whitecubemildura: 2014

Win Moser

Rice Paper Trail

Medium: watercolour, ink, coloured pencil, graphite on Chinese rice paper

I bought a long roll of Chinese rice paper about two years ago and have been working on it over time. I collect stones, leaves, bark and other objects from places I visit as well as from around my home, and reproduce them by tracing, rubbings and drawing in as many ways as I like. I also try different ways to dye the paper.

Returning to this scroll from time to time is a bit like returning to a meandering trail, where I spend time exploring different ways of representing landscapes and memories of places that are meaningful to me. I am continually inspired by the persistence of nature in spite of everything that is done to it.

I have discovered that the rice paper is a very generous medium, so strong and forgiving. Somewhere I read rice paper described as being, “..truthfull to the moment..”

My aim is to simply enjoy the process of drawing. If anything else happens, that’s a bonus.

Artist Statement: White Cube - Objects Form Place

CANDIDA ALBICANS: BIGOTS COLONIAL BITTER

Stuart Walsh

Candida Albicans, otherwise known as white yeast, is a culture found in the human bowel.

When this culture over populates the bowel it becomes an infection. This yeast infection seems

to me the perfect metaphor for Australian Culture, for colonialism, violence and the average

Australians unsettled relationship with our own cultural identity. The colonisation by this white

yeast culture in ones bowel is exacerbated by drinking and eating yeast heavy products such

as beer - One will often hear Australians talk about non-Anglo-Australians needing to fit into

Australian Culture. What is Australian Culture? Do we have a defined culture to fit into? The all too

common response to such questions is usually something along the lines of “having a beer and a

Barbie with your mates!” or “Beer and back-yard cricket” completely ignoring the multi-cultural

nature of Australian society whilst also ignoring Aboriginal societies and cultures.

Aimee Thannhauser

Domesticated

Hub cap, wool

Whilst in today’s society the two sexes are, for the most part, seen as equals, the question of domestic duties and work seemingly continues to resurface in many households. Throughout history, activities performed by men and women have become so gender specific that even the objects people use to perform certain tasks have become symbols of gender identity. Tools and construction were superficially identified as masculine, whilst sewing and knitting came to embody femininity.

In this body of work, I have attempted to combine the traditional notions of “women’s” or “domestic work” with “man’s work,” to challenge this contrast between the masculine and feminine connotations placed upon us by society. Whilst the act of embroidery and the object such as car parts are normatively considered feminine and masculine respectively, united they portray subverted ideas of gender. The very act of embroidering a metal object in itself is not of “feministic” nature as it requires the use of power tools; however the result is decidedly aesthetically feminine.

We will be having our next artist walk on 10am 2nd August 2014.

Exhibiting works from our local Elders.

Elders group 2014

Cube 1

Artists: Yvonne Jones

& Eric Murray

Title: Ducks and Pool 2014

Medium: Ceramic works

Cube 2

Artists: Rosemary Lawson

& Maureen Taylor

Untitled 2014

Medium: Feather Flowers with Ceramic vases

Cube 3

Title: Many voices, many stories 2014

Medium: lino-cut prints on dyed fabric

Statement:

The title of this work comes from our Elders groups intention to bring community together through the power of story telling. As a collective we all represent many stories but placed together this helps to create one united community for our culture and traditions. Each hand carved lino-block has been designed to represent a story chosen by each of us from the dreaming. We believe that placing them side-by-side on our artwork stands as a symbol for all us to have the courage and to do the same.

Contributing members

Artist Story Illustrated

Maureen Taylor Pikkuw, the Crocodlie

Yvonne Jones The Murray Cod

Rachel Johnson Dinewan the Emu

Lionel Williams Tidalick

Eric Murray Why the Kookaburra laughs

Rosemary Lawson Brolga, the dancing bird

Iris Johnson Piggi - Billa the Echidna

Debra Young The Min Min Light

Harley Caldwell

Judd Dean

Joel van Miltenburg

Harley Caldwell

Judd Dean

We have an artist walk on the 5^th July at 10am.

