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17 September - 5 October 2008

WATT SPACE

Exhibition to be opened by poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle, Dr Keri Glastonbury and artist and lecturer Anne-Maree Hunter

on Thursday 18 September 2008 at 6.30pm

 The Loading Zone

All of the Big Questions and all of the Little Ones

CURATED BY THE SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING SOCIETY

Installation

The Something Something Something Society invites you to anonymously ponder on all of the big questions and all of the little ones in an intimate installation of closed personal spaces at Watt Space.
The Something Something Something Society

details of installation - calico, rope, found objects

The Loading Dock & The Pit

PRESS IT!

CURATED BY TARYN RAFFAN

Printmaking has a broad and long history, and very few of us (even artists) take interest. This show is not about ground-breaking techniques or controversial issues, but an exhibition of student works (at varying levels) that showcase the variety of media and subjects within printmaking. Printmaking, alongside photography, has been ridiculed for centuries because of its mass media culture and connotations. This medium is thought to initially be a two-dimensional art practice but that isn't true. Printmaking is the 3D 2D. Taryn Raffan

Caelli Jo Brooker Spectral Vessels (detail) lino cut with monotype, Largo Von Bismarck Basil  lino cut on recycled paper

Michael Langenegger Untitled (Isolation) (detail) lithograph on paper, Phyllis Armstrong Books   lino cut on paper

David Hampton The Flotilla (detail) etching , Ruth Feeney A little birdie told me  (detail) silkscreen polymer on linen

Taryn Raffan light:revisited (detail) solar plate and acrylic paint on paper, Shandor Marosszeky GM-Gen6  silk screen on paper

Bev Hawkins Untitled (detail) lino cut on paper, Alana Parker Octee cut outs (detail) silk screen on foam core

The  Long Room

Abstraction Distraction

 LEASHA CRAIG, DANIELLE MORRRISON, EVAN O’REILY, SHARON TAYLOR

2D

This exhibition represents the expedition of four students exploring abstraction, with each artist finding their own right of passage and along the way developing their own personal style and aesthetics. These works are our individual interpretations of this journey resulting in this diverse collection of paintings inspired by landscapes and still life. Leasha Craig, Danielle Morrison, Evan O'Reilly, Sharon Taylor

Danielle Morrison Sanctuary (detail) acrylic on canvas,  Morning  (detail) acrylic on canvas

Leasha Craig Sunnkissed (detail) acrylic on canvas,  Internal   (detail) acrylic on canvas

Sharon Taylor  Oh my gourd  (detail) acrylic on board,  Over the hill  (detail) acrylic on board

The Locker Room

Secret Aspects of Chewing Gum Spider Behaviour (and other tails to astonish)

GRANT HUNTER

Grant experiments with live sound processing and experimental music by utilizing found sounds and various instruments. This series of sound works is accompanied by paintings/illustrations influenced by children’s books and nursery rhymes.

Grant Hunter details of installation  video, cotton, modelling clay, acrylic on paper hand painted CD covers

The Hoist

Blutopia

LOUISE MCALPINE

2D & 3D

I have found that my work is constantly returning to a familiar theme of man and urbanization and the troubles that result from our contemporary lives. These surroundings can only assist us in a minor role, in our attempt to find happiness and fulfilment. I have constructed a suburb called Blutopia, a sculpture that responds to my claustrophobic feelings of living in a 'suburb' for most of my life.  We cling to the security of living in close proximity to each other but are also repelled by our domestic proximity.Louise McAlpine

Louise McAlpine Blutopia (detail) bitumen paper, wire, tape, thread;  Ordered Proximity  (detail) thread, perspex, aluminium, line; The Burden of Glass (detail) charcoal on paper

The Media Space

The History of Brickmaking in Newcastle

FIONA LEE

Installation

The multi-sensory installation The History of Brickmaking in Newcastle is a contemporary testimony to one of the earliest manufacturing developments in Newcastle- brick making. Rich clay beds that overlaid the coal seams in Newcastle meant brick and pottery manufacture went hand in hand with coal mining. Fiona Lee