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WATT SPACE

MAKE DO

2008 Watt Space Open Show

curated by Simone Sheridan, Neal Booth & Ruth Feeney

Student representatives of the 2008 Watt Space Management Committee

14 May – 1 June 2008

The exhibition is to be judged and opened by artists

Ken O’Regan and Mandy Francis and Art Theory Lecturer Lisa Slade on Thursday 15 May at 7pm.

This year the curators of the 2008 Watt Space Open Show Neal Booth, Simone Sheridan and Ruth Feeney, have asked students from the University of Newcastle to respond to the theme Make Do. Artists have been encouraged to look to their immediate environment and respond to the rampant over-consumption present in today’s society. Artworks made with discarded and recycled materials create an animated collision of creativity and resourcefulness.

Prizes for Make Do have kindly been donated from local organizations and businesses -Newcastle Region Art Gallery, the Co-op Bookshop, Bunnings Kotara, Eckersley’s Art, Craft and Imagination, Les Porter Photographic Services and Pronto Photo Centre. Wine for opening night was sponsored by First Creek Wines, Pokolbin.

A rare and exciting opportunity exists this year which enables students to move their work beyond the gallery walls and into the public sphere. The Public Art Prize is facilitated by the Newcastle Region Art Gallery and awarded to the winning entrant whose work will be installed in a public site in Newcastle during This Is Not Art, Australia’s premier independent, emerging and experimental arts festival held here in Newcastle.

the artists…

Caelli Jo Brooker Neal Booth Chris Brown Barbara Busina John Cacic Barbara Callcott Ileana Clarke Leasha Craig Anita Craw Bree Cunningham Rhiannon Dawson Trina Deans Breony Delforce Sally Dooner Hugh Doyle David Dunlop Gianna Fallavollita Cheryl Farrell Kristen Favot Nichole Goodlad Lucas Grogan Varelle Hardy Adam Hendriksen Belinda Howden Tomoko Iwahashi Luke Johnston Dermod Kavanagh Ben Kenning
Lisa Kirkpatrick Fiona Lee Kirra Little Daniel Lovegrove Patricia Lubinski Leisa Markey Claire Parker Kate Parker Reg Reilly's grandson Angela Poole Wiley Robin Skerly Anka Smiley Karen Robinson Smith Jennifer Stelco Candice Rogers Vanessa Turton Kaaren Vane Delilah Van Wyk
Deanna de Vries

some of the 66 artworks…

Anka Smiley Martyr's Song (detail) singer sewing machine, paper tape: Ben Kenning Untitled (detail) acrylic ink and pencil on re-cycled cardboard; Breony Delforce Anti Bird anti-bird mesh, aluminium flyscreen, found objects

Vanessa Turon Olsen Twin Dog acxrylic on dishwasher box cardboard: Katrina Deans Kitsch (detail) cement fondue, steel, wire, recycled crockery; Varelle Hardy A GOWN FOR ARALDIT-EE : the goddess of sticky situations (detail) chicken wire, plastic, found objects

Rhiannon Dawson Different people, Different reactions (detail) found bottles, fired and air-dried clay: Tomoko Iwahashi Presents plaster, found nail polish and clothing; Dermod Kavanagh Pipe Dream (detail) recycled gal water pipe and paper tape

Lucas Grogan Australian Art Thesis (detail) recycled cardboard, donated small change, found lid: Anita Craw Pale Horse (detail) found objects; Reg Reilly's Grandson Have you had some lunch ? (detail) inherited jumper

John Cacic Death Gone Door-Knocking (Series of 3) (detail) mixed media, found board: Claire Parker Life in latex (detail) latex,wax string, found objects ; Kirra Little Soar (detail) paint on found tiles

and the winners were…

The most compelling public statement award

Fiona Lee Ring 1 re-cycled bricks used in kiln firing

sponsored by Newcastle Region Art Gallery

The material genius in the time of climate chaos award

Daniel Lovegrove Consumption recycled cardboard boxes