Exhibition Archive
LOADED
Jane Burton, Christopher Köller and Darren Sylvester
Jane Burton, from Vanishing Point
Type C Photograph 110cm x 110cm (detail)
Courtesy of Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne and Sydney
LOADED brings together three Melbourne artists from
quite distinct generations - each with a reputation for creating visually
engaging photographs: Jane Burton, Christopher Köller and Darren Sylvester.
All three are known for making work which is somewhat enigmatic or elusive and which while representational in nature, is nevertheless open to many readings and multiple narratives. Work that is in fact loaded. For each of the artists the surface appearance of their photographs is paramount. It is here where both the pleasure and the mystery reside. While the images are highly seductive, they are by no means superficial; each artist considers contemporary concerns and ideas - albeit in quite individual ways.
LOADED is part of the 2005 Gallery 101 Exhibition Calendar and is presented in collaboration with guest curator Helen Frajman.
16 April - 14 May, 2005
GALLERY 101
Ground level, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm,
Saturday 12 - 4pm
Gallery 101 Website
THE BOTTOM LINE
Still from Your call is important to us, Helen Frajman, 2004 (video)
New Work from M.33: Helen Frajman, Tania Jovanovic,
Christopher Köller, Peter Milne and Matthew Sleeth
Curated by Helen Frajman.
The Bottom Line is a group exhibition which through video and photography
examines fundamental values in a time when the Bottom Line rules.
The work ranges from the subtly philosophical as in Matthew Sleeth's meditative The Big Picture, to the joyously pleasurable in the sensuous colour images of Tania Jovanovics Below the Waist which focus on music, dance, emotion and the body.
Peter Milne recreates key fragments from the life of an imaginary media magnate in The Reptile while Christopher Köller confronts his mortality, fear and loneliness in an evocative series based on recollections of a childhood illness,
A Spot of Bother.
Finally - curator Helen Frajman presents a video piece, Your call is important to us, which deals with a curious contemporary paradox. While we live in a time when we feel insignificant and helpless, a time of increasing electronic surveillance and invasion, we are more than willing to perform our private lives in public via the mobile phone.
SPAN GALLERIES
45 Flinders Lane Melbourne
March 30, 2004 - April 10, 2004
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11.00 to 5.00
Saturday - 11.00 to 4.00
To be Opened on Tuesday March 30, 5 to 7pm by Daniel Palmer, Curator of Projects at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne and lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of Melbourne.
M.33 Projected: 10 Years
Tania Jovanovic, Chris Köller Peter Milne, Matthew Sleeth
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
Thursday 6th November 2003
Time: Drinks at 7.30 with projection: 8 - 9.30pm
Tickets: $15 Concession $12
Available @ Australian Centre for the Moving Image
03-8663 2583
In conjunction with the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI),
M.33 presents Projected - a rare opportunity to enjoy a combination of exceptional
photographic images projected onto a cinema screen, accompanied by a specially
commissioned sound track.
On November 6, 2003, M.33 will celebrate its 10th birthday with a one night only screening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Melbourne.
This event will take full advantage of the state of the art facilities at ACMI and promises audiences a fresh new way to experience an extraordinary breadth and range of photography. Work to be projected will be a mixture of still images, multi-media pieces and video. A sound track mixed specifically for the evening by Ben Green will contribute to the theatrical ambience.
Expect images from across 10 year's of M.33's existence, including favourites such as Aboriginal photographer, Ricky Maynard's take on inner city indigenous life - Urban Diary, photographs from the The Bank Book, selections from Matthew Sleeth's Tour of Duty and Tania Jovanovic's Cuba Que Bola! as well as excerpts from Peter Milne's documentation of the Melbourne Comedy Festival - Fools' Paradise and Christopher Köller's notorious video piece Blow.
New work by M.33 artists: Tania Jovanovic, Christopher Köller, Peter Milne and Matthew Sleeth will also be shown, as well as previously unseen vintage work.
The event will be followed by an After Party and the launch of home + away by Matthew Sleeth at FEDDISH, Federation Square, Melbourne @ 10pm
PSC Website
FEET
Matthew Sleeth
Untitled from FEET, Tokyo, 2002
(outdoor lightbox)
The images in the exhibition FEET were taken on the Tokyo subway in October 2002. They are images of reasonably random feet - usually those belonging to whoever happened to be sitting opposite the photographer.
They touch on themes such as consumerism (a great town for shoes) and the way men and women occupy public space differently. Although this can probably be observed in many countries, it seems emphasised in Japan: the men are sprawled over their seats with crotches thrust forward while the women tend to fold themselves into the smallest space possible.
