Past Exhibitions | 2011
Kamikaze Wasabi
opening celebration, Saturday 12 November, 3 - 5 pm
Kamikaze Wasabi is an exhibition of extraordinary variety (with works across the mediums of collage, drawing, pastel and painting). Hitesh Natalwala exposes his fascination with the intricacies and iconographies of different cultures.
Born in Africa of Indian extraction, educated in Britain and now an Australian citizen, Natalwala’s work reflects his experience of cultural migration; the vast and ongoing shift in many societies from uncomfortable confusion, hostility and violence, towards acceptance and inclusion, indeed appreciation of difference.
Polychrome
Back and Forth
Templeman developed an early appreciation of the illusory quality of veneers, laminates and polishes and saw potential parallels with Minimalism, and continues to explore the possibility of an illusory quality coexisting with a literalist approach, oscillating between hard edge reality and perceptual trickery.
Deborah Kelly Awfully Beastly
In my dreams I remember space, stars, unknowable entities echoed in the unfathomed realms, and fear of monstrous fecundity projected across human millennia from treacherous man-eating seawitch siren lairs through fearsome folktales and onto the impossible physiques of fertile future babes.
I wake trailing this thread, the sense the archetypes connect in ways we know, in old awe from before we were smooth, before we were upright. Pre-mammalian? And possibly post.”
BBQ this Sunday, BYO
gbk awardees: where are they now?
- Tara Cook
- Nathan Babet
- Marilyn Schneider
- Lachlan Anthony
- Ben Norris
- Dan Simon
- Ioulia Terizis
- Rosie Deacon
- Hugh Marchant
- Dara Gill
- Joel Beerden
- Shalini Jardin
- Melanie Boreham
Each year since 2008, gbk has been helping selected College of Fine Arts Honours students realise their end of year project with a cash injection. It’s time to see where they are now. This exhibition in the main gallery space presents recent work of the 13 awardees: Lachlan Anthony, Nathan Babet, Joel Beerden, Melanie Borham, Tara Cook, Rosie Deacon, Dara Gill, Shalini Jardin, Hugh Marchant, Ben Norris, Marilyn Schneider, Dan Simon and Ioulia Terizis.
gbk @ Hong Kong Art Fair 2011
gbk is participating in ART HK 2011 and will be exhibiting work by Sean Cordeiro & Claire Healy, Debra Dawes, Deborah Kelly, Fiona Lowry, Jess MacNeil, Hitesh Natalwala, Cameron Robbins and Joan Ross.
Stand number 1G05
LSDM- Lunar/Solar Drawing Machine
Would Cameron Robbins please make up his mind? He has been described as an artist / scientist / engineer / inventor / musician / alchemist. His special interests concern natural phenomena and the way they are documented, or, perhaps more accurately, ways they can illustrate themselves.
From invisible to visible: over the next month a newly installed solar panel on the roof of the gallery will feed Robbins’ Lunar/Solar Drawing Machine, transcribing the sun’s energ.
Drunken Clarity
Project Space: Blank Surface
First. One. Thing. Then. Another.
Employing the properties of acrylic sheet to facilitate direct access to the space ‘behind’ the image, whether painting or video projection, this space has become an active component. The images’ supporting structures are made explicit, underscoring the materiality of the image and playing with slips between literal space, material presence, and conceptual or illusory space opened up by each work.