MARCH 6 to 27 2010

March 6 to 27th
Robert Bader, Karen Paris, Sam Evans, Ruben H Bermudez
Opening Night Sat 6th March 6 to 8pm


Robert Bader (NSW)

“I have worked in a non-objective abstractionist style for over twenty years where my work has primarily been concerned with Constructivist and Bauhaus philosophies.
I am increasingly investigating the integration of nature and the freedom it allows, with the pure essence of form and structure. The act of painting on a large canvas fixed to a wall allows physical communication between the scale of the artist’s movement and the scale of work being produced. This in itself is conducive to a freedom I have not experienced for twenty years.” Robert Bader

Palaeolithic DNA Pigment ink & acrylic paint on 310 gsm ‘hahnemuhle paper 85cm x 110cm

Karen Paris(SA)

“Bubbles, temporal and beautiful, mysterious and nostalgic, gather like old friends and float like free spirits. A medium of change they are a new realm yet still united with the old, re-creating the space they inhabit, capturing it, a moment in time, a tangible space. Through photography I explore this space, looking into it and through it, seeing what was before to the moment that shapes what is yet to be”. Karen Paris

Now and Then C type Photograph

Sam Evans (SA)

'Drawing for me is like falling asleep and dreaming a good dream, then waking to find my hands are cramped and I have a sore neck. Recently, I sat down with my pops, and showed him some of my work. He said to me, ‘why don't you draw a cat, or a dog?’ But being the infinite soul that I am, and feeling that he had missed my genius, I replied, ‘Really who needs another cat and dog!? I want to create things that DON'T exist yet!’
Sam Evans

Sketch 24 ink on DL envelope

Rubén H Bermudez (SPAIN)

Rubén photographs fiction in which the spectator can see themselves reflected. Rubén’s characters are out of place, out of position, belong to the city but they are in a field, dressed for a special occasion they hope for, in the middle of a dark earth. Night falls. The landscape becomes the scene. A woman in black, on her knees scoops earth between her fingers. Is she hopeless or adoring? Mourning the barren Earth or suited to the night that celebrates an encounter with mother earth? The sky becomes cloudy and a storm looms.

Text by Beatriz Martínez

Lovers of the Arctic Circle C type Photograph

2010 Summer Exhibition Feb 6 to 27

Joanna Poulson

Rossanne Pellegrino

Eleanor Zecchin

Jo Kerlogue

Nico Petho
VIDEO by Naomi Oliver

Opening Sat 6th Feb 2010

Joanna Poulson Sally Goes Hunting oil on canvas 101x76cm

Rossanne Pellegrino London Through a Different Lens  C type Photograph

Eleanor Zecchin Parental Watch oil on canvas 100x100cm

Jo Kerlogue Matron Slone and Terrance in...Patterns of Behaviour  laminated digital print 30x30cm

Nico Pethos Lawn Chair

Naomi Oliver Flight before Flight Video Still

Jo Kerlogue, masquerading as alter-ego Nonchalant Sally and armed with the tools of parody and a 2b pencil, will re-assess received wisdom and dominant Australian culture through the satirical vehicle of the illustration montage. ‘The Death of Molly Jones’ illustration series, inspired by eighties soap A Country Practice is a part camp, part punk review of the Australian contemporary condition. Kerlogue illustrates for a variety of formats including mobile phone, large scale digital projection, packaging, fabric printing, illustration performance, the World Wide Web as well as the traditional gallery setting.



Throughout her imagery Rossanne Pellegrino explores the notion of place, memory and our emotional connection to our surroundings. Utilizing various photographic techniques, the artist aims to create a memory on paper effect; to translate images from one’s memory to a physical medium for audiences to experience. Her surreal and dreamlike imagery aim to evoke feelings of nostalgia and curiosity within the observer, leaving one to question where such scenes exist, how they were discovered and perhaps even reminding them of a time and place within their own memory. The artist also explores the impact of human emotion, imagination and the passing of time on our ability to record places of our past.

Eleanor Zecchin’s paintings explore the idea that the everyday may be a catalyst for experiencing the sublime. Within the paintings I seek to capture moments in my daily life and present not only the physical subject matter but also the emotional environment that relates to each moment.

In 2009, Joanna focused her painting tonal realist still life compositions, utilizing inherited objects which included pristine porcelains, vintage fabrics, an old wind vane and old kitchen tins. Her new paintings now also explore the silhouette of objects with the silhouette containing other related objects. In doing so, Joanna is creating new objects through oil on canvas - a dog made of leaves, a dolls head made of buttons and porcelain figurine made of fabric. For all these new objects, Joanna also shares with the viewer paintings of the original source objects and in effect answers some of the questions the viewer has about the silhouette paintings.

Naomi Oliver’s video works centre on bodily / psychic sensation – in particular that familiar feeling of flying during the dream-state. If I can fly when I’m asleep, I can fly when I am awake, and Flight before Flight play on the term ‘flight’ in a number of ways in addition to physical flight: imagination, voyage, departure, and escape.

Eleanor Zecchin Flying Lark.