CITYLIGHTS
Hosier Lane
Melbourne, CBD
5th August - 15th September 2003
Aberrant
Christopher Köller
Christopher Köller's Aberrant is a suite of videos and still photographs that explore bizarre and compulsive behaviours conjured out of everyday routines and objects.
Taking as his starting point newspaper reports which have caught his attention, Köller has created five video re-enactments which variously convey the sheer weirdness, peculiar drama and pathos of these extreme presentations of the human condition.
Aberrant is installed in 5 different rooms of 69 Smith Street and washes over us as an unsettling, creepy, sometimes funny sometimes tragic wave composed of the extraordinary actions of ordinary people.
69 SMITH STREET
69 Smith St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
7th - 25th May 2003
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Peter Milne
When Nature Forgets
Peter Milne's dolls, dummies and mannequins in historical displays simper, strut and smoulder; their often abject and eroticised condition arousing strong emotional responses from the viewer. The strange jaunty sound track accompanying the audio visual presentation adds to the carnival atmosphere while further unsettling and disturbing. Is History and the entire documentary process here to be read as an act of titilation?
STILLS GALLERY
36 Gosbell St
Paddington NSW 2021
23rd April - 24th May 2003
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 6
Stills Gallery Website
CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
205 Johnston St
Fitzroy VIC 3065
3rd October - 1st November 2003
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11 - 5
CCP Website
OUT OF SIGHT (but not out of mind)
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ABC website
Helen Frajman
Untitled From Baby Blues, 2001 by Konrad Winkler
While we may see thousands of images a day, some photographs have the power to truly capture our imagination.
M.33 Director Helen Frajman spoke to people around Australia who work with collections of contemporary Australian photography in public museums and galleries. She asked them to choose an image that they had trouble shaking off, which persists in their memory, which in effect has 'haunted them' - an image which while out of sight, is not out of mind.
Out of Sight aims to give a sense of the richness and depth of Australian photographs in our public collections as well as an opportunity to consider the ways in which we experience the visual.
Presented by The Space , ABC Arts Online
TOUR OF DUTY - ABC Website
Matthew Sleeth
American Transport Helicopter, East Timor, 1999
A selection of images from Matthew Sleeth's book , TOUR OF DUTY, are now online on the ABC's website accompanied by audio from Matthew Sleeth.
Presented by The Space, ABC Arts Online
ASPIC
Megan Ponsford
Untitled from ASPIC, 2001
Duratran
ASPIC consists of a series of images taken in an up-market nursing home and presented as small lightboxes in a darkened room. Despite the opulence and beauty on display, despite the grandeur and luxury, a sterile uneasy silence pervades the work. There is no evidence of these facilties being used, no sign indeed of any human habitation. All is not as it would seem - objects that should be inviting resonate with menace and a hint of melancholy. Seductive yet desolate, frozen in a perpetual present, these views from a sumptuous waiting room to the after-life, play with photography's own intrinsic nature.
Helen Macpherson Smith Project Space
CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
12th April - 4th May 2002
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11-5
CCP Website
TOUR OF DUTY
MATTHEW SLEETH
Curated by HELEN FRAJMAN
InterFET Santa, East Timor, 1999
TOUR OF DUTY is a series of photographs from East Timor that say very little about that country but a great deal about Australia. Given our military history as colonial canon fodder and our recent political collusion in East Timor's occupation, Australia's leadership role in the INTERFET mission should have been a key moment of national redemption. But the experience was anything but that - with the government, army and UN all desperate to turn the exercise into a huge PR opportunity. Rather than quietly focusing on correcting a situation we had contributed to, Australia seemed more interested in treating the Timorese as extras in a jingoistic movie of the week. From concerts they were not allowed to attend, to the distribution of Christmas teddy bears they had no use for. No one thought to ask the Timorese how they could best be helped - it was Australia to the rescue with Kylie Minogue and stuffed toys.
CCP - Centre for Contemporary Photography
205 Johnston Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
8th March - 6th April 2002
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 11-5
Tour of Duty Book
CCP Website
ABC
Website
Loop
Christopher Köller
LOOP is the first instalment in a larger body of work on the theme of aberrant behaviour. It is based upon a recent case in Liverpool, England in which two young men amassed thousands of pairs of socks through fraud and deception upon members of the public, and incorporated them into an elaborate sexual fantasy. The two were eventually charged with gross indecency and unlawful wounding and were gaoled.
