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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