Ultimo Project Studios

Friday, June 26, 2015

Adrian Baiada & Eytan Messiah : the Choko

One of our latest artist in resident, Adrian Baiada, is exhibiting the paintings done during his sojourn at UP Studios.

Geoff Levitus showing in Korea

Geoff Levitus has been overseas for over a year. Recently, he participated an exhibition in Barim, an open art district in Gwangju, Korea.

Geoff works across several media including video, installation, painting, sculpture, and work on paper, interested in cross-cultural connections, identity, sense of place, the effects of displacement and dislocation and those things that point to a common humanity from the sublime to the ridiculous.

In this exhibition, Geoff presents ‘Boat.’ The boat - a metaphor for escape, freedom, a path to a new safe life, a casting off of old bonds, but also for the fragility of life considering the risks that a frail vessel and its passengers can suffer at the mercy of the sea, the elements, pirates, and even unsympathetic governments. So it speaks of refugees, of desperation, of a search for a new home and a new life, the real risk of death in the effort to find safety and security, and also the possibility that death can find us at any time for no good reason, making life itself a boat-ride.'

View the work on YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgDWw0HDqeY

Geoff is now on a 1 month residency in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Therese Kenyon in 'Paper Works III' at Brenda May Gallery

Brenda May Gallery

2 Danks Street

Waterloo NSW 2017

T: 02 9318 1122

info@brendamaygallery.com.au

Open: Tues to Fri 11-6, Sat 10-6


'Runoff' acrylic gouache on paper 3m x 90cm

'Our Designs on Water: Using water as both image and matter I aim to create a dialogue between the concepts of fluidity and solidity. I explore the interplay between control and dissolution as a way towards abstraction as a meditative and poetic practice. Through material thinking and the diffused lens of overlapping Asian and Western painting practices, I utilise the artists’ materials and technologies from both cultures to bring new understandings of abstraction and the poetic through a body of wall installations, predominantly works on paper, supported by digital media.'

Therese Kenyon

Go to this link for the catalogue

Paper Works III
exhibition lookbook

We are pleased to present you with the exhibition catalogue for Paper Works III, on view at the Gallery until Saturday 2 May.

The third edition of Paper Works III again features artists working with paper as a material in innovative ways; from the origami-like folding, present in the work of Glen Clarke, Liz Shreeve, and Lisa Giles to the incredibly delicate and intricate hand cut paper from Louise Morgan, Nicola Moss, and Mylyn Nguyen. Helen Mueller's 'earthen wear', melds printmaking with molded vessels, Bettina Hill's 'The Shape of Paper, arcs and lines', features strips of paper woven into a bulbous form, and Elizabeth Willing uses processed cheese to sculpt a single sheet of paper through natural processes of decomposition.

▶ Click here to view the lookbook for Paper Works III
▶ Click here to view The Quarterly, volume 1, number 2.