Saturday, August 26, 2017

Tonee Messiah : A New Famine

Tonee Messiah, our newest studio member, is having her MFA graduation show at 
 
9 Darley Street
Darlinghurst NSW 2010
 
30 AUG – 23 SEPT 2017
OPENING WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST, 6–8PM



A New Famine is an exploration into the ways individualised knowledge is acquired and developed in the digital age. The culmination of a Masters research project into intuition and its function in the creative process, this body of work extends the exploration into the role intuition plays in the contemporary lived experience.
 
 


'As technology pervades the everyday workings of our lives, self-reliance and autonomous thought are becoming corrupted and mistrusted. We outsource our decisions on what to eat, when to sleep, who to love, what to like and what to think. A New Famine visualises a reality in limbo between who we are and how we have come to resolve this. It reflects on the state of a society that has been trained to favour connectedness over autonomy and mistrust intuitive knowing for obtained information.'
 
– Tonee Messiah


Tonee Messiah (b. 1983) graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with Honours in 2004. Messiah is represented in the collections of Artbank, Monash University Museum of Art, Allens Linklaters, Barker College and Campbelltown Hospital. A New Famine is her ninth solo exhibition at Gallery 9.

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Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Paper Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 7-10 September 2017

Upspace Ultimo Project Studios is represented at Paper Contemporary curated by Akky van Ogtrop for the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair.

 

Artists Mark Dubner, Jan Fieldsend, Wayne Hutchins, Gail Kenning, Therese Kenyon, Jennifer Levitus, Geoff Levitus, Barbara Licha, Anie Nheu and Sue Pedley are all exhibiting works with or on paper at Booth PO1 at Carriageworks 7-10 September.

 

 


top left to right: Barbara Licha, Geoff Levitus, Sue Pedley ; lower left to right: Gail Kenning, Wayne Hutchins, Anie Nheu



from the top: Jan Fieldsend, Therese Kenyon, Mark Dubner