Phill, Shane, Linsey & team wish everyone well for the Festive Season and thank you all for your support in 2009! Enjoy the break and we look forward to working with you in the New Year.
Holiday hours
The Colour Factory, including the Colour Factory Gallery, will close on December 23, 2009 and reopen on January 4, 2010.
As you may remember back in our July eNewsletter, we featured an article on analogue projection printing.
The subject of the article was the challenging creation of a 4.2 x 2.7m hand print of STELLARC’s flayed face for his exhibition ‘Skin’ at Scott Livesey Galleries in August. The work is now on show in Luxembourg at the Casino: Forum D’Art Contemporain (see below).
Images courtesy of Scott Livesey Galleries
A small replica of the image will be featured in the Colour Factory Gallery in January.
Michelle Tran
Double Life
First Site, RMIT Union Gallery
Opening night Tuesday December 15, 5.30 – 7.30pm
Exhibition runs till December 21, 2009.
Need a studio space?
Rear View studios and gallery in Smith St, Collingwood have one studio space available. 4m x 5m, closed room, has wireless internet, $56.50 per week. Call 0424 273 692.
It’s that time of year when there are plenty of great graduate exhibitions to be seen!
RMIT Master of Fine Art
Graduate Show
Guildford Lane Gallery
Opening night Thursday December 10 2009, 6 – 9pm
Detail from 'Photographic Intervention', James Voller, 2009
Local and international graduates of RMIT University’s Master of Fine Art present an exhibition of exciting new work at Guildford Lane Gallery. Emerging and established artists exhibit selected pieces, representing a broad spectrum of art disciplines including painting, installation art, drawing, video art, gold and silver smithing, and ceramics.
Exhibition closes Sunday 20th December.
Studio Art and Studio Practice
‘End of Year show’
La Trobe College of Art & Design
Opening night Friday December 11 2009, 6 – 8pm
La Trobe College of Art & Design
This end of year show features work by students undertaking Studio at La Trobe College of Art and Design.
Exhibition closes Wednesday 23rd December.
Thankyou to those who attended Tim Handfield’s recent ‘Creating Photoshop Masters’ seminar. It was an interesting and successful workshop, and we look forward to many more in the new year.
See the list below for our upcoming one day workshops and two hour myth-busting sessions.
Tim Handfield Courses – Jan to June 2010
One-day Workshops
Digital Photography Fast Track Sat 27/2/10
Understanding Digital Colour Sat 20/3/10
Creating Photoshop Masters Sat 17/4/10
Getting More from RAW Sat 8/5/10
Digital Printing Revealed Sat 22/5/10
Creative Colour Management Sat 19/6/10
$175.00 each
Two-hour myth-busters information sessions
Digital Photography Wed 24/2/10
Resolution Wed 10/3/10
Scanning Wed 17/3/10
Camera RAW Processing Wed 14/4/10
Colour Management Wed 28/4/10
Digital Printing Wed 26/5/10
10am to 12 noon
$50.00 each
Stickers have eroded the plastic and damaged the negative over time
At the Colour Factory we have recently been required to scan a client’s negatives that have been in storage for some time. Difficulty was experienced when removing the negative from the plastic sleeve, and once removed, we noticed an obvious indentation on the surface caused by the red dot sticker that had been left on the sleeve for several years. The glue in the sticker has eroded the plastic and subsequently damaged the negative.
This is a reminder for us all to be careful of what our negatives come into contact with whilst in storage. Negatives should always be kept in plastic sleeves such as polypropylene or acid free paper. The plastic protects the negative from dust, harmful substances and damage caused from handling. Generally, if kept out of contact from environmental factors that lead to its deterioration (such as humidity) negatives will last ‘indefinitely’.
EXHAUST
Kotoe Ishii
The Library Artspace
Opening night Wednesday December 2 2009, 6 – 8pm
Ishii presents a series of video works from two years study towards a Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Exhibition closes Saturday 19th December.
RMIT BA Photography Graduate Exhibition
Graduating students of Commercial and Science photography
Brightspace
Opening night Tuesday 1st December 2009
Rhiannon King
This photographic exhibition showcases the works of students graduating from RMIT with a Bachelor of Arts (Commercial and Science photography).
Exhibition runs until December 6, 2009.
