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 Contemporary Art
 At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
565 King Street
NEWTOWN NSW 2042
(02) 9519 2340
0430 083 364
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Gallery Hours:
Thurs 10am-8pm
Fri 10am-6pm
Sat-Sun 10am-5pm
(or by appt.)

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Current Exhibition:

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REALITY CHEQUE
ATVPs Winter '09 Show of the Season

19 June - 5 July 2009
Opening Launch Friday 19 June 6-9pm

Reality Cheque artists:
Aaron Matheson, Bec Young, Charles Dennington, Catherine Cloran, Danielle Bluff, Gilbert Grace, Jack Breukelaar, Jeffrey Hamilton, Jemima Aitchison, Jesse Rasmussen, Kurt Sorensen, Maiara Rocha Skarheim & Benny B Sutton, Mark Dahl (CAN), The Unknown Artist's Collective, Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana, Paula Perugini, Peter Fyfe, Shane Brazier, Stephanie Bray, Tom Loveday.

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REALITY CHEQUE

Join ATVP for its Winter '09 Show of the Season - Reality Cheque - a timely exhibition featuring 25 artists who have all been asked to respond to the theme in this current economic climate known simply as GFC, or the Global Financial Crisis.

As a global community, we face a vast array of challenges. Now more than ever we need to consider what really makes the world go round. Our actions and choices and their related impact on our environments, economies and cultures must all be placed firmly under the microscope. ATVP invited artists to consider that it may not be money, but a different kind of currency that needs to be established to allow the world to revolve.

The Reality Cheque artistic responses are diverse in mediums and disciplines, from photography to painting, installation to video, sculpture to print making, promising to challenge and encourage thought and dialogue around issues pertaining to capitalism, environment, culture, politics, society and our global economies.

Some sneak peeks...

Pamela Lee Brenner & Johannes Muljana, hot off the heels of their Fraser's Studio Project residency team up with a light and text work that continuously calculates a No Ordinaries Index of job losses throughout the 'developed' world, whilst Shane Brazier's Camo-skulls - cast and hand painted human skulls - highlight the economy of war while also hinting at the wider human toll of capitalistic economic depressions.

Danielle Bluff's interactive paper origami game Fortune Teller, made from a twenty-year personal collection of pulped bank statements, mixes capital cliche with value added gifts, as she invites the audience to not only take part, but to also take the art!

Kurt Sorensen's medium format photography juxtaposes stark and barren landscapes with the sole indicators of human presence being a dilapidated empty billboard and a ghostly deserted shop. Meanwhile Catherine Cloran provides a triptych of mysterious digital prints of floating empty plastic shopping bags.

Bec Young dishes out an interrogation of the contemporary psyche through her recording of banal chitchat in Conversation Observation, a selection of random text pieces. Adjoining this is Jeffrey Hamilton's series of collage works using severed pesky everyday junk mail.

Gilbert Grace unveils Presumption of Regularity, a sculptural vehicle constructed from found timber and fallen tree limbs seemingly powered by plaster casted human feet and hands - a Flintstone-like creation inspired by the aftermath of the collapse of the New York world trade centre towers. Stephanie Bray's running a rat's race sees a mouse running on a treadmill under the watchful eye of a rat in an empty crafted filing cabinet (no real animals used in the making and exhibiting of this artwork).

The humble Aussie 50 dollar note is the inspiration and subject for Jemima Aitchison's video installation which features a large screen printed bill intended to keep the user warm in dark and cold financial times, while Jack Breukelaar fashions a suit for a businessman designed solely with motifs from the spectrum of our plastic national currency. Concurrently, Tom Loveday's video, The Real World utilises every known sign of economic currency throughout the planet to distil the essence of the equation of money and freedom in relationship to a real world.

PLUS: Special Opening Night Performances by singer songwriters Jon Jackson and Mark (Eli) Wolfe.

Jon Jackson -
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Mark (Eli) Wolfe - Hear Eli On MySpace


Next Exhibition:

9 - 26 July 2009
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Post hoc ... ergo
Clarissa Regan & Joy Bye
Opening launch Thursday 9 July 6.00pm - 8.00pm


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ATVP showcases two contemporary Sydney ceramicists.

Coinciding with the Australian Ceramics Triennale ATVP showcase Clarissa Regan and Joy Bye who present Post hoc ... ergo, a whole gallery installation of ceramic objects and sculpture exploring narrative and archetypal forms.

Post hoc ... ergo is a culmination of two years studio and research practice grounded in their respective Masters degrees at Sydney College of the Arts, which Regan and Bye will both in July.

Clarissa Regan will also be presenting Pots, Puns & Wordplay: Humour As A Subversive Device In Ceramics for the Australian Ceramics Triennale at the National Art School, Darlinghurst, on Sunday the 19thJuly.

Clarissa Regan's work uses devices of humour and textual wordplay to provoke, confront or ridicule, posing the question "What If?" in relation to classic European fairy tales, transposing them into the 21st century by finding parallel themes of entrapment, seduction and secrets in contemporary life. Her work varies in form from the utilitarian to the art-object using such diverse techniques as silk screening, decal, print transfers and photoshop techniques to create textual complexity.

Clarissa Regan has been exhibiting since 2005 and completed her degree with Honours at the National Art School in 2006, winning the Ceramic Art and Perception Prize.

Joy Bye adopts a collage-like approach to assembling her archetypal figures, disrupting the usual forms connected with figurative sculpture. By utilising recycled and ready- made objects Bye's work is concerned with ideas of chance and harnessing unconscious forces.

Bye is an award winning artist who has been a practising ceramics and painting full time since 1994.

Calling all innovative creative types...

Performance Artists, Sound Artists, Installation and Visual Artists, Musicians, Bands, DJs, MCs and Entertainers

for ....

At The Vanishing Point's Events & Festivals Program

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At The Vanishing Point - Contemporary Art (ATVP) is looking for performers, musicians, and artists of all kinds to get involved in the great opportunities for exposure and artistic development that the gallery is creating.

ATVP is currently organising several events outside of its Newtown gallery including seasonal curated multidisciplinary arts showcases at the Oxford Art Factory.

Register your interest now to have the chance to participate in these and other unique opportunities.

For a registration form or further information contact;
ATVP
0430 083 364
info@atthevanishingpoint.c
om.au



At The Vanishing Point
Contemporary Art
565 King Street
Newtown NSW AU
+61 2 9519 2340
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