Please join three young local artists as they share their vision of FANTASY.

We have:

Joel van Miltenburg

Harley Caldwell

Judd Dean

Daniel Downing

Eunice Wake

Rohan Morris

Exhibition on until 26th June 2014

24 hours a day.

Enjoy the works by LOCAL ARTIST.

Rohan Alexander Morris

21st Century Tea

My work explores gender representation within the home and wider society. This work depicts the current change in domestic roles where the teacup is a representation of the traditional female gender roles within the home, the blue represents masculinity and the sparkle represents sexuality. This work explores the current change of gender stereotypes within contemporary domesticity

May and June Artists

Artists Walk 10am Saturday 17 May 2014

Join us for the October artist walk meeting at Stefano's Cafe Bakery 27 Deakin Avenue at 10am, then off to Premier Arts and finishing at Chan & Naylor.

Eunice Wake

Stefano’s Café Bakery

27 Deakin Avenue

Rohan Morris

Premier Arts Supplies

10th Street

Daniel Downing

Chan & Naylor

126 Lime Avenue

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Eunice Wake, May - June 2014

Rohan Alexander Morris

21st Century Tea

My work explores gender representation within the home and wider society. This work depicts the current change in domestic roles where the teacup is a representation of the traditional female gender roles within the home, the blue represents masculinity and the sparkle represents sexuality. This work explores the current change of gender stereotypes within contemporary domesticity

Introducing one artist for May-June 2014

Daniel Downing

‘Pollock’s Tissue box’

Daniel Downing, 2013,

250gsm white card (single folded sheet)

This piece is part of a project (Form more worthy of Pollock) that forms an antithesis to the design industry’s foundations, deconstructing the modernist square box of commercialism, replacing it with an organic packaging style. The focus of the work places greater value on form, while sacrificing commercial practicalities, yet maintaining essential function in new designs, that speak new language. The project was also a lesson on shape and form through the experimentation process of manufacturing three dimensional constructs from two dimensional media.

What would happen if we designed packaging as artists instead of designers, forgetting the ‘price of design’ and making the work more informed by the form? If we discard function entirely, is it still packaging? Must we separate art and design?

Pollock’s Tissue box started as a package concept to hold a bottle of drying oil or olive oil, then I dropped the idea for a while before realising the potential for a tissue box and the obvious association with Demand’s ‘Pollock ghost’.

Reading about Pollock’s efforts to convince people that he was a cowboy alerted me to the potential of this design, and the need to revisit the experiment. The flap rolling over the cylinder reminded me of a horse saddle, which became the premise of inspiration from Pollock the man, NOT his art. In addition to his cowboy alter-ego, Pollock liked fast cars, and as most art lovers know, he died in one. The Pollock tissue box transforms into an almost macabre long slender coffin with a car grill and headlights at the front, tail lights to the rear, and a saddle slung over the middle.

Thomas Demand: and the ghost of Jackson Pollock

Thomas Demand is a German conceptual artist and art teacher known for his photographs of hyper-realistic recreations of known places with strong political or social importance; like the Oval office at the American Whitehouse and Jackson Pollock’s barn studio. Demand questions if souls exist in reproductions of special places, “recreating spaces and images over and over brings them back as icons” , like the Catholic crucifix and fat Buddha statues. While photographing his recreation of Jackson Pollock’s studio in Barn/Streune, Demand found the edges of the image were blurred, he retried and achieved the same unexpected result. In reaction to the movement of his work each time he attempted to photograph it, he questioned if Pollock’s ghost was trapped in the work? “To sentence Pollock’s soul into a Kleenex box was like locking a Jeanie into a beer can.” – What a delightful concept for a sculptural packaging design!

April 5th 2014

Artist Walk

10am
27 Deakin Ave
Mildura

Tradition

Traditional skill is the fundamental vein which runs through this month’s exhibition. Traditional skills brought forward to express and demonstrate a contemporary view to life.

Images provided by the artists