CONICAL
Contemporary Art Space
82 Johnston Road
Fitzroy VIC 3065
6th - 27th October 2001
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday 1-6
THE TIDE OF HISTORY - ABC Website
Curated by HELEN FRAJMAN
Gladys Tybingoomba - from Leaving Proof: Returning To Places That Name Us Photograph © Ricky Maynard, 2001
A unique online event, Tide of History brings together the work of 4 of the most significant photographers documenting indigenous communities in Australia today: Ricky Maynard, Gayle Maddigan, Mervyn Bishop and Juno Gemes in collaboration with writer Frances Peters Little.
Presented by the ABC's Arts Online and Indigenous Online and made possible
through the generous support of
Autograph - the Black Photographers Association
SPATIAL NARRATIVES 3: Mexico City - Milano - Melbourne
Christopher Köller
Hopscotch (Detail), 1996
The exhibition of photographs Spatial Narratives 3 (Mexico City, Milano, Melbourne), is a culmination of Christopher Köller's engagement with the issue of the space of cities over the past 5 years. The artist's investigation of the ways in which social, cultural, political and economic forces influence architecture and the configuration of streets and open spaces is carried out in these three distinct cities. The way people use space and how they see themselves and each other in terms of their use and of it in relation to gender, age and class are also explored.
ALBURY REGIONAL GALLERY
546 Dean Street
Albury NSW 2640
27th September - 27th October 2002
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10.30-5pm,
Saturday - Sunday 10.30-4pm
PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
51 James Street
Perth WA 6000
22nd August - 23rd September 2001
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11-7
BENDIGO ART GALLERY
42 View Street
Bendigo VIC
19 May - 1 July 2001
telephone - 03-5443 4991
Gallery Hours: daily - 10am to 5pm
ROARING DAYS
Matthew Sleeth
Melbourne Cricket Ground, 1998
In this exhibition of photographs from Matthew Sleeth's first book, Roaring Days (M.33, Melbourne, 1998), Sleeth continues to pursue the themes that have long preoccupied him - comradeship, masculinity, romance and alienation. Similarly he continues his intoxication with the expressive qualities of light and shadow.
The title is taken from a poem by Australia's best know poet, Henry Lawson, who wrote early last century about a romantic ideal of Australian identity.
LEICA GALLERY TOKYO
3-5-6 Ginza
Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-0061
telephone - 81-3-3567 6706
10 April - 30 April 2001
open daily - 10.30am to 5.30pm
TOUR OF DUTY - an Australian in East Timor
Matthew Sleeth
United Nations HQ, East Timor, 1999
Under the surface of Matthew Sleeth's gentle, almost whimsical photographs is a witty and incisive look at this tiny theatre of war.
"East Timor and its long suffering peoples became the backdrop to a concentration of sincere Western concern qualified by individual egoism, personal careerism, and about-face rationalisation. How does a photographer cope under these circumstances? Rather than searching for the East Timorese people, Mathew Sleeth's photographs render the superficial nature of the Western cavalcade."
Paul James, from Catalogue Essay.
40x40 inch Type C prints made by Bond Imaging.
Grateful thanks to the Australian Consulate (Los Angeles) and Bond Imaging for their generous assistance.
This exhibition was produced in conjunction with AusArtWeb
BOCCALERO GALLERY
W-19 Historic Olvera Street
Los Angeles, California, 90012
telephone - 1-213-626 7076
27 January - 22 February 2001
open daily - 10am to 8pm
MILLENIUM DREAMING
Gayle Maddigan
Gary Foley, 2000
A photographic profile celebrating contemporary Aboriginal culture in Melbourne, exploring the vitality and dynamism of Koorie individuals who are actively involved in dance, theatre, academia, song, fine art and political and cultural advocacy. Individuals portrayed include Marcia Langton, Gary Foley, Archie Roach, Tom Lewis, Richard Franklin, Lisa Belear, Rachel Mazza and Ruby Hunter.
This body of work was produced with the support of a grant from the City of Melbourne.
SPAN GALLERIES
45 Flinders Lane Melbourne
5-16 December 2000
Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Friday 11am to 5pm
Saturday 11am to 4pm
FOOLS PARADISE
www.fools.abc.net.au
Peter Milne
Sir Les Patterson and Peter Cook - Press Conference to launch Melbourne Comedy Festival, 1987
An Audio Visual exploration of twelve years of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival through the photography of Peter Milne. Audio commentary from legendary Melbourne comedians Judith Lucy and Lynda Gibson. In Conjunction with The Space, ABC ONLINE and The Performing Arts Museum, Victorian Arts Centre.