ACAB interview for Five Walls Projects - 2 Aug - 31st Aug

ACAB from Chantal Wynter on Vimeo.

Andrew Gutteridge - Five Walls Projects 3 July - 27th July, 2013

Andrew Gutteridge talks about his exhibition 'Hard-Earned Peace of Mind' from Chantal Wynter on Vimeo.

Interview with Michele Donegan at Trocadero Art Space

Michele Donegan at Trocadero Art Space from Chantal Wynter on Vimeo.

'On Foot' Art Crawl 1st of June 2013

KLPHKJBGMDJN Copenhagen / Sydney - Five Walls Projects

Billy Gruner - Five Walls Projects. from Chantal Wynter on Vimeo.

Chelsea HOPPER - "Dead Tired"

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"Beached"

"Pooped"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images courtesy of artist and Bruce Gallery

The latest exhibition at BruceGallery by artist Chelsea Hopper gives us insight into the practice of sunbathing by seniors. What comes to mind is contemporary version of The Sunbaker by Max Dupain.

Random individuals are photographed on various beaches throughout Perth tanning on towels oblivious to their surroundings. Enlarged postcards of retirement in its glorious form. Hopper has used the out-dated mode of film in an SLR camera. She had the images printed and then Hooper enlarged them herself.

One image titled "Pooped" is of a man who is lying facedown under a tree on a beach, fully clothed taking a rest from the world. He looks to be a tourist that is lost and stranded and is exhausted falls onto the sand. Another image titled "Beached" depicts a woman with a floral swimsuit, facedown on a towel with her belongings for the day beside her. It could be her only solace between looking after grandchildren and cooking for the husband.

Hopper has creatively depicted this genre of people, not the grey nomads but the over sun-kissed retirees, busking in all their glory.

Until the 17^th of November, 2012

http://www.bruce.org.au/
http://www.chelseahopper.com/

Daniel AGDAG - "Sets for a Film l’ll never make"

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                                                         Empire Building
                                                                                           Image courtesy of artist and Off the Kerb Gallery

                                                       The Wait
                                                       Image Courtesy of artist and Off the Kerb Gallery

This latest exhibition at Off the Kerb Gallery is the first solo show for artist Daniel Agdag.

The title of the show adeptly describes the thread of each of these five intricately made works. As you walk into the gallery, you could mistakenly have entered a curiosity shop blended with the fantasia of writer Ronald Dahl and the surrealism of director Tim Burton.

At first greeted by the most robust and largest of the works is Amalgamated, a setting of an historical building site with warped nuances only viewed after further investigation. It looks to be a scene from a New York street or busy metropolis. All complete with a W class tram morphed with American cable cars. Created with cardboard that has been manipulated, rolled, flatten, cut and moulded. The attention to detail is spectacular and to think such a heavy laded piece could be light in weight boggles the mind. The architecture of the work is brilliantly composed and obviously researched.

The other works stand in glass domes presented on plinths pertaining to museum kept artefacts of a distant era.  The Wait is the most delicate of the pieces, which resembles an old hot air balloon warped slightly with the experimental makings of a machine. The glass dome protects this prototype with its transparent and delicate balloon as though it will deflate at any given moment if an insect would land on its surface.

These small sets expose the viewer to the artists imagined industrial estate. Far from the modern unsavoury factories and large corrugated sheds. A small wonderland of obscurities.

Until 9^th of November

http://www.offthekerb.com.au/