Shota Kawahara

December 5  to 19  2009

Opening Night 7 to 9pm Sat 5th December

Image: Babble Maze acrylic on canvas 102x72cm

Shota's paintings are inspired by nature and his life as a travelling artist. Shota has been attending residencies and exhibiting in Australia and New Zealand, with a trip to Samoa in between. His abstract landscapes are vibrant, highly worked in colourful detail and unique.

"When we make art we communicate with ourselves alot. It is an intense conversation. It happens between our conscious and unconscious. Then we put our own idea, story and philosophy on canvas or some other material. Art is a means of visualizing ones philosophy"  Shota Kawahara

Butterfly Valley acrylic on canvas 102x72cm 

NORTHEY/ ROEDEL

INTERFERENCE

5 to 19 December VIDEO ROOM

Video & Sound Work

 

video still Interference v65

Sam Songalio Paintings about Techno AND Sarah Grillo Natural Reality

Dual Pitch 122x227cm acrylic on canvas

Fire Track 152x152cm acrylic on canvas

What About Now 84x84cm acrylic on canvas

Sarah Grillo

Natural Reality

7 to 21 November

Mezzanine Gallery

20x20cm Giclee Print on German etching paper

TAKESHI IUE

DESIGN

Nov 7 to Dec 19

Black Gallery Bench MDF Polyurethane

http://www.takeshiiue.com/

THE DEVIL

Max Dawn Presents
The Devil
10 to 24 October 09

Featuring art works by
james dodd, harmony nicholas, driller jet armstrong, tom phillips,  tai spruyt, sarah grillo, ruben h bermudez, deidre but husaim, michaelgarrett, nick thompson, naomi oliver, luku and roedel/northey.
image : Tom Phillips Ends of Days 156x136cm oil on canvas

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Tai Spruyt Christadelphia C type photograph 50x50cm

Naomi Oliver Productivity Loop video still

Roedel/Northey  Hail Satan (Tassie Devil Wheel) video still

Ruben H Bermudez  Lovers of the Arctic Circle C type Photograph 70x100cm

Luku Kukukukukuku  Luku's Lakeside Lucifer Love-in

Deidre But-Husaim Peter Oil on Linen 122x112cm

Michael Garrett Lucifers Lounge Resin coated Cow Bones

James Dodd Ram Skulls acyrlic on board

Gallery installation, But-Husaim, Dodd and Garrett.

Chris Tamm Hail Cthulhu 40x45cm mixed media on board

Sarah Grillo Devil Bride C type photograph 30x40cm

I Used to be an Artist

Driller Jet Armstrong
New Daubist Works
Max Dawn Gallery

September 4 to 26 09

“Daubism is based upon individual limitless freedom.
It is through unfettered freedom that great discoveries
are made. Music sampling is the example of that.
Whole new doors are opened.In the 21st century
Daubism exists everywhere you look and yet ironically
Daubist art is entirely unique.”Driller Jet Armstrong 09


“Daubism began like a 14 yr old child in a dysfunctional
family. It was angry, it had Punk attitude and it was raw.
The more I experimented with this modus operandi the
more refined and beautiful it became. The ways in which
a painting can be changed are virtually endless and
along the way I’ve made some interesting discoveries.”
Driller Jet Armstrong 09

JUST IS

Shaw Hendry and Rachel McElwee

SALA Festival August 09
Just is
Beverly Southcott
Sera Wateres
Shaw Hendry (image)
Ed James
Rachel McElwee


This exhibition describes moments of otherness within the daily patterns of our lives. The artists’ new, experimental works reference the social and human condition mainly within the urban environment. It is about the almost unseen justices and injustices, ‘small’ heroics acts, cultural influences and the daily communications with others that often go unnoticed, unsaid or discounted within the every day.



Shaw Hendry’s  recent installation works have the ability to innately transcend the ordinary into some thing else of joyful hope and delight. There is a strong element of play in the Provisional objects installation which allows for emotional observation and interaction by the viewer. This work makes reference to home-made toys. The Hermano Fan Club installation of hand painted ukuleles is a playful, yet contemplative piece that relates to fandom and notions of authenticity. With references to folk art, memorabilia, and artefacts of contemporary celebrity that are then enshrined, re-adorned for display by their fans. (Image above)


 Edward James’s  photographic images are often re-worked from low resolution imagery using mobile phones. When enlarged, these photos bring new meaning and philosophical analysis of the common usage of digital communications systems. James’s further exploration of the fragile veneer of ‘acceptable’ everyday behaviour is evident in the Fuse photo media series. The gaff tape over the face symbolizes societal prejudices that tolerate only seemingly nice behaviour and where other behaviours by people that are not considered ‘the norm’ are then ostracized by others.


 Rachel Mc Elwee’s  skilful photography and installation works in I never promised you a rose garden reflect the demands of living in ‘the burbs’ and ‘fighting’ drought conditions by undertaking DIY make overs to the gardens. Smothered with unnatural products the ‘consumer’ landscape becomes alive again with bright, colourful natural enhancements.

Mc Elwee’s works can be seen as humorous and yet are serious depictions of our need to humanize our urban environments according to social conditioning and peer pressures.


Sera Waters’ stitched cushions are timely and conceptual. With undertones of black humour they describe ‘small acts’ of discomfort in the seemingly undisturbed fabric of suburban living. These pieces map new ventures into the fabrication of disastrous drama. Each is a threatening scenario; terrifyingly awesome bodies of water, frozen conditions and fierce gales with electrical lashes, made squishy, softened and covered in stitches, lace, sequins and beads. Harrowing circumstances either human-made or natural disasters (or a mix of both), or internal tumult, are featured on these soft, ‘comfortable’ cushions.

Tsunami by Sera Waters

Beverley Southcott’s photo imagery describes where perception can change one’s thoughts from discomfort to hope that occur in transitional events such as re-locating to a new interstate city to live. The Day by Day photo media series were taken through two small holes, punched on paper thus capturing circular portals to the new home space. Creating that sense of not quite participating and feeling slightly apart from the 'world around'. During this settling in time, the unfamiliar becomes familiar and that ‘silver lining’ appears again as seen in the ready made, beige curtain drop that accompanies the photographs.

Max Dawn The First Show

James Dodd Tom Phillips James Cochran Gareth Brown
Tegan Empson Matt Gray

JAMES DODD

                                     Dumped Car with Stolen Wheels acrylic on canvas 61x46cm

 Stolen Wheels Study 1 acrylic on canvas 61x46cm

2 Besa Block acrylic on MDF 30x43cm

TOM PHILLIPS

                                                  Two Boys oil on canvas 136x156cm

Skater Boy oil on canvas 78x136cm

Lost in the Suburbs oil on canvas 136x166cm

JAMES COCHRAN

Wild at Heart  acrylic lacquer on canvas 120x152cm

City Forms acrylic lacquer on canvas 120x163cm

Becoming acrylic on canvas 80x110cm

TEGAN EMPSON

                                               Rockerfella hand sculpted glass 26cm h

Gareth Brown

                                                     Gareth Brown Design  Credenza

MATT GRAY

Matt Gray super 8 video still

 

new works by Tom Phillips 2010