Barbara Licha in Inspiring Artists

Listen to Time Passing, 2012

Inspiring Artists - Recipients of the Pat Corrigan Artists' Grant

Exhibition Dates   

9 November 2012 to 17 February 2013

Maitland Regional Art Gallery

Barbara Licha : Finalist of Portia Geach Memorial Award

Secret 2012. Oil on Canvas, 122 X 91cm 

Barbara is one of 55 finalists of Portia Geach Memorial Award Prize with her submission titled Secret

The judges for this event were John Beard, Artist 
Lindy Lee, Senior Lecturer, Sydney College of the Arts 
Jane Watters, Director, S.H. Ervin Gallery

This prize event is exhibited at the S.H. Ervin Gallery from

28th September - 4th October

Sue Pedley : Harvest

Harvest 18 (diptych) 2012, oil on wood, 55 x 104 cm 

9 October - 4 November 2012

Opening drinks SATURDAY 13 October 3pm-5pm

James Dorahy Project Space

Please contact the gallery if you would like images of other works available

111 Macleay Street Potts Point

Diminutive : UP Studio Artists for Sydney Fringe 2012

This year, for the Sydney Fringe event, the artists have invited friend(s), who are also Sydney based artists, to participate in this event.  The theme is diminutive: in a world where objects, time and space are getting shorter, smaller, lessened, this exhibition will showcase the miniature, diminutive, minutiae.

The works are to be no bigger than 15 cm (but preferably smaller) in any direction any material or 1 minute duration. 

Exhibition opens

15th September   2-4 pm

Exhibition dates

16th, 22nd + 23rd September   10-4 pm

Therese Kenyon: Going Gaga with Dada

A dedication to spontaneity, chaos, innovation and nonesense a group exhibitionCurated by Akky van Ogtrop

21 August - 8 September 2012

Curator Talk     Saturday 25 August 3pm 

Drinks with the Artists    Saturday 25 August 4-6pm

with a special performance by Sylvia Schwenk    (courtesy Artereal Gallery, Sydney), ‘dada - when up is down’

The Zine Fest    August 31 + September 1
Zine talk by Glenn Barkley Curator, MCA 

Saturday 1 September, 11am

BRENDA MAY GALLERY

2 Danks Street Waterloo 

info@brendamaygallery.com.au 
tuesday - friday 11-6 saturday 10-6 t. 02 9318 1122 f. 02 9318 1007 

Kate T Deacock : Strange Fruit

_{Untitled Composition} 

_{Mixed media on canvas, 30 x 50 cm (variable) on glass shelf}

Opening on Wednesday 25 July, 2012

Exhibition dates Thursday 26 July - Saturday 4 August

                             1 – 6pm

at Factory 49 - Office Project Space

49 Shepherd Street 

Marrickville 2204

Kate T Deacock's works are simple compositions that emerge from visual, visceral & tactile contemplations on space, texture and material. Found objects, materials, household items are often utilized and more occasionally digital and electronic media. Process driven, the work tends to be mutable and changing - often reworked, discarded, found again, destroyed and recreated anew.

Through this process, Deacock comes to points of experiencing and choosing to pursue the discomforting psychological spaces in between certainty and uncertainty, knowing and not knowing, continuity and discontinuity, presence and absence, permanence and impermanence etc.  

The aim is for the work to take on an ambiguous nature in that perhaps it is hard to know whether it is 'finished' or 'unfinished'. Are these works, objects complete....or even deliberate...?  The invitation is for the viewer to experience some sense of ambiguity and uncertainty about the work. Also for it to be nevertheless engaging enough to stimulate the imagination or senses to wonder about its possible history or potential future. 

Anie Nheu : Remarking|Remaking

At the Gaps, 2012, mixed media cut paper assemblage, 142 x 257cm

Exhibition Opens 19th July 6 - 8 pm  exhibition continues to the 8th of September at Blacktown Arts Centre 78 Flushcombe Road


Anie is one of the 10 artists participating in the exhibition, Remarking|Remaking.  The exhibition, curated by Abdullah M. I. Syed and Dr. Li Wenmin, explores the theme of diaspora and its contribution to contemporary drawing in Australia.


Other participants are: Nicole Barakat, Denis Beaubois, Nick Brown, Muamer Cajic, Anie Nheu, Ana Pollak, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Marikit Santiago, Shay Tobin, Teo Treloar.

Nicole Ellis : ARTIFACT

Old Linen (red). 2012.

