Adrian Clement: Collection 4

Image: Adrian Clement, Collection 4, 2013. 

Saturday August 3 to 18

Opening Friday 2 August, 6-8pm

Collection 4 is a collection of artworks that are grouped together by the simple criteria that they are predominately blue in colour (or solely contain the colour blue) and were already physically existent when the artists were invited to participate. The equivalence in colour allows for an opportunity to view these individual artworks collectively.

Participating artists include John Adair, Matthew Allen, Daniel Argyle, Clementine Barnes, Majella Beck, Louise Blyton, Sue Callanan, Christopher Dean, Rhonda Dee, Richard Dunn, Nicole Ellis, Beata Geyer, Alexandra Kennedy, Melanie E. Khava, Suzie Idiens, Kyle Jenkins, Ben Lang, Lindy Lee, Stephen Little, Kate Mackay, Francesca Mataraga, Sarah Newall, Alicia Poppet, Alex Pye, Samuel Quinteros, Paul Raguenes, Margaret Roberts, Marlene Sarroff, Liz Shreeve, Masato Takasaka, Esther Tonkinwise and Justin Trendall.

Adrian Clement is an artist and writer based in Sydney who is currently working on projects that involve the collection of blue objects according to specific contexts. So far, this has included the collection of blue rubbish, presented as an installation at Factory 49 in February, 2013, an ongoing photographic series of blue cars, and a collaboration with another artist and her daughter which involves reviewing their entire possessions to document objects that are blue and subsequently interviewing them about these objects. These projects can be viewed online at www.adrianclement.com

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Francesca Mataraga: a to b (wall work)

Image: Francesca Mataraga, a to b (wall work), 2013. 

'a to b (wall work for ArticulateUpstairs)' 

Friday 21 June to Sunday 14 July 
Opening 21 June, 6-8pm
   
'a to b (wall work)' is a site-specific painting created for the ArticulateUpstairs exhibition space. In this latest installation Francesca Mataraga continues her series of works based on IKEA fabrics patterns that explore size and scale in architectural space. The wall work responds to the architectural elements of the venue and the original pattern is adapted accordingly. The striped element and the title 'a to be' refers both to the viewer's action of walking along the corridor next to the work in order to see it and to the pattern's name – Annbeth. 

A parallel work is also being created simultaneously at the AUTOCENTER (Berlin). In this piece the same IKEA pattern is used but the wall painting takes on a different form. Executed as a process piece 'a to b (wall work for AUTOCENTER)' is made using Schmincke's extra soft pastels in colours that correspond to the stripes. By using such fine art materials for a piece that will only last half a day the work attempts to comment on the temporality of art and functions as a kind of art graffiti.

ArticulateUpstairs wall work painted by Creative Finish. 
AUTOCENTER (Berlin) wall work painted by collective action of  participants in the Autocenter Summer Academy – Week 1.

Further work in this series will be exhibited later in 2013 at Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney.