Sydney Contemporary, Paper 2025

 

This year marks our 10th year participating in the Sydney Contemporary Paper event, and we're celebrating with something a little different. In addition to showcasing our artists, we'll also be promoting our very own artist-run space, UPSpace Gallery.

You'll find us at Booth B10 at Carriageworks, Newtown. The booth will be staffed by members of our collective, so please stop by and say hello!

We're also excited to be joined by long-time friend of the Artist Collective, Seraphina Martin—a talented printmaker known for her work with the solar etching technique—as well as artist Anita Shirley. Anita’s studio is located at the Addison Road Community Centre. No stranger to this event, Anita previously exhibited with the Collective at Sydney Contemporary in 2023.

The UP Studio artists this year are made up of:

Therese Kenyon

Barbara Licha

Gail Kenning

Anie Nheu

Seraphina Martin. Cherished and Adored, 2025.

Anita Shirley. Moon night, 2025

Therese Kenyon. Lake St. Claire 1, 2025.

Barbara Licha. Sketch, 2024.

Gail Kenning. It's how we heal, 2025.

Anie Nheu. The wheels were in motion long before this, 2025

UP Studio Artists and a Guest at Sydney Contemporary, Paper

List of works on display

Anie Nheu

Anita Shirley*

Barbara Licha

Gail Kenning

Tina Fiveash

Wayne Hutchins

*Anita Shirley is friend of UP Studios.  She has her own practice at Addison Road Community

UP AND GO (A group exhibition of artists from Ultimo Project) 12-13 August 2023

Edge Creative Trails Midjuburi open studios at Upspace

Blg 24 Ultimo Project Inc

Studio 11, T Kenyon 

                                                 Therese Kenyon Lightspill #8 Acrylic on canvas 91 x 91cm

                                                                Therese Briggs Déplacé  (Displaced)’ 2023 

                                                                Mixed media on unstretched canvas 100 x 120 cm

               

                                                                Wayne Hutchins  ‘Rockpool #3’ 

                                                            Digital print on acrylic Ed 3, 90cm diameter

                                                                Tina Fiveash  ‘Utopia 10 km.’Pigment ink on Hahnemuhle cotton rag paper

                                                                 99.3 x 134 cm Ed 5+2 A/P

         Adam Laerkesen 'Ducky'  

sculpted monkey, wooden burls, skull, paint, found stand.  

H/ 1.7m x W/400mm x D/680mm

UPSPace @ Sydney Contemporary

  

Sydney Contemporary 2018

UP Artists are part of Open Studio Trail on Saturday, 20th of May

  UPScape

UP Space Gallery building 24, 142 Addison Road Centre, Marrickville

13-14 & 20-21 May 11-5pm

Sue Pedley · Jennifer Levitus · Therese Kenyon · Jan Fieldsend · Gail Kenning · Wayne Hutchins · Robert Hawkins · Tina Fiveash · Adam Laerkesen · Paul Wan · Barbara Licha · Mark Dubner · Sylvia Hermine · Anie Nheu

 

Ultimo Project studio artists are exhibiting their work in conjunction with the IWOST event.  We are no. 20 in the Blue precinct on the IWOST map {may not work on mobile}

 

ARTISTS' Studios will be open on the 20th & 21st May 11-5 pm

UP Studio Artists for Inner West Open Studio Trail, IWOST | 13-14, 20-21 May 2017

  UPScape

UP Space Gallery building 24, 142 Addison Road Centre, Marrickville

13-14 & 20-21 May 11-5pm

Sue Pedley · Jennifer Levitus · Therese Kenyon · Jan Fieldsend · Gail Kenning · Wayne Hutchins · Robert Hawkins · Tina Fiveash · Adam Laerkesen · Paul Wan · Barbara Licha · Mark Dubner · Sylvia Hermine · Anie Nheu

 

Ultimo Project studio artists are exhibiting their work in conjunction with the IWOST event.  We are no. 20 in the Blue precinct on the IWOST map {may not work on mobile}

 

ARTISTS' Studios will be open on the 20th May 11-5 pm

 

 

There’s room in my house

GAIL KENNING and SUE PEDLEY

return to Slot with a work that references current issues around homelessness and the plight of refugees.

The work was inspired by a hand drawn banner made by 5 year old Xavier Egan for the Light the Dark Vigil at Sydney’s Hyde Park on Monday 7^th September 2015[1]. The vigil drew attention to the displaced people around the world through messages of welcome and solidarity.

The rallies, which took place in a number of cities in Australia called on political leaders to take an active role to ease the suffering of the growing numbers of refugees worldwide.

The work by Kenning and Pedley at slot consists of a set of curtains, made from the conservatively styled material used to the line suits of corporate clothing, most typically suits. The curtains are casually draped reminiscent of the carefully chosen furnishings that differentiate a house from a home and provides a sense of place that are currently not available to many refugees. The matter of who is allowed to become a resident and can make a home is complex. It involves engaging with issues of nation states and territories, economics, politics and warring factions. The simplicity of the message ‘There’s room in my house’ written in blue in a child’s handwriting stands in stark contrast to the cacophony of voices commentating on the events as they unfold. It risks being an oversimplification. But, it reminds us of the role that creativity, art and imagining can play in cutting through and demonstrating basic shared humanity.

http://slotwindow.blogspot.com.au
gailkenning.com
suepedley.com.au

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[1] A photo of Xavier Evans and his hand written message appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. Photo: Luke Vodell