Enrique Tochez -" SPILL" Sat 21-Sun 22 July

Looking at the presence of structure as both stimulus and response within gestural expression, I am fascinated by the way this process creates a visual dialect in abstract works. Patterns and sequences of visual material are uncovered by way of back and forth progression. These are explored intuitively, using combinations of elements, which are thrown together and dissected over time through layering and erasure.

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Celebration Machine No.3 -(Sand and Paper)2013
Dimension 8 x (76 x56)
Paper, Electric Sander
SandPaper

June Exhibition - Ryan Wilson Sat 15th 12.00-6.00pm

May exhibitions - John Waller ....Anne -Marie Kuter

John Waller

Sat May 11th  12-6pm

Landscape with dead leaves 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper. 420 x 895mm

$2200

2 Landscape with dead leaves & figure 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper. 300m x 810mm.

$2100

Landscape with dead leaves & figure 2, 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper. 420 x 610mm

$1900

Landscape abstraction 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper. 330 x 675mm

$1600

Landscape abstraction  2 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper. 420 x 590mm

$1600

Landscape with dead leaves 3 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper. 330 x 675mm

$1995

Landscape with dead leaves 4 2013. Inkjet print, collage, oil, acrylic on paper.  295 x 420mm

$1995

Anne-Marie Kuter Sat May 25th 12-6pm

Anne-Marie Kuter

Hard Rubbish

“To redirect our gaze to that which was an absence, a void,

the uncanny spaces beneath the surface of every day life” [1]

Hard Rubbish questions the notion of duration and impermanence by setting up a reciprocal interactivity between fragility and stability. An ephemeral sculptural casting of a discarded chair explores our sense of place and the stability we equate with home. It evokes memories of a time preceding The Block and Grand Designs, preserving the memory of time and life passed by.

It defines the space that is absent by transforming negative volumes into sculptural forms. Absence becomes presence. By casting space my aim is to reveal its secrets, to show the unseen, to draw attention to what would normally be unnoticed, forgotten and discarded.

Hard Rubbish is unassuming allowing the viewer to be left with a subtle recorded memory of what is no longer valued.

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”

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[1] Bird, Jon, “Dolce Domum”, In James Lingwood, Ed, Rachel Whiteread: House, London

Phaidon Press 1995, p122

Images from Raphael Buttonshaw's project at WOP Space 27 April

APRIL EXHIBITIONS

Rebeccah Power : Rebel, mother, lover.  

Sat 13th April  12-6 pm

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My aim is to test the boundaries of ‘works on paper’ in an attempt to express the complexity and multilayered nature of my subject. This has resulted in an approach, which sees me using works on paper as a prop, which is photographed, projected on top of the original work then photographed and presented as a final projection. The works on paper have now departed from their original state and have become projected images. A connection between the materials is maintained through the process. The paper now exists as an image of itself reflecting the transient quality of the original material in the impermanence of the projection.

In my current exhibition at WOP Space, evocative ink and watercolour portraits form the basis for this process. Resulting in images that merge and defy the viewer. The layering process combined with the luminosity of the projected images in a darkened space intensifies the works expression and illuminates the stains and bleeds of the pigment. The subject expands from an interest in the representation of roles of women and in challenging restrictive gender norms by focusing on the story of Jean Lee, the last woman to be hanged in Australia. Within the weighty subject matter lurks a kind of morbid beauty. This creates a sense of intrigue that is designed to evoke a range of emotional reactions, on the one hand connected with the unknown wonderful and sublime yet on the other violence, brutality and murder.

Raphael Buttonshaw  

Sat 27th April 12-6pm

Artist Statement

Through exploring interior environments as a ‘staging ground’ this work aims to address the growing tension between design within contemporary society and what might constitute contemporary art. Drawing from this idea as a point of departure, I aim to introduce a deliberate strangeness to the function of utility-based design objects that twists and subverts our perceived conventions of interior space. This intervention seeks to rewire the behavioural cues embedded in utility-based design and unsettle its social and psychological narratives. It is an attempt to radically denature the appearance of the environments with which we feel most at home. That ultimately proposes the way we reflect upon the experience of these environments is increasingly connected to our changes to the world at large.

Rebeccah Power

WOP SPACE in making

First Projects

WOP Space
Lygon Studios
483A Lygon st
East Brunswick 3057
One day exhibitions 12-6pm
Rebeccah Power -Sat 13th April 
Raphael Buttonshaw - Sat 27th April
http://wopspace.blogspot.com.au/