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the Green Corridor Art Project @ Watt Space

Exhibitions to be opened by Michael Osborne, Co-ordinator of the

Green Corridor Coalition, at 6.30pm on Thursday 15 March 2007

The Loading Dock, Loading Zone

the green corridor survey show

curated by Anne McLaughlin

EMILY BULLEN, CHRIS HEYD & DANIEL HEYER TESS BARKER

CHERYL FARRELL NAOMI GOW VICKI HAMILTON LAUREN POTTS TARYN RAFFAN CAROL STRACHAN SARAH SYMONS INGRID TRISTRAM

This survey show at Watt Space combines to demonstrate art’s chameleon nature and culture as the product of an exercise where political, local, and natural themes are absorbed and translated, while the post-colonial dilemma of environmental management that Newcastle in particular wears as the world’s largest coal exporter is highlighted and confronted on a practical level… the use of found objects, recycled materials, photography, installation and visual art as means of investigation, communication and innovation are all present in this exhibition of work by current students of the University of Newcastle. Jessica Coughlan, excerpt from catalogue essay The Green Corridor Art Project

EMILY BULLEN, CHRIS HEYD & DANIEL HEYER Newcastle Coal film (detail), CHERYL FARRELL Wattle trees, wire (detail)

INGRID TRISTRAM Plant Form sagger-fired ceramic, wire, wood (detail), NAOMI GOW Nature Callspaper and mixed media on board (detail),

TESS BARKER Balance triptych linocut print on Stonehenge paper (detail)

LAUREN POTTS Pretty Wretched Garden No 2 indian ink, watercolour, acrylic paint, sequins and paper on board, bricks (detail) ;SARAH SYMONS Belongings oil, paper on board (detail)

VICKI HAMILTON Endangered Parma Wallaby porcelain (detail), TARYN RAFFAN Spinifex lino print with acrylic paint, etching ink

CAROL STRACHAN Endurance rocks, timber, steel (detail)

The Long Room and Media Space

Drenched Co-oercion
GIUSEPPINA LAINA STEPHEN ROBINSON BETTY SAEZ

This exhibition expresses the need for the community to work towards repairing the damage that is currently occurring in the Lower Hunter. Giuseppina Laina’s work, focussing on the Shortland Wetlands, expresses her concern that our human presence hinders nature’s rights with the consequent need for full protection of the Green corridor’s bio-diverse environments. Stephen Robinson weaves the spirit of the land into his works as it cries for assistance to be generated back to its original self. Betty Saez believes that fabricated replacements are never an alternative for the 'real thing’ and that preserving and nurturing of 'natural existence' overshadows substitution and manufacturing with imitation.

GIUSEPPINA LAINA Elimination oil on board(detail),

BETTY SAEZ Once Long-neckedperspex, cotton, zip(detail),

STEPHEN ROBINSON Meadows of Light mixed media (detail)

The Pit

Warped

ANGELA POOLE-WILEY

This installation of timber references the traditions of logging in the Watagans and other Green Corridor areas; this tradition has particular significance to me as my forebears once owned land and logged in the Watagans. The timber used to create these sculptural forms has been saved from the wood-chipper and I have made them to reflect their natural beauty and to provoke the viewer to think on environmental issues.Angela Poole-Wiley

ANGELA POOLE-WILEY Slabs sugar gum (saved from the wood chipper)(detail), Spritelyspotted gum(saved from the wood chipper)(detail), Wall Twilight ply ext A Bond (detail),

The Locker Room

Revolution

JESSICA COUGHLAN

Here we are seven years into the new millenium and still treating sustainable technology like magic tricks! With this new functional how-to guide, you too can step into the light, make it bright, and keep it going through pedal-power! No need for expensive gym membership fees or designer training gear! Sick of paying too high a price ? Well, so is the environment. Talk to your friends and never pay a cent! This is not a pyramid scheme, though it should be.

Jessica Coughlan

JESSICA COUGHLAN Revolution bike, found objects

The Hoist

Life and Limbs

TARA CLINTON-MCHARG

In response to environmental issues in the community, there is a growing “humans versus nature” sentiment. That is, there can only be one winner, the progress of humankind or the conservation of the natural environment. This exhibition highlights that, rather than being in opposition to nature, as humans we are part of it. Therefore, the struggle is not between humans and nature, but rather between humans and themselves. By reconciling the struggles within in us as individuals, we can achieve balance in the wider community and create a future where, no longer divided, progress and conservation become one. Tara Clinton-McHarg

TARA CLINTON-MCHARG 72% mixed media(detail), Growth 1 linocut (detail), Growth 3 linocut (detail)

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