques.

On Saturday the festival moves to the Theatre at La Trobe Visual Arts Centre (VAC) in View St. The day starts with a Digital Panorama at 11:30am, featuring recent digital animation. This is followed at 1pm by a session with Dennis Tupicoff, an internationally recognised Melbourne-based animator who will present his films Chainsaw, His Mother’s Voice, and Darra Dogs and talk about his animation experiences. At 3pm, there will be an International Panorama, which will feature mainly hand-drawn animation to contrast with the earlier digital program. The festival finishes with an Australian Panorama at 5pm, which will feature the best of recent Australian animation, including Susan McMinn’s award winning The Last Warhorse, which was awarded the prize for Best Australian Student Animation at the Australian International Animation Festival this year. There will be an admission charge for the sessions at the VAC, but this will be only $5 a session, which is a real bargain for such high quality recent animation.

Supported by Bendigo City Council, Allans Walk, Undue Noise and La Trobe University VAC.

Frozen in Time
Nathlie Daoust

15 October – 14 November 2009
Opening Celebration: Saturday 17 October, 3PM

Frozen in Time is a series of photographic prints which explore moments where reality and the dream-like clash. Each scene is first captured in black and white with a pinhole camera, and then hand coloured by Daoust, blending memory and introspection to create scenes of mystery and illusion.

Nathalie Daoust is a Canadian artist currently based in Montreal. Her practice is concerned with unveiling secrets which lie below the apparent stability of life.  Daoust has recently shown work at Punctum Gallery, Tokyo, Senac Gallery, Sao Paulo, Licht Feld Modern and Contemporary Art Basel, and Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul. She is in Australia to participate in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

Frozen in Time is the outcome of a residency at the Christoph Merian Foundation in Switzerland earlier this year.

Frozen in Time
Nathlie Daoust

15 October – 14 November 2009
Opening Celebration: Saturday 17 October, 3PM

Frozen in Time is a series of photographic prints which explore moments where reality and the dream-like clash. Each scene is first captured in black and white with a pinhole camera, and then hand coloured by Daoust, blending memory and introspection to create scenes of mystery and illusion.

Nathalie Daoust is a Canadian artist currently based in Montreal. Her practice is concerned with unveiling secrets which lie below the apparent stability of life.  Daoust has recently shown work at Punctum Gallery, Tokyo, Senac Gallery, Sao Paulo, Licht Feld Modern and Contemporary Art Basel, and Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul. She is in Australia to participate in the Ballarat International Foto Biennale.

Frozen in Time is the outcome of a residency at the Christoph Merian Foundation in Switzerland earlier this year.

Liberty and Death
Brad Haylock

12 September – 10 October 2009
Opening Celebration: 12 September, 3PM

Brad Haylock practices variously as an artist, writer, curator and designer. He is currently a lecturer in Visual Communication in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University, member of the Program Committee and Board of West Space, and the Editorial Committee of un magazine.

Recent solo exhibitions include Everything you never wanted to know about fashion (but were too afraid to ask, Platform, Melbourne, Crazed and Defused at The Narrows, Melbourne, and A Beginner’s Guide to Politics, Platform, Melbourne. Recent design projects include Making Space and Objects in Space. Recent curatorial projects include The Art of the Bicycle at Don’t Come Gallery, Melbourne and the co-curation with Mark Richardson of Advance/Retreat at West Space, Melbourne.