ART / WORK curated by Anna Kirk @Kudos Gallery
April 29, 2016
Make or Break, a collaborative project by Connie Anthes and Rebecca Gallo will be featured in an upcoming show at Kudos Gallery in May 2016.
ART/WORK, curated by Anna Kirk explores the intersection of art and labour, art economies, and the nature of the artist as ‘worker’. It will question whether the artist is the ideal model for the post-Fordian worker (creative, flexible and cheap); and examine ideas of outsourced labour, labour distribution, economic success, investment and durational practice.
Participating artists include: Frances Barrett, Mitchel Cumming, Dara Gill, Marian Tubbs, Astrid Lorange, 110%, Get To Work collective, Andrew Liversidge, Agatha Gothe-Snape and Alex Gawronski.
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| Tags: admin, art, installation, library, life, performance, third chair, work
Make or Break @MCA Artbar
April 29, 2016
Make or Break will be performing their work Life Admin as part of the MCA’s April Artbar, curated by Kate Scardifield. For two hours, the artists will perform a continuous session of “life Admin” with their lives, bank accounts and personal emails being projected live onto the walls of the MCA foyer.
MCA Artbar, April 29 2016 7-11pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
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| Tags: admin, connie anthes, life, make or break, makeorbreak, performance, process, rebecca gallo
NOMAD Residency October 2014
October 17, 2014
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Anamorphism @ARCHIVE_
June 18, 2014
Opening tonight, the next step in the ongoing collaborative work with ceramicist Justin Cooper.
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| Tags: anamorphism, archive, ARI, ceramics, collaboration, installation, justin cooper, newtown, object
Archive of Low Relief goes live
April 16, 2014
The beginnings of an attempt to digitally archive and index artist’s responses to my Low Relief project has launched today. Low Relief #1 took place in December 2013 at Damien Minton Gallery with 20 artists making work for 20 drawers. As subsequent shows are mounted using the same drawers and different artists, I hope to build a searchable archive of responses to the project over time. You can view the archive here.
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| Tags: 20 artists, 20 drawers, archive, blog, drawers, low relief
Action out West
April 12, 2014
Two shows curated by Alex Wisser are taking place now: one in a converted Dubbo Firestation and the other in a remote state forest.
* 3-30 April (opening Thursday 3 April 6pm). On The Ground: A Survey of Contemporary Painting from the Sydney ARI scene. Curated by Alex Wisser. Featuring: Melanie E Khava, Justin Cooper, Gilbert Grace, Kate McKay, Anthony Bartok, Connie Anthes, Blak Douglas, Abbas Makrab, Fleur McDonald, Georgina Pollard, Lisa Kotoulas. Firestation Arts Centre, 116 Darling Street, Dubbo NSW.
* 13 April (one day only: opening 2-5pm). The Survey Show. Featuring: Ben Denham, Connie Anthes, Georgie Pollard, Genevieve Carroll, Sarah Breen Lovett, Kathryn Ryan, Emma Wise, Linden Braye, Mr and Mrs Brown, Bettina Bruder, India Zegan, Alan Schacher, Margaret Roberts, Dave Standfield. Clandulla State Gallery, Clandulla State Forest NSW.
Untitled (gallery wall), 2014. Pre-installation view.
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| Tags: alex wisser, Clandulla State Gallery, dubbo, ephemeral, firestation arts centre, forest, gallery, inflatable, installation, museum, NSW, painting, plastic, recycled, regional
Ornamental Noise, opens Tuesday April 1 2014
March 29, 2014
What prompts us to see music in the everyday noise that surrounds us? In this second solo exhibition with Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney artist Connie Anthes looks for meaning in the mundane. This new collection of uncanny paintings and objects explores the phenomenon of pareidolia, or the unprompted seeing of faces and bodies in inanimate objects.
View a selection of works from ORNAMENTAL NOISE: http://damienmintongallery.com.au/artists/connie-anthes
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CONNIE ANTHES
ORNAMENTAL NOISE
Paintings and Objects
1-12 April 2014
Opening drinks: Tuesday, 1 April 6-8pm
Damien Minton Gallery
Open Wednesday to Saturday 11am – 6pm
583 Elizabeth Street, Redfern NSW 2016
Phone 02 9699 7551 Email art@damienmintongallery.com.au
www.damienmintongallery.com.au
OTHER UPCOMING PROJECTS:
* 3-30 April (opening Thursday 3 April 6pm). On The Ground: A Survey of Contemporary Painting from the Sydney ARI scene. Curated by Alex Wisser. Featuring: Melanie E Khava, Justin Cooper, Gilbert Grace, Kate McKay, Anthony Bartok, Connie Anthes, Blak Douglas, Abbas Makrab, Fleur McDonald, Georgina Pollard, Lisa Kotoulas. Firestation Arts Centre, 116 Darling Street, Dubbo NSW.
