Posts Tagged ‘Firstdraft’
HE BLINKED BACK, 2012
March 5, 2012
He Blinked Back @ Firstdraft Gallery What goes up must blow up. He Blinked Back was a show of three inflatables, the next a series of adventures inside the expanded field of drawing. Working with wind as a material for creating, breaking and shaping line, these inflatable “drawings-in-space” conjured new kinds of gestural movements, patterns […]
2012 | WORK | Media: drawing, inflatable, installation | Tags: 2012, ARI, art month, drawing, dropsheet, fan, Firstdraft, He Blinked Back, inflatable, installation, recycled, static, tape
He Blinked Back opens at Firstdraft
March 1, 2012
Show runs: 22 Feb – 10 Mar Artist Talk: Sat 10 March, 2pm Firstdraft Gallery: 116-118 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun, 12-6pm You can also watch an interview with FBI Radio’s Megan Garret-Jones here or see pics of the opening by Strobed Blog. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [photo by Dara Gill]
2012 | NEWS | Media: drawing, inflatable, installation | Tags: 2012, ARI, art month, drawing, fan, FBI Radio, Firstdraft, He Blinked Back, inflatable, installation, Strobed
Art Month Sydney
February 6, 2012
This month, as part of the “do-all-the-things!” extravaganza that is Art Month Sydney, a new show He Blinked Back opens at Firstdraft Gallery. It’s still coming together so I can’t tell you exactly what will show up on the night, but let me just say it involves big, inflatable somethings. Opening Wednesday, 22nd February 6-8pm […]
2012 | NEWS | Media: drawing, installation | Tags: ARI, art month, emerging, exhibition, Firstdraft, gallery, inflatable, installation, Sydney
2012 shows
September 27, 2011
Two upcoming exhibitions in early 2012 will showcase new work in development. Watch this space for news of Sydney shows at Firstdraft Gallery as part of Art Month (Feb 22 – Mar 08, 2012) and Damien Minton Gallery (Apr 17 – May 5, 2012). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2011 | NEWS | Tags: 2012, Damien Minton, exhibition, Firstdraft, gallery, new, Sydney
D.I.A. @ MOP, 2011
July 17, 2011
D.I.A. D.I.A. was a collaborative project commissioned by MOP Projects as part of showcase of work by artists-directors of artist run galleries (or ARIs) in Sydney; in this case Firstdraft Gallery, where I was a Director in 2009/10. Conceived and developed as a performing installation, the show took the form of an elaborate stage curtain […]
2011 | WORK | Media: collaboration, installation, performance | Tags: archive, ARI, commission, curtain, director, donkey, Firstdraft, MOP Projects, performance
D.I.A. @ MOP PROJECTS
June 16, 2011
A new collaborative work will be launched tonight at MOP Projects in Chippendale from 6pm. As a Firstdraft Director 2009-10, I had the privilege of running the gallery alongside a great group of artists (Grace Archibald, Lionel Bawden, Debbie Pryor, Georgie Meagher, Dylan Quirk, Kate Scardifield, Jessica Tyrrell) and, happily, I have now been able […]
2011 | NEWS | Tags: ARI, collaboration, Debbie Pryor, Dylan Quirk, Firstdraft, gallery, Georgie Meagher, Grace Archibald, Jessica Tyrrell, Kate Scardifield, Lionel Bawden, MOP, project
VIDEO ARCHIVE
March 22, 2011
Video Archive Below you’ll find a selection of process documentation capturing recent sound, installation and spatial projects. UNTITLED (MAKESHIFT #3), 2010. Video documentation of construction of the Makeshift series of “drawings-in-space”. UNTITLED (THE DISAPPEARANCE OF STATIC), 2012. Shown at He Blinked Back, one of a series of inflatable drawings comprised of erased VHS tape […]
2011 | WORK | Media: installation, video | Tags: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, Anthes, archive, ARI, art, artist, Connie, damien, documentation, drawing, drawing-in-space, Firstdraft, gallery, inflatable, installation, interactive, makeshift, minton, modular, process, sound, system, video
BUNDANON MEETS FIRSTDRAFT
February 26, 2010
Firstdraft Directors 2010 were invited in January to spend 2 weeks as artists-in-residence at Arthur Boyd’s property on the Shoalhaven River, NSW. Thanks to Bundanon Trust, we were able to get working on an upcoming collaborative project that will be shown at MOP Projects in June 2011. Artist-directors involved in the project are Grace Archibald, […]
