Holes in the Wall
Curated by Theresa Harrison
Opening night: Thursday 25th March 2010
276 Station St, North Carlton
Artists: Linsey Gosper, Shay Minster, Valentina Palonen, Damien Rudd & Urban Village Melbourne, Sonya Parton, Anga’aefonu Bain-Vete, Peta Glenn, Shu Liu, Richard Bruch, Andrew Reynolds, Ammon Beyerle, Caitlyn Parry

Curator Theresa Harrison has invited 12 artists to transform a Carlton North home into a series of arts installations. The result is Holes in the Wall, a site-specific exhibition that allows its audience to indulge their innate voyeuristic desires, offering a glimpse into a series of uncanny domestic spaces. It will be held for one night only, on Thursday 25 March from 7-10pm.

While the house will be emptied of its inhabitants, artists will work within the confines of the existing domestic space, creating installations amidst the quotidian lives of the people that normally reside there. Audiences will be invited to peer into these strange yet familiar worlds via the windows of the adjoining laneway. By not allowing the spectator to enter these rooms, however, their voyeuristic urges can never be entirely satisfied. Holes in the Wall challenges the boundaries between art and the everyday, public and private, and internal and external. The exhibition also questions the social meanings attached to suburban architecture, encouraging audiences to look beyond the windows, doors, fences and walls traditionally designed to keep intruders out and protect the privacy of the occupants inside.

The Colour Factory is a proud sponsor of ‘The Spirit of the Black Dress’ photography exhibition that showcases talented emerging fashion designers.

The Fashion Photography exhibition runs from 12-6pm, 12-21st March at Georges on Collins, 195 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, FREE entry.

“We are a group of independent recent graduates from different backgrounds committed to raising the profile of emerging fashion and increasing international appreciation for Australian design. We run an annual Fashion Photography Exhibition that showcases ten of Australia’s most innovative emerging designers.

In our second year we are amazed and humbled at the talent and innovation shown by emerging fashion designers. The ten for 2010 were chosen on the aesthetics of their garments as well as their response to environmental issues, by a panel of industry judges including Janice Breen Burns, Karen Webster, Joe Saba, Roger Leong and Emer Diviney. The garments showcase a varied landscape of sustainably driven creativity.”

‘Embodiment: Fashion, Image and Art’
Guildford Lane Gallery
5 Artists: Claudia Phares, Cody Daley, Jillian Allan, Julee Latimer, Milla Zhugalo
Opening night Thursday March 11 at 6pm

Image: Claudia Phares

This exhibition runs from March 8 to 21, 2010

A curated exhibition that explores personal identity through fashion, design, illustration and art.

Also on at Guildford Lane
‘New Masculinities’
Clinton Hayden
Opening night Thursday March 11 at 6pm

Clinton Hayden explores and interrogates ideas of identity and sense of self through photography, drawing and painting. Using fashion (modes of masculine dress both traditional and contemporary) as a foundation, the exhibition culminates in a series of portraits, exploring masculinity, masculine representation and masculine construct through fashion.

Vivien Racault
Melbourne French Alliance
‘Between Plant and Ghost’
Opening night March 11, 2010

Exhibition runs from March 11 to April 9.

A poetic and critical fantasy about the notion of evolution and the radical transformation of our consciousness.

Sarah Berners
Bus Projects – Main Space
The Garment-Body
Opening Tuesday March 2, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs from March 2-19, 2010

“The Garment-Body is a photographic and sculpture based exhibition which explores an intimate synthesis between flesh and fabric. The Garment-Body is an exploration of the erotic appeal of inanimate materials in conjunction with the human body. The exhibition considers the fusing of flesh and fabric as a symptom of the human urge to bond with and transform the body in relation to its environments, objects and garb”.

Paul Philipson
c3 Contemporary Art Space
A hierarchy of loss
Opening March 3, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs from March 3-21, 2010

“Philipson’s work explores the poetics of photography and its ability to present description without place. His seemingly unrelated images, when placed together, expose a shared language. The result is an unsettling exploration through territories as diverse as the elegiac texture of his landscapes to the texture of skin itself. The currency of the sublime runs through every aspect of Philipson’s work. His upcoming exhibition shows a series of ethereal photographs which transport you from a frozen lake, to a misty tree-lined road, to a night owl caught in the flash of a light. The effect is one of an almost David Lynch-ian strangeness, deftly offset by a sweeping gesture towards German romanticism.”

Lez Horvat
Red Gallery
The Minefield and the Lotus
Opening Wednesday March 3, 2010
Exhibition runs from March 3-20, 2010

“This series of photographic works was captured in Ba Ria-Vung Tau (formally Phuc Tuy) province in Vietnam over the course of the past two years. Horvat’s images feature Vietnamese and Australian service personnel who were involved in the Vietnam/American war. As he reveals, ‘these portraits seek to explore the effects of conflict upon service personnel of both sides. The lotus flower, which for centuries has been known not only for its great beauty but also for its ability to rise from the mud, is used as a metaphor for renewal and growth and as a signifier of place.’’”

Allan Kleiman
Colour Factory Gallery
Urban Archaeology- reconstructing the present
Opening Thursday March 4, 6-8pm

Exhibition runs from March 4-20, 2010

Allan, a successful commercial photographer for many years, has recently turned his passion for photography into the pursuit of fine art. This body of work presents the graphic beauty of the everyday, illustrating and recording degrees of urban decoration and decay. Mostly shot in the familiar streets of Melbourne, Allan invites the viewer to imagine and interpret these ‘discoveries’ in the same way that an archaeologist discovers the remains of ancient civilizations and reconstructs what life was like.