* 13 April (one day only: opening 2-5pm). The Survey Show. Featuring: Ben Denham, Connie Anthes, Georgie Pollard, Genevieve Carroll, Sarah Breen Lovett, Kathryn Ryan, Emma Wise, Linden Braye, Mr and Mrs Brown, Bettina Bruder, India Zegan, Alan Schacher, Margaret Roberts, Dave Standfield. Clandulla State Gallery, Clandulla State Forest NSW.
* 18- 28 June (opening Wednesday 18 June, 6-8pm). New Work (a collaboration between Connie Anthes & Justin Cooper). ARCHIVE_, 5 Eliza Street,
Newtown, NSW 2042.
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| Tags: 2014, Damien Minton, exhibition, installation, noise, ornamental, painting, pareidolia, solo
Collaboration with Justin Cooper @ NANA Contemporary
February 1, 2014
New Newcastle ARI NANA launched it’s 2014 program with a window show of recent ceramic works.
1-28 February 2014
New Work
Justin Cooper & Connie Anthes
@ NANA Contemporary
185 Hunter St Mall, Newcastle
The artists in front of their large scale ceramic works. Image courtesy NANA.
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| Tags: ARI, ceramic, installation, justin cooper, NANA, Newcastle
Low Relief @ Damien Minton Gallery
November 17, 2013
Inspired by two sets of gun-metal grey plan drawers acquired by artist Connie Anthes when Sydney’s last map shop closed in 2011, Low Relief explores the possibilities of shallow space and its relation to mapping place, time and ideas of perception. Twenty artists have each responded to a drawer with its original label intact, with the work to be displayed in situ and experienced one-on-one by the audience.
20 drawers/20 artists, including: Matthew Allen, Sarah Breen Lovett, Catherine Cassidy, Criena Court, Michaela Gleave, Sarah Goffman, David Haines, Janet Haslett, Greg Hodge, Leahlani Johnson, Anna Kristensen, Abbas Makrab, Noel McKenna, Ian Millis, Eric Niebuhr, Peter Nelson, Madeleine Preston, Peter Sharp, Floria Tosca, and Paul Williams. Curated by Connie Anthes.
6-8pm, 17 December 2013
as part of Damien Minton’s One Night Stand series.
Damien Minton Gallery, 583 Elizabeth St, Redfern NSW 2016
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| Tags: 20, curated, Damien Minton, drawers, gallery, low relief, one night stand, twenty
Super Six opens in Sydney
November 17, 2013
Super Six engages seven artists to explore the architectural, environmental, social and historical aspects of asbestos in the built environment. ‘Super Six’ corrugated asbestos cement sheeting was one of James Hardie’s signature products. ‘Super Six’ is to commercial sites what the ‘fibro sheet’ is to domestic cottages. The resulting show includes video, audio, object, installation and painting, including 4 new works by Connie Anthes.
Curated by Gilbert Grace, the artists are: Connie Anthes, Warren Armstrong, Sarah Breen Lovett, Gilbert Grace, Georgina Pollard, Peter Williamson and Alex Wisser at DNA Projects, 3 Blackfriars St, Chippendale. From Thursday 14 November to Friday 29 November 2013, Gallery hours, Wednesday to Friday, 11 – 5pm.
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| Tags: 2013, DNA projects, inflatable, installation, super six
Fishers Ghost Art Prize finalist
October 17, 2013
Following a collaborative residency at Gymea TAFE Ceramics, artist Justin Cooper and Connie Anthes are finalists in the Fishers Ghost Art Prize 2013 with their work Burn at 1100C #1. This work is part of a series of ‘melt’ experiments using scavenged metals, glass and reactive materials, which has been photographed, digitally rearranged and printed at scale.
Burn at 1100C #1, 2013. Giclee print on archival paper. Edition of 3, 101 x 149cm.
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| Tags: 2013, art prize, Campbelltown, ceramics, Fishers Ghost, Gymea TAFE, justin cooper, print, process
MULTI_GRIP at Articulate
July 10, 2013
MULTI_GRIP opens at Articulate project space on Friday 12 July at 6-8pm.
Open: 11am – 5pm, Friday – Sunday, 12 – 28 July 2013.
497 Parramatta Road, Leichhardt, NSW 2040
MULTI_GRIP is an exhibition of work by artists Connie Anthes, Sue Callanan, Lynne Eastaway, Jane Gavan, Beata Geyer, Lesley Giovanelli, Adrian Hall, Georgina Pollard, Alicia Poppett, Margaret Roberts, Tania Rollond, Kathryn Ryan, Kelley Stapleton, Skye Wagner, Emma Wise and Ling Yuen.
Untitled (Prop#1-4), 2013. Installation with struts and found objects. Dimensions variable.
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| Tags: articulate, exhibition, group, installation, multi_grip, object, project, prop, space, wall
Hazelhurst Art Prize 2013
June 8, 2013
I have been included in the Hazelhurst Prize show this year, with a work on paper Unititled (perforated landscape in blue), 2013. The exhibition of finalists runs from 6 July – 25 August 2013 at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, 782 Kingsway, Gymea.
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| Tags: drawing, hazelhurst, paper, prize
Ceramics residency & collaboration
April 18, 2013
Last week was the first week of a 9 week collaborative project between myself and Sydney artist-slash-ceramics pirate Justin Cooper. Undertaken as part of a 9 week artist-in-residence program at Gymea TAFE, experiments with ceramic collage and drawing have begun. A big thank you to Lynda Draper and crew for inviting us to be part of the program and let us melt weird things down in their kilns.
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| Tags: artist, ceramics, experiment, gallery, Gymea, hazelhurst, justin cooper, lynda draper, residency, TAFE
Cementa_13 launches
February 1, 2013
This week, the first festival of contemporary Australian Art opens in rural-industrial Kandos, NSW. 70 artists will descend on the town to show work that encompasses performance, installation, sculpture, photography, video, painting, drawing and more. The new work Untitled (98 vacancies) will feature.
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| Tags: 2013, art, Australian, cementa, contemporary, february, festival, index, installation, Kandos, mid-western council, NSW, Orana Arts, regional, rural, Rylestone
A Month in the Country @ Hill End Gallery
December 14, 2012
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery has launched an exhibition of recent acquisitions that explore the work of recent Hill End artists in residence.
14 December 2012 – 7 February 2013
Jean Bellette Gallery
High Street, Hill End
Open 930am – 430pm Monday – Sunday (closed for lunch 1230 – 130pm)
A Month in The Country: Seven Hill End Residencies
by Richard Perram, Director of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
feat. Connie Anthes, Susan Baird, Dagmar Cryulla, Beth & Owen Norling, Amanda Penrose Hart, Julie Ryder and Liz Walker.
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| Tags: bathurst, BRAG, exhibition, gallery, Hill End, Jean Bellette, residency
Kandos Projects Residency as part of Cementa 2013
October 8, 2012
Last week, I visited Kandos NSW to start work on a site-specific project for Cementa 2013. Below you can see the first experiments taking shape. Kandos Projects is generously supporting the development of new works for the inaugural 4-day festival of contemporary Australian art, by offering participating artists the opportunity to visit and engage with the town and its people. The festival runs from Feb1-4, 2013 and you can find out more information here.
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| Tags: 2013, art, cementa, contemporary, festival, Index Projects, Kandos, projects
One Way Mirror opens in Launceston and Leipzig
September 11, 2012
A new collaborative project with Alexander Jackson Wyatt opened on Friday 7th September at Sawtooth ARI in Launceston and KH55 in Leipzig. Taking the form of a large scale sculptural installation incorporating sound and video footage, the work was duplicated in the two locations and launched simultaneously alongside a limited edition artist book entitled One Way Mirror: A wandering conversation about the role of landmarks in public spaces. The show continues until September 29, 2012.
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| Tags: Alexander, catalog, collaboration, Germany, installation, Jackson Wyatt, Karl Heine, KH55, launceston, leipzig, sculptural, sound, Tasmania, video, wood
Imposter Complex @ Method in Madness
September 8, 2012
Last month, Julian Berengut and I performed Impostor Complex as part of Method in Madness, curated by the ever-talented Megan Garrett-Jones. Allegedly common among academics and other high-achievers, impostor complex describes a person’s inability to internalise their accomplishments, resulting in a belief that they are incompetent despite clear evidence of success in their field. Sufferers describe being always ready for a scenario to play out, whereby they will be “outed” or denounced as a fraud in their expert field. In this performance, two sufferers (a scientist and an artist) trade places to deliver a synchronised lecture in their “un-professions” and discover if it gets any easier when you really are incompetent.
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| Tags: art, endurance, impostor, Julian Berengut, lecture, megan garrett-jones, performance, Science, sycnhronised
Method in Madness, curated by Megan Garrett-Jones as part of 20/20
August 17, 2012
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it.”
(Polonius to an apparently lovesick Hamlet)
A one-night exhibition and performance event featuring:
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Connie Anthes and Julian Berengut
Penelope Benton and Alexandra Clapham
Marcus Whale and Jonno Watts
curated by Megan Garrett-Jones
This night is the epic battle of art v science. Failing that, we shake hands and decide we’re not so different after all. Artists (and the odd scientist) will be testing hypothesis, exposing their methodology, and offering some conclusion for peer review.
Thursday 23 August, 6-8pm
Damien Minton Annex
583 Elizabeth St, Redfern
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