The Plimsoll Gallery Program 2001
11 AUGUST - 2 SEPTEMBER Figure it
7 - 9 SEPTEMBER Art and Land: Contemporary Australian Visions
11 August - 2 September Figure It
Justine Cooper, Brigita Ozolins, Julie Rrap, Mary Scott and Sally Smart. Self portraiture, self-representation and the artist's-body-as prop are the predominant themes behind this exhibition curated by Jonathan Holmes for the Plimsoll Gallery. Figure It has been timed to coincide with a Symposium, Portraiture and Place, that is being presented by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 1 September, 2001 at the University of Tasmania's Centre for the Arts, Hunter Street, Hobart.
View the Figure It flier.
For futher images, please visit the Figure It Gallery.
Please download a non-stuffed PDF (215k) of the Figure It Catalog.
FIGURE IT © University of Tasmania, authors, artists and designers.
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7 - 9 September Art and Land: Contemporary Australian Visions
David Keeling, Davis Wadelton, Irene Briant, John Wolseley, Christine James, Ingo Kleinart, Catherine K, Walala Tjapaljarri, Mary Napangardi Gallagher, Danny McDonald, Kevin Todd, Leah Kingsmith, Harry Nankin, Scott Avery, Fiona Foley, Gregory Pryor, Greg Creek, Patrick Pound, Victor Meertens and Heather Winter. This exhibition illustrates the diversity of approaches adopted by contemporary artists when representing the Australian land. The exhibition is an attempt to reveal and revel in diversity rather than honing a vision down to a few key themes. A Noosa Regional Gallery touring exhibition.
13 October - 4 November Spatial
Ruark Lewis, Rainer Linz, Garth Paine. Curated by Leigh Hobba.
This exhibition presents three artists who have had a long association with sound as an informing element in their work.
RUARK LEWIS is a Sydney based artist who studied Art at the Sydney College of the Arts and then went on to work as a curatorial consultant with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, presenting recital programs of contemporary writers, film makers, sound artists and composers. He is a visual artist and writer with a special interest in language, poetry and sound arts. Ruark Lewis has worked with new concrete poetry and experimental texts and co-authored Depth of Translation - The Book of Raft with Paul Carter in 1999. He completed a public art commission at the Sydney Olympic site at Homebush Bay, called "Relay" with writer Paul Carter and George Hargraves and Associates. He is represented by Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney. Ruark Lewis will be exhibiting text-installations of his experimental ArtistÕs books together with audio compositions.
RAINER LINZ is a Melbourne based composer who has worked in a variety of areas Ð producing radio, instrumental, vocal and performance pieces. He gained his degree in Music at Adelaide University in 1976 and completed postgraduate studies with Mauricio Kagel at the Musichochschule in Cologne, Germany. In 1982 Rainer Linz began publishing New Music Articles (NMA) magazine with its co-editor, the Sydney-based composer Richard Vella. The journal ceased in 1992, although occasional projects continue to be published. Throughout his career he has been concerned with different relationships between performer, music and audience and this is reflected in his diverse output of music for galleries, home performances, radio and other performance contexts that might or might not involve a stage presentation. For Spatial, Rainer will re-configure Infonoise, an interactive gallery installation and on-line performance theatre event that was the product of a collaboration between himself, Gordana Novakovic (London) and Zoran Milkovic (Belgrade) and presented in Belgrade earlier this year. The work is composed of two video works and two interactive computer programs.
GARTH PAINE is a freelance composer, sound designer and installation artist. His formal training includes a Bachelor of Music (performance) from the University of Tasmania, and a two year Sound engineering Trainee-ship with the ABC. In 2000 he was awarded by the Australia Council the RMIT, New Media Arts Fellowship. Over the past ten years he has been commissioned extensively in Australia, UK and Germany producing original compositions and sound designs for over 30 film, theatre, dance and installation works. In 1999 Garth was composerÐin-residence at the Staaliches Institut fur Musikforschung (State Institute for Musical Research Ð SIM) in Berlin , exhibiting his installation MAP1 in the Musical Instrument Museum, Berlin during the residency. He was commissioned by SIM to produce MAP2 Ð an interactive immersive sound environment installation, developed in collaboration with Iannis Zannos which was exhibited at the Museum for Musical Instruments, Berlin in 1999/2000 as part of the Millennium celebrations. MAP2 is a three dimensional space which can be entered and encountered, played with and played. It is a virtual musical instrument using the movement of those within it as its raw material for composition and sound development and for Spatial will be re-created by the artist in the Plimsoll Gallery.
Links for artists;
Garth Paine; www.activatedspace.com.au
Ruark Lewis; www.cottier.com.au/justfornothing www.netspace.net.au/~rlinz/NMA
Rainer Linz; www.netspace.net.au/~rlinz/NMA
The University of Tasmania exhibition program receives generous assistance from the Premier, Minister for State Development, through Arts Tasmania.