September / October Exhibitions at Craft Victoria


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	Craft Victoria's September Exhibitions You are invited to the opening of Craft Victoria's three forthcoming exhibitions, incorporating two free public programs on climate change. OPENING Thursday 8 September, 6-8pm SHOWING 9 September – 15 October 2011 ARTISTS' TALKS Saturday 8 October, 2pm At Craft Victoria 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne FREE www.craftvic.org.au IMAGE Katherine Bowman, Untitled, 2011 (detail). Courtesy of the artist.

Katherine Bowman

GALLERY ONE
Katherine Bowman
Locutions (The Loved Object)

Katherine Bowman's new work examines the way we imbue objects and artefacts with meaning. Through a series of small box like vessels, themes of containment, secrecy, talismanic power and personal mythology come together to create a collection of mysterious and quiet pieces that draw the viewer in like a small poem. Pulling inspiration from sources as diverse as Federico Garcia Lorca, Jean Baudrillard and Nick Cave, these intricately decorated boxes not only provide a secret space to carry one's true self but a shelter for the vulnerable heart and the spirit animus.

To be opened by Ramona Barry, Chair of Craft Victoria, artist, writer and curator.

GALLERY TWO
Jasmine Targett & Debbie Symons
Making Sense

Making Sense combines the work of two practitioners concerned with political investments in the ecological conundrum. The conceptual challenge presented within this exhibition focuses on four central questions: how has science changed the way we view nature? How has this heightened ecological awareness changed our world view? How do contemporary artists communicate ideas of such complex magnitude? How can craft materials be used in innovative ways to discuss ethereal constructs of nature such as the ozone and species decline?

Video: Debbie Symonds' video work Tracking will be shown daily at Federation Square as part of the Urban Screens program.

To be opened by Kit Wise, Dean Teaching & Learning, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University.

Public Presentation
Guy Abrahams presents Climate Change, Sustainability and the Arts, a public lecture at Craft Victoria, Saturday 17 September 2011, 1-2pm.

Symposium
Art and the Communication of Climate Science, an open discussion at Craft Victoria, Tuesday 20 September 2011, 6-7pm. RSVP essential, 03 9650 7775.

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GALLERY THREE
Pam Stadus
Il Cimento

Il Cimento by Pam Stadus is a new video-based work exploring the effects of steam, fog, condensation and thermal shock on glass. A group of glass vessels sit behind a transparent pane; they slowly recede from view as gaseous vapours of condensation fill the foreground. Eventually the glass pane begins to crack, evoking the aerial views of shattered Antarctic ice shelves affected by global warming. A marked departure from Stadus' previous work in cast glass, Il Cimento is a slow meditation on the propensity of glass to subtly register changes in environmental conditions.

To be opened by Elaine Miles, artist.

The exhibition by Jasmine Targett & Debbie Symons has been kindly supported by Monash Imaging, Monash University Art & Design and the City of Melbourne.	Craft Victoria exhibition openings are proudly supported by Baddaginnie Run.
Images from left to right: Katherine Bowman, Untitled, 2011 (detail). Debbie Symons, Tracking, 2011 (video still). Pam Stadus, Il Cimento, 2011 (video still). Images courtesy of the artists.
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