Cotton, linen, acrylic paint, backed and mounted on cotton, 99.4 x 73.5 cm

Opening Drinks

Wednesday 11 July 6-8pm

exhibition dates

10 July - 12 August 201

James Dorahy Project Space

Please contact the gallery if you would like images of other works available

111 Macleay Street

Pott Point

Adam Laerkesen: finalist for John Fries Memorial Prize, 2012

Out of 400 entries, Adam is amongst the 20 finalists for John Fries Memorial Prize this year.

For image of the work submitted, see post entry for Melbourne Sculptures Prize, 2012.

Annie Aitken: Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope # 4  (2012) Polypropylene, nylon net, poly-raffia, straw yarn, wire & 

acrylic rod 36x38 x38 cm 

Opening Drinks

Wednesday   23rd May  6 - 8pm

Exhibition Dates

22 May - 17th June

James Dorahy Project Space

111 Macleay Street

Pott Point

Adam Laerkesen: finalist at the Melbourne Sculpture Prize, 2012

The Melbourne Sculpture Prize 2012 is a $20,000 Non Acquisitive Award open to all Australian and New Zealand sculptors working in any medium. Selected finalists work will form the highlight exhibition of Art Melbourne (May 24th – 27th 2012), at the heritage listed Royal Exhibition Hall in Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.


Adam Laerkesen is one of the 25 artists selected for this award with the work submitted.

Selection Panel:

James Makin - Director James Makin Gallery

Nigel Messenger - Executive Director ARTPark Australia

Tamsin Roberts - Director, ART Melbourne 2012

Judging Panel:

Andrew Rogers - Prominent Australian and International Sculptor

Sam Sangster - Chief Executive Officer Places Victoria


Adam is part of the national touring group show titled, Dreamweavers.  Curated by the Curator Simon Gregg from the Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, the show is to tour the Regional Art Galleries until 2013.

To see Adam's interview for Dreamweavers in ABC's Art Nation, click here.

Adam has also been scheduled to hold a solo show at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, in September this year.  Watch for the blog entry for this event closer to the month.

Adam Laerkesen is represented by Anita Traverso. 

In the Mirror a curated group exhibition

Barbara Licha. Glass of Red,  2011.  Oil on canvas. 167 X 152 cm.

In the Mirror
a curated group exhibition 27 March to 14 April 2012

   BRENDA MAY GALLERY

   2 Danks Street Waterloo NSW Australia

       Drinks with the Artists Saturday 31 March 4-6pm

                                                                    

Gail Kenning & Sue Pedley: Moving

Being in a place that is unfamiliar often causes a heightened sense of looking and being. How do we come to understand an unfamiliar place and reconcile often simultaneously contrasting viewpoints? In an attempt to understand an unfamiliar place we bring together information gathered from books, films, articles, conversations, with our experiences of ‘being there’, interacting with people and place, moving through spaces and experiencing a culture.

Gail Kenning and Sue Pedley present a series of photocollages, animations and monoprints developed from a project carried out during a residency at the Redgate Studio in Beijing, December 2011. The project examined how individuals come to understand or perceive spaces and places that are unfamiliar and culturally, historically and socially different to their own experiences. The starting points for the work are the shared experience and documentation of two very different journeys in Beijing.

Presented by Peloton at Sydney College of the Arts, Balmain Rd, Rozelle, NSW, Australia.

Exhibition runs from 1st March - 30th March, opening reception 6-8pm 9th March

Once Was Re(a)d : UP Studios Artists in Art Month Sydney

The Studios' artists will be exhibiting at the UP Space Gallery for the Art Month Sydney 2012

Therese Kenyon. Screen, 2012. Mixed Media, 60 x 60 cm

Exhibition Opens on Thursday, 8th March, 6-8 pm


Gallery opens to the public on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th and 18th

At UP Space Gallery,
Bldg 24, 142 Addison Road, Marrickville

In conjunction with the exhibition, there will also be open studio days held on the Saturdays, 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th of March.  This was very well attended last year.

Yarns between Bubbles : a collaborative drawing exhibition

Rubik No. 1, 2012, mixed media on paper, 171 x 302 cm

Opens on the 9th of February 2012, 6-8 pm

Tin Sheds Gallery
148 City Road
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
University of Sydney

Exhibition continues to the 10th of March, 2012

Barbara Licha is in for the Montalto Sculpture Prize, 2012

Barbara has been selected as one of 25 finalists for this year's Montalto Sculpture Prize.

The sculptures are installed on the grounds of Montalto from the 24th of January. Winner is selected by a panel of 5 judges.  Winner will be announced at the opening of the exhibition on the 15th of February.

Exhibition continues until the 1st of May.

Full Catalogue of the event can be